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VILLA DEFEATS CARRANZA ARMY AT TORREON
FINAL
MO
GERMANS RETAKE TOWN
By STEVEN BURNETT,
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georglan,
VIENNA (via Berlin and Am
sterdam), Jan. 9.—Reports are
current here that the fall of War
saw is imminent. The rumors are
to the effect that the Austrian
Government has been notified by
Germany that its troops will en
ter the capital of Poland within
a few days.
By FRANKLIN P. MERRICK.
Speclal Cable to The Atlanta Georglan,
PARIS, Jan. 9 —Burnhaupt-Le.
Haut, the Alsatian town whose cap
ture by French troops was announced
here yesterday, las been recaptured
by the Germans. This was admitted
by the French War Office this after
noon. To offset this loss, however, the
French have captured the town of
Perthes, France, which has been held
by the Germans for several weeks.
Fighting in the vicinity of Amliens
indicates that the Germans are
maintaining their efforts to break
through the Allies and cut the lines
of communication running to Flanders
from Paris. An official statement is
sued here this afternoon says that
there have been artillery duels in the
Amiens region and in the vicinity of
Arras.
In the vicinity of Soupir the French
have captured Hill No. 132 in three
attacks and have repulsed all the ef
forts of the Germans to regain their
positions. The French gain in this
region consists of three lines of Ger
man trenches along a front of 500
yvards. The official statement says
that the Germans have bombarded
Soissons and burned the Palace cf
Justice there. .
The official communique follows:
Mine Throwers Silenced.
“To the south of Ypres we have
damaged the trenches of the enemy
and silenced his mine throwers.
“In the region of Arras and in that
of Amiensg there have been artillery
duels, our batteries having a marked
advantage.
“In the region of Soupir we cap
tured yesterday morning Hill No. 132
in a brilliant engagement, making
three attacks During the day the
enemy made violent counter attacks.
He was repulsed every time Our
waln represents three lines of Ger
man trenches on a front of 600 yards.
“The enemy, being unable to retake
the positions which he had lost, bom
parded soissons and burned the Pal
ace of Justice there. :
German Camp Demolished. |
“To the south of l.aones of Cra
onne our artillery demolished a camp
containing rapid-fire guns, silenced
the enemy’s artillery and wrecked
some trenches
“In the region of Perthes the eneiny
made a pronounced attack, to which |
we ymmediately responded with a
counter attack. This permitted us not |
only to hold our positions on Hill No.
200, west of Perthes, but also to vap-‘
ture 400 yards of the enemy’s trenches
between Hill No. 200 and the village
of Perthes.
“farther to the south the enemy,
heavily reinforced, has recaptured
Burnhaupt-Le-Haut at the cost of |
very heavy losses.”
S t Solssons
Claimed by Germans
By FREDERICK WERNER.
BERLIN, Jan. 9 (by wireless),—
The rainsg that are interfering with
the German operations in Flanders
are now so severe that they resemble
cloudbursts, says an official statement
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THE 4;1;1,%1\3'1‘5 QEQRGIAN
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CINCINNATY Jan 8.~ President
James A. Gilmore, of the Federal
ll.mu le. here to attend the Lee Magee
| njunction hearing, declared to-day
thet attorneys now are preparing a
suit against Catcher lvy Wingo, of
Norcross, Ga., who was transferred to
the Cincinnati Reds by the St. Louils
Cardinals yesterday
“The Reds will not get Wingo with
out a fight,” Gilmore said. “We will
have him enjoined at once if possible.
There will be no let-up in the grind
ing of legal machinery We have
spent a iot of money, but will spend
more We had $3,000,000 to start
with, and we wil] stick to the finish
We'll hold on to Wingo if a legal
fight will help us.”
Wingo had signed to play with the
Buffalo Feds
U. 8. Judge Grants
Motion of Federals
CHICAGO, Jan. 9.—A motion that
defendants in the suit of the Federal
League against organized baseball be
required to file affidavits in the United
States District Court on or before
January 16 was granted to-day by
Judge Landis. The request was made
by Albert F. Meckleburger, of counsel
{fnr the Federal League.
| The lawyer sald that the affidavits
'r\( the Federal l.eague, signed both by
officials and players, will probably be
!flled Monday. They are to be used in
‘sup;mrt of the motion of the plaintiff
for a preliminary injunction on Jan
[u;n’_\ 20. The affidavits of organized
baseball will set up the reason why
!tho injunction should be denied, it is
said
. “Copies of the affidavits were served
in Cincinnati to-day on August HPrr.‘
‘mann, chairman of the National
Commission,”” Mr. Mecklenburger told“
Judge l.andis
“I want all the defendants in thisl
suit who are nonresidents of Chicago
to have notice by telegram of your
motion,” said Judge Landis as he‘
granted the motion.
Find Fifty Bombs in
ty Bomh
Arrested Man's Home
TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 9.—Detec
tives who have been searching for the
author of letters threatening the de
struction of City Hall to-day arrested
Inalle Daprelle, in whose home 50
high-power bombs are alleged to have
been found Recently a bomb was
found in St. Joachim's Roman Cath
olic Church
Daprelle recently came here from
North Carolina. He gave the police
the names of two more persons for
whom search is being made.
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In Divorce Suit Each
Says Other ‘Padded’
PORTLAND, OREQG., Jan. 9.—Sued
for divorce on the grounds that he
padded his shoulders to conceal a
humped back, Jaques Roderlz to-day
filed a counter complaint alleging that
his wife added to her charms by pad
ding.
The couple were married only three
weeks ago The day after the wed
ding they separated. Roderiz is a
ranchman and wealthy,
ATLANTA. GA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1915.
DAILY RACING
RESULTS
AT NEW ORLEANS.
FIRST -Five and one-half furiongs:
Luria, 106 (Ambrose), 7-3, 6-5, 2-5, won;
Martin Casca, 108 (Murphy), 11-5, even,
3-5, second; Colors, 101 .ull!). 7-5, 13,
out, third. Time, 1:08 2.3 Utelus,
Ethelburg I, Tempy Duncan, Philipeno.
Grays Favorite, Chickory Dick also ran.
SECOND—-Five and one-half furlongs:
Anavari, 111 (Ambrose), 2, 3-5, out, won;
Barrette, 108 (Shumn‘ln. 15, 5,2, sec
ond; J. B. Harrell, 101 ilu.\"(h). 7-10,
out, third. Time, 1:07 2-5. ara, Oko
lona, Harebell, Prospero Boy. Beille Bird,
Nimbus also ran.
THREE-Bix mflon{: Dr. Larrick,
98 (Ambrose), 8, 5-2, 4-5, won; O'Hagan,
102 (Turner), 2 7-10, out, second; Jim
Basey, 110 (Smyth), 2, 7-10, out, third.
Time, 1:12 3-5. Yorkville, Luther also
ran.
FOURTH--One mile: Indolence. 101
(Bresch), 5, 9-5, 4-5, won; Chad Buford.
101 (LAlly), 4, 7-5, 3-5, second; Robert
Kay 101 dlurphi-t. 3, 7-10, 1-3, third.
Time, 1:39 2-5. Undaunted, Altamaba.
Polly H. also ran,
FIFTH--Mile and twenty yards: Hen
ry Hutchison, 108 (Pickens), 5-2, 7-10,
1-3, won; Tom Hancock, 101- (Lilly), 6,
2, 4-5, second; Ford Mai, 104 (Hinphy),
6,2, 4-5, third. Time, 1:41 2-5. Electric,
Col. Cook, Petelus also ran.
SIXTH ~Mile and twenty yvards: Love
Day, 112 (Turner), 2, 4-5, 1-3, won; Puck,
112 (McGowan), 15, 5,2, second: Ella
Grane, 105 lSrun). 15, 5,3, third. Time,
1:42 3-5. Kiltie, Jacob Bunn, Hudas
Brother, Jimmie Gill also ran.
AT JUAREZ.
FIRST-—Three furlongs: Julta L. 115
(Gentry), 1-b, out, won; Test, 110 ¢ Mat
thews), 8, 7-5 1-4, second; Shaban, 110
(Metcalf), 6, 8-5, 1-3, third. Time, :35.
Emily R., Lady Blanche, Divan also ran.
( mo.:‘[;»‘lfl‘vo mrlon.g ¢ ‘RA', s 10}‘
- ' 2
(Gross), 8, even, ‘”:'. .’3‘33 m ”
103 (Molesworth), 15, 6,3, third. Time,
1:03 4-5. Himyar Lass, Gertheima, Jack
Harrison, Zetetic, Bagatelle, Finalee,
Woodman, Zangaree, Dr. Brown also ran.
ENTRIES.
AT NEW ORLEANS.
FIRST -Selling, two-year-olds, 3 fur
longs: Czar's Boy 185, xSchool For
Scandal 105 Clara Morgan 106, Gray
) Lady 108, Margaret O 108, Investment
108, Tito 110, Cincinnati 111.
I SE(‘()ND—Scmni.l three-year-olds, 55
furlongs: xJ. B. arrell 102, Meelicka
| 104, Theresa Bethel 104, xßrick and Mor
tar 105, Anna Kruter 108, Blue Wing 112
THlßD—Selling, 4-year-olds ard up, 6
fuclongs: xCrisco 101, Bulgarian 193,
Mordecai 103 Pretty Dale 104, xKiday
104, Strange Girl 104, Earth Queer. 104,
Our Ren 106, Sureget 109, Light iKnight
109, Rodondo 109, xViley 109, Cogs 112
FOURTH-—~The Ben Beekman sclling
stakes, 3-year-olds and u‘g mile and 20
yards: xCelebrity 108, xKneelet 90, Flg’
Home 97, Birka 101, Hudas Brother 103,
Bula Welsh 102 xMycenae 103, xOrperth
105, El Pato 106, Joe Diebold 106, xArmor
109, Earl of Savoy 111. z
FIFTH-—Selling, four-year-olds snd}
u‘?. 6 furlongs: Requiram 101, Oklona
104, Nila 104, Cliff Top 104, O'Ts Irue
106, Omoret 104, Surpassing 106, sSa'on
106, Ben Lolay 109, The Gander 109,
Cannock 109, Gabrio 108, Big Dipper 110.
SIXTH —Selling, 4-year-olds and up,‘
mile and one-sixteenth: xsShepherdesss
97, xOld Jordan 99, Lenavaal 102, XRalpn.
Lioyd 103, The Hermit 104, xCassanova
104, Consoler 106, xMawr Lad 106, High
Class 107, Manager Mack 109, xServic
ence 109, Garneau 111, Stentor 111, Ben
edictina 111.
xApprentice allowance.
Weather clear; track fast
AT JUAREZ.
FIRST-—Selling, 3 years up; 3 furlongs;
Helen Raybould 102, Category 103, Stolen
Ante 107, Type 107, Obolus 110, Froken
dale 112,
SECOND--Selling, 3 years up, #'% fur
longs; x-Dusky Dave 101, Paw 106, Star
Berta 108, Liftle Jane 108, Anna Reed
108, Azure 108, Amoholka 108, Orba
Smile 108, Choctaw 110, Palma 110, Forge
110, Bob Lynch 110, Prince Conrad 110,
Annual Interest 110, Ancestors 113.
THIRD-—-Three years up; Rosario
handicap, 5 furlongs; xx-Fathom 86, xx-
Hafi)enny 98, Florence Roberts 103, Joe
Blair 112, Othello 117. xx-Hackett en
try.
FOURTH-—Thres years up, Sonora
handicap, mile; Waverin fi Be 92,
Ringling 107, Injury 107, gronkfield 110,
Grover Hughes 118.
P‘IFTH«—SeHInF 3 years up, 6 fur
longs; x-Rese Ring 99, Balder 105, Gor
don Russell 108, Osaple 109, Minco Jim
109, x-Lackree 110, Pay Streak 111, Gen.
‘Marchm(mt 113; éalgee 14,
SlXTH—Selling. 4 years up, mile and
\elgh_th; x-Little Marchmont 95, x-Durin
‘9/. Spindle 103, Mudsill 105. Goldy 105,
Mannie McDee 105.
| X— Afiprentice allowance,
- Weather clear, track fast.
Harely Accepts as
Bessie Tift D
* ean
FORSYTH, Jan. 9.—Professor Eric
W. Hardy, president of the Lexington
College for Young Women, of Lexing
ton, M 0.,, who has been ngmed dean of
Eessie Tift College. has accepted and
will begin immediately the duties of
his rew position.
Mr. Hardy, a native of South Caro
lina, is a graduate of Furman Uni
versity at Greenville and the Univer
sity of Chicago. He has been profes
sor of history in Ouichita College,
Arkansas, and president of Fork Un
jon Military (ollege at Fork Union,
Va, )
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COLUMBIA, Jan. 9 Full pardons
to about 1,500 persons convicted In
this State of various crimes and pa
roled since January 1, 1911 ware
granted to-day by Governor Blease
A speclal decree was prepared
granting these pardons, and with one
stroke of his pen the Governor re
lflh\rnd citizenship to approximately
1.500 men and women who collectively
lwer» convicted of practically ever;
crime on the calendar
Governor Blease signed the paper
i.t ! o'clock. He accepted the estimate
of attaches of his office that this de
cree would affect 1,500 persons,
‘uh ch increases to 3,165 the total
number receiving clemency from Gov
| ernor Blease since he assumed office,
This action did not liberate Aany
prisoners now in the State Peniten
tiary or on the pubiic works of the
counties It did, however, place the
clemency record established by Gov
ernor Blease above that established by
any Chlef Executive of any State, ac.
cording to the best information ob
tainable here
As he signed the decree the Gov
ernor asserted that he hoped “a High
er Power™ would as freely forgive his
“many sins.”
In addition to this blanket pardon
Governor Blease also granted pardons,
paroles and commutations of sen
}tmu-r' to 34 prisoners of the State and
counties This included seven con
'vlrln-d of murder, ten convicted of
manslaughter, three of aggravated as.
Imnl and one of slander
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o-receiver Named
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For $300,000 Daniel
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~ Farming Properties
Judge J. T. Pendleton, in Superior
Court, Saturday appointed Attorney
(Clarence Bell as co-receiver with Re
ceiver H. F. Atlee for the extensive
farming properties in Campbell Coun
ty of H. T. Danlel, valued at nearly
$300,000, and which now are involved
in litigation in the Fulton courts \
Application for the co-receiver was
made by Attorneys Hewlett, Dennis & |
Whitman, representing the l-'uur!h‘
National Bank, and other n-rr-zhh-ml
Daniel’'s farm land, consisting of 2,000
acres, is divided into about 1-I:htm>nl
farms H:‘~ indebtedness, as ulh-xw]‘
by the creditors, runs close to $60,000
The American National Bank, which
has entered the case as a large inter
venor, is represented by Smith, Ham
mond & Smith, while Daniel is repre
sented by Guyt McLendon.
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Bandits Kill Officer
Who Intercepts Theml
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BT, IL.OUIS, Jan. 9 Police Sm_l
geant Michael F. Gibbons, a cousin by |
marriage of Mayor Kiel, was shot :md:
almost instantly killed by two h:mdils’
he discovered holding up a wulr'hm:m'
and blowing the safe in the Delmar
station of the Wabash Ralilread at 3|
o'clock this morning 1
Hearing a muffled explosion. (ib
bons went in, and as he stepped in
side one bandit, who had the waltch ‘
man covered as his companion worked |
on the safe, turned his revolver 'rr«‘
ward the policeman, killing him in
stantly.
Contracts by Feb. 1;
n s by Feb. 1;
Smith Due Monday
Billy Smith, manager of the Crack.
ers, will not be here until Monday, ac-¢
cording to Secreiary Parker, of the
Atlanta baseball club. Smith wage due
here to-day, but a wire from him to
local baseball headquarters stated
that he had missed connections and
would not be here until Monday.
Much business will confront Billy
on his arrival. The locals will need
much strengthening before tha 1918
campalgn opens, as several of last
year's stars will be missing the com-
Ing campalgn.
Contracts to the players must be
mailed within the next few days, as
the diamond warriors must recelive
the papers before February 1, or they
will be declared free agents.
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Father-in-Law of
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georglan.
LONDON, Jan. 9 —Prince William
of Hohenzollern, father-in-law of ex-
King Manuel of Portugal. will be
married at the Royal Castle in Mu
nich on January 10 to Princess Alde
gonde, eldest daughter of the King of
Bavaria, |
It is announced that the wedding
will be celebrated in all possible sim
plicity, “in tune with the gravity of
the hour.”
Prince Willlam is serving with the
Bavarian army. His first wife, Prin
| cess Maria Theresa of Bourbon-&icily,
died in 1909, The Prince was born
in 1864,
Democrats to Win in
1916, Declares Clark
WASHINGTON, Jan, 9 -—Speaker
Champ Clark, principal speaker of the
Woman's National Democratic League
&I‘on\'emion, predicted a Democratic
’\'ivmry in 1916,
“1 believe,” said the Speaker, “that
the Democratic Administration has
put more constructive legislation on
{ the statute books than any other Con
gress—not even excepting the first
‘('rmgress. 1 believe the American peo
‘ple will indorse and continue us in
ipnwer for what we have done.”
Boxer, Removed From
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Ring Senseless, Dies
SEATTLE, Jan. 9.—L. Anderson, of
Seattle, known to the fighting world
as “Jark Newton,” died to-day as a
res.lt of injurlies received in the third
round of a boxing contest last night
with Ike Cohen, a San Francisco pu
gilist. Newton was carried from the
ringside and never regained con
sciousness,
The men fought at 160 pounds. Co
hen is under arrest,
Dutch Officer’s Death
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georglan.
SURABAYA, JAVA, Jan. 9.—The
Sultan of Ternate, a Dutch posses
sion, has been arrested on a charge of
complicity in the murder of a Dutch
official and taken to some unknown
point for trial.
Wins Suit for Two
OSSINING, N. Y., Jun. 9.—Edward
L. Rvder, who sued the New York
Central Rallroad for 2 centsg’ excess
fare, collected from hi.n, was awarded
he amount and cost of the trial
TWO DROWNED AT FORD.
LOUISVILLE, KY,., Jan. 9 .\l:.-sl
Pear! Boone, 20 a descendant of Dan
ja] Boone and Richard Friend, 23,
were drowned near tiodgenville whil
trying to ford a rver in a busiky.
»oL i, 3CENTS [A%:°
SAN DIEGO, CAL., Jan. % -~Tom
Alley, In a Dusenberg, was first off
in the SIO,OOO exposition road race
over a 305-mile course to-day. Each
lap is six milcs
Jack Callaghan, driving a Dusen
berg, struck & post at the turn near
the Theosophical headquarters and
was out of the race He was not
hurt
At the end of 100 miles of the race
'Rlckenharhn, in & Peugeot; Cooper,
in a Btutz, and Alley, in his Dusen
berg, were together and fighting hard
for the lead
Barney Oldfield, who had been driv
ing hard for the last 40 miles, was
some distance behind
At the end of 200 miles Ear! Coop
er. in a Stutz, was leading: Willlam
Carlson, in a Maxwell, was second
and Ed O'Donnell, in a Duesenberg,
was third
Only ten cars out of the nineteen
started were left in the race
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Broker Kills Self
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When Failure of His
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Firm Is Announced
NEW YORK, Jan. 9 Within an
hour after the announcement of the
‘rmlurr of his irm had been posted nnl
the New York Stock Exchange G. F |
Stringer, Jr., committed sulcide at
‘.\'n 4 Exchange place to-day
| The brokerage firm of which String
‘pr was a member was that of G. F.
Stringer & Co, the senlor partner be
-I;ng the father of the broker, who
committed guicide
Stringer shot himself through the
mouth and his body was found lying
under a desk with the revolver only a
few feet awa) The suicide took place
in the office of the Guanajuato Devel
opment Company, in which the
Stringer concern has a large interest,
The younger Stringer also had a desk
there
Stringer's suicide and the failure of
hig firm was due to the unprecedented
increase in the price of wheat in Chi
cago. The attorney for the firm esti
mated it had failed for about $160,000.
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900 Lost by Sinking
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Of Turkish Transport
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georglan.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 9.—The sinking
of a Turkish transport in the Black
Sea by Russian warships is un—‘
nounced in a statement issued by the
Admiralty to-day. The vessel carried
900 Turkish soldiers, and all were
lost. She was convoyed by the cruiser
Medjidieh, which escaped, though it lfl|
believed she was badly damaged
The transport was sunk near Sl<l
nope, on the northern coast of Asia
Minor, on January 3 |
Nollar-a-Year Salary |
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Not Paid; May Resign,
WAYCROSS, Jan. 9 James W, I
Rellinger, who has just been re-ele '.'
ed City Treasurer at a salary of 8 1-3|
cents per month, may resign. ac r-nrd‘f
ing to a rumer around the Tty Hall, |
because his 1914 salary of $1 has not
been palis l
City funds aggregating $175,000
pass through his hands He is cash-!
er of 4 bank here, acting as City de-
LATEST NEWS
10,000 VILLAISTAS VICTORIOUS.
EL PASO, TEXAS, Jan. 9.—Ten thousand followers of
General Villa, commanded by General Felipe An%e‘a. have
decisively defeated a Carranzaista army near omow
is announced in a dispatch received here to-da‘. The
lowers of Carranza, who were commanded ma!
Antonio Villarel is repo&ted to have fled leaving dead
and wounded behind. General Servin, second in command
to General Angeles, lost his life. The fight is called the
biggest of the present war._
At a conference held to-day between General Villa
and General Scolt, the Mexican leader suggested as a
solution to the Naco situation that the American Govern
ment permit him to cross through United States territory
with his personal body guard of 200 men. He promised to
take Naco within four hours, on condition that the Ameri
can citizens at Naco withdraw from the range of fire dur
ing that time. General Scott replied that he would have
to comsolt with the Washington government.
REVENUE IN SIGHT
ISNOW $13,000 SHORT
So far as the tentative budget for
Atlanta’'s 1915 expenses ls concerned
the actual tax revenue now in sight
is some $13.000 short of the plain
maintenance axpenses of the city, with
nothing sald about new projects—new
schools, hospital facilities, police bet
terments or anything.
Chalrman A. W. Farlinger, of the
Council Finance Committee, has just
completed the tentative budget for
maintenance expenses, on which he
has been at work with the Comp
troller, preparatory to submitting the
same at the meeting Monday of the
Finance Committee, when a public
hearing is to be held to consider new
projects.
Tentatively speaking, the new
projects do not seem to have an en
couraging show-—if the tentative bud.
get goes through the Finance Com
mittee in anything like its present
form.
| Budget Calls for $4,718,000.
The tentative budget prepared hy
Mr. Farlinger and the Comptroller
calls for $4,718,000 for the city’'s main.
tenance during 1915, Not anticipat
ing any increase In revenues that may
accrue from Increased taxes and so
«., the actual money in sight to take
’dehbmmmmmh
any improvements or additions s just
$4,705,000.
~ And that is the proposition that will
confront the Finance Committee at its
meeting Monday.
While all this was being evolved by
Mr. Farlinger the Finance Committee
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en aMovie
A movlie play that recalls the days
when Robinson Crusoe was at his
best without a wife is in the embry
onic stage in the Federal Building, the
E(-hlld of G. Scott Alexander's right
eous indignation at sight of a very
}bld movie Thursday night at one of
Atlanta’s picture palaces. The dif
ference is that in Mr. Alexander's
movie there are plenty of wives, and
consequently plenty of uncertainty
and exelitement, with tragedy of the\
deepest dye thrown in. Comedy, too,
but not of the John Bunny variety.
It must be sald by way of paren
thesis that Mr. Alexander is normal
ly a deputy internal revenue agent
who writes the names of moonshiners
in a ledger as a general thing, and
goes out and catches the moonshin
ers themselves if there are too manyv
for the other agents. But when the
movie profession seems to need a
champion, he is right there with the
plot, as witness:
Two couples are on their honey
moon on a ship in the South Sea. In
a shipwreck the couples are badly
mixed up, the wrong husbands draw
ing the wrong wives, but accepting
the role of hero as graciously as pos
sible under the circumstances. The
athletic young men swim valiantly to
different islands with the rescued
women,
In due time the wife of the man on
one of the lonely isles marries the
husband of the girl on the other lone
ly isle, the necessity for an officiat
ing minister being entirely overlook
ed by the playwright, who refuses to
be bothered by such detalls. Also in
due time a son is born to one couple
and a daughter to the other. Years
go by and a passing ship picks up the
marooners and sits them down to the
first chicken broth they have tasted
in many a moon. .
The plot thickens as the young pair
fall in love with each other, and de
clare they are going to marry. Both
husbands are told that the proper
thing for the wedding is to have clean
faces, so they reluctantly go to the
ship's barber. They recognize each
other, and then the women arums'
within. and then more alaru&,wnh
was having a meeting to consider the
departmental salaries of the city for
this year.
Nym Hurt, Chief of Construction,
was among those who addressed the
meeting, and Tom Lanford, superin
tendent of the stockade, and Chief
Beavers were there with a suggestion;
and there was a good deal of other
conversation, sspecially on the propo
sition to increase the police force by
41 new members, to be derived as fol.
lows:
The detective force to be reduced
from 230 members to 15 the reduced
16 to be put in uniform and added to
the police force; ten plainclothes men
to be added to the uniformed force,
and 16 new men added. ;
Situation Is Complicated.
All this was complicated by the im.
pending shadow of short funds, and
also the committee’s consideration of
the departmental salaries. "
In this matter it was decided to fix
only the salaries o? “chartered of
ficlale,” leaving t matter of other
officers’ salaries to the heads of the
ldop‘r‘.mcml. to reduce or do away
with entirely, or handle as they saw
fit—except to Increase.
It was suggested that the office of
assistant superintendent of
stockade be abolished with its m?
a week salary, now held by Josh Tye,
reputed candidate for Lanford's’ job
as superintendent.
The cemetery pay roll was consid
ered and it was decided to pass up’
same on the existing basis.
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SAVANNAH, Jan. 9.—These
saving corps people are nothing If
practical, literal and matter-of-fact.
Even when it comes to an affair of
courage and heroic rescue, and all
that sort of thing, they just stick
right along to the prescribed iine of
duty. If there is any splurge made
about it, somebody else will have to do
the splurging.
It seems that a regulation program
of drills has heen ordered by the
Tenth District life-saving authorities
for all stations, and following is the
report received by Captain E. G. Ber.
ry from the keeper of the Santa Rosa
Station, off the Carolina coast, and
one of the most dangerous in the
South:
“Beg to report that the regu
lation number of drills have been
held daily, except on the 27Tth,
when we stopped to save eighteen
men from the bark Gluseppa Ve
racara, which went to pieces on
the rocks.”
That is something—what?
But in a postscript is the real crack.
er. It adds:
“Double drill was held the next
day.”
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Fire-Trapped, Woman
Leaps From Window
NEW YORK, Jan. 9 —ln a fire this
afternoon which started in a dress
making establishment at No. 9 East
Forty-seventh street, three doors west
of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, one woman
was badly burned and a second jumped
from a third floor window to the street,
Calls were sent to nearby hospitals for
three ambulances
Two alarms of fire were gent in. Fire
men fighting the blaze were hindered
by the army of shoppers thronging Fifth
avenue
The fire gutted the building, a six
story affair, with living apartments on
the floors above the dressmaking estab
lishment
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occasional gaspe for breath. But the
wedding proceeds.
Here Mr. Alexander finds himself In
a quandary, and the play for the
nonce ends. What kin are the young
married couples and what kin are
their parents? The audience can fig
ure it out, as far as Mnr Alexu.ndoré
cares: and, while the play is in fts®
early stages, Mr. Alexander begs that
the movie managers lay off. Some
what later, the line will form gm the
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