Newspaper Page Text
Polly Peachtree
Keeps right up to the minute in
Atlanta’s smart doings. Read
her Chatter of Society in the
Sunday American
INNES REPORTED MISSING
VILLA iNSISTS ON DISTRIBUTINC LAND TO PEONS
AEWARD FOR
LAYER DF
BENTON
Rebel Leader Embarrasses Nego
tiations With Great Britain,
Worrying Carranza,Party.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georglan.
MEXICO CITY, July 20.—President
Carbajal and his advisors believe that
peace in Mexico will soon be achiev
ed as far as negotiations with Gen
eral Carranza are concerned, but
great uncertainty prevails over the
attitude of other revolutionary lead
ers, particularly General Villa.
Though the retirement of General
Huerta is regarded as a great step
tforward, it is expected that several
months will pass before peace
throughout the country is restored.
Villa’'s promotion of Colonel Fierro,
the man found guilty of killing Wli
liam 8. Benton, the English ranch
man, is expected to embarrass the
regotiations of Carranza with Eng
land, full reparation for Benton's
death and punishment of his slayer
having been promised.
Even if Carranza is established in’
Mexico City as provisional president,
Villa is A{pected to withhold his in
dorsement of the Government until
assured that the peons will be given
the lands of the millionaires who
gained their wealth by holding the
lower classes in virtual slavery for
many decades. “The peons revolt”
is teh title that Villa has given to
his rebellion, and he has made it
clear that he will resist any Gov
ernment that refuses to provide for
land distribution. %
Many Creeds in North.
If he decides that Carranza has
played into the hands of the rich
clases by accepting the Government
or any erms that wil] prevent the
peons getting the industrial freedom
which Villa has fofight to attain for
them, it is probable that he will pro
claim an independent republic In
Northern Mexico,
By the action of his delegates at
the recent torreon conference, Car
ranza was pledged to the land al
lotments system that Villa favors,
but Carranza has never announced
that he would acept the agreement
reached at this conference.
villa’s activity at Juarez and Chi
huahua is taken as evidence that he
is not thoroughly satisfied with de
velopments since Huerta retired
General Filipe Angeles, his close
friend and rival of Carranza for
Presidential honors, is busy at Chi
huahua preparing the Constitution
alist artilery for further fighting.
Villa himself is keeping his army in
trim for more campaigns. ;
Judge Holds Saloons
Unnecessary; 20Close
PHILADELPHIA, July 20.—Twen
tv saloons in Venango County, Penn
svlvania, will be forced to close as a
result of the decision of the Superior
Court upholding Judge Criswell's
action in refusing applications for
licenses because ‘saloons were not
necessary.
.
Miner Loses Thumb
. .
In Mountain Dispute
SAN BERNARDINO, CAL., July 20.—
During a dispute as to whether Mount
Whitney, the highest peak in the United
States, wde in Inyo or Tulare County,
Hank Clew, a miner, had his thumb
shot off. Clew then consulted an atlas
and found the peak was on the boun
dary line.
.
Beaten by Friends on
. .
Birthday; Badly Hurt
CHICAGO, July 20.—Freda Medalle,
whiie celebrating her thirteenth birth
day. was badly injured when, in ac
cordance with an old custom, she was
given a pommeling by her friends. but
physicians €@ ~d she would recover.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
VOL. XII. NO. 308,
Narrow Escape for
French Balloonists;
Bags Cross Channel
Special Cabie to The Atlanta Georgian,
PARIS, July 20.—Reports received by
the Aero Club of France from aero
nauts who started yesterday in the
grand prize balloon race indicate that
this contest is one of the most exciting
that has been held. A number of the
balloons were blown across the English
Channel and narrowly escaped being
blown out to sea. Another fell into
channel and the pilot was rescued with
difficulty by a steamer near Havre.
One of the balloons landed near Rhyl,
Wales, on the coast of the Irish Sea,
after a flight of fifteen hours. An
other was blown to earth near Aberyst
with, Wales, and E. Spiere, the pilot,
sustained a fractured leg. A third was
reported to have landed nearby.
These balloons had traveled approxi
mately 400 miles from Paris. Little
hope was held out to-day for the re
covery of M. Duval, who was with Pilot
Blanchet in the basket of the balloon
Toto when it fell into Tuillleres Gar
den, at the start of the race. He was
hurt internally.
Twenty-four ballonos got away in the
race,
Frank James, Noted
. . .
Bandit, Picks Berries
TACOMA, July 20.—Frank James,
former Missouri bandit, is picking
berries this summer at Edgewood.
Next winter he will operate the don
key engine In a logging camp.
Aged nearly 70, he intends ending
his life quietly. He will write no
memoirs or autobiography.
“I couldn't write a history of my
life in five years,” he savs. “I have
only a short time to live: money is
no more to me than the dust under
my feet.”
James has a wife, four married
children and a 16-year-old daughter
living at Blaine.
Vera Cruz Hero, on
. .
- Sick Leave, Marries
WASHIGTON, July 20.—Ensign
Lawrence Warner Clarke, U. 8. N, a
hero of Vera Cruz, who was here on
sick leave, married Miss Frances
Leonard Pace, in St. Thomas Church.
The bridegroom has been assigned
to the naval training school at New
port, where he will go immediately
with his bride.
‘l'm Done With Public’
.
—J. Pierpont Morgan
NEW YORK, July 20.—“0h, don’t
tallk to me about appealing to the
public—l'm done.” The speaker was
J. Pierpont Morgan. The subject
was the New Haven Railroad and
the report issued by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
“The public reads the headlines
and that’s all,” he said.
G. Bernard Shaw
Usually Is Right!
sually 1s Right!
LONDON, July 20.—~The London
‘County Council has turned down- 23
suggestions for the design of its new
coat of arms. The majority of the
Councilors demand an English slogan.
Among those recelved is a cynical
one from Bernard Shaw. who quotes
a line from the Poet Shelley, “Hell
is a city much like London.”
3 i 1)
Child Eats ““Prett
Fireworks and Iy)ie
S
BINGHAMTON. N. Y.. July 20—~
Attracted by the bright colors of
fireworks known as Pharaoh's ser
pents, Helen, the 15-months-old child
of David F. Lee,-a prominent Nor
wich attorney, ate a quantity of them
left over from the Fourth and died.
The explosive contained sulpho
cyanide of mercury. a deadly poison.
. .
Wilson Investigates
Civil Service Board
WASHINGTON, July 20.—President
Wilson is having investigated charges
of offensive partisanship and hostil
ity to the Administration on the part
of the Civil Service Commission as
a resuit of complaints made by Sen
ator Kern and Representative Cul
lop, of Indiana.
CHILD LABOR
LAW URGED
BY PRESS
Leading Daily and Weekly News
papers Indorse Sheppard Bill
Now Before Legislature.
Newspapers throughout the State
of Georgia are joining with The At
lanta Georgian in the fight against
child labor and are giving their sup
port to the Sheppard bill now in the
House of Representatives.
In a forceful article, The Macon
News, one of ‘the most influential
papers in the State, says.
“The last Federal census states
that 44 per cent of the white chil
dren between the ages of 10 and 14
in the mill communities of Georgia
are illiterate. No more striking evi
dence can be given of the effect of
child labor on the chances for edu
cation. The strongest feature of the
now Sheppard child labor bill now
before the Georgia Legislature is the
requirement that children must have
attended school’at least twelve weeks
of the year before they can go to
work, and that they be able to read
and write. It will be a great step in
advance and, at least so far as the
mill children are concerned, will act
as compulsory education. It is as
serted by those who want some ex
cuse for opposing a child labor law
that they think this particular meas
ure too drastic. In reply to such an
assertion in regard to the Sheppard
child labor bill one has only to point
Lo most any State in the Union ex
cept Alabama and the Carolinas. In
stead of being a drastic measure it
merely brings Georgia somewhere
near the level of other States in the
protection of children. The Sheppard
bill has been drawn with ample and
liberal justice to the mill owners.”
From Weekly Press.
The Mcßae Enterprise speaks edi
torially:
“Every voter in the State ought to
write his Representative and urge
him to support this measure. It
means much to the future generation
of men and women of the State.”
The Lexington Echo comments
thus: -
“Go to almost any *factory section,
and numbers of men, fathers and
brothers of children at work in the
factprles can be found living practi
cally a life of idleness and vagrancy.
P_ut these to work, either for them
selves or on public work, to relieve
the children of the necessity of hav
ing to support them, and rare wili be
the case in which at least the smaller
children will have to seek employ
ment {n factories.”
The following is from an editorial
in The Woodstock Herald:
“It is the burning shame of Georgia
that reckless greed has been permit
ted to stunt the minds and dwarf the
bodies and impair the souls of little
children for so long. Mill owners
have been made rich from the under
paid toil of underfed children. Some
of these wealthy hypocrites take
prominent stands in their churches,
seek to buy off an easy conscience
by paying generously to the support
of the institutions of the church. But
sometime, somewhere, they must
meet. those little mill dwarfs with
their pinches faces, stunted minds and
starved souls.”
Sentiment for Reform.
The Fitzgerald Press editorially
says:
“Child labor legisiation is a vital
necesgity in Georgia, and the over
whelming sentiment is for it. The
best we can do is to trust our Rep
resentatives with threshing out the
essentizl points and formigg such a
statute‘has in their best judgment will
serve the present needs. It is to be
hoped that our legislators are well
enough acquainted with the people
and their wishes to avoid through
fear, if for nothing else, any flap
doodle or jokers. * *'* The Press
truly hopes that the Legislature will
act wiselyv on the matter, and, giving
the mill owners a fair hearing and a
just recognition, enact a law that wilil
be a tribute to civilization and man
hood rather than a crooked, sly deal
in favor of further illiteracy and
greater wealth for the few in whose
hands thousands of our precious bovs
and giris for years have heen noth
ing more than unfortunate siaves.”
ATLANTA, GA, MON DAY, JULY 20-1914.
'British King Reviews
Mighty Fleet of 400
Ships and Aeroplanes
Speclal Cable to The Atlanta Georglan.
PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND, July 20,
—The great British home fleet of nearly
400 ships was reviewed off Spithead to
day by King George and high members
of the Government. Upon the royal
S e >
\ et g
1»\" ’vo. o A . | #E ’ v
e Re R
Sk g R LRt
AR » B L e SRS R 5
gF SN L LR R S S g,
A BSTe LN s T B ST Pe SIS R< SR
P (RGeS g el e SN SN <Gt
p codtin e A ;;%w SIS A s
R L Sk SR
¥ e > 3“:;;@‘?4‘@:’”*’3 SO e @
5 N 4 SO g @AY S et T X oo TR $
¥ e SR P B R IR IR e S g
;] iw “ 5%) “,f'..-‘,-." -ol % g
e :V:‘Jfiz;g,_”m;fl» Rl e S ; ¥
9 ;‘S’} 4 A ‘,;»fi} 5 #RO e 2"'%“; e e
PR Y e P % P A
B & B, J}fifi: > 3 4
% E 2 s £} ¢ 4
ey ¢
¥ o 1 .
i k
g s e
(308 N P e G
(o B ” e
»'f“ s e <°B' .
& @
Tt )
B : .t g
et ; i mj o !
R Y 5 D ¢
! A & . African beast !
F§z ~‘ is happy with '
: .;?, X \ { new love until |
L 5k ?fl : & he discovers he |
s s g 2
. was mistaken in
Q é;% Y 3 the sex of his
TR & s Zebu neighbor.
e g » 00 ;
% { \ x\_ 5 G e i
" .
vacht Victoria and Albert with the King
were the Prince of Wales, Premier As
quith and the Lords of the Admiralty.
A salute which rolled along the nine
miles of warships greeted the Victoria
and Albert as it took its place at the
head of the line. While the fleet was
getting under way, airships sailed above
the men-of-war.
_ The annual review’ is the most spec
tacular naval pageant of the year. The
King displayed unusual interest in the
fleet, He was educated for the navy
and was in active service before being
called to the throne. It is estimated
that the construction of the home fleet
during the past 20 years has cost the
Government $3,500,000,000.
Dies of Fever From
Motor Car Injuries
GAINESVILLE, July 20.—Colonel
Fletcher M. Johnson, attorney of state
wide prominence, is dead at his home
here, from fever which set in after
he was run down by an automobile
driven by Mrs. Hayne Palmour last
week.
Colonel Johnson, in addition to his
widow, is survived by four children by a
former marriage—Hammond, Fletcher
and Fdward Johnson, of Gainesville,
and Mrs. Carrie Dunbar, of Macon, and
two small children by his second wife.
Ex-Macon Merchant,
. .
Invalid, Kills Self
MACON, July 20.—Sidney H. Boyn
ton, 68 vears old, at one time one of
Macon's well known merchants, is dead
to-day, having committed suicide at his
home, No. 65 Arlington place, by shoot
ing himself through the head.
Mr. Boynton had been a sufferer from
Bright's disease for more than a year
and had heen unable to lle down in
that time. For weeks he had shown
evidences of being mentally affected and
had previously threatened to kill him
self.
.
Admiral Dewey to
"
Try Dancing Tango
NEW YORK, July 20.—Admiral
Dewey wants to learn to tango. He
made the announcement whiie watch
ing -Miss Emily Semiple’ and her
partner dancing at a hotel at Man
hatian Beach,
'PEGASUS MELALCHOLY BEAST SINCE
'HIS DISASTROUS ROMANCE IN 200
Pegasus, new ‘ o
Gnu at Grant O
Park zoo. |
e /
Inadverten Comment of Specta
tors Shatters Gnu's Affinity
for Fair Young Zebu.
It Is generally recognized that it
is mo longer fashionable to have an
affinity. Most of our best people
have abandoned the fad; it's such
deuced bad form, doncherknow-—they
now have soul-mates andg heart
slaves. But you can’t blame Pegasus
because of that.
Coming direct from the darkest
slice of the Dark Continent, where
affinitying is practiced in all its va
rious branches, how was he to know
that here in America culture and
uplift have set upon the fad and left
it torn and hyphenated, so to speax,
upon the field of battle
But it might be mentioned here
that Pegasus now hates an affin.ity
with the abiding hate of a policeman.
Never again will he trust the voice
of his heart—and this Is the tale of
his aversion to affinities and uncon
ventional love affairs.
A Melancholy Beast.
Pegasus is the original rhyming
ruminant. He's the new gnu of the
Grant Park Zoo—a melancholy beast,
who combines the tail and body of a
horse, the mane of an ass, the head
of a buffalo, the horns of a cow anld
the whiskers of a billy-goat with the
eyes of a garret poet and the bur
glarous dispositlon of a cab driver.
Affticted with such a multitude of
personalities, is it any wonder that
Pegasus became a victim of his own
soul?
They broughts Pegasus to Atlanta
recently and installed him in a lot
between the bison and the zebus, or
sacred cows and bulls of India. His
home was destitute—and is yet, for
that matter-—of jungle or other sug
gestion of his native habitation.
There is one big tree that rises
majestically in the .center of the iot,
and Pegasus, as he seratched himself
against its trunk, feit that existence
here was indeed barren. It seemed
to him that life was to be nothing but
one blamed flea after another.
Finds an Affinity.
For four days Pegasus moped
around trying to devise gome way (o
kick a keeper with his left hind foot
and stick hjs horns into him at the
Copyright, 1500,
By The Ceorglan Co.
R e .
\ :
WS e e o x T o,
M/'v'f o ;:" SEAY. > N W % 3 O{) ) 3 ;
(7 LR )
P Pee (PR3 % T . 7
f o b;‘\ ; .\ 3 74 s ,{ 3 y %
o red 1 N YIRS, 4. i T
e 1 - e pag” 3 :‘.‘;--. : '_,’ )‘ S ‘ & 5 B
RIS YA L e L
:. ‘3, ¢ b,_z'-§ %4 AT !” PR 4 ’_}s'“!,' s ‘
’i‘fl‘ F%O 88,0 i # gty &1;; Q 3 gl ~'¢ lk{
XA 4;,:0' £ %ii gt l‘. LY ..‘ A | P
Gl ; '}‘ 5 T fte ‘:Z:"((é b i e
:.;:g_: G q‘ . § . t’l 11 9e 5 % > v ‘.,‘.:: _.;:,:-"
o SRR 3'} e R AR O
rih o2T MR NI Y TGOS :«»"‘ M
0 Ll gma 'g*"’ BCOAY e AN
G T T kL A . o %)
33; L WRN Y R R s N
O R R Y e A
SRI sg T A BSV i ‘ o
o 8 a L R MRS o
3 o e &S R R ‘,l/ Bk AR ki,
B h eAR o 1 e
VR st WY B ) ) 3
Ry Mk
@ M A RS E R
Ry g TR T -
(»&% o et \VN A'Q' o
g AR o A
b AT LT R .
‘:%v A . ;!!,, i\
o ~ R
2 g A
I g‘f R,
ER T f ; :
Tk Mo ,;‘._s‘ 22
vB A 9
b W i
i, : 144
; E
\2 R
4% A ‘
% & v
b
¥ ‘& %
i S -
# "':?’7,:/
same time. On the fifth day Pegasus
began to live again. He looked over
into the zebu lot and saw young 12-
natius Zebu, a vacant-looking beast
with a hump and a teverish desire to
kick somebody.
Having seen, Pegasus immediately
was conquered. The fires of love at
first sight consumed his soul. At once
he selected Ignatius for his affinity,
and began to make love to the young
zebu through the bars that separated
them. Ignatius was nothing loath to
start a more or less innocent flirta
tion, and the affair progressed.
Matters went along smoothly; Pe
gasus' brain seethed with tales of
his prowess on the veldts of Africa,
which he poured into the receptive
ears of his beloved, and he spent most
of his time snuggled up to the fence
with his poetical eyes boring into the
depths of Ignatius’ s~ul and reading
therein many things. He was su
premely happy.
His Idol Is Shattered.
And then came yesterday, a day
that struck terror into the stout heart
of Pegasus, a day that wrenched his
soul from its moorings and cast it
quivering onto the rocks of a mis
directed love. Two young men came
to the zoo on this fateful day. Thoy
stopped near the zebu domicile and
began to talk+vabout Ignatius. Pe
gasus crept nearer that he might
hear their comments on his heloved,
He heard:
“How old is this young zebu?”
“He's about two years old!"
HE! And an affinity, the idol of
Pegasus’ heart! Ye gods!
With one of those well-known low,
despairing moans Pegasus slunk into
his stable. He hasn't been out since,
except to gnash his te=th and bite (hs
bark off the big tree that stands in
his lot, a mocking memory of former
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Partly cloudy Mon
day and Tuesday.
2 CENTS. 'Gise’ l
Frank’s New Trial
.
Fight Is Taken Up
In Supreme Court
The hearing on the extraordinary mo
tion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank
was set for Monday in the Supreme
Court. This motion was appealed after
it had been denied by Judge Hill, of
the Superior Court. The argument of
counsel is expected to consume at least
two days. It will probably be several
weeks bédfore the opinion of the court
is handed down.
The motion to set aside tha verdict
on the ground that Frank was not pres
ent in court when it was rendered
also is pending in the Supreme Court,
and is expected to be heard soon after
the argument on the extraordinary mo
tion.
Both appeals will be argued by Solic
ftor Dorsey for the State and Attore
neys Reuben Arnold and Luther Rosser
for Frank.
.
Baltimore Party to
'
Get City Ideas Here
‘ Details of the plans made Monday for
'the entertainment of Mayor J. H. Pres
ton and other Baltimore city officials,
‘who vigit Atlanta Tuesday, contemplate
giving them plenty of time to look over
Atlanta. Baltimore is expenduing $32,-
000,000 in improvements and Mayor
Preston s getting ideas in the large
Southern cities.
The Baltimore party, composed of
several prominent men, primarily I 8
boosting the “Star-Spangled Banner”
celebration of next September.
‘ e e et
\
Telegraph Messenger
Speaks 10 Languages
. NEW YORK, July 20.—Alexander T.
Tocatil, aged 17, a Western Union mes
senger boy, speaks ten languages He
was born in Kertch, Crimea, but five
years later his family went to Smyrna,
!whrrn he came in contact with many
‘lunris!rf and acquired his collection of
languages,
g
(Calico and Overalls
: .
- Only at This Church
ST. LOUIS, July 20.-—-When he dis
covered that one-half of the congrega
tion stayed away because the other half
came ‘‘too fancifully” dressed, the Rev.
). C. Blunt decided that all women must
come wearing only calico and the men
overalls.
.
Paring Spuds Penalty
Forßepublic Violation
p 0
FLEMINGTON, N. J, July 20.-Be
cause he “went to see the trains go by"
without permission, Edward Stanley,
aged 12, of the George Junior Re
public, was sentenced by his fellow
members to peel potatoes for two Rours
Afternoon
Edition
LAWYER IN
NYaIERY
aIIIDEALY
VANISHES
Nelms Mother and Son Rush to
Officials in Effort to Find
Him Again,
A dispatch from Shreveport,
a., Monday bore the information
that EEloise Nelms Dennis had
been a guest recently at a hotel
there and had been recognized by
an acquaintance.
Members of the Nelms family
were aroused Monday by a re«
port from Portland, Oreg., that
Victor E. Innes, one of the prin.
cipal figures in the great death
note mystery, had not been seen
for several days and that his
present whereabouts are no#
known.
Hurried conferences were held by
Marshall Nelms, brother, and Mrs,
John W. Nelms, mother, of the miss
ing sisters, with the family's legal
counsel, Attorneys Reuben Arnold
and J. A. Watson, Jr., with the view
of possible immediate action toward
agaln finding Innes. Police Chief Bea
vers sald that he had received no
word from the Portland police that
Innes had disappeared, and that he
could not order the man's arrest in
the absence of a warrant or sufficient
evidence, \
Marshall Nelms expected to confer
with the Government authorities at
once and go over with them all new
phases of the mystery to get their
opinion as to whether the evidence
now will warrant the deténtion of
Innes.
According to the Portland report,
Attorney John MeCourt, counsel for
Innes, declared he was unaware of
the whereabouts of his client.
Mother Much Agitated.
Mrs. Nelms was greatly agitated
over the report.
“Oh, why didn’'t they shadow him-—
why did they let him get away?” she
exclaimed. “I'm going to try to have
him arrested and held until we can
sift this affair to the bottom and find
out what he had to do with the dis
appearance of my daughters. I knew
he would selze the first opportunity to
slip away from us. Oh, If we only
had enough evidence to swear out a
warrant! [ believe we have, but the
authorities say It is not enough.”
A new clew, leading back into the
Mississippi region, where several
days ago it was reported the two
girls were supposed to have been
seen, developed Monday in the re-.
ceipt .by Marshall Nelms of a com
munication from S. R. Johnson, of
New Orleans. {
Saw Pair Like Girls.
Johnson wrote that on July 1§ ha
was traveling In Mississippi, a“d’i
while on board the Y. & M. V. rail=
road, saw two young women on the
traln who attracted his attention. At
that time he had not heard of the
Gisappearance of the Nelms sisters.
The next morning, he wrote, he sa,w{
the same two young women in the;
railroad station in Vicksburg. That
same day he read of the Nelms death
note mystery and saw a completoé
description of the missing sisters. Hs
sald the description tallled exactly
with the two strange young women
he had seen on the train and in the!
Vicksburg station. ;
Nelms turned this information over |
to his legal counsel, Attornevs Reulf
ben Arnold and J. A. Watson, Jr., and
Panbinsnid cu Dbl