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VOL. XII. NO. 132.
ATLANTA, <!A„ FRIDAY, JANUARY 2. 1914.
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CRIPPLED BY LACK OF FUNDS, SAYS LANFORD
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Parcel Post Burglars Caught
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TEACHERS’ RAISE IN PAY HELD UP
SEEKS SLAVERY CASE
AGAINST WIFE'S FRIEND
Firemen and Policemen Get In
crease January 1, but Tutors
Not Until September.
Atlanta's public school teachers
Friday planned to make a vigorous
protest to the City Council because
the salary raises they anticipated
will not be forthcoming.
With the New Year spirit at its
i *iffhth they were awakened to the
sad realization that the salary in
crease act passed by Council last
month will not effect their pay until
September 1, while firemen and po
licemen went under the new wage
scale January 1.
An additional protest comes from
the principals of the schools. Only
(he grammar school teachers and as-
si>'ant principals were included in
the ordinance providing the increases.
A delegation of the best known prin
cipals in the city has already called
on Mayor Woodward to know why
they were ignored.
Protest Is^General.
All the teachers understood that
the raises were to go into effect Jan
uary 1. Since it has been learned
that Council has postponed indul
ging in its generous spirit, so far as
the teachers are concerned, for al
most a year, all the teachers are ex
pected to join together in petitioning
the Finance Committee to make
raises for all effective at once.
City Hall officials were loath to
talk much about* the fact that the
teachers are bitterly disappointed be
cause they did not get their New Year
gots, especially since practically all
the teachers are women.
The reason given is that the etach-
are elected for specified terms,
and that it would not be business
like to make raises until the beginning
"f the new term next September.
New Wage Scales.
The firemen and policemen are
el<. led to service during good be
havior under the civil service rules;
therefore their raises go into effect
st once.
The present wage scale of the
Grammar school teachers begins at
50 per month and runs to about
The new wage scale will begin
at ^65 and run to $85 Under the
few scale the assistant principals
aro to begin at $75 and within four
years get $90.
The new wage scale for the private
firemen and policemen begins at $75
a month and the fourth year reaches
Marriage Set for
Spring, Couple Wed,
Surprising Friends
A picture show, a supper at the
home of mutual friends, and then—
Cupid foiled Father Time Thurs
day night when Miss Ada M. Donald
son, daughter of Thomas J. Donald
son. Superintendent of Public Works.
No. 910 Peachtree street, was mar
ried to Felix G. Bryan, connected with
the real estate firm of Forrest &
George Adair, t the residence of G.
W. Nollev, in West End.
While the couple had been en
gaged for several months, the mar
riage had been planned for next
spring. Therefore their friends Fri
day morning were surprised to lea *n
of the event. The Rev. John F. Pen-
ser officiated.
Youth Is Held on
Charge of Forgery
For giving a check returned as
worthless as part payment on a pair
of $80 earrings, which he pawned for
$22, then trying to sell the pawn tick
et for $5, Lewis H. Thompson, a
youth residing in Battle Hill, was ar
rested Friday morning.
The earrings were purchased from
the Banta-Cole Jewelry Company, to
whom Thompson gave a $20 check. It
Is said he represented himself as an
engineer. Thompson was formerly a
clerk in the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic Railroad offices
POSTOFFICE
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Slaton Frees Negro
Who Served 23 Years
Removed, She Refuses to Give
Place to Successor—Takes
Plot Charge to Wilson.
GENEVA, ALA., Jan. 2.—Declar
ing that the Democratic party has no
right to “wage political war on the
disfranchised sex” in removing her
from the postmastership here, to
make way for a male Democrat. Mrs.
Ida O. Tillman has addressed an ap
peal to President Wilson at Pays
Christian and refuses to surrender
her commission to YV. K. Kenan, her
successor
The militant postmistress declared
to-day that the Government would
have to use force to oust her.
‘This whole thing is a political
plot,” she declare^ and 1 a*» jJAMng
to camp right here. I have a right to
fill out my term.”
M«a. Tillman has had a cot moved
into her office and eats all her meals
there.
Alleged irregularities in the con
duct of her office were found by an
inspector some time ago.
Her term will expire in December.
She is the daughter of a Confederate
who fell at Peachtree Cri-ek.
Rid City Streets of
Billboard Fences,
Is Plan of Mayor
Mayor Woodward Friday gained
another point in his fight to rid At
lanta’s busy streets of obstructions,
when, under orders from the County
Commissioners, work was begun
tearing down the fence around the
new courthouse.
For several days the County Com
missioners were in the attitude of de
fiance of city ordinances and of the
Mayor and Council. Mayor Wood
ward threatened to have the fence re
moved by city employees
The reluctance of the County Com
missioners to take down the fence
was occasioned because of billboard
advertising contracts running to the
first of the year. The situation is ex
pected to result in a serious blow to
billboard advertising agencies, for
friends of the Mayor In Council are
planning to introduce an ordinance
prohibiting the use of fences in the
streets for advertising purposes.
Mrs. Clifford
Talbot and her
two little
daughters. The
husband plans
Governor Slaton Friday paroled j
Charles Leak, a negro sent up from i Easy to Remove
Brooks County 23 wears ago for mur- JJgj* SciyS Roper
Leak has been during all of that
time an exemplary prisoner is now 49
years old, and has claimed all along
complete innocence of the crime o f
which he was accused. He was con
victed on circumstantial evidence, and
no witness used at the original trial
is alive to-day.
'Buffalo Bill’ Aids
Bailey Will Case
NFYY YORK. Jan. 2.—Testimony of
( clone! W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)
concerning his relations with the late
1 A Bailey, circus king, which was
,a ^ en in Denver, was filed at White
J'ains, to be used at the trial of the
'nil contest over Bailey’s estate
‘Orth $1,000,000.
Corset Saves Woman
Hit by Stray Bullet
HICAGO, Jan. 2.—A stray bullet
“nt through a window, struck Airs.
. f ‘ ny Sefferan and knocked her down,
j n examination showed that the bul-
>l iad struck a steel corset stay.
* inved off and was imbedded in the
Mitchell Ends Active
Work for Union Labor
LANSING MICH., Jan. 2.—John
Mitchell, formerly president of the
j United Mine Workers of America and
later vice president of the American
Federation of Labor, to-day announced
that he had retired from active work-
in the interest of organized labor. His
term as an officer of the A. F. of L.
ended yesterday.
“I will not cease working in the in
terest of labor,” said the former miners’
leader, “but I will devote my time chief
ly to writing for the cause.”
Rockefeller Buys
Widow’s Tiny Plot
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—John D.
Rockefeller has just purchased a
piece of property practically sur
rounded by his estate in the Pocan-
tlco Hills.
The two-acre plot was owned bv
Mrs. 'Jennie Powell, a widow, and
her daughter. She could not sell un
til the daughter became of age. Mr.
Rockefeller paid {3,500 an acre for it.
Vedrines to Make
Flight Across U. S.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2.—"If Mrs. Ida
O. Tillman continues to camp in the
postoffice at Geneva. Ala., and refuses
to surrender her job as postmaster, from
which position she has been dismissed,
it will be simple to remove her by law,”
declared First Assistant Postmaster
General Roper to-day.
“The matter of taking possession of
the postoffice now is in the hands of
W. K. Kenan, who lias been appointed
to succeed Mrs. Tillman. When he re
ceives his commission signed by the
President authorizing him to take
charge of tke office. 1 think Mrs. Till
man will surrender. If she does not,
Kenan then will appeal to me. and I will
see that the postmaster is put in pos
session of the office.”
Mr. Roper said that the investigation
last September showed that a woman
clerk employed at a salary of $360 a
year had been performing practically
all the duties of the postoffice, assisted
by a 16 -war-old boy. who never bad
taken the^eath of office, and that this
dereliction of duty alone on the part of
Mrs. Tillman was sufficient justification
for her dismissal when she refused to
resign.
Italy Holds Baggage
Of U. S. Girl Singer
Accused as a Spy
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
p<v.u k, Jan 2 -Despite the dec
laration of the Italian Government
that it has no evidence against Miss
•Dorothy Mac Vane, the American girl
trailed as a spy at Taranto, and that
there was no foundation for the
charge that she was guilty of espion
age. her relatives here were alarmed
to-day when they heard that all the
singer’s baggage had been seized.
This news was accompanied by ad
vices that the young woman had been
threatened with violence by excitable
Italians who took her for a French
spy.
Edith MacVane, the author, seni
her sister money to-day and told hef
to buy her way to safety if necessary.
32 Degrees Below
Zero Felt in Maine
PORTLAND. MAINE Jan. 2.—The
first really cold weather of the pres
ent winter in Maine was experienced
to-day with the mercury in this city
falling to 6 degrees above z^ro, while
32 below' at Caribou and 25 below at
Houlton were reported
MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.. Jan 2.—The
coldest weather of the winter is pre
vailing in Orange County. The ther
mometer registered 15 degrees below
zero to-day.
CAIRO, Jan 2.—Vedrines. French
aviator, said that after resting in
Cairo he will contiue his flight via
Jerusalem. Beirut, Aleppo, Bagdad.
Bombay. Calcutta Singapore 3n4
Australia.
Then he will cross the Pacific by
steamer and fly across the United
States.
Fishermen Capture
Seal Near New York
N 'EW YORK. Jan. 2.—John
fi^nck and John Belford. fishermen,
j.; 5 Mured a live seal in Gravesend
It is jhe first time in years a
‘■•a^caught in this vicinity.
Denmark to Exhibit
At Panama Fair
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK. Jan.
2.—Denmark is to take a prominent
place at the Panama-Pacific Exposi
tion at San Francisco in both the art
and agricultural departments.
Girl Lost 18 Months
Found in Gypsy Camp
OMAHA, NEBR.. Jan. 2.—The na
tion-wide .icarch for Lynka Thomas,
aged 12 who disappeared from her
home in Sacramento, Cal., eighteen
months ago. ended to-day when the
girl was rescued from a gypsy camp
near here. Her kidnapers were ar
rested. The girl was given to her
uncle. Jonathan Anthanasso, and he
will take her home.
The rescue of the girl was brought
about through a quaYrel in the camp,
which resulted Jn one of the gypsy's
wiring to one of the girl’s relatives
telling where she was.
Grief at Son's Crimes
Drives Her to Suicide
PITTSBURG, Jan. 2.—Frenzied, it
is said, by reflecting on the deeds of
her son. Mrs Katriifa Rowoski, o #
New r Homestead, mother of Henry
Rowoski. slayer of two men and a
woman, ended her life by Jumping n
front of a train to-day.
She was killed near the spot where
she is said to have met her fugitive
son yesterday and given him money
and clothing.
Mine Layer Ashore,
Five Britons Drown
STETTIN. GERMANY. Jan 2.—
Five Englishmen were drowned off
the island of Bornholm in the North
Sea to-day when a Russian mine lay
er went ashore.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Rain Friday night;
Saturday fair and colder in
west; rain in east portion.
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Georgian and
American
‘WANT ADS”
START THINGS
They Start Sales and Profits
To get the latter start the
former by starting to use
the “Want Ad” columns
and Real Estate Section of
Hearst’s Sunday American
and Daily Georgian
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Every ‘Want Ad’ an
OPPORTUNITY
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erv of more than $500 worth of goods
stolen from the United States mail*.
The negroes are: Will Tucker. No.
189 East Gain street; Tom Bohannon.
No. 245 Butler street; James Gresn-
am. No. 7 Graven street, and Eugene
Jones, No 106 Markham street.
For several weeks there has beer*
an unaccountable shortage of pack
ages from the parcel post, both com
ing into ami going out of Atlanta.
1. G. Hart, superintendent of mails,
and J. W. Adamson, postoffice in
spector, were detailed on the case and
gradually narrowed the loss to the
link at the Union depot.
Then Detectives Starnes and Camp
bell, of the city force, were called in.
and New Year’s Eve Eugene Jones
wa» arrested, leaving the depot with
a suit case full of plunder. No men
tion was made of the capture until
the other three employees were
rounded up. Then a search revealed
$500 worth of stolen property.
The four negroes were not in the
postal service. They were porters
employed by the railroads, their dutiee
consisting largely of transferring the
incoming parrel post lrom mall cars
to trucks, and the outgoing packages
from trucks to the various mail cars
Their plan of theft was simple.
Packages that looked "valuable” were
“sneaked" from the loaded trucks anti
concealed, one or two at a time, in the
capacious pockets or breasts of over
alls.
Clifford Talbot Will Settle Here Ml’S, Sam'l Inman's
and start Court Fight for Mother Dies While
Two children. q u yj s ft j n Atlanta
Alfred L. Talbot, the traveling min
whose wife, Mrs. Clifford Talbot, and
George E. Sawyer, a traveling sales
man from Boston, were placed under
bond by Recorder Broyles following
their alleged sensational escapade in
the Piedmont Hotel, Friday started a
Federal investigation of the past 'con
duct of the couple.
The husband held a lengthy confer
ence with United States District At
torney Hooper Alexander and asked
for the probe to ascertain whether
Sawyer had violated the Mann white
slave act in various clandestine trips
he and Mrs. Talbot are accused of
making together.
Talbot declared Sawyer and Mrs.
Talbot attended the inauguration cer
emonies In Washington, and that they
also have visited Chattanooga and
Savannah.
Talbot asserted that he would do
all in his power to punish the Boron
man and avenge the wrecking of hist
home.
Sues for Divorce.
Suit for divorce was filed against
Mrs. Talbot in the Atlanta Superior
Court Friday morning. Talbot also
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I
Mrs A. M. McPheeters. mother of
Mrs. Samuel Inman, and well known in
Atlanta, died at the residence of her
daughter, No. 552 Peachtree street, Fri
day, on her 74th birthday.
Mrs. McPheeters’ home was in Ral
eigh, N. C. She had come to Atlanta
two days ago to spend New Year’s with
Mrs Inman For some time her health
had been failing
Besides Mrs. Inman, she is survived
by two other daughters, Misses Susan
and Margaret McPheeters. of Raleigh,
and three sons, Messrs. Alex M. Mc
Pheeters, of Raleigh; Samuel B. of St.
Louis, and William L.. of Ixmisville.
I The body will be taken to Raleigh
] Friday night for funeral and interment.
Chief’s Report Gives Impression
Crime Is Not on Decrease
in Atlanta.
Laek of the proper appropria
tion by the City Council for the
prosecution of ils work was
ascribed by Chief of Detectives
Lanford as the reason for inade
quate police protection of Atlan
ta when the head of the detective
department made his annual re
port to Chief Beavers Friday.
Chief Lanford. in his report,
showed that there had been a de
crease in arrests by his department
and declared the deficiency had re
sulted not from a decrease of crime,
but for lack of funds for the use of
his sleuths in catching the culprits.
His figures showed that but
blind tiger cases had been made ia
1913 as compared with 277 for the
preceding year.
“This does not mean,” the Chief
declared, “that here are not as many
blind tigers In Atlanta now as before.
It simply means that our men have
.not had sufficient money to procure
evidence against the dives.”
Despite this shortage, how'ever. the
report showed that the sleuths he'd
recovered $46,877.11 in stolen proper
ty, and that of 2,032 cases made 1,124
convictions had resulted.
The report declared that but $150
had been appropriated by Council f r
the detective department in the get
ting of evidence and other similar
work last year. An urgent request Is
made that this amount be raised •a
$500 for the present year.
Chief Lanford’s report will he in
corporated into that being compiled
by Chief of Police Reavers for sub
mission to the Police Board.
Sulzer Probe Nets
Prison Terms for 2
Tammany Grafters
NEW CITY, N Y.. Jan. 2. Prison
term and fines were meted out. here to
day as a result of convictions for high
way grafting in Rockland County. Jus
tice Tompkins imposed the following
penalties:
Bart Dunn. Tammany leader. ten
months in the penitentiary and $50*
fine; J. J. Fogarty, foreman of laborers
in the highway department, ten months
in the penitentiary; Dunbar Contract
ing Company, $500 fine.
The convictions of the t>’o men and
the Dunbar Company was the outcome
of reeviations made by the investigation
of John A. Hennessy, ex-Governor Sul*
zer's special prober.
Strike Settlement
Eliminates Moyer.
CALUMET, MICH.. Jan. 2.—Paste
will be restored in the Calumet Cop
per mining country before to-morrow
night, according to the belief of John
B. Densmore. representative of the
Federal Department of I,abor, who is
here trying to bring the striking min
ers and operatives together.
I The peace plan which Densmore
said will be adopted will eliminate
the Western Federation of Miners,
and the men will return lo work un
der an agreement t'nal will recognise
a local union not affiliated in any
way with the organization of which
Charles H. Moyer is president
Runaway Porker
Meets Just Fate
NORTH FIELD. N. J.. Jan. 2. -Ed
ward Heliums' 400-pound pig ran
away and became wedged under a
concrete bridge. After two hours,
enough of the bridge was removed to
release the pig, which ran away again.
The fugitive finally ran Into an auto
mobile and fell with two broken legs.
Hollum then killed it.
Pasteur Treatment
For Boy Bitten by Dop;
VI DALI A, Jan. 2.—Pasteur serum
has been received here from Atlanta
for little Edwin Shadrick. who was
bitten by a dog Tuesday. The dog
was killed and the head sent to At
lanta for examination. The State
health authorities reported pro
nounced symptoms of rabies.
The boy is the son of J. E S 5 ** -
drick, forenMun at a pianfng mill her*