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VOL. XII. NO. 5.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1913.
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By The Georgian Co.
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Say Mary Phagan Did Not Reach Factory Before 12:10
U.S. HATRED
HUERTA
Mexico City Breathlessly Awaits
Arrival of Envoy Lind—Anti-
American Feeling Grows.
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Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 8.—Despite
the optimistic belief in Washington
that Provisional President Huerta is
posing in his defiance of the United
States, there were developments here
to-day which show that the Mexican
national executive is exerting every
diplomatic agency in a campaign
against the American Government.
Huerta’s envoys in the Central
American States are attempting to
work up the Latin-American Govern
ments with declarations that the
United States has designs on all ter
ritory lying north of the Panama
Canal.
Diplomatic bureaus, aside from the
regularly accredited plenipotentiaries,
have been opened in London and
Paris.
Lind Due to Arrive To-morrow.
President Huerta, realising that
Mexico is no match for the United
States in warfare, is resorting to the
only other method possible of com
bating American influence—arousing
antagonism. Senor Aldape, the Mex
ican Foreign Minister, is in daily
communication with his agents
abroad, as is the President.
, The arrival here to-morrow of John
land, special envoy of President Wil
son, is expected to bring to a head
the crisis which threatens to cause a
clean break between the United
States and Mexico.
United States warships in the har
bor at Vera Cruz were in wireless
communication with the New Hamp
shire, upon which Mr. Lind, is com
ing, and it is expected that the New
Hampshire will reach Vera Cruz about
9 o'clock to-night.
In view of the stories which have
been circulated to arouse anti-Amer
ican feeling, a bodyguard of marines
may accompany Mr. Lind to this city.
However, in view of the impression
which this might create, it is doubt
ful if Mr. Lind would consent to
have a bodyguard, no matter how
great the personal danger.
Some Would Ignore Lind.
There was a gathering of Cabinet
Ministers and Huerta adherents n
Congress at the National Palace to
day, at which the existing American-
Mexican situation was thoroughly
discussed Some are for completely
ignoring Mr. Lind, while the radicals
insist that he shall be expelled un
der section 33 of the Mexican Consti
tution unless he makes out his mis
sion to be favorable to Huerta's aims.
Section 33 provides lhat persons of
suspicious intentions snail be driven
from the country and not be allowed
to return except on special permission
“from the Government.
It was decided that no official greet
ing shall be extended to Mr. Lind.
Ihus breaking a tradition which is as
immemorial as diplomacy itself.
After the conference Senor Aldape
«aid:
"The Government has decided upon
a definite course of action to be fol
lowed in the present situation, and
we believe that it will be approved by
all persons of justice. President
Huerta is striving to re-establish or
der in Mexico, and he believes that
outside interference, unless invited,
would do more harm than good
President Huerta has the good of
Mexico at heart, and I know that he
would make great sacrifices in behalf
of his country."
Mexico’s Defy Ignored
Until Lind Delivers Note.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Pending
the arrival In Mexico of John Lind,
special and personal representative
of President Wilson, this Govern-
meni will take no action with re
spect to the defy issued by the Mexi
can foreign office threatening to de
port former Governor Lind as an un-
. desirable alien.
• Offical confirmation of the issuance
of the threat has reached the State
Department, but Secretary Bryan and
other Government officials say the
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Suffragette, Denied
Liquor and Cigars,
Says U, S. Is Horrid
8pecla1 Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 8.—Mrs. Ruth
Grayson, socialist, suffragette and
writer, Is angry at the United States
and scoffs at the idea that it is a
free country. In detailing her griev
ance to-day, she said:
“I have just returned from the
United States and Intend to unmask
the ridiculous Idea that it is a land
of freedom. It is a terrible place.
Why, they refused to let me smoke
cigarettes in the hotels and when I
tried to get into the smoking com
partment of a train to smoke a cigar
I was refused.
“But that was not the worst. When
I went into a saloon they refused ,o
serve me at the bar. At a beach re
sort I was reprimanded for not wear
ing stockings. I think the United
States with its so-called freedom is
a horrid place.”
Embezzling Governor
Now Is a Swineherd
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 8.—An
extraordinary story of the downfall
of a high official in Russia is told
here to-day. Some time ago the Gov
ernor of the Province of the Don Cos
sacks hired a swineherd for his farm
at Miatopolsk. Shortly after the
servants told him that the new em
ployee made the most extraordinary
statements when he was in a drunken
condition, and used to say that h«*
was really Governor of the Don Cos
sacks province.
Investigation showed the guardian
of the pigs eight years ago was Gov
ernor, but had been recalled and senr
to prison for embezzlement.
Sues Wire Company
For ‘Pert’ Telegram
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 8 — H. C. Fur-
stenberg, manager of a business con
cern. is plaintiff in an action in which
he seeks $2,000 damages from the
Western Union Telegraph Company
for the following message, purporting
to be from his landlord, Robert Moser:
“Unless you call at once at our
flat, pay arrears rent, make arrange
ments to take care of damage caused
by your dog. yourself and wife, will
swear out criminal warrant to-mor
row charging you with malicious de
struction of property.”
The company admits transmitting
the message, but denies responsibility.
WOMAN DENIES SHE
EVER VISITED PENCIL
PLANT WITH DALTON
United States Senator Victim of
Pneumonia After Nine Days’
Illness at Capital.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Senator
Joseph F. Johnston, of Alabama, died
at 9 o’clock tills morning at his apart
ment in the Brighton.
Senator Johnston had been ill for
eight days, suffering from pneumonia.
Mrs, Gould Against
The High Slit Skirt
CHICAGO, Aug. 8.—Mr?. Edwin
Gould to-day severely criticized pres
ent street attire and one-piece bath
ing suits for women.
"I am not in favor of freak or
suggestive modes,” said Mrs. Gould.
“The extreme silt skirt to which ob
jection has been taken in various
parts 9f tlie country is not worn in
New York by any of my friends. Nor
do I know of any one who appears at
bathing beaches in one-piece suits
such as Chicago has forbidden.”
Germany Decides to
Exhibit at Canal Fair
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Aug. 8.—Assurances were
given to-day from a source close to
the Government that Germany will not
be biased by England’s action in re
fusing to exhibit at the Panama Ex
position, but will have representation.
A number of German manufactur-.
ers have agreed to take part on the
ground that it wilt be a good adver
tisement for German goods.
Kansas' Heat Record
108; Missouri's 109
KANSAS CITY. Aug. 8.—Records
for heat were threatened to-day fol
lowing yesterday's high temperatures,
which exceeded ail previous marks in
parts of Kansas.
At Leavenworth the highest mark
reported to-day was 108. At Empo
ria and Ottawa the temperature
reached 107.
Temperatures of 109 were recorded
at Mexico, Mo., and Chickasha, Okla.
of Birmingham, was born in North
Carolina in 1843. He served in the
Confederate army from the begin
ning of the war to its conclusion, and
was wounded four times. He rose
from a private to the rank of captain,
and was frequently mentioned hon
orably for gallant conduct.
Senator Johnston served four years
as Governor of Alabama, before his
election to the Senate In 1907. His
first election to the Senate was to the
unexpired term of Senator E. W.
Pettus, deceased. He was re-elected
in 1909 to his present term.
Senator Johnston's death at this
time undoubtedly will t ring about an
acute political crisis in Alabama. His
seat was being contested at the time
of his death by Congressman R. P.
Hobson, and the fight between them
had grown very bitter. It is practi
cally certain that Hobson will not be
permitted, now that Johnston is dead,
to have the succession uncontested.
There has been talk of Congress
man Underwood as a candidate
against Mr. Hobson, and the death of
Senator Johnston likely will revive
that.
His immediate successor will be
named by Governor O'Neal, w r hich
means that Mr. Hobson will not get
the immediate appointment.
He had been In poor health for sev
eral weeks.
Mrs. Johnston was with her hus
band when he died, as well as Forney
Johnston, his son. who arrived from
his home in Birmingham yesterday.
Paris Gown Saves
Life of Vanderbilt
LONG BEACH. N. Y., Auk 8—That
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., had a nar
row escape from death in the automo
bile accident that claimed the life of
S. Osgood Pell and William Laimbeer
because of the fact that he wished to
protect a Parisian gown worn by Mrs-.
Pell, became known when he testified
at the Inquest.
He would have been in the machine
had he not stopped to secure a linen
duster with which to cover Mrs. Pell’s
gown.
The rest of the party went on with
out waiting for the couple, who took
another car and followed.
J
GOT FLAT FEET? GIT OUT!
NEW YORK, Aug. 8—Santo Pu-
tarro and his son were ordered de
ported by immigration officials here
because they had flat feet.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Occasional showers
Friday and Saturday.
‘Side-Door Pullman
Improvement Urged
CINCINNATI, Aug. 8.—At the first
day’s session of the annual convention
of the Intlnerant Workers’ As>*ocia-
tion to-day a request was formulated
to be presented to the Interstate
Commerce Commission to compel rail
roads to put some modern improve
ments on freight cars.
They say ocean steamships now are
provided with gymnasiums, sun par
lors and golf links; that Pullman cars
have sanitary cups which the porter
provides on request, but that freight
car roads are still as “hard as the
heart of the railroad detective."
Farmer's Beans Are
Cooked by Lightning
WASHINGTON. Aug. 8.—William
Williams, a truck farmer, went out to
gather some string beans for the
family table the other day. Much to
his surprise, he discovered that they
were deliciously cooked.
He thought for a time that he had
out-Burbanked Burbanks, but a little
reflection divulged the reason. In
planting he had placed wires between
the poles, and during a recent storm
lightning struck the wires and cooked
the beans.
Record Anto Trip Is
Made in Alaska
j VALDEZ, Aug. 8.—The first auto
mobile trip from Fairbanks to the
coast was completed to-day when
Robert Sheldon drove his five-pas
senger car into Valdez, having cov
ered the 383 miles in 54 hours, actual
running time.
Ostend Bathing Suits
InU.S.? Goodness, No!
NARRAOANSETT PIER, Aug 8.—
“Any woman who takes surf baths
may for a trifling amount of money
appear to advantage on the beach—an
accomplishment not to be held lightly,
as all women know',” says Mrs. Henry
Hutt, former wife of the artist.
“At Ostend. where women go to
the beach In coats, one-piece bathing
suits may be all right, but in Amer
ica, where we lounge so much upon
the beach, they would cause riots.”
France Threatens
Trouble With Italy
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Aug. 8.—According to to
day’s issue of the newspaper Temps,
France will reopen the question of
the delimitation of Southern Albania
unless Italy relinquishes the Turkisli
islands seized during the war in
Tripoli.
JAILED FOR ELOPING.
COLT’MHI'S, Aug 8 -George Waller,
who left his wife and eloped with a
young girl some time ago. was convicted
in the Superior Court of a misdemeanor
and sentenced to the chaingang for
twelve months.
E10 BIS HIS MBS
The vital time element which may serve alone to convict Leo Frank or set
him free, entered largely into the evidence presented Friday by the defense at the
trial of the factory superintendent.
Two witnesses testified that Mary Phagan did not
arrive at Broad and Marietta streets the day she was
murdered until about 12:0714 o’clock, the time the Eng
lish Avenue car on which she rod efrem home was due
there. One witness, W. M. Matthews, motorman on the
car, testified that Mary did not get off at Forsyth and
Marietta, but continued on the car and rode as far as
Broad and Hunter where the car arrives at about 12:10
o’clock, he conductor corroborated Matthews.
This testimony stronglyy supports the contention of the defense
that Mary Phagan did not enter the factory until after 12:10
o’clock and that Monteen Stover, therefore, was in the factory and
had left before the Phagan girl ever entered the doors. If the
defense succeeds in establishing this, the visit of the Stover girl
to the factory will be of tremendous significance because it is in
direct conflict with the explicit testimony of James Conley that;
Mary Phagan entered the factory and supposedly was strangled be
fore the Stover girl went up the stairs. Miss Stover testified that
she did not see Frank in his office, but admitted she did not enter
i the inner office and he defens win try to show Frank could have
| been writing at his desk and the girl not have seen him.
Seeks to Discredit Epp’s Story.
Arnold Throws Doubt on Epps.
Attorney Arnold, who was conducting the examination during
the forenoon, sought aslo, to throw a deep shadow of suspicion
upon the story of young George Epp’s, who testified that he rode
uptown with Mary Phagan the day she was killed.
Matthews said that another girl was seated with Mary the lat
ter part of the ride to own. He did not recollect that Epp’s was
on the car at all, The motorman said that he was relieved at Broad
and Marietta streets and that he sat behind Mary and her com
panion all the way to Hunter Street. He said the two alighted at
Hunter Street and proceded toward Forsyth on which the factory is
located.
This is in direct contradiction to the story of Epps, who tes
tified that he and Mary left the car at Forsyth and Marietta
streets and that he walked with her toward the factory as far as
the viaduct.
Hollis did not remember seeing Epps on the car. He said
Mary was alone when he collected her fare after the car got on
English avenue. He left the car at Forsyth and Marietta streets
and did not see Mary Phagan alight there.
Albert Kauffman, an architect, was called to discredit sev
eral of the State’s witnesses. He had blue prints of the Selig home
which he displayed to the jury to show that it was impossible for
Albert McKnight to have seen from the kitchen into the dining
room as he testified he did on the Saturday afternoon that Frank
came home from the factory.
Denies Stover Girl’s Story.
His testimony was to the effect that Monteen Stover could not
have seen over the safe door into Frank’s office at the time she
declared she was unable to find him on her visit to the factory.
He said that there was room for several bodies to pass down
the scuttle hole into the basement. He exhibited a diagram of the
factory to show that Frank could have sat in his office and not
been aware of anything taking place beyond the time clock, for
example, anyone coming up or going down the stairs.
Miss Daisy Hopkins, who, C. B. Dalton said, was his compan
ion on visits to the factory basement, was called by the defense
and denied Dalton’s statements.
She said she never had spoken to Frank, and that Frank never
had spoken to her.
Solicitor Dorsey made an at
tack on her character and forced
her to admit she had been in jail
on a statutory chrge. It was
brought out, however, that she
was released without trial.
Frank, for the first time dur
ing the trial, took an active part
in helping direct the course his
case was taking. lie arose from
his seat several times to make
suggestions to his lawyers, and
at his request certain questions
were put.
Before Daisy Hopkins was called
Solicitor Dorsey said he wanted to
ask Harry Scott one more question.
Attorney Rosser said he also wanted
Noted Alabama Editor Stricken
Suddenly at Country Home
Near Montgomery.
MONTGOMERY, ALA., Aug. 8.—
From an attack of acute Indigestion,
Major William Wallace Screws, the
veteran editor of The Montgomery
Advertiser, died suddenly Thursday
right at his country home in Coosada,
fourteen miles from Montgomery.
Major Screws w-as 74 years old, and
while his health had not been very
good for several months, his death
was unexpected. With him at the
time of his death were his two sons,
Benjamin Screw's and Holt Screws,
and his wife.
“The most beloved man in Ala
bama,” was a title often given Major
Screws, who despite the many bitter
political fights he entered, always
held the highest respect of both sides.
He became connected with The Ad
vertiser shortly after the war, and in
a short while became sole owner of
the paper. A few years later he sold
half interest in the paper to Frank
P. Glass, and under their combined
directorship The Advertiser pro
gressed to one of the foremost morn
ing papers in the South.
Major Screws was born February
25, 1839, in Barbour County, Alabama,
and attended school at Glennvllle. In
1859 he took lip the study of law
with the famous law firm of Watts,
Judge and Jackson in Montgomery
and was admitted to the bar in 1850
at the age of 20 years,
j Though opposed to secession, Major
Screws fought for his State, and went
j with the first troops to Pensacola,
i There he participated in the capture
' of Fort Barancas. He fought
throughout the entire war, being
captured in Virginia during the last
! few weeks of the struggle. He acted
j as correspondent for The Advertiser
for the four years of the great strug-
1 gle.
to ask one more question of Boots
Rogers, Detective J. M. Starnes and
George Epps. Detective Scott was
the first witness called.
Dorsey asked:
Q. Mr. Scott, how long did it take
you to get Jim Conley to write after
he had admitted that he could write
and you dictated it to him without
delay?—A. Two or three minute.
Daisy Hopkins on Stand.
Miss Hopkins is a woman of very
small feature'*, with bright, keen eyes
and wore a cotton striped dress that
looked i bit too short. She wore.
white shoes and stockings. Mr. Ar
nold b-'gan the questioning:
q. Did you ever work for the Na
tional Pencil Company?—A. Yes. I
went to work there about October
1, 1911, and quit June 1, 1912.
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