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VOL. 11. NO. 16.
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Man, Angered by Being Called
Coward by Governor, Mounts
Platform at Rally and Makes
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Motion as if to Shoot Speaker.
Sheriff and Deputies Restrain
Disturber and Are Beaten by
the Spectators — Meeting at
Greeenville Ends in Near-Riot.
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GREENVILLE, S. C, July 18—
*You ate a liar and a —!"
With a hot epithet, James W. Nor
wood, president of the Norwood Bank,
broke through a gate onto the stage
during Governor Cole L. Blease's
speech at the Senatorial campalign |
meeting in the City Park here this
afternoon,sput his right hand over his
left breast under his coat and at
tempted to get to the Chieft~Executive.
The incident, which looked as if it
would result in a killing, was brought
ahout by the Governor’s reply to a
question which Narwood had asked
him regarding a statement by a Co
lumbia physician printed in a Colum
bia newspaper relative to a convict
paroled by the Governor about two
years ago. The Governor had replied
to Norwood as follows:
“When 1 talk about a man, {t is in
his own town. When 1 get to Colum
bia, I expect to request Dr. Mcln
tosh to take a seat on the stand and
answer him like one gentleman to an
other; not as a coward like you.”
Seven Men Hold Citizen.
When the Chief Executive had com
pleted his answer, Mr. Norwood broke
through the gate at the head of the
steps and made toward him. Bheriff
Hendrix Rector, of Greenville County;
geveral deputies and policemen rushed
to Norwood and restrained him. It
took the efforts of seven men to keep
the angry man from reaching the
Governor, who was standing about 30
feet away on the extreme end of the‘
stand. |
As soon as trouble appeared immi
nent State Detective Hammond and
several men surrounded the Governor
to protect him. Norwood continued
to struggle, and it seemed for a time
that he would break away from the
grasp of his captors.
In the meantime a crowd of specta
tors, mostly cotton mill operatives,
crowded around the stand, and, with
excited shouts, tried to get to Nor
wood. Eventually, Norwood was
pushed down into the crowd, still
fighting.
Mob Fights Fiercely.
The mob closed around him and it
was difficult to ascertain what was
happening in the melee. Many in the
ecrowd pummeled Norwood about the
head. and it seemed for & time that
the speaking would end in a general
riot. When the struggling mass had
fought its way several hundred feet
from the stand, the friends of Nor
wood got to him and led him off.
Norwood was not injured, it 1s said,
but several members of the crowd, in
cluding Sheriff Rector, received
bruises about the face.
After the noise had somewhat sub
sided, Governor Blease continued nis
speeches of two other Senatorial can
left the park with him before Lhe
speeches of two other eSnatorial can
didates were begun. The audience
numbered about 3,600 persons, the
largest thus far of the campaign.
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Two Candidates to
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Hold Meetings Here
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Candidates “Nat” Harris and Ran
dolph Anderson have called meetings
of their friends in Atlanta Monday
for the purpose of booming their re
spective campaigns.
Candidate Harris' friends will meet
in the baliroom of the Piedmont on
Monday night at 8 o'clock, and Can
didate Anderson’s friends will meet
Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock in
room 208, Kimball House.
Both candidates are expecting their
supporters from all over Georgia to
attend these meeting and many fea
tures of the fight between them are
expected to be arranged then,
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Wilson Is Blamed
For All Bloodshed
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Of the Mexican War
Moheno, Former Huerta Alde, Says
He Is Going to Publish Book
“Proving Crime” Against Pres,
WASHINGTON, July 18.—" Every
drop of blood shed on a Mexican bat
tlefield during the past seventeen
months in the engagements between
the Federal and Constitutionalist
troopsi s upon President Wilson's
head.”
This was the dramatic statement
made by Querido Moheno, former
Secretary of Forein Affairs in Huer
ta’'s Cabinet, as he passed through
Washington to-day.
“There would have been no revolu
tion in Mexico if it had not been for
President Wilson’s refusal to recog
nize Huerta and his open attach
ment to the Constitutionalist cause,”
excitedly continued Moheno,
“I am going to publish a book with
in the next twenty days proving that
the greatest crime against the com
ity of nations ever committed was
President Wilson's treacherous deal
ings with the Mexican nation.”
Hall County to Hold
First Whig; Hanging
GAINESVILLE, July 18.—Unless
executive clemency is extended
James and Bartow Cantrell, convict
ed murderers of William Hawkins,
%he most unusual hanging in the
history of Hall Ccunty will take place
next Friday. There appears small
chance, from Governor Slaton's at
tifude, of interference with the exe
cution.
In the early history of the county
an Tlndian was hanged here, and
three nbgroes have been hanged
since then, the last one two years
ago. There has never been a white
man hanged in the county.
The Cantrell boys were convicted
of the murder of Hawkins at the
July term of Hall Superior Court a
year ago, after the most sensational
trial in the history of the county.
Mrs. Sylvia Hawkins, wife of the
murdered man, was also convicted,
but with recommendation, and she is
now serving a life sentence.
Ad Men Plan Much
Fun at Annual Feast
“Free drinks, free _eats, free
smokes” is the alluring declaration
which tops the announcement of the
“big blowout and annual meeting” of
the Ad Men's Club of Atlanta, to be
held Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock
at the Winecoff Hotel, which lately
has passed into control of Jack Let
ton, friend and accomplice of the Ad
Men.
St. Elmo Massengale and Willlam
F. Parkhurst will tell about the To
ronto convention. ©Officers for next
vear will be elected. The announce
ment, concluding with the invitation
to members to “Come, feed your face
and have a good time,” was sent out
Saturday by E. H. Goodhart, presi
dent; Howard Geldert, secretary, and
Julian V. Boehm, chairman of the
new stunts committee.
Man Held at Douglas
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As Alabama Slayer
DOUGLAS, July 18—Deputy Sher- \
iffs Furney and Shaw arrested a white ‘
man here this afternoon who gives
his name as Ernest Quinn, but the
authorities are of the opinion he is
Walter Quinn, wanted at Grove Hill,
Clark County, Alabama, for the mur
der of a white man named Strickland
in that county last February.
The man under suspicion here
ciosely resembles the description of
the slayer, and officials believe he is
faking the name of Ernest Quinn.
He says he is a brother of the man
wanted, Alabama officers have been
notified and are on their way here to'
investigate.
W.E. Carter Company
Opens New Quarters
New quarters of the W. E. Carter
‘Electrlc Company were opened for
‘business Saturday at No. 70 Broad
‘street. The former location of the
company was No. 12 Walton street.
By the move the concern has more
than quadrupled its floor space, hav
ing engaged three full floors.
Work in preparation of the new
quarters has been in progress §Pr
some time, so that the display win
dows, the commercial, “exhibition and
sales departments are all adequately
housed. Several new features have
been added to the service in retail
and contracting departments.
| AD. HOWARD VERY ILL.
A. D. Howard, formerly chief en
gineer of the Fulton County Jail, is
Isermusly ill at No. 21 East Linden
street. Mr. Howard is well and fa
l\orably known, having a large circle
of friends, being a member of many
secret orders and a Scottish Rite Ma
son.
(Copyright, 1913, by
The &orm Company
[ABUHILLS!
W. W, Tindall of Children’s Court
Declares Parents Are to Blame
When Tots Show Preference
for Work in Badly Kept Mills.
Greed for Gold Scored as Incen
tive for Toleration of Evil—Ju
venile Authority Pleads for Ed
ucation and Equal Opportunity.
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“The enactment of the Sheppard
child labor hill is going to mean more
to the children of Georgia than any
one who is not actually in contact
with the conditions that exist would
ever imagine,” is the statement of
Judge William W, Tindall, of the At
lanta, Children’s Court. “If the Leg
isiature this year enacts no other
general law but this and passes it
without damaging amendments, it
will have done a service that will
write its name into history.
“More than 90 per cent of the chil
dren who come into the Children’s
Court have left school to seek em
ployment. At first I thought indiffer
ence of the parents was largely to
Llame, but we have found, after more
careful study, that greed for thelr
earnings was the important cause.
Greed for Gold is Cause.
“At the root of mearly all the in
difference of parents to keeping their
childrep in school or giving them
proper home care is the desire to get
scme financial return from them.
Take away this and you have stfuck
at the heart of the evils that are
causing so much ignorance and juve
nile crime and immorality. !
“No surer way could be .found of
insuring that children have some ed
ucation and attend school before they
go to work than to make their oppor
tunity for employment dependent up
on this, as the Sheppard bill does. The
parents who expect to put their chil
dren to work as soon as they reach 14
will see to it that they have com
pleted by that time the minimum of
schooling required.
Boys Miss Opportunities.
“The \\Qrklng boys who come into
this court are rarely in touch with
any of the profitable things of life.
They have scorned the school to be
come wage-earners. They have no
ccnnection with churches. They never
use libraries nor any of the other
agencies provided for their education
and uplift. All they know and think
of is the coarse associations they have
formed at their work.
“Many complaints have been made
‘to me about mill children, and re
quests made that 1 do something to‘
punish them for thieving, immorality,
or other petty crimes, but I have
'given it up as hopeless to try to do
)un,\'thing to cure symptoms while the
cause itself remains untouched.
State Owes Protection.
“1 have kept hands off, and hoped
that the evils would fester to the
point where the public would wake
up to the horror and injustice of let
|ting the lives of children be ruined
|b_v long hours of monotonous labor,
|th6=n blaming the children for immor
ality and crime as they grow older. |
| “The State owes these children pro
tection first of all, and if it doesn’t
'gi\'e them this, then the State has lit
tle right to expect much of them.
Day after day, they work many hours,
without recreation, except on Satur
day afternoon. Then they huddle to
gether lika tiréd mules, without know
ing what to do to counteract the
dullness of the week. It is little won
’der that they so often turn to base
sexual pleasures as the only source of
excitement and relief.
Sheppard Bill s Remedy.
“To talk of making vagrants by a
Jaw regulating the employment of
children under 14 is absurd. Children
of this age are not vagrants. This
law will merely give them an oppor
tunity to develop. The schools, the
recreation facilities, innumerable
agencies already exist from which
the ¢hildren may benefit if they have
a chance. If thé compelling incen
tive to get the wages that the child
may bring home i§ taken away, it will
not be long before the children will
flock 1o these agencies. The attitude
of the parent toward the child will be
changed. AS it is now, the parents
are not ‘to be censured, but soclety is,
bLecause it lets them work.
“By all means, no exemptions
should be made to the law. The last
thing which a community - should
think of doing should be to let the
| burden of supporting a widow be put
upon children under i 4. An exemp
tion for widows would simply be a
lcophole for running in whole fami
lies.”
ATLANTA,: GA., SUNDAY, 19, 1914,
‘Whisky Sundaes’ to
Beat State Dry Law
Topers Order “the Same” at Drug
Stores in West Virginia—
Get Liquor.
WHEELING, W. VA, July 18—
YWhisky sundaes are the latest inno
vations in_some progressive drug
stores of West Virginia. Known lov
ers of liquor are seen eating ica
¢ream frequently in certain drug
stores. The method, it is said, is to
wink at the drug clerk and order “the
same."” :
Instead of the usual syrup, whisky
Is the dressing. The new sundaes re
semble eggnong, and are filling a long
felt want in sections of arid West
Virginia.
Missing Son Fou
g ound
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By Vera Cruz Picture
| PANA, ILL., July 18.—A naval piec
ture of men loading rifles on the battle
ship Florida, at Vera Cruz, Mexico,
which was published in a local newu-‘
paper, has resulted in the location of
Walter W. Rench by his parents, afterl
he had been missing for more than five
vears.
Mr. and Mrs. Rench took up cm’-;
respondence with the Navy Department
iand officials are now in correspondence
}with officers of the Florida in, Vera
‘sz Harbor, in an effort to bring par
ents and on together once more. When
.he enlisted Rench gave an assumed
name,
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Woman Convict Costs
State $6OO a Month
OSSINING,' N. Y., July 18.—Three
women attendants and three male
guards are provided by the.State for
Mrs. Modeline Perrola, of the Bronx,
tha convicted murderess, who oecu
pies the room (n Sing Sing Prison
once’ occupied by former Principal
Keeper Connaughton, which over
looks the cellhouse. She costs the
State $6OO a month.
One of the women is a cook. The
other two women are instructing
Mrs. Pertola in English and teaching
her the alphabet.
$30,000 Yacht Won
By Toss of a Dime
DETROIT, July 18.—John F. Dodge
and Horace B, Dodge, milionaires, were
joint owners of the $30,000 yacht Hornel
until the other day, when they were
crossing ‘Lake Erie on her. Horace
Dodge recently built a new yacht cost
ing nearly a quarter of a million, but
he did not proposée to give the Hornel
away. 4
The brothers discussed for some time
the amount John should pay for his
brothers’ interest. Presently Horace
gaid: “Let’s toss a coin, the winngr
to take the boat.” John won.
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Dentists Are Nearer
Real Painless Chair
ROCHESTER, July 18.—Extraction
and treatment of teeth without the
slightest pain is the goal sought by
American dentists. At the free clin
fcs held in connection with the eight
enth annual convention of the Amer
jcan Dental Association progress
along this line has been demonstrated,
experts using a mixtuge of gas and
oxygen, which deadens all pain whiie
leaving the patient wholly conscious.
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‘ ing Are Born in
Twins Are Bor
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Different Months
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, OHIO, July 18.
Twins were born to Mrs. Louis Bos
ton on different days and in different
months. A girl baby arrived shortly
before midnight, Tuesday, June 30. A
few minutes after 12, on the morning
of July 1, a sister came.
Inquiry to-day at the Boston home
revealed that the two Misses Boston
lshow promise of long, vociferous
lives.
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Cigarettes Barred
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From Harvest Fields
OBERLIN. KANS., July 18.—Cigarette
smokers found no haven on: the big|
farm of George Ames, near Oberlin. He
says: ‘
“The man who spends half his time
rolling. cigarettes and the other half
smoking and expects to draw $3 a day
will be summarily kicked out. We want
real men in harvest, and will' pay all
they are worth. We wiil take no chances
on having our entire crop burned up by
careless help.”
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Forest Fire Started
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By Cigarette Stub
BANNING, July 18.—Afier an all-day
fight, forest fire recruits finally put un
der control @ blaze near Cabazan at the
toot of Mt. San Jacinto. The fire start
ed in the dry brush from a cigaretté
stub and burned flercely for 24 hours,
threatening the water supply.of the
‘Banning Indian réservation, ‘
World’s Grandest Monument
Waiting in Touch of Us for
-the Confederate Dead
0 the veterans of the dead Confederacy,
I .to the daughters and sons, and to all
who revere the memories of that his
toric and immortal struggle, I bring to-day
the suggestion of a great memorial, perfectly
simple, perfectly feasible, and which if real
ized will give to the Confederate soldier and
his memories the most majestic monument,
set in the most magnificent frame in all the
world.
It is a wonder that it has not been sug
gested and realized many years ago. Just
now while the loyal devotion of this great
people of the South is considering a general
and endearing monument to the great cause
‘‘fought without shame and lost without dis-
Honor,”’ it seems to me that nature and
providence have set the immortal shrine
right at our doors, aiid that we have only to
open our eyes to see it, and our hearts and
hands to make it wonderful.
I will not build up to the proposition. I
will state it briefly—bluntly—directly. It
will speak for itself—more eloquently than
words can speak.
Stone Mountain is distinctly one of the
wonders of the world. Its glories have never
been fully appreciated or utilized by the peo
ple who see it every day. It is a mountain of
solid granite one mile from its summit to its
base. Much of Atlanta has been builded
from it, and there is enough left to build ten
more Atlantas without touching the lofty
spot that is nearest to the sun.
On the steep side of Stone Mountain, fac
ing southward and the Georgia Railread,
there is almost a gheer declivity that rises or
falls from 900 to 1,000 feet.
Here, then, is Nature's matchless plan for
us. On this steep sigle let those who love the
Southern dead cow.to have the engineer
cut a projection 30 feet wide and 100 feet
deep. From this projection and as high as it
may be made let us ask Lorado Taft, the re
public’s greatest sculptor, to chisel a heroic
statue, 70 feet high, of the Confederate sol
dier in the nearest possible resemblance to
Robert E. Lee. Let him chisel the insignia of
the Confederate uniform, of which the gray
stone is the natural base.
. And there—twelve hundred feet above the
plain—let us place with old gray granite hat
upon that noble head, with its grand eyes
turned toward Atlanta—Phoebus and Phoe
nix—holocaust and miracle of the Civil War
—from this Godlike eminence, let Confeder
ate hero calmly look history and the future
in the face.
Shut your eyes and think of it. It will
grow upon you until the glow and glory of
the idea will keep you awake at night—as it
did Forrest Adair and General Andrew West,
to whom I first confided it.
There will be no monument in all the world
like our monument to the Confederate dead.
None so majestic, none so magnificently
framed, and none that will more powerfully
attract the interest and the admiration of
those who have a soul.
The Lion of Lucerne, carved upon the
mountain rock, commemorating the courage
of the Swiss Guards and attracting the atten
tion of visitors all over the world, lies cou
chant five hundred feet lower than our Con
federate soldier’s feet. Every traveler to
Egypt from Herodotus through the Roman
Caesar, the French Napoleon, the English
Gladstone to the American Roosevelt has
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Debs Catches Train
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By Using Aeroplane
SANDUSKY, July 18.—When late this
evening, he concluded an address at
Cedar Point, where 1,000 Northern Ohio
Soclalists assembled for a rally to-day,
Eugene V. Debs, geveral times a candi
date for President of the United States,
had 11 minutes In which to catch a train
for his home at Terre Haute, Ind.
Nearly four miles of water and a mile
of land laid between him and the rail
way station. Accepting an invitation
extended by aviator Toby Jannus, who
had just pulled ashore after a flight
from Put-in-Bay, Debs got into Jan
nus’ aeroplane, and fiv»~ minutes later
was in Sandusky. !
An automobile conveyed him to the
railroad station,
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Kern Being Boomed
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For 1916 President
WASHINGTON, July 18.—Senator
John W. Kern, of Indiana, to-day de
nled knowledge that his friends were
preparing a Presidential boom for him
for 1516, Congressional enemlies of
President Wilson, whose fre has been
aroused by the dictation of the chief
execugive in legislative matters, it is ru
‘mored, have voiced their approval of
‘the Democratic Senator and are urging
ihlm to seriously consider himsell a
prospective candidate.
stood in awe beside the silent Sphinx—mas
sive and solemn—cut from the stone, and
now remaining as a monument to a departed
civilization. In far away India, a thousand
miles northeastward from Bombay and as
far westward from Calcutta, thousands go
yearly to the little city of Agra to gaze upon
the Taj Mahal, the world’s masterpiece of ar
chitecture. Rome is famous for the Coliseum,
Milan for its great Cathedral, Versailles for
the Palace, Cairo for the Pyramids, Delhi for
its Kutab-Minar, Rangoon for its Pagoda, and
Kamakura for the bronze statue of the
Buddha.
And so with this heroic statue to Robert
Lee, the flower and incarnation of the South
ern soldier and all for which he stood, chis
eled by an American architect into the tow
ering crest of the most remarkable mountain
of solid granite in the world, the little town
of Stone Mountain, nestling modestly upon.
the outer garments of the Capital of Georgia,
will hold henceforth an object of artistic, ro
mantic and sentimental interest unique
among the wonders of the age. The passing
crowd of men and women will come to see it
from all round the world. And our own
peopie day by day from every window and
housetop in Atlanta and surrounding terri
tory will look with comfort and ingpiration
upon this matchless materialization of all that
is noblest and most heroic in their history.
These are fine words, you may say, gilding
a fine idea, but is it feasible? I answer yes,
unhesitatingly, upon the authority of the en
gineers and the example of heroic architec
ture. What is to prevent the stonecutter and
the engineer from cutting that 30 by 100 pro
jection from the mountainside? What is to
rrevent Lorado Taft, on his safe and swing
ng platforms, from chiseling the great statue
there?
Is Lorado Taft the man to do the work?
It would seem so. He has cut from the stone
and concrete at Aurora, Illinois, a statue of
the American Indian whose force and mean
ing are attracting international attention. He
is molding to-day the great figures to adorn.
the Panama Exposition at San Francisco. If
he is not the best man we must and will
surely find the best man for our great com
ception here.
Will Sam Venable permit this chiseling of
his mighty granite hill? Ido not know, for
I am writing upon one of the impulses that
have been behind every good thing I ever
did, from the Grady Memorial speech to the
defense of the South at Chicago. But I do
know Sam Venable, and I make bold to say
that the brave and loyal spirit of this gallant
Georgian will not refuse the consent which
will make of his Georgia mountain more than
a Parnassus. Mr. Venable need not sell it,
and he will never miss the one granite side
that he gives to sentiment and to history.
The all-important question is what will you
do about it—you who read these skeleton
lines of suggestion, and you who love the he
roes who made the dead Confederacy?
On next Sunday The American will print
a full page drawing now being made by Henz
and Reid, giving to the eye in outline and de
tail that which I here present to the mind
and heart of the Southern people.
When that picture comes I will not be here
to follow it, but I ask that General Andrew
West and Mr. Forrest Adair and Mr. Walter
Lamar form an organization of Confederate
veterans and Confederate veterans’ sons and
Unusual Program
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For Organ Recital
One of the most attractive pro
grams of the vear is announced for
tte free organ recital at the Audito-!
rium-Armory Sunday afternocon by
Dr. Edwin Arthur Kraft, City Organ
fst. Most of the selections announced
are well known and well beloved.
The program fololws: |
A Maquaire, Allegro (from the First/|
Organ Symphony); Alfred Hollins,
Intermezzo; Richard Wagner, “To the‘
Evening Star;” F. VonFlotow, Uvr,-r-\
ture to “Stradella;” Richard \\'agner,;
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral
(from "Lohengrin:)‘; N. H, Allen, Fan
tasy on “Maryland, My Maryland”
(requested) Robert Schumann,
“Traumeri;” Camille Saint-Saens,
“The Swan.”
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Brown Speaker Hits
At Smith'and Wilson
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JACKSON, July 18.—J. F. Cowan,
of Athens, addressed a gathering of
100 voters in the interest of Joseph
M. Brown here this afternoon. A Joe
Brown Club was formed and 30 join=d.
Cowan’'s speech was an attack upon
Hoke Smith, Woodrow Wilson and
the Democratic gdministration. ‘
P A A A A A AANAN NN IR NS
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Coneists of the Following Sectlons:
I—Late News, 4—~Sports and Autos.
2—Forelgn and Do- s——E%ltorm City Life
mestic News., and EJucltronlL z
3—Soclety and News 6—Want Ads.
of the Resorts. 7-~Magazine.B--Comics
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Kissless Kiss Kisses
Wife in Peace Ki
11e m‘ E&Ge }SS
TRENTON, N. I, July 18,—The mari
tal troubles of Stephen and Laura Kiss
have been settled by a kiss, and the
couple will live together again
A year ago the wife brought sult for
divorce, and the husband notified her a
few days ago that he would rather face
anything than a court of chancery,
Then they decided to pateh up their dif
ferences.
Mrs, Kiss ieft her husband soon after
he returned from a trip to Europe. She
charged him with non-support and
cruelty.
P. G. Keeney Goes to
Hibernian Convention
P. G. Keeney, deputy clerk of the
Superior Court, will leave Atlanta
Sunday to attend the national con
vention of the Ancient Order of Hi
bernians at Norfolk, Va, after which
he will visit New York, returning by
way of Savannah,
Ho will.be accompanied by Mrs,
Keeney. There will be a considerable
delegation, made up of Hibérnians
from other parts of Georgia, to at
tend the convention, e
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Mother and Brother”of Missing:
Girls Investigate Movements of
Mysterious ‘Professor LaVaux,¥
Recently Operating in Atlantay.
Mrs. Dennis Endeavored to Dise
pose of Property Last October
to Go to Klondike, According to
Man With Whom She Talkeds
The investigaticn into the Nelms
death note mystery took a new turnm
Saturday night when efforts wene
begun to trace a strange resemblancs
reported by Mrs. J. W. Nelms, mothe
er of the missing Eloise Nelms Dene
nis and Beatrice Nelms, to exist bee~
tween Victor E. Innes, the Portland
lawyer and Professor LaVoux, claire
vovant and hypnotist. who was in
Atlanta from February 21 to May 18,
\nr this year,
The mother and brother of the two
missing young women were forced
to admit Saturday night that they
| were without any mors substantial
| idea of where the sisters were than
more than a week ago when the na
‘tion-wide search started. Every clew
lh.ul led to a blind trail.
The last move followed the statee
ment by Mrs. Nelms that Miss Bea
trice had been forcibly struck with
the likeness between Innes and Pro
| fessor LaVouz at the time she
ihn:ardnd a Southern Rallway train to
go to Birmingham to meet Innes. She
iwnnt to talk over the business rela<
tions between him and her sister and
| found Innes already on the train
with the woman supposed to be his
l aunt and known as “Margaret Mims.* |
Miss Beatrics, according to Mrs
;N(-lms, had seen Professor LaVoux &
|number of times, and on her return
‘tu Atlanta remarked to her mother:
“The man on the train looked juss
like the fortune teller, Professor Lae
Vouz, but he said his name was Ine
nes.”
Work on New Clew, b
With the view of thoroughly tracing
this resemblance, Marshall Nelms, i
brother of the missing girls, had a
conference with Police Chief Beavenrs |
to obtain his assistance. Mrs. Nelms
also aided in the probe and visited the i
Childs Hotel, in South Broad street,
where Professor LaVoux stopped i
while in Atlanta. He registered thers |
as “E. Z. Bischoff and wife, Kansaw .
City, Mo.” His wife was described |
by hotel attaches ag being “good
looking and nicely dressed, with dark
hair and brown eyes.” She was of |
medium height. :
As to whether Mrs. Dennis knew
Professor LaVoux {s problematical.
Mrs. Nelms sald that the clairveyant
had his “studio” in East Point, near
the postoffice, while Mrs. Dennis act
ed as a clerk In the latter office, and
that he received his mail there. The
professor also had operated in Deca- i
tur and at Lakewood Heights, being
forced into the suburbs because of the .
city law against fortune telling.
According to information from Car
son City, Ney., Innes was an adept
in the art of hypnotism andq the oc
cult sciences, but there is no infore |
mation that he ever made a regulasg |
business of either.
Mrs. Nelms had seen Professor La-
Voux, and gave it as her opinion that
there are strong marks of resem- i
blance between him and the pictures
of Innes.
Pete Basil, manager of the Childs
Hotel, told The American that when
LaVoux left on May 18 he was asked '
where he was going, and replied that
he would leave no address. His
whereabouts now are unknown in At.
lanta. {
Professor LaVoux was arrested
here by Plainclothes Officer T. D. |
Shaw on March 23 on a warrant from !
the Municipal Court. According to |
reports, his arrest was instigated by |
an Atlanta woman seeking to recover |
a diamond ring from the professor.
Wanted to Leave Last Fall.
Another development of Saturday !
night came in revelatigns by Attorney
C. Jerome Simmons to the effect that
Mrs. Dennis was bending all of her ;
energies to convert au‘ of her Dtol"'i