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ALWAYS FIRST Tbe SUNDAY AMERICAN OrdvrHNOWi Both Phonos Main 8000 The Atlanta Georgian South Georgia Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results VOL. XI. NO. 304. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 25,1913. Copyright, lift. By The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. p ^ T Ito MORS. 5 HURT IN SEABOARD WRECK FR ANK BEFE NSE BEGINS SUBPENAING WITNESS! - - - — 5 5 REPORTED 'PRETTY GIRL' EXHIBIT 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 cl V b * ir . al cl n E 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 * 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 mg. 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, & & & $J & & # $ & & & $ & & & & & 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 Next Sunday’s American Get it from your dealer or order in advance by phoning Main 100. t&J & & $ $ & & & $ & & & !$ & & 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