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VOL. XII. NO. 130. ATLANTA,
GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31,
1913.
Copyright, 1900.
By The Georgian Ca.
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EAST POINT OFFICIAL IS HELD AS AN EMBEZZLER
J, R. Sims Denies Charge and
Gives Bond—Town Stirred
by Arrest.
A sensation was sprung in East
Point Wednesday when J. R. Sims,
ity 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
een in office four or five years, de
nied that he was guilty of the mlsap-
ropriation. He Immediately made
ond of $2,500.
Sim» was indicted Tuesday after
noon. J. W. Humphries, City Attor
ney of East Point, brought the alleged
embezzlement to the attention of the
irand Jury some time ago and a true
11, dated December 23, was found,
ut was not submitted to Judge Ben
Hill until adjournment of Tuesday’s
ression.
Had Access to Tax Fund.
Jt is charged that Sims, who col-
ectecl the taxes at East Point, had
access 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
toward him at that time.
Sims is married and has borne a
K'iod 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’ bwas 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,
C. Hemperly, the East Point un
dertaker, signing it. Both men speak
well of Sims and expressed 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 bv Deputy Sheriff Broad
nax, who allowed him to make bond
without bringing him into the Sheriff’s
office.
The young man declared to Deputy
Broadnax that if there were arv
shortages it was simply a c6.se of dis-
repancies. He said that an auditor
had been working on the books for
ome 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
his own use.
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
^cognize 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
toree negroes are to be tried Wednes
day, and the fact that the military
ma y be concerned in the settlement
that situation, the Nash-Obear
' >ntroversy has been laid aside tem
porarily.
1 be Governor likely will not an
nounce a decision before next week.
Mrs, Woodside Heads
Home for Friendless
f 1 be annual election of officers for the
home for the Friendless was announced
'ednesday morning, as follows:
President, Mrs. J. J. Woodside; first
V:ce president; Mrs. D. B. Harris; sec-
ond vice president, Mrs. G. J. Dexter;
r tasurer, Mrs. Victor Smith; recording
* etary, Mrs. F M. Stewart; assistant
‘ Tding secretary, Miss Margaret
r gbt; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
''arnegy; chairman board of man-
Mrs. J Bulow Campbell.
J ’’nited States Supreme Court.
LATEST
NEWS
CALUMET. MICH., Dec. 31.—Offi
cials of the Western Federation of
Miner* wired to President Wilson to
day offering a proposal that the cop
per strike in the Calumet district be
settled by arbitration under the Erd-
man law.
CALUMET, MICH., Dec. 31.—The
Coroner concluded the taking of tes
timony in the fire panic inquest at 2
o’clock this afternoon and the case
was turned over to the jury. No
verdict is expected before night and
perhaps not until to-morrow. To
day's testimony developed no new
facts.
VERA CRUZ, Dec. 31.—Fifty Fed
eral troopers were killed to-day
when their train was dynamited by
the rebels near Simova Station, about
200 miles from Mexico City, accord
ing to advices which reached here
this afternoon.
CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—Federal Judge
K. M. Landis to-day ruled that here
after former United States District
Attorneys would not be permitted to
appear in his court defending men
against whom prosecutions were be
gun while the ex-District Attorneys
were still in office. District Attorney
Wilkerson called the attention of
Judge Landis to the practice of for
mer District Attorneys and their as
sistants defending men with whose
cases they had become familiar when
employed by the Government.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Despite as
surances that the bank was in no
way connected with the dry goods
houses which were placed in the
hands of receivers yesterday, there
was a run this morning on the Green-
hut-Siegel-Cooper Bank. It is re
ported that $75,000 to $100,000 had
been drawn out by timid depositors
and at noon many were still in line.
BERLIN, Dec. 31.—Berlin is snow
bound after the most severe blizzard
in 30 years. More than fourteen inches
of snow has fallen. Trains are block
ed and telephone and telegraph com
munication is badly crippled.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 31.—Secretary
of the Treasury William M. McAdoo,
who, it is said, has been slightly in
disposed recently, is to-day recuper
ating at the home of Captain Isaac E.
Emerson, at Brooklandwood, Green
Spring Valley, Md.
GARY, IND., Dec. 31.—Residents of
the town of Miller were aroused this
morning when a squad of Michigan
police searching for horse thieves
mistook Mel Ostrander, the town
barber, for on® of the gang and open
ed fire upon him. Ostrander took
refuge in a chicken coop and was
besieged there until rescued by John
Nelson, the town marshal. Later the
police arrested one suspect, while
two others escaped into the sand
dunes.
ATHENS, Dec. 31.—The Toomer
Music House v>as the scene of a pis
tol duel here this afternoon, in which
J. T. Gholstin, a former real estate
dealer, now in the music business,
was wounded twice. C. E. James,
who did the shooting, surrendered.
Gholstin was wounded in the arm and
shoulder. James was unhurt, al
though Gholstin fired two shots at
him. The trouble arose over a piano
sale in a neighboring county,
DETROIT, Dec. 31.—In a mad rush
of men and women to pay county
taxes before the last business day of
the year should come to a close, two
women. Mrs. Sarah Tizyske and Mrs.
Mary Lelski, were crushed and faint
ed in a corridor of the county build
ing this morning. Police had a fight
the crowd back in order to get the
women and take them to a place of
safety.
FLINT, MICH., Dec. 31.—Fred Rob
inson, 32 years old, fell 175 feet to the
bottom of the Whatcher coal mine
and was instantly killed this morning.
Frank Jones. 30, working on a scaf
fold with him, saved himself by cling
ing to the timbers. Robinson and
Jones were putting in cage guideB
when a plank broke.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—With her
crew starving and entirely without
water, the British schooner Cheslie,
disabled in the gale which recently
swept the South Atlantic coast and
the Gulf of Mexico, to-day was found
and taken in tow by the revenue cut
ter Miami. Th® vessels are proceed
ing to Key West.
PARIS, Dec. 31.—A special dis
patch to the Paris Herald from Romo
to-day says it is reported in Vatican
circles that Cardinal William H.
O’Connell, of Boston, probably will
succeed Cardinal Rampolla as arch
priest of St. Peters in Rome.
LANSING, MICH., Dec. 31.—John
Mitchell arrives here soon after noon
and immediately went into conference
with several labor leaders. Clarence
Darrow also --Hved at noon and
went to the Governor’s offiice. Dar
row who is legal adviser for the Fed
eration will ask Governor Ferris to
declare martial law in the copper
country unless a better plan is hit on
in the conference.
MOBILE. Dec. 31.—The Mallory
liner Comal arriving here to-day re
ports passing the three-masted
schooner Etine in the Gulf of Mexico
off Mobile Bay, all sails set and no
life on board, apparently waterlogged
and abandoned.
ASKED FOD
Middle Circuit Judge Calls on the
Governor for Troops to Pro
tect Negroes at Trial.
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 $o 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 physiology and
experimental medicine, discussed the
import of the commission’s work on
Wednesday morning.
"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 is to be transferred from corn
or maize to the Simullum, 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, but there Is no
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Emphasizes
perils from
tuberculosis
and malaria
as result of
mixing of
races. Mothers
and children
especially
menaced, he
declares.
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 »quad back in uniforms.” he
said. ”1 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 against
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.
ALABAMA STORE BURNS.
SELMA, ALA., Dec. 31.—The store
of R. D. Sturdivant, at Belknap. Ala.,
20 miles from Selma, burned to-day.
The $4,000 stock was completely de
stroyed There was Little insurance.
The origin of the fire Is unknown.
Woman in Police
Court Is Confronted
With Two Old Fines
Mrs. r. C. Downs, of No. 29 1-2
Marietta street, had a bad shock in
Recorder Broyles’ court Wednesday
afternoon when, after being fined
$15.75 for disorderly conduct, was re
minded that there were two old fines
| of $25.75 each against her that she
j must pay before she would- be releas
ed. As Mrs. Downs didn’t have the
money, she was returned to the pris
oner's room while friends went out
to try and raise it for her.
Mrs. Downs was haled before the
Recorder on a charge of rowing with
a newsboy at the corner of Broad and
Marietta streets and resisting officers
when they sought to quiet her. When
fined on the former occasions she was
released on bond on the grounds that
she would appeal the cases. The cases
never were appealed and Recorder
Broyles said it was time to collect.
Man Who Shot Son
Of Councilman Freed
Recorder Broyles Wednesday after
noon dismissed the case against C. C.
Walker, the Marietta street merchant
charged with shooting Raymond Sis
son. son of Councilman J. D. Sisson,
of the Fifth Ward, on the statement
of Walker that he saw the boy trylne
to enter his store at No. 356 Marietta
street and thought he was a burglar.
While the boy was reported to be
rapidly recovering from the wound he
was unable to appear in court, but his
father watf there and said he had no
desire to prosecute Mr. Walker, as
he felt sure the boy was not recog
nized when he was shot.
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. Pasehall, three negroes,
now confined In the Tower of the
Fulton County jajl, when they aro
sent from Atlanta to I^oulsvllle, Ga..
to-day, if they are sent, to stand
trial to-morrow for the murder oi
Mrs. Seth Irby.
The judge has asked f^r 200 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 Governor’s 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
w-ould not discuss the matter later,
he is understood to be of the opin
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, and 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 prfhclple. 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 $30,000.
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 Raw’llngs 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.
AT CHARLESTON.
FIRST— Six furlongs; Incision, 110
(MvTaggart), 13-5, 6-5, 3-5, won;
Gagnant, 110 (Neander), 8, 3, 8-5, sec
ond; Berkeley, 115 (Davis), 10. 4, 2,
third. .Time, 1:18 2-5. Clem Beachy,
Miss Prirnity, Trov Weight, Bever-
stein, Cynosure, Concurran, Pike’s
Peak, Gerard also ran.
SECOND—Six furlongs: Toddling.
110 (Neander), 6-2, 4-5 2-5, won; Fly
ing Yankee, 115 (Rightmier), 16-6,
6- 5, 3-5, second; Daddy Glp, 115
(Glass), 12. 6, 3, third. Time, 1:16 3-5.
Kiva, Golliwog, Premier, Volthorpe
also ran.
THIRD—Five one-half furlongs:
Rye Straw 107 (Buxton), 2, even,
won; Loretta Dwyer 104 (J. Wil
liams), 5, 5-2, even, second; Yenghee
108 (Corey), 8-6, even, 1-2, third.
Time 1:09 3-5. Also ran: Silas Grump,
Harry McIntyre, Rolling Stone, Ann
Tilly, Black Chief, Armor.
FOURTH—Seven furlongs: Du-
quesne 104 (Neander), 5, 8-6, 1-2,
second; Co 111 (Goose), 7-2, 8-5,
won; Pardner 111 (Davis), 6, 2 t 7-10,
7- 10. third. Time 1:30 1-5. Also
Feather Duster, Loan Shark.
FIFTH—Six furlongs: Deposit 103
(Turner), 5-2, 7-10, 1-4, won; Char
leston 110 (McCahey), 6-5, 1-2, out,
second; Ivan Gardner 90 (Neander),
12, 4, 7-5, third. Time 1.16 4-5. Also
ran: Brave Cunarder, Gordon. Boly
Hill.
AT JUAREZ.
FIRST—Six furlongs: Christmas
Eve, 100 (Carroll), 9-2, 2, 1. won;
Kiltie, 100 (Vandusen), 8, 3, 3-2, sec
ond; George, 107 (Groth), 20, 8, 4,
third. Time 1:13 1-6. General War
ren, Transact, Rodondo, Mystic Boy,
Violet MaMy, Irish Ann, Vava, Hes
ter, Hyki also ran.
Race Entries on Page 2.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—F air Wednesday ;
cloudy Thursday.
Train Runs Into Herd
Engine Men Scalded
When Atlanta, Birmingham and At
lantic train No. 1, due In Atlanta at
8:45 p. m., ran into a herd of cattle
near Douglass at 10:45 o’clock Wed
nesday morning, the engine and bag
gage car were derailed and the engi
neer and fireman slightly scalded by
escaping steam.
Reports given out by the railroad
officials were that none of the pas
sengers was injured and that the
damage was slight. Another train
was quickly formed and the passen
gers transferred to it. It is proceed
ing to Atlanta slightly delayed.
Mayor Opens War
On Covering Fences
With Advertisements
Mayor Wood ward’s failure to get
the fence aroynd the new courthouso
removed on account of billboard ad
vertising contracts caused him to de
clare war Wednesday on the practice
of using the streets for advertising.
"An ordirtance should be passed
making It Illegal to use a fence in the
streets for advertising purposes,” lie
said. "Many fences are put up pure
ly for advertising purposes, and thay
are left standing to carry out the con
tracts months after they are unneces
sary.
Councilmen Ashley and C. D. Knight
told the Mayor they would support
such an ordinance. Advertising con
tracts for the fence around the court
house expire to-day, and it Is expect
ed the fence will be taken down im
mediately.
City and 2 Enjoined
In Sidewalk Fight
The City of Atlanta, the Cement Stone
and Tile Company and the Pine Mount
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.
‘Ex_boozers’ Invited
To ‘Watch’ Services
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, 29Vs
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.
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
burned 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
Minister Declares Closing of Dis
trict Only Scattered Evil All
Over the City.
Albert W. E-Mott, a minister of
the gospel and a man who ha?
spent years in reform work
among the women of the under
world, stood out Wednesday as
the severest critic who has yet as
sailed the policies of the Atlanta
Men and Religion Forward
Movement and the bulletins
which the Executive Committee
has published in the newspapers
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 rommercially 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 enure crusade
against the social evil has been mis
taken, has been based on misinforma
tion and had 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 bulletins
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 daily
newspapers, which go into practically
every home In that part of the State
and are read by the children as well
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,
frank 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 the
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 learns
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
kept against their will?
“Will the men who help Tier along
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