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EXTRA
NOTICE
VOL. L NO. 37..
Copyright, 1913. by
The Georgian Company.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMHER 14, 1913.
If you hav* any rtllTIculty In buying Haart**
} Sunday American anywhere in the South notify
circulation Manager. Hearst'a Sunday American
Atlanta, Oa.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ABY DESLYS, who, after
* chumming with Kings
and Princes, is “raving” over
American men.
Governor Metcalfe’s Personal
Organ Prints Administration
Policy, and Panama Seethes
With Sensation Thus Created.
Officials Have Trouble in Keeping
Up High Standard of Discipline
as Work Nears End, Because
the Article Breeds Disaffection.
By WILLIAM HOSTER.
Special Cable to The American.
PANAMA, Dec 13.—A sensation
created by the publication in The
Star-He raid, Governor Metcalfe’s per
sonal organ, of what purports to be
an outline of the Administration’s
policy in regard to the canal, shows
no signs of diminution. This verifies
recent dispatches to the effect that
practical politics are dominating the
management of the canal.
The article says:
“It is ridiculous to suppose that with
all the pressure for patronage being
brought to bear on him, President
Wilson will not use the forthcoming
canal organization as a means for
reciprocating as far as possible the
assistance of constituents who helped
to place him where he is.
Will Not Kill the “Goose.”
“It would be nonsensical to assume
that after sixteen years’ absence from
power the Democratic party is going
to kill the goose—the Isthmus—which
has been laying the golden eggs.”
What excites the greatest com
ment, however, is the following sen
tence from the article:
“The fact that several officials are
not in accord with the policies of the
present Administration is well known
in Washington. Their recall may be
several months distant, or it may be
to-morrow, but it is nevertheless com
ing.”
The article is generally taken to be
Metcalfe’s reply to the charges of po
litical influence in the Canal Zone.
The American’s correspondent has
learned definitely that no news dis
patch has been received here outlin
ing Wilson’s policy. It is known that
Metcalfe is in daily telephone commu
nication with the editors of the paper
Army Officers Roused.
Canal officers are deeply stirred by
the article, especially by the refer
ence to army officers. The fact is
that Commissioners Sibert, Gorgas
and the late Colonel Gaillard and
Judson have ranked as Democrats.
The politics of Commissioners Goe-
thals, Rosseau and Hodges are not
known. No inquiry was made as to
the politics of anybody here until the
arrival of Mr. Metcalfe. In his own
department of civil administration
last November a poll showed 4 Taft,
7 Debs, 23 Roosevelt and 27 Wilson
men.
One of the Commissioners said to
The American correspondent to-day:
**Tt is unjust to say that we are not
in accord with the Administration
policy when the Administration has
not announced any policy. Congress
has passed a law providing for reor
ganization. We must presume that
law will be the guiding principle of
the Administration, and are awaiting
orders to put it into operation. We
are in accord with it.
Call Metcalfe “Meddlesome.”
"Mr. Metcalfe is the only man who
is not. His meddlesome proposal of a
new form of organization after three
months is what caused all the muss.”
A significant fact of the situation
is that not a single official on the
Zone has denied the truth of The
American dispatches, although Secre
tary Garrison has been able at all
limes to command statements to in-
duce them to deny the truth of these
dispatches. This reflects the general
trend of the situation.
There is more confusion here than
ever as a result of this publication.
It is difficult to maintain discipline.
All thought of organization has been
abandoned and all thought of select
ing an operating force—and the finish
of the canal is in sight.
Billy Sunday Says
Most Tombstons Lie
Grapefruit Knives
Among Queer Things
Bought for Senate
Contingent Fund Also Called on for
Bath Salt, Liniment, Taxi
cabs and Quinine.
J, Pierpont Morgan
Elected Vestryman
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—J. Pierpont
Morgan was elected a vestryman at
St. George’s Church in Stuyvesant
Square at the election of wardens and
vestrymen held In the church. Mr.
Morgan's father was senior warden
of St. George's up to the time of his
death.
, JOHNSTOWN. PA., Dec. 13.—Billy
Sunday, in a sermon here, said: '
■'We’ll And out when the Lord
Hornes how many tombstones lie and
how .—J. the truth."
Garrison Won't Have
Big Ditch Decorated
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Refusal
to decorate the banks of the Panama
Canal with memorials has been made
by Secretary of War Garrison, it was
learned here to-day.
The Secretary has answered all re
quests by referring applicants to Con
gress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Razors,
grapefruit knives, spools of red tape,
horseshoes, 5,050 pounds of timothy
hay, oats, meal and bran, straw, ar
nica, gargling oil and mustang lini
ment are among the items for which
Expenditure was made out of the
contingent fund of the Senate for the
period since the Democratic party
took control last March up to the end
of the last fiscal year.
This information is disclosed in the
report of James M. Baker, Secretary
of the Senate.
Among the other expenditures was
$15.12 for floss pillows and many
items for bags of salt for the Sena
tors’ bathroom, mineral waters, taxi
cabs to convey Senators from night
sessions to their homes, and items
for dinners furnished to Senate pages
detained at the Capitol by late ses
sions.
In the bill of a druggist were items
for asperin, Jamaica ginger, bromo
seltzer, horehound drops, quinine pills,
adhesive plasters and Pond Lily.
Island Colony Hires
Community Doctor;
Salary Paid by Tax
1
I Physician Keeps 200 Citizens in Good
Health and Each Family Pays
Fixed Amount.
Boy Goes to Bed in
The Wrong House
NEWARK, OHIO, Dec. 13.—By mis
taking north for south, Forest Farmer, a
Newark school boy, found himself in
an embarrassing situation at South
Bend. Ind. Intending to surprise his sis
ter, Mrs. Henry Osborn, with a visit.
Forest went to South Bend and inquired
his way to Taylor street.
He located No. 421 and, finding no
body at home, entered, took a cold
plunge and refreshed himself at the re*
frigerator. After reading an hour he
retired. Toward midnight he was awak
ened by the question:
“What are you doing here?’’
It then developed he had visited No.
421 South Taylor instead of North Tay
lor street.
‘American Men Just
Lovable Babies’-Gaby
Shooed Away From Prince of Wales,
King-Wrecker Still jHas
‘Man-phobia.’
ST. LOUIS, Dec, 13.—The “man-
phobia” of Gaby Deslys still rages
with unbroken violence, in spite of the
sedative that was only a little while
ago applied to her when Queen Mary
of England shooed her away from the
Prince of Wales.
Here Gaby is in St. Louis, raving
over the American man, analyzing
'him, dissecting him, adoring him.
“An American for me,’’ said she to
day. "They are nothing but lovabl;
big babies.”
Gaby has hardly recovered from the
shock of being declared anathema in
England, when the bishops and cler
gymen of the Church of England
painted her very black In every man
ner and with all the zeal known to
the cloth. This was done at the be
hest of Queen Mary. Gaby had at
tracted the gaze of the youthful
Crown Prince, and never—no. never—
must a Manuel episode blot tha
’scutcheon of Great Britain.
Steals Two Eggs and
Gets Year in Prison
HUNTINGTON, W, VA., Dec. 13.—
For the theft of two eggs Charles H
Thumel was sentenced, in the Crimi
nal Court here, to serve a year in the
penitentiary- It was his second con
viction of petty larceny, and the Stat*
statutes provide the second offense
amounts to a felony.
The theft occurred several weeks
ago, when the defendant was paint
ing a sign for a local meat market.
Goodbye “23"; It's
Time You're Going
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Exit the
slang expression, “twenty-three.” En
ter ’thirty-eight" as the “latest."
“Thirty-eight” was borrowed from
the fortune tellers. In the slang it
means “a sucker.” it is a tag for the
man who goes to a clairvoyant for
tips on a horse race, for the girl who
turns to the occult power to have her
love affairs straightened out, for those
who rely on “hocus-pocus” in mat
ters of investment.
Chemist Says Canned
Pumpkin Is Poisonous
CLEVELAND, Dec. 13.-- “Beware
of canned pumpkin!”
City Chemist White issues this
warning, following reports to health
officers of scores of cases of tin poi
soning.
White says the danger of poisoning
from the use of canned pumpkin is
far greater than from any other-
tinned food.
‘Million T o n s of
Radium Under Sea’
BALTIMORE, Dec. 13.—“There is
in the hands of man all over the
world only one-half ounce of radium,
but on the floor of the ocean, out of
reach of man, there are 1,000,000 tons
of that precious chemical element.”
This statement was made to-day by
Dr. H. C. Jones, professor of chem
istry at Johns Hopkins University,
Once Defiant Band of Female
Vigilantes Now Subdued and
Peaceful Matrons.
VICTIM HYSTERICAL IN COURT
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Unsavory Hints Against Her De
nounced by Prosecutor, Who
Finds No Excuse for Riot.
Radium Deposit Is
Found in Minnesota
BRAINERD, MINN., Dec. 13.—
Charles Coleman and James Miller,
the latter an owner of mineral lands
on the Cuyuna range, have, with
George B. Woodason, E. M., been
prospecting on a section of the range
and believe they have discovered a
source of radium.
WAUKEGAN. ILL., Dec. 13.—
Women vigilantes In Lake County
have put an end to their rail-riding
and charivari parties. There is no
more talk of lawless festivities. It
is a very much-subdued band of worn,
en who only last week stood on trial
for dragging Mrs. Minnie Richardson
from her crippled husband’s porch iiy
Volo and riding her on a rail, and who
laughed their defiance at the court.
All of them found guilty, tney re
turned home chastened In spirit.
“Captain" Emma Stadfleld, who ad
mitted having led the party of rioters
to the Richardson house, declared in
court:
"People do anything they want >n
Volo! There Is no law nor order
there."
“Captain” Emma Stadfleld now is
the mildest of the quiet wom^n,
There were six of them altogether,
and five were found guilty of rioting.
Four of the five were gray-hair*d
grandmothers and the fifth was a ma
tron of mature years. Altogether, the
case was most extraordinary.
Clatter Tin Pans. ’
It began when the six women, an
gered at Mrs. Richardson because of
her alleged behavior toward their
husbands, dragged her from the porch
of her home, where she sat with Mr.
Richardson, and rode her on a rail,
banging and clattering tin pans in ac
companiment. They were arrested on
Mrs. Richardson's complaint.
In court the women defendants of
fered as their justification the state
ment that Mrs. Richardson really en
joyed the party, and that she suf
fered no ill effects from her rail ride.
But Mrs. Richardson In court ap
peared to be a greatly overwrougnt
and mournful person, and became
joyfully hysterical wh;>n the verdict of
the Jury was announced finding her
enemies guilty.
The lawyer for the defense of the
women rioters, dropping many un
savory hints and referring vaguely, to
the unwritten law, endeavored to sug
gest charges reflecting on the char
acter of Mrs. Richardson. But the
jury was not impressed. . State’s At
torney Dady made a more forceful
argument.
Gray Hairs No Excuse.
“The question is not one of char
acter,” he said. "It is whether Lake
County shall permit rioting in its bor
ders and not punish It. You should
have no compassion on these rioters
for their gray hairs.”
The four grandmothers were bitter
ly indignant at their conviction. They
began to mutter among themselves
and to glare with rage at Mr. and
Richardson embracing. “Captain”
Emma Stadfleld even broke into
speech, denouncing the verdict as an
outrage, and starting a tirade against
the Richardsons, stamping up and
down the small courtroom until stern
ly called o order.
But now. back at Volo, Mrs. Stad-
field is a meeker, milder person. Tiie
others convicted were Mrs. Mary Sa-
bel, Mrs. Ann Stadfleld, Mrs. Alma
Walton and Mrs. Levina Raymond.
Masculine Eugenic
Volunteer Quits
DENVER, Dec. 13.—M. D. Bowen,
of Denver, the only prospective eu
genic bridegroom, who had volun
teered his services to the State Board
of Health and who was held up as a
possible husband to more than 100
women from all parts of the United
States, has backed out.
Beneficiary Must
Not Join in Dance
SALEM, W. VA., Dec. 13.—In pre
senting a $1,000 scholarship to Salem
College, Mrs. Mary L. Rich, of Flori
da, declared that the beneficiary’ shall
not smoke, drink, play cards or dance.
Surgeon Makes New
Joint in Boy's Arm
/
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 —One of the
most remarkable operations in the an
nals of surgery has just given a new el
bow to Franklin Whitty, a 12-year-old
inmate of the Children’s Hospital.
Six years ago the lad suffered a con
tusion at the right elbow, and soon
afterward the ulna or outer bone of the
lower arm began to grow together with
the humerus or bone of the upper arm.
Dr. Lewis B. Morton made incisions
in the arm close to the elbow and
carved a new elbow joint. It was
practically the fashioning of a new
ball and socket where the boy’s nat
ural elbow joint should have been.
NEWBERN. N C., Dec. 13. Knotts
Island, Currituok County, which Is In
habited by about 200 persons, employs
one physician t^ minister to the ills and
ailments of every citizen.
This physician is paid a salary of
something more than $1,000 and every
famiTy Is assessed according to the
number In the household to pay the
salary. There are seasons during the
yfcar when the lone physician has little
to do, but at other times, when some
epidemic strikes the town, he Is kept
busy from morning until far into the
night.
Occasionally, when there are several
members of a family ill at one time, a
trained nurse is employed, but this is a
rarity and to the credit of the doctor it
can be said that he has remarkable
success in keeping the members of that
community free from all disease.
Did Tom Heflin Steal Thunder?
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‘Better Control Voter Than Vote’
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Pet Phrase, It Seems, Is Woman’s
Mrs. \V. L. Shepherd, from whom Congressman Heflin bor
rowed his “anti” speech, if the suffragettes’ suspicions are correct.
One Little Ink Spot
CausesBankShake-up
ST. PAUL, MINN., Dec. 13.—One
little ink spot caused a shake-up in
J. J. Hill’s First National Bank that
resulted in the resignation of W. A.
Miller, vice president, and F. N.
Nienhauser, cashier.
As the story of the flare-up goes,
L. W. Hill recently received a state
ment of his account. A clerk in
making out the statement let a drop
of ink fall upon the figures,
J. J. Hill, according to the report,
had some things on his mind he had
Intended saying to officials of the
bank, so he called a hurry-up meet
ing of the directors and relieved his
mind, talking extensively, it la said,
around the little ink spot.
Girl of Eight Sent
By Mail to Father
NEW LEXINGTON, OHIO. Dec. 13.
In the mail that arrived here recently
was an 8-year-old girl wearing a tag,
pinned on by New York Immigration
officials. reading:
"This child, Julia Kohan, is going
to her father, John Kohan, box 117,
R. F. D., No. 4, New Lexington, Ohio.”
After a breakfast supplied by the
postmaster, the child was taken in
care of a iural delivery carrier to the
home of her father. The trip of 7,000
miles from Bavaria was made by her
unaccompanied.
'Finest Dinosaur' Is
3,000,000 Years Old
OTTAWA, Dec. 13.—The complete
skeleton of a carnivorous dinosaur
is being mounted at the Victoria
Memorial Museum. The monster
lived some 3,000,000 years ago and
left his bones near the banks of the
Red Deer River, northwest of Med
icine Hat. where they were cecently
dug up. The skeleton is the finest
and most complete ever found in
North America.
The dinosaur was thirty feet long,
fifteen feet high and weighed four
or five tons.
With Carranza Sweeping North
ern Mexico, Huerta’s Army Is
Mutinous, and the Dictator May
Consider Truce for an Election.
United States Warships Ready to
Land Marines—Battle of Two
Armies Impends Near Border of
Texas—Two Americans Held.
Suffragettes, in Glee, Point to Mrs. Shepherd’s
Talk as Congressman’s Possible Model.
Mayor of St. Louis
Forbids Cigarettes
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 13.—Mayor fienry
W. Kiel, who enjoys a good cigar,
issued an order to his confidential
secretary to request all visitors to the
Mayor’s office to refrain from smok
ing cigarettes. Mayor Kiel recently
revealed his attitude toward ciga
rettes when a newspaper reporter
smoked a cigarette in the Mayor’s
office.
“Here, if you want to smoke, smoke
like a man,” said the Mayor, as he
pushed a box of cigars toward the
scribe.
Only 812 Paupers
Found in Kansas
TOPEKA, Dec. 13.—One-fourth of
the Kansas counties have no paupers,
and one-fifth of the counties have no
poorfarms. J. W. Ilowe, secretary of
the State Board of Control, has just
completed the tabulation of the sta
tistics.
There are but 812 paupers in the
State.
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Forbids Marriage of
Man 65 to Girl of 12
BALTIMORE, Dec. 13.—Judge
Frank I. Duncan, at Towson, forbade
the clerk of the County Court to is
sue a license for the marriage of
William Still, 365, to Bertha Groves,
his 12-year-old housekeeper.
Still, accompanied by the girl,
showing the written consent of her
parents, asked for a license. He was
refused because the consent was not
signed by two other witnesses.
Timberman Digs for
Bait and Gets Gold
TROY. MONT., Dec. 13.—A unu.su-
ually rich discovery of free milling
gold w’as made recently on the Yakt
River, seven miles east of Troy, by
Frederick Stevefis, a timberman.
The discovery was the result of ac
cident, the gold-bearing quartz hav
ing been unearthed while Stevens was
digging in the rocks along the river
for fish bait.
MONTGOMERY, Dec. 13—Alaba
ma suffragists want to ask a ques
tion of Congressman J. Thomas Hef
lin, fearless firebrand of anti-suf
frage. They are wondering whether
his latest attack on the women whe
want to vote, delivered last week in
Washington, was not adapted, con
sciously or unconsciously, from an in
terview given out by a mere woman,
Mrs. W. L. Shepherd, of this city.
Congressman Heflin’s valiant
speech against woman suffragists
bristled with epigrams, the most oft-
repeated of w'hieh was:
"It 1r better that a woman control
a voter than a vote.”
The doughty gentleman from the
T’lfth Alabama District so proclaim
ed, over and over again. Right proud
he was, it seemed, of his bon mot.
Now', it happened that, a day or
two before the Alabama Congress
man added to his fame by declaration
that the ballot belonged to men and
the home and kitchen and cradle to
women. Mrs. Shepherd, a young
woman popular in Montgomery so
ciety, returned home after a trip to
300 Pastors to Pray in
Streets on New Year's
CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—Three hundred
ministers of Chicago churches will
hold a prayer meeting and other ser
vices of a religious character on New
Year’s Eve. These plans were an
nounced by the Rev. Ernest Bell, su
perintendent of the Midnight Mission,
at a meeting of ministers of the Bap
tist churches at the Masorlio Temple
yesterday. “We propose to invade the
loop district on New Year’s Eve.”
said Dr. Bell, “w’here the usual orgies
have been prominent.”
Mayor Harrison announced yester
day that tin horns, confetti and
“ticklers" will be prohibited on the
streets New Year’s E2ve.
Aeroplane Secretly
Built for 'Record'
PITTSBURG. Dec. 13. -In a secluded
spot in the suburbs of Wilkinsburg fin
ishing touches are being put to a flying
machine which, its inventor and builder
asserts, will revolutionize aerial trans
portation.
The inventor appeared there, put up a
shed and began work, without revealing
his identity, declaring that he would not
make It public until the machine Is
ready.
the East, where she was the guest of
friends In Boston, New Haven and
New York. Mrs. Shepherd is some
what of a thinker herself, and talked
to newspaper men both in the course
of her trip and at home. And this is
what she said:
“It Is better that a woman control
a voter than a vote.”
In spi*e of the fact that Mrs. Shep
herd is opposed to the cause, suffra
gists of these parts rather welcome
her declaration, because it gives them
an opportunity to entertain the sus
picion that the oratorical gentleman
from the Fifth District, with all his
vigorous talking against their work,
has draw’n something of his fire from
the despised weaker sex.
Mrs. Shepherd, the young Mont
gomery woman of the incident, spoke
of her belief In the orthodox system
of government, much along the lines
of the Congressman's speech.
“It is the concern of every woman,
particularly every married woman,
that she be able to influence and con
trol her voter, rather than her vote,”
she said. “There is a very marked
sphere of usefulness in the home.”
Ocean Gamblers Win
$7,000 on ‘Kaiserin'
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—When the
Hamburg-American liner Kaiserin
Auguste Victoria, from Hamburg, ar
rived at her pier several of the pas
sengers said that among the cabin
passengers were two professional
gamblers who had succeeded in get
ting about $7,000 from one of the
saloon passengers.
The name of the man robbed w’as
not disclosed. It w’as said that the
gamblers won about $600 on the ship’s,
pool and that there was a strong
suspicion that a woman passenger
was their confederate.
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 13.—Practi
cally the whole nation is In revolt,
j The rebels are gaining strength hour
ly in the wide campaign which has
this city as Its objective point. Hun
dreds of Mexicans who have hithe :c
kept out of the turmoil are joining
the ranks of General Carranza’s arm
ies. More significant still, the Yaqul
Indians are flocking to the insurg ni
standard. Two thousand of th ns
fighters, who are not to be scorned
by the best trained soldiery in lb.
world, have been recruited by th<
Constitutionalists at Maytorrua
which is their base above Guayn is
These warriors will be a great hell
iu the fighting against Guaymas am
Mazatlan, which are the only point:
on the northwest coast retained In
the Federals.
Huerta Forces Mutinous.
In striking contrast to the acti ij
with which men are enlisting in ihf
rebel regiment is the plight of the
Huerta forces. Laborers are being
conscripted whenever they are found
Soldiers already in the field are mu
tinous and many are deserting. \i
many points it is reported that they
are only awaiting attack by the reb
els to desert or surrender.
Dynamiting by the Carranza up-
porters continues with fearful u.ss
of life. Another Huerta troop t. tin
has been blown up south of Mont' . "
Many were slain. The train wa or
its way with troops to reinform
Federal garrisons at Nuevo La Jo
With the attack on Tampico the
United States was forced to as: ime
an attitude which was nearer ii r-
ventlon than has yet been in evid< e
United States warships were hel r
readiness to land marines in the e .111
that street fighting became so oi-
eral as to endanger the lives of
foreigners.
Peace Plan Advanced.
Because of the fact that ( -n
Huerta is expected to recognize u.w
desperate his situation really is, t :e
Is some hope for a peace plan w h
is outlined by the conservative .Ce
ment here. Tentative efforts hive
been made to Induce the dlctato: to
ascertain If General Carranza w< old
be willing to cease fighting for t i-, f
purpose of holding an election at
which the Constitutionalist lea fer
would be a candidate for the Pr
dency of the republic or would m tne
his choice for that office. It is as
sumed by the politicians that the
Catholic and other parties would
name candidates.
Vegetarian Is Strong
Man of University
COLUMBIA, MO., Dec 13—Horace
Weltmer, who eats no meat, is the
strong man of Missouri State Univer
sity. He is studying to become a phy
sical instructor.
Weltmer scored 2,580 points in the
eight tests. The average for 300 men
was 1,045 points.
Weltmer "chinned’’ himself up twen
ty-three times.
Troop Concentration Shoi s
Clash Near on Border.
PRESIDIO, TEXAS, Dec. 13 -
Whether the Mexican Federal army
under General Salvador Mercado,
numbering 4.000 soldiers, now on the
United States border, will make a
stand for supremacy at OJlnapa
against the rebels advancing to that
point, or whether they will continue
their retreat into the state of Nuevo
Leon is at present the most absorb
ing question in Northern Mexico.
rPactlcally the entire strength of
the Federal army, reduoed by Its flight
from Chihuahua and by the apathy of
many of Its soldiers, is crowded ino
the little village opposite Presidio, it
w’as to this point they fled In the hoj e
of obtaining money and provisions
Toward them is marching a reb 1
army of about equal strength, with
the avowed purpose of surrounding
the town and bringing to a test
w’hether any Federals are to rema n
in the north,
Indications In Ojinagna were th it
the Federals would make a stan 1.
Trenches were dug. guns were maun -
eel on the mils and provijionji wcie