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ATLANTA GIRL PLEADS
FORSUMMER ROMANCE
.MISS GLADYS WATKINS.
Charges Breach of Faith With the
Police and Questionable Pro
cedure in Phagan Case.
Continued from Pafe One.
Ing on the subpena he received from
the defence. “The investigation was
made by the Pinkertons without fear !
or favor We uncovered a large |
amount of evidence. Some of it was!
valuable. Some of it was worthless in
the light of present developments.
Some of it pointed strongly toward
the guilt of Frank. Other evidence
could be interpreted as very damag
ing to the negro.
“Our function is to present all of
this evidence it is called for In
court, regardless of whom it may help
or hurt. We may have our private
opinion as to who Is the guilty per
son, but this shall not be allowed to
color the testimony as it Is given in
court. It is for the Jury to make its
interpretation of the evidence.”
Defense Gets Copies of Notes.
Request was made Saturday by At
torney Rosser for photographic copies j
of then otes found beside the body of j
Alary Phagan. The copies were in the j
possession of Solicitor Dorsey, who
readily acceded to the request. The
defense will seek to show' that Frank
could have had no part in their com
position or dictation.
The State's case fs reported to be
ready for immediate presentation. All
of the witnesses havo been sum
moned. All of the panel of 144 jurors,
with the exception <-t' six or seven
who could not be found, have been |
notified to be on hand Monday.
Both 9idos Getting Ready.
Prosecution and defense continued
their preparations for the Frank trial. .
the last-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 has nearly a
•score of important witnesses w'hose
testimony hap been care/ully guarded
from the defense and the general pub
lic Is well known. The..e witnesses
have come to his office from time to
time, and the Solicitor has refused to
give out the vaguest intimation of
the line of testimony they wmuld give
at the trial.
The prosecution has reserved their
evidence to spring as a surprise dur
ing the trial. On mese 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 was
told the story of the disposal of Mary
Phagan’s body. The Solicitor is un
derstood to have witnesses who wtll
corroborate portions of Conley’s story
which have been under the severest
Are.
Thinks Conley Storv 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 < f
him Except for the Mincey affida
vit, published in 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 de**p mystery
"Plant" Generally Suspected.
Xo 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.
According to Bernard Chappel'e,
rounsel for Newt Dee. the night
witchman in the pencil factory, the
negro Saturday denied in the pres
ence of Reuben R. Arnold, attorney
for Frank, that he had broken down
and admitted catching Jim Conlev
with the body of Mary Phagan.
Chapelle had heard that Frank's
counsel understood Lee had collapsed
while being grilled with the sweeper
and called up Mr. Arnold. At hia
suggestion, Arnold visited Lee at the
Jail and there Lee is said to have re
affirmed his previous statement that
he did not see Conley the day of tho
murder.
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Thai Won’! Work
Both Ways
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gets w ork for workers and
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It introduces people whose
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If Miss Gladys Watkins, one of At
lanta’s prettiest society girls, had her
way, 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 Arm as friendships formed before
an open Are. and sure-enough, honest-
to-goodness romance would feel as
much at home in a row’boat as it is in
a sleigh.
"Is there any good reason,” asked
Miss Watkins, "why every romance
that begins during summer should be
greeted with skepticism and labeled a
'summer flirtation?’ Why should not
summer, the most beautiful season of
tho year, be as good a time as winter
for forming everlasting friendships? 1
think it’s a shame 'that every time
a girl meets a man at a summer re-
Sheriff and Force
On Annual Outing
Sheriff C. W. Mangum and twelve
deputies, with their families, are
spending ‘the day at Johnson's Ferry,
on Roswell road, at their annual fish
fry and barbecue. The pleasure
seeking officers left at 11 o’clock in
automobiles, and do not expect to re
turn until they have eaten all the
Ash they can and have delivered all
their extemporaneous speeches.
Besides the Sheriff, those who
made the trip were Deputies J. H.
Owen, G. H. Broadnax. G. L. Poin
dexter. W. Lee Havgood. J. T. Gold
en, J. M. Suttles. Warren Knight,
E. T. Stanley. Drew Liddell, T. \.
Burdette, Foster L. Hunter and R. 3.
Deavers
sort and speaks to him kifndly 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. Yet
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 to take
themselves very seriously.
"Summer has simply gotten a bad
name and can not get rid of It. A
girl is not nearly so apt to believe
the things a young man tells her in
summer as she i« to be Move the same
things In winter. And it is because
she has heard all her life that summer
friendships were just flirtations."
Crook That Howard
Caught Is Sentenced
WASHINGTON, July 2«.—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
penlten.lary, 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
obtained J350 from the private secre
tary of Senator Martin
Funeral Designs and Flowers
FOR ALU OCCASIONS,
Atl ,nta Floral Company,
ASi EAST FAIR STREET.
Girl ‘Hiker’ Averages
25 Miles Every Day
PITTSBURG, July 26.—Miss Gladys
Mason, a petite little New Yorker,
who is “footing It” from Broadway to
the Golden Gate, left here to-day for
Cleveland. She left New York on June
29. and has averaged 25 miles a day
since. Her high mark for a day was
41 miles, made east of Harrisburg.
Miss Mason is 22 years old and Is a
graduate of Emerson College, at Bos
ton She expects (o reach San Fran
cisco and end her 3,000-mile walk on
Thanksgiving Day.
Sick Baby Rescued
From Burning Home
GADSDEN. July 26.—Whpn the house
caught fire from a lamp which had been
left in a room occupied by a sick in
fant. the parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fletch
er Conn, were forced to make a des
perate fight to rescue the child. The
little one. wrapped in a blanket, was
t arried through the smoke and flames
to safety. The building was destroyed.
The lamp had be*n left burning on
* ln , the 8k ’k room and the wind
shifted a lace curtain against the blaze.
1 he tire had made good hcadwav and
part of the celling was failing on the
bed occupied by the child when the
blaze was discovered
SEED CRUSHERS'
COMMITTEES
Beads Only as Dress
Indorsed by Parson
SPARTANBURG, S. C., July 26.—
The Re\. Stephen A. Nettles.'editor
of The Southern Advocate, decided
It would be far better for women to
follow the custom of many African
tribes, who are robed in nothing more
than beads, than to wear the sugges
tive dresses which are so popular* at
present.
Georgia Association’s Preseident
Announces Appointments to
Important Bodies.
Through Secretary A. A. Frierson,
of Atlaqta, B. L. Bond, of Royston,
Ga„ president of the Cotton Seed
Crushers’ Association of Georgia, has
announced the standing committees
of this organization for the ensuing
year. They are:
Governing Committee—J. N. Diffee
chairman, Cordele; R. S. Pattillo, Ma
con; J. J. Reynolds, Waynesboro; E.
C. Ponder, Rutledge; W. J. Murphey,
Newaan.
Appeals and Grievances Committee
— M. S. Harper, chairman, East Point;
G. C. Speir, Atlanta; B. F. Johnson,
Thomson; H. C. Brown, Augusta; S.
A. Corker, Atlanta; D. C. Strother,
Fort Valley, and D. I. King, Unadilla.
Executive Committee — Fielding
Wallace, chairman, Augusta; B. L.
Bond, Royston; P. D. Me ’arlcy, At
lanta; W. M. Hutchinson. Atlanta; J.
H. Walker. Griffin; G. F. Tennille,
Savannah, and W. G. Davis, Hogans-
ville.
Classification of Cotton Seed—H. C
Brown, chairman, Augusta; J. L.
Benton, Atlanta; W. H. McKenzie,
Montezuma; W. H. Schroder and A.
P. Cain, Atlanta.
Bureau of Publicity—E. P. Chivers,
chalrmau, Atlanta; A. A. F’rierson,
Atlanta! H. O. WillJfo Commerce;
J. H. Burton, Lavonla: M. C. King.
Atlanta; F. M. Garner Thomaston,
and A. J. Owens. Canon.
Arbitration Committ —E. P. Mc-
Burney. chalrnan. Atlanta; Julian
Field, W. M Hutchinson, P. D. Mc-
Carley and .V. H. Schroder, all of
Atlaiiia.
Legislative Con- nittee—F. W. Mc
Kee, chairman, -Ulanta; A. O. Bla
lock. Fayetteville; H. O. I ovvern,
Carrollto , S. B. - Yow, Lavonla . R.
L. Walker, Cuthbert; R. S. Malone,
Atlanta, and T. M. Zellers. Grantville.
Rules Committee—P. D. ..ieCarlev,
chairman, Atlanta. C. M. King.
Greensboro; R. C. Riley, Albany
William Butler, ADanta; C. L. Betts
Rome, and G. C. Armstrong, Athens
Sloan Funeral To
Be Held on Sunday
- The funeral of Robert M. Sloan,
which was to have been held Satur
day afternoon, has been postponed
until Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock,
waiting the arrival of his suter. Mrs.
Noda Bryson of Kennedale, Tex. Mr.
Sloan died at his home at Austell,
Ga.. at 7 o’clock Wednesday night.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs.
Noda Bryson; an uncle, M. C. Mar
tin; a niece, Mrs. Henry L. Jackson,
and a nephew, B. H. Mitchell. All
flowers should be sent care Burkert
& Simmons Co. before l o’clock
Sunday morning. Interment will be
at Rose Hill, with the following as
pallbearers: Tom Strickland, J. D.
Perkerson. R. M. Clay. H. C. Brown,
W. B. Westmoreland, F. A. Daniels
and Cleve Davis.
OBITUARY.
Mrs. R. J. Griffin, sixtv-flve years old.
died at the residence. No. 21 How
ard street, Friday, after several
weeks’ illness. She is survived by
her husband, two daughters. Mrs.
J. G. Respess, of New York, and
Mrs. R. J. Williford, of Raleigh, N.
C.: two sons, R. J. Griffin, of Law-
reneeville, Ga., and J. M. Griffin, of
Washington, and t,wo brothers and
a sister. Funeral announcements
later.
R. P. Becker, sixty-one years old,
died at a private sanitarium Fri
day night at 10 o’clock. He was
the father of Miss Maybelle C.
Becker, well-known in Atlanta as
the "Sandwich Girl." Mrs. Becker
died less than three months ago.
The family lived at 126 Waverly
place, Inman Park. The body was
removed to the chapel of Greenberg
& Bond. Funeral announcements
later.
Levi S. Martin died Thursday even
ing at 7 o’clock at Mount Airy. Ga.,
after an illness of several months.
He Is survived by his father and
mother. Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Martin;
four brothers, Q. E.. J. F. f F. M. and
W. M. Martin, and five sisters, al!
of Atlanta, Ga. The funeral will
take place Saturday afternoon at
Moreland, Ga.
The funeral of Mrs. Essie House, who
died Thursday at a local hospital,
will be held from the Western
Heights Baptist Church at 3 o’clock
Saturday afternoon. Mrs. House
was twenty-nine years old, and is
survived by her husband. L. C.
House, and two small children.
Funeral services of Helen Maqruder,
the one-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Magruder, who died
Friday morning at the home in
Kirkwood, were conducted from the
residence Saturday morning. Inter
ment at Weetview.
Mrs. Emilie Melchers, of Charleston
S. C., died Saturday noon while on
a visit at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Emile Breitenbucher, No. 114
Sunset avenue She is survived by
one other daughter. Mrs. Herman
Bischoff, of,Charleston.
The funeral of W. J. Poss. who died
at the residence. No. 710 East Fair
street, Friday morning, will be held
from the home at 10:30 o’clock Sun
day morning. Interment at Holly
wood.
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TEACHERS PH
Hold clayt robson is
GIVEN BIRTHDAY ’CUE
OLD CLAYT HOBSON.
Appropriations Committee Recom
mends Passage of Senator
Perry’s Measure.
Senator Perry’s bill providing that
public school teachers be paid month
ly, next to the eleemosyary Institutions
and the statehouse officers, has been
Indorsed by the Senate Appropriations
Committee. The bill provides no spe
cial fund for the teachers, but it puts
them on the same basis as the facul
ties of the University of Georgia,
Georgia Tech and the Normal and In
dustrial School.
Senator Tyson introduced a bill au
thorizing county school boards to bor
row sufficient funds to maintain their
schools.
The following bills* were recom
mended by the Senate Judiciary
Committee:
To hold State elections at the same
time as Congressional elections.
That tax collectors shall keep their
books open until 90 days before elec
tions instead of six months.
To create a fourth superior court
judgeship of the Ar'\nta district.
To empower the Governor to set
tle the dispute of certain parties with
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany.
52 Sunday Concerts
Planned by Music
Festival Association
Plans for an unbroken series of
Sunday afternoon concerts at the Au
ditorium-Armory next year are now
being prepared by the Atfanta 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 eacji Sunday during the
year that there may be no break in
the series of concerts.
A meeting of representatives of the
association and of the Council com
mittee was held in Mayor Woodwards
office Friday afternoon. V. H. Krieg-
shaber declared that during the last
year the association had paid $4,000
for an organist, but because other At
tractions were booked Sunday, it had
been able to give only 35 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.
Teachers’ Loan Is
Favored by Report
Ml CONTEST IS
GROWN-UPS'
GAME, TOO
Fine Opportunity for Winning a*
Automobile by Work Among
Business Men Uptown.
State’s Best Known Drummer Is Surprised by
Friends Led bv Old Joe Pottle.
The American and Georgian’s Want
Ad Contest is opening up in great
style. Contestants brought in a bunch
of want ads yesterday afternoon, and
they were just getting their hand in
at that.
But the field is still open. There's
a great opportunity for live, hustling
young men and women.
Don’t think this is Just a "kids'
game.” It isn’t every day th,at an
automobile or a piano or a trip to
California is given for a bit of light
work. A young man or young wom
an with some business ability and
some spare time can win a prize
worth while by working uptown
among the business men. Real es
tate firms, retail Stores, every kind
of business offers opportunity for,
want ads, and they count just the
same as house-to-house business.
Some of you people with lots of ac
quaintances uptown can get in now
and win.
Contestants should let their
friends know they are in the con
test. If they will give the Want
Ad Man a list of all their friends
he will help them spread the news
and assist them in rounding up the
business and the votes. Some of the
contestants have brought in these
lists and others should do it at once.
The Want Ad Man is planning a
campaign to help the contestants.
One young man. in his teens, won
big success on his first day out. reap
ing a harvest of want ads in one,
street. It’s easy to get them if you'll
just suggest want ad possibilities.
Mrs. Jones may not think of needing
something an ad would bring her. but
a hint that she could rent that va
cant room or hire a new cook or sell
an old piece of furniture will always
bring an idea and the idea brings
the ad.
The coupon published on another
will count 1,000 votes for a start-
page will count 1,000 votes for
a starter. Clip it out, take it to the
Want Ad Man or your district man
ager nearest your home and start in
to win. You may be driving your
own motor car this autumn.
The House was in session 35 min
utes Saturday morning and disposed
of some local bills. Under the ruies
of the House, only bills of a local na
ture may be taken up at the Satur
day sessions, and consequently but
few more ||han a quorum of the mem
bers were present.
A report by the Ways and Means
Committee was favorable to House
Resolution 96, which provides for bor
rowing money by the Governor on
reasonable terms. This resolution is
in line with the effort being made to
relieve the deficit in the school-teach
ers’ appropriation.
The House authorized the printing
of 200 copies of House Bill No. 22,
which provides for a text book com
mission. This is one of the bills tend
ing toward publication of school books
by the State.
Speaker Pro Tern McMichael, of
Marion County, presided.
Barwick Relents, and
Mattiford Is Freed
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. of 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 to live. Barwick is now
in New York City with his children.
POSTMASTER AT GREENVILLE.
WASHINGTON, July 26 —The
President has nominated Teresa G
Williams as postmaster at Greenville
Ga.
Old Joe Pottle, Solicitor General of
the Ocmulgee Circuit, aided and abet
ted by a dozen or more members of
the Legislature and as many more
well-known citizens of Atlanta, not to
mention an additional dozen or so or
dinary folks, surprised Old Clayt Rob
son. of the State at large, with a big
barbecue party in the Kimball House
Friday night, the occasion being Old
Clayt Robson's thirty-fifth birthday.
Robson knows and is known by
more people in Georgia than anybody.
There isn't a town he hasn’t visited
many times in his rounds of commer
cial traveling, and there isn’t a - com
munity in which he is not well ac
quainted.
It is said that he can use the long
distance phone in Atlanta and sell
more goods than three or four ordi
nary salesmen put together. This
may or may not be so, but Robson
doesn’t deny it.
Old Clayt Caught Napping.
Anyway, Old Joe Pottle loves Old
Clayt Robson with a love that sur
passed understanding, and so he
came up from Millodgeville Thursday,
armed with a barbecued shoat, a lot
of fine, fat tomatoes, and other ap
proved barbecue trimmings, and he
gumshoed around town collecting up
a bunch of Robson's admir-rs. with
a whispered word to meet at the
Kimball at'7:30 in the evening, there
to surprise Old Clayt and make mer
ry for a time.
f Just before the big “eats” was
pulled off, everybody was wise but
Robson. He was caught napping in
the Kimball lobby about 7:15, and
forthwith was rushed into the baa-
quete hall, and things were explained.
He admitted that it was hi® thirty-
fifth birthday, however, aid that,
therefore, he was a 1 ultimate object
of a surprise party, and, besides, he
liked surprise parties first-rate, any
way they came.
Presented With Umbrella.
In the meantime, a lot of Old Joe
Pottle’s guests had gumshoed arounl
themselves during the afternoon, and
during the progress of the festivities
a handsome umbrella was presented
to Mr. Robson as a token of every
body’s good will and esteem, and as
NOMINATION BLANK
I hereby nominate as the most beautiful girl in Atlanta:
Name
Address
Only one of these blanks will be credited to any one
contestant.
VOTING COUPON
For any regularly nominated Candidate In th#
BEAUTY CONTEST
Name of Candidate.
Address
Fill out this Coupon and send It to “Booster Button” Editor of
The Georgian and American.
an evidence of their hopes for many
happy returns of the day.
Mr. Robson's speech of acceptance
was mostly smiles—his smiles con
stituting his biggest asset, anyway!
And Old Joe Pottle returned to |
Mllledgeville to-day, a perfectly hap
py and contented man!
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Dr.- George Scott explains the valuable
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for fruit an important place in every child’s
daily diet.
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