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THE WEATHER
Forecast—Fair Wednesday night and
Thursday.
Temperatures—6 a. m., 58; 8 a. m., 61; 10
a. ni„ 66; 12 noon, 73; 1 p. m., 73; 2 p. m„ 74.
Sunrise, 5:17; sunset, 6:03.'
The Atlanta Georgian
The Paper That Goes Home and Stays There
| VOL. XIII. NO. 210.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1015. c*. 2 CENTS p ^° |
JOE JACKSON KNOCKS OUT SHERIFF
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First Photo of White House Baby With
Its Mother, the President s Daughter
Board Outlines County Work
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(Copyright, 1915, by International News Service. Photo by 1. Braaen.
Mrs. Jessie Wilson Sayre, daughter of President Wilson, and her little, son, Francis. The
White House baby was born January 17, 1915. The mother 's pride in her healthy, smiling child is
shown in her face. The Sayre baby is President Wilson's first grandchild.
What About
ThatOpening
Day Cup?
Unless Atlanta gets a move on,
some other town is going to walk off
with that "attendance-at-opening-
day” baseball trophy again this year.
Hast year, you remember. Birming
ham sneaked in and took the cup,
which is offered by the Southern
League annually for the largest paid
attendance < .. the first day of the sea
son. Previously Atlanta had almost
had a monopoly on it. And if Atlanta
wants to regain the honor this year
she had best be getting busy right
now.
Down in New Orleans they are
• ’ounting right smart on putting one
• >ver on both Atlanta and Birming
ham. They have enlisted the aid of
society girls and matrons,, who have
promised to canvass the city selling
tickets to the opening game of the
season, April 13. Various civic and
social organizations have joined in
fthe “cop-lhe-cup" move also, and
there is much enthusiasm, according
to the newspapers of the Crescent
< ’i!\.
Over in Birmingham there is a
similar plot on foot. The civic or
ganizations of that city have united
in an effort to get out a record-break-
infl crowd. There will be a b!$ pa- j
rade and some gloating over the cup j
which Birmingham took from Atlanta |
last year, and threats to never let it i
got away from Birmingham
What’s Atlanta going to do about 1
ir? There are only a few days lef',.
for ttip season opens here in juM a
• c-.k—April 14
Shoeless Boys
Better Than
Swallow
Spring surely is here. One may
doubt the accuracy of judgment on
the part of timid peach blossoms to
proclaim the advent of the gladdest
season of the year, but there is no
going behind the dictates of boydom
And the boys have put their stamp of
official approval upon the arrival, of
the gentle, warm days that are the
overture of summer.
Hours before the first school bell
rang Wednesday morning to call
youths from recreation to the mate
rial things of life, countless small
boys, shorn of stockings and shoes,
were out on vacant lots playing
“catch’’ or else “lining ’em out" to
the tune of a well seasoned bat.
The barefoot boy has come into his
own, and. unless there should be a
sudden change into frosty weather,
indications all point to quite a spell
of shoeless days for the youngsters.
One swallow may not make a spring,
but a couple of bare legs attached to
an enthusiastic kiddie is enough evi
dence for any weather jury.
Panama 14-in. Gun
Slides, Kills Negro
PANAMA. April 7. The first of the
14-inch guns to be placed in position
at the fortifications of Naos Island
slipped out of the chains with which
it was being hauled Into place arm
rolled down a hill A negro was killed
by the great gun in its plunge, but the
gun was uninjured.
NOMINATION BI^ANK
1,000 VOTES
AMERIC;
hlarcts
I hereby nominate a8 a candidate in your “HOME AND
AUTOMOBILE CLUB” circulation campaign:
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Nominated by Address
Note—Only one nomination blank will be accepted for
one candidate.
Joe Jefferson Jackson, the man who
keeps Ty. Cobb jumping each year to
win the batting honors of the Amer
ican League, proved Tuesday in At
lanta that he could slug with his fists
as well as w’ith his war club when he
mixed with and got away Trom the
Sheriff of Greenville, S. C., who had
been sent here by Jackson's wife to
bring him to his home town on a
personal charge.
Tne Sheriff, according to Jackson,
who returned to Atlanta from Green
ville Wednesday, served him with a
warrant at the Childs Hotel,, and
when train time for Greenville came
around Jackson agreed to peaceably
accompany him to the station. As the
pair reached the corner of Broad and
Alabama streets, some words arose,
and the officer attempted to put the
handcuffs on Joe. Result, the base
ball star, who stands over six feet, un
corked a couple of stiff rights and
lefts to the other’s jaw. broke away,
and fled.
Jackson Travels Alone.
Later Jackson boarded a train* for
Greenville alone, put up bonds for the
[charge against him. and returned
i here. He wired Joe Birmingham,
; manager of the Cleveland club, at
I Chattanooga, at noon, and said I\e
j would report to the team at that place
to-morrow morning.
Birmingham and his hitting star
have had considerable trouble this
spring, as both readily admit. Joe
admits he had a $200 fine slapped on
him at New Orleans because of fail
ure to observe certain training laws,
but denies he knows anything about
the $550 penalty he is said to have re
ceived for prolonging his stay in At-
lant last week.
Jackson, after his stop-off here the
last time, went to Greenville to visit
his brother, and on Monday opened
what was supposed to be a two weeks’
engagement at a Whitehall street
theater, with Irene Rene as a part
ner in his act. The arrival of the
Sheriff from Greenville broke up this
engagement.
' Talks to Manager.
Jackson, when he called up Mana
ger Birmingham, at Chattanooga, in
the presence of a Georgian reporter
Wednesday, spoke somewhat as fol
lows :
“Hello! This is Joe Jackson."
“Why, yes. I stopped off in Atlanta
What of It?”
“Certainly, I want to join the club.”
“Well, if you don't want me. say
so."
“All right. Good-bye.”
The readers can fill in what was
probably said by Birmingham at the
other end of the wjre. At any rate,
Joe was to pull out for Chattanooga
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, so
it appears he is going back into the
ranks.
Has Ironclad Contract.
One peculiar thing about Jackson's
status quo with the Clevelanders is
that he has an ironclad contract for
two years with the club, and has no
ten-day clause contained therein
that would permit him to jump to the
Feds if he cared to and wanted to
Hodge the fines imposed upon him. He
says he could make as much money
jin the theatrical game As he can in
| baseball, but he knows that his draw-
I ing power will stop the moment he
! drops out of the national spotlight
land quits hitting the ball on the nose.
GEORGIA POSTMASTER NAMED.
I WASHINGTON, April 7.—Presi
dent W ilson to-day appointed Fran-
< e-s K. I'lianman to be postmaster at ,
linen i \ i.-t j. Ga.
Chicken Clinic
Routed by
Scott er
Mr. S. Buzby, with- the soul of a
stand-patter, has little sympathy with
the bold Explorations of science. And
being the star boarder at Mrs. South’s
house. No. 102 Capitol avenue, he
wields considerable influence in his
little sphere, so that research is now
on the blink out on Capitol avenue.
The scientific contingent at Mrs.
South’s is represented mainly by J.
K. Sheffield and H. O. Wimberly,
seniors in the Atlanta Dental College,
and very Inquiring young men. Their
clash with the star boarder, aired in
Judge Johnson’s court Wednesday,
revealed the setbacks to w’hich science
is subjected.
There was chicken for dinner Sun
day at Mrs. South’s. And the studi
ous eyes of Mr. Sheffield and Mr.
Wimberly glistened with eager curi
osity after know ledge when the skele
ton of the fowl was displayed after
the carving.
"If we could dissect it." Sheffield
sighed to Wimberly.
Buzby, the stand-patter, scoffed.
“A chicken ain’t got no teeth." he
said. But the young scientists merely
looked at him scornfully, and when
everybody but Buzby was looking
away, Sheffield slipped the skeleton
into his handkerchief to take it to
the college.
But he didn’t reckon on Buzby, who
told Mrs. South about it; and Mrs.
South was wroth. Her Sunday chick
ens were to be eaten, not to be in-
veFiigated. The clinic was called off.
Sheffield called Buzby something and
Wimberly indorsed it. Buzby told
the Recorder that he was slapped and
choked, and Judge Johnson fined
fined Sheffield $3.75. Next time, he
t(5ld Buzby, he must not let the young
dentists call him things and slap him,
but should fight them back.
Negro State Convict
Turns Down Parole
Claud Walton is getting along very
| well, thank you, and is even happy.
The fact that he is a convict in the
Newton County camp is a circum-
j stance, altogether negligible. Walton, a
negro, was sent up from Fulton Coun
ty courts to serve a six-year sentence
! for burglary, and March 29 Governor
! Slaton signed an order releasing him on
j parole.
4- But Walton would rather be a con-
j vict. The parole order was returned
with the surprising statement from the
| Newton County warden that the negro
j had declined it, choosing rather to serve
out his term in contentment and with
out being disturbed by such distracting
| incidents as paroles and such.
! Walton's term will be out the last of
April. The Governor's parole offered
! him a month of freedom.
I
Married 43 Years;
Mother of 15 Sues
George W. Smith, of No 139 Sims
street, has been ordered to show cause
! 1 before Judge J. T. Pendleton, in Su-
I perior Court, why he should not pay
alimony to his wife, Mrs. Julia. Smith,
aged 60, and the mother of fifieen 11 v-
1 ing children.
Accompanying the alimony petition.
Mrs. Smith also sued for divorce,
charging her husband with cruelty.
The couple have been married 43
years, and, according to Mrs. »Smlth,
lived happily until recently.
Girl Calls Firemen
To Rescue Pet Kitten
MACON. GA., April 7 A ten-year-
old girl called out the Me • fire de
partment to-day * ° her kitten
from the roof of her home.
Unable to reach the fire ala*rn box
the child telephoned Mayor ’ -'dge.s
Smith, and told him the fire-fiehting
machines -were wanted at No 750
Pine street ‘rignt away.” The Mayor
gave a private alarm, and the de
partment responded. The firemen
obligingly hoisted their ladders and
rep'ored the k rfen to its distressed
mJstreas. ,
The complete program of work to
be done this year by the county in
road improvement outside of the city
prepared by the public works com
mittee, with an estimated value of
$50,000, Wednesday was adopted by
the Board of County ’Commissioners
at its monthly session.
The contemplated work is far in
excess of that done last year, and
means much for the advancement of
every section of the county. It con
sists of grading, paving, resurfac
ing and repairing.
The public works committee, com
posed of W. Tom Winn, chairman; J.
Oscar Mills and T. J. Hightower, Jr.,
has been at work on the program for
several weeks, and prepared it after
touring the county and inspecting the
needs in the different sections. The
program of improvements inside of
the city w’as prepared some time ago,
and this work already is in progress.
Here are the "outside" improve
ments, as shown in the program
adopted Wednesday, and the allot
ment of convict camps.
McPherson Camp.
• leading Avon avenue, city limits to
Cascade avenue, cemetery entrances.
F’aving—Campbellton road, city limits
to Ben Hill.
Roseland Camp.
Grading—Forrest road, McDonough
road to and including railroad ap
proaches; South Moreland avenue. Con
federate avenue to Paper Mill road; Mt.
Zion avenue. Stewart avenue, east "4o
llapeville road (N. S. L. L. 93).
Paving—Sawtcll avenue, McDonough
to Southern Railway; Richmond avenue,
Jonesboro to Schoen plant; South Pryor
street, Southern Railway to’ Lakewood,
at West street; West street, Lakewood
avenue to South Pryor street; Paper
Mill road, McDonough to Moreland.
Virginia Camp.
Grading Armour avenue, Plaster ave
nue to Fertilizer plants; North Boule
vard. Piedmont to Plaster avenue;
North Bourne road, Highland to Pied
mont; Old Decatur road. Highland to
Piedmont.
Paving Virginia avenue. Highland to
North Boulevard; Ponce JDeLeon place,
city limits to Virginia avenue.
Bellwood Camp.
Grading—West Lake avenue. Simpson
to Mayson and Turners; Chappell road,
Simpson to Mayson and Turners, Simp
son street. Chhppell road to Peyton
road; Hollywood road, Carey to River
side; Johnson road, Simsvllle to Mari
etta road: Hemphill avenue. Bishop
street to Collier road: Oliver Baker
road. Mayson and Turners to Peyton
road; Rice street. Marietta street to
county property.
Paving—Chattanooga avenue, end of
present macadam i»» Moore’s home;
Simpson street, L. and N. to West Lake
aventie: Hollywood road, Elliotts to
Cemetery: DeFoors Ferry road, Howell
Mill to Quarry Blantown road
East Point Camp.
Grading Finish Newnan road, Main
street to Dobbs: Cleveland avenue and
Mount Zion road. East Point to Stew
art avenu; Union avenue, in Hapeville:
extension of Church street, Vesta to
College Park (via Hemphill and Maiden
Lane): Ben Hill road. East Point to Ben
Hill: Bussey road. Bussey's to Newnan
road.
Paving—Newnan road, Main street to
county line; finish Church street to
Vesta (about 1.000 feet); Vesta avenue.
Church to Main streets; Cambridge ave
nue, Main street to Bussey’s
Utoy Camp.
Paving—Cascade road, city limits to
count yline; Fairbum road, Cascade to
Adamsville; gride Willis Mill road
Adamsville Camp.
Grading—Finish widening .Mayson and
Turner's Ferry, Pc*yton road to Bolton
road: road from Bolton road to Chatta-
hoovhee Station; finish Bolton road to
Bltn; McDonald road. Wilson Mill road
to Fairburn road.
Paving—Top soil Baker’s Ferry road.
Adamsville to State farm; Adamsville
road. Bolton road to river.
Wleuca Camp-.
Grading—Dunwood.v road; Fulton ave
nue. Peachtree to 500 feet east of the
Southern Railway; East Pace’s Ferry
road, Peachtree to Pharr road; Pharr
road. East Pace's Ferry to Piedmont;
Cheshire road, Roxhoro to Cheshire
road: Peachtree Heights road, Hemphill
to Andrews avenues; Howell drive.
Wesley to Peachtree, Battle avenue; old
Ivy road, Roswell to new Ivy road: Col-
lev road. Pace's Ferry to Isom; Hemp
hill avenue, Collier road to old Howell
Mill road.
Paving — Andrews avenue. Peachtree
road to Chatham drive; Chatham drive.
Andrews avenue to Hopkins avenue (80b
feet); (move to Utoy): finish Wieuca
road. Alston's to Roswell road; new Ivy
road. Piedmont to Wieuca road.
Honor Camp.
Grading—Lawrencevllle road. Powers'
Ferry road to Sandy Springs Camp
Ground: Heard's Ferry road, J>awrence-
villc road t<< Judge Heard’s; Powers'
Kerry road, Butler's to Sort's: Jett road.
Powers' Ferry to Gorman road: Dun - |
"oodv rood, pompkl* to county line;
Gorman road, Mount Perrin to Pwers'
Chicks’ Mew
Puzzle tor
Red Hen
It seems that Rhody. a little red
hen that may be found in the back
yard of Mrs. J. B. Overton's home at
No. 189 Highland avenue, can’t quite
get it right In her head what hap
pened to her on Easter morning. She
is only a hen, but somewhat of a
barnyard suffragette, and want* to
know. That little fluffy bunch of yel
low’ chicks following her around don't
seem to be her own children.
Rhody had been setting the proper
nbmber of days and was due to come
off with her new brood Easter morn
ing. A number of hens were setting
in the Overton establishment, and
Mrs. Overton decided to separate
Rhody from the others. While Rhody
was away she moved the eggs.
But there was another visitor to
Rhody’s nest as well. A wayfaring
cat nosed into the barn and found
the lately deserted nest warm and In
viting, whereupon she pre-empted it
and populated It with three Easter
kittens.
Rhody came back from her stroll
clucking. No cat likes clucks, and
the intruder was frightened away,
leaving the nest and kittens to the
I hen.
Rhody clucked t>ne shrill cluck of
* pure delight. Such young chicks were
j never seen before as these three in her
nest. True, she had not expected
them so soon, but since they were
here, and such big. healthy looking
things, she must do her duty. Which
she did, and Mrs. Overton, making
her rounds, found Rhody a-top the
kittens, the proudest mother in At
lanta.
Of course. Rhody was put where
she belonged, and the chickens came
out according to schedule. But the
little red hen doesn’t appear satisfied.
These little yellow things can not rec
oncile the bereaved mother to the loss
of her three first children.
Prinz Eitel Refuses
Chances for Dash
NEWPORT NEWS, VA.. April 7.—
Although not officially announced. It
is believed that the German cruiser
Prinz Eitel Friedrich will intern and
that Captain Thierichens has inform
ed Government officials of this deci
sion.
The report that the vessel had in
terned gained credence when no at
tempt was made by the captain to
reach the sea last night, despite the
fact that everything favored such a
dash.
No ship is allowed to approach
w ithin 200 yards of the Eitel.
Watchful Waiting at Capital.
WASHINGTON, April 7.—With no
report from Newport News regarding
the German raider Prinz Eitel Fried
rich. Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Peters to-day declared that
he has adopted a policy of "watchful
waiting" in the matter. He practi
cally admitted a time limit had been
set on the raider and said every op
portunity must be given her to get
away if she intends to do so.
France to Buy Cotton
Seized Aboard Dacia
PARIS, April 7.—Announcement Is
made that the French Government
bus decided to buy the cargo of cotton
carried by the American ship Dacia,
which was seized while on her wav to
Germany.
The Chamber of Deputies will be
asked for an appropriation for this
purpose.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
COPENHAGEN. April 7.—Rus
sia is reported to have launched a
submarine war in the Baltic Sea
against Germany similar to that
inaugurated by Germany against
England.
BERLIN, April 7.—News of the
evacuation of the German position at
Die Grachten, in West Flanders, and
of French advances northeast of
Verdun, In the Woevre River district,
is contained In an official statement
by the German general staff this aft
ernoon. The report shows that the
French have launched a terrific of
fensive movement east of the Meuse.
The statement follows;
“The village of Die Grachten, In
West Flanders, which the Germans
occupied on April 4. was raked by ar
tillery fire from heavy guns and also
from mine-throwers. For this, reason
we abandoned the position last night.
“In the Argonne forest a French at
tack broke down under the fire of the
German chasseurs.
"Northeast of Verdun the French
advance grot only as far as our outer
works.
“East and southeast of Verdun,
French attacks failed, with extraordi
narily heavy losses.
Two Battalions Wiped Out.
“Two French battalions were anni
hilated by German fire bn the Com-
bres Heights.
“Near Ailly (in the vlcinit^ of St.
Mihiel) our troops delivered a vio
lent counter attack, which threw the
French back Into their old position.
“Near Apremont, French attacks
were unsuccessful.
“Other French attacks near Flirey
(in the Woevre district) failed com
pletely. Numerous corpses dot the
ground before the German lines.
“On the western border of Priest-
wald (forest of Le Petre) one of our
battalions beat back strong French
forces from the Thirteenth Regiment
after bloody fighting with the bayo
net.
"Despite a blizzard, fighting has
been going on at Harmannsweiler-
kopf since yesterday afternoon.
"Eastern theater of war—During
the German advance into Russia in
the direction of Andrzffiow’, 30 kilo
meters southeast of Memel, our caval
ry annihilated a Russian battalion.
We captured 360 men, including five
Russian officers. One hundred and
twenty Russians were killed and 150
wounded.
German Losses Slight.
"Another Russian battalion which
hurried to the rescue was repulsed.
Our losses were only six men killed.
“Russian attacks east and south of
Kalcaria, as well as those against
our position east of A u gusto wo, were
all repulsed.
“Otherwise, there Is nothing of es
pecial importance to report from the
eastern theater."
Ferry; Riverside drive. Waterworks
roda, Albert Howell's o Bolon. i
Scarifying nad Resurfacing.
McDonough road, Henderson's cross
ing to Federal Prison; Hapeville road,
Hapeville to county line; Brown Mill
road, Orchard Knob to Reformatory;
section of Campbellton road; Mayson
and Turner’s Ferry, Elliott's to Mayson
Church: Howell Mill road, Marietta to
Collier road; Pace’s Ferry, Buckhead to
Howell Mill road: Rosw’ell road, Buok-
head to Sandy Springs; sections of
Peachtree, Brookwood to Buckhead;
Stewart avenue, sections from Dill ave
nue to Hapeville Jonesboro road, Mc
Donough to rubble paving. Bishop
street, Brookwood to Howell Mill road;
State street to steel plant.
Repairing Only—Marietta road, Expo
sition to Bolton: Piedmont avenue, the
Southern Railway to Peachtree road.
Brown’s Mill road: Lakewood avenue
General repairs to all pavad roads.
Reinforced Austrians
BattleRuss Furiously
PETROGRAD, -April 7.—Reinforce
ments of German Infantry and artil
lery have reached the Austro-Ger-
man armies in the Carpathians and
the fighting In thfy^eskid ranges
south of Dukla PajgjK'fd Lupltow Pass
has grown into aprfabat of maniacal
fury. Field Maif -.1 von Hindenburg,
the German o^.imander-in-chief in
the eastern tffe'ater of war, has sent
a group of his most trusted officers to
help direct the movements of the Aus-
tro-German forces.
Russian troops are pouring through
Rostock Pass, the latest mountain de.
file captured by the forces of Grand
Duke Nicholas, the Russian com-
mander.ln-chlef.
» sem'-official report »>! Issued