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T THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 30. CLOCK ‘HISSES' ADD MYSTERY Records Purport to Show Watch man Failed to Register Three Times Saturday Night. What doe? the National Pencil Fac tory time clock show? Tt was the duty of Newt Lee. the negro night watchman, to punch it yery haif-hour. Records brought to Ae police station purport to show 4iat Lee three times failed to punch the clock. But Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the factory, told a Georgian re porter Sunday afternoon that Lee had punched the clock regularly and that ttie clock record was all right. Miaaea Ware Not Consecutive. Accepting the evidence of the rec ords at the police station, the case is more beclouded by their introduction L EO M. FRANK. Superintendent of the National Pencil Company’s factory, still held by the police. Frank’s law yer says he has given to the pol-ce every detail of his where abouts to account for his time on Saturday and Sunday. swr - \ '0^** ,2* Gantt’s Mother, for Whom Mary Phagan Was Named, Weeps for Son. & » % % W v;; '- W f Jgf* : / ■ times to misses w# t^ian it was before. Although they appear to show that Lee failed three to punch the clock, these vere not consecutive and the intervals between punches never were more 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 from the time, she drew her pay at noon—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 erjjne in deeper mystery and to add LEO FRANK'S FRIENDS DENOUNCE DETENTION to the Innumerable conflicting pieces of evidence. Shepards’ 7,000-Mile Bridal Tour Ended Former Miss Helen Gould and Hus band Return From Long Honey moon Trip in Europe. NEW YORK. April 30.—Among the passengers arriving to-day on the Kner Breton from Southern Europe were Mr. and Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, &ie 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 rtjiles long. The Shepard a were away over six weeks and they visited Eng land. the Continent and Egypt. ♦ Shortly after reaching New York Air. Shepard went to the offices of the Missouri Pacific, where he assumed charge of his new duties as man ager. Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil Company and one of the central figures in the sensational murder mystery surrounding the death of little Mary Phagan. is well regarded by a host of friends in At lanta. who scoff at the idea that hi 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 thb 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 iiorne with Mrs. Selig. Air. 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, Mass. 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 s» veral Jewish charitable organiza tions, being president of the local order B’nai Brith. Several of his moK intimate friends seen this morning, among them being Arthur Haas, of the firm of Haas & McIntyre; Isaac Haas, president of the Southern Spring Bed Co., and Arthur Heyvnan, of the firm of Dor sey, Brewster, Howell & Heyman, were highly incensed at the police actions. 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, several 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 I Southern Launderers Princess’ Birthday End Their Convention Senate Report to Eavor Suffrage Act ‘Orange Bud,’ Pelieved Savior of Lit tle Kingdom From Germany, Four Years Old. Resolution Proposing Constitutional Amendment Giving Women of U. S. Ballot Is Adopted. WASHINGTON. April 3fi -Sena tor Thomas, of Colorado, to-day an nounced that a favorable report on i. resolution proposing an amend ment to the Constitution granting equal suffrage to rnen 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 3o Despite rain and snow prairie fires still are raging flerceiv in Southern Saskatcanw im. doing im- nunse damage to settler - farms, ready the damage mm o 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 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 ir> scores of towns. For eight years after her marring? to a German Princp, Queen Will'd- mina. was childless. The Dutch 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. I Finally, the prayers of the people. and the prayers of the Queer her- I self, wno dad grown thin and sickly, I thus adding t( the ft ms of h* suL- | jects. \\ . e answered. Holland went ’into paroxysms of jo Now t • in- CJare 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 Lauti- dere-rs’ Association. Many delegates will remain over to-night to witness a theater performance. At the final business session at the j Pii dmont Hotel, (Mare I). Heidler. of I Athens, was elected president; J. A. i Nichols. Asheville, N. C\. vice presi dent; H. I<>. Raines. Charleston, S. I'd. second vice president, and H. A. Smith, Florence. S. c., secretary and treasurer. Ii was decided to meet next year at Charleston. S. C. President F. I). Lethco, of Char- te, X. C., presided over the ses m of the convention. SLOCK COTTON SEED RATES. WASHINGTON. April 30.-The In- i estate Commerce Commission to rn- held that rate - over the Louisville Lou a K> household in the kingdom. criminatory. B*SS. BASS, BASS.' BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS, BASS BASS BASS BASS BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. In an easy chair in front of an open fireplace in a little 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 of the “third de gree.” The mother is Mrs. Mary Lou Gantt. Her son is Janies Milton Gantt, the young bookkeeper who is held by the police as a suspect in the terrible murder of little Mary Phagan. 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 popper Hill, Tenn., w-here he had been working. Late Saturday evening she receiv ed a letter from her son. saying that I he 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 filled with an unutterable Joy. Eagerly she awaited the dawning of Monday morning, counting the hours which must elapse ere she could clasp her son in her arms. At the break of day she was up and preparing' food that he had always liked. She baked a cake with which to temp*] the appetite of the boy, 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 lie 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 a.ms 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. Mapv Named tor Gantt's Mother. The grief of me mother that her son should be charged with such a monstrous crime is all the more bit ter because she has 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 i»: med 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 fighter m ments. She was 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 my boy could not do such h terrible thing,” she cried, her tired old body shaking with grief. “H- was a gc od boy. I raised him right and notiiing on earth could ever make me believe thai he has ever done anything wrong. 1 know m\ boy ] know no one else on earth, and I swear that he knows no more about the terrible crime than I know my self.” Feeling High in Marietta. Feeling against the man who strangled little Mary Phagan runs high in Marietta, while Gantt has the sympathy of man' 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 the 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< if- released and fully exonerated of the crime, or of an\ 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 fam fly. Young Gantt h is 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 <»f the finest young rnen the County of Cobb 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 weeks ago he received ai I offer from California, and started for the West. lie was held up by J high water at Memphis and went to work at Copper Hill. Tenn.. where ;*e worked for a week. Then he was one of the victim - of an elevator ac- « idem, and < «me home to recuperate.! Hi* had been staving -a: his sister’s home on Linden Avenue, and was on j his wa v « v isit hit?-mother when hej was arrested. 1 CD 9 |V|ay Sale THE THOUSANDS of buyers who have attended Bass’ May Sales in the past will welcome with delight this an nouncement of the 1013 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 a 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 . 4sC 40-inch Extra Heavy Sea Island/j 7^ Domestic, Yard “8^ Domestics, Etc. Big lot of colored Crocheted Bed Spreads, worth up to rft. $2.00: at. choice wvv Full double-bed size Bleached Sheets, hemmed ready Oft* for use; May Sale price, bvv flood size, well made Bleached Pillow Cases in the May Sale at. each WV Fine, soft-finished English Long- eloth; in the May Sale ; per bolt. . Wash and White Goods Big* lot of white checked Nainsook and India Liuon; May Sale; per yard Yard-wide French Percales, in light and dark patterns; per yard Yard-wide Brown Dress Linene 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 in black, white and all the popular shades; per yard New Ratines in black, blue, pink and natural linen color; 25c value; per yard... 3»c 61c 71c 10c 12c 121c Extra Specials Big table of Val Lace edges and insertions; up to 25c values; yard VV Men’s White Hemstitched Hand kerchiefs: worth 10c; 9<t in this sale Cii> R. & G. make Corsets in new Summer models; A A 0* May sale price Ladies’ lfi-button Lisle and 2- clasp Silk Gloves; 75c 39 OJ o-„ and $1.00 values 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 and Summer shade; 75c value Big May Bargains in Newest Sil ek. white 25c Chine, in 47c Ready-to-Weaii Millinery May Bargain Sale of New Dresses 45-inch All-Silk Crepe de black, white and the season’s choicest shades : $1.50 quality Dreat May offering of yard-w^fe All- Sill; Satin Messalines in p)a>*i colors and stripes; also yard-wide FJnulards in dots and fancy patterns—/every good color and combination./ These are $1.50 Silks. ('hoice, per yard„ \. 69c Very pretty new styles in White SPECIALS IN NEWEST SI MMER DRESSES- Pique Dresses with coK'ved sailor collars and cuffs; real value $5.00; will go in the May Sail'at onlv values. Clioic $1.93 May Millinery Sale 1,000 Ladies'One-Piece Dresses in the very newest styles for Summer; Silk Ratine, Imported Voile, Alt- over Embroidered Linen, Silk Messaline and All- Wool Serge—-every color, black and white. These are beautiful models; none worth less than $10.00; many $15.00 $4.75 J\xtra special sale of 500 new Linene Dresses in natural linen color and other popular shades; sailor collars; 3-4 sleeves; $3.00 $1.00 2.00ft Ladies’ Ready-to-wear H,*ts and Untrimmed Shapes, including the very newest styles in Panamette, hemp and fancy straws, in all colors and white ratines. Real values up to $5.00. 98e Take choice in the May Sale for. 500 Ladies’ Trimmed Dress Hats in various shapes -tyle OSl and colorings; made to sell at $5 to $10. Choice. SovO Sale of Tailor Suits Late arrivals of Ladies' Spring and Summer Tailored Suits will go In the May Sale at less than actual cost of making. Surplus stocks and samples secured from leading New York makers at im mense disc ounts. See this extra special bargain lot : 200 Ladies’ Suits of All-Wool Serges. Panamas and Fanc\ Mixtures; new styles; all colors and black; $6.95 real values up to $15.00; this sale Petticoats: Underwear A line of beautiful new All-Silk Satin Messaline Petticoats with* under dust ruffles; black and every stylish shade new narrow effect; $1.60 $5.00 values Ladles’ Muslin Gowns. Petticoats, Combination Suits and Princess Slips, exquisitely trimmed with laces, em broideries and ribbons; O jhlif* up to $3.00 values' QjG Ladies’ Muslin Gowns and Pet tic - ts. worth up to $1.00, 39C at Ladies’ Corset (’overs and IjRni Drawers; 50c values Ladies' Lisle-finished Undervest tin* 19c kind; this SO Lot of Children’s Muslin Drawers; nicely made; in this 8c New Waists and Skirts A grand collection of beautiful Lingerie Waists: Lace and Embroidery trimmed and Bulgarian Wafsts of fine, sheer voile—all brand new models and worth 960 Extra 2d Floor Values up to $3.00; May Sale price 2,000 White Lingerie Waists, lace and embroidery trim med. made to sell at $1.00; choice . wJR/ Exquisite Chiffon. Net, Mes saline and Silk Waists worth up to $5.00 and $6.00; May $1.98 price May Sale of 1.000 Ladies’ Skirts of light-weight all-wool serges in black, white and colors and of novelty mixtures up to sell at from $5.00 ti mostly samples made Take choice of the lot for $7.50. $2.98 Ladies’ House Dresse* of good wash f fabrics; $1.00 A O/r values Odd lot House Dresses, mad- lo sell as high as $1.50; choice Children’s Dresses of Madras, Ging ham and Galatea cloth; sizes 6 to 1 4; up to $2.00 AQa values ...... Misses’ and Children’s Mid- A A dy Blouses; $1.00 values One lot of Children’s Dresses, sizes 2 to 6; at Children’s Rompers of good, 19c sale. 500 Ladies’ Skirts of fine serges and imported skirt ings; values up _to_ $10.00 May Sale I price $3.95 1.000 Ladies’ White Pique Skirts in newest styles for summer wear; up to $3.00 values; gg c only durable fabrics Children’s Fancy Parasols 9 that were 50c; now ■ Imitation Leather Suit Cases; worth up to $2 ; 50; in this sale 87c In Our Big Furniture Department Mission Porch Swing $1.98 Mission Porch Swing, .is illustrated abov solid oak, complete with chains $1.98 and hooks; this sale Lace Curtain Sale One of the greatest sales of Lace Curtains we ever announced will be a feature of this Jin 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 all to go at these sensational bargain prices: $2.50 Bed Spring Only 9Sc Full double bed size 120-coll, all-steel spring; the regular $2.60 Quality; QQ. May Sale Art Squares, Rugs, Etc. $1.00 LACE CURTAINS? at. per pair 2.00 LACE CURTAINS at. per pair 3.00 LACE CURTAINS at, per paii 4.00 LACE CURTAINS at. per pair 5.oJ|i LACK CURTAINS at. per pair . 49c . 79c . 98c $1.69 .$2.4? ■ — 1 Brass Curtain Rods. Best Linen Opaque I Extension S t y 1 e: W i n do w Shades: 1 this I sale 5c Good Spring Rollers Genuine Fibre Rush Porch Furniture Kilmr Hush Porch Furniture is becoming more and more popu lar. It is artistic, durable, com fortable, and its cool green color makes it the ideal Summer Fur niture. We offer the Genuine Fiber Hush Settees, Rockers and (’hairs at about half usual prices: Fiber Hush Arm Srttec . $5.98 Fiber Hush Arm Rocker .. 2.98. Fiber Hush Ann (‘hair .... 2.98 9x12-fojt Japanese Matting Art Squares in new pretty patterns, only $2.48 9xl2-foot Extra Super Wool Art Square in very handsome design at $3.98 9xl2-foot Brussels Art Square, real $17.50 val ue; In tills sale $9.90 9xl2-foot Smith’s Axminster Art Square, tliy $35.00 grade; only $14.9*5 Heavy China and Jap Mattings in new 1913 patterns: 40c grade 19c Extra Special—500 Small Rugs, average size 18x27 Inches; choice 15c 27x54-ineh Axminster Rugs, good qualities and good patterns $1.39 36x72-inch Axminster Rugs, in wide variety o( good designs, only $2.50 3x6-foot Brussels Rugs, in bright, attractive patterns; this sale $1.98 Best No. I Floor Linoleum in inlaid style pat terns; per yard 19c You know what the “Crex” Art Squares and Rugs are. Know that they are the best sum mer floor coverings. Here are the genuine Crex goods at lif.tle more than half usual price: 18x36-’: ch < 'rex Rugs 39c 30x60-inch Crex Rugs 98c 6x9-foot Crex Art Squares $3.98 9x12-foot Crex Art Squares $5.95 Best No. 1 Floor Oilcloth in good patterns; very special, yard 19c We Give Green Tradinj Stamps f 18 West Mitchell, Near Whitehall BASS, BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS, BASS. BASS. BASS. CD CD CD Q\ ./