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VOL. XI. NO. 304.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 25,1913.
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By The Georgian Co.
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AT CANAL FAIR URGED
Atlanta Girl Injured in Auto Crash
MISS GEORGE GREEN.
Athens Accommodation Hits Open
Switch as It Enters the
Yard? in Athens.
The Seaboard accommodation from
Athens ran into an open switch Fri
day morning just opposite the Na
tional Furniture Company plant on
Marietta street, endangering the lives
of scores of passengers as the engine,
turning completely over, pulled sev
eral of the cars off the rails.
Four persons were reported hurt in
the accident, according to a report to
Grady Hospital, but others said that
the passengers had escaped.
As the big locomotive skipped the
rails and began toppling, the engi
neer leaped and escaped unhurt.
The fireman was badly injured, being
crushed in the overturned engine.
Physicians were rushed to the
scene from Grady Hospital and the
police also were called. Employees
in nearby factories went to the aid
of the passengers who were later
‘transferred to street cars to be taken
into town.
JACOBS
Doubt Report That
Dr. Jacobs Bought
Burns’ Manuscript
Members of the family of Dr. Jo
seph Jacobs are not inclined to be
lieve the report that he has purchased
the famous Glenriddell manuscripts of
Robert Burns for a sum exceeding
$25,000 bid several years ago by J.
Pierpont Morgan. The purchase of
the manuscripts by the Atlantan is
told of in London dispatches.
“I don’t think there is any truth
to the report,” Dr. Sinclair Jacobs,
son of Dr. Jacobs, said Friday morn
ing. “If the manuscripts had been
purchased w T e undoubtedly would
have been notified, and we have heard
nothing of it except what we have
read in the papers. Dr, Jacobs, so
far as I know, has not been near
London on his present trip to Europe."
According to the London dispatches,
Dr. Jacobs purchased the manuscripts
from a dealer in London, who recent
ly bought them from the Liverpool
Athenaeum. It is said that the deal
between Dr. Jacobs and the dealer
was pending at the time of the first
purchase of the manuscripts, and that
the London dealer was merely Dr. Ja
cobs’ agent in the transaction.
•Latest Counterfeit
$5 a Poor Specimen
WASHINGTON, July 25.—The dis
covery of a new counterfeit five-dol-
lar “Indian head” silver certificate
is announced by Chief W. J. Flynn
of the Secret Service. The spurious
note apparently is printed from
crudely etched plates on fair quality
bond paper, with ink lines to imitate
the silk fabric of the genuine. The
Indian portrait is poor, and on the
back of the note, grass green in color,
little attempt has been made to Imi
tate the lathe w’ork.
Chief Flynn said the counterfeit
should not deceive the ordinarily
careful handler of money.
Fluid Acts Like X-Ray
On Body After Death
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PHILADELPHIA, July 2S.—Physi
cians of the Hahnemann Hospital and
Medical College are perfecting a
process based on discoveries of a fluid
by a German scientUt which will
make the human body transporent
after death.
Students can study the veins, mus
cles and bones far more easily by the
new method, it is said. The fluid
can not be used before death.
Booster Club Probably Will Send
Pictures of Ten Leaders in
Beauty Contest.
A reader suggests that the pictures
of the ten leading beauties in the
booster button contest be included in
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the Georgia exhibit at the Panama Ex
position in San Francisco.
It is not unlikely this suggestion
will be carried out by the Booster
Club.
When the prettiest girl finally is st -
lected for the “600,000 Club” booster
button her face will become the em
blem of that organization, but her
name will not be on the buttons. The
only W'ords under the pretty face will
be the slogan: "Watch Atlanta—She’ll
Get You Yet.”
Miss George Green, of No. 222
North Jackson street, is one of the
entrants to-day. She is another bru
nette and makes the number of bru
nettes equal to the blondes in the con
test. At first it seemed that th<
blondes would predominate.
Nominations still are invited. Girls
nominated now' \vill % have practically
as good an opportunity from the
standpoint of time as those suggested
at the first. It is with The Georgian
readers who is to be selected, the
nomination and voting coupons being
published each day.
HELD IN SHOOTING CASE.
COLUMBUS.—D. D. Bloom, a well-
known young business man of Co
lumbus, was bound over to the Su
perior Court on charges of shooting
at another and having a pistol with
out license, the bond in each case be
ing fixed at $100 by the Recorder,
IMTl PLAY
IS Film TO
Unless Senate Changes Appro
priations Bill It Stands in No
Danger of Veto.
If the general appropriations bill is
permitted by the Senate to stand
practically as it comes 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, w'ithin 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
w'hat they should be.
The fact that the House added
$100,000 to the common school fund,
thereby increasing the total appro
priations some $50,000 over those of
last year, is not necessarily alarm-
Priest, Forced to *
Take Holy Orders,
Released by Pope
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BIRMINGHAM, July 25— In the
presence of 125 members of the secret
fraternal Older of the 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, could stop the proceed
ings, Gustin 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 ;s
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
the'chest.
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 have 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 flat fax of $5 per annum on all
machines, however, with nothing to
be furnished the owner of the car but
a written receipt, W’ill add over $100,-
000 to the State’s income yearly, thus
offsetting the Legislature’s increase
in the school fund.
As the legislative situation shapes
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
measures.
Teachers Still Unoaid.
There is a deficit in the State
Treasury, and the school teachers still
are unpaid.
The State institutions have 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 w-rangle
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 th e State’s debts
must be paid, even if a distasteful
thing has to be done in effecting their
payment.
ROME. July 25.—The Congregation
of the Sacraments has rendered a
decision in a case which has lasted
for four years, and which has been
much discussed in ecclesiastical cir
cles. Twelve years ago a priest
named Arena asked to be allowed to
give up the priesthood. He pleaded
that twelve years ago he had been
compelled by his parents to take Holy
Orders. He alleged that he obeyed
his parents against his will. This w as
confirmed by several witnesses.
The Congregation of the Sacra
ments, which was presided over by
Cardinal Farrata, decided to cancel
the priest’s orders. It held that they
had been conferred against hi-p will,
and were therefore invalid. It recom
mended that Arena be released from
his vows.
The Pope approved the verdict.
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; Jenks Ran
dall, s*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.
Risque French Songs
Scandalize Belgians
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BRUSSELS. July 25—Cardinal
Mercier, head of the Catholic Churcn
in Belgium, published a letter advis
ing Catholic parents to keep their
children away from certain parts of
the Ghent International Exhibition,
especially the sections devoted to
paintings and sketches by French hu
morists and to Belgian decorative art
in which nude figures are prominent.
Carton DeWiart, Minister of Jus
tice, has given strict instructions to
watch theatrical productions, cinema
tographs and smut songs importeJ
from France.
Titled Suffragette
Is Sentenced to Jail
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, July 25.—Declaring that
they w’ill serve their imprisonment
rather than pay fines, Mrs. Pethick
Lawrence, Lady Sybil Smith and Miss
Evelyn Sharpe, who were arrested
yesterday when they tried to hold a
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.
Lady Smith is a daughter of the
Earl of Antrim and the wife of Vivian
H. Smith, a partner in the firm of
Morgan, Grenfell & Co.
MISS THEO
PRIOLEAU
INJURED
Cadet’s Very Last
Kiss Holds Up Big
Liner 3 Minutes
Atlanta Society Girl Hurt, Man
Killed in Auto Crash at
Monroe, La.
Miss Theo Prioleau, a prominent
Atlanta society girl living at No. 70
East Merritts avenue, was seriously
injured Thursday night at Monroe,
La., in an automobile accident which
resulted in the death of one of the
men in the party, according to a dis
patch received by The Georgian Fri
day morning.
The car is said to have been speed
ing when the crash occurred. All the
persons in the automobile were hurled
out as the car careened. Miss Prio-
leau's companion wras killed almost
instantly.
She was picked up unconscious and,
with the other members of the auto
mobile party, hurried to the hospital.
Her injuries are not expected to be
fatal.
Mrs. E. L. Prioleau, her mother, had
not heard of the accident when seen
by a Georgian reporter Friday morn
ing. She was prostrated with grief in
the fear that the injuries to her
daughter had been minimized. She
said that her daughter had been vis
iting friends and relatives in Monrot.
and was intending to return home
within a few f days.
The victim of the accident is well
known in Atlanta society circles and
is a sister of Morris Prioleau, who
formerly was with the Southern Bell
Telephone Company.
Next Encampment
Of 1,0.0. F. in Macon
ATHENS, July 26.—The Grand En
campment of Odd Fellows which was
In session here Thursday broke camp
in the afternoon, after electing officers
for the next year and selecting Macon
as the next meeting place.
The new officers are. Grand patri
arch, Robert L. Bramblet, Athens;
grand high priest, E. H. Stout, At
lanta; grand senior warden. J. V.
Everlge, Columbus; grand scribe. W.
H. Abbott, Atlanta; grand treasurer.
I. O. Teaseley, Alpharetta; grand jun
ior warden, Homer Ashley, Atlanta:
grand representative. Chester L. El
liott, Brunswick; past grand patri
arch. G. O. Hook, Alpharetta; grand
marshal, James H. Grover. Marietta;
grand inside sentinel, R. C. Burnham,
Savannah; grand outside sentinel,
Carl A. Vonderleith, Athens; grand
treasurer, Carl A. Vonderleith, Ath
ens.
NEW/ YORK. July 25.—“A last ki*9,
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-by'j.
"A I visitors ashore!” shouted a
petty officer near the sweethearts.
”A very last kis-s, beloved!” ex
claimed Dillon.
“All visitors ashore!" howled a
chorus of petty 1 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!”
M’Clure’s Employees
Hold Yearly Picnic
Emloyees of C. W. McClure’s 5 and
10-cent store held their annual picflic
at Silver Lake Wednesday. More
than a hundred persons were present.
The feature of the occasion was« an
old-fashioned picnic dinner, person
ally superintended by Mrs. McClure,
which was served at 1 o’clock. Dur
ing the morning there was boating,
bathing and foot races.
A baseball game between the re
tailers, lead by “Blondy” Cain, and
the wholesalers, lead by “Lanky”
Reams, was played in the afternoon,
and was followed by a watermelon
cutting.
Uncle Sam Tries to
Get Turkey’s Goat
WASHINGTON, July 25.—A plea to
the Government of Turkey and South
Africa to allow male angora goats to
be exported to the United States is
contained in a bill offered by Senator
Sheppard of Texas.
This goat getting proposition takes
the diplomatic form of authorizing the
Secretary of Agriculture to enter into
negotiations with the two Govern
ments to seek more favorable condi
tions in their live stock exportation
laws.
Bulgars Ask Aid in
Keeping Out Turks
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
SOFIA, July 25.—Her warlike
spirit curbed by the continued defeats
inflicted on her army by the other
Balkan States, Bulgaria to-day ap
pealed to the powers to stop the Inva
sion of her country by the Turks. The
appeal is made in the interest of
Christianity.
It is likely that restraining influ
ence on Turkey will come from Rus
sia, with the consent of the other
powers.
South Africa Faces
Nation-Wide Strike
Special 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 grejit hardship through
out the country.
DOCTORS MEET IN ELBERTON.
ELBERTON.—Physicians of the Eighth
District will meet in Elbenon on Au
gust 20. Chairman W. J. Mathews, of
the visiting committee, is preparing to
entertain at leasj 200,
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Will the Czar’s Long Arm
Get This Princess at Last?
How a noble Russian beauty has (for
the present) tricked the imperial spies
and may yet escape the “golden cage”
prepared for her by a dissolute Grand
Duke will he told in
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Neglect of Defense to Subpoena
Witnesses Taken to Mean Post
ponement May Be Asked.
That the trial of Leo M. Prank,
charged with the murder of
Mary Phagan, would begin next
Monday morning unless the at
torneys for the State or the ac
cused made a good and sufficient
legal showing when the case was
formally called that would con
vince the court it would be im
possible to proceed, was the state
ment of Superior Judge L: S.
Roan Friday morning.
Luther Rosser said Thursday he
w’ould begin summoning witnesses
for the defense during the day and
the indications are that the trial will
go on Monday were greatly strength
ened.
Judge Roan considered it highly im
probable that the case w’ould be put
off on account of his indisposition. He
said that he was in the best cf 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 ths
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 draw ing the jury
earlier was to guard against several
of the veniremen leaving the city
rather than to serve.
“The date set was in the nature of
an agreement, and 1 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 he
would Insist on going to trial, the re
fusal of the attornevs for Frank «o
make 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 the
attorneys were confident would do
sufficient.
The w’eather w’ill not play any part
in securing a postponement unles*
the mercury registers 99 degrees or
higher. Judge Roan said that he
laughingly remarked last Saturdav
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 so
hot as to be extremely uncomfortable,
he might consider a postponement.
Special deputies were sworn in Fri
day morning to begin serving the 144
veniremen whose names were draw-n
Thursday afternoon by Judge John T.
Pendleton. It will be late Saturday
evening before the last man can >e
served, according to Deputy Sheriff
Plennie Miner, who had charge of the
extra men.
The fact that the jury actually warn