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OVER 100,000 THE SUNDAY AMERICAN’S NET PAID CIRCULATION Jk National Southern Sunday Newspaper The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results 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. - - - -- - . _ ... . 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. rfT"' 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. n gif' M iristm Cor ding r. „ 1 collar Speaker ln * at r;hri 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, «*. J!