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GEN. NASH WANTS OBEAR OUSTED FROM OFFICE
SAYS HE’S MOVED
BY DUTY ALONE
Governor Slaton Won’t Discuss
Situation, Saying He Will Act
as He Deems Best.
C.eneral 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 militarf
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.
General 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
tional 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.
| T m: WfflTE HOUSE HONEYM00NERS—Mi*. and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre
> leading at the home ol Ambassador Pago in London. The bride, who was
j Miss Jessie Wilson, lias been greatly admired. This photograph was taken when
j they were the guests of honor at a dinner given them.
Boy Reads Fluently
At Age of 3 Years
President to Outline Xmas Gold Pieces
His Views on Trusts
Total $5,000,000
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.—Marshall
Gretmore is three years old and can
read. On his second birthday 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.
.BULLETS ENDANGER FIREMEN.
C 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 Are 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.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Presi
dent Wilson will read to Congress
within a few days after the holiday
recess a message urging “construct
ive” anti-trust legislation, according
to assurances given in high Admin
istration circles to-day.
Attorney General McReynolds is
accredited in high Administration cir
cles with having won his contest
against the enactment of any radical
program for trust regulation such as
proposed in various trade commission
schemes and plans for progressive
taxation of corporations.
The Attorney General’s view is that
the present anti-trust law is suffi
cient. The Administration forces in
the House, however, will insist upon
amendments to the Sherman law pe
nalizing interlocking directorates, and
to this it is believed the President
has given his sanction.
The impression prevails here, how
ever, that no measure which would in
any way hurt any business will gain
favor at the Administration’s hands.
AVALANCHE STOPS TRAIN.
SACRAMENTO, CAL., Dec. 24.—
Western Pacific Railroad 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 Leather River,
near Belden, Cal.
The avalanche followed two days of
heavy snow. Five hundred men were
working to-day to restore the road
bed.
ARRESTED AFTER A YEAR.
The first arrest under the Carlin
law 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.
PISTOL DUEL FOUGHT.
KNOXVILLE, Dec. 24.—R. C. Barx-
y, a prominent citizen of Copper-
11 is dead and P. C. Hood, a deputy
ieriff, is seriously wounded as the
suit of a pistol duel at Copperhill
Hood arrested Barkley on a charge
being drunk last week. W hen they
et to-day, they began firing at each
her It is thought Hood will die.
)th men belong to prominent fami-
BEATS UP MASHER.
CHICAGO, Dec. SU-Juhus Dalsey at-
mnted to flirt with the wife of io-
>e ^Sergeant Charles E. Dudley. The
ilicenian administered a drubbing and
The e< prisoner told the Judgehe was
-“SUS 0 !? get'*m'«teHal 0 for *it.
Catastrophe Is Likely
To End Miners' Strike
CALUMET, MICH., Dec. 26.—While
four separa.e investigations of Calu
met's Christmas tree disaster, in
which 72 persons, most of them chil
dren, were killed, were being made
to-day and a dispute was being waged
as to whom should bury the dead,
peacemakers were at work in a su
preme effort to bring an end to the
copper mine strike in this region.
Over the bodies of the little ones the
leaders of the peace movement hoped
to see an end to the labor strife which
has torn the Calumet copper district
for several months.
United in grief over the snuffing
out of so many young lives, the war
ring factions—mine operators, guards
and strikebreakers, and the stricken
union miners and their friends—gave
no thought to the big labor battle
that indirectly is blamed for the most
grewsome horror in the history of
Calumet.
RAISES COTTON AT 114.
GADSDEN, ALA., Dec. 26.—Al
though he is almost as old as the
United States, Fayette Turner, a ne
gro living in Talladega County, was
able to make one and a half bales
of cotton this year. He is 114 years
old and was born in Virginia. He
has worked on a farm all his life and
has a son more than 60 years old.
The aged negro came to Gadsden
for Christmas. He has command of
all of his faculties and can remem
ber many historic occurrences.
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 banka
throughout the country.
GORDON'S CHAPLAIN DEAD.
The Rev. A. B. Woodfln, recalled
by the veterans of the war between
the States as the chaplain of General
John B. Gordon’s gallant brigade,
died Wednesday morning at the home
of his son, G. W. Woodfln, No. 108
Peeples street.
TREE BY PARCEL POST.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREG., Dec.
24.—A baby Christmas tree, taken
from a forest in this vicinity, was
shipped by parcel post to his brother
at Cherokee, Okla., by Postmaster W.
A. Delzell. ..
JAP BOATS FOR CANAL.
TOKIO, Dec. 24.—Japan has decid
ed to inaugurate a steamer service
with its terminus at Boston, by way
of Panama.
The steamers will call at New Or
leans and New York.
GERMAN SHIPS FOR PANAMA.
STETTIN, GERMANY, Dec. 24.—
The Hamburg-American liner Admi
ral Von Tirpitz, which will ply
through the Panama Canal, was
launched here.
CHILD IS BURNED.
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—Abraham Gal •
doses, aged 2, was having the time
of his life, when he tipped over the
Christmas tree in the front room of
the Goldoses home.
His night clothing caught fire and
he was severely burned about the
face and body. His father saved him
in a blanket.
COW WITH WOODEN LEG.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—James Gal
loway, veterinary surgeon of Kirkin
tilloch, Scotland, arrived here from
Glasgow with photos of a cow with a
wooden leg. Dr. Galloway attached
the stump after a locomotive had re
moved the original.
CORSET RAIDS LATEST.
BERLIN, Dec. 29.—Local police are
making “corset raads” as the result
of protests against shopkeepers who
display corsets on life size wax fe
male figures. The shopkeepers made
a concession by putting flimsy petti
coats on the figures.
KEPT OUT BY DUEL.
NEW YORK. Dec. 28.—Engaging
in a duel in Hungary makes a citizen
of that country ineligible for admis
sion to the United States, according
to the decision of a Federal board
of special inquiry at Ellis Island to
day in the case of Emil Zerkowitz, a
passe/iger on the steamer Campania.
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 organization—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
tlie incumbent be discontinued on
January 1, 1914.
“It so happens that General Obear
holds this particular office under
State laws, at a salary of $2,750 per
annum, and can m t legally perform
any duties therein, so far as the Gov
ernment is concerned, after January
1, 1914, while I, the Adjutant Gen
eral, under bond to the State, will
necessarily be compelled to perform
the duties for w r hic'' General Obear,
who is not under bond, would be paid
a large salary, should he continue in
office. To inject personalities and
politics into this is puerility person
ified and has no foundation what
ever.
Would de Injustice, He Says.
“It is a situation forced upon us by
the Government, and no Governor
could continue any man in office un
der such circumstances without im
posing an injustice upon .e National
Guard.
“I have known General Obear far
twenty years, and my personal rela
tions with him now are of exactly the
same status as they have always
been.
EDISON IS CUPID.
BOSTON, Dec. 24.—Thomas A. Ed
ison has acted as Cupid for Theodore
C. Haffenreffer, to whom he presented
his signed photograph on condition
that Mr. Haffenreffer, manager of a
brewing company, choose a wife. The
final conditions have not yet been
fulfilled.
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