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THE WEATHER
Forecast—Rain, probably clearing and
colder Tuesday night; fair and colder Wed-
nesday.
Temperatures—6 a. m., 41; 8 a. m„ 42; 10
a. m., 44; 12 noon, 44; 2 p. m., 44.
Sunrise, 6:43; sunset, 4:38.
The Atlanta Georgian
The Paper That Coes Home and Stays There
VOL. XIII. NO. 126.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1914.
Copyright. 1900.
By the Georgian Co.
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Lack of U. S. Vessels Hits Cotton Exports
Great Britain’s Placing Naval
Stores on Contraband List
Hurts Industry Here.
Great Britain’s action in placing
sinous products and turpentine in
e list of absolute contraband of war
11 be disastrous to the interests of
iuth Georgia, and, indeed, to all
jorgia, if it is maintained, in the
inion of Charles J. Haden, Atlanta
tomey and president of the Georgia
lamber of Commerce.
Mr. Haden’s statement to The Geor-
an followed the protest made on
•eat Britain’s policy in a telegram
Dm Governor Slaton to Secretary of
ate Bryan, and is of the highest In
rest in view of America’s formal
te of protest and warning against
•itain’s attitude just presented to
e English Foreign Secretary, Sir
iward Grey.
Mr. Haden is as well the. president
the Chandler Land Corporation, an
ganization which owns 120,000 acres
yellow pine land, and, therefore,
obably the most extensive producers
resinous products.
Lumber Trade Hard Hit.
Mr. Haden’s protest, as he explained
Tuesday, bore the note of expert
thorlty.
“Not only willt he naval stores busi.
ss suffer,” he said, ‘‘but the lumber
d crosstie industry is so intimately
sociated with the other that it will
ffer if free traffic in our turpen-
ie and resin is not allowed.
•'Thus* with a lumber business
amounting to $25,000,000 a year, and
a naval stores business amounting to
more than $6,000,000 a year, Georgia
will feel keenly the blow of an ac
tion such as Great Britain has de
clared.
Would Paralyze Many Counties.
“It is to be hoped that the protest
of Secretary Bryan will prevail with
the British authorities, and that the
embargo will be lifted.
“Otherwse, it will mean practically
a paralysis of Southeast Georgia and
Florida, where everything is wrapped
up in the naval, stores business, even
to the affairs of the small merchant.
In at least fifteen or sixteen counties
it is the dominant industry.”
Mr. Haden produced a publication
of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce
to explain the extent and value of
the turpentine and rosin industry in
Georgia. The latest census figures
showed that 8,056,762 gallons of tur
pentine were produced in a single
year, at a value of $3,556,965, and
904,103 barrels of rosin, valued at
$3,371,676.
The following statement, pointed
out by Mr. Haden, is significant:
“Turpentine and rosin, known tech-
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Lake Shore Merger
Halted by Injunction
NYACK, N. V . Dec. 29.—Supreme
Court Justice Tompkins to-day granted,
an injunction restraining the merger
of the New York Centra! and Lake
Shore and Michigan railroad companies.
The action was brought by the Conti
nental Securities Company of New York.
In granting the injunction Justice Tomp
kins held that the promise to increase
the value of sales of l^ake Shore bonds
from r : i tj J per cent in exchange for
the privilege of consolidating was a vio
lation of the law'.
HITES GO
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.—Ocean
freight rates on shipments to Europe
from the United States have gone up
since the outbreak of the war “to a
point affording enormous speculative
profits.” This situation is due to the
fact that the United States has no
merchant marine to handle its com-,
merce.
These were the features of a re
port made to-day to the Senate by
the Department of Commerce in re
sponse to a resolution of Senator
Fletcher adopted by the Senate on
December 18.
“At the time when we have the
most to sell and customers abroad
eager to buy,” the report states, “the
fact that our ocean carrying facili
ties are in the hands of others sub
ject to war risks and controlled by
interests not our own stares us in
the face. We are forced to take the
chances of war and ship in belliger
ent bottoms. It is estimated in ship
ping circles that 50 per cent of the
total tonnage available for our trade
has been eliminated by the tying up
of the German and Austrian marine
and by the commandeering of a
large part of the British marine by
the admiralty. The result has been a
steady increase in steamship rates.”
The report showed that cotton
shipper from New York to Liverpool
had a freight rate on July 11 of 20
cents per hundred pounds. On Sep
tember 12 the rate was 40 cents and
on December 19 it was 75 cents per
hundred pounds. Cotton was shipped
to Bremen, Germany, at a 20-cent
rate on July 11, but on December 23
a cargo was forwarded at a rate of
$3.00 per hundred pounds.
Sacked flour from New York to
English ports had a rate of 12 to 13
cents per hundred pounds at the out
break of the war. Now similar ship
ments cost 26 to 35 cents. From New
York to Copenhagen the flour rate has
gone up from 20 cents to 65 cents.
Measurement goods from New York
to English ports now carry a rate of
$7.30 per ton, where formerly the rate
was $4.26 a ton on the average.
Cold Weather Due
Wednesday Morning
The Atlanta Weather Bureau predicts
a cold wave for Atlanta and vicinity
following the rain of Tuesday.
The prediction is that the temperature
in the early hours of Wednesday morn
ing will be 32 degrees, falling to 26 de
grees before night. The skies are ex
pected to clear.
Term Extended So He
Can Aid in Jail Show
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Dec. 29.—Ray
Farrell, a prisoner, asked that hiB re
lease be postponed so that he could
be an end man In a minstrel show at
the county jail. His request was
granted.
Sky Pilot Ascends
To Loftier Trade
SUMMIT, N. J.. Dec. 29.—The Rev.
Robert C. Hull, pastor of the First
Baptist Church h*M*e, resigned to be
come a partner of James C. Mars,
the .pioneer aviator.
Gutierrez Will Not
Resign; Carranza to
Remain at Vera Cruz
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—M>re
than 2,000 families are destitute and
facing starvation at Monterey, Con
sul Hanna telegraphed the State
Department to-day.
still in Mexico City and has an-
Provislon President Gutierrez
still is in Mexico City and has an
nounced that he has no intention of
resigning, according to official ad
vices to the Department. Consul Sil-
liman reported that he had had sev
eral conferences with Gutierrez, and
he is favorable to the proposal to
grant amnesty to political offenders.
General Carranza was in the out
skirts of Vera Cruz to-day and of
ficial reports from there said noth
ing of his .intention of leaving for
Yucatan.
Canada Must Explain
Attack on Americans
WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.—British Am
bassador Sir Cecil Spring-Rice late to
day, at the request of Secretary of State
Bryan, wired the Governor General of
Canada, the Duke of Connaught, for a
report of the shooting of two Americans
by Canadian guards on the Niagara
River. The Ambassador said that he
had asked for an immediate reply, add
ing that he would lay the facts promptly
before the State Department as soon a3
he obtained them.
Asks Senate Action
On Copper Seizures
WASHINGTON, Dec." 29.—A resolu
tion calling upon the State Department
for all documents transmitted and re
ceived In relation to interference by bel
ligerent war vessels with cargoes df cop
per shipped from the United States to
neutral nations abroad was Introduced
in the Senate to-day by Senator Walsh
of Montana.
Racing Results
AT CHARLESTON.
FIRST—Six furlongs: Travato, 108
(Troxler). 2. even, 1-2. won; Steal Away,
103 (Shilling). 3. .-5, 7-10, second; Crls-
co, 108 (Nathan), 9-2, 2, even, third.
Time, 1:18 1-5. Ochre Court. Dust,
Mimesis, Plain Ann, Idlewetss also ran.
SECOND—Five furlongs: Billy Col
lins. 108 (Connors), 3, 6-5, 3-5, won; A.
C Haley. 104 (Hanover), 8-5. 7-10, 1-3,
second; Chaser, 100 (Obert), 6, 5-2, 6-5,
third- Time, 1:04. Also ran; Otranto,
No Manager, Holland, Madeline B, Cale-
thumpian, Nigadoo and Master Joe.
THIRD—Six furlongs: A. N. Akin,
109 (Obert), 4-5, 1-3, out, won; Jim Sav
age, 111 (Troxler). 4, even, out, second;
Carlone, 102 (Shilling), even, 1-3. out,
third. Time, 1:17. Golden Lassie, Bam
boo also ran.
FOURTH—Five and one-half fur
longs: Squeeler, 109 (Shilling), 2. 1-2,
out, won; Ertcore, 96 (Ural), 10, 3, out,
second; Yorkvllle. 114 (Liltey), 3, even,
out, third Time, 1:09. .1. B. Harrell.
Undaunted also ran.
FIFTH—Five furlongs: Shadrach, 103
(Drver) 7-2, 6-5, 1.-3, won; Scarlet
Oaks, lOO (Miller). 2, 4-5, 1-5, second;
Fred Levy, 111 (Shilling), 3, 6-5, 1-2.
third. Time. 1:03. Dr. Dougherty. Ar
chery, Americus, Transport also ran.
ENTRIES.
AT CHARLESTON.
FIRST—Purse $300, three-year-old a
and up, selling, six furlongs: xFlat bush
104. x Elsewhere 109. Northerner 109.
Nigadoo 109. xVeneta Strome 109. xNa-
damas 109. Perthrock 112, Water Lad
112 Knight of Uncas 112, Hearthstone
114.’
SECOND- Purse $300. three-year-olds
and up, selling, six furlongs: xlda Ia-
vinia 104. No Manager 109, General b ar
ren 109, xLeiloha 109. xWolfsbaths 109.
Francis 109. Bulgar 109, xEthelburg II
109. Batwa 117. Flammarion 117.
THIRD—Purse $300. two-year-olds,
selling, five furlongs; xLady May 97,
xEnduranoe 97. x.lack Marlow 102, Frill
102, Columbia Lady 102. Francis Claire
102, Golden Lassie 102, xKopje 102, xThe
I .ark 102. Harlequin 107. Electrician 10..
River King 107. Page White 107, Rustic
Maid 110, Utelus 113.
F’Ol.’RTH—Purse $300. all ages, selling,
six furlongs: xCannock 99. xlludas
Brother 99, xPriwer 102. xJoe F'lnn 102,
Miss Bamharbor 104. xProgressive 105.
xBrandywine 105. Martre 107. Joe Die-
bold 107, Garbrio 107, Frank Hudson 107.
Fifty-Five 110. Lord Marshall 110.
FT F'TH—Purse $300. three-year-olds
and up, selling, six furlongs: xSupreme
107, xToddling 109, Astrologer 117, xMiss
Brush 109. xBlue Mouse 109. Moncrief
117, Sackcloth 114, Joe Knight 114,
Amoret 114.
SIXTH—Purse $300. three-year-olds
and up. selling, mile: xTom Hancock
100, xHeart Beat 103, Sordello 105, Hol
ton 105, El Biod 105, Stevesta 105. F'ree
Trad* 105. xKinmundy 111, xYork Lad
111. Milton B 113, Quick Start 113, Th*>
Monk 113. Benedietina 113. Ruisseau 113,
Plain Ann 113. Font 113
xApprentice allowance.
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BRITO
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Clerk O. C. Fuller, of the United
States District Court, within the next
few days will certify to the record in
the habeas corpus application of Leo
M. Frank and forward it to the Clerk
of the United States Supreme Court
in Washington as the first definite
step In placing the famous murder
case before that tribunal for the re
view made possible Monday by Unit
ed States Supreme Court Justice Ia-
mar, when he granted a writ of error
on an appeal from the decision of
Judge W. T. Newman.
Solicitor Dorsey will confer Thurs
day with Attorney General Warren
Grice, when the Attorney General re
turns from his Christmas vacation,
and will determine on a course of ac
tion to expedite the proceedings.
It is expected that the Solicitor,
probably with Mr. Grice, will proceed
to Washington as soon as the record
Is sent up by Clerk Fuller and move
that the case be advanced on the
docket for an early hearing.
May Be Heard in 90 Days.
If the case is advanced the chances
are that it will be heard within the
next 90 days. Should it be placed on
the docket in regular order, however,
't would not be reached for at least
eighteen months, and possibly two
years.
Clerk Fuller is allowed 30 days in
v^liich to certify the record and send
it to Washington. The record consists
of the original petition for a writ of
habeas corpus, the decision of Judge
Newman denying it, and the excep
tions to this decision filed by Frank’s
lawyers, setting out the points on
which they alleged the Judge erred.
How Decisions Would Work.
The effect of a decision by the
United States Supreme Court favor
able to Frank would mean another
hearing before Judge Newman on the
question of whether the conderr: ■‘d
man should be liberated — *M1 on
a habeas corpus writ, according to
the opinion of his counsel. An ’-
verse decision would leave the case
where It stands to-day.
There has been much speculation
on this point, as the impression has
prevailed that a favorable decision by
the Supreme Court would mean the
immediate freeing of Frank without
further hearing, habeas corpus pro-
ceedfngs being based on the sole
question of whether a prisoner Is be
ing illegally detained and should be
released.
Attorney I^eonard Haas, of counsel
for FTank, said Tuesday that, as no
evidence was heard by Judge Ne -
man when he denied the writ, a re
versal of his decision would sen he
case back to him for a hearing of evi
dence as to the alleged prevalence of
mob spirit in the caurtro' during
the trial of FTank and on his absence
from the courtroom when the verdict
was announced—the points a* ‘*«ue.
The hearing before the Supreme
Court, Mr. Haas said, would have the
same effect as if the S*dimply had
filed a demurrer to the petition for
habeas corpus and this demurrer were
up for decision.
Should Judge Newman, after hear
ing evidence both from the State and
from F’rank, again deny the writ,
FTank still would have the ht of
another appeal to the Unite’ tes
Supreme Court. A reversal of Judge
Newman on this second hearing would
free FT- the same as if Judge
Newman should grant the writ*
The United Daughters of the Con
federacy have been given permission
to have carved in the north side of
Stone Mountain a gigantic figure typ
ifying the Spirit of the Confederacy.
Definite announcement of this was
made Tuesday to The Georgian by
leading members of the organization
who have been working for months to
bring about a realization of their pre
tentious plan.
Permission was contained in a let
ter written by Samuel H. Venable,
owner of the mountain, to Mrs. Helen
Plane, according to the announcement
made Tuesday. Mrs. Plane is hon
orary president of the Atlanta Chap
ter of the U. D. C., and has led in the
movement to have the colossal figure
sculptured In the mountainside.
At the recent general meeting of the
Daughters in Savannah it was decided
to allow the entire U. D. C. organiza
tion to have a part in the work, and
Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens, of
Brandon, Miss., president general of
the Daughters, was empowered to ap
point a committee to start the cam
paign.
Considering Names.
Mrs. Plane, Mrs. A. McD. Wilson
and other local U. D. C. leaders are
awaiting the appointment of this
committee in order to go ahead. Mrs.
Stevens is now at Brandon looking
over eligible names, and it is expected
that Mrs. Plane and Mrs. Wilson, who
helped launch the project here, will be
among the Atlantans to be named.
This committee will choose the
sculptor, collect subscriptions for the
preliminary work, and decide on the
style of .the mammoth statue. The
figure will be the largest In the world.
The first idea, and probably the one
which will prevail, was to make it
after General Robert E. Lee. It la
estimated that to prepare the prelim
inary plans and cut the monument
outline will require eighteen months,
and that several years will be required
before the statue is completed. The
names of Horatio Taft and other noted
sculptors have been suggested to un
dertake the work, but the sculptor will
be picked by the committee.
Prominent Dughters, among them
Mrs. Wilson, have looked over the
statuary of Europe to obtain ideas.
Mrs Wilson considers the Lion of
Lucerne one of the world’s greatest
creations, and she favors the great
Danish sculptor who fashioned it An-
6ther mentioned prominently is Rodin,
the noted FYeneh sculptor.
The United Daughters of the Con
federacy have Just completed a Con
federate memorial at Arlington Cem
etery, Washington, and are under
taking another at Shiloh. The Stone
Mountain colossus will be the next
great undertaking, and the indica
tions are that the Daughters will
show more enthusiasm over it than
over any similar work.
Would Perpetuate Mountain.
It is understood to be the desire of
the Venables to perpetuate Stone
Mountain and this great monument
which shall stand through all the
ages, and to do this a plan Is said to
be under way to convey a part of It so
it can never be entailed. The moun
tain is now under a 99-year leas- but
the quarrying operations have had lit
tle effect on the great mass of gran
ite, which is some seven mil' > i around
the base.
Less than a year ago W H. Terrell
suagestel that a monument on the
pinnacle of Stone Mountain would be
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State Department
Spineless as Worm,
Says Jas. R. Mann
WASHINGTON, Deo. 29.—Declaring
“there is not as much nerve In the State
Deaxtment as would supply an angle
worm.’’ Minority Leader Mann made a
bitter attack in the House to-day on the
Administration’s Mexican policy.
‘There have been executions, murders,
starvation and rapine in Mexico,” he
said. “We are preventing any one else
/rom restoring order there and yet we
do nothing ourselves. We have as much
nerve in our State Department as would
supply an angle worm. If the Adminis
tration had the proper conception of our
duty we could easily bring order out of
chaos and could it without going to
war.”
Turning from Mexico. Minority Leader
Mann referred to the action of England
in interrupting American commerce on
the seas and said:
“We ought to keep out of entangling
alliances in the European war. but we
should not resign all our rights. England
has been persistently seizing neutral
ships and cargoes and carrying them
into' her own ports. I know of one
American vessel kept in an English port
with a perishable cargo since Novem
ber 6.
‘T am glad that the Administration Is
taking the position that we have our
rights on the sea, both as regards Eng
land and Germany and others. There is
no danger of going to war because we
stand up for these rights. England
could not afford a war with us and
neither could Germany.”
1915 School Budget
Asks for $730,000
The Board of Education, at a meet
ing Tuesday afternoon, will give the
final touches to Its 1916 budget to be
presented to Council, aggregating a to
tal nf $730,000 outside of any contem
plated new buildings.
The members of the board expect to
ask for funds for two new schools,
which they say must be constructed
regardless of a bond Issue. One Is for
Ansley Park, in the Eighth Ward. The
Tenth Street School, which is the only
one now serving this section, is one of
the most overcrowded schools In the
city. It Is still necessary to run four
double sessions there. Residents are
also very Insistent upon a new school
for East Atlanta, the Battle Hill sec
tion of West End. and for the Fifth
Ward.
The school budget for actual running
expenses is almost $100,000 more than
the year Just ending. The salaries of
teachers next year will reach $687,581.
This Item has developed an opposition
among a minority of the members of
the board. Messrs. James L. Key, Har
vey Hatcher, A. P. Morgan and Dan
Green urged cutting some of the sala
ries, as there is fear that Council may
trim the budget. A majority of the
members Is firm against g this move,
however.
Shooting of 2 U. S.
Hunters Is Probed
BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 29.—Careful
and complete Investigation of the
shooting of Walter Smith and Charles
Dorsch, the two American hunters,
by the Canadian infantrymen yes
terday is promised by those in au
thority on both sides of the Niagara
River.
Friends of the bereaved Smith fam
ily to the number of 150 sent a peti
tion to Washington asking that the
investigation be started without de
lay.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Secre
tary of State Bryan to-day announced
that the State Department had begun
an inquiry into the shooting of two
American duck hunters near Fort
Erie, Canada, yesterday by Canadian
guards.
Hammond Quits as
Mayor's Secretary
Frank Hammond, formerly an Atlanta
newspaper men and more recently sec
retary to Mayor Woodward, Tuesday
announced his resignation as secretary.
He left his position at the City Hall to
represent the Rochester F*hoto Press
Company, of Rochester, N. Y., In its
Atlanta territory.
The Photo Press Company is an ad
vertising concern and Mr. Hammond,
having had experience in this line, will
go to his new position well qualified.
He will have offices in the Empire Life
•buikUnjL .
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—No
tice was posted on the Maritime
Exchange this afternoon that the
Royal Mail liner Trent had been
sunk at her home pier in London.
Sanderson & Son, local agents of
the line, did not know whether
the liner was sunk by the gale
which is raging along the Eng
lish coast or by German design.
The Trent was the ship that
rescued Walter Wellman and his
crew from the airship in which
they attempted to cross the At
lantic. She was last in this
port on November 21, having pro
ceeded to London by way of the
West Indie*.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—“In Febru
ary Germany will add 2,000,000 men to
her armies in the field,” said Richard
Wackerow, until recently United
States Consul at Breslau, who ar
rived here from Europe to-day on the
Italian liner Duca D’Aosta. “Germa
ny now has 3,000,000 men in the field.
By September, 1916, Germany will
have 8,500,000 in her armies in the
eastern and western theaters of war.”
Russians Claim
Rout of Austrians
By FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 29.—While the
Austrian army in Northern Galicia is
in retreat, the battle between the Ger
man and Russian forces In Poland
continues a deadlock, with advances
at some points offset by retirements
at others.
Having cut in two the Austrian
army that pressed forward after the
lifting of the Russian siege at Kra
kow, Grand Duke Nicholas, the Rus
sian commander-ln-chief, is now ex
pected to exercise similar strategy
against the Oerman contingent of
Field Marshal von Hindenburg’s ar
mies. The master stroke of the Rus
sians has crushed the Austrian forces
and it will be some time before they
can rally, re-form and be in a posi
tion to give any material aid to the
Germans.
In the meantime, it is believed that
Krakow will again be under siege
before long.
Official dispatches state that all the
important passes In the Carpathians
are now held by the Russians. The
efforts of the Austrians to transport
troops to the relief of the hard-driv
en forces in the Carpathians proved a
miserable failure.
Official dispatches say that General
Dankl’s Austrian army, wnose pur
suit of the Russian army after the re
lief of Krakow, has been turned into
a retreat, is in danger of annihilation.
Hundreds of stragglers, overcome by
the cold weather and lack of food, are
falling behind in the retreat and are
being made prisoners.
Allies Prepare to
Storm Turk Capital
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ATHENS, Dec. 29.—France and
England have made preparations to
occupy Constantinople, it was learned
here to-day. A fleet of transports
bearing a big allied army has been
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