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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1910
Page
1
Louis Paultan sets a new record for Hugh flight at A000 feet above the earth, achieving a dramatic milestone. The event highlights Paultan's precision and the groundbreaking nature of the ascent, drawing attention from local aviation circles and supporters.
Louis Paulhan, flying a Farman biplane, reportedly exceeded earlier altitude marks and spent about 90 minutes aloft near Los Angeles, while Glenn Curtiss held the recent speed record and watched as Paulhan circled the course amid cheering crowds. The event drew intense interest from officials and spectators, with details and official sanction pending.
Atlanta department heads pressed the finance committee for large year end allocations to cover services and facilities. Library, Grady Hospital, police, schools and girls high school all sought substantial increases to maintain operations, expand services, and fix aging infrastructure amid revenue shortfalls.
New York January 12 the cotton market sank for a third time this week with panic driven selling across sections. Prices fell from last night highs with May contracts sliding to 1473 and March to 1460 as the bull movement collapses. Trade conditions show no broad change yet big cliques formed to realize profits and spinners reportedly buying more cotton.
Marshfield Ore January 1. The Southern Pacific steamer Czarina bound for San Francisco lies wrecked on the north spit of the Copes Bay bar. Thirty one lives are believed lost with little hope for any crew reaching shore.
Special Officer J T Reese, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, earned high praise from Judge L Soan for arresting his son Leonard Reese after he burglarized Park Pharmacy with brothers C G Reese and Thomas Levis. Leonard and the other youths pleaded guilty. sentencing ranged from twelve months to two years, influenced by the father's commendable actions and promise of future good behavior.
Norfolk Va January 12 three persons two of them children were burned to death in a fire that destroyed several small buildings on the Jamestown Coppetation grounds. The Baltimore City building, used as a residence by H T Halstead of Haltimore, housed the victims who were asleep when the blaze started. Neva and Walter Halstead suffocated and perished. Leon B Mile Pier Yoreman of the Virginian Railway, also asleep, could not be awakened as the fire cut off his escape. Bodies were nearly cremated miles from Warren NC.
President Taft appoints Henry S Graves director of the Yale Forest School and forester of the United States to replace Gifford Pinchot. Albert F Potter becomes associate forester. Both Graves and Potter are Pinchot loyalists and share his administrative policy.
Washington faces drastic action as a bill passes one house to curb white slave traffic. If enacted, it would punish persons who transport others across state lines for prostitution or immoral acts with up to ten years imprisonment and a $6000 fine. Immoral women would be deported or punished on discovery, and their procurers excluded.
Washington January 1 House failed to concur with the Senate amendments to the Bailinger Pinchot inquiry regulations and sent the measure to conference. In the House a slavery era reform bill was passed despite Mann’s objections while the Senate debated pension provisions and extra allowances for postmasters from 1848 to 1874. A formal commemoration of General Lew Wallace’s statue was noted as yesterday’s events.
About 40 Polish migrants believed they were headed to the national capitol to meet President Taft for aid. Instead they arrived in Washington, Georgia, learned the error, and sought relief after costly detours and misrepresented work offers from a New York agency. They camped at city hall while funds were raised for food and travel home.
Frank Arrington, a 28-year-old steam shovel engineer, returned home drunk to find his wife away. He raged, smashed furniture, and endangered his four sons aged 3 to 11. Rupert, 9, hid a revolver in a trunk and kept the key, while police intervened. All four boys were placed with Matron Bahnefeld. arrangements for care and investigation were set, as the family’s whereabouts and Mrs Arrington’s fate remained unclear.
Jury convicts Dave M Vining superintendent and Peta Cornett guard of mercifully beating Floyd Green at the stockade last November. Trial before Judge Roan lasted about half a day with witnesses including Maddox, Orme, and Seely, and evidence centered on whether wounds were from a whipping and if excessive. Green testified to a severe whipping as claimed, while testimony disputed witness statements earlier in the case.
Georgia forecast shows increasing cloudiness by Thursday night and Friday with moderate temperatures and light east to southeast winds. End of week rain likely, shaping weekend plans with cooler air moving in.
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