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ALWAYS FIRST ® <H> The SUNDAY AMERICAN Or Her it MOW^ — The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—-GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for'Results HOME EDITION Both Phones Main 8000 VOL. XI. NO. 302. ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY, JULY 23,1913. By c 7Xr^co. 2 CENTS. p & K l° ‘I AM READY FOR TRIAL,’ SAYS FRANK +•+ •5-*+ +•+ 4-*+ +•+ +•+ f*+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ 4**+ +•+ -F«4- *F»H* +*4. +«-F +*-F TELEPHONE GIRLS HELP POLICE TRAP BURGLARS FLASHLIGHT OF SOCIETY FOLK AT WATER FROLIC AT FORREST ADAIR'S POOL TUESDAY EVENING I Trio of Robbers Surprised as They Are Looting Store Caught in Long Chase. The presence of mind of half a dozen girls employed at the Atlanta Telephone Exchange, at Ivy and Edge- wood streets, in notifying the police when they saw burglars breaking into the candy store of Michael Koliff, across the street, resulted in the capture of two negro burglars early Wednesday morning. In the chase and battle which fol- j lowed the arrival of the police one of the negroes, Will Wauker, was shot in the right leg by Call Officer Wat son, but was not wounded seriously. The other negro, Dave Smith,‘was found hiding in a cellar on Houston street half an hour later by Flair. Clothes Officer Oresham and Captain Mayo. The police declare that the burglars would have escaped with their booty had it not been for the telephone girls, and Chief of Police Beavers has extended his personal thanks ani congratulations to the girl* for their presence of mind. Heard Glass Crash. The ^oung women, while working at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday morning- heard the sound of breaking glass as the burglars smashed the window of the candy store. Looking out of the exchange win dow the grils saw the two men en ter a store. A third posted himself on tile corner as lookout. While several of the young women watched the burglars, another of the girls telephoned police headquarters and notified the police. Assistant Chief Jett, Captain Mayo. Call Officers Watson and Anderson and Policeman McWilliams went to the scene In an automobile. As the car, driven at top speed, dashed up to the front of the candy store, the negro who stood on the sidewalk saw the officers coming and ran. The police, thinking he was the only man In the job, started in pursuit, but were called back by the telephone girls, who were gathered at the windows of the plant. Call Policemen Back. “Come back,” they cried, "there are two others in the store I As the car turned and started hur riedly back to the store, two negroes dashed out of the front door and ran up Ivy street, with the police in pur suit. The negroes turned down Au burn avenue and ran to the plant of Continued on Page 2, Columr Bacon, Needed at Capital, Unable to Address Assembly Senator Bacon will not be able to address the General Assembly of Geor gia in response to the invitation ex tended him last week, on account of the absolute necessity of every Dem ocratic Senator being in Washington while the tariff bill is before Con gress. In a letter expressing deep regret, Senator Bacon also inclosed a letter from Senator Kern urging him not to leave the National Capital at this time because of the existing strained relations with certain nations. The letter was read in the House and Senate Wednesday morning, and resolutions of regret at Senator Ba con’s forced declination were adopted. Big Fortune Left by Russian Sought Here Somewhere in the United States a Russian emigrant named Trooshkov- sky .died a few years ago, leaving a vast fortune, and in the effort to lo cate In whose hands the estate is now being held, W. Trooshkovsky, of St. Petersburg. Russia, has Implored the assistance of Governor Slaton. While such information would not be In the Governor’s office, through newspaper publicity Governor Sla ton hopes to be able to furnish the information requested if Trooshkov sky lived in Georgia. Any person hav ing information is requested to com municate with the Governor. Cardinal Gibbons 79; Felicitated by Pope BALTIMORE, MD, July 23.—In a modest chapel at the home of T. Her bert Shrlver, at Union Mills, near Westminster, Md., Cardinal Gibbons this morning celebrated the maas of thanksgiving that marked the 79th anniversary of his birth. Only mem bers of the family of the host were present. The rest of the day the Cardinal passed In repose. He received many telegrams and letters of felicitation, including a cablegram from the Pope and rulers of Europe. LEGISLATOR SOULE Assembly Likely to Probe Report False Representation Was Made to Boost Salary. Do You Know P the Hottest City on Earth? Read Page 14 Representative Connor, of Spald ing County, introduced a resolution In the House to-day calling for a legis lative investigation of the State Ag-. ricultural College at Athens, particu larly with respect to Dr. Andrew M. Soule's connection therewith. Mr. Connor's resolution recites the fact that Dr, Soule has been publicly accused in The Southern Eancier- Farmer, a poultry and agricultural magazine, with having obtained a re cent raise in salary upon false repre sentations, and calls upon the Legis lature to Investigate the charge and summon Dr. Soule before the Com mittee on Appropriations to answer the same. It also provides for the summoning ofB. M. Blackburn, the editor of the magazine, who is held responsible for the charges, to come before thtr com mittee and substantiate them, If he can. The magazine charges that Dr. Soule recently asked the board to raise his salary from $5,000 to $6,000 and based his appeal upon the ground that he had been offered a salary o,f $8,000 per annum to serve in a simi lar capacity in the Minneapolis Col lege of Agriculture. The magazine says Dr. Soule never was offered any such sum to serve In the Minnesota college, nor any sum whatever, and that hfs correspondence with the Minnesota college was very brief, and resulted speedily in the choice of another man for the place. The Fancier-Farmer prints that which purports to be documentary evidence to sustain this charge. Besides the direct allegation of ob taining a raise In salary on false rep resentation to the Georgia College management, the magazine attacks Dr. Soule vigorously for incompeten- cy and general unfitness for the of fice he holds. Postmasters Named For 3 Georgia Towns WASHINGTON, July 23. — The President to-day nominated the fol lowing Georgia postmasters: Joseph M. McAfee, Canton. Chero kee County; Annie K. Bunn, Cedar- town. Polk County, and George Dans- by, Rockmai’t, Polk County. J. N. Brown, a Greek, of No. 49 Luckle street, was arrested Wednes day for insulting e woman who. In company with her husband, stood on the corner of Spring and Luckie mtfeets. The husband knocked the Greek to the pavement. Brown came to his feet and ran toward Carnegie Way. The man gave chase and cornered Brown in front of Engine House No. 8. Firemen called the patrol w^gon and Brown was arrested and freed on $100 cash bond. Slain While Aiding Brother in- a Fight DOTHAN, ALA., July 23.—Robert Moon, aged 20, shot and killed Jo seph Halsted, 25 years old, in a row at Memphis Church, seven miles south of Dothan, late Tuesday night. Moon shot three times with a pis tol, all taking effect. He surrendered to the Sheriff. Moon was in a row with Jasper Halsted, brother of .Jo seph, when Joseph interfered. Hal sted is survived by a wife and small child. Young Atlanta Banker Sinks Rapidly and Dies at Asheville Following New Treatment. Atlanta Salesmen Held as ‘Peddlers' RICHMOND, July 23.—Arrested last night at the Instance of the Re tail Merchants’ Association on the charge of peddling merchandise with out a license, J. H. Thrash and W. E. Holston, young men, both from At lanta. representing the Fisher Knit ting Mill Company, were in Police Court to-day. They were allowed to go free when they explained that they were merely soliciting orders. f # # # # ms>r^ The Man Who Said “There Is Nothing New Under the Sun” neglected to read The Georgian “Want Ad’’ columns. New features, names, opportunities, prices and effects are being introduced daily. Read for Profti Georgian “Want Ads” Use for Results wiilliitfU Bitter arraignment of Dr. Franz Friedrich Friedmann, the German scientist and discoverer of a serum hailed as a curative of tuberculoses, followed the death of Austell Thorn ton, one of the best-known young bankers in Atlanta, near Asheville, N. C., early Wednesday morning. Thornton’s death was the result of tuberculosis, which set in fallowing an attack of pneumonia eighteen months ago. When Dr. Friedmann came / to this country last winter with his serum, heralded as a cure for con sumptives, Thornton went to New York and underwent the treatment. While Dr. Friedmann used the Bellevue Hospital there in demon strating his cures, he also did a great deal of work in hotels among patients who flocked to Manhattan from all over the United States. Treated by Friedmann. Thornton received his injections at the hotel where he was stopping, and it is said that Dr. Friedmann himself administered them. It is al«o declared that the German physician charged young Thornton a fabulous price for the treatment, one person Wednesday morning placing the sum at $3,500. Thornton ended his treatments and left New York three months ago in the belief that the serum would prove a curative, as It had been claimed. The only improvement at all notice able was a lessehing of the fever. “I am firmly convinced,” said S. H. Venable, an uncle of Thornton’s wid ow, that the Friedmann treatment hastened Thornton’s end. When he went to New York to take the injec tions the young man was not in a dangerous condition, still almost im mediately after he left New York aft er the serum had been injected into him he began to grow weaker. The plague’s ravages were more notice able.” Mr. Thornton was about 31 years old, and had resided in Atlanta since childhood. Six years ago he married Miss Bob Venable. He was prominent in society and club circles* being a member of the Piedmont Driving Club, the Capital City Club and of practically every other prominent social organization of the city. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock from the family home. No. 611 Peachtree street. Inter - mei. private at Oakland. Breakfasters Eat On Calmly as Fire Is Fought in Cafe Fire which broke out in the celling of Durand’s Restaurant shortly be fore 7.30 o'clock Wednesday morning failed to take the appetite from a dozen men, who calmly continued eat ing their breakfast while firemen swarmed the room. Even when the firemen mounted ladders and began hacking at the ceiling the diners were not dismayed. The Are was of little consequence, the ceiling catching probably from a defective wire near the flue of the warming retainer. The call brought out every centra! company, though, while a great crowd of early morning workers gathered. China Quells Revolt; Shanghai in Danger Special Cable to The Georgian. SHANGHAI, July 23.—From reports received here to-day It is believed the Chinese Republic will not be torn asun der. The outlook for President Yuan is much more hopeful and all indications point to the Government ruling supreme. The ro5 r al troops to-day defeated the Secessionists at Hsuichoufu. An attack on the arsenal at Shanghai by the southern army is expected at any mo ment. NEGRO SAID TO HAVE Shoots Stepmother To Reunite Parents BASS LAKE, IND., July 23.—Martin Strasburger tried to kill his stepmother and then ended his own life, that the way might be cleared for a reconcilia tion between his father and divorced mother. This is the theory held by many here as the solution of the double shooting at Frank Strasburger’s country’ home, in which the second Mrs. Strashurger was wounded and Strasburger’s son Martin killed himself. Zion City Banishes Pool and ‘Movies' ZION CITY. ILL., July 23.—The young sports and old ones of Zion City hereafter w’lll go to bed without rolling their accustomed series of games of Keely pool. The other resi dents of the city will retire without having made their nightly excursion to the moving picture theater. The City Council, controlled by the forces of Oversee.* Voliva, ordered the theater and the poolroom closed. BALTIMORE RESORT BURNS. BALTIMORE, July 23.—Fire early to-day swept Klein’s Deer Park, a re sort at Westport, destroying every building in the place. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Local thundershow ers Wednesday and probably Thursday. Here are Wednesday’s important developments in the Pha- gan murder mystery: Bloodstained glove of Mary Phagan is said to have been found on the first floor near the place the discovery of her pay envelope was made. New evidence is found tending to establish the identity of the negro, Will Green, said to have seen the attack upon Mary Pha gan. Newt Lee, negro night watchman at the pencil fa-ctory. under goes a grilling examination at the hands of Solicitor General Dor sey and his associate counsel. Frank A. Hooper. J. M. Gantt, expected to give sensational evidence for the pros ecution at the trial, is in conference with the solicitor and pres ent at the grilling of Lee. Leo M. Frank tells Sheriff Mangiim that he is eager for the trial to begin, and will be ready when it is called Monday morn ing. Solicitor Dorsey announces that he will insist that there be no further delay. It became known Wednesday that, the defense in the Frank case had been informed that the negro, Will Green, who is said to have been shooting craps with Jim Conley the day that Mary Phagan was* murdered and to have seen her attacked, and the Wil lGreen living at 105 Thur mond street, Atlanta, are the same person. Private detectives In the employ of the defense have trailed the negro across a half-dozen States and have missed him by as small a margin as 30 minutes In some of the towns they have visited in the chase. Trailed by a Ring. Charles Fine, proprietor of the Ra dius Jewelry Company, No. 107 Peachtree street, when he read in The Georgian that the defense was search ing for a Will Green, recalled that he had a ring in his store which was to have been called for by a negro of the same name, but which unaccount ably had been left there without a claimant. He regarded this as pecu liar, and notified persons interested In the defense. A negro calling himself J. Will Green visited the store May 16 and displayed* a rather ornate gold ring, worth probably $12 or $15. He de sired to have a Radius diamond set in it, and said that he would be around within a day or two after It. He never returned. It was about this time that the report spread around the city that the Phagan murder had had an eyewitness in the person of a negro who was shooting craps with Conley. A sister of the Will Green who left the ring at the Jewelry store was seen Wednesday. She said that her broth er had left town about two month* ago and that none of the family had heard from him since or had any Idea where he was. She said he was work ing with some small circus or theat rical troupe when he left. Sister Offers an Alibi. The Green that the detectives have been pursuing Us known to be con nected with a circus or show, addi tional strength thus being given to the theory that their identity is the same. She thought the detectives were mistaken in believing that her broth er knew anything about the crime. He slept practically all the day that Mary Phagan was murdered, she de- • dared, and didn’t even go downtown to see the Memorial Day parade, al though he was urged by one of his friends. He was working nights for the Southern Railway at this time, according to the sister, joining the show people a few days later. She failed to explain why he sud denly had left town without stopping to recover the gold ring of consider able value which he had left at the Fine jewelry store. Gantt Sees Solicitor. J. M. Gantt, a discharged employee of the National Pencil Factory, who Wednesday conferred with Solicitor General Dorsey and Attorney Frank A. Hooper, denied that he made the startling statement to them thRt he saw at 1 o’clock on the day that Mary MMMM