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6 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. 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