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ALWAYS FIRST <Q> The SUNDAY AMERICAN Order it NOW=- —_ Both Phones Main 8000 The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—-GEORGIAN WANT ADS-—Use for Results VOL. XL. NO. 305. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1013. Copyright. 19W, By The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. PAT NO KOM OLD CLAYT ROBSON. GIVEN^bIrTHDAY^CUE | ITO PRESENT NEW EVIDENCE AGAINST FRANK +«•!• •!•••!• +•+ +•+ +«-5- +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ , +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ n-»+ T*-|i 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 I 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 L 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 To-morrow’s AMERICAN Phone Main 100 or order from your newsdealer. ^OOOOOf I X>00€N 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. BOTH SIDES E 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.