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THE WEATHER. Forecast—Fair, not quite so warm Thursday; Friday, prob ably fair. JURY ORDERS FRANK HELD ORDER NOW YOUR SUNDAY AMERICAN BOTH PHONES MAIN $,000 I 1 Vtlanta Georgian Read for Profit---GEORGIAN W'Al^T ADS---Use for Results VOL. X 1. NO. 2:37. WEATHER: FAIR. AT LANTA, (iA.. FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1913. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p ^° EXTRA 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*