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VOL. XII. NO. 131.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1914.
Copyright. 1»©«.
By The Georgian Ca
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ALSBERG WARNS OF FAKE RADIUM CURE
PRESIDENT
Erdman Act, Invoked by Strikers,
Believed Not to Apply, but
Men Are Hopeful.
CALUMET, MICH,, Jan. 1.—Among
tbe hundreds of miners and members
of miners’ families who faced the bit
ing air of New Year's Day on their
way to early service in the churches
of the copper country this morning
hope was high that a settlement of
the troubles that have kept the dis
trict in an uproar and paralyzed busi
ness for more than five months was
in sight as a result of the efforts of
Conciliator Densmore resulting yes
terday in the telegram to President
Wilson asking his aid. In several of
the churches the officiating clergy
men spoke of the dawn of the new
year and expressed the hope that
tranquillity would soon succeed tur
moil.
Everywhere was heard but the one
question:
"Is there any word from the Presi
dent?”
Much Apprehension.
And it was hoped that by the time
that the numerous meetings of
miners called for this afternoon had
begun their deliberations that there
would be some word either from
Washington or Pass Christian that
the Federal Government would see its
way clear to attempt a settlement of
the difficulty.
Much apprehension was expressed,
however, by the conservative and
thinking element of the copper coun
try over the Hearst International
News Service dispatch from Wash
ington saying that there was consid
erable doubt as to whether the Gov
ernment could properly proceed to
mediation under the terms of the
Erdman act. The Erdman law au
thorizes mediators to act only in dis
putes pertaining to railroads where
questions of interstate commerce are
involved.
Must Return by Friday.
The principal question to be taken
up by the miners at their meetings
his afternoon is the matter of re
turning to work. The mine managers
issued a statement several weeks ago
that all the striking miners who chose
to return to work must report to
morrow, January 2. The mining man
agement gave it out that any miner
failing to report for duty at the time
specified would not again be employed
in any of the Calumet mines.
First 1914 Wedding
In Chicago at 12:01
CHICAGO, Jan. 1,—The flrut V'ecl-
dins of the new year in Chicago was
• hat of Miss Gertrude Eichenbaurn,
of Chicago, to Harry S. Deutsch, of
New York. The ceremony was per
formed in the Hotel LaSalle at one
minute after midnight.
Calls Attorneys'
Fees 'Legal Holdup'
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.—Some of the
big fees charged by lawyers were
tailed "legalize 1 holdups" by Barntl
O’Hara, Lieutenant Governor of Illi
nois, in addressing the convention of
he Phi Delta Phi, a legal fraternity.
Caruso’s Cousin in
Jail on Arson Charge
NEW YORK. Jan. 1.—William Ca
ruso. second cousin to the great tenor,
was committed to jail without bail
on charges of arson, preferred by
Eire Chief Coyle.
It is alleged he. set fire to his home.
The house was a network of oll-
soaked ropes.
Striking and Calling
Of Names Not Ground
For Divorce, He Says
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—That the
calling of opprobrious names or «ven
the striking of a blow is not sufficient
warrant for divorce in the average
American family was advanced by
Dr. Ernest Brunken, of the Library of
Congress, in a talk on "Political Ten
dencies in Modern Legislation,” be
fore the American Political Science
Association here to-day.
"The delivery of such epithets
might well be cause for severing the
martial tie between highly sensitive
people of the cultured class,” said Dr.
Brunken, "but it must be apparent
that the same offense would not war
rant divorce of the primitive folk of
the great laboring masses. There the
calling of names and the blow would
be deeply resented, but it is not so
uncommon as to make divorce ad
visable. Judicial decision to the con
trary in such cases are manifestly
absurd.”
Science Finds Way to
Tell What Ails Baby
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1.—What
alls the baby may now be scien-
t tiflcally determined. This was the
announcement made by Dr. J. R
Murlin, of Cornell, at the closing ses
sion of the Federation of American
Societies for Experimentation in
Biology.
The baby is placed in a new kind
of incubator case and the inhalation
and expiration measured. When this
is determined, the attending physlctan
may tell why it cried all night.
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Dr, Parkhurst Asks
Mercy for Prisoner
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—The Rev. Dr.
Charles H. Parkhurst visited District
Attorney Whitman, and was closeted
with him for an hour, at the end
of which it wds reported he had
asked for clemency for a prominent
prisoner in the Tombs, who. it is
said, is willing to give the District
Attorney details of the wrecking of
the Carnegie Trust Company which
would Involve former high officials
in the Gavnor administration.
Actor Edeson to Run
Livery Stable-Garage
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—Robert Ede
son, the actor, is to go into the liv
ery and garage busines/». He has
purchased the livery stable of John
DeCastro, of Sag Harbor, Long Is
land, and will raze the old buildings
and erect a modern structure.
Edeson will place the business in
charge of Roy Bippel, of Southamp
ton, his chauffeur.
Denver New World
Center for Radium
DENVER, COLO., Jan. 1.—Denver
is about to become the center of the
world’s radium industry.
A site for a radium plant, to be con
ducted by the United States Govern
ment, financed by the National Ra
dium Institute and capitalists and
o^rated ”~der the direction of lead
ing scientists, has been chosen.
Czarevitch Suffers
New Injury to Leg
* Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN. Jan. 1.—A telegram from
St. Petersburg says the voung Caare-
vitch was suffering another mishap.
He collided with a heavy door and
seriously injured his crippled leg.
The Czarina swooned when she
learned of the accident.
Kitchener, Flying,
Says ‘Splendid Game'
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Jan. 1.—Lord Kitchener
has had his first flight with Airman
Olivier in a Framan biplane. H#*
flew for fifteen minutes over the sub
urbs of Cairo, and afterward said'
It s a splendid game.
Rebels Pour Shell Into Ojinaga
and Prepare for Final As
sault on Town.
PRESIDIO, TEXAS, VIA MILI
TARY^ HEAQUARTERS, MARFA.
Jan. 1.—Making desperate efforts not
only to capture Ojinaga but to make
prisoners of all the Federals before
they have time to retreat to the Unit
ed States, the rebels are closing in
from all sides upon the doomed city
and poring a steady fire of shot and
shell into the Federal ranks.
The battle, which has been raging
since Wednesday afternoon, began
again at daybreak this morning. The
fighting is moat desperate. The loss
of life on both sides has been heavy.
Building Burned.
The fifty has been lighted all night
by the flames of burning buildings,
fired by bursting shells.
Wounded refugees who arrived here
say that the loss of life in the bat
tle zone has been tremendous. Hun
dreds have been killed and many so
badly wounded that they can not
make their way to the American side
of the border for treatment.
The rebel artillery has been so
maneuvered during the fight that it
now occupies a position on a number
of hills commanding the city. The
batteries are pouring a hot fire Into
the town from twelve big guns. Rebel
cavalry is laying just back of the
artillery, preparing for a charge.
Ready for Charge.
The rebel shots are well aimed
while the shells fired by the Federals
seem for the most part to be burst
ing high in the air.
General Rodriguez with his 2,000
men and General Cararnza with his
2.500 men are moving in unison, and
will charge the town simultaneously.
In a last desperate effort to stave
off defeat the Federals have dug
trenches in a horseshoe shape around
the city, and men. heavily armed
with cannon arid machine guns in
place, are waiting the combined as
sault of the rebels.
Rescuer Robs Girl
Auto Crash Victim
SILVER CITY. N. MEX„ Jan. 1.—
Postmaster Sheridan, of Silver City,
to-day declared that disaster Is go-
ing to descend upon the local post-
office unless the Government Inter
venes before the new regulation In
creasing the limit of parcel post
packages to 50 pounds into ef
fect. A Federal officer from the
Postoffice Department is on his way
here to investigate.
C. W. Marriott, who holds the con
tract to haul mall from Silver City
to Mogollon, declares he has lost
$30,000 on account of the parcel post
business, and with the increase in
weight wholesale provision and min
ing companies Announce they will
forward nearly ail their commodities,
including coal, oil, foodstuffs and
clothing, by parcel post.
Fights Deportation
Of Girl to Mexico
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.—A transcript of
the testimony of Senorita Laura
Leon, a Mexican girl, whose state
ments caused the arrest of Donald
Scott on a charge of violating the
Mann act, will be.'forwarded to the
Commissioner of Immigration in
Washington.
Should he order doponwti<w> BB^-Mmpostors and quacks who are foiat
tenant Governor O’Hara says the case
will be sent to Congress on the gen
eral proposition that no woman
should be returned to Mexico until
peace has been declared.
Miners' Head to Quit
Hospital a Well Man
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.—Charles H.
Moyer, president of the Western
Federation of Miners, who was re
cently shot and deported from Han
cock, Mich., will leave St. Luke’s Hos
pital to-day practically a well man.
Moyer will leave for Denver to at
tend a meeting of the executive board
of the federation. He said that he
would then return to the copper coun
try to resume the direction of the
strike.
ON TIL OF
Tells Scientists Bogus Cancer
Remedies Flood the Country.
Hundreds Duped.
Beware the fake ‘radium cancer
cure,” is the word of emphatic warn
ing delivered to the American people
Thursday by Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, who
succeeded Dr. Harvey W. Wiley re
cently as chief chemist In the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Alsberg came to Atlanta to at
tend the sessions of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of
Science and to preside at Thursday's
meeting of the chemistry section in
the Winecoff Hotel.
Out of the great sensation made
by the marvelous cures effected by
the application of the radium Gamma
rays there has sprung up an army of
(TllCAGO. Jan. 1.—Two autos car
rying parties of New Year celebrants
collided downtown early this morn
ing.
Several men ran to help the vic
tims. but one of the helpers first
helped himself to $125 in the purse of
Miss Alice Vincent.
Edison, Well, Works
Eighteen Hours Day
NEW YORK. Jan. 1.—Thomas V.
Edison, fully recovered from his Ill
ness, is again hard at work every day
in his laboratory In West Orange. N. J.
He keeps busy eighteen hours a diy
and Oeeps on his cot at the w’orki
instead of going home.
Jas. Bryce Starts '14
With Viscount Title
Sane New Year Eve
For U. S. Capital
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. —New'
Year’s greetings to the people of
Washington from President Wilson
and Secretary of State Bryan flashed
on a screen. Psalm singing and holi
day carols by thousands of citizens
formed the program of the “safe
and sane” New Year Eve celebration
on the south portico of the Treasury
Building.
Court Routed
Fumes of Ether
by
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Jan. 1.—James Bryce,
former British Ambassador at Wash
ington, has been created a Viscount.
Mr. Bryce’s name is included among
those of other notables elevated in
rank to-day by King George.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.—Dr. Max Thorek
accidentally dropped a bottle of ether
In the Speeders’ Court yesterday, biit
it did not deter Judge Bowles from
entering a fine of $15 against the
physician for speeding.
All windows of the courtroom were
opened and the judge and court at
tendants retired into an anteroom fer
ten minutes.
McCoy Now Chums
With Maeterlinck
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
NICE, Jan. 1.—Kid McCoy, now 41,
is at Nice getting fit for the match
he hopes to arrange with Carpen-
tier. When he has nothing else to
do he spends the afternoon with
Maeterlinck.
Their conversation is rather re
stricted. as McCoy's knowledge of
French is about on a par with Mae
terlinck's English.
ing "< cancer cures” on the public un
der the representation that they con
tains radium.
U. 8. After the "Quack*."
The distinguished chemist said that
the activities of his department were
being bent toward the apprehension
and prosecution of these unscrupu
lous persons.
"While the routine of our work
varies not a great deal through the
year." he said, "it sometimes hap
pens that a certain form of violation
of the pure food and drug laws will
spring up almost by magic, ajnd it
will be necessary for us to direct our
energies toward the determination of
this particular practice or offense.
"Just now. along with our regular
work, we are waging war upon man
ufacturers who misbrand thair pat
ented medicines.
Many Medicines Misbranded.
"Under tbe original pure food and
drug act we could not reach them
effectively, but the Sherley measure
remedied this defect, and now we are
bringing proserutions regularly. The
Sherley measure provides that a
manufacturer may not claim for his
medicine pharmaceutical properties
which it does not possess.
If he does, he is lust as much lia
ble under the law as though he had
failed to designate the presence of
poisons which the statutes say must
be noted.
"Medicine is being sent out right
now that Is advertised to contain
radium, the curative properties of
whose rays have caused a sensation
through the medical and surgical
world.
"Since there are less than two
grams of radium in the United States,
and it is valued at $120,000 a gram,
these claims are hardly plausible. We
are running down these fakers as
rapidly as possible.”
One In Ten Has Canctr.
An idea of the countless number
of persons who may be gulled by the
impostors and of the vast harm that
may result is given by the estimate
by authorities that one out of every
ten persons in the United States over
50 years of age # suffers with cancer.
Dr. Alsberg said that the proposi
tion to withdraw the Government
lands containing the radium ores
from public entry in order to estop
the formation of a "radium trust”
was not a matter that concerned his
department officially.
He and other visiting chemists
were taken through the chemical
laboratory at the Capitol Wednesday
afternoon by State Chemist R. E.
Stallings.
'Soused' Is a Good
Word, Jurist Holds
NEW YORK, Jan.' 1—"Intoxicated?
You mean soused. Soused Is a proper
word and you will find It In Web
ster.” declared Vice Chancellor
Beckes during an argument at Jersey
City In a divorce action begun by
Thomas C. Wolverton, an automobile
salesman.
Mr*. Wolverton admitted the wo r d
was proper and also stated that it
properly defined the condition in
which she found herself after a din
ner with a man who it developed was
employed by her husband.
HARRIS COUNTIAN BURIED.
COLUMBUS, Jam 1.—The funerd
of John B. Mobley, a well-known citi
zen of Harris County, who died
Tuesday night at his home in Hamil
ton. took place to-day. He was a
brother of County Commissioner
Mobley, of Harris County.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia — Partly cloudy
Thursday; cloudy and warmer
Friday.
Kills Innocent Negro,
75, Picking Up Wood
LINCOLN. ILL. J*n. 1.—While col
lecting wood in an alley. Alex Kirkman,
aged 75, an inoffensive negro of Atlanta.
111., was shot and instantly kiHed to-day
by Policeman Swearingen, who mistook
him for a burglar An io*«**i will be
held to-morrow.
Yale Will Appeal in
$700,000 Legacy Loss
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Jan. 1
Yale University was adjudged not
entitled to a legacy of $700,000 by
Judge Gilson in the Probate Court,
ruling in favor of Mrs. Louise Thorn-
dyke Goodno, of Pasadena, Cal.
The money was devised by Mrs.
Henry O. Hotchkiss, who died last
year in Madison. Most of it had been
accumulated by Mrs. Hotchkiss in
fortunate investment*, for she start
ed in 1883 with $270,000. The univer-
srity will appeal.
New York Said Now
To Be Biggest City
NEW’ YORK, Jan. 1.—Greater New
York now’ leads the world in point of
population, according to statistics
completed to-day by Dr. W. H. Guil-
foy, of the Board of Health. Hi*
figures give Greater New York a pop
ulation of 5,476,966 at the present
time.
The population of London Coun y
and city on July 1, 1913, w’as 4.518,191.
The London suburbs have a j/opula-
tion estimated at 800,000. making the
total population of London 5,318,191.
He Plays inN. Y.for
Augusta Wedding
NEW YORK. Jan. 1.—Wedding music
for a marriage several hundred miles
away was played last night in the First
Presbyterian Church, Fifth avenue and
Twelfth street, by the organist. Dr. Wil
liam C. Carl.
In Augusta, Ga Miss Mary Virginia
Saxon, of that city, and John D Hash -
sgen. of Holland, ware being married.
Macon Chief Raids
Woman’s Store Again
MACON, GA.. Jan. 1.—In a second
f raid upon the store of Mrs. Margaret
Flahive, on Cotton avenue, Police
Chief Riley found another barrel of
w’hisky. In seizing the first last week
the Chief had a personal encounter
with Mrs. Flahive, and knocked her
down a flight of stairs when she
pointed a pistol at him. On the oc
casion of the second raid Mr*. Flahive
was ill in bed.
Whisky was also found in a raid
upon the store of Mrs. A. E. Fryer, a
widow’ed mother of six children, who
operates a grocery in the Vineville
community.
Dr. Cook Poses as
‘American Dreyfus’
NEW YORK. Jan. 1.—When Dr.
Frederick A. Cook was out in the
Northwestern States stirring up \
postal card crusade to convince Sen
ators and Representatives that there
was a wide public demand for a Con
gressional investigation of his Polar
claims, he made much use of a cir
cular which described him as the
"American Dreyfus.’’
Settlement of Sugar
♦Trust Suit Is Denied
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1—John J.
Suter, private socretary to Attorney
General McReynolds, to-day deni* d
an agreement has been reached be
tween the Attorney General and the
American Sugar Refining Company to
settle the suit against that concern.
"The case is now in court and will
continue to be there until It is set
tled,” he said.
Shackleton to Race
Again for the Pole
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Jan. 1.- Sir Ernest H.
Shackleton, the explorer, in a letter
to The Timers, announces his intention
to lead another expedition to the
South Pole in 1914.
He will start from a South Ameri
can port w’ith the object of crossing
the south polar continent from sea to
sea. returning by way of New Zea
land,
Promise of a vote by the new
City Council at its very first
meeting on the issue of a tight or
liberal police policy was given
Thursday by Councilman-elect
Jesse B. Lee, of the Fifth Ward.
He announced that he would in
troduce a resolution requesting
the Police Commission to return
the thirty members of the “vice
squad” who have been operating
in plain clothes to uniforms.
Mr. Lee admitted that the act of
introducing such an ordinance as his
first official act was somewhat bold,
in view of the controversy that has
been raging for the past several day*
between a group of well-known busi
ness men led by Colonel Frederic J.
Paxon and Forrest Adair on one side,
and the Men and Religion Forward
Movement and Police Chief Beavers
on the other.
But he said he was heartily in
sympathy with Colonel Paxon and
Ml*. Adair, and he felt It his duty to*
bring out an official expression from
the Council.
Indorsed by Mayor.
The resolution already has been in
dorsed by Mayor Woodward and a
number of Councilmeb. There is as
surance that the new Council Po
lice Committee to be appointed by
the Mayor will be liberal. A ma
jority of the Police Commission is
openly out of sympathy with the
propaganda of the Men and Religion
Forward Movement and the radical
views of Chief Beavers. While tho
other officials are holding back in
diffidenc e’from definite action, Coun
cilman-elect Lee declares he is un
afraid to start the movement to
crystallize the sentiment among of
ficials as has recently been done
among business men.
Many declare that the majority of
the Council will have switched from
Beavers’ sympathizers to an opposing
point of view when the body is re
organized. Many slates have been
made by would-be experts, and the
majority is given to the advocates of
a more liberal police policy.
Whether the members can be made
to publicly declare their positions is
another question. Most of the mem
bers have done all in their power to
avoid taking sides even when it was
known that a majority would sup
port Chief Beavers if the matter
came to an acute issue.
It is probable that the sentiment
to remain in silence will be equally
strong Monday, and Counci lman-
elect Lee’s resolution may suffer the
ignominious fate of being referred to
the Police Commission without com
ment.
Council Vote Would Be Important.
The new official might suffer the
blunt snub of having his resolution
tabled without the expression of a
single opinion on it—a majority of
Council can shut off all debate.
Nevertheless, "The Lone Citizen” de
clares he is game to test the issue.
Though Couhcil has no direct con
trol over the Police Department, an
official voicing of its opinion on this
issue would be very important. Re-
elections to the Police Commission,
which does control the department,
are to be made by Council. Strong
efforts are being made to reorganize
the commission along more liberal
line$.
If Council should vote on the Lee
resolution, all doubt as to how the
elections for the new terms begin
ning next Maj'ch would be removed.
Mass Meeting Plan
Likely Wil Be Dropped.
With Colonel Frederic J. Paxon
opposed to the idea of a mass meet
ing to protest against the bulletins
and propaganda of the Men and Re
ligion Forward Movement, indications
Thursday were that the conference
of business men which will be engi-
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