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VOL. XI. NO. 311.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1913.
2 CENTS
Wohlwender Declares Sheppard
Let Amendments Die After
Agreeing to Them,
| Efforts to obtain a reconsideration
of the Sheppard substitute to the
Lipscomb tax reform bill, which was
pa««ed by the House of Representa
tives by a vote of 107 to 59 after .in
all-day session Friday, will be made
within two weeks, and probably be
fore the bill is sent to the Senate.
Representative McMichael of Ma
rion County, whose amendment pro
viding tax discoverers to work with
the county boards provided by the
Sheppard bill, was defeated, served
notice that he will make a motion to
reconsider.
i An amendment by Mr. Nunnally of
Floyd, which makes the State Comp-
Ktroller General a sort of balance
wheel between the taxpayer and the
ycounty boards, also is likely to get a
new trial.
State Board Men Favor Move.
It is understood the members of
N the House who favor the State board
idea will support. Mr# McMichael in
his attempt to get a reconsideration
Af the bill, and prospects are consid
ered good for the success of the move
ment. It was the State board advo
cates who passed the bill Friday.
More of Mr. Sheppard’s followers
; ivoted against his bill than voted for
it, and without the support of the
IState board advocates, who acted on
s the basis that half a loaf was better
'than no bread, the bill would have
been lost.
The insurrection among the Shep
pard forces was led by Messrs. Wim-
iberly of Bibb, Wohlwender of Mua-
ogee and McMichael of Marion, and
Ijhvas started after Mr. Sheppard got
hrough two amendments to his own
ill, which Mr. Wimberly declared
akes away all powers from the coun-
y boards.
Mr. Wohlwender voted against the
Sheppard bill and charged Mr. Shep
pard with double dealing. He said the
situation was this:
Failed to Give Signal.
The State board advocates agreed
to favor the Sheppard bill as amend
ed by Mr. Sheppard Iff the hope that
it could be amended by the Senate
to provide adequate tax revision. The
members led by Mr. Wohlwender, Mr.
Nunnally and Mr. McMichael agreed
to support the bill on its final pas
sage if the amendments offered by
Nunnally and McMichael were adopt
ed.
Mr. Sheppard, they claim, agreed,
and when they came to at vote, he
^ was to hold up his left hand as a
tsignal, and the amendments were to
go through. When the amendments
were offered, however, Mr. Sheppard
gazed steadily out of the window—
and the amendments were voted
down.
> Then Mr. Wimberly and Mr. Wohl-
^ wender led a fight against the adop
tion of the substitute, but lost.
On the passage of the bill by sub
stitute Mr. Wimberly and Mr. Wohl
wender continued their fight, but the
State board people, realizing the
Sheppard bill was probably their only
chance for any kind of tax revisi
measure in the House, rallied to Us
support.
, Dr. Stovall, of Elbert County, who
practically destroyed the original
Lipscomb bill with his amendments,
and who has advocated the Sheppard
bU T heretofore, lined up with oppo
nents of all tax revision Friday, vot
ing against the Sheppard bill.
Mrs. Elkins Sponsor
For a ‘Julep Party’
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Accord
ing to advices from Elkins, W. Va.,
Mrs. Blaine Elkins, sister-in-law of
Miss Katherine Elkins, has intro
duced a new entertainment known as
“the mint julep party/’
^ Mrs. Elkins is a beautiful young
natron and highly popular with the
iiplomatic set, where it is expected
er new mint julep party will win
astant favor.
Americans Fleeing Mexico Fill
Eight Trains—Insurrectos to
Fight Till Huerta Is Deposed.
EL PASO, TEXAS, Aug:. 2.—The
last of the Americans in Chihuahua
City were being brought into El Paso
to-day by special trains over the
Mexican National road, guarded by
1,200 Federal soldiers under Colonel
Mancilla. Eight train loads of regu-
gees have been brought out of the
Mexican city. Fifty Americans hud
dled in ohe coach arrived here last
night after being three days on the
way.
The refugees said they had assur
ances from Governor Carranza, head
of the Constitutionalists, that Ameri
cans and other foreigners in all the
states where his troooc are fighting
Federal*, will be protected. Carranza
added that the Constitutionalists will
not accept any proposals for peace
until Huerta has been deposed.
Woman Halts Plan
To Change Street
Name; Wins Delay
McDaniel street received a new
lease on life Friday afternoon when
the Streets Committee of the Gen
eral Council heeded the protest of
Miss Susie Wells, a property owner,
who, single-handed, fougrht the reso
lution to change the name of the
street to Oxford Terrace.
“You can't improve the morals or
chance the color of the people by
changing the name of the street they
live on," declared Miss Wells in reply
to Representative Bob Blackburn, who
charged that McDaniel street, in cer
tain sections, was "disreputable."
Members of the Council committee,
including those who had practically
made up their minds to vote for the
change, saw the point and voted to
postpone action two weeks. Aider-
man James W. Maddox, It is under
stood, will aid Miss Wells in her
unique fight.
Committee Favors
Board for W. and A,
The Senate Committee on the West
ern and tAlantic Railroad nas re
ported favorably on Senator Sweat’s
resolution providing for the appoint
ment of a commission to investigate
the proposed extension or re-leasing
of the road. The resolution has been
read the second time in the Senate
and probably will come up for final
action Monday.
The resolution provides for a com
mission of seven members—two Sen
ators, three Representatives and two
citizens to be appointed by the Gov
ernor. The commission will be or
ganized immediately upon adjourn
ment of the Legislature. The report
of the commission will be filed at the
next session.
Old English Borough
Has 1,000th Birthday
LONDON, Aug. 2.—The borough of
Tamworth, once a Saxon stronghold.
Is to-day celebrating its one thou
sandth birthday. It owes its founda
tion to Ethelfleda, daughter of King
Alfred the Great.
Just a thousand summers ago the
courageous Princess inarched at the
head of her army to Tamworth, re
captured the home of her ancestors,
rebuilt the town and restored its
fortress.
Envoy Wilson Robbed
Of Valued Documents
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Detectives
to-day are closing in on pickpockets
who stole a wallet of official paper*
from Henry Lane Wilson, United
States Ambassador to Mexico, at the
Pennsylvania Station here yesterday,
when Ambassador came to New York
to lunch with friends*.
The thieves obtained $128 in money
besides the papers.
BRILLIANT LEGAL WARRIORS
WHO ARE BATTLING FOR FRANK
Offers Pearl Riches
To Garrison; Arrested
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.—Frank
Buffington, a pearl fisher, enlivened
Secretary of War Garrison’s visit here
by offering to make him very rich.
Buffington wan locked up.
The fisher, smoking a strong pipe,
strolled into the Secretary’s hotel and
asked to see him. To a detective, who
impersonated Mr. Garrison, he said ne
had a pearl fishery which would net
both of them incredible wealth if a
concession could be obtained.
LUTHER Z. ROSSER.
‘Drink Buttermilk,
Not Wine, in Clubs,’
JudgeUrgesWomen
Buttermilk as a social beverage far
women# who visit Atlanta’s locker
clubs is advocated by Recorder Nash
Qroyles.
The Recorder especially recom
mended buttermilk to Minnie L.
Brown, a young woman giving h*r
address at 14-A West Baker street
and her occupation as a bookkeeper,
when she was arraigned Friday after
noon for drunkenness. She said she
became intoxicated when she visitjd
the Theatrical Club with a man.
‘‘You should ha.w* called for butter
milk instead of wines and liquors,"
said the R- corder. ‘‘If buttermilk
were kept on tap in all of these locker
clubs to be served to women instead
of strong drink, women wpuld be bet
ter off."
Takes 500 Pounds of
Fat Off 40 Patients
Special Cable to The Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 2.—Professor Na-
gelschmidt performed two operations
in a London hospital to-day with his
wonderful diathermic treatment, in
which he employs both medicine and
surgery. In the former electric rays
of very high temperature are passed
through the diseased part. In the
surgical part of the treatment the
current reaches the tissues from the
edge of a knife-like application which
acts as a bloodless cautery.
The professor has used his treat
ment for the reduction of obesity, and
says 40 patients were deprived of an
aggregate of 500 pounds of fat.
Japan Mourns for
Emperor, Dead Year
Special Cable to The Georgian.
TOKIO. Aug. 2.—All Japan joined
in a memorial service for the late
Emperor Mutsuhito, who died a year
ago.
The young Emperor Yoshihito at
tended a solemn service in the palace
while thousands of citizens of Tokio
went to Aoyama, where a temporary
chapel was erected on the open
ground on which the funeral of the
late Emperor was solemnized.
French Line to Build
Ocean Leviathans
Special Cable to The Georgian.
PARIS, Aug. 2.—The Senate has
ratified a new twenty-five year con
tract with the Compagnie Generate
Transatlantique (the French line),
under which the company is exclu
sively subventioned to carry the
American mails.
It is reported that the company
shortly will undertake the construc
tion of several immense ocean liners
with which to confpete with the other
steamship services.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Occasional showers
Saturday and Sunday.
Bees to Knock Kinks
Out of Shank’s Limbs
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 2.—Mayor
Lewis Shank, who has been suffer
ing from rheumatism for several
weeks, will try the stings of honey
bees as a cure. Forty-five stings are
expected to give him permanent re
lief. Frank Johnson, who has a bee
farm near the city, guaranteed to-da>
a perfect cure, with no charge for the
bees.
The treatment will be made at
Johnson’s farm, where 45 bees will
be let loose In a closed room with the
Mayor. Only his face and hands will
be protected.
Bryan Queried About
Treatment of Jews
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—-Senator
Penrose has introduced a resolution
calling for a report from the Secre
tary of State in regard to the treat
ment of Jews in Roumania.
The resolution was based upon re
ports that Roumania has violated Ur
treaty of Berlin, whereby she agreed
not to make religion a test of citi
zenship.
Civic Club to Ask
Council to Shelter
Famous Old Engine
Despite the threatening weather, the
Third Ward Civic Club held an en
thusiastic meeting Friday afternoon at
the bandstand In Grant Park.
Improvements of Grant Park were dis
cussed. It was decided to ask the City
Council to erect a shelter for the famous
old engine, ‘‘Texas,’’ a relic of Civil War
days. At present the engine is exposed
to the elements. A tablet bearing its
name and history is also desired.
The present enrollment of the club In
cludes over 400 women of the Third
Ward. The officers are: Mrs. John Jus-
tis. 616 Woodward avenue, president;
Mrs. Boland. Park avenue, vice presi
dent; Mrs. A. S. Wilson, 79 Augusta
avenue, secretary, and Mr*. John B.
Crossland, 57 Park avenue, treasurer.
Print of Washington
Family Brings $200
Special Cable to The Georgian.
LONDON. Aug. 2.—On the third
day of the sale of engravings at
Sotheby’s. $2,956 way realized; $9,033
in all.
Sabin paid $200 for a rare early
impression by E. Bell of George
Washington and his family.
Miss Wilson Advises
Fiance on His Career
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Francis B.
Sayre, in charge of the Abandonment
Bureau of the District Attorney’s of
fice, who in November is to marry
Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of Pres
ident Wilson, announced yesterday he
had accepted the offer of President
Harry A. Garfield, of Williams Col
lege, to become his assistant.
"Of course," he added, "I consulted
Miss Wilson on the subject, and she
approved my choice of a career.”
Count Arrested for
Theft of Paintings
Special Cable to The Georgian.
ROME. Aug. 2.—Count Alexander
Gritti. belonging to the prominent Pa
dua family, was arrested as a suspect
in connection with the theft of Tie
polo paintings worth $25,000 from me
Church of the Massino.
It is believed that the Count was
the bogus antiquarian who tried to
bribe a priest to hand over the mas
terpieces and substitute modern copies
which he had ready.
Woman Trades Vote
For Vagrant Snooze
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—“God bless vou
judge! You'll get my vbte."
This was the speech of Mary Mack
ey to Municipal Judge Gemmill after
he had discharged her. Mary was
found asleep in a kacant lot. and she
could noi explain ‘it a policeman.
What Does John D.
Care for Expenses?
Lets Rain Hit Hat
CLEVELAND, Aug. 2.—John D.
Rockefeller scorned the umbrella
w hich was held over him w hen he left
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church and
allowed a fine drizzle to patter down
on his straw hat while waiting for
friends to get into his big touring
car.
The Rev. Dr. Carter Helm Jones, of
Louisville, Ky., who preached on
‘‘Moral Assets,” told the congrega
tion that In the Christian life they
were rich Indeed, but that earthly
riches do not amount to much, any-
way. Mr. Rockefeller enthusiastical
ly congratulated the mlrij.ster after
the sermon.
Grasshopper Pest a
Blessing-Incognito
JETMORE, KANS., Aug. 2.—Elmer
Mather, a farmer, who lives near Bur
dette, has an extensive irrigation
plant.
He put in eighteen acres of beets,
which were doing fine, when they at
tacked by the grasshopper plague. Mr.
Mather proceeded on the work of Im
provising a trap out of a header and
pans of water and crude oil.
He not only saved the crop, but
caught 119 bushels of hoppers, the
greater part of welch he has dried,
sacked and stored away for chicken
feed for winter use.
J. Ham Lewis Calls
For ‘Fathers' Day’
WASHINGTON, Aug 2. - Senator
J. Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, has
come to the conclusion that the “Old
Man" of the family has not received
proper recognition from a grateful
country. He announced to-day his
intention to introduce a bill setting
aside July 29 as "Fathers’ Day.” Al
ready there is a “Mothers’ Day" and
a “Children’s Day.”
"The Old Man," said the Senator,
“pays all the bills. On cold winter
mornings he gets up to light the fire.
I In summer he works like a horse in
I mow ,ng the lawn. His lot Is not a
1 haouy one. He deserves recognition."
FOR m
The State Saturday continued to strengthen the web of cir
cumstantial evidence in which it seeks to emmesh Leo M. Frank
by preparing to introduce additional testimony showing Mary Pha-
gan arrived at the National Pencil Factory at 12:05 or before.
The way had virtually been
cleared for Jim Conley, the negro
sweeper, to be put on the stand,
bnt according to Solicitor Dorsey
the negro will very likely be held
over until next week.
As the case stooJ Saturday morn
ing, these are the strong links in ths
State’s case:
Mary Phagan left her home at
11:45, according to her mother, after
having eaten some cabbage.
The girl arrived at the factory be
tween 12:05 and 12:10, according to
Frank's own statement before the
Coroner’s jury.
Monteen Stover Looked Into
Frank’s office between 12:05 and 12:10
and says he was not there.
Dr. H. F. Harris, Secretary of thd
State Board >f Health, testifies that
the condition of the cabbage taken
from the girl’s stomach shows con
clusively that she died within about
half an hour after it was eaten. This
would make th^ time of death about
12:10—a few minutes before or after.
Claims Negro Is Eliminated.
Mrs. Arthur White testifies that
when she left the factory at about 1
o’clock a negro, presumably Conley,
was sitting on a box on the first floor.
This, according to the State, elimi
nates the negro as the slayer, because,
according to it* expert evidence, the
girl must have oeen killed some time
before that.
The defense's attack on ail this tes
timony and reasoning was expected
to be spirited and bitter, and until Ji
hus been made it is impossible to de
termine how much weight testimony
like Dr. Harris’ purporting to fix al
most* to the minute the time it takes
to digest cabbage will have with '.ho
jury.
Helen Ferguson, a companion of
Mary Phagan and an employee of the
factory, was the first witness to be
called when court resumed Satur
day morning. The greatest crowd of
the week besieged the courthouse
clamoring for admission.
Pay Refused.
Solicitor Dorsey examined Miss
Ferguson.
Witness said she was an employee
of the factory.
Q. Were you at work at the factory
Friday, April 25?—A. Yes.
Q. Did you work that day or just
go there?—A. I went co the office
about 10 o'clock.
Q. What conversation did you have
there?—A. I asked for Mary Phn-
gan’s money and was told that I could
not get it. I talked to Mr. Frank.
Q. Did you ever get her pay before?
—A. Yes, but not from Mr. Frank.
Rosser took the witness on cross-
examination.
Q. Did you know who paid off?—A.
No.
Q. Did you ever get Mary Phagan’s
mon$y from Mr. Frank?—A. No.
Q. Did you work in the metal de
partment with Mary?—A. Yes.
The witness left the stand and was
followed by Policeman R. L. Wagner.
The testimony of Dr. Harris came
as a stratling climax to Friday’s ses
sion of the Frank trial. The State
had been getting along only Indiffer
ently well up to this point.
Darley Proves Disappointment.
N. V. Darley. associated with Frank
in the supervision of the factory’s
administration, had given promise
of being one of the State’s star wit
nesses, but be later had proved a
disappointment from the prosecution’s
view point and under the cross-exam
ination of Reuben Arnold had devel
oped about as good :i w itners for the
defense as the State has called so
fa r.
Mrs. Arthur White, wife of one of
the employees who was working on
the fourth floor of the fact Of y the
day of the crime, possibly aijfled a
i weak link in tjie chain of circum
stantial evidence that the State is
welding about Frank, but the most
that she could say was that Frank
was startled when she entered hi*
office at 12:30—Just after the girl had
been murdered, according to the
State’s theory—and that Frank did
not put on his hat and coat to leave
as he said lie was going to do when
he oume to the fourth floor at 12:50
to tell the three persons there to go
or be locked In.
One piece of her testimony which
is expected to play an important part
*n the later development of the State's
theory was that she saw* a negro
lounging by the steps as she left a
few minutes before 1 o’clock.
Four Others Called.
The other witnesses of the day were
Call Officer W. F. Anderson. Stenog
rapher L. F. Parry, Albert McKnight,
husband of the servant girl in the
home where Frank and his parents
lived, and G. C, February, private
secretary to Chief of Detectives Lan-
ford.
Anderson told of his efforts to get
Frank on the telephone the morning
of the tragedy. Under crops-exami-
nation, he was led to repudiate in
part some of the testimony he had
given at the Coroner’s injuest. Be
fore the Coroner he had said that
the negro Newt Lee could not have
seen the body of Mary Phagan from
the point where he declared he stood
when he made his gruesome discov
ery.
Attorney Rosser called his previous
testimony to his attention, but the
policeman averted that he wa* mis
taken when he made his first state
ment and that it now w r as his opinion
that Lee could have seen the body all
right.
Parry was called to identify the
testimony of Leo Frank before the
Coroner’s Jury and later by the de
fense was asked to identify that of
Lee and other witnesses and declar
if it was a corrct transcript of what
they had said at the preliminary in
quiry.
Gets in Frank's Story.
Solicitor Dorsey called Febqary to
get In evidence the first statement
that Frank made to the police after
he was taken to headquarter*. In
this statement Frank said that the
Phagan girl came to the factory for
her money between 12:05 and 12:10,
possibly 12:07.
McKnight’s most important testi
mony wa* that he had been in the
Frank home at 1:30 the afternoon of
April 26, and had seen Frank come
home and rush away without getting
anything to eat. He said that look
ing into a mirror from his vantage
point in the kitchen he had obtained a
good view of Frank as he entered
the house.
He declared that all Frank did wa*
to go to the sideboard and a moment
later leave the house. Frank at the
Coroner's inquest said that when he
went home at noon he ate luncheon
with his father-in-law and lay down
for a few minutes on the lounge. Mc
Knight said he had a good view of the
table and that Frank did not sit down.
Darley, after admitting to Solicitor
Dorsey that Frank was nervous, pale ,
and trembling the day after the trag
edy, added under cross-examination
that this condition was nothing un
usual for the young factory super
intendent. He said that frequently
when Frank was excited he ran his
hands through his hair and that he
had seen Frank a thousand times rub
his hands nervously.
He also declared that on two occa
sions in particular he had witnessed
Frank in the same condition he was
in Sunday at the factory. One was
when Frank saw a street car run
down a child, and another when he
had an altercation with one qf the
factory officials.
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