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VOL. XI. NO. 5.
MW HIM S
LOSEFIGHT
TO ESCAPE
PRISON
Principals in Sensational Fail
ure Beaten in Final Appeal
to State Courts.
EMBEZZLING METHODS
BARED BY THE RECORD
Court Deciares Mere Calling of
Wrongful Act a Loan Does
Not Cancel Responsibility.
J. J. Mangham, of Griffin, former
treasurer of the Boyd-Mangham Manu
facturing Company .sentenced in the
Spalding county superior court to four
years in the penitentiary for embez
zlement in connection with the sensa
tional failure of the Boyd-Mangham
< ’ompany, was denied a new trial by
the state court of appeals today. J.
W. .Mangham, his brother, sentenced
to one year for working with Mangham
to declare illegal dividends, also was
denied a new trial.
This means that the Mangham eases,
which attracted wide attention in Geor
gia through the failure of one of the
largest cotton mills in that section, are
ended as far as the state courts are
concerned. Only the United States su
preme court can set the appelate
court judgment. Mangham's motion
for a new trial was filed on 35 special
grounds.
Court Hits Effort to
Avoid ’ Responsibility.
Mangham was convicted of embez
zling $23,412.50 from the funds of the
Boyd company while manager of the
mill. This amount he is said to have
used in speculation. Through his ac
tivities notes given to several Atlanta
banks were discounted and thousands
of dollars were never accounted for>
Mangham and his brother were given
twelve months for declaring illegal div
idends to cover the embezzlements.
In denying the motion the court as
serted that agent or an official of a cor
poration could not use money intrusted
to him for personal purposes and avoid
criminal responsibility by calling the
action a loan. In such a transaction
the court maintained the fraudulent in
tent could be traced. In discussing the
misdemeanor cases in which the Mang
hams received twelve months each, the
court said the law allowed the declara
tion of dividends only when sums were
paid stockholders from actual net
profits.
Insolvent While
Thought Flourishing.
According th the record of the case.
Mangham’s method in wrecking the
company was impllclty itself. The
Boyd-Mangham Company was capital
ized at $150,000. The entire manage
ment of the concern was turned over to
Mangham. During the years of 1906-
1910, inclusive, the mill was unusually
prosperous, and sums amounting to
$200,000 were paid to stockholders in
dividends, in 1911 the crash came, and
an audit of the accounts of the com
pany showed that Mangham had cov
ered up irregular transactions with
false entries. The books actually show
ed that the company owed Mangham
SIO,OOO. but the audit developed the
fact that Mangham really owed the
company $8,582.99, while the concern
was insolvent when it had been consid
ered in a flourising condition.
Mangham had taken $23,412.50 out
right, covering the steal with a false
entry, and declaring dividends to si
lent stockholders. In 1910 he discount
ed the company's note with the Fulton
National bank, of Atlanta, for $11,500,
with the Central Bank and Trust Com.
jany, of Atlanta, for SI,OOO, and in 1906
with other banks for amounts ranging
from $5,000 to $15,000. An examination
into the company’s affairs showed that
some of these notes were paid from the
company’s funds prior to the failure
and brought the concern into financial
straits.
“BE REASONABLE, MUTT, WE ARE ON THE GEORGIAN”
Mutt and eff have come to The Georgian to stay permanently.
Look for them in tomorrow’s paper and every day after that.
Jeff will start out by giving his friend Mutt the worst of it.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
Constantinople Hit by
Quake: Turks Think It
Italian Fleet and Flee
Rocking of Earth Mistaken for
Bombardment or Dynamiting
of Forts—People in Panic.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 9.—Two
violent earthquake shocks. which
caused widespread alarm and heavy
damage, were felt here early today.
The tremors began at 3:24 o’clock and
lasted several seconds.
So sharp were the undulations that
some of the residents of the city were
thrown from their beds. Terrified citi
zens fled to the streets in their night
clothing.
Some one started a report that an
Italian fleet had gained entrance to the
Bosphorus and had either commenced a
terrific bombardment or was using dy
namite to destroy the forts. The re
ports added to the terror and many fled
from the city, without taking time to
dress.
Walls and chimneys were shaken
down by the shock and numerous per
sons were injured by flying wreckage.
Shock Recorded at Washington.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 9.—According
to the seismograph at the Georgetown
university, an earthquake began at 8:50
last evening and continued until 9:58.
There were three heavy shocks, the
first at 9:13, the second at 9:16 and the
third at 9:IS. The record could not be
read accurately, but it is believed the
’quake lies without the 3,000-mile zone
CITY JUNKETING BAN
KEEPS ZOO BOARD
FROM A BUYING TRIP
Because the city attorney has ruled
that no member of council or a city
board legally can go on a junket at the
city’s expense, the park commission has
neglected to spend, the $1,500 appro
priated last January for animals for the
Grant paik zoo. The commission could
send the general manager to get the
animals, as they have done for several
years, but it is said some of the com
missioners wanted to go to New York
and do the buying themselves. When
they found they could not go without
paying tneir own expenses, they de
cided that nobody should go. ft is said.
W. C. Puckett, chairman of the zoo
committee of the commission, intro
duced a resolution last fall to abolish
the zoo, saying that the council would
provide no money for new animals and
that the old ones were dying out. The
council provided $1,500 for animals
seven months ago, but Commissioner
Puckett has made no move to purchase
them.
9TH ANNIVERSARY OF
CORONATION OF POPE
IS OBSERVED IN POMP
ROME. Aug. 9.—Magnificent pomp
marked the celebration in the Sistine
chapel today of the ninth anniversary
of the coronation of Pope Piux X.
Though the pope’s physicians had
feared the effect of the ceremonies on
the pontiff, he went through with them
without showing any indication of
breaking down.
In the presence of the members of the
Sacred college and a host of other dig
nitaries the pope walked the full length
of the chapel wearing the massive triple
crown and heavy mantle. After his ar
rival mass was celebrated by Cardinal
Merry del Vai, the papal secretary of
state.
After the ceremonies a gift by the
pope to the poor of 2,000 lire was an
nounced.
TWO U. S. WARSHIPS
DISABLED; SEASON
IS DISASTROUS ONE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Acting Sec
retary of the Navy Winthrop was noti
fied by Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus
that the batleship Nebraska, while
cruising in the neighborhood of Point
Judith. R. 1., early today struck a reef
and ripped open several of, the plates
along her keel. She probably will have
to be sent to dry dock for repairs.
The battleship Connecticut about tile
same time broke b r r crankshaft and
also will have to be laid up for repairs.
These two accidents formed the cul
mination of one of the most disastrous
summers the navy has ever passed
through, no less than six first-class
ships having been disabled through col
lision, sunken reefs or other accidents.
SAFE BLOWERS’ EXPLOSION
CAUSES $25,000 FIRE LOSS
BEAVERDAM. KY., Aug. 9.—-Follow
ing an explosion in Gentry Bros.’ gen
eral store today, fire broke out which
destroyed six buildings, with $25,000
loss. It is attributed to safe blowers
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1912.
Tin MS
WOOL BILL
.lECJGING
THRIFF
Schedule Providing 29 Per Cent
Reduction Called Disastrous
to Industry.
WILL SIGN MEASURE
FOR 35 PER CENT CUT
Says Present Bill, if Made Law,
Would Throw Thousands
Out of Work.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—President
Taft, in a veto message to congress
today upon the twenty-nine per cent
wool bill, indicated that no reduction
lower than 35 per cent will meet. his ap
proval.
The president urges strongly on con
gress the necessity of passing a bill
which will offset the difference between
the cost of the production of raw wool
here and abroad. He says:
“I strongly desire to reduce duties,
provided that the protection system be
maintained and the industries now es
tablished be not destroyed.
"I appeal to congress to reconsider
this measure, which I now return with
out my approval, and adopt a substi
tute therefor, making substantial re
ductions without, destroying any estab
lished industry, which I will promptly
approve.
“In view of the platform on which 1
was elected and in view of my promise
to maintain a protective policy, no
course is open to me but to withhold
my approval from this bill. I am very
much disappointed that such a bill
should a second time be presented to
me.”
He recommends that the revision be
made from the data furnished by tire
tariff board, and urges that congress do
not adjourn until such action is taken.
The message continues:
“Urged Reduction of
Excess Schedules.”
“On December 20, 1911. I sent a mes
sage to the congress, recommending a
prompt revision of the tariff on wool
and woolens. I urged a reduction of
dlities which should remove all the
excesses and inequalities of the sched
ule. but should leave a degree of pro
tection adequate to maintain the con
tinued employment of machinery and
labor already established in that great
industry. With that message I trans
mitted a report of the tariff board which
furnished for the first time the infor
mation needed to frame a revision bill
of this character, and recommended that
legislation should at once be under
taken in the light of this Informa
tion.
“Instead of such a measure of thor
ough and genuine revision, based on
full information of the facts, and with
rates properly adjusted to all the dif
ferent stages of the industry, there is
now presented for my approval a bill
identical with the one which I .vetoed in
August. 1911, before the report of the
tariff board was made. The tariff
board’s report fully and completely jus
tifies my veto of that date. The amount
of nd valorem duty necessary to off
set the difference in the cost of pro
duction of raw wool here and abroad
varies with every grade of wool. Con
sequently an ad valorem rate of duty
adjusted to meet the difference in the
cost of production of high priced wools
is not protective to low priced wools.
In any ease, the report of the tariff
board shows that the ad valorem duty
of 29 per cent on raw wool, imposed in
the bill now submitted to me. is inade
quate to meet this difference in cost in
the case of four-fifths of our total wool
clip. The disastrous effect upon the
business of our farmers engaged in wool
raising can not be more clearly stated.
To maintain the status quo in the woo]
growing industry, the minimum ad
valorem rate necessary even for higli
grade wool In years of high prices
would be 35 per cent.
“The great increase in the imports
Continued on Page Two.
Beware! This Little Girl's Guarded by Terrible Spooks
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Grace Estelle Perry's Protector
May Not Be Real Ghost.
But Is More Terrible.
. When little Grace Estelle Perry goes
a-walking, her nurse has an easy time.
For Spooks is Grace Estelle’s reaj
guardian, and if you don't believe it
look at the picture. Observe the sus
picious curl of Spooks’ whiskers; no
tice the supercilious expression of his
cold little nose; he didn’t like to have
the thing the photographer called a
camera pointing at Grace Estelle, for
you never know what may happen in
this day and time.
Miss Perry lives at 391 Peachtree
street, but the whole block of side
walk and lawn is her front yard, and
she and Spooks spend all the sunny
afternoons outdoors. Os course, there’s
a negro nurse to keep them off the car
tracks, but Spooks is the boss. He
trots by Grace Estelle’s side, tugs at
the hem of her pinafore when she tries
to leave the curb, and barks in alarm
and disgust when she trips over her
own tiny toes and falls in the mud.
Spooks is right on the job.
Spooks is a French poodle, w hite and
curly, with little eyes half-hidden by
his bangs and a little pink tongue al
ways protruding from between rows of
sharp white teeth. He wouldn't be a
mouthful for a mastiff, but he is spunky
enough to tackle an elephant when
Grace Estelle must be defended.
GRACE RETURNS TO
NEWNAN; TO PROBE
FOR BULLET IN WEEK
"An operation for the removal of the
bullet will be performed upon Eugene
within about a week, either in Atlanta
or at Newnan.” said L. P. Hill, step
father of Eugene H. Grace, at tile Ter
minal station this afternoon.
Grace was being taken home from a
local sanitarium, after an X-ray exam
ination which showed the location of
the bullet fired on March 5 last In the
West Eleventh street home. The oper
ation is being deferred until Grace re
covers from the strain of the trial — —-
his trip to Atlanta this week.
5 KILLED BY BLAST IN
NEW YORK AQUEDUCT
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Five men were
killed; four fatally and two others seri
ously injured today when a steel drill,
working 266 feet below the surface of
One Hundred and Sixth street and Cen
tral Park West, struck a charge of dyna
mite and caused a terrific explosion. The
men were members of a shift working on
the new aqueduct excavation.
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THREATS OF U. S. TO
LAND MARINES HALT
NICARAGUA REVOLT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Apparently
cowed by the United States threat to
land 350 marines, forcibly to protect
foreign interests in Nicaragua, General
Mena and his rebel forces have halted
near Leon for a conference. It is
thought tlie rebels may treat with Pres
ident Diaz for peace rather than incur
the enmity of the United States by ad
vancing on Managua and destroying
foreign property en route.
Tlie governmental troops at the capi
tal are being reinforced by the regi
ments from the east coast.
The American marines w-ho sailed
from Panama today on the collier Jus
tin are due to arrive at Corinto Sunday.
They will go at once to Managua to
augment tlie hundred American sol
diers from the Annapolis already at the
capital.
TODAY IS “BABY DAY”
IN SENATE; GODCHILD
IS GIVEN LOVING CUP
If members of the state legislature
sometimes show slight interest in law
making. they never fail to accord ba
bies real attention.
Today was "Baby day” in the senate,
and yesterday was “Baby day” in the
house.
James Devereaux Prather, Jr., aged
one, of Panther Creek, held tlie floor
for fifteen minutes in the senate this
i morning and was handed a sliver lov
i ing cup by President Slaton from the
senate in appreciation of his presence.
The infant Prather is the son of J. D.
Prather, of the Thirts -first district, and
was named by the senate last August.
Yi sterday afternoon Miss Georgia
Mell Reinhardt Brown, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Brown, named by tlie
house last summer, tendered a brief
reception to the entire legislature in the
house corridor. Refreshments were
served to the members of both house*
at Miss Brown’s levee.
USE OF FICTITIOUS
NAME DOESN’T SAVE
FORGER IN GEORGIA
Despite the fact that lawyers argued
that Georgia has no law' agaJnst a
man's signing fictitious names to
checks, so long as he does not forge the
name of a real person. Judge Ellis this
afternoon decided that A. R. Saffold
must serve the six-year term given him
by the superior court some time ago.
Saffold was charged with obtaining
money from banks by cashing checks
signed with the names of purely ficti
tious personages. He was convicted
and sentenced, but held in the county
jail awaiting action on habeas corpus
proceedings.
These came up today, and despite
the technical argument presented, Judge
Ellis held that Saffold had received the
money under fraudulent circumstances,
and the sentence must stand.
SHIP LINES OWNED BY
RAILROADS ATTACKED
IN CANAL BILL FIGHT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Senator
Poindexter, of Washington, led an at
tack on the Panama canal bill which
relates to railroad owned eteamship
lines in the senate today. He believes
the clause too strongly favors this class
of steamships. The section as it now
reads prohibits the passage of any ship
in which a railroad owns an interest,
if the ship be engaged in the coastwise
trade, and that no railroad owned ship
shall use. the canal unless 50 per cent
of its cargo is to be shipped to or from
Oriental or European ports.
Senator Poindexter declared instead
of solving the problem the same eco
nomic question was presented that is
found growing out of the ownership of
mines and other Industries by railroads.
He declared the people of the Pacific
coast have had object lessons from
which to draw their conclusions. The
only remedy is to permit the entrance
of foreign vessels into the American
coastwise trade and so break up the
present monopoly.
J
rrar
IPITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ A O V°
GRANO JURY
ACTION NOT
MAPPED IN
AGLUB
—HUGH DORSEY J
Solicitor Denies Flatly Charge
Made by Hooper Alexander
in Campaign Speech.
EXPENSE OF PROBE WAS
DISCUSSED AT A DINNER
Dry Candidate Declares as
Result of ‘Conference’ Some
Organizations Escaped. /
Answering the charges of Hooper
Alexander that the grand jury’s course
of action in the investigation of locker
clubs had been outlined at a confer
ence with superior court judges In the
Capital City club, Solicitor General
Hugh M. Dorsey today denied abso
lutely that there had been any agree
ment reached.
Mr. Alexander in a speech last night
at a rally in the Lyric thea
ter, address also by Seaborn
Wright, the prohibition orator, charged
that the judges, a committee from the
county commissioners, members of the
grand Jury and the solicitor general,
had conferred on the locker club prob
lem in the Capital City club—"unfor
tunately.” He asserted that as a result
of this conference the grand jury in
dicted locker clubs outside the pale and
left the so-called respectable clubs
strictly alone.
Mr. Dorsey declared today that the
“conference” probably referred to was
a dinner given by T. K. Glenn, foreman
of the Jury on which he served, at the
Capital City club. It was learned at
that dinner that the solicitor general’s
office had no funds for the prosecution
of locker club probes.
Glenn Offered to
Pay the Expenses. ' ,
Mr. Glenn then offered to pay the ex
penses of an Investigation himself and
put up the money out of his own pock
et a-nd as a result indictments were
brought against a number of clubs.
Mr. Glenn himself confirmed the so
licitor general’s version of the affair.
He declared that the locker club inves
tigation was merely one of the phases
of the grand jury’s work discussed. Ha
said that the county commissioners had
promised to pay him back the money
he advanced for the probe, but that he
didn t care if he did not recover a pen
ny. His bill was held up yesterday by
the county commissioners.
The commissioners present at the
dinner were 8. B. Turman, H. B. W.
Raimer and Shelby Smith.
The three superior court judges are
Bell, Pendleton and Ellis. None of
them would discuss the Alexander
charges, but it is understood they have
a statement in reply under consldera-
Anderson Denies
Such Meeting Was Held.
General Clifford L. Anderson, mem
ber of the county commission, today
denied that a meeting such as alluded
to by Hooper Alexander last night ever
was held.
"Shortly before the investigation of
the locker clubs several of the commis
sioners met with representaives of the
grand jury to decide whether they
would allow money for the investiga
tion of the clubs. This, however, was.
I think, held at. the commissioners’ of
fice in the Thrower building.
“I was not present at that meeting,
but know that no distinction of class
was made among the clubs. It was de.
cided that a careful investigation would
be made, and the commissioners agreed
to provide a reasonable sum to engag<
detectives to work on the matter. The
detectives were ordered to concern
themselves with ‘locker clubs,’ not any
especial class or kind.”
Mr. Alexander in his speech held
Slaton up to scorn for his alleged fail
ure to come out on the so-called issues
of tlie day. He wondered how the
president of the senate found time to
give a barbecue if he didn't have time