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VOL. XT. NO. 239.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 10,1913.
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•Proposed Change in Confession of
Faith Likely Not To Be Made
by Assemblies.
UNION OF CHURCH PROPOSED
Popular Statement of. Doctrine
One of the Big Questions To
Be Wrestled With.
Vital ciuewtiond of worldwide Inter
est, will come before the Presbyte
rian assemblies in Atlanta Perhaps
the most interesting of these to the
layman 19 the effort to be made in
the Southern Assembly to change the
"elect infant clause” to remove all
ground for the supposition that all
infants are not saved.
This will come up in consideration
of section 3, chapter 10 of the Con
fession of Faith and will not be new
work for a General Assembly of this
church. The proposed changes have
been thoroughly discussed and rec-
<ynmended by a number of assem
blies, but no change proposed as yet
has met the approval of three-
fourths of the Presbyteries.
The proposed change in this para
graph which was approved by the
Bristol Assembly causes the par
agraph to read thus: "Being elect.
Dll infants dying in infancy are. re
generated and saved by Christ
through the Spirit. who worketh
when, and where, and how he pleas-
eth. So also are ail other elect per
sons, who are incapable of being
outwardly called by the ministry of
the word," this wording to be sub
stituted that now appearing in the
Confession of Faith and which reads:
"Fleet infants dying in infancy etc.”
Presbyteries Have Voted.
The. Presbyteries have taken vote
on the proposed change during the
spring meetings and the action of the
General Assembly in ordering a
change in the wording of this para
graph of the Confession of Faith will
be determined by the vote of the
Presbyteries. It is hardly to be ex
pected that three-fourths of the
Presbyterien will favor the proposed
change and it is not unlikely this
question will be discussed as thor
oughly during the Atlanta Assembly
as has been true during other As
semblies.
There is a growing desire upon the
(>art of some prominent ministers of
the church for this paragraph to be
stricken from the Confession of Faith
and thus obliterate all ground for the
supposition that any infant or other
irresponsible person who dies can fail
to be saved, and it is probable that
more than one overture to that ef
fect will be presented to the Assem
bly at Atlanta.
Among the questions of particular
interest to the South is the proposed
union of the United Presbyterian
Church with the Southern Presbyte
rian Church and this question will be
presented in the report of the Com
mittee on Conference, appointed by
the Assembly of 1912, which commit-
in joint meeting with a similar
committee appointed by the General
Assembly of the United Presbyterian
Church has prepared a basis of un
ion for the two churches and this
basis of union will be presented to
the General Assemblies of both
churches For action.
Terms Not Made Public.
Just what this basis of union is
has not been made known to others
than the members of the two com
mittees, The basis of union was
agreed upon several weeks ago, but
the two Committees of Conference de
cided tltet as a matter of courtesy to
the Assemblies of both churches it
should not be given publicity until
Continued on Page 2, Column 1.
Slayer of Countess,
Convict, Seeks Death
Guards Watch Lieutenant Paterno,
Who Would Escape Imprison
ment Through Suicide.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, May 10.—Lieutenant Pa
terno. serving a life sentence for the
murder in 1912 of the queen's wait
ing maid, Countess Trigona, was se
cretly conveyed to the penitentiary
in Porto Longone to-day. Owing to
the prisoner's dread of solitary con
finement and determination to end
his life, four warders have been de
tailed to watch him day and night.
The doctors ascribe his suicidal
mania to cowardice. They have
given him morphine to cause arti
ficial sleep and thus prolong hie life.
The authorities have tried to hide
Paterno’s resolve to kill himself lest
his example be followed by others
desiring to evade sentences of soli
tary confinement.
Other convicts who have ended
their lives generally concealed their
determination, but Paterno calmly
announced his intention to the of
ficials. The latter are anxious to
preserve his life at all costs that he
may expiate his crime according to
law.
Wilson in Dilemma,
Says London Paper
President Sympathizes With Japan,
It Adda—Cannot Enforce
His Views.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 10,—The London
Morning Post, In an editorial, says
"No doubt the action of the Cali
fornia Legislature In passing a bill
depriving Japanese settlers of the
right to own land, placed the Presi
dent in a very difficult position.
"Japan resents this legislation is
descrtmlnating unfairly against her
citizens, and claim* it is a violation
of the treaty between herself and the
United States. So far as known Pres
ident Wilson recognizes the justice of
Japan's complaints, but h» has no ob
vious means of compelling the people
of California to accept his view of
the case. * * * • It is certain
Japan will protest and will insist on
taking some action to vindicate her
rights."
Opera Stars Deny
Any Estrangement
Emmy Destinn Buys a Picture So
Big That She Has to Hire
a Truck.
LONDON, May 10.—Six days at sea
evidently soothed the distraught
nerves of the grand opera singers who
have arrived from New York.
Denial was made of the report that
there was any estrangement of the
forces of the Metropolitan Grand Op
era Company which would prevent
their assemblage again next season.
Conductor Toscanini, about whom
there have been numerous rumors,
said: "My contract has two years
to run and as usual l will fulfill my
contract.”
All the singers except Emmy Des-
tinn, who has taken a house in Lon
don, have gone to Paris. Mme. Des-
tlnn, who is an art connoisseur, has
secured a large Riviera picture.
Predicts Trouble in
Cuba at Inauguration
“Moral and Political Conditions Are
Awful,” Says Henry T.
Woodruff.
NEW YORK, May 10.—"The moral
and political conditions of Cuba aro
awful." declared Henry T. Woodruff,
a veteran of the Civil War, who has
arrived from Havana.
Mr. Woodruff has spent the winter
in Cuba for the last fifteen years.
"I have been Informed on reliable
authority that the rebels have ob
tained 12,000 rifles which belonged to
the Federal Government. The. peopl
of Havana are seeking bloodshed, and
it would not surprise me if murder
was committed when Menocal is in
augurated on May 20.”
WHEREABOUTS NOT KNOWN
Two Girls, One Answering De
scription of Runaway, Join
Woman in New Haven,
NEW YORK, May 10.—Mias Ra-
mono Borden, 17-year-old daughter
of Gail Borden, multi-millionaire
New York milk dealer, whose myste
rious disappearance from a New Jer
sey sanitarium several weeks ago
caused a big sensation, is to-day re
ported to be missing again.
Credence was given the report bv
announcement at the Vanderbilt Ho
tel, where Mrs. Borden and her
daughter have been living, that both
left the hotel and that their present
whereabouts are unknown.
The first hint that Ramona had run
away again came from New Haven,
Conn., to which place she had gone
with Mrs. Helen Bel don White, wife
of a rich Cleveland. Ohio, chewing
gum manufacturer, on her recent run
away escapade.
Reported in New Haven.
A dispatch from New Haven re
ported that a woman answering Mrs
White? description met two young
girls at the railway station there, the
party going to a hotel where they
registered as “Mrs. W. J. White
and daughters. Niagara Falls. N. Y."
One of the girls answered the de
scription of Mias Borden: the other
resembled one of Mrs. While's nieC*V
who was a member of the previdu^
runaway party. When Mrs. White
was approached in New Haven by
reporters she denied that she was tpe
same woman who connived In *he
Borden girl’s escape from the sanita
rium.
Surprise to Father.
At the offices of Mr. Borden It was
said to-day by Mr. Borden’s secretary
that the girl’s father had no knowl
edge of her being in New Haven.
Mr. and Mrs. Borden are separated,
but not divorced. Mrs. Borden makes
her home in Los Angeles, Cal., but
came here when she received news of
her daughter's mysterious disappear
ance several weeks asro.
Wife Watches Cell
to Keep Man Awake
Keeps All-Night Vigil Under Doc
tor's Orders to Keep Husband
From Sleeping.
PHILADELPHIA, May 10.— To
keep her husband awake, as directed
by physicians*, Mrs. Elizabeth Con
ley of Gibbsboro. N. J.. spent the
night in front of a cell door at Cam
den when her spouse. John Conley,
40 years old. was locked up.
Mrs. Conley said her husband had
made all sorts of threats against her
and was mentally unbalanced. Con
ley and his wife entered police head
quarters. the man pleaded to be kept
in a cell and asked that his wife be
permitted to remain outside and keep
him awake.
The police were puzzled, but when
it was explained that Conley had
spells of nervousness and that his
wife must keep him awake at the
order of his physician, the request
was granted.
TIRES OF FREAK BILLS;
QUITS LEGISLATURE SEAT
MADISON, WIS.. May 10.—Declar-
ing that he was tired of freak legis
lation being introduced ,in the Wis
consin Legislature. Assemblyman
Carl Hanson walked out of the as
sembly to-day and left for home. H
said he would not return.
TO BE MISSING
Multi-Millionaire Milk Dealer’s
Daughter and Her Mother Leave
New York Hotel.
Mrs. Ham’s Nomination Is Fought
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Gainesville Affair Stirs Anger
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President Offers an Explanation
Mrs. H. W. J. Ham, of Gainesville.
STATE VEILS
Solicitor General Dorsey Declares
Facts Unearthed by ‘Best De
tective in Country’ More Direct
Than Storer Girl’s Testimony.
Former Factory Employe Asserts
Frank's Office Was Empty at
12:05 Noon on Day of Tragedy,
Contrary to Supt’s. Story.
Prosecution Also Maintains Se-
cresy Regarding Name of
Woman Who Said She Heard
Screamsin Factory in Afternoon.
Georgia Congressman Absent
From White House Since Post- !
office Appointment Was Made.
WASHINGTON, May 10. A move-
ment to have the name of Mrs. H. \V.
J. Ham withdrawn as postmaster .it
Gainesville is understood to be under
way here, although Representaive
Thomas M. Bell, Congressman from
the Ninth District, says he has no
knowledge of it and is not a party
to it.
It Is well known that Congressman
Bell feels keenly the turning down of
his recommendation in the Gaines
ville matter, as he thinks, Gainesville
being his home town, his wishes
should have prevailed. Then, too, the
Congressman had an engagement with
the President the day after Mrs.
Harris' name was sent to the Senate,
to discuss the Gainesville postmas
tership.
President Wilson addressed a note
to Mr. Bell, telling him the name was
ent in through inadvertanee, as he
had not intended making the nomina
tion that day. He, however. said*
nothing about changing the situation.
Since the appointment was sent in,
Congressman Bell has not been to
the White House. The movement
to have Mrs. Ham's name withdrawn
has been inaugurated by friends of
all the parties concerned, in the
hope of avoiding that which now
seems likely to develop considerable
feeling in congressional circles.
FORMER HARVESTER CHIEF
HEADS RUMELEY COMPANY
CHICAGO. May 10.—Clarence S.
Funk, former general manager of the
International Harvester Company, has
been elected president of the Rumj-
ley Company, of Laporte, Ind. A loan
of 12,000.000 for additional working
capital has been arranged.
Mrs. Longstreet, in
Capital, Plans Fight
Will Protest Her Removal as Gaines
ville Postmaster Before Senate
Nomination Committee.
WASHINGTON. May 10.—Mis.
Helen D. Longstreet arrived in Wash
ington Friday to wage a fight against
the appointment of Mrs. H. W. J.
Ham as postmaster at Gainesville,
Ga., and it is possible that confirma
tion of it may be held up.
Mrs. Longstreet talked with a num
ber of friends in the capital and wiii
go before the Senate nominating
committee to protest agains*t her re
moval. Her protest will be that her
work has not been unsatisfactory *
Gainesville people
An announeeemnt from Congress
man Thomas M. Bell that he wouM
issue a statement to the public re
garding the Gainesville postoffn e
created quite a sensation among th'
Georgians here.
Socialists May Fly
Red Banner in Ohio
Attorney General Rules Those Who
Interfere Are Liable to Arrest.
Trouble Expected.
EAST LIVERPOOL, O.. May 10.
Attorney General Hogan to-day gave
City Solicitor Bennett a written opin
ion to the effect that the Socialists
here are entirely within their rights
in displaying a red flag over their
headquarters and that persons who
interfere with it are liable to arrest.
Further trouble is expected here,
and the city officials are preparing to
make arrests if necessary to protect
the lurid banner that floats over the
highest building in town.
The best detective in America,”
employed by Solicitor Dorsey to fer
ret evidence in the Mary Phagan
murder mystery, liaa obtained results.
The Solicitor said Saturday morning
that he has in hand several bits of
exclusive and Important evidence, the
results of this detectives work, that
will not be revealed until the time foil
trial of persons to whom the evidence!
i poirtts. j
The Solicitor declined to make pub
lic the slightest hint a.4 to the nature
of the evidence, or as to the identity
of tne person toward whom it points.
“It will come out at the proper
time,” he said.
The Solicitor told of this exclusive
evidence when he disc ussed the state
ment by Monteen Stover, the 14-year-
old employee of the National Pencil
Company, that is in direct contra
diction to testimony by Leo M. Prank,
the suspected factory superintend
ent.
Calls Evidence More Direct.
"The girl's statement is Interest
ing," he said, "but it is not the moat
important evidence in the world. Bet
ter evidence, now exclusive with the
prosecuting officers of the State, has
been obtained by the excellent de
tective who waa employed by that
office. The evidence is more tangible
and direct than any that has yet come
out,” he said.
In opposition to the testimony of
I.eo M. Frank in th* Mary Phagan in
quest was the statement of the Sto
ver girl. The evidence that she will
bear la to the effect that she was in
Frank's office at 12: Of* o'clock and a
little later on the Saturday afternoon
preceding the discovery of the slain
girl's body, and that she found it de
serted.
According to Frank's testimony, he
was in his office from 12 o’clock until
12:26. when Lemmie Quinn, his fore
man. came in. During that time ho
said, Mary Phagan came in. about
12:06 o’clock, to receive her pay
Monteen Stover is certain that she
reached Frank's office at exactly 12:06
o'clock. She has been retained as an
Important witness.
Remembers the Time*
"The minute I got to the office floor
when I went up to get my pay,” she
said, ”1 looked at the clock. I wanted
to know if it was time to draw my
money. I would have looked at it,
anyhow, I suppose, as it is always
customary for me to punch it Jhe
first thing upon entering the place to
go to work.
"It was five minutes after 12. I
was sure Mr. Frank would be in his
office, so 1 stepped in. He wasn’t in
Continued on Page 2, Column 7.
FIRST GROUP OF ATLANTIC SUBMA I
RECEIVE MYSTERIOUS ORDERS TO
NEWPORT, R. I., MAY 10.-MUCH MYSTERY '
ATTENDED THE ORDERED DEPARTURE OF THE
GROUP OF SUBMARINES OF THE ATLANTIC SUB r
FLOTILLA, WHICH SUDDENLY DEPARTED F0F
FOLK, VA., AFTER HAVING ARRIVED HERE BUT A
TIME AGO FOR AN ALL-SUMMER STAY.
ANOTHER SUFFRAGETTE BOMB CREA
A PANIC IN A BRITISH POSTU
READING, ENGLAND, MAY 10.—A S’JFF
BOMB, WITH AN ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE Si
THAT FOUND IN ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL, WA5
ERED TO-DAY IN THE PACKAGE SORTING DEP
OF THE LOCAL POSTOFFICE. FINDING C~
NAL MACHINE CREATED A PANIC AUL
PL0YEES. THE BOMB WAS TURNED 0V:i
HUFF’S PAMPHLET
Federal Judge to Publish Testi
monials and Indorsements of
His Carper on Benck.
MACON. GA., May 10.—It became
known to-day that Judge Emory
Speer will issue pamphlet* in reply
to the one that will be distributed
next week by Colonel W. A. Huff.
Judge Speer’s pamphlets will not dis
cuss the Huff case, but will contain
editorial comment favorable to Judge
Speer, various grand jury indorse
ments. testimonials from prominent
men the country over and resolutions
concerning the judge's services as
passed by the Georgia Federation of
Labor and other organizations. These
will be mailed to every member of
Congress and will also be given to
the public. The copy is now in the
hands of the printers.
Colonel Huff is in Atlanta to-dav
consulting with his attorney. T. S.
Felder, and also working on evidence
which he intends to present to Con
gress next week as a basis for im
peachment proceedings against Judge
Speer Colonel Huff s pamphlet will
embody the letters he wrote Judge
Speer last summer, for which he will
be tried on May 19 for contempt of
court, as well as a new letter to the
public.
Daniels Fools Old
.Salts in Navy Office
Department Navigators Learn for
First Time That Florida Has a
Panama City.
WASHINGTON. M»y 10 The «is.-
old salts of the Navy Department
thought they hail I’aught Secretary
Daniels In a land-lubbers blunder
when they got a telegram from him
ordering the gunboat Petrel to Pana
ma City by May 10.
Even the youngest navigator at tile
department laughed over the mes
sage and called attention to the ge
ographical fact that Panama City Is
on the Pacific side of the Isthmus,
while the gunboat Petrel Is now en
route to Pensacola, Fla. It was sug
gested that the Secretary be so in
formed
Then some one thought of looking
up tile maps. A search aisclosed thut
there la a Panama City on the Florida
coast.
FIGHT TARIFF BILL
Georgia Manufacturers Predict
Industrial Depression if Under
wood Measure Is Adopted.
COLUMBUS. GA.. May 10.—The
business sessions of the Cotton Man
ufacturers’ Association of Georgia
closed- last night with the selection
of Griffin as the next meeting place
and the re-election of F. B. Gordon,
of Columbus, as president, and Harry
L. Williams, of Columbus, as secre
tary and treasurer. Five committees
were also elected. Visitors to the
convention are guests of the Colum
bus Power Company at Goat Rock
to-day.
The association went on record as
opposed to the Underwood tariff bill,
when the convention unanimously
adopted a resolution protesting
against the measure, expressing the
belief that it would paralyze the mill
industry of the country.
President Gordon, In his annual re
port, stated that he did not want to
be considered a "calamity howler.”
but that if he were called upon to
make a prediction it would be that
beginning this summer “the cotton
mills of Georgia would face a long
period of depression. Only those
strongly entrenched financially, with
strong trade connections and able to
use foreign markets to some extent,
will stay in the race. It’s to be a
survival of the fittest.”
Many of those who discussed the
resolution adopted by the association
were of the same opinion.
Turn Down Pinero
and Lady Nicotine
London Theater Managers Rejeot
His Plan and Will Bar
Smokers.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. May 10.—Sir Arthur
Wing Pinero's proposal to allow
smoking in the London theaters, was
emphatically rejected by the Society
of West End Theater Managers, who
voted against the proposal with only
one dissenting voice
Sir Arthur's purpose was to alie 1-
flte the patronage of the music halls,
he believing that many men wen
there to enjoy nicotine rather than
vaudeville. •
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