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EXTRA
VOL. I. NO. 9.
Copyright, 1913, * y
The Georgian Company.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1913.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Captain Scott’s Tragic Death in Polar Wastes Told in Photographs
T HE SUNDAY AMERICAN, in this issue, publishes seven pictures—the only ones in exist
ence—showing the last dash of the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole. These pic
tures vividly depict the brave struggle of the British explorers in their quest for the goal. They
show the start of the expedition on the final dash; they depict their arrival at the pole, where, to
their intense disappointment, they found the tent and flag of the courageous Captain Amundsen,
the Norwegian explorer who had preceded them to the coveted goal; they show the pathetic tent of
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STATE'S CASE
Negro Will Be Used as Material
Evidence Against Frank, Says
Solicitor Dorsey.
LEE LIKELY TO BE FREED
Sweeper Sticks to Story Accusing
Head of Pencil Factory of
Phagan Slaying.
The startling confessions by Jim
Conley of the part he played in the
Phagan murder mystery have not
changed the State’s case in any of its
essential features, according to an
announcement from Solicitor General
Hugh M. Dorsey, at the close of a
long examination of the negro yester
day.
Stormed at for several hours by the
Solicitor and the city detectives, Con
ley’s story was unchanged and he
threw no new light on the case.
“He has told everything he knows
of the crime,” one of the detectives
said as the negro was led from the
Solicitor's office to be taken back to
the police station.
Regarded as one of the most sig
nificant announcements from the So
licitor was that the negro would be
prosecuted as s an accessory after the
fact unless some new development
connected him more directly with the
crime.
To Be Material Witness.
The Solicitor also outlined his in
tention of using Conley as a material
witness against Leo M. Frank. He
explained that the negro, being un
der indictment as an accessory, would
In no way interfere with his being
used as a witness.
When the Grand Jury meets next
Friday, it is more than likely it will
take some action on the bill of indict
ment drawn at the same time with
that of Frank, charging Newt Lee,
the night watchman, with the murder.
Developments since the indictment
was drawn have pretty clearly elimi
nated Lee from the case, except in the
capacity of a witness, and a “no bill”
Is expected to the indictment.
Conley Grilled for Hours.
For hours Saturday James Conley,
negro sweeper, whose sensational
confession accuses Superintendent
Leo M. Frank of the murder of Mary
Phagan, explained in detail to So-
Statesmen Accept
Spelling Bee Defi
Congressmen and Newspaper Men
Will Be Matched In Contest Before
National Press Club.
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Although
many statesmen have declined for the
reason, as they admit, that they are
poor spellers and “were not going to
stand up* there and make darned
fools of themselves,” sixteen have ac
cepted the challenge of the Washing
ton newspaper men and will meet in
an old-fashioned spelling bee on
Thursday next, to mark the annual
"ladies’ day” of the National Press
Club.
The challenge had its origin in the
comment by Chairman Underwood, of
the Ways and Means Committee, on a
dispatch sent out criticising the com
mittee in respect to the duty on “dia-
midostilbendisulfoacid” in the tariff
bill. Underwood forgave the criticism,
but condemned the spelling. Hence
the meeting at which Secretary of
Agriculture Houston will be “teach
er.”
HITS ATIANTA
Windows Smashed and Signs
Broken as Gale Sweeps Busi
ness Section of City.
BIG TREES ARE UPROOTED
Peachtree Pedestrians Have Nar
row Escapes From Fall
ing Glass.
Head of Morgan Co.’s
TrunkBeing Watched
Treasury Department Investigates
Charge That Stotesbury Brought
in Necklace Worth $70,000.
PHILADELPHIA. May 31.—The
Treasury Department is investigating
the charge that a number of trunks
belonging to Edward T. Stotesbury,
head of the banking house of Drexel
& Co., and senior member of the
firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., were re
cently passed as free of duty by cus
tom officials at this port.
It is alleged that one of the trunks
contained a necklace belonging to
Mrs. Stotesbury and valued at $70,-
000. Another version of the story is
that the trunks contained chiefly val
uable lingerie belonging to the bank
er’s wife and that duty would not ex
ceed $200.
Suspicious Sailors
Damage Imperator
Vessel’s Accident and Kaiser’s Re
fusal to Make Trial Trip Brand
Her “Jonah Ship.”
death in which Captain Scott and his brave comrades perished; and lastly, they show the cairn
marking the final resting place of these heroic men.
These pictures are the most remarkable ever published of a similar tragedy and give some
idea of the terrors of the Antarctic wastes. They should prove a most instructive study to both
young and old, and as such, The Sunday American presents them. They will be found on pages
2, 3, 4 and 5 of the Second Main News Section.
ROOSEVELT WINS SUIT
Cigarette Wins Wife
For Austrian Officer
New York, Chicago, Budapest Girl
Likes Brand of Tobacco and Brand
of Verse Soldier Uses.
Continued on Page 6, Column 1.
NEW YORK, May 81.—"I’m en
gaged to the finest soldier in Austria
and all because of a cigarette,” said
Miss Rosa Roth, of New Y’ork, Buda
pest and Chicago, when she arrived
from Europe on the Friedrich Der
Grosse.
Miss Roth was smoking in a cafe in
Budapest. Lieutenant Leo Nov An-
drafy sent her a box of her favorite
brand by a waiter. On the bottom
he had written a verse telling her
how ardently he admired her.
An introduction followed and soon
afterward the engagement was an
nounced.
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WHICH OF THESE
CALLS IS FOR YOU ?
Calls from country to city by those who want good help.
As usual, the people at the Summer resorts need all the ef
ficient assistance they can get. There is room for many
kinds of ability.
Calls from city to country by those w’fio would give
such help for fair wage. Employers will be glad to hear
from them.
Calls for bright people to take advantage of Business
Opportunities to be exploited at the Summer resorts. Good
chances to make money are offered to those who recognize
good chances when they meet them.
Other calls, as timely as sunshine and roses in June,
will be sounded in the
SUN DA YAMERICAN
AND DAILY GEORGIAN
WANT AD SECTION
If you need help in Store, Shop or Home; employment
for Hands or Brains, Capital, a Partner, a Business Open
ing. you will read thi s section carefully.
Hundreds of dollars damage was
done late Saturday afternoon
when Atlanta was swept by one of the
most violent wind and rain storms of
the season.
The traction service and street traf
fic was paralyzed and thousands of
persons who had come downtown were |
detained, most of them getting: thor
oughly drenched.
Windows 1n shops along - Peachtree
Street were blown out and a portion
of the scaffold built around the new
W inecoffe JHotel was blown down,
narrowly missing a crowded street
car.
Panic at Ball Park.
At the Ponce DeLeon ball park,
w here a game was in progress, came
the report that for a time panic
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 31.—A large portion
of the equipment and furnishings of
the Imperator have been irreparably
damaged by vandals, according to
statements made by German shipping
masters to-day. Liquid cement has
been poured into the water pipes and
allowed to harden, thus rendering the
system useless, while many of the
costly paintings and carpets with
which the cabins were furnished have
been cut and slashed.
These acts are believed to have
been committed by workmen who
were angered at being forced to ac
company the ship to a desolate part
of the coast near Cuxhaven after the
Imperator had grounded in the Elbe
after being launched.
Sailors regard the Imperator with
great superstition, and this has be
come more marked since it has been
learned that Emperor William has
refused to go on the trial trip.
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Schoolboy and Girl Companion
Live in Style While Money
Lasts—Land in Jail.
Awarded 6 CentsDamages for Libel
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‘Achieved My Purpose, ’ He Says
Coffee Drinking Cut
By Cost of Living
Department of Commerce Report
Shows Americans Use Less as
Import Duty Increases.
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Ameri
cans have started out to cut the high
cost of living by drinking less cof-
relgned as the gale tore down a part i fee. As the price goes up the amount
of the fence and threatened the grand
stand, which was crowded.
Upper Peachtree suffered the brunt
of the gale. In the automobile row
just north of Cain Street several big
window's were blown out and the
street was littered with broken glass
and wrecked signs.
At the Piedmont Hotel junction,
where the winds eddied with terrific
force, pedestrians were all but blown
from their feet and many barely es
caped injury by falling window glass.
At the Daniels clothing store in
Peachtree, the wind blew out a large
upstairs window and the falling glass
showered upon the sidewalk, narrowly
missing a group of women who were
rushing into the doorway to seek
shelter.
Storm Comes Suddenly.
The wdnd and downpour of rain
followed the hottest and most sultry j
day of the year. The storm came !
from the northwest and broke with
sudden fury. > . j
Automobilists who W'ere caught
scurrying up Peachtree in an effort to
teach homo were forced to "lay to” j CLEVELAND, May 31.—Mrs. Louis
the curbs, as the dust and falling | Magrander blames a pair of spectacles
each person drinks decreases, accord
ing to figures made public to-day by
the Department of Commerce.
In 1909 the average consumption
per capita was more than 11 pounds
and the average import price 7 1-2
cents. In 1899, when the import
price advanced to 10.3 cents, 1 the av
erage ooruiumption dropped to 9.3
pounds, and in 1912. When the price
was 13.3 cents, the consumption was
only 8.9 pounds. In the nine months
ended last March the coffee impor
tations amounted to only 716,327.146
pounds, valued at $99,881,421, This
is a big decrease in bulk and an in
crease in value.
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Spectacles Blamed
For Family Break
Wife of 33 Years Says Husband
Wanted to Use Glasses All the
Time, Except When Asleep.
GASOLINE OUT I N CRISIS
Long Walk to Philadelphia Tired
Feet but Didn’t Cool Ardor,
So They Took Car,
PHILADELPHIA, May 31.—Lloyd
Williams, 17, of Chicago, a student in
Phillips-Exeter School, who eloped
from Boston with 17-year-old Edythe
Mae Howe, daughter of a railroad of
ficial of Boston, and who was ar
rested with her in Lewiston, Pa., in
a motor car belonging to Mrs. Helen
Clayton Haverford, was brought back
to this city early to-day. The girl
was taken back to Boston by her par
ents to-day.
“Two years ago I met Miss Howe
at a football game and saw’ her often
after that,” said Williams. “Three
weeks ago when I was on a vacation
we decided to elope. We went to New 7
York and lived in a fine apartment.
We paid $5 a day for the room. The
money went fast, and May 26 I told
Edythe we were broke and advised
gUss made driving impossible.
Street cars were stopped before the
full force of the storm broke and
service was interrupted for nearly
half an hour. Falling trolley wires
tied up some lines for even longer.
Every Hotel Hit.
Casualties were so widespread that
reports came into the police station fpf . tlv »
alnnrlv* Tknt 4- L. ~ ^. , , ,
for the troubles between hereelf and
her husband, Louis, to whom she has
been married 33 years.
“I need them part of the time, but
he wants to wear them all the time,
except when he goes to bed,” she says.
“And he stays up late just to keep
hold of them. They fit us both per-
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slowly. That the storm enveloped the
entire city was indicated early.
Nearly every hotel sustained dam
age. In some of them panics reigned
for a while.
At the Aragon Hotel the skylight
was smashed and the downpour of
rain flooded the lobby for a time. Two
horses hitched to carriages were
blotvn from in front of the hotel down
Peachtree Street. An automobile truck
belonging to the Blue Seal Ice Cream
Company was also blown over. Win
dow panes in the Majestic Hotel were
broken.
The plate glass window in the store
of Carroll Tailoring Company, 174
Peachtree Street, was smashed in and
the sign above the entrance torn from 1
its lodging.
Many persons narrowly escaped
death when the flagpole on top oi the
Piedmont Hotel was rent from its
fastenings and cast eight stories down
into the street.
Big Trees Uprooted.
In Piedmont Avenue, near Deca
tur Street, a tree was torn up by the
roots and cast across the street. An
other tree was uprooted near the
county jail and thrown into Hunter
Street. A part of the roof of Swift’s
Specific building, Hunter and Butler
Streets, was torn away, leaving the
torrents which were pouring down to
flood the building.
In Peachtree Street downtown, the
wind before the rain carried a blind
ing cloud of dust with it. The crowds
which thronged the thoroughfare were
blinded. Many persons had bundles
torn from their arms and carried
away.
Hundreds were caught in the tor-
: rents which fell suddenly and were
driven in the face of the cyclone.
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The husband’s version, ae* related in
a divorce proceeding, charges that
Mrs. Magrander beat him with a club,
the police interfering to save a
knock-out, and refused to cook his
meals. Magrander wants the court
to compel his wife to pay him ali
mony.
Alfonso Blamed for
Miss Ferrer’s Death
Anarchistic Newspapers Declare the
Spanish King Hastened End of
Daughter of Man He Executed.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, May 31.—Anarchist news
papers to-day made sensational at
tacks on King Alphonso in regard to
the recent death of Paz Ferrer, the
young actress-daughter of the Span
ish teacher, whose execution caused
a world-wide stir.
MisH Ferrer’s death, it is asserted,
was directly due to the shock of her
removal from Fontainebleau, where
she was critically ill with tuberculo
sis. She was taken in an automobile
to an adjoining town by Orders of the
police, who feared a demonstration on
the occasion of the visit to Fontaine
bleau by King Alfonso.
Miss Ferrer had won distinction in
Business houses were stampede^ for
shelter. .
For more than two hours the storm I ^ er profession. She did not share her
raged. . father’s anarchistic views.
her to go home and let me start to
walk to Chicago.
“ ‘I started with you,’ she said, and
I am going to stick.’ We went as
far as Trenton on a trolley and then
I had just 5 cents left. We walked
into Philadelphia. Our shoes were
worn out and Edythe was so exhaust
ed that I had to actually drag her
along. When we reached Philadelphia
she was so tired that I made her sit
on a packing box. I looked up and
saw an automobile.
“I never ran an automobile, but I
fooled around and got the thing start
ed.
“When we arrived in the country, I
managed to get the machine stopped.
With my last nickel I bought a loaf
of bread. We each ate half of it.
“When we reached Lewiston the
machine stopped dead. We had run
out of gasoline.
“Nothing can separate us. I in
tend to marry her. I acted like a gen
tleman on the trip. Edythe will sub
stantiate what I am saying.’’
When the detective called at the
jail in Lewistown for Williams, Miss
Howe was in the hearing room with
her parents. As the youth passed the
girl he asked her for a kiss. The girl
started toward him and was stopped
by her parents.
The girl ran past her parents and,
throwing her arms around Williams'
neck, kissed him. Then the couple
broke down, and Williams was led
away to the railroad station to come
to this city.
Negro Pair Sought
In Stevens Slaying
Case Under Arrest
Wilkes and Half Breed Maynard
Pointed Out on Street by Slain
Woman’s Son.
Walter Wilkes, the negro preacher,
and Ernest Maynard, the half-breed,
wanted for the murder of Mrs. Wil
liam Stevens and her daughter, Nel
lie, on the McDonough Road, were
taken into custody late Saturday aft
ernoon.
The negroes were pointed out to
detectives by W'ade Stevens, son of
the murdered woman, at the corner
of Peters and Beerman Streets.
They were taken immediately to
the police station, where they will be
put through a grueling cross-exam
ination.
MISS YOAKUM COMPLETES
PLAN FOR JUNE WEDDING
NEW YORK, May 31.—Miss Bi-ssie
Yoakum, one of the first brides of
June, has completed the plans of her
wedding on Wednesday to Francis R.
Larkin, son of Mr. and Mrs*. John
Larkin. Their marriage will take
place in the Fifth Avenue Presbyte
rian Church and Miss Yoakum will be
attended by her sister, Mrs. Paul Ding
Fordyek. Mrs. George Bourne artd five
bridesmaids.
Kun’l Henry on Colonel
Teddy and ‘(jetting Drunk’
LOUISVILLE, May 31.—In a long
editorial “upon getting drunk,”
Colonel Henry Watterson makes
the following remarks about the
Roosovelt trial in The Louisville
Courier-Journal:
“History and literature are so
studded with the hobnails of
vinous hilarity, all the way from
Ncah and onward through eons of
notable persons who are not com
monly represented as examples of
strict sobriety, that it would seem
a much ado about nothing in Colo
nel Roosevelt to seek to fix by le
gal inquiry and affirmation the va
rious Kinds of intoxicants he has
never used, and which he actually
detests, and the precise number of
drinks he has not had for break
fast.
“With what purpose is his pro
ceeding and to what end? Wheth
er he drinks wine or beer, or cock
tails, or mint juleps, or does not
drink at all, mav be said, in a
sense, to be nobody’s business but
his own, assuredly nobody’s con
cern except the immediate circle
about him.
“Surely a man who has lived in
the world three and fifty years,
in the limelight thirty of them, the
head of a happy and prosperous
household, a good husband and fa
ther, a prodigiously hard worker,
could afford to let tongues wag as
they will about his exits and his
entrances, his food and his drink
and his intimate personality.”
Amount of- ‘Balm’ Is Fixed by the
Jury After Sued Editor Had
Declined to Submit a Defense
and Confessed Judgment.
Colonel Declares He Believes
That the Defendant Acted in
Good Faith and Requests That
the Nominal Sum Be Given.
Michigan Newspaper Publisher
Had Charged Former President
With Drunkenness — Accused
Made Determined Court Fight.
Yoakum Refuses to
Disclose Frisco Move
Group of Bondholders Will Meet to
Stave Off Threatened
Crash of System.
NEW YORK. May 31.—Benjamin
F. Yoakum, chairman of the board
of directors of the St. Louis and San
Francisco Railroad, declined to com
ment on the uproar caused in the
| financial world over his secret move
j in having a receiver appointed for
j the railroad* at St Louis early In the
week.
A group of bondholders, anxious to
gee what can be done to stave off
the threatened crash in the Frisco
road, will meet to-day, it is reported,
in this city and formulate a plan of
action.
BEER DRINKING BY CHILDREN
CALLED AMERICAN MENACE
MARQUETTE. MICH. May 31.—“ I
have achieved my purpose and am
content,” solid former President
Theodore Roosevelt, addressing the
Marquette County circuit court this
afternoon.
The trial of his $10,000 libel suit
against George Newett, editor of The
Ishpeming Iron Ore, came to an ab
rupt termination when Newett him
self took the stand and asking per
mission of the court made a state
ment in which he said he had publish
ed alegations of Rosevelt’s intemper
ate habits in god faith and that in
view of the testimony now adduced
he is convinced he wae mistaken.
By agreement of the counsel Attor
ney William P. Belden announced to
the court that Newett was ready to
confess Judgment. It was then that
Colonel Roosevelt asked permission of
the court to himself make a state
ment.
“I did not go into this trial for
money,” said Colonel Roosevelt.
“Neither did I go into this suit for
any vindictive purpose nor with any
vindictive feelings toward the defense,
as my counsel has repeatedly stated,
my reputation had been an Issue and
it Is an issue because I have made
it an issue.
“Thea reason I have done that is
because I wished thoroughly and com
pletely to deal with these slanders
and libels, to deal with them in such
a way that never again can any per
son or any publication repeat them,
claiming to do so in good faith. I
have achieved my purpose and am
content. 1 am convinced that this de
fendant did act in good faith and I
therefore ask this honorable court
to asses merely nominal damages.
At the suggestion of Attorney Bel
den. Judge Flannigan then announced
a recess of fifteen miutes during
which counsel was to confer as to
the nominal amount of damages.
Rosevelt swas awarded six cents
damages.
CHICAGO, May 31.—“Beer drinking
among children in America is a menace,”
j declared Miss Edith M. Wills, of Boston,
to-day at the scientific temperance ex-
i hibit, at the Coliseum.
Miss Wilis cited statistics to show thet
illness and weak minds among children
are caused by their parents drinking.