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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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State Secrets in Envoy Wilson’s
Messages to Washington Bared.
Powers Recall Ministers.
WASHINGTON, July 20.—A copy
of the official code of the State De
partment, containing: information
worth thousands of dollars to foreign
governments, has fallen into the
bands <»f the Mexican Administration.
It Is being used to further the ends
of the Huerta regime, it was assert
ed here to-day.
For some months State Department
officials have sus]H*cted that the Gov
ernment telegrams from Mexico City
have been tampered with, it is de
clared. but this was not considered
important, ai all the dispatches were
in code, and, therefore, theoretically
illegible.
About three weeks ago, however,
Government officials here had their
first inkling that the Mexican** were
obtaining the gist of the dispatches
passing between the State Depart
ment and Ambassador Wilson.
At first It was suspected that an
employee of the department in this
city was to blame, but investigation
proved this to be impossible. The tel
egrams were read only by three per
sons in Washington -the official te
legrapher; Robert Rose, confidential
secretary to Secretary of State Bryan,
and the Secretary of State himself.
All of x'r^He were above suspicion.
The agents of the almost unknown
"secret service" of the State Depart
ment then were put on the trail an 1
evidence v. as obtained that the Gov
ernment dispatches had been "lifted"
from the wires in Mexico and de
coded, the information contained
therein being transmitted to President
Huerta and his Cabinet.
As this information was, at times,
highly uncomplimentary to the pres
ent Government in Mexico, the matter
et once took on an international aspect,
and the efforts of the departments
agents to discover the "leak” were re
doubled, but In vain.
Every effort will be made to locate
the copy of the State Department
code and destroy it. It would prove
of immense value if it fell into the
hands of a hostile nation, as it would
be impossible to print another code
and to distribute It all over the world
in less than six months.
Italy Orders Minister
Home From Mexico City.
MKXICO CITY. July 20.—It was
learned to-day that the Italian Min
ister to Mexico secretly left here last
night for Vera Cruz. Significance is
attached to his departure, as It is
believed he was urgently ordered to
Rome.
This action is doubly impressive on
account of the fact that Francis
Stronge, the British Minister, has
been succeeded by another and will
leave here for London in a few days.
' ‘ Mexico is becoming the storm cen
ter of international diplomacy ap
parently because of the attitude of
the United States and the condition
of growing anarchy here.
Ambassador Thinks
He Will Lose Post.
MEXICO CITY, July 20.—Despite
the statement of United States Am
bassador Wilson that he expects to
return here in his official capacity
following his conference at Wash
ington, It was learned to-day that the
Ambassador secretly believes his daye
In officialdom are numbered.
Before his departure he ordered the
- removal of a costly silver service an 1
other valuables from the United
States Embassy to a United States
•warship at Vera Cruz. The families
of some of the American attaches of
the embassy have been sent to Vera
Cruz for safety.
Interest was aroused by the an
nouncement that the Minister of the
Interior is working up a plan to con
cede a big part of the State of
Morelos to 50,000 Japanese colonists.
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Half a t^aaiMKinful >»f Horsford'n Add Phoo
phatv In half a glaa» of wilcr on rvUrlnf Insures
a restful sleep.—(adv.)
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The modern way of maKlng
Bifocal Glasses (far and r.ear-
aeeltiR lenses In the same
frame! without the unsightly
dividing line. No more put
ting on and taking off your
glasses. Then, the old style
2-piece bifoeals are a mark of
age. You might just as well
look young and Kr.vptoks
will do the work. Come in
and talk to us about your
eyes—and Kryptoks.
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OPTICIANS
H WHITEHALL
Socialist LeadorTakes Into 11 is Homo Disgraced
Daughter of a Mehtodist Minister.
TERRE HAUTE, I NO., July 20.—
Eugene V. Debs, the Racialist
leader, has issued what he terms
his "challenge to the Christianity of
Terre Haute."
He has- taken into bis home in the
Indiana city Helen Cox, the daugh
ter of a Methodist preacher. She had
eloped with a member of a prominent
family who divorced her and took
their child. She was arrested for
immorality. Debs met her on a visit
to the jail ami, as an emergency
probation officer, took her into his
home.
"The girl has been persecuted," he
announced publicly. "Will Terre
Haute help her or will its organized
force be used to drive her to despera
tion? Let Terre Haute ask 'What
would Christ do? Our family has
opened our home to her.
CHIEF UPHELD B!
CITY FIRE BOARD
At the meeting of the City Board
of Fi re m;u* ters Friday afternoon
Chief Cummings was sustained in
hip policy of discharging men who
do not pay their debts.
A fireman had been discharged and
he had complained to Mayor Wood
ward. The matter was brought to the
attention of the board, but the fire
man did not appear to defend him
self.
The board decided to recommend to
Council that the fire engine lot on
Rellwood avenue In the Fifth Ward
be exchanged for a lot on Marietta
street.
The Marietta street lot is valued at
$4,000, while the Redwood avenue lot
is worth only $2.500 x
"There is but one thing remark
able about opening our home to an
unfortunate woman." he said later,
when his action aroused widespread
comment, "and it is that any one
should consider it remarkable. This
fact is significant. Persecution of
these unfortunate girls is the rule,
and so common that it attracts no
attention. Kindness is so exceptional
that It provokes widespread com
ment.
"The sinful woman Is, as a rule,
not a wicked woman, but a sick and
suffering woman. As to our home,
its door is open to the most sinful
women that was ever cast off by the
Pharisees, who denied her while
profiting by her shame. We believe,
my wife and I ,that we are not only
our brother’s keeper, but our sister’s
keeper as wed."
City Could Force Alteration of
Ponce DeLeon’s Front—Build
ers May Have to Pay $42,000.
An innocent little complaint made
to Building Inspector Hays has
brought about a complicated situa
tion in the construction of the $500,-
000 Ponc e Deleon Apartments, at the
southeast corner of Peachtree street
and Ponce DeLeon avenue, and Just
south of the Georgian Terrace.
It has been' found that the build
ing has encroached four inches on the
sidewalk space belonging to the city.
The city has the right to demand
that the ten-story building be made
to conform to the line. This would
necessitate a great deal of destruc
tion and expense.
A probable solution lies in the fact
that the city has the right to sell or
give the strip to the builders.
Council To Bo Petitioned.
Albert Howell, Jr., head of the Ful
ton Properties Company, which con
cern controls the Ponce DeLeon, was
acquainted with the situation by the
Building Inspector, and he declared
that he would petition Council to
let the building stand.
Last week C. J. Bowen, assistant
building inspector, had the engineer
survey the ground to determine
whether or not a window on the
Peachtree side projected 14 in hes
over the sidewalk in violation of the
building COd#. It did, and ft CflUM)
was made. It was found also that
through some mistake four inches of
sidewalk had been taken for the
building proper. The contractor has
been instructed to make the altera
tion as to the window.
May Coat $42,000.
Mr. Howell expressed the belief
that the city would let the building
stand, and he is expected to have a
resolution to this effect introduced
soon.
Since there is a frontage of about
35 feet on Peachtree, the encroach
ment is over. 11 2-3 square feet.
Frontage at this point is worth about
$1,200 for corners, which would fig
ure about $17 a square foot.
The company owes the city by this
calculation, therefore, about $192.
S ould the city decide to ignore the
depth, the price at $1,200 would be
about $42,000.
High Price Paid for
Decatur Store Site
Ground has been broken for a
two-story brick building at Decatur
on McDonough street, adjoining the
City Hall. It will be occupied by
George Brothers with a wholesale and
retail department store. The building
will cost about $0,000.
The sale of the lot for this building
set a new price for McDonough
street property, the 50 feet bringing
$3,000, or $60 per front foot.
All Ready to Launch
State Booster Body
Preparations are complete for the
reception of delegates in Atlanta July
23 to organize a State Chamber of
Commerce. The officials of the At
lanta Chamber of Commerce have
charge of the affair.
The first session will be held in the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce rooms
at 10 o’clock in the morning. Dele
gates from every board of trade and
every chamber of commerce in the
State will be on hand.
NOMINATION BLANK
I hereby nominate as the most beautiful girl in Atlanta:
Name
Address
Continued From Page 1.
Mrs. Fish ‘Queen of
Fairies’ at Big Ball
NEWPORT, July 20.—Mrs. Stuyve-
-int Fish will 1— "Queen of the Fai
ries" at the costume ball which she
will give at Crossways August 1.
The costume is bedng made by four
dressmakers. It will be all white,
with spangles. She will carry a long
white ivory wand studded with bril
liants and tiny electric lights. Her
long train will be carried by two lit
tle fairies.
SPECIAL NOTICE!
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COAL
$4.23
July Delivery Only
Place Your Order at Once
JELLICO COAL CO.
82 PEACHTREE ST.
Ivy 1585 Atlanta 3668
him Friday seeking to have him call
the meeting. Dorsey flatly refused
and said:
"The meeting’s only purpose will be
to exploit the evidence and embar
rass the State, and I hope the Grand
Jury when it meets will decide to
leave the matter alone.
"The indictment of Conley at t Ills
time will be a useless procedure that
will not stop the trial of Frank. It
will only have a mild but undesirable
effect on the State’s case.
"Conlev is in Jail and is going to
stay there for some ume. He is
where the authorities can put their
hands on him. and he can be indicted
much more properly after the Frank
cn^e has been disposed of than be
fore, and by the delay there is no
danger of a miscarriage of justice. ’
The Solicitor’s position is attacked
as palpably unfair by those who have
been working to bring about the in
dictment of the negro. Dorsey would
have the testimony of the negro ac
credited as that of any free and
trustworthy citizen, while those op
posing him declare it should be taken
in the light of that of a possible mur
derer who is endeavoring to shift the
blame on another's shoulders, they
say.
They add that the evidence against
°onley is far more direct and da inn -
ng than any ever brought against
Frank. They charge, on this account,
that Conley has been protected and
’coddled" when he should have been
placed on the same basis jls the other
suspect ir« the case and should go be
fore the jury in that aspect.
General denials were entered Sat
urday to the story published Friday
that the Pinkertons had changed their
Attitude in the murder mystery and
>\ ere convinced of the Innocence of
' rank Chief of Detectives Lanford
aclared that Harry Scott had reaf-
Irmed his belief in the guilt of Frank
ind the innocence of Conley, except
s accessory after the fact.
Even though Jim Conley should
*■ indicted." Chief of Detectives New-
•rt Lanford declared Saturday after-
toon, "It will not hurt the State’s
ise against Leo Frank. The evi
nce obtained against Frank Ip con-
lnsive. YVe can convict him without
viie evidence of Jim Conle>."
$12,000 Plenty for
Secretary Wilson
WASHINGTON, July 20.—While
Secretary of State Bryan is reported
to be having a hard time to live on
$12,000 a year, Secretary of Labor
Wilson to-day arranged to purchase
a seven-passenger touring car.
The Secretary of Labor declares lie
can live with ease on his salary as a
Cabinet officer.
Charter Granted to
New Bank at Alamo
The Wheeler County Bank, located at
Alamo, Ga., and capitalized at $25,000,
was granted a charter by Secretary of
State Phil Cook Friday afternoon.
The incorporators include Charles W.
Lancaster, of T'avisboro, Ga., I. Idelson,
H. S. Hurewltz and Truitt H. Nelson, of
Alamo.
Fire Alarm System
Ready for Testing
Test of Atlanta's new fire alarm sys
tem wifi be made next week by the
Okenite Company, of New York.
Installation of this apparatus has
been made under the moral obligation
system at a cost of $106,000, but while
the Supreme Court has declared such
contracts on the part of the city illegal,
representatives of the company state
they feel no doubt about being paid in
full for the contract.
Important to Enter Now—Bring
in Nomination Blank Early
Monday.
“I’ve got more than a dozen want
ads promised me right in the block
where I live, and I want to win one of
those bicycles," said the first boy at
The Georgian’s business office Satur
day morning. "I’m going to do it,
too.
"I got a want-ad promise at every
house I went to except one, and the
lady wasn’t at home there. It’s going
to be easy. When does the contest
start?"
The youngster—hr was Just over
the 14-year-age limit—was put down
in the list of contestants and told to
come back Monday morning and .'e-
ceive instructions. There will be quite
a gathering at The Georgian’s office
then, for many young men and wom
en have entered and are going out to
win that automobile, a trip to Cali
fornia, the piano or one of the dozens
of other prizes offered winners in the
contest.
The boy’s experience proves how
easy it is to get want ads for a paper
with a reputation for bringing results.
There Is no family without a want of
some kind. The mere suggestion that
an advertisement of a few lines in
The American or Georgian will bring
that maid or yardboy or sell th;it
discarded furniture usually is met
with ready response.
There’s no guessing in this con
test, either—no grinding day and
night in a scheme where you have to
invest a dollar or two for a bar?
chance to win a box of Candy. It is a
strictly business proposition. Con
testants will visit their acquaintance?
on a business mission and they will
accomplish definite results. The win
ner gets the automobile, the next the
piano, and so on down the list.
But remember the contest begins in
a few days, and it is absolutely nec
essary that contestants bring in their
nomination blanks, receive their In
structions and get ready for active
work.
The Want Ad Man would like to see
every contestant at his office, No. 7
Edge wood avenue, Monday some time
during the day He has something
important to tell them.
Investigation Into
Assay Office Likely
WASHINGTON. July 20.—D. P.
Kingsford, Superintendent of the New
York Assay Office, has placed his
resignation in the hands of Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo. The annual
examination of the assay office in
New York was completed by July 1,
and a report of it has been in the
hands of Secretary McAdoo for some
time.
It is understood a detailed speci
fication is in the hands of Secretary
McAdoo dealing with the system of
management. This specification does
not aim at any person parti ular.
It is believed a general investigation
may follow. The criticism is based
on laxity.
Cleveland’s ‘Golden
Rule’ in Scrap Heap
CLEVELAND. OHIO, July 20.—The
Golden Rule policy in making arrests
which made former Chief Kohler fa
mous is a thing of the past. He who
now Imbibes too freely and obstructs
traffic will help enrich the city’s cof- I
fers instead of being escorted home I
by a policeman.
Chief Rowe declined to say he has
relegated the Golden Rule to the sera;j
heap, but admits significantly: "One,
may draw his own conclusions from
the figures."
The police blotter figures say there
is no Golden Rule.
Only one of these blanks will be credited to any one
contestant.
FIST FIGHT PITS
‘PEP’ IN COURT'S
GS
VOTING COUPON
For any regularly nominated Candidate in the
BEAUTY CONTEST
Name of Candidate.
Address
Pill out this Coupon and send it to "Booster Button” Editor of
The Georgian and American.
Beavers Separates Auto Man and
Druggist After Policeman
Gets Bump on Head.
STATE COLLEGE GOODS AWAIT
Legislators Mix Business and
Pleasure—Governor and Mrs.
Slaton Guests of Honor.
AUGUSTA, July 20.—The special
train bearing Governor and Mrs. John
M. Slaton, President Randolph An
derson, of the Sehate; Speaker W. H.
Burwell, of the House, and a major
ity of the members of the General
Assembly arrived in Augusta at 1
o'clock Saturday afternoon. The spe
cial made its run on schedule time.
As soon as it reached Augusta it was
backed into the yards of the medical
college and those on board detrained.
The trip from Atlanta was not an
unpleasant one, although the weather
w'as extremely hot.
Meeting the train was a large num
ber of Augustans, including Mayor L.
C. Haynie and members of the City
Council, Judge E. H. Callaway, presi
dent of the board of trustees of the
medical college; Dr. W. H. Doughty,
dean of the college, and members of
the faculty.
The first visit of the Legislature to
Augusta in more than a hundred years
is no ordinary event, and the interest
of the people In the medical college
and in the lawmakers of Georgia was
evidenced by the great crowd on hand.
The members showed plainly their
surprise and pleasure at what they
saw. The former Orphan Asylum
Building has been transformed into
one of the most commodious and best
equipped medical schools in the
South. The equipment cost $40,000.
This was raised in Augusta by pop
ular subscription. Judge Collaway,
Dr. Doughty and others showed the
visitors over the buildings and
grounds and the new university hos
pitals which are being erected.
ADer the Inspection, lasting about
an hour, the visitors were taken to
Carmichael’s Club for a barbecue din
ner. During the afternoon they will
be shown about the city and at 7
o’clock to-night their special will
leave for Atlanta on the return trip.
A "near-fight” between W. A. Gra
ham, a druggist of No. 354 Ponce
DeLeon avenue, and B. W. Torrence,
an automobile dealer of No. 350 Ponce
DeLeon avenue, enlivened the pro
ceedings of Judge Broyles’ court Sat
urday morning.
The fight came during the trial of
Graham, against w f hom Torrence had
made two cases. In one Graham was
charged with allowing a vicious dog
to run at large; in the other he was
charged with keeping an obnoxious
stable. Graham, while making his
statement, declared that Torrence's
! small son had sat for some hours
| Friday on the Graham fence.
"You are a liar!" emphatically de
clared Torrence.
Then Graham hit at Torrence and
I Torrence hit at Graham. Torrence
! missed, but Graham's fist raised a
bump on the forehead of Policeman
| O. R. Jones, who was standing in
front of Torrence. Before any more
) blows could be struck Chief Beavers
separated the combatants.
Judge Broyles dismissed the dog
case, but fined Graham $5.76 on the
i charge of maintaining a nuisance. He
| fined Torrence $5.75 for contempt of
court in calling Graham a liar.
No Such Material Wealth as Now
Is in Our Warehouses Ever
Held in Nation’s History.
Atlantan Asked to
Hunt for Grandson
M. R. Russell No. 1 East Fair street,
received a letter Saturday morning
from his daughter. Mrs. L. E. Martin,
of Carrollton, Ga., asking him to make
an effort to locate her son, Rufus
Martin, who has been missing eleven
weeks. Martin, who is 2 7 years old,
is a civil engineer for the Southern
Bell Telephone Company, and when
last heard of was at Birmingham, Ala.
He is six feet one inch tall, has
brown hair, blue eyes and weighs 175
pounds.
Profile of S. Pryor
Grade Is Prepared
A profile of the permanent grade of
South Pryor street is being prepared
by the city engineering department
preparatory to the regrading of this
street. According to the present
plans, the street will be widened into
a boulevard. The movement for the
improvement of South Pryor is thc-
result of several mass meetings an !
I canvasses of property owners within
j the past few weeks.
Plaster Over Mouth
In Sleep Guards Voice
SAN FRANCISCO. July 20.—A
! common sticking plaster placed over
the mouth during sleep preserves the
voice, according to Professor Robert
Irving Fulton, of Wesleyan, lecturing
at the University of California.
NEW YORK. July 20.—More than
$100,000,000 worth of mercnandlse is
stored in the bonded warehouses of
Greater New York to-day. Never on
the face of the globe has there ever
before been such an aggregation of
everything that the soil yields and hu
man industry produces.
The 56 great bonded warehouses are
gorged almost to bursting with silks
teas, coffees, spices, oils, rugs, car
pets, toys, textile fabrics, knit goods,
glassware and pottery, jute, hemp,
wool, chemicals—with everything in
which the merchants of the world
trade.
More than 200,000 tons of sugar,
worth over $12,000,000, are in bond.
The New York Stock Company alone
has 80,000 bags of coffee; its ware
houses, with a capacity of 81,000,000
cubic feet, are filled.
Of this $100,000,000 worth of im
ports $70,000,000 is held pending
changes in the tariff; $30,000,000 is
made up of working stock which the
great industrial plants must use im
mediately and of goods that come in
free. The duties on the $70,000,000
worth that is being held deliberately
in bond amount to $35,000,000 undef
the present tariff law. The owners
are waiting to see how much of this
$35,000,000 benevolent Uncle Sam will
"knock off."
When the new bill becomes law
millions of dollars a day will be paid
into the Custom House and to rail
roads, and coasting vessels will be of
fered an enormous amount of freight.
The lmi>orter who has his goods on
hand will have a great advantage over
competitors.
if you Value quality
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Cheshire Family's
Reunion on July 23
All of the Cheshires, members of
one of the oldest families in this sec
tion of the Southland, will gather for
a big family reunion at Captain H.
Cheshire's country home on the John
son road on July 23. Scores of
Cheshires are expected to be present,
as the annual reunions have become
more and more popular every year.
The Cheshires are scattered through
out the Carolinas, Virginia, Alabama
and Georgia.
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The
Georgian-American Pony Contest
VOTE COUPON
Has been discontinued on ac
count of allowing 15 days tor
Coupons to be voted.
Contest will close fifteen days
from date, July 31st, midnight.
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