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VOL. XII. NO. 118.
ATLANTA. GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1913.
Copyright, 1908,
By The Georgian Col
2 CENTS.
COUNCIL TAKES UP LOCKER CLUB CRUSADE
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Rebels Gose in on Mexican Capital
CITY LACKS FUNDS TO HUNT CRIMINALS
ADAMSON IS HAILED AS
HERO OF N, Y. ELECTION
PLIGHT AID
Volume of Mails
At Atlanta Office
Continues to Grow
Owner Forced to Pay All Ex
penses of Recovering Auto
and Arrest of Thieves.
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 ko 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.
Ye’. Mr. Hill charges, not one cent
was expended by the city police de
partment in effecting the recovery of
the machine that was stolen from
within the city limits, which he as a
taxpayer aids in policing.
Mr. Hill, in making this declaration.
• id not ac use 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
tirely to the lack of an appropriation
for that purpose. This, if is asserted,
9 common knowledge among men
who make a practice of stealing au
tomobiles. and hence they laugh at
danger of arrest once they pass the
it} limits. Mr. Hill said he went to
a the expense and trouble because
he believed it his duty as a citizen
an d was praised for his stand by
( 'hlef Beavers.
The method by which Mr. Hill re-
" ere 1 his machine is interesting.
Three men, who afterward gave
,:r names as Cliff Hart, Thomas
R rown and J. R. Hagin. all of At-
Anta, drove a two-seated Buick auto
mobile into the garage of M. M. Be-
ot in Valdosta last Tuesday.
Reads of Theft in Georgian.
The theft of Mr. Hill’s car had
!,f ‘ en published in The Georgian pre-
' 0,ls| y and the description of the
en car given in the article, which
' ,r Be lot had read, tallied with the
ar oc -upied by three men.
! Helot notified Chief Beavers,
who
,n lurn notified Mr. Hill.
According to Hill, when he re-
<e,sle d the city police department to
r ‘the men and return his car, he
informed that it could not be
1 •' unless he financed the move,
hut T have already paid for pro-
n from such mishaps with my
'xes replied Mr. Hill. "My car
" ,r1 be returned to* me without ad-
dlt ional cost.”
Puts Up AIL Money.
1 nei) . it is declared, the situation
rp vealed. Hill was forced to put
u m °ney necessary for the trip.
* dg a lso forced to pay the ex-
in °urred by the three men who
, ' machine. These were as fol
lows:
H,
, T ° 1 -hief of Police- CaTv
or Valdo
m
T(
alvin DampDr,
osta » for the arrest of the men,
lr, ° Belot garage, where the ma-
' V;is kept pending its return to
dn ta. $17.50.
rhe city of Macon, whe^by the
n >‘ n slept on the tloor of the
"no night and ate breakfast
;"' v *ng morning, $4.35.
r * mainder of the $100 was used
detectives in going to Val-
‘ r the men and bringing them
to Atlanta.
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 ^ere
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-class 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
mall 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, the 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.
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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.
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 postofflee appro
priation bill to-day by the House
Committee. Among the items lost is
the $3,000,000 increase in pay for ru
ral mail carriers. The' bill carries
about $300,000,000.
$14,000 Voted Widow
Of Builder of Canal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—The Sen
ate to-day passed a joint resolution
to pay Mrs. Katherine Davis Gail-
lard, widow of Lieutenant Colonel
David DuBose Gaillard, a member of
the Isthmian Canal Commission, one
year's salary, amounting to $14,000.
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 ami
dropped dead of heart failure.
Prince and Princess
Christen New Liner
DANZIG, GERMANY, Dec. 17.—The
new North German Lloyd liner < o-
lumbus, built for trans-Atlantic serv
ice was launched here to-day an!
christened by Crown Prince Freder
ick William and the Crown Princess.
STIRS DIXIE
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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 tbpic 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.
How'ard 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 within that
time.
Great Accomplishment.
“It is certainly one of the greatest
accomplishments of modem 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. Finney 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 could be obtained
in such a magically short space of
time. On the other hand, 1 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 and 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. Speakirig
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 Rays 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. JVe 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 in the treatment of
cancer n the country, would not make
comment on the announcement of the
Baltimore surgeon.
Dr. Mayo discussed at length before
the session Wednesday the technique
that is pursued at his famous sani
tarium in Rochester, Minn., in oper
ating upon cancerous growths.
Dr. H. O. Marcy, of Boston, in the
course of his address upon the ter
minal conditions of surgery in the
biliary passages, made a plea for a
finer technique and a closer study of
surgical methods.
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, j r ou 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
braaze came up.
Shreveport Banker
Hunts Originator of
$40,000 Theft Yarn
SHREVEPORT. LA., Dec. 17.—
President Andrew Querbes and other
officials have been busy to-day deny
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.
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.
‘‘Bob" Adam
son, former At
lanta man, who
was guest of
honor at New
York banquet.
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.
Illinois Suffrage
Act in High Court
SPRINGFIELD. ILL., Dec. 17.—The
appeal in the case of William J.
Scown against Anthony Czarnecki. et
al, brought in Chicago to test the
woman’s suffrage act, was filed in the
Supreme Court here to-day.
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 routed.
The rebels, led by Felipe Tijera, a
former Federal officer, captured the
greater part of the town in a three
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 Lorenz?* and San
Gregorio were captured by other rebel
bands and looted.
More than 1,000 reinforcements
joined the rebels early in the day,
and attacks also were made on Tlal-
pam an 1 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.
Mayor Kline and Mayor-elect Mitchel Honor
Former Georgian at Dinner.
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Loan to Huerta.
French Balk 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 J
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 1
Terraza-s families was officially pro- »
claimed. The rebels cheered for their |
leader at every opportunity and at ’
times the enthusiasm became so hois- !
terous that the street patrols had to
make arrests.
If Villa succeeds in holding the j
greater wealth that he has declared !
confiscated, the treasury of the Con- j
stitutionali8tM will be swelled by a i
vast sum. variously estimated at from l
$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.
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 to
him.
In addition. Mayor Kline declared
that whatever success he had attain
ed during his brief term as Mayor
w’as due to the advice of the former
Atlantan, while Mayor-elect Mitchel
said: “I 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 ty 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 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 ami 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
Mitchel dined together. Both made
speeches, and both violated their rule
of coming late, appearing before the
diners were seated.
Mrs. Mitchel, 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
(..’leaning, 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 never denied it. Adamson has been
tried and never found wanting—any
thing he didn’t get.”
Mayor-elect Mitchel declared he
was glad to Join in a tribute to Adam
son. He referred to the fact that an
effort wan made to get Hedges to
manage the campaign, and that Mr.
Hedges declined because of poor
health. "I am glad to note a great
improvement in his health, now that
the campaign is over,” said Mr.
Mitchel.
Mayor Intimates His
Message Will Be Hot
Mayor Woodward Wednesday gav*»
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 would not discuss his
committee appointments. He said
that vvould be the last thing he would
J consider before the new Council is
sworn in.
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 BeUwood
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 Beach-
tree street.
Florentines Near
Riot in Effort to
View ‘Mona Lisa 1
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
FLORENCE, ITALY. De^. 17.—Pisor
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
ami he feared the result. “Mona Lisa s“
smile has long been a subject for spec
ulation among higher art critics.
Reformers Would Give Recordef
Power to Revoke Licenses in
Cases of Conviction.
The locker club war took art
important turn Wednesday when
Police Chief Heavers announced
that when the Council Police
Committee started its investiga
tion (lie 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 whictfe
cases hate been made are convicted
of violating the prohibition law when
they are tried before Recorder Broyleg
Christmas Eve, the chance# are a re#
newal of their license will be denied.
There was a disposition among a
large number of Councllmen to weed
out the clubs before the police took
any action. The determination of the
Councllmen was based on belief, rath
er than actual proof, that some of the
clubs were violating the law. Convic.
tlon of these clubs w'Ul make it very
hard for any of them to get a new
license
Likely to Strengthen Lew.
The 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 Antl-
Saloor, 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 thq, prohibition law.
That ordinance was to have been
introduced In Council Monday, but,
for some unknown reason, luckily for
soma 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 las«
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 iti
the Recorder’s Court.
Locker clubs already are present
ing their applications for renewal of
licenses. These applications will ho
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 tho
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 will be composed 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 that
the licenses of some of the clubs be
revoked.
The clubs against which cases hava
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,