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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, MAZE OF LIES OF Police, Despite Conflicting Affida vits, Call Him Strong Wit ness Against Frank. Continued From Page 1. Tre Georgian-American Pony Contest VOTE COUPON Hearst's Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian PONY CONTEST VOTE COUPON, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1913 5 VOTES NOT GOOD AFTER JUNE 13, 1913. Vote for Address CARRIERS’ AND AGENTS' BALLOT. 1 their theory that the negro was the most important witness against Leo M. Frank, in the fp.ce of the contra dictory stories and lies in which he had been trapped. They were strongly disposed to glfre full credence to Conley's second affi davit. although the negro’* midden anxiety to talk after three weeks of silence and the maze of falsehood in which he was at once involved served suddenly to shift the responsibility for Mary Phagan’s death from Leo Frank to the sullen black man, in the Judgment of many who havfe been fol lowing the evidence closely. Chief Lanford and Detective Harry Scott, of the Pinkertons, announced Thursday morning, however, that they regarded the second affidavit of Con ley as the final and conclusive piece of evidence needed in preparing a case against Frank. Rejected First AfFidavit. Others who have weighed the evi dence carefully declare there are many more significant Indications that Conley was the slayer than there are reasons to believe that Frank is guilty. The detectives rejected the first af Adavit of Conley, In which he said Frank dictated Friday the notes that were found by the body of the slain giri Sunday morning on the ground that it was absurd and unbelievable to bold the theory that the murder was premeditated. Yet they accept the second af fidavit, which indicatesidenticallv the same thing, in that Frank met Conley at Nelson and For syth Streets before 11 o’clock Saturday morning, April 26, be fore the crime was committed, and told the negro to wait for him, later taking Conley to the factory w<ith him, where Conley says that he wrote the notes at Frank’s direction. The negro in his spcond affidavit suggests no other motive that could have impelled Frank to ask him to come to the factory shortly before noon on Saturday. Conley says that Frank told him to wait secreted on the first floor until he heard a whistle. When he heard the whistle he says he went upstairs and Frank dictated the notes Why Many Suspect Conley. All of this is inescapably sugges tive of premeditation on the part « f Frank, if Conley’s story is to be be lieved, but the theory of premedita tion has been scoffed at by everyone. Including Chief Lanford and Harry Scott. In fact, it never seriously was con sidered by anyone, say those who are Inclined to believe the evidence against Conley greatly outweighs that against Frank. The assertion is free- Jy made that it would be far easier to convict Conley, if the police were bo disposed, than it will be to convict Frank. Here are a few reasons ad vanced: When the factory superintendent •was permitted to go before the Coro ner’s jury by his attorney, he an swered all the questions in a straight forward, unwavering manner, never once being trapped in a lie or mia- Btatement. In marked contrast is the conduct of Conley ever since his arrest at the time of the inquest three weeks ago. When discovered at the factory. STAY ON YOUR FEET Taking Calomel Means Stay-; ing Home for the Day— Take Dodson's Liver Tone and Save a Day 's Work. If an attack of constipation or biliousness hits you, there’s no need to take a dose of calomel and spend at least a day getting over the effects of it. All druggists sell the liver tonic, Dodson’s Liver Tone, that takes the place of calomel and starts a lazy liver without any bad after-effects. Dodson’s Liver Tone does all the good that calomel ever did, yet It Is absolutely harmless to yoitng people and old. It is a pleasant- tasting vegetable liquid that will relieve constipation or sour stom ach or other troubles that go along with a lazy liver, without restric tion of habit or diet. You don't leave off any of the things you regularly do when you take Dod son's Liver Tone. All druggists sell Dodson’s Liver Tone and give it a strong personal guarantee. They say, “A large bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone sells for 50 cents, and we will hand any person back his 50 cents if he tries a bottle and doesn't say that it does all that calomel ever does and does it pleasantly. Get the genuine Dodson's Liver Tone and If you are not pleased with It we will give your money back with a smile.” White City Park Now Open Save money NOW |Furniture at High’s. ' Hear Dr. George R. Stuart on '“LopSided Folks,” Baptist Taberna cle, Friday, May 30. Ad mission 26c. Hearst’s Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian Pony Contest Vote Coupon, Thursday, May 29, 1913. 5 V/OTPQ NOT GOOD AFTER V\J § E.O JUNE 13, 1913. Vote for Address SCHOOL BOY8’ AND GIRLS’ BALLOT. SUII WOMAN'S SISTER THINKS Mrs. Pearl Hartley, Prostrated by Shock, Declares Robbery Was Motive for Crime. Continued From Page 1. RULE COAST SHIPS Banker, Pardoned When “Dying,” Purchases Steamers for New York-to-South Trade. NEW YORK, May 29.—Charles VV. Morsp, convicted of bank wrecking after the 1907 panic and pardoned by President Taft (in the ground that he was dying. Is not only attempting to secure a monopoly of Hudson River steamship, traffic, but Is reaching out along the Atlantic Coast. This became known to-day when 1* was learned that Morse has bought four lake steamers for coastwise trade between New York and Southern ports and will attempt to become the domi nant figure In steamship traffic on the Atlantic Coast he was planning to be come when the financial earthquake of 1907 upset his schemes. The ships are so big they can not be brought through the canal con necting Lakes Erie and Ontario, con sequently they will have to be reduced in size. They will be enlarged after they reach tilts port. Morse may extend his operations to the Pacific when the Panama Canal Is completed. FELDER BRIBERY CHARGE EXPEGTEC he was washing a shirt which he sought to hide from the person who had found him out. He was taken Into custody and gave his address as 911 Tattnall Street. Investigation disclosed that Conley was lying and that he had not lived on Tattnall Street for months, his ac tual residence being 172 Rhodes Street. He was asked to write, and he told the officers he could not w rite a word. He refused to be Inveigled into mak ing an attempt at handwriting of any sort. He would not put a pencil to pjaper that the detectives might get a specimen of his penmanship. Cor a long time they believed he was so Ignorant he could not write his own name. Then they found some leases he had signed for watches and knew that he had been lying again. Just as the Grand Jury was about to sit and It appeared likely that Crank would be Indicted, the negro broke his silence for the first time. He told the detectives that it was lie who had written the notes, but that he had w ritten them at Frank's dicta tion on Friday, April 29, Frank had approached him In an aisle at the factory and had asked him to come Into the office, he said. He remem bered that it was four minutes before 1 o’clock. That he had been at the factory Saturday he denied emphatically. Be tween 10 o’clock In the forenoon and 2 o’clock in the afternoon he had been on Peters Street, according to hts The detectives ridiculed his story and continued examining Gradually he broke down under their question ing. and It was established that he had been’lying again and that he actually had been in the factory Sat- urdav presumably at the very time the girl was murdered. This was the first time his presence In the factory in Saturday had been known. He had kept It a most profound secret up to the time It was gouged out of him by the detect ves He weakened further and admitted that he had been hiding down on the first floor as persons went In and out. He described practically every per son that entered or left the factory between 12 and 1 o’clock. But he de clared that he did not see Mary l ha- gan when she came in the building. Out of all who entered or left, the murdered girl and Lemmte Quinn ap pear to be the only ones he missed seeing, according to his story. He explained this by saying that he must have fallen asleep for a lit tle while. He saw Miss Oorlnthla Hall and Mrs. Freeman leave a few min utes before 1 o’clock, but did not see Mary l’hagan enter about five min utes'after the hour. Neither did he see Lemmie Quinn, who is said to have been at the factory about U:lv. If tbe negro’s final affidavit is taken as nearer the probable truth than hts first, those who are acquainted with Frank are of the opinion that there are still most important questions to be answered convincingly. They are these, assuming that Frank is guilty: "Why should a man of Frank's in telligence—a man who is highly edu cated and who has won a position of responsibility— virtually make a con fidant of another man, especially an ignorant negro, easily broken down bv the third degree of the police sta tion? . ... “Why should a man of sense, if he w ished to keep his crime undiscover ed. proclaim it to the negro, in his office by the question: ‘Why should 1 hang?"’ . ... "Why should he approach this ne gro more than an hour before this crime was committed? STOMACH TROUBLES H#r»tord'» AcAd Phosphate Produces healthy activity of weak and disor dered stomachs. An excellent streturth builder. Adr. i h We have Beautiful Bedding Plants 3c each. Atlanta Floral Co., 555 L. Fair Street. Believed Beavers Will Try to Have Grand Jury Consider Accuh- satioris Against Attorney. \ That bribery charges against Col onel Thomas B. Felder and others will be placed before the Fulton Coun ty Grand Jury by police officials, was the indication when G. C. February, secretary of Chief of Detectives Lan ford, and the person alleged to have been offered $1,000 in bribe money, secured a subpena Thursday after noon for A. S. Colyar, Jr., to appear before Solicitor General Dorsey and give testimony Friday morning. The subpena formally summoned Colypr, who was the author of the dictographing of Felder and Mayor Woodward, to appear before the Grand Jury. The preliminary hearing, however, will be in Solicitor Dorsey’s office. That February carried away with him a number of subpena blanks is taken to mean that others will be called upon to testify. At the hearing of testimony Friday morning it is believed that Lanford and Police Chief Beavers will endeav or to show Solicitor Dorsey the plausibility of their bribery charges and ask that the matter be placed before the Grand Jury. In line with this action, Chief Beavers called upon Carl Hutcheson, the attorney, again Thursday morn ing for the list of. ‘‘protected disor derly houses’’ which Hutcheson de clared he held, and which Hutcheson said he would reveal in an effort to prove that vice under police protec tion is rife in Atlanta. Hutcheson three days ago, in an swer to Beavers’ defl, declared that he would give the police official the list on Thursday. On that day, how ever. Hutcheson stated the list was not yet prepared. He informed Beav ers lie would have it ready, though, w’ithin a short time. Colyar was formally released Thurs day of the $1,000 bonds under which lie was given his liberty following forgery charges made against him by ei Knoxville, Tenn., woman. Colyar’s release followed the failure of the Knoxville police authorities to send a man to Atlanta to take him back at the time specified by Police Chief Beavers. Shot His Neighbor; Gets Year in Jail MACON, GA.. May 29.—Mallary Bedlngfield, found guilty of shooting at another because of the shooting of his next-door neighbor, Ferd Gutten- berger, whom he claims he mistook for a burglar, this morning was sen tenced as for a misdemeanor, being given twelve months in Jail. Guttenberger recovered, although a bullet passed through his body. Gibson Jury Unable To Agree on Verdict NEWBURGH, N. Y.. May 29.—Aft er having been out all night, the jury in the trial of Burton W. Gibson, the New York lawyer charged with strangling Countess Rosa Menschik Szabo on Greenwood Lake July Itf. 1912, to secure her estate, was still deadlocked this morning. It was rumored that the jurors *tood 11 to 1 for conviction. The jury In Gibson's first trial dis agreed. Scandal Forces Out High British Official Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, May 29.—Sir Rufus Isaacs, Attorney General of England, has tendered his resignation to Pre mier Asquith in consequence of the/ notoriety his name has attained in connection with the Marconi expos ures. The Jewish Express states that the Premier has refused v to accept the resignation, but that it has not been Mill Employees of Gov. Foss on Strike BOSTON, May 29.—Fifteen hun dred employees of the Sturtevant Blower Works and the Becker Milling Company’s plant, concerns in which Governor Eugene N Foss is largely- interested, went on strike to-day. The strike practically tied up both plants. A wonderful magazine given j FREE with every copy of the I next Sunday American. L Wf, because he was in Chattanooga yesterday morning. When he drove rne from home to the car line Sunday morning when I started to Chatta nooga he told me he might be up there before the reilnion was over. Yesterday afternoon the landlady told me the house had burned down. She knew Wade, and she told me she saw him In front of her house ye.^ter- day morning, wearing overalls Just as when he la said to have left home. Two boys were with him, but they didn’t go in the house. Wade was in Chattanooga when my wife and daughter were murdered, and he couldn’t have done it.” Goes to See Ruins. Leaving Carson & Treadwell’s of fice, Mr Stevens said he was going to the ruins of his home. He first visited the Patterson undertaking es tablishment and arranged for the fu neral of his wife and daughter. Both bodies will be taken to MeansviUe, Oa., at 4 o’clock Friday morning, to be buried in the family lot, where Mrs. Stevens’ father and mother both have been interred in the last two years. Lonnie Blevins, 17 yekrs old. who isays he left San Francisco for Tampa Imd from there came to Atlanta, is held at police headquarters to-day. He said he arrived in Atlanta last Friday. He was detained because he VAild not give a connected story. The p%Ace attach little significance to his arrast or his presence in Atlanta, Tells of Attempted Attack. An important clew, given Sheriff J. A. MccVrdy, of DeKalb County, who is in change of the investigation, was revealed m. the statement of a neigh bor to the <- 1 8(ect that a Mexican half- breed, formerly employed by Mrs Stevens, had 'attempted to attack Nellie Stevens s^me time ago. This declaration was made by Mis? Josephine McCauley, 790 Glenn wood Avenue, an intimat* friend of both the slain mother and daughter. Miss McCaulay said that omv a few days ago Mrs. Stevens had <old her of shooting at the discharge^ halfbreed when he appeared at the\ country home. Mrs. Stevens had s\id that she fired twice at the man, and that he escaped into the clump of woods adjoining the house. Sheriff MdCur- dy has ordered a country-wide search made for the halfbreed. Discovery Wednesday morning that Mr. Stevens had purchased an axe some days ago offers a possible clew to the weapon used by the murderer in crushing the skulls of his victims. The axe is, so far, missing, though the ruins of the burned dwelling and surrounding vicinity have been care fully searched for it. Ax Apparently Used. The sharp, knifelike cut across the top of Nellie Stevens’ skull seems tp bear out the theory that the murderer used the ax to slay his victims. Possibility that the weapon used by the murderer was thrown into the well near the house has lead Sheriff McCurdy to order the well dragged. Atlanta police and detective offi cials have joined with the DeKalb force to solve the mysjtery. Detective Chief Lanford assigned Mounted Po liceman Hamilton, who was a close friend of the Stevens family, and Detective Rosser to work on the case. Sheriff McCurdy obtained this re inforcement Thursday morning when he held a conference with Lanford. A unique incident of the blaze which burned the Stevens home to ashes was revealed in the finding of fifty-seven chickens dead in a coop fifty feet away. The coop was not even scorched by the heat. That robbery was the motive of the murderer has been established by the disappearance of jewelry and a large quantity of money which Mrs. Stev ens was known to have had in the house at the time. Woman's Jewels Missing. Neighbors stated that Mrs. Stevens possessed a diamond ring valued at $400 and two gold watches. These are missing. Coupled with other theories as to the murder is one which shows the work that of two negroes who were said to have been seen driving away from the burning home at sunrise Wednesday morning. The men rode in a one-horse wagon, the body of which was filled with oats. Tracks of the horse were found on a spot near the ruins. In the immediate vicinity was discovered a small pile of fresh oats. Human footprints were found nearby. Despite the assertion that the ne groes drove away. Sheriff- McCurdy’s men made a careful search of the woods surrounding the home, believ ing it highly probable that the mur derer might have hidden therein to watch the burning house, and will scour the woods again to-day. An other theory is that he might have been wounded^by Mrs. Stevens before he killed her. and had been forced to drag himself to the woods for escape. That the man may be lying there now is a possibility expressed by the police. The shell found in the shot gun used by Mrs. Stevens was found to have been discharged. Does Bible Gnve Clew? A search Thursday morning of an old deserted cabin 100 yards from the destroyed Stevens’ home, in which Mrs. S. C. Stevens and her adopted daughter. Nellie, were murdered and then cremated, disclosed a Bible con taining numerous marked passages, tragically coincident w ith the reported conduct of her own son toward her. This cabin was occupied at different times by negro servants who worked on the Stevens place. It had been vacant for three weeks. The Bible reposed on a dust-cov ered mantel in the dingy shack. On the flyleaf appeared this inscription: “Mrs. S. C. Stevens’ book.” In the list of the Ten Command ments. two of them were marked in pencil. They were: “Thou shalt not kill.” “Honor thy father and thy moth er.” Several passages in the book of Ex odus were marked, all bearing on the relation of the son to the parents. One of these reads: “And he that smiteth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.” Verses of the same chapter were • Do marked, one reading: “And he that curteth his father or w ILLIAM STEVENS, husband and father of the woman and girl whose charred bodies were found in the fire ruins of their home on McDonough Road, and whose deaths are laid to a slayer. Mr. Stevess says his son is innocent. his mother shall surely be put to death.” “And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt surely give life for life.” Negro Is Sought. Walter Wilkes, a negro, who occu pied the deserted cabin until three weeks ago, is being sought by officers Thursday in the general plan of inves tigating every one on whom suspicion might possibly turn. Where he went after leaving the Stevens home has r.ot been learned. The search of the cabin revealed discarded clothing, supposed to have been left by Wilkes. The clothing is said to ht*ve been damp. On an old table was also found a caseknife. In the corner of the room was an old ax. It bore spots, but these are believed to be rust. This is not thought to be tjie missing Stevens’ ax, which was practically new ana bright. {Sheriff McCurdy said Thurs day he believed this ax was at the bottom of the well in the yard of the burned home. Search is also being made for qn unidentified negro who once worked for a Mrs. Nort, said to be a friend of Mrs. Stevens. This negro wrote Mrs. Nort a letter asking ner for a recommendation, but she failed to grant his request. Last Saturday the negro is said to have called her up over the telephone and remarked that he didn’t need a recommendation any way. “that he was working for her friend, Mrs. Stevens.” No one has been found who knows anything of this negro. He is described as being black and thick. Gun Shell Is Found. B. R. Peavy, a farmer who was on the scene of the crime all night, made an extended search of the ruins, and in the room where "the charred bodies were found discovered a shotgun shell. The primer was dented, indi cating that it had been fired. The single-barreled shotgun found beside the remains of Mrs. Stevens was empty. Peavy also found a discharged revolver cartridge, of .38 caliber. Mrs. Stevens’ revolver is said to have been of 32 caliber. Her revolver is still missing. The finding of the discharged car tridges has only served to intensify fhe baffling mystery as to what took place in the murder room. It has given rise to several theories. It has been suggested that there may have been a gun battle between Mrs. Ste vens and the assailant. There is still another theory that the murderer may have shot Mrs. Stevens with a re volver, and, as she fell, seized the shotgun, with which she was trying to defend the home, and with it shot the girl to death. Officers are satisfied that Mrs. Stevens had leaped from bed and seized the shotgun to protect herself and little Nellie, but it is a matter of pure speculation as to how the shell came to be discharged. The time of the tragedy, or at least of the fire, was fixed Thursday in a statement by Farris Simmons, a brakeman of the Southern Railway, who said he passed on hifc train be tween 12 and 1 o’clock Wednesday morning and saw the house in flames The railroad is but a short distance from the burned home This would make it positive that the murder was committed about midnight or before that hour, and the Stevens boy will merely have to show that he left for Chattanooga before that time. Suspect Trailed. Telephone information from Red Oak. a short distance south of At lanta. was received at the police sta tion Thursday afternoon to the effect that a suspicious stranger, believed to be Dan Walker, the suspected half- breed Indian who was shot at by Mrs Stevens several weeks ago when he Insulted her adopted daughter, had passed through that place yesterday. Policeman Clarence Hamilton, who is detailed on the mystery with De tective Rosser, immediately notified Falrbyrn, Newman, Palmetto and other towns along the route to be on the lookout for the half-breed and take him into custody, pending in structions from Atlanta. Sister Believes Son Innocent. In a darkened room In a little house at 33 Dalney Street, with a physician in almost constant attendance, lies a woman prostrated by grief. Absolute quiet has been ordered by the doctor, and the anguish tears at her heart in a silence broken only by her own sobs and the hushed patter of childish footsteps, as her children play quietly about the house. She is Mrs. Pearl Hartley, sister of Mrs. Sarah C. Stevens, whose charred body was found lying beside that of her adopted daughter in the smoking ruins of their farm home seven miles from Atlanta. Prostrated by the shock of the tragedy, with her imagi nation made vivid by her suffering and grief. Mrs. Hartley is seeing in the darkness of her room the terrible happenings of that night of horror. Mrs. Hartley’? only surcease from suffering came for a few moments late Wednesday afternoon, when, un der the influence of opiates adminis tered by her physician, she recovered sufficiently to talk to a Georgian re porter. Mrs. Hartley sobbed audibly throughout the interview, and her eyes, red with weeping and reflecting thb anguish that tore at her heart, emphasized her words as she cried for vengeance on the murderer. “Why do they always murder wom en?" she cried. “It is terrible. Little girls are murdered when they go onto the street, and now a woman is not safe even in her own home.” Faints at News. The notifying of Mrs. Hartley of the death of her sister and niece formed one of th'e most dramatic and pathetic incidents of the entire trag edy. She was downtown Wednesday morning shopping, when word came to her home on Dalney Street that her sister and niece had been murdered. Mrs. Lena Thompson ,a neighbor, of 24 Dalney. Street, volunteered to go downtown and And Mr?. Hartley and tell her the sad news. After a search of an hour Mrs. Thompson found Mrs. Hartley in the Kress store on Whitehall Street. As she stood trying to locate the sister of the murdered woman in the crowd of shoppers Mrs. Hartley, warned by in tuition that something wa? wrong, pushed through the crowd and hur ried to Mrs. Thompson. “What is it?” ?he cried. “What’s the matter?” Mrs. Thompson, seeking to break the news gently, told her that her sis ter’s home had burned down and that she had been badly injured. “It’s worse than that,” Mrs. Hartley cried. “1 feel it! I know it i? worse than that!” She screamed and fainted in the arms of Mrs. Thompson. She was soon revived and taken to her home. Mrs. Thompson endeavored to calm her on the trip on the street car with the assurance that everything was all right. As Mrs. Hartley entered her yard, one of her little daughters ran out of the house, tears streaming down ker face. “Oh, mamma.” she cried. “Aunt Sa rah and Cousin Nellie have been killed!” With a scream, Mrs. Hartley fell to the ground in a swoon. She was picked up by Mrs. Thompson and members of her family and carried into the house. A physician was called and administered opiates. Un der the influence of the medicine she was able to sit up in bed for a few moments late in the afternoon, but collapsed again when she learned that her nephew, the son of the murdered woman, was being sought by the po lice as the murderer of his mother. Militants Fire Hay And Farm Buildings Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, May 29.—Having terror ized most of the cities of England, the militant suffragettes now are paying their attentions to the rural districts. Three fires were reported to-day from farms near Richmond. Hay stacks and farm buildings were burned and about the ruins were scat tered placards and copies of The Suffragette. NOTTINGHAM. ENGLAND. May 29.-—Suffragette set fire to the freight sheds in the railroad terminal here to-day. The fire was extinguished after $5,000 damage was done. Railroad Commission Directs the Company to Provide for the Rush-Hour Crowds. Continued From Page 1. made on this route week days, as directed on other named routes, to accurately ascertain measure of regular traffic. ROUTE NO. 20—College Park. East Point and Hapeville: Actual counts of week-day loads at peak points to be made during next five months, to ascertain accurately if there ie over- congestion in regular traffic. ROUTE NO. 23—Buckhead Line: Tripper service previously ordered by the commission to Sixth Street, on West Peachtree has been re cently extended by the company to Dead Man’? Curve, the end of dou ble track, which gives local service this far on a ten-minute headway during rush hours and to that -ex tent relieves congestion on the Buckhead cars. In addition, double- headers in the morning and after noon hours, for congestion during those hours arising out of construc tion work in the northern part of the city, are operated and will be continued as necessity demand?. Counts, during morning and after noon rush hours, for the next five months, of actual loads at the peak point of the Buckhead line,, have been ordered, and will determine the necessity of further relief on this route. Grounded German Battleship in Peril Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. DANZIG, GERMANY, May 29.— Danzig harbor was all but closed to day by the German dreadnought Koe nig Albert, which went aground Mon day and which has swung across the mouth of the Vistula River, prevent ing all but the smallest vessels from entering or leaving. The position of the warship is dan gerous owing to the drifting silt which is threatening to sandlock the ship. Fear’s Wives Were Near, Beer and Dear • CHICAGO, May 29.—That George Fear, who disappeared mysteriously in Chicago recently, and who was al leged to have wives under the names Near, Beer, Fear and Dear, was a Mormon was the explanation made in the County Court yesterday by an in vestigator who had discovered the case. Fear is said to have come to Chi cago with his various wives to work on an Invention. The high cost of living sent him scurrying back to Utah, the investigator told the court. Grand Lodge Ses Ends—Atlantan Grand Represent SAVANNAH, GA., May 29.- the conclusion of business this aftc^ noon the Grand Lodge of Odd Fel-1 lows of Georgia adjourned to meetl next year at Macon. A feature of to day’s session was the report of the committee on Odd Fellows’ Home, headed by T. S. O’Neil. This report and the agitation to establish the home provoked the liveliest discus sion of the meeting. Legislation af fecting the conduct of lodges and complaints and grievances were also considered. Two steamers took the visitors down the Savannah River this aft ernoon. The election of Thomas M. Haynes, of Savannah, as grand master, the choice of other officers, including the retiring grand master, W. S. Cole man, of Cedartown, and Dr. L. B. Clarke, of Atlanta, as grand repre sentative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge, and the competitive degree drill at the Savannah Theater last night, completed the session yester day. John W. Bennett, of Waycross, who went into the Grand Lodge with enough strength to elect him without difficulty, moved that Dr. Clarke be elected grand representative, and this was done by acclamation. The other officers are W. B. Sloan, Gainesville, deputy grand master; Frank Harrell, LaGrange, grand warden; T. R. Rob ertson, LaGrange, grand secretary, and C. A. Vonderluith, Athens, treas urer. Mrs. Hester Millon, of Thoma^vUIe, was elected grand warden of the Re- bekah Assembly, defeating Miss Nell Rodrigues, of Macon. The other offi cers are Mrs. J. W. Gholson, Mil- ledgeville, president; Mrs. Ivy Hen derson, Savannah, vice president; Mrs. A. L. Moore, Fitzgerald, secre tary, and Mrs. Sarah Lutici, Augusta, treasurer. Recall Clamor Laid To Corrupt Lawyers WASHINGTON, May 29.—On the shoulders of corrupt lawyers, Senator Charles E. Townsend, of Michigan, speaking before the graduates of the Washingi&’fi ^College of Law. placed the burden of blame for the agitation for the recall of judges. The speaker took to task a class of “shrewd and highly educated law yer?.” whom he termed “flaw finders,” and declared they were “enemies of decent government.” 1,400 Taken From American Liner on Rocks Off England LIVERPOOL, May 29.—The Amer ican liner Haverford, bound from Liv erpool to Philadelphia with 1,400 pas sengers on board, crashed upon Daunts Rock, outside of Queenstown Harbor, to-day in a thick fog. A big hole was rammed in the ship’s hold and she began to settle. Wire less calls brought help, and all the passengers were taken off. A wireless message said the ship was in a dangerous condition. Americans Victims In London Hotel Raid LONDON, May 29.—American tour ists were among the victims of a rob bery at the fashionable Hotel Berke ley in Piccadilly early to-day. Armed burglars bound and gagged two por ters, who were acting a9 w r atchmen, opened a safe and made off with a great sum of money and jewel?. Scotland Yard detectives were as signed to the case. It is believed the robbers fled to France. The Berkeley is one of the best-known hotels In London and much frequented by American tourists. Break Down the Cost of Living Your meat bill is far too high — you don’t need half the amount of meat you’re eating now—cut your meat bill two-thirds and substitute a food that is far more nutritious and costs one-tenth the price — FAUST SPA GHETTI. A 10c package of FAUST SPAGHETTI contains more real nutrition than 4 lbs. of beef and it is much easier to digest. is made from Durum wheat, the cereal so extremely rich in gluten—that element which builds muscle, bone and flesh. FAUST SPAGHETTI is a delicious, savory, appetizing food that can be served in many different ways. Write for free recipe book. Eat less meat—eat FAUST SPA GHETTI, cut down cost of living. -4f all Grocers—5c and 10c packages.