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VOL. XII. NO. 120.
ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1913.
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Set for Him at Window of
Downtown Bank.
Girl Overcome by
Heavy Perfume of
Magnolia Bouquet
SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. 19.—
Poisoned by the perfume of a large (|
bouquet of fragrant magnolias,
Miss Lovell Alios Taylor narrowly
escaped suffocation in her apart
ments in the Hotel Oakland. Misa
Taylor is under the care of Dr. D.
D. Crowley and is slowly recover
ing.
Missing her at the breakfast ta
ble yesterday morning, Miss Tay
lor’s ^sister entered the room to
find her in a stupor from the
heavy fumes of the flowers. Dr.
Crowley worked an hour before
completely restoring her.
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Miss Dorothy MacVane, daughter of Prof. Silas MacVane,
I n v ,i.< put under police surveillance at Taranto, Italy,
where she was singing with an opera company, suspected of espi-
ioa»e. It is expected she will be released to-day and an apology
■ to her. Ambassador Page took up her case.
Pastors Contribute 'Women Awaiting
Sermons in State's Wilson’s Ruling on
Campaign on Weevil Social Precedence
MACON, Deo. I9.—Macon preachers
,ave volunteered to contribute ser-
1,8 to the movement just organ-
•d here for the resistance to the
>oil weevil invasion.
I/State headquarters for the conduct
# - |> weevil campaign will be
in Macon soon by the Geor-
L Camber of Commerce, and a
t will he planned that will reaefc
to every county of Georgia.
on m-rchants, bankers and
attended the meeting and
IT " ’ ' the fund. Several min-
ijr a ‘ f r f present. The State
b n '^ >er ' Plans a “boll weevil day” in
^ Uarj w ^en the attention of the
c S,ato will be drawn to the
^Position.
Wannah Chief in
|ftcw Over Fire Origin
Dec. 19.—Just where
I or teinated that destroyed the
^' nan B| iilding, at a loss of $100,-
,se of a heated row be-
5rf ' ( Monroe and S. Bern-
Mn s tore was destroyed.
8 statements to the press the
ief *ald th
e fire originated in Bern-
*bM P ' Hern «tein declared this
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piels Can r t Stop
'^ine Launching'
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the hands of the builders."
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 —Wives of
Cabinet members and members of
Congress are more anxious to have
President Wilson make a ruling on
the question of social precedence at
the Capitol than their husbands. The
women declare they are embarrassed
as to the proper order of calls, pend
ing a decision.
Mrs. Claude Swanson, wife of the
Senator from Virginia; Mrs. Duncan
U. Fletcher, wife of the Florida Sen
ator; Mrs. Garrison and Mrs. Red-
field, wives of the Secretaries of War
and Commerce, and Mrs. Burleson,
wife of the Postmaster General, be
lieve President Wilson's diplomacy
will settle the matter.
Wolffungen to Sing at
Free Sunday Concert
Herr De Cortez Wolffungen will be
the soloist at the free organ concert
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at
the Auditorium-Armory under Music
Festival Association auspices. Charles
A. Sheldon, Jr., will be organist, and
Miss Mildred Harrison will be the
accompanist.
Among the number Herr Wolffun
gen will sing is the “Celeste Aida,”
made famous by Caruso. Herr Wolf-
fungen came to Atlanta from Wash
ington, where he had charge of the
Washington grand opera chorus.
Unknown Artist's
Work Gets Best Price
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! Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian,
LONDON. Dec. 19.—“A Lady Hold
ing a Dog and a Kitten." by an un
known artist of the French school,
brought *920, the highest price of the
day at Christie’s sale of old paintings
and drawings.
Declaring that he had been driven
to desperation by the constant hound
ing of loan sharks and the approach
of Christmas, S. B. Dickie, a young
telegraph operator, living at No. 131
South Pryor street, was bound over
under $500 bond Friday by Recorder
Broyles on charges of forgery 7 and
cheating and swindling.
“I had to have money to keep my
oreditors from running garnishments
on my salary,” said Dickie. ”1 have
fairly been haunted by loan shark*
who each day threatened to get my
Job. With Christmas so near, I had
to have the money. I am guilty.”
Dickie was arrested in the Third
National Bark after he had walked
into a cleverly arranged trap set by
bank officials.
Sends Fraudulent Telegram.
Thursday morning the bank re
ceived a telegram, purporting to come
from the First National Bank of Bir
mingham, which read;
“Honor draft of R. A. Carter for
*80.”
Officials of the Third National, be
coming suspicious, telegraphed the
Birmingham bank for verification of
the order, and were infdrmed by that
institution that the telegram was a
fraud.
Harry Scott, of the Pinkerton force,
was notified, and, with two city de
tectives, waited in the lobby of the
Third National for Carter.
Walks Into Trap.
Shortly after noon Dickie appeared
at the cashier's window 7 and pre
sented a telegram, which was ad
dressed to R. A. Carter, and reading:
"Have wired Third National Bank
to honor your draft.” The dispatch
was signed by the Birmingham bank.
The three sleuths who were wait
ing were signaled by the cashier, and
they formed in line behind Dickie. As
soon as he had received the *80 he
was taken into custody.
So quietly was the arrest made that
other patrons of the bank were not
aware of the trouble.
Gen. Wood to Head
Eastern Division
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—Major
General Leonard Wood, chief of staff
of the army, will succeed Major Gen
eral Thomas H. Barry as commander
of the Eastern Division, with head
quarters at Governors Island, N. Y..
immediately upon the expiration of
his term as chief of staff, it was an
nounced by Secretary of War Gar
rison to-day.
General Wood had planned to tour
Europe and Asia, but at the request
of Secretary Garrison he will remain.
Major General Barry has been or
dered to the command of the Philip
pines Division to succeed Major Gen
eral Franklin Bell.
Court War Opens on
Savannah Saloons
SAVANNAH, Dec. 19.—Following a
meeting of the Laymen's League last
night, eight committees went to sev
eral saloons in the city and obtained
w-hat they say will be convincing
evidence of violations of the prohibi
tion act.
Warrants and injunctions, said W.
B. Stubbs, the leader, would be served
during the day on every piace In the
city.
It Is the first time since prohibition
that such decisive action has been
taken in ^avannah.
Steffansson Party's
Ship in Ice Jam; Men
Walk 2,000 Miles
SEATTLE, WASH., Dec. 19.—The
story of how they walked 2,000 miles
from the Arctic Ocean to Circle City,
Fairbanks and Valdez was related to
day by Captain Louis I.ane, Eben
Draper, of Boston, son of the former
Governor of Massachusetts; Dunbar
Lockwood, of Boston, and William T.
Hudson, a newspaper photographer,
vyho reached here from Valdez by
steamer.
The Polar Bear, their ship, they
said they left fast in the 1ce off Flax-
mans Island. George Silsby and John
Heard, both of Boston, refused to
leave the vessel.
Captain Lane said there was small
hope of the Karluk, one of the Stef-
ansson exploring party’s boats, sur
viving the ice packs.
Christmas Ship, With
Lady Decies, Arrives
NEW YORK. Dec. 19.—Her prog
ress delayed by rbugh weather, head
winds and high seas, the steamer
Lusitania arrived to-day, bringing
7,765 sacks of Christmas mail and
860 of parcel post.
Among the passengers were J* P.
Morgan and family and Lord and
Lady Decies, who are going to George
J. Gould’s I*akewood estate for
Christmas.
Aeroplane Flotilla
To Cross the Sahara
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 19.—The National
Aerial League has completed plans for
a flight of a flotilla of aeroplanes
across the Sahara Desert. The aero
plane* will start from Aran, Algeria,
and the final landing will be made at
Timbuktu. Pyramids of stones will
mark the route.
Becker Declares He
Will Be Acquitted
YONKERS, Dec. 19.—Former Police
Lieutenant Charles Becker, in the
death house at Sing Sing Prison for
the murder of Herman Rosenthal,
says his appeal will be decided In his
favor. He feels sure of getting a
new trial and being acquitted.
Marshalls Will
Give Dance Series
WASHINGTON, Dee. 19.—Vice
President and Mrs. Marshall, who
have become popular members of so
ciety here, have announced that they
will give four evening darn ing recep
tions between now and Lent.
Sues Mill for $10,000
For Loss of One Arm
COLUMBUS, Dec. 19.—Lawrence
Armstead has sued the Eagle and
Phenlx Mills for injuries he says he
received last August. He says one
of his arms was broken and had to be
amputated.
He asks for $10,000 damages.
NET SPREAD PRESIDENT'S
FDR SPIES
Zapatista Troops Surround Mex
ico City—Fail Expected on
First Assault.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 19.—Rebel
spies in this city, who are in the pay
of General Emiliano Zapata, are keep
ing the Zapata insurrectos In touch
with the movements of the Federal
troops.
General Huerta to-day ordered
General Blanquet, the Minister of
War, to overhaul his department
thoroughly and arrest all on whom
suspicion might fall.
The rebel bands are increasing in
strength and are enlarging their ac
tivities. Twelve villages and hajnlets
have been wiped out in the past 48
hours within 25 miles of this city.
Fifty non-combatants were killed and
each place was looted before it wai
burned.
By means of guerrilla tactics the
Zapatistas have kept the Federal
forces divided and by means of
know ledge of troops' movements se
cured through secret channels they
are enabled to ambush the Govern
ment troops in the mountain districts.
It is estimated that there are now
8,000 Zapatista rebels within the Fed
eral territory which surrounds this
city. As Zapata is said to be co
operating with the northern rebels,
the indications are that the capital
will fall on the first assault made
upon it.
Ammunition Short.
A grave ammunition shortage faces
the Mexican Government. There are
1,000,000 rounds of cartridges left in
the arsenal owing to the reckless use
of ammunition by the Federals. This
would be insufficient to resist a con
certed attack on the city. No more
ammunition can be secured unless it
is taken from the Vera Cruz arsenal,
which is already short. An ammuni
tion shipment from Europe is not ex
pected for some time.
Five hundred Federal soldiers arc
reported to have deserted at Axo-
chiapan, near the border of the States
of Morelos and Puebla, Joining the
Zapatistas.
The Government to-day advertised
the gambling privileges of Federal
district for $50,000 and a share of
the profits. This shows the dire finan
cial straits of Huerta.
Shooting Results in
Mexican Patrol.
PRESIDIO, TEXAS (By U. S. Army
Phone via Marfa), Dec. 19.—In re
sponse to a stern warning against
armed Mexican soldiers crossing the
line, General Mercado, the Mexican
Federal commander in OJinaga, to
day sent word to Major McNamee,
U. S. A., that a patrol would be estab
lished to prevent a recurrence of the
shooting affray of yesterday when
Luis Orozco, a Mexican Federal, was
shot to death by an American soldier.
“I will personally take steps to see
that the persons responsible for the
shooting are punished,” said General
Mercado.
Orozco was known to the local au
thorities as a horse thieT and cattle
rustler, and had but recently joined
the Federal force at OJinaga.
Mutiny 1s reported to have broken
out in General Salazar's command,
which led to the withdrawal of his
troops and the soldiers of Gene r al
Orozco from OJinaga.
George F. Williams Called History
Joke—Congress Wonders if
Wilson Knew.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 —A letter
calling President Wilson’s “History of
the American People” a “Joke,” and
declaring it “full of toryism of the
worst kind,” may cost George Fred
Williams, of Massachusetts the post
of Minister to Greece.
This letter, which Williams wrote
several years ago to former Senator
Pettigrew, of South Dakota, has
reached the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, and • Williams’
nomination is being held up until the
committee learns whether the Prest-
i
dent knew of the letter when he
named Williams.
Charity Work Drives
Woman to End Life
KEOKUK, IOWA, Dec. 19.—Mrs. C.
D. Streeter, a society woman, became
mentally unbalanced following « nerv
ous breakdown from overwork in
charity and ended her life here by
turning on the gas jets in her bed
room. 4 ,
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Displays Roll in
Cafe; Loses $580
Police Friday were searching for a
pickpocket who got a wallet contain
ing $580 from R. R. Whitehead, a
fruit-tree dealer of Kingston, Ga., on
Thursday afternoon.
Whitehead had come to Atlanta to
purchase some mules. He displayed
his money in a downtown restaurant
when he paid for his lunch by peeling
a bill from the roll.
SuicideTakes Lawyer
Wanted for Forgery
PEORIA. ILL., Dec. 19.—Attorney
Henry I. Nowlan, of Peoria, counsel
for several defendants in the iron
workers’ dynamite conspiracy, com
mitted suicide to-day by throwing
himself in front of a train in Galva,
III.
A warrant for his arrest on the
charge of forgery was issued here
yesterday.
Inez Milholland Calls
Militancy “Vulgar”
PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 19.—Mrs.
Inez Milholln.nd Boissevain receivad
an enthusiastic welcome here when
she addressed the Princeton Socialist
Society.
The suffrage leader declared the
English militant movement was not
emotional, but highly strategical. She
regretted the necessity of those “vul
gar methods"
Lindsey Approves
Children on Stage
CHICAGO, Dee. 19.—Children
should be permitted to work on the
stage under proper safeguards, Judge
Ben B. Lindsey, of Denver, told the
Drama Club, adding: "I have seen
factory children who dislike the life,
but I never saw a stage child who did
not want to retrain In the profession.”
Polecat's Hide Stirs
Whole Neighborhood
LALTON, Dec, 19.—Declaring that
his household had been deprived of
reef and sleep for 48 hours because
one of his neighbors had killed a
po’ccat and tacked the skin on his
house to dry, Patrick Kelly called on
the police.
The owner of the hide was forced
to take it dowa and bury it*
Teachers See “Farce”
In Board's Agreement
On Holiday Extension
What is regarded by the teachers
of the Atlanta public schools as a
“farcical move” was the response of
the Board of Education to the demand
for additional holidays this Christ
mas. Monday and Tuesday were
added as holidays, but two days will
be added to the school term in the
heat of June.
Friday la the last day of school un
til after the Christmas holidays, Jan
uary 5, and 25,000 will Immediately
begin the celebration of Christmas.
President W. R. Daley said that the
two extra holidays practically meant
a confiscation of $4,400 of school
money.
After that remark, Mayor Wood
ward made a motion that the two
days be added to the school term
next June, and it was unanimously
adopted.
AID TO
‘Diversify Crops,'
Bulletin Will Urge
The next important bulletin soon to
be issued by the Department of Ag
riculture will be on “crop diversifica
tion.” The booklet has been com
piled with much care, and is expected
to prepare Georgia farmers for the
boll weevil.
The satisfactory profit from various
crops, now little grown in the State,
Is to be shown. Oats, wheat and corn
will be featured, though the recent
impetus given corn has raised it to
prominence. Wheat, once grown ex
tensively, is now almost entirely neg
lected.
To Announce Result
Of Chamber Canvass
The result of the “whirlwind cam
paign" for Georgia Chamber of Com
merce funds is to be announced at 1
o’clock Friday afternoon at the Pied
mont Hotel. The workers started out
to raise Atlanta’s share of $50,000,
amounting to $12,500. Of that sum
$2,500 already had been subscribed,
and it is expected that the remaining
$10,000 will be reported at the lunch
eon.
The fund is to be devoted by the
State Chamber to the interests of
Georgia farmers, with special atten
tion to the boll weevlll.
Countess Treuberg
Sentenced for Fraud
Special Cabl* to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Dec. 19.—The trial of
Countess VonTreuberg for various
crimes ended in a sentence of fif
teen months’ imprisonment and a fine
of *876.
The Countess was found guilty of
fraud, blackmail and abetting usury,
The court fined an absent witness,
Princess Alexandra of Isenburg, *76
for refusing to give evidence.
Masked Feudists
Burn Four Houses
SPRINGFIELD, MO. Dec. 19.—Fif
teen masked men, said to have been
feud enemiea of the Collins family ot
Old Horton, an isolated village, burn
ed four houses, belonging to members
of that family.
Several of the Collins family were
beaten and warned to leave.
Says Eugenics Would
Depopulate the Earth
CHICAGO, Dec. 19. -Bird S. Coler,
former Comptroller of the city of New
York, told an audience of business
men that if the science of eugenic*
were adopted generally the human
race would be extinct in 50 years.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair and cooler Fri
day; fair Saturday.
Sweeping reforms in the meth
ods of conducting the locker
clubs and cabarets of Atlanta
have been promised by Recorder
Broyles, who has joined Chief
Beavers in the warfare.
The Recorder impressed upon
the police the necessity for con
tinued activity against the clubs
and amusement resorts, declaring
there are many dives in Atlanta
that should lie abolished.
“We are depending upon the police
to do it,” he declared. “I will do nn
part if the police will arrest the nun
who run these places and bring thorn
here. I will see that they are pun
ished A disorderly place Is an
abomination to a community, and on*
of the worst evils we encounter.”
It is» understood that Chief Beav
ers and Recorder Broyles will com
bine with the Grand Jury and aid that
body in an Investigation, which, '.t
is said, will be undertaken.
Beavers Says He Has Evidence.
It is probable that the Grand Jury
investigation will be based on the
recent activities of detectives a.id
members of the vice squad, and the
evidence which Chief Beavers eays
9ii» men have obtained against the
places.
Members of the Grand Jury refused
Friday morning to discuss the pro
posed inquiry, and it is not know.i
what methods the Grand Jury will
pursue. At a meeting late Thurs
day the investigation was made he
subject of extended discussion and
suggestion, and the outcome of the
agitation probably will be the ap
pointment of a committee to visit the
clubs and endeavor to determine
whether there is sufficient violation
of the law’ to warrant the indictment
of the managers of the clubs.
Another secret meeting will be held
Friday, and It is probable that some
plan of conducting the investigation
will be outlined.
Chief Beavers and Chief of Detec
tives Lanford have declared they will
continue their espionage over the
locker clubs and cabarets, and that
every effort will be made to detect
violations.
Seven Managert Face Chargee.
The test of strength between the
police and the clubs will come at the
trial of the seven managers w ho were
arrested several days ago and against
whom Chief Beavers and Chief Lan
ford declare that they have strong
evidence, gathered by the detectives
and the vice aquad men.
Judge Broyles’ entry Into the fiel
followed a raid by members of Chief
Beavers’ vice sfjuad on a cabaret shoA
at Broad and Walton streets and the
arrest of B. E. Shirley, who claims
to be a business man; Evelyn On]
who says she is a salesw'oman. and
E. T. Howell, manager of the place
The Recorder fined Shirley and the
Gray woman $25.75 each on charges
of disorderly conduct, and held H«»w
ell to the higher courts in bonds of
$500, eharged with maintaining a d;s
orderly house in a restaurant.
Judge Scores Cabarets.
Prior to the sentencing of Miss
Gray and Shirley, Judge Rroylee de
livered a lecture to them, warning
them to stay away from such places
and warning Howell that improper
conduct at hU place must cease.
“I am not astonished that such
nlaces exist in our midst." said thr-
Recorder, "but I am deeply gideved.
more deeply grieved than w’ords can
tell. Our morals are. being raised to
a plane where such places are repul
sive. and we can not suffer them ty