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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY. AUGUST 10, 1913.
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ATVERACRUZ
Ambassador Sends Mysterious
Message to Commander of Fleet
for Meeting Immediately on
His Arrival at the Mexican Port.
Sulzer Used Funds
Of Campaign to Play
Market, Is Charge
Chairman Frawley, of Investigating
Committee, Says This Is Enough
to Warrant Impeachment.
Huerta Maintains Iron-Hand Atti
tude in Spite of International by L N - J°se P hthai
r banker, and a member
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
United States Consul and Admiral
Fletcher 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 Hampshire will probably ar
rive this evening.
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 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 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
Wall Street
of the Gov
ernor’s staff as naval reserve aide.
Josephthal, 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
was in connection with one of these
that Governor Sulzer, according to
the evidence, used campaign con
tributions.
TO SAVE THOSE
Divers Exploring Wreck of Steam
boat Peters Lee Find Modern
Jim Bludsoe in Hold.
ALL THE PASSENGERS ESCAPE
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst
Y. W.C. A. Benefactor
Dedicates Camp at Pacific Grove,
Cal., Which Her Generosity
Made Possible.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 9.—Maintain
ing his iron hanfl 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 coming 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
seems to have been futile, according
to a message from General Venus-
tlano 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 with Mexican af
fairs is a question known only to the
provisional President and his closes,
advisers. Huerta 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-Amerlcan republics’ fear of an- ^
nexation and upon the hostility of ,
foreign powers to the spirit of the j
Monroe Doctrine, to force the United i
V Stales into a compromising position, i
Even Nelson O'Shaughnessy, Charge j
, d'Affaires of the United States Em- j
bassy here, is not acquainted with the j
details of Mr. Lind's mission. He i
has SO informed the Mexican Foreign j
Minister.
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 assoeia-
1 tion work.
| Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, of San Francisco,
j 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 Set.
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.
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.
Manuel Pawns His
Father’s Decorations
Former King of Portugal Unable to
Struggle Along on Income
of $100,000 a Year.
Engineer Kept Craft’s Nose Stuck
in Mud Until All Save He
Were Safe on Shore.
MEMPHIS, TENN., Aug. 9.—Div-
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 torn 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’Nell in the engine room
kept the stern wheel churning while
the water poured into the hold.
A negro rhouted through the en
gine room door that the boat was
sinking.
“I know 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.
Factory Gives Help
$1,000,000 Insurance
Each of 1,000 Employees Gets a Pol
icy Equal to His Year
ly Salary.
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
Not a move
escapes this
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eyes, though
his face
is calm.
Slit Skirts Furnish
Mosquito Clan With
Choicest Barbecue
Trainload of Winsome Stenographers
and Milliners Have to Tramp
Through Stegomyla Belt.
NEW YORK, Aug 9.—"All those In
favor of slit skirts, please stand up.”
Millions of full grown mosquitoes and
three or four little fellers were rushing
wildly out of their apartment houses
on he Flushing Meadows, about 7
o’clock last night, and took part In the
mosi 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 anq 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 when 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?
FRANK0R CONLEY? STILL QUESTION
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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 his mother,
Queen Amelie.
The fortunes of the dethroned mon
arch will be recouped by his approach
ing marriaae 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,
but not as his personal representative.
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“Want Ad” Page
Scientist Hints New
Immortality Proof
Sir Oliver Lodge, of London, Will
Give World Results of His
Researches.
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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.” __
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
ing man for a husband.”
He turned the letter over to the ad
vertiser. whose identity Is being guard
ed carefully. The letter bore a Bruok-
1 lyn postmark.
AUTOS EMPTY CHURCHES,
SAY COUNTRY PREACHERS
MANHATAN, KANS., Aug. 9 —
The dwindling of the congregations of
country churches, due to the new era
of automobiles, which makes it ea«y
for the^rural residents to attend serv
ices in nearby towns and cities, will
be discussed at the Conference ot
Rural Leaders. July 21 to 25, a: the
Kansas Agricultural College. Mem-
ber*» of the organization declare that
Kansas now has about 1,200 aban
doned churchea in the farming dis
tricts. j
Jack London Puts
Joke on His Appendix
Novelist Tells the Latest on Former
Part of Himself and
What’s Left.
LOS 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 t
thoughtfully then grinned and said:
“It was a case of ill alone In Lon
don, wasn't it, doc?”
Famous Case to Solve Mystery of
Slaying of Mary Phagan 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
pects, and the defense has gone into its story of the great crime
sufficiently to make dear both its theory and probable line of
pleading.
The public, as the case has progressed, has been swayed this
way and that, and to-day the remarkable mystery 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 its 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
tody 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 the factory later in the afternoon on Satur-
i day and burn the body i,n the basement furnace, but that Conley