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I L t NOTICE If yo\i h«vp any difficulty In buying Hf*ars»t’» Sunday American anywhere in the South notify \ Circulation Manager. Hearst’s Sunday Ameri- s can, Atlanta. Ga. SUN EDITION FOR AUGUSTA VOL. I. NO. 17. Copyright, 1911, by The Georgian Company. ★★★ ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1013. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Frederick Upham Adams Shows Why This Country May Have to Repel Yellow Invader Seeking a New Empire at Its Very Doors. “War or Humiliation Confronts U. S. as Result of Applying the Monroe Doctrine as Threat and Not as Firmly Enforced Policy. “Others Will Take Up Task We Decline—We Are Responsible for the Lamentable Condition of Affairs To-day in Mexico.” By FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS. “The time is coming when the United States will be forced to fight Ja'pan on Japanese soil in „ North America.” In varying phrase this startling prediction was repeatedly made to me during a recent protracted tour of Mexico and Central America. It was first uttered, practically as above quoted, by President Francisco I. Ma- dero in the course of a long inter view In the Castle of Chapultepec. ' This prediction was repeated to me by a President of a Central American lepublic who shall ftb naffiPlesB, since be has thus far escaped assassination or overthrow by revolution. It was also \olced by an American of high reputation and keen Judgment, who 1 as been a student of Latin American affairs for more than a generation. U. S. Diplomacy Scored. The ignorance and Indifference of the American people concerning Mex ico and Central America, coupled with the ignorance and stupidity which has marked our diplomatic in tercourse with them, constitute a menace of dire portent. The Danger Zone. As a result of years of diplomatic imbecility we have made of this great section a danger zone. We have cre ated at our very doors conditions which promise war with any of the great commercial nations we now coun* as friends, or the alternative of abandoning a Monroe Doctrine. We are responsible for the lamenta ble condition of affairs In Mexico; for the chronic conditions of military des potism and recurrent revolutions which afflict Central America. These conditions are the direct re 'suit of applying the Monroe Doctrine as a threat and not as a just and firmly enforced policy. And what is the fruit now ripening? The certainty that some other nation will take up *.he task which we decline. That will mean war or humiliation. Let us consider the interest of Ja- ' pan in this matter. Japan and Central America. It is a reasonable certainty that Japan has not spread her cards on the table in the pending controversy over the California anti-alien legis lation. It may be assumed that Japan has no immediate expectation that its people will be permitted unrestricted John Early, Noted As Leper, Is Insane Man Who Guarded Colony Is Himself Put in Cell, Raving Mad. . SEATTLE. July 26.—John Farly, who was called in Washington a few years ago a leper, and who more recently was a guard at the Federal leper colony at Diamond Point Station, has lost his mind and is himself under guard at the colony. Early has been under watch for sev eral months, officials at the station be lieving hip mind was not right. Some time ago, It was reported, he became violent and was locked up to protect himself and the unfortunates at the colony. When Early was first adjudged a leper by the District Health Officer, he was Isolated In a camp on the lowlands of the Eastern branch. After a long fight with the local authorities and another with the Pension Office for an allowance as a veteran of the Spanish-American war, he was permitted to slip unosten tatiously away to New York. Golfers Go 35 Miles In Just 1,087 Strokes Experts Play From Maidstone to Lit tleton on the Sea on a Wager. Special Cable to The American. LONDON. July 26.— 1 To cover 35 miles in 1,087 strokes is a feat that two golfers accomplished in playing from Maidstone to Llttleton-on-fhe- Rea. How this came about a well-known golfer offered to bet Neville Foster, of the Ashdown Forest Oolf Club, and W. Warman, of the Newton Green Golf Club, that they could not play from Forest row to Crowborough over the woodland heather and hills, a distance of eight miles, in 350 strokes. The bet was taken and the task accomplished? in 184 strokes. JUST I DISEASE Dementia Telephonica, Recently Discovered Malady, Is Superin duced by “Line Is Busy.” ATLANTANS ARE AFFLICTED Operators at Ivy Exchange De clare That They Had Known of It for Years. Elinor Glyn's Hero, ‘Baby Paul’ to Wed Boston Girl Will Marry Wan Around Whose Adventures Three Weeks’ Was Written. FRANK FIGHTS FOR LIFE MONDAY *•* +•* *• + *•*] 4* • \* *•+ BOSTON, July 26.—“Baby Paul," of “Three Weeks,” is to become a bride groom. Miss Elizabeth Golden, of Boston, Is to be the bride. Olalrmont Jocelyn Preston Arnot is the name by which Efilnor Glyn’s hero is known in London, although as plain Paul Allen he has had some un- romantlc adventures in New York. As "Prince Paul de Clairmont” he Is known in both cities. “We will be married on September 1,” said Miss Golden yesterday. "We have known each other a year. Yes, I have means of my own, but Paul will support himself.” Porter Charlton Makes 'Xmas Date Dorsey Ready to Avenge Mary Phagan +•<■ -he-!- +!•!• Mystery of Months Is Still Unsolved P RINCIPAL figures in Atlanta’s most noted criminal case. Two pictures of Mary Phagan, the little factory girl, whose slaying has proved South’s most baffling mystery, are shown, while below is Leo Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil Factory, where her body was found, who is accused of her murder, and about whose guilt or innocence brilliant legal battle will be fought. Waiters Back of Bill To Prevent‘Tipping’ Measure Provides Fine for Both 'Tip per’ and Recipient of Bounty, and Reward for Informer. ST. LOFIS. July 26.—An ordinance to end "tipping” has been passed by the City Council and will now go to the House of Delegates, where it is expected it will be speedily adopted, and, With the signature of the May or, become a law. This ordinance has had the back ing of the union waiters of St. Louis, who are now striking in the principal hotels and restaurants. The bill pro vides a fine of from $10 to $50 for each offense, both the "tipper” and re cipient of the “tip” being subject to fine, and the informer to receive half of the fine. Shrinks Three Inches During Long Illness Patient Hurt in Auto Accident Loses in Height Each Month Spent in Bed. PORTERVILLE, CAL., July 26.—When George Crittenden, an attorney, got out of bed to-day for the first time since he was Injured in an automobile acci dent two months ago. he found that he had lost 3 inches in height. This unex pected sequel of his recovery is the more extraordinary because It is well known that the human body gains in , length wlyile lying prone. A man Is | normally taller in the morning than at night. Suffragists Plan National Campaign Women Who Now Possess Franchise Will Aid Movement in All Other States. “Number, please?” The voice came over the ^Wire. Ii was sweet and poft and dreamy-like. But the voice in answer was not. "Gimme Main 100, and darn quick, too," it growled. Of course, it came from a man. "This is the ninth time I’ve rung ’em,” he raved on. "You tell me they're busy, and 1 know they ain’t. They’ve got no right to be busy.” And .his voice went up and out with a shriek. The little incident is just as was recorded by a pretty switchboard op erator in an Atlanta exchange. The man in question was not a brute. He was merely a Victim of Dementia Tel ephonica. Yes, there is such a disease, and business men are acutely susceptible to its visitations. The Journal of the American Medical Association in a recent number discusses 1 the new dis ease and pours out its sympathy on a certain victim whose case is men tioned and analyzed. Wrong Number One Cause. The telephone dementia, it seems, usually seizes its victim about the fourth or fifth time he has been told that a number is» busy, and then finds out that it was nothing of the kind. Sometimes it comes over the suffer er, causing him to see red and to talk blue, when he calls once, twice, then three times, and finds each time that the poor little “hello” girl has given him the wrong number. The girls in the Atlanta exchange say they understand now, and do not pay any attention to it. The men do not mean it. A girl on the Ivy exchange was asked yesterday ju^t what she thought of the scientific discovery of the dis ease. "Huh," she snorted—if a pretty girl can snort—“are the wise ones just finding that out? Why we knew all the time that there was something like this, although we didn’t know how to call it. The best treatment we know is, when they rave, to pull out the plug and let them talk to themselves. And to ourselves we murmur, ‘poor fellow'.’ Or maybe it’s a woman.” Maybe it is a woman. The medical men say that women are susceptible as w’ell as men, and as violently de moniac when they succumb. Diseases Develops in Germany. The malady first was noted scien tifically when a lawyer was put on trial in Berlin, accused of slander ing the postoffice, which also controls the telephone in the land of the Kai ser and of government ownership. The lawyer lost his patience after he had called his number three times in course of three-quarters of an hour. The girl told him that “Num ber Undsow’eiter” was busy. Later he found that it hadn’t been, and he ex ploded. The medical expert of the court be fore which the lawyer was taken tes tified that the defendant was of a highly nervous temperament, and that he had heard of men going insane from telephone vexation. And so de mentia telephonica became a subject for research, and w'as put in the doc tor’s books. American Ordered Extradited to Italy Confident He Will Be Back in Few Months. JERSEY CITY, N. J., July 28.— Porter Charlton, the young man who has been ordered extradited to Italy to stand trial for the murder of his wife, seems to be apparently uncon cerned about the outcome of the trial, arid openly stated that he would be back In America again for Christmas Although the United States Govern ment has ordered him sent back to Italy, he confidently told a friend yes- terday that he would soon return. “Don’t you worry,” he is reported as saying. “I’ll make an engagement with you next Christmas at Church ill’s.” Most Bitter Legal Battle in History of Atlanta Courts Is Expected—Case Will Probably Last for Weeks. A FTER throe months of mystery In the death of Mary 1’hagan, a climax is at hand more tenae, more dramatic, more breathlessly interesting to Atlanta and all Georgia than any situation of fiction. Leo XI. Frank, employer of tho little girl whose tragic death. April 26, stirred a State, will be brought to trial Monday on the charge that he killed her. Frank's trial is the crowning event of the hundred llirilllng circumstances surrounding the tragedy. Whatever the outcome, regardless of Frank's convic- | tion or acquittal, the incidents that follow the trial will come as an anti-climax. The prosecution has cast al most all Its chances for solving the mystery into the case it has prepared against Frank. Its heavy guns are trained against the factory superintendent, it Corsets Accepted As Bank Pledge Burlington Financiers Take Dainty Article as Collateral for Loan of $2. BURLINGTON, N. J., July 26.—In the steel vault of the Mechanics’ Na tional Bank reposes an oblong pack age tied with pink baby ribbon. The parcel, the center of much gig gling interest among the bank clerks, contains the oddest collateral ever deposited with a New Jersey banking institution as security on a loan. Within the folds of paper and rib- bc s is a pair of corsets, avowed value $6.25, on which a young woman, lack ing railroad Lire to Philadelphia, in her extremity yesterday borrowed $2 from the bank. Colonists at Arden Now Going to ‘Roost Sinclair’s Followers Desert Homes on Ground for Bungalows Built In Tree Tops. WASHINGTON, July 26.—Plans for a widespread campaign for "votes for women” to be carried into all the . —^ ... - j immigration to the United States and j States of the Union not now having ; I\,ailr0UQ-S ROLLGIIj the rights of naturalization. Japan knows that it is not within the power of our National Congress to control or change the alien land laws of any State. The wise men of Japan know all this and more, but they have some concrete motive in demanding some thing which they know will not be granted. What Japan desires and will fight for is an outlet for her sur plus population. In her land-hunger Japan wrested Formosa from China and tried to win from Russia the bleak plains of Man churia, but there is nothing that Japan really wants on the Asiatic coasts to her west. Her eyes are turned to the east. They are fixed, not on California or any part of parcel of the United ♦ States, but on Mexico and Central America, th e neglected and semi-sav age wards of our Monroe Doctrine. Like Home to Japanese. For 30 years the Japanese have Continued on Page 2, Column 7. suffrage will be laid at a conference of the National Council of Woman j Voters here August 13, 14 and 15. An- | nouncement to this effect was made Senate Dec|ares That MeHen . s Case to-day at the congressional commit- ARDEN, DEL., July 26.—“Well good night, folks; I’m going to roost.’ That may be a commonly used sen tence before long in the Arden colony, made famous by Upton Sinclair and | his associates. Sleeping in the tree tops, as monkeys and certain tribes of savages do, is the latest develop ment of the back to nature idea as practiced *in the colony'. It started when two of the colonists, using a lot of lumber bequeathed by Mr. Sinclair when ho left, constructed an aerial bungalow with four poplar trees as comer posts. Says Lafollette tee headquarters of the council. Lightning Rips Shoe From Wearer's Foot Man Escapes Physical Injury Save in Small Burn—Son Nearby Is Not Touched. Is Typical of Entire Sys tem in Nation. ‘Imperator’ Is Too Small, Says Captain Greatest Vessel Afloat Is Already Fully Booked for Next Two Voyages West. Special Cable to The American. PLYMOUTH, July 26.—"The Impera tor Is too small; we want larger ves sels,” exclaimed Captain Ruser, when, after landing the greatest ship in the world at this port to-day, he was told that the Imperator is already fully booked for her next two westward trips. The Imperator proceeded from here to Cherbourg and Hamburg. On the way over there were three days oT such extreme heat that many expe rienced stokers were unable to work. The average speed for the voyage was 22.5 knots and the best single day’s run was 540 miles. DENVER, July 26.—O. M. Simpson, a laborer, was knocked down and made unconscious for several minutes when struck by a lightning bolt In the after noon. His twelve-year-old son, Vernon, sitting a few Inches away with his back to his father, was not touched. The lightning struck with sufficient force to tear Simpson's shoes to shreds, but this is about the only evidence left of the visit of the electrical freak, with the exception of a burn about the size of a dime on bimpson a right foot. MADISON, WI8., July 26.—Senator LaFollette, in the current issue of his weekly paper, praises tho men who caused an investigation of the New Haven Railroad and disclosures that led to the resignation of Charles 3. Mellon as its president. In an edi torial, under the captain of "Rot- te«." Mr. LaFollette says: "The passing of Mellen is of no consequence. He was morally the agent of Morgan in the execution of plans operated on all of the big sys tems. The history of the New Haven merger is the history of every merger. The whole system is rotten.” Investigations- by the Interstate Con^merce Commission in other rail roads woe d cause more resignations, k said Mr. LaFollette. Labor Secretary Asks 3 Autos of U.S. Wilson Wants $5,000 Touring Car, $2,500 Electric and $1,500 Truck for Department. WASHINGTON, July 26.—A stir was caused in the House to-day when it became known that Secretary of I>abor William B. Wilson has asked Congress for a $5,000 touring car for his personal use, a $2,COO electric au tomobile to b eused for personal and official purposes and a $1,500 electric truck for the official business of the i new Department of Labor. Roosevelt Vaudeville Star, British Report Dr. Lyman Abbott Dclares Story That Fellow-Editor Will Go On Stage Is Nonsense. Special Cable to The American. LONDON, July 26.—The London Daily Sketch prints a statement that Colonel Roosevelt has signed a con tract for a tour of the Australian vaudeville circuit at $2,000 a week to lecture on sociological subjects. “He has been booked by Hugh Mc Intosh. the noted Australian fight promoter, who is governing director of Harry Rickard's circuit,” it adds. “The former President is to appear in talks of fifteen to thirty minutes. "A tour on these lines would cer tainly mean the capacity of the house.” Dr. Lyman Abbott, when asked last night about this report, said: “You may be sure this is absolute nonsense.” STRAW HATS FOR POLICE. CHICAGO, July 26.—Straw hats and soft w'hite shirts as a uniform for the ponce when th«> thermometer climbs over the boilingwoint were urged bj Mrs." Belle S i£tre in a letter re I ceived by the City Council. Chronology of Phagan Case April 27—Body of Mary Phagan found in factory. Arthur Mullinax arrested. Newt Lee arrested. April 28—J. M. Gantt arrested. Geron Bailey ar rested. Leo Frank held. April 29—Pinkertons declare Lee guilty. Eliminate Gantt, Mullinax and Bailey. May 1—Coroner issues commitment against Lee and Frank. Jim Conley, negro sweeper, arrested. May 8—Coroner’s verdict orders Frank and Lee held for grand jury. May 12—Burns put on case, through agency of T. B. Felder. May 23—Grand jury considers case. Dictograph scandals revealed. A. 9. Colyar accuses T. B. Felder of attempts to corrupt policeman. Frank In dicted. Conley says he wrote notes at Frank’s dic tation, April 25, Newt Lee indicted. May 25—Mrs. Mima Formby says Frank asked her for room night of killing. May 30—Conley says he helped Frank dispose of body. Re-enacts crime at factory. June 6—Conley denies he confessed killing to A. S. Colyar. June 15—Mrs. Frank, In statement to Sunday American, stands by her husband. July 10—W. H. Mincey’s statement first published, that he heard Conley boast of killing. July 15—E. F. Holloway, factory employee, says he was told of negro's boast just after killing. July 23—Frank says he is ready for trial. Search for Will Green, Conley's companion, said to have seen killing. hits opposed the indictment of the single other suspect ttie negro Jim Conley. The enthralled interest of a public has been pitched about the question: Is Leo Frank guilty? FRANK DRAMA'S CENTRAL FIGURE. Even the pitiful figure of the little factory gin, mysteriously slain, has become subordinate in interest to tiiat of Frank. The young man’s own personality, his steadfastly loyal and loving family, his friends who iifflrm Ids innocence in the face of a dark suspicion, all tun e become factors in making Frank the central figure of the crime drama. At the in st moment efforts have been made by Frank’s counsel to have the case continued until fall, but the indications are that Judge Roan will order tbs trial to go on Monday. A hundred ramifications have sprung out of the case, each one entailing bitterness, aligning faction engendering a deeper mystery. XIany persons, e tiefore the trial, are ready to express a belief of F' guilt. As many are firm in the conviction the innocent. Rut the great bulk of the public v case through a haze of speculation aud d is as impenetrable as on the first day. LEGAL TALENT BRILLIANT. Everybody is in one of the three classes ly that no one lives in Atlanta who is the case, which has been the central top of conversation since the day the body o was found. The trial will be an event worthy < est with which the public has invested of legal talent is most imposing. Aires/ and the prosecution have met in skir courts nkid in the newspapers. They w so hard fought and bitter as to hold oi Ii