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[ always first <h> <s> The SUNDA Y AMERICAN DmI., I, NOW ■ ■ ■ ■ — The Atlanta Georgian , « Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results A {4 v ftf | [j|fl||| Georgia ON EDITION Both Phonos Main 8000 VOL. XI. NO. 302. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 23,1913. «* c ?C8M5 , c* 2 CENTS. PHONI E GIRLS TRAP BURGLARS IMTORU TCTBKCLL' BLUDGEON EVIDENCE 11 - - ■ — _ ■ - ■ ■■ ■ — " ■ ■ — — 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 E 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- jLou* or auv cdtoer bit at liutt