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ALWAYS FIRST ® ® The SUNDA Y AMERICAN Order it NOW-v-- Both Phones Main 100 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XH. NO. 3. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST ti, 1013. Copyright 1306, By The Georgian Co. 2 ('ENTS. EVENING EDITION CONLEY SWEARS FRANK HID PURSE *•+ *•* *•* *•* *•* +•+ +•+ •i-»* •S-** *•+ *•+ +•+ +•+ *•* 4»+ Sweepers Grilling Ends After 15* Hours, His Main Story Unshaken FILIBUSTER F 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.