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VOL. XI. NO. 301.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1913.
Copyright. 1906,
By The Georgian Co.
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Nina Formby Says She Will Testify Ayainst Frank
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DEMAND FOR INTERVENTION MADE IN HOUSE
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Jury to Try Factory Head Likely
To Be Completed by Wed-
nesdty Night.
Despite the reported repudiation of
her sensational affidavit that eLo M.
Frank had tried repeatedly on the
night of the Mary Phagan murder to
secure a room in which to bring a
girl, Mrs. Nina Formby declared in
Chattanooga Tuesday that she would
be in Atlanta on July 28 to testify
to her statements when the trial of
the pencil factory superintendent
opens.
According to a dispatch from Chat
tanooga. where the woman has been
for several weeks, Mrs. Formby de
nies having ever retracted from her
original declarations which she made
to the police, and further stated that
she would repeat them on the witness
stand.
The police have asserted that Mrs.
Formby has been eliminated from the
case.
Superior Judge John T. Pendleton
prepared Tuesday to draw the 150
veniremen for the trial of Leo M.
Frank. This venire will be called
next Monday morning unless tne
weather is unusually warm.
The jury, in all probability, will be
selected and served before Wednes
day night, according to Judge Pendle
ton.
Attorney Reuben R. Arnold stated
Tuesday morning that he probably
would ask Judge Pendleton to draw
the venire from the Grand Jury box.
and that he felt confident he could
cite enough law on the subject to sus
tain his point.
Solicitor to Fight Move.
Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey stated
that the procedure was altogether ir
regular, if not illegal, and that he
would oppose such a move as strongly
as he fought the attempt on the part
of the Grand Jury to indict Jim Con
ley over his protest.
The attorneys on both sides will be
notified by telephone when Judge
Pendleton begins to draw the venire,
and he will allow them to be heard.
Judge L. S. Roan, who will preside
at the Frank trial, will not return to
Atlanta from Covington until Friday.
He announced to a correspondent of
The Georgian in Covington that the
Frank trial would be called next Mon
day sure, but he would not commit
himself as to whether he would con
sider any move for postponement aft
er the case was called.
Before leaving for Covington he re
marked that if the weather was as
hot next Monday as it was last week
he would welcome some sufficient
ground for postponement.
Both Sides Are Ready.
Attorneys Arnold and Rosser admit
they would like to se the trial post
poned to escape the ordeal of a hard
fight In torrid weather, but state they
will be reluctant to ask for delay un
less there is some very excellent rea
son why the case should not go to
trial.
Both sides are ready. All the wit
nesses who will be used are within
the jurisdiction of the court and able
to attend. The inability of any one
of the more than 100 to be in court
on the day the case is called would
sustain a request for postponement,
but the attorneys for the defense
made it clear that if any move for
postponement for any pther reason
than the absence of a witness was
made, it would come from the other
side, or the Judge.
Attorney Arnold stated that the
failure of the Grand Jury to indict
Conley had made little difference to
their case, because it had been built
before any known move was made to
bring about the indictment.
“It made absolutely no difference to
us.” he said. “It was purely a tech
nical point in the trial that would
have been in our favor. As to the
negro's character and standing, it
would make ’ittle difference to a fair-
mi nd©0- tuc Aether he were in-
General Harris to
Inspect Second at
St, Simons Friday
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, July 22.—
The Second Georgia Regiment is
making extensive preparations for the
visit to camp of Brigadier General
Walter A. Harris and staff on Friday,
when a special dress parade will be
held in his honor.
The big battle of the maneuvers
was fought this morning, the men
having to cut their way with bayo
nets through the matted underbrush
of a swamp to get to the firing lines,
but, according to the instructors, they
did it like veterans. More “casual
ties” were caused by the barbed points
of sandspurs than by the enemy.
Rain fell yesterday for the first time
and the men were compelled to dr’ll
in ponchos. Forsyth defeated Colum
bus in a ball game, 14 to 4. To-day's
officer of the day was Captain John
T. Aycock, and the officer of the
guard Lieutenant H. A. Dickens, both
of Monroe.
Obsolete Laws to
Be Stricken From
Atlanta City Code
Through the efforts of Councilman
Claude L. Ashley, the City Council
has appointed a «necial committee to
strike all persiflage from the City
Code. He said it is full of obsolete
laws, and gives the following exam
ples:
No public meeting shall be held in
Atlanta without twelve hours’ notice
to the Chief of Police.
Pigs shall not be allowed to run
loose in the streets.
It shall be unlawful to trap mock
ingbirds within the city limits.
It shall be unlawful to auction off
mules at the corner of Broad and '" -
rletta streets.
Murray of Oklahoma Would
Hasten Relief to Americans and
Europeans in Mexico.
Clark Makes White
Suits Congress Fad
WASHINGTON, July 22.—If Mark
Twain could return to earth and come
to Congress he would be Immensely
gatlfled by the unanimity with which
distinguished statesmen have adopt
ed his fad of wearing white.
Over on the House side, Speaker
Champ Clark, looking like a huge
mountain of Ice cream, is resplendent
In white from his snowy hair to his
immaculate white ties. Since he has
eet the fashion there, it has spread
like wildfire over the chamber.
$5,000 Raised to Free
Socialist Riot Chief
GIRARD, KANS, July 21—The
Appeal to Reason has forwarded the
$5,000 cash necessary to obtain the
release of Patrick Quinlan, a social
ist of Paterson, N. J., sent to the peni
tentiary for inciting a riot during
the strike here.
The money was raised by subscrip
tion, and will secure Quinlan’s re
lease until the case can be carried to
a higher court.
WASHINGTON, July 22.—A sen
sational resolution demanding inter
vention in Mexico within 30 days un
less peace be restored, and denounc
ing the Heutra regime a6 one ot
"brute force, incendiarism, rapine and
murder.” was introduced in the House
to-day by Representative William H.
Murray, of Oklahoma, a Democrat.
The resolution provides that the
President shal notify Mexico that
peace must be restored and that the
lives and property of American citi
zens and all foreigners sojourning in
Mexico shall be respected.
If disorder in the Mexican repub
lic continues for another 30 days the
resolution provides the President
shall intervent, “establish peace and
order and civil government, and take
possession of all public property of
the former republic of Mexico and
hold the same until every item of ex
pense and all damages for the de
privation of liberty or the destruction
of property of any American citizen
or citizens of any other nation has
been fully compensated out of the
Mexican revenues.”
Gives President War Power.
It is also demanded that in the
event of intervention the President is
empowered to rehabilitate the Mexi
can Government, prepare the Mexi
cans for self-government and restore
law r and order, “and the President is
authorized to use the land and naval
forces of the United States for the
accomplishment of all such pur
poses.”
The preamble of the resolution de
fends the Monroe Doctrine and as
serts that the United States is in duty
bound to protect its own citizens in
Mexico as wel as the citizens of other
nations. The refusal of this coun
try to carry out the Monroe Doctrine,
the resolution says, might justify for
eign intervention.
Mr. Murrays resolution refers to
President Huerta as “the usurping
marauder.” Huerta, the resolution
recites, “has nullified the Constitu
tion, destroyed all lawful authority
and government and has committed
upon the persons of the President
(Madero) and his family, a black-
handed murder, paralleled In all his
tory only by the cruelty of the dark
ages, with all its superstitltions and
dastardly deeds of rapine and mur
der.”
“There remains In Mexico neither
rights of government nor of belliger-
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Bryan Naps in Depot;
Buys 45-Cent Lunch
For 5; All on $12,000!
CHICAGO, July 22.—For two hours
early to-day Secretary of State Bryan
sat nearly upright In a railroad sta
tion seat and slept. When his train
was called he entered a drawing room
and prepared to awake In Oelwein,
Iowa, where he was scheduled to give
a Chautauqua lecture this afternoon.
Before his nap Secretary Bryan en
tertained four newspaper men at a
midnight lunch which cost him 45
cents. He ate cantaloupe off a dairy
lunch chair. Three others of the party
ate canteloupe and one reporter drank
buttermilk.
Glass Tries to Quiet
WASHINGTON, July 22.—Repre
sentative Ragsdale, of South Caro
lina, the member of the House Bank
ing and Currency Committee who
suddenly quit the committee because
Chairman Glass could not furnish
copies of certain amendments to the
currency bill that Ragsdale demand
ed, returned to the conference on the
bill with his Democratic colleagues
to-day.
Glass made strenuous effort to pre
serve harmony In the committee.
Huge Cofferdam on
Ohio River Breaks
HENDERSON, KY„ July 22.—
Heavy piledrivers and barges were
tossed about on the Ohio River like
skiffs to-day when 200 feet of the cof
ferdam on the Government's $1,000,000
dam Just below here washed out.
Seores of workmen were swept into
the rushing waters, but late reports
said none drow’ned.
NEW SUICIDE ROUTE.
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH., July 22.—
Placing a stick of dynamite on top of
his head and lighting the fuse. John
Aho, a farmer, committed suicide
here.
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta
and Georgia: Local
showers Tuesday and
probably Wednesday.
and thefts covering a period of several
months.
The capture of the tw’O men, who
are said to be desperate criminals,
came only after they had been shad
owed for more than six weeks by
members of the detective department.
Their alleged attempt at looting the
Gober store came nearly being fatal
to Edward M. Davis, who works on
Saturdays and occasionally at other
times for Gober.
Davis was beaten unconscious and
carried, bound, into the ice box in the
rear of the store.
Near Death When Found.
The door was clamped shut on him,
and when he recovered consciousness,
he found that he was suffocating. Had
not the detectives been close on the
trail of the robbers, a few’ more min
utes would have resulted in the death
of the young man.
Despite the assertion of the detec
tives that they have connected the
men with a chain of robberies and
suit case thefts extending over a con
siderable time, both Reeves and Mill-
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“Always Keep Him Guessing Just a Little,’
Advises Mrs. Frank Wvneoff.
"I believe a woman should make a
study of her husband—always—if she
expects to realize a happy and ideal
marriage.”
That is Mrs. Frank Wyncoff’s Idea
of how to be happy though married.
Mrs. Wyfacoff, who was Miss Bess
Wall before her recent marriage. Is
the wife of Frank Wyncoff. the well-
known real estate operator.
"A wife Is supposed to he a help
mate," continued Mrs. Wyncoff, with
a bewitching smile, "and what is a
helpmate but a person to help solve
and cope with difficulties? And how
can a wife help her husband if she
does not understand and feel In per
fect sympathy with him? If husband
and wife start out by being frank and
corfldential with each other, there is
little chance of their matrimonial
craft being wrecked on the shoals of
divorce.
Militants Are Fined;
Burn Another House
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, July 22.—Following the
severe battle between the militant
suffragettes and the police, when the
later arrested Mrs. Emmeline Pank-
hurst and six of her followers, the
rioters were, arraigned in police court
to-day. Two were fined and two oth
ers w’ere ordered to furnish bond to
keep the peace.
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, July
22.—The suffragettes’ "arson squad”
resumed operations here to-day. A
house valued at $2,000 was destroyed
by fire.
“I believe a wife should be a com
panion and a chum to her husband.
And she should always try to be dif
ferent. and not fall Into a rut. Flirt
with him—don’t let him think he
knows you absolutely, and always
keep him guesing a little. But be a
chum to him. and make him knowr
that he Is the only man in the world.
“At meal time I think a wife should
be bright and attractive, telling her
husband cheerful, pleasant things.
Avoid petty neighborhood gossip—
no woman can be a good wife and a
neighborhood gossip at the same
time. And a man don’t w’ant to hear
gossip on coming home from his of
fice.
“It requires art to manage a hus
band, but if one is worth having, he
is worth keeping. So study him, and
what w’ill charm and attract him. and
one’s married life will be harmonious,
and not a series of wrangles.”
16 Considered for
Mercer President
MACON. July 22.—Dr. John E.
White, pastor of the Second Baptist
Church; the Rev. P. H. Mell, former
prescient of Clemson College, and
Professor M. L. Brittain. State Su
perintendent of Schools, all of At
lanta, are among the sixteen minis
ters and educators considered for the
presidency of Mercer University.
Others considered are Rev. W. W.
Landrum, of Louisville; Rev. John
Roach Straton, of Baltimore; Rev.
W. L. Pickard, of Savannah, and E.
T. Holmes, president of Gordon In
stitute, Barnesville.
Flames Start in Hay Stored Under
the Sleeping Quarters on
Oakley Farm.
JACKSON, MISS., July 22.—
Thirty-five convicts, sleeping on
the second floor of a wooden cage
at the Oakley convict farm 20
miles southwest of Jackson, were
burned to death early this
morning.
All of the victims were ne
groes and their bodies were
burned beyond recognition. This
afternoon their charred bodies
were buried in the prison grave
yard.
The fire started on the first floor r.t
the stairway landing, cutting off the
only avenue of escape. The structure
was built ten years ago with lumber
taken from the old penitentiary build
ing in Jackson. It burned with aston
ishing rapidity.
The convict farm is not equipped
with any form of fire protection. Two
night watchmen are employed at the
place, but neither saw the fire unril
the flames burst through the windows
of the lower floor.
The screams of the dying prisoners
could be heard for nearly two miles.
Farmers in the vicinity hurried to the
scene, but were unable to give any
assistance. The lower floor of the
cage was used as a store building,
quantities of hay, corn and molasses
being in storage. The hay doubtless
caused the fire to spread with added
rapidity.
The Oakley farm is in charge of
Sergeant S. T. Byrd. The prison hos
pital also is located at that place, but
the convicts who lost their lives were
not members of the hospital squad, all
of them being employed in the cotton
fields. Several noted negro criminals
were among those who lost their lives.
Coroner J. W. Beal, accompanied
by a jury, went to Oakley this morn
ing to hold an Inquest, and endeavor
to ascertain the cause of the fire*
Origin of Fire Mystery.
“I can’t explain it,” said Sergeant
Byrd over the long distance telephone
this morning. “As to the origin of
the fire I haven’t the slightest idea.
It may have been a match carelessly
dropped at the stairway. I can not
believe it was of incendiary origin.
“There was never a chance to save
any of the prisoners. The blaze was
under good headway before anybody
discovered it. When we reached the
building it was to find that the fire
centered around the only stairway
leading to the upper floor of the cage.
All of the upper windows were cov
ered with heavy iron bars and it was
impossible for the convicts to fight
their way out.
Fight Was Useless.
“We did everything in our power,
but the fight was useless. The build
ing was doomed from the first and
the piteous cries of the poor prisoners
w ho were being- roasted alive added to
the demoralization of our forces. We
have no sort of fire protection or fire
fighting equipment here, and the
buckets of water thrown by other
prisoners on the building had no ef
fect whatever.”
The first news of the holocaust was
received by Mrs. O. M. Spickard, sec
retary of the State Prison Board, in a
telephone message from Mrs. Byrd,
wife of the sergeant. Mrs. Byrd was
almost hysterical and could give but
few of the details. An hour later com
munication was secured with Ser
geant Byrd and a list of the victims
obtained. A number of the prisoners
were life termers.
Under prison rules, all convicts
must be in their cages and lights out
by 9 o’clock. The prisoners had been
sleeping several hours when they
were awakened by the intense heat
and clouds of smoke that poured up
from below.