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VOL. XI. NO. 2:r7. WEATHER: FAIR. ATLANTA, <4A., THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1919. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE 'm'Irk 0
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DELAYS FINAL
Democrats Seek to Avoid Going
on Record on Scientific Non-
Partisan Commission.
WHAT MEASURE PROVIDES
Repeals Duties of the Payne Act
and Provides for Levying
Tax on Incomes.
WASHINGTON, May 8.—The Anal
roll call on the tariff bill will not be
had to-day until the Speaker disposes
of a knotty point of order against the
Republican motion to recommit the
bill.
The point of order Is designed to
avoid putting the Democrats on rec
ord on the question of tht creation of
•i scientific non-partisan tariff com
mission.
The Underwood tariff measure re-
p,a:s the duties of the Payne act,
which was passed by a Republican
House In 19011. It provides for an in
come tax on all incomes over $4,000 a
year. Corporations and business con
cerns are taxed also.
The Income tax is expected to raise
an annual revenue of over $.0,000,000
The average reduction in duties from
the Payne law Is from 40.12 per cent
to 29.60.
The biggest cut has been made In
the wool manufactures, the annual
revenue rXts. hv l^j^ahe Ray^e bill Is
$304,000,000, whereas the revenue from
the Underwood bill is estimated at
$266.701,00flf.
The Underwood bill puts boots and
shoes, flouri meat, rail pool sugar and
many of tlfe necessaries of life on the n<>ss -
tree list. Big reductions are made in
the cotton schedule.
In luxuries the rates have been
■lightly increased over the level of
the Payne bill.
Atlanta Man Heads
Hardware Jobbers
W. A. Parker Elected President of
Southern Association at Con
vention in Mobile.
M.OBII.K, ADA., Ma> 8.—At the
closing session of the Southern Hard
ware Jobbers’ Association to-day W.
A, Parker, vice president of the Beck
& Gregg Hardware Company of At
lanta, was ChoSen president; S. St. J.
Eshleman. New Orleans, first vice
president, J. C. Bering. Houston, sec
ond vice president; John Donnan,
Richmond, re-elected secretary-
treasurer; H, H, Beers, Richmond,
sergeant-at-arms; H. P. Chenoweth,
Biirrulngham, assistant sergeant-at-
arms, and W. M. Pitkin, New Or
leans, and W. C. Thomas. Tampa, new
members of the executive committee.
White Sulphur Springs. Va, will be
the next meeting place.
The American Hardware Manufac
turers’ Association adjourned untf
next fall, when officers will be elected
Mobile Gets Dry Goods Meet.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., May 8.
The Southern Wholesale Dry Goods
Association will meet next year in
Mobile. This afternoon the election
of officers resulted as follows:
President, Murray Brown, Birming
ham; vice presidents. A. J. Dosser,
Knoxville, and R. V. Covington, Jack
sonville; treasurer, E. W. King. Bris
tol.
Chamber Will Teach
Boys ‘Atlanta Spirit’
Committee Meets Friday to Organize
Junior Order to Train
Young Men.
A meeting of a committee of ’>0
members of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce will be held Friday after
noon to organize a junior order of
the chamber. The Intent of the new
organization will be to instill into the
minds of the boys of the city a pa
triotic business spirit and a desire for
Atlanta’s commercial advancement.
The plan is one adopted in a num
ber of cities. It has proved uniformly
successful. Toiing men trained this
way are much better acquainted with
the cities’ needs when they enter busi-
Experts Tell What
Graham Flour Isn’t
Manufacturers Meet
To Fight Tariff Bill.
WASHINGTON, May 8.—A confur-
ence of manufacture.ru and producers
called by the Illinois Manufacturers’
Association met here to-day to talk
over the tariff situation and formu
late plans for pressing forward some
amendments when the Senate consid
ers the Underwood bill.
The object of the conference as set
out in a statement Is to deal with
the general proposition of tariff re
vision as it is presented in the Un
derwood bill, and to look particularly
to the working of the paragraph of
the proposed law which empowers the
President to negotiate trade agree
ments of mutual concession with for
eign countries.
The manufacturers contend that if
the President is given power to ne
gotiate concessions in tariff rates, he
also is empowered to negotiate in-
,.yeas**, if they are warranted.
Eedfield Asks $100,000
To Probe Wage Threats.
WASHINGTON. May 8.—Secretary
of Commerce Redfleld to-day asked
President Wilson for authority to
spend $100,000 in investigating claims
of big industries that, if the t nder-
wood bill becomes a law, they will be
forced to reduce wages.
Secretary RedHCld has designate!
P J. Sheridan to make such an inves
tigation of the pottery industry.
Caruso With $210,000
Too Poor for Poker
Tenor Says He Could Not Afford to
Get Into Game on
the Ship.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PLYMOUTH, May 8—Enrico Ca
ruso. although it is reported that he
brings $210,000 from America, re
frained from card playing during the
voyage on the Kaiser Wilhelm.
Asked if he won or lost at poker,
the tenor laughingly said:
-1 did not play. 1 could not afford
to.”
If you have anything to sell, adver
tise in The Sunday American. Larg-
ett circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
Bureau of Chemistry Hereafter Will
Demand That Mills Furnish
‘Unbolted Wheat Meal.’
JAP DIPLOMAT
TAKES PROTEST
TO BRYAN HOME
Ambassador Shatters All Court
Customs in Haste to Object
to Alien Bill.
SECRETARY SEES WILSON
WASHINGTON. May 8—When is
graham flour something else,,? The
Bureau of Chemistry declared to-day
that a large percentage of so-called
“graham flour” was made of feed
bran l low grade flour, 8 or 10 per
cent cracker flour and mill floor
sweepings. A standard will be set,
the bureau declared, with which all
mills will have to comply.
Real graham flour is described as
“unbolted wheat meal, made from
sound, clean, fully matured, air-dried
wheat.”
Wife Looked on as
Friend Slew Husband
Woman Declares Her Sweetheart
* and Another Guilty of Death
of Landscape Gardener.
PITTSBURG. May 8.—Valerio Fan-
tezzo, a landscape gardener, wa?
strangled to death in his home early
to-day. The widow, Secina, first toH
a sensational story of burglars kill
ing her husband, but her statement
was considered improbable, and she
was placed under arrest.
Just before noon, the nolice say, she
confessed that her sweetheart, Frank
Mustino, and another man, whose
name she does not know, slev* her
husband while she looked on.
Demands $10,000 for
Fall on Banana Peel
James N. Jones, 60. Sues Fidelity
Fruit Company, Claiming Per
manent Disability.
James N. Jones, of 61 Stonewall
Street, filed suit for $10,000 damages
against the Fidelity Fruit and Produce
Company in Superior Court Thurs
day for injuries, he said, he sustained
when he slipped on a banana peel in
front of their place, March 2.7, 1913.
Jones said in his suit that he was
more than 60 years old and the in
juries to his right hip had become
permanent, disabling him for the re
mainder of his life.
C. D. Reynolds t» Jones attorney.
No Use to Ask Johnson Not to
Sign the Measure, He In
forms the President.
WASHINGTON. May 8.—Disdain-
Ing the customary usages of diplo
matic etiquette w r hich provide that
representatives of foreign powers
shall call upon the Secretary of State
at his office, Viscount Chinda, Jap
anese Ambassador, to-day visited
Secretary Bryan at the * latter’s resi
dence, and there presented to him a
formal protest from Tokio against the
passage of the Webb alien land law
in California.
The Secretary of State returned
from California shortly before noon.
Fifteen minute** after he had arrived
at his uptown residence the Japanese
Ambassador called and asked to see
M r. Bryan,
The representatives of the Wash
ington and the Tokio Governments
were closeted together for more than
half an hour, and while neither would
discuss the interview, it became
known that the Japanese protest
against the alien land laws bill had
been filed.
Secretary Bryan prorrffo&j
Chinda that his objections to the bill
would receive full consideration at the
hands of this Government and that
they would be brought to the atten
tion of the President and the Cabinet.
The Japanese representative also
was assured that everything possible
will be done from Washington to pre
vent the enactment of any law con
trary to the treaty obligations of the
United States, even were It necessary
to carry the matter to the Supreme
Court.
Secretary of State Bryan, fresh
from his trip to California, where
he acetd in vain against the passage
of the Webb alien land law bill, con
ferred with President Wilson to-day
over the international aspect *4 the
matter.
The Secretary informed the Presi
dent that he does not think there is
any use in appealing to Governor
Johnson not to sign the bill or in de
pending upon a referendum to nulli
fy Its provisions.
The Secretary’s advice to the Chief
Executive was to bide iiis time and
await the action of the courts which
will be called to pass upon the con
stitutionality of the law.
The Secretary thinks that there are
flaws in the bill which the court can
use to nullify its provisions, and
thereby prevent any difficulty with
Japan.
It is expected that the President
will telegraph Governor Johnson aft
er the Cabinet meeting to-morow a
last appeal not to sign the bill fo*
the sake of the nation at large.
ITS TENSENESS
Crowd in Small, Smoke-Filled
Room Breathlessly Follows the
Phagan Slaying Inquiry.
FATHER WEEPS SILENTLY
Jurors, Officials and Detectives
Manifest Intense Interest in
Replies of Witnesses.
POLICE STILL WITHHOLD EVIDENCE
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Frank To Be Examined on New Lines
Slayer, on Bail, Bids
On Courthouse Work
Elmer Darden, Serving 3 Years, Con
tinues Business While Making
Plea for New trial.
JjUmer T. Darden, released from the
Tower under a supersedeas bond cf
$1,000 pending the hearing of his mo
tion for a new trial on the charge of
killing C. M. Goddurd. of Stone Moun
tain, Thursday, began making es:i-
mates for marble and tile work on the
interior of the new Fulton County
court house. Bids will be opened May
15.
Darden was recently sentenced to
three years’ imprisonment on th’
jury’s verdict of voluntary man
slaughter. A recommendation was
added that the penalty be light.
He urged his attorneys to file a p?-
tition for a now trial tatlng that h«
was either guilty of a more seriou*
crime than manslaughter or guilty of
nothing. The motion will be heard
the last of this month.
If you have anything to sell, adver
tize in The Sunday American. Larg
est circulation of any Sunday news
paper. in the South,
t
In a small, crowded and smoke-
fllled room at police headquarters,
Coroner Donehoo on Thursday morn
ing began what it is thought will be
the last session of the Jury impaneled
to inquire into the death of Ma y
Phagan. strangled to death in the
basement of the National Pencil Fac
tory April 26.
The situation was tense and preg
nant with possibilities. The fact that
the investigation of the case is rap-
dliy drawing to a close, coupled with
the admissions of officials that new
and important evidence would develop
from the examination of the witnesses
to-day, brought out a large and curi
ous crowd.
At one end of the long table, heap* 1
with, notebooks and typewriters, sat
Coroner Donehoo, flanked on each siu
by members of the jury. At the fo it
of the table sat the newspaper re
porters and the official stenographers,
four in number. Facing Coroner Don
ehoo and the jury sat the witness.
Ranged along the wall were curious
spectators, relatives of the dead gip
laiid friends of the witnesses. Lon.*;
before the inquest was called every
available chair in the room was taken,
and late comers ensconsed themselves
on the window ledges.
Dorsey Takes Active Part.
Prominent among the spectators
were the attorneys for Frank, Pinker
ton and city detectives and county
and' State officials. Solicitor Hu.ga
Dorsey sat just behind Coroner Done
hoo, and took an active part In the
questioning of the witnesses. While
Mr. Dorsey asked no questions him •
self, several times he conferred with
the Coroner on the best manner i.i
which to examine the witnesses.
Attorney Luther Rosser also occu
pied a seat near the Coroner, and took
keen interest In the proceedings of the
inquest. He did not object to any of
the questions asked the witnesses th.it
had bearing on the actions of Leo M.
Frank on the day of the murder.
Ranged against the wall behi-d
Coroner Donehoo were Detective John
Black, in charge of the city investi
gating squad; Detective otarnes, and
Detective Harry Scott of the Pinker
tons. All of the officers paid close at
tention to the examination of the wit
nesses. To the left of the Coroner sat
Dr. J. W. Hurt, County Physician,
who examined the body, and who?,
testimony is awaited with consider
able curiosity.
Father a Pathetic Figure.
.T. W. Coleman, father of the dead
girl, stood against the wall to the
right of Coroner Donehoo, a pathetic
figure in his sorrow. Mr. Coleman
evinced keen interest in what was
transpiring, lie kept his eyes fixed
constantly on the witness who sat at
the foot of the long table, and his
eyes filled with tears as the tragic
details of tho finding of the child’s
body were related.
The attitudes of the individual I
members of the jury showed their
realization of the responsibility that
rests upon them. Each of the six
sat with his arms on the table, paying
the closest attention to the state
ments of the witnesses. Most of the !
questions were asked by the Coroner. ,
hut now and then a juror would in- j
terrupt to ask the witness to make
some point clearer.
The air of tense eagerness with
which the jurors awaited the replies
of the witnesses was communicated
to those whose only interest in the I
case was the satisfaction of curios
ity.
Crowd Tens© and Quiet.
The crowd in the room was one of
the quietest that has ever attended
a session of the inquest. Save for
the occasional scratching of a match
or the dragging of a ( hair across the
floor, nothing was heard hut the
voices of the Coroner and the wit
nesses.
All of the witnesses brought in were
subjected to a close examination by
Coroner Donehoo, and all bore the
ordeal well. “Boots” Rogers, one of
the policemen who found the body,
was on the stand more than an hour.
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Witnesses Are Quizzed in Detail, but
Nothing Important Brought Out.
Officials Say They Are Satisfied
With Case as It Is Being Developed.
iff* officials may hav directly to eoti-
itli the killing of Mary Phagan. it
/ session of the Coroner’s inquest
Thursday.
What this evidence is the officials refuse to say—except that
they Are satisfied with the progress that is being made in unrav
eling the mystery.
Leo Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil Factory, is
expected to lie the most important witness of the day.
It is said that an entirely new line of questioning will be taken/
up.
W. W. (“Hoots”) Kogers, former county policeman, and Lem-
mie Quinn. foreman in the tipping department at the National Pen
cil Factory, were the principal witnesses. Neither gave testimony
that was materially damaging to either Leo M. Frank or Newt Lee,
who are being held in connection with the crime.
Kogers was questioned closely
events of the morning the
crime was discovered, and told
of taking the officers to the scene
in his automobile. Beyond his
Luther Z. Rosser, attorney for Leo M. Frank, who was on e of the interested listeners to the
testimony presented Thursday at e Coroner’s inquest into the death oi Mary Phagan.
RACE
ENTRIES
Didn’t See Girl Late.
AT PIMLICO.
FIRST—Selling, two-year-olds, 5 fur-
lungs: Bulgar 10.L Kettledrum 112, Rob
ert Oliver 109, Wooden Shoes 111, Milky
Way 104, Molma 109.
SECOND Selling, three-year-olds and
up, 6 furlongs: Ambrose 107, O. U. Bus
ter 112, Aviator 112, Horace E. 117,
Hans Creek 107, Grenida 112, Lady Irma
110, Magazine 120, Little Jupiter 107,
Kermis, Jr., 112, Water Welles 112.
Uncle Obie 110, Arran 107, Toni Holland
112, Our Nugget 110, Kinder Lou 105,
Golden Vale 107, Firm 120.
THIRD—Three-year-olds and up. 6
furlongs: Herron 106, Tartar 108, Ring-
ling 100, Mediator 118, Seally Wag 102,
Union Jack 116.
FOURTH - Steeplechase, four-year-
olds and up, two miles: Seven Stars
137. Buck Thorn 149, Shannon Rlv^rl46,
Sir (,'leges 149, Flying Yankee 137, Sen
ator Wood 147. Old Halt 197, Hima-
tion 135.
FIFTH Selling, handicap, three year-
olds and up. mile: Judge Monck 105.
El Oro 112. BJjrfLh 104, Captain Swan
son 108, Nirphus 108.
SIXTH -'' Selling, three-year-olds and
up, mile and 40 yards: Superstition 111.
El wah 108. Woodcraft 110, Absconder
113, War Horn 116, F>aingerfie!d 111.
Lewin 100, Hoffman 115, Gardner 111,
Hasson 107
Weather clear; track fast.
Kentuckians Would
Lynch Whole Family
Five Relatives of Slayers of Deputy
U. S. Marshals Arrested
Near Pikeville.
PIKEVILLE, KY., May 8.—Cries of
"lynch them" rose from the crowd
that greeted five members of the Hall
family and a negro who were arrest
ed by a posse seeking the moonshine
murderers of Deputy United States
Marshals Sloan and Ramsey.
The two Halls and the negro. Rid
dle. who are charged with the murder,
are still at large.
The prisoners were guarded by a
heavily armed hand of officers and
were placed In i*n.
belief that Frank appeared ner-
i vous when he was visited at his
Saturday, He Admits home by the detectives, ftogers
had no information that appear-
Man Who Said Mary Phagan Passed fo oint s , mp i c ion in one di-
His Place Testifies He ., f i,_„
... ... rection more than anotliei .
Was Wrong. . ,
He was' sure, however, that tne
time clock tape on which Newt Lee,
the night watchman, registered his
half-hour rounds of the factory had
no “misses” when it was taken from
the clock by Frank that morning.
Three misses were found on a tape
subsequently brought to Police Head
quarters
Quinn’s Story Unchanged.
An effort was made without avail
to break down the story of Lernmie
Quinn that he was at the factory and
talked to Frank between 12:10 and
12:20 the Saturday afternoon of the
tragedy. Coroner Donehoo tried to
get Quinn to admit that he previ
ously had told officers who Inter
viewed him that he was not at the
factory between Friday and the fol
lowing Sunday.
Quinn steadfastly refused to admit
.T. L. Watkins, who testified that he
saw Mary Phagan Saturday after
noon, April 26. between 4 and 5
o’clock, was • ailed to the witness
stand.
He was accompanied to the inquest
bv a girl. Daisy Brown, who he
said was tne girl he mistook for Mary
Phagan.
He said he became convinced of his
mistake when detectives came out to
his place and had Daisy Brown to
dres* as she was Saturday afternoon.
Then he discovered, he said, that she
was the girl he had mistaken for
Mary Phagan.
Daisy Lrown was placed <»n the
stand and testified that she had pass
ed along Bell wood Avenue at that
time Baturdflty, April 26.
Bhe said she knew Mary Phagan
I)ut could not understand how Wat- ! that ha had made a statement of th.
sort. He supported Frank's testl-
kins had mistaken her for Mary Pha
gan, as Mary was a little shorter and
heavier.
STRIKE FOR LONGER HOURS;
GARY WORKERS SET RECORD
GARY. 1ND., May 8 One hundred
laborers to-day refused to begin Wc k
on a new construction project tor the
United Spates Rteel Corporation here
unless conceded an Increase of wages
or a chance to work twelve hours
per day. They were hired at 19 1-2
centsfan hour for a ten-hour day.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast—Fair, not quite so
warn Thursday; Friday, prob
ably fair.
mony of last Monday by insisting that
he visited the factory for a few min
utes and went into Frank’s office.
Miss Hattie Hall, the stenographer
who was at the factory office Satur
day until noon, was another of the
witnesses called to the stand during
the forenoon. She testified as to
Frank's movements while she was
there.
Frank Pale, but Calm.
Frank was brought into the Com
missioners’ Room in the police sta
tion before the inquest began, but
later was excused and Rogers called.
The factory superintendent was
pale, but calm and collected. He
whispered a few words to his coun
sel, Luther Z. Russer, and smiled
faintly at a remark that was made to
him. He apeared to show the strain
o" the days since he has been in a
cell.
Lee was not admitted to tjie room
at the beginning of the hearing, but
was detained in a nearby office. The
night watchman seemed almost In
different.
“Boots" Rogers Tells
How Body Was Found.
W. W. Rogers was the first wit
ness. He lives at 104 McDonough
Road, and operates an automobile
for himself. He said he took a party
of officers to the National Pencil
plant at five minutes past 3 o’clock
BuiSHb^ rhomihgr April 27. 1
He corroborated statements‘of of
ficers regarding the finding of Mary
Phagan’s body and the notes beside
It, and of the body being face down
ward.
Q. Who telephoned Prank of the
murder?—A. Starnes called him and
asked him to come to the factory.
Q. Ilow long were you in front of
the pkuit before you were let in?—
A. Two or three minutes.
Q. Did you hear him coming?—A.
We saw him coming down the steps
with a lantern.
Q. What did he say?—A. She's in
the basement, white folks.
Q. Was he excited?—A. No. he an
swered questions coolly.
Q. What did he say when you went
downstairs?—A. He thought at first
It was something the boys had placed
there to frighten him.
Q. How did he say he found the
body?—A. On her face.
Q. How did you And it?—A. On
her face.
Q. Do you remember any other
questions asked him?—A. Yes, but he
talked in a straight way.
Q. Who went back upstairs with
Lee and Anderson after Lee had been
placed under arrest?—A. No one
else.
Q. Where did they go?—A. Into of
fice, where Anderson attempted to
get Frank over the phone.
Lee Was Not Excited.
Q. Was Lee excited then?—A. No.
Q. What else did you And?—A. W*
looked all over the place for her hat aai
shoe. Then Sergeant Brown and myeeT
walked out the backdoor and down the
alley. When we came back I went
out on McDonough Road in my ma
chine and got Miss Grace Hicks, who,
1 knew, worked at the pencil facto"/.
1 brought her to town about 5:30 >r
6:45. She told us who the girl was.
q. Did you ever get in touch with
Frank while in the office?—A. After
I got back with the young lady Mr.
Starnes called Frank again and got
him. That was a little after 6. Iteg
took about five minutes for me to go
out to his house.
Q. Who answered the door?—A.
Mrs. Frank.
Q. Was Frank there?—A. He was
standing in the hall behind the curtains.
He was dressed, with the exception of
collar, coat and hat. He asked Black
what was the matter and Black d.l
not answer, but told him he had bet
ter put on his clothes and go to town
with us. Frank was hoarse and Black
suggested that a drink might do him
good. Mrs. Frank went upstairs to
see if there was any whisky In the
house, but did not find any.
Says Frank Was Nsrvous.
Q. Was he well groomed?—A. Yas:
I noticed particularly that he had on
a clean white pleated-bosom shirt.
He was nervous, and moved abotu
very nervously.
Q. How do you know he was nerv
ous?—A. By the questions he jtsked.