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ALWAYS FI RST <$ ($ The SUNDAY AMERICAN Order It NOW o Both Phono Main 8000 Ml Read tor rroht---GEOkGlAl\ WAi\'l ADS---Use for Results VOL. XI. NO. 244. ATLANTA, (IA„ SATURDAY, MAY 17,191:5. 2 CENTS EVERY WHERE JAP NEXT TO SEEK FULL ft l CITIZEN Protest to Alien Bill Merely Pre liminary to Formal Demand for Complete Privileges. FEELING IS GROWING U. S. MUST TAKE REAL STAND Move for New Treaty Bridging California Issue May Solve Problem Temporarily. By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. WASHINGTON. -May 16.—When a ation grounds its protest upon a on-.arbitrable point there is not much arrant for the presumption that it is jokingVor peace. Japan's protest, as Interpreted by he message of President Wilson ‘o iovernor Johnson on April 22, and 1 the stenographic report of his con- **rsation later with the newspaper • porters, makes plain that “national .’ nor” was the basis of Japanese feel- in this matter, and that is now’ hr accepted idea in Washington. Whether Governor Johnson signs he Webb bill to-morrow or next day, he issue is drawn sharply between he United States and Japan upon a oint that can not be arbitrated and i!it must be decided. The United States can not apologize d a foreign nation for the act of one f its several States. A Stfdto law that does not violate he terms of an international treaty r the Constitution can not be abro- ated by the courts of the United dates. New Treaty Possible. In case of Governor Johnson’s sig- ature, then, the only policy that perns in sight for the President and lecretary of State is to form in con ference with Baron Chinda, the Jap- nese Ambassador, a new treaty cov- ring the point of issue between the wo nations. This treaty can not be- ome vital and superior to State laws ntil it s fully ratified by the United Hates Senate. I To satisfy Japan this new treaty lust cover the point at issue in the resent controversy. The most serious and entangling ossibility rests in the idea now gen- rally entertained that Japan has rum the beginning used this protest s a mere preliminary to a formal de- land that its people should be eligi- le to citizenship in the United States. Claiming: that the Japanese are a ,-hite people, that they are not Ma- iys. but Aryans, it is believed that apan will demand for them this ight in the United States, and upon hi, demand that people may stand or peace or war. 'Japanese negotiations have so far tterly ignored the action of Arizona, . hose land law is much more drastic hah the original draft of the Cali- ornia measure. This is regarded as tgniflcant. This, in brief, is the slt- ■ation as it stands to-day. Practically an Ultimatum. The Japanese Ambassador is im- i«ssive and absolutely silent. Upon he statement that Governor Johnson ill! sign the Webb bill his protest nd the way in which it has been [led amounts practically to an ulti- uatum to our Government. It is now the general feeling among fficials of the State. War and Navy lepartments that the time is drawing ear when our State Department will lave to give a direct, positive and onclusive answer to Japan. The newspaper men, almost as a inlt, have propounded the question, Vhen? to the Secretary of State. Mr, iryan is impassive. He admitted hat so long as the bill was not signed he present situation could for some Ime be practically maintained. The State Department indicates hat there has been no change in he attitude of Japan since Mr. Bryan eturned from Sacramento and Baron 'hinda filed his earnest protest. It is eared that Japan will now reject any ompromise that does not carry with t the recognition of equality of citi- enship between Japanese and Amer- THE WEATHER Forecast for Atlanta and G-eorgia—Showers Friday and probably Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. E j aiv/ Arrive in Atlanta Friday Afternoon Mr and Mrs. William Randolph | Hearst will arrive in Atlanta Friday j afternoon to remain for a few days Mr. Guy Barbam. of Los Angeles, accompanies them. The party have rooms at the Geor gian Terrace Hotel. Baptists Shout When New York Man Lauds Dixie Rev. Di. Steuk on Presbyterian Moderator Stone +••!• +•+ +•+ +•*!• ‘Prince of the Great Assembly/ He Declares ‘He Is as Gentle as John and Fervid as Timothy' ST. LOUIS, May 16.—The South ern Baptist Convention here to-day broke its established rule against ap plause when Rev. Charles H. Rust, of Rochester, N. Y., declared. “Dixie Is the grandest place of all.” Hundreds rose to their feet and shouted. Pres ident E. C. Dargan, of Macon, handed the gavel to the secretary, saying it was a demonstration/ in which he would have to join. The convention indorsed a recom mendation of the finance committee that Baptists be tithed and that a minimum of $1 a year should be ex pected from each member. Rev. E. L. Wesson, of Mississippi, declared many of the delegates did not be lieve in tithing and it would be a 1U to indorse it. Dr. Dargan reprimand ed him for the use of the word “lie.” The committee on the next conven tion city agreed to recommend Nash ville. Car Plunges Forty Feet, Pinning Man C. S. Walraven was seriously crushed in the spectacular leap of a heavy motor truck down a 40-foot embankment in front of a Tech dor mitory on West North Avenue Fri day afternoon. Walraven was riding on the seat with the driver. Just as they started down the incline in *front of the school, the driver lost all control of the machine. Both men tugged at the steering wheel, but w’ithout avail. It was too late to jump when the truck hit the embankment and made its 40-foot plunge. Walraven was rescued from underneath the ma chine and was hurried to Grady Hos pital. His limbs and body were badly crushed. Walraven was partially paralyzed by the shock. The physicians were unable to say whether he would re cover the use of his limbs. The driver was practically unhurt. A score of persons looked on, hor ror-stricken, as the big machine hur tled down the embankment, thinking that Walraven would be dead when picked up. Has Bill for a Hat: Asks President’s Aid WASHINGTON, May 16.—Wilbur Carr, director of the United States Consular Service, owes Herman R. Dietrich, former Consul General at Guayaquil, Ecuador, the price of one Panama hat. Director Carr admits it, but exnlains that he has been trying for the past month or two to get a bill from Dietrich, but without success. “I shall be glad to setCe with Mr. Dietrich if he will only tell me how much the hat cost,”he said. Dietrich * rote Senator Stone Apr»l 23, saying in part: “I respectfully file charges against Mr. Carr for abuse of power and au thority. I hope that you will take this matter up at once with the President and Secretary of State with a view to punish Mr. Carr.” The hat, he says, cdst $16. He wants interest and expenses, making a total of $20.50. AUGUSTA ASKS INCINERATOR. AUGUSTA. GA., May 16. A prop osition has been placed before the streets and drains committee of City Council for an incinerating plant to be erected here at a cost of $50,000. TAKE DINNER WITH US For Sunday dinner and every day in the week, the Mar ket Basket, in the “Want Ad” section of The Georgian, is the place to go for suggestions and for saving money. It appears every Fri day. The handy shopping guide. Need of Hihger Salaries for Pas tors Urged Upon Delegates to i United Church Conference, NEW MODERATORS ARE INDUCTED INTO OFFICE Chicago Man Is Chosen Despite His Earnest Protest in Hot Assembly Battle. In his spectacular election to the moderatorsnip of the North ern Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, Dr. John Timothy Stone, of Chicago, went from the com parative obscurity of the pastor ship of a great church to a world leadership in the religious sphere. Dr. Stone, while a power in his community, was unknown to hun- nnt l£u Great Evangelistic Advances Are Described at the Northern Conference. Recommendations involving hun dreds of thousands of dollars; re ports of committees and proposals which, vf carried out, will mean vast and international changes marked the second day’s program at the three great assemblies of Presbyterians Friday. Dissection of the past year’s work was started and the great advances shown, while steps for further accom plishment were Inaugurated. Conspicuous among the throngs the three meetings were the newly elected moderators, who took official possession of their gavels at the opening of the sessions. Dr. Stone Is Inducted. At the assemblage of the Northern section in the Baptist Tabernacle, Dr. John Timothy Stone, of Chicago, the “dark horse” whose spectacular rise to the head of the great body caused a sensation Thursday, was formally Inducted as moderator. Dr. Stone wielded a gavel presented to him by the Rev. R. H. Evans, of the West Af rican Church, and constructed by a native boy in the church's industrial qphool on the West African coast. The chief work at the Northern As sembly formed the reading of a re port of the past year's evangelistic work by Charles L. Houston. of Coatesville, Pa. This report showed wonderful advances along that line, which surpassed that of any previous year Dr. S. S. Palmer was delegated to carry greetings to the Southern Assembly. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman was recommended for reappointmen’ to the post of representative-at-ldTge of evangelism. Big Appropriations Asked. At the meeting of the Southern Assembly the report of the systematic beneftclence committee was read. Three recommendations for appro priations were made, the first for $574,560 to prosecute the work of the present year; $287,280 for the Home Missions executive committee, and $154,280 for ministerial relief. The Rev. J. S. Lyons, of Louisville, Ky., presided. , Higher salaries for ministers was the chief recommendation made at the assembly of the United Presbyte rians. This motion was presented by Walter D. Hawk, of Chicago, who declared that the present low salaries kept many good men out of the min istry. A plea to eliminate the idea of charity from funds supplied preach ers was also placed before the meet ing. Dr. Robert M. Russell, the new moderator, in opening the session, brought up for scathing arraignment the apathy exhibited by church mem bers toward their duties. Georgia Lauded as Best Pecan State Carl G, Allen, of Williamsport. Pa., and Dr. J. P. Stewart, of the Penn sylvania State College, who have em barked with Northern capitalists in pecan raising in Georgia, conferred with State Entomologist K. L. Wor sham Friday in reference to extend ing their holdings of 5,000 acres in the Albany district. Dr. Stewart, in charge of the tree fruit work at the Pennsylvania State College, declared Georgia was the best pecan State in the Union. MIDVILLE ASKS STATE FOR RAIL IMPROVEMENTS The residents of Midville have a grievance against the tw r o railroads in their town, aired in a formal com plaint to the State Railroad Board Friday. The petition asks the commission to compel the Central of Georgia and the Georgia and Florida Railway Companies to erect a union station there. iThe residents declare that the presofw depot accommodations art far fmm suffietent. FIVE EXPLORERS PERISH IN ftRGTICS Relief Expedition Reports Death of Lieut. Schroder-Stranz and Party in Spitzbergen. Special Cable to Th* Atlanta Georgian CHRISTIANIA. May 16.—Death has overtaken Lieutenant Schroder- Stranz and four members of his scientific exploration Tarty which be came ice-bound in Spitzbergen while pursuing scientific researches, ac cording to a cablegram received hen- to-day from Captain Stra/.rud, leader of a Norwegian relief expedition. Two members of the party, Deti mers and Moeser. drowned; Eberhard was frozen to death and Stave suc cumbed to illness brought on by x- posure. Lieutenant Schroder-Stranz was reported missing and given up as lost. The German expedition. i:r,d<-r Lieutenant Schroder-Stranz, was or ganized last year tb circumnavigate Northern Europe and Asia. It was expected to be away from three to four years making scientific explora tions. After a time the party managed to get word of its whereabou's to civilization. One relief party set out. but was forced to turn back. RETURN FROM BALL TO FIND SON A SUICIDE SAVANNAH, GA., May 16.—Be- turning from the May ball at the Guards' Hall shortly before midnight last night. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Stultz found their eldest son. Augus tus Stultz, dead in the bath room. He was lying on the floor partially dressed, w ith the gas turned on. Stultz had been despondent for some time. He had threatened to take his own life on previous occasions. Grand Jury Starts Vice War in Macon MACON, GA.. May 16.— Eradication of Macon’s restricted district by the enforcement of the State law' Is the plan of action decided upon by the Bibb County Grand Jury, which pro poses to indict every woman who conducts a disorderly house. An in dictment has already been returned against Corinrie Morris, and it is an nounced that all of the other women will be similarly treated. It is also stated that the Grand Jury proposes to indict those who lea«e their prop erty for immoral purposes. This Grand Jury Is the most mili tant in the history of the city, hav ing already indicted all but ten of the saloons and all of the clubs for vio lating the prohibition law. Granddaughter of Gen. Grant Weds PAN FRANCISCO, May 16.—Miss Nellie Grant, granddaughter of Gen eral U. S. Grant and Lieutenant Com mander William P. Cronan, U. S. N., were married here to-day. The wed ding was a brilliant one and attend ed bv society folk of San Francisco, Pan Diego and New York. Miss Grant Is a daughter of Mr. | and Mrs. Jesse R. Gra*it of San Die- i go and is a niece of he late Major General Frederick Dent Grant, U. P ! A Miss Grant also is a cousin of Princess Michael ntaeuzene Sper- dreds of those present at the election. No suggestion of his name for the rnoderatorship had ever been made. When the stam pede of approval w r ith W'hlch his nomination was accepted, w’hen placed unexpectedly before the meeting, and swept to victory in the wildfire of excitement which followed, no one was more sur prised than Dr. Stone. Upon him centers the limelight of the great convention to-day, and Dr. Stelzle, a lifelong friend, contributes below a strikingly in teresting light on his personality. By REV. CHARLES STELZLE. John Timothy Stone—prince of the Presbyterian General Assembly! Oh, yes, he’s moderator, too, but he's moderator largely because he was the prince. And he’s moderator in spite of his very earnest protest against being elected. It was the most dramatic thing that has happened in a General Assembly in a good many years—this election of Stone. It also was a terrific re buke of political dealing. It doesn't really matter whether the friends of the otiler candidates wen* guilty of playing politics or not—the candi dates themselves surely had nothing to do with the business. The commissioners had evidently I become impressed with the feeling I that there had been a deliberate j frame-up on somebody’s part to eleet ■ a moderator through machine meth- I ods. ' When Dr. Stone’s name was sug gested, in the most unusual manner J in which it was, that settled it—there • ' 1 Continued on Page 3, Column 2. Investigator for Great Detective Be lieved To Be in City Hunting Pha gan Slayer—Will Be on Same Plane as Pinkertons—State Won’t Aid. Solicitor General M. Dorsey sniil Friday that William J. Burns and his assistants would work on the Phagan case under the same conditions as the Pinkertons, namely, that while he would welcome any information from them, they would receive none from his office. Mi'. Dorsey issued the following statement: "Mr. Burns is welcome. We are delighted to have aid in ar riving at the truth no matter from what source it comes. However, Mr. Burns would have to get his information first hand so far ns this office is concerned. We accept the statement without ques tion that Mr. Burns' employment is in entire good faith, but our attitude toward him is the same as our attitude toward the Pin kertons. namely, that he will he expected to give and not to re eeive. The work being done by the city detectives is entirely sat isfactory.” Mr. "Dorsey added that there was absolutely no development of any kind in the case to-day except that considerable prog ress was being made in prepar ing the evidence. It was reported the case would go to the Grand Jury to-day. Witnesses in the case were sum moned on the form of subpena used by the Grand Jury. The-v appeared before Mr. Dorsey, however, and he stated positive ly the case would not be pre sented until next week. The Burns investigation into ihe Phagan murder mystery began Fri day. ‘ N William J. Burns, who personally will conduct the case feme time short ly after his arrival from Europe on June 1. cabled his orders to the New York office and one of his best men was dispatched to Atlanta to gel as much evidence as possible before the arrival of the great detective chief. He left New York shortly after mid night Wednesday and should have been in Atlanta Thursday night or Friday morning. He will make every effort to keep his identity and the result of his findings secret until the time for him io report to his yhief or to Colonel Thomas B. Felder. The fund to secure the services of the great detective and his assistants from New York, being raised by pub lic subscription, was considerably swelled following the announcement in The Georgian Thursday that an appeal had been made to the public. Uolonel Felder said Friday morning that a number of substantial sub scriptions had been pledged by tele^ phone and he had directed the donors to send their checks to Charles L Ryan, ( ashler of the Fourth National Bank. He said he had nnt learned the exact sum subscribed so far, but that he had no doubt It was several hundred dollars; “I know of more than six subscrip tions that will be made this morn ing, but I promised the people their names would not he published. The fund will be raised all right, and we are so confident of it one of the Burns men should be on the scene now." Hugh M. Dorsey, Solicitor General, hejd a secret conference at his of fice Thursday night with city detec tives and members of his staff. It was understood the conference fol lowed the finding of valuable Infor mation or evidence in connection with' the Phagan case, but the Solicitor would make no announcement. The examination of witnesses by Mr. Dorsey will be continued to-day. J. Williams, ex-policeman, who oper ates a livery stable near the pencil factory plant on South Forsyth Subscriptions From Persons Who Withhold Names Increases the Fund—Other Rewards. The fund inaugurated to bring W. J Burns, the renowned detective, to At lanta .to clear the Phagan mystery was augmented Friday by contribu tions which bring the total close o the thousand mark. More than six substantial subscriptions' from per sons who asked that their names :>e withheld have been received. The fund thus far made public The Georgian. $100. The Constitution, $100. Homer George, $10. The Georgian will be glad to receive contributions to the Burns fund, and repeats its offer of $J>00 reward, in addition to the $100 subscribed above, for exclusive information leading ro the capture of the slayer. In addition to the straight fund de signed to bring Burns to Atlanta, the reward of $1,000 offered by the city the $200 reward offered by the Rtate still holds. Other rewards also have been offered. Colonel Felder's announcement that Burns had signified definitely his will ingness to come to Atlanta to under take a solution of the mystery has revived public interest in the some what flagging hunt for Mary Phagan’s >’er. Felder Offers Fee. ? who have stood willing :6 contribute a fund ^Friday expressed a desire to swell the Burns total. Colo nel Felder has asserted that he will give his fee, as attorney for the pros- - •ution, toward bringing Burns here, and will assist personally in the cam paign for money sufficient to assure the great detective’s presence in At lanta. While Mr. Felder will not make public, the names of persons who nave sent him money for the Burns fund, he said that the first contribution had come from several prominent Atlanta women, who ggreed to subscribe more if need be. slay* P. Car Strikers Riot in Heart of Cincinnati CINCINNAT1, May 16 -Fieroe rioting broke out to-day in Foun tain Square, in the heart of this city, when an attempt was made to run street cars with strikebreakers. Strikers attacked the cars, smash ing the windows. A heavy detail of police attacked the strikers, firing their revolver^ over the heads of the rioters to scare them. The rioters at last gave way before the police, but furtluer outbreaks were threatened. MINE STRIKERS IN RIOT. NORRISTOWN, N. J., May IK.— Five deputies were shot - and eight strikers were badly beaten to-d^y in a battle between deputy sherifkA an I striking miners from the Moum/Hopc* mine near Wharton, N. J. Street, will be nined to-day, PUPILS DENIED DIPLOMAS START A NEAR-REBELLION DALTON. GA.. May 16.—A near- rebellion among the pupils of the tenth grade of the public high school has been quelled since the pupils have had time to think it over. The ^announcement that the city would add an eleventh grade to the school next year and would not: give the tenth grade pupils diplomas this year brought about the severest of disappointments for the pupil A. who had made preparations for the ifridu. ating exercises.