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How and Why to
Eat Watermelon
SCENE IN COURTROOM AS CONLEY
WAS UNDER FIRE OFTHE DEFENS
Cool, but do not chill Mr. Melon.
Cut it lengthwise, not in round
slices.
Save the seeds, make “water
melon tea."
Use your teeth—not knives or
fork?*.
Watermelon is refreshing and
good for the stomach and kidneys.
P. S.—These tips are furnished
by the "rhampeen" melon-eaters
of Congress.
Continued from Page One.
verse the decision before court con
vened Wednesday morning should the
Solicitor be able to show him sufTi-
c it tit law on the subject to warrant a
change.
Georgia Congressman Right Up
in Race for “Champeen” Title
in Capitol Cafes.
Struck by a Southern Hallway train
w’hen their automobile went dead on
the tracks of a crossing a mile north
of McDonough, (la., late Tuesday
Rosser began to quiz the negro close
ly as to how long It took him to ac
complish each part of the remainder
of the afternoon's events.
It was plain that the negro’s esti
mates did not coincide with what the
lawyer thought they should be.
Defense's Views Evidently Differ.
“How long did It take you from
the time that you came forward and
looked at the clock until you hjui
taken the body down to the cellar and
was back again on the second floor,
and Frank went to wash his hands?”
asked Rosser.
Conley thought It was only four or
five minutes. It evidently was the
opinion of the defense that it should
have been nearer twenty minutes, as
it included rolling the body of the
girl into the cloth from the cotton
box. carrying it to the elevator, th»
wait while Conley says Frank went
into the office after the key, the trip
down the elevator, the carrying of
the body to the rear of the basement,
the disposal of the cloth and the re
turn to the second floor.
Rosser asked how long It took
Frank to wash his hands. Conley re
piled that it was only a minute or
two. Rosser then inquired how long
Frank had Conley in the closet while
the two women were In his office
Conley said It w-as eight or ten min
utes. This incident, if it is as Conley
represented It, w r ould have brought
the time up to 1:12 or 1:15.
Rosser then asked how long it took
Conlej; to write the four notes, two
of which were found by the girl’*
dead body.
Wrote Notes in a Hurry.
"You couldn't have written those
four notes inside of ten minutes to
save your soul, could you. Jim?" Ros
ser inquired.
“Yas. sah; I think I wrote ’em in
about a minute and a half," replied
the negro.
"You’re some rapid writef,” retorted
Rosser after he had called attention
to the laborious scrawl.
Rosser then questioned Conley as to
the time of each part of his conver
sation with Frank while he was in
the office th^t afternoon. He asked
him about Frank giving him the cig
arettes with the money in the box,
about Frank giving him the $200 roll
of bills and the attendant’conversa
tion, about the conversation in respect
to Conley’s watch and to Frank’s
wealthy folks in Brooklyn.
While he did not make the actual
computation of time, he impressed
strongly on the minds oMhe Jury that
it would have been impossible for all
this to have occurred in connection
.with the undisputed fact that Frank
Arrived home at or before 1:30 that
afternoon.
Defense to Test Story.
It is understood that persons inter
ested in the defense have rehearsed a
number of times every event that the
negro says took place in the disposal
of the body as Conley narrates it, and
that they will be prepared to testif>
that It could not have been completed
by the time that Frank had arrived
at his home.
This was by far the most important
testimony in the examination of the
negro. Ropser also quizzed him sharp
ly regard to the cloth in which he
wrapped the body : his evident theory
being that, as a matter of fact, no
cloth was used at all and that Con
ley, the only one connected with the
crime, simply dragged the body to
the rear of the basement. No cloth
was found by the police or detectives
although Conley testified that lie
threw it in the same place he threw
the hat and shoe
The sensation of the day came when
Reuben Arnold moved to have stridd
en from the record all of the testi
mony regarding Frank's alleged con
duct previous to the day of the crime.
The motion was met with strenuous
opposition on the part of the prosecu
tion but received a favorable ruling
from Judge Roan who said that ne
would hold himself In readiness to re-
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 — State se
crets on statesmen’s appetites, and
particularly watermelons during the
present height of the watermelon sea
son, were divulged to-day. The dl-
vulger is R. J. Martyn, "boss” of the
Capitol Cafes.
Twenty big, fat watermelons are
consumed by Congressmen every day,
according to “Chef” Martyn. Repre
sentative Henry D. Clayton, of Ala
bama, chairman of the House Judi
ciary Committee, is the acknowledged
“champeen" watermelon eater. He
gets outside of from one to three big
slices daily.
Other watermelon “fanatics” who
appear to be crowding Clayton for
the title are Representative Mann, of
Illinois; Sereno Payne, of New York;
Sims, bf Tennessee; Dietrick, of Mas
sachusetts; Austin, of Tennessee;
Stedman. of North Carolina, and How
ard, of Georgia.
Approached on his watermelon
prowess, Clayton gave the following
panegyric:
“Watermelon beats ice cream or
lemonade all hollow as a cool refresh
ment. It Is. the most luscious, re
freshing fruit possible to be secured
in summer.
“Some people eat salt on watermel
on. That is a mistake. Salt mili
tates against its palatability and di
gestibility. I take mine straight.
“Watermelon Is a splendid diuretic,
it cleanses the w r hole digestive system.
“Watermelon seed tea is an old
Southern remedy for kidney trouble.
“I don't care for thick-rind striped
melons. I don’t like the hybrids be
tween the Georgie ‘rattlesnake’ melon
and the ‘scaly bark.’ Some of these
are a cross between a guinea melon
and a horse gourd.
“The best melon grown is in Ala
bama, with a thin rind, a whitish
melon. Lead me to them any time.”
Jim Conley
as he appeared
on the witness
stand during
cross- v
examination.
Reuben Arnold
assisting in
the grilling
of the negro.
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afternoon, Mrs. Emma Heard, wife of
J. P. Heard, of Vienna, Ga., and her
ten-year-old son, LiO Lindon Heard,
were killed.
Mr. Heard leaped from the car when
he saw r it would be impossible to es
cape the crash, and escaped with a
few’ bruises. Mrs. Heard and her son
w’ere caught in the cow’catcher of the
locomotive and dragged 50 feet.
The bodies of Mrs. Heard and her
son w’ere taken to Vienna. The fu
neral will be held there Wednesday
afternoon. They were well know’n in
Atlanta, and many friends of the
family here will attend the funeral.
Mrs. Heard was Miss Emma Lash-
ley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P.
Lashley, and was a leader in the so
cial life of her community. She is
survived by her husband, who is a
son of the late Senator Heard and
president of the Heard Banking
Company, and her parents.
Mr. Heard Tells of Accident.
Statements made Wednesday morn
ing by Mr. Heard and J. L. Mable,
engineer of the train, indicate that
the accident was unavoidable and was
the result of the failure of the emer
gency brake of the automobile.
“My wife, my son Lindon and my
self left our home in Vienna, in my
two-passenger roadster," said Mr.
Heard, "to attend the motorcycle
races in Atlanta. We passed through
McDonough about 2 o’clock. Ten
minutes later w'e passed over the
brow of a long steep hill that leads
down to the railroad tracks. A train
can not be seen until the crossing Is
almost reached. We w’ere only a few
yards from the track w'hen Mrs.
Heard saw’ the train coming and
shouted.
“We were going about 25 miles an
hour. I at once shut off my engine
and applied th e brake, but it failed to
w’ork. -Seeing that a collision was un
avoidable. I leaped from the car and
shouted for Mrs. Heard and my son
to do likewise. They were probably
too frightened to do so. The next
thing I remember w r as hearing their
screams as the train struck them.”
Engineer Gives His Version.
Engineer Mable declared'that when
he saw’ the automobile he applied air-
orakes, but the crossing was too near
for the air to take effect before the
automobile was struck.
“I was running about 25 miles an
hour and the crossing was about a
hundred yards ahead of me when I
saw the automobile. The car w^as
running as fast as my train, and had
plenty of time to cross the tracks in
front of me.
“When the machine got to within
about ten yards of the track, it slowed
down and rolled up until the front
wheels of the car were on th e tracks.
Then it stopped. I at once applied
the airbrakes, but too late to have
characteristic
attitude as he
fired volleys of
questions at
Conley.
Ruling on Georgia Cases NeceS'
sitates Change in All South
eastern Schedules.
TAKE
Readjustment of all rates in the
territory s*outh of the Potomac River
and east of the Mississippi will be
necessary to conform to the Inter
state Commerce Commission’s ruling
giving lower freights to LaGrange,
Vienna and Carrollton, according to
Watkins & Latimer, attorneys in the
case.
The old basing point system, except
as applied to ports and to large cities,
is doomed under this decisions, they
say, although the Commission passed
only on the three cases at hand.
Under' the old system certain small
towns, usually at the head of rela
tively unimportant rivers, have been
made basing points. Rates to other
towns of the same size, equidistant
or nearer the Ohio River crossings or
the large cities in Southeastern ter
ritory, have been given the through
rate to thes*e points, plus the local
from the favored town.
The Commission holds that there is
no real reason for giving such places
as Cedartown, Ga., through rates, and
denying them to such towns as Vien
na. Carrollton and LaGrange.
The immediate result, it is* be
lieved, will be wider scattering of
the small jobbing houses, and more
bu9'ness for the large jobbing houses
in the. principal cities. The saving
In freights is estimated at $40,000,000
or $50,000,000 yearly.
The Commission had the ca?*e under
advisement from November 11,' 1911,
until August 4. 1913.
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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 «ikl:
“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’ iike
sheep. In the case of questionable
danced American women have been to
blame.
“‘Tango’ In Latin means I touch*
and it is well named.
“American women in London and
Paris are the leaders in revels wnich
should cause a blush of shame to red
den the cheek? of every modest wo
man. One by one the English leaders
have surrendered to th« daring irrev
erence of the American women.’
White Men Place Handcuffs on
Postal Clerks and Rob Mail
Car Near Birmingham.
Senate Committee Frames Rec
ommendations After Inspecting
Milledgeville Institution.
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Following a visit to the State Prison
Farm at Milledgeville Saturday the
Senate Penitentiary Committee of
which Senator Tarver, of the Forty-
third, is chairman, will make several
recommendations for improvement to
the Senate.
One of these will be a recommen
dation for the construction of an an
nex to the present dormitory for ne
groes. Another provides for a water
works system in the women’s build
ing.
There is a possibility also that the
question of the present location of
the prison farm will be considered
with a view to removal, although this
movement is not indorsed by a ma
jority of the committee.
A further recommendation whi?h
probably will be made relates to the
soparation of the boys’ reformatory
from the prison farm.
Senator Tarver declared Tuesday
that in his opinion this feature pf
the prison farm was bad, as the
younger boys, although separated
from the convicts, are sufficiently
close to be influenced by the depress
ing influences of convict life.
Nine members of the Senate com
mittee and one member from the
House made the trip to Milledg j -
ville.
BIRMINGHAM. ALA.. Aug. 6— Of
ficers of Birmingham and vicinity
are to-day searching for two un
identified white men, who last night
held up Louisville and Nashville pas
senger train No. 4 and robbed the
mail car of all registered mail pack
et?. The amount of the loss has not
been estimated by postal ofllcials
There is no definite clew to the ban
dits.
When the train reached Birming
ham last night two of the mall clersK.
George Hoover and T. G. York, were
found handcuffed. The irons had to
be filed from their wrists. Chief
Clerk Harry Everett's thumbs were
securely tied together with neavy
twine.
The robbers boarded the mail ca**
at Calera. on the dark side, after the
train had begun to move The clerk**
state that they were immediately cov
ered with plMtoIr and ordered to turn
their faces to the wall.
Everett looked around once and war
fired upon the shot striking the cor
ner of the car near his he^d. The
robbers jumped from the train at
Fourteenth street in Birmingham
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of President Ariaga, of Portugal, pub
lished in the morning newspapers
here, is denied in a dispatch received
from Lisbon at noon.
Senhor Ariaga is ill of a kidney ail
ment.
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as an economy.
Buy them because of their fresh
ness—because of their crispness—
because of their goodness—because
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The Beat Faod-Erinfo Lunds at Fountains
K. of C. Plan Change
In Insurance Rates
Merchants on Tour
Of Factories While
Committees Work
To Women
BOSTON, Aug. 6.—The election of
officers and the reports of the su-
preme officers featured the two busi
ness sessions of the delegates to the
Knights of Columbus' thirty-first an
nual convention to-day. The sessions
were held at Hotel Somerset.
Important also among the probable
actions of the delegates at to-day’s
sessions is the changing of the insur
ance laws so the assessments may
rest moi$ easily on the older mem
bers.
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Much detail work is
yet to be ac
complished in the organization of the
Southern Merchants convention.
Wednesday will be devoted to work
by the various committees, and an
Inspection of Atlanta’s factories and
stores by delegates and visitors.
A great deal of important work re
lating to crops, credit, stock questions
and co-operation will come before the
convention starting Thursday morn-
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