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BURNS TO TAKE UP PHAGAN CASE
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250 SHRINER VOTES OUT OF 460 PLEDGED TO ATLANTA
‘TAG DAY” SECURES LARGE SUMS FOR UNFORTUNATE CHILDREN
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By JAMES B. NEVIN.
DALLAS, TEXAS, May 12.—Atlanta now claims, as pledged,
250 of the 460 votes in the Imperial Council for the 1914 meeting
place. Memphis still is alive and the tight has seemingly narrowed
down to the two cities.
If Atlanta should lose the committee’s recommendation the
Georgians will carry the fight to the convention floor.
Forrest Adair
Potentate Forrest Adair de
c-lares it is all over hut the shout
ing. '■ Atlanta will be the Shrine
Mecca in 1914, unless I am very
gladly mistaken,” he said.
The first cheering news received '»y
Atlanta when the delegation arrived
Sunday morning was that the seven-
teen votes of Texas av “sewed u;>
: ~ TUnn f n "nwod Ol-I.l.
homa. New York, Pennsylvania. Ore
gon. British Columbia and Honolulu
to the Georgia standard.
Memphis, however, still is a men
ace to Atlanta's chances. The Ten
nesseeans claim that they were first |
in the field for the meeting, and they |
ire using this argument constantly.
Memphis’ tactics may result m - j
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U. S. to Prosecute
Firms Cutting Pay
As Tariff Revenge
'They’ll Land Behind Bars if They
Try to Intimidate Congress,'
Says Senator Williams.
WASHINGTON, May 12.—The
criminal clauses of the S'. man anti
trust act and the prosecuting powers*
of the Department of Justice will be
used in defense of the reductions in
duty prescribed by the Underwod
tariff bill.
If combinations are found among
employers to restrain trade and in
timidate Congress by cutting wag- s
and closing factory doors, criminal
suits will £e instituted.
This is the frank intimation to-day
of Senator John Sharp Williams. «>?
the Senate Finance Committee.
“The protected interests are coming
to us with the same old pl^a that
they are threatened with ruin,” sa.d
Senator Williams. "They threaten to
cut wages or assert that it will b-
necessary to cut them. This is plain .
ly intended to intimidate Congress. If
it should be discovered the interests
are combining to this purpose, the
Sherman anti-trust act is sufficiency
broad to cover such acts, and we m • /
land rome >f these gentlemen De-
nind A iK - bars*'’’
At tlie left. Judge \V. T. Newman, of the United States Court, is
shown being tagged by Mrs. Kneijtp; in the center is Mrs. Frank Mead
or; at the right. Mayor “Jim" Woodward appears tickled to death that
fora change he doesn’t have to use the veto power.
CALL DETECTIVE BURN TO
TAG DAY RECEIPTS CERTAIN
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ATLANTA GIVES LIBERALLY
Atlanta capitulated Monday to an irresistible force of the
city's fairest young women. It was a willing, but costly surren
der.
Each of tin* thousands of captives, as a token of surrender,
gave up some part of his or her hard-earned money and received
a tag which indicated the money was for the benefit of the Shel
tering Arms Orphans’ Home.
One of these fairs was sup ,
posed to insure the "laggee": l ,Ietion of his exchequer,
against being surrounded again
and submitting to another do* Continued on P$ae 2. Column 4.
Mayor Declares He
Earns Pay Watching
Council Politicians
Makes Hot Reply to New Attack by
Thomson—Breach Contin
ues to Grow.
“If I did nothing more than watch
the Council I would more than earn
my salary.” declared Mayor Wood
ward Monday in answer to Albert
Thomson’s charge that the Mayor's
office had become a nonenity in the
city government.
“As a matter of fact,” continued
Mr. Woodward, “the charges are not
{worth the waste of breath in answer
ing them, still I want to assure the
people of Atlanta that I have my
hands full watching the politicians.
: and I am going to continue to watch
j them and their activities.”
Councilman Thomson's attack on
the Mayor, the second he has made
; within a fortnight, has been much
: more discussed than his first, because
I it follows Council’s vindication of the
I officials accused of graft.
Politicians assert that the breath
between the Mayor and a number of
the Councilmen is beyond hope of
reunion.
William J. Burns, the world-famed detective, probably will
take charge of the Phagan case.
The man who unearthed the dynamite outrages and brought
the McNamara brothers to justice, will in all probability come to
Atlanta within the next few days and lend his efforts toward
clearing up the mystery of the death by strangulation of Mary
Phagan.
This information was made
public Monday following cor
respondence between Colonel
Thomas B. Felder and Mr.
Burns since the discovery of the
body in the pencil factory.
Mr. Burns Is now on his way from
Europe, and will arrive on Tuesday
or the following day. Upon his ar
rival in New York he will confer with
detectives there and then proceed to
A tlanta.
Credit Largely Due Felder.
The services of Mr. Burns have been
secured largely through Mr. Felder's
efforts, it has developed. Upon Mr.
Felder's retention by the citizens of
Marietta and relatives of the slain
girl to work on the case he Journeyed
to New York for a conference with
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