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XI. NO. 1(03. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 25, 19(3. 2 CENTS.
SECRET OF ETERNAL YOUTH HELD
BY GALAXY OF BEAUTIES IN CONTEST
Predicted she
will receive
many votes for
honor of
having likeness
placed on
Booster
Button.
MISS HELEN IR VING.
Latest entrant
in race has
dark hair, blue
eyes and pure
cameo profile.
FRANK TRIAL DELAY UP TO ROAN
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SENA TOR CHARGES COERCION TO WILSON
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SWEARINGEN RENEWS FIGHT ON CHIEF
STATE READY
Jacksonville Mayor to File Charges
Against Captain Who Recog
nized Deposed Chief.
' Paroles for Julian Hawthorne 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 malls in a
stock scheme, were recommended on
Thursday in a report submitted bv
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 Federal
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.”
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.
Ponce DeLeon Would Certainly
Have Believed Their Loveli
ness Immortal.
If Ponce DeLeon were upon the
earth to-day and should come to At
lanta in search of the fountain of
youth he certainly would think he
had found it in the galaxy of beauty
in the booster button contest. A look
through the photographs of the beau
ties who have been nominated would
almost convince one that the loveli
ness is immortal.
Miss Helen Irving, of No. 385 Cher
okee avenue, is the newest entrant.
She is fair skinned, with dark hair,
sea-blue eyes and a cameo profile.
And it is predicted that she will get
many votes in the remaining days of
the contest.
Votes for the favorites are flowing
in. Tfye nominations have by no
means ceased, but the contest has
gone far enough for there to be fa
vorites.
Do you remember the slogan for
the ”500,000 club” booster buttons
that is to go under the picture of the
girl voted the fairest? It is:
"Watch Atlanta She’ll Get lou
Yet. 500,000 by 1920.”
Clip the coupon and nominate
whom you think is Atlanta’s pret
tiest girl, or vote for your favorite
if she already has been nominated.
ELBERT CORN SHOW OCT. 17,
ELBERTON.—Martin Crawford,
62 years old and James
seventy-nine are enrolled on the
books of the Boys’ Corn Club of El
bert County. It has been decided to
hold the exhibit of the club at Elber-
ton on Friday, October 17.
Charlton Dying Is
Verdict of Doctors
JERSEY CITY, N. J„ July 24. -
Porter Charlton, who Is in Jail here
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 pulmonary tubercu
losis.
Two members of the Italian con
stabulary are expected to arrive In
this country this week to take Charl
ton to Milan.
JACKSONVILLE, July 24.—Aftel
two days of comparative quiet in the
war between Mayor Can C. Sweanin-
gen and the board of bond trustees
relative to the control of the police
department has broken out afresh.
Last night the Mayor sent an order
to the department addressed to Cap
tain Harry Hall. As Captain Hall
recognizes Fred Roach, deposed as
chief by the Mayor, as of the depart
ment he thought the order should
have come through his superior of
ficer. Uncertain as to what course to
pursue, he took the matter up with
W. M: Bostwlck, Jr., c hairman of the
bond trustees. He was advised to
refer the order to Chief Roach, which
he did.
The Mayor to-day heard that Cap
tain Hall had refused to Ignore Roach
and he announced that would pre
fer charges against the Captain for
disobedience to orders.
Mayor Swearingen stated to-day
that he was preparing his charges
against Chief Roach and that he
would have them ready to file with
the board within the next few days.
He will probably file charges against
Captain Hall at the same time.
Currency Reform
Not Likely to Pass
WASHINGTON, July 24.—Passage
ol a currency reform bill at this ses
sion of Congress was 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
i proposal by the committee by a vote
of 7 to B, forced him to draw up the
amendment.
Rich Man Held For
Arson Freed on Bond
TAMPA. July 24.—Curry Hutchin
son, a wealthy citizen who was jailed
in connection with the Hillsborough
Dry G9ods Company fire Monday
night, has been released on ball of
$5,000, signed by Banker Trice and
Former Mayor Frecker.
Hutchinson declares he is innocent
of any wrong but will make no ex
planation of some of the circum
stances of the fire. Though the other
four men arrested In connection with
the affair are still in jail their attor
ney declares he will have bail this af
ternoon.
Insurance men say the charge of
arson will be pushed.
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 W r oodward was invited to
light the fire.
Mayor Woodward w’as 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.
Negro Lynched by
Mob at Haines City
TAMPA, July 24.—John Bell, a ne
gro charged with an attempt to attack
a white woman near Haines City ten
days ago, was captured near the
scene of his crime yesterday and last
night while a deputy sheriff was
bringing him here from Bartow a mob
took the prisoner and hanged him to
a tree.
The negro talked freely about the
crime. He said he was angry be
cause the woman had threatened to
set her dog on him.
To Test Alimony Law
In High State Court
MACON, July 24.—VV. M. Herring,!
| an engineer, whose father was burled .
yesterday, was arrested to-day by the)
sheriff, upon affidavit made by his |
divorced wife that alimony had not i
been paid.
Since the divorce both Herring and |
his former wife have married again, j
and it is for that reason that he re
fuses to pay her alimony, notwith
standing the order of the court. His
j case is going to the Supreme Court
for decision.
Real Estate Men Go
To National Meeting
JACKSONVILLE, July 24.—Eigh
teen real estate dealers left here to
night for Winnipeg, Canada, to at
tend the national convention of real
estate dealers. The party has char
tered a special car and will make a
number of stops en route to the
Canadian city.
Parties from other points of Flor
ida joined the Jacksonville people
here for the trip to the North.
One of Three Whites
Negro Wounded Dies
TAMPA, July 24.—T. B. Austin,
one of the three white men shot by
Columbus Hawkins, a negro, at Port
Tampa yesterday, Is dead and Ernest
Chaney is near death.
Hawkins has three shot wounds to
show for his share of the fight. He
claims the white men came to his
house at 1 o’clock in the morning to
collect a debt from Charles Hall, a
roomer, and that they began to shoot
when he protested.
Marshall Walker hurried Hawkins
and Hall to this city to escape a
lynching.
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-
Atlantic 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.
Works Charges Executive With
Usurping Legislative Power.
Scores Tariff ‘Influence.’
Back From Liberia
To Die in the South
NEW YORK, July 24.—Pauline
Woodson, a 69-year-old negress, waa
permitted yesterday to land in this
country on the as«mrance of her son-
in-law. David Robertson, that he
would care for her in his home at
Charleston, S. C.
Fifteen years s^o Pauline, her hus
band and daughter went to Liberi.i
and built a hut in the woods. They
thought the life of a semi-civilized
African superior to the drudgery of
their Southern home. Her husband
and daughter died in Liberia, and she
came back to die in South Carolina.
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 bom.”
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.
Do You p
Know •
the Name of (he Lar=
gest Active Volcano
in the World?
See Page 15
Love Affair Drives
Mme.Curie from Paris
WARSAW, July 24.—Mme. Curia,
discoverer, with her husband, of
radium, will return to her home here
soon to remain permanently. Sha
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, wl*ose wife sued him for
separation. Letters between Mme.
Curie and Pr^j* Langevin became
public.
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. Is 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 lh'-
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 mujority of this body. It wili
the result, in part, of outside influ
ence that should never enter into the
deliberations or acts of Congress. Tile
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-Chief 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
j Constitution for his participation in
the formation or passage of laws or
I 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 prln- 1
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-
teerrj 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 consequenoes.
“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."
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
County, to-day. They will live on a
farm.
Lightning ‘Scrubs’
Tower at Terminal
One of the most freakish stunts
ever performed by lightning in At
lanta was 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 waiting 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 tnaglc cleaning.
Fan Market Slumps;
More Rain Forecast
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 business
to-day. Employing the same tactics
he used yesterday—a point of no quo
rum—Mann demanded a roll call. Ad
journment finally was ordered by a
vote of 154 to 58.
The Mann filibuster is occasioned
by the action of the Democrats in
preventing a discussion last week of
the < ’aminettl-Dlfrgs white slavo
cases.
Georgia Rhodes Man
Calls Oxford ‘Grind’
BOSTON, July 24.—Being a student
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.
CARRY CANES FOR MASHERS.
BOSTON, July 24.—Members of the
Women’s Homestead Association
here carry canes and w histles as pro
tection against mashers. The
whistles are to attract attention.
FIGHT 1
DELAY
Solicitor Disappointed When
Court Fails to Draw Jury
Panels at Time Planned.
With the belief growing that
a serious effort is being made to
delay the trial of Leo Prank, set
for next Monday, Solicitor Gen
eral Hugh M. Dorsey Thursday
renewed his protest against
further postponement in a vigo
rous statement, declaring the
prosecution is ready with a com
plete case against the National
Pencil Company factory head, ac
cused of killing Mary Phagan.
The trial date rests entirely with
Judge Roan, who is in Covington.
The drawing of the jury venire await
ed word from him, expected some
time during tjie afternoon. At his
home it was said the Judge would not
return until to-morrow.
Reuben R. Arnold, of counsel for
Frank, was said to have consulted
with Judge Roan in Covington and
presented arguments for delay, but
the truth of this report could not be
established.
Judge Leaves for Atlanta.
Judge Pendleton, who will conduct
the drawing of the Jury, said Thurs
day afternoon that he had received
no word from Judge Roan and would
proceed unless he did.
A long distance message from Cov
ington had it that Judge Roan left
shortly before 2 o’clock for Atlanta
and the indications . were that it
w'ould be know r n definitely before
Thursday night whether the long-
awaited trial will begin Monday or be
delayed once more.
In a statement to The Georgian,
Solicitor Dorsey said:
"The prosecution was ready June 30
In the case of the State vs. Leo M.
Frank, charged with the murder of
little Mary Phagan on April 26 last.
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
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 tfie 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 wan‘ it to take its course. But thejj want
that course taken without seemingly endless delays, ______