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ATLANTA , GA., MONDAY, JULY 21, 1913.
Copyright. 1906,
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U. S. WILL REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE HUERTA
PROTEST CP
Will Not Last Year Out, President
Says—Stronger Successor
Is Hoped For,
WASHINGTON, July 21.—The
United States does not intend to rec
ognize the Huerta Government Jn
Mexico, because that administration
is reported to be tottering to its ruin
and is not expected to last the year
out.
This was the gist of President Wil
son’s discussion of the Mexican sit
uation with the Washington corre- j
spondents to-day. The President said |
that at present he is doing nothing j
but studying the Mexican problem so j
as to be able to discuss it thoroughly |
with Ambassador Wilson when the i
latter reaches Washington Friday.
But he indicated clearly that the
Administration does not Intend to rec
ognize Huerta, no matter what advice
the Ambassador gives.
The Chief Executive has been ad
vised on the highest authority that
President Huerta is losing his grip. It
is not considered good policy to rec
ognize a government which has but a
short time to live, and the United
States will reserve its approbation f Jr
another and stronger regime, which,
it is hoped, will succeed the Huerta
Government.
The President to-day indicated
clearly that there would be no further
steps in the Mexican matter until aft
er the White House conference sched
uled for Friday.
‘Bloomer Girls’ Play
Ball Too Well; Boy
PenetratesDisguise
WASHINGTON, July 21.—When
the center fielder of the Chicago
Bloomer Girls made a Ty Cobb throw
from deep center to the home plate
in yesterday’s game at Union League
Park with the Sparrows Point male
team, a boy spectator became suspi
cious of the sex of the bloomer play
ers. He jerked the blond wig off the
head of the third baseman and ex
posed to the eyes of thousands of fans
the closely cropped head of a man.
The rest of the “girls” made for the
clubhouse, a square away, at top
speed. They were besieged there by
hundreds of angry spectators, who
swept a squad of police aside, de
manding their money back.
They were escorted by a police
guard to the depot this morning.
Council to Try to
Override Veto for
Thirty-third Time
Council, at its meeting Monday aft
ernoon, will make an effort to over
ride Mayor James G. Woodward’s
veto for the thirty-third time. Dur
ing the seven months of Mayor
Woodward’s administration Council,
by a two-thirds vote, has annulled
almost every veto, many on matters
affecting the crematory.
Mayor Woodward has established a
record for vetoing and Council set a
new mark for overriding # vetoes. It
is safd that during his former years
in office as Mayor Mr. Woodward was
overridden 22 times.
The issue that comes up Monday
afternoon is a consolidation of . the
assessing and receiving departments
of the tax office.
All-Day Search Reveals Fate of
Jerry Moles, 17, and Casey
Daniels, 15 Years Old.
Rebels Reported Planning
Massacre of Americans.
EL PASO, July 21.—Efforts were
made to-day to obtain news from
the Madero lumber camp, 200 miles
southwest of here, where a small band
of Americans was reported surround
ed by Mexican rebels and in danger
of being massacred.
Appeals for aid were received by
officials of the Madero Lumber Com
pany here, General Francisco Castro,
federal commander in Juarez, and
American Consul Thomas D.'Edwards.
General Castro was asked to send
rtoops to protect the Americans.
The Madero Lumber Company is
an American-Canadian Corporation.
It owns a large area of forest lands,
controls the Mexican Northwestern
Railroad and has built several small
towns in Northwestern Mexico.
U. S. Warship to Protect
Americans at Frontera.
WASHINGTON, July 21.—Either a
United States battleship or a gunboat
will be sent to Frontera, Mexico, in
response to a request from the United#
States Consul there, for the protection
of American lives and property, it
was said at the Navy Department to-
day.
The revolutionists, it is said, have
occupied two American-owned plan
tations there and have threatened -o
attack the port. The Navy Depart
ment will send one of the warship3
now at Tampico to Frontera as soon
as Acting Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt receives the request of the
United States Consul from the State
Department, which is expected hour-
ly.
At the War Department it was said
to-day that permission will be grant
ed to General Obregon, the rebel lead
er, to visit Los Angeles.
The State Department has received
no further dispatches relating to the
battle between the federals and con-
stiutionalists yesterday, but it is ex
pected the conflict will be decisive in
determining whether this province
will be added to th eterritory now un
der rebel control.
Georgia U.S. Marshal
Nominations Get 0. K,
WASHINGTON, July 21.—The Senate
Judiciary Committee to-day ordered
favorably reported to the Senate the
nomination of Howard Thompson, as
United States Marshal for the North
ern District of Georgia, and Joseph Da
vis, United States Marshal for the
•Southern District of Georgia.
Cardinal Gibbons, 79,
Says Life Is Ebbing
BALTIMORE. July 21.—“On Wed
nesday I shall be seventy-nine years
old,” said Cardinal Gibbons, as he sat
in his study to-day. And then he
added, in a gentle voice: “I do not
think I will live much longer. My
life is nearly spent.
"I will soon be an octogenarian,”
said the Cardinal, smilingly, “and na
ture must take its course. Almighty
God has blessed me with a long life,
and I am ready to answer whenever
he sees fit to call me to render an ac
count of my stewardship.”
Man Beaten to Death
By Mob; Mayor Held
INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN.,
July 21.—Mayor Edeke, of Ranier.
Minn., is out on ball to-day, charged
with being an accessory to the mur
der of F. J. Couture, owner of the
Ranier Hotel. James Kelly was In
the county jail here, charged with the
actual murder.
Couture was beaten to death by a
crowd of men after he made a state
ment that no attempt was being made
in Ranier to enforce the saloon-clos
ing laws. Mayor Edeke is charged
with being a member of the crowd.
Husband and Wife
In Same Jail Cell
MACON. July 21.—James D. No
bles and wife, owners of a grocery
store in the suburbs, are in the Bibb
County jail on the charge of violat
ing the prohibition law. They occupy
the same cell.
Mrs. Nobles was arrested a month
ago on a similar charge, but gave
a $500 bond. Now she and her hus
band are accused as the result of a
basketful of pint bottles of whisky
being found behind the counter in
their store.
Fair Smokers May
Puff in Buffet Cars
. CHICAGO, July 21.—Women on
transcontinental trains may smoke
in the buffet car. The precedent was
set by Miss Hester McKay, who said
her father was a Chicago manufac
turer. She and several other women
passengers on a train that was speed
ing toward Yellowstone Park to-day
puffed cigarettes with the men in the
buffet car.
Of the twenty male passengers in
the car nineteen voted to allow the
.women to smoke*
Inquest into the death of young Jer
ry’ Moles and Casey Daniels, who
were drowned while fishing in the
Chattahoochee River Saturday, began
at Poole's Undertaking parlors at 9
o’clock Monday morning. Coroner
Donehoo said the deaths would be
thoroughly investigated.
The bodies were found Sunday aft
ernoon hanging to a trotline by
George W. Smith, of No. 527 West
North avenue, after an all-day search
instituted at the request of the wid
owed mother of young Daniels, who
says she had a premonition her son
had been drowned.
Mr. Smith, who was a member of
a large party of searchers who spent
nearly the day trying to locate the
boys, rowed out alone to the middle
of the stream, where he found a trot-
line that ran from one end of the
ban^c to the other.
Bodies Caught on Hooks.
Having attempted to draw the line
ap. Mr. Smith found that it was too
heavy to manage, and this led to the
discovery of the bodies of the two
boys, which were found caught in the
hooks about midway in the river.
Immediately following the discovery
the county police notified Coroner
Donehoo, who went to the scene of the
tragedy’ to make an Investigation. The
bodies, which showed no bruises of
any kind, were taken in charge by
Poole.
Among the theories that have been
advanced as to the cause of the death
of the boys is that while boating one
of them fell Into the stream, and that
in an effort to rescue him the other
went down also.
Neither a Good Swimmer.
Another theory Is that in trying to
land a fish the lads capsized their
boat in midstream. It is known that
neither boy was a good swimmer and
that for this reason Mrs. Moles, moth
er of y'oung Jerry, had protested
against the trip.
The boys, who were inseparable j
companions, left home early Satur- J
day morning, promising their parents
that they would be back by nightfall.
Before leaving home, young Daniels
turned over his week’s wages to his
mother, allowing himself only car
fare for the trip down to the river. *
When young Moles failed to return
home Saturday night, Mrs. Daniels,
becoming alarmed, telephoned the
county police, who immediately be
gan the search. It was not until 2
o’clock Sunday afternoon, however
that her gravest fears were realized.
Boys Chums for Years,
Young Daniels, who is just 15 years
old. lived with his mother at No. 71
Hightower street, while his compan
ion. Jerry’ Moles, aged 17, resided with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Moles,
at No. 34 Humphries street.
The boys had been inseparable com
panions for years, and are said to
have been model youths.
Sweethearts Visit
Soldiers of Second
At St. Simons Camp
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, July 21.—Sun
day was a gala day for the Second
Georgia Regiment, excursions bringing
wives, sweethearts and friends of the
men and officers from all over
Middle Georgia. All day the camp was
alive with visitors interested in seeing
how the men lived. Many dinner par
ties were given in camp during the
day. The surf was the chief attraction
until the big dress parade in the after
noon. It was the best review so far
held and was witnesesd by magnificent
crow'ds.
Drills are being held in combat forma
tions to-day leading up to the hike,
bivouac and battle of Friday. The men
will leave Thursday in heavy marching
order prepared to cook their own meals,
sleep in pup tents and begin the big
battle before day Friday.
To-day’s officer of the day was E. W.
Beck. The officer of the guard was
J. H. Nutt. Both are of Griffin.
FREQUENTLY STONE IS
MAJORITY OF HOUSE
Women Voters of
Chicago Keep Tab on
Aldermen's Conduct
CHICAGO, July 21—Women of
Chicago, who will vote for the first
time at the next city election, to-day
began definite plans for defeating
Aldermen who do not vote on the side
of the public good on all questions
coming before the Council.
At to-night’s session of the Coun
cil women will record the vote cf
every Alderman on every question.
Women watchers will attend every
Council committee meeting and keep
complete records of the conduct of
Aldermen.
These records will be used against
Aldermen who have “played politics”
or otherwise failed in their duties, or
for those who have done well, as the
women watchers see them.
Jury Dooms Slayer
As Church Bells Ring
SAVANNAH, July 21.—While
church bells were tolling for worship
last night, Henry Johnson, in Supe
rior Court, heard the verdict read
which declared him guilty of the
murder of "Joe Grant.
Judge Walter G. Charlton accepted
the verdict in open court, with con
sent of counsel, but would not pass
sentence. He based his acceptance
of a Sabbath verdict on the decision
of the Supreme Court in the Rawlings
case at Valdosta. He called the jury’s
attention to the tolling of the bells
and advised them to attend divine
worship.
Shoots Husband Who
Stayed Out Too Late
SAVANNAH, July 21.-r-As a result of
a quarrel with his wife, Joe Dare is
in a critical condition in a hospital,
With a bullet wound in his left breast,
just over the heart, and his wife is in
police station a nervous wreck from her
experience. Both admit the wife fired
the shot. Dare has been operated on
and the bullet extracted, but his condi
tion is so serious that his post mortem
statement has been taken.
The trouble between hte couple seems
to have followed the very late arrival of
Dare at home.
No Arrests Made in
LaFayette Bank Case
CHATTANOOGA, July 21.—No further
developments have been received in this
city, following the closing of the First
National Bank of Lafayette, Ga., by
Acting Comptroller of Currency Kane,
Saturday morning Local bankers still
assert that depositors will suffer prac
tically no loss.
No arrests have been reported here,
although it has been asserted that $30,-
000 of securities are missing*
Madero Slain as He
Slept, Says Widow
WASHINGTON, July 21.—President
Madero of Mexico wa9 murdered in
his bed while he slept, according to
the story told by Senora Madero,
his widow, during an interview in
Washington.
She hafe photographs of the rooms
in the National Palace in w’hich she
said both her husband and Vice Pres
ident Suarez were killed, and the
pictures show’ the clothing of Madero,
indicating he was in bed. Huerta
gave out the report that Madero was
killed while attempting to escape en
route from the palace to the peniten
tiary.
Presents Evidence Showing In
dictment of Negro Would Hin
der Frank Prosecution.
5 Washington Ball
Players Near Death
CHICAGO. July 21.—Ten drown-
ings were on record to-day In Chi
cago and other cities of the Middle
West. Five deaths were due to the
dangerous undertow, running more
treacherously yesterday than ever be
fore in the memory of old Lake
Michigan seamen.
Five members of the Washington
American League baseball team were
saved from drowning .by life guards
at the Chicago beach.
Policeman Slain by
Cathedral Thieves
NEW YORK, July 21.—Before he
could pull his gun on burglars w’ho
were robbing St. Matthew’s Roman
Catholic Church in Brooklyn, Police
man John E. Cahill was shot and
stabbed to death by the robbers early
to-day.
His body was found in the rear of
the church yard. The thieves es
caped.
J. Jowers, a pretty young woman, of
Waycross, who is scouring the State
in search of her missing husband.
She appealed to the Atlanta police
Sunday.
The young woman went direct to
police headquarters, where she bared
the whole story of her misfortunes.
Between sobs, which moved even
Captain Poole, who has heard many
a tale of this sort, she told how she
had been wooed; how. finally, she had
given her heart to the ardent suitor;
how they were married in the little
church in Waycross. where she was
born and reared; how they took up
their married life at her husband’s
home in Fitzgerald—and then, one
week later, of his sudden departure.
Jowers, the young wife told the po
lice, said he was going away to get a
better job—that was the last she
heard of him.
Having a "tip” that he might be in
Atlanta, Mrs. Jowers came to Atlan
ta and immediately Instituted a search
for him through the police. All the
afternoon Captain Poole and the
young woman searched the streets of
Atlanta, but to no avail.
Mrs. Jowers left Atlanta Monday
morning, after leaving a description
of her husband with the police.
Mrs. Jowers, before marriage, was
Miss Victoria Pace, daughter of J.
B. Pace, of Waycross. She is 18
years of age and is pretty.
Always Votes on Loral Bills—Clerk Depends on
Him to Pass Many Laws.
Representative C. H. Stone of
Taliaferro, frequently is as many as
106 members of the General Assembly
at one time, and sometimes he Is a?
many as 150.
Stone passes all the local bills.
When one is up for passage. Clerk
John T. Boifeuillet glances hastily in
the direction of Stone, of Taliaferro,
sees double, quadruple or sextuple,
a dozen or so times, a? the necessities
of the occasion require, and an
nounces, in stentorian tones. “On the
passage of the bill, the ayes are 116
and the nays none!”
Stone knows that Is him—that is,
he knows he is the 116! Of course,
he couldn’t be the “none.”
Stone conscientiously votes on all
local bills. He would as soon think
of forgetting his breakfast as forget
ting to vote on a local bill.
Some members think Stone has a
spite against himself or is doing pen.
ance for something, in that he never
fails to hold up his hand when a local
measure Is hustling through, but
Clerk Boifeuillet knows good and
well that he can depend on Stone to
pass ’em along, and that’s why he
always looks to Stone alone for the
votes needed.
Stone is a fine fellow, however,
as any man willing to sit there and
pass great gobs and bunches of local
bills every day or so must be. He
is always in a good humor, and has
a countenance that looks like Santa
Claus’ with the whiskers shaved off.
He is immensely popular with his
colleagues, and is rated safe and sane
in all matters.
In his home town, Crawfordvllle,
Stone is a leading citizen, influential
and highly esteemed. He comes to
the Legislature, as a matter of course,
whenever he wishes to.
Pope's Swiss Guard
Is Shorn of Honor
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, July 21.—The Pope’s Swiss
Guard to-day was deprived of its mil
itary status at the Vatican.
In an official statement issued from
the Vatican, it was declared that the
organization must be a military one,
not an aggregation of vagabonds and
drunkards.
Boulder Pulls Shade
Ou the X-Ray Skirt
BOULDER. COLO., July 21.—Local
officials have ruled that tourists who
wear diaphanous gowns must walk
on the shady aide of the street.
Four Women Caught
In Vice Net Escape
From Martha Home
Four young women, three of whom
had been caught in Chief Reavers’ vice
dragnet last week, escaped from the
Martha Home during cnapel exercises
Sunday night.
The women were Effie Drununond,
who after being caught In a rawi on
Mrs. Lula Bell's place at Peters and
Fair streets, declared she was a min
ister’s daughter from North Carolina,
and had been the victim of a white
slaver; Maude Doughetry, apprehended
at the same house; "fenfro,
companion of A. N. Trrppe, a Whitehall
street clerk, caught in a hotel raid,
and Myrtle Bell, who was placed In
the home at the request of her parents.
The dragnet has been recast for tha
fugitives.
Wilson’s College
Chum Takes Office
KNOXVILLE, July 21.—Lewis M.
Coleman, of Chattanooga, was sworn
in to-day as United States District
Attorney for East Tennessee. The
oath was taken before Judge E. T.
Sanford, of the United States Dis
trict Court. He succeeds General J.
B. Cox.
Mr. Coleman was in college w’ith
President Wilson.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta
and Georgia: Local
showers Monday and
Tuesday.
The Grand Jury Monday de
cided to take no action at this
time looking to the indictment
of James Conley, accuser of Leo
M. Frank in the murder of Mary
Phagan.
The Grand Jury came to its de
cision after Solicitor General
Dorsey had presented a mass of
evidence to show why the in
dictment of the negro would
hamper the prosecution of Frank.
After more than an hour’s con
ference the Solicitor issued this
statement:
“I am requested by the Grand Jury
to say no action will be taken at this
time on the James Conley matter,
and that that body will not pay any
attention whatever to anonymous
communications.”
It is known that the Grand Jury has
been flooded with letters on the Pha^
gan case, many of them urging actl*>r
on Conley, and many unsigned.
Quotes Court Decision.
A recent Supreme Court decision
was cited by Solicitor Dorsey to the
Grand Jury when he demanded
"hands off” on the Conley indictment.
The decision says of the Solicitor:
"Ho is to determine whether or not
to commence a particular prosecution,
or to discontinue one already begun.
The Solicitor General draws the bill
of indictment and examines the wit
nesses, not with a view to the inter
est of any client, but alone to sub
serve public Justice.
“The whole prosecution from the
time the case is laid before him is
under his direction, supervision and
control.—102 Georgia, page 271.”
Delay in Trial Rumored.
The impression gained ground Mon
day that a postponement of the trial
of F*rank was probable. It was re
ported that the defense would make
a move to effect this before the case
comes up on June 28.
Both Luther Z. Rosser and Reuben
Arnold, Frank’s counsel, denied this.
Mr. Arnold declared he and his col
leagues were confident of securing the
acquittal of their client and, therefore,
were ready to go to trial at any time.
According to Solicitor Dorsey,
Judge L. S. Roan, who will try the
case, is not particularly anxious that
it come up at this time.
Says Judge Favors Delay.
'T was talking with Judge Roan a
short time ago,” said the Solicitor,
“and from his conversation I gathered
that he would rather the trial did not
come up before fall, though he did not
say so outright.”
Shortly before noon Jim Conley was
taken from his cell at police head
quarters and spirited off in an auto
mobile by Detectives Starnes and
Campbell, the officers who have had
complete charge of the negro for
several weeks. Inquiry failed to
reveal the destination or purpose of
this action. The negro was out of his
cell less than an hour and on his re
turn the same strict secrecy was
maintained.
Solicitor Dorsey was the only per
son asked to appear before the ju
rors. Before they assembled he as
serted that he was entirely confident
that no indictment would be returned
against the negro.
“I can not conceive that these men,
when they are in possession of the
facts of the case, seriously will con
sider bringing an indictment for mur
der against Conley,” said the Solici
tor.
Foreman Beattie indicated that if
a. quorum were present and** dtolMoq