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HOW YOU CAN KEEP WELL IN SUMMER A well.known physician presents a valu. able collection of suggestions as to the best ways of avoiding sunstroke, typhoid, ma laria and other hot weather perils, in Next Sunday’s American CHILD L ABOR BILL WINS TEST VOTE Deserted Daughter Victim of Spite Wedding, Says Dr. Pickard GEORGIA BRIDE WHO ELOPED IS DESERTED g $ ? . o ) ¢ Mrs. Florence R ¢ 3 { 4 4 S Martha Pick- 5 SR { 5 . ard-Harrison, ‘e N . ; : i § principal in i & ; . ¢ unhappy . ; : : romance. : f o, T J R Tl s §T U S .& W @ S S A ety fi‘"’:**"%;‘?-'f : (AT i MR AR 3 5% St w 8 it s & Vi H7E & e G H R iR W’“" 3 ' Ay N oo SN i & R, & imo e é%? B i & N g o= £ - [ \* e e R >4 R R SR e i e e ¥ & gamm e N ««( G e 3 & & B ST N T e 3 FE R N R g #gAko i bR «;@5‘.5:‘;_%‘;;5_:3;__:::.;5’..::, el ,§ By B §OE RS R ) B SR AR A i g :s.:_:",\ TR A Y s AR R & A Ams g ST N . % . 3 & i s e ¥ B DESEER Selar R . 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Mr. Sims was In the office talking with Owens fifteen minutes before the stroke came, and at that time there was no indication that Mr. Owens was even feeling ill. "Mr. Sims went up to the fifteen floor of the build ing, and on his return found the aged galesman seatd in his chalr, but un conscious, Severa! tenants on the same floor were hastily summoned and every thing possible was done for the stricken man. He was removed to Grady Hospital. where he died. Mr. Owens had been a salesman for the Sims company for several years. He is survived by his wife. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN VOL. XII. NO. 306. 3 Drown as Squall . Capsizes Lake Boat CLEVELAND, OHIO, July 23.—Two men and a boy were drowned off Gordon Park at noon to-day when a boat overturned in a sudden squall. The same storm capsized a rowboat off Bratenahl, a suburh occupied by milllonaires, and several persons were thrown into the water. They were rescued by a motor boat. Temperature Not to Exceed 90 Degrees A maximum temperature of from 88 to 30 for the day was predicted by Weather Observer VonHerrmann on Thursday. At 9 o'clock Thursday morning the temperature was 84. No protracted hot spell is in sight, the weather bureau leports. ROOSEVELT SUED FOR LIBEL aIITOR ate EJEGIED [UAa 0 OISTER New Romance May Replace One Shattered by Elopement of Savannah Girl. MACON, July 23.-—Members of the family of Dr. W. L. Pick ard, President of Mereer Univer sity, are inclined to the startling theory that Miss Florence Mar tha Pickard, his daughter was drugged and, irresponsible when she wed TLeverett R. Harrison, her former sweetheart, after her engagement to Karl Karsten. an Oxford University (England) graduate, had been announced. The eloping bride sent frantic an peals Wednesday to her mother in Savannah, following a separation from her husband of only a few days. “Becanuse of my daughter’'s great strength of character,” said Dr. Pick ard Thursday, “we feel sure she was taken advantage of by Harrison. The affair iz 4 profound sorrow tq me, buti it is something T can not help. I know my daughter would not have acted as she has unless she was overpowered.’ Suspect Soda Water. The Pickard family has not made the public charge that the girl was drugged, yet there is a chain of evi dence to that end concerning which they are not reticent. It is Xknown that Miss Pickard was ill from fever, and that she and Har rison on Friday of last week went to a drug store in Savannah and pro cured some soda water. Soon after ward they hastened to a clergyman’s, Miss Pickard succumbing to the fer- vent appeals of her former sweet heart, and wers married. The minis ter, it is declared, has said he thought the voung woman appeared and acted peculiarly, but that he attributed her behavior to her recent iliness. A few hours after the marriage ceremony the couple left Savannah, Harrison disvlaying an eagerness to be away before Karsten, Miss Pickard’s flance, should arrive. And Wednesday, five days after the elopement, Mrs. Pick ard had a telegeram from her daugh ter in New York State, begging her mother to hasten to bher. Macon and Savannah were aghast at the news. Florence Pickard, was the natural conclusion, has been abandoned by the man who forced her into marriage. Turns %o Younger Sister. Meanwhile, as heroes of the story hooks have turned from fickle sweet hearts to newer, kindlier love, Kars ten is said to have found a balm for his heart In the companlonship of Miss Elizabeth Pickard, the vounger and the prettier of the college pres ident’'s daughters. Karsten, arriving in Savannah fresh from England and full of plans for his marriage, was faced by the news that his bride-to be had gone away with her former sweetheart, The Pickard family sor rowed with him, and received him in to their Savannah home as .a we!- comed visitor. There was the yvounger sister, sym pathetic and companionable. She was the antithesis of the girl who had \ Continued on Page 2, Column 3. ATLANTA, GA, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1914 New Haven Line Sued . ' By U. 8. as Monopoly; No Alarm in ‘Street’ NEW YORK, Juyly 28-—The United States Government i{o-day began its active prosecution of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad when the Department of Justice filed a bill in equity in the United States District Court here at noon to-day against the New Haven road as a monopoly. The bill charged that the New Ha ven has violated the Sherman act “in various ways by restraining trade am’ commerce in the New England States, and has acquired monopolies of rail roads and water transportation and trolley transportation in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York.” / The bill asks for a dissolution of the alleged monopoly. It empha.sizes‘ the density of population in the ter ritory involved, which, it is claimed, makes the violation of the Sherman act the more reprehensible. Financial leaders professed to-day to see no cause for alarm. They be lieve the terms of dissolution ulti mately to be decreed will conform with the agreement tentatively reaci ed in conference between representa tives of the New Haven and the Gov ernment. New Haven stock opened unchang ed, but dropped a half-point later when trading in the stock stopped. War Rumors Lower European Stocks Specia! Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PARIS; July 23.—The bourses of Berlin, Vienna and Paris were dis turbed to-day by further rumors of a possible war between Austria and Servia, and securities were lower. It was reported from Vienna that Aus tria is preparing to mobilize 300,000 reservists of their classes, and thai Italy is about to mobilize half as many tioops in support of Austriz The Austrian Foreign Office has sent a sharp note to Belgrade de manding an explanation of the sud- Gen activity in the Pan-Slavic move ment, to which is attributed the us sassination of Archduke Francis Fer dinand. ’ Bathing Gowns of ' All Colors for Paris Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian, PARIS, July 23.—Quite a commo tion has arisen over preparing the bathing dresses for Dieppe, Trouville and other seaside resorts. Dead bil liard table green, canary vellow, old blue, lilac, tango, orange and vermil lion are shades which will be seen in the newest bathing dresses. The old-fashioned skirt is replaced by a natty little trouserette, Jaced up the side and attached to a close-fit ting corsage cut decollete and laced on the shoulder, . v oil Barons Face Jail . As Violators of Law ° et JRRSEY. CITY, N..J., July 28~ Directors of the Standard O!l Com pany of New Jersey to-day found themselves liable te imprisonment for three years if their company is convicted on a warrant issued yester cay charging that it has violated one of the *“seven sisters’’ acts passed during the Administration of Gov ernor Woodrow Wilson. They have directed that the action, which charges that gasoline has been cold under cost to crowd out competi tors, shall be:fought at every step. | THE WEATHER. | ' Forecast for Atlanta and : | Georgia — Generally fairz ) Thursday night and Friday. § NELMa FAGTS LAIDBEFORE CEN.SMITH Brother of Missing Girls Is in Washington to Induce U. S. to Aid in Search. Marshall Nelms Thursday laid be fore Senator Hoke Smith in Wash ington all the known facts of the dis appearance of his sisters, Beatrice Nelms and Eloise Nelms Dennis, for whom a nation-wide but entirely un successful search has been conducted since July 9. The voung man was given encour agement that the Government would undertake an immediate investigatiol of the charges of misuse of the mails which have been lodged against Vie tor E. 'lnnea Portland lawyer, by the members of the Nelms family, but Senator BSmith regarded as doubtful a probe of the allegation that Tlnnes may have violated the Mann act Along with these developments at the national capita’ came an entireiy new line of investigation in Atlanta. This invelved a (horough inspection of all the business papers of Beatrice Nelms and interviews with all her business acquaintances with a view of determining if her affairs were in such a condition as to furnish a mo tive for her strange disappearance. Meets Senator Smith. It has been said that she was not involved financially in any serious way, but Attorney Reuben Arnold, counsel for Mrs. J. W. Nelms, mother of the missing girls, wanted to make sure oun this point so that nothing should bz overlooked in seeking the reason for their disappearance. Mrs. Nelms Denounces Agent. A sensational incident occurred Thursday on an ejevator in the Gouid Building when W. O. Shellnutt, a salesman for a medicine company. was roundly denounced by Mrs Nelms as having a part in the disappearance of her daughters, Shellnut 15 the man named in the mysterious postcard and letter re ceived by Mrs. Nelms from Asheville and Canton, N. C. The letter was signed by “C. Allen.” Mr. Shellnut readily explained that he had no con nection with the Nelms girls' dlsap pearance, and said that Allen, once a private detective, had become en raged at him because of his testimo .y in the Myrtie Hawkins case in South Carolina, and had threatened to hound him. Nelms miet Senator Smith in Wash ington at 12.30 o'clocik and presented letters of introduction from District Attorney Hooper Aiexander, Post master Bolling H. Jones and Attor ney Arnold, dispatches to The Ggor gian said. The Senator took Mr. Nelms into the President’'s room to talk with him. After looking over the letters, Sen ator Smith said that the Department of Justice had already held that the Government had no jurisdiction 1o invest.gate the Nelms case on the charge of violating the Mann while slave act, but it appeared probable that the postal laws had been vio lated by Innes yriting to Kloise as to investments which he would make for her, but which later were sald to be fictitious. To Mcßeynolds and Burleson. Senator Smith Thursday afternoon or Friday morning will introduce Nelms to Attorney General Mcßey nolds and Postmaster General Burle son and Chief Postoffice Inspector Johnson, €0 that he can lay before them letters he has from Attorney Arnold and District Attorney Alex ander. The letter which Nelms will submit to the department is in the form of a statement of the case in which Attor ney Arnold holds that the white slave law has been violated by Innes in in ducing Mrs. Eloise Dennis to come West to meet him, and that the postal laws have been violated by Innes representing that he was investing her $lO,OOO in land and securities in Mexico, Utah and Montana, which in vestments are said to be fictitious, right, 1900, NO By Tha Guoreian ‘Ca 2 CENTS. ‘Visk Bloa BARNES TAKES Hlon T TOGOURT Orders Attorneys to Bring Action, Denying Colonel’s Tirade Against Him. NEW YORK, July 23 —William Barnes, Jr., chairman of the Republi can State committee, often called “Boss” Barnes, this afternoon stated that he had authorized his attorneys to bring suit for libel against Theo dore Roosevelt. The suit will be based on the statement issued by the Colo nel last night, in which Roosevelt said: “In New York State the two politi cal machines are completely domi nated, the one by Mr. Barnes, the other by Mr. Murphy. The State gov lernment is rotten throughout, in al most all ite departments, and this ‘s ldirectly due to the dominance in poii tics of Mr. Murphy and his sub bosses, acting through such entirely subservient agents as Governors Dix And Glynn, aided and abetted when necessury by Mr. Barnes and sube ‘boscos of Mr. Barnes. | “Barnes and Murphy Alike.” ~ “Mr. Murphy and Mr. Barnes are of exactly the same moral and politi cal type. Not one shadow of good comeés from substituting one for the other in the control of our Govern ment. “hese bosses do not hold public office themselves. They act throuzh the holders of public office whom they control. Yet they really form the all powerful invisible government which is responsible for the maladministra tion and the corruption in the public offices of the State.” In making known his determination to sue Colonel Roosevelt, Barnes is sued the following statement: “T have nothing whatever to say in reply to Mr. Roosevelt's diatribe, ox cept that it lacked dignity and self-| restraint and is without foundation. Denies Every Statement. “When an issue of this kind is rais ed by a person of such prominence, one has but one of three courses: Submit to the aspersions; enter into an unseemly personal controversy, or to appeal to the courts in order to enable the person who utters those libels to establish the facts as legal evidence. 1 deny the truthfulness of every statement made by Mr. Roose velt in his publication this morning, and I have instrubted my counsei, lvins, Witloff and Hogue, to bring an action for libel without delay against him. “The issue in the primary canvass of the Republican party is in no way related to me, and the issue between Mr. Roosevelt and me will be judi cially determined.” Indict Business Man For Arson Attempt MOULTRIE, July 23.—J. M. Martin, a prominent business man of Norman Park, has been indicted on an attempted arson charge. The specific allegation againsgt him is that he hired two negroes to burn a house that he owned in order that he might collect the Insurance. The negroes were caught while trying to burn the house and they implicated Martin. Man Drunk for 17 . Years Sued by Wife JERSEY CITY, N. J.,, July 23— That her husband has been drunk every night of their seventeen vears of married life and that he beat her with a turkey one Christmas eve, were the charges made by Mrs. Gus tav H. Ebert, a plumbing contractor’s wife, Senator Promises To Expose Fraud in Indian Land Leases WASHINGTON, July 23.—De nounging the land-leasing situation at some of the principal Indian reserva tions in the West as scandalous, Sen ator Lane, of Oregon, to-day issued a defi to the three House members of the joint Congressional commission which hag been investigating the In dians’ complaints, He said the inquiry would go for ward. “We shall show how a ring of cattle men have leased the Indian lands by sharp bidding and have overbid their competitors because they made a practice of grazing stock on the In diang’ allotments, in deflance of law. “If the Indians made a fuss the cat tle men would not buy their hay, or if they bought it they would bargain for it by measurement and then only in winter, when its volume had shrunk to a minimum. 1 am told that one man has made a million dollars from the Indians at the Crow reservation in Montana by these outrageous meth ods.” Naghville Golfer to Play in Final Flight WHEATON, ILL, July 23.—1 t will be a case of Chicago vs. Nashville, Tenn,, in the fnal for the Weastem junior golf championship. here this afternoon, a& a result of the semi final round this morning. Charles F. Grimes, of Calurpet, also University of Chitago champlon, eas ily defeated Hobart Hoge, of Jackson Park, 5 up and 3 to play, while L, M. Watts, of Nashvills, Tenn., defeated F. C. Watson, of Davenport, Towa, by‘ b up and 4 to play. | ‘ . Lost Girls Found | . . . Reliving Film Play l LOS ANGELES, July, 23.—While ‘the police in scores of coast cities were seeking Marguerite Nears and Theodosia Stevens, both 11 years old, and Haze] Winter, 2, the trio was found wrapped in a single blanket under ithe municipal pler, living over again a film play which they had seen Crops Tax Makers Of Grain Thrashers CHICAGO, July 23.—Local thrash ing machine companies are working overtime in an effort to supply the demand for machines resulting from the bumper wheat crops in the Cen tral] West. . Overcoats Feel Fine . Out in Denver, Colo. DENVER, COLO., July 28.—The temperature here earlv to-day was 52 degrees and erate fires were commgon. Many persons appeared on the streets wearing straw hats and overcoats Look! Used Car Bargains For You DID you see the hun dreds of bargains in Mo torcycles and used Au tomobiles in The Geor gian's “Want Ad" Sec tion yesterday? If not, then somebody else is already on the track of the bargain that would have been yours. BUT to-day again in Georgian "“"Want Ads” are many striking new bargains that did not appear yesterday. Take advantage of them NOW, HOME EDITION ofIEPP AR AGI WILL Phao,of! LEATFRS Motion for Roll Call Friday Sus tained—Delay Asked to Con vince Opponents. ~ After leaders of the House of \ . ¥ Representatives had analyzed the child labor situation in Geor gia, and in stirring and convine ing speeches pointed out that the remedy iies in the enactment of laws that will take the little children from slavery in the mills and factories and give them a chance to acquire at least the rudiments of an education to equip them for the battles of life, the Sheppard child labor bill won the first clash when the measure came up for considera tion Thursday. ’ The test came when Representative J. E. Sheppard. of Sumter County, the author of the bill, asked unani mous consent that the debate be ex tended from 12:40 o'clock Thursday, the time to which it was originally limited, to the same hour Friday. There was objection to the request. Motion Tests Strength. It becante apparent at once that the opponents of the Sheppard bill were trylng to force the measure to a vote, telying on the misunderstanding tha: exists among certain members as (o the provisions of the bill te carry them through to viétory. Mr. Sheppard then put his request in the form of a motion. It was plainly a test vote on the Sheppard bill and the Dorough amendment. which has been accepted by the au thor of the bill and others supporting it. } The line was plainly drawn between the advocates and opponents of the rbm—and ™Mr. Sheppard’s motion car lried overwhelmingliy. Leaders of the House regard the vote on Mr. Sheppard’s motion as in dicative of the final wote when the rmeasure rcaches the poll call stage Friday. ~ The Sheppard bill, bafore the House adjourned, had one vote recorded Lor it. Stone Votes for Bill. This is the vote of Representative Stone, of Dawson County, who asked that he be permitted to cast his voie, as he will be unable to attend I'ri day's session. Mr. Stone voted for the Dorough amendment and tLhe Sheppard substitute, and against (he Moon substitute. Half a dozem other memnbers tried to get the consent of the House to cast their votes the same way, but it was refused. The debate on the Sheppard bill at Thursday's session developed some of the strongest speeches members of the House have heard W recen: years. Those who spoke in favor of the bill were Representatives Robert Blackburn, of Fulton County; BSamuei Olive, of Richmond County; Dorough, of Franklin County, and Smith, of ‘DeKalb County. Arguments against the bill, e pressing the ideas of the mill owaers of Georgia respecting child abo- Continued on Page 2, Calumn-4,