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ALWAYS FIRST ® ® The SUNDAY AMERICAN Order it NOW: — Both Phone* Main 8000 The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—-GEORGIAN WANT ADS-~Use for Results VOL. XI. NO. 301. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1913. Copyright. 1906, By The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. PAT NO MORE. 35 CONVICTS BURN TO DEATH +•+ +•+ +»•!• ■!•••!• +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ .{•••{. •F»4* •!•••!• +•+ +•+ ■!••+ Nina Formby Says She Will Testify Ayainst Frank +•+ 4**+ + +•+ +•+ +•* *•+ DEMAND FOR INTERVENTION MADE IN HOUSE BRIDE TELLS HOW TO MANAGE A HUSBAND TO VENIRE 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- Continued on Page 2, Column 6. TO The Mystery of Pierpont Morgan's Granddaughter She is the richest of debutantes, but the least known, loneliest and the most unhappy. Can the stars explain why this heiress is guard ed more jealously than a Royal Princess? The whole puzzling affair will be a feature in Next Sunday’s American Don’t fail to order your paper at once and make sure of getting this great story, with doz ens of others. See your dealer or phone Main 8000 w > 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- Continued on Page 2, Column 5. “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.