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THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Local showers Sat urday; fair Sunday. ORSEY FINDS EVIDENCE South Georgia mil EDITION ELECT INFANT • CLAUSE FACES The Atlanta Georgian latest news Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WAlSiT ADS---Use for Results VOL. XT. NO. 239. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 10,1913. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE r MORK° •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 +•+ +•+ +•+ •!*••!• +•+ Gainesville Affair Stirs Anger +#+ +•+ •!•••!• »!••+ +•+ 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. • PAGES OF FUN THE GREAT COMIC SECTION OF THE SUNDAY AMERICAN FUN AT HOWSON LOTT’S :: MR. BATCH LOVES CHILDREN :: HAPPY HOOLIGAN MAKES A HIT :: JIMMY £EES A FIGHT ::