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Sheriff and Deputies Restrain
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Disturber and Are Beaten by
the Spectators — Meeting at
Greenville Ends in Near-Riot.
GREENVHLLE, S. C, July 18—
“You are 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 1. Blease's
speech at the Senatorial campaign
meeting in the City Park here this
afternoon, put his right hand over his
left breast under his coat and at
tempted to get to the Chiet Executive.
The incident, which looked as it
would result in a killing, was brought
about by the Governor's reply to a
question which Norwood 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 I talk about a man, it is in
his own town. When I get to Colum
bia, I expect to request Dr. Mcln
tosh to take a seat on the stand and
answer him like one gertleman to an
other; not as a coward like you.”
Seven Men Hold Citizen.
When the Chief Executive had com
pleted his answer, Mt. Norwood broke
through 'the gate at the head of the
steps and made'toward him. Sheriff
Hendrix Rector, of Greenville County;
several deputies and policemen rushed
to Norwood and restralned 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 imml
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, {nostly 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
crowd pummeled Norwood about the
head, and it seemed for a 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 is sald,
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 his
speeches of two other Senatorial can
left the park with him before the
speeches of two other eSnatorial can
didates were begun. The sudience
numbered about 8,500 persons, the
largest thus far of the campaign.
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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
Socialists assembled for a rally to-day,
Eugene V. Debs, several 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
¢rom Put-in-Bay, Debs got Into Jan
nus' aeroplane, and five minutes later
was in Bandusky.
An automobfle conveyed him to the
railroad station, - .
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Wilson Is Blamed
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For All Bloodshed
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0f 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
troops is upon President Wilson's
head.”
. This was the dramatic statement
made by Querido Moheno, former
Secretary of Foreign 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 natign." .
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Divorced From Man
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Who Has Fifth Wife
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18.-—lda
Austrian George, widow of Bennett
Austrian, one of the founders of tne
Tobacco Trust, was granted a divorce
by Superior Judge Grasher to-day
from Charles E. George, whose matri
monial exploits resulted in his being
disbarred as an attorney several
months ago. The decree was granted
for desertion.
George since his disbarment by the
California Supreme Court has begn
living in New Orleans with his fif§
wife, whom he married at Milwauke
in December, 1912, a few weeks after
the court had denied the petition of
Mrs. Austi.n-George for $250 ‘a
month separate maintenance,
Sues for $500,000
Phonograph Royalty
TRENTON, N. J., July 18.—Bent
ly L. Rhinehart claims that his in
ventions of talking machines and of
records have proved so popular since
the tango craze became country
wide that the Victor Talking Ma
chine Company has made more than
$6,000,000 profits in the last two years.
Declaring that the company has
paid him only $60,000 for his serv
ices and inventions since 1903, he
brought suit in the United States
Disfriet Court to-day asking the Vic
tor Company of Camden, N. J, to
render a full accounting to see if his
royalties ought not to be increased to
$500,000. .
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Lipton, Off for U. §,,
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Says He'll Lift Cup
Special Cabie to The Amerlcan.
PORTSMOUTH, July 18,—Sham
rock IV, accompanied by the steam
yacht Erin, salled from Gosport to
day and proceeded past the mobilized
fleet from Spithead to Southampton,
attracting great attention from the
Thowds. Later in the afternoon they
left Gosport for Falmouth.
Sir Thomas Lipton, interviewed on
boarsrthe Erin, sald: “I am leav
ing America with every confidence
that the next boat I build will be a
defender and not a challenger.” Three
huge bunches of shamrocks were sent
to Sir Thomas from Derry “just for
luck.”
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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
nied knowledge that his friends were
preparing a Presidential boom for him
for 1916. Congressional enemies of
President Wilson, whose {re has been
aroused by the dictation of the chief
executive in legislative matters, it Is ru
mored, have voiced their approval of
the Democratic Senator and are urging
him to seriously -consider himself a
prospective candidate.
ME season for the
T selling of farm
~ lands is there.
Good crops are expect
ed. Times will then be
easier. And so it is the
propitious time for you
to advertise farm lands.
The Georgian-American
is the farm land medium
of the South. As such,
we can sell your farms
by inserting in the
“Want Ad” section a
complete description,
price and terms of your
various farms,
(Ct()}pyr!(h!. 1913, by
The Georglan Company
RATE RULING
oVES AOADS
16,000,000
| VEIR MDA
1 REVENUE
Commission Stresses Fact That
Consumers Will Not Suffer:
To Force Railways to Plans
That Will Save More Millions.
WASHINGTON, July 18.—Informa
tion obtained in advance of the In
terstate Commerce Commission re
port in the application of the Eastern
railroads to make a 5 per cent hori
zontal advance in their freight rates
makes it possible for the Internation
al News Service to present the prin
cipal finding of the commission. The
findings are both favorable and un
favorable from a railroad point of
view.
The roads involved are those oper
ating in the territory east of the
Mississirpl River and noria of the
Ohio. The commission’s decislon has
been sent to the printer and was to
‘have been issued to-day, but a de
mand from influential sources for a
reconsideraticn of cne or two detalls
of the report,/ias caused a delay and
the final printed findings may not be
issued for several days.
Additional revenues which will
amount in the aggregate to about
$16,000,000 annually will accrue to the
roads from the commission’'s decision,
although the ruling will hold that the
situation does not justify the Mat 5
per cent increase on class rates or
commodities which the railroads re
quested,
Blame Roads for Condition.
The refusal to grant all the car
riers ask was due to the belief that
the railroads themselves are to blamsas
in large measure for their presernt
financial predicaments, and the bellef
will be expressed in the report that
conditions may be greatly ameliorateq
through the elimination of self-ac
quired evils such ‘as extrava,'g‘ance.
Especlal attention w!ill be pald in
the report to the task of proving be
vond any possible doubt that the ul
timate consumer can not justly be
called upon to bear one penny’s worth
of the $16,000,600 increase in rallroad
revenues, The commission holds that
the new rates will not afford a just
reason for any wholesale or retail
dealer to increase the price of any
commodity on which freight is paid.
In return for the advances granted
for the roads the commission will in
sist upon economies by which {t is
estimated the Eastern lines will save
at least $25,000,000 a year.
Class Rates Give Revenue.
The sugar rate may be slightly in
creased. From class rates, however,
the railroads will derive most of their
increased revenues. Increases of va
rying sizes have been allowed upon
sixof the class rataes, although none}
of these will amount to the required%
o per cent. |
Class rates apply on goods shipped!
in boxes, bundles, bales, crates and
other comparatively small packages.
Most of these goods consist of
manufactured products, and all of
them are expensive to handle and
subject to damage in transit. These
conditions were cited by the roads in
numerous complaints to the commis
sion that class rates did not afford
sufficient revenue, and the commls-‘
sion believes that in ite readjustment}
it has sufficiently answere LheaecomJ
plaints, e s DAL A
ATLANTA, . GA, SUNDAY, 19, 1914,
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Broughton Urged by
Cable to Speak Here
Tabernacle Congregation Hopes He
May Be Persuaded to Accept
Old Pastorate,
A cablegram was sent Saturday by
a special committee of the Baptist
Tabernacle to Dr. L. G. Broughton,
pastor of Christ Church, London, ask
ing him to come to Atlanta in August
and preach at the various Baptist
churches in the city.
Dr. Broughton was called to the
Baptist Tabernacle three weeks ago,
when ‘the special committee sent him
a cable informing him of the call. No
word has been received in answer to
the first message, and it is belleved
the second call, asking for his ap
pearance in the pulpits of the Baptist
churches in August, will lead to his
final acceptance of the Tabernacle
pastorate.
Dr. Broughton moved to London
several years ago. His work here
previous to his departure was so suc
cessful he is again belng sought by
his former congregation.
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New Haven Is Given
Chance to Avoid Suit
WASHINGTON, July 18.—Attorney
General Mcßeynolds gave the New
Haven Rallroad Company one more
chance to avold a dissolution suit to
day when he agreed to meet a com
mittee of the road’s direciors in con
ference Monday. The controversy be
tween the department and the road
with the State of Massachusetts is
whether the Boston and Maine atock
shall be sold. The State of Massa
chusetts has put a condition upon the
sale.
If no satisfactory plan {s announced
as a result of Monday's conference
the long-threatened sult against the
New Haven directors will be begun.
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Quarrel Betrays Girl
And Man as Robbers
DENVER, COLO., July 18.—A jeal
ous quarrel after they had been lib
erated caused the betrayal late to
night of the identity of “Ruth Myers,
of Chicago,” and the young man ar
rested with her several days ago, after
they entered Denver, the girl wearing
man’s clothes.
The girl is Mary Dangert and the
man iz Willlam O’Herrin, of Dayton.
They confessed they robbed the Whit
ney drug stcra ir Dayton of $216.
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Boston Women Win
Lower Car Step War
BOSTON, July 18.—After July 1,
1915, displays of women's hoslery in
Boston will be reduced to a minimum.
For years the women of Boston have
fought to have the high steps of
street cars lowered.
Their efforts were successful te-day
when the Public Service Commission
ordered all steps on street cars to be
no higher than 17 inches after the
date mentioned.
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Block in Cleveland
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Destroyed by Fire
CLEVELAND, OHIO, July 18—
Flames starting early this morning
from an explosion in the Grand Fur
niture Company’s store on Huroh
road, in the heart of the business dis
trict, destroyed the block in which
the store and several other concerns
were located. Surrounding buildings,
including the big Sheriff Street Mar
ket House, one of the largest in the
country, were threatened.
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Greely Survivor Is
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Retired From Navy
WASHINGTON, July 18.—The Mil
itary Affairs Committee of the House
reported to-day a bill for the promo
tion and retirement, with the rank|
and pay of brigadier general, of Colo
nel David D. Brainerd, quartermaster
in the army, one of the seven origina)l
survivors of the Greely Arctic expe-
Gition of 1881-84,
New Orleans Has 6th
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Bubonic Plague Case
NEW ORLEANS, July 19.—Helen
Zoell, a girl of 10, was removed to the
isolation hospital to-day stricken
with bubonic plague.
This is the sixth case positively to
be diagnosed in the city. The child’'s
condition is serious. « ‘\
BLIND MUSICIAN A SUICIDE.
LEXINGTON, KY,, July 18.—Blind
from a double cataract over each eye
and facing death ultimately from tu
mor on the brain,”A. F. Aldrich, aged
65, noted as a musician in the West
and South, groped his way into the
room of his boarding house this af
ternoon and shot himself through theJ
brain. He died instantly, =
World’'s Grandest Monument
Waiting in Sight of Us for
the Confederate Dead
0 the veterans of the dead Confederacy,
I to the daughters and sons, and to all
J 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 enduring monument to the great cause
“‘fought without shame and lost without dis
homor,”’ it seems to me that nature and
Providence have set the immortal shrine
right at our doors, and 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 northward, there is a sheer declivity that
rises or falls from 900 to 1,000 feet.
Here, then, is Nature’s matchless plan for
a memorial. On this steep side let those who
love the Southern dead combine to have the
engineers cut a projection 30 feet wide and
-100 feet deep. Into this projection and as
high as it may be made let us ask Lorado
Taft, the republic’s greatest sculptor, to
‘chisel a heroic statue, 70 feet high, of the
Confederate soldier in the nearest possible
resemblance to Robert E. Lee. Let him chisel
also 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 the 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
—and from this Godlike eminence let our
Confederate 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 with Forrest Adair and General Andrew
West, to whom I first confided it.
There will be no monument in all the world
like this 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 and the English
Gladstone to the American Roosevelt has
stood in awe beside the silent Sphinx—mas
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Sing Sing Prisopers
Play ‘Day-off’ Games
OSSINING, N. Y., July 18.—Fifteen
hundred inmates of Sing Sing Prison
were given the afternoon off by War
den Thomas J. MecCormick to-day to
enjoy athletics, which were intro
duced in the institution for the first
time in its history.
Six baseball nines, playing In relays,
took part in a game. There were also
lJawn tennis, handball, bowling and
the Italian game of Socce. The war
den plans to let the inmates have ath
letics every Saturday afternoon dur
{ng the summer, and also Is arrang
ing for evening recreation.
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Cortelyou and Loeb
Call on Roosevelt
OYSTER BAY, N. Y, July 18 —Ola
time acquatintances of Colonel Roose
velt went up to Sagamore Hill this
afternoon to meet Kermit Roosevelt
and his bride. Nearly 100 persons
had tea on the lawn surrounding the
Colonel’s home. Two former secre
taries of the ex-President, George B.
Cortelyou and William Loeb, Jr., and
wives were in the party.
Leaders of the Oyster Bay Bull
Moose party chatted with the Colonel,
urging him to keep out of the race
tor Governor. “We'll see,” was the
Colonel's reply. .
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
Makes Escape From
Camp, But Is Retaken
C. W. Dean, after serving four days
of a prison gentence of twelve months
on a charge of forgery, was a free
man for six hours Saturday. He made
a successful escape from the Adams
ville convict camp Saturdav afternoon
about 4 o'clock, but was caught late
Saturday night at No. 410 Whitehall.
The prisoner, according to the coun
ty police, made his break for liberty
while the guard, with his back turned,
was standing about 100 yards away.
Dean was confined in the Tower earcly
in the week, and was later removed
to the convict camp after his wife
was caught im an attempt to smugsle
saws into his cell.
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Cousin of President
Vanßuren Starves
NEW YORK, July 18.—Miss Mary
Fowler Vanßuren, a little old wo
man, direct descendant of President
Martin Vanßuren, once wealthy and
once a social power in Washington,
was found dead of starvation in her
little flat at No. 43 East Twenty-sev
enth street to-day.
In 1908 Martin Vanßuren, a neph
ew of the President, virtually suc
cumbed to starvation in an Albany
lodging house, having spent his pat
rimony, Miss Vanßuren was his
sister. ¢ S i |
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
people day by day from every window and
housetop in Atlanta and surrounding terri
tory will look with comfort and inspiration
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 examples 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
prevent Lorado Taft, on his safe and swing
ing 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 con
ception here,
Will Sam Venable permit this chiseling. of
his mighty granite hill? I do 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
daughters to begin to get ready for the work.
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Auto Wreck Likely
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- To Cost Cyclist Leg
W. P. Raoul, of Kirkwood, an em
ployes of the Alamo Theater No. 1,
jwns seriously injured late Saturday
afternoon when he was run down by
an automobile while riding a motor
cycle along the road between Bast
Lake and Kirkwood.
Raoul was thrown from his ma
chine to the sida of the road. His left
leg was fractured below the knee.
The driver of the automobils, E.
Dean, of No. 200 Marietta street,
picked up the injured man and took
kim to Grady Hospital, where it was
stated that the broken !imb probably
will have to be amputated. .
Overworked Burglar
Fell Asleep; Caught
HAMMOND, IND, July 18.—FIn-.
{shing up a hard night's work by
breaking in the parish house of the
Rev. L. Garendy, of East (‘hicago,‘
Stephen Mesleny, a burglar, took a
short nap in the parlor. With a;
magazine gun In each hand he fell
sound asleep and his snores awoke
the minister, who came down stairs,
took the guns away from Mesleny
and telephoned for the police. ‘
The burglar was still sleeping whenJ
the officers called, e
Atlanta Edition of The American
Consists of the Following Sectlons:
I—Late News. 4—Sports and Autos.
4—Forelgn and Domes- s—Editorial, City Life
: ‘ and Educational.
tic News. 6—Want Ads, Markets.
3—Soclety and News of 7—Magazine.
the Resorts. 8-—~Comics.
Price Five Cents—Pay No More
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Mother and Brother of Missing
Girls Investigate Movements of
Mysterious ‘Professor LaVouxy
Recently Operating In Atlantas
Mrs. Dennis Endeavored to Dise
pose of Property Last October
to Go to Klondike, According to
Attorney She Had Consultedy
The Investigation into the Nelma
death note mystery took a new turm
Saturday night when efforts were
begun to trace a strange resemblance
reported by Mrs. J, W. Nelms, moth
er of the missing Wloise Nelms Dene
nis and Beatrice Nelms, to exist bea
tween Victor F. Innes, the Portland
lawyer and Professor LaVoux, oclaire
voyant and hypnotist, who was In
Atlanta from February 21 to May 18,
of this yeay,
The mother and brother of the twe
missing young women were forced
to admit Saturday night that they
were without any more substantial
idea of where the sisters wera than
mcre than a week ago when the na
tion-wide search started. Every clew
‘had led to a blind trail,
The last move followed the state
ment by Mrs. Nelms that Miss Bea
trice had been forcibly struck with
the ltkeness between Innes and Pro
fessor LaVouz at the time she
boarded a Southern Rallway train to
go to Birmingham to meet Innes. She
went to talk over the business rela
tions between him and her sister and
found Innes already on the train
with the woman supposed to bs his
‘aunt and known as “Margaret Mims.”
Miss Beatrice, according to Mra
Nelms, had seen Professor LaVoux a
number of times, and on her return
to Atlanta remarked to her mothse:
“The man on the tratn looked just
like the fortune teller, Professor La-
Vouz, but he sald his name was In~
nes."
Work om New Clew, :
With the view of thoroughly tractng
this resemblance, Marshall Nelms,
brother of the missing girls, had &
conference with Police Chief Beavers
to obtaln his assistance. Mrs. Nelms
also aided in the probe and vistted tha
Childs Hotel, in South Broad street,
!w‘hero Professor LaVoux stopped
| while In Atlanta. He registersd thers
'as “B. Z. Bischoff and wite, Kansas
| City, Mo.” His wife was described
I'by hotel attaches as belng “good
' looking and nicely dressed, with dark
hair and brown eyes.” She was of
I medium height.
As to whether Mrs. Denmis knew
Professor LaVoux {s problematical
Mrs. Nelms sald that the clairvoyant
'had his “studio” in East Point, near
}the postoffics, while Mrs. Dennis act
ed as a clerk in the latter office, and
‘that he received his mail thers. Tha
professor also had operated in Deca
‘tur and at Lakewood Heights, being
forced into the sutburbs because of the
;city law agalnst fortune telling.
According to Information from Car<
son City, Nev, Innes was an adept
in the art of hypnotism andg the oo
cult sciences, but there is no infor
mation that he ever made a regular
business of either.
Mrs. Nelms had seen Professor La-
Voux, and gave it as her opinion that
there are strong marks of resem
blance between him and the picturss
of Innes.
Pete Basll, manager of the Childs
Hotel, told The American that when
LaVoux left on May 13 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. Accoriing 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 revelations by Attarney |
(. Jerome Simmons to the effect that i
Mrs. Dennis was bending all of hen
energies to convert all of her proap<#