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] J OVER 100,000 the SUNDAY AMERICAN’S NET paid CIRCULATION The National Southern Sunday Newspaper The Atlanta EVVX Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 118. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1913. Copyright. 1906, By Thu Georgian Co. 9 pxr , \r r rc PAY NC - I O. MORE, EXTRA utdct home rliOi edition COUNCIL TAKES UP LOCKE c5& c5b C&l C&) C&3 Rebels Gose in on Mexican Capital % % S3 ft S 28 Si > s % CITY LACKS FUNDS TO HUNT CRI ADAMSON IS HAILED AS HERO OF N, Y, ELECTION Owner Foreed to Pay All Ex penses of Recovering Auto and Arrest of Thieves. Volume of Mails At Atlanta Office Continues to Grow A peculiar situation in the financial affairs of the city, county and State, which is set forth as an explanation of the numerous brazen thefts of au tomobiles from the streets of Atlanta, has been charged since the arrest of three young men in Valdosta Tues day for stealing a machine belonging to Joseph W. Hill, No. 186 North Jack- son street, last Thursday. An absence of funds, according to Mr. Hill, renders the police depart ment of Atlanta powerless to hunt thieves once they escape from the ju risdiction of the city laws. Thus when the Hill car was finally discovered in Valdosta, Mr. Hill him self was forced to finance a detective to go after the three men who were held there as the thieves, and also had to pay numerous other expenses in curred before the capture was ef fected. The amounts expended by the automobile’s owner aggregated $100. Police of No Help. Yet. Mr. Hill charges, not one cent was expended by the city police de partment in effecting the recovery' of the machine that waa stolen from within the city limits, which he as a taxpayer aids in policing. Mr Hill, in making this declaration, did not accuse the Atlanta force of incompetency, but claims that after the theft had been committed, the city should have furnished money to recover the property. That such money was not forth coming, it is claimed, was due en- rirely to the lack of an appropriation The volume of mail handled by the Atlanta postoffice continues to in crease and records are being smashed every day. Tuesday night nearly 200,000 pieces of first-class mail were handled, and about 45,000 parcels, exclusive of circulars, calendars and other second, third and fourth class mail that swamps the office at this season of the year. Tuesday night's record of first-cl&M mail is slightly lower than one day about ten days ago. but is considered enormous, in view of the fact that as Christmas approaches the volume of first-class mail usually decreases as other mail increases. Superintendent of Mails Hart said Wednesday morning that he is now working 60 extra men, with seven weighing and rating clerks in the lobby, t-he largest number ever used there. Next Monday Mr. Hart ex pects to more than double his force of extra men. Hoke Smith's 275 Lbs. Hit Floor of Senate WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The dreary routine of the Senate session was broken this week when a chair in which Sena tor Hoke Smith was seated collapsed under him and precipitated the Sena tor's 275 pounds on the floor. In falling the Senator struck a vacant desk and did some damage to that, but apparently was uninjured. He also struck a chair, which rolled Into the Democratic cloak room and startled a group of Senators who were being en tertained by Senator James Hamilton Lewis for that purpose. This, it is asserted, is common knowledge among men who make a practice of stealing au tomobiles. and hence they laugh at danger of arrest once they pass the city limits. Mr. Hill said he went to all the expense and trouble because he believed it his *duty as a citizen ? nl was praised for his stand by Chief Beavers. T he method by which Mr. Hill re covered his machine is interesting. Three men, who afterward gave ,}leir names as Cliff Hart, Thomas Br °wn and J. R. Hagin, all of At lanta, drove a two-seated Buick auto mobile into the garage of M. M. Be- °t in Valdosta last Tuesday. Reads of Theft in Georgian. The theft of Mr. Hill’s car had een Published in The Georgian pre viously and the description of the ‘■mien car given in the article, which !r Belot had read, tallied with the ar occupied by the three men. Belot notified Chief Beavers, Who ,n turn notified Mr. Hill. According to Hill, when he re- J<? sted the city police department to rrps * the men and return his car, he informed that it could not be l? ho financed the move. But I have already paid for pro ion from such mishaps with my ****" rp Plied Mr. Hill. “Mv car J !d he returned to me without ad- d! tional cost.” Puts Up All Money. w n * n is declared, the situation ‘ Hill was forced to put ^ money necessary for the trip. also forced to pay the ex- ^ incurred by the three men who machine. These were as fol lows; T '' <'hic-f of Police Calvii ‘ ^SiCloSta fr»r .....—. . *1S. vin Dampi^r, ‘idosta, for the arrest of the men, c L Be lot garage, where the ma- . "as kept pending its return to •’UatHa, *17.50. tiro ' r '" C 'R' °f Macon, where the ' L'n' n sle I )t on the floor of the ; J. . one night and ate breakfast The AT 111 * mor ning, *4.35. b\ e, p ai nder of the $100 was us°d ‘lost*Hft*r e ;t Ct,Ves in going: to Val- - ,.- A . 4 r , tlle m cn and bringing them ^ Atlanta, Italy Expected to Release U. IS. 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. Mies McVane Is in a state of col lapse. Shoots Husband of Mistreated Sister EATONTON. Dec. 17.—Isham Jenkins, a negro tenant on the plantation of Miss Mattie Hargrove, near this place, lies at the point of death from a gun shot wound in the breast at the hands of Jim Jones, another negro. Jenkins had been mistreating his wife, a sister of the other negro, it is claimed, and had previously resented interference on the part of Jones, threatening to kill him. Increase in Postal Service Fund Denied WASHINGTON. Dec. 17.—All pro posed new expenditures of any con sequence for the postal service were stricken from the postoffice appro priation bill to-day by the House Cbmmittee. Among the items lost is the $2,000,000 Increase in pay for ru ral mail carriers. The bill carries about $300,000,000. 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. Prince and Princess Christen New Liner DANZIG. GERMANY. Dec. 17.—The new North German Lloyd.liner Co lumbus, built for trans-Atlantic serv ice was launched here to-day anl christened by Crown Prince Freder ick William and the Crown Princess ■ STIRS DIXIE IE Opinions Divided Among Experts on Heralded Absolute Spe cific for Cancer. Heralded as the only positive—in fact, the sole—cure for cancer, the radium method of treatment for the dread disease was the topic of spirit ed discussion among the members of the Southern Surgical Association in session at the Georgian Terrace Wed nesday. The surgeons were divided in opin ion over the announcement of Dr. Howard A, Kelly, of Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, that he had by the means of the radium treatment been able to cure a man of cancer within a space of 48 hours, and that, more remarka ble still, all signs of the cancerous growth had disappeared wfthfir that time Great Accomplishment. “It is certainly one of the greatest accomplishments of modern surgery if Dr. Kelly is quoted correctly,” said Dr. J. M. T. Finney, also of Balti more, in commenting upon the discov ery announced by Dr. Kelly. Dr. Fineny is one of the distin guished surgeons of the East and was at one time spoken of as president of Princeton University. “I can hardly believe it possible that a cure of this malignant disease cou’d be obtained in such a magically short space of time. On the other hand, I know that Dr. Kelly is not given to making an nouncements that he can not back up in every respect. Great Boon if True. “While I live in the same city, I have made no specialty of the treat ment of cancer, and for that reason have not followed Dr. Kelly’s work closely. I will say, however, if the treatment by the radium rays will do what Dr. Kelly says they will, it will be the greatest boon to humanity in the age alid it will take away the hor rors of this disease as nothing else has been able to do in spite of the years of search by the physicians and surgeons of the world.” Dr. Kelly made his announcement only last Monday night. Speaking before the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Philadelphia, he declared that he and Dr. Robert Abbe, of New York, by a series of experiments ex tending over nine or ten years, had demonstrated beyond any doubt that the gamma rays of radium were posi tive cure for cancer except in its most advanced form. Radium R*y« Powerful. “The power of the rays over cancer is appalling, almost unbelievable,” Dr Kelly is quoted as saying. "We tried the experiment on a character by the name of ‘Uncle John,’ of Missouri. While the rays were being applied he said that he felt the cancerous growths growing smaller. We laugh ed at him. But the next morning we were able to notice a decided change ourselves, and within 48 hours he was a well man, with the growths entirely gone.” Dr. Charles Mayo, one of the fore most surgeons m the treatment of cancer In the country, would not make comment on the announcement of the Baltimore surgeon. Illinois Suffrage Act in High Court SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Dec. 17.—The appeal in the case of William J. Scown against Anthony Czarnecki, et ai, brought in Chicago to test the woman's suffrage act, was filed in the Supreme Court here to-day. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Cloudy Wednesday; probably rain Thursday. 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 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 simple, and more simple than pure. There doesn’t happen to be much wind this morning; a velocity of one mile an hour ip 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 braaze came up. "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.” Shreveport Banker Hunts Originator of $40,000 Theft Yarn SHREVEPORT, LA., Dec. 17. President Andrew Querbes and other Officials have hqen tm|\ to-day .dexu ing a report widely circulated this morning that the First National Bank was robbed of $40,000. A reward of $50 has been offered for the arrest and conviction of the person originating the story. If it is learned who put the false report into circulation he will be prosecuted un der the Federal banking laws, ac cording to President Querbes. Dixie Girl Dies of Burns in Chicago CHICAGO. Dec. 17.—Burns caused by the explosion of a boiler In the Harcourt apartments caused the death to-day of Miss Sarah E. Wiley, of Nashville, Tenn., at a hospital. Miss Wiley was sleeping in a room directly over the boilers, when one cf them let go and hurled an auxiliary hot water tank to the celling of the first-floor room. As the tank fell back to the base ment Miss Wiley was thrown from her bed and buried in a mass of broken timbers. Fire which followed the explosion ignited to her clothing. Zapatistas, Chased to Hills, Rally and Rout Federals Almost at City Gates. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 17.—Rallying their forces in the foothills of .the Federal district, Zapatista rebels made simultaneous attacks to-day on several Government forces and in flicted heavy losses on the Huerta troops. The sharpest fighting was at Milpa Alta, seventeen miles from the capi tal. where the Federals were victo rious on Tuesday. The Federals were taken by surprise while celebrating in the manner customary among Huer ta's forces now . and were touted. The rebels, led by Felipe Tijera, a former Federal officer, captured the greater part of the town in a three i hours’ attack, and killed more than 100 Federals, troopers of the Twenty- first Cavalry and mounted police sent to Milpa Alta from the capital. The towns of San Lorenzo and San Gregorio were captured by other rebel banus and looted. More than 1,000 reinforcements joined the rebels early in the day, and attacks also were made on Tlal- pam and Jacala. The rebels seem to have plenty of ammunition, but are lacking in artillery. They are gradually closing in on the capital, and if they had a few field guns, undoubtedly would drive straight to the gates of the city. “Bob” Adam son, former At lanta man, who was guest of honor at New York banquet. Charleston Fights To Keep U.S. Office CHARLESTON, S. C., Dec. 17.—A delegation of business men leaves Charleston to-day to appear to-mor row before the Assistant Secretary .-if Commerce to. stress this port’s claims for retaining the sixth lighthouse dis trict headquarters. Savannah, Brunswick, Fernandina, Wilmington and Jacksonville are after the headquarters. Loan to Huerta. French Falk at 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 turn down the proposition because of the attitude of President Wilson toward the Mexican dictator. Mayor Kline and Mayor-elect Mitehel Honor Former (leorgian at I )mner. Girl-Wife Brands Husband Bigamist SAVANNAH, Dec. 17.—In a petition asking for the annullment of her mar riage to Thomas L. Crawley, Mrs. Clara Crawley, a 16-year-old Savannah girl, stated that the day of the marriage she learned her husband had a wife living and that he had never been divorced. Mrs. Crawley asked that her maiden name, Clara Cregan, be restored. Louisville Plans Race Segregation LOUISVILLE, KY„ Dec. 17.—An ordinance looking to the segregation of white and colored persons in the matter of residence here has been in troduced in the Council. 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. 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 an(\ 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 who have supported the Huerta administration. Mayor Intimates His Message Will Be Hot Mayor Woodward Wednesday gave the first intimation of his thoughts regarding his annual message. “I suppose they expect something hot, and I never like to disappoint,” he said. The Mayor w’ould not discuss his committee appointments. He said that would be the last thing he would consider before the new Council is i sworn in. NEW YORK, Dec. 17. - Hailed as “Father Knickerbocker’s fair-haired boy,” Robert Adamson, 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 tc 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 Mitehel said: “I will go further and say that I expect 1 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: “1 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 the greatest ser vice to the people of the city.” 700 New York Leaders There. More than 700 of New York's lead ing business and professional men, to say nothing of politicians, gathered Police Seek Auto Of Mystery Which Injured Aged Man Mystery surrounds the identity of an automobile containing a hand somely dressed woman which ran down and badly injured Lawson Bald win, an aged man of No. 80 Bell wood avenue, Tuesday. The woman gave her name as Mrs. Mary Davis, of No. 261 Foundry street, following the accident, then drove off in her machine. The car bore the license No. 22642. Investigation Wednesday revealed no such address on Foundry street, and the automobile's license as one which had been stolen some time ago from W. S. Becker, of No. 232 Peach tree street. at the Waldorf to attend the dinner It was the first time since election that Mayor Kline and Mayor-elect Mitehel dined together. Both made speeches, and both violated their rule of coming late, appearing before the diners were seated. Mrs. Mitehel, 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 silver service was pre sented to Mrs. Adamson. It was borne 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. Hedges Pays Tribute. Job Hedges presided. "Nobody is better than Bob Adamson,” he said, "and the good thing about him is that he nev.er denied it. Adamson has been tried and never found wanting—any thing lie didn’t get.” Mayor-elect Mitehel 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 health. “1 am glad to note a great improvement in his health, now that the campaign is over,” said Mr. Mitehel. Florentines Near Riot in Effort to View ‘Mona Lisa’ Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. FLORENCE, ITALY. Dec. 17.—Disor der which assumed nearly the propor tions of a riot occurred to-day in front of the art gallery where the art mas terpiece "Mona Lisa” is temporarily on exhibition. It followed the attempt of a number of tourists to brush by the police guarding the entrance. The strange influence of "La Gio- conda,” as the art treasure also is known, is shown by the request of one of the carabineers guarding the picture at night to be relieved from duty. He said that the smile of the woman in the picture was working a spell upon him . d hi feared the result. T *Mona Lisa's” smile has long been a subject for spec ulation among higher art critics. Reformers Would Give Recorded Power to Revoke Licenses in Cases of Conviction. The locker,club war took ail important turn Wednesday when Police Chief Reavers 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 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 large 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 Strengthen Law. Tiie attitude 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 tlie 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 unknow n 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, In 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 be taken up by the new police commit tee to be 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- cilmanic election he threatened to ap point a very strict committee, but in dications now are that his commit- teel w ill be composed of the most lib eral members of Council. Mayor Woodward himself refuses to discuss the matter. But w’hether the committee is lib eral there are a number of members of Council who are going to insist on rigid investigations and demand that the licenses of some of the clubs o© revoked. The clubs against which cases have been made and with which Chief Beavers’ report will principally deal are the Metropolitan, the Theatrical, the T. M. A., the Central, the Owls, the Beavers and Eagles Clubs. 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. »! I wfiWl *■ > 1 f:v 1 tin L‘J •> I I ; I