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| YOL. XIII. NO. 210. ATLANTA, (!A., THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1915. o* 2 CKNTS 'morb° j
HERIFF KNOCKED OUT BY JOE JACKSON
First Photo of White House Baby With
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(Copyright, 1915, by International News Service. Photo by I. Braden.
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.
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What About
ThatOpening
Day Cup?
Unless Atlanta gets a move on,
some other town is going to walk off
with that “attendanee-at-opening-
day" baseball trophy again this year.
Last 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-
,, in Previously Atlanta had almost
had a monopoly on it. And if Atlanta
wants to regain the honor this year
,he had best be getting busy right
now.
Down in New Orleans they are
counting right smart on putting one
„ver on both Atlanta and Birming
ham. They have enlisted the aid of
iciety girls and mattes, who have
remised to canvass the city selling
lickets to the opening game of the
.risen. April 13. Various civic and
social organizations have joined in
the "cop-the-cup” move also, and
there is much enthusiasm, according
to the newspapers of the Crescent
City.
Over in Birmingham there is a
- milar plot on foot. The civic or*
canizations of that city have united
i an effort to get out a record-break-
,,fl crowd. There will be a big pa
rade and some gloating over the cup
which Birmingham took from Atlanta
.ct year, and threats to never let it
got away from Birmingham.
What’s Atlanta going to do about
There are only a few days left,
, r t ne season opens here in just a
week—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.
A"d 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 gur.s to be placed in position
at the fortifications of N&os Island
slipped out of the chains with which
it was being hauled into place ana
rolled down a hill. A negro was killed
by the great gun in its plunge, but the
gun was uninjured.
NOMINATION BLANK
1,000 VOTES
AMERICA
ATLANTA OA
JR GIAN
I hereby nominate as a candidate in yonr "HOME AND
AUTOMOBILE CLUB” circulation campaign:
Name Address
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Note—Only one nomination blank will be accepted for mmj
one candidate. ,
nr wife
Joe Jefferson Jackson, the man who
keeps Ty Cobh 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 with his war club when he
mixed with and got away from tlffc
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.
The 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 oame
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
here. He wired Joe Birmingham,
manager of the Cleveland club, at
Chattanooga, at noon, and said he
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.
Has Ironclad Contract.
One peculiar thing about Jac kson’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
dodge the fines imposed upon him. He
says he could make as much money
In the theatrical game as he can in
baseball, but he knows that his draw
ing power will stop the moment he
drops out of the national spotlight
and quits hitting the ball on the nose.
Chicken Clinic
Routed by
Scoffer
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 which 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 knowledge 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, scofTed.
I “A chicken ain’t got no teeth,” he
i said. But the young scientists merely
I looked at him scornfully, and when
everybody but Busby wag looking
away, Sheffield clipped the akeleton
Into bis handkerchief to take it to
the college.
But he didn’t reckon on Busby, who
told Mrs. South about it; and Mrs.
South was wroth. Her Sunday chick
ens were to be eaten, not to in
vestigated. The clinic was called off.
Sheffield called Buzby something and
Wimberly indorsed it. Buzby told
j the Recorder that he was slapped and
! choked, and Judge Johnson fined
| fined Sheffield $3.75. Next time, he
| told Buzby, he must not let the young
dentists call him things and slap him,
I but should fight them back.
Macon Tiger Had 52
Barrels of Whisky
MACON, April 7.—Fifty-two bar
rels of whisky and wine, worth about
$1,200, were seized by Sheriff’s depu
ties in a raid on a negro saloon on
Fourth street. The negro had the
stuff on the second floor of an ad
joining but apparently unconnected
building. It was reached through a
secret sliding door, and is now stored
in the courthouse basement.
The negro, Richard Hartley, and
two assistants were arrested. Po
licemen searched the place last week
without finding any liquor.
GEORGIA POSTMASTER NAMED.
WASHINGTON, April 7.—Presi
dent Wilson to-day appointed Fran
ces E. Cnapman to be postmaster at
Buena Vista, Ga.
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
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
parole.
But Walton* would rather be a con
vict. The parole order was returned
with the surprising statement from the
Newton County warden that the negro
had declined it. choosing rather to serve
out his term in contentment and with
out being disturbed by such dlstractin?
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.
Married 43 Years;
Mother of 15 Sues
George W. Smith, of No. 139 Sims
street, has been ordered to show cause
before Judge J. T. Pendleton, in Su
perior Court, why he should not pay
alimony to his wife, Mrs. Julia Smith,
aged 60, and the mother of fifteen liv
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. Smith,
lived happily until recently.
Girl Calls Firemen
To Rescue Pet Kitten
MACON. GA., April 7.—A ten-year-
old girl called out the Me-— ^re de
partment to-day her kitten
from the root of her home.
Unable to reach the fire alarm box
the child telenhoned Mayor ~-»dges
Smith, and told him the flre-flehting
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
restored the kitten to Its distressed
mistress.
The complete program of work to
be done this year by the county in
road Improvement outside o' 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 tne different sections. The
program of improvements inside of
the city was 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.
Grading -Avon avenue, city limits to
Cascade avenue, cemetery entrances.
Paving—Campbellton road, city limits
to Ben Hill.
Roaeland 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 to
Hapeville road (N. S. L. L. 93).
Paving—Sawtell avenue, McDonough
to Southern Railway; Richmond avenue,
Jonesboro to Schoen plunt; South Pryor
street. Southern Railway to I>akewood,
at West street; West street, Izukewood
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 Del^eon place,
city limits to Virginia avenue.
Bellwood Camp.
Grading—West Lake avenue, Simpson
to Ma.vson and Turners; Chappell road,
Simpson to Mayson and Turners; Simp
son street, Chkppell road to Peyton
road; Hollywood road, Carey to River
side; Johnson road, Simsville 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 to Moore’s home;
Simpson street, L. and N. to West Lake
avenue; 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 Malden
Lane): Ben Hill road, East Point to Ben
Hill; Bussey road, Bussey’s to f^wnan
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; Fairhurn road, Cascade to
Adamsvllle; gride Willis Mill road.
Adamsvllle Camp.
Grading—Finish widening Mayson and
Turner's Ferry, Peyton road to Bolton
road; road from- Bolton road to Chatta
hoochee Station; finish Bolton road to
Bltn; McDonald road, Wilson Mill road
to Falrbum road
Paving—Top soil Baker’s Ferry road.
Adamsvllle to State farm; Adamsville
road, Bolton road to river.
Wleuca Camp.
Grading—Dunwoodv 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, Roxboro to Cheshire
road; Peachtree Helgnra road, Hemphill
to Andrews avenues: Howell drive.
Wesley to Peachtree, Battle avenue; old
Ivy road, Roswell to new Ivy road: Col
ley 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 (800
feet); (move to Utoy): finish Wleuca
road, Alston’s to Roswell road; new Ivy
road, Piedmont to Wleuca road.
Honor Camp.
Grading—Lawrenceville road. Powers’
Ferry road to Kandy Springs Camp
Ground; Heard’s Ferry road. I^awrence-
ville road to .Tudgt> Heard's; Powers’
Ferry road, Butler’s to Nort’s; Jett road.
Powers' Ferry to Gorman road; Dun-
woody road, complete to county line;
Gorman road. Mount Perrin to Pwers’
Chicks’ Mew
Puzzle for
Red Hen
It sterns 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 wants 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
number 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 hack from her stroll
clucking. No cat likes clucks, and
the intruder was frightened aWay,
leaving the nest and kittens to the
hen.
Rhody clucked one shrill cluck of
i pure delight. Such young chicks were
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.
E
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Fisherman Is Slain
When Mast Breaks
BRUNSWICK, April 7.—Thomas O.
Moore, 26, was killed Instantly and
D. Holmes was injured badly when a
fishing boat, heavily loaded with sea
food, went aground and the mast of
the craft collapsed. Moore was mak
ing his first trip as a member of the
crew. He had been in Savannah and
out of employment, came to Bruns
wick and accepted a job 6n the boat.
He had a wife and two children.
A large catch was made on the trip.
Proof of Mexican
Crimes for Bryan
MOBILE, ALA., April 7.—G. A.
Hughes, representative of the inter
national committee in Mexico City,
passed through Mobile to-day cn
route to Washington with affidavits
and photos of depredations and re
volting crimes on women practiced by
Mexican soldiers.
He will present his material to the
State Department.
France to Buy Cotton
Seized Aboard Dacia
PARIS, April 7.—Announcement Is
made that the French Government
has decided to buy the cargo of cotton
carried by the American ship Dacia,
which was seized while on her way to
Germany.
The chamber of Deputies will be
asked for an appropriation for this
purpose.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georqian.
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, la
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 got 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 on the Com-
bres Heights.
"Near Ailly (In the vicinity of St
Mlhlel) 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 Prlest-
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
( >icen going.on at Harmannsweller-
kopf since yesterday afternoon.
“Eastern theater of war—During
the German advance Into Russia Jtxt
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 Augustowo, 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 Boion. v
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; Roswell road, Buck-
head to Kandy Springs; sections of
Peachtree, Brook wood to Buckhead;
Stewart avenue, sections from Dill ave
nue to Hapeville Jonesboro road. Mc
Donough to rubble paving; Bishop
street, Brookwoori to Howell Mill road;
State street to steel plant.
Repairing Only—Marietta road, Expo
sition to Bolton; Piedmont avenue, the
Kouthern Railway to Peachtree road;
Brown's Mill road; Lakewood <i venue. J
General repairs to all paved 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 the Beskid range-
south of Dukla Pass and Lupkow Pass
has grown into a combat of maniacal
fury. Field Marshal von Hindenburg,
the German commander-in-chief in
the eastern theater 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 Russiam com
mander-in-chief. u
A semi-official report was issued