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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN' AND NEWS,
FRANK DEFENSE
TO ATTEMPT
Five Persons to Swear Defend
ant Was Home at Hour Con
ley Says He Aided Him,
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Hall before the Coroner* jury. Mias
Hall testified that she left the build
ing about 11:45 Saturday forenoon.
Conley described her as coming to
Frank’s office more than an hour later.
Sheriff Mangum made indignant and
emphatic denial Monday of the re
ports that Conley had been ap
proached, threatened or intimidated
while he was in a cell at the Tower.
Conley, he said, was not threatened
in any way. He was not approached
by friends of Leo Frank and no one
was permitted to see Conley whom
the negro did not wish to see.
“There is not a bit of truth in the
statements that have been made to
the effect that Frank's friends were
allowed to get to Conley and mak'i
attempts to frighten him into a con
fession,’ said the Sheriff. “It was re
ported that a group of Frank’s
friends, with a bottle of liquor, went
to Conley’s cell. This Is absolutely a
fabrication.
Treats All Prisoners Aliks.
“Frank Is no more to me than Con-
so far as the law Is concerned.
The fj^lls me to protect all my
prisoners wtthdut fear or favor. This
I have done, anuythis I shall continue
to do. Conley was-treated exactly as
Frank has been. oV as anyone else
awaiting trial or the action of the
Grand Jury.
“If anyone came to see him, he was
asked first if he wished to see that
person or persons If he said he did
not, his wishes were regarded to the
letter.
“The report that I am seeking the
Jewish support and the Jewish vote or
any other class or -ace or national
ity, as against another, is most absurd
upon the face of It.
"I have nothing to say against Chief
Lanford. I would * nly suggest that
he try his case in the court and not
attempt to settle the whole case and
hang one man or another before the
twelve men the law prescribes have
had a chance to pass on the prisoner’s
guilt or Innocence.
Conley made a personal request of
Chief of Detectives Lanford Monday
morning to be taken to confront the
factory’ superintendent.
“I think 1 could make him tell
everything if I could Just go there to
his cell and tell my story again," said
the negro. Conley repeatedly urged
upon Chief Lanford that he be allowed
to face Frank. He declared he thought
his presence would break Frank down.
The Chief regarded Conley as sin
cere in his request, but said that he
would make no further effort to bring
the negro and the factory superin
tendent together.$ All rested In the
hands of Luther Z. Rosser, Frank’s
attorney, Lanford announced.
“I have maHe several attempts to
Lake Conley to Frank’s cell since the
negro began making his disclosures.”
explained Chief Lanford. • All efforts
have been unavailing. Frank stead
fastly haa refused to talk with the
detectives or with anyone whom the
detectives may bring to see him. At
torney Rosser may arrange for a
meeting of this sort, but the detective
department has given it up.
Conley Not To Be Indicted Now.
"If Rosser Is confident that Frank
is innocent, he rr?-y think it will help
his client's case to give him a chan?e
to see the negro and deny his tale."
Chief Lanford said that there would
be no bar to Conley's testimony at
the trial of Frank. Conley, he said,
would not be indicted as an accessory
after the fact at the present time, but
more likely would be indicted after
Frank’s fate was determined in one
way or another. In the meantime he
will be held as a material witness like
Newt Lee. the negro night watchman
at the factory’*
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POET LAUREATE
DEAD AE 78
Succeeded Tennyson as Official
National Bard—He Penned
Much Worthy Verse.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, June 2.—Alfred Austin,
poet laureate of England, died at his
home. Swinford Old Manor, in Ash
ford, Kent, to-day.
Mr. Austin, who succeeded Lord Al
fred Tennyson as poet iaureate of
England, was 78 years of age on May
30, Just two days before his death.
He war named poet laureate In
1896 by Mr Gladstone, In preference
to many admittedly abler poets, whose
claims to this honorable position were,
for one reason or another, set aside
Mr. Austin became poet laureate at
University of London in 1853, and
soon thereafter entered upon the prac
tice of law. He abandoned that pro
fession early in life, however, for the
more congenial one of literature.
Edited National Reviaw.
After writing much for the periodi
cals he became editor of The National
Review In 1883 and continued In that
position until he was named poet lau
reate of the realm.
Among Mr. Austin’s better known
productions In verse are "The Sea
son.’’ a satire (1861); "Savonarola." a
tragedy (1881); English Lyrics (1890)
"The Conversion of Wincklemann"
(1897), Songs of England (1900) and
"A Tale of True Love" (1892). The
latter work was dedicated to Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Although severely lambasted by the
critics of the period In which he
worked, particularly after he became
poet laureate, Mr. Austin produced
much work well worth while. As a
critic he w r as original and Interesting,
If not spectacular While he was not
possessed apparently of a very active
imagination, he wrote, nevertheless,
aome very graceful and acceptable
verse.
Attacked Lord Tennyson.
Much of the always evident hostil
ity of Austin in England unquestion
ably arose from a production of his
pen in 1870, wherein, under the title
of "The Poetry of the Period,’’ he se
verely attacked Tennyson, w hom later
he was to succeed as poet laureate,
and Drowning, both then immensely
popular.
Mr Austin appeared to fall short of
his greatest opportunities as poet
laureate, and his bt st w ork was. pro
duced upon relatively unimportant oc
casions and topics. His poem on the
accession of Edward VII generally Is
rated mo9t commonplace, as was his
poem upon the death of Queen Vic
toria
Among his better known works of
prose are "The Garden That I Love'
and “In Veronica's Garden.’’ Both of
these are Interspersed with short
poems, however.
Mr. Austin boeame poet laureate at
a time when every one thought that
this honor was about to go to Rud-
yard Kipling.
Just Say
ZuZu
to the grocer man
hand him a nickel
and get a magic
package direct
from Ginger Snap
Land. So fresh they
crack with a snap.
To look at them
makes you hungry.
So tender they melt
in your mouth.
NATIONAL -
BISCUIT
COMPANY
Few Chairmanships Given North
and East—Hardwick, Adamson
and Hughes Win.
WASHINGTON, June 2.—The Dem-
ocratlc leaders of the House made
their long-awaited distribution of
committee "plums” and “lemons’’ to
day The great bulk of the chairman
ships went to Southern (Congressmen,
the Northerners and Westerners only
getting an occasional chairmanship.
The full list was made public when
the Democratic caucus met to-day to
ratify the selections made by the
Democratic members of the Ways and
Means Committee.
The personnel of the Ways and
Means Committee, Accounts, Mileage
and Enrolled Bills Committees already
had been selected and approved. The
following members received these
chairmanships:
Three Georgians Land.
Appropriations, Fitzgerald, New
York; Judiciary. Clayton. Alabama;
Banking and Currency, Glass, Vir
ginia; Coinage, Hardwick, Georgia,
Interstate Commprre, Adamson. Geor
gia; Rivers and Harbors. Sparkman,
Florida; Merchant Marine. Alexan
der, Missouri; Agriculture. Lever,
South Carolina. Foreign Affairs,
Flood, Virginia; Military, Hay. Vir
ginia; Naval, Padgett, Tennessee;
Postoffice, Moon, Tennessee; Public
Lands, Ferris*, Oklahoma.
Indian Affairs. Stephens. Texas;
Territories, Houston Tennessee; In
sular Affairs, Jones, Virginia; Rail
ways and Canals, Dies. Texas; Mines.
Foster. Illinois, Public Building?.
Clark. Florida; Education, Hughes,
Georgia; Labor Lewis, Maryland;
Patents, Oldfield. Arkansas; Invalid
Pensions. Sherwood, Ohio; Pensions,
Richardson, Alabama; Claims Pou
North Carolina; War Claims. Gregg.
Texas.
Two From New York.
District of Columbia, Johnson. Ken
tucky; Rev ision of Law e. Watkins.
Louisiana; Reform in Civil Service.
Godwin. North Carolina; Election of
President. Rucker, Missouri; Alcohol
ic Liquor Traffic. Sabath, Illinois; Ir
rigation of Arid Lands. Smith Texas;
Immigration. Burnett. Alabama; Cen
sus Helm. Kentucky; Roads. Shackle
ford Missouri; Industrial Arts, Un
derhill. New York.
Other minor chairmanships were
asHgned to the following members:
Post of Ohio. Ha mill of New Jer
sey. Goldfogle of New York. Hawley
of Missouri. Lobeck of Nebraska.
Adair of Indiana. Hardy of Texas.
Pepper of Iowa. Graham of Illinois.
Brousaard of Louisiana. Doughton of
North Carolina. Rothermel of Penn
sylvania. Mayer of New York, Konop
of Wisconsin. Slayden of Texas. Barn
hart of Indiana and Ashbrook of Ohio
Glass, Virginia, Heads
Committee on Currency.
WASHINGTON. June 2.—The Dem
ocratic personnel of the House Bank
ing and Currency Committee, which
will draft a currency reform bill for
submission to Congress at an early
date, was announced at the Demo
cratic caucus this afternoon Only
flye of the fourteen old members re
mained on It, and of the nine new
members all but one are from the
West and South. The Democratic
members are as follows:
Glass, Virginia, chairman; Korblv
of Indiana, Brown of West Virginia.
Bulkley of Ohio, Neeley of Kansas,
Patten of New York, Stone of Illinois,
Phelan of Massachusetts, Eagle of
Texas. Wingo of Arkansas, Seldom-
ridge of Colorado, Wilson of Florida,
Weaver of Oklahoma and Ragsdale of
South Carolina.
England Threatened
By National Strike
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. June 2.—Labor unrest
throughout England is becoming
acute Leaders of various trades
unions are denouncing the Govern
ment for not passing a minimum
wage bill affecting all Industries,
and a national walk-out may be the
outcome.
Between 30,000 and 40.000 workmen
are idle. On Wednesday representa
tives of shipyard workers will meet
and a strike may be ordered.
W J. Nolan, of Paris. Tenn., is the
guest of his daughter. Mrs. H. T.
Brooks, 274 Whitehall Street. Mr
Nolan is a stone and marble dealer
and has been inspecting the Georgia
quarries.
Former Macon Mayor Not to Ap
peal Decision in Controversy
With Speer.
Colonel W. A. Huff, former mayor
of Macon, has been found guilty of
contempt of court for writing cer
tain pointed letters to Judge Emory
Speer in the famous Macon contro
versy. In the letters Colonel Huff ex
pressed unfavorable opinion of the
way Judge Speer had conducted a
bankruptcy case in which Colonel
Huff was interested.
Following receipt of the letters.
Judge Speer filed charges, and Judge
W. I. Grubb announced a decision to
day, holding Colonel Huff in con
tempt.
Colonel Huff was formerly mayor
of Macon. He Is 82 years old. At his
home in Macon this morning, after
received notice from his law’yer, At
torney General T. S. Felder, that he
had been held guilty of contempt,
Colonel Huff made the following
statement:
“It is what I expected. At the time
I wrote Judge Speer those letters last
summer I had a vagu p notion that
perhaps I was committing contempt
of court. However, I was not as fa
miliar then with the law on contempt
as I am now. I wrote the letters
simply and solely to let Judge Speer
know what I thought about him and
about the way he had handled my
bankruptcy case. He knows and the
public knows, and on that score I
am satisfied. There was never any
Intention on my part to attack the
Judiciary. I was aiming exclusively
at Judge Speer. But if another court,
which I consider an absolutely fair
and impartial tribunal, holds that I
am guilty, then that settles it, and
1 have no protest to make. I shall
take whatever punishment Is meted
out to me without a murmur.”
Judge Grubb will be In Atlanta to
morrow for the purpose of conferring
with Mr. Felder in regard to passing
the order of sentence.
ENTRIES
AT MONTREAL:
Blue Bonnet Entries.
FIRST—Two-year-olds, 5 furlongs:
Cannock 103. Parcel Post 106. Louis
Travers 110, Lyrie Museo 103, Single
109. Willie Waddell 105.
SECOND—Three-year-olds and up. 1
mile. Canadian owned: xAlleneen 88,
xTanunda 97, Colston 101, Oakley 101.
Inspector Lestrade 108, Clan Alpine 94,
Tender 96. Black River 98. Burnt Candle
107.
THIRD—-Three-year-olds and up. 6
furlongs: Speaker Clark 99. Velsl 104.
Three Links 104. Superstition 107. Strite
110. The Rump 113, Tom Hayward 104.
Manheimer 104. Stenter 107, Bwana
Tumba 110, CHIT Stream 113.
FOURTH- Windsor Hotel cup. $1,200
added. 3-year-olds and up. 1 mile: Bar-
neagt 110 Airey 112. Horron 115, Buss
kin 110. I^labbergast IIS, Mediator 120.
FIFTH—Steeplechase, 4-year-olds and
up, 2 ! 4 miles: Julia Armour 130, The
African 136, Jack Dennerlln 147, Buck
Thorn 147 Ennis Klllen 162, King Cash.
130, Luckola 147, Wickson 147, Mystic
Light 147.
SIXTH—Selling, 2-year-olds and up,
6 furlongs: xRalph Lloyd 95, Clothes
98. Daisy Platt 98. Florldas Beauty 104,
xRight Easy 105, Muff 107, Agnier 107,
Incision 109. Americus 112, York Lad
115, xFalry Godmother 96. Orowoc 98,
Jonquil 98, xChemulpo 105. Planter 106,
xMcCreary 107, Little Jane 107, Stpell-
hound 112. Rye Straw 115, Lord Wells
115. Also eligible: Minnie Bright, Tom
Sayers. Venta Strome. Russell McGill,
Ella Grane.
SEVENTH—Selling, 3-year-olds and
up, mile: Pandorina 95, Blackford 99.
Henry Hutchison 105, Merry l^ad 110,
Sandhog 96. Bann Hard 104, Elwah 106.
Towton Field 110. Adolante 97, xPartner
106, Griff 110.
xApprentice allowance.
Weather clear; track fast.
Governor Pays Visit
To Franklin County
Governor Brown will leave for
Carneswille, Franklin County, Monday
afternoon to pay a social visit which
he promised his supporters there to
makt* before the expiration of his
term. The Governor will spend Tues
day in Carnesville and the Franklin
County folk are planning a general
rally day In his honor.
When Governor Brown’s father ran
for Governor Franklin County was his
banner one, giving him more than
1,000 majority. When the present
Governor made his fi-rst race the
county proved Hoke Smith’s banner
one, but in the las»t race it swung into
the Joe Brown column by a heavy
vote, giving a majority over both
Russell and Pope Brown, and. ac
cording Joe Brown practically the
same vote 1t had given his father 61
years before.
Americans Study
Egypt's Progress
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, June 2.—One group of the
American Commission on Agricultu
ral Co-operation which has been in
this city investigating system** of ag
ricultural credit and co-operative pro
duction and marketing, headed by
Col. J. Shelby Williams and Clarence
Ousley, of Ft Worth. Texas, has gone
to Egypt to study methods of financ
ing and marketing the Egyptian cot
ton crop.
The Egyptian bal# of cotton has
been accepted as the world’s standard,
and it is a well-known fact that
American cotton growers are losing
large pums of money as a result of
their failure to bale and grade their
cotton properly. It is even claimed
that in the United States one-half
of the real value of the cotton crop
is iost to the farmers through poor
selling me mods, and laok of ffiwmcial
•TWAS EVER THUS
light, 10IS, International Swm Bertlna
Sir Long: Shot Sends His Armor to His Majesty’s Steam Laundry.
LAWSIUDENTSTO
DEBATE FOR PRIZE
Contest Monday Night for Medal
Opens Commencement Exer
cises at Atlanta School.
A prize debate for the Hamilton
Douglas medal Monday night will
open the Atlanta Law School com
mencement. week. The question will
be. 'Resolved, That Capital Punish
ment Should Be Abolished.” r
Judges will be Mrs. Hamilton
Douglas, Justice Joseph H Lumpkin
of the Supreme Court, and Thomas
Connally John M. Owens, of the se
nior class, will preside over the de
bate.
Contesting speakers will be Pierce
Burns, R. E. Lee Cone, Samuel Cas-
tleton, W. A. Hassell. J. R. McClel
land, J Samuel Htghsmlth, Franklin
S. Chalmers, Brooks B. Patterson and
Leonard J. Grossman
Names of successful candidates for
graduation will be announced before
the beginning of the debate. The com
petition for the Robert Elston medals
will close at 6 o’clock.
The law school orators will contest
for the faculty prize In oratory Tues
day night They will speak in the
following order: R. E. Lee Cone. Du
Pont Hood. Samuel M. Castleton,
George F. Northen. M. J. Wood, Pierce
Burns. Harry B. Terrell. Allen A.
Dowds. Leonard J. Grossman. J. B.
King. Richard H. Gordon and Wil
helm Hassell. Graduation will be
Saturday evening in the Grand Opera
House.
Ambassador Page
At King’s Derby Fete
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. June 2.—W. H. Page,
new United States Ambassador to
England, accompanied by his private
secretary, Harold Fowler, and I. B.
Luughlln, secretary of the United
States Embassy, to-day attended
King George's derby levee at Buck
ingham Palace.
Eats 10 Pounds of
Eels in Hour on Bet
NEW YORK. June 2.—Simon Stein-
gut. “Mayor of Second Avenue." bet
a friend $25 that he could eat ten
pounds of eels in one hour.
At the end of an hour the "Mayor’’
had eaten ten pounds of eels, two
pounds of bread and a quantity of
beer.
L
Wine Merchant’s Romance Began
When He Was in America as
Racing Aeronaut.
LONDON, June 2.—Dressed in one
of the most gorgeous bridal costumes
that ever came out of the Rue de la
Paix. Miss Frances Scoville, of Sene
ca, Kan., was married here to-day
to Walter deMumm. The ceremony
took place at St. George’s, Hanover
Square.
The bride is the daughter of Court
ney Kennedy Scoville, one of the
richest bankers of Kansas. In addi
tion to the magnificent wedding
gown, Mrs. DeMumm has a trous
seau said to have cost $25,000. Her
bridal outfit consists of 100 gowns.
The marriage to-day is the culmi
nation of a romance which began in
1910 when DeMumm visited Ameri
ca and took part in the international
balloon race at St. Louis, which ended
for DeMumm in the Canadian wilds.
The bridegroom is a member of the
famous wine family. In December of
last year he was shot twice and se
verely wounded in a room in Paris
by Mrs. Marie VanRensimer Barnes,
a divorced American woman. The
shooting waa the outcome of De-
Mumm’s announcement that he w r a6
going to terminate his relations with
her.
Mother Stanislaus
. Tells of Recovery
Any person who msjr doobt the merits of
Eckman's Alterative, a remedy for the Throat
and Lungs, which has brought about many
complete recoveries, should Investigate the case
of Mother 8tanlslaus of St. Anne's Convent,
Sanford. Fla. She writes:
Convent of St. Anne, S00 Oak Ave..
Sanford. Fla.
• Gentlemen In February, 1911. four doc
tors examined my throat and pronounced the
necessity of an operation Having heard at
Peekskill. N. Y . Motherhouse of the Sisters of
St- Francis, where 1 was visiting, of Eckman’s
Alterative. I determined as a last resort to try
it- After taking four or five bottles large pieces
of diseased tissue came away I continued the
AlteraUve. to my grateful and dally relief. In
tec months I was restored to perfect health. I
would be glad to write or talk to any person
who may have a doubt about it I would like
them to see and hear from my own lips. If
they so desire, all I would say of it-”
(Signed) MOTHER M STANISLAUS.
(Above abbreviated; more on request.)
Eckman's Alterative has been proven by many
years' teat to be most efficacious In cases of
severe Throat and Lung Affections, Bronchitis.
Bronchial Asthma. Stubborn Colds and in up
building the system Does not contain narcotics,
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Jacobs’ Drug Store# and other leading druggists
Write the Eckman Laboratory. Philadelphia.
Pa-, for booklet telling of recoveries and addi
tional evidence-
Traction Officials Would Relieve
Congestion by Extending the
Service to Edgewood Ave.
Application to the City Council for
a franchise to double-track Ivy Street
from Auburn Avenue to Edgewood
Avenue will be read In Council Mon
day afternoon.
The Georgia Railway and Power
Company intends to extend the pres
ent Ivy Street trolley service to Edge-
wood Avenue and thence Into Mariet
ta and Broad, as at present.
Official? of the company said Mon
day morning this change was pro
posed In order to meet the many new
improvement* in progress in Edge-
wood Avenue and also to relieve the
congestion of traffic on Peachtree
Street where the Ivy Street lines now
traverse it.
The company hag been studying
plans to improve trolley service from
the north side of Atlanta to the Audi
torium- A rmory Grand Opera Week
end at other times. The extension of
the Ivy Street line* to Edgewood Ave
nue will enable it to run cars direct
from the North Side to the Audito
rium-Armory without transferring
passengers.
Tracks will be extended a« «oon aa
Council will permit.
$54)00 JEWEL ROBBERY.
NEW YORK, June 2.—Four men
entered a jeweler’s shop on the lower
East Side to-day, bound and gagged
the proprietor, collected $5,000 worth
of diamonds, watches and bracelets
and escaped.
r
Explorers Stranded
Off Georgia Coast
PHILADELPHIA. June 2.—The j
University of Pennsylvania expedi- i
tlon to South America, which left ;
here two months ago on a trip which
was to last two years, has become j
stranded off the coast of Georgia and
the yacht Pennsylvania, which was
outfitted at a cost $110,000, has been
abandoned.
It is tied up at Brunswick.
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entire line of new samples
are on display in our China
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We have Beautiful Bedding
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Co., 555 b. Fair Street.
White City Park Now Open
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$16.70 VIA SOUTHERN
RAILWAY.
Tickets on sale June 7 and!
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Car leaving Atlanta 2:45 p. m.
jdaily, arriving Richmond 8:40
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There’s Only One Way
To save, and that is to make a plan and stick
to it—let it grow into a habit.
A good way to start is to make a deposit and
add to it a certain specified sum every week.
Begin by selecting a STRONG institution
that pays 4 PER CENT COMPOUNDED
SEMI-ANNUALLY like the
Trust Company of Georgia
Capital and Surplus $1,800,000
Equitable Bldg. Pryor Street
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