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Atlanta Man Heads
Hardware Jobbers
W. A. Parker Elected President of
Southern Association at Con
vention in Mobile.
MOBILE, ALA., May
-At the
His Press A^hts Blamed for the
Increased Difficulty in Get
ting State Aid.
WASHINGTON, May 8.—President
Homer Folks, of New York, to-day
opened the ninth international meet
ing of the National Association for
the Study of the Prevention of Tuber
culosis. The cenvention will last un
til Saturday evening.
Methods used effectively in reduc
ing the death rate from consumption,
as well as the progress of the work
of the society in prevention, will be
discussed.
The Friedmann “cure” for tubercu
losis was termed an “adverse factor”
in the national campaign against the
white plague by President Folks.
Folks refrained from expressing any
opinion as to the value of the serum,
but said the task of securing local
and State appropriations “has become
vastly more difficult because of the
press agents of Dr. Friedmann."
“The Friedmann incident has
brought out one useful fact,” con
tinued Folks. “The announcement of
the Friedmann cure brought to light
many tuberculosis cases that we knew
to exist, but never could reach."
Surgery Called Coming
Cure for Tuberculosis.
WASHINGTON. May 8.—The fu
ture treatment of progressive cases
of tuberculosis must be surgical rath
er than medical, according to Dr.
Mary E. Lapham, of Highlands, N.
- -*C., an expert on lung troubles, who
spoke before the clinic section of the
Ninth Annual Meeting of the Na
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis, which
opened here to-day.
“There are two classes of pulmon
ary tuberculosis, those that recover,
and those that from the start mani
fest an inability to arrest the dis
ease," said Dr. Lapham. -These pro
gressive cases may improve, but they
cannot hold what they gain. As soon
as this is recognized, the futility and
danger of depending alone on good
nursing, fresh air, and rest must be
admitted and surgical aid employed.
“When a case of pulmonary tuber
culosis belongs to the progressive
type, to persist medical measures
alone may cost the life of the patient.
Surgery should be promptly tried be
fore it is too late.”
ware Jobbers' Association to-day W.
| A. Parker, vice president of the Beck
' A 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,
Birmingham, assistant sergeant-at-
arms, and W. M. Pitkin. New Or-
| leans, and W. C. Thomas. Tampa, new
members of the executive committee.
1 White Sulphur Springs Ya., will be
j the next meeting place.
Tiie American Hardware Manufac-
! Tiirrrs’ Association adjourned untf.
I 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.
Posse Surrounds
Austin Desperado
South Carolina Fugitive in Swamp
Near Sylvania with 150 Men
After Him.
CYLVANIA, GA.. May 8.—Richard
Henry Austin, the South Carolina ne
gro desperado for whom rewards of
$2,500 have been offered, is this after
noon surrounded In Ogeechee Creek
swamp near here and his capture is
expected at any moment. The pur
suing posse of 150 men with blood
hounds has been close on the negro’s
trail for 24 hours. Co close has the
chase been that the negro shot and
crippled one of the dogs this morn
ing when he was treed in a swamp
near the Brinson Railway.
The negro was located about 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon near
Newington, but eluded the posse.
Mehnarto to Give
Serum to Humanity.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. May 8.—"At the momery
I claim nothin? for my serum. But
once I am assured of its beneficial
action I shall gladly give it to hu
manity."
Thus spoke Dr Frederick Mehnar
to, the young but learned German
bacteriologist whose reported discov
ery of a serum that cures tubercu
losis. malaria and leprosy, has excited
great. Interest on both sides of the At
lantic.
Dr. Mehnarto said:
"I shall say only this much: My
serum involves a totally new princi
ple which was unknown to medical
. ,clence hitherto. The employment of
.he serum Is only in the experimental
- siage. but I have several hundred pa
tients in various centers of Europe
who are undergoing treatment with it.
These teFts have been going on sev
eral months, but It will be some time
yet before I can announce definite re
sults. 1 repeat that at the moment
1 claim nothing for my serum."
Dr Mehnarto seemed annoyed that
This researches have been commented
on in the public press: as is seen, he
assumed the attitude' that medical
■ethics demands professional secrecy
and non-commercialism.
CHngs to Medical Ethics.
“I have nothing to say,” was his
first answer. "Publicity will do no
good at this time.* When the tests of
my serum are completed the full re
sults will be published, but in the
medical Journals. I do not wish to
find myself in the same situation as
Dr. Friedmann because of undue pub
licity.
“Anything said now might cause a
great deal of harm, by causing har
rowing disappointment. Many mis
leading articles regarding my serum
have appeared in the newspapers of
Europe, and to offset them I had to
issue a disclaimer in The London
Lancet. Again 1 repeat that 1 must
decline to say anything further until
there is something tangible to talk
about.”
ACCUSED SLAYER ON TRIAL
FOR CAR STRIKE KILLING
AUGUSTA, GA, May 8 —The trial
of "Buddie” Kennedy, charged with
the murder of Motorman Frank Kelly
on the night of October 9, 1912, was
begun to-day in Richmond Superior
Court.
Kelly was a strike-breaker. He
was killed and Conductor Allen
Brooks was maimed for life when
tVo men raided the car they wer op
erating. Ed Coursey and Gary John
son. former conductors, are also
charged with the' murder.
Chamber Will Teach
Boys ‘Atlanta Spirit’
Committee Meets Friday to Organize
Junior Order to Train
Young Men.
A meeting of a committee of r>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. Young men trained this
way are much better acquainted with
the cities’ needs when they enter busi
ness.
Maryland Girl Bride
of Polish Nobleman
Miss Louise Warfield, Daughter of
Former Governor, Weds Count
Vladimir Ledocwski.
BALTIMORE, May 8.—Miss Louise
Warfield, daughter of Edwin War-
field, former Governor of Maryland,
was married here to-day to Count
Vladimir Ledochowskl, of Poland, at
the Linden Avenue home of th^
bride’s parents, the ceremony being
performed according to the rites of
the Catholic church. The Count is
a Catholic while Miss Warfield Is a
Protester t
The ceremony was simple, owing
to the death of Miss Warfield's
gian* mother a few’ weeks ago.
They will live on the ancestral es
tate of Count Ledochowski nee-
YYa’ saw.
LAW STUDENTS TO ENTER
“PROHIBITION” DEBATE
Students of the Atlanta Law
School have accepted an invitation of
the Prohibition League to compete
in a national oratorical contest.
Leonard Grossman, who won the
State championship in oratory at the
University of Illinois, was chosen
chairman pro tern. Permanent of
ficers were cnosen rrom the junior
class to make arrangements for the
contest next yeaf. M. J. Woods, of
Ellamvllle, was named president and
R. E. Lee Cone was unanimously
elected vice president. J. R. McClel
land was elected secretary-treasurer.
ITS MESS
Crowd in Small, Smoke-Filled
Room Breathlessly Follows the
Pliagan Slaying Inquiry.
In a small, crowded and smoke-
filled 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* Mary
Phagan, strangled to death In the
basement of the National Pencil Fac
tory April 26.
The situation was tense and preg
nant wMth 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 euii-
ous crowd.
At one end of the- long table, heap* 1
with notebooks and typewriters, sit
Coroner Donehoo, flanked on each side
by members of the Jury. At the foTt-
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 glr’
and friends of the witnesses. Long
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 Hum
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 bes< manner 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 that
had bearing on the actions of Leo M.
Frank on the day of the murder.
Ranged against the wall behind
Coroner Donehoo were Detective John
Black, in charge of the city investi
gating squad; Detective otarnee, 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 whose
testimony is aw’aited with consider
able curiosity.
Father a Pathetic Figure.
J. 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. He 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 the finding of the child’s
body w r ere related.
The attitudes of the individual
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,
but now and then a juror would in
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
case was the satisfaction of curios
ity.
Crowd Tense 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 chair across the
floor, nothing was heard but 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.
FIFTEEN SOCIALISTS ON
LOS ANGELES CITY TICKET
LOS ANGELES, May 8.—Complete
returns from the primary elections
here to-day showed that fifteen So
cialists qualified Tor placer on the
city ticket for the election on June 3.
Job Harriman. Socialist Candida te f«>r
Msyor, failed to win a nomination by
784 »-otes.
FRANK’S DEFENDER
Wilson to Extend
Postoffice Exams
Classified Service to Include Second
and Third Classes, Also,
Within a Year.
WASHINGTON, May 8—In hi* or
der yesterday which threw all fourth-
class postmastershlps except those
paying less than $180 a year open to
competitive examinations. Postmaster
General Burleson announced that it
\vas the purpose of President Wilson
and himself to extend the classified
service to include presidential post
masters of the second and third doss,
probably within a year. This may
require legislation by Congress, he
said.
His plan, which will be laid before
the President, would provide for a
qualification test for Incumbents and
applicants "in keeping with the im
portance of the offices.”
More than 50,000 Incumbents are
affected by yesterday’s order.
Taft Offers Aid in
Southern Rate Cases
CINCINNATI. May 8—Former
President William H. Taft has noti
fied the board of trustees of the Cin
cinnati Southern Railway that he L
ready to act as advisory counsel for
the railroad in the Chattanooga
freight rate cases.
Taft was selected at the time the
lease of the road to the Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas Pacific,
which was drafted when he was on
the Federal Couri bench here.
Luther Z. Rosser, attorney for Leo M. Frank, who was one of tlie interested listeners to Ihe
testimony presented Thursday at the Coroner’s inquest into the deatli of Mary Fhagan.
Wife Looked on as
Friend Slew Husband
Woman Declares Her Sweetheart
and Another Guilty of Death
of Landscape Gardener.
PITTSBURG. May 8.—Valerio Fau-
tezzo, a landscape gardener, war
strangled to death in his home early
to-day. The widow, Secina, first told
a sensational story of burglars kill
ing her husband, but her statement
was considered Improbable, and jhe
was placed under arrest.
Just before noon, the police say, she
confessed that her sweetheart, Frank
Mustlno, and another man, whose
name she does not know, slew her
husband while she looked on.
See Frame-Up for
Guggenheim Roads
Alaska Railway Head Asserts All
Other Lines Were Excluded
From Consideration.
WASHINGTON, May 8.—“If the
commission which examined the rail
road situation in Alaska had intended
to compel the purchase of the Gug
genheim lines. It would not have been
better planned,” said O. L. Dickinson,
of the White Pass and Yukon Rail
road, who appeared to-day before the
Senate Committee on Territories.
He .said the committee had excluded
from consideration all routes except
one that would compel the Govern
ment to join hands with or puroha^^
the Guggenheim lines.
UNHOBBLED HER HOBBLE
TO BOARD A STREET CAR
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN., May
8.—Miss Maude Robinson, member of
a leading family, was unable to get
her foot upon the step of an open
trolley car here this afternoon be
cause of her hobble skirt.
Leaning down, she unbuttoned sev
eral buttons on the side and the skirt
opened enough to allow the owner
to mount the step. The conductjr
and passengers did not mind the
v ait.
Steel Magnate Also Settles Equal
ity of Man and Socialism,
but Dodges Suffrage.
BOSTON, May 8.—-Charles M.
Schwab, president of the Bethlehem
Steel Company, who recently was in
strumental in the acquisition of the
controlling interest in the Fore River
Ship and Engine Company, at Quincy,
to-day left for Bethlehem, Pa. In
an Interview Schwab made these
statements:
“Let Wilson go slow on the tariff.
“I pay so much attention to busi
ness I have no time to arrive at an
opinion regarding the threatened war
with Japan.
“Woman suffrage is too big a ques
tion for me to venture an opinion
on.
“Labor is not getting enough of
the proceeds of business.
“The masses are running the rail
roads into the ground.
"Socialism is impracticable because
it .would not allow sufficient scope
for the abilities of big men.
“The steel business is already too
big to be capable of further expan
sion.
“It is a mistake to say that all men
are equal. 1 do not think that they
are.”
SILVA GETS TWO YEARS
FOR CHORUS GIRL’S DEATH
Experts Tell What
Graham Flour Isn't
Bureau of Chemistry Hereafter Will
Demand That Mills Furnish
'Unbolted Wheat Meal.'
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, low grade flour, 8 or 10 per
cent cracker flour and mill floor
sweepings. A standard will be «et,
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.”
Dippel Paid to Quit
Grand Opera Field
‘Eet 18 Just Like Hammerstein,’
Says Campanini, Who
Succeeds Him.
PHIL A DELPHI A, May 8 The di
rectors of the Phlladelphia-Chicago
Opera Company paid Andrea.s Dippel
$25,000 cash to stay out of grand op-
. era in this city and Chicago for the
* next three years.
This represents but a part of the
settlement with the former general
manager, but what more he received
\n / the form of agreements could not
be learned, clefonte Campanini ad
mitted that Mr. Dippel had received
more. “Eet is just like
he added.
ROOSEVELT COMPLAINS OF
—GUESS WHAT—OVERWORK
SAVANNAH, GA., May 8.—Isaac
Silva, found guilty of involuntary
manslaughter in causing the death of
i Marian Leonard, of Boston, a chorus
J girl, to-daj was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary.
Silva had injpeted morphine !n:o
the girl’s thigh to relieve a pain. Tr ?
same evening the girl ate a number of
sandwiches and drank some beer.
Later she took some medicine and the
combination caused blood poisoning.
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND,
May 8 — An article by . Theodore
Roosevelt on “The Vigor of Life” was
read here to-day at the Olympic Con
gress. w’hich will be attended by 400
International sportsmen.
Mr. Roosevelt wrote regretting that
It was impossible for him to at
tend, and stating that overwork had
prevemd him writing a special Olym
pic article.
BY CORONER
Newt Lee Called to Stand for Further
Examination—Coroner Will Put
Case in Hands of Jury by 7 o’Clock,
It is Predicted.
The Coroner's Jury found that Mary Phagan had come to
her death by strangulation and ordered Lee and Frank held for the
Grand Jury.
Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil Factory,
and Newt Lee, night watchman, both of whom are being held in
connection with inquiry into the death of Mary Phagan, were re
called to the witness stand late Thursday afternoon at the inquest.
Frank was given a more searching examination as to move
ments on the day of the tragedy than he underwent his first, day
on the stand and an apparent, endeavor was made to show that he
was not at home at the times he had stated in his previous tes
timony.
Frank, however, answered the questions readily and Coro
ner Donehoo was not able to trip him.
In Frank's previous testimony he failed to mention several
persons who were at his home when he said he was there Saturday
night. But when he was questioned in regard to this point Thurs
day afternoon he gave their names at once.
After Frank’s testimony, witnesses were introduced who tes
tified that Frank had at times indulged in familiarities with the
girls in his factory.
Following this testimony, Ihe coroner excluded all persons in
the room, including the newspaper men and the attorneys for
Frank, while Dr. Hurt, county physician made his statement.
Newt Lee preceded Frank on the stand.
Lee’s testimony was in regard to the private conversation he
had with Frank when Lee was first arrested. He declared that
Frank had told him that they would “both go to hell” if they
were not careful, but the effect of this testimony was largely nul
lified by Frank's earlier statement' that the remark or a remark
to the same effect was suggested by one of the detectives in the
hope of getting some information from the night watchman.
The morning ses".mr> •??£s> pot prolific, Nothing of consequence
was developed.
Miss Hattie Hall and Herbert Schiff, chief clerk in the pencil
factory, were the first witnesses at flic afternoon session.
Coroner Donehoo called for Lee immediately after Detective
John Black had testified, supplementing the important testimony
given by Harry Scot* of the Pnii'-rt->/as.
W. W. (“Boots”)'Rogers, former county policeman, and Lein-
rnie Quinn, foreman in the tipping department, at the National Pen
cil Factory, were the principal witnesses this morning. Neither
gave testimony that was materially damaging to either Leo M.
Frank or Newt Lee, who are being held in connection with the
crime.
Rogers was questioned closely viewed him that he w r as not at the
o fthe events of the morning the
crime was discovered, and told
of taking the officers to the scene
in his automobile. Beyond his
belief that Frank appeared ner
vous when he was visited at his
home by the detectives, Rogers
had no information that appear
ed to point suspicion in one di
rection more than another .
He was sure, however, that the
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 dow’n the story of Lemrnie
Quinn that he was at the factory and
talked to Frank between 12:10 and
12:30 the Saturday afternoon of the
tragedy. Foroner Donehoo tried to
get Quinn to admit that he previ
ously had told officers who , inter
factory between Friday and the fol
lowing Sunday.
Quinn steadfastly refused to admit
that he had made a statement of tho
sort. He supported Frank’s testi
mony of last Monday by insisting that
he visited the factory for a few min
utes and went into Frank’^ office.
Miss Hattie Hall, the stenographer
who was at the factory office Satur
day until noon, w’as another of the
witnesses called to the stand during
the forenoon. She teotifled as to
Frank’s movements while she wa.s
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. Rosser, and smiled
faintly at a remark that was made to
him. He apeared to show the strain
of the days since he has been in a
cell.
Lee was not admitted to the room
at the beginning of the hearing, but
was detained in a nearby office. The
night watchman seemed almost in
different.
Frank Answers Questions
Quickly When Recalled
Frank was slightly nervous when
he was answering the questions. He
wrs asked:
Q. What kind of an elevator floor
have you In the factory on the office
floor?—A. A solid sliding door.
*Q. Where was the elevator* Friday
night and Saturday?—A. I didn’t no
tice ft.
Q. What protection would there be
from a person from falling Into the
shaft if the door was open?—A. There
is a bar across the shaft.
Q. Where was the elevator Sat^
urday?—A. I did not notice it*