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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1913.
NO. 69.
S'
OF
It Coincides in Practically
Every Feature With Theory
Held by Solicitor Dorsey,
• Detectives and Pinkertons
L OWNER ON TRIAL
FOB “PUNTING" DYNAMITE
Alleged W, W. Wood Planted
Explosives During Textile
Strike at Lawrence
The theory of the murder of Mary
Phagan entertained by the city detec
tives and outlined in The Journal first
er\ Sunday a week ago is the theory
Sn which C. W. Tobie, manager of the
criminal department of the William J.
Burns agency, believes.
Mr. Tobie, who has been employed by
Attorney Thomas B. Felder, has as
sumed charge of the investigation of
the Phagan case for the Burns’ agency
pending the arrival of his chief.
To The Journal Monday morning he
outlined his theory of the case in the
office of. Colonel Felder.
“The Phagan murder is not in my
opinion a hopeless or impregnable mys
tery,” he said, “and I am confident
that we will find and convict the
guilty man.
“There are several features of the
case which I do not care to mention
which have not been worked out. I am
going right after these ends of the af
fair, and believe that I will get re
sults.”
Mr. Tobie, who appears more of a
prosperous business man than a detec-
tive, leaves a long fecord of success
behind him,'and has worked on a num
ber of the most famous mysteries
which have been solved through the
Burns agency. He does not consider
the Phagan case as even v an unusual
mystery, and declares that rftany more
chies have been left to work from than
in some cases where he has success
fully hunted a murderer.
As a premise, Mr. Tobie says that
the murder was evidently committed by
some one who had either been con
nected with the factory at some time
rprn a ?6 C ° nneCted Wi * h 11 on Sa turday.
thH h in n asked for Ws theory, he declared
premeditated!" 1 " 1011 the raUraer waa
HIS THEORY OUTLINED
"J iTiirL th £ an insulting proposal
,T aa made t° Mat 'y Phagan,” he said,
and she rejected it. When she would
Ter T .TT t e J 101 t0 Speak of the mat -
Rnrt 1 think her assailant became angry
f“ d atrUCk , her ’ The f Q rce °f the blow,
together with the force ef her falling
body caused a fracture at the base
Of her skull, when her head struck the
iron lathe handle.
■■Her body was carried into a nearby
closet, where attempts were made to
revive her. When she failed to revive
the man reasoned that he would certain
ly be charged with a heinous crime
when she recovered, so. panic stricken,
he tied the cord around her neck tight
enough to cause strangulation if she
should revive.
“I believe that later the body was
carried to the basement, the murderer
'taking it there with a view -to cremat
ing it in the furnace. Then realizing
•that the sight of smoke would prob
ably cause comment, as it was known
-that the factory was not in operation
that day, he gave up the attempt.
“In an effort to throw suspicion from
himself he wrote the notes and pulled
^the staple out of the rear basement
door to make It appear as if the body
had been carried in from the outside.
NEVER LEFT FACTORY.
“The idea that the murder was not
committed in the factory is prepos
terous. Not only was the crime com
mitted there, but some one very fa
miliar with the place is responsible.
Further, I do not believe the girl left
the factory after she went for her
pay.”
The Burns man came directly here
from Chicago with orders to drop ev
erything in making his search for Mary
Phagans slayer. He is working di
rectly for Mr. Felder, who is raising a
fund by. public subscription to pay for
the investigation, which, he says, he is
certain will result in the conviction of
the murderer.
Mr. Tobie declares that he is hampered
in no way in his work and is going to
give his best efforts towards bringing to
justice the criminal, regardless of who
h$ may be.
Mr. Felder again urges the people to
support the Burns funl. “If the people
want to see this mystery solved the
Burns people will do the work,” he said.
“And we must ask the support of the
people. If they respond to the appeal for
funds, William J. Burns himself \Vill
come here at the earliest possible mo-
merft, if Mr. Tobie has not found the evi
dence to convict the murderer before he
arrives from Europe.”
The Bums man has no criticism of
anything that.has been done in working
the case, and* says that the unworked
features to which he is devoting his at
tention,* were overlooked probably be
cause the officials were thrown off the
track by the many false rumors and
clues, which presented themselves soon
after the crime was discovered.
CONFERS WITH SOLICITOR.
The Burns agent has already had a
lengthy conferer with the solicitor gen
eral, who gave him considerable infor
mation on the investigation.
“Mr. Dorsey,” he said, “informs me
that I am to be accorded just the same
treatment given other detectives on the
case, and in this he assumes a very
proper attitude. We want to do our
work from the ground up, and it is only
proper that we should.”
Solicitor General Dorsey on Monday
was In conference for some time with
Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford,
and during the morning he interviewed
several witnesses in the case. While Mr.
Dorsey is said to be preparing to submit
the testimony in the case to the grand
jury in the briefest form possible not to
injure the case, It will probably take that
body more than & day to dispose of the
matter.
NOT A NEW ARREST.
- James Connolly, the negro sweeper at
the National Pencil factory, who was
arrested two weeks ago. when found
washing a shirt in the factory, has nev
er been released. The police are detain
ing him because of their belief that he,
like Newt Lee, knows more about the
murder of Mary Phagan than he has
told the officers.
Connolly, who has been sweated reg
ularly by the, officers, was given the
handwriting test on Sunday. He wrote
from dictation the words on the notes
found by Mary Phagan s body, and his
writing will be placed in the hands of
the solicitor general to be compared by
his experts with the original.
(By Associated Press.)
BOSTON, May 19.—William W. Wood,
president of the American Woolen com
pany, and a textile manufacturer of in
ternational reputation; Frederick E. At-
teaux and Dennis J. cfollins were
placed on trial today, charged with con
spiring to “plant” dynamite at Lawrence
during the textile strike in that city
in January. 1912.
The trial has been awaited with spe
cial interest because of the presence of
Mr. Wood and also because it is the
first time in Massachusetts that a se
rious criminal charge arising from la
bor difficulties has been preferred
against a manufacturer.
The indictment and arrest of the mill
man last August caivsed a sensation. At-
teaux is a dealer in chemicals and a
friend of Mr. Woods. Collins is a dog
fancier of Cambridge. It Is charged that
the three defendants conspired with
John J. Breen, an undertaker of Law
rence, and Ernest R. Pitman, a builder
of Andover, to place dynamite in a
house occupied by striking textile oper
atives for tho purpose of prejudicing
public opinion by making it appear that
the strikers had posession of an ex
plosive which they intended to use in
damaging mill property.
The police discovered the dynamite
and arrested several strike operatives
who lived in the house. All subsequent
ly satisfied the court of their innocence
and were discharged.
Soon afterward Breen, a member of
the Lawrence school board, was arrest
ed, convicted and fined $500 for “plant
ing” the explosive. Pitman, who built
the wool mill of the American Wool
company, committed suicide on the day
that the Suffolk county grand jury be
gan an investigation of the alleged con
spiracy.
U. S. ASSEMBLY FAV8BS
SWEEPING REFORM LIST
Decides to Make Christian
Union Herald Paper Exclu
sively for Young People
"HAPPY JACK” WEARS
SMILE TO OEATH CHAIR
Slayer of "Paddy the Priest”
Is Electrocuted in Sing Sing,
Protesting Innocence
(By Associated Press.)
OSSINING, N. Y., May 19.—John Mul-
raney, who was to have been put to
death as a murderer on March 17, but
won a sixty days’ reprieve by declaring
in a personal appeal to the governor that
he was going to death as the martyr of
a criminal ‘code of honor,” was electro
cuted at Sing Sing orison today.
“Happy Jack,” as he was known to
his comrades, bore to the last the smile
that had won him his nickname, and
called back to the other inmates of the
death cells a cheerful “good-by.” Charles
Becker, the former New York police lieu
tenant, and the gunmen involved with
him in the Rosenthal murder, were
among the fourteen who answered.
The murder of which “Happy Jack”
was convicted was that of Patrick Mc-
Breen, known as “Paddy the Priest,” a
New York saloon keeper, who was shot
while standing behind his bar on the
night of October 3, 1911. John J. Dow
ling, who died before he could be tried,
and Mulraney both signed confessions to
the murder, but in the death house Mul
raney repudiated his admissions, claimed
an alibi and asserted he had accepted the
conviction following a “crook’s” code of
honor not to squeal on the other fellow.
Justice Rosalesky, of New York, decided,
however, that there were no grounds for
a new trial.
The United Presbyterian assembly
adopted Monday morning the report of
the special committee on reform, which
included, among other recommendations,
urgent appeals for temperance; stricter
Sabbath observance; the reading of the
Bible in public schools; “equal rights
and complete justice” for all men in all
stations of life; for a single standard
of purity; uniform divorce laws; the
proper regulation of marriages; for the
principle of arbitration in industrial
disputes, and for release from employ
ment one day 'In seven.
The assembly decided that fn the fu
ture the Christian Union Herald shall
be published In the interests of the
young people, and adopted resolutions
to observe Labor day Sunday every year
and to take active steps toward better
ing social and economic conditions gen
erally.
“BOOZELESS” WHITE HOUSE.
The adopted report of the special
committee on reforms rejoiced
“in the attitude taken by our
president, vice president and sec
retary of state in banishing
liquors of all kinds from White House
functions during the present adminis
tration,” and in the passage of the
Webb-Kenyon interstate commerce bill,
which was designated as “a severe
blow to the liquor traffic and indica
tive of a nation-wide sentiment nc*t
even dreamed of by the most sanguine
friends of temperance.”
After indorsing the recently published
report of the standing committee on re
form, the special committee declared that
its report would view conditions as
“truthists,” not as pessimists or opti
mists.
Praise was given to the work of the
National Reform association; the Anti-
Saloon league; the W. C. T. U.; the
Lord’s Day alliance.
CITIZENSHIP CONFERENCE.
It was recommended “that we remem
ber in our prayers the Second World’s
Christian citizenship conference to be
held In Portland, Ore., June 29 to July 6.”
The committee indorsed a plea from
the federal council of the Churches of
Christ in America, urging the board of
directors of the Panama-Pacific exposi
tion “to adopt every means possible to
prevent the exploiting of the exposition
by commercialized vice and to protect
the visitors to San Francisco from such
influence as would tend to lower public
morals.”
Gratitude to God was expressed Tor
“history’s striking evidence of His
blessing upon the nations and individ
uals who have honored His Holy Day,”
•and .“foiw the national legltflattofr which
has closed all first and second class
psotoffice on the Sabbath and given a
rest day to about 350,000 employes.”
SUNDAY CLOSING EXPO.
It was decided to urge upon the na
tional officials that any appropriation
made to the Panama-Pacific exposition
be conditional on its managers signing
a contract with the treasurer to close
the exposition on the Sabbath. It was
urged that all government exhibits be
covered on Sundays, if the exposition is
kept open.
The passage of “an effective Sabbath
law for the District of Columbia, for
bidding all unnecessary work and all
theaters and games on the Lord’s day,”
was urged.
Unceasing war against the social evil
and the white slave traffic was urged.
It was urged also the Bible be read
daily in the public schools, the commit
tee noting “a determined effort to for
bid the reading of the Bible in our
public schools.”
A TRAIN HITS AUTO
Three Women and One Man
Meet Death-Another Is Se-
» riously Hurt
(By Associated Press.)
WARREN, Ohio, May 19.—Three
women and one man are dead and an
other man seriously injured as a re
sult of a Baltimore and Ohio express
train striking the automobile In which
the party rode at Leavittsburg, Ohio,
late Sunday afternoon. Four of the
occupants were carried for 200 yards
on the pilot of the engine.
The dead are:
MRS. HENRY TURNER, seventy-five.
Mrs. FRANK HOUSEL, forty.
MRS. WARD TURNER, forty.
WARD TURNER.
Frank Howard was removed to his
home seriously injured. Frank Housel.
the sixth member of the party, jumped
just before the collision ocurred. All
of the party were residents of Warren.
Mr. Turner, who was driving the au
tomobile, failed to see the train ap
proaching until within 100 yards of the
crossing. When he attempted to apply
the brakes he stopped the engine and
the machine coasted on the track in
front of the train.
THREE ENGLISH SPIES
LIBERATED IN GERMANY
William Opens Doors as Act of
Grace in Connection With
King George’s Visit
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN, May 19.—Emperor William,
as an act of grace in connection with
the visit of King George of England to
Berlin for the marriage of Princess Vic
toria Louise, today granted a pardon to
three English spies undergoing long
sentences in German jails.
THE JAPANESE SITUATION AT A GLA/VCE
POSSE ENTERS SIMP TO
GET 6LAGK DESPERADO
Negro WantetHti ScAitti ••Caro
lina for Assault and Murder
Located Near Ludowici
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
WAYCROSS, Ga., May 19.—Early
this afternoon, a posse of Liberty and
Wayne county people will enter the
Altamaha river swamp to get the ne
gro desperado, Austin, wanted In South
Carolina for assaulting a white woman
and killing two men.
The hiding place of Austin was dis
closed by a negro who has been feed
ing him. A through Atlantic Coast
Line train was stopped at Ludowici for
the Jesup posse and theer will be hun
dreds in the man trail this afternoon.
While Austin is wanted in South
Carolina the murderer is wanted for
many causes. The Georgians will deal
with him promptly if he is caught, it
is believed.
DF E
Frisco Woman Fined $2,000
for Declaring False Value on
Imported Goods
SUFFRAGETTES HIRE
. FIREBUGS IN LONDON
* (By Associated Press.?
LONDON, May 19.—Confirmation of
■ the hint that militant suffragettes were
j hiring women of the lower class as
I members of their “arson squads,” was
received this morning when Nellie Rob-
| inson was arrested outside the famous
new college chapel at Hempstead.
The woman described herself as a
servant and said she was awaiting the
arrival of two suffragettes under whose
direction she was going to fire the
church.
The police magistrate remarked that
she “seemed to be in course of train
ing as a professional petroleum incen
tive under miscreants worse than her
self.”
Grocers Meet
(By Associated Press.)
ST. LOUIS. May 19.—The National
Retail Grocers’ association convened,
here today with several hundred dele
gates in attendance. Advocaes of New
Orleans, Omaha and Cleveland are urg
ing the claims of those cities for next
convention.
POLICE PROTECT SILK
STRIKERS RETURNING
PATERSON, N. J., May 19.—Through
a lane of police two blocks long, twen
ty hands formerly employed by the silk
mill of the Arthur Price company, went
back to work today after a strike of
more than two months. Hundreds of
pickets of the Industrial Workers of the
World sought to prevent their return,
but the police guard was too effective.
There was a lively scrimmage for a
time, and sixty pickets were arrested.
The Price mill is a comparatively
small one, employing normally thirty
hands. The return of its strikers with
demands unsatisfied is heralded by the
manufacturers as meaning the near-end
of the strike. Leaders of the Industrial
Workers of the World, on the other
hand, maintain that the fight will go on
unabated and that few others will yield.
ENGLISH-GERMAN
SQUABBLE SETTLED?
(By Associated Press.)
TRENTON, May 19.-A fine of $2,000 was
imposed on Mrs. Agnes Mangels, of San
Francisco, who is alleged to have landed
on May 12 from the steamer Amerika at
Hoboken without declaring a proper
value of goods brought by her from
abroad. Mrs. Mangels entered a plea of
non vult. Her^counsel pleaded with the
court to extend mercy and not impose
a prison sentence.
The value of the goods brought Into
the country was estimated by the federal
customs appraisers at about $5,500, of
which $1,800 was declared. It was stated
to the court that restitution to the value
of 60 per cent of the goods had been made
to the customs officers.
Miss Agnes Tillman, a niece of Mrs.
Mangels, was cited to appear because of
alleged improper declaration of gowns
and jewels but the charges against her
were withdrawn. Miss Tillman agreed
to pay the duty for the full value of her
property.
TRUSTS’ PRODUCTS MAY
BE PUT DN FREE LIST
Senator Kenyon Ask's Amend
ment to Tariff Bill Free List
ing All Trust Products
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 19.—An amend
ment to the tariff bill introduced today
by Senator Kenyon proposed that when
any corporation or concern was ad
judged a monopoly, its products should
automatically go on the free list. Mr.
Kenyon has hope that the finance com
mittee may favorably consider the
amendment, but, if not, he will press it
on the floor. The proposal has almost
unlimited possibilities for overturning
schedules.
The question of whether products of
concerns reorganized since the supreme
court held them to be monopolies
might still be under monopolistic con
trol also would enter into the appli
cation of the law, should the Kenyon
amendment be incorporated.
Sub-committees of the finance com
mittee plan to meet every day this
week to consider the wool, cotton,
sugar and chemical schedules of the
tariff bill. On all these manufactur
ers are here pleading to be heard
against the rates of the Underwood
bill.
Chairman Simmons has called a
meeting of the entire finance com
mittee for tomorrow. A set of ques
tions to manufacturers proposed by
'Senator LaFollette are to be sent out.
Woman of Wealth
Starves to Death in
Yonkers Mansion
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN, May 17.—Controversy be
tween Great Britain and Germany over
the Bagdad railway, which is to run
under German auspices from Konia, in
Asia Minor, to the Persian gulf, is* ap
proaching settlement satisfactory to
Germany, according to an official state
ment.
The German government and the Ger
man supporters of the scheme who In
1911, toofl first steps toward an Anglo-
German understanding, have been kept
fully informed as to the Anglo-Turkish
negotiations and they approve of the im
pending solution. They expect, however,
to receive further compensation for the
German concessions and that this will
be arranged by direct negotiations be
tween Germany and Great Britain.
DISTRICT COURT IS IN
SESSION AT ROME, GA.
ROME, Ga., May 19.—The United States
district court for the northern district of
Georgia convened Monday morning,
March 19, in the federal building, Judge
William T. Newman, district judge, pre
siding.
The following court officers will be In
attendance: Hon. F. C. Tate, United
States district attorney: John W. Henley,
assistant district attorney; O. C. Fuller,
clerk; John D. Stewart, Fred L. Beers
and John C. Printup, deputy clerks; Wal
ter H. Johnson, United States marshal;
J. H. Rhinard and L. B. Griers, deputy
marshals.
Sixty odd criminal cases have been set
for trial, thirty odd grand jury cases and
a number of civil cases. The court will
likely be in session all the week.
DRY WEATHER HUNTING
THE .FARMERS ’COTTON
FORT GAINES, Ga., May 17.—The
continued dry weather has caused the
farmers of the county no little trouble
in not getting up a stand of cotton. In
many places they have planted over and
still have no tsand or seed to plant
again.
YONKERS. N. Y.. May 19.—In the
spacious residence occupied by herself
and her brother on a fashionable resi
dence street here, Ada Dunscomb, a
middle-aged spinster, was found dead
last night a victim of starvation, ac
cording to Coroner Dunn.
So far as the searchers could dis
cover, there was no food in the house.
The authorities stepped into the case
when a physician whom S. Whitney
Dunscomb, Jr., sixty years old, the
dead woman's brother, had summoned,
found Miss Dunscomb dead on a couch
in her bedroom, .her body clad in mere
rags, and notified the coroner.
The Dunscomb residence has been a
house of mystery to the neighbors for
the twelve years since the family moved
here, the blinds always being drawn,
no servants .being employed and no one
ever being seen to visit the mansion.
The officials who visited ttie place to
day reported that the costly old furni
ture seemed to be falling to pieces
from neglect, while dust and dirt had
been allowed to accumulate, apparently
for years.
Dunscomb was reticent as to himself
and the family affairs in general, only
saying he would go to New Jersey to
notify relatives there of his sister’s
death. Neighbors believed the pair to
be wealthy.
RA*TE CASE IS DECIDED
AGAINST “S00 LINE”
WASHINGTON, May 19.—A railroad
is not warranted in exacting increased
rates merely because it has not direct
facilities for delivering shipments, the
interstate commerce commission today
held, in effect, in a contested case in
volving freight rates on ice from Wis
consin points to Chicago.
The “Soo line” has no terminal facili
ties in Chicago. “If it cannot afford
to pay for terminal services,” the com
mission announced, “it will doubtless
have to retire from competitive traffic.
It may not either by itself or in con
junction with other carriers maintain
unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory
charges.”
KERN'S RESOLUTION MAY
BRING ON Ml PROBE
Senate Wrangles Over fnve?
tigation in West Virginia
Mine District
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, May 19.—Senator
Kern’s resolution to investigate condi
tions in the West Virginia coal strike
region was again the unfinished bilsiness
when the senate met today. A vote
was expected before adjournment.
Senators opposing the inquiry resolu
tion in its present form planned today
to have it referred to the labor com
mittee to determine whether an investi
gation should be conducted. Should it
develop that the* resolution could not
pass as it now stands, its proponents
probably would propose that it be re
ferred to the same committee, directing,
however, that a subcommittee of three
conduct an inquiry. If this were done,
Senator Borah, who introduced the orig
inal resolution In the last congress,
would be appointed chairman of the
subcommittee. **
CANADIAN LOOT SPENT-
IN CHICAGO SALOONS
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, May 19.—Almost $100,000
of the $271,000 in Canadian money
stolen from the branch of the Bank
of Montreal at New Westminster, B. C.,
has been exchanged for United States
currency by Chicago saloon keepers, ac
cording to the assertion of the super
intendent of a detective agency made
last night.
Michael J. Flanagan, proprietor of
a saloon,' was arrested early yesterday
morning when two men accused him
of giving them Canadian money to ex
change. Three other saloon keepers are
under surveillance, and arrests may re
sult.
William J. Lawler and Charles
O’Leary, arrested on Saturday night,
charge Flanagan with being the receiv
er of part of the stolen money. Law
ler asserted he received $545 in bills
frqm Flanagan on Wednesday after
noon. The money finally reached the
local braftch of the Bank of Montreal
and was traced back.
Three of the alleged robbers who
tunnelled into the vault of the "West
minster bank, are in prison, awaiting
trial. The fourth member of the gang
is hiding in Chicago, detectives say,
and it is from him that Flanagan is
said to have obtained the money which
was given to Lawler.
President Wilson Is Urged by
Mexican Rebel Leader to.
Withdraw Luther Tellsworth
From Piedras Negras
„ . <By Associated Press.)
EAGLE PASS, Tex., May 19.—Governor
Carranza, the Constitutionalist leader, is
preparing a message to President Wilson
notifying him that United States Consul
Luther Tellsworth at Piedras Negras is
persona non grata, and requesting his
withdrawal. He declined today to dis
cuss reasons therefor but said later he
would make a statement. Consul Ells
worth declined to talk about the matter.
Piedras Negras is the Mexican town
opposite Eagle Pass and is the headquar
ters for the Carranza regime.
No Proof Against U.-S,
Ambassador Wilson
WASHINGTON, May 19.—White
House officials today when Informed
that dispatches from Mexico City in
terpreted Secretary Bryan’s statement
of last Saturday as an indorsement of
Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, ex r
pressed the opinion that there never had
been any proof to substantiate the
charges recently made against the am
bassador.
ANTI-ALIEN LAND BIEL .
SIGNED BY JOHNSON
Measure Becomes Law August
17-Referendum Petition
Already in Circulation
OBy Associated Press.)
SACRAMENTO, Cal., May 19.—Governor
Johnson signed today the alien land bill,
against which Japan protests, and which
the California legislature passed by an
overwhelming majority over the remon
strances of President Wilson and Secre
tary Bryan. The act will go into effect
ninety days from date, or August 17.
Referendum Petition Is
' Now Being Circulated
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19—The
Asiatic Exclusion league of California
instructed its legislative committee to
ijq. | arart a petition for a referendum vot*a
on the alien land bill to be circulated*
immediately after the measure i a
signed by Governor Johnson.
The objections of the league are
based pn the clause in the Webb act
which permits three-year leases. It ts
the purpose of the organization to cir
culate at the same time an initiative
petition for a law which will exclude
Japanese and Chinese from both own
ership and lease holds under any con
ditions.
The burden of the speeches at he
exclusion league’s meeting today was
that the leasing clause is a Joker which
will allow the Japanese ultimately 1 to
own the land is effect at least. Tne
speakers denied the wisdom of the ar
gument that to withdraw the leasing
right immediately from the Japanese
would work too great a hardship upon
landowners.
A meeting will be held today at
which the the petition will be taken
up more fully and possibly a rough
draft of the proposed initiative • law
will be presented.
The meeting Sunday was presided
over by the president of the organiza
tion, Olaf A. Tvettmde, one of the con
victed labor leaders in the Lost Angeles
Times dynamiting case, who is now Out
of the federal prison at Leavenworth
on ball. Tveltmoe was re-elected presi
dent of the Asiatic Exlusion league yes-
terday.
■m
3,000 MEN JOIN
BIRMINGHAM STRIKE
(*>y Asqx’atfd
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 19.—Be
cause master builders and contractors
refused to grant demands of organized
carpenters for a raise of five cents an
hour, making the wages fifty cents,
3,000 union men, carpenters, plumbers,
structural iron and steel workers,
painters hoisters, bricklayers and other
craftsmen went out on a sympathetic
strike this morning.
Three skycraper buildings are in
volved, an < 'timate being made that
building work to the amount of $5,000,-
000 is being*interfered with. Contrac
tors who have signed with the carpen
ters are feeling the strike also.
OLDEST CITIZEN OF
LITHONIA IS DEAD
LITHONIA, Ga., May 19.—Mr. Robert
C. Jason, aged eighty-eight years, the
oldest inhabitant of this community,
passed away at 2:30 o’clock Saturday
afternoon. He was a Confederate vet-
eran and is survived by one son and two
daughters.
Alleged Forger in
Cell Makes Money
Writing For Papers
VALDOSTA, Ga., May 19.—Charles T.
Sweet, one of the prisoners In the
Lowndes county jail, who Is charged
with forgery, is having considerable
success in disposing of short stories
which he has written. Sweet has been
a sort of poetic genius and has trav
eled all over the country, having been
in Uncle Sam’s army at one time. Be
fore he got in trouble he contributed
a number of articles to the newspapers
and after he was placed in jail on a-
charge of forging a relative’s name on
a note at the bank, he bought a type
writer and has devoted much of his
time to writing stories.
During the past jveek or two five dif
ferent magazines have had short stories
or poems from his pen and in each in
stance they have paid him for them.
Sweet is going to be tried next week
and he is, confident that he will be ac
quitted, as he claims that he had per
mission to sign his mother’s name to
th^ paper in question.
DANIELS ENTERTAINED
AT HIS BIRTHPLACE
WASHINGTON, N. C„ May 19.—Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels arrived from
Norfolk, Va:, Sunday afternoon for a
short visit to this, his birthplace. He
was met by a comrhittee of citizens
headed by Mayor Kugler, and given for
mal welcome.
The program of entertainment in his
honor today includes a luncheon and a
trip down the Pamlico river. Prior to
the luncheon he will deliver a brief ad
dress. The secretary will leave for
Raleigh. N. C., tomorrow afternoon.
STANDARD OIL FIGHTS
FOR LIFE IN MISSOURI
(By Associated Press.)
KANSAS CITY, May 19.—Further
hearings in the case in which the Stand
ard Oil company of Indiana seeks to
show why it should not be ousted from
Missouri as a trust were begun hero
today before Commissioner Montgom
ery, appointed to take testimony by the
Missouri supreme court at the time of
the suspension of its ousted decree
against the company.