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volume xii. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1913. NO. 90. Ambassador's Resignation Ac cepted by Bryan Who Says Wilson’s Attitude Clashed With That of Administration (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Secretary Bryan today announced % the acceptance of the resignation of Henry Lane Wilson as ambassador A Mexico. \ In doing so, Secretary Bryan made the following statement: “Ambassador Wilson’s resignation has been accepted to take effect October 14. The part which he felt it his duty to take in the earlier stages of the recent revolution in Mexico would make it difficult for him to represent the views* of the pres ent administration in view of the situa tion which now exists.” The ambassauor in the ordinary prac tice is entitled to sixty days’ leave, ex clusive of Sundays, which accounts for the fixing of the date of October 14 in the announcement.* In,the meantime no appointment can be made of a successor, as a vacancy will not exist until that date. O’SHAUGHNESSY IN CHARGE. Consequently the^American embassy in Mexico will remain in charge of Secretary O’Shaughnessy, correspond ing in status with the Mexican embas- by in the city of Washington, which now is conducted by Charles Algara. The resignation will be followed by an announcement of policy. toward Mex ico by President Wilson. No intima tion of what the announcement woyld be was permitted to leak out. but there were assurances that armed interven tion was out of the question, and there were reasons for believing the an nouncement would deal with this gov ernment’s attitude toward exports of arms to Mexico. . j.r. W T ilson after leaving the state department, dictated the following statement: t AMBASSADOR’S STATEMENT. *T believe that the president and the / secretary of state in their considera tion of the quetsion are actuated by "the highest patriotism and with the best intentions to both countries. I am unaware of what solution of the existing situation is proposed, but I, trust it will be found satisfactory. I have no pride of opinion with reference to my own recommendations, claiming .for them that they were conscientious and, represent the views of 98 per cent of the Americans and foreigners in ' Mexico.” MAY NAME HALE. No ambassador to succeed Mr. Wilson is likely to be appointed until a stable .government has been established there. 'William Bayard Hale, the president’s close personal friend and biographer, now in Mexico, at the president's re quest, and who has been making per sonal reports upon conditions there for months, is being advanced as a prob able selection. ( TO MURDER WHOLE FAMILY Two Searching Parties Fire on Each Other and One Is Killed BiG REDUCTIONS E Packages of Less Than Fifty Pounds Will Be Carried at Practically the Same as Par cel Post Rates (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 4.—Reductions in express rates which will cost the companies fully $26,000,000 a year, or approximately 16 per cent of their gross revenue, were ordered by the interstate commerce commission today to become effective on or before October 15, 1913. Notable reforms in practices also were ordered. The most important change prescribed by the order is by way of modification of the present graduated scale of parcel rates. One hundred-pound rates for short distances either have been left un changed or slightly reduced: for longer distances they have been lowered; for fifty pounds or less all rates have been practically reduced. For packages of more than found pounds going more than 200 miles and less than 2,000, the new express rates are generally lower than the parcel post rates; for more than 3.- 000 miles the rates are practically the same. VINDICATION OF LANE. The report and order of the commis sion, prepared by Commissioner John H. Marble, are a virtual affirmation of the findings of former Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, now secretary of the interior. By prescribing a so-called block sys tem, dividing the United States into 950 blocks averaging 2,50u square miles as originally proposed by Mr. Lane, 900,- 000,000 different rates now published by the express companies will be reduced to less than 650,000, and the interstate commerce commission believes that the system points the way to a solution of the existing maze of freight rates. COMPANIES WILL APPEAL. The general * impression in official quarters is that the express companies will attempt to test, by legal means the constitutionality of the commission’s or der. The express companies had filed state ments indicating that the losses of reve nue under the proposed rates would be intolerable, and argued strenuously that the establishment of the parcel post h^d deprived them of quite 30 per cent of the revenue they formerly receivd from parcels of eleven pounds or less. They contended that the express busi ness could not survive the losses from both sources. BRYAN CANCELS LECTURE ENGAGEMENTS IN KANSAS (By Associated Press.) KANSAS CITY. Aug. 4.—William Jen nings Bryan, who was to have spoken at the Chautauqua tomorrow night in this city, notified the management to day that affairs in his office would not permit him to fill the engagement. Other engagements in Kansas have been can celled. TROOPS GUARD STRIKERS FROM MOB OF CITIZENS Four Killed and. Eight Wound ed in Battle Between Posse and Laborers (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) CAIRO. Ga., Aug. 4.—Ed LaCont, the negro who attempted last Friday night to murder the entire Bodiford family near Cairo, is in jail at Albany for safe keeping, while one white man is dead and two others are wounded as the re sult of two parties firing upon each oth er while searching for LaCont. About 12 o’clok Saturday night Hardy Rawls. Craton Singletary and Joe Hall were going down a public road four miles east of Cairo, and, as they were passing a negro house which they sus pected, were fired on from a cane patch behind a fence. A load of buckshot tore througn the heart of Hardy Rawls, killing him in stantly, and two men behind the fence jumped into the road and ran. Craton Singletary opened fire and struck one of the men in the back, but did not stop him. Thereupon the two men "turned and fired, striking Joe Hall in the head and face, but not wounding him seri ously. Both parties then stopped firing, and it was discovered that the two men were Lint Singletary and his father-in-law. Arch Adams. They claimed they were on watch for the LaCont negro and mistook the white men in the road. The LaCont negro was chased into Whigham, a small town seven miles from Cairo, Saturday night, and captur ed. Deputy Sheriff John Knight hur ried him to the Bainbridge jail. A crowd learning he was there, started to Bainbridge. The authorities were taking him out. The authorities were informed and rushed the begro to Al bany in an automobile, and he will be guarded by troops if necessary. Improvements Will Be Made in Parcel Post WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Further to popularize the parcel post system with the public, Postmaster General Burle son today announced that after August 3 5 the weight limit on pacakages, would be placed at 20 pounds, (it now is 11 pounds) .and that a sharp reduction in charges for the transportation of pack ages would be made. He announced also that on the same date, “banking by mall” feature would be introduced into the postal savings system. The reduction in charges on parcel post matter for local delivery is from the present rate of five cents for the first pound and one cent for each addi tional pound, to five cents for the first, pound and one cent for each additional two pounds or fraction thereof. (By Associated Press.) SACRAMENTO. Aug. 4.—-Five com panies of the California national guard today are policing the hop fields of Wheatland, in Yuba county, where four persons were killed and eight were badly wounded yesterday in a clash be tween striking hop pickers and a sher iff’s posse. The strikers, led by Indus- trtal Workers of the World organizers, still are in an ugly mood, but Adjutant General Forbes believed that if he could prevent a meeting of the strikers and some of the bands of armed citizens who last night were intent upon ven geance, there was not likely to be fur ther demonstration. News of the death of District Attor ney Manwell and Deputy Sheriff Rear don, and the wounding of Sheriff Vose and others of his posse, spread rapidly throughout the farming country last night, and volunteer posses hurried from 4very community to take a hand. The militia did not reach the scene until nearly daybreak and In the meantime several hundred civilians had poured in from every direction. Sandbags Wrong Man: Then Writes a Note Making an Apology (Special Dispatch to The Journal.)- MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 4.—When a robber discovered that he had sand bagged the wrong man last night, he left a note beside the body of George M. Baggett, salesman, in which he apolo gized for the error. Baggett was struck while in an alley on Lee street, and when he recovered he found the note and his pocketbook. He had only a few pennies in his pocket and the robber refused to take them. THE HARVEST HAND GOLD FIELD -DISCOVERED IN BELGIAN CONGO DISTRICT ANTWERP, Belgium, Aug. 4.—A gold field of exceptional richness has been discovered in the southern part of the province of Katanga in the Belgium Congo, according to dispatches received here privately from Elizabethville. cap ital of the district. LONGFELLOW’S NEPHEW, ARCHITECT-WRITER, DEAD GLOUCESTER, Mass.. Aug. 4.—Wil liam Pitt Preble Longfellow, a nephew of the poet Longfellow, and an archi tect of note, djed here today, aged sev enty-seven years. Mr. Longfellow wrote several books on architecture. SLAIN BY NIECE WHILE TRIE TO PLAY JOKE Man Is Shot in Night Through Door toy 13-Year-0ld Girl • - • ■ ■' (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) EATONTON. Ga., Aug. 4.—Eatonton and Putnam county are mourning today as the result of an attempted practical joke Saturday night which resulted in the shooting of John McGibbony, of Waycross, by his thirteen-year-old niece. Lula Gardner. In less than an hour after McGibbony arrived in the city with his mother he was lying mortally wounded in the home of his sister, where he was shot. He died soon afterward. His niece is at the point of death from the nervous shock. McGibbony went to the home of his sister to get a horse and buggy for his mother. Upon arriving there he knocked at the door, then shook the knob, and, disguising his voice, called to them to let him in. Several times Mrs. Gardner and her daughter, Lula, who were alore together in the front of the house, asked him his business, as they did not recog nize his voice* He refused to answer, and again rattled the door. The girl was so frightened that she took'a shot gun and fired both loads through the door, the shot passing through McGib- bony’s abdomen. "I’ve got one, mother!” the girl said as she heard the body fall. Both she and her mother believed the intruder to be a negro. Neighbors came immediately, and every effort was made to save the wounded man, who reiterated time and again before his death: “Don’t try to play jokes!” PRAYERS CELEBRATE 10TH YEAR OF POPE PIUS’ REIGN NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—Today is the tenth anniversary of the election of Pope Pius X by the conclave of 1903. It is said that the only recognition of the anniversary at this time will be spe cial prayers for the pontiff. The anni versary of the death of Pope Leo XIII and the election and crowning of Pope Pius X will be observed together No vember 15. GEORGIA MAN MEMBER • OF CABINET FOR Dlilf Director Harris, of Census Bu reau, Appointed Acting Sec retary of Commerce BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—With the designation by the president today of William J. Harris as acting secretary of commerce, Georgia finally broke into the Wilson cabinet. Colonel Harris was named by the president to discharge the duties of this cabinet office in the ab sence from the city of Secretary Red- field and Assistant Secretary Sweet. As director of the census, Colonel Harris is the ranking officer of the de partment dr commerce next to the as sistant secretary, and the president rec ognized this fact when he named the Georgian as acting secretary. AVIATOR TAKES PLUNGE TO SAVE THE SPECTATORS (By Associated Press.) DORTMUND, Germany Aug. 4.—The German aviator Besser, when the motor of his aeroplane developed a defect dur ing a flight here today, plunged with his machine into a. canal in order to avoid a collision with a great crowd of spectators. Besser was rescued. seer conn 11 Mil FO! "till oi Simms Five Thousand RetoresenTafive Dealers Expected to Attend Meeting of Southern Mer chants’ Association Atlanta opened wide her doors Mon day morning to the merchants of the south. The keys of the city are theirs, for two weeks Atlanta will do her best to entertain 5,000 representative dealers who are here to attend the annual con vention of the Southern Merchants’ as sociation. Early Monday morning trains bear ing delegates to the great gathering began to arrive at both stations. They were met by representatives of the At lanta Merchants and Manufacturers’ as sociation. who directed tnem to hotels and to the registration headquarters. FROM ALL SECTIONS. From every state and city south of Mason and Dixon’s line the merchants came. The towns of Georgia sent hun dreds, Alabama, the Carolinas, Tennes see and Alabama are represented by their biggest and best From as far west as Texas more are coming, each train is a “special” packed with Atlan ta’s guests. While information bureaus are be ing maintained at both the railway sta tions, the headquarters of the conven tion will be the auditorium-armory, where all sessions will take place daily. Here the big corps of registrars were kept busy Monday morning receiving the delegates, providing them with con vention badges, and with coupon books* which entitle them to all the enter tainment features of the gathering. The number of early arrivals Monday forecasted a record-breaking convention in point of attendance. This 'is the third convention of the association and undoubtedly will prove the largest ad most profitable. Already hundreds of merchants have stormed the gates of the city and more are coming every hour. OPENS TUESDAY MORNING. President Bolling H. Jones will call the convention to order promptly at 10 o’clock Tuesday. Bishop W. A. Candler will deliver the invocation, while Gov ernor John M. Slaton will welcome the visiting merchants. Mayor Woodward will then hand them the keys of the city. Ten-minute speeches will be the order of the day Tuesday. Various discussions in relation to the leading topic, “How can merchants, landlord and bankers best direct their influence toward secur ing a greater diversity of crops?” will be in order. Among the social features on the pro gram are a theater party Tuesday night, for which the entire Forsyth theater has been engaged; a car ride over the city Thursday evening, followed by a reception at the Piedmont Driving club; another theater party Monday; a barbe cue Wednesday following, and a ball game the last Saturday. The convention will last two weeks and is one of the biggest events of the year for Atlanta and Atlanta merchants. Decided That No-Cotton Zone Would Not Be Advisable, 2j5Q0 f 0GD Acres Involved WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—A second cotton boll weevil coAference between senators and representatives from the southern states and officials of the de partment of agriculture was held here t'»day. It was called at the request of Senator Smith, of South Carolina, whose plan for establishing a zone in which the raising of cotton should be prohibit ed in order that the weevil may not spread into the eastern states , was touched on only briefly at the first con ference, held week before last. All of the states which grow cotton were rep ;resented at the conference. Five of the department’s field agents ! in the south, who have made careful i study of the boll weevil problem, were i present to explain the situation and tell ; whait they thought best to be done in the 'fight against the post. They were W. F. Proctor, Texas; Mason Snowden and L. M. Calhoun, Louisiana; R. S. ! Wilson, Mississippi, and B. L. Moss, A1 i abama, all state agents, for the depart- | ment of agriculture in its farmers’ co operative demonstration work in the south except Mr. Calhoun, who is a dis trict agent. Secretary Houston, W. A. Taylor, chief of the bureau of plant in dustry; Bradford Knapp and J. A. Evans, of the co-operative demonstra tion office, also were present. The officials of the department are of the opinion that the best way to fight the weevil is to continue and expand the present methods of improved cul ture, rather than to establish a zone. Senator Smith’s zone would run down through Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Florida,»and would include an area of more than 2,500,000 acres. The an nual loss if the cotton crop were dis continued in this area would be $108,- 000,000, the department’s experts have figured. What the compensation from other crops might be could hardly be es timated, as so many various elements would enter into it. After the conference, wnich lasted for more than two hours, it was announced that there had been unanimity both among the members of congress present and the department officials that ex tension of the co-operative demonstrra- tion work throughout the south was de sirable. IN METAL ROOM AFTER GIRL ENTERED FACTORY Conley Swears He Saw Mary Phagan Enter Factory, That He Heard Her Screams in the Metal Room a Short Time * Later, That Frank Then Called Him and He Went Up and Found the Superintendent in a Panic and the Girl Dead “CONLEY S STORY THE VILEST AND MOST AMAZING PACK OF LIES EVER CONCEIVED' —LEO M. FRANK. "The vilest and most amazing pack of lies ever conceived in the per verted brain of a wicked human being," is the way Leo M. Frank charac terized the remarkable story of James Conley, the negro sweeper. It was to friends and while he was eatfhg his luncheon in a court house ante-room that Frank expressed himself. He appeared to be al most overcome with indignation, but was confident that his attorneys would be able to break the negro down during cross-examination. - Every moment of the time that Conley was on the stand Monday morn ing his face was the object of Frank’s eye. The negro kept his gaze avert ed from Frank, but the defendant, apparently unmoved by the terrible ac cusations of the witness, continued to look him straight in tne eye. Jim Conley, negro sweeper at the National Pencil factory, took the witness stand at the trial of Leo M. Frank Monday morning, and told an amazing story which added many new and sensational features to the confessions given to the police by him and made public some weeks ago. Conley for the first time dramatically declared that he was at the pencil factory when little Mary Phagan entered shortly after 12 o’clock to get her pay, that he saw her and that a little later he saw Monteen Stover go in. The Stover girl left the factory, he said, but Mary Phagan did not. A little while after Mary Phagan entered, according to the negro’s remarkable story, he heard screams In the metal room where the state claims the crime was committed. In a short time, Frank signalled him to come upstairs, and he went, finding the superintendent trembling all over nd 1 na panic. The negro then detailed the story of finding the little girl’s dead body, of wrapping it up in a crocus sack at the direction of Mr. Frank, and assisting the superintendent in car rying it to the ’->asement. Conley’s story of carrying the body to the basement coincided with what he hau previously told in this connection. He swore that it had been planned to burn the body and that Mr. Frank had In structed him to build up the fire for this purpose, but that he be came frightened and did not carry out the superintendent’s instruc tions. The negro told his story glibly. With little prompting from the solicitor he talked in a rapid, recitative manner that made his testi mony difficult for the stenographers to take down. When he had fin ished he was turned over to the defense for crosss-examination, and Luther Z Rosser began to fire questions at him in an effort to break down his story. Conley was still on the stand when court adjourned for lunch and the cross-examintlon was resumed at 2 o’clock. It is expected that the negro will be under cross-examination for many hours, as it le certain that he will not be allowed to leave the, stand until he has been given a severe grilling. * When court convened for the afternoon session Judge Roan or dered all women to leave the court room, declaring that the testimony would be unfit for them to hear. About 175 women were present when the judge made the announcement. Startling portion of the negro’s testimony was his claim that on previous Saturdays and holidays he had acted as “lookout” for the accused superintendent while the latter met different young ladies on the second floor of the factory. The witness went into detail when he related the happenings on the day of the tragedy. He declared that Frank had engaged him to come to the factory and “watch for him at the door like he had done on previous Saturdays. Then the negro told of the different persons entering the door and of Frank’s signals to him as the “lookout.” He declared that the accused told him when the right one entered he would stomp his foot and that meant for him to lock the door so nobody could enter and when he whistled for him to come up the stairs and ask to borrow money and give the girl a chance to getout. A piece of crocus bagging was produced l^fSKKirt for the first time during Conley’s story. Some large dark stains appeared in the middle of it. “Yes, sir, that’s it,” said the negro, identifying it as the cloth used by him to wrap up Mary Phagan’s Body. 9 Many Discrepancies Between Conley’s Testimony and His Testimony Given to Detectives BALKAN STATES AGREE TO EKTEND ARMISTICE WILSON DIVES $7,500 JOB TO EX-ATLANTIAN Peace Delegates Wanted Ex tension So as to Adjust Various Claims Judge ^William Bailey Lamar Appointed U. S, Commis sioner to Panama Expo BY RALPH SMTIH. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug 4.— Judjye William Bailey Lamar, formerly of Florida, more recently of Atlanta, and now a citizen of Washington, has been appointed by President Wilson to be United States commissioner of the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Fran cisco, at a salary of $7,500 a year and expanses. Judge Lamar is well known in At- j lanta, where he married Mrs. Ethel | Toy Healy. Judge Lamar’s appointment is effec tive at once, and he will leave Wash ington with Mrs. Lamar in a week or ten days for San Francisco, where his headquarters will be located SUBWAY MAY END CON GESTION^ AGED BRIDGE NEW YORK. \ug. 4.—An important link of the metropolitan chain of train facilities was opeend today with the running of the first regular trains through a subway connecting the New York ends of the three downtown bridges to Brooklyn. It is hoped by this connection to further relieve old Brook lyn bridge, which has borne the brunt of over the river traffic for the past thirty years, despite the construction of other bridges. (By Associated Press.) BUCHAREST, Rumania, Aug. 4.—A three-day’s extension of their armistice was agreed to today by peace delegates of Rumania, Servia, Greece, Montenegro and Bulgaria, thus enabling the pleni potentiaries to try to conclude differ ence in claims in the various states. SENATE LOBBY PROBERS QUIZ SENATOR TOWNSEND WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Senator i Townsend, of Michigan, was the first j witness today before the senate lobby committee. Testimony of Martin M. j Mulhall had be n finished, and that : witnesss was waiting to be questioned i by the house committee about his lob bying activities for the National Asso- jelation of Manufacturers. Senator Townsend denied Mulhall’s (testimony that he had talked with him and c*.aructeriLcd Mulhall as a “self- acknowledged corruptionist.” Dirge Honors Dead Wife as Widower Is Married Second Time v Negro Swore Previously The He Never Saw Mary Phaga Enter Factory-Many Othe Changes in Story-Fourt Time. He’s Changed Narra tive (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Aug. 4.—A funeral march and rag time were played at the secret wedding last week of Gene Green, a! vaudeville performer. The ceremony j which was performed in the Presby-1 tenan church at Renesalaer, Ind., did | not become known until today. The dirge was in memorium of Green’s first wife who died in February and was substituted for the wedding march. The organist struck ut> a popular melody as the groom and his bride, w’ho was Miss Harriet Kliessendorff, left the church. IS ELECTROCUTED FOR IYIURDER OF HIS BROTHER OSSINING, N. Y., Aug. 4.—Anthony W. Grace was electorocuted at Sing Sing prison today as penalty for the James Conley’s story as-he told it on the witness stand Monday morning dif fers in many important details from the story he t^ld to the detectives in his famous affidavit of confession. In tha{ affidavit he said that by ap pointment he met Frank at the corner of Forsyth and Nelson streets the day of the murder, and that he first went to the factory on that day when he followed Frank back there. He now says that he went to the fac tory early Saturday morning, April 26, and after remaining there for some time in hiding he went away, meeting Frank at Forsyth and Nelson streets at about 10:30 and later following him back to the factory. This change in the negro’s recital has evidently been made since ]p» learn ed that some of the incidents he de scribed in his affidavit occurred during the early morning and before he said he came to the factory from Nelson and Forsyth streets. In his affidavit Conley sw’ore that he never saw Mary Phagan enter the fac tory, that he was drinking and must have been dozing and that the first time he saw her was when he went back into the metal room under directions from Frank. Now he says he did see her go up stairs and that a short tim&Uater he heard a scream in the metal room. In his affidavit he said that when Frank called him upstairs he told him that he (Frank) had picked up a girl back in the metal roofn, had let her fall and that her head had struck some thing. Now’ he says Frank admitted having struck the girl, because she resisted his attentions. Many other more or les important discrepancies can be noted in Conley's two stories.