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THE GEORGIAN'S NEWS BK’IKFS
NEWS OF SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1913
U. S. SECRETS TAKEN
FROM WIRES BY MEXICO
WASHINGTON, July 19.—A copy
of the official code of the State De
partment, containing information
worth thousands of dollars to foreign
governments, has fallen into the
hands of the Mexican Administration.
It Is being used t«* further the ends
of the Huerta regime, It was assert
ed here to-day.
For some months State Department
officials have suspected that the Gov
ernment telegrams from Mexico City
have been tampered with, it is de
clared, but this was not considered
important, a» all the dispatches were
in code, and, therefore, theoretically
illegible.
About three weeks ago, however
Government officials here had their
first inkling that the Mexicans were
obtaining the gist of the dispatches
passing between the State Depart
ment and Ambassador Wilson.
At first it was suspected that ar.
employee of the department in this
city was to blame, but investigation
proved this to be impossible. The te 1 -
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 these were above suspicion.
The agents of the almost unknown
"secret service" of the State Depar -
ment then were put on the trail and
evidence was 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
at once took on an international aspect,
and the efforts of the department’s
agents to discover tire “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.
MEXICO VlTY, July 19.—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.
THINKS HE WILL LOSE POST.
MEXICO CITY. July 19.—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 days
in officialdom are numbered.
Before his departure he ordered the
removal of a costly silver service an!
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
DEBS AIDS 'MAGDALEN;’
REBUKES PHARISEES
HELEN COX
$100,000,000 MERCHANDISE
IN NE WY0RK WAREHOUSES
NEW YORK. July 19.—More than
$100,000,000 worth of merchandise 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 undei
the present tariff law. The owners
ere waiting to sec 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 importer who has his goods on
band will have a great advantage over
competitors.
LIVES ON HIS SALARY.
WASHINGTON. July 19.—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 T^abor declares he
can live with ease on his salary as a
Cabinet officer.
SAYS JURY WON’T INDICT
CONLEY BEFORE FRANK TRIAL
Solicitor Dorsey expressed assur
ance Saturday afternoon that the
Grand Jury never would indict Jim
Conley before the trial of Leo M.
Frank.
At the same time it became known
that attorneys for the defense had
made the usual move of asking that
I ihe jurors to pass on the guilt or in
nocence of Frank be drawn from the
Grand Jury box insteau of the petit
jury box.
"There is no more chance that Jim
Conley will be indicted,” said the So
licitor. “than that the judge will ac
cede to the remarkable request of the
defense for a jury picked from the
Grand Jury box."
The Solicitor already has filed a
protest against the proposed pro
cedure which the defense is said to
have suggested.
"It is irregular in the extreme,” said
the Solicitor, it never has been done
before to my knowiedge. I am not
’.nformed as to its legality. That
matter I have not looked up, but I
iav.e protested against it and will
fight any such move "
The Solicitor’s assurance that no
indictment would be brought against
Conley was taken to mean that he
wa.. in possession of evidence which
he believed would be sufficient ef
fectively to deter the jurors from
charging the negro with the crime.
“I can not believe that any Grand
Jury, with the knowiedge of the facts
before it. could bring an indictment
against Conley,” he said.
Asked if he thought that a “no
bill" on the charge of murder would
be brought out against the negro, the
Solicitor refused to make further
comment.
He intimated, however, that he
would be present at the hearing and
suited in the indictment of Leo M.
Frank on the charge of slaying Mary
Phagan. Solicitor Dorsey will lay be
fore the body for the first time ail of
his reasons for desiring a postpone
ment of all further investigation until
after the trial of Frank.
Should the solicitor be driven back
from this position by the Grand Jury
again' disregarding his wishes and
taking up the investigation, he will
be forced to take refuge in the last
ditch and make his fight against the
indictment of Conley.
Socialist Leader Takes Into His Home Disgraced
Daughter of a Melitodist Minister.
TERRE HAUTE IND., July 19.—
Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist
leader, has issued what he terms
his “challenge to the Christianity of
Terre Haute."
He has taken into his home in the
Indiana city Helen Cox, the daugh
ter of a Methodist preacher. She had
eloped with a member of a prominent
family w’ho divorced her and took
their child. She was arrested for
immorality. Debs met her on a visit
to the jail and, 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.
“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 at
tention. 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
woman 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 a? well,"
HAD TRANSPARENT SKIRT.
AUGUSTA, GA„ July 19.—All Au
gusta is talking to-day of the arrest
of Miss Edith Anderson, 1215 Jones
street, Friday afternoon, because she
appeared on Broad street, the main
thoroughfare of the city, clad in a
"transparent skirt,” a dainty, filmy
creation of lace through which twin
kled stockings of a vivid green.
Miss Anderson appeared just as the
afternoon dress parade was at its
height. A stolid, unemotional copper
stood swinging his stk-k on a busy
corner of Broad street when Miss An
derson appeared. The copper saw the
crowd coming, he saw men fight
ing small boys for places in the fore
front, and he looked up.
"Why—why!” he stammered, mop
ping his fevered face. “Why—er—
why—because—er—dawgone it!" He
pointed downward with his nightstick,
"You can’t wear things like that in
Augusty."
Miss Anderson smiled pityingly up
on the officer, but accompanied him
to headquarters.
SHE FEARED POISON.
Police investigation of the burning
of the home of Mrs. A. C. Klapper, at
No. 256 East Hunter street, Saturday
morning, for which G. A. Vaughn, an
employee of the Boston Trading Com
pany and a roomer at the Klapper
home, is held on suspicion of being
the incendiary, took a new’ and unex
pected turn Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Klapper, when questioned by
Detective Coker. declared that
Vaughn tried to poison her one day
last week.
Vaughn was taken from his cell and
grilled by Detective Coker and Chief
of Detectives Lanford for more than
an hour Saturday morning, in the
hope of getting him to admit some
connection with the burning of the
Klapper home. He was also asked
about Mrs. Klapper's assertion that
he tried to poison her.
He admitted taking her the water,
but denied that there were any pow
ders in the glass.
CIVIL WAR NOW THREATENS
IN REPUBLIC OF CHINA
CANTON. CHINA, July 19.—A com-
plete severance of political relations
between Northern and Southern China
was proclaimed here to-day. Business
is at a standstill. Revolutionary lead
ers are threatening to seize the Gov
ernment buildings.
A British torpedo boat is proceed
ing to this port from Hong Kong to
I protect British lives and interests.
The Governor General of Kwang
1 Tung Province has proclaimed his
I territory independent of the Pekin
Government and declares-in the same
proclamation that the Provincial
Council has nominated him command
er-in-chief of the revolutionary army.
That United States diplomacy as
well as Japanese is supporting the
revolutionaries trying to overthrow
President Yuan Shih Kai was claimed
by leaders of the Southern rebellion.
The Pekin Government, headed by
President Yuan, is receiving the sup
port of England, Germany and France.
Developments indicate that the ques
tion of the proposed $100,000,000 Chi
nese loan enters into the situation.
England, Germany and France sub
scribed pro rata shares to the loan,
but the United States financiers were
not allowed by their Government to
participate.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen, one of the leaders
in the uprising which overthrew the
Manchu Dynasty, and the firset pro
visional President of China, and Dr.
Wu Ting-fang, former Chinese Min
ister to the ITnited- States, are be
lieved to be lukewarm to the rebel
cause.
Dr. Sun has left for Nanking, the
provisional republican capital, where
he may make opon declaration of his
loyalty to the southerners.
President Yuan is suspected of be
ing an imperialist at heart. The
southerners want a democrat.
Wu Chang remains loyal, hut revo
lutionary sentiment is fast growing
there.
Four thousand rebels were deci
sively defeated by 2,000 Government
forces at Hsu-Chow-Fu, north >f
Kiang Su.
DIG TO GAMBLERS.
CLEVELAND, OHIO. July 19 —Po
lice dug through a two-foot wall an 1
raided a gambling house on Wood
land avenue early to-day. Six men
were arrested.
FLIES TO CHARLESTON.
CHARLESTON. July 19—W. S Luck-
ey. a Curtiss flier from New York city,
who is spending a week at the Isle of
Palms on Friday flew in a hydro-aero
plane from the Isle of Palms to Charles
ton, a distance of about 12 miles, by
water, in 8 minutes, a speed of 90 miles
an hour.
Luckey also skimmed across the har
bor with his main float partly sub
merged at a rate of 45 miles an
SLIT GOWNS FOR OLD FOLKS.
LEXINGTON, KY, Jisly 19.—
“Grown-up folks may w’ear siit
gowns, but the young shall not,” de
clared Judge J. P. Scott, of the Ju
venile Court, here in sending Mar
garet Murphy, 16, to a convent for
having improper guardianship. The
girl was arrested while “joy riding"
with a young man. She way dressed
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