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VOL. XII. NO. 118.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1913.
Copyright. 1906. Q pT?\T'T , Q PAT NO
By The Georgian Co. V-'-LGN 1 O. MORE.
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IWar on Locker Clubs Goes to Council
Crusaders Would Give Recorder
Power to Revoke Licenses in
Cases of Conviction.
I The locker club war took an
important turn Wednesday when
Police ChieT Beavers announced
that when the Council Police
Committee started its investiga
tion the first of the year into the
merits of applicants for locker
club licenses he would furnish all
the facta revealed by the recent
raids.
If the seven club* against which
ewes have been made are convicted
of violating the prohibition law when
they are tried before Recorder Broyles
- Christmas Eve, the chances are a re-
IMwal of their license will be denied.
There was a disposition among a
larje number of Councilmen to weed
lout the clubs before the police took
ltny action. The determination of the
I Councilmen was based on belief, rath-
I *r than actual proof, that some of the
I club* were violating the law. Oonvlc-
Ihon of these clubs will make it very
] for an V of them to get a new
| license
Likely to Strengthen L aw.
The attitude of Council Is empha-
[ ’V the promise of the present
i Commission to strengthen the
I against locker clubs. At the be-
I of leaders of the Georgia Anti-
1 l eague, the Police Committee
I Promised to offer an ordinance giving
I , ne -cocder the right to revoke any
I. I? ' ' ,u * ) license upon conviction of
I" '2 0at,on of the Prohibition law.
I refinance "as to have been
I roduced in Council Monday, but.
l«„L S ° me unkno "n reason, luckily for
| Th / V the l°ckcr clubs, it was not.
1 r eady applies to ■’near”-
I dmih. Sa ° 0n ' ,! ' and ,her * is no fe«on to
15 rr counc " H a P -
I . ocker clubs as soon as the Po-
Committee proposes It.
Rnocti 1 t - had been oftered #t thfi ,ast
Ibeen , k .“ ( ouncll it would have
■n all likelihood, by the
I me Recorder Broyles tries the cases,
| robably more than one
Itht p e * iave been revoked in
Recorder** Court.
I . J already are present-
I Hcens, aphUcattons for renewal of
1 hese applications will be
I tee • e new P° lice commit-
1, ’olnted by Mayor Wood-
| ir ‘ ‘he flr st of th# year
M U e h C ° mmittee of Lib.rals.
et *mltteA nda ° n th * Umper of the
Point l- Iayor Woodward will ap-
eilmanir. r '" lns ‘he recent Coun-
polr■ a * fcC!lon h « threatened to ap-
Idlcat ™ ‘ rv slrlct committee, but in-
tee v. 9 now are that his commlt-
I eril ,m r>osed of the most lib-
of Council.
to 41A "oodward himself refuses
lhe thattcr.
»rn Hct etheT ,h ® comm ‘ttee is lib
el Count" a nur nber of members
rigid ]nvA ' Do are goin S to insist on
the ?ations and demand that
Pvoke d ° f som ® of the clubs De
which cates have
w,th which chief
the \t.. rt wtI1 principally deal
I In >Htan, the Theatrical,
I th» g,,”. ths Central, the Owls.
* 40,1 Eagles Clubs.
Haze Enshrouding
City Mostly Smoke,
Says Weather Man
The dense fog that enshrouded At
lanta Wednesday morning wasn’t fog
at all, C. P. VonHerrmann. weather
director, asserted.
'•That Is, very little of It 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 s*imple, 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. VonHarrmann 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.’’
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Cancer Is Cured by
Radium in 48 Hours
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17.—The
word “cure” can now be properly ap
plied to th© 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.
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.
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 order the release from
military surveillance of Dorthy Mac-
Vane, the Boston singer, suspected of
being a French spy.
Miss McVane is in a state of col
lapse.
Footpad Beats and
Robs Atlanta Man
BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 17.—R. C.
Bradbury, of Atlanta, a traveling
man, has a bruised head this 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 robbed of a watch
and *10.
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, w'ho 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 turn
down the proposition because of the
attitude of President Wilson toward
the Mexican dictator.
Confiscation of
Estates Cheered.
ED 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 1
not in ready cash, of course, hut the
value of the big mines and ranches
owned by the millionaires who have
supported the Huerta administration.
Brother of Milton H, Smith Likely
to Succeed John W, Thomas,
Jr., as Chief.
Battleship Vermont
Is Entirely Disabled
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—The battle-
ahtp Vermont, which was crippled last
week by the breaking of a shaft while
the vessel was returning from the Medi
terranean cruise, has been disabled and
is being towed to Norfolk, Va., by the
Delaware.
It was found that the repairs could
not be completely made except at the
Navy Yard and the dreadnought was
taken in tow.
Dr, Mary Walker to
Appear in Vaudeville
NEW YORK. Dec. 17.—Dr Mary E.
Walker, the noted suffragette, has ac
cepted a vaudeville engagement nt
Hammerst^in’s Theater beginning Jan
uary 5. She is the only woman privi
leged to wear male attire here, by spe
cial act of Congress.
She will deliver a series of lectures
interspersed with stories of personal
experience.
Wilson Sees Callers;
Grippe Attack Past
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—President
Wilson has practically recovered from
his recent attack of the grippe and to
day was able to take up his work again
James Speyer, a New York banker
was the first caller of the day. Dater
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Prouty talked over pending railroad
rat* raMAfl with him.
Rebels Chased From
Mexican Capital.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MFaXIOO CITY, Dec. 17.—Saved from
immediate danger of attack as a result
of a double defeat inflicted on Zapatista
rebels at Alta Mira and' 1-ake Roch-
imilio, the Government to-day turned
its attention to financial conditions.
These are becoming worse daily, one
bank Is already tottering and its fall la
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, hut many
of them departed early to-day when
they learned that other national banks
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 Ivjrd Cowdray
was negotiating with the Standard Oil
Company for the sale of Ills Mexican
oil properties or had actually consum
mated the deal Officers of the I’earson
syndicate refused to confirm or deny
the reports. J. T>eO. Rallardie and Alex
Anderson, respectively, comptroller and
assistant comptroller of the Cowdray
Interests, have left for Europe.
Diaz Home Headquarter*.
Zapata rebels, defeated in a battle
of two daya 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.
EmlLano Zapaia. commander of the
bandit troop, has established his head
quarters at Nepanapa. a former country
home of Porfirlo Diaz, while Felipe Neri
has taken his soldiers to the foot of
Ajufco Mountain.
The Federal victories were won with
artillery, in which the rebels were lack
ing.
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Cloudy Wednesday;
probably rain Thursday.
NASHVILLE, Dec. 17.—John W.
Thomas, Jr., president of the Nash
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis 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 th© At
lantic Coast Line, makes it all th©
more notable. And the fact that it
is the second death of a president of
a system closely allied by ownership
ties with the Ivouisville 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. Louis
and a brother of President Milton H.
Smith, of the Louisville and Nash
ville, step up to the office. A father-
to-son ©uccession 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 wav,
that Mr. Finley succeeded to th©
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 th©
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 tfle 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 Dilli© Duncan, of
Nashville; three daughters, Mrs
Elizabeth Thomas Kirkpatrick, Mrs.
Martha Thomas Riddle and Miss
Ellen Thomas, all of this city, and
one son, John W. Thomas, of Phila
delphia.
Louisville Plans
Race Segregation
LOUISVILLE, KY., Dec. 17.—An
ordinance looking to the segregation
of whit© and colored persons in the
matter of residence here has been in
troduced in the Council.
FIRE DESTROYS TOWN.
BERLIN. MICH., .Dec. 17.—Only
two business houses are left standing
here to-day, following a fire that did
$40,000 damage last night.
EMPTY STOCKING FUND TO GET
BIG BOOST FROM TECH PLAYERS
One-fourth of Receipts Prom ‘The Magistrate’ Is
Promised—Play Friday Night.
Another delegation of friends of
Atlanta's poor boys and girls turn
ed up Wednesday. They are the
memV>er© of the Georgia Tech So
ciety, who made announcement that
25 per cent of the gross receipts at
their annual play Friday night w r ould
be devoted to Th© Georgian-Ameri
can Empty Stocking Fund for the
youngsters of th© city who otherwise
would not have a visit from Santa
Claus this year.
As the Tech play is one of the
events of the winter season and in
variably attracts a big house, the
fund will be swelled materially by
the generosity of the students. On
Sunday another substantial addition
to the Empty Stocking Fund will
comf from The Georgian’s great free
concert in the Forsyth Theater.
The play at the Grand Friday night
by the Tech student-actors promises
to be even more of a grand and
delightful affair than it was last year,
when the house was packed from pit
to gallery.
College Girls to Attend.
The annual dramatic effort by the
collegians is to b© graced this year
by the presence of several hundred
young women from Atlanta’s famed
educational institutions. Not that
they have not attended before, but
Friday night they will be here in {
larger numbers than ever before; they
will b© in their prettiest of gowns,
they wi 11 come in solid delegations
from the various schools they repre
sent, and they will be decked out
witti the colors of their schools.
Washington Seminary, Agnes Scott
College, the Girls’ High School, Miss
Woodberry’s and Miss Hannah’s
schools all will be at the Grand with
large representations.
The Tech actors, as soon as The
Georgian made public its plans for
raising an Empty Stocking Fund
for the poor children of the city,
immediately fell in jyilb the idea and
decided to make a contribution on
their own account. It wa.s agreed
that one-fourth of the gross receipts
would be turned over to The Geor
gian to he used i,n riding tbo empty
stockings in the poor homou of the
city.
Some of Players.
A! Roberts, who starred last year
In “Brown of Harvard,” will have a
leading part in this year’s produc
tion, which is Pinero's fan:cus com
edy, “Th© Magistrate.” It will he the
professional ranks of Thespians for
Roberts after his school days are
over, according to the report of his
friends.
He is regarded as one of the best
actors that th© Tech Dramatic Bo-
ciety has ever had. Besides possess
ing an impressive personality on the
stage, he has unusual ability for an
amateur and has decided to use his
talents professionally. Roberts is
prominently connected with the Play
ers’ Club of Nashville, his home.
Walter Troy, who has one of th©
important parts In the play this year,
will be remembered as “Gwendolyn'
In “Brown of Harvard.’’
Sidney Gayles, another member of
the cast, is displaying his dramatic
ability In other lines as well, being
at present engaged in writing a play
for the Georgia Drama League, of
which Miss Carolyn Cobb is presi
dent.
Free Concert Sunday.
And remember:
The Georgian-American s free con
cert at the Forsyth Theater next
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Every seat In the house will be
fre©. The concert la*t year was at
tended by as many as the house
would hold.
Some of the best musical talent in
the city will have places on the pro
gram. Musicians from other cities
also will perform Altogether it will
be on© of the most enjoyable affairs
that Atlantans have been privileged
to attend in month*.
Judge Sentences
Preacher to Six
Months on Roads
ROME. Dec. 17.—“T wish T could say
to you like the Bible of old, ‘Go and
sin no more,’ but It is my duty to give
you a aevsre sentence, and you must
serve six months on the chain gang
without th© alternative of a fine,” said
Judge John H. Reece, in Floyd City
Court to-day, in passing sentence upon
the Rev James A. Thacker, congrega
tional Methodist minister found guilty
yeslerday of Improper conduct with
Miss Emma Hughee, a protty young
women, 25 years old, who came here
recently from Cincinnati,
Thacker received the verdict, without
emotion, and was taken to jail, where
he will remain until he can give $304
borj, penainy the hearing of a motion
tor a new' trial, which his attorneys
filed to-day.
Mrs, Sayre Will Push
Uplift Work in U. S.
Special Cable to Th© 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 th© United States. She is
studying methods now in force in
London.
Man Drops Dead as
Wife Bears Twins
SPEERMORE. OKDA. Dec. 17 —
When Samuel Bealmer, a young far
mer, learned that hl« wife had given
birth to twins he stepped to the tele
phone to call another doctor and
dropped dead of heart failure.
Fire in Next Room as
Surgeons Operate
NEWARK, N. J.. Deo. 17.—Although
firemen were fighting a blaae In an
adjoining room, surgeons at the Ho
meopathic Hospital continued to suc
cessfully operate upon a patient.
A1 Roberts
(left) and
Walter Troy,
two of Tech’s
star dramatic
cast, who will
help Empty
Stocking Fund
Friday.
Shreveport Institution Latest Vic
tim of Long List of Dixie
Outrages.
SHREVEPORT, Dec. 17.—Ad
ding to the long chain of train,
bank and post office robberies in
Louisiana and Mississippi in re
cent months, $40,000 has been
j stolen from the First National
Bank of Shreveport, it becomes
known to-day.
Two employees of th© bank ar©
suspected, but no arrests have thus
far been made.
Details of the robbery have not
. been disclosed, and it is not known
1 whether It Is a case of embezzlement
or whether the amount of missing
currency lias suddenly disappeared
from th© vaults of th© bank.
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 tight should be concentrated along
the southwestern border of Georgia.
Those present were Commissioner
Price, C. D. McKinney, secretary of th©
Georgia Chamber of Commerce; Dr. A.
M. Soule, president of the State Cham
ber of Commerce; Professor E. C. Bran
son, of the State Normal; J. Phil Camp
bell, leader of the Georgia Com Club
movement; E. Lee Worsham. State En
tomologlst, and Marvin V. Calvin, sec
retary of the State Agricultural So
ciety.
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 w’ere fighting a
duel near Augusta last Monday night,
will arrive in Atlanta Thursday
morning at. 7 o'clock. The funeral
probably will he held Thursday aft
ernoon from Bloomfield’s chap©!
Cheek wa« employed as foreman of
the work at Stephens <~>eek by th©
White Engineering Company. He was
sitting in front of his tent when the
negroes began shooting at each other.
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
for the Kan. Francisco Exposition, the
authorities of Hamburg have drafted a
bill providing for a special exhibit of
Hajnburg's state and municipal insti
tutions.
Negroes Get Chance
To See Miss Keller
The negroes of Atlanta are to have
the opportunity to see and hear Miss
Helen Keller and her teacher, Mrs
Macy. at the Auditorium-Armory next
Saturday night. So many of them
have ex preseed a wish for this privi
lege that it has been decided to set
aside a section of the gallery for them
Weds Sister-in-Law
As Children Protest
NEW YORK, Dec. 17 -Despite the
pr tests of his, nine children, CharVe#
N. Bell, 69, was married to hi6 sister-
in-law, Miss Mary E. Scott, 61.
Boston Policemen
Mustn't Chew Gum
BOSTON, Dee. 17.—Boston poll©© of
ficers must not chew gum or tohaoo*
while on duty and must always be po
lite, according to new rule* Commis
sioner O’Meara issued to-day.