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I f . J • I ' EO M. FRANK, Superintendent of the National Pencil Company ’s factory, still held by the police. Frank's law ADD MYSTE1Y yer says he has given to the police every detail of his where abouts to account for his time on Saturday and Sunday. E Records Purport to Show Watch-1 man Failed to Register Three Times Saturday Night. YVhat i'll' 1 , the National Pt-neil Fac tory tim * clock show? It was the duty of Newt Lee. the negro night watchman, to punch It every haif-hour. Records brought to the police station purport to show that Lee three times failed to punch the clock. But Leo M. Frank, superintendent gf the factory, told-a Georgian re porter Sunday afternoon that Lee had punched the clock regularly and that the clock record was all right. Misses Were Not Consecutive. Accepting the evidence of the rec ords at the police station, the case is more beclouded by their introduction BE RELEASED ! Gantt’s Mother, for Whom Mary Phagan Was Named, Weeps for Son. than It was before. Although they appear to show that Lee failed three times to punch the clock, these rowses were not consecutive and the intervals between punches never were Inore than one hour. The records show that the first al leged "miss” was not until after 9:32 Saturday night. Where, then, was Mary • Phagan ftY>m the time she drew her pay at $oon—when Lee was not in the fac tory—until 9:32 Saturday night? Makes Mystery Still Deeper. And if Frank’s first statement was not a mistake and Lee did not miss these three punches, how would Lee have had time to go to his home at 40 Henry’ Street, change a bloody shirt, and return to the factory within a half-hour? The Introduction of the time clock records has served only to wrap the crime In deeper mystery and to add to the innumerable conflicting pieces of evidence. Shepards’ 7,000-Mile Bridal Tour Ended Former Miss Heien Gould and Hus band Return From Long Honey moon Trip in Europe. NEW YORK, April 30.—Among the passengers arriving to-day on the finer Breton from Southern Europe were Mr. and Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, the latter formerly Miss Helen M. Gould; Rear Admiral Swinburne, United States Navy, retired, and Countess Belle Adimarx. The arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Shep ard ended a honeymoon trip 7,000 miles long. The Shepards were away over six weeks and they visited Eng land, the Continent and Egypt. Shortly after reaching New York Mr. Shepard went to the offices of the Missouri Pacific, where he assumed charge of his new duties as man ager. Senate Report to Favor Suffrage Act LEO FRANK’S FRIENDS DENOUNCE DETENTION Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil Company and one of the central figures Iti the sensational murder mystery surrQunding the death of little Mary Phagan. is well regarded by a host of friends in At lanta, who scoff at the idea that he can in any way be implicated In the horrible tragedy. His friends are all loud In their de nunciation of the efforts that have ap parently been made to drag his name into the affair as a principal. Mr. Frank, 28 years of age, a na tive of Brooklyn, N. Y., came to At lanta about five years ago to take charge of the plant of the National Pencil Company. Three years later he married Miss Lucile Selig, daugh ter of Mrs. E. Selig, of 68 East Geor gia Avenue, and has since made his home with Mrs. Selig. Mr. Frank is a mechanical engineer and a graduate of Cornell University, and prior to his coming to Atlanta held a responsible position with the B. F. Sturdevant Co., of Boston, Mas®. Shortly after he came to Atlanta Mr. Frank was sent to Europe to study the art of pencil manufacture and is considered. an expert in his line. Mr. Frank is popular in Jewish so cial circles and an interested worker in several Jewish charitable organiza tions, being president of the local order B’nai Brith. Several of his most intimate friends seen *'ois morning, among them being Arthur Haas, of the firm of Haas & McIntyre; Isaac Haas, president of the Southern Spring Bed Co., and Arthur Heyman, of the firm of Dor sey, Brewster, Howell & Heyman, were highly incensed at the police fictions. They were unanimous in their characterization of him as a clean-cut, manly man, with a zeal for doing good for others. “The very idea that he could in any way be implicated in this horrible affair is simply preposterous,’’.sev eral of them said. Among his employees at the pencil factory Mr. Frank was unusually pop ular and yesterday when he was taken to headquarters for further question ing by the detectives, f«evoral of the girls and women wept bitterly and protested loudly their belief in his absolute innocence of any complicity in the matter whatever. Mr. Frank is held in high regard by the officers of the company and is admired and respected by those working under him and the belief of those at the factory is that he will be able to establish his absolute in nocence of any connection with the crime. Holland Celebrates Princess' Birthday ‘Orange Bud,’ EPelieved Savior of Lit tle Kingdom From Germany, Four Years Old. Resolution Proposing Constitutional Amendment Giving Women of U. S. Ballot Is Adopted. WASHINGTON,- April 30.—Sena tor Thomas, of Colorado, to-day an nounced that a favorable report on a resolution proposing an amend ment to the Constitution granting equal suffrage to men and women will be made to the Senate. The report will be submitted im mediately after the finance committee concludes its work on the tariff bill. CANADIAN PRAIRIE FIRES DAMAGE MANY FARMS MOOSE JAW, SASKATCHEWAN. April SO.—Despite rain and snow, prairie tires, still are raging fiercely in Southern Saskatchewan, doing im- meu v uamag. to settler's farms. Al ready the daniig' amounts to hun dreds of thousands of dollars. THE HAGUE. April 30. All Hol land is celebrating to-day the fourth birthday of Princess Juliana, "The Orange Bud,” whose birth was re garded as the saving of the Dutch from the German war eagle. Prayers are being offered in all churches and various festivities are being held i n scores of towns. For eight years after her marring? to a German Prince, Queen Wilh.d- mina was childless. The Dut rh prayed for an heir to the throne, and trembled when they thought of what might happen if the Queen should die and leave her German consort as a claimant of the throne. Finally, the prayers of the peopie. and the prayers of the Queen her self. who had grown thin and sickly, thus adding t< the fears of her sub jects. were answered. Holland went into paroxysms of-joy. Now the. in i’, mi's picture adorns about evvry household in the kingdom. Southern Launderers End Their Convention Ciare D. Heidler, of Athens. Elected President—To Meet Next Year at Charleston. A barbecue at the Cold Springs Cue Club and an inspection trip through various Atlanta laundries to day will bring to a close the annual convention of the Southern Laun derers’ Association. Many delegates will remain over •to-night to witness a theater performance. At the final business session at the Piedmont Hotel, Clare I). Heidler, of Athens, was elected president; J. 'A. I Nichols. Asheville. N. vice presi dent: H. # lv Raines, Charleston, S. O., second vice president, and H. A. secretary and Smith, Florence, 8. ( treasurer. It was decoded to meet next year at Charleston. S. (’. President F. D. Lethco, of Char lotte, X. C., presided over the ses sion of the convention. BLOCK COTTON SEED RATES. WASHINGTON. April 30.- The In terstate Commerce Commission to day held that rates over th»* l.ouisvill and Nashville on cotton spec Memphis, Tenn.. to Louiavill are' discriminatory. from Ky.. In an oasy chair in front of un open fireplace in a lftUe Cobb Coun ty farm house, sat an aged mother, with lines of suffering marking her face and her white head bowed in sorrow, praying that her son may be found innocent of the terrible crime for which he is held by the Atlanta police. . For two days she sat in the same chair, staring constantly with dry eyes into the embers of the dying fire, seeing in the clouds of smoke as they swirl upward into the chim ney, visions of her son caged In a felon’s cell—her mind filled with ter rible pictures of her boy struggling with the horrors o* the “third de gree.” The mother is Mrs. Mary Lou Gantt. Her son is James Milton Gantt, the young bookkeeper who is held by the police as a suspect in the terrible murder of little Mary Bhagan. Mrs. Gantt was prostrated when the news of her son’s arrest was brought to her Monday morning. Her boy had been away from home for three long weeks, and during that time had narrowly escaped death in an ac cident at Copper Hill, Tenn., where he. had been working Late Saturday evening she receiv ed a letter from her son, saying that lie was coming home Monday. The letter was filled with messages of love that only a mother can appre ciate, and the heart of Mrs. Gantt was fill d with an unutterable joy. Eagerly, she awaited the dawning of Monday morning, counting the hours I which must elapse ere she could clasp her son in her arms. At the break j of day she was up and preparing | food that he had always liked. She! baked a cake with which to tempt j the appetite of the hoy, and she don ned the soft silk dress that he loved to see ‘mother” wear. At the sound of every footstep, and every time the wheels of a wagon crunched upon the hard country road, the mother hastened to the door. But the hours passed and he failed to come. The warm food she had pre pared go’ cold, and the cake, made as only a mother can make them, stood uncut upon the table. At length, as the hour of noon approach ed, a buggy came down the road. A man alighted and hurried into the house, where he told the mother that her son was under arrest, charged with the most terrible crime in the history of the State—the murder of little Mary Phagan. The mother, stabbed to the heart by the message, swooned in the arms of her daughter, Mrs. George Black- well, and was carried into the house. For hours she lay on her bed, moan ing and sobbing with the pain that clutched her heart and seared her brain. Marv Named for Gantt’s Mother. The grief of rue mother that her son should be charged with such a monstrous crime is all the more bit ter because she 1 as been the life long friend of the Phagan family She was present when little Mary Phagan came into the world, and the little girl was armed in honor or her—Mary Lou Phagan. She has locked the dead child to sleep, sooth ed her with lullabies and romped with her in lighter moments. She w r as inexpressibly grieved when she learn ed of the death cf the child, and the arrest of her son has increased ner sorrow a hundred fold. When a Georgian reporter called at her home yesterday the mother, with all the power of a mother’s love, protested he innocence of her son and declared that his arrest was a terrible injustice. "I know mv b*>y could not do such a terrible thing.” she cried, her tired old body shaking with grief. “Hi was a gr od boy. I raised him right and nothing on eartji could ever make me believe that he has ever done | anything wrong. I know- my hoy as I know no one else on earth, and 1 sweax that he knows tio more about the terrible crime than 1 know mv- self." Feeling High in Marietta. Feeling against the man who strangled Rule Alary Phagan runs high in Marietta, while Gantt has the sympathy of mam The family stands high in the business and social cir cles of the little city, and not a man could be found by a Georgian repor ter yesterday afternoon who would utter other than good about tlie young man. Prominent citizens declared that he was a young man of honor and could not possibly be connected with the crime. When the boy i? released and fully exonerated of the crime, or of any connection with it, the citizens of Marietta are planning such a reception as will leave no room for doubt in the minds of the 'mother and of himself that the un fortunate circumstances that led to his arrest have not lessened their high regard for him or for his farn Uy. Young Gantt has lived most of hi« life on a farm six miles from Mar ietta. He was raised to manhood there, and was and is considered one of the finest young men tHe Ccnintv of f'obb has produced. For several years he taught school at the old (’amp Grounds school house, and then came to Atlanta to learn bookkeep ing. Three w eeks-ago he received ar. offer from California, and started for the West. He was held up by high water at Memphis and went to work at Copper Hill. Tenn., where Rp work- i, for a week. Then he was one of the victim;! Of an elevator ac- < ident, and cam r - home to recuperat*. He had been staying at his sister’s home on Linden Avenue, and was on his way to visit his mother when he was arrested. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS, BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS BASS BASS BASS BASS. BASS. BASS, BASSl CO Bass’ Great May S a l e THE THOUSANDS of buyers who have attended Bass’ May Sales in the past will welcome with delight this an nouncement of the 1913 May Bargain Event, and it will be the greatest May Sale in the history of the store -greater in assortments and variety of merchan dise, greater in values. Only a few of the thousands of bargains are quoted in this advertisement. Come, see them all. Sale Will Begin Thursday Morning At 8 o’Clock EVERY DEPARTMENT of this im mense store is packed with new Spring and Summer goods. Shelves and coun ters are overflowing with good things for quick buyers. Come and see what f. wonderful feast of bargains we have prepared for you. There will be new specials offered every day during the sale. Great purchases will be arriving —prices will be lower than ever known. Yard-Wide Good Quality Bleaching, May Sale, Yard 42c 40-inch Extra Heavy Sea Island^ 7^ Domestic, Yard ^8^ Domestics, Etc. Big lot of colored Crocheted Bed Spreads, worth up to $2.00; at, choice Pull double-bed si/e Sheets, hemmed ready for use ; May Sale price flood size, well made Pillow Cases in tile May Sale at. each Fine, soft-finished English Long- cloth; in the May Sale ; per bolt.... 59c Bleached 29c Bleached 8c 59c Wash and White Goods Big lot of white cheeked Nainsook mid India Linon; May Sale; per yard Yard-wide French Percales, in light arid dark patterns; per ygrd Yard-wide Brown Dress I.ir.ene in natural linen color; this sale, per yard New Dress Voiles; plain colors and fancies very stylish and great bargains at, yard Yard-wide Dress Linens iu black, white and all the popular shades: per yard New Ratines in black, blue, pink and natural linen color: 25c value; per yard. . . 3aC 6Ic 71c 10c 12c 121c Extra Specials Big table of Val Lace edges and insertions; up to 25c values; yard ww Men’s White Hemstitched Hand kerchiefs; worth 10c; in this sale R. & G. make Corsets in new Summer models; May sale price Ladies’ 16-button Lisle clasp Silk Gloves; 75c and $1.00 values 2* 44s and 2- 39c Big May Bargains in Newest Silks May Sale of 200 pieces of New Tub Silks, including black, white, Nell rose, light blue, tan, pink, taupe, etc.: also 100 pieces white, wash China Silks values 50c to 75c; all at, per yard 19c New Silk Striped Voiles in black, white and every popular Spring ftg- and Summer shade; 75c value. CwC 45-inch All-Silk Crepe de Chine, in black, white and Die season’s choicest, shades: $1.50 quality. 47c Great May offering of vard-widc All- Silk Sutin Messalines in plain colors and stripes; also yard-wide Foulards in dots and fancy patterns—every good eolor and combination. These are $1.50 Silks. CQf* Choice, per yard ... Qvv Ready-to-Wear s Millinery May Bargain Sale of New Dresses Very pretty new styles in White Pique Dresses with cot,wed sailor collars and cuffs; real value $5.00; will go in the May Sau %t onl v $1.95 SPECIALS IN NEWEST SUMMER DRESSES— 1,000 Ladies’One-Piece Dresses in the very newest styles for Summer; Silk Ratine, Imported Voile, AH- over Embroidered Linen, Silk Messaline and All- Wool Serge—every color, black and white. These arc beautiful models; none worth less than $10.00; many $15.00 values. Choice Extra special sale of 500 new Linene Dresses in natural linen eolor and other popular shades: sailor collars; 3-4 sleeves; $3.00 values $1.00 May Millinery Sale 2.000 Ladies’ Ready-to-wear Hats and Untrimmed Shapes, including the very newest styles In Panamette, hemp and fancy strhwe, in all colors and white ratines. Real values up to $5.00 Take choice in the May Hale for 98c $4.75 Sale of Tailor Suits 500 Ladles’ Trimmed Dress Hats in various shapes styles Q5J and colorings; made to sell at $5 to $10. Choice.. V ■ ■ w O Late arrivals of Ladies' Spring: and Summer Tailored Suits will go in the May Hale at leas than actual cost of making. Surplus stocks and samples secured from leading New York makers at im mense discounts. See this extra special bargain lot: 200 Ladies’ Suits of All-Wool Serges, Panamas and Fancy Mixtures; new' styles; all colors and black; $6.95 sty real values up to $15.00; this sale. Petticoats: Underwear A line of beautiful new All-Silk Satin Aiepsalltie Petticoats with under dust ruffles; black and every stylish shad* . new narrow effect; $1.69 $5.00 values Ladies’ Muslin Gowns, Petticoats, (’ombinatlon Suits and Princess Slips, exquisitely trimmed with laces, em broideries and ribbons; 98c up to $3.00 value Ladies’ Muslin Gowns and Petticoats, worth up to $1.00, 39© at Ladies’ Corset Covers and Drawers; 50c values.. Iwv Ladies’ Lisle-finished Underv. st the 19c kind; this sale Lot of Children’s Muslin Drawers; nicely made; in this £$© sale.. New Waists and Skirt s Extra 2d Floor Values A grand collection of beautiful Lingerie Waists: [.ace and Embroidery trimmed and Bulgarian Waists of fine, sheer voile-—all brand new models and worth 98c up to $3.00; May Hale price 2,000 White Lingerie Waists, lace and embroidery trim med ; made to sell 39o at $1.00; choice Exquisite Chiffon, Net. Mes saline and Silk Waists worth up to $5.00 and $6.00; May Sfll - $1.98 price May Sale of 1,000 Ladies’ Skirts of light-weight all-wool serges in black, w’hite and colors and of novelty mixtures mostly samples made up to sell at from $#.00 to $7.50. Take choice (go QO of the lot for Cma Mr 0 500 Ladies' Skirts of fine serges and imported skirt ings; values up to $10.00; May Sale price $3.95 1,000 Ladies’ White Pique Skirts in newest styles for summer wear; up to $3.00 values; only 98c Ladies’ House Dresses of good wash fabrics, $1.00 A A values V w Odd lot House Dresses, made to sell as high as $1.50. choice * OWV Children’s Dresses of Madras. Ging ham and Galatea cloth; sizes 6 to 14; up to $2.00 CQ 0 values Miases* and Children’s Mid- /l A dy Blouses; $1.00 values One lot of Children's Dresses, sizes 2 to 6; at 1Q A choice I Children’s Rompers of good. durable fabrics . . . . •> Z7U Children’s Fancy Parasols 1 that were 50c; now . ■ ww Imitation Leather Suit Cases; worth up to $2.50; in this 87c sale In Our Big Furniture Department Mission Porch Swing $1.98 4 ho Mission Porch Swing, as illustrated solid oak, complete with chains $1.98 and hooks; this sale Lace Curtain Sale One of the greatest sales of Lace Curt iins w .* ever announced will be a feature of this Miv Bargain event. Thousands of pairs of brand new Nottingham, Saxony, Cable Net, Filet and Irish Curtains in white and ecru—sample pairs, factory surpluses and regular stock- ill to go at these sensational bargain prices: $2.50 Bed Spring Only 98c, all-steel spring; 93© Full double bed size 120-coil the regular $2.50 quality; May Sale Art Squares, Rugs, Etc. $1.00 LACE CURTAINS at. 1*>r pair 2.00 LACE CURTAINS At. per pair 3.00 LACE CURTAINS at. per- pair 4.00 LACE CURTAINS at, per pair 5.00 LACK CURTAINS at. per pair . 49c . 79c • . 98c $1.69 . $2.48 Brass Curtain Rods, Best Linen Opaque Extension S t yle; Window Shades; this sale 5c Good Spring Rollers . 1@e Genuine Fibre Rush Porch Furniture Fiber Rush Porch Furniture is hecomiriK more anti more popu lar. It is artistic, durable, com fortable. and its cool *;reen eolor makes it the ideal Summer Fur niture. We offer the Genuine Fiber Rush Settees, Rockers and Chairs at about half usual price Fiber Rush Arm Settee . $5.98 Fiber Rush Arm Rocker . . 2.98 Fiber Rush Arm Chair .... 2.98 HxlSUfoo; Japanese Matting Art Squares tn new pretty patterns, only $2.18 9xl2-foot Extra. Super Wool Art Square In very handsome design nt $3.98 9xl2-foot Brussels Art Square, real $17.50 val ue; tn this sale $9.90 9xl2-foot Smith's Axminster Art Square, the $35.00 grade; only $14.35 Heavy China and Jap Mattings In n.-w 191.1 patterns; 40c grade 19c Extra Special—500 Small Rugs, average size 18x27 Inches; choice 15c 27x54-lnch Axminster Rugs, good qualities ana good patterns $1.39 36x72-inoh Axminster Rugs, in wide variety of good designs, only $2.50 3x6-foot Brussels Rugs, In bright, attractive patterns; this sale $1.98 Best No. [Floor Linoleum In Inlaid style pat terns; per yard 19c- You know what the “(Tex” Art Squares and . Rugs are. Know that they are the best sum mer floor coverings. Here are the genuine (’rex go.»ds at little more than half usual price: 18x36-mch (Tex Rug- 39c 30x60-inch (Tex Rugs 98c 6x9-fojt (Tex Art Squares $3.98 9x12-foot Crex Art Squares $5.95 Best No. 1 Floor Oilcloth in good patterns; ve *y special, yard 19c We Give Green Trading Stamps ss f 18 West Mitchell, Near Whitehall CO >> go C/3 a 1 T* GO GO CO I OO GO CO CO GO ) GO BAS&. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS.BASS. BASS. BASS. C/ co CO >.