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VOL. XI. NO. 302. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 23,1913. «* c ?C8M5 , c* 2 CENTS.
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RIVALRY, MINUS DISCORD, ABOUNDS
IN BOOSTER BUTTON BEAUTY RACE
Candidates
for sponsorship
of 500,000
Club growing
numerous.
Miss Maude
Steele,
new entry of
brunette type
and one of
prettiest
in contest.
CHARGES POISON PLOT TO YOUNG WIFE
SAYS BRIDE SCOUTS NEW
PUT GLASS ‘PROOF’ OF
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THIEF SH0T63 BODIES IN
Kaiser's Lieutenant
Joins U. S. Cavalry
CHICAGO, July 23.—Dr. Otto Gold
field, son of one of the oldest and
wealthiest families in Germany, a
graduate of Gottingen University,
and until one month ago a lieuten
ant in the Kaiser's army, becomes a
United States cavalry trooper to-day.
Dr. Goldfeld spent the last month
trying to forget that he had been
Jilted by a girl. He also spent about
$32,000 at Paris and Monte Carlo as
he tried to forget. His pay as a
trooper is $16 a month. His father
sends him 200 marks a month.
Fraud Suit Thrown
Out of Macon Court
MACON, July 23.—The suit for
$100,000 damages brought by A. C.
Felton, vice president of a lumber
company, against R. J. Taylor and N.
Block. Macon bank presidents, in
which they were charged with con
spiracy to defraud him out of stock
worth $100,000 and with cheating and
swindling, has been thrown out of
Superior Court by Judge H. A.
Mathews.
The court sustained the general de-
lauggei offered by Taylor and Block.
Usury Is Charged to
Columbus Mill Man
COLUMBUS, July 23.—G. W. Mad
dox, a cotton mill man, of this city,
has been arrested on a warrant
charging him with usury, the warrant
having been issued in Justice McCro-
ry’s court, and the charges made by
T. A. Youngblood, a mill operative.
Tt is alleged that Maddox, under
whom many people were employed,
would lend them money, charging the
operatives 5 per cent per week.
Women Give Tillman
Fried Chicken Shower
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Follow
ing his assertion that the frying of
chicken was unknown here, Senator
Tillman was swamped with samples
of fried chicken sent by local house
wives.
LABOR MEN TO PICNIC.
MACON. July 23.—Macon labor
union men instead of the customary
street parade will have a basket pic
nic at Lakeside Park on Labor Day.
Special trains will be operated to the
park.
Veritable Shower of Coupon Votes
Received, Showing Enthusi
asm in Competition.
Rivalry in Atlanta’s booster button
beauty contest threatens to equal that
immortal mythological event in which
Ate, Goddess of Discord, dropped a
golden apple at the feet of Paris
marked for the fairest one.
But no such disastrous result as
the destruction of Troy unless Bir
mingham or Memphis should steal
Atlanta’s prettiest girl and then out
rank the Gate City in the census of
1920.
Atlantans fell sure that the girl
elected the sponsor of the “500,000
Booster Club” will glory In her lead
ership and be present to act as queen
of the celebration when the 500,000
population 18 counted in 1920.
One of the fairest candidates nom
inated Wednesday is Miss Maud
Steele, of 9 Venable street. She is
a brunette, though not extreme, and
gives the brunette almost an equal
place with the blondes in the number
of candidates.
Each day brings in new candidates,
and a snowstorm of coupon votes for
the favorites. It is a wonderful con
test Indeed. But why shouldn’t It be?
The prettiest girl In Atlanta! Just
think of It.
Clip the coupons that appear each
daty in The Georgian. Nominate youi
candidate. VQT£,
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
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
I street half an hour later by Plain
Clothes Officer Gresham 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 int
congratulations to the girls for their
presence of mind.
Heard Glass Crash.
The young women, while working
at 2:80 o’clock Wednesday morning,
heard the sound of breaking glass is
the burglars smashed the window of
the candy store.
Looking out of the exchange win
dow the girls say the two men en
ter a store. A third posted himself
on the 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 it)
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 girlR. who were
gathered at the windows of the plant.
Call Policemen Back.
“Come back.” they cried. ’There
are two others in the store!’’
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
the Coca-Cola Bottling Company,
where they separated.
One of the mdlsappeared in the
darkness, but the other was seen to
run around to the back of the plant.
The police surrounded the place, and
Captain Mayo went into the darkness
after him.
He flushed the negro in a few min
utes. and the burglar ran out into
the open on the rear side of the plant,
directly' toward Officer Watson.
Leaps at Policeman.
The policeman yelled thro times
at the negro to halt. The burglar,
however, continued to advance, and
as he struck at the officer. Watson
leaped aside and fired, the bullet pen
etrating the negro’s leg.
The w’ounded negro was sent to the
Grady Hospital in the automobile,
and the police continued their search
for the other burglar. Half an hour
later Captain Mayo and Officer
Gresham found him crouched in the
darkness of a cellar on Houston
street. Gresham came upon the
negro suddenly, and the burglar,
probably thinking the officer was
alone, leaped up with a curse.
Gresham covered him with his re
volver, but the negro continued to ad
vance. As Gresham was about to
fire. Captain Mayo came up and cov
ered the negro and he surrendered.
When the automobile, crowded with
police and prisoners, passed the tele
phone exchange en route back to the
station, they were applauded by the
young women who crowded the win
dows and who were responsible for
the capture of the two negroes.
Probe Begun of Binghamton Hol
ocaust as Death List Grows.
Girls Trapped at Benches.
BINGHAMTON. N. Y., July 23.—
Searching parties to-day worked in
the ruins of the building of the Bing
hamton Clothing Company seeking
bodies believed to be burled there.
Streams of w’ater were played on
the building all night to cool them
enough to allow the rescue work to
begin. Workmen at daylight began
digging at the tons of charred timber,
brick and mortar. In an effort to reach
the bodies still known to be burled in
the debris.
At 3 o’clock this morning nineteen
bodies had been recovered. The death
list will reach 63, it was estimated.
Ten injured are in a hospital. Of the
111 persons in the building at the
time the fire broke out only 38 es
caped, F^rty-four are missing.
Girls Mistake Alarm.
Belief that the alarm was sounded
only as a fire drill, caused the great
loss of life. When the girls and wom
en working in the factory realized
that the building was burning the
main avenue of escape had already
been cut off. Instantly the other ex-
lt8 were choked with panic-stricken
girls.
Many reached the windows but the
firemen and others bent on rescuing
inmates were powerless to aid them,
owing to the rapidity with which the
flames licked up the inflammable
mill material.
Eighteen minutes elapsed from the
time the fire broke out until the
walls fell and the building was In
ruins.
Fire Laid to Smoker.
Reed B. Freeman, president of the
company, attributes the fire to the
carelessness of an employee in throw
ing a cigarette butt under a stair
way, where inflammable material was
stored
Smoking was prohibited in the
building, but many employees were
addicted to the habit, according to
Freeman, and often went to the alley
near the building to smoke.
Rigid investigation of the fire will
be made by the authorities. They
will investigate the charges made
that gasoline was stored in the build
ing. dangerously near the stairway
from the upper floors and that the
fire escapes were so exposed that
many victims were burned w'hile try
ing to descend.
$250,000 if Bartender
Holds Job Six Years
PHILADELPHIA, July 23.—Edward
Musse, bartender at a Delaware Wa
ter (Jap hotel, has fallen heir to $250,-
000 from a German uncle "providing
he stays continuously employed at the
position he occupies when he learns
that he is heir to my fortune.”
To appease the nephew, who Is now
24, the uncle provides he may receive
$65,000 each year until he reaches the
age of 30,‘when he gets the principal.
A codicil provides If he marries "re-
spectably” before January 1, 1914. he
is to receive an additional $14,000
from each of two aunts.
WIFE SLAYER AT LARGE.
COLUMBUS. -Howard King, a ne
gro. who completely severed the head
of his wife Saturday night, after hav
ing shot a negro man three times,
because he had spoken to her. is still
at large and absolutely no trace of
him can be found.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local thundershow
ers Wednesday and probably
Thursday. V
Breakfasters Eat
On Calmly as Fire
Is Fought in Cafe
Fire which broke out In the ceiling
of Durand’s Restaurant shortly be
fore 7:30 o’clock Wednesday morning
failed to take the appetite from a
dozen men, w-ho calmly continued eat
ing their breakfast w’hile firemen
swarmed the room. Even when the
firemen mounted ladders and began
hacking at the ceiling the diners were
not dismayed.
The fire was of little consequence,
the celling catching probably from a
defective wire near the flue of the
warming retainer. The call brought
out every central company, though,
while a great crowd of early morning
workers gathered.
Noted Sleuth Trails
Warship Plans Thief
NEW YORK. July 23.—Declaring
that he had been commissioned to
work with United States Government
operators in rounding up a band of
International spies. Captain Marian
Herrmann, nominally head of th-e
Trieste police, but officially known aa
one of the cleverest secret service op
eratives of Austria, arrived here to
day.
Captain Herrmann is believed to
have Important information bearing
on the recent disappearance from the
naval officers at Washington of plana
for the construction of a new dread
nought. V
U. S. Is Confident of
Breaking Film Trust
WASHINGTON. July 23.—It was
announced to-day at the Department
of Justice that the Government has
finished the taking of testimony in
the prosecution of the anti-trust suit
against the motion Pictures Patent
Company, the moving picture trust.
The defendants, twelve of the
largest film companies In the w'orld.
will present their case the first week
In October In the Federal Courts of
New' York. The Department of Justice
Is confident of success.
Frogs Oust Mice as
Bogies of Fair Sex
PORT CLINTON. OHIO. July 23 —
Thousands of frogs are migrating
overland from the marshes of Lake
Erie and the Portage River to San
dusky Bay. In the evenings when
they lift up their voices their num
bers seem to have been multiplied to
millions. They fill the roads and
streets and hundreds hop Into homes
Nervous women have becom*. more
afraid of the clammy little frogs than
of the proverbial mice
Lima Keeps Lonely
Slit Skirt as Curio
LIMA. OHIO. July 23. In the relic
room at police headquarters to-day
hangs the first and last slit skirt ever
worn In Lima.
Mayor Shook in sentencing Mary
Shedrick, the wearer, to pay a fine of
$25. ordered the skirt taken from the
woman and sent to the dry cleaners
The skirt came back to-day and
Chief of Police Earnest ordered
It hung in the relic room.
Oriental Fruit Fly
Threatens California
WASHINGTON. July 23.—Secreta
ry of Agriculture Houston to-davr
asked Secretary of the Treasury M<*-
Adoo for aid in the fight against *he
Mediterranean fruit fly which men
aces California fruit interests.
He wants Secretary McAdoo to ho$d
In quarantine all passenger vessels
entering California ports that officials
may examine luggage for fruit bear
ing the fly.
Austell Thornton
Dies at Asheville
ASHEVILLE. July 23.—Austeil
Thornton, of Atlanta, died at his
country home near here at 2 o’clock
this morning.
E. R. Sweat, Seeking Divorce,
Bares What He Declares Was
Attempt on His Life,
That his bride of six months placed
pulverized glass in his coffee with
the evident purpose of killing him :s
one of the sensational charges made
In a suit for divorce filed Wednesday
by E. R. Sweat, of No. 33 Gresham
street, through his attorney. S. A.
Boorstin.
Sweat claims that persecutions at
the hands of his wife, of which the
alleged attempt to administer the
ground glass was the climax, have
left him a nervous wreck and unfit
for work.
They were wed February 8, after a
romantic courtship. Married life soon
palled on the wife, according to
Sweat. Her ill-treatment of him
began before a month nad passed, he
says. She reproved him one day, he
recites, by slapping him in the face
in the presence of strangers Then
she grew more persistent.
Sweat swears that she would sleep
the whole day for the sole purpose
of keeping him awake and tormenting
him when he returned home tired
from work at night.
They separated after an Incident
of July 15. Sweat s story is that he
came home from work that night and
•at down at the supper table. He
drank one cup of coffee and asked
for another. He savs that the second
cup tasted peculiar and that when he
stirred It and got some of the grounds
on his spoon he discovered a quan
tity of pulverized glass.
He declares that he charged her
with an attempt to kill him and that
she replied by hurling the sugar bowl
out of the window and snatching lire
coffee cup from his grasp and de
stroying it. She left the saucer cn
the table and in this. Sweat c’alms.
there remained seme of the glass
which he had removed from the cup.
U. S. Promises Aid to
Akin's Drainage Plan
A fight for a favorable report on
his bill appropriating $5,000 to drain
swamp lands in Georgia will be mad.-
by Representative L. R. Akin before
the Appropriations Uommittee of the
House when the bill comes up for
consideration Thursday afternoon.
The amount requested Is to be met
by an equal amount from the Federal
Government. The Government also
will furnish engineers and all other
details. Accoding to Mr. Akin the
Secretary of Agriculture has agreed
to all this.
Negro Church Union
Holding Convention
The Baptist Young People's Union
(negro) is holding its eighteenth an
nual convention in the Beulah Baptist
Church, of which W. F. Paschal is
pastor. The Rev. A. W. Bryant, of
Savannah, presided, and the vice
president of the union, W. A. Flagg,
of Macon, conducted »he devotionals.
An expression meeting was con
ducted by Professor J. H. James.
A B., of Central City College
Further Disorders
Feared at Vatican
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME. July 23.—Vatican officials
fear the Swiss Guards may cause
further trouble.
The entire militia on gua^i to-dav
was ordere to be prepareqJto sup
press disorders.
Detective Chief Scoffs at Claim of
Evidence That Club Used by
Negro Was Found.
Chief of Detectives Newport,
Lan ford Wednesday morning
ridiculed the story that the de
fense of Leo M. Frank has in its
possession a bloody club, alleged
to have been found by two
Pinkerton detectives on May 10
in the National Pencil Factory,
and with which, it is reported,
the defense will contend Mary
Phagan was slain by .James Con
ley, the negro sweeper .
Asserting that he knows nothing
whatever of the alleged Moody club.
Chief Lanford declared that. If Pin
kerton detectives l.>und such a wea
pon on May 10, or any other date,
they had failed to report the fact
to him. Failure to officially report
such a find would be regarded as a
breach of the pact between the city
detectives and the Pinkertons, as the
latter officers, while employed by the
pencil factory, have been working
hand in hand with city detectives,
with the understanding that any evi
dence they unearthed w r ould be com
municated to detective headquarters.
Has Received No Report.
"If Pinkerton detectives found a
bloody club in the pencil factory they
certainly should have reported that
fact to me at once—1 have received
n> such report/’ «a:d Chief Lanford.
The police regard aa significant the
attitude of Harry Scott, who is man
aging the Pinkerton investigation,
and who, subsequent to May 10. has
continued to assert his belief in the
guilt of Frank.
Chief Lanford characterized the al
leged finding of the club as an "ab
surdity," and scouted the Idea of it
having any bearing on the case. He
i» satisfied, he said, that It will never
figure as evidence.
The chief said the only club found
in the pencil factory, of which he had
any knowledge, was a small section
of broom handle, about a foot in
length, which hung by a cord beside
the desk of Leo M. Frank in the lat
ter s private office.
Broom Handle Was Found.
This "club’’ bore no blood stains,
he said, and showed no evidence of
having ever been used as a weapon
in any way. It was too light to have
done any damage had a blow been
struck with It, he said.
Chief Lanford treated the bloody
club story in the manner of a joke.
’Do you see a club there?" re
marked the Chief, pointing to a per
fectly clear spot on h1s office floor,
when asked as to the reported find by
the Pinkertons.
"Well, that’s the answer.” he con
tinued. “There Is just as much erf a
bloody club lying there on that nool*
as there was on the floor of the pencil
factory, where it is said the Pinker
tons found their bloody club. The
whole thing is-absurd and will have
no bearing whatever on the case of
Frank. I'm satisfied this mysterious
club will never be introduced in evi
dence.
No Weapon Was Found.
"When it is recalled that the very
spot that yielded up this bloody club
was searched thoroughly more than a
dozen times by numerous officers prior
to May 10 and no club nor other
weapon was found, the ridiculousness
of this story is apparent. We search
ed that factory from top to bottom
and bottom to top. closely investigat
ing every conceivable place fV weap-
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