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CORONER PHAGAN CASE ORDER NOW YOUR SUNDAY AMERICAN The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results HOME EDITION BOTH PHONES MAIN 8,000 VOL. XI. NO. 2:r7. WEATHER: FAIR. ATLANTA, <4A., THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1919. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE 'm'Irk 0 Cl/I I lWi N 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 *!•••!- +•+ +•* *!-•*!* +•+ *1- • *’• +•+ 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. '*4, ■£/■> '?■*■ ?■ ’•# {« : 'f-'yy t .tBktwmCkp** ■ ■ •••> 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.