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VOL. XII., NO. 6.
ATLANTA, GA.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9,1913.
Copyright 1908,
By The Georgian Co.
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SAY SIZER FIRST EXTRA
SENATE
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Chairman of Investigation Com
mittee Hints at Impeachment
Proceedings.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Governor
William Sulzer, of New York, was
nearly $50,000 in debt as the result of
stock market speculations at the time
of his nomination, and used contribu
tions to his campaign fund to make
additional purchases of stocks while
this debt was hanging over him, ac
cording to testimony presented to the
Frawley committee of the Legisla
ture.
The evidence is sufficient to war
rant proceedings to impeach the Gov
ernor for violation of the corrupt
practices act, Chairman Frawley de
clares. A decision as to the commit
tee’s recommendation is expected by
Monday.
The Governor, according to the evi
dence, had dealings with three dif
ferent stock exchange firms and was
saved from being sold out by one firm
by L. N. Josephthal, a Wall street
banker, and a member of the Gov
ernor’s staff as naval reserve aide,
josephthal. it was brought out, paid
• a debit balance of $26,739 still stand-
r ing against the account on July 15
last. Tilts was after the Governor had
received repeated calls for more mar
gin.
Used Campaign Fund*.
, The Governor’s transactions with
’ the other firms were for cash, and it
was in connection with one of these
that Governor Sulzer, according to
the evidence, used campaign con
tributions.
Arranged chronologically, the testi
mony appeared to show' that on Janu
ary 1, 1912, there stood on the books
of the stock exchange firm of Harris
& Fuller an indebtedness of $48,599
against the purchase by Governor
Sulzer of 500 shares of ’’Big Four,"
200 shares American Smelting and.
Refining Company and 100 shares of
Southern Pacific. This testimony was
given by Melville B. Fuller, a member
of the firm who on Wednesday had
refused to answer the questions of
the committee. Before testifying his
counsel announced that the Gover
nor had agreed that "Mr. Fuller’s lips
should be unsealed.’’
There were no other purchases of
stock recorded on this account, ac
cording to the witness, until Decem
ber 5, 1912, when the Governor bought
100 shares of "Big Four.” making 600
in all. On December 11 the firm, ac
cording to a letter produced by the
witness, made its first call upon the
Governor for more margin. The books
showed that on November 18 previous
‘the Governor had paid in $10,000
against the account, and that on De
cember 16, apparently in response to
the call for margin, he paid in $6,000
more.
During Governor's Campaign.
> In October of the same year the
’• evidence indicated that Frederick Col
well, the Governor’s alleged ’’dummy,”
purchased from Boyer, Griswold &
Co., 200 shares of "Big Four” railroad
stock outright at 60, for $12,025, the
$25 representing commission. This
was at the height of Mr. Sulzer’s
campaign for the governorship and
transcripts from the firm’s books
showed the stock bought on October
16 was paid for partly in checks, at
least two of which were identified In
the testimony as Sulzer campaign
contributions. There were seven
checks in all, and the others are
charged by Eugene L. Richards, coun
sel for the committee, as having been
also campaign checks.
Oriental to Preach
At Baptist Church
y
The pulpit at the Central Baptist
Church will be occupied at both morn
ing and evening services Sunday by the
r*iv. K. S. Basmajlan, well-known
preacher and singer.
The Rev. Mr. Basmajian was bom In
Adrianople. European Turkey, but has
t been In the United States about 25
years. A feature of Sunday’s services
will be songs in both English and
Oriental languages, and solos on various
♦ad musical instruments.
Upper House Breaks Record for
Year to Clear Away for Sla
ton's Tax Reform Bills.
For the first time during the pres
ent session the Georgia Senate, b>
convening in extra session Saturday
morning broke a precedent for the
purpose of cleaning up the calendar
of general bills preparatory to be
ginning real work on the proposed tax
reform.
Senator Miller, chairman of the
Finance Committee, paved the way
Friday afternoon when he introduced
the third and last administration tax
measure providing for the imposition
of a tax of 1 mill in addition to the
5 mills now levied in 1915, and an
additional tax of 1-2 mill in 1916.
In the meantime the Senate sub
stitute to the Sheppard House taxing
bill has been read for the second time
and printed copies have been dis
tributed to the Senators. In all prob
ability this bill be presented to the
Senate for passage Monday morning.
Rush Bills Beaten in House.
At the same time, according to in
dications, the administration bills
which were defeated in the House and
presented jointly in the Senate by
Senators Miller, McNeill and Tarver
will be read and put on their way to
ward final passage. All four bills
should be passed by the Senate not
later than Tuesday or Wednesday of
next week.
Although just four days remain the
Senate will have ample time in which
to consider in detail the measures,
which, it is conceded by all, are the
most important bills presented in the
upper house this year.
Rapid-fire work Friday on a big
batch of local House bills relieved
the congestion to such an extent that
ouly general gills remained on the
calendar when the Senate convened
Saturday morning.
Excuses Are Turned Down.
It was for this reason that Presi
dent Randolph Anderson Friday aft
ernoon urged Senators to be in their
places in the extra session Saturday.
Several otherwise “legitimate ex
cuses” for absences were turned down
by the President following adjourn
ment Friday afternoon.
The most important legislation in
the upper house Friday was the pas
sage of Senator Sweat’s compulsory
education bill after a sharp skirmisw
In which Senators McNeill, of the'
Twenty-second, and Allen, of the
Twentieth, led tne attacking forces
The final vote was 27 to 11.
The bill, as conceded by the au
thors, is one of the mildest on record
and is only the first step in compul
sory education legislation in Georgia.
Provisions of Measure.
It provides that children between
the ages of 8 and 12 years of age
shall be compelled to attend school
for at least twelve weeks of each
year; also children between the ages
of 12 and 14 who are not engaged
in some useful employment.
The bill of Senators Oliff and Pope
providing for four-year terms for all
county officers was tabled upon mo
tion of Senator Oliff, who discovered
that the proposed bill w’as in conflict
with constitutional provisions.
Senator Miller’s bill fixing prima
facie right to the custody of children
under 12 years of age to their mother
was reported favorably by the Gen
eral Judiciary Committee.
Slezak Is Rescued;
Sturmfeld Drowns.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
TEGERN9EE. BAVARIA, Aug 9 —
A yacht In which Fritz Sturmfeld and
Leo Slezak, the operatic tenors, were
sailing on the lake here, overturned
and Sturmfeld was drowned. Slezak
clung to the boat and was rescued.
Sturmfeld was a member of the
Royal Opera at Liepzic. He made a
concert tour in the United States in
1911. Slezak is well known in the
United States*'/ having sung at the
Metropolitan Opera House in New
York.
DIXIE COLLEGES
RAISE STANDARD
,Report of Miss Elizabeth Avery
Coulton Shows 160 With High
Entrance Requirements.
The motor-man
and conductor
of the car on
which Mary
Phagan came
to town
testified she
could not
have reached
the factory
at 12:05
o clock.
STREETCAR MEN AID
THE FRANK DEFENSE
I
W. T. HOLLIS.
MOTORMAN W. M. MATTHEWS.
Eloper Swims River
With Bride on Back
CUMBERLAND, MD„ Aug. 9.—
Henry H, Adkinson and Miss Lillian
Blether, elrtped from White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va. After abandoning
bis automobile, which broke down
after his hurried flight over the
mountains, Adkinson swam across
the Greenbrier River with his bride-
elect on his back. The couple were
married here.
The bride’s father gave up the pur
suit at the river bank.
Boy Scouts Bury Lad
Killed by Lightning
Funeral service over the body of John
Stanley, who was killed by lightning at
Dublin Thursday afternoon, took place
at Poole's chapel Saturday morning.
The Boy Scouts of Decatur acted as
pallbearers and a guard of honor. In
terment was at Westview cemetery.
Young Stanley was the son of Com
missioner of I>abor H. M. Stanley. He
was struck while in an open field near
Dublin. He was found lying face down,
his arms under his body. dead. No one
was with him when he was struck.
Poteat Suggests Jail
For Slit Skirt Girls
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Aug. 9.—
President Edwin Poteat, of Furman
College, Greenville, S. C., says young
women who are parading in New Ha
ven with slit skirts should be put in
jail.
"Women who indulge in such de
praved dress are a menace morally to
Uxe commuaweaUh,’’ said Poteat.
‘Cutest Dog' Shipped
In Plush-Lined Coffin
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—Pauline, aged
13 years and 5 months, “the cutest
bulldog that ever lived," was placed
in a hermetically sealed, galvanized,
plush-Jined box to be shipped to Los
Angeles. Pauline died of pneumo
nia.
Mrs. N. B. Wilson. Pauline’s mis
tress, did not think it would do Paul
ine any harm to run in the street for
| two hours unattended. But it did.
Pauline caught cold. That was three
* days ago. Three physicians tried to
save Pauline’s life. Mrs. Wilson was
prostrated at the news of her dog’s
death.
Two Girls to Accuse
Diggs and Caminetti
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.—Martha
Warrington and Ida Norris, the Sac
ramento high school girls alleged to
have been taken to Reno in November
by Maury I. Diggs and Drew Caminetti
for immoral purposes, will take the
stand against Diggs when his trial is
resumed Tuesday. No session of the
Diggs trial was held to-day. Diggs
and Caminetti will take the stand be
fore the trial is concluded.
Judge Van Fleet dealt the defense
another hard blow yesterday when he
announced that the jury would not con
sider the willingness or unwillingness of
;ie two girls to accompany Diggs and
Caminetti.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local showers Satur
day and Sunday.
4 Husky Militants
Flog Physicians of
Home Office Staff
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 9.—Four militant
suffragettes seized Medical Officer
Pearson, of the Home Office staff, as
he was leaving Holloway jail and
horsewhipped him. The militants
had chosen four of the biggest and
strongest of their number and when
Dr. Pearson tried to get away he was
thrown to the pavement. Finally po
licemen and pedestrians Interfered
and eParson was rescued.
While the women were wielding
their whips on the doctor’s face they
kept up a continual shout of "You
will kill our leaders, will you?” and
“We will give you a taste of your ow n
medicine.”
The women escaped in the crowd.
Inspired by the horsewhipping
Mary Richardson, a militant, went on
a rampage and was arrested for hurl
ing bricks through the window of a
stationery shop.
65,000,000 Pounds
Of Butter On Ice
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—Although Chi
cago housewives have beeti paying
mid-winter prices for butter and a
further advance is expected, there are
more than 65.000,000 pounds in cold
storage, according to the Warehouse
men’s Association This is 10,000,000
more than the reserve a year ago.
Titanic Lookout Who
Missed Iceberg Dies
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 9.—Reginald Lee,
one of the sailors in the lookout when
the White Star Liner Titanic struck
an iceberg on April 14, last year, I
• diucl at Southampton.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-—A record
of great improvement in Southern
colleges is contained in a report by
Miss Elizabeth Avery Coulton, sec
retary of the Southern Association of
College Women, which is being dis
tributed by the United States Bureau
of Education.
In 1900 only three Southern col
leges had standard requirements for
entrance; this year year 160 an
nounced standard admission require
ments. The improvement is found
also in libraries, laboratories, build
ings and equipment of all kinds. In
1904 the A. B. of only two Southern
colleges represented four full years
of college work, while ny 1914 grad
uates of at least 25 colleges will have
completed four years of standard col
lege work.
Miss Coulton attributes the ad
vance chiefly to two agencies—the
Carnegie Foundation for the Ad
vancement of Teaching and the Gen
eral Education Board.
Much still remains to be done,
however, according to Miss Coulton.
"There remains the hope,” she says,
"that many sham colleges may with
in the next ten or twelve years be in
duced to stop conferring degrees and
become good preparatory or indus
trial schools; that others may die from
lack of patronage, and that the Vight-
eous remnant’ may thus be encour
aged to continue to strive after ever
enlarging ideals of standard and of
service.”
Flee From Tariff
To Rocking Chairs
WASHINGTON, Aug 9.—The north
end of the Capitol building looks these
dayyi like the upper deck of a summer
hotel. The commodious veranda is
filled with roomy wicker rocking
chair*, occupied by Senators who
weary of the tariff debate and seek
to get cool.
LUHt,R.Of*y-year„-tenytaoinaunaunan
The idea originated with Sergeant-
at-Arme Higgins. He baited the
place with two or three rockers and
waited to see how the scheme worked.
It was so popular that the building
cotald not furnish sufficient chairs to
meet the demand.
Hammering away to show alleged glaring discrep
ancies in time in the story told by Jim Conley, the de
fense of Leo Frank Saturday morning recalled George
Epps, the newsboy who testified to riding into town
with Mary Phagan on the fatal day, in an attempt to
show that the boy on the Sunday after the crime made
no mention whatever of having seen Mary the day be
fore in a talk with a newspaperman. Epps was called
to the stand after C. B. Dalton had failed to respond to
a call from the defense. Reuben Arnold questioned the
boy.
Q. Do you recollect the Sunday the body was found?—A. Ye*.
Q. Do you remember a gentleman, a Mr. Minar, coming to your,
house and talking to you and your sister?—A. Yes.
Q. Didn’t he ask you when was the last time either of you
had seen Mary Phagan?—A. Yes. he asked my sister, he didn’t
ask me.
Q. Weren’t you there?—A. No, I wasn’t there. 1 was in the
house.
Q. Weren’t you standing by your sister and she said the last
time Mary Phagan was seen by her was Thursday before the mur
der and you stood there and said nothing?—A. No, I didn’t hear
that. I was in the house, but I didn t hear all he said to her.
“Come down,’’ said Mr. Arnold.
Shows Lad Didn’t Flee From Court.
Mr. Dorsey interrupted.
Q. “George, has there been any trouble to get you to come
to court?”—A. No, sir, I was playing ball when they sent for
me yesterday and didn t get the message. ’ ’
Mr Arnold objected to the question and reply and Mr. Dorsey
said:
“Your honor, Mr. Arnold made the impression on this court
yesterday that this boy was fleeing from the court. The deputy
said he couldn’t find him. We just want to show that he was al
ways willing to come. ’ ’
Judge Roan overruled the objection.
Q. George you were always
willing to come, weren’t you?—
A. Yes, sir. I got tired hanging
around the court, and asked you
if I could go. You told me you
would send for me when you
needed me. I came when I got
your message.
Holloway Lost in Maze.
What promises to be a very favor
able day for the defense in the trial
of Leo M. Frank, charged with the
murder of Mary Phagan, was partly
spoiled at its close Friday by the be
wilderment of E. F. Holloway, day
watchman at the pencil factory, in a
maze of conflicting statements.
Holloway’s confusion under the tire
of the Solicitor General was more
than offset by the Importance of the
testimony which had gone before,
two of the witnesses giving testimony
which was intended to establish that
Mary Phagan did not enter the Na
tional Pencil Factory on the day of
her death until after Monteen Stover
had come and gone.
Besides giving the He direct to Jim
Conley’s tale, this testimony, if ft
stands a* the truth in the minds of
the Juror*, upset* the State’s theory
that Monteen Stover visited the office
of Leo Frank while the superintend
ent was in the metal room with the
Phagan girl.
Conley said on the stand that ho
saw Lemmie Quinn, then Mary Pha
gan and then Monteen Stover go up
to the second floor. The Stover girl
said that she entered the factory at
12:05 o’clock. It was 12:10 when she
left, she testified. She looked at the
time clock both times.
W. M. Matthews and W. T. Hollin,
the motorman and conductor on the
car which brought Mary into town the
day that she met her death, testified
that she did not leave the car befora
12:10 o’clock, the inference from this
testimony being that she could not
have entered the factory before Mon
teen Stover and entered and left.
If the testimony of George Epps,
the State’s witness, is accepted, the
defense declares Mary Phagan could
not have entered the plant before
Monteen Stover.
Mattnews said that he knew th«
Kiri by sight and frequently spoke to
her when she boarded his car. Ha
said that he was relieved at Broad
and Marietta streets at 12:07 o’clock
the day of the crime and that he
went Inside the car and swt back
of Mary Phagan and a girl compan
ion while they were riding to Broad
and Hunter rtreets. He said they
got off at about 12:10 and walked to
ward the pencil factory.
Matthews’ story contradicts that o!
George Epps, who testified on the
stand that he rode to town with
Mary, got otr the car with her at
Forsyth and Marietta streets and
walked as far as the viaduct with her
on her way to the pencil factory.
Matthews and Hollis both said that
they had no recollection of Epps be
ing on the car. Hollis said that Mary
was sitting alone when he took her
fare Just after the car got onto Eng
lish avenue. Matthews said another
young girl was sitting with her wheU
the center of town was reached.
The significance of the story of the
two street car men is that it seems
to add another falsehood to the many
that Jim Conley already has told and
freely admitted telling.
He did not see Mary Phagan go up
stairs to Frank's office, hear th*
sounds of footsteps going to the me tS
room, then a girl’s eeraasj *"J