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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-08
EMBASSY
IN RUSSIA ASKED TO
FIND BALLOONISTS

ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. s-An APP
peal was received by the American en-
bassy here today to locate and aid John
Watts and A. T. Atherholt. the Ameri-
can aeronauts who are reported to have
landed at Pskov, Russia, 40 miles from
this city, over a week ago.
The aeronauts were on the balloon
Dusseldorf H. which started as an un-
official entry in the International ball
loon race from Stuttgart. Germany, two
weeks ago. Watts and Atherholt sent
word that they had landed, but as
nothing else was heard it was feared
that they had been arrested or had
been hurt.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-08
MASKED BANDITS
RIFLE MAIL CAR
Booty Secured in L. & N,
HoId-Up in Alabama Said To
Be Near $4,000.

MONTGOMERY, ALA. Nov s.-so,.t
bound Louisville and Nashville passenger
train No. was held up and the mail car
robbed by two masked bandits at Rlo,r+
Springs. Ala, today. according to r.nort.
made to Postoffice Inspector Rranror
when the mail clerks, James M. ChamhAr
lain and c. A. Hoover, of NashvnIa
reached here today. nc
Inc robbers, it is reported, secured
between $4,000 and $40, 900 from rAg,s
tered pouches.
After rifiing the pouches and sac,,rfr,
gold watch from Clerk Hoover ar6
about IS in cash from Clerk ChaYnbau,a Gnu
the robbers left the train at BoyIes 81,
miles north of Birmingham. They ref,sa.1
to accept an Ingersoll watch worn h,
Chamberlain.
According to the clerks the bapd,,a
were evidently amateurs as tbev a,1'
looked many valuable articles. apparar+I,.
looking only for money. 1t is, not knan,s
exactly how much they secured rba,.
ripped open registered pouch and roo
istered package jacket, scattering tbo
contents on the floor They left living ~,
the floor several thousand dollars worm
gusted in finding no moro cash.
The robbers are believed to have hoard.
ed the train secretly at Blount Springs
They made their presence known in the
mail car Immediately after the train pulled
out of the station. They at first asked
for something to eat, but quickly de
nianded money and covered the clerks
with revolvers. Before leaving the train
thew tied the clerks a tahla in he
Authorities at Birmingham and Mont
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-08
KANSAS PRODUCES
ENOUGH WHEAT TO .''
FEED GREAT NATION


NEW YORK. Nov. S.-The state of
Kansas alone will this year produce
enough wheat to feed more than one
sixth of the population, of the United
States for one year. The magnitude OF
the crop is Illustrated again in the state
ment that it could be made to girdle the
earth a the equator thirty-two times
with beautiful one pound loaves
For their bumper crop the farmers Of
Kansas will receive the handsome total of
SS5 ,0O0,0 900, and were the wheat all made
into bread and sold at five cents loaf
the bake shops would get for it $500 900
600. The building Of the Panama canal
has been looked upon as a stupendous
undertaking for any nation, yet here is a
single crop in a single state which by the
time II reaches the ultimate consumer will
be sold for considerably more than half
the cost of digging the big ditch.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-08
Fate of Doctor Sen
fenced to Hang For
Staying Best Friend
Depends on Guilt or
Innocence of Alleged
V &c tt M s Widow.

For two and half long, dreary years
DIR. w ]. McNaughton has known no
home save narrow cell in the Jail of
Chatham county. For two years and
half his only prospect has been that Of
ending his days on the gallows. A jury
of his home county has declared him
guilty of the most revolving of all muir
ders-the poisoning of friend The
highest court Of Georgia has ruled that
the sentence of death must he executed.
The highest court of the nation has re
fused to come 10 his succor
Between McNaughton and the gall
lows stands only the figure Of Little
Joe" Brown, and Georgias governor
will not wipe away the shadow of the
gibbet with pardon or communication of
sentence. But the governor will not let
McNaughton hang until he is convinced
that the whole truth in this remarkable
tragedy is known.
And he believes that this will not
come to pass until Mrs. r. s. Flanders,
widow Of the man for whose death a
jury has said McNaughton must pay
with his life is brought to trial on the
charge which rests against her of be-
ing an accessory In the crime.
Woman's Trial Delayed.
Time and time again her case has
been called in the Emanuel county
court Time and time again it has been
postponed.
Until she faces jury, the death
doom will hang over McNaughton's
cell. Until her guilt or innocence has
been established. the governor is de-
termned that the doctor shall not face
the hangman. The courts refuse to
move.
Ana in the meantime MCNaughton
must live, though every, second Of that
life means only 20 him that the next
may bring him news that the gallows
waits him or word that his good name
has been cleared.
Georgia's criminal history holds no
stranger case than that of the Swains-
boro doctor. Few more bizarre are re-
corded in the nations record. The mo-
tive for the crime-if there was a
CRIMES the old motive. The ancient
blood stained triangle OF two men and
woman is the only cause suggested
for Fred Flanders death But though
the charge is that the woman was un-
! faithful TO the man TO whom she had
pledged her life. her loyalty TO the
man accused OF robblng her Of her
helpmate has been constant, unwayer-
ing Never In Or McNaughton's dark
est hours has the woman suggested his
guilt. She has couteuded strongly and
convincingly that he Is the victim Of q
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-08

chain OF circumstance or a sinister
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-08
BOOKING AGENT ACCUSED
BY ACTORS is DISCHARGED

Producing q big bundle of contracts and
other papers, Sam Massell. head of the
Massell Theatrical Booking agency in
the Austell building. showed to the sat
sfaction of Recorder Broyles that his
business is legitimate, and the case
brought against him by THE Musical
Sparks" Charlie and Nettie Sparks, was
dismissed.
The two performers we've in court and
explained how they had been booked by
Massell and brought here from Phila
delphia to play small towns, but there
was no evidence to show wrongdong
on the part of the booking agent.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-08
SUES w. AND A. FOR
$40 DAMAGES; TRAIN
KILLED POSSUM DOG

DALTON. GA. Nov s.-Mleglng negli-
gence on the part OF an engineer on the
Western and Atlantic road as the cause
Of his possum and squirrel dog" being
Killed by train on the road. + &. Glenn
emit Of Rocky Face has brought suit
against the road for SO damages In or
der 20 make his claim more forceful. the
plaintiff concludes his petition with the
following:
said dog was The mother Of "a family
" progressive pups, which died after
wards by reason 81 lack Of nourtsntuerit 8"
The suit fled in justice court here Is
causing no little interest
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-08
j. s. LOANS COTS
FOR CORN BOYS
Secretary of War Gives Cham
Der Permission to Use BunkS
During Maize Show.

In a telegram to Governor Brown,
Secretary Of War Henry L. Stimson has
given his consent to the use of the 700
government cots in the Fifth Regiment
Armory. for the Georgia Corn club
boys who Will be in Atlanta for the
corn show, December 3. 4. 8 and 6.
This completely solves what prom
Used for time to be a distressing
problem to the Atlanta Chamber Of
Commerce in the matter of providing
club boys who will be here for the
show
Secretary Stimsons telegram was
sent in response to telegram Gov
ernor Brown. making the request. sent
on November 5. Governor Browns APP
peal was supplemented by Geographic
requests to the same end, sent the sec
rotary of war by Senator Hoke Smith,
Congressman William Schley Howard,
who wrote it from his sick bed; Clark
Howell and Colonel Robert T. Lowry.
and all of these have received replies
in which the response to Governor
Browns request was set forth as fol-
lows:
No authority of law exists for
loan to any organization or indi-
vidual of military supplies issued to
a state as charge against appro-
priations. If. however it is de-
sired by the governor of Georgia to
use the cots and blankets referred
to, in the National Guard Armory
at Atlanta, and have them under
the control of the National Guard
authorities the war department
would interpose no objections.
STIMSON
Secretary of War.
Governor Brown was much gratified
over the action of the secretary of war,
and he will, of course, authorize the
use of the cots and blankets for the
Corn club boys under the restrictions
indicated.
1t has been determined by the corn
show committee to provide sleeping
quarters during the corn show for all
of the boys who will be here. OF 10000
of these enrolled in the Georgia Corn
clubs, there are probably 1900 who
have come through"-who have COM
pleted their work land made their re-
ports in accordance with the rules and
requirements of the organization.
1t is estimated that at least 1000 of
! these will come to Atlanta for the corn
show. and the committee will endeavor
to provide sleeping quarters for any in
excess of the 100 for whom cots will
be set up in the Regimental Armory.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-08

state and in a day II brought results
DR. McNaughton was traced to Augusta
and Immediately placed under arrest
and a subsequent repert of the chemist
showed that enough arsenic had been
discovered to kin several men.
Feeling High Against Accused.
Feeling against the physician was
running too high in Emanuel for his
safe return there The Flanders clan
was up in arms. His death was de-
manded Pending his trial in the supe-
rior court of Emanuel county he was
held in the Chatham county Jail. Muir
der was charged.
The physician attempted to explain
his flight He declared that he knew
the hatred the Flanders family bore
him. He knew their influence in Eman-
ueL Mob violence. he believed. would
have imperired him had he not fed
when he did.
Under a joint Indictment, the doctor
and Mrs. FLANDERS were placed on trial
October l. at Swainsboro Then for
the first time and the only time there
seemed to be difference between the
pair accused of the poisoning. Mrs.
| F1andrs' counsel asked for severance
OF the indictment. They insisted on a
separate trial.
| DR.. McNaughton still feared the in
| fiuence of the Flanders family He did
not believe he could get fai~ trial in
Emanuel county. His counsel urged a
change of venue. His motion was de-
MED. He was forced 20 go TO trial.
while Mrs. Flanders case was allowed
to wait, pending a verdict for OF
against the principal.
At the trial though he made a spir-
TIED defense, the chain Of circumstances
proved too strong. on October 10 he
was found guilty and sentenced to hang
December 2.
Begins Great Legal Battle.
/ Then began his remarkable legal bat
/ tie. He first entered a motion for new
trial The motion was lost. but the ex-
ecution OF the sentence was stayed.
on December Is he learned that Mrs.
Flanders had been released on bail Of
81 600. "She should never have been
arrested" was his laconic remark
] AIl JdIhdl NA 1871 Nv 1NAtaltl HIS
case to the supreme court. but on July
13 the highest Georgia tribunal sus-
tanned the McNaughton verdict Of death
on the gallows.
/ He still struggled desperately. He
pleaded for a new hearing in the SUI
preme court on August Is. Il was re-
fused Then he gave notice OF appeal
to the highest court Of the nation
In January Of this year his case sud-
denly was withdrawn from the United
States supreme court in order that he
might make an extraordinary motion
/ for new trial in the Emanuel superior
court.
The nature Of this motion was anx-
/ lousy awaited. and on April the ply
stefan was taken back 20 Swainsboro
/ and resentenced The date OF thV
hanging was fixed for April 10. His eN-
trao-dinary motion was then heard Il
was based on afidayits made by Mrs
Flanders and others that Flanders had
been in the habit 81 taking medicines
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-08
Mystery in Relations.


chain Of circumstance or a sinister
plot.
Mystery in Relations
The relations between the Flanders
couple and McNaughton have never
been explained. Fred Flanders was a
prosperous farmer of Emanuel county
His kin are wealthy, numerous. prom
inent in politics McNaughton was a
young. respected physician Of SWANS
boro, the county seat of Emanuel
McNaughton was the family physi-
clan of the Flanders couple, but he
was more than that. He was the close
personal friend of Flanders There is
the charge that the relation was even
more intimate with the wife
The doctor was a married man. Chill.
dren had been born to the union. In
1908 Mrs. McNaughton died and then
came the strangest, weirdest feature of
the tragic story. Flanders and his wife
abandoned their home on the farm and
came to Swainsboro to live with the
physician
For two years they occupied the same
house they ate at the same table, they
had the same friends. Firmer friends
We're never known than the farmer and
the doctor
There had been gossip, though. In
reference 10 McNaughton and Mrs
Flanders The husband either did not
hear it or refused to give it ear
on June 4, 1910. Flanders died sud
denly. DR.. McNaughton, his physician
declared that his end was due to acute
nephritis, Flanders was buried and
McNaughton was at the graves side.
He showed emotion which was taken
as a token of sincere grief for de-
parted and beloved friend
Relatives Are Suspicious.
The story of acute nephritis was not
uestioued-eXcept by the Flanders
family. They had heard the gossip
connecting the name Of McNaughton
with that of the dead mans wife.
Though the husband had refused to
listen, they had given heed
When their kinsman died suddenly
their suspicious were aroused, and be-
fore the flowers had withered on the
grave they had demanded AN investiga-
ton.
On June the body was exhumed. An
expert medical examination was de-
manded by the relatives. An autopsy
was performed and Flanders stomach
was shipped 70 the state chemist for
examination. A coroner's jury had
been impaneled and these men await
ed the verdict of the scientists.
on July IS the chemist reported Dis
tinct traces Of arsenic poison had been
found The Flanders family was not
slow to act. Warrants were sworn out
and officers sent to the McNaughton
home Mrs. Flanders was found there.
She was placed under arrest. Nc
Naughton had disappeared. He had
heard OF the investigation and had de-
parted from Swainsboro. Feeling was
high then against the doctor 1t was
openly stated that he had poisoned his
friend in order 10 make the way clear
'foe him to obtain complete possession
of his wife
\ dragnet was spread over the entire
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-08
BURNED VITA COTTAGE

LAPORTE. IND. Nov S.-Albe-t
Geehr was burned TO death today at
English Lake, Ind. His charred body
was found in the ruins of his cottage.
The cottage was burned to the ground.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-25
BY R. F. FOSTER.

AS rule ii is a dangerous experiment
to shift from your partners strong suit
to a no-trumper unless you are very sure
of what YOU are doing: If you will stop
and count up the tricks you hope for at
no-trumps you will generally find that
YOU could get just as many with the
trump and without the risk. While II
takes a trick more, it may save several
tricks minus.
i Under the new count there are two
suits that will go game for four tricks.
hearts and royals and either of them is
a safer contract than no-trumper with
hole in it, but many players still dis
like to overcall a partners no-trumper
with a suit that takes by five cards to go
game unless the rest of the hand Is a
bust
your partners bid of a heart or royal
to no-trumps there are very few in
which you are sure That 1t Is wise
thing to do; and after the hand is over
YOU may see very clearly why You should
not have taken the chance, even II the re-
suit is favorable.
There are hands in which you may be
sure that you can make as many tricks
one way as the other, and many as well
have the extra points. but this very sell
dom happens because any hand that Is a
certainty for three by cards al no-trumps
is usually a certainty for four with
heart or a royal
Too great dependence on the dealer
original call is a common source of dan
ger in these shifts. You think you know
just what he has. because he usually fol-
lows a certain system of declaring; but
there seems to be some fatality about
things that makes him shade his system
tribe just when you are thinking il Is all
there. Here is curious instance Of this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-25
ONES RELATIVES.
By Ruth Cameron.

little girl. perhaps eight or nine
years old, came skipping out on the We
randa of the hotel where | was staying
this summer and exchanged greetings
with a man who stood looking out across
the mountains.
Good morning." said the little girl
"how do you do this morning."
why, good morning. said the man.
turning toward her with evident pleasure.
I'm fine as silk thank you. I'm trying
to make up my mind whether it's going
to rain or clear off. What do you
think?"
The youngster took look at the clouds
and with youthful optimism promptly
decided that it was going to clear off.
then she put her hand in his, and. still
chatting socially. they walked down the
veranda Just as they passed out of
ear shot 1 had a shock; heard the little
girl call the big man papa.
Why was that a shock?
Because they had been talking together
with so much evident pleasure, so much
sociability that t had never occurred
to me that father and daughter could be
their relationship. ! had fancied the
man was a hotel acquaintance or possibly
an uncle.
Nor was this an unaccountable mistake
of mine. l am sure you would have
been deceived in just the same way. For
if you will take notice l think you VIII
find that YOU seldom hear members OF
the same family talking to one another
with the same socia bility. the same cour-
tesy the same interest with which they
would talk to outsiders.
A little boy l used to know once gave
a most naive proof of this fact. He had
taken deep interest in two of his
mothers guests, and after they had gone
he asked his mother what relation to
each other they were. She told him that
they were husband and wife. Are you
sure?" he asked. "Of course she said.
much astonished at his doubts. Why?
Well" answered the younsster, L dldn I
think they could be, because even when
you were out of the room they talked a
lot to each other just like-Why, just like
friends
There is no doubt whatever that ninety
nine people out of hundred have to-
tally dlnerent tone of voice and manner
use for their friends. Notice when some
member of your family goes from the
family circle to the telephone-surely a
whole jar of honey has been suddenly
upset into her voice-there Is such an
astonishing change in 1t.
Or mark how differently father speaks
to mother and the maid when something
is wrong in the household economy. Not
that he prefers the maid to mother-it
is simply because the maid is an out
slider and therefore entitled to decently
pleasant voice and q measure OF courtesy,
even when fault must be found.
Now, of course, L realize that it is not
either possible or desirable to treat ones
family exactly one does outsiders. l
admit that there are forms and artificial
tiles in our intercourse with strangers
which it would be absurd to carry into
the home But l do think that most of
us might treat our hOusemates more
like friends as the little boy said
without being uncomfortably formal.
We say that home is the one place
where we can be our real selves. Surely
that cannot mean anything but our best
selves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-25
VARIOUS uses OF BATHS.
By DR.. Edith B. Lowry.

Ordinarily we think of a bath as a
cleansing agent only. No other health
producing agent is so capable of yielding
comfort, and yet SO little understood. In
asmuch as cleanliness Is essential to
health. baths for that purpose alone are
necessary. The skin contains numerous
small glands which aid in maintaining
the health Of the body. One set of these
glands keeps the skin in a plable condi-
ton by pouring out an oil, another set
aids in carrying off the waste material
Of the body. After this waste material is
excreted from the skin the watery' por-
ton evaporates, leaving a residue on the
skin. This, with the dust from the air
that settles on the skin, tends to
clog the pores so that they are unable to
do their work properly. Baths are neces-
sary to carry away this waste material.
Another important result of intelligent
bathing is the effect upon the nervous
system. Hot baths stimulate the nervous
system, but should not be continued too
long. or fantness may be the result.
Warm baths have soothing effect. For
this reason a warm bath at night aids in
the overcoming of sleeplessness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-25
THE BUSY WOMAN'S OFF HOURS.
LUNCH ON A TOMBSTONE.
By Hildegarde Hawthorne.

ton from A to Il. She knew that she
would have to begin practically all over
again when she returned, but she figured
that with superb health and the inspira-
ton or her experience she would make
up quickly for lost time.
She followed out her plan to the letter.
She took her sister with her, got the
necessary outfit and spent the summer
camping in Colorado and the winter In
the same way in Arizona. She was on
horse or off on long tramps, or on fish,
ing Or hunting trips every day. She
slept in the open air and ate like a horse
, The steepest trails held no terrors for
! her. once she had gotten her gait-and
that didn't take SO long as she had ex-
pected. She grew as brown and hardy
as wood nymph, could walk fifteen or
twenty miles day without trouble and
slept-she had never known before VIVA,
sleep was.
And at last she returned to New York
with only a few dollars left in the bank
her old introductions. and a necessity fol
fresh air and exercise that clamored fol
satisfaction.
1t didn't take her long to catch or
again and she soon had regular posi-
ton in a downtown office. But the hare
thing was to manage so that her health
should not suffer from the consequent
confinement.
IN the first place she moved up into
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-25

Baths have an important effect upon
the blood and circulation. They are given
to reduce fever, to induce perspiration
and to modify the circulation of the blood.
Either cold or warm baths are given to
reduce the body temperature. Evapora-
ton of water from the skin cools the
blood in the underlying blood vessels.
Warm baths tend to dilate the surface
capillares, to bring more blood to the ex-
ternal parts and. therefore, probably re-
duce the temperature more easily than
do cold baths.
Hot footbaths sometimes reduce the
fever by drawing the blood away from
the brain and equalizing the circulation.
They also relieve headache and delirium
in the same manner. In any bath given
for these purposes, cold cloth should be
applied to the head so as to prevent d
rush of blood to the head.
Hot and vapor baths are given to in
duce perspratiOn. They are given in dis
eases of the kidneys to cause the skin to
carry away more waste material and so
relieve the kidneys of a portion of their
work.
Cold baths have tonic effect Pie
thorlc people especially are benefited.
Many man who spends his days in an
office would be greatly benefited by a cold
sponge or shower bath every morning.
Delicate women and children usually find
such bath too much of shock