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ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31. 3913.
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East Point City Clerk Arrested as Embezzler
EXPERT URGES SOUTH
TO SEGREGATE RACES
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Scientists Fight Sand Fly as Cause of Pellagra
J. R. Sims Denies Charge and
Gives Bond—Town Stirred
by Arrest.
A sensation was sprung in East
Point Wednesday when J. R. Sims,
City Clerk, was arrested on the charge
of embezzling $1,100 of the city’s
funds. The arrest was made by Dep
uty Sheriff George H. Brodnax.
Sims, who is well known and has
been in office four or five years, de
nied that he was guilty of the misap
propriation. He immediately made
bond of $2,500.
Sims w r as indicted Tuesday after
noon. J. W. Humphries, City Attor
ney of East Point, brought the alleged
embezzlement to the attention of the
Grand Jury some time ago and a true
bill, dated December 23, Avas found,
but was not submitted to Judge Ben
Hill until adjournment of Tuesday’s
session.
Had Access to Tax Fund.
It is charged that Sims, who col
lected the taxes at East Point, had
a. cess to the funds and took advant
age of his position to appropriate
about $1,100 to his own use. He re
signed the city clerkship a few weeks
ago and suspicion is said to have been
directed toward him at that\ime.
Sims is married and has borne a
good reputation in the community.
The report that he had been indicted
and arrested on the charge of embez
zlement created the greatest surprise
among his circle of friends and ac
quaintances.
Sims’ b^d was made in short or
der, his father-in-law, A. R. Hemper-
ly, a well-known real estate dealer of
East Point, and the latter’s brother#
A. C. Hemperly, the East Point un
dertaker. signing it. Both men speak
well of Sims and expresesd belief in
his innocence.
Surprised by Arrest.
Sims, when arrested, showed dis
tinct surprise. He was Placed under
arrest at his father-in-law’s home in
East Point by Deputy Sheriff Broad
nax, who allowed him to make bond
w ithout bringing him ' the Sheriff’s
office.
The young man declared to Deputy
Broadnax that if there were anv
shortages it was simply a case of dis
crepancies. He said that an auditor
had been working on the books for
some time, and that he was awaiting
the auditor’s report to straighten out
discrepancies, if there were any.
He denied emphatically that he had
appropriated any of the city’s monev
to his own use.
Mayor’s Crematory
Objections Outlined
At the request of officials of the
Destructor Company, Councilman
Ashley, acting for Mayor Woodward,
furnished them with his specific ob
jections to the new crematory Wed
nesday. The objections are:
A larger dynamo to furnish lights
and to operate hoists for garbage and
ashes; renewal of furnace doors
urned out and proper draughts for
the protection of these doors; an
other arrangement for the disposal of
clinkers and ashes; a grate bar that
will withstand the heat; proper ven
tilation for the building.
Held on Atlanta
Forgery Charges
MOBILE, Dec. 21.—Harry M. Da
vis, said to be a member of a promi
nent Birmingham family, arrested
ere on December 19, in company
with Mrs. J. F. Kawsee, a 15-year-.
Id girl from Atlanta, on a white
*lave charge, was served with an ad
ditional warrant to-day. charging
>rgery of three $10 money orders at
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Governor Now Too
Busy to Pass Upon
Nash-Obear Clash
Governor Slaton has not yet ren
dered a decision in the Nash-Obear
controversy, although January 1 is
the date upon which General Nash
has announced that he will cease to
recognize General Obear either as de
facto or de jure the quartermaster
general of State troops.
The Governor Is giving this matter
careful attention, but because of the
tense situation in Louisville, where
three negroes are to be tried Wednes
day, and the fact that the military
may be concerned in the settlement
of that situation, the Nash-Obear
controversy has been laid aside tem
porarily.
The Governor likely will not an
nounce a decision before next week.
Waldo Quits Police
Head Job in a Huff
NEW YORK. Dec. 31.—Police Com.
misioner Rhinelander Waldo resigned
to-day. He wrote to Mayor Kline:
"It appears to be the desire of the
Incoming administration not to ap
point a commissioner, but to have
an acting commissioner appointed by
me to remain in charge of the de
partment. I will not he a party to
this plan."
John Purroy Mitchel will take up
his Mayoralty duties to-morrow.
Mayor Kline armointed First Dep
uty Police Commissioner McKay to
succeed Waldo. His commission ex
pires at midnight.
Grand Jury to Probe
That $8,000 Dance
MACON, Dec. 31.—The $8,000 all-
night dance given by Mr. and Mrs.
Emory Winship will be the subject
for Grand Jury investigation next
week.
Publication that cnampagne and
other intoxicating beverages costing
several thousand dollars were served
at the dance has prompted the decla
ration from members of the Grand
Jury that they will propose a probe of
the affair. The purpose is to ascer
tain if the liquors were purchased in
Macon.
‘Arabian’ Negro Gets
Rockpile for Begging
COLUMBUS, Dec. 31—Israel Sml-
ger, a negro, who claims that he was
raised in Arabia by a Hebrew family,
is serving a sentence on the city
rockpile on a charge of begging.
Smiger was only arrested after he
had imposed on several prominent
Jewish families, securing various
amounts of money.
Rabbi Rosenthal discovered that
the negro had worked a similar
scheme in Chattanooga.
My! Rockefeller'll
Be Mad About This
OROVILLE, CAL., Dec. 31—Peeved
by the fact that John D. Rockefeller
has turned a deaf ear to their re
quests that he build them a school-
house. the patrons of the Rockefeller
school district in this county have de
cided to change its name and are pe
titioning to have it rechristened the
“Ida M. Tarbell School District.”
Would Sell Hubby to
Open Boarding House
BOSTON, Dec. 31.—“I am willing to
sell my husband for $1,000 cash,” wrote
Mrs. Agnes Bedell to Miss Mary E.
Chandler. William Bedell, the husband,
is said to have consented to being sold
so that his wife could open a boarding
house with the cash.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—F air Wednesday;
cloudy Thursday.
ASKED FD
Middle Circuit Judge Calls on the
Governor for Troops to Pro
tect Negroes at Trial.
Governor Slaton has been called
upon by Judge Ben Rawlings, of the
Middle Circuit, to provide a military
escort for William and George Hart
and Robert Paschall, three negroes,
now confined in the Tower of the
Fulton County Jail, when they are
sent from Atlanta to Louisville, Ga.,
to-day, if they are sent, to stand
trial to-morrow for the murder ot
Mrs. Seth Irby.
The judge has asked for 209 sol
diers, but the Governor has not yet
responded to his request, and does
not seem likely to do so unless he is
completely convinced that every oth
er legal means for the protection of
the negroes has been exhausted.
The Sheriff of Jefferson County is
In Atlanta, and spent most of the
morning in the Governors reception
room, waiting for assurance that the
troops would be provided. He stated
openly that he “did not propose to
budge with those negroes toward
Louisville unless^ he had a military
escort of 200 men,” and added that
“he didn’t propose to be shot up along
with the negroes if a lynching took
place!”
Solicitor General in Conference.
Solicitor General R. Lee Moore, of
the Middle Circuit, had a long confer
ence with the Governor in the fore
noon over the situation in Jefferson
County, and while the executive
would not discuss the matter later,
he is understood to be of the opin- j
ion that a means may be found to
handle the situation without actually
calling out the troops.
It is fully realized at the Capitol
that a tense state of affairs prevails
in Jefferson, and that to take the ne
groes there for trial now might re
sult in serious trouble. Just after the
crime was committed the three ne
groes involved were hurried to At
lanta by automobile in the dead hours
of the night and by out-of-the-way
paths, in order to avoid a lynching.
The negroes are understood to have
confessed to the brutal murder and
mutilation of Mrs. Irby near Louis
ville, ani feeling is very high against
them.
Would Cost $20,000.
Governor Slaton is known to be
most reluctant to order out the mili
tary unless absolutely necessary, not
only because he is opposed to that
on principle, but that it is very ex
pensive. It is estimated that to pro
vide the escort called for in this case
the expense to the State would run
well around $20,000.
Unless the Governor does provide
the escort asked, it will be necessary
for Sheriff Smith to get his prison
ers to Louisville, nevertheless, or an
swer to Judge Rawlings for his fail
ure to do so.
Sheriff Smith is scheduled to leave
Atlanta with his prisoners late this
afternoon or to-night. Whether he
will refuse finally to move without a
military escort is problematical, al
though he has stated most positively
that he will not.
The Governor is investigating the
situation exhaustively on his own ac
count, and will decide some time dur
ing the afternoon what he will do.
Mayor Wants Vice
Squad Uniformed to
Allay Antagonism
Striking evidence of Mayor Wood
ward’s police policy for the new year
was given in a conversation with a
number of Councilmen Wednesday.
“We need to put the 30 members of
the vice squad back in uniforms,” he
said. “I advocated that at a meeting
of the Police Commission some time
ago. I still think it would do a great
deal to allay the. antagonism agalnsl
the police.”
Several members of the party re
marked that if such a motion were
made at the next meeting of the Po
lice Commission it would be adopted.
City and 2 Enjoined
In Sidewalk Fight
The City of Atlanta, the Cement Stone
and Tile Company and the Pine Moun
tain Granite Company were restrained
from continuing sidewalk and curbing
work at Westwood and Lake avenues
under a temporary order issued Wednes
day morning by Judge J. T. Pendleton
on petition of Mrs. E. L. Cox.
Mrs. Cox claims that the workmen
are laying the curb and sidewalk tiling
in such a manner that it will close
Lake avenue, and injure property which
she owns on that street. A hearing on
the temporary injunction will be held
January 10.
The first public report of the re
searches of the Thompson-McFadden
pellagra commission is to be read
Friday afternoon before the physi
cians of Atlanta, and it is expected to
deal radically with changes in the
pellagra theory, in all probability
‘Ex.boozers' Invited
To ‘Watch’ Services 1
All “ex-boozers” of Atlanta are invit
ed to attend the watch night service
and yearly gathering of former drinking
men at the Salvation Army hall, 29^
Marietta street, Wednesday night.
‘‘An ex-boozers’ meeting” is the way
the Army Invitations read. Hot wieners
and hot coffee will be served. The first
meeting will be at 8 o'clock. At its
conclusion the refreshments will be
served, to be followed by the watch
service. Brigadier General A. W. Craw
ford and Captain and Mrs. Miller will
be in charge.
Fog Makes Last of
Year Like Doomsday
LOUISVILLE. KY„ Dec. 31.—The
last day of the year 1913 dawned like
judgment day in Louisville. Every
street in the city was lighted as at
night. Smoke and fog hung over the
city so thick that no ray of light
could pierce it. The fog and cloud
prevailed over ail of the Ohio Valley
Searchlights in Mine |
To Help Catch Gang'
LEXINGTON. KY.. Dec. 31.—Elec
tric searchlights will be installed in
the mine shaft at Four Mile, Ky.,
this afternoon to be used by soldiers
and deputy sheriffs in capturing John
Hendrickson and his gang of outlaws,
w r ho are barricaded there. As soon
as the lights are arranged, the posse
will be sent into the mine after the
men.
Paupers on Strike
For Shorter Hours
PATERSON, N. J., Dec 33.—Inmates
of the almshouse here went on strike
for less work, shorter hours and more
food.
Their leader was put in jail and the
strike ended.
Accused Mississippi
Senator Acquitted
VICKSBURG, MISS.. Der. 31.—
State Senator Hobbs was acquitted
to-day of the charge of accepting a
bribe.
Woman, 45, Marries
Dead Husband's Son
NEW YORK. Dec. 31.—Mrs. Anna II.
Hall, 45, a widow, married S. Holden
Hall. 45, her stepson.
Pastors Requested
To Send in Notices
Of Services Early
Pastors are urged to send in
brief notices of their Sunday
church services in time to reach
The Georgian before Friday even*
ing.
The notices should be written
legibly on one side of the paper
and addressed to the Church Ed
itor of The Georgian.
Church notices will be printed
free in Saturday's paper.
transferring the blame from corn to
the common sand fly—at least, sad
dling the sand fly with the active
spread of the dread disease.
The commission, which has been
working in Porto Rico and the South
ern States for the la’st year, is to
make its first report as a leading fea
ture of the convention of the Ameri
can Association for the Advancement
of Science, but owing to the vast im
portance of the report to the medical
profession, the doctors of Atlanta and
of the South have been invited to at
tend the meeting Friday afternoon in
the Atlanta. Medical College building.
Germ Not Found Yet.
Dr. J. S. Siler, captain, medical
corps, U. S. A„ who is to read the re
port, is not yet in Atlanta, but Theo
dore Hough, who has the chair of
physiology at the University of Vir
ginia and is vice president and chair
man of the section of physiol* :v and
experimental medicine, discussed the
Import of the commission’s work on
Wednesday njorning.
“It should represent the latest au
thoritative word on pellagra and its
causes,” Dr. Hough said, “and I feel
sure a great part, if not all, of the
blame i» to be transferred from corn
or maize to the Simulium, or sand fly.
“The pellagra germ has not yet
been found, but that is not especially
significant. The germ of smallpox is
nearly as indefinite, hut there is no
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Mayor Opens War
On Covering Fences
With Advertisements
Mayor Woodward’s failure to get
the fence around the new courthouse
removed on account of billboard ad
vertising contracts erfused him to de
clare war Wednesday on the practice
of using the .streets for advertising.
"An ordinance should be passed
making it illegal to use a fence in the
streets for advertising purposes,” ho
said. “Many fences are put up pure
ly for advertising purposes, and they
are left standing to carry out the con
tracts months after they are unneces
sary.
Councilmen Ashley and C. D. Knight
told they Mayor they would support
t such an ordinance. Advertising con
tracts for the fence around the court
house expire to-day, and it is expect
ed the fence \yill be taken down im
mediately.
Poverty Increases
In x4tlanta; Labor
Conditions Blamed
City Warden Thomas Evans Wed
nesday made public his annual re
port showing that poverty In Atlanta
is on t!ie increase. He argues that
the situation arises from the poor
conditions under which so many
women and children have to work.
“Notwithstanding the compai-atlve-
ly mild weather the first three
months of the year and the pleasant
months w ehave had this fall, the de
mand uoon this office for assistance
11■■ is inen used with the'grovvth of the
city, and it has become necessary to
render assistance more or less each
day in the year,” he wrote.
“Should severe weather set in at
any time, the demands would tax
this office to its capacity.”
Mona Lisa Returned
To Place in Louvre
U, S. Commerce Court
Passes Into History
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-—The
United States Commerce Court ceased
to exist at noon to-day. The four
judges have been assigned to various
circuits by Chief Justice White, of
the United States Supreme Court.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 31.—The famous art
masterpiece, “Mom Lisa.” which was
stolen from the Louvre Museum in
August, 1911, was returned to Paris
to-day.
Strongly guarded by detectives and
public officials, the painting arrived
in Paris from Milan late this after
noon and was at once taken to the
School of Fine Arts. Fifty gendarmes
and representatives of the Louvre and
the Government guarded the picture
from the railway station to the school.
Mrs. Woodside Heads
Home for Friendless
The annual election of officers for the
Home for the Friendless was announced
Wednesday morning, as follows:
1’resident. Mrs. J. J. Woodside; first
vice president; Mrs. D. B. Harris; sec
ond vice president, Mrs. G. J, Dexter;
treasurer. Mys. Victor Smith; recording
secretary, Mrs. F M. Stewart; assistant
recording secretary. Miss Margaret
Wright; corresponding secretary. Mrs.
L. \Y. Carnegy; chairman board of man
agers, Mrs. J. Bulow Campbell.
Minister Declares Closing of Dis
trict Only Scattered Evil All
Over the City. /
Albert W. Elliott, a minister oil
the gospel and a man who ha-f
spent years in reform work
among the women of the under
world, stood out Wednesday as
Ihe severest eritie who has yet as
sailed the policies of the Atlanta
Men and Religion Forward
Movement and the bulletins
which the Executive Committed
has published in the newspaper*
from time to time.
Two other ministers, not Atlantans,
and many more business men joined
the ranks of those opposed to the
bulletins Wednesday and there was
more talk of a big mass meeting.
In “The Cause of the Social Evil
and the Remedy,” a book which will
be issued at the beginning of the
New Year, the Rev. Mr. Elliott leaves
out entirely the question of the “rep
utation” which may be given Atlanta
.and the harm which may be done the
city socially and commercially by the
bulletin campaign, and seeks to strike
right at the root of the whole matter
by endeavoring to show that the
Forward Movement’s entire crusade
against the social evil has been mis
taken, has been based on misinforma
tion and bad Judgment, and has been
visionary and ill-advised in the ex
treme/and that liars have magnified
the supposed beneficial results of the
campaign.
Says Crusade Has Failed.
“At this writing,” he declares. “At
lanta's district has been closed nearly
one year, and though the police de
partment has made every effort to
keep immoral women out of the city,
they have failed utterly to do it.”
The two ministers who joined El
liott in the attack on the bulletins
were the Rev. T. B. Thames, pastor
of the Baptist Church of Newnan,
and the Rev. Thomas M. Calloway, of
the Baptist Church in Dawson. Both
of the ministers communicated with
Colonel Frederic J. Paxon expressing
their approbation of the stand he had:
taken and their displeasure at the
tenor and language of the bulletin*
that have been issued by the Forward
Movement executive committee.
“I have objected to the bulletins a
long time,” said Dr. Thames. “Their
language, to my mind, has not been
proper for advertisements in the dally*
newspapers, which go into practically
every home In that part of the State
and are read by the children as welt
as by the adults.*
Dr. Elliott is the mission worker
who created a sensation In social re
form circles throughout the United
States last spring by abandoning his
institutional home for fallen women
and Issuing the positive declaration
that after years of work among them
he had come to the conclusion that
they were in that sort of life because
they preferred it, and that they had
no desire to reform.
Book Remarkable Document.
Commenting on the Men and Re
ligion workers in his new book, which
is perhaps at once the most Intimate,
trank and remarkable document on
the subject that has yet been pub
lished, the Rev. Mr. Elliott says:
“The Men and Religion Forward
Movement of Atlanta, in asking th#
question, ‘What is to be done with the
women who can not or will not re
form?’ says, ‘She will be schooled un*
der gentle but firm hands, backed by
authority of the law, until she learnj
again the true meaning of woman
hood.
“Such a statement Is interesting*
but visionary. By what authority
will these women be taken up and
placed in prison (a reformatory) and
kep' against their will?
“Will the men who help Tier a Ions
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