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VOL. XL. NO. 305.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1013.
Copyright. 19W,
By The Georgian Co.
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OLD CLAYT ROBSON.
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Kidnaped Child Found After Two Years
TRAIL LEADS
PACIFIC
Mrs. Lily Lamar Martin, Fulton
County, Locates Little Daugh
ter in Los Angeles, Cal.
Fireman Jones Has Rib Broken.
Engineer Jennings, of Macon,
Injured—Porter Is Killed.
MACON, July 26.—Southern pas
senger trains Nos. 13 (northbound)
and No. 24 (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 struck 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.
None of the passengers was hurt, al
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,
while the passengers from No. 24
were transferred and brought to Ma
con.
Speed Mania Robs
Tetzlaff of His Wife
LOS ANGELES, July 26—“It is
necessary to get relief for my speed-
racked nerves. My nusband lives like
he drives. I was born and bred in
staid old Boston and I can't stand the
speed."
This was the statement of Mrs.
Teddy Tetzlaff to-day, when she an
nounced that she was preparing to
file a suit for divorce against her
husband, the famous automobile race
driver and holder of the world’s speed
record.
The Tetzlaffs have been separated
for about a year, and the wife says
she* was forced to leave her husband
to save little Teddy, their 9-year-old
boy, from the speed craze.
Stats’s Best Known Drummer Is
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Surprised Friends Led by
Old Joe Pottle.
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 js 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 Milledgeville 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 admii'trs. 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.
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 ban-
quete hall, and things were explained.
He admitted that it was his thirty-
fifth birthday, however, and that,
therefore, he was a legitimate 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 around
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
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
Milledgeville to-day, a perfectly hap
py and contented man:
LOS 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
wTit of habeas corpus ordering the
child’s father, A. R. Martin, to pro
duce the child in Judge Wilbur’s
courtroom Monday.
Martin is charged by McLaughlin
with kidnaping the child from its
mother after its custody had 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 tied.
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 th e 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 crow'ded condition of the
home the girl 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
w'rit 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.
Yankees Take Third
Match; Another Win
Brings Tennis Title
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
WIMBLEDON, ENG., July 26.—By
a hard fought victory in the double
match to-day the American tennis
team forged to the front in the play
against England for the Davis inter
national cup.
^laurice E. McLoughlin and Harold
E. Hackett defeated H. Roper Barrett
and C. P. Dixon in a five-set match
as follows: 5-7, 6-1, 2-6, 7-5, 6-4.
This surprising victory gives the
United States team two matches out
of the three played.
To bring home the Davis cup only
one victory is necessary in the two
single matches, which will be played
Monday.
China Rebels Lose
In Arsenal Attack
Special Cable to The Georgian.
SHANGHAI, July 26.—Reinforced
by Cantonese and Hunanese.the south
ern rebels to-day again attacked the
Shanghai arsenal. Repeated assaults
were made on the northern army
stronghold, but the rebels were driven
back each lime, suffering tremendous
losses.
Commanders of foreign warships
are s|Ml keeping a naval detachment
ready to land at a moment’s notice,
but no action will be taken as long
as the northern army is victorious.
The Government is making a supreme
effort to crush the rebellion.
ASTOR ENTRY RUNS THIRD.
Special Cable to The Georgian.
LONDON, July 26.—The Duchess of
York Plate, valued at $6,500, which
was run off at Hurstpark to-day, was
won by E. Hulton’s Fairy King. Serc-
mond was second and Waldorf As-
tor’s Scoltie third.
Gen. Grant’s Son, 56,
Applies for Divorce
GOLDFIELD. NEV., July 6.—Jess’e
R. Grant, youngest son of General
Ulysses S. 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 FTancisco last May; the other is
Chapman Grant, 27 years old.
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
obtained $350 from the private secre
tary’ of Senator Martin.
FIGHT NEGRO TJX ACTS TD
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OFFICIAL
Dixie Lawmakers Roused by Wil
son’s Selection of Oklahoma
Lawyer as Treasury Register.
Rail Managers Drop
Demand; Strike Off
NEW YORK, July 26 - The threat
ened strike of trainmen vn the East
ern railroads virtualyl has been
averted.
The railroad managers, after a
meeting with the Board of Mediators,
to-day waived their right to include
their requests that their grievances
also be taken up for arbitration.
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
several 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
negro should not be plsced in a po
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.
During the last three Republican
administratlorv? a negro has held this
office. The first of the trio Was Jud
son Lyons, of Augusta, Ga. Next
came William T. Vernon, of Missis
sippi. The third and present negro
Register is J. C, Napier, of Nash
ville, Tenn.
Believes 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 Raid.
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.
^ Why You Should Feed Your
Children More Fruit
Dr. George Seott explains the valuable
health-giving qualities which should make
for fruit an important place in every child’s
daily diet.
Mothers can not afford to overlook this
feature and the many others of
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Committee Balked
Wilson Unwittingly
WASHINGTON, Julv 26.—Demo
cratic members of the House Bank
ing and Currency Committee to-day
expressed regret that President Wil
son had attempted to straighten out
the committee's troubles by inspiring
a movement to send the currency bill
to a Democratic caucus.
When the committee tabled Repre
sentative Wlngo’s motion to send the
currency bill to a caucus, it was de
clared the members did not know
Wingo was the President’s spokes
man.
BUDGET
Appropriations Bill, as Framed,
Pleases Governor—Needed
Revenue To Be Provided.
Girl ‘Hiker’ Averages
25 Miles Every Day
PITTSBURG, July 26.—Miss Gladys
Mason, a petite little New Yorker,
who is "footing It" frhm 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 w f as
41 miles, made east of Harrisburg.
Miss Mason is 22 years old and Is a
graduate of Emerson College, at Bos
ton. She expects to reach San Fran
cisco and end her 3,000-mile walk on
1 Thanksgiving Day.
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, will
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
ily 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 biI0 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 w'ill be distributed
as equitably and as Justly as possi
ble. Chairman Aiken, Vic e Chair
man Cole and every member of the
Ways and Means Committee, has
been constantly at work upon the
tax acts 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 th e 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 State
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. #
The Legislature has eighteen days
of life to its credit after to-day. Com
pared with other legislatures, the
present one really has worked rapid
ly, particularly with respect to the
appropriations bill and the tax acts.
Inasmuch, also, as there is no like
lihood that it will lose any more time
whatever from Monday forward, it
looks as if its labors for the first
session of its life will prove to be
very satisfactory.
London Surprised
When Suffragettes
Parade Peacefully
Special Cable to The American.
LONDOfi July 26.—London was
treated to a great surprise to-day.
Four processions of peaceful suffra
gettes from all over England marched
through the streets and were accord
ed a great demonstration.
The peaceful members of the “votes
for women" cause then gathered at
Hyde Park, where Mrs. Carrie Chap
man, president of the Woman’s Suf
frage League, was principal speaker.
Sh urgd her harrs to rfrain from vio
lence and declared more could be
done for the cause by peaceful meth
ods than by militant tactics.
Twenty platforms had been erect
ed in the park and all the speakers
were greeted with cheers.
Narrow Escape as
Fire Ruins Garage
W. T. Edgar, of No. 164 Love street,
had a narrow escape early Saturday
morning when a "backfire” occurred
In an automobile which he was crank
ing. The tank of the machine explod
ed, and the fire which resulted de
stroyed the garage, containing two big
touring cars.
One of the machines belonged to
Dr. Frank Edmondson, and the other
was the property of J. L. Wright. The
loss of the cars and the garage, of
which Mr. Edgar is the owner, will
amount to several thousand dollars.
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FICTS
State’s Prosecutor Shrouds Iden
tity and Stories of Scores of
Witnesses in Secrecy. ;
Jules Vedrines Hurt
In Aircraft Wreck
Special Cable to The Georgian.
PARIS. July 26.—Jules Vedrines.
one of the leading aviators of France,
was seriously hurt to-day when his
monoplane was destroyed by an ex
plosion near Bordeaux.
BASEL, SWITZERLAND, July 26.
Oscar Bider, a French aviator, to-day
flew' from Milan, Italy, across the Alps
to this city, 160 miles, in 3 hours and
45 minutes. He made only one stop
to replenish his fuel tank, and at
tained a height of 10,000 feet.
Sick Baby Rescued
From Burning Home
GADSDEN, July 26.—When 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
carried through the smoke and flames
to safety. The building was destroyed.
The lamp had been left burning on
a table in the sick room and the wind
shifted a lace curtain against the blaze.
The fire had made good headway and
part of the cubing was falling on the
bed occupied by the child when the
blaze was discovered.
Leaderless Convicts
Fire Sing Sing Again
OSSINNTNG, N. Y, July 26.—Not
even the removal of the ringleaders of
the Sing Sing prison disturbances has
taken the danger from the cofivict mu
tiny. This was strongly indicated to
day when Warden Clancey began an
in vestigation of the third Are that has
marked the rebellion of the criminals.
This fire was set ten heurs after the
removal of the ringleaders to Auburn.
The warden plans to move on Tues
day 65 more of the mutineers, believed
to constitute the arson squad, to Au
burn.
Wilson Plays Golf;
Plans Motor Outing
WASHINGTON, July 26.—President
Wilson enjoyed his usual Saturday
morning round of golf to-day, and
then returned to the White House for
lunch.
He planned to spend the afternoon
motoring, with a possibility of at
tending the Washlngton-St. Louis
baseball game.
Help! Slit Trousers,
Long Sox, Coming
PITTSBURG, PA., July 26.—Slit trou
sers for men similar to the slit skirts
worn by women, soon will be here, ac
cording to a well-known tailor.
"This will mean that the men will
have to take to wearing long stockings,”
said the tailor, "because the slit will
likely go to the knee.*
Prosecution and defense con
tinued their preparations for the
Frank trial Saturday, 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 near
ly a score of important witnesses
whose testimony has been oare-
fullv guarded from the defense
and the general public is well
known. These witnesses have
come to his office from time to
time, and the Solicitor has re-
i fused to give out the vaguest in
timation of the line of testimony
they would give at the triaL
The prosecution has reserved th«ir
evidence to spring a* a surprise dur*
Ing the trial. On *hese persons th«
State depends to clinch its case
against the young factory superin-*
tendent. Some of them will be caJled
to bear out different portions of the
negro Conley's affidavit, in which wag
told the story of the disposal of Mary
Phagan’s body. The Solicitor is un
derstood to have witnesses who will
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 ia
telling the truth in the essential
statements of his affidavit. He hag
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 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 deep mystery.
"Plant” Generally Suspected.
No one expects at this ttm© that
the pay envejope, 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 begaji turning
up this sort of startling evidence the
moment they were placed on the case
soon were taken off the Phagan mys
tery by the Pinkerton agency.
Both sides announce themsehres
ready for the trial to proceed. It Is
regarded as doubtful that the defense
will ask for another continuance, ex
cept on account of the absence of
material witnesses or the illness of
counsel. About 150 witnesses al
ready have been summoned by the
defense.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local thundershow
ers Saturday and Sunday.