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VOL. XH. NO. 3.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST ti, 1013.
Copyright 1306,
By The Georgian Co.
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Sweepers Grilling Ends After 15* Hours, His Main Story Unshaken
FILIBUSTER
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Resolution to Report the Hixon-
Searcy Liquor Bill Defeated.
Tax Plot Charged.
The filibuster in the House against
the resolution of Kidd, of Baker,
which instructed the Temperance
Committee co report back th? Hixon-
Searcy bill for action, and by which
Wohlwender, of Muscogee, consumed
the entire time of the House Tues
day. came to an end Wednesday
morning at 10 o’clock with victory
resting with the forces against the
bill.
In response to a point of order
raised by Stewart, of Coffee. Speaker
Burwell ruled that Kidd’s resolution
was not in order for consideration
Wednesday, and the efforts of the
temperance forces to force a hearing
on the bill were therefore in vain.
The point raised by Mr. Stewart
was that, inasmuch as the resolution
was introduced Tuesday and specifi
cally called upon the Temperance
Committee to report the bill back
“to-morrow,” It was asking the com
mittee to perform a physical impos
sibility, and was therefore not in or
der.
Wright Objects to Decision.
Wright, of Floyd, who is generally
credited with being behind Mr. Kidd
in the introduction of the resolution,
protested vigorously against the de-
sion of the Speaker.
"Doesn’t the Speaker intend to hear
those who favor this resolution?” he
demanded.
“You are out cf order,” the Speaker
replied. “The resolution has been
ruled out of order, and la not now un
der discussion.”
Representative Wohlwender, back
ed by Myrick and Shuptrine, of Chat- j
ham; Nunnally, of Floyd, and others
of the anti-dry forces, appeared when
the House convened to-day determin
ed to continue the filibuster until Mr.
Kidd consented to withdraw his res
olution. This Mr. Kidd and the tem
perance cohorts absolutely refused to
do.
Stewart Then Finds Loophole.
Conferences between the prohis and
the antis were numerous, but barren
of result, and it looked as though
the filibuster would continue, with the
anti-dry people holding the whip
hand indefinitely, when Mr. Stewart
found the loophole through which the
resolution was riddled.
The effect of the resolution and the
filibuster has been to draw the line
sharply betw'een the anti-dry and the
temperance forces, and to smother
the more important question of tax
revision. The victory of the antis
precludes the possibility of the Searcy
hill getting a hearing at this session,
inasmuch as the Rules Committee
takes charge and no resolutions sim
ilar to the Kidd resolution can be
introduced.
Claims Anti-Tax Plot.
Mr. Wohlwender, whose strong
lungs and determination defeated the
resolution, voiced the opinion Wed
nesday morning that the resolution
was an outgrowth of the tax revision
fight.
“Sheppard, of Sumter; Stovall, of
Elbert, and the others who are fight
ing tax revision were behind the res
olution.” declared Mr. Wohlwender.
“They hoped to get that bill brought
out because they knew if the House
once got busy on it no tax measures
could be passed at this session.”
Bulgaria’s Enemies
Relent; Intercede
For Conquered Ally
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BUCHAREST, Aug. 6.—Sympathy
may yet prevent Bulgaria from los
ing all the spoils she won in the
Turko-Balkan war. Premier Pasitch.
of Servia, and Premier Venizelos, of
Greece, to-day wired their respective
sovereigns for permission to extend
the Bulgarian frontier so as to in
clude a big area of the territory in
Northeastern Macedonia which was
taken away from Turkey.
It had been the original intention
of the Servians and Greeks to punish
Bulgaria for the atrocities of her sol
diers by refusing to allow the Bulgars
to profit by the war.
So eloquently did the Bulgarian
peace representatives plead their
cause and so graphically did they
paint the sufferings undergone by the
Bulgarians in the war with Turkey
to secure victory for the Balkan
league that the Serb and Greek en
voys relenied.
Word by T.R, Worth
Army Under Wilson,
Says Gov. Johnson
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6.—Criticism
of the course of the Wilson Adminis
tration was contained in an address
by Governor Hiram Johnson, who was
Hie Vice Presidential candidate on
the Progressive ticket last year,
speaking at the first anniversary cel
ebration of the Progressives.
“The National Administration has
not come up to expectations,” said
Governor Johnson. “We have a for
eign policy that is weak and vacil
lating. One word from Theodore
Roosevelt is worth a whole army un
der Woodrow Wilson.
“We were shocked by the white
washing of Ballinger by Taft. That
differed in no essential from the
whitewashing of McReynolds by Wil
son.”
This Is Comforting!
Freezing at Big Bear,
Snow in Yellowstone
SAN BERNARDINO, CAL., Aug.
6.—Very chilly weather is reported
at Big Bear, in the San Bernardino
Mountains.
Early yesterday morning there was
a thin sheeting of ice around the
edges of the lake. At Pine Knot Ho
tel the thermometer registered 33 de
grees.
The minimum in the city of San
Bernardino yesterday was 48 degrees,
the lowest July record in many years.
HELENA, MONT., Aug. 6.—There
was a heavy snowfall in the Yellow
stone Park last night and the moun
tains in the vicinity of Livingston
were white with new snow this
morning.
Minister Accused' of Accepting
$1,500 From Own Brother, Who
Was Friendly With Wife.
MACON, Aug. 6.—The Rev. E. T.
Moore, a Baptist minister, at Ander-
sonville. formerly of Macon. is
charged by Attorney Oliver C. Han
cock, in a suit brought in the city
court of Americus, with extorting
$1,500 from his own brother as a price
for silence in court as to his brother s
alleged intimacy with Mrs. Moore.
Last year Rev. Mr. Moore obtained
a divorce from his wife in the Bibb
Superior Court, after a hotly contest
ed trial. He charged her with being
unfaithful. One of the alleged co
respondents swore to improper rela
tions with Mrs. Moore, who is a strik
ingly handsome woman of about 35
years. It is now charged that Rev.
Mr. Moore found his own brother and
Mrs. Moore in a compromising posi
tion and that he threatened his broth
er. who was about to be married, with
exposure unless given $1,500.
Attorney Hancock alleges that
can prove the facts and the actual
payment of the money.
This charge forms part of a suit
brought for the recovery of a fee for
legal services. Mr. Hancock claims
that Rev. Mr. Moore has not only re
fused to pay him for services in pro
curing the divorce, but also borrowed
$50 while the case was pending which
he also refuses to repay.
Mrs. Moore now is living with her
parents at Eufaula, Ala., and the two
children are temporarily in her cus
tody. Rev. Mr. Moore, while here, re
sided in the Mercer University com
munity and was highly esteemed both
as a man and a minister.
‘Wilson White’ for
Male Dress Rules.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—White is
the proper coior for men who want to
be up-to-the-minute in their dress
at the National Capital.
The tropical raiment was adopted
by the President one day when tn*
mercury was trying to hit the sky.
The next day Secretary Bryan made
his debut, and within 48 nours ‘ Wil
son » white" was the fad. The ma-
teri.l! may be anything from silk to
ducl-a
Department Store
In Shark's Stomach
VENICE. CAL, Aug. 6.—In a post
mortem operation performed on a
shark eighteen feet long, which was
cast up on the sands here, the fish
was shown to be a collector of no
little ability. Here’s a list of the
contents of the stomach:
Sugar bowl, silver, engraved Pacific
Coast S. S. Co., steamer President.
Three corset steels, nearly new.
Dice box, gutta peroha.
Baby s shoe.
Four undigested halibut and num
erous small fish.
Trots and Tangos
Boon to Chiropodist
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—The turkey
trot and the tango are to the chiropo
dists equal to the goose that laid the
golden eggs, says Miss Clara Houston,
of Chicago, the "girl with the perfect
foot.” Miss Houston, herself a chi
ropodist, says:
“Those dances put an unaccus
tomed strain on the toes and instep
and since they started women have
been flocking to chiropodists In droves
to have their feet made over, I hope
the craze lasts, but I would never
dance any of those dances myself. I
think too much of my feet.”
23 Church ‘Drones’
Ousted by Elders
STOCKTON, CAL., Aug. 1-Twen-
I ty-three members were forcibly re
moved from the F’irst Baptist Church,
of this city, last night by the deacons
because of negligence in attending
church.
No specific charge was mad©
against any individual, but all of
them were referred to as '“drones”
and guilty of “indifference and non-
attendance.”
ACCUSER OF CONLEY
IS READY TO TESTIFY
W. H. Mincey,
who declares
Conley told
him he had
killed a girl.
McReynolds Ignores Recommen
dation of Board Which Made
Special Inquiry of Case.
Despite the fact that the Federal
Pardon Board strongly recommended
after a thorough investigation, that
pardons be granted to Julian Haw
thorne and Dr. William J. Morton,
who are imprisoned in the Atlanta
Federal Penitentiary on charges if
using the mails to defraud in the sale
of mining stocks, Attorney General
McReynolds has issued a statement
from Washington that he has decided
to override the recommendations of
the board and refuse clemency to the
two men.
The action of McReynolds is almost
unprecedented in the history of the
Department of Justice. The Board of
Pardons made the Hawthorne case a
subject of thorough and exhaustive
investigation. It came to Atlanta and
went into every detail of the case. At
the end of the investigation it made
YliP Hawthorne case ther snbject of a
special report and a special recom- j
mendation for clemency. It had been \
intimated that the writer had been
the scapegoat for others.
Mr. McReynolds’ excuse for refusing
to grant a pardon to Haw’thorne is
that he and Dr. Morton have been
shown enough leniency.
It is generally understood that one
result of Mr. McReynolds’ actions in
the Hawthorne case will be the re
doubling of the* efforts of the writer’s
friends and the case may be taken to
President Wilson.
Under the ruling of the Attorney
General, Hawthorne and Morton must
remain in prison until October. The
trial judge, in sentencing them, dated
their teyms back a year and a day,
and their time will be up In about
two months.
Deputy Warden Hawk, of the Fed
eral Prison, stated Wednesday morn
ing that the prison authorities have
as yet received no formal notifica
tion that a pardon had been refused
Hawthorne. He stated, however, that
it is not usual for them to do so. They
are notified when a pardon has been
granted, but never when one has been
refused.
MESH BAG EXPLAME
BYN
Asks Special Judge
To Hear Demurrer
300 Factory Women
Gamble on Baseball
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. a.—Three
hundred women gamblers, working
ip mills and spending their money on
baseball pools, have been counted by
Detective Charles Lee. head of the
vice squad here. Harry Reed has
been held in bail by Magistrate Cow
ard. having been charged with op
erating a pool.
Lee says 1,800 persons gambled on
ball games in Reed’s place each week,
most of whom were women. The
chances cost 25 cents each.
If You Don’t Drink
Do Not Read This
LEAVENWORTH, KANS., Aug. 6.
Henderson Hasty, of Easton, a small
town near here, was stripped, plas
tered with a coat of warm tar and his
face painted green last night by a
party of citizens, determined to en
force observance of the prohibition
law. Hasty was found asleep beside
a road in Easton.
That he would sign the pledge is
said to have been his declaration
when he awoke.
THE WEATHER. ‘
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Unsettled Wednesl
day; probably fair Thursday.
COLUMBUS, Aug. 6.—Alleging that
Hugh M. Mooty, a former bookkeeper
for the Beehive, a large dry goods
establishment in Columbus, is not a
resident of Muscogee County, but of
Fulton County, and that the Superior
Court of this county has no Jurisdic
tion over his affairs, his attorneys
have asked for the appointment of a
special judge to sit when their de
murrer to a recent decision is heard.
Judge Gilbert held that the Clerk of
Superior Court should name the judge,
but Clerk Marcus held that as the
litigation is before Judge Littlejohn,
of the Americus circuit, he would
refuse to name another jurist.
Gainesville Plans
Ban on Cigarettes
GAINESVILLE, Aug. 6.—Several
hundred citizens of Gainesville have
petitioned City Council to pass an
ordinance making it unlawful for any
child under 16 years of age to smoke
cigarettes at any place except at the
homes of parents or guardians.
It is thought the ordinance will be
passed.
BATTLE WITH MOONSHINERS.
LEXINGTON, Aug. 6.—George W.
Castel and Sherman Lewis, deputy
United States marshals, engaged in a
battle with moonshiners in Morgan
County, Kentucky, to-day. Lewis was
shot in the arm by John Kidd. Marion
Kidd was wounded and captured. A
35-gallon still and a lot of beer and
whisky were destroyed.
Deplores Newspaper Publicity,
but Poses Merrily for the
Camera Brigade.
W. H. Mincey, the school teacher
and insurance solicitor who made :n
affidavit that Jim Conlev confess* 1
to him that he had already kill'd
a girl that dav and didn’t want to kill
anyone else, was the center of at
traction for the crowd on tfie outsid*
of the courthouse Wednesday morn-
ln.
While deploring newspaper public
ity. he readily agreed to pose for t
group of newspaper photographers,
assuming many poses, some of which
were rather grotesque. He followed
this with implicit instructions to the
photographer that his picture was
not to be printed in the papers.
Efforts to get him to state wheth r
he had seen Jim ('onley sjnee his ar
rest proved futile. Mincey declared lie
would not make this statement or an
swer until he had taken the stand.
Mincey was located a* New Salem,
Ga., near Rising Fawn, in Dade Coun
ty. He is teaching school there, his
work being the preparation of stu
dents to enter the Martha Berry
School at Rome.
“I will not talk of the case and wi.l
not tell my story until I take the
stand,” said Mincey. “If Jim Conley
killed little Mary Phagan, I feel that
it Is my duty to tell of the experience
I had with him that Saturday after
noon. I don’t think this thing should
be discussed in the newspapers,
though I regard newspapers as a ne-
cissity. These matters should be left
to the court hearings. It is a loss to
me to be here and I trust the case will
soon be over. I think, though, that it
is rny duty to tell what I know.”
Mincey is a man of small stature
with piercing eyes and a gray mus
tache. He wears a black felt slou h
hut and a dark suit.
IS.
ISO FAST A PACE'
Famous English Publicist So De
clares in Article Scoring the
New American Dances.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Aug 6.—American so
ciety women are accused of setting
too fast a pace by Filson Young, a
famous English publicist. In an ar
ticle in The Saturday Review. Sup
plementing his article by an inter
view Mr. Young to-day paid:
“If a baboon could be trained to
play ragtime he would soon be the
rage and would be invited out to dine
by the idle rich. Where the shep
herd goes society women follow like
sheep. In the case of questionable
dances American women have been to
blame.
“‘‘Tango* in T>atin mean* ‘I touch*
and it is well named.
"American women in London and
Paris are the leaders in revels which
should cause a blush of shame to red
den the cheeky of every modest wo
man. One by one the English leaders
have surrendered to the daring irrev
erence of the American women."
That Mary Phagan’s silver-plated mesh bag, mys
teriously missing since the girl’s bruised and lifeless
body was found the morning of April 27, was in Leo
Frank’s office a few minutes after the attack and later
was placed in the safe in Frank’s office was the startling
statement made by the negro Conley Wednesday in the
course of his re-direct examination by Solicitor Dorsey.
At 11:10 the negro left the stand after being questioned
for fifteen and one-half hours.
This testimony was the sensation of the forenoon.
Throughout the more than three months of the murder
mystery an unavailing search was made for the mesh
bag, the city and Pinkerton detectives being convinced
that the finding of the bag would go a long distance to-
Jward pointing out the person guilty of the Phagan girl’s
murder.
‘Did you ever see a silver mesh bag that Mary Phagan car
ried?” inquired the Solicitor.
“Yes, sab,’’ replied Conley. “I see it right on Mr. Frank’s
de;}r when I went in there.”
“What became of the mesh bag?” continued Dorsey.
' ‘ He went and put it in his safe, ’ ’ the negro said.
First Word of Mysterious Bag.
It was the first information, authentic or otherwise, that had
come to light regarding the disposal of the mesh bag. The homes
of Newt Lee and Jim Conley had been searched high and low for
the bag or any other clew to the perpetrator of the crime. Except
for a vague rumor that a mesh bag had been found by a negro in
a shop on Decatur street, a story which later was found to have no
connection with the Phagan mysi , y, i> it the slightest clew ever
was discovered to the whereabout of the bag which so strangely
had disappeared.
Attorney Rosser's manner war angry and threatening when he
arose for the re-cross examination. He began at once a vicious at
tack on Conley’s story of the mesh bag. He asked when Conley
first told this remarkable tale. Conley said he couldn’t remember.
“Why didn’t you tell all this when you were telling 'the whole
truth’ to the detectives?” Rosser shouted.
The attorney apparently sought to create the impression that
the mesh bag story was an afterthought, and that it was manufac
tured by the negro when he heard of the search the detectives,
were making for the bag.
On Grill Over Thirteen Hours.
When Rosser turned Conley back to Dorsey for the redirect
examination, the negro had been under the grill of Rosser’s cross
questioning for a total of thirteen hours. His main story of Frank's
admitting the killing and of the disposal of Mary Phagan’s body
at Frank's direction was unshaken except by his own admissions
of previous falsehoods. He had been on the stand a total of fifteer,
and one-half hours. Of this time the Solicitor had questioned him
only about two hours.
Conley was called from the Stand at 11:10 o’clock.
Conley was taken into an anteroom. He removed his coat and,
lit a cigarette someone had given him.
“How did you like it?” he was asked.
“I liked it all right,” he replied, grinning.
Sheriff Mangum then interrupted the questioning of the re
porters, saying that under the judge’s orders no one could speak
to him.
The next moment Conley picked up a newspaper and became
intently interested in the story of his own testimony.
As soon as court, opened Mr.
BUSINESS MAN INDICTED.
COLUMBUS.—The old Hudson
home, which has stood upon the site
where the new 8-storv hotel is to he
erected, for nearly 100 years, is be
ing torn away.
Work Resumed at
Thirty Copper Mines
CALUMET, MICH., Aug 6—“Re
ports from over the Calumet copper
region, where 18,000 miners are on
strike, indicated that quiet had been
restored about all mine shafts. Work
was resumed to-day at four mines in
the neighborhood of Calumet, mak
ing a total of 30 in operation.
Mother Jones addressed a meeting
of strikers here this afternoon.
Rosser asked the judge if he was
ready to hear argument on the
proposition to eliminote parts of
Conley’s testimony. He said he
was prepared to support Ids mo- examination.
Questioned About Affidavit.
tion with authorities.
Judge Roan replied that he would
postpone his decision until 2 o’clock.
Solcitor Dorsey declared that he
had witnesses he expects to put cm
the stand Wednesday morning to sub
stantiate the part of the negro’s testi
mony in dispute. He said:
”1 just wunt the court to under
stand that I am going to do this.”
Judge Roan replied:
‘ I’ll give you the benefit of what
ever you bring out.’*
Conley was then recalled to the
stand for the conclusion of his cross-
Rosser's first question was:
Q. You made this statement just
as l read it, didn’t you, Jim?—A. Yes.
Q. It’s all correct?—A. Yes.
Q. Now, Jim, you signed this state
ment, too, didn’t you? (Showing an
other affidavit.)—A. Yes, sir.
Q. You made this one the day after
the one I just read? Now, listen.