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CASE The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WAI\T ADS---Use for Results VOL. XI. NO. 248. ATLANTA, (JA., WEDNESDAY. MAY 21, 1918 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE r 4ZJL° NIGHT EDITION Billy Smith Sends Pitcher Dent, Secured From Senators, In Against Visitors. Score by innings: CRACKERS 210 . TURTLES 000 0 PONCE DE LEON BALL PARK, May 21.—The Crackers lined up against the Turtles for the third game of their se ries here this afternoon. To-day's contest was a benefit per formance for the Atlanta Ad Men’s Club. Approximately 4,000 fans witnessed the struggle. Dent, the Crackers' new twirler, made his debut in to-day's game with Graham catching. Parsons and Snell did the battery work for the Turtles. THE GAME. FIRST INNING. Dove flied to Welchonce, who made a nice running catch. Baerwakl grounded to Agler and was out to Dent. Schweit zer went out, Bisland to Agler. NO RUNS’. Long opened for Atlanta with a pretty single to right. Bailey walked. Alper- man bunted and when Parsons came in the ball went over his head, filling the phases. Welchonce singled to right and Long and Bailey scored. Smith sac rificed, Parsons to Abstein, and both runners advanced. Bisland grounded to Ward and Alperman was caught in a chase, Ward to Snell to Ward to Ab stein. The latter covered the plate. Welchonce went to third on the play. Agler ended the inning by smashing a line drive to Butler. TWO RUNS. SECOND INNING. Ward went out, Bisland to Agier. Ab stein singled to left. Butler grounded to Bisland and Abstein was forced at sec ond to Alperman. Butler was out try ing to steal, Graham to Bisland. NO RUNS. Graham walked. Dent fanned. Long singled through Ward and Graham went to second. Bailey was hit by a pitched ball, filling the bases. Alperman ground ed to Parsons and Graham was forced at the plate to Snell. Welchonce grounded to Butler, who fumbled, and all hands were safe, while Long tallied. Smith died to Schweitzer. ONE RUN. THIRD INNING. Shanley bunted to Dent and was* out to Agler. Snell grounded to Smith and was out to Agler. Parsons out, Alper man to Agler. NO RUNS. Bisland walked on four wide ones. Agler popped to Snell. Graham smashed one through Shanley for a single and Bisland went to second. Dent was called out on strikes. Long llied to Schweitzer. NO RUNS. FOURTH INNING. In trying to dodge a ball on the inside Love accidentally hit the ball and was out at first to Agler. Baerwald lined into Alperman's hands. Schweitzer out, Bisland to Agler. NO RUNS. Clark Pays Alimony To Escape a Trial Still insisting that be will not llv^ with her. Augustus H. (Mark, the young husband arrested at the in stigation of his wife when he came here from Jackson, Miss., to sue her lor divorce, has agreed to pay her $20 a month for the support of her self and two small children. He has been placed on probation under Pro bation Officer Coogler. An effort is being made by Of ficer Coogler to effect a reconciliation between Clark and Mrs. Clark, but the husband declares this will never be. The probation officer, however, said he had hopes of amicably ad justing the matter. Great Birmingham Mill To Be Finished NEW YORK, May 21.—At a meet ing of the United States Steel Cor poration this afternoon it was de cided to go ahead at once and finisn the new wire and rail mill at Birming ham* Ala. The plant will manufac ture wire nails and wire products and will have a daily output of 400,000 tons of finished products. It is expected that $800,000 will be required to complete the mill, and the work is expected to be finished by the late summer or early fall. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Showers Wednesday and probably Thursday, BASEBALL SOUTHERN LEAGUE AT NASHVILLE- FIRST GAME. NEW T ORLEANS NASHVILLE ... 1110 0...... 1 6 0 0 0. . . Wilson and Robertson; Breckenrldge and Noyes. Umpires, Fifieid and Stock- dale. AT CHATTANOOGA— MONTGOMERY 0 . CHATTANOOGA 0 . C. Brown and Gribbcns; Coveleskle and Street. Umpires, Kerin and Wright. FIRST GAME. AT BIRMINGHAM — MOBILE ..>... BIRMINGHAM 0000100-1 53 0 0 0 1 0 1 X - 2 80 ■CavetandSchmidt; Prough and Mayer. Umpires, Rudderham and Brelt- ensteln. SECOND GAME. MOBILE 0 BIRMINGHAM 0 Berger and Schmidt; Hardgrove and Mayer. Umpires, Rudderham and Breitenstein. NATIONAL LEAGUE AT NFW YORK- ST. LOUIS NEW YORK 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Sallee and Wingo; Tesrau and Wilson. Umpires, Rigler and Byron. AT BOSTON— CHICAGO 0040010..-. .. BOSTON 0000000..-. .. Reulbach and Archer; Hess and Whaling. Umpires, Brennan and Eason. AT BROOKLYN— PITTSBURG ....> 010001030-5 71 BROOKLYN ....000200000-2 74 Adams and Simon; Ragon and Miller. Umpires. Klem and Orth. AT PHILADELPHIA— CINCINNATI 000000000 - 0 33 PHILADELPHIA 40220202X- 12 20 1 Johnson, Harter, L. Smith and Clark and Kllng; Seaton and Klllifer and Hawley. Umpires, O'Day and Emslle. AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS IN BURTON SMITH I Board Criticised as Exceeding Its Authority Is Commended by the Assembly. Indorsement was given the Home Mission Board by the adoption of the report of the standing committee on home missions by the Northern Pre* byterian Assembly Wednesday fore noon. The report paid high commendation to the policies and the work of the board. Its practically unanimous adoption was somewhat of a surprlk^, in view of the criticism which had been directed at the board before the sessions of the Assembly began. Included in the report was a resolu tion calling upon President Wilson to forbid the wearing of a badge or uni form distinctive of any religious de nomination by the teachers in Gov ernment schools. The resolution was added upon motion of Dr. C. A. Jan vier, of Philadelphia. Congressman Scott, of Kansas, op posed it. on the ground that it would mean the driving from many of the tho e d< ' 'lii' SiWi AT CLEVELAND— WASHINGTON 00000...... .. CLEVELAND 00001...... .. Groome and Henry; Kahler and Carisch. Umpires, O’Loughlln and Hart. AT ST. LOUIS— NEW YORK 0000 -. .. ST. LOUIS 2000 -. .. Ford and Sweeney; Hamilton and AgnCw. Umpires. Hildebrand and Evans. AT CHICAGO— BOSTON 20004...... .. CHICAGO 00000...... .. Collins and Carrigan; Benz and Schalk. Umpires, Ferguson and Connolly. Philadelphia-Detroit game off; rain. who aredoingf^roo^.vorft. The res- olution was identical with that adopt ed by the United Presbyterians Tues day. To Reconsider a Vt>te. Testifies He Planted Dynamite For Wood BOSTON, May 21.—John .1 Breen, the Uawrence undertaker, who al ready has been convicted for his part in the "plant” of dynamite at Uaw rence during the strike there, testi fied to-day at the trial of William M. Wood, head of the American Woolen Company and two others, on a charge of conspiring to "plant” the dynamite, that Frederick A. At.teaux. one of the defendants had hired him to plant ex plosives in buildings occupied by striking textile operatives. Atteaux, the witness said, gave him $500 before the dynamite was placed, and made the second payment of $200 some time later. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! r 30c For If you arc out of work or would like a better place, a lit tle ‘‘Want Ad” will do the work. Many are onjoyin”- splen did places to-day secured through a Georgian "Want Ad.” J AT MONTREAL— BALTIMORE— 100000 ...... MONTREAL— 200000. . .-. . . Shawkey and Egan; Smith and Burns. Umpires, Mullin and Cross. AT BUFFALO— NEWARK— 20000 ....... BUFFALO— 10100........ Donnelly and Hughes; Main* and Stephens. Umpires. Quigley and Fln- neran. Other games off—rain. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION AT ST. PAUL— LOUISVILLE— 00 0 000002-272 i ST. PAUL— 4 2000000X-681 I Maddox, Northrup and Clemons; j Relger and Miller. Umpires. Johnstone and Connolly. FIRST GAME. I AT KANSAS CITY— l COLUMBUS— 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1.-. . . | KANSAS CITY— 00200000.-. . . Other games off—rain. Practically all of the forenoon ses sion was given over to the report of the committee on home missions and it was announced just before recess was taken that a motion for reconsid eration of the vote upon which the report of the executive commission was received Tuesday afternoon would be entertained at 5 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon. This report recommended that the department of church and country life, one of the divisions of the home- mission work, be discontinued so far as practicable. "Either ask me to get out or com- I mend my work,” was the ultimatum delivered to the assembly by Warren H. Wilson, who is in charge of the department of church and country life of the Board of Home Missions. Mr. Wilson was speaking in defense of the department whose work the assembly voted late Tuesday after noon to "discontinue so far as prac ticable." Issues an Ultimatum. "The work can not be ‘discontin ued so far as practicable,’ ” declared Mr. Wilson. "It either must be aban doned altogether or be allowed to con tinue under the present policy. You j can tell me to get out if you like. I’m a young man. It would not be any loss to me. Nor am 1 dependent on the church for employment. "Those who oppose this church and country life department are city men. They are not acquainted \vith conditions in the country- I dare say none of them has milked a cow in fifty years. The country life depart ment is as essential as any other ac tivity of the church. The depart- FIGHT i. FELDER GOES TO GRAND JURY REPUDIATES T HREE deputies, from left to right, J. H. Owens, Newt Garner and Dan Goodwin, pointing to the “County Prize Ring”in the Thrower Building. Observe the hats in the ring. Below, at left, C. W. Walton, with bandaged face. At right, W. H. Byrd, with black eyes and bandaged forehead. Alt members of this club. tk Z2Z 121 A M SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE AT CHARLESTON. •JACKSONVILLE— 0000 -... CHARLESTON— 0000 -... Wilder and Smith: Foster and Mene- fee. Umpire, Moran. ment is working for rural pastorates and rural evangelism; without rural pastorates religious work in the coun try must languish. It Is up to you to say whether we shall abandon this great work.” All of the members of the Home Misison Board whose terms expired this year were re-elected, with the exception of Rev. S. J. Nichols, re signed. His place was left vacan temporarily. (’harges of malfeasance in office and usurpation of authority by the Home Mission Board of the North ern body of Presbyterians were an swered in an impressive address by the venerable general secretary of the board. Dr. Charles U. Thompson at Wednesday morning’s session of the Assembly. The entire meeting was swept into a volley of enthusiasm by the aged man’s eloquent denial of the charges. It greeted him with a spontaneous outburst of cheering, which ran rife for five minutes. When he resumed his seat unanimous appreciation of Continued on Page 5, Column 1. rap -hssebjw ' 4 m \W : "N. Mr*- Burton Smith, Reuben Arnold and J, C. Cox Arraigned Be fore Justice. Round two of the celebrated "Bat tle in the Corridors; or They Didn’t Know He Had a Punch,” was fought before Justice of the Peace Charles H. Girardeau on Wednesday afternoon, as per schedule, when Burton Smith, Reuben Arnold and J. O. Cox were ar raigned before the justice on charges of assault and battery preferred by W. H. Byrd and C. W. Walton. The three men were represented by Attorneys Hill, Wright and Van Astor Batchelor, and came back strong. Smith, Arnold and Cox were In ex cellent condition when they appeared before Referee Girardeau, both ver bally and mentally, and countered the insistent demand of the five for an immediate hearing with the calm statement that they would waive com mitment and let their case go to the Grand Jury. Despite the objections of Walton’s and Byrd’s seconds. Referee Girardeau ruled that the blow was legal, and to the great disgust of the army of fans who had journeyed from far and near to witness the bout, calmly held Smith. Arnold and Cox to await the action of the Grand Jury. Burton Smith Wears A New Title Now. To all friends of peace, greeting: Be it known that Burton Smith, lawyer, soldier, club president, has a punch up his arm. It is for the man who interrupts him when he is talking to a witness. It Is for the friend of the man who interrupts him when he is talking io a witness. It is for the friend of the friend of the man who—oh. well. Atlanta found out Tuesday that the punch was there, and found out, as well, for whom it exists. And Atlanta mentally Jotted down a few "don’ts” to govern it in its future behavior toward Burton Smith, lawyer, soldier, club president, the man with the punch. Just Like D'Artagnan. The same "don’ts" probably would applV to John Rldd. Lute McCarty, or D'Artagnan, all of whom, like Mr. Burton Smith, are known to i-he world as men pacific and amiable enough ordinarily, and slow to anger, but lions In conflict. RACING RESULTS. AT ELECTRIC PARK. FIRST—Five furlongs; Monfolio 109 (Mtathews), 6.30, 3.90. 2.60, won: Auto- maid 104 (Pickens), 3.10, 2.50. second; Firm 109 (Barzlley). 3.30. third. Time :69. Judge Landis, Jim Rat, Sylvan Dell, Satire also ran. SECOND—Selling. 3-year-olds and up, five furlongs; Susan 109 (Chapel), 7.30, 5.20, 3.70, won; Phew 99 (Johnson), 5.10. 3.80, second; Hudas Sister 104 (Adams), 5.60. third. Time :5I) 1-5. Carroll, Ra- r-ine. Merry Chase. Pink Lady, Schilla- lah. Rostrum also ran. THIRD—2-year-olds. 4Vs furlongs: Bulgar 113 (Skirvin), 2.90, 2.20, 2.10, won; Odd Cross 113 (Matthews), 2.20, 2.10, second: Col. C. 116 (Pickens), 2.20. third. Time :57 2-5. Molma. Sunamit, Kedron, Panama, Yoderling also ran. AT LOUISVILLE. FIRST—Five furlongs: Florence Rob erts 116 (Foftua), 3.40, 2.20, 2.10, won; Lady Lightening 112 (McCabe), 2.30, 2.10. second; Brookfield 98 (McDonald), 2.10, third. Time 1:00 2-5. Tactless, Ira K., Sir Marlon also ran. SECOND—Purse, 5 furlongs: Christo- phlne 110 (Steele), 5.80, 3.50, 3.30, won; Water Melon 110 (Loftus), 3.60, 3.10, second; Violet May lit) (Andress), 5.10, third. Time 1:01. Lavallettu, Yankee Tree, Ovation, First Cherry. Shelby Belle. Hortense, Blrka, Hose Ring, Buzz Around also ran. THIRD—Handicap, 6 furlongs: Helen Barbee 114 (Estep), 8.00, 4.80, 3.00, won; Sebago 112 (Musgrave), 3.80, 3.00, sec ond; Jim Basey 110 (Uoftus), 3.20, third. Time 1:12 2-5. Round The World. Little Father, Samuel R. Meyer, Private, Ca sey Jones also ran. ENTRIES "ON PAGE 2. Mystery In Death of Atlanta Woman MEMPHIS. May 21.—The police are mystified over the death |Df Mrs. ' of Atlanta, who died 1n St. Joseph hospital here, after . c *vo uays. , She came here from Birmingham men will bear witness, Is like I but had worked on Atlanta newspa- I pers, according to letters found in her Continued on Page 2, Column 1. 1 possession. The Smith punch, as at least five Stories That He Was Retained by Prisoner’s Friends Silly, He Declares. Mystery piles up upon mystery in the Fhagan case. Colonel Thomas B. Felder was ask ed Wednesday afternoon by The Geor gian to reply to rumors circulating on the street, all making the general charge that he had been retained by friends of Leo Frank, prisoner in the* Phagan case, and that his objeci ui bringing the great detective. William J. Burns, here, was not to fid the prosecution. Colonel Felder said: "Any stories to that effect are silly and ridiculous—if nothing wors<* Anybody who knows me or Mr. Burns knows that we would not lend our selves to any scheme to block justice. Mr. Bums in hunting down a criminal can not be stopped. He cou'd have made a million dollars by liste ning to the importunities of friends of the McNamaras in the dynamiting bases, but he is above price.” Loath to Discuss Rumc s. Mr. Felder said that he was loath discuss the rumors on the street be cause he wanted to avoid injecting into the case any issues thet might impede a speedy solution of the mys tery. He stated also that he had never said he was retained by the family of the dead girl, but that a committee of citizens had been the moving spirit* in getting him to take hold and using his influence -to bring Burns’ talenis to bear on the case. Mrs. J. W. Coleman, mother of | Mary Phagan. stated to a Georgian reporter Wednesday that the state ment that Colonel Felder had be^n retained by her and her husband to prosecute the search for the slayer of Mary Phagan was without foun dation. Mrs. Coleman said that the first sh« heard of Colonel Felder taking up the case was when she read - of i: in a newspa per. Saw Burns Man Once. Neither any of the murdered girl's relatives nor the citizens of Bell wood got up the fund to aid in the em ployment of William J- Burns of his agent, or in retaining Felder. She stated further that she had seen the Burns agent only once and then only for about three minutes. Mrs. Cole man said she was returning from market about 8 o’clock Tuesday even ing and the Burns detectiv. stopped her long enough to ask two or thtv6 questions. This is the only time she has seen him. 1 * Mrs. Colemai^ and her step-daugh ters believe that the guilty man is known, and while more evidence may be necessary to convict him. they be lieve this evidence will be brought to light and Mary’s death avenged. Mrs. Coleman thinks that Lee has not told all he knows, but that he slow in taking action against the will if the police department gets be hind him strong enough. She doe.-; not think that Lee had a hand in the triple, but thinks that he was hired to dispose of the body afterward and lost his nerve. Elevator Boy Grilled. Severe grilling of Gordon Bailey, the elevator boy at the National Pen cil Factory, and a city-wide search for the possessor of the “voice in the street.” heard by Mrs. A. A. Smith, 198 West Peachtree Street, to declare Mary Phagan was seen at about 4 o’clock on the afternoon of her mur der, inaugurated Wednesday morn ing’s investigation of the Phagan case. Bailey, who at the time of the strangling was employed as janitor and sweeper in the factory, was cross-examined by city detectives. Bailey was in the building the greater part of the afternoon on the day of the tragedy. Despite the testimony that he has given many times pre viously, he has always been consid ered as what might be an important Continued on Page 2, Column 7.