Newspaper Page Text
THE WEATHER.
Forecase for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair Friday and Sat
urday.
[EVENING
EDITION
The Atlanta Georgian latest news
Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WAISiT ADS—Use for Results
VOL. XI. NO. 238.
WEATHER: FAIR.
ATLANTA. <JA.. FRIDAY. MAY !). 1913.
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE r ^ Q
NEW WITNESS SWEARS SHE HE;
SCREAMS OF GIRL IN PENCIL
E
$35,000,000 For U.S. 1
I Railroads in Alaska*
Congress Committee to Recommend
Government Line—Private Roads I
’ Charged With Extortion.
E
AID YOUNG
Striking new methods of handling
patients in the Georgia State Sani
tarium at Milledgeville are urged in
the annual report of the board of li-
rectors, submitted to Governor Brown
Friday. The most Important recom
mendations are: ,
The enactment of a steriliza
tion law. applying to certain
classes of criminal and defec
tives, modeled after recently en
acted laws of New Jersey and
Indiana.
A ban on the commitment of
epileptics (not insane), feeble
minded children, harmless seniles
and paralytics and persons es
caping trial by pleas of lunacy.
This is a hospital and not a pris
on.
The report declares that poor re
sults have been obtained at the insti
tution in the cure of insanity on ac
count of the crowded conditions and
the lack of facilities for segregating
and treating the curable cases apart
from the criminal and hopelessly in
sane. A psycophatic hospital is
urged.
No Provision for Children.
"No provision is made in our State
educational system for the care and
treatment of feeble minded children."
states the report. “Most of them are
capable of training that will aid in
their happiness and fit them for some
usefulness. Only the grosser types
are committed to the State Sanita
rium. while the great majority are
allowed to grow up without care.
“Further commitment with the in
sane should be stopped and some
adequate provision made bv the
State for these children."
The report criticises the present
system of confining epileptics not in
sane in the sanitarium, pointing out
that association with crazy persons
ends to hopelessly depress them and
also has a bad effect on the insane
persons. A hospital for epileptics is
recommended; and it is suggested
[hat it should be named for T. O.
Powell because of the great service
he ha9 rendered the State along such
WASHINGTON. May 9.—A bill
providing for *he construction of
Government railroads in Alaska to
cost $35,000,000 or more, will be re
ported by the Committee on Terri
tories as soon as official reports from
the several departments can be col
lected to be Included In the evidence
with which the committee will de
fend its bill.
O. L. Dickinson, of the White Pass
and Yukon Railroad, testified that pri-
l vale transportation companies have
exacted prohibitive rates on tonnage
and delayed the development of the
countin'.
OF TARIFF BILL
Received From House and Re
ferred—Hearings Are Secret.
Expect Vote in Nine Weeks.
ANTICIPATE MANY CHANGES
Jeffries Offered Job
As Sparring Partner
Gunboat Smith Wants Immediate
Answer—Ex-Heavyweight Cham
pion Recovers From Shock.
DOS ANGELES. May 9.—Jim Jef
fries. former heavyweight champion
of the world, is said to be slightly
improved to-day following a fainting
spell in which he succumbed yester
day after he got the following' tele
gram from Gunboat Smith, who is to
box Jess Willard in San Francisco
May 20:
“Do you W'ant to come North and
act as my sparring partner? An
swer Immediately.”
It is said that even Jack Johnson's
knockout punch did not pain Jeff as
much as Smith’s offer of a sparring
partner’s job.
‘Thaw Is Father of
Child/ Wife Repeats
•And I'm Going to See Our Baby Is
Treated Justly by Harry's
Relatives,' She Adds.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PLYMOUTH, ENGLANt), May 9.—
Upon her arrival here to-day on
hoard the liner Olympic from New
York. Mrs. Evelyn Thaw, wife of Har
ry Thaw, declared emphatically and
positively that her husband is the fa
ther of tier bahy, a fact which he de
nis?.
"One has only lo look at the little
darling to know'who its father is," she
sftid, as she cuddled the infant. "Har
ry is my husband and the father of
my child. 1 love my baby and am go
ing to see tljat it is justly treated by
relatives of my husband."
This Maud Muller
Wants to Rake Hay
She’s Also Anxious to Plow, She De
clares, In Application for
Farm Job.
MINNEAPOLIS, May "I want
to plough, clean house, make hay and
drive binders in the field." says Grace
Simpson in her application to the
Devils Lake Commercial Club for a
chance to do the same work on a
farm as a man would.
“The day is past when it is out of
the ordinary for a girl to labor at
men's work." Miss Simpson asserted
"I love horses and 1 am sure that
I can take just as good care of them
as anv man. The city work would
kill me in the summer time. I can
beat some men at their own jobs at
that. If I can get as good wages in
the country a? I can get here t shall
leave immediately.”
New York Gasps at
Garb of C. Murphy
Chicago Baseball Magnate Dazzles
Broadway With Green Hat, Striped
Suit and Spotted Vest
NEW YORK. May 9.—Gotham is
gasping to-day over the raiment that
decorated the form of O. Webb Mur
phy. owner of the Cubs, when he ap
peared on the streets to-day.
Murphy wore a green velvet hat
with a fancy bow, a tan overcoat
with a velvet collar, a sassy looking
black nd white striped suit, green
vest with cream colored spots, a
green tie with black stripes, white
silk stockings, very light colored tan
shoes and chamois gloves.
Pope Again Giving
Offioial Audiences
Aged Pontiff Still Very Thin and
Colorless, but Shows Unex
pected Strength.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, May 9.—Pope, Pius X to
day gave his first official audience
since his recent illness, receiving the
apostolic mission which attended the
Eucharistic Congress at Malta.
The members of the mission con
gratulated the Pontiff upon his re
covery and in turn received the Pa
pal blessing.
The Pontiff still is very thin and
his usually ruddy face is colorless,
but he shows unexpected strength.
Hobble Blamed for
Arson Trust's Origin
Merchants. Unable to Sell Old
Styles. Called on Firebugs to
Destroy Worthless Stocks.
CHICAGO, May 9.—Changes in
styles which rendered worthless thou
sands of dollars’ worth of stock in
women's clothes was one of the fac
tors that fostered the arson trust, ac
cording to Assistant State's Attorney
Frank Johnson.
Dealers, finding themselves stocked
with clothing that could not be sold
when women decided to wear tight
skirts, cal’ed the torch men into help,
Johnson asserted.
If you have anything to sell, adver
tise in The Sunday American. Larg
est circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
Democrats Rejoice as Representa
tives Pass Underwood Measure
by Vote of 281 to 139.
WASHINGTON. May 9.—Shortly
after the Senate convened to-day the
Underwood tariff bill was brought
over from the House, read and re
ferred to the Finance Committee.
In the Finance Committee the
schedule was assigned to sub-com
mittee No. 1. composed of Senators
Stone, Thomas, James and Simmons,
and the wool schedule to No. 2—
Senators Williams. Shively. Gore and
Simmons. The remaining schedules
were divided equally between sub
committees 1, 2 and 3.
Hearings on the bill will be behind
closed doors, the Democrats having
decided that public hearings would
consume too much time. It is ex
pected that three weeks will be used
by the committee in considering the
measures, and six weeks more in de
bate on the floor.
It also is considered certain that
a number of changes will be made in
the measure, necessitating its refer
ence to the conference of the House
and Senate members.
On the final test in the House last
night the vote was 281 to 139. five
Democrats voting against the bill and
two Republicans voting for it. Four
Progressives supported the bill and
fourteen opposed it, while one Inde
pendent Progressive Joined with the
majority.
When Speaker Clark announced the
vote in loud tones that revealed his
satisfaction exhuberant Democrats
hoisted a stuffed Democratic donkey
over the heads of their colleagues
in the rear of the chamber, a ripple of
applause followed and the gavel fell
on the first chapter in the history of
President Wilson’s extra session of
Congress.
With the bill on its way to the Sen
ate, there was a rush of Representa
tives for their homes. In the House
adjournment will be taken three days
at a time beginning next week until
June 1.
Wiley, ‘Cow Center/
Loses Depot Fight
Mathis Is Given Station by State
Railroad Commission—Victor
Cited Its Beauty.
Wiley, the "natural center of the
cow movement,” and the most popu
lous town of the vicinity, with twen
ty-three persons, loses its flght for
an agency station on the Tallulah
Falls Railroad.
By order of the Georgia Railroad
Commission. Mathis is the victor.
The Tallulah Falls Railroad has been
instructed to build a station there
and put an agent in charge.
Both towns are In Rabun County.
They engaged in excited strife over
the location of the station. Mathis
built its plea on its natural beauty.
CHILD BURNS TO DEATH
PLAYING WITH MATCHES
MACON. GA., May 9.—Emmett El
lis, ten-year-old son of A. J. Ellis, a
Macon contractor, was burned to
death in a fire which destroyed the
home of D. B. Ellis, at Roberta,
Crawford County, late yesterday aft
ernoon.
The boy had been playing with
matches in the garret of the house
and it is supposed that the fire start
ed that nay.
NEW EVIDENCE SOUGHT
+• +
+• +
•:-«v
*•*
Grand Jury May Act Saturday
+•+
+•+
+•+
+•+
+••1*
*!*••?*
+• +
‘IExpected To Be Held’—Frank
SOLICITOR DORSEY LATE FRIDAY WAS S?"
THE AFFIDAVIT OF A WOMAN WHO SWEj S
A GIRL’S SCREAMS AS SHE WAS PASSI^s T
AL PENCIL FACTORY AT 4:30 O’CLOCK VI
OF THE CRIME, THE CRIES, WITH!’ 1
SHE SAID. WERE LOUD, THEN.DIED AW
Solicitor Calls Witness
to Give Depositions—
Hastens to Prepare
State’s Testimony.
Solicitor General Hujfh M.
Dorsey, as his first action after
the holding of Leo M. Frank and
Newt Lee to the grand jury for
the murder of Mary Phagau. put
out the dragnet for witnesses.
A hatch of stibpenas were is
sued for the witnesses to appear
in his office to give testimony in
the ease of “The State vs. John
Doe. ”
After a long conference with
Defectives Starnes and Camp
bell. Solicitor Dorsey assertec
that action on the pari of the
grand jury might be expected
any time after Friday. He plain-
LIEUTENANT PARK, AVIATION COf
KILLED WHEN HIS MACHiNl
LOS ANGELES. MAY 9.—LIEUTENANT J. '
S. A., AN ARMY AVIATOR, WAS KILLED T0-E
HIS MACHINE FELL TO EARTH AT SANTA ANA
ATTEMPTED A FLIGHT FROM SAN DIEGO TO I
LES, TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILIT'
AEROPLANE FOR SCOUTING PURPOSES IN
WAR. PARK WAS HORRIBLY MANGLED.
Miss Nellie Pettis, at top. who testified Against Frank at the inquest. At the bottom, Mrs.
Lillie Pettis, her sister-in-aw, former employee at the pencil factory.
ly intimated that a special ses
sion of the jury might he con
vened Saturday to consider the
Phagan murder.
The Solicitor declared as he left the
court hous*e with a private detective
whose name he refused to divulge
that he anticipated the development
of startling evidence before night,
which, he said, would clear matters i
materially.
With the private detective the So- !
licitor went to the Tower and was
closeted with Newt Lee. the night j
watchman, for more than an hour.
The form of the subpena is taken ;
to mean that many of the witnesses 1
w411 submit their sworn testimony
before the Solicitor General, who will
thus have it in documentary form, in
stead of going before the Grand Jury
to give oral testimony. However, i;
will be necesrary for the material or
indicting witnesses to go before the)
Grand Jurors in person.
Lemmie Quinn, foreman in the tip- |
ping department at the National Pen
ei] factory, was the first of the wit
nesses to be examined by the Solici- I
tor. He was in Mr. Dorsey’s office u
considerable part of the forenoon ami
underwent a rigorous examination
New Witnesses Sought.
Detectives Starnes and Campbell
also were with the Solicitor, and two
of the Solicitor's assistants, Newton i
Garner and Dan Goodlin, were dis
patched the first thing in the morn
ing to hunt up new witnesses of
whom Mr. Dorsey had information.
Foreman Quinn was called, it is
understood, to clear up the discrep
ancies in his testimony and the state
ment he is said to have made to the
E
I
Tired of Being Harassed, Colony
at San Dieguito Takes to
Warpath Against Rebels.
WASHINGTON. May 9.—Tired of
being raided and despoiled by every
passing band of brigands, th** little
American
Mpxico, re'
colonist
Federal s
olony at San Dieguito,
ntly took to the warpath.
When a band of fourteen outlaws
swooped down upon the colony, ten
reinforced by five Mexican
Idlers, pursued and de
feated the looteit and recovered a
number' of stolen horses.
Continued on Page 2, Column 1.
PRAY FOR MORE CHILDREN;
STORK BRINGS TRIPLETS
NKW YORK, May 9.—The prayers
of Lewis and Rebecca Mer were
granted to-day when the stork
brought them triplets. Since last
January when their four children
were burned to death In a fire w'hleh
destroyed their home the Islers had
offered up daily prayers for more
children.
SUICIDE EPIDEMIC AT MACON.
MACON, GA.. May 9. S. D. Walk
er, an Fast Macon blacksmith, to
day f*nded his life with carbolic acid.
This was the ninth suicide here this
year.
Commander'General of Ottoman
•
Army Uses Personal Guard
to Quell Uprising.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 9. Mu
tiny has developed in the Turkish
army stationed along the Chatalja
defenses, and it is feared a revolu
tionary uprising will follow.
Seditious placards were posted in
the night throughout the I’rroa and
Stamboul quarters of the city.
Enver Bey. chief of stafT of the
Turkish army, is using his personal
bodyguard to patrol the' city. The
guard consists of 700 picked and tried
troops.
Sultan Mohammed V did not attend
worship in the Yildiz mosque to-day.
Nicholas’ Surrender
Explanation Cheered.
. CETTIN.lE, MONTENEGRO. May
9. King Nicholas personally went be
fore the National Parliament to-day
and defended his action in giving
way to the powers on the question
of the evacuation of Scutari. He
declared that annihilation inevitably
would have followed resistance.
The statement was well taken and
Nicholas was cheered.
Nearly all the Montenegrin troops
have now left Scutari. King Nicho
las feels keenly the humiliation of
losing Scutari, and it again is report
ed he will abdicate in favor of the
Crown Prince Danilo.
BY II. SMUTS
Results of Friedmann Treatment
Do Not Justify Confidence,
Health Board Reports.
WASHINGTON, May 9.—"Effects
of the Friedmann cure thus far ob
served do not justify the confidence
In the remedy which has been In
spired by well-meant publicity,’’
This Is the crux of an official state
ment from the hoard of examiners of
the public health service, delivered
by Dr. John F. Anderson before the
A merit an Congress of Physicians end
Surgeons in Washington to-day.
Dr. Anderson said harm may have
been done by undue publicity in less
ening the -confidence of tuberculosis
victims in well-recognized methods it
treatment.
With respect to the patients under
examination in New York, he said
many have developed no considerable
infiltrate at all and have not suffered
from abscess formations. This would
indicate that they must be under
treatment fl long time to effect a
cure, as Dr. Friedmann stated that
infiltrate and abscess formations ir>-
dicated more or less rapid progress
toward cure.
JAPANESE TIKE
Bryan, After a Conference With
Ambassador Chinda, Presents
Views at Cabinet Meeting.
‘Children Sold Like
Animals in Illinois'
Conditions at ‘Baby Farms' Scored by
Head of Legislature Investi
gating Committee.
PEORIA, ILL., May 9. Acting
Chairman S. E. Lloyd of the Illinois
House committee investigating "baby
farms" to-day bitterly denounced
conditions which the committee has
found.
"They think more of hay and horse*
in Illinois than they do of children,”
he said. "We found that babies have
been bartered and sold like animals;
that they have been sent out of the-
State without any chance that their
parents. If they are known, ever will
find them again."
HELD FOR $28,000 SHORTAGE.
WHEELING. W. VA., May 9. -The
Grand Jury to-day indicted M. S.
Summers, cashier of the First Na
tional Bank of Wes; Union. W. Va,
and C. D. Martin, a business part
ner. on a charge of embezzling $23,-
000 of the bank’s funds.
WASHINGTON. May 9.—Viscount
Chinda, Japanese Ambassador, had a
conference with Secretary of State
Bryan to-day, which lasted 27 min
utes. and at which the Japanese dip
lomat presented Japan’s views on the
California anti-alien land law.
At the close of the conference Am
bassador Chinda said; “I can say
nothing about the results of the con
ference."
Secretary Bryan declared h© could
give no intimation of the result of the
conference, and left immediately for
the White House to attend the Cabi
net meeting, where the Japanese sit
uation was discussed at length.
Militia Raids Office
Of W. Va. Newspaper
Editor and Ataiitanta Arretted on
Order of Governor Who Waa
Attackad Irt Publication.
HUNTINGTON. W. VA.. May 9.—
National Guardsman, headed by Ma
jor Thomas B. Davis, raided the
newspaper plant of The Socialist
Labor Star to-day, arresting Editor
W. J. Thompson and W. H. Gillespie
and Elmer Rumble, assistants. The
trio were placed In jail.
The raid was inspired by Governor
H. D. Hatfield, who recently was at
tacked by the paper in connection
with the West Virginia coal strike.
Winkles, Arrested,
Pleads Self-Defense
Contractor Who Stabbed Architect
Hal Hentz Under $300 Bond.
Victim in Hospital.
J. A. Winkles, the East Point con
tractor who stabbel Hal Hentz. well-
known architect, Wednesday after
noon in Ponce deLeon Avenue, has
been arrested and his bond fixed at
$300. The case has not been set for
trial, as the wounded man still is in
the hospital.
Winkles asserted that he acted in
self-defense. Hentz having attacked
him. The trouble grew out of a dis
pute over work on a new' home for
Solicitor Hugh Dorsey in Ponce de-
Leon Avenue.
44
ei-Tf m TV T . r tt ft EXCLUSIVE FEATURE IN THE
i he 1 om W atson 1 Know Sunday American
it-
i)
1
* 41