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VOL. XI. NO. 303. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 24,
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Female Raffles Loots Telephone Girls' Camp
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Girl, 14, Caught Stealing Purse,
Freed on Plea of Victims in
Series of Robberies.
Following a series of thefts at the
summer camp of the employees of the
Southern Bell Telephone Company in
Lakewood Heights during the past
two weeks, a 14-year-old girl was
trapped and caught in the act of tak
ing a purse by County Policeman R.
E. Jackson Wednesday night.
Every effort was exerted to avoid
.publicity of the incident. When the
girl was taken to the* county police
headquarters, Miss Katherine Tatum,
superintendent of the camp, appeared
and asked that no charge be made
against her.
The miscreant returned the purse to
Miss Tatum, declaring that she took
it by mistake, thinking it to be her
'own. The money it contained,
amounting to about $7, was intact.
The girl was then released and Thurs
day morning was discharged from the
employ of the telephone company.
Various Traps Set.
Since the first report that a Raf
fles was operating among the women
\t-the camp, various traps have been
set, but without success. The arti-
?les which disappeared ranged from
portions of women’s attire to small
amounts of money and bits of jew
elry. Almost nightly, it is said, some
thing was stolen.
Wednesday night Miss Tatum called
in County Policeman Jackson and in
formed him of the thefts. The officer
got a woman’s purse and, placing it
upon a table in full view in one of
the tents, concealed himself behind a
trunk to wait developments.
A short time before the last car to
the city was scheduled to leave, the
policeman saw the girl enter the
tent hastily, and after glancing about,
snatch the purse from the table and
depart.
Springing from his hiding place,
Jackson placed her under arrest.
Pleads for Girl Thief.
Miss Tatum was informed and the
girl taken to police headquarters.
When Miss Tatum confronted her an
hour later, the young prisoner's grief
was pathetic. She protested her in
nocence of any intention at thievery
and denied that she had perpetrated
the other thefts.
Miss Tatum asked that no charge
be lodged against her. The girl was
permitted to return to her home.
Thursday morning Miss Tatum de
clared that the incident was closed.
“It was simply one of those cases
of being unable to withstand tempta
tion,” she declared. "It was not so
much the girl’s fault, considering the
circumstances. I pity her and hold
Vio malice toward her, nor do any of
the other girls in the camp. She
just couldn’t help it.”
Back From Liberia
To Die in the South
LATEST
NEWS
NEW YORK, July 24.—Pauline
Woodson, a 69-year-old negress, was
permitted yesterday to land in this
country on the assurance of her son-
in-law, David Robertson, that he
would care for her in his home at
Charleston, S. C.
Fifteen years a^o Pauline, her hus
band and daughter went to Libcr!:i
and built a hut in the wood*. They
thought the life of a semi-civiliztd
African superior to the drudgery of
their Southern home. Her husband
and daughter died in Liberia, and sht-
came back to die in South Carolina.
Big Cotton Carnival
Opens at Galveston
GALVESTON, July 24.—The fifth
annual cotton carnival opened to-day
with thousands of visitors here for the
eleven days’ festivities.
♦ Features of the carnival will be au
tomobile races on the beach on July
28, 29 and 30; horse racing on the next
two days, and a military parade, in
which 12,000 Federal troops will take
part.
Thomas P. Fahey, a private in
Company G, Seventeenth Infan
try, stationed at Fort McPherson,
shot and killed himself on the
front porch of the company bar
racks Thursday morning. Com
rades of Fahey say they can as
cribe no reason for the act, as he
as one of the steadiest and most
reliable men in the company.
Just before killing himself Fahey
laughed and chatted with his
friends. Fahey was 39 years of
age and had been in the service
for more than fourteen years. Hts
home is at Mingo Junction, Ohio,
where his mother, Mr*. Mandy A.
Fahey, lives.
T. W. Reeves and R. W. Miller,
caught Monday night in an at
tempt to crack the safe of Robert
Gober’s store at No. 30 Carroll
street, were bound over to a n»nh-
er court Thursday afternoon un
bond of $6,000 each by Judge
Broyles. In addition to the safe
cracking charge there were placed
against the two men charges of
robbing the store of Kelly Broth
ers, at No. 72 Peters street, and
also larceny of suit cases at the
Terminal Station.
WASHINGTON, July 24.—By
direction of Attorney Generay *
McReynolds, suit was filed to-day
in the United States District
Court at Portland, Ore., against
the American Telephone and Tel
egraph Company. It is charged
the company has monopolized the
means of telephone communica
tion in and between Oregon,
Washington, Montana and Idaho
points in violation of the Sher
man anti-trust law.
WASHINGTON, July 24.—
The President to-day sent to the
Senate the nomination of L. E.
Pinkham of Hawaii, to be Gov
ernor of Hawaii.
LANSING., MICH, July 24.—A
telegram received this afternoon
cays Calumet, in the center of
vhe copper strike district, is in
the hands of a mob of 500 armed
men. Another armed mob is re
ported to be on the way from
Ahmeek to Calumet. The situ
ation is desperate, advices say.
BUCHAREST, July 24.—It was
announced this afternoon that
Servia has refused to agree to an
armistice in the war with Bul
garia, but is sending delegates to
take part in the peace con
ference.
PHILADELPHIA, July 24.—
The front wall o fa moving pic
ture theater in course of con
struction at Fifty-Second and
Market streets was blown down
during a storm this afternoon.
Fiften bricklayers were working
on the wall at the time of the
accident and it is feared sev
eral of them are under the ruins.
BELOEIL, QUEBEC, July 24.—
Seven persons were killed and
many injured in an explosion in
the plant of the Canadian Ex
plosive Company to-day.
BOSTON, July 24.—Howard
F.lliott, president of the Northern
Pacific, will to-morrow be ap
pointed president of the New
Haven Railroad to succeed
Charles S. MeMen. He will be an
operating president, not a finan
cial president.
NEW YORK, July 24.—It be
came known to-day that Oscar L.
Telling, the vice president and
secretary of the First-Second Na
tional Bank of Pittsburg, backed
by W. S. Kuhn and which failed
for $40,000,000. was largely inter
ested in the fortunes of the Mc-
Crum-Howell Company, the vac
uum cleaner trust, which also
went into bankruptcy here ow
ing several millions of dollars.
NEW YARK, July 24.—Ac
cording to a definite statement
issued late this afternoon by
United States Attorney Marshall,
David Lamar, “the Wolf of Wall
Street/’ has been indicted by the
United States Grand Jury for
impersonating a congressman
with intent to defraud and that
Lamar will at once be arrested.
CHARLESTON, W. VA., July
24.—Three men were killed and
one miner was seriously injured
in a fight between strikers and
employees of the Wake Forrest
oCal Company on Cabin Creek
to-day, according to a report
received here late this afternoon.
A sheriff with a posse and blood
hounds has gone to the scene.
LONDON, July 24.—The wed
ding date for Prince Arthur of
Connaught and the Duchess of
Fife was this afternoon fixed for
October 15.
Sons to Seek Pardon
For Aged Wife Slayer
MACON, July 24.—Sons of Roger
McCall, a 75-ye. r-old Macon man.
who shot and killed hi* wife two
years ago while intoxicated, and who
is now serving a 1 if sentence at the
State Farm, will apply shortly to the
Prison Commission for a recommen
dation for a pardon.
A petition is now being circulated In
this city.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE
DICTATOR
Works Charges Executive With
Usurping Legislative Power.
Scores Tariff ‘Influence.’
WASHINGTON, July 24.—On the
floor of the Senate to-day Senator
Works, of California, denounced Pres
ident Wilson for influencing tariff leg
islation in the summing up of a
speech on the tariff bill pending be
fore the Senate.
“The tendency of latter-day poli
tics is to exalt the executive at the
expense of the legislative and judicial
power of the Government, and make
the President the master and ruler of
them all, and the master and not the
servant of the whole people,” said the
Senator.
“It is an unwarranted and danger
ous tendency. Every public official,
however exalted, 1* only the servant
of the people, and should at all times
be subject to their control and sub
servient to their will in conformity to
the Constitution and laws of the coun
try, and each department of the Gov
ernment, if its institutions are to be
preserved, must be kept within the
limitations of its powers as fixed y
the Constitution.
He Charges Tariff Coercion.
"If this bill is passed, it will not be
by the willing and voluntary consent
of a majority of this body. It will be
the result, in part, of outside influ
ence that should never enter into the
deliberations or acts of Congress. The
Constitution provides:
All legislative powers herein
granted shall be vested in a Con
gress of the United States, which
shall consist of a Senate and
House of Representatives.
"The President is also made Com-
mander-in-Chlef of the army and
navy. That instrument further pro
vides that ‘the executive power shall
be vested in the President of the
United States of America.’ It is fur
ther provided: ‘He shall from time to
time give to the Congress informa
tion of the state of the Union and
recommend to their consideration such
measures as he shall judge necessary
and expedient/
No Warrant for Influence.
"This Is the only power vested in
the President in respect of the making
of laws. There is no warrant in the
Constitution for his participation in j
the formation or passage of laws or
the exercise of any influence on leg
islation beyond that of recommending
to the consideration of the lawmak
ing power such measures as he shall
judge necessary or expedient.”
Here the Senator said that his views
coincided with those injected into the
Democratic platform of 1904 and he
quoted from the declaration of prin
ciples drawn by the Democratic par
ty at that time.
In concluding his speech, Senator
Works said:
"I have approached this subject
with reluctance and purely from a
sense of duty. I expressed similar
views during the last administration.
I have the greatest respect and es
teem for the incumbent of the great
office of President of the United
States, as I had also for his predeces
sor.
Explains Causes of Alarm.
"I believe in the integrity and sin
cerity of his purpose to serve the
people and the country to their very
best interests. But, sir, this can not
deter me from expressing my views
on a question so serious and far-
reaching in its consequences.
"It makes the situation only the
more alarming that one of such high
ideals and patriotic purposes should
do anything that can reasonably be
construed to be a usurpation of power
or an infringement of the Constitu
tion that may some time be appealed
to as a precedent by one less con
scientious and patriotic.”
AT BELMONT.
FIRST—For 2-year-olds, $400 added,
6^ furlongs, straight: Anytime 105
(Wolfe), 4 to 5, 1 to 3 and out, won;
The Spirit 105 (Brady), 6 to 1, 7 to 5,
1 to 3, second; Andes 108 i Booker), 10
to 1, 3 to 1, 4 to 5, third. Time 1:07 3-5.
Also ran: Robert Oliver, Trap.
SECOND—Three-year-olds and up,
$500 added, mile: Judge Walser 107
(Grande), 15-1, 5-2, out, won; Cadeau
109 (McTaggart), even, 1-4, out, second;
Joe Deibold 109 (Mondan), 11-10, 1-4,
out, third. Time 1:40. Also ran: Eu
terpe.
THIRD—Two-year-olds, 5V& furlongs,
mile, straight: Surprising 112 (Nick-
laus), 3-1, .1-5, 2-5, won; Flittergold 119
(McTaggart), 3-2, 3-5, out, second;
Spearhead 112 (Davies), 12-1, 4-1, 7-5,
third. Time 1:06. Also ran: Orotund,
Hurakan, Undereiver.
FOURTH—Mile and sixteenth: Stren
uous 100 (Karrick), 4, 7-10, out, won;
Fifty-five 99 (Brady), 6, even, out, sec
ond. Time 1:47.
(Flying Fairy finished first, but was
disqualified for fouling Strenuous. Bruin
Belle, posted as starter, threw the boy
on the way to the post and ran away.)
FIFTH—About 2miles: Shannon
River 147 (Allen), even. 2-5, out, won;
Octopus 141 (Tucker), 11-5, 4-5, out, sec
ond; Tillie D. 138 (Klenck), 6, 8-5, out,
third. Time 4:50. Tom Cat, Adventu
ress fell.
Atlanta-Montgomery, no game, rain.
AT MEMPHIS—
MEMPHIS 0 - . . .
BIRMINGHAM 0 - . . .
Newton and Seabough; Hardgrove and Mayer. Umpire*, Kerin and Hart.
AT MOBILE—
MOBILE 00 - . . .
CHATTANOOGA 00 - . . .
Campbell and Schmidt; Coveleskle and Street. Umpire*, Pfennlnger and
Wright.
Nashville-New Orleans, no game, rain.
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Lightning ‘Scrubs’
Tower at Terminal
One of the mo*t freakish stunts
ever performed by lightning in At
lanta waa discovered Thursday as a
result of the striking of one of the
towers of the Terminal Station. The
brick and fancy work on both towers
had been stained black by smoke, but
the lightning cleaned one as perfectly
as though It had been scrubbed. The
other, still black, presents a striking
contrast.
The shock of the stroke was felt in
the w r aiting room and almost caused a
panic. Little damage was done to the
tower, but electrical and chemical ex
perts still are unable to solve the
mystery of its magic cleaning.
Fan Market Slumps:
More Rain Forecast
BRIDE 20, BRIDEGROOM 74.
GADSDEN, July 24—Daniel B.
Fleming, aged 74, and Miss Jennie
Rayburn, aged 20, were married at
Guntersville, county seat of Marshall
Copnty, to-day. They will live on a
farm,
A dealer in electrical supplies was
offering regular $9 electric fans for
$3.50 Thursday morning, but found
no buyers even at that price. Atlan
tans evidently believe the weather
man’s prediction that the remainder
of the summer will be cool and pleas
ant.
At 8 o’clock Thursday morning the
official thermometer registered 72 de
grees, and the mercury had only
climbed 10 degrees higher at 1
o’clock.
Showers Thursday night or Friday
is the forecast for Atlanta and vi
cinity.
Mann Stops Work of
House by Filibuster
WASHINGTON, July 24.—Repre
sentative Mann again prevented the
House from transacting any busine.-e-
to-day. Employing the same tactics
he used yesterday—a r> dnt of no quo
rum—Mann demanded a roll call. Ad
journment finally was ordered by a
vote of 154 to 58.
The Mann filibuster i* occasioned
by the action of the Democrats in
preventing a discussion last week of
the Caminetti-Diegs white slave
cases.
Snake Kills 3 Tots;
Fourth One Drowns
KNOXVILLE, July 24,-y-Becoming
alarmed at the continued absence of
her three children who had gone into
the barn to hunt eggs. Mrs. John
Cooper, wife of a prosperous farmer
of Blount County, instituted a search
and found the three dying from the
bites of a rattlesnake.
While the woman was gone her
fourth child, a baby boy, fell into a
creek and drowned.
All games off on account of rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
No games scheduled.
EMPIRE LEAGUE
AT BRUNSWICK—
BRUNSWICK—
0 - . . .
VALDOSTA—
0 - . . .
Walker and Kite; Gordon and Pierre.
Umpire, McLaughlin.
Eugenic Restaurant
To Save Babies’ Lives
NEW YORK. July 24.—"Thousands
of children are brought Into the world
handicapped for life because their
mothers were ill-nourished before they
were born.”
Miss Mabel A. Parker thus tersely
explains why she has embarked on one
of the most novel eugenic experiments
that has yet been made in this country
—a prenatal restaurant.
This restaurant, which will be con
ducted solely for women who are ex
pected to give birth to a child within
six months, will be opened in two
weeks.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE
Love Affair Drives
Mme.Curie from Paris
WARSAW, July 24.—Mme. Curie,
discoverer, with her husband, of
radium, will return to her home here
soon to remain permanently. Shi
will have charge of a radiological
laboratory.
Another reason for her return is
the gossip connecting her name with
that of Prof. Langevin, of the College
of France, whose wife sued him for
separation. Letters between Mm*.
Curie and Prof. Langevin became
public.
AT JACKSONVILLE—
JACKSONVILLE-
200 0 - . .
CHARLESTON-
000 0 - . .
Lindsey and Krebs; Foster and Smith.
Umpire, Pender.
AT SAVANNAH—
SAVANNAH-
001 - . . .
ALBANY-
100 - . . .
Poole and Gelbel; Moses and Wells.
Umpire, Barr.
AT MACON—
MACON—
0 - . . .
COLUMBUS—
0 - . . .
Thackam and Humphries; Baker and
Thompson. Umpire, Moran.
Georgia Rhodes Man
Calls Oxford ‘Grind’j
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BOSTON, Ju4j -•*.—r*eing a student 1
at Oxford is strenuous work, accord- (
ing to the verdict of five Rhodes
scholars who returned to-day on the
White Star liner Arabic.
The five were Frank B. Bristow, son
of Senator Bristow, of Kansas; Wal
ter S. Bryan, of Georgia; O. B. Gros-
land, of Alabama; W. Lloyd Williams,
of North Dakota, and W. A. Zeigler,
of Iowa. The five have completed
the four years’ course at Oxford.
Headless Body of
Girl Found at Sea
BOSTON, July 24.—The finding of
the headless body of an apparently
well-to-do young woman at sea. 35
miles east of the Georges Bank by
Captain Charles White, of the Glou
cester fishing schooner Jennie H. Gil
bert, is believed to reveal a death by
violence at sea, possibly on a trans-
Atlantic liner.
The body was found ten miles south
of the southerly track of trans-
Atlantle steamers, about 170 miles out
from Boston. Corsets of apparently
expensive make, a black shirtwaist,
portions of a dark green silk skirt and
high button boots were on the body.
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Charlton Dying Is
Verdict of Doctors
JERSEY CITY, N. J.. July 24. -
Porter Charlton, who is in Jail her-
awaiting extradition to Italy for trial
for the murder of his bride at Lake
Como, three years ago, is so ill no
never will reach Italy alive, accord
ing to a statement by his physicians.
He is a victim of pu -nonary tubercu
losis.
Two members of the Italian con
stabulary are expected to arrive in
this country this week to take Charl
ton to Milan.
Currency Reform
Not Likely to Pass
WASHINGTON, July 24.—Passage
oi a currency retorm bill at this ses
sion of Congress wa« considered most
doubtful to-day unless President Wil
son brings peace between the warring
factions of the House Banking and
Currency Committee.
Chairman Glass to-day presented
to the committe a draft of an
amendment to his bill providing for a
prohibition of interlocking directo
rates. Mr. Glass is against such a
proposal by the committee by a vote
of 7 to 5, forced him to draw' up the
amendment
ELBERT CORN SHOW CN. 17.
ELBERTON.—Martin ford.
62 years old and A ies
seventy-nine are enrolled on the
books of the Boys' Com Club of El
bert County. It has been decided to
hold the exhibit of the club at Elber-
ton oa Frida*.\bcUibex 3i
Ask Mayor to Light
New Crematory Fire
It was announced Thursday that
the new $260,000 crematory would be
put into operation Friday, and to
make assurance doubly sure that the
row over this plant between Mayor
Woodward and the Council has end
ed, Mayor Woodward was invited to
light the fire.
Mayor Woodward was uncertain
Thursday whether he would accept
the invitation. He has never been
down to look over the plant, which is
located Just back of Terminal Sta
tion.
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Says He Has Not Even Been Asked
for Postponement, and Sees No
Reason Why Trial Should Not Be
gin On Date Fixed.
Judge L. S. Roan, home from Covington, late Thursday, de
clared to a Georgian reporter that he saw no reason why the trial
of Leo M. Frank, accused of the murder of Mary Phagan, should
not begin Monday.
The Judge who had been reported ill said he felt fully able
to go ahead and had not been asked for a postponement.
“I see no reason why the trial should not begin on the date
fixed,” he said. “As far as 1 am concerned everything is in read
mess. I have not been asked to allow a delay.”
— | Judge Roan added that he hau
informed Judge Penleton there
was no objection on his part to
going ahea with the drawing ot
the jury venire and accordingly
all arrangements were made to
select twelve panels of prospec
tive jurymen. Deputy Sheriff
Plennie Miner had notified all
the attorneys involved. It was
expected that the defens would
make its motion for the drawing
of th jury from the Grand Jury
panel before Judge Pendleton
and there was no dokbt Solicitor
Dorsey would oppose it and very
likely win his point.
“The prosecution was ready June 30
in the case of the State vs. Leo M.
Frank, charged with the murder ol
little Mary Phagan on April 26 las*.
We have subpenaed all the witnesses,
expecting to try this case on Monda>
next. This date was set at the sug
gestion of Judge L. S. Roan at the in
stance of counsel for the defense.
"We are disappointed that the jury
was not drawn this morning as Judge
Roan stated it would be done.
“The State assuredly will be ready
Monday unless something entirely un
foreseen happens, and will ask trial of
this man at that time.”
Superior Judge John T. Pendleton
declined to draw a jury for the Frank
trial Thursday morning until he heard
definitely from Judge L. S. Roan
whether the case would be opened
next Monday. Judge Pendleton an
nounced he would know definitely by
4 o’clock Thursday afternoon whether
the case would be called Monday, and
he would draw the jury at that time if
necessary.
Deputy Sheriff Plinnie Miner had
instructions from Judge Roan to have
one of the other Judges draw the jury
Paroles for Julian HawthoLne and
Dr. William J. Morton. ex-Treasurer
of the United States, who have been
serving sentences in the Federal Pen
itentiary for misuse of the mail* in a
stock scheme, were recommended on
Thursday in a report submitted by
the Federal Pardon Board to Attorney
General McReynolds.
The recommendation in respect to
Hawthorne and Morton had been
agreed upon by the Pardon Board
since their meetings at the Federul
prison some time ago. but they have
withheld their report, as is* the cus
tom, until the prisoners named are
eligible to parole.
The Indorsement of the Attorney
General is regarded as a formality
and it is expected that the two will
receive their freedom by Saturday. A
telegram will be sent at the direction
of the Attorney General and this will
be followed by a letter containing the
formal notice of the paroles.
"I am delighted that the recom
mendation is before Mr. McReynolds.”
said Hawthorne, when Deputy Ward
en Wilbur Hawk informed him of the
action of the Pardon Board. "I was
aware that the board had considered
my case favorably and it pleases me
that it requires only the signature of
the Attorney General to make me a
free man.”
Let the Frank Trial Go On
Leo Frank should be placed on trial Monday for the murder
of Mary Phagan.
The crime was committed April 26; Frank was arrested
April 28; he was indicted May 23 and his trial set for June 30.
At the suggestion of the judge in whose court the trial is to
take place, a postponement was agreed on, and the date of the trial
moved up to July 28.
Now attempts are being made to secure another postponement.
The only reason given to the public is that the weather is hot and
it would be disagreeable to hold the trial in the summer.
Of course it is hot, but it isn’t any hotter in the court room
than it is in jail.
Both the prosecution and the defense have had ample time
to prepare their cases. If Frank is guilty, the State can prove his
guilt as well now as later on; if he is innocent, the defense can prove
his innocence as well in summer as in winter.
The public has taken a keen interest in the Phagan case and
it will demand that the man who killed her be punished, whether
that man is Frank or someone else. Furthermore, it is tired of
delays.
Public sentiment is where it was on the date first set for
Frank’s trial and it will be at the same place if the trial is delayed
for a year.
Atlantans are awaiting the trial with open minds. They are
not holding themselves up as judges. They know the law is
supreme and they want it to take its course. But they want
that course taken without seemingly endless delays.
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