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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Discharged Pencil Factory Em
ployee Says Accused Men
tioned Her to Him. *
Continued from Page 4.
“You seem to know Mary Phagan
pretty well.”
Q. Who had you been talking to?—
A. Mary Phagan.
Q. What time was this?—A. Some
time after Christmas, I don’t remem
ber exactly.
Q. What was the relation of your
family to the Phagan family?—A.
Personal acquaintances.
Q. How many times did you go
back to the factory after you were
discharged?—A. Twice.
Q. Did you see Prank?—A. Yes,
both times.
Q. Did he make any obtlon to your
coming?—A. No.
Q. How about one girl getting the
pay of another girl?—A. It could be
done with the consent of Prank.
Knows About Punch Clock.
Q. Do you know about that punch
clock?—A. Yes.
Q. Do you know how long It would
take a man who understands the
clock to make punches for twelve
hours?—A. About five minutes.
Q. Who took your place?—A. I
don’t know.
Q. Just previous to your being dis
charged had Prank said anything
about your services?—A. Yes, he said
he had the best office force he had
ever had.
Q. Could Prank sit at his desk and
see the employees register at the time
clock?—A. Me could If the safe door
was closed.
Q. Could he stand up and see with
the safe door open?—A. Yes.
Gant Relates Shoe Incident.
“Did you see Frank Saturday, April
26?—A. Yes, about 6 o’clock.
Q. Tell what happened.—A. I was
talking to Newt Lee about getting
some shoes I had left in the factory.
Lee said I couldn’t get In. I told him
I would come back Monday. About
that time Mr. Frank came down the
steps and when he got within about
15 feet of me he hesitated and start
ed to go back. Then he saw I was
looking and came on. When he got
right at me he kind of jumped back.
I told him I wanted to get a pair of
shoes I had left there. He said he
thought he saw a negro sweeping
them out—a pair of tan shoes, at
least. I told him I had some black
ones there, too. He told Newt Lee to
go on up with me. and we found both
pair.
Q. What was Prank’s* attitude?—
A. He seemed nervous.
Q. Did he look at you as he passed
out?—A. No. he hung his head.
Court Adjourns.
Here Rosser took the witness on
cross-examination
Q. Your recollection was fresher
then than it is now?—A. Yes.
Q. Was not this question asked be
fore the coroner? ‘Did you ever see
Frank with the girl?’ and you an
swered ‘No’?—A. Yes.
Q. You never heard the little girl
say anything about being mistreated?
—A. No.
When Gantt was called down from
the stand, the course of the trial waf
Interrupted for a moment with the
consent of both sides to permit a.
juror to sign a life insurance policy.
He was Monroe S. Woodward.
Court then adjoured until 9 o’clock
Thursday morning.
Attracted by the report that the
State Intended to introduce its most
important witnesses during the day, a
larger crowd than that which clam
ored for admission on the first two
days of the trial besieged the court
house Wednesday morning as the time
for the resumption of the Frank trial
approached.
S
Caminetti and Diggs
Trials Start Monday
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.—Drew
Caminetti and Maury I. Diggs, ac
cused of violating the white slave law
by taking Lola Norris and Marie
Warrington from this State to Ne
vada, were called in Federal Court
here to-day to plead to the charges.
The trial will be started Monday, ac
cording to expectations of attorneys
on both sides.
' Charles Harris, a Sacramento at
torney, accused with Diggs of sub
ornation of jury, was expected to en
ter a plea of not guilty.
Snake Rattles Sent
To U.S. Postal Chief
WASHINGTON, July 30.—Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Blakes-
iee, in charge of rural free delivery,
to-day found among his mail a small
pill box containing ten rattles and
two buttons from the tail of a rat
tlesnake, and the following letter from
Sarah Leies, of Pleasant Views, Colo.:
"I killed the rattler on the morning
of the 19th Inst, on the way to my
letter box. I am 78 years and two
months old."
RETURNS FROM EUROPE.
JACKSON.—After an absence of
three months in Europe, Dr. Robert
VanDeventer, pastor of the Jackson
Baptist Church, returns to the city to
night.
LEMONS
Dream Tango and
Horse Trot Make
Others Look Slow
NEW YORK, July 30.—Two new
dances, the dream tango and the horse
trot, soon will make their appearance.
Uriel Davis, dancing master to the
“four hundred,” who arrived from
Europe.to-day. says the new dances
will make the tango, the turkey trot,
bunny hug, banana peel glide and the
others look like an old straw bonnet.
He ip going to teach the summer
colony at Newport the new’ ways to
glide. The horse trot, he said, is a
modified turkey trot, the dancers flit
ting over the waxed surface like
prancing steeds, instead of wobbling
all over the floor.
He declined to tell what his new
tango is like.
y.M.C.A. BUILDING
Deed Conveying Property to Real
Estate Firm Signed When Last
$65,673.71 Is Paid.
The formal transfer of the Young
Men’s Christian Association building
at the corner of Pryor street and Au
burn avenue to the Chamber of Com
merce Realty Company took place on
Wednesday at 10:30 o’clock, -when a
deed was signed by Captain J. W
English, chairman, and J. K. Ottley,
secretary of the board of trustees of
the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion.
At the same time a transaction was
consummated by w’hich a loan of
$100,000 was placed upon the prop
erty by the New York Life Insurance
Company. Of this amount $60,000 was
paid to-day and the remainder will be
paid by the insurance company when
improvements on the building are
completed about the middle of De
cember.
The building was purchased from
the Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion more than a year ago by the
Chamber of Commerce Realty Com
pany for $160,000 and final payment
was made to-day with tw T o checks
aggregating $65,673.71. payable to
Robert J. Lowry, treasurer of the
Young Men’s Christian Association,
and delivered this morning to Marion
Jackson, president.
Those present at the formal trans
fer w’ere Marion Jackson, president;
Captain J. W. English, chairman of
the board of trustees; J. K. Ottley.
secretary of the board of trustees, and
J. P. Jackson, general secretary, rep
resenting the Y. M. C. A.; W. G
Cooper, secret »ry of the Chamber of
Commerce, and Shepard Bryan, rep
resenting the New York Life Insur
ance Company.
This brings to consummation the
first and most important feature of
Wilmer L. Moore’s program an
nounced when he began his term as
president of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce.
Improvement of the building al
ready has begun and a committee on
manufacturers’ exhibits is engaged
upon a plan to organize an associa
tion of manufacturers to place the
manufacturers’ exhibits in four floors
of the building above the second.
Bail Allowed Trooper
Who Killed Comrade
Section of Lipscomb Bill Giving
State Power Fought at First
Afternoon Session.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., July 30.—
At the request of Major Gordon W.
Balin, Judge advocate of the Indiana
National Guard, Judge Collier to-day
fixed the bond of Sergeant Edwin
Ball, indicted by a special Grand Jury
for first degree murder, at $5,000. The
amount probably will be furnished by
officers of the National Guard.
Ball fatally shot Guardsman Walter
Dowell, of Madison, Ind., when the
latter attempted to escape while un
der military arrest for having a quart
bottle of liquor in his possession while
en route to the State encampment.
CAMP MEETING PLANNED.
ROME.—Plans are just about com
pleted for the annual camp meeting
at Morrison’s camp grounds. The ses
sions last for two weeks and during
that time the camp grounds resemble
a tented city.
ATLANTAN’S BROTHER DEAD.
ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 30—Eb-
en R. Clark, aged 71, brother of Mrs.
Laura Merrill, of Atlanta, is dead
his home here of heart failure. The
burial will be Thursday in Albion, N.
For the first time since the present
Legislature convened, the House held
an afternoon session Wednesday, for
the further consideration of the Lips
comb tax reform bill, which creates
State and county boards of tax equal
izers. The vote on the motion to hold
an afternoon session, offered by
Hardeman, of Jefferson, was 73 to 56
In favor of it.
The fight over the tax reform bill
was more strenuous at to-day’s ses
sion than at any time since the bill
was introduced. While fifteen sec
tions of the bill were adopted Tues
day, the whole of Wednesday morn
ing was taken up with the disousslon
of section 16. This section is con
sidered one of the most important of
the bill, and those who oppose the
Lipsdomb measure have trained their
guns on it.
Section 16 defines the duties of and
confers certain powers upon the pro- 1
posed State board of equalization. It
provides that the State board shall
have supervision over the county
boards, and that it shall be the duty
of the State board to compare the tax
digests of the various counties to as
certain whether there is a uniform
valuation of property. The section
gives the board authority to deduct or
add to the tax valuations of the prop
erty as returned by the county board.
Shepherd’s Measure Scored.
Shepherd, of Sumter, was severely
criticised by Smith, of Muscogee, for
introducing a substitute to the Lips
comb bill which abolished the StaU
board and left only the county
boards.
“It Is up to this House,” said Mr.
Smith, “to determine whether Mr.
Shepherd is sincere in offering his sub
stitute, or whether he is offering a
shapi and a fraud to mislead the
members of the House and the people
of Georgia. He tries to make people
think he is working for tax revision,
and he is doing nothing of the kind.
He says he is the friend of the far
mer. yet he wants to establish coun
ty boards with no supervision and
saddle the necks of the farmers with
the same yoke that increased their
burdens twenty years ago.
“He admits that the county boards
alone, as tried in 1891, were a failure,
yet he wants to establish them again.
The establishment of a State board
will not increase the taxes of the
honest man in Georgia one penny,
but it will get those who do not
make honest returns on their prop
erty.”
Mr. Shepherd declared that the
State board idea is a farce, and said
so much power should not be vested
in three men.
“The only difference between my
bill and the original bill,” he said, "is
the establishment of the State board.”
Several Amendments Offered.
Others who discussed the bill were
Fullbright, of Burke; Myrick, of
Chatham; McMichael, of Marion;
Blackburn, of Fulton, and Wimberly,
of Bibb.
Four amendments were offered to
the section by Representatives Full-
bright, Greene, Moss and Straddle.
Representative Straddle, of Elbert,
wanted to ame*id the bill by striking
out section 16. Mr. Green, of Hous
ton, wanted to amend the bill by
'striking out the section and inserting
the following:
“The Comptroller General shall
have supervision over the county
boards, and shall inspect ar.d investi
gate the tax returns. If he dissents
with them he shall send the ‘State
Property Inspector’ into the county
to investigate and report to the
Comptroller General, who shall
change the returns as he sees fit.”
Moss, of Cobb, presented an amend
ment to Fullbright’s amendment,
which provides that if the county
and State boards disagree, the Comp
troller General shall determine a fair
return on the property.
PANIC FUR
WASHINGTON, July 30.—Senator
Lewis introduced a resolution in the
Senate to-day authorizing Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo to withdraw
Government deposits from all banks
which he believes are in a conspiracy
to “intimidate Congress and terrorize
the citizens , of the United States
through inciting fear of a panic” and
“which have falsely depressed securi
ties of the United States and discred
ited the bonds of the United States
Government.”
The Secretary is further author
ized to suspend all the privileges en
joyed by said banks and to withdraw
their charter.
Senator Stone charged the Repub
licans with attempting to create a
financial panic in the country by pes-
semistic speeches in the Senate which
were circulated throughout the coun
try and had the effect of making
people fear that hard times were com
ing.
Senator Clark, of Wyoming and
Kenyon, of Iowa, vigorously denied
Stone’s charge and said the trouble
was due to the effects of President
Wilson, Secretary of Commerce Red-
field, and Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo to force a new economic pol
icy on the country which the coun
try does not want.
DUNG GIRL GETS
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Charge Purchases for Rest of July Go on August Statement. kV*W»>'
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Governor Pardons Young Woman
in Chatham Jail Who Is Suf
fering From Tuberculosis.
Strike Intensified by
Delaying Arbitration
CALUMET, MICH.. July 30.—Five
representatives of the mine operators
in the Calumet copper region had not
been selected to-day to confer with
Governor Ferris and five union dele
gates at Lansing in an effort to end
the stike of 18,000 mines. The oper
ators would not say whether they
would join the conference.
The strike situation appeared to be
more critical to-day.
ARTILLERY FOR ROME.
ROME.—If plans now on foot suc
ceed a company of field artillery will
be formed in Rome. Barry Wright,
who has had considerable military
experience, is back of the movement.
There are now batteries at Atlanta
and Savannah.
Delicate and frail as a result of an
operation for appendicitis and a vic
tim of tuberculosis. Jack Davis, a 20-
year-old girl prisoner in the Savan
nah county jail Wednesday morning
received a pardon from Governor John
M. Slaton.
The girl was convicted on the
charge of vagrancy in Chatham Coun
ty in May and sentenced to six months
in Jail upon failure to pay the fine of
$100. At the end of a month she was
stricken down by an attack of appen
dicitis, from which she recovered only
by the heroic efforts of the State phy
sicians, coupled with her own deter
mination to live, regardless of obsta
cles.
A worse calamity was in store for
her. however. The physicians an
nounced that she was affected with
tuberculosis, and it was then the girl,
in the face of a lingering death in
prison, decided to make an appeal to
be allow’ed to pass her last days out
side of prison walls. So she wrote to
the Governor, begging him to have
mercy upon her and allow her to go
home to die.
Victim of Misfortunes.
“I have not long to live, I know,”
she states in the letter, "and the idea
of dying a prisoner is more than I can
stand. I am a girl Just 20 years of
age, and unfortunately was led away
from my home a year ago. I have only
been living a life of shame since then.
I am innocent of the charge against
me, however, but being caught in bad
company, I am having to suffer the
consequences, while the other girls
paid their fines and are free to-day.
“I was without friends or money
and in bad health, too, so I couldn’t
pay my fine, but had to come to jail,
and being ignorant of the law, I knew
not how’ to prove my innocence and
had no money to pay a lawyer to de
fend me.
“I beg you from the depths of my
heart to grant me the release. I am
not bad at heart, your honor, and my
only desire is to return home to my
dear mother, w’ho is an invalid, and
be a good girl. God will surely bless
you if you will permit me to go. I
will never get in any trouble any
more, for I will go home and be a
good girl. 1 trust and pray that you
will grant me the release.’’
BALTIMORE, MD.
$20.85 Round Trip $20.85
Tickets on sale August 1,
2 and 3. Return limit Au
gust 15. Through electric
lighted steel sleeping cars.
Dining cars on most con
venient schedules.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Last Day for Silks at these Pre-Inventory Prices---
Final Clearance of 85c to $1.50 Silks at |
Because we won’t invoice broken lines and short lots of silks
we have grouped these rich and fashionable fabrics at 39c. But you must buy
them to-morrow! If a single yard remains at the tap of the closing bell, it
will be put away or go back to its original pri ce.
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The silks are the choice stylish weaves even now selling elsewhere at full price. They are
fresh and fashionable. The lengths extend from 5 to 30 yards. Scarcely a piece shorter than
a dress length. Included are
85c shower-proof foulards—handsome all silk fabrics; the summer silk par ex
cellence. Staple colorings In neat designs. 39c.
85c chiffon taffetas—a soft, free flowing silk in solid colors and changeables. 27
Inches wide. Chiffon taffetas are “good” for fall. Buy now; save over half. 39c.
$1 to $1.50 silks—a glorious miscellany of Jacquard silks, warp prints, flowered taf
fetas, shantung crepe, novelties. Widths from 24 to 36 Inches. 39c.
(Silk Annex—Main Floor)
S’
25c Non-Odor
Powder, 16c
“Eversweet,” “Spiro” and
“Perspiro”—all perspiration de
stroyers that do away with any
odor from summer heat or perspi
ration.
50c Face Powder
Mme. Isabelle’s face pow- rm
der, soft and pure. Dalntt- I
ly scented; a delightful
powder for summer.
5c Soaps, 2c
Standard 5c soap, includ
ing tar soap, glycerine and Col
gate's hotel soaps.
(Main Floor, Center)
100 Safety Pins
Usually 5c a dozen : here are « a-.
8 dozen, 40c worth, for I MP
19c. All nickel plated x ^
Graduated sizes from the very
small to the very large.
18 Collar 1 A-
Supporters
I Spiral collar supporters, (1 on card,
| usually 10c a card, 3 cards here to-
| morrow for only 10c.
i (Main Floor, Center)
Waists
Remember This Is aj
Clearance Sale. Not:
Many of These Waists j
Clearing broken lines and short'
lots of waists. They’re piled heaping >
high on half a dozen tables. Not ;
many of a kind, hut a goodly nufnber ]
at each price. ’Twill pay you to look I
’them over.
)CQ_for $1 waists—white voiles and)
lingeries. High or low neck, long ]
or short sleeves.
<f» $ for $1.50 to $2 waists—white voiles j
«P * and lingeries. Summer’s smartest i
styles.
<1* l A_Q for and $ 2 -50 waists—man- '
sj) 1 nish shirt styles in white lin- \
ens; soft cool summer waists in white J
voiles and lingeries.
(tO QC for $3.50 to $6.50 waists—the j
ones and twos of a kind of j
our best sellers. Lingerie and voile;
beautifully made. High and low neck,
for $3.50 to $4 shirts—all silk shirts, mannish style.
Black or colored stripes on white ground. Soft de
tachable turn-over collars.
Waists at Half Price
Our finest numbers of all white lingerie waists, and black and
colored silk or chiffon waists. Former prices.
Were $5.00 to $16.50.
Now $2.50 to $8.25.
(Ready-to-Wear—Second Floor)
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CASH GROCERY CO., 1,8
Whitehall
P EOPLE who pay RENT for their home are enriching their land
lord. People who BUY a home are enriching THEMSELVES—
and providing for old age.
On our DIVIDED PAYMENT PLAN you can buy one of our
newly-built houses, at CAPITOL VIEW—inside of Atlanta’s city
limits—only an 18-minute street car ride from the Postoffiee. Our
terms are only $100 down, and as little as $21 a month. No mort
gage to assume! J
When one gets along in years to where one’s “earning” power
ceases, then he reaches the Crossroads of Life. One path leads to
a cozy and happy home. Another path leads to misery—often to the
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For your own sake—and for the protection of your family—BUY
a home!' I.ot us tell you more about the ADVANTAGES of a pretty
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i Our DIVIDED PAYMENT PLAN makes it possible for you to OWN
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For full information, ’phone—or call at ou* office!
W. D. BE ATIE, 207 Equitable Bldg.
Bell, Main 3520 Atlanta Phone 3520
Ball Bearings
Give Minimum
Operating Effort
|l9c,25c,39c&50c1 A r
i Jewelry to Go at ■•■"V.
! Odds and ends that we don’t care to in-
■ voice. But if the one piece you want is here—-
I and it doubtless is—the saving will be worth
j while. Choose from
Bar pins—Sash Pins—Belt Pins—
Brooches—Beauty Pins.
! Variously gold and silver plated and set with stones.
69c Lavalliers 39c
i
I Chains of German silverwith Sterling or German
\ silver pendants. Some with stone settings.
$1 Opera Chains at 49c
' Popular 54-inch opera chains. Some German silver
I with platinum, gun metal finish; others of real
1 gun metal. Enriched with pearls and stones.
i (Main Floor, Center)
98c Petticoats 49c
| Made of fine cambric, fit smooth and snug without
a wrinkle. Cut In the new narrow styles. Made
of fine white cambric, finished at bottom with
embroidery scalloping.
(Muslinwear—Second Floor)
75c Long Silk Gloves
Forget the priceJ-these are not O ;
flimsy, make-believe silk gloves. No, !
they are pure thread silk in the J
Tricot weaves—firm and flexible. 16-button length,
too, full fashioned and finely finished, lit uble
tipped fingers. Broken sizes in black and white;
about all sizes in tan, pongee, navy and lavender.
(Gloves—Main Floor, Left)
t
50c to 75c Stocking
Broken lines and sizes of boot
silks and all-silk stockings in col-
ors only, and embroidered and
lace lisle stockings in black and colors. Most
extraordinary values, because we wish to !
avoid invoicing broken lines.
35c & 50c Stockings 25c
Their maker say they’re “seconds”—let
him have his way. We've examined the stock
ings; the “hurts” are hard to find. Made of
fine lisle, full fashioned and finely finished. All
sizes. Black only. < Main Floor )
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Ball Bearing; Long Wearing.
Think of everything that is mod
ern and useful in typewriter con
struction-then add twenty to thirty
per cent for increased efficiency due
to ball bearings—that’s
The L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter
It’s compact, complete, easy to
operate, durable and proof against
inexperience and carelessness.
Ball bearings permit closer ad
justments without binding than any
other form of bearing. Expressed
in human effort, this means that the
operator can do more work—better
work, with the least physical and
mental strain.
Write for booklet giving information
about typewriter efficiency
L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co.
Office and Factory at Syracuse, N. Y.
121 N. Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga.
August
Furniture Sale
Starts Friday,
August 1st.
Save up to Half
Clearing 50c to $1
Belts at 25c
Some are the last of broken lines;
others are odds and ends; still others
that are the ultra-smart styles too dis
tinctive to meet the popular taste.
Choice 25c. There are
—$1 calfskin belts in solid brown.
—$1 black and white kid belts.
— $1 black and white silk-striped elastic
bolts with pearl buckle.
—50c white kid belt trimmed with black
patent leather.
—50c black patent lea ther and white kid
belts, ribbon run with Bulgarian silk.
—Choice of the lot 23t\
(Belts—Main Floor, Center)
.
$1.50 Ratine 95c
The fashionable ratine in
the tousled Turkish toweling
weave. It bears your favor;
you have bought it freely all
season long at $1.50.
Just two pieces left—a Copenha
gen and an Alice blue. Scarce
ly worth invoicing two pieces,
therefore 95c, instead of $1.50.
45 Inches wide.
(Embroideries—
Main Floor, Right)
Toys, Games, Etc.,
at Halved Prices
Dolls, scores of them;
games of many kinds; vehi
cles; doll carriages; baseball
bats and gloves; toys; sand
tools, et cetera, are at about
half price and even less.
Great opportunities for the
kiddies.
(Main Floor, Right)
Ribbon Remnants
at Half Price
A tropical flower garden; rain
bow colorings riotously awhirl;
fashionable Roman stripes;
captivating plaids—just a lit
tle bit of evendhlng that has
been popular this season.
Widths from 1 to 8 inches.
Lengths from 1-2 yard to 3
yards. Prices
Were 5o to $1.50
Now 3c to 75c.
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inal One Day Sale of Laces at
Formerly Selling at 35c, 50c, 75c to $1.50
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$
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What a glorious day’s lace selling there’ll be! Atlanta, we believe, bas %
seen nothing like it before.
For there are fashionable shadow laces in bands and fiounemgs from 5 to 18 inches ■£,
wide. Formerly 35c to 69c, now 25c.
There are Venise Bands, Filet and Val Laces in bands* from 3 to 5 inches wide and «
edges up to 9 inches. Formerly 39c to 75c, now 25c.
y ee these pretty insertions in cotton torchons, Vais, Oriental and Venise laces. 1 to J»S
o i 9 inches wide. Formerly selling at 60c to $1.50 the dozen yards, now 12 yards for ?5c.
(Ready at 8:30. Laces—Main Floor, Right) —-
NWW M. RICH & BROS. CO.
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