Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, April 30, 1913, Image 1

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WILSON DROPS ALIEN BILL AS CLOSED ISSUE President Not to Bother Further With Question Unless Japan Objects Strenuously. MEASURE WILL BE PASSED California’s Governor, in State ment, Says Bryan’s Protest Will Go Unheeded. WASHINGTON. April 10.—So f* *r an the White House Is concerned the Jaran-California question Is closed and Mr. Bryan will be recalled in a few days. President Wilson to-day said he will 1 alee no further action with regard to the alien land law in California un less Japan brings great pressure to bear on Washington. Insomuch as the bill which wtll paes the California Legislature to morrow Is reported by Secretary Bryan to be in accord with all eaiat- ing treaties with Japan It Is not seen here how the Tokio government can object consistently to the enactment of this measure. Should there be any such protest, however, this Government will refer It to the regular channels of the Slate Department, and If damages are awarded by a court, of claims will pay them as it did In the case of the Italian murders In New Orleans in i lit early nineties. Bill to Pass Despite President’s Protest. SACRAMENTO, April 30— Bo far as the results of last night's confer ence between Wtlliam J. Br.van and the California legislators are con cerned. they have not advanced the raute of the President and h1s Secre tary of State an inch. When the conference was over there was a general knowledge that the anti-alien bill prepared by Attorney General Webb, under the eye of the Got ernor. and w r ith the advice at that Governor’s confidential friend*, will be passed by the Legislature and promptly signed by Governor John son. The Governor to-day dictated a statement to the effect that confer ences with Secretary Bryan are over and that the time for passing the law has come. He said: ■ The conferences between the Sec retary of State and Legislature were ronciuded last night. We were de lighted with Mr. Bryan and all that be said was given the most attentive and respectful consideration. Every opportunity was accorded him. a«d the conference closed only when he -anted he had nothing further to say. No Desire to Embarrass U. S. “The members of the Government of California with unanimity ex pressed themselves as desiring to aid the national Government and In no wise to embarrass it. The spirit per vading the meetings was one of friendly co-operation and full of pa triotic purpose. I think the majority of the legis lators felt, and I certainly do myself, that no sufficient reason has thus far been presented to cause California to halt in any contemplated legislation, if any law be enacted, it may be safe ly asserted, treaty obligations will be scrupulously observed. Japanese Not Singled Out. The Japanese will not be singled out by any act. The classification made by the naturalization laws of nation, established by the Consti tution of California, and sanctioned bv the laws of other States, will prob- ably be followed. "This, of course, it is our legal and mura i right to do, and such enactment h California can not justly and log- i C'... either offensive or discrim inatory'’ Significance was seen to-day In the a of the State Senate In adopting a- a substitute for the pending land bill the one prepared by Attorney General Webb. The bill was adopted after Secretary Bryan had Informed the legislator* that the bill was not satis fa:'or ’o President Wilson. California Senator Says State Insulted Wilson. SACRAMENTO, April 30.—"It does not require much courage to pick quarrel when some one else will have the burden of maintaining the con- troverey.” wjjjg statement was made to-day by 'state Senator W. S. Wright a Re publican and a member of the ad ministration majority in the Califor- * Senator V, right de- epposed to the anti- pending before the THE WEATHER. Forecast—Fair to-night.and Thursday. Temperatures—8 a. m., 60; 10 a. m., 68; 12 noon, 71; 2 p. m., 76; sunrise, 4:49; sunset, 6:21. VOL. XI. NO. 230. CENTS EVERYWHERE p ^° IE INTEND II in; sal pony Contenders in Georgian-Surtday American Race for Twelve Shetlands Determined. CHILDREN ARE ALL AGOG Opportunity to See “Butterfly on the Wheel” Free Also Serves to Arouse Interest. “Ws imend to win!” Every contestant who has entered The Georgian and Sunday American race for the twelve beautiful Shet land ponies announces hia or her de termination to win. That is the right spirit, of course. No uae entering unless you intend to win. But don’t lei the ambitions of oth ers deter you from trying your skill. Tour determination may be just as strong—may be stronger than those already In the race Particulars of The Georgian and American's ponv contest are an nounced again to-day. And have you seen the picture of one of the ponies? Did you ever see a sturdier, more intelligent, more serviceable little animal por trayed? Well, the other eleven are just as attractive, and the carts are just the sort auch fine animals are proud to pull. Naturally the children of Atlanta are ail astir. Children Win Parent Over. “My children ave been teasing me for a pony eve since they’ve been old enough to think of such things.’' said a prominent business man yes terday. ‘‘Since The Georgian and Sunday American have been announc ing free ponies and carta the young- stere won't let me rest. 1 guess I’ll have to let them try.” Here will be keen contenders— children who have wanted a pony ever since they w«re old enough to think of such thing**. There are hun dreds of children in Atlanta who have felt just that way. Scores of them will enter the contest. So send in the nomination blank, which 1* good for 1.000 votes at the atari; begin saving the vote coupons from The Georgian and American from Thursday on, and start at once getting your friends to subscribe for The Georgian and Sunday American. On another page you will And the limits of the city districts, and the particular# for out-of-town contest ants, together with the scale of voting strength the subscription!* for various periods of time give you credit for in the contest. Worth while work, worth while prise#—you can t afford to stay out of the pony outfit, contest, if you love ponies—and who doesn’t? Frse Theater Tickets. ‘‘The Butterflj' on the Wheel' is continuing to draw crowds to the At lanta Theater. No, this bit of type has not strayed by accident out of the theatrical col umn. It belongs here. The point Is, the crowds goiqg to the Atlanta Theater this week to see ‘‘The Butterfly on the Wheel.” played by Miss Billy Long's stock company, are paying for their peats, and they come away feeling that it is money well spent for el£an and clever amuse ment. You. as a reader of The Georgian and Sunday American, may go free of ail charge. Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, and on Sun day. will appear in The Georgian and The Sunday American consecutive coupons, numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. Clip them out. save them and mail them to our offices with a stamped and self- addressed envelope. In return, you will get a reserved seat for a per formance at the Atlanta Theater. The Miss Billy Long stock company is a well-balanced, competent organi zation. giving some of the best plays produced on Broadway in recent sea- .fons. A chance to see the cast in plays never before present in Atlanta is not to be overlooked. Please accept a good seat, with our compliments. The Atlanta Georgian .T cau lor Profit--GEORGIAN WANT ADS--Use for Resu't<: TEACHERS TAKE TESTS THIS WEEK FOR LICENSES Examination of applicants for teachers' certificates will be held at the Boys' High School Building Fri day and Saturday. Testa prescribed by the County Board of Education will be given. The examinations will be for both white and colored Block New Head of Street Car Board The directors of the Georgia Rail way and Electric Company to-day elected Frank E. Block president of the board to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph T. Orme. Frank Hawkins, of the Third Nation al Bank, has been elected a director Mr. Block is one of the best known j business men in the South, having established the Frank E. Block Com pany and other enterprises in Atlanta He has ueen a director of the Georgia : Railway and Electric Company for; years. WILSON COMPLETES PLAN FOR CURRENCY REFORM WASHINGTON, April 30.—Presi - ; dent Wilson's currency reform bill ; will make its appearance in concrete form in the near future. It will rep resent the views of the President on what is needed to place the monetary system of the I’nited States on a more substantial basis. It is confidently predicted that the bill will not carry any provision pledging the I’nited States to a guar anty of bank deposits. Newt |watchman ill the National Pencil Company’s fac tor; who notified ijie police of the discovery of Mary Phagan's body, told lus complete story on the stand at the coroner's inquest to-day. Lee was on the stand for more than an hour and was plied with questions intended to throw light on the tragedy. He re plied to questions in a straightforward wav, and in detail his story is subslaiitialIy tile same as lie has made to the reporters ever since his arrest. liis most significant answers concerned his employer, Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the factory. Lee said that when he re port'd al I o'clock for work, Frank told him to go home until 6. He declared ibat Frank seemed excited, but added that he attrib uted thai excitement to the fact that Frank had just discharged John Gautl, and might have feared trouble, lie said he reported back for work at ti o'clock and that a few hours later Frank called him lip by phone from his home to ask him if things were all right The witness testified that liis employer bail never done this before. Chief of Police Heavers said that Leo M. Frank, superintend ent of the Notional Pencil Company, would go on the stand before the coroner’s jury probably late this afternoon. The Chief said he could not force him to testify as lie was in the nature of a defendant, hut Attorney Rosser said there would he no object ion. Newt Lee's Testimony as He Gave It at the Inquest A new photograph of .Mary Phagan. AGAIN BY AUSTRIA Foreign Office Declares Monte negro Must Change Attitude or Invasion Will Follow. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. VIENNA, April 30.—The Austrian foreign office announced to-day that the Austrian Government would im mediately adopt coercive measures against the Montenegrin Government unless there is a change of attitude at Cettinje. Envoy’s Recall Is Denied. LONDON, April 30.—A telegram from Cettinje states that the report that Baron Giesel VonGieslingen, I Austrian Minister to Montenegro, had | been recalled, is premature. It was learned here from a semi- | official source that Count VonBerch- 1 tholdt. Austrian Foreign Minister, has I informed the powers that Austria will make no overt move against Monte negro until after the meeting of the ambassadors here to-morrow. A dispatch to The Neue Freie Presse announced that Italy had agreed to support Austria in any ac tion the latter might take agains' Montenegro. The possibility that Austria may precipitate an extensive campaign, embracing all of Western Albania. Is growing. City Offers $1,000 as Phagan Case Reward At Special Council Meeting Called by Mayor Only One Man Opposes Action. At a special session of City Council to-day, tailed by Mayor Woodward, to give the city’s financial aid to the ap prehension of the guilty persons in the Mary Phagan strangling case, $1,000 was appropriated as a reward to the person furnishing information leading to the ar rest of the man or men who committed the deed. * The appropriation found one opponent in Councilman Thomson, who said the lure of a high award would be likely to result in the arrest and hanging of an innocent person who might be sworn to his death by some one desiring the reward The Councilman said he was in favor of using the money In engaging an ad ditional fores of expert detectives Harris Appointment Reported Favorably Census Committee of Senate Gives O. K. to Nomination of Georgia Man. WASHINGTON, April 30. The nomination of Walter J. Harris, of Georgia, to be Director of the Census, to-day was ordered favorably report ed by the Census* Committee. The vote was along strict party lines. Senator Townsend, of Michigan, on behalf of the Republicans, will submit a minority report. 2 LABOR EDITORS JAILED CHARLESTON, W. VA„ April 30. Charged with publishing an article to'incite insurrection, Fred 11. Mur- rick and John L. Ramsey, alleged to be editors of The Labor Argus, were arrested here to-day. MRS. CANDLER'S NIECE DEAD OF AUTO INJURIES A! GIST A. GA , April 30 Miss Er nestine Batey, a niece of Mrs. Asa O. Candlt, «»f Atlanta, died here to-day from injuries received Monday night, when she was struck by an automobile. GIRL'S DEATH LAID TO FACTORY EVILS Working Conditions Here Wrong, Proved by Phagan Crime, Says McKelway. Dr. A. .J. McKelway, president pro tern of the Southern Sociological Congress, declared to-day that if fac tory conditions in Atlanta were what they should be 14-year-old Mary Phagan never would have been slain. ‘If social conditions, if factory con ditions in Atlanta were what they should he here, if children of tender years were not forced to work in shops this flightful tragedy could not have been enacted.” he asserted. Dr. McKelway's remarks came in the course of a conversation In which he discussed at length the evils of child labor In industrial plants and the absolute necessity of rigid child labor legislation. A reception at the Piedmont Driv ing Club yesterday marked the close of the four-day sessions of, the so ciological congress in Atlanta. Dele gates left last night and to-day for their homes. CHRISTY CHURCHILL, LAST OF KENTUCKY FAMILY, DIES LEXINGTON, KY . April 30 — Christy Churchill, the last member of the noted Kentucky family from which Churchill Downs received its name, is dead here to-day. He suffer ed an attack of pneumonia the private race meet given by Mrs. Clarence Lebus in Lexington last week. Newt Lee, the negro night watch man. was questioned as follows; Q What is your name? A. Newt I .ee Q Where do you live ' A. Rear of 40 Henrj Street. y. What do you do? A. Night watchman at the National Pencil < 'oin f>H ny. y What kind of work do you do? A. Watch and sweep up the first floor. y What time do you go to work? At what time? A. Hi\ o'clock. If it is not quite ti o'clock 1 go around and ><ee if the windows are down, if it i* at ti I punch the clock and then go around. Q. What else do you do? A. I go aroynd all over the upstairs floors. If I have time 1 go in the basement, hut if not. I go in the basement after ward It takes me 25 minutes to make mv rounds upstairs when I hurry I punch every half hour. Frank Sent Him Away. y. How man> keys have you to the building? A. I had but one key which unlock# the building. Q. What time did you gd to the building Saturday? A. Four o’clock. y Why did you get there at that time? A. Friday was pa\ day. and Mr Frank told me to come at 4 o’clock Saturday, as it was Memorial Day. When I came in he sent me away again. When 1 went in he came out of the outer office, rubbing his hands, and told me he was sorry he had brought me down so early, as I could have been sleeping. He told me to go back out in town and not to get hack later than, the usual time of ti o’clock. y What’s on the first floor? A Just boxes; they don't us*' it. Doesn’t Use Elevator. y. Where was the al valor when you went in at 4 o’clock? A. I don't know’, tap. because the elevator doors were shut and you can’t tell where the ele vator is. But the elevator is sup posed to stay on the first floor, they told me. y. Is tliete a door in tin basement at the elvator? A Yes. There’s one that slides up, too. y. Do you «■ er use the elevator? A. No, sir. y Do-s the machinery have to be used for the elevator to be running A. 1 think so. Q. When you went upstairs ind opened the doors on the stairway you made some noise, didn’t you in his office? A. No, sir. y. Where did you go when he told you that you could go? A. I went right down and out the door. I went up to Alabama Street To Broad, and over to near Decatur Street and Central Avenue and looked at a medicine show a fat man was giving for negioes. y. What time did you go back? A. Just a few minutes before 6. y Did you punch at ti o'clock? A. Just at ti. Mr. Frank came on out and put cards in the clock. He then went back in the office ahd I went downstairs. • While 1 w as there Mr. Gantt .came from across* the street and said he wanted to get a pair of shoes. I told him I couldn’t let him in, and he asked if Mr. Frank was there. I told hi yes, and that I would go get him. , Frank Looked Frightened. • At this time Mr. Frank came dow ami looked a bit frightened. I think he looked that way because Mr. Frank had discharged Mr. Gantt and thought Mr. Gantt might start some trouble. Mr. Gantt told him he wanted his shoes and Mr. 1-Yank, after talking a few minutes, told me to go up there with them. I did, and we found the shoes* where he had said they were. He asked me for some paper and twine and wrapped the shoe# up. He asked me if he could use the tele phone He called up some lady and said he wouldn’t be out until 9 o’clock. He then w*ent downstairs and out of the building. I locked the door be hind him and saw’ him go up the street. Watched Gantt Go Out. y What did you do then? A I watched Gantt as ire went out and then I punched the clock for 6:30. y. Did you see Gantt at 4 o’clock? A. No. y. When Mr. Frank came and met Gantt, did you go right upstairs? A. Yes, sir. y. Where was Mr. Frank? A. I don’t know. y. Did you lock the door? A. I un locked the door and let Gantt out. y Where were you when Mr Frank cam ? A. We were all on the outside when Mr. Frank gave Gantt permis sion and I went in with Mr. Gantt. Q. Did you go to the toilet and ma chinery room at 4 o’clock? A. No, sir. 9 Q. Is there a carpet or a rug the floor in, Mr. Frank’s office? j Georgia Railway and Electric Direct ors Elect Well-Known Atlanta Business Man. Decatur Girls and Boys‘Clean Up’City 4,000 Cans and Bottles Are Gathered in Effort to Make Spotless Town. Five school boys. Albert Bangs, George Hollingsworth, Nathaniel Pratt, McKinney Gash and Clarence Hinton, w'orklng like beavers, re moved about 4,000 discarded tin can- and old bottles from the landscape of the municipality of Decatur in the “Clean-up Day” campaign conducted by the city's Board of Trade. Not to be outdone by the boys, five girls. Dora Mayme Cole, Adelaide McLennan, Mildred Garwood, P'rances Mason and Annie May McCrary, got a total number of tiSfc ctaftll-up pledges from Decatur citizens The “Clean-up Day” program was completed last night with satisfactory result# Danger in Louisiana Flood District Grows Hundreds of Miles Inundated by 8,000-foot Crevasse in Levee Near Natchez. NATCHEZ, MISS., April 3u.-~The flood situation throughout this section was very grave to-day. I’nited States engineers, with a force of 800 men, at daybreak at tempted to block up the break in the crevasse which now is 8,000 feet wide and through which the overflow wa ters of the St John River are rushing, flooding hundreds of miles of farming lands. A dispatch from Remy, La., said that despite the efforts of more than workmen, the weakened levees crumbling and it was expected would collt*pse before nightfall. HOME EDITION Witness Tells Events of Day at Pencil Plant $100 for Pupils for Swat the Fly Essay Chamber of Commerce’s Prize Con- | test Open to All Atlanta School Children. The Chamber of Commerce to-dny offered a prize of $100 for the best composition written by an Atlanta school child on the “Prevention of the Breeding of Flies.” All school chil dren are eligible and the essay may be as long or as short as desired. The prize was offered at the request of President Wilmer Moore of tht Chamber of Commerce and Dr. Claude A. Smith, city bacteiibligist. Dr. Smith, who has made an ex tensive study of the fly, has pr. - pared an instructive exhibit, depict ing the fly from the time the egg is laid until full grown. These exhibits are put up in glass rube# and will be shown in every school building in the city.