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VOL. XI. NO. 305.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1913.
Copyright. 1906.
By Th« Georgian Co.
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DORSEY PREPARES SURPRISES FOR TRIAL
I FINDS KIDNAPED CHILD AFTER 2 YEARS r 5HRCH
Wilson Appointment Angers Southerners
TRAIL LEADS
PACIFIC
Mrs. Lily Lamar Martin, Fulton
County, Locates Little Daugh
ter in Los Angeles, Cal.
I.OS ANGELES, July 26.—After a
two-year search, extending across
seven States, Mrs. Lily Lamar Mar
tin, of Fulton County, Georgia, has
located her little daughter, Sarah
Alice, at 1242 West Thirty-eighth
street, Los Angeles.
Humane Officer McLaughlin, at the
request of the mother, applied for a
writ of habeas corpus ordering the
child's father, A. R. Martin, to pro
duce tbe child in Judge Wilbur’s
courtroom Monday.
Martin is charged by McLaughlin
with kidnaping the child from its
, mother after its custody Lad been
awarded Mrs. Martin. The Martins
were divorced in Georgia April 18.
1911. The mother is now in Dallas,
Tex., but is leaving for Los Angeles
to regain possession of the child.
The litigation with the little girl
' as the center dates back to Decem
ber 28, 1908, when A. R. Martin filed
a petition for divorce in the Fulton
County courts. He charged his wife,
Mrs. Lily Martin, with grossly inhu
man and cruel treatment, asserting
that she had pointed a pistol at him,
tried to stab him with a butcher knife
and had threatened to poison him by
putting strychnine in his food. After
this last threat, his petition alleged,
he became afraid for his life and fled.
He asserted also that she had threat
ened to kill their daughter, Sarah
Alice, who was 6 years old at the
time of the filing of the petition. Mar
tin asked for the custody of the
child.
Mrs. Martin at once filed a cross
bill, denying the charges made by her
husband, and praying the court to
allow her to keep the little girl. Both
Martin and his wife were granted
a divorce, and she was given a Judg
ment for alimony. The court order
ed the child placed in the Baptist
Orphans' Home, at Hapeville, but be
cause of the crowded condition of the
home the g ir l was Placed temporarily
in charge of her grandfather, F. L.
Pye.
A few months after the court's de
cision, while Mrs. Martin was visiting
in Americus, Ga., Martin took out a
writ of habeas corpus and took the
child away from Pye. He then left
with the little girl for San Fran
cisco, and the case began. Mrs. Mar
tin trailed her husband through sev
eral States in the West and across
the entire continent, finally locating
■him at Los Angeles.
Cabaret and Trots
Doomed in Chicago
CHICAGO, July 26—The cabaret is
to be banished from Chicago. Police
Major Funkhouser, morals censor of
the city, to-dhy announced he had the
support of the City Council license
committee in stopping the tango, tur
key trot and other cabaret dances in
tended to amuse the drinking patrons
of the city’s cafes.
The report of the committee to the
Council Monday night will Include an
ordinance permitting performers in
cafes, but decreeing that they must
' remain on the stage and not go about
the audience.
They Are Eating Off
The Mantel in Philly
PHILADELPHIA. July *26.—Phila
delphia has an epidemic of bolls. At
one Walnut street shop one-third of
the girls are away with boils, while
at another fashionable place one-
Jialf the employees are unable to sit
down.
Physicians attribute the outbreak
to the recent heated term.
52 Sunday Concerts
Planned by Music
FestivalAssociation
Plans for an unbroken series of
Sunday afternoon concerts at the Au
ditorium-Armory next year are now
being 1 prepared by the Atlanta Mu
sic Festival Association. It is the
hope of the association to arrange
with the Auditorium Committee of
the General Council to secure the
building for each Sunday during the
year that there may be no break in
the series of concerts.
Meeting of representatives of the
association and of the Council com
mittee was held in Mayor Woodward’s
office Friday afternoon. V. H. Krieg-
shaber declared that during the last
year the association had paid $4,009
for an organist, but because other at
tractions were booked Sunday, it had
been able to give only 85 concerts. He
declared that a break in the series
caused people to lose interest, and
asked the committee for an arrange
ment whereby each of the 52 Sun
days of the year could be used for
concerts.
U. S. Postoffices to
Observe Labor Laws
WASHINGTON, July 26— First As
sistant Postmaster General Roper to
day sent a warning to all fourth-
class postmasters that where such
postofTices are located In States hav
ing limited hours of labor fixed for
women by State laws the department
will insist on strict adherence to the
statutes.
Mr. Roper especially warns post
masters against the practice of allow
ing postoffice clerks who also act as
clerks in stores run in conjunction
with the postoffices, to violate limited
hour laws.
Crook That Howard
Caught Is Sentenced
WASHINGTON, July 26.—Henry
M. Thornton, the confidence man who
recently tried to get money from Rep
resentative Howard, of Atlanta, un
der false pretenses, was sentenced
yesterday to eighteen months in the
penitentiary. Thornton was arrested
in Mr. Howard’s office, where he had
shown a forged letter of introduction
from an Atlanta lawyer.
A few days before Thornton had
j obtained $350 from the private secre
tary of Senator Martin.
Graduate of Mercer
Is Drowned Fishing
LOUISVILLE, July 26.—Reports
from Clark’s Mill, six miles north of
here, reached here to-day of the
drowning of Charles Oliphant while
fishing with a party of friends.
Oliphant was a son of Dickson Oli
phant, of Wrens. He was 24 years
old, a first-honor graduate of Merce"
University, and was in his second year
at the Georgia Medical College in
Augusta. He was well known here
end was popular In baseball circles.
Girls Garbed as Men
Arrested as ‘Flirts’
CHICAGO, July 26.—Mrs. Anna
Pierson, 23 years of age, and Miss
Hilda Lindgren, aged 26, were called
into court to-day to answer charges
of masquerading in male attire.
The two young women were found
by the police after complaints had
been made that two young men had
attempted to flirt with the women
members of an automobile party.
King of Spain Goes
To Cowes Regatta
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, July 26.—King Alfonso of
Spain, accompanied by the Queen, ar
rived here to-day en route to the
Cowes regatta.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local thundershow
ers Saturday and Sunday.
Dixie Lawmakers Roused by Wil
son’s Selection of Oklahoma
Lawyer as Treasury Register.
WASHINGTON, July 26—The se-
lection of Adam E. Patterson, a ne
gro, of Muskogee, Okla., for Register
of the Treasury by President Wilson
has created a stir here among South
ern Democrats, who declare they will
fight the negro’s confirmation to the
last ditch.
Patterson, a lawyer and author of
seve.*al treatises on the Democratic
party, has received the indorsement of
Senator Gore and Representative Car
ter, of Oklahoma, it is said. With
these two exceptions, the Oklahoma
delegation is solid against him.
Race Antagonism Seen.
Southern Democrats, including Rep
resentatives Davenport and Murray,
of Oklahoma, condemn the selection
of Patterson on the grounds that a
House Seems Sure Tiy UPTP Tfl
To Pass Drugs Bill | m fljj | Q | [)
The Shuptrine drug bill has been
made special order In the House
Tuesday. Indications are it will be
passed. The bill provides for rigid
enforcement of the laws against the
sale of narcotics. It allows a limited
supply of opium and cocaine to be
kept in stores. Inspectors are pro
vided for. A special tax of $10 on
druggists will maintain the system.
Representative Shuptrine. who is
head of a large drug firm in Savan
nah and who has been president of
the Georgia Pharmaceutical Associa
tion, has worked hard for the passage
of the bill. He has the personal in
dorsement of more than half the
druggists in Georgia.
‘Diamond Jim’Likes
New Fan-Tango Trot
NEW # YORK, July 26.—James
Buchanan Brady, known to the Great
White Way as “Diamond Jim” Brady,
approves the tango skirt as well as
the tango trot. “Diamond Jim” says,
as a flesh reducer, nothing can touch
the new fan-tango dances.
“You see for yourself.” said “Dia
mond Jim,” straightening himself up
in his box, where he watched the
Giants and Pittsburg baseball game,
and incidentally gave a bag of pea
nuts to each of the 800 orphans who
were guests of the day, "how much
Barwick Relents, and
Mattiford Is Freed
flesh I hav2 lost. Most of it has gone
negro should not be placed in a po- s|nce , began t0 trot
sition where he will exert authority
over white men and women, thus an
tagonizing the races.
Besides, they point out that Okla
homa’s Constitution makes the negro
a negligible factor in politics. The
job for which Patterson has been se
lected pays $5,000 per year and has
been held by a negro for several years
Relieves Him Capable.
“While I believe this man to be ca
pable,” said Representative Daven
port, "I do not believe any colored
man should be placed in a position of
authority over white men and white
women. I don’t think anything ought
to be done to accentuate the race
question.”
Representative Murray, commonly
known as “Alfalfa Bill,” said he was
surprised at the President’s action in
selecting Patterson, and believed it
was a political mistake on the lat
ter’s part. The grandfather clause in
the Oklahoma Constitution, he said,
made the negro a negligible factor in
politics.
Confirmation Is Opposed.
Other Southern Democrats, while
not hesitating to express themselves,
refused to be quoted in regard to the
matter. That they will put their
shoulders to the wheel and fight hard
against the confirmation when it
comes up in the Senate is certain,
however, it is said.
Patterson was selected from a num
ber of negro applicants, including W.
K. Clements, of Charlotte, N. C., who
had received the indorsement of sev
eral members of the State delegation.
South Africa Faces
Nation-Wide Strike
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHANNESBURG. July 26.—A
general strike is threatened in South
Africa.
The Government has replied to
the demand of the railroad men and
miners, granting certain concessions,
but not agreeing to all the demands.
The union officials are considering
whether the terms will be accepted.
The strike would tie up all industry
and work great hardship throughout
the country.
Landowners Agree
To Arbitrate Claims
MACON, July 26.—Practically the
last obstacle In the way of the erec
tion of the Union Passenger Station
at Fifth and Cherry streets was re
moved yesterday when all but one of
the property owners in that vicinity
agreed to arbitrate their claims foi
damages expected to accrue from the
closing of Cherry street.
The Railroad Commission has
stated that the damage claims must
be settled before it will authorize the
building of the depot.
John D. Mattiford, arrested in Bos
ton Friday, after a 3,000-mile chase,
on a charge of kidnaping two chil
dren of John A. Barwick, af Atlanta,
has been released. Barwick notified
the Atlanta police he had recovered
his children and that he would not
press the prosecution.
It was charged that Mattiford and
Mrs. Barwick eloped with the children
about three months ago. The princi
pals have decided they will not re
turn to Atlanta live. Barwick is now
in New York City with his children.
Gen. Grant’s Son, 56,
Applies for Divorce
GOLDFIELD. NEV., July 6—Jesi'e
R. Grant, youngest son of General
Ulysses 8. Grant, filed suit for di
vorce from Elizabeth Chapman to
day, after 23 years of married life.
Desertion is the only allegation.
He is now 56 years old, and mar
ried the daughter of W. S. Chapman,
of San Francisco, in 1880. They have
two children. One is Nellie Grant,
who married Lieutenant Commander
William Peggott Cronan, U. S. N.. in
San Francisco last May; the other is
Chapman Grant, 27 years old.
Black Sleuth Trails
Negro Slayer; Jailed
COLUMBUS. July 26.—After trail
ing Manuel Bailey, a negro murderer
of Tennessee, through four States,
Frank Walker, a black detective, of
that State, caused Bailey’s arrest in
Girard, Ala., to-day. Batley is being
held at Seale, Ala., pending the sign
ing of requisition papers by Governor
O’Neal of Alabama.
Walker will return to Covington,
Tenn.. with his man, who is wanted in
that town on a charge of murdering a
negro preacher.
100 Per Cent Health
Test for Employees
PITTSBURG. July 26.—The Penn
sylvania Railroad Company Is short
ly to put into effect a rule debarring
from dining car service all employees
suffering from disease of any kind.
Quarterly physical examinations are
to be made by company physicians,
and only those 100 per cent healthy
will be permitted to remain in the
service.
It is believed nearly 50 per cent of
the present employees will be dis
charged or transferred.
Appropriations Bill, as Framed,
Pleases Governor—Needed
Revenue To Be Provided,
The one disturbing element in the
program of financial legislation as
mapped out by Governor Slaton just
prior to the assembling of the Leg
islature, and as outlined by him in
his inaugural address, seems more
than likely to be removed, thus avoid
ing either an Executive veto of the
general appropriations bill or an ex
tra session of the General Assem
bly.
The general appropriations bill, as
framed up in the House and as like
ly to be amended in the Senate, wlii
be entirely satisfactory to the Gov
ernor, provided sensible and neces
sary tax acts are passed to produce
the revenue called for.
And it may be stated as a fact that
the legislative skies have been stead-
Uv clearing for the past few days
with respect to that.
Tax Acts Also Expected.
Not only does it now seem likely
that the big appropriations bill will
go to the Governor ten days ahead
of adjournment as he has requested,
but the tax acts will accompany it,
in order that he may consider all at
the same time and in their exact
vital relations to one another.
The tax acts will provide the nec
essary increase in revenue to cover
the appropriations called for. and this
increased revenue will be distributed
as equitably and as Justly ae possi
ble. Chairman Aiken, Vice Chair
man Cole and every member of the
Ways and Means Committee. has
been constantly at work upon the
tax acta of late, to the exclusion of
all other business.
May Raise Tax Limit.
No attempt will be made in the
general legislative tax acts, however,
to cover the deficit now existing in
the State treasury. The Legislature
seemingly inclines to propose a con
stitutional amendment of limited du
ration, providing for an increase in
the tax limit of one mill for one year
and one-half a mill for a second year,
as recommended by the Governor.
This increase will raise something
over $1,000,000, which will wipe out
the deficit and leave something to
spare for further necessities between
this time and the date upon which the
amendment, if ratified, can be put in
operation.
The money thus extraordinarily
raised will, of course, pay the com
mon school teachers in full and start
them off again with a clean slate
against the State, and with no dan
ger of a future situation of indebt
edness such as now exists.
Expect Bill to Pass.
The bill providing for tax equaliza
tion will pass the Legislature. There
is no doubt whatever of that in the
minds of those members who have
closely observed the trend of events
lately.
It will not be the bill the Governor
hoped for, but it will be a bill pro
viding a plan of tax equalization that
can be expanded and perfected by
later Legislatures, if it seems to work
to the people’s satisfaction.
It will carry provisions for coun
ty boards of tax equalizers with a
State board of limited powers to su
pervise the entire work. The Stale
board will not be permitted to equal
ize the assessment of taxpayers, but
it will have power to equalize the
counties.
Measure To Be Compromise.
This measure will be a decided
compromise between those who are
advocating a State board of far-
reaching authority and those who ob
ject to any State board at all.
Without some sort of State board
it generally is agreed, however, that
tax equalization would be a complete
farce, and not worth while in any
particular.
ATLANTA GIRL PLEADS
SUMMER FLIRTS' CASE
.MISS GLADYS WATKINS.
BOTH SIDES
HIDE VITAL
FACTS
If Miss Gladys Watkins, one of At
lanta’s prettiest society girls, had her
w'ay, the good old summer time would
no longer be an open season for flir
tations; friendships formed under the
spell of the full moon and the moun
tain breezes would be as lasting and
as firm as friendships formed before
an open fire, and sure-enough, honest-
to-goodness romance would feel as
much at home in a rowboat as it is in
a sleigh.
“Is there any good reason,” asked
Miss Watkins, “why every romance
that begins during summer should bo
greeted with skepticism and labeled a
summer flirtation?’ Why should not
summer, the most beautiful season of
the year, be as good a time as winter
for forming everlasting friendships? I
thfnk it’s a shame that every time
a girl meets a man at a summer re
sort and speaks to him klfndly once
or twice, it is set down as a flirta
tion—when in reality they may like
each other very much.
“A girl meets many nice men at the
seashore, in the mountains or where-
ever people go to escape the heat. Yef
if she likes one particular man and
they go together much, people laugh
and say, ‘Oh, it’s just another sum
mer flirtation.’ And that laugh has
destroyed many a romance. Knowing
that no one will take them seriously
the man and maid are not apt lo take
themselves very seriously.
“Summer has simply gotten a bad
name and can not gel rid of it. A
girl is not nearly so apt to believe
the things a young man tells her in
summer as she Us to be lieve the same
things in winter. And it is because
she has heard all her life that summer
friendships were just flirtations.”
flUHTII HIT
MACON, July 26.—Southern pas
senger trains Nos. 13 (northbound)
and No. 14 (southbound) had a head-
on collision on a siding at Hilton,
near Macon, this morning at 3:10
o’clock, resulting in the death of Will
Jackson, the negro porter, who open
ed the switch, and injuring Engineer
H. G. Jennings, of Macon, and Fire
man W. E. Jones, of Atlanta, of train
No. 24.
When train No. 24 was within 100
yards of the siding the porter became
excited over the apprehension that
he had not turned the switch prop
erly. He turned it again opening the
siding to the approaching train. He
was sruek by the engine of train No.
24 and instantly killed.
Engineer Jennings sustained a
bruised shoulder and sprained back,
and Fireman Jones had a rib broken,
i None of the passengers was hurt, al-
I though all were severely jarred.
A delay of less than an hour was
! occasioned by the wreck, train No.
} 23 taking train No. 13 on to Atlanta,
i while the passengers from No. 24
I were transferred and brought to Ma-
i cpn. *
State’s Prosecutor Shrouds Iden
tity and Stories of Scores of
Witnesses in Secrecy.
Froseuutiou and defense con
tinued their preparations for the
Frank trial Saturday, the last-
i hour hurry of interviewing new
witnesses and gathering up the
stray ends of evidence giving a
fair promise that the trial will
start as scheduled next Monday
forenoon.
That Solicitor Dorsey lias near
ly a score of important witnesses
whose testimony has been care
fully guarded from the defense
and the general public is well
known. These witnesses have
come to his office from time to
time, and the soilcitor has re
fused to give out the vaguest in
timation of the line of testimony
they would give at the trial.
The prosecution has reserved their
evidence to spring as a surprise dur
ing the trial. On these persons the
State depends to clinch its case
against the young factory superin
tendent. Some of them will be called
to bear out different portions of the
negro Conley’s affidavit, in which van
told the story of the disposal of Mary
Phagan’s body. The Solicitor is un
derstood to have witnesses who wilt
corroborate portions of Conley’s story
which have been under the severest
fire.
Thinks Conley Story True,
The Solicitor several times has an
nounced that he believes Conley is
telling the truth in the essential
statements of his affidavit. He has
strengthened his belief by interview
ing many people who were in a posi
tion to know of different circum
stances mentioned in Conley’s story.
The only possibility of an alteration
in the State's theory Is that the time
element may be modified in certain
respects.
Similar surprises may be expected
from the defense. Attorney Rosser
has not been communicative with the
newspaper men. The few bits of his
evidence that have become known to
the public were obtained in spite cf
him. Except for the Mincey affida
vit, published tn The Georgian, most
of the important evidence of the de
fense has been so carefully guarded
as to make it still a matter of con
jecture. The general plan of Frank's
defense can be surmised, but the con
tents of the hundred or more affida
vits in the possession of Attorney
Rosser remain a deep mystery.
"Plant" Generally Suspected.
No one expects at this time that
the pay envelope, the bloody club or
the piece of rope found on the first
floor will play any large part In the
trial. Neither side is convinced of
their genuineness. The suspicion of
a ' plant" has prevailed from the time
of their discovery.
Two operatives who began turning
up this sort of startling eviden .v the
moment they were placed on the case
soon were taken off t »e Phagan mys
tery by’the Pinkerton agency.
Both sides announce themselves
ready for the trial to proceed. It is
regarded as doubtful that the defense
will ask for another continuance, ex
cept on account of tit ' absence of
material witnesses or the iUn-'-re of
counsel. About 150 witnesses al
ready have been summoned by the
defense. . -