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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. NO. 124. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1913, Copyright. 1308, By The Georgian Col 2 CENTS, rAT NO MORE HOME EDITION SANE CHRISTMAS IS ORDERED FOR ATLANTA C&3 C&3 C&J C&J C&3 C&) C&3 C&3 Merchants Here Retain Right to Sell Supplies M ft* OC ^ SY? Op ^ Ctij (*i> J ' ~~ FIRST ARREST IN EXPRESS FRAUDS SEAL CAMPAIGN ENDS; 1912 RECORD BROKEN Nabbed Here, Southern Employee Reveals Year of Systematic Robbery. where he He is 26 The first arrest under the Carlin |nw covering mail train thefts, wheth er from the Government, persons or corporations, was made in Atlanta Thursday morning when James Thomas Turner, an express messen ger, was taken in custody at the Terminal Station by Pinkerton de tectives and Deputy United States Marshal Lee Whatley, following a year's investigation. At first vehemently denying the charge, Turner finally confessed. He was taken ta the United States Mar- \baT* office, where he spent several hours writing a list of the articles intrusted to his care which he had taken from the express cars of the Southern Express Company during the last year. Turner has been in the express service two years and now resides at Washington, D. C. Prior to his con nection with the company he was in business at Lavonia, Ga., resided for many years, years old And married. Detectives Put in Cars. For nearly a year the Southern Express Company has endeavored to get evidence against a number of messengers and jnembers of train crews suspected of a systematic rob bery of the company. Detectives have been placed as helpers to express messengers and in the train crews and a mass of evi dence which probably will result in 'wholesale arrests has been accumu lated. According to the Pinkertons, Turner’s arrest resulted from his boasts and confidences to his helpers, some of whom were Pinkerton men. A dressed chicken stolen from an ex press shipment was presented by him to a detective-helper. His first thefts were of food, he confessed. Turner next began appropriating email articles of clothing. Then he took overcoats and shotguns. He al ways passed these things out to some one along the line and never took anything in at the end of his run. either at Washington or Atlanta. Took Only Certain Packages. His regular run was on train No. $7, between Washington and Atlanta. He arrived in Atlanta Tuesday after noon and was boarding a train at the ’terminal Station Wednesday morning for his return trip when ar rested. In his thefts Turner did not touch packages originating in and billed for points in Southern Express Company territory. But package? coming into Adams Express Company territory along the Southern Express Company lines and originating in Adams Ex press Company territory' and billed for Southern Express Company points and through shipments, were the ones taken by him. None of the packages opened by him could be checked di rectly against him. His method was not to take pack ages containing single articles. If there were four quarts of whisky in a package he would take one. The package would go on to its destina tion and the protest for shortage would be made against the shipper, and the blame be placed on the ship ping clerk for failure to make a com plete shipment. Officials of the Southern Express Company are elated over Turner’s arrest. The systematic robbing*which has been carried on for more than a year has worried them greatly, and in Turner’s detection they believe they have opened the way for the arrest of othei; Popping Bullets Put Firemen to Rout and Armory Burns Down INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 24.—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 $60,000 was due to the destruction of army equipment. Mystery' surrounds the origin of the fire, which broke out Just after* Com * pany H had finished drill practice. Bullets were already' 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. Chauffeurs All Best in Employers’ Eyes, Says Judge Broyles Each automobile owner is alike, so far as claiming that his chauffeur is the best and most careful driver in town, according to Recorder Broyles. The remark was made in a friendly tilt between the Recorder and Pres ton Arkwright, president of the Geor gia Railway and Power Company, during tlfe trial of Clarence White, a negro chauffeur for Arkwright. The negro was arrested on complaint of Steve R. Johnston, former Council man, who testified that the negro had speeded out Piedmont avenue. The chauffeur denied the charge. “Well, I am inclined to believe Mr. Johnston,” said the judge, as he named a fine of $5.75. Shoots Officer for Having Arrested Him . KNOXVILLE, Dec. 24 —R. C. Bark ley, a prominent citizen of Copper- hill, is dead and P. C. Hood, a deputy sheriff, is seriously wounded as the result of a pistol duel at Copperhill to-day. Hood arrested Barkley on a charge of being drunk last week. When they met to-day, they began firing at each otller. It is thought Hood will die. Both men belong to prominent fami lies. Carnegie’s Present to Wilson Is Peace Plea WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Andrew Carnegie played Santa Claus to President Wilson and his Cabinet to day by sending each of them a framed picture which previously had appeared in a humorous weekly. The picture shows a soldier going to war. Around his neck clings a little girl who lisps: "Daddy, are you going to kill some other little girl's papa?" East Point Patrolman Did Not Know of Robbery, or He Might Have Been More Careful. ZELAYA SAILS FROM U. S. NEW YORK, Dee. 24.—General Jose Santos Zelaya. former President of Nicaragua, who was arrested here last month charged with murder, but subsequently released. sailed for France to-day. 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 attack 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 icicles 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 he 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. TO PICK U. S. BUILDING* SITE. MONROE, Dec. 24. A representative of the Government will arrive in Mon roe this week to select a site for a Fed eral Building, for which Congress has voted an appropriation of $50,000. P. O.Sets New Mark In First Class Mail; 325,000 Pieces Sent After gazing at the list of records that have been smashed at the local postoffice this week, it seemed there could be no chance of breaking any more of them. But— Another one went by the board in the 24 hours that ended Wednesday morning. Postmaster Bolling Jones said that during that time almost 325,000 pieces of first-class mail w r as handled by his force, w'hich is an other new record. The great in crease in this class of mail is partly accounted for by the fact that last night was the accepted time for mailing Christmas cards, and since most of them were inclosed in en velopes they went in as first-class mail. Mr. Jones announced Wednesday that the postoffice will be open Thurs day until aboht 12 o’clock, when all departments will be closed for the day. Tw r o deliveries of mail w’ill be made, both b^fohe noon. Mrs. Manley Still Content to Stay in Jail, Near Husband The gray light of the morning after— Wednesday morning—awakened in Mrs. M. E. Manley, after her second night in jail, no desire to take advantage of her bond and spend Christmas in the open, with her baby—but without her hus band. “I didn’t have an uncomfortable night at all,” Mrs. Manley said this morning. “Everybody is good to me here, except they won’t let me see my husband. He's in an old cell on another floor. 1 don’t see why they won’t let us talk to each other a little.” But Mrs Manley is firmly resolved to remain in Jail until her husband is freed. And if he goes to the chaingang instead— Well, the present intention of Mrs. Manley is to go to the chaingang, too. Locked in Saloon, Yells to Get Out Many a bibulous individual has had the misfdrtune to be locked out of his favorite haunt, but Policeman Scott encountered one early Wednesday who had been locked in and was wild ly excited about it. When Max Deitch locked his sa loon at No. 18 Decatur street Tues day night he unwittingly imprisoned a customer who had fallen asleep. Scott and the prisoner held a i«ir- ley through the plate glass window. The outcome of it was that the pro prietor was brought to town, where he let the man out. Drubbing for Flirt Who Seeks Book Plot CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—Julius Dalsey at-, tempted to flirt with the wife of Po lice Sergeant Charles E. Dudley. The policeman administered a drubbing and arrested Dalsey. The prisoner told th*' judge he was writing a book and tried to flirt with Mrs. Dudley to get material for it. DON’T MISS THE XMAS FESTIVAL! ALL INVITED TO JOIN THE GAYETY This is an invitation to Mr. and Mrs. Atlanta, Miss Atlanta and Master Atlanta: The Empire City of the South will celebrate Christmas to-night in the good old-fashioned way at the City Hall Plaza and you’re asked to the festivities. Wedemeyer’s band, famous throughout this section of the South, will play the kind of music that drives the clouds away and sends the real Christmas spirit coursing through your veins. One hundred orphans from the Hapeville Baptist Home, a score from the Decatur Methodist Home and a bunch of newsboys will sing the old-time carols that would touch the heart of Old * Scrooge himself. And the Christmas tree—bedecked with a dazzling and wonderful array of tinsel and Christmasy things—will radiate the Yuletide cheer. DON'T MISS IT. The festivities begin at 5 p. m., to-day and continue for two hours; resuming at 8 p. m., and continuing until 10 p. m. All in God's open air and all the fun as free as the air itself. The Georgian extends everybody a cordial invitation and you may be sure Everybody and His Wife will be there. to bid on subsistence supplies for Fort McPherson are not to be de prived of that privilege. Major Gen eral Aleshire, chief quartermaster general of the army, to-day wrote Congressman William Schley How ard to this effect. Mr, Howard re cently protested to the War Depart ment against an order issued by the Department of the East, which was construed to mean that the Fort, McPherson supplies must be pur chased from New York. General Aleshire stays the War Department has no intention of taking steps in imical to local merchants if the prices are satisfactory and that Circular 31 has been misunderstood. The Chief Quartermaster, conclud ing his letter to Congressman How ard, said: "It will be seen, therefore, that At lanta merchants will have an op portunity as heretofore of making bids on subsistence supplies for Fort McPherson, and if the prices are lower than the New York prices plus the freight, the awards will be made to the Atlanta merchants, provided the articles upon which they bid are of satisfactory quality.” General Aleshire says further that the commanding general of the De partment of the East has not issued orders that will forbid the supplies of Fort McPherson being purchased in Atlanta, and that the departmental circular regarding the supplies for all ports evidently has been misinter preted by the quartermaster's office at Fort McPherson. Congressman Howard expressed gratification to-day over this receipt of General Aleshire’s letter clearing up the situation. “Atlanta merchants are to get the business if they quofe competitive prices,” said Congressman Howard. "Upon pressing this matter upon the War Department I have ascertained the policy is to give the business to the local merchants if they can meet New York prices with freight included. I believe the Atlanta mer chants are entitled to the business at Fort McPherson and are capable of getting it.” Miss Maggie Fields, one of the fair young lied Cross stamp sellers. Workers, However. Fail to Reach Million Mark—Still Chance to Buy Stickers. The Red Cross seals were off the streets Wednesday morning, the gen eral canvass having close*! Tuesday night, though the booth in the postof fice still was maintained, and stamps could be had at most of the big stores. While the results of the 1913 sale will not be known accurately for some days, two things are sure. The million mark was not reached, but the sales are ahead of those of last year. It Is be lieved, however, that the per capita sales will be relatively higher In several other Georgia cities than in Atlanta. Eight members of the Boy Scouts turned ou£ to help th*- sales the last day, little Henry Moyer, of Troop 7, making the best reooi .1 with $2.34. Xmas Gold Pieces Total $5,000,000 WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—More than $5,000,000 worth of bright new gold and silver pieces of 1913 mint age, most of which will find its way into Christmas stockings to-morrow morning, has been distributed by the Treasury this month to bank9 throughout the country. Rides 6 Days in Subway After Theft NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—The record long distance ride in the New York subway has been established by David Shapiro, who traveled on the cars six days and nights. The boy was afraid to go home because he had stolen his mother’s gold watch and chain. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Cloudy Wednesday and Thursday, probably fol lowed by rain. Poisoner of 4 Gets 4 Life Sentences MERIDIAN, TEXAS. Dec. 24.—Four life imprisonment sentences were pro nounced on Mrs. Ellen Walker Ether idge, convicted of poisoning her four ttpchildren. 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. Saves Friend From Another Xmas in Jail It was the prompt action of a friend Wednesday*mornlng that saved Claude Ireland, a young butcher, from again spending his Christmas in (he city stockade. On December 24. last year, Ireland was sent to the tsockade for 30 d.ays. Wednesday morning he was being ushered into the van that transfers prisoners to the stockade when the friend arrived and paid Ireland's fine of $1075 each In two cases, one for disorderly conduct and the other far drunkenness. 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 (he Ansley management and the Southern F"ederal Construction Com pany. The addition will be 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 ago. Officials Consolidate Powers to Put Lid on Boisterous Cele bration, “Pistol toters - ’ and other bois- trous 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 w r ould 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. Chief Joins Broyles. 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, who was found vio lating any of the city ordinances in respect to the carrying or discharge of weapons. “I am determined to break up the dangerous practice of discharging firearms in 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.” The Chief’s Order. Here is what the Chief told his men: “There must be no boisterous con duct on the streets during the holi day. “Any disorder that the policeman observes must be dealt with just as strictly as on any other day. If any thing, the police must be more watch ful than usual. “No ‘pistol toting' Is to be coun tenanced. “There must be no discharge of firearms of any sort within the city limits. “If anyone is seen on the streets with a weapon in his hand you are ordered to make an immediate case against the offender. “If a firearm is discharged on the street a case must be made.” Promise Sane Christmas. Recorder Broyles and the Chief said Wednesday that Atlanta would have a “safe and sane” Christmas if it was in their power to bring such a condition about. “Sufficient warning has been given,” asserted the Recorder. “It Is a per son’s own fault if he runs afoul the law. For my part, I am going to back up the Chief by giving these sort of persons the limit.” Vassar Puts Ban On Chafing Dishes POUGHKEEPSIE, N, Y„ Dec. 24 - The scores of young “blades’' who have been saving their coupons a!' year intending to convert them into chafing dishes for girl friends at Vas sar College will have had’their pains for nothing, as that dish has been put on the “forbidden" list.