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\ } WKm ▼ » r "■ ---r— Jl 'e '■ / NOTICE !f you have any difficulty In buying Hearn’s Sunday American anywhere in the South notify Circulation Manager, Hearst’s Sunday Ameri can. Atlanta. Ga. FLORIDA EDITION VOL. I. NO. 18. Copyright, 1913, by The Georgian Company. ★★ ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. President Has Taken First Step, It Is Reported, for Diplomatic Arrangement in Which U. S. Troops Will Guard Americans Huerta's Changed Attitude and Professions of Friendship Taken to Forecast Armistice Pending Election of His Successor. B. C. Forbes Sails To Seek Safeguards For U. S. Investors Business Envoy of the Hearst News papers to Investigate Methods of Europe. The Dreadnought of the Future xpected to Cost Millions Mor Than Battleships of To-day. ENGLAND WORKING HARD NEW YORK, Aug. 2 —E. C. Forbes, business envoy of the Hearst newspa pers, sails to-day for Europe, where he will inquire into the laws in force in different countries governing the re- reX'L/LrerTn'TTTTe E *P e ^d to Cost Millions More measure of publicity insisted upon for the protection of investors. American legislation on these impor tant matters, it is now recognized, is utterly inadequate to prevent fraud and imposition costing the public several hundreds of millions of dollars annually. As the number of investors in this country increases, the urgency of pro viding safeguards against unscrupulous and negligent promoters, directors and officials becomes more and more pro nounced. The New York American and other Hearst publications, which have consist ently championed the fullest possible corporate publicity, will take up the sub ject vigorously next month. Marshall Called On To Subdue Wife of Embryo Postmaster Women of Indiana Town Declare Her Social Pretentions Have Become Unbearable. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—Presi dent Wilson is believed to-night to have taken the first step toward di plomatic intervention in Mexico. Precise details of the plans are withheld, but it is virtually certain that it contemplates the tender of the good offices of the United States to bring about a truce or armistice pending final settlement of the civil war. By this plan the American army and n •' are to be utilized to safe- gua* terican lives. !• uwrta Heeds U. S. Demand. Huerta has heeded the peremptory demand of the United States for the immediate trial of the persons who shot Charles B. Dixon, Jr., United States Immigration Inspector, at Juarez, and has ordered the case to proceed expeditiously. Huerta has also telegraphed to the Governor of Chihuahua immediate ly to release Charles Bissel, Bernard McDonald and Btssel’s chauffeur, who are held by the Federals under sen tence of death at Chihuahua. Not only did Huerta inform Nelson 0’Shaughnes6y, American Charge d’Affaires at Mexico City, of these facts, but he sent to the State De partment an absolute disavowal of the Dixon shooting coupled with the most fulsome protestations of regard for the American Government. He regrets “very much that the American Government should as cribe to the influence of the Mexican Government any action which might be construed as antagonistic to Amer icans during his occupancy of the executive authority.” Huerta assures the State Depart ment “that no injustice or violence shall be done to Americans with his cognizance while he Is in his present position.’ The Huerta statement added: “The Mexican Consul at El Paso has informed the Mexican Foreign Office that the matter of the shoot ing of Dixon has been satisfactorily arranged. It is stated that the Gov ernment at Mexico City seems most desirous of meeting the desires of the United States in every way pos sible.” House Inquiry Asked. Representative Stephens, of Texas, has introduced a resolution pro viding for a joint Senate and House committee to investigate Mexican conditions, report on outrages to which Americans have been subject ed. the prospects for establishment of a stable government in Mexico, and recommendations for a fixed Ameri can policy toward Mexico. He be lieves peace, if brought about, wilt be only temporary. In the Senate Senator Sheppard of Texas introduced a resolution looking to the possible tecognition of the Mexican revolutionists as belligerents The resolution requests the Foreign Relations Committee to advise the Senate whether, in its opinion, this nation should recognize the belliger ency of the revolutionists in Mexico and accord them the proper interna tional status to which they are enti tled. The State Department to-day made the extraordinary announcement that Dr. Gaza Aldapo, who is soon to be Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mex ico, “has spent much time in the Unit ed States and is reported as in sym pathy with American institutions.” Mexico’s Sudden Change. It is not known definitely to what the lightning changes are due in the Mexico situation. bu f It Is believed by many officials It was the prompt and effective action of Brigadier General Bliss, coupled* with the dispatch of the additional vessel, the Wheeling, to Continued on Page 4, Column 4. September Morn Should Pay Visit to Atlantic City Stockings About All Necessary Bath ing Garb tor Women There Under New Rules. Some of the Features in the American Construction Which Now Lead the World. ATLANTIC CITY, N. JT„ Aug. 8.— Women bathers may appear hence forth on the beach here in the meet abbreviated of skirts Also they may wear those garments slashed any where from an Inch above the knee clear to the waist. One-piece swimming suits are legaV too, as long as there is a bloomer ef fect from the waist line down. But there is one “don’t.” Girls more than 16 years old can not go about publicly without stock'lngs. The en forcement came yesterday when a girl was banished from the beach because her shapely nether extremities did not have the customary encasements. Society in Fright Fever □ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Gem Theft Is Epidemic +•+ Mrs. Rumsey Big Loser RSI WEEK OE ERA! Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey, one of the heaviest losers in the epidemic of jewel robberies. SIDES SURE OE VIGT WASHINGTON Aog 2.—EnglanS Queen and Duchess at mce in e thT d r teB , ar f rr; ! Odds Over Low Gowns race In the development of the dread- WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—Thomas R. Marshall, the well-known Vice President, has been asked to arbi trate a social war between the women of Blanktown, Ind., arising over the nomination of a new postmaster. He received a letter to-day asking that he halt the confirmation of the man because his wife is putting on airs over the fact that her husband stands so well with the Administration. Mr. Marshall declines to give the real name of the town or the name of the letter writer. But it ts some town —the letter says so. Only last week there was a church social there, 10 provide funds for a new sidewalk around the place of worship, and $18.19 was netted easily from the sale of ice cream and cake. There are a first-class drug store, two grocer ies and a hardware store. One of the grocery stores also has a good line of dress goods. The letter says so. It is some town. When the news first filtered in that a certain man was to be named post master, the wife of the nominee \yent to the store and bought some new clothes. Since then she has been al most unbearable, according to the let ter, and Heaven only knows what she will be if there is a confirmation! The women say that the wife of the nominee is a social upstart, anyway. Mr. Marshall is happy that some use for a Vice President has devel • oped. Mrs. Champ Clark to Write Autobiography Wife of Speaker to Tell of Her 20 Years in Public Life at Capital. nought. This ship is expected to be the last word in marine architecture; a Titan of the seas which will cost millions more than the splendid bat tleships of to-day. It will be an of fensive and defensive giant. England recently announced that her future dreadnoughts will have a complete torpedo-discharging equip ment below the armor belt. Rear Admiral Fiske has just patented a device for dropping torpedoes from flying aeroplanes—a method which, according to naval experts, vill prove to he infinitely cheaper and fully as effective. England, also, is perfecting a steel net to surround her battle ships below the water line, hoping to render them immune to torpedo at tacks. In the meantime American naval experts are bringing the internal combustion engine—otherwise the modern high-power petroleum motor —to a high state of efficiency. They hope ultimately to supplant costly steam propulsion. Speed is likely to cut a large figure in the battle fleets of the future. The former separate functions of the battleship and cruiser must be com- j PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2.—A new jDined in one ship. Germany already I method of medical Instruction, doing has recognized this fact by classing I away largely with dissection, will be British Royalty Refuses to Counte nance Fashionable Costumes at Wedding of Kinswoman. Speolal Cable to The American. LONDON, Aug. 2.—The antipathy of Queen Mary to low-cut afternoon toilets has been the cause of some friction be tween her Majesty and the Duchess of Fife regarding the latter’s wedding ar rangements. The Queen will permit Princess Mary to be a bridesmaid only on condition that none of the bridesmaids wears a frock cut lower than one inch in the neck in front. The Duchess of Fife resents such re strictions. and has appealed to her mother and to Queen Alexandra^ , but Queen Mary refuses to alter her atti tude. Bodies of Dead To Be Made Transparent Hospital in Philadelphia Plans To Qo Away With Dissection by New Method. her latest marine monsters as “battle cruisers.” The dreadnought must not only be able to fight; she must also be able to “run away and live to fight another day.” A naval constructor has thus de fined the function of the naval archi tect: “To place the highest possible gun power on the smallest possible ves sel.” Although battleships are steadily increasing in size, the tendency make the ship as small as possible with the gun power placed upon it. j The new Pennsylvania, planned to be ! one of the biggest dreadnoughts ever I Daughter of Rich Pennsylvania Me* conceived, Is not large in proportion I chant CMmbs 0ut window to the mighty "muzzle velocity” she i . ... ... . .. , , . , to Join rlance, will possess. As a matter of fact, her put into practice at the Hahnemann Medical College next term. Physicians and surgeons of the col lege are perfecting a process, based on discovery of a fluid by a German scientist, which will make the human body transparent. Students can study the veins, mus'- cles and bones far more easily, it is said. The fluid can not be used be fore death. trio Elopes in Nightdress To Be Barefoot Bride gun pow r er will be greater in ratio to her size than any other battleship In I WAYNB6BURG, PA.. Aug. 2. Uncle Sam’s navy. I Barefooted. bareheaded. without I money and scantily clad, Lena Cage, WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Mrs. Champ Clark, wife of the Speaker, is writing her autobiography, in which she will re late her twenty years' experience In so cial and official life at the national capi tal. Mrs. Clark is an admirable raconteur, and the book Is said to bristle with good anecdotes of notable men and women. In addition to the Washington chapters, the book will dwell on Mrs. Clark’s girl hood in Calloway County, Missouri, and her married life there. The book is awaited with keen inter est by Mrs. Clark’s friends, as she has said she is writing for “posterity” and the records must be absolutely correct. Mrs. Clark has a graphic, convincing style, and a subtle vein of humor runs through her writings. Hotel Elevator Is I the 15-year-old daughter of Charles I Cage, a wealthy merchant of this .. y I city, eloped early this morning. She New Bridal Vetlicie I climbed from the window of her home shortly after midnight, and getting in a big motor car with her suitor. Two on Honeymoon Climb Stairs Franklin Hurley .disappeared. Nine Times—Inquires Price of a Ride. Sylvia Pankhurst Tries ‘Sleep Strike' Heavy Police Guard Is Thrown About Jail to Keep Off the Suffragettes. Special Cable to The American. LONDON, Aug. 2.—Miss Sylvia Pank hurst, who is again in Halloway jail for inciting to riot, has developed a new method of worrying the prison authori ties. She is on a “sleep strike,” be sides refusing food and water. Two of the women arrested as the re sult of the demonstration outside the jail last night were sentenced to-day to two months in prison. A heavy guard of police has been placed about the jail. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst was weaker to-day as the result of her exertions yesterday at the pavilion meeting. Flying Tire Engine Predicted by Mayor I Silk Hatted Executive of New Eng- i land Town Expects Air Craft to Fight Flames. 1 BOSTON, Aug. 2.—A flying machine fire department for Salem was predicted to-day by John F. Hurley, sllk-hatted . mayor of that city. “This is the age of the motor-driven vehicle,” he said, “and horses are too slow for Salem. \Ve are going to have flying machine Are engines, flying ma chine garbage wagons, etc.” CINCINNATI. Aug. 2.—They hailed from Kensington. Ill. so they told the ,clerk at the Gra-nd Hotel, and were on their honeymoon, as the bride groom informed the bell hop. They registered as 'Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gleason. “Bert” was a spender. He tipped the bell hop who carried ice water to the top floor a whole half dollar. The day was hot, very hot, and made stair-climtng an irksome task. Bert knew*, for hadn’t he and Mrs. Bert tried it nine times by actual count. It was after those hot-weath- The girl’s father, with several of- fleers, has searched in vain for the pair. Aged Thief Is Sent To Whipping Post Offender, 65 Years Old, Confessing Theft of Three Pounds of Butter, Is Lashed. Solicitor Dorsey Indicates That Real Sensation Will Be Developed for State in Closing Days of Famous Mary Phagan Mystery Case. PROSECUTOR, ANGRY, SAYS HIS WITNESSES BETRAY HIM Routing of Detective Black and Sur prise in the Testimony of Pinkerton Agent Gives the Defense Principal Points Scored—Newt Lee Hurts. X5rv-»UiKT 1913 ©Y T>CX. CJVMPBROTVOJOJ^ Colonists at Narragansett Pier Believe That Monkey Is Implicated in Mysterious Thefts. WILMINGTON, DEL., Aug. 2 — Samuel Patterman, a white man, aged 06, one of the oldest prisoners who has ever been fastened to the whip ping post, received five laches at the er climbs that the call for ice water workhotise. came. When the bell boy came along, j He pleaded guilty in the General the bridegroom, pointing to the ele vator, asked: “Say, kid, w’hat does it cost to ride on that thing?” And Kensington is only a few miles from Chicago. At 45 Is Graduated With His Daughter Missouri Professor, Having Realized Ambition, Will Resume College Work. SPRINGFIELD, MO., Aug. 2.—Pro fessor J. Turner Horner, president of Horner Institute, at Purdy, Mo., and his daughter. Miss Eva May, have bgfn graduated together from Drury College, each with the degree of bach elor of arts. Though 45 years of age and for many years eneaged in educational work. Professor Horner had never hold a diploma. Sessions Court to the larceny of thre« pounds of butter, and in addition to the lashes he was sentenced to four months in prison. By order from the court, no saloon proprietor in the city can sell liquor to Patterman. 6,000 Bachelors and Maids Must Pay Tax Minnesota Legislature Passes Law Which Favors Heads of Families Against Single Person*. MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 2,—Nearly 6,- 000 bachelors and unmarried women in Minneapolis will pay taxes on all their personal property this year un less they can show the City Board of Tax Levy that the 1100 exemption available to heads of families Is un fair to the single ones. The last Legislature amended the 'at laws allowing only heads of fam ilies to deduct 1100 from valuation of their personal possessions. s NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. I.. Aug. 2.—The fashionable colony, here for the polo season, Is in a fever of fright. Dances and dinner partieR nowadays are rather drab affairs, with the notable lack of jewelry from the gowns of the women. Nervous ness everywhere is apparent, and ev ery other man might be a private de tective. The recent series of mysterious jewel robberies tells the story. One, after another the summer cottages \ have been entered and their stores of , gems rifled during the last week. Al- j together, jewels to a value of far more than $250,000 have been stolen. As a result the society folk have dispatched their Jewels to safety de posit vaults in New York, or have locked them securely in household safes, ftnd have commissioned detec tives to watch. Many of the cottages along the Ocean road have been bar ricaded, and almost all are under guard against the mysterious robbers who already have counted several prominent victims. The heaviest losers by the series of robberies were Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey, daughter of the late E. H. Harriman, and Mr. and Mrs. John E. Hanan, of New York. Jewels valued at $76,200 were stolen from the sleep ing apartment of Mrs. Rumsey. among them a rope of pearls valued at $60,000, which was Mrs. Harrl- man s wedding gift to her daughter. “Shore Acres,” the home of the Hanans, was robbed of forty or fifty pieces of Jewelry—brace lets, earrings, pendants and hair ornaments, whoso value probably was $150,000. Mrs. Walter Ives, of New York, is loser by the depredations of the burglars, having reported partic ularly to the police the loss of a val uable pearl necklace. The police have not made the least headway In clearing the mystery. The most plausible theory entertained Is that the robber entered the Rumsey home one morning, while Mrs. Rum sey and the servants were on the veranda being entertained by an or gan grinder, who was passing through the village witlt his trained monkey. The police thought he probably acted as lookout while the thief entered the cottage from the rear. Or, according to the more startling theory of C. C. Tegethoff. agent of the Harriman estate, the grinder and his monkey may have been the actual robbers. “It is not beyond possibility,” he announced following an investigation, “that the monkey was the actual thief. I have heard of such things.” Many people believe the robber en tered th* 1 house one night the Rum* seye were at the Casino dance. Mrs. Ives, another loser by the burglaries, was at this same dance, and thus color to the theory of a midnight in truder is given. The summer colony probably will establish a private police force as a result. Last summer this expedient was observed, after the loss of a num- [bar of valuable articles. A weakening of the State’s ease against Leo Frank, who ia charged with killing Mary Phagan April 26, was evident with the close of the first week of the tedious trial Saturday. Angry charges made in court by Solicitor General Dorsey, that certain witnesses had betrayed him, seemed to reveal his chagrin. However, the Solicitor Saturday said that he was satisfied with the progress made, and was sure of success for the State. The charges were made against Harry Scott, a Pinkerton detec tive, and E. F. Holloway, foreman of the National Pencil Factory, in which tho foreman went back on an affidavit which he made in the preliminary stage of the investigation, saying that he was mis taken when he made it. The affidavit declared that the factory elevator was locked and impossible of access the day of the murder. This Holloway, on the stand, denied. STATE PROMISES A SENSATION. Little significant evidence toward the establishment of Frank’s guilt has been brought, out by the State, but a sensation is prom ised when Jim Conley, the negro sweeper, and alleged accomplice of Frank, is called to the stand. So far the main efforts of the State have been directed toward proving the murder was committed on the second floor of the fac tory, where, it is contended, Frank was in his office all the after noon of the killing. <)f Frank's attorneys, Luther Hosser and Reuben Arnold, jkve been from the first wonderfully powerful factors in the trial, and are the agencies about whom the friends of the defense build all their hopes. Time and again this hope has been Justified. Under the grill ing administered by Rosser, witnesses have squirmed and twisted their bodies and their statements as it were a material instead of a mental fire to which they were subjected. Detective John Black was one of those. Time and again he contradicted himself as to details, and several time* he confessed that he did not remember. Black it was who, of the city pdtiae force, was among the most, zealous in obtaining evidence against Frank. Solicitor Dorsey had stated that be expajted to show hpr Black’s testimony that the detectives had gone to Lee-’a house only after Frank had informed him that several punches were missing from the watchman’s clock; that Frank’s attorneys, even before Flank’s arrest, had insisted that Frank’s house be searched; that the bloody shirt found in Lee’s house was a “plant” In Frank’* favor. Much of the prosecution’s plans in this regard were fruit less, however, because of Black’s confusion under cross-examina tion. NEWT LEE HOLDS GROUND. One witness, however, and a witness damaging to- fhe-defonae, who was unperturbed by a pitiless cross-examination was Newt Lee, the negro night watchman of the National Pencil Factory. The negro steadfastly maintained his original story that Frank was nervous the afternoon of Mary Phagan’s disappearance, that lie had made conflicting statements concerning the watchman’s clock, and that he had seemed frightened when he found J. M. Gant in the factory the afternoon on which the little girl probably was slain. ■4* V An evident attempt was made by the defense to place sus picion on Newt Lee. The manner in which Lawyer Rosser ques tioned L. S. Dobbs, the police sergeant who found the body of the dead girl, seemed to imply that much of the negro's behavior was suspicious. Dobbs declared that Lee had read the hardly legible notes that were found at the side of the dead girl, and had read them easily. This point the defense urged. Frank’s lawyers also in ferred that it was strange the negro should identify the girl as being white in the dim-lighted gloom of the factory basement, and at a time when he confessedly was frightened out of his wits. The attempt of the defense to throw suspicion on Newt Lee, however, seemed to be of no avail. The steadiness and ingenuous ness of the old negro absolved him, in the minds of those who heard, of guilt in connection with the murder. Except for Lee, none of the witnesses of the week revealed anything of injury to the defense. Mrs. J. W. Coleman, Mary Phagan's mother, and George W. Epps, the newsboy friend of tlws little girl, were merely witnesses of incidental facts. Grace Ilix. a companion of Mary Phagan in the factory, called l»y the prosecution, gave evidence really favorable to the defense, telling that Frank seemed to have no acquaintance .with xha Eva. |PW |