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Atlanta Charter Is
Opposed by Senator
The new charter for Atlanta will be
opposed by Senator G. M. Hule, of
the Thirty-fifth District, which in
cludes Atlanta. His objection will be
based on the ground that the charter
curtails the powers of the City Re
corder.
* “While I don’t Uve in Fulton Coun
ty, still as Senator from the Thirty-
fifth I consider myself as much of a
resident of Atlanta as the Fulton
County delegation,” he said. “I see
where they want to cut the Record
er’s authority from a limit of $500 and
CO days to $200 and 30 days. I don’t
think they ought to do this; there
fore, I am going to hold the bill up in
the Senate.”
Urges Congressional
Record Cartoonist
WASHINGTON, July 22.—A sug
gestion that the Congressional Record
be made an illustrated daily and that
a regular cartoonist be employed by
Congress was made by Senator John
Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, speak
ing jocularly during a debate as to
whether illustrations should be in-
serted in the Record.
"Why could we not have a regular
cartoonist,” said Williams, “and a
daily illustrated Record, with proper
headlines and loving and lovable
caricatures of our friends across the
chamber?”
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Murray of Oklahoma Would
Hasten Relief to Americans and
Europeans in Mexico.
Nominations and Photos of All
Types of Beauty Are
Pouring In.
With the "Beauty Button” contest,
to determine whose picture among
the hundreds of Atlanta girls shall
adorn the Greater Atlanta button, In
full swing, nominations with photo
graphs of all types of beauty are
coming !n.
Hundreds of votes are being cast,
everyone in Atlanta having the privi
lege of nominating and voting for
whomever they wish. The honor of
leading the city in its quest for the
500,000 population mark by 1920 is
being sought on all sides.
Every contestant is busy securing
votes, and with the end of the race,
the picture of the candidate securing
the largest number of votes will be
placed upon the button.
One of the latest entrants Is Miss
Estell McDonald, an extremely at
tractive young woman, whose friends
are confident that no mistake will be
made if she is chosen to represent
fair Atlanta.
MOVE PENSACOLA POSTOFFICE
PENSACOLA, July 22.—According
to Postmaster A. G. Fell, the post
office here this week will be moved to
other quarters until the remodeling
now In progress in the Federal Build
ing is completed.
Glass Tries to Quiet
Money Board Strife
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.
Said the Bulldog in
Tree-Never Again!
CHICAGO, July 22.—“Whitey,” a
bulipup, loved to sink his teeth into
auto tires.
Yesterday he made one lunge at a
revolving tire, caught it firmly in his
teeth and sailed away into the air.
Emil Klank, manager of Frank Gotch.
wrestler, climbed into a tree, 20 feet
high, and rescued "Whitey”—unhurt,
hut greatly puzzled.
More than 100 automobile! passed
“Whitey’s” home to-day. “Whitey”
sat on the porch and watched them.
Wrestler Killed as
He Falls on Dynamite
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.. July 22.—
Falling while wrestling with his
brother near Germantown, Martin
Funk. 18, was blown to pieces to-day.
A stick of dynamite in his hip pocket
exploded.
His brother’s left hand was blown
off.
Deadly Bomb Sent
To Carnegie Will Be
Dropped Into Ocean
NEW YORK. July 22.—So deadly
was the bomb sent to the offices of
the Carnegie Corporation addressed
personally to Andrew Carnegie, In the
opinion of the police, that the Bureau
of Combustibles will to-day take the
missile on hoard a launch and drop
It in the sea as the only safe way of
getting it out of New York.
So dangerous is believed to be the
contents of the watermelon-shaped
container of zinc that the bureau’s
chief bomb expert refused to open It,
declaring that the destruction of two
city blocks might result.
So far the police are without a clew
to the sender of the bomb.
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 an one of
“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 shall 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 intervene, "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 dep
rivation 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 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 superstititions and
dastardly deeds of rapine and mur
der."
"There remains In Mexico neither
rights of government nor of belliger
ent powers such as could be recog
nized,” continues the Oklahoman’s
resolution
Punishment for Guerrillas.
After warning the Mexican Gov
ernment to restore order and protect
the lives of Americans, it Is stipu
lated that this Government "shall
pursue to the ends of the earth” any
military leader or band who disre
gards the warning.
With the arrival of Ambassador
Henry Lane Wilson only two days
distant, Washington is on the qul
vive for every ahift in the Mexican
situation.
Predictions are made that, by the
time Ambassador Wilson arrives, the
Huerta administration will be in
such an unstable conditon that the
envoy will not recommend that it
be recognized, no matter how favor
ably disposed he may be toward it.
Dispatches of the past two days
have caused deep alarm to the State
Department because of the insistent
appeals for help coming from Ameri
cans in the demoralized country.
Tuxpam, on the southeastern coast
of Mexico, is now the center of all
official eyes. The town was cap
tured by the Constitutionalists, and
the battleship Louisiana, with Rear
Admiral Fletcher aboard, Is speeding
toward the port from Vera Cruz to
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 lujich which cost him 45
cents. He ate cantaloupe off a dairy
lunch chair. Three others of the party
ate eanteloupe and one reporter drank
buttermilk.
Continued on Page 2, Column 3.
Two New Militia
Companies Forming
JACKSONVILLE, July 22.—Next
Tuesday evening there will be a mass
meeting at the Duval County armory
when militia affairs will he discussed.
The object of the meeting is the or
ganization of a new company of mili
tia for the First Infantry, National
Guard of Florida.
Lewis Landes has been working up
the new company. He believes the
mass meeting will be the finishing
touch.
Two other companies are being
formed in Jacksonville at present and
the meeting will be of such assistance
to the organizers that this will give
Jacksonville seven companies of in
fantry.
16 Considered for
Mercer President
MACON. July 22.—Dr. John E.
White, pastor of the Second Baptist
Church; the Rev. P. H. Mell, former
prerident of riemson College, and
Professor M. L. Brittain, State Su
perintendent of School!, 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.
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Hot Siege Broken,
Says Weather Man
Hot weather is over in Atlanta for
the next few days, and the weather
man says there is no immediate pros
pect of another spell like that of last
week. An east wind, bearing consid
erable moisture, Is causing showers ad
over Georgia and the South Atlantic
coast region.
The forecast for Tuesday and Wed
nesday is showers, with a maximum
temperature of 82 or 83 degrees
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Fifth, Wealthy Citizen, May Be
Arrested as Result of Sus
picious Blaze.
TAMPA, July 22.—Four men are
In jail and a fifth, one of the city’s
wealthy citizens, may be Jailed soon,
as the result of a fire In the Hills-
obrough Dry Goods Company’s store
at 1 o’clock this morning, which Fire
Chief Matthews declares one of the
“rawest” attempts at arson he ever
saw.
The men held are Frank and Max
Richards. Frank Field and C. P. Hill.
Richards and Field, who are both in
terested in the company, were ar
rested at the fire, after Chief Mat
thews had observed conditions sur
rounding the blaze.
Investigations to-day developed
that the stock, alleged to have been
worth not more than $15,000, was in
sured for $88,000. On Saturday sev
eral agents, suspicious of the heavy
valuation, called for cancellations.
They were told that the policies had
been mislaid. One or two of the
agents then mailed cancellation no
tices, under registered mail, which
should have reached the company
Monday morning. Under the law the
insurance would have held for five
days, so that there is significance in
the date of the fire.
C. J. Hutchinson Involved.
Evidence of insurance agents is to
the effect that C. J. Hutchinson, own
er of the two buildings in which the
fire took place, was to secure most,
if not all, of the insurance and that
it was all taken out within the last
few weeks. Hutchinson explained his
activity in the company by saying he
was a silent partner, having‘an in
terest of $17,500. which is more than
the insurance men claim th * entire
stock was worth.
Yesterday Hutchinson, who owns
an all-night drug store next to the
dry goods company, is alleged to have
ordered chauffeurs who had main
tained a night and day stand in the
street near his place to leave.
Suspicion of Arson.
When the fire was discovered, Chief
Matthews found the stairways clogged
with mattresses, roped together; win
dows barred up; inflammable mate
rial stored In many places; evidence
of two fires having ben started, and
a hole cut in the brick fire wall where
the building inspectors had given
permission only to cut an air shaft.
County Solicitor Jackson has taken
charge of the case and will hear a
number of witnesses.
Miami Police Chief
Blames Politics for
Charge Against Him
MIAMI, July 22.—As a sequel to the
arrest yesterday by Chief of Police C.
R. Ferguson of M. P. Merritt, a sus
pended policeman, on a charge of dis
orderly conduct, the chief was to-day
arrested on a warrant sworn out by
Merritt, charging him with making
undue advances ta Merritt’s wife. The
warrant was issued after a lengthy
hearing before County Judge Red- j
mond B. Gautier, in which Mrs. Mer- I
ritt testified to the truthfulness of the
charge. The chief’s tria* is set for to
morrow.
In the meantime Merritt making
every effort to get Mayor W «t*nn to
remove Chief Ferguson, pending final
decision in the case. Chief Fergu
son, a candidate for renomlnatlon in
to-day’s primary, declares the action
is political chicanery in an effort to
defeat him, and that he Is Innocent of
all charges and will be so proven in
court.
In to-day’s primary there were sev
en candidates for chief of police, three
for Mayor, ten for five Councllmanic
positions and four for Municipal
Judge. Mayor Watson, candidate for
renomination, was opposed by Cap
tain G. Duncan Brossier and Mitchell
D. Price, an attorney.
House Has ‘Spank’
Day; Olive Warms
Breeches of Pages
Tuesday was official spanking day
In the House, with genial Sam Olive,
Representative from Richmond Coun
ty, as "spanker” and the pages as
"Spankees.”
During the recess the pages became
unusually playful. In fact, they are
the liveliest pages* the House ever has
known. One of them developed the
Idea of initiating the new members of
their ranks, but ran a-foul of Rep
resentative Olive, who decided to
initiate the entire lot.
Ten slaps upon the western side of
each of the pages’ trousers were ap
plied to each youngster. There was
no escape, for as each boy’s turn
came the other pages seized him and
held him firmly across genial Sam's
lap, while the ten slaps were counted
in unison.
‘Bomb’ for Wilson
Was Cake of Soap;
Doctor Brought It
WASHINGTON, July 22.—When
Dr. Bernard Rachauer, who gave his
address at Fort Hamilton. N. Y.,
called at the White House to-day and
demanded to see President Wilson,
i the secret service men took him into
i custody long enough to examine a
black bag the doctor carried.
The secret service operatives feared
a bomb. They found a cake of soap
and a roll of bandages.
Dr. Rachauer would not state his
business with the President. He was
told that the Chief Executive was
"not at home.”
Romania Ready to
Treat With Bulgars
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VIENNA, July 22.—The Bulga
rian Legation here this afternoon
received the following dispatch
from the home government at So
fia:
“The Government has decided
to surrender Adriinoplt to the
T urks."
BUCHAREST, July 22—Roumania
la willing to end the war with Bul
garia. In an official note issued to
day it accepts the Sofia Government's
offer to cede territory' above Turtukai
and Dobrideh.
Roumanla suggest*, however, that
the peace negotiations proceed with
in the borders of Its own country.
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 were 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.
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Conference Planned to Decide
Which Shall Take Precedence.
Ready to Draw Venire.
Reuben R. Arnold, of counsel
for Leo M. Frank, announced.
Tuesday that he proposed to seek
a conference of the attorneys in
the Frank case and in the Craw
ford will hearing to determine
which case should be postponed
next Monday, the date set for
the beginning of the trial of
Frank on the charge of slaying
Mary Phagan.
Mr. Arnold, Luther Z. Rosser, chief
of counsel for Frank, both also are
attorneys in the Crawford win case,
and it would be impossible on this
account to conduct the two cases si
multaneously. The Crawford hearing
will resume Wednesday before a spe
cial auditor In a branch of the Supe
rior Court, and undoubtedly will ha
In progress next week if it is not
stopped by a postponement.
The will hearing, because of the
fact that It already Is under way,
would have a natural precedence over
the Frank trial. This may be waived,
however, in order to take up the Pha
gan mystery.
None of the attorneys for the de
fense will say that they intend to ask
for a postponement of the Frank trial,
but the hot weather and the fact that
the Crawford case Is in progress al
this time apepar to he combining t»
bring about such a consummation.
Judge Roan has stated that the ea»*
would be called Monday, but he prob
ably will accede to the request for a
conference some day this week to dis
cus! the matter.
Court Likely to Acc«de.
Attorney Arnold will ask that the
jurymen he not summoned until a
definite decision is reached as to
which of the cases Is to take preca*
dence.
When Deputy Sheriff Plennie Miner
arranged to install twelve large elec
tric fans In the courtroom for the
Frank trial Tuesday morning, he said
there would he no excuse for a post
ponement on the grounds of the room
being too warm.
"Spectators will not be allowed to
crowd Into the court,” he said. “The
fans will keep it much cooler than
the average office building in the city.
There are plenty of windows, and the
place is always well shaded.”
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.
Denies She Retracted.
According to a dispatch from Chat
tanooga, w r here 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. This venire
will be called next Monday morning
unless the weather Is unusually warm.
The jury, in all probability**-w111 he
selected and served beforaA^Jednes-
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