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OVER 100,000 THE SUNDAY AMERICAN’S NET PAID CIRCULATION 7 he National Southern Sunday Newspaper The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. XO. 124. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1912. Copyright. 1909. By Tn« Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. *»£»» SAFE BLOWERS HOLD UP POLICEMAN ra£ raft raft C&J c5& raw raw Nash Stands Pat in Demanding Ousting of Obear NEW WEAPON USED a s 3 n n 33 s- a s ,N egg-pri C e°fight BROYLES THREATENS JAIL FOR PISTOL USERS Damp Christmas Is Forecast; Rain Also Due on Wednesday C. F. Von Herrmann took a pes simistic view of the weather pros pects for Wednesday and Christmas Day when he sized up the map and took a squint at the lowering clouds on the morning of the day before Christmas. At first Mr. Von Herrmann figured it would be clear and cool Christ mas, but later the prediction was al tered to prospective rain for Wed nesday and almost certain showers for Thursday. (Park Board Head Is Fined for Street Row With Merchant J. O. Cochran, president of the |Tark Board, was fined $5.75 by Re- lcordcr Broyles Wednesday, following Ian altercation with J. G. Englehart, |a merchant of No. 697 Piedmont ave- Inue, when Mr. Cochran was. struck |hv the latter’s automobile at Five |Points late Tuesday. The case of disorderly conduct, I which was docketed against Mr. En- Iglehart at the request of Mr. Coch- |ran. was dismissed. Mr. Cochran, according to the sto les told in Police Court, was cross- ling Five Po*nts from the Fourth Na- Itional Bank Building late Tuesday, land Mr. Englehart was driving his par north on Peachtree street. The li’ear wheel of the car struck Mr. ■ Cochran. Mr. Englehart did not stop phe car, but kept on and turned down lEdgowood avenue, with Mr. Cochran I in hot pursuit. • VIr - Englehart stopped the car on lEdgcwood avenue, and, when Mr. I Cochran came up the quarrel began. I Mr. Englehart charged that Mr. Coch in drew a knife on him, but Mr. ■Cochran denied any intention of cut- jiing the automobilist, although he I Admitted that he threatened to cut I the tires of the machine. |Beilis Gets Offers For His Memoirs I Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. I . PETERSBURG, Dec. 24.—Men- I * Peiiis, acquitted of “ritual mur- I er has been offered $3,000 by two l^tterican journalists for his memoirs I cr ? or material for their compilation. hive Firemen Hurt in I0-Cent Store Blaze ■ . ' SH] NGTON. Dec. 24. — Five fire L' n Wpre injured and a property loss l,, was guatalned in a fire in tJAmerican Five and Ten Cent Store l v ! to day. Behold the latest weapon in the battle with the monopolies to reduce the cost of living! It is a square wooden carton, with a capacity of three dozen eggs, and is the invention of the Women's Club of Chicago. The upper picture ahows how the eggs are packed in the little hollow compartments. When the cover is put on, each egg is held as immovable in its place as the egg-shell holds the meat. No ordinary handling can break them. These carions arfe sold to the farmers for 5 cents apiece, and enables them to fill retail orders for the public direct by parcel post, thus eliminating the wholesaler and the middlemen with their ruinous prof its that make the consumer and the producer alike their dupes. The lower picture shows the box with its cover fitted tight. Screws are put in each corner and the box then needs only the address to be ready for shipment. Hotel Ansley to Have $200,000 Addition The immediate construction of a 200-room annex to Hotel Ansley is provided in contracts just signed by the Ansley management and the Southern Federal Construction Com pany. The addition will he built on the vacant lot in the rear of the hotel, which is 100 by 100 feet, and will cost about $200,000. The Georgian announced the prob ability of such a step some months a Christmas present to the nation, a ! remarkable reaction of good feeling j in business and financial circles was reported from all over the country to-day. The new law, which, according to the President, is but the first of a se ries of constructive measures, was signed by the Kxecutive last night in the presence of a notable company. The President made a remarkable impromptu talk reflecting the admin istration attitude toward business. The task of putting the new law into effect was taken up to-day. The Continued on Page 2, Column 6. Wife’s Gowns Flashv, Professor Sues Her HAMILTON, OHIO, Dec. 24 Pro fessor J. F. Christian Ringwald, pro fessor of music at Oxford University, Oxford, Ohio, to-day asked i. divorce frem his wife, also a teacher of music, alleging she wore “inappropriate and flashily colored gowns at society events in that college place and being negligent in regard to her personal appearance, wounding his artistic feelings.’* NQPQLITIGSSANE’XMAS HE ORDERED BY Adjutant General Repeats Asser tion That Quartermaster Gen eral’s Office Is Needless. General Joseph Van Holt Nash, ad jutant general of Georgia, gave out a formal statement Wednesday, set ting forth his attitude toward Quar termaster General William G. Obear, and his reasons for wishing Obear removed from office. General Nash admitted every es sential fact as set forth in The Geor gian’s exclusive news story of Tues day, which has so stirred military circles throughout the State, but de plores efforts that have been made in some quarters to make his recom mendations to the Governor seem personal or political. He asserts that he is merely doing his duty in asking and insisting upon Obear’s removal. Governor Slaton refuses to dis cuss the trouble inside the State War Department further than to say that he has a friendly feeling for both officers, and that he will be guided in his final actions entirely by the law as that indicates the Executive duty. Puts It Up to Governor. General Nash in his interview, after setting forth his side of the ques tion as an officer, disposes of his personal relations with General Obear in the rather curt statement that his relations are now, after twenty years’ acquaintance, “exactly what they have always been!” General Nash asserts his intention of putting the entire matter square ly up to the Governor for settlement, and to “stand pat” on that firmly, until either he or Obear is sustained in the controversy. GeneraJ Nash says: "It is to be regretted that some newspapers have seen fit to inject politics and personalities into an offi cial act of mine in the discharge of my duty. In miscontruing the mo tives they do an injustice to Govern ors Slaton and Brown, to say nothing of General Obear and myself. “Since my incumbency as Adjutant General it has been my earnest de sire, and I have exerted every effort, to eradicate politics from the Na- tiona'. Guards, and to place them where they rightfully belong as a re liable and dependable force for the protection of life and property, con servators of the peace, subordinate to the civil authorities who created them. Tells of Appropriations. “It should be known by everyone that the State of Georgia appropriates annually only $25,000 to pay the ex penses of this department, while the Federal Government issues annually to this State, in arms, uniforms and equipments, approximately $90,000 in value, and, while this property is is sued to the State for the use of its troops, the United States retains ti tle thereto and requires of the State a strict accounting and certain pre scribed organisation—camps of In struction, drills, etc. “Many of the States have not here tofore fully conformed to the Federal demands in this respect, and on Au gust 1, 1913, there was issued by the Department an order, known as ‘Cir cular No. 8,’ which requires all of the States to conform to the organiza tion therein prescribed by January 1, 1914, or lose the Federal support. Therefore, it became my duty, in the interest of the State and Its National Guard, to make all necessary changes. “The office of quartermaster gen eral, with the rank of brigadier gen eral, not being authorized nor recog nized by the Federal Government in this order, I recommend to the Gov ernor that this office and salary paid Recorder and Chief Consolidate Power to Put Lid on Boister ous Christmas. Continued on Pag® 2, Column SL “Pistol toters” and other boisterous Christmas celebrants will meet with short shrift from the Beavers-Broyles combination Thursday. Recorder Broyles issued his pro- nunciamento Wednesday in giving James Moon, a negro, the limit for shooting firearms within the city lim its and then binding him over to the Grand Jury under $200 bond for car rying a concealed weapon. The Recorder made it plain that no mercy would be shown offenders of this type, whom he branded as the most dangerous people at large on Christmas Day. "It will be the stockade or the chaIngang for every person that is convicted,” he de clared. Judge Broyles’ denunciation of “pis tol toters” was hardly concluded be fore it became known that Chief of Police Beavers had joined in the war against this class of celebrants and had issued special and stringent in structions to his men Immediately to arrest any person, regardless of his prominence, wTio was found vio lating any of the city ordinances in respect <o the carrying or discharge of weapons. “I am determined to break up the dangerous practice of discharging firearms ifi the city and am going to give offenders the limit of the law,” announced the judge. “It not only is a violation of the law to shoot a pistol in the city, but it is exceed ingly dangerous, and it is going to be the stockade and chaingang for those who do it.” 500 Work on Tracks Swept Away in Snow SACRAMENTO, CAL, Dec. 24.— Western Pacific Rallrohd trains will not be operated for several days be cause of a huge avalanche which car ried away more than half a mile of track and dumped rails, ties and tele graph wires into the Feather River, near Belden, Cal. The avalanche followed two days of heavy snow. Five hundred men were working to-day tq restore the road bed. Drubbing for Flirt Who Seeks Book Plot CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—Julius DaUey at tempted to flirt with the wife of Po lice Bergeant Charles E. Dudley. The policeman administered a drubbing and arrested Dalsey. The prisoner told the judge he was writing a book and tried to flirt with Mrs. Dudley to get material for It. Boy Reads Fluently At Age of 3 Years DOS ANGEDKK, Dec-. 24.—Marshall Gretmore is three years old and can read. On ids second birtbdav his mother bought him a set of blocks with raised letters. The child reads fluently. He Is never allowed to cry and receives whippings without tears. New U.S.-Japan Ship Line to New Orleans TOKIO, Dec. 24.—Japan has decid ed to inaugurate a steamer service with its terminus at Boston, by way of Panama. The steamers will ca.. at New^Or- leans and New York. Popping Bullets Put Firemen to Rout and Armory Burns Down INDIA NAPODIS, Dec. J4.—While thousands of high-caliber army car tridges were discharging chunks of lead in every direction, endangering the lives and handicapping the work of the fire fighters, the Indiana Na tional Guard Armory, Thirteenth street and Ashland avenue, burned to the ground last night. Of the $100,- 000 loss about $80,000 was due to the destruction of army equipment. Mystery surrounds the origin of the Are, which broke out Just after Com pany H had finished drill practice. Bullets were alrer.dy popping when the firemen reached the scene, and soon developed into such a terrific bombardment that they were forced to retreat and fight the flames from a distance. T. G. Brooks Heads John Rosier Masons These officers for the next year were elected Tuesday night by the members of John Rosier L^odge, Free and Ac cepted Masons: T. G. Brooks, worshipful master; R. C. McCall, senior warden; W. TI. Jacks, Junior warden; D. H. Ham, treasurer; Claude Woffard. sec retary; W. H. Rice, tyier; Bam Horton, senior deacon, end E. M. Rosier, Junior deacon James I* Marson conducted the In stallation ceremonies, assisted by Hor ace Grant. R. E. Prince, retiring mas ter, was presented with a past master’s Jewel. Mob of Passengers Kills Negro Gunman CLARKESVILLE. Dec 24 —A mob of passengers on a Tallulah Falls Railway train at Tallulah Ix>dge ttred 50 shots, killing a negro who had fought a pistol due! In the negro coach as the train was standing at that station yesterday afternoon. The other duelist and the negro woman over whom the trouble arose were arrested and are to-day in the Habersham County jail here. No one was wounded by the shots of the duelists, but the firing in the train created a panic. Tech Depopulated By Holiday Exodus The Georgia School of Technology was depopulated Wednesday morning, fol lowing a general exodus Tuesday. Every train leaving Atlanta carried Tech students, homeward bound for the holidays. Special cara w.ere chartered by the young men of the Columbus, Sa vannah, Augusta. Chattanooga and other city clubs. The Christmas recess lasts until Mon day, January 5. Send 720,000 Eggs FromU. S, to Canada OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Dec. 24 — During the scarcity eggs are being imported from American points Sixty thousand dosen from Chicago have arrived In Toronto within a few weeks. Although 8 cents duty was paid on these (cold storage ones), they are underselling the Toronto product. Rough Potatoes Best for Table NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—The rougher the skin the better the spud, accord ing to Thomas J*. Gill, Secretary of the Brtlish Department of Agricul ture. He came here to protest against the Federal embargo or the Irish po tato. Gill denies 'he potatoes of his country have any disease. East Point Patrolman Did Not Know of Robbery, or He Might Have Been More Careful. T. M. Oliver, night policeman at East Point, gained a few gray hairs early Wednesday morning, and lost three prisoners and a trusty revolver, but he probably saved the two East Point banks and the postoffice from an at tack by cracksmen. The Atlanta and West Point depot was robbed, as it was, $12 being taken from the broken cash register. Oliver didn’t know that until later. Shortly after midnight he saw' three men loitering a block below the depot. The officers decided they looked suspicious. He went up to them, looked them over, asked them a couple of questions, and informed they they were under arrest. Prisoners Behave at First. The men made no active objection. Oliver walked with one man, the largest of the party, and told the oth er two to go ahead of them, indicat ing the way to the lockup. The three prisoners behaved in a quiet and orderly manner, and Oli ver was just about reaching the con clusion that he had been overly vigil ant when the two men In front wheeled suddenly. They both held revolvers. “Hands up!” they said. Oliver put up his hands. There really didn't seem to be anything else to do. The man walking with Oliver searched him and took his revolver. “Move on!” one of the gunmen di rected. Officer Told to “Beat It” The party moved on. There didn't seem to be anything else to do. But this time Oliver was walking in front, and there was a sensation as of icicle* tickling his spine. Also, there were prickles back of his ears. They reached a dark and secluded spot. “Beat It!” said the leader. Oliver beat it. The party lost itself In the dark ness. Later Oliver—and others—went back and searched the spot where lie first saw the three men. On the ground was a bottle containing half a pint of nitroglycerin. It appeared the yeggmen had rob bed the depot and were preparing to try the bank vaults when Oliver broke up their little game. Poisoner of 4 Gets 4 Life Sentences One Lone Saloonman Defends Tree Lunch’ CHICAGO, Dec. 24—Only one of the more than 7,000 saloonkeepers in Chicago appeared in defense of “free lunch” before a special Council com mittee. Representatives of scores of oth ers appeared to urge a bill to abolish free lunches in saloona. MERIDIAN. TEXAS. Dec. 24— Four life Imprisonment sentences were pro nounced on Mrs. Ellen Walker Ether idge, convicted of poisoning her four stepchildren. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Cloudy Wednesday and Thursday, probably fol lowed. by rain.