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VOL. XII. NO. 118.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 17, 1918.
Copyright, 1)01, O rTTVT’Q P ‘ AT NO
By The Georgian Ca l O. MQR1C.
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ANOTHER SOUTHERN RAILROAD HEAD DEAD
BEAVERS TO CARRY CLUB FIGHT TO COUNCIL
PEG TOP-HAT, LATEST N P £ C|
FROM PARIS, TO ADORN !'■< U. IA, U I. L.
OUR SPRIGHTLY GIRLS
now NEW CREATION APPEARS.
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PRESIDENT
37 Strikebreakers
Die in Mine; Strikers
RecoverTheirBodies
Ancf* now it’s
the "peg-top hat. ’
The style, di
rect from Paris,
of course, has just
struck America.
Fashion experts
admit that the hat
will attract atten -
tlon.
It can no^ fail
to do that, they
said, because the
hat has a real |
"punch.” It Is not I
fluffy, like the ere. |
ations with ai- |
■ grettes and such I
things on 'em I
The make-up of it j
is more like that !
of a prizefighter’s'
fist.
The “peg top" I
has an outward
coating of velvet. |
Its interior com- I
position is of good j
steel wire, guar-
anteed not to
break or bend
when it cpmes in
contact with a
human face.
There is a dis
tinct list to star
board in the new
style. The "list"
is what makes the
hat catchy and
“fetching.”
It gives the gen
eral design a rak
ish appearance,
like that of a
boat which has
just struck a coral
reef during a
heavy storm and I
doesn't know
where it is going
thereafter.
Persons Inter
ested in styles
said to-day that
the new headwear
for women really
is an off-shoot of
the Tam o’ Shun
ter.
From the Tam
o’ Shanter there
grew the picture
Hat, then the
"cavalier” and
tjnally the "peg.”
C&J
65,000-Horsepower
Moves Chattanooga
’ 1 r.\ XoooA t Dec. 13.—Current
from
Bar Tenn, operated all
Upon th,
Pa:
11 >00 lock and dam at
:a rs
•f a local traction com-
^ !ur nishcd lights for Signal
Altho-V r fhe t<me last night.
^ 1 11 mic than 65,000 horsepower
n av,li for several weeks.
'irrf-ni was not turned into,
v e . .< "?T ij nes u n til last night.
has
°Perati
life's Xmas Gifts to
Speaker 'Her Needs’
Georgia to War on
Weevil Next Month
Scientific war on the boll weevil was
planned at a conference in State Agri
cultural Commissioner Price's office
Tuesday. It was decided that January
should be "boll weevil month” and that
the fight should be concentrated along
the southwestern border of Georgia.
Those present were Commissioner
Price, C. D. McKinney, secretary of the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce; Dr. A.
\t. 'Soule, president of the State Cham
ber of Commerce; Professor E. C. Bran
son, of the'State Norma!; .1. Phil Camp
bell. leader of the Georgia Corn Club
movement'; E. Dee Worsham, State En
tomologist, and Marvin \ . Calvin, sec
retary of the State Agricultural So
ciety.
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Speaker
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ttound, \
buys
17.—OfTicial
'eves in the useful
Secretary Daniels, ac-
Ganiels. has asked
ar £e number of studs
presen
f hinks that gift-mak
; has been run into the
"irk declares she al-
>r nething s ^ e herself needs
a 1 to her husband.
Poisons Self Because
Of Brother’s Suicide
LEXINGTON, KY„ Dec. 17.—Mias
Mollie Taylor, aged 40. who soaked
matchheads in water and drank the
mixture, is dead to-day at Cuba-
Two weeks ago Miss Taylor’s brother,
John Taylor, killed his wife and then
committed suicide. Sorrow over this
caused the sister's deed.
Brother of Milton H. Smith Likely
to Succeed John W. Thomas,
Jr., as Chief.
NASHVILLE, Dec. 17.—John W.
Thomas, Jr., president of the Nash
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louts Rail
way, the fourth head of a big railway
system In the South to die within
two months, passed away here this
morning at 2 o'clock following a
three-weeks' illness of pleural pneu
monia. His death, following so close
ly upon that of J. R. Parrott, the
late Henry B. Flagler's successor as
head of the Florida East Coast sys
tem; William W. Finley, president
of the Southern Railway, and Thom
as M. Emerson, president of the At
lantic Coast Line, makes it all the
more notable. And the fact that it
is the second death of a president of
a system closely allied by ownership
ties with the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad also makes it a conspicuous
coincidence, the Louisville and Nash
ville being dominated by the Coast
Line and the Nashville. Chattanooga
and St. Louis by the Louisville and
Nashville.
H. F. Smith in Line.
Who will be President Thomas’
successor Is a question that local
railroad men have not seen fit thus
far to answer. However, it would not
be surprising to see H. F. Smith, vice
president and traffic manager of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louts
and a brother of President Milton H.
Smith, of the Louisville and Nash
ville, step up to the office. A father-
to-son succession led to the promo
tion of Mr. Thomas to the presidency
when the late John W. Thomas, Sr,
long head of the Nashville, Chatta
nooga and St. Louis road died seven
years ago—the same year, by the way,
that Mr. Finley succeeded to the
Southern Railway presidency upon
the death of Samuel Spencer. Mr
Smith has grown up in the Nash
ville. Chattanooga and St. Louis serv
ice and of recent years has stood
next to Mr, Thomas In shaping the
policies of that system.
In Service 36 Years.
President Thomas was born at
Murfreesboro, Tenn.. August 24. 1856
At an early age he moved to Nashville
and was educated here, attending
Montgomery-Bell Academy and later
Vanderbilt University. In 1878, at
the age of 22 years, he secured his
first important railroad position, al
though previous to that time he had
been in the railroad service.
He labored in the ranks for several
years, steadily advancing. After an
experience on the road Mr. Thomas
served in the machine shop, then ad
vancing to agent and dispatcher, pur
chasing agent, assistant general man
ager, finally succeeding his father as
general manager in 1899. On March
1, 1906, shortly after the death of his
father, he was elected president of
the road.
Mr. Thomas is survived by his wife,
formerly Miss Dillie Duncan, of
Nashville; three daughters, Mra
Elizabeth Thomas Kirkpatrick, Mra
Martha Thomas Riddle and Miss
Ellen Thomas, all of this city, and
one son, John W. Thomas, of Phila
delphia.
Weds Sister-in-Law
As Children Protest
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Despite the
protests of his nine children. Charles
N. Bell. 69. was married, to his sister-
in-law. Miss Mary E. Scott, 61.
Veteran Policeman Dies.
Hans were made Wednesday for the
funeral of Abraham E. Willey, veteran
patrolman on the Atlanta force, who
died Tuesday night at his home, 41
Fortress avenue, after an illness of ten
days. He is survived by his wife.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Cloudy Wednesday;
probably rain Thursday.
NEWCASTLE, COLO., Dec. 17.—
With 28 bodies lying in the morgue
here and nlni others still in the Vul
can coal mine, the entire town of
Newcastle was In mourning to-day.
Fifteen wives were left widows and
24 children ware left fatherless when
a miner’s candle set off a terrific
blast of gas dust that had accumu
lated In the mine.
Nineteen of the 37 victims of the
disaster were sons of wealthy fami
lies who had volunteered to work In
the place of striking coal miners.
The first rescue party was composed
of striking union miners whose Jobs
the dead men had taken.
Only two miners were brought out
alive. They were on an upper level
In a separate air passage. Mrs. Her
bert Woods, wife of a miner, became
a mother at almost the identical mo
ment that her husband w-as killed.
Italy Expected to •
Release U.S. Singer
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Dec. 17.—As a result of
representations made to the Foreign
Office by the Ambassador, Thomas
Nelson Page, the Italian Government
is expected to $>rder the release from
friilitary surveillance of Dorthy Mac-
Vane, the Boston singer, suspected of
being a French spy.
Miss MacVane, who is detained at
Taranto, is In a state of almost com
plete collapse, caused by her inability
to communicate with her family.
Cancer Is Cured by
Radium in 48 Hours
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17—The
word "cure” can now be properly ap
plied to the radium form of treatment
of cancer, according to an announce
ment made by Dr. Howard A. Kelly,
of Johns Hopkins University, and Dr.
Robert Abbe, of New York, at a
meeting of the college of physicians
and surgeons in this city.
Dr. Kelly exhibited photos of pa
tients before and after being cured
and told of the cure in 48 hours of a
man suffering from malignant can
cerous growth on the face and head.
Mrs. Sayre Will Push
Uplift Work in U. S.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 17.—Mrs. Francis
B. Sayre, daughter of President Wil
son. will devote herself seriously to
social betterment work upon her re
turn to the United States. She is
studying methods now in force in
London.
Mr. and Mrs. Sayre have made sev
eral excursions into the slums of tht
East End and have inspected
charitable Institutions. Her plans for
to-day include a visit to White
chapel.
Negroes Get Chance
To See Miss Keller
The negroes of Atlanta are to have
the opportunity to see and hear Miss
Helen Keler and her teacher, Mrs.
Macy, at the Auditorium-Armory n<»xt
Saturday night. So many of them
have expressed a wish for this privi
lege that It has been decided to set
aside a section of the galtery for them.
The advance sale has sh wn a great
Interest in Miss Keller’s . opearanoe
here, especially as it is her 3rst, and
probably will be her last.
Hamburg Is After
Extra Fair Exhibit
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Dec. 17.—Besides instruct
ing their representatives to demand an
adequate governmental appropriation
foi; the San Francisco Exposition, the
authorities of Hamburg have drafted a
bill >coviding for a special exhibit 'of
Hamburg’s state and municipal insti
tutions.
Man Drops Dead as
Wife Bears Twins
SPEERMORE, OKLA.. Dec. 17.—
When Samuel Bealmer. a young far
mer, learned that his wife had given
birth to twins he stepped to the tele
phone to call another doctor and
dropped dead of heart failure.
Pledges of His Own Fortune and
Those of Cabinet Refused
Because of Wilson.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 17.—The offer of Gen
eral Huerta to pledge his private for
tune and the fortunes of members of
his Cabinet as security for a loan to
the Mexican Government has been
rejected by a French group of finan
ciers, who were approached by Senor
Aldape, former Mexican Minister of
the Interior, according to a. letter to
The Paris Herald to-day.
It Is understood that the French
Government advised the group to^irn
down the proposition because of the
attitude of President Wilson toward
the Mexican dictator
Confiscation of
Estates Cheered.
EL PASO, TEXAS, Dec. 17.—"Viva
Villa! ” was heard on every side In
Juarez to-day when the confiscation
of the vast estates of the Creel and
Terrazas families was officially pro
claimed. The rebels cheered for their
leader at every opportunity and at
times the enthusiasm became so bois
terous that the street patrols had to
make arrests.
If Villa succeeds In holding the
greater wealth that he has declared
confiscated, the treasury of the Con
stitutionalists will be swelled by a
vast sum, variously estimated at from
{500,000,000 to {700.000,000. This Is
not in ready cash, of course, but the
value of the big mines and ranches
owned by the millionaires w r ho have
supported the Huerta administration.
Rebels Chased From
Mexican Capital.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 17.—Saved from
immediate danger of attack a* a result
of a double defeat Inflicted on Zapatista
rebels at Alta Mira and lake Roch-
imlllo. the Government to-day turned
its attention to financial conditions.
These are becoming worse daily, one
bank is already tottering and its fall is
likely to drag others down to ruin.
Bank officials and representatives of
the Government held a long conference
last night In the office of the Minister
of Finance. Support of the allied bank
ing interests was pledged for the Cen
tral Bank, which was closed for two
hours Tuesday afternoon as the result
of a run started by depositors.
Tension Still Acute.
The Central Bank was besieged all
night by anxious depositors, but many
of them departed early to-day when
they learned that other national hanks
would help the Central. There was a
tension in financial circles, however,
that the sanguine pledges of Govern
ment leaders were unable to remove.
Excitement was caused In business
circles by rumors that Lord Cowdray
was negotiating with the Standard Oil
Company for the sale of his Mexican
oil properties or had actually consum
mated the deal. Officers of the Pearson
syndicate refused to confirm or deny
the reports J. DeC. Ballardie and Alex
Anderson, respectively, Comptroller and
Assistant Comptroller of the Cowdray
Interests, have left for Europe.
Diar Home Headquarter*.
Zapatas rebels, defeated In a battle
of tw'o days near the capital, have re
treated to the foothills and there are
safe from pursuit, as the Federal forces
sent from the Mexico City garrison are
too small to risk an ambuscade
Emillano Zapata, commander of the
bandit troop, has established his head
quarters at Nepanapa, a former country
home of Porflrlo Dias, while Felipe Neri
has taken his soldiers to the foot of
AJusco Mountain.
The Federal vict'yion were won with
artillery in which T?te rebels were lack
ing
West Side Club Will
Urge Street Paving
The West Mitchell street regrading
will be discussed at a meeting of the
West Side Improvement Club Wednes
day evening at No. 110 West Mitchell
street.
The members of the organization say
appropriations have been made from
time to time for the work, but have
gone hack into the 'city treasury. The
club wants a renew-al of the appropria
tions. and wants the improvements
made.
$1,000 Table Service Presented
to Former Atlantan—Hailed as
Hero of Tammany Rout.
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—Hailed aa
“Father Knickerbocker’s fair-haired
boy," Robert Adgmson, secretary to
Mayor Kline and manager of the
Fusion Campaign Committee, was
honor guest at a dinner at the Wal
dorf-Astoria at which a silver service
valued at (1,000 was presented to
him.
In addition, Mayor Kline declared
that whatever success he had attain
ed during his brief term as Mayor
was due to the advice of the former
Atlantan, while Mayor-elect Mltchel
said: ”1 will go further and say that
I expect I shall have the benefit of
the advice and service of Mr. Adam
son In my administration."
William F. McCombs, chairman of
the Democratic National Committee,
after telling of the aid Adamson had
been to the national campaign In
1912, added:
"I was glad to hear the Mayor-elect
say he expected to have Mr. Adam
son's services in his administration.
I desire to say that, no matter in
what department the Mayor-elect Is
fortunate enough to get Adamson to
serve, he will be of he greatest ser
vice to the people of the city.”
700 New York Leaders There.
More than 7p0 of New York's lead
ing business and professional men, to
say nothing of politicians, gathered
at the Waldorf to attend the dinner.
It was the first time since election
that Mayor Kline and Mayor-elect
Mltchel dined together Both made
speeches, and both violated their rule
of coming late, appearing before the
diners were seated.
Mrs. Mltchel, Mrs. Kline, Mrs,
Adamson and Miss May, Mrs. Adam
son's sister, occupied a box in the
grand ballroom and watched the pro
ceedings. The sliver service was pre
sented to Mrs. Adamson. It was born*
into the banquet hall by two waiters,
preceded by Oscar, and deposited in
front of Mrs. Adamson. William H.
Edwards. Commissioner of Street
Cleaning, made the presentation
speech.
Hedgee Pays Tribute.
Job Hedges presided. "Nobody is
better than Bob Adamson," he said,
"and the good thing about him is that
he never denied it. Adamson has been
tried and never found wanting—any
thing he didn’t get.”
Mayor-elect Mltchel declared he
was glad to join in a tribute to Adam
son. He referred to the fact that an
effort was made to get Hedges to
manage the campaign, and that Mr.
Hedges declined because of poor
heatlh. "I am glad to note a great
improvement in his health, now that
the campaign is over,” said Mr.
Mltchel.
Haze Enshrouding
City Mostly Smoke,
Says Weather Man
The dense fog that enshrouded At
lanta Wednesday morning wasn’t fog
at all, C. F. VonHerrmann, weather
director, asserted.
"That is, very little of 1t was fog
We don’t have any such fogs In this
part of the country This Isn’t Lon
don, you know.
“Most of the haze was smoke, pure
and simple, and more simple than
pure. There doesn't happen to be
much wind this morning: a velocity
of one mile an hour is next to noth
ing at all, and the smoke just rose
out of the chimneys and floated
around a while and then came down.”
Mr. VonHerrmann added that the
smoke would stick around until a
breeze came up, which he fancied
would be about noon or a bit later.
"The barometer stands at 30.14
Inches," he said, "which is .14 of an
inch above normal. So that hasn’t
anything to do with it.”
Money Needed for
Poor’s Xmas Dinner
Footpad Beats and
Robs Atlanta Man
BIRMINGHAM. Dec. 17.—R. C.
Bradbury, of Atlanta, a traveling
man. has a bruised head thi« morn
ing as a result of being held up, beat
en and robbed by a negro last night
on Second avenue and Twenty-sixth
street near the Terminal Station,
Bradbury was hailed while going to
the Terminal Station by the negro
who asked for a match. As he stopped
he was assaulted and robbed of a
watch and $10.« The negro was ar
rested afterward and identified.
Fire in Next Room as
Surgeons Operate
NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 17.—Although
firemen were fighting a blaze in an
adjoining room, surgeons at the Ho
meopathic Hospital continued to suc
cessfully operate upon a patient.
Wheeler's Cavalry Dines,
Covers for 50 will be laid Thursday
night In the Pine room of the Hotel
Ansley. when the survivors of Wheel
ers cavalry will nolri their annual
dinner and election of officers.
A falling off In Christmas contribu
tions and an Increase tn the number
of needy families to be supplied with
holiday cheer Is the. perplexing situa2
tlon that confronts the Atlanta bar
racks of the Salvation Army, accord
ing to a statement Wednesday by
Brigadier General A. W. Crawford.
Mr. Crawford feared that the army
would be forced to borrow money In
order properly to take care of the
families it has investigated
The annual distribution of Christ
mas baskets will be made from the
army headqoarters, No. 29 1-2 Mari
etta street, Christmas Eve. The day
after Christmas there will be a
Christmas tree for the poor children
of the city at the same address
Power of Mayor
Partly Restored
MACON. Dec. 17.—Tho mayor’s ap
pointing power, which was takon away
from him last week, was partially re
stored by Council last night when his
veto of an ordinance transferring this
power, was sustained. Of the eight
members of council who voted last
week to shear the mayor, one weakened
last night which enabled the veto to
stand.
A new arrangement was devised
whereby the policemen and firemen
shell be selected by a special comittee
of five, these selections to be appointed
by ths mayor, subject to confirmation
of the entire council.
Atlanta Man Killed
As Negroes Battle
The body of Jack Cheek, of At
lanta, who was killed by a stray bul
let while two negroes were fighting a
duel near Augusta last Monday night,
will arrive In Atlanta Thursday
morning at 7 o’clock. The funeral
probably will be held Thursday aft
ernoon from Bloomfield's chapel.
Cheek waa employed ae foreman of
the work at Stephens Creek by the
White Engineering Company. He was
sitting In front of his tent when the
negroes began shooting at each other.
Ex-Atlantan Working
For Bible Conference
Ths Rsv Thoma* Harrison, sf Nash
ville, Is In Atlanta for a few days In
the interest of the Bible Conference
soon to be held In Nashville.
Mr. Harrison formerly lived here, his
occupation being that of an engineer
on the Nashville. Chattanooga and St.
Louis Railroad. Soon after his conver
sion he entered the ministry
Albanian King to
Take Throne Jan. 15
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN. GERM
ANY. Dec. 17.—A Constantinople dls.
patch to The Frankfurter Zeltung to
day says that Prince William of Wied,
who has consented to become the first
ruler of the new kingdom of Albania,
will ascend the throne January 15.
FIRE DESTROYS TOWN.
BERLIN, MICH , Dec. 17—Only
two business houses are left standing
here to-day. following a fire that did
$40,000 woria oL aajnagb last
TIGHTEN
LES
Crusaders Would Give Recorder
Power to Revoke Licenses in
Cases of Conviction.
The locker club war took an
important turn Wednesday when
Police Chief Beavers announced
that when the Council Police
Committee started its investiga
tion the first of the year into the
merits of applieauts for locker
club licenses he would furnish all
the facts revealed by the recent
raids.
If the seven clubs against which
cases have been made are convicted
of violating the prohibition law when
they are tried before Recorder Broyles
Christmas Eve. the chances are a re
newal of their license will be denied.
There was a disposition among a
Isrge number of Councilmen to weed
out the clubs before the police took
any action. The determination of the
Councilmen was based on belief, rath
er than actual proof, that some of the
clubs were violating the law. Convic
tion of these clubs will make it very
hard for any of them to get a new
license.
Likely to Strengthtn Lew.
The :»ttltude of Council is empha
sized by the promise of the present
Police Commission to strengthen the
law against locker clubs. At the be
hest of leaders of the Georgia Anti-
Saloon League, the Police Committee
promised to offer an ordinance giving
the Recorder the right to revoke any
locker club license upon conviction of
a violation of the prohibition law.
That ordinance was to have been
introduced In Council Monday, but.
for some unknown reason, luckily for
some of the locker clubs. It was not.
The law already applies to "near"-
beer saloons, and there Is no reason to
doubt that Council will make It ap
ply to locker clubs as soon as the Po
lice Committee proposes it.
if it had been offered at the last
meeting of Council It would have
been a law, tn all likelihood, by the
time Recorder Broyles tries the cases,
and very probably more than one
license would have been revoked in
the Recorder’s Court.
Locker clubs already are present
ing their applications for renewal of
licenses. These applications will he
taken up by the new police commi:-
tee to he appointed by Mayor Wood
ward the first of the year.
Committee of Liberals.
Much depends on the temper of the
committee Mayor Woodward will ap
point. Following the recent Coun-
ctlmanic election he threatened to ap
point a very strict committee, but In
dications now are that his commit
tee wil! be omposod of the most lib
eral members of Council. .
Mayor Woodward himself refuses
to discuss the matter.
But whether the committee Is lib
eral there are a number of members
of Council who are going to insist on
rigid investigations and demand thac
the licenses of some of ths cluhs be
revoked
The'clubs against which cases haw-
been made and with which Chief
Beavers’ report will principally deal
are the eMtronolitan, the Theatrical,
the T M. A., the Central, ths Owls,
toe Beavers and Eagles Clubs,
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