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J ALWAYS FIRST The SUNDAY AMERICAN Order tt NOW; Both Phone* Mein 8000 The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—-GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results VOL. XI. NO. 304. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1913. Copyright. 1906, By Ths Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. PAT NO moru EVENING EDITION WITNESSES CALLED FOR FRANK DEFENSE +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ ATLANTA GIRL BADLY HURT IN AUTO CRASH +•+ +•*{• +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ + •* r*» 1 17 ■ 11 D J If • M ,1 I • j | YOUNG WOMAN DEAD uirl fatally burned; Heroic Mother Injured in grate fire mishap GIRLS HURT Miss Theo Prioleau Seriously In jured and Sister Bruised in Accident. MONROE, LA., July 26.—Victor C. Smith is dead, Miss Theo Priolieu, of Atlanta, and R. L.- Prophet, Jr., are seriously injured, and Miss Ruth Wil liams bruised as the result of an au tomobile accident on the Desiard road, two miles from Monroe, Just before midnight. Young Smith is the son of A. L. Smith, who, with his family, resides at Stearlington, fifteen miles from Monroe. Miss Theo Priolieu and her sister, Miss Dollie, of Atlanta, were visitors at the Smith home. Miss Wil liams lives in Monroe. H. P. Decker, of Newburg. N. G., and Miss Dollie Priolieu both escaped with a few slight bruises. Said To Be Racing. The Smith car was being driven by the man who was killed, and with Morgan George and a party of friends, was returned from Horseshoe Lake, a pleasure resort above Monroe. George says the two cars were rac ing and were going at least 45 miles an hour. He said he was about half mile ahead of the Smith car and did not see the accident. Prom reliable reports, it is learned that when about two miles from town the Smith car. striking a sharp curve in the road, turned a double somersault, going over a ditch. Victor Smith was crushed to death almost instantly. Miss Prioleau’s right leg was broken in two places. Prophet, Jr., was injured in the back. Autoists Find Victims. The car was uninjured and was driven to Monroe this morning by autoists who found the dead and in jured on the side of the road and ren dered all the aid possible. The George party reached town and after waiting some time for the Smith party decided to go back, they found them on the roadside. The Prioleau girls were taken to the residence of W. L. Smith, in Monroe, and Miss Williams was taken to the home of her grandfather. Prophet was taken to a sanitarium. The Misses Prioleau have been hon ored at many special functions. Cadet's Very Last Kiss Holds Up Big Liner 3 Minutes NEW YORK, July 25.—"A last ktes, my darling!” He got it • Miss Eva Mountrey, of Louisville, Ky,. was sailing on the Kaiser Wil helm II. and her fiance, Augustus Dil lon. a West Point cadet, was bidding her good-bye. "All visitors ashore!” shouted a petty ofTlcer near the sweethearts. “A very last kips, beloved!” ex claimed Dillon. “All visitors ashore!” howled a chorus of petty officers and stew ards. “A very, very last kiss, mine own!” begged the cadet. Chief Officer Moeller interrupted the clinging embrace. “Young man,” said Moeller, “you have held the ship three minutes. Go ashore!” THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Local thundershow ers Friday and Saturday. Grand Jury Head Shoots Three Men AIKEN. S. C., July 25.—In the pres ence of nine negroes and three white men, on a public highway six miles from town. Jason Spires, foreman of the present Aiken County grand jury, shot two white men and an old ne gro to-day. The men wounded are Moseley Randall, shot in right lung and up per part of right arm; Jenke Ran dall, ?»hot in left groin, and John Lattimer, negro, flesh wound. The Randall brothers, with another white man, were in charge of a gang of nine negroes working the Silver Bluff Road 'When the gang reached Spire’s place. It is said, he demanded that no work be done in front of his residence. The shooting resulted. Dr. O'Kelley Choice For Head of Mercer Macon. July 25— Dr. T. W. O’Kel ley, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Raleigh, N. C., likely will be the next president of Mercer University. He was selected by a special commit tee of the trustees from a list of six teen, and the offer has been tendered him. Dr. W. W. Landrum, of Louisville, formerly of Atlanta, is favored in the event Dr. O'Kelley declines. A defi nite answer from the latter is expect ed in a few days. Must Raise Alimony Or Remain in Jail MACON, July 25.—J. C. Brooks, a Central of Georgia Railroad con ductor, has been sentenced by Judge Mathews to stay in jail until he can procure a bondsman whose bail will insure the payment of monthly ali mony to his wife. Brooks has already spent ten days in jail, owing to his failure to obtain bond. He and his mother swore in court that they could not get a bondsman. NEW TAKES Unless Senate Changes Appro priations Bill It Stands in No Danger of Veto. © © e © © The Wraps ofTo-morroJb © © © © © © © © Lady Duff Gordon, the famous Lueile of London, will describe the gorgeous evening coats which will prove the crowning sensation of the coming season’s startling modes, in © © © © © e © NEXT © © © © © © © © SUNDAY'S © © & AMERICAN & © © © © © © © The well-dressed woman simply must read this color page. Order now from your dealer or direct by phoning Main 100. © © © © © ©®©®®©®©®®®©l®©®®®®®®®®®®® If the general appropriations bill is permitted by the Senate to stand practically ae it comeg from the House of Representatives, it will go to the Governor with no threat of veto hanging over it, nor will it be the occasion in any degree of an ex traordinary session of the Legisla ture. The appropriations bill, within it self, will be satisfactory to the Exec utive, in that it will not carry more appropriations than can be met, if the general and special tax acts are made what they should be. The fact that the House added $100,000 to the common school fun-1, thereby increasing the total appro priations some $50,000 over those of last year, is not necessarily alarm ing. The tax of $5 on automobiles alone will more than make that up. It is proposed to tax all machines a flat $5 per annum hereafter. Will Get Only a Receipt. Heretofore automobiles Lave been taxed $2 merely, when registered. Once that was paid, no further charges were assessed against them. And the bulk of that $2 has gone to pay for the emblazoned number fur nished the owner of the machine free of cost. A fiat tax of $5 per annum on all machines, however, with nothing to be furnished the owner of the car but a written receipt, will add over $100,- 000 to the State's income yearly, thus offsetting the Legislature's increase in the school fund. As the legislative situation shape* up to-day, therefore, the appropria tions bill will have plain and easy sailing and is sure to meet the Gov ernor’s approval, if not greatly In creased in the Senate. The two acts that can upset all tne administration’s plans now are the general tax and the tax equalization measureg. Teachers Still Unpaid. There Is a deficit in the Stale Treasury, and the school teachers still are unpaid. The State institutions Lave been cut to the very marrow of their bones and can not get alon~ with less money than the geenral appropriations bill carries. The Governor and the chairman of the Appropriations Committee understand each other on that point. What the Governor insists must be done is to find a way to wipe out the deficit and pay the teachers, and this way must be found through the tax acts. Naturally, therefore, the one thing that is disturbing the Governor to day is the prospective bitter wrangle in the House over the tax equaliza tion. If a tax equalization act is passed which makes no provision for a State board to equalize the counties, it, generally is agreed that it will be useless. At the same time, it likely will be impossible to create a State board of far-reaching powers. Tax Reform Problem Now. The problem now is to get a com promise measure through that will start tax reform on the right road if it takes another and different Leg islature to perfect the work The Governor Is dead set against a bond issue to take up the deficit or to pay the teachers He thinks it would be a dangerous precedent. He is advocating a constitutional In crease In the tax rate, temporarily, as the shortest way out of the woods, even if it is not a plan he particular ly relishes. He argues that the State is up against a condition that it must get around, and that the State's debts must be paid, even if a distasteful thing has to be done In effecting their payment. Mrs. Pankhurst Near Death From Hunger Strike; Under Knife . LONDON July 25.—The condition of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, who was released from Holloway jail yes- j terday, is reported to-day to be grave. The “hunger strike” which she in augurated when in jail has greatly undermined Mrs. Pankhurst’s const!- j tution. So weakened was her condi tion to-day that she was subjected to a transfusion of blood operation. The physicians decided that an operation was necessary in order to save the militant leader’s life. Declaring that they will servo their imprisonment rather than pay fines. Mrs. Pethick Law rence, Lady Sybil Smith and Miss Evelyn Sharpe, who were arrested yesterday when they tried to hold suffrage meeting at the entrance to the House of Commons, were taken to jail to-day. The women were fined $200 or the option of spending four teen days in jail. U. S. Net Star Loses In Play for Davis Cup WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND. July 25. McLoughlin, the American tennis star, was defeated by Parke, of Eng land, three sets in five, in the open ing play for the Davis Cur to-day. The American tennis team was the betting choice. All records for at tendance were broken. The American colony to a man backed their coun trymen. The courts were in excellent condi tion. The doubles will be played to-mor row and the other two singles Mon day. Suffragettes Rally To Ella Flagg Young CHICAGO, July 25.—The govern ing bodies of the Illinois Equal Suf frage Association, Chicago Political Equality League and two men’s par ties of Cook County, met to-day in a determined campaign to prevent the retirement of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young as superintendent of Chicago public schools. Mrs. Young, who has been in the schools of the city since 1868, said her resignation was presented be cause she was "tired of fighting.” Mrs. Young is 68 years of age. South Africa Faces Nation-Wide Strike 8pecial Cable to The Georgian. JOHANNESBURG. July 25.—A general strike is threatened in South Africa. The populace to-day is anx iously awaiting the Government’s reply to the demands of the railroad employees and miners. Unless the demands are met the men say they will walk out. The strike would tie up all Indus try and work great hardship through out the country. Cause of Mulhall's Discharge Sought WASHINGTON, JULY 25—Why- Colonel M. M. Mulhall was discharged by the National Association was in quired into today by the Overman lobby inquiry committee. The subpoena for John Mitchell and other officials of the American Feder ation of Labor were returnable today but Chairman Overman did not wish to examine them until the remainder of the Mulhall letters had been read. Aged Doctor Dies as He Asks for Blessing DAWSON, July 25.—When Dr. W. C. Kendrick said “let’s have the blessing now.” as he sat down at the breakfast table this morning, his head fell back and he died immediately. Dr. Kendrick was 83 years old. He retired from decila practice last week, after 58 years’ service. He had held many positions of honor, having rep resented Webster and Terrell Coun ties In the Legislature. grate in which she was burning some trash at her home. No. 349 Capitol avenue, Miss Bessie Lyon, 19 years old. died Thursday night at the Georgian Hospital. She was the daughter of R. L. Lyon, superintend ent of the Austell Building. In the room next to the one in which the girl succumbed, her heroic mother Friday lay, suffering from se rious burns received while trying to extinguish the flames which envel oped the daughter. The accident occurred Wednesday afternoon. Miss Lyon had swept some light trash into the grate in the front room on the second floor, and, after applying a match to it, turned to leave. A tongue of flame leaped up to the hem of her skire as it swished over the fire, and immediately the filmy cloth blazed. Girl Flees in Terror. When the girl discovered her plight, all presence of mind left her. Scream ing, she burst open the door and leap ed down the stairway. Her body by this time was enveloped in flames. Mrs. Lyon, emerging from a back room, saw her daughter as she bound ed down the stairs. Grabbing a Ifian- ket, she ran after her, catching the terrified girl las she reached the first floor of the building, where Mr and Mrs. B. Clein live. A struggle between the two women ensued before the blanket was placed about the younger one. In her ef forts to sav her daughter, Mrs. Lyon let the flames catch in the sleeves of her own dress, and for a time it looked as though both women would be burned to death. Pedestrians from the street rushed in. Mrs. Clein had picked up a rug from the floor and was endeavoring to throw it over the mother and daugh ter. Mrs. Lyon was separated from the burning girl and the flames in her drests quickly extinguished. Despite Judge's Statement All Is in Readiness, Move for Post- ment Is Expected. BIRMINGHAM, July 25.—In the presence of 125 members of the secret fraternal order of Moose. in Moose Hall last night, Donald A. Kenny, president of the local Chauf feurs’ Union, and Christopher Gus- tin, an iron molder, met almost in stantaneous death from an overshock of electricity received while being initiated into the organization. Both were young and strong men. Other candidates going through the same initiation before them were not injured. After Kenny was seen to be sink ing and before John P. Abbott, pre siding officer, couid stop the proceed ings. Gusrtin also had been fatally in jured’. Dead in Five Minutes. Both men died within five minutes, although the lodge physician. Dr. L. V. Neill, was present and lent Imme diate attention. The ceremony that proved fatal is the branding one. The candidate stands upon a tilting board with his chest bared. A magneto is connected with his leg by a metal band and chain. A horseshoe metal Moose emblem is heated red hot before his eyes and a man advances toward him holding the heated iron as if to brand him on l the Sneet, Passenger train No. 17 on the Sea board Air Line, due in Atlanta from Abbeville, S. C., at 8:40 a. m., was wrecked Friday morning when Just abreast the National Furniture Com pany plant at 844 Marietta street, by plunging into an interlocking switch set against it. The negro fireman, Albert Wallace, of No. 44 Rock street, Atlanta, was thrown across the tracks when the engine toppled, and was carried to Grady Hospital unconscious. He is not expected to live. Engineer C. A. Tennant, of Abbeville, S. C.. was bad ly shaken up and bruised, but was not seriously injured. The front trucks of the first coach, a combination passenger and baggage car, left the tracks, and the occu pants. all negroes, were given a se^ vere jolting. None of the other four cars was derailed. Inquiry Begun by Road. Officials of the Seaboard, in an effort to fix the responsibility for the wreck, are investigating the report that the signal board indicated “all clear” until the train was almost upon the switch and that at this instant the operator in the tow-er pulled the signal and derailed the train. T. L. Brook, of No. 66 Currier street, long in the employ of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Is the towerman. He denied the signal had been set against the incoming train just ns the interlocking switch was reached, resulting in the derailment. Despite the tact that Superior .Tudpe L. S. Roan stated every thing was in readiness for the trial' of Leo M. Frank next Mon day, that State’s Attorney Hugh M. Dorsey has announced he will fight a delay, and that the de fense actually commenced sum moning witnesses, the impression still prevailed Friday that a mo tion for continuance wonld be made by the defense when the case is opened. Attorneys Luther Rosser and Reu ben R. Arnold declined flatly to say whether they would permit the trial 1 to proceed without introducing 6ome motion for a postponement, and the report was that witnesses had been summoned to be on the safe side in the event a request to put off the trial is refused. The accused man was In the best of health and spirits, according to an announcement from the Tower Fri day, find was anxious that the case go to trial. His illness would be the best ground upon which to secure a de lay, but the inability of any one of the more material witnesses to come into court would more than likely be considered a sufficient legal reason. Judge Roan considered it highly im probable that the case would be put off on account of his indisposition. He said that he was in the best of health, and that if any continuance were se cured it would be at the request of the State’s attorney or the counsel for the accused man. “I had a slight attack of Indiges tion Wednesday night,” he said, “but I was all right Thursday morning and opened court at Covington. I dis posed of three murder trials before noon, and left for Atlanta at 12:30 in the afternoon. Judge to Require Good Reason. “To the best of my knowledge the trial of Leo M. Frank will begin next Monday. The only possibility of post ponement would be some very good and sufficient legal reason for a con tinuance advanced by the State or the defense. During the eleven years I have been on the bench I have never postponed a trial on account of being ill. and I will not consider any per sonal Inconvenience next Monday. “The reason In not drawing the jury earlier was to guard against several of the veniremen leaving the city rather t£an to serve. “The date set was in the nature of an agreement, and I would imagine both sides were ready and willing for the trial to go on.” Defense's Attitude a Puzzle. Despite the assurance of Judge Roan that the case would go on and the announcement of the State’s at torney, Hugh M. Dorsey, that all his witnesses had been summoned and na would insist on going to trial, the re fusal of the attornevs for Frank *a moke any statement whatever and the report that no witnesses for the de fense had been *subpenaed indicated strongly that a postponement would be sought on some ground that tha attorneys were confident would ba sufficient. The weather will not play any part in securing a postponement unle*6 the mercury registers 99 degrees o< higher. Judge Roan said that he laughingly remarked last Saturday that if the temperature was as high next Monday as it was then he would be glad to continue the case. He said that he had not considered such a proposition seriously, but if it got s<j hot as to be extremely uncomfortably he might consider a postponement. Special deputies were sworn in FrL day morning to begin serving the Hi