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Polly Peachtree
Keeps right up to the minute in
Atlanta’s smart doings. Read
her Chatter of Society in the
Sunday American
Mme. Caillaux Pleads Unwritten Law
Mysterious Card Startles Mrs. Nelms
AEWARD FOR
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Gen. Villa Embarrasses Nego
tiations With Great Britain,
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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
era] 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
forward, 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 Wil
liam S. Benton, the English ranch
man, is expected to embarrass the
regotiations of Carranza Wwith 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 expected 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 the 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.
May Secede in North,
1f he decides that Carranza has
-played into the hands of the rich
classes by accepting the Government,
on any terms that will prevent the
peons getting the industrial freedom
which Villa has fought to attain for
them, it is probable that he will pro
claim an independent republic in
Northern Mexico. i
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 tnat he
i« not thoroughly'satisfled with de
velopments since Huerta retired
General Filipe Angeleg 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.
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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
aid Pdward Johnson, of Galnesville,
and Mrs. Carrie Dunbar, of Macon, and
two small children by his second wife.
two small children, Douglas and Ma
rion Dean Johnson, by his second
wife. ;i
The funeral will be conducted at
the First Methodist Church Tuesday
morning by Dr. T. R. Kendall, the
pastor, assisted by Dr. S. R. Belk. In
terment will be in Altavista Ceme
tery.
Wilson Back at Work
son Back at Work,
Cured of Indigestion
WASHINGTON, July 20.—Greatly re
freshed by his four days' rest and re
covered from his attack of indigestion,
President Wilson returned to his desk
in the Executive offices to-day, prepared
to receive a larger number of visitors
than on any day for several. weeks,
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
l YOI XII. NO. 303.
Narrow Escape for
French Balloonists;
Bags Cross Channel
Speclial Cable to The Atlanta Georgian,
PARIS, July 20.—Reports received by
the Aero Club of France frdm 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
Chafinel 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. Splere, 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
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Bandit, Picks Berries
TACOMA, July 20.—Frank James,
former Missourt bandit, 1s 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 flve years,” he says. “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. S. 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.—"00h, don't
talk 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.
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.
D. C. Blunt decided that all women must
come wearing only calico and the men
overalls.
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Paring Spuds Penalty
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For Republic Violator
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
puhlic was sentenced by his fellow
mermbers to peel potatoes for two hours
each day for three days.
Admiral Dewey to
Try Dancing Tango
NEW YORK, July 20.—Admiral
Dewey wants to learn to tango. He
made the announcement while watch
ing Miss Emily Semple and her
partner dancing at a hotel at Man
hattan Beach.
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ALEXANDER
FOR GHILD
| ABOR ACT
U. S. Attorney Scores Attitude of
Mill Men and Says Reform
Is Certain.
Hooper Alexander, United States
District Attorney and chairman of
the Georgia Child Labor Committee,
Monday urged on behalf of that com
mittee that the Legislature pass the
Sheppard child labor bill, without
amendments. .
Mr. Alexander formerly was a
member of the Georgia Legislature
for several terms and has been a
leader in _the fight for better child
labor legislation for years. He speaks
from first hand knowledge when he
says that those who have in the
past proved to be the worst enemies
of child labor legislation have been
those who professed to be its friends.
“No Georgia Legislature,” says Mr,
Alexander, “has in years past had the
opportunity to pass as good a child
labor law as the Sheppard bill. It
is not a eompromise measure and it
should not mwflm
Far Behind Other States.”
“The condition of Georgia children
in mill work is unfortunate, and I
do not believe the people of the State
would permit present conditions to
continue if they understood thgm. We
are far behind the other States, and
it is to my mind a thing that is dis
creditable to our civilization.
“1 do not wish to speak in terms
of unkindness of the cotton mill peo
ple. Indeed, I am sure from my
knowledge of the subject, that the
majority of the mill owners them
selves wish these conditions termi
nated. And they will be terminated.
Tt is practically certain that the con
tinuance of present conditions will re
sult in national legislation.
“I should regret very much to see
any extension of the Federal activ
ity in matters of this character, but
I realize that manufacturers of oth
er States will not willingly consent
to see Georgia indefinitely maintain
such cheap labor conditions to their
disadvantage.
Present Act Unwise.
“When this legislation was flrsl‘
proposed, a number of years ago, an}
aggressive minority of the cotton mill ‘
people forced the entire membership
of the cotton manufacturers into a
‘combined resistance, and the result
was some considerable harshness of
expression on both sides, that 1
think, was not a wise bill. It did‘
very little toward improving conui
tions.
“Afterwards, the bulk of the mill‘
men changed their attitude, and not
only souht to co-operaté in the es
tablishraent of a fourteen-year lelt.l
but came to be sincerely in favor of
it, and are 8o now. !
“Phe trouble in getting such legis
lation recantly has arisen from dis
sensions among the friends of child
labor legislation on the one hand, and
from objections by mill people on the‘
other. I believe, myseif, that the mill
men are, in good faith, ready to co
operate, and that if they are asked
to do so they will: respond.
Side (ssues Raised. |
“There have been other troubles
growing out of side issues raised by
other interests wno wani iv be &v
¢epted from the operation of the law;
mercantile establishments, soda foun- |
tains, laundries, theaters and mes
genger concerns. These have done
more to defeat the proposed law than
the cotton manufacturers. The umeH
say, and with rome force, that other
institutions do as much harm as they
do..
“One place in which I blame the
cotton mill men for the existing dif
ficulty is their insistence on coupling
the proposed reform with compulsory
education. 3
“Compulsory education is a badly
needed reform, but it will have to
come separately. The repeated in
sistence that compulsory education
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ATLANTA, GA, MON DAY, JULY 20 1914.
British King Revi
g ews
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Mighty Fleet of 400
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Ships and Aeroplanes
Speclial 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
yacht 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, alrships 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 throme. It Is estimated
that the construction of the home fleet
during the past 20 years has cost the
Government $3,600,000,000.
Ex-Macon Merchant,
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Invalid, Kills Self
MACON, July 20.—Sidney H. Boyn
ton, 68 years 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 hag heen unahle to lie down in
that time. For weeks he had shown
evidences of being mentally affected and
had previously threatened to kill him
self.
@, Bernard-Bhaw
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Usually Is Right!
l 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.”
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Child Eats “Pretty
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~ Fireworks and Dies
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.
Judge Holds Saloons
Unnecessary; 20Close
PHILADELPHIA, July 20.—Twen
ty saloons in Venango County, Penn
sylvania, 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 hecause saloons were not
necessary.
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Wilson Investigates
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Civil Service Board
WASHINGTON, July 20.—President
Wilgon is having investigated chargés
of offensive partisanship and héstil
ity to the Administration on the part
of the Civil Service Commission as
a result of complaints made by Sen
ator Kern and Representative Cul
lop, of Indiana.
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Miner Loses Thumb
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In Mountain Dispute
SAN BERNARDING, CAL., July 20.—
During a dispute as to whether Mount
Whitney, the highest peak in the United
States, was 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.
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Beaten by Friends on
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Birthday; Badly Hurt
CHICAGO, July 20.—Freda Medalle,
while celebrating her thirteenth birth
'day, was badly injured when, in ac
‘mrdance with an .old custom, she was
given & pommeling by her friends, but
\nhylleh.nl declared she would recover,
PUBLIGATION
DF LETTER
FEARED
Wife of Former French Premier
Breaks Down in Court on
Trial for Life.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georglan.
! PARIS, July 20.—Just after the
twelve jurymen who were to try her
‘for her life for killing Gaston Cal
mette, the editor, Mme. Genevieve
Caillaux, wife of the former Premier
of France, broke down, after appear
ing In court with a jaunty air.
It required but little time to select
the jury. The indictment had been
handed up to Judge Albanel for his
perusal when suddenyl the prisoner
leaned forward, her head resting up
on her arms, and broke into a fit of
passjonate sobbing. In the silence
of ‘the courtroom she could be heard
throughout the chamber.
Mme. Caillaux pleadad the ‘“un
written law” in behalf of herseif, de
claring that she had been actuated in
shooting Calmette because she feared
that he was about to publish some
i‘,...fgh.:f her _private, correspondence’ with
view to compromising her honor,
: Feared Misconstruction.
- "1 feared Calmette was going to
publish love letters written to me by
my husband,” declared the prisoner.
“lI was moved to defend mmy name
and honor of my husband. We had
not been guilty of any moral crime,
but I feared that wmisconstruction
might have been put upon the let
ters.”
Standing room in the courtroom
was at a premium when Mme, Cali
laux entered. Her husband, sur
founded by a number of political
friends, occupied a prominent posi
tion. In the corridor from which the
prcceedings could be watched were
about a score of fashionably dressed
women. Most of them were relatives
or friends of Cabinet Ministers, for it
required tremendous influence for
any woman to get into the Palace of
Justice. Although the court haa
barred women from the courtroom as
spectators, several were enabled to
enter by posing as newspaper re
porters,
As the clerk of the court read the
indictment, the prisoner stood up.
Her nervousness then was shown by
the twitching of her hands.
In the crowded stuffy courtroom
facing an ordeal which miht bring
life to an end, Mme. Callaux quickly
lost’ her jaunty bearing. Her face
grew pale and this whiteness was
accentuated by her black gown.
Gains Sympathy of Crowd,
The task of selection of the jury
then began, followed by her break
down.
Within less than two hours after
the trial opened there was pienty of
evidence to show that Mme. Calllaux
was gaining the sympathy of the
spectators.
Following her outbreak of tears, the
prisoner recovered her composure, but
by the trembling of her lips and
hands it was seen that she was agi
tated.
After the Court had completed his
indictment Mme, Caillaux was given
permission to address the jurors. She
had prepared a long, lambling state
ment, written in her own hand, ex
plaining how she had been led to
shoot Caimetie. This statement had
evidently been prepared under great
stress of mind, for part of it was
incoherent.
Mme. Caillaux spoke In a voice that
was scarcely above a whisper, At
times she swayed and seemed In dan
ger of collapsing, but grasped the
rafling before her and rallied her
strength.
Musband May Assume Blame.
While the prsoner was speaking a
sensational rumor was spread
throughout the crowd to the effect
that M. Caillaux, her husband, mlght
enter the witness box and assume full
responsibility for the crime. Accord-
Ing to the n,fort, the former Minister
would hold himself responsible on the
ground of the threats against mnk
made in the hearing of his wife, ha
#o upset the latter, that, through her
intense love for her husband, she lost
her head and decided to kill the jour
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over; I'm not dangerous. Row near
er. Really, I'm all right. I'm not mad
or crazy; I'm only in love”
That was the gtatement made to a
reporter by Helen Morton Bayly, the
beautiful young society woman
whose husband, Recbert Bayly, a
young Virginian, called insane at
the close of a three weeks' honcy
moon, and whose contention was up
held hy‘ the court. Mrs. Bavly made
her statement from the grounds nf
the splendid estate of George Fa
byan, on the west bank of the Fox
River, hetween Geneva and Batavia,
111, where she has been ordered con
fined indefinitely instead of being
clapped inside the gray walls of a
madhouse.
“No, my imprisonment i= not at all
irksome,” the young bride continucd,
“because, you see, I am quartered in
a place 1 simply adore. If the ‘im
prisonment,’ as vou call it, becomes
lonesome, why 1 shall simply fy
away,” and she laughed in the most
light-hearted manner.
Mother |s Prostrated.
Mrs. Bayly's mother, Mrs. Mark
Morton, is prostrated at her Lakse
Forest home. The bride wrote a long
list of questions dealing with her
mental state, but the mother was too
maoved to answer them. .
Mrs. Bayly is guarded by 32 mus
cular men. They are posted at the
gates and along the expansive stone
wall that incloges the country place
of the multi-millionaire,
Helen may roam at will about the
grounde with their fairyland gardens
and fountains. She may stroll under
the massive oaks and spreading elms;
she may sit beside the Japanese lily
pond or while away the hours in the
violet grottoes. She may ramble like
a child among the fragrant rose ar
bors and admire the horticultural
beauties at the Roman baths.
She can pick blossoms of the
rarest kind. She can lounge in shady
‘dell: and listen to babbling brooks
eand the music of a medlsy of foun
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tains. She has the run of the man
sion, with its modern luxuries, but at
the guarded gates and white walls her
world ends,
Hide Fluttering Dove.
What wonder that she has bean
likened to a fluttering dove in a gild
ed cage. It is a path;tl\* sequel to a
romantic courtship, and it all hap
pened in a few short months. There
wasn't a more ardent lover nor a
happier bride, and then came discov
ery of eccentricities and family se
crets and the tests by alienists.
The young husband who petitioned
for the inquiry claims much of his
wife's past life was kept from him.
And the captive bride sings of love,
After the honeymoon, Bayly had his
bride’'s mind tested. He made discov
eries as to her mental "xmm.xllaritiea";
during their honevmoon. He was in
dignant. He hastened tofher father.
He felt, say intimetes, that he had
been made “the goat.”
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Baltimore Party to
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Get City Ideas Here
Details of the plans made Monday for
the entertainment of Mayor J. H. Pres
ton and other Baltimore city efficials,
who visit Atlanta Tuesday, contemplate
glving them plenty of time to look over
Atlanta. Baltimore is expenduing 832,-‘
000,000 in Improvemenis aiu Mayor
Preston is getting ideas in the large
Southern citles.
The Baltimore party, composed of
several prominent men, primarily is
boosting the ‘“‘Star-Spangled B:nner"’
celebration of next September.
Telegraph Messenger
Speaks 10 Languages
NEW YORK, July 20.—Alexander T.
Tocatll, aged 17, a Western Union mes
senger boy, speaks ten languages. He
was born in Kertch, Crimea, but five
vears later his family went to Smyrna,
where he came in contact with many
tourists and acquired his collection of
languages. B e
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BEATRIGE
Indicates Girls Held Prisoners,
Innes Suddenly Disappears
in Portland, Oreg.
Chief Beavers received a let
ter Monday from a man in a
Waestern city who was positive he
had located the missing Nelms
girls, He had pictures of Eloise
and Beatrice, and said that their
appearance corresponded exact
ly to the photographs. Chief
Beavers would not give out the
~ name of the city until he further
had verified the report. The girls
are said to be living very quietly
in their seclusion.
I A posteard, hardly legible, but
’bolievod by Mrs. J. W. Nelms to
be in the handwriting of the
younger of her missinge daugh
ters, Beatiice, was received
Monday at the ¥Mast Point post
office and led to the helief that
one or both of the young women
are being held prisoners. |
The card was addressed to Mrs.
Nelms and was the return half of a
card sent out by a machinery com
pany. The name of the company had
been scratched out and Mrs. Nelms’
namesubstituted.
All that Mrs. Nelms and the de
tectives were able to decipher were
these words:
“Al com. cut off. See G. W. Shack
elf——" the remainder of the strange
message being illegible.
Recalls Texas Report.
This recalls the report from one of
the smaller towns in Texas recently
that two women, one of them regis
tering as Shackelford, had aroused
the suspiclon there that they were the
missing Atlanta sisters.
The message was written between
the lines' of printing on the back of
the card.
A dispatch from Shreveport, La.,
Monday bore the information that
Eloise Nelms Dennis had been a guest
recently at a hotel there and “had
been recognized by an acquaintance.
Membersof the Nelms family were
aroused by a report from Portland,
Oreg., that Victor E. Innes, one of
ithe principal figures in the great
‘death note mystery, had not been seen
for several days, and that his present
whereabouts {8 not known.
Hurried Confeernces Held.
Hurried conferences were held hy
Marshall Nelms, brother, and Mrs,
John W. Nelms, mother, of the miss«
Ing sisters, with the family’s legal
counsel, Attorneys Reuben Arnoid
and J. A. Watson, Jr., with the view
to possible immediate action toward
again 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 confes
with the Government authorities af
once and go over with them all new
phases of the mystery to get theiy
opinion as to whether the evidence '
now will warrant the detention of
Innes.
According to the Portland reporrt,
Attorney John McCourt, 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 himes!
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