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NOTICE If you have any difficulty In buying Hoaret’s Sunday American anywhere In the South notify Circulation Manager, Hearst’s Sunday Ameri can, Atlanta. Ga. VOL. i. no. in. Copyright. 1913, by The Georgian Company ★★★ ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Ambassador Sends Mysterious Message to Commander of Fleet for Meeting Immediately on His Arrival at the Mexican Port. .Wuerta Maintains Iron-Hand Atti tude in Spite of International Menace From Revolutionary Ar mies and Threatened Coercion. Special Cable to The American. VERA CRUZ. MEX., Aug. 9.—John E. Lind, special envoy to Mexico, ar rived here at 1 o’clock this afternoon on the battleship New Hampshire. He was at once transferred to the battle ship Louisiana. VERA CRUZ, Aug. 9.—Captain Snowden, of the battleship New Hampshire, at the direction of John Lind, Special Ambassador from Pres ident Wilson to Mexico, to-day sent the following wireless to Admiral Fletcher, commander of the flotilla of United States warships in the har- bor here: “Governor Lind wishes to see the Jnited States Consul and Admiral Tetcher immediately upon his arrival at Vera Cruz Saturday. Governor Lind will not go to Mexico City until Sunday." Sensational rumors were circulated as to the cause for the conference. The New r Hampshire will probably ar rive this evening. Sulzer Used Funds Of Campaign to Play Market, Is Charge Chairman Frawley, of Investigating Committee, Says This Is Enough to Warrant Impeachment. NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Governor illiam Sulzer, of New York, w as nearly $50,000 in debt as the result of stock market speculations at the time of his nomination, and used contri butions 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 Gcvernor, 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. Josiephthal, it Was brought out. paid a debit balance of $26,739 still stand ing against the account on July 15 last. This was after the Governor had received repeated calls for more mar gin. The Governor’s transactions with other firms were for cash, and it I was in connection with one of these | that Governor Sulzer, according to j the evidence, used campaign con tributions. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst Y. W.C. A. Benefactor MEXICO CITY, Aug. 9.- Maintain ing his Iron hand attitude In spite of international menace from revolution ary armies and threatened coercion, 'Provisional President Huerta to-day continued his diplomatic battle with the United States by giving orders to draft another note of protest against the doming of Special Ambas sador Lind, unless the United States recognizes Mexico or halts Mr. Lind before he arrives in this city. Situation Is Tense. A tense situation exists here pend ing the arrival of Mr. Lind, who has been retarded by the State Depart ment at Washington. Huerta’s hope that defiance of the United States might break down the revolutionary spirit in the north teems to have been futile, according to a message from General Venus- tiano Carranza, leader of the rebels. This was a reply to overtures to Carranza to join his forces to the regular army in the event of a "for eign invasion.” However, Huerta has gained fresh followers among the rad ical element by his defiance of Pres ident Wilson. Supporters of the pro visional president charge that the United States is preparing to act as it did in Cuba. Sensational reports were current to day relative to the diplomatic mission of General Felix Diaz to Tokio. Os tensibly Diaz is going to thank the Japanese Government for its repre sentation at the Mexican centennial, but the belief is growing that Japan has consented to make a treaty with Mexico, and that Diaz is really a spe cial ambassador. This treaty, it is reported, has to do with a league of common interests and not with com mercial right. It follows the move ment of the Government to Invite 50,- 000 Japanese emigrants here to colo nize the state of Morelos, which has been nearly depopulated by the re bellion. Insists on Recognition. Whether Huerta has any more cards to play in his diplomatic fight against outside Interference wi‘h Mexican af fairs is a question known only to the provisional President and his closest advisers. Huert^i insists on “recog nition and no parley,” but the Gov ernment is not in condition to enforce his threat by war. The national treasury is nearly de pleted, and the army material of the country has been thinned to a mini mum by three years of revolution. By diplomacy, however, he might still be able, by playing upon the Latin-American republics’ fear of an nexation and upon the hostility of foreign pow-ers to the spirit of the 'Monroe Doctrine, to force the United /states into a compromising position. ' j Even Nelson O’Shaughnessy. Charge * d’Affalres of the United States Em bassy here, is not acquainted with the details of Mr. Lind s missioh. He has so informed the Mexican Foreign Minister. Dedicates Camp at Pacific Grove, Cah, Which Her Generosity Made Possible. DEL MONTE. CAL, Aug. 9.—Asilo- mar, the splendid new conference grounds of the California, Arizona and Nevada Young Women's Christian As sociation, which occupies 30 acres of ground on the ocean shore near Pa cific Grove, was formally dedicated with a beautiful ceremony, including a pageant of 400 girls, typifying associa tion work. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. of San Francisco, whose generous assistance last year and this did much to make a permanent camp possible, gave the dedicatory ad dress and gave the conference grounds the name of Asilomar, which means "re treat. ” Callie Hoke Smith Capital Debutante Make-up of First Democratic "Bud Bouquet” Puzzles Washington’s Younger 9et. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The make up of Washington first Democratic debutante bouquet is the question that is agitating the younger set. It is con fidently expected that Miss Genevieve Champ Clark, daughter of the Speaker, will be one of the buds, and Miss Fran ces Moore, the daughter of Clarence R Moore, one of the Titanic heroes, an other. I Resident society will furnish two at tractive debutantes, who are not only socially prominent, but from Democratic families as well. They are Miss Mar garet Britton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Britton and Miss Beatrice Clover, the youngest daughter of Rear Admiral Clover. A debutante from the Congressional set will be Miss Callie Hoke Smith, daughter of Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia. Other Congressional buds are the Misses Weaver, Church and Duval. I [ I Divers Exploring Wreck of Steam boat Peters Lee Find Modern Jim Bludsoe in Hold. ALL THE'PASSENGERS ESCAPE Engineer Kept Craft’s Nose Stuck in Mud Until All Save He Were Safe on Shore. MEMPHIS, TENN., Aug. 9.—Dlv ers who explored the steamboat Pe ters Lee on the bottom of the Mis sissippi River at Lake Providence. La., to-day reported finding the body of Engineer Frank O’Neil, his hand holding the engine throttle. ’He died there when the boat sank last night, having stayed at his post and held the boat’s nose against the shore until the last of the 50 passen gers, most of them women, were helped ashore. O’Neil’s act Is practically a realiza tion of the martyrdom of Jim Blud soe, famed in the poem as the steam boat engineer who held her nose to the bank till all were saved, then was burned to death at his post. A dance was on when the Peters Lee struck a sunken coal barge. A hole was tom in her side. The cap tain ordered the pilot to steer for the shore. The boat struck the mud. and officers and crew began taking off the passengers. Frank O’Neil in the engine room kept the stern wheel churning while the water poured into the hold. A negro shouted through the en gine room door that the boat was sinking. “I kqow It!” shouted O’Neil. “You fellows get on up front where you can get off! I’ll hold her nose against the shore!” The last passenger -was safely land ed when the boat sank in 40 feet of water. Slit Skirts Furnish Mosquito Clan With Choicest Barbecue FRANK OR CONLEY? STILL QUESTION *!*•+ +•+ •!•••!• •!* • *!* v • v r*+ l- •!• • q- *!* • v Trainload of Winsome Stenographers and Milliners Have to Tramp Through Stegomyia Belt. NEW YORK, Aug 9 —“All those in favor of silt skirts, please stand up ” Millions of full grown mosquitoes and three or four little fellers were rushlrifc wildly out of their apartment houses on he ’Flushing Meadows, about 7 o’clock last night, and took part in the most rollicking barbacue ever held in the East. Right in the middle of the salt grass waste were five cars of a Long Island Railroad train, stalled. The lights were out, men were running up and down shouting orders and Flushing was two miles away. After the train had stood for a few minutes, out of the passenger cars poured the choicest morsels of hu manity that Mr. and Mrs. Culex Pun- gens and the little Pungenses ever saw. There were stenographers, typewriters, cashiers, millinery attaches and buxom matrons. Slit skirts were numerous. In an endless procession the five hun dred and more suburbanites trailed over the ties toward Flushing. There is some style in the mosquito belt and every member of the family seemed to know at once which of the passengers was dressed a la mode. The squeals and slaps of the fair ones as they tried to stop the onslaught sounded like a tattoo. The procession lasted for more than two hours and w'hen the last stenog rapher reached home a unanimous vote was taken declaring the mosquito a pest. Of course, there were some men along, but what self-respecting mosquito would bother with them at such a time? Issue Firmly Brawn Between Two Men +•+ , *•-!• +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Crime Definitely Fixed on One of Pair Factory Gives Help $1,000,000 Insurance Each of 1,000 Employees Gets a Pol icy Equal to His Year ly Salary. The prisoner is shown in the unconcerned attitude he assumes most of the time. NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—The Standard Oilcloth Company has taken out a pol icy of $1,000,000 to cover 1,000 employees, the company announces. Each employee is Insured for the amount of one year’s salary, with a maximum list of $3,000 on any one life. Each employee gets a certificate to the beneficiary of the employee, in event of death while in the employment of the company. All employees from the president to Manuel Pawns His Father's Decorations Former King of Portugal Unable to Struggle Along on Income of $100,000 a Year. Not a move escapes this man’s restless eyes, though his face is calm. Special Cable to The American. LONDON, Aug. 9.—Despite his allow ance of $50,000 a year from King George and at least that sum from private sources, it is learned that former King Manuel, of Portugal, has been forced to pawn the decorations once belonging to his father. One of these decorations, a diamond cross with a large sapphire in the center, is still in the hands of a pawnbroker near Richmond, where Manuel is now staying with h^s mother, Oueen Amelie. The fortunes of the dethroned mon arch will be recouped by his approach ing marriage It is known that he is very extravagant and his mother is none too practical. The German Emperor has settled the puzzling question of how to treat the exiled monarch’s marriage to a German princess. He will allow Prince Eitel Frederick to attend as a special guest, hut not as his personal representative. the office boy are covered, including those at the head office in New York, the salesmen throughout the country and the employees at the plants at Athenia. N. J., Youngstown. Ohio; Akron. Ohio; Hock Island, Ill., and Buchanan, N. Y. Scientist Hints New Immortality Proof Sir Oliver Lodge, of London, yvill Give Wor d Results of His Researches. Special Cable to The American. LONDON, Aug. 9.—Sir Oliver Lodge, whose researches into the un known world made him famous, will assert at the meeting of the British Association on September 10 a belief in “an ultimate continuity of exist ence before and after death as essen tial to science.” It is inferred he has at least new evidence to offer of immortality. He onCe told the world “the boun dary; between life and death is still substantial, but is wearing thin in places.” Leo Frank in his seat in the court room where he is fighting for life. 0*3 ADMITS HE’S DECENT IN ANSWERING MARRIAGE AD YONKERS, Aug 9— Reginald P. Shennan, editor of The Rye Courier, al ready has received one reply to the ad vertisement inserted in his paper by a ‘ gentlewoman with large tract of land not far from Port Chester,” who is seek ing ‘‘an unselfish, decent, self-support- ng man for a husband.” He turned the letter over to the ad vertiser, whose identity is being guard ed carefully. The letter bore a Brook lyn postmark. AUTOS EMPTY CHURCHES, SAY COUNTRY PREACHERS MANHATAX, KANS., Aug. 9 — The dwindling of the congregation* of country chureftes, due to the new era of automobiles, which makes it easy for the rural residents to attend serv ices In nearby towns .and cities, will be discussed at th** Conference of Rural Leaders, July 21 to 25, at the Kansas Agricultural College. Mem ber* of the organization declare that Kansas now has about 1,200 aban doned churches the farming dis tricts, *** Jack London Puts Joke on His Appendix Novelist Tells the Latest on Former Part of Himself and What’s Left. LOP ANGELES. Aug. 9—Here is the latest joke Jack London, the fa mous author, is telling on himself; London was* operated on recently for appendicitis. After the ordeal the surgeon held up the severed ap pendix in his fingers for the patient to see. The author looked at it thoughtfully then grinned and said; “It was a case of all alone in Lon don, wasn’t it, rloc?” Famous Case to Solve Mystery of Slaying of Mary Fhagan Enters Its Third Week With Public Opinion Constantly Shifting. By AN OLD POLICE REPORTER. The second Week of the trial of Leo Frank, charged with the murder of Mary Phagan in the National Pencil Factory on the aft ernoon of April 26, came to a close Saturday noon. The State’s case has been entirely made up in its primary as peels, and the defense has gone into its story of the groat crime sufficiently to make clear both its theory and probable line of pleading. The public, as the ease has progressed, has been swayed this way and that, and to-day the remarkable myatery of Mary Phagan’s untimely and tragic end remains, in hundreds of minds, quite as much of a mystery as ever. The Battle Is a See-Saw. The State has had its good days and its bad days, and the defense has met the same fate. At times things have seemed dismally dark and gloomy for Frank, while at other times the clouds apparently have lifted from about him decidedly. This much has been made clear: Either Leo Frank will be : shown to be responsible for the death of Mary Phagan, or Jim Conley will. The one is the heart and soul of the State’s contention, and the other is the heart and soul of the defense's contention. Frank is battling not only to clear himself but to convict Conley. Conley is battling not only to clear himself, but to convict Frank. The only difference is that Con ley, although not yet indicted, expects to be convicted as an ac cessory after the fact of the murder, in any event, whereas Frank, alraedy indicted, ex pects to come absolutely clear and free of all possible connec tion with the crime. The one has a heretofore good name to restore in all of ita un blemished integrity, the other has merely his present reputa tion for criminal inclination to preserve against sinister enlarge ment. The issue has been sharply and indelibly drawn—it is either Leo Frank’s life for Mary Phagan’s, or it is Jim Conley’s. The State has shown, or has endeavored to show the follow ing things: THAT Frank, shortly after noon on April 26, and before five minutes past noon, lured Mary Phagan, for an immoral purpose, to the rear of the second floor of the National Pencil Factory, and there, because she would not yield to his desires and demands,) he knocked her down and immediately thereafter strangled her to death with a small cord, about one-eighth of an inch in thickness. THAT after strangling her, Frank remained with her dead body until after a girl caller in his office had departed, when he tiptoed to the front of the floor whereupon the murder had been consummated, and secured the help of a negro sweeper, Jim Conley, employed about the place, to dispose of the body. THAT Conley, under the direction of Frank, wrapped the dead body in a piece of heavy cloth, carried it to the elevator, and thence on the elevator to the basement, where it was placed in an obscure corner in the rear, later to be found by Newt Lee, a negro night watchman, generally held guiltless of direct connection with the crime itself. THAT Frank, after hiding the body, with Conley's assistance, then induced Conley to write and place beside the dead girl cer tain illiterate notes fixing the crime, in so far as they might, upon some other person than either Frank or Conley, and that Frank) for Conley’s services, paid him the sum of $2.50, but not until he had first paid him $200, which was withdrawn under promise to restore that sum later. THAT Frank had an understanding with Conley, whereby Conley was to return to th| factory later in the afternoon on Satur day and burn the body in the basement furnace, but that Conley