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S ttt,- ^ ATLANT 1 r > I—J - 1 ’ ' ‘ ^ " ’ ** Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. NIT. NO. 130. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1914. Copyright D»06. By Th« Georgian C* 2 CENTS, PAY NO l 9 FLORIDA EXTRA ISSION HEAD ATTACKS BULLETINS C& C&3 C&3 C&3 C&3 C&) Ast Point City Clerk Arrested as Embezzler S'? CrtJ fft C*. EXPERT URGES SOUTH TO SEGREGATE RACES dentists Fight Sand Fly as Cause of Pellagra NDICTED AS TAX FUND LOOTE R. Sims Denies Charge and Gives Bond—Town Stirred by Arrest. A sensation was sprung in East ^oint Wednesday when J. R. Sims, ?ity Clerk, was arrested on the charge ff embezzling $1,100 of the city’s unds. The arrest was made by Dep ity Sheriff George H. Brodnax. 1 Sims, who is well known and has >een in office four or five years, de fied that he was guilty of the misap- ropriation. He immediately made bond of $2,600. Sims was indicted Tuesday after- obn. J. W. Humphries, City Attor- ey of East Point, brought the alleged mbezziement to the attention of the Srand Jury some time ago and a true ill, dated December 22, was found, ut was not submitted to Judge Ben ill until adjournment of Tuesday's fission. / Had > I It is cha: Aoeess to Tax Fund. charged that Sims, who col lected thpr taxes at East Point, had fcccess to the funds and took advant- ge of his position to appropriate Ibout $1,100 to his own use. He re igned the city clerkship a few weeks go and suspicion is said to have been [greeted toward him at that time. Sims is married and has borne a JLod reputation in the community. y. he report that he had been indicted | lid arrested on the charge of embez- ement created the greatest surprise nong his circle of friends and ac- ualntances. Sims’ b—was made in short or- W, his father-in-law, A. R. Hemper- , a well-known real estate dealer of ast Point, and the latter’s brother, . C. Hemnerly, the East Point un- irtaker, ^signing it. Both men speak ell of Sims and expressed belief in s innocence. Surprised by Arrest, Sims, when arrested, showed dis- rict surprise. He was "laced under |rest at his father-in-law’s home in ist Point by Deputy Sheriff Broad- kx, who allowed him to make bond ■thout bringing him into the Sheriff’s ■ ice. ■The young man declared to Deputy loadnnx that if there were arv ortages It was simply a case of dis- epancies. He said that an auditor Id been working on the books for ■me time, and that he was awaiting |e auditor’s report to straighten out crepancies. if there were any. ie denied emphatically that he had fcropriated any of the city’s monev ■his own use. tayor’s Crematory Objections Outlined Hit the request of officials of the P structor Company. Councilman Jiley, acting for Mayor Woodward, Inished them with his specific ob- lions to the new crematory Wed- |lay. - The objections are: larger dynamo to furnish lights | to operate hoists for garbage and bs; renewal of furnace doors |ied out and proper draughts for protection of these doors; an- |r arrangement for the disposal of (vers and ashes; a grate bar that withstand the heat; proper ven- lion for the building. Governor Now Too Busy to Pass Upon Nash-Obear Clash Governor Platon has not yet ren dered a decision In the Nash-Obear controversy, although January 1 Is the date u^on which General Nash has announced that he will cease to recognise General Obear either as de facto or d» 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 nre 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. ASKED FDD Waldo Quits Police Head Job in a Huff NEW YORK. Dec. 31.—Police Com missioner 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 be a party to this plan.” John Purroy Mitchel will take up his Mayoralty duties to-morrow* Mayor Kline anointed 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 Wlnship 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 Smi- 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 “Jda M. Tarbell School District.” Id on Atlanta Forgery Charges DBILE, Dec. 31.—Harry M. Da- said to be a member of a promi- Birmlngham family, arrested on December 19, in company Mrs. J. F. Hawsee, a 15-.y*ar- gir! from Atlanta, on a white, => charge, was served with an ad ! nal warrant to-day, charging ?ry of three $10 money orders at nta. J 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. 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. 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 Paschal], 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 of Mrs. Seth Irby. The judge has asked for 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 esedrt 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 Cofifefence. 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 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 tiie 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-w'ay 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, an 1 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 Raw’lings 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 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. City and 2 Enjoined In Sidewalk Fight The City of Atlanta the Cement Btone 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. ‘Ex.boozers' Invited To ‘Watch' Services AH “ex-boozers’’ of Atlanta are invi - j ed to attend the watch night service i snd yearly gathering of former drinking men at the Salvation Army hall, 29‘ys | Marietta street, Wednesday night. “An ex-boozers’ meeting’’ is the way j the Army invitations read. Hot wieners ! and hot coffee will be served. The first ' meeting will be at 8 o’clock. At its I conclusion the refreshments will be served, to be followed by the watch j service. Brigadier General A. W. Craw - ) ford and Captain and Mrs. Miller will I be in charge. Searchlights in Mine j 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, who 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 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 C&3 Dr. C. W. Stiles, attending Congress of Scientists in Atlanta, who 1 warns against danger of contagion where whites and negroes reside in too close 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 clouds prevailed over all of the Ohio Valley. PATERSON, N. J., Dec 31.—Inmates of the almshouse here went on strike for less w'ork. shorter hours and more food. Their leader was put in jail and the strike ended. Accused Mississippi Senator Acquitted VICKSBURG. MISS., Dec. 31- State Senator Hobbs was acquitted to-day of the charge of accepting a bribe. Woman, 45, Marries Dead Husband's Son SAYS VICE Emphasizes perils from tuberculosis and malaria as result of mixing of races. Mothers and children especially menaced, he declares. Poverty Increases In Atlanta; Labor Conditions Blamed NEW YORK. Dec. 31.- Mrs. Anna H. Hall, 46. a widow, married S. Holden Hall, 45, her stepson. Pastors Requested To Send in Notices Of Services Early I Pastors are urged to send in brief notices of their Sunday i 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, w'hich has been working in Porto Rico and the South ern States for the last year, is to make its flr*t report as a leading fea ture of the convention <.f 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 physiology and experimental medicine, discussed the import of the commission’s work on Wednesday morning “It should represent the latest au thoritative w’ord on pellagra and Its causes,” Dr. Hough said, “and 1 f•• 1 sure a great part, if not all, of the blame is to be transferred from corn or maize to the Simulium, or sand fly, “The pellagra germ has not yet beep found, but that is not especially significant. The germ of smallpox is nearly as Indefinite, but there is nu Continued on Page 2, Column 5. Mayor Opens War On Covering Fences With Advertisements Mayor Woodward’s failure to get I the* fence around the new courthouse I removed on account of billboard ad- ! vertifring contracts caused him to de clare war Wednesday on the practice I of using the streets for advertising. “An ordinance should be passed making it Illegal to use a fence in the streets for advertising purposes,” he said. “Many fences are put up pure ly for advertising purposes, and they are left standing to carry out the con- j tracts months after they are unneoes- , sary. Councilmen Ashley and C. D. Knight j told the Mayor they would support j I such an ordinance. Advertising con tracts for the fence around the court- ! house expire to-day, and it is expect- j ed the fence will be taken down im mediately. U. S. Commerce Court Passes Into History WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—The I 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. 1 City Warden Thomas Evans Wed nesday made public his annual re port showing that poverty In Atlanta is on the increase. He argues that the situation arises from the poor conditions under which so many women and children have to work. “Notwithstanding the comparative ly mild weather the first three months of the year and the pleasant months we have had this fall, the de mand upon this office for assistance has increased with the growth of the city, and it has become necessary to render assistance more or lees 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 Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PARIS, Dec. 31.—The famous art masterpiece, “Mom Lisa,” which was stolen from the Louvre Museum in August, 19lT, 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 Wri Bi annual election of officers for the : for the Friendless was announced esday morning, as follows: sident, Mrs. J. J. Woodside: first president; Mrs. D. B. Harris; sec- !■ • president, Mrs. G. J. Dexter, jrer, Mrs. Victor Smith; recording [ary, Mrs. F M. Stewart; assistant iing secretary, Miss Margaret it; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Cnrnegy • h lirman board of man- Mto J. liuiuw Campbell. Minister Declares Closing of Dis trict Only Scattered Evil All Over the City. Albert W. Elliott, a minister of the pospel and a man who has spent years in reform work among'tlie 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 hfls 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 hook 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 hag been closed nearly one year, and though the police de partment has rr^ade 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 w'ere the Rev. T, B Thames, pastor of the Baptist Church of Newnan. and the Rev. Thomas M. Calloway, of the Raptlst 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 Jn the daily newspapers, which go Into practically every home in that part of the iiate 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 lost 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 perhaoa 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 t*i>% 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 learn* again the true meaning of woman hood. “Such a statement is interesting but visionary, fey what authority will these women be taken up and placed in prison (a reformatory) and kept against their will? “Will the men who help ner along Continued on Page 8, Column 1.