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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 F Charge Purchases for Rest of July Go on August Statement. kV*W»>' * M. RICH & BROS. CO. 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. 39 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) £ 1 c 2 'Doz. DOZ. 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 Poorhouse! 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 home in Atlanta’s residential section, known as CAPITOL VIEW! i Our DIVIDED PAYMENT PLAN makes it possible for you to OWN a home! 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 ) ■G 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. I 5? F inal One Day Sale of Laces at Formerly Selling at 35c, 50c, 75c to $1.50 25 $ cl 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. V' mimm ^ M. RICH k BROS. CO.