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VOLUME XII. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1913. NO. 70. OF AGAINST FELDER AND LATTER'S CHARGES AGAINST POLICE ASKED # ‘l Shall Lay Evidence Gathered by the Detectives and Col, Felder's Charges of Graft .and Corruption All Before the Grand Jury,” Says the Chief, “Asking That a Searching Investigation Be Made So That the Whole Truth Shall Come Out” iht Co!onel Thomas B. Felder, Police Chief James L. Beavers Monday morn ing announced that he would at once go before the Fulton county grand jury and insist upon a thorough investigation by that body of the charges which have been made against Colonel Felder, Mayor Wood ward. E. O. Miles and C. C. Jones. Chief Beavers declared that he would also urge the grand jury to make a searching inquiry into Colonel Felder’s charges that graft and corruption exists in the police and detective departments and would ask that the grand jury thoroughly investigate Colonel Felder’s allega tions that bpth he (Chief Beaver's) and Chief Lanford are guilty of acts involving moral turpitude. “I want the official limelight turned on this entire affair,” said the chief of police. ”1 shall request the grand jury to hew to the line and let the chips fall wherever they may.” Chief Beavers will carry the matter to the grand Jury in person. He will lay before that body all of the affidavits in his possession as well as the records of the dictograph w’hfch are sworn to, and will also invite the grand jury’s attention to Colonel Felder’s charges against himself, Chief Lanford and the department in general. “I do not propose for these charges to go unchallenged,” stated the chief “If Mr. Felder has the facts to substantiate his declarations the grand jury should give him an opportunity to produce them.” This announcement by Chief Beavers has created another sensa- / tion and a grand jury probe will be awaited with great interest by the public in the hope that the surcharged atmosphere may be clarified. POLICE BOARD MAY INVESTIGATE. It was rumored Monday that friends of Colonel Felder would seek to have the board of police commissioners investigate Colonel Felder s charges of corruption in the police department. "I have nothing to say for publication today,” said Colonel Fel der, when he had read The Journal containing Police Chief Beavers’ latest statement. “I will seasonably and appropriately reply to the attacks of Beavers, Lanford and others.” Colonel Felder would not indicate what his plans are, but it is believed that he is gathering material for another statement and that he will give one out within the next few days. Colonel Felder declared that he was receiving hundreds of letters, telegrams, telephone messages and personal calls in which he was be ing assured of the confidence and esteem of the public. He indi cated that the situation would very shortly take a decisive turn. Mayor Woodward has issud a statement in reply to Chief Beavers which is published below. CHIEF BEAVERS’ STATEMENT. Chief of Police James L. Beavers issued the following statement Monday morning: “As for Colyar, I never heard of him until this thing came up. He may be a crook. As far as I know, it seems that Mr. Felder has known him for a long time, but it is no uncommon thing for one crook to turn up another to the police, or turn state’s evidence. “When I heard of this deal that Mr. Felder was trying to make in the Fhagan case, I told Chief Lanford to advise with Solicitor Dorsey and get his advice in the matter,. He.did this. I did not want anything done that would not be perfectly lefmmSte. "G. C. Febuary, who is a trusted man in the detective department,, was instructed to carry out the deal with him. Now it apnears that Mr. Felder has been closely associated with Colyar for a long time and cer tainly should have known what manner of man he is. “If he knew him to be a crook, why did he enter into a deal like this with him if he wanted to do the straight thing? I say that I never heard of this man Colyar, but I would have listened to any report or rumor In hunting for the g^lty party in a case like that of the Phagan murder'. “It seems that Mr. Felder in his ramifications through the press tries to get eloquent and undertakes to tell about the government of Scotland and the conditions in Ireland, as if that had anything to do with this ’case he’s trying to distract attention from. “What he has done and as far as his evidence he claims to have about my moral turpitude as chief of police or as a citizen, I defy him to show anything wrong. If he is a good loyal citizen, which he claims to be, why did he not go to the police commission and lay the evidence before them? HIRED BY THE GANG. "Now Mr. Felder knows well enough that if he had anything that,would have been- damaging against the police depart ment he would have hurried to bring it to the proper authorities. "That is what you are hired to do by , a gang .you are very close to. "I would say that Some one has been misled by Mr. Felder, or no doubt he would be in South Carolina today where he belongs. "So much for Mr. Felder. ■ REPLIES TO MAYOR. "I see that Mr. Woodward says he has nothing against me personally. Now I don’t quite understand his connection -with the Felder-Colyar affair. He knew that G. C. Febuary was a trusted em ploye of the police department and if Febuary knew of crookedness or graft in the department he would have forced him to divulge it or seen that he was turned out of the department. "If Febuary had known anything the kind and not made it known •■would have been equally guilty. "Mr. Woodward knows that in the fre quent talks with me since he has been mayor there has hardly been a time that he did not bring up the question of the red light .district, and he gave me to un derstand in his first talk with me that these women should be allowed to go hack.to Manhattan avenue where they had previously plied their nefarious trade. "No longer than last Saturday a. jveek ago he asked me “ " * JAP EMPRESS GROWS ILL AS EMPEROR IMPROVES Empress Sadake Falls III From Cold Contracted During Vigil at Husband’s Bedside of he ,,c „„„„„ if I was willing for Eva Clark and her mother to move into a house on Armstrong street In front of the Grady hospital, where they had previously lived. "I told him I would answer him as 1 did Alderman McClelland; that it was none of my business as long as she did not violate the law, but that if she did she would have to take the conse- alienees. “Mr. Woodward also told me the first of the year that if my vice policy was continued the police department would be reeking with graft like the New York department. GRAFT ON OUTSIDE. “I told him that no graft had ever existed and I was satisfied there would never be any. "I told him that from what I had heard someone outside the police de partment had been receiving money from .the vice traffic that virtually amounted to graft and extortion. "I am ready and willing to compare my past record both as a citizen and as an official with Mr. Woodward as to which is in the right and which Is in the wrong.” MILI\!ER TO INSPECT TURKISH REFORMS (By Associated Press.) • BERLIN, May 26.—Viscount Milner, formerly high commissioner for South ^Africa, is to be appointed general in spector in charge cf the Turkish re forms, according to the Frankfort Ga zette. He will take over his new duties as soon as the British foreign office has •relieved. Jilm. (By Assoodated Press.) TOKIO, May 26.—Emperor Yoshihite is better, but the Empress Sadako is fallen ill from a cold contracted dur ing her long vigil at her husband/s bedside. Her illness is not critical, but she is confined to her apartments and on the advice of physicians will not attend to morrow’s meeting of the Red Cross So ciety of Japan. Shoots Man to Death After His Acquittal Of Killing Father (By Associated Press.) HARTFORD, Ga., May 26.—Davis Walker, a farmer, was shot and killed by Jerry Perdue here at 3 o’clock this morning. Perdue was shot through the thigh and W. H. Davis, a bystand er, was shot in the neck, neither being wounded seriously. The killing is said to be the outcome of ill feeling caused by the killing of Walker’s father sev eral months ago, for which Perdue was tried and acquitted. Perdue went to Hawklnsville and sur rendered. Walker is survived by a wid ow and four children. BABE CRUSHED UNDER HEAVY MOTORCYCLE (By Associated Press.) DETROIT. Mich., May 26.—Narrowly escaping death three times in one after noon, two-year-old Ursula Mayotte lost her life last night because there was no one near to rescue her when danger threatened for the fourth time. First the child turned the jets on a gas stove, and when found was almost unconscious from the fumes. Then she pulled from a table a pan of scalding water and was snatched aside just in time to save her from injury. A short time afterward she ran in the path of a speeding automobile and was pulled out of the way, the car grazing her as it sped by. After a short period of quiet she went out on the street again. Five minutes later her dead body was found under a heavy motorcycle. The machine had been left standing at the curb and the little girl evidently had manag^ to tip it over on herself. Her skull was crushed. A WORD TO THE WISE WIL50I WARNS IRE BOLL WEEVIL INVASION COUNTRY OF OIANT TIFFJILL LOBBY President Declares That Lob byists Are So Thick in Capi tal That a Stick Thrown in Any Direction Would Hit One BY BALPB SMITH. WASHINGTON, May 26.—President Wilson took personal and public cogni zance today of the enormous lobby per vading Washington in the attempt to de feat the pending tariff legislation. As The Journal has stated, this lobby is the biggest that ever invaded the national capital for such a purpose. To Illustrate how numerous he thought the lobbyists to be, the president said you could not throw a brick in any direc tion in Washington without hitting a lobbyist. In order that the entire coun try might be informed of the army that is plotting the defeat of the administra tion’s tariff legislation, the president is sued a statement on the subject. The subject was brought up voluntarily by the president during his regular Mon day morning interview with the Washing ton correspondents. Having given his opinion as to what would happen In re lation to throwing a brick, he gave the correspondents a gently sarcastic reply referring to them as being so fond of throwing bricks, and yet of having missed this opportunity. It was the openly expressed opinion of the president that the people of the United States are entitled to know all about the efforts centering in Washington to win the few votes required to defeat the tariff bill. His statement for publi cation was as follows: WILSON’S STATEMENT. "I think that the public ought to know the extraordinary exertions being made by the lobby in Washington to gain recognition for certain alterations of the tariff bill. Washington has sel dom seen so numerous, so industrious, or so insidious a lobby. The newspa pers are being filled with paid adver tisements calculated to mislead the Judgment of ppublic men not only, but also the public opinion of the country itself. “There i6 every evidence that money without limit is being spelu to sustain this lobby and to create an appearance of a pressure of public opinion antag onistic of some of the chief items of the tariff bill. “It is o fserious interest to the coun try that the people at large should have no lobby and be voiceless in these mat ters. while great bodies of astute men seek to create an artificial opinion and to overcome the interests of the public for their private profit. It is thor oughly worth the while of the people of this country to take knowledge of this matter. Only public opinion can check and destroy it. “The government in all its branches ought to be relieved from this intolera ble burden and this constant interuption to the calm progress of debate. I know that In this I am speaking for the mem bers of the two houses, who would re joice as much as I would, to be re leased from this* unbearable situation.’’ President Wilson made it plain in his oral comments on the subject that he does not find fault with the presence in Washington^ of citizens whosfe interests are affected by legislation pending. But, he said the lobby now here is different, as of course, everybody here knows. OF GEORGIA IN AUGUST Arch Enemy of Cotton Expect ed in Southwest Part of Stale Soon That the invasion of Georgia by the boll weevil is only a matter of two months is the assertion made Monday morning by State Entomologist E. Lee Worsham. The march of King Cotton’s arch en emy eastward has progressed more rapidly than ordinarily in consequence of the unusually mild weather, and the pest is expected to reach the south west part of Georgia during the early part of August, according to Mr. Wor sham. Unless all signs fail, the first coun ties to be reached will be Clay, Early, Decatur and Miller. It is possible that even more progress into the state may be made, and already the farmers in that section have leagued together to fight the pest. “The weevil/’ said Mr. Worsham, “will reach that part of the state in ample time to do great damage, and probably will destroy from a third to a half of this season’s crop of cotton. The advance Into other parts of Geor gia will, of course, be gradual, but eventually the entire cotton belt will become infected. “In addition to the boll weevil, the farmers in southwest Georgia have or ganized to fight it, and, if they perse vere, can keep down the damage ma terially. They have been urged to plant cotton that matures early, so that the bolls will have formed before the insect comes out from its winter quar ters. “It is a fact that it can be fought successfully, but ideal farming is es sential to that success. "The cotton caterpillar is also on its way here, but its dangers and ravages are checked infinitely more easily than those of the boll weevil. It is the lat ter that the farmers of Georgia must guard against, and to be successful it is absolutely necessary to carry out in structions to the letter.” Faithful Old Horse Returns Home With Dead Body of Owner (By Associated Press.) COLLINfeVILLE, Conn., May-26.—Wil liam Myers, of this , town, met death in a peculiar manner during the night. While out driving in a covered car riage he fell asleep, his head dropped between the ribs of the cover and he choked to death. The body was discov ered in the carriage this morning under the wagon shed at the Myers home, to which the horse had returned. EVIDENCES OF RACE EARLIER THAN INDIANS MANKATO, Minn., May 26.—The Minnesota Historical society is to make investigations next month in the town ship of Cambria, where have been found evidences of habitations which are believed to date back earlier than the Indians. Preliminary excavations have brought to light many implements for domes tic use and for warfare, and much pot tery. Blakely Shop Burns BLAKELY, Ga.. May 26.—The milli nery store of Miss Beulah Mashburn was Saturday damaged by fire. The loss on stock was total, the store build ing was badly damaged on the interior. The building was owned by T. R. Mc Donald. The stock of the Barham Jew- erly company next door was damaged. WILSON ASKED TO CLOSE PART OF MISSOURI PACIFIC WASHINGTON, May 26.—Representa tive Neely, of Kansas, asked President Wilson today to direct Attorney Gen eral McKeynolds to foreclose a mort gage on a 100-mile strip of railroad owned by the Missouri Pacific between Atchison and Watersville, Kan., to re cover $4,500,000 aMeged to he due the government from aid by bonds issued in 1862. Mr. Neely has a resolution in con gress to the same effect. Mr. yWllson promised to study: the question. FDR REUNION WHERE ICE THJ»TIl£D Thin Line of Gray Arrives in Chattanooga for Annual Re union of United Confederate Veterans Tuesday (By Associated Press.) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 26 Mobilization of United Confederate vet erans here for their twenty-third an nual reunion continued rapidly through out the night and today. Large crowds of civilians thronged the two railroad terminal stations and watched the vetearns detrain. More than a thousand veterans spent the night at Camp Stewart and this num ber was greatly augmented today. General Bennett H. Young, of Louis ville, Ky., commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, is already In the city. After a careful inspection of the arrangements made for the ac commodation of the veterans he pro nounced them equal, if not superior, to those at any previous reunion. General Young has been in close communication with railroad officials and predicts that mor.e than 100,000 visitors and veterans will be in the city when the annual reunion is formally opened tomorrow at the auditorium. The assignment committee kept its headquarters open throughout the night. Civilians and soldiers were di rected to homes and to Camp Stewart Immediately upon their arirval. The capacity of the hotels already is taxed to the utmost, many of the reservations having been made months ago. The first business meeting of reunion week is scheduled for this atfernoon. Members of the Confederate States Memorial association and organization of the Women of the Confederacy will hold a welcome gathering at which addresses will be delivered by Mrs. M. T. Armstrong, president of the local association; General Bennett H. Young, in behalf of the veterans; General John B. Hickman, for the Tennessee divis ion U. C. V.; Mrs. Alexander B. White, in behalf of the Daughters of the Con federacy, and others. Tonight the opening sessions of the Sons of Confederate Veterans will ,be convened. J. P. Norfleet, of Memphis, Tenn., commander-in-chie'f of the organ ization, will preside at all, business ses sions of this department. An interesting feature of the meeting tonight will be the presentation of spon sors. Woman Shouts for Five Minutes, Then Falls to Floor Dead (By Associated Press.) GREENVILLE, S. C., May 26.—After shouting for five minutes during serv ices at an “Holiness’’ church hear Par is Mountain, Mrs. Millson Bryant, a white woman about thirty-five years of age, fell to the floor in a swoon and died. MEETS TRAGIC DEATH ON RY. HE SERVED 45 YEARS (By Associated Press.) SANTA FE, N. M., May 26.—R. M. Berry, for forty-five years an employe of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway and for the last twenty years conductor on the Santa Fe Laifly branch, was killed yesterday at La my junction by being crushed between two cars. While attempting to couple the cars, one of the drawheads dropped to the ground and, as Berry stooped to pick it up, the cars came together, catching his head. He left an estate valued at 3200,000. LEO. M, FRANK IS INDICTED BY DEATH; NEGRO, NEWT LEE HELD True Bill Against Pencil Factory Superintendent Returned Less Than Ten Minutes After Evidence Was Closed, at Noon, Saturday - Authority Quoted That He Will Be Tried During Third Week in June-Negro to Stay in Jail Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil factory in the basement of which the slain body of Mary Phagan was found In the early morning of Sunday, April 27, stands formally charged with her death. A grand jury Indictment, a true bill charging that he killed Mary Phagan, was returned by the Fulton county grand jurors at 12:23 Sat urday afternoon. Less than ten minutes earlier the jury had gone Into executive session and Solicitor Dorsey, who had been conducting the examination of witnesses, had left the room. In the Interval the Jury reached its verdict and each of the jurors signed his name to the formal docu ment upon which Frank will be arraigned on the charge of murder. NO ACTION AGAINST NEWT LEE. No action was taken with regard to the negro night watchman,- Newt Lee, held by the coroner on a "suspicion" warrant for the grand jury. Mr. Dorsey stated afterward that he had not asked the grand Jury to take action with regard to Lee. It Is probable, seemingly, that the grand jury will not return a “true” or "no” bill in Lee’s case until after the trial of Superintendent Frank. Lee, therefore, will remain In jail meanwhile, with the charge hold ing him there as a suspect. It is assumed with the best of authority that the Indicted man, Leo M. Frank, will be put on trial during the third week in June, less than a month hence. It is known that several witnesses whom the state has secured to substantiate its charge, were not introduced before the grand jury by Soli citor Dorsey. • • The jury’s true bill charges formally, in legal phrase, that “Leo M. Frank 'did murder, in that in the county aforesaid (Fulton), state of Georgia, on the 26th day of April, In the year of our Lord 1913, with force of arms he did unlawfully and with malice aforethought kill and murder one Mary Phagan by then and there choking her, said Mary Phagan, with a cord that he placed around her neck.” Neither the negro nor Frank appeared before the grand jury. Both remained In. the Tower, where .they have been confined since the coroner’s Inquest ordered them to be held. Saturday morning James Connally, the negro sweeper formerly em ployed in the pencil factory where Mary Phagan was killed, and who was arrested on suspicion and has been held in jail since as a material witness for the state, sent for a city detective and declared that he wanted to tell the truth. “Boss, I wrote those notes," said he, referring to the mysterious notes found beside the dead body of Mary Phagan. He declared that he could not identify them positively, Inasmuch as he had never seed the originals, but that as they were read to him out of the papers he believed they were the ones he wrote. On Friday, the day before the murder, said he to the detectives, (ac cording to report that reached a Journal representative), Leo M. Frank called him Into his (Frank’s) office at the factory and said he wanted to get some samples of his handwriting, and dictated for him to write— dictating, said the negro, what he remembered as substantially the notes that afterward were read to him out of the newspapers. The negro was t.akeh"immediately to the courthouse, to be sho#n the original notes themselves and answer whether or not they were the ones he wrote. Connally was arrested during the coroner’s Inquest, when some one saw him washing a shirt at the factory. His defense was that It was his sole and only shirt, and that he was washing it so that he would appear dean at the inquest, whither he had been summoned as a possible witness. Oil - N. T. LIFE INSURANCE HEAR FIGHTS INCOME TAX Darwin Kingsley Appears Be fore Subcommittee of Sen ate Finance Committee (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 26.—Darwin Kingsley, president of the New York Life , Insurance company, appeared to day before the senate finance subcom mittee working on the income tax sec tion of the Underwood, tariff bill to dis cuss provision relating to insurance companies. Other subcommittees had a long list of manufacturers waiting to be heard before the close of the tariff hear ings tomorrow night. Beginning Wednesday morning, the subcommittee will take up the Sched ules for revision and plan their reports to the full committee. That task, it is estimated, will take at least a week. Washington Society Plays a Ball Game For Sweet Charity (By Associated Pr»»a.) WASHINGTON, May 26.—Arrayed like Falstaff’s army, society leaders, army officers, financial magnates and other men prominent in social and po litical ciroles, appeared today at the American league baseball park to battle on the diamond for the honor of the exclusive Metropolitan club and the Chevy Chase club, and for the benefit of a local hosital. It was the annual game for charity and society was out in force. A box had been reserved for the use of President Yv ilsoti and members of his family, and among the other box nold,- ers were? Chief Justice and Mrs. White, Joseph Letter, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Goe- let Gerry and Mrs. Philip Sheridan. The marine band was on hand to furnish the music. The two teams had been practicing faithfully for more than a week. The Metropolitan players were captained by Henri De Sidour, while the Chevy Chase ^team was led on the field by James Archibald. The players wore their old college baseball suits and in some in stances uniforms requisitioned from the lockers of the Washington team’s club- holise. AND KILLED BY TRAIN Four Other Workmen Injured by B, & 0. Passenger Train - in West Virginia (By Associated Press.) MARTINSBURG,. W. Va„ May 26.— Nine workmen were killed and four hurt when they were struck by a pas senger train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Doe Gully today. DISASTER AVERTED ABOARD DESTROYER “PAUL JONES” (By Associated Press.) SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 26.—The lives of fifty sailors on the torpedo boat de stroyer Paul Jones were endangered Friday at the same hour of the ex plosion on the destroyer Stewart, ac cording to information which leaked out today. The Paul Jones was mak ing a speed tes£, when a fireman no ticed steam escaping from a crack in the tube of one of the boilers. He shut down the boiler and averted, what might have proved a disaster. The Paul Jones boilers have been condemned and the ship will be sent at once to Mare Iqjgffid yard for re pairs. FRANCE TRIES TO CRUSH ANTI-MILITARY FIGHT Energetic Action Taken by Government Against Cam paign Started in France PARIS, May 26.—Energetic action was takerf by the French government against the anti-mflitary campaign in I-’rance today. More than eighty of fices of the general confederation of. labor exchanges in Paris and provincial cities were occupied by the police. All documents found in the bureaus were seized by order of the government, which intends to prosecute on charges of sedition the organizers of recent demonstrations among the soldiers against the newly introduced three- year term of service in the active army. The arrangements of the police were carefully made and the seizures were carried out simultaneously everywhere. It was asserted that much incriminat ing material ’was found. HIGHWAYMAN HOLDS UP AND SHOOTS SWEETHEART (By Awocl&ted Frew.) TOLEDO, Ohio, May 26.—Driving a mile and a half over a dark road eight miles in the country, with her dead lover by # her side and with a bullet In her own body, was the experience Sun day midnight of Julia Probert, sixteen, daughter of George Probert, a farmer. The girl was driving with George Steele, nineteen, when they were held up by a foreigner who demanded money. Four shots were fired, two of which took effect in the breast of Steele, kill ing him almost instantly. The robber escaped. HERD OF DEER WILL ROAM IN C0HUTTAS DALTON, Ga., May 261—According to a statement made by /Game Warden Walter Kenner, of Murray county, forty deer, secured from the government, will be» brought to this section about July, 1, and turned loose in the Cohutta moun tains a few miles east of here. Up to a few years ago, there were many deer I in the mountains east of Dalton; but these have practically all been killed. It is believed that the ones to be received will be closely protected to insure against their slaughter, and the I mountains will be wall-stooked within A a few years, r r*