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VOL. XII. NO. 8.
ATLANTA, OA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1913.
Copyright 1906.
By The Georgian Co.
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PENCIL FACTORY GIRL WHO WILL
TESTIFY FOR THE FRANK DEFENSE
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Who Will
Testify for
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Question Put Squarely Up to the
House—Validity of Slaton Rev
enue Bills in Doubt.
A t. . *n which Representative Mc
Crary, of 'chley County, charged
Speaker Bur , oil with having failed
to keep his promise in regard to
placing the McCrory schoolbook bill
on the calendar, followed by another
In which McCrory shook a menacing
■“nger at Representative Holtzclaw
and warned him to “look out,” en
livened the proceedings of the House
Monday afternoon
Mr. McCrory arose to a question of
personal privilege shortly after the
disposition of the “calf bill.”
. “I was promised by the Speaker of
this House,” he declared, “that he
would place my schoolbobk bill on
the calendar for consideration to
day. He has not done it. I've heard
enough about calves this afternoon to
stock a book, and it seems to me that
the members of the House consider
calves more Important than the 500,-
000 school children of Georgia.
Studied Opposition Charged.
“If any man loves a child better
than he does a calf, let him help me
get this schoolbook bill up for con
sideration. It looks to me like there
is a studied effort to suppress my
bill.”
Speaker Burwell denied that he had
promised 'Mr. McCrory to place ills
bill on the calendar.
“I did not state that I would have
the bill placed at the head of the or
der for the day.” replied the Speaker.
“I told Mr. McCrory that I would re
quest the Rules Committee to place
MU bill on the calendar, but not being
the entire committee, I had no power
to so place it. The bill was placed
on the calendar for consideration to-
day. but no one could foresee that
the time of the House would be taken
up by little things.”
House Begins Move
To Shorten Trials
A resolution providing for a com
mission of seven members to inves
tigate the civil and criminal proce
dure of Georgia with a view to abol
ishing long-drawn-out trials and
hearings was passed by the House
Monday.
The commission will be composed
of three members of the House, two
of the Senate and two appointed by
the Governor. Mr. Slater, of Bryan,
in discussing the resolution, referred
to the trial of Leo Frank as an ex
ample of the slowness of Georgia le
gal procedure.
Start on $1,000,000
High School in Fall
PULLMAN, ILL., Aug. 12.—Work
on the buildings for the Pullman
Technical High School, which will
cost more than $1,000,000, will begin
before the end of autumn, according
to an announcement received by
Pullman residents to-day.
The board appointed to administer
the $1,200,000 bequest made by George
M. Pullman for the school will meet
here in October and decide upon the
final details.
San Francisco Dry
In Wee Sma’ Hours
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12—For the
first time In history, a restriction was
placed on liquor traffic in San Francisco
when the new law making it illegal to
sell drinks between 2 a. m. and 6 a. m.
went into effect.
The law was obeyed generally through
out California.
Negro Is Lynched by
Mob at Laurens, S.C.
LAURENS, 8. C., Aug. 12.—Overpow
ering the Sheriff, battering down two
doors of the jail and a door to the steel
cage, a mob of 2,000 dragged Richard
Puckett, a young negro, from his cot
and swung him to a railroad trestle.
The negro had attempted an assault
on a young white girl Monday morn
ing He was later captured and con
fessed his guilt to the Sheriff.
Bloodhounds trailed the negro from
the scene of the crime. The young
woman could not positively identify the
negro.
$900 in Prizes for
Hog Exhibits at Fair
MACON, Aug. 12.—The announce
ment is made that? $900 in prizes will
be awarded for the best exhibit of
Duroc Jerseys, Berkshire, Poland-
China and Tamsworth swine at the
Georgia State Fair.
The American Duroc-Jersey Swine
Breeders’ Association has just placed
a cash prize with the fair association
and so has the American Berkshire
Association. The fair association will
distribute $685 and the Southwest
Georgia Swine Breeders’ Association
also offers an award for the best pigs.
Electric Light Men
To Meet in Macon
With the Senate substitute for the
Sheppard House taxing bill back in
the House for ratification afte# pas
sage In the Senate in a night session
Monday, and the possibility of the
Administration taxing bills being
thrown out on constitutional grounds,
the wave of tax reform in this session
of the Legislature reached its crest
Tuesday morning.
Leaders in the Senate declared
Tuesday morning that a serious doubt
exists as to the constitutionality of
presenting the three Administration
taxing bills which were defeated in
the House last week. The legal point
is said to rest upon the constitution
ality of present!ig bills in one house
after they have been defeated in the
other. Should this opinion hold, the
three bills offered for the Administra
tion by Senators Miller, McNeill and
Tarver will be thrown out and thd
Senate will rest on its laurels earned
late Monday evening when the sub
stitute to the Sheppard bill was
19 to 12.
Question Put Up to House.
Senate leaders declared Tuesday
morning that it was now* squarely up
to the Lower House to redeem itself
and adopt the taxing bill as passed by
the Senate. Should the House as
sume a generous attitude in the mat
ter and ratify the Senate bill, the
Senate in turn, the leaders of this
body say, will put back the $280,000
appropriation which it sliced off of
the House general appropriation bill
last week. This can be done, It is
claimed, without financially embar
rassing the State Treasury with such
a taxing law' on the statute books as
the Miller-Anderson bill passed by
the Senate.
The bill provides for a State tax
commissioner with offices in the
State Capitol and county boards of
tax assessors. According to the
claims of the authors and support
ers of the bill, it will increase the an
nual revenue of the State by at least
$1,000,000, sufficient to pay off the
present deficit within the next three
years, as well as the teachers.
Pa*s«d After Hot Debate.
The bill was passed In the Senate
after nearly five hours of debate Mon
day afternoon. Senator Miller, of
the Twenty-fourth, Joint author of the
bill, made a vigorous defense of the
measure in a two and a half hour
speech. Senator DuBose, of the Thir
tieth, followed Senator Miller In a
vigorous attack on the bill. He de
clared the bill did not provide an ade
quate personal property tax.
Other Senators w'ho spoke briefly
in opposition to the bill w'ere Mc
Gregor, of the Nineteenth, and OllilT,
of the Fourth. Senator McNeill, in
supporting the bill, charged that the
Lipscomb bill, defeated In the House,
had been framed by the Chamber of
Commerce of Athens, the home town
of Senator DuBose. It w*as for this
reason, he intimated, that the Sena
tor from the Thirtieth opposed the
present bill.
Upon motion of Senator Tarver, the
previous question was called and the
final vote was taken. Following the
vote, which was 29 to 12 in favor,
President Anderson for the first time
during the session congratulated the
Senate. The bill was transmitted
immediately to the House.
7 MEN
Hurled Twenty Feet Against Wall,
Pratt Laboratory Engineer
Is Badly Cut.
W. H. Hutchins, No. 152 Confeder
ate avenue, assistant engineer at the
N. P. Pratt Laboratory, No. 88 Au
burn avenue, was blown twenty feet
against the side of the building Mon
day morning about 4:30 o’clock when
a compressed air tank exploded while
Hutchins and half a dozen negro
workmen were filling it.
The negroes were also throw'n
against the walls, but none was in
jured.
Hutchins received several small
cuts about his head and face, and
was severely Jarred. His key ring,
which was attached to his belt, was
blown off. It was found 60 feet from
where the explosion cocurred.
The air tanks in the laboratory are
about five feet long and two feet in
circumference, and are used in the
bottling operations. Four of them
were being filled under the direction
of Hutchins when the accident hap
pened.
The explosion shook buildings a
block away, and was heard a quarter
of a mile. The noise and jar aw f oke
practically every person in the neigh
borhood Many parties rushed to the
building expecting to find workmen
dead or seriously injured. All of the
men in the plant were slightly stunned
and w'ere Just regaining their feet
when the first of the rescuers arrived.
Police Sergeant Hewett, w'ho was
more than a quarter of a mile away,
at Piedmont avenue and Houston
street, heard the explosion and went
to the factory. He took charge of
the situation and sent Hutchins home.
The negroes returned to their work.
Last Bill Passed
By House Provides
W.&A.Investigation
A bill providing for a commission of
eight members to investigate the value
of the Western and Atlantic Railroad
and make recommendations for its lease
was passed by the House of Repre
sentatives Monday afternoon, being the
last House measure that will be passed
during the present session.
The commission will be composed of
two members from the House, two from
the Senate, the chairman of the State
Railroad Commission, and two civilians
to be appointed by the Governor. The
bill carries an appropriation of $6,000 for
expenses.
The House also passed, by a vote of
120 to 0, the “blue sky’’ law, which re
quires registration of securities before
stocks and bonds of a concern can be
placed on the market. It is designed to
prohibit the sale of “wildcat” stocks.
Disease Turns White
Children Into Black
PHILADELPHIA, PA., Aug. 12.—
Eighteen-month-old twin boys In the
Children’s Homeopathic Hospital are
suffering from one of the rarest dis
eases known to medical science. It
has changed their color from white
to black.
The disease is pseudo leucamia, or
Hodgkin's disease, and it is an af
fection of the lymphatic glands In
which the number of white blood
corpuscles is increased and the red
blood corpuscles greatly diminished.
FLUES OF
SED HOF CALLED
MACON, Aug. 12.—The annual con
vention of the Southeastern section
of the National Electric Light Asso
ciation, comprising the States of
Georgia Florida, Alabama and the
Carollnas, will begin in Macon Thurs
day morning. About 400 electric light
men are expected to attend.
Thursday night there will be a re
ception at the Dempsey Hotel and Fri-
day a barbecue for the visitors at the
Log Cabin Club. A number of prom
inent men are scheduled to make ad
dresses.
Postal Receipts Here
Top 2 Larger Cities
Figures made public by Postmaster
Hugh McKee show* that the receipts
for the last fiscal year at the Atlanta
postofflee were greater than the offic?s
at Louisville and New Orleans, both
larger cities than Atlanta.
The receipts at the local office were
$1,328,011.14, at New Orleans $1,182,-
*61.72 and at Louisville $1,163,598.13.
"Poor Old Dad, "Poem
Touches Ham Lewis
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Senator
James Hamilton Lewis isn’t the LewLs
who is advocating e. "Father’s Day."
although hundreds of correspondents
think he is; but—
He has received a copy of a song
from a man in Decatur, Ill., entitled
“Poor Old Dad.” The chorus ran:
No, it isn’t meant to slight him,
But it looks a little sad;
All the bouquets made for Mother,
Not a bloom for Poor Old Dad.
"Poor Old Dad!" sighed Senator
Lewis. "Now* I know we must do
something for him.”
Extra Police to Curb
Thieves Bryan Day
STROUDSBURG, PA., Aug. 12.—
Expecting an unusual representation
of pickpockets when William J. Bryan
makes his Chautauqua address here,
August 28. the borough fathers, at
their regular monthly council meet
ing. have taken decided action.
Secretary Williams was directed to
ask Superintendent Groome to have
the State constabulary here on Bryan
day. The occasion is expected to draw’
a larger crowd than any circus day
in the last 25 years
900 Young Women
Ask to Join Army
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Aug. 12.—The War Minister
has received a petition from 900 young
Frenchwomen who ask to be allowed
to Join the army in the auxiliary
services.
They’ declare they are prepared to
submit absolutely to military disci
pline. adding that their dearest hope
is to consecrate part of their youth to
France, and thus co-operate with
their brethren in the national de
fense.
Girl’s Face Crushed
By Kick of Horse
DUBLIN, Aug. 12.—Martha Raw'ls, the
five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
O. H. P. Rawls, of this city, has been
carried to a hospital !n Atlanta for an
operation.
The little girl was playing around a
horse belonging to her father when It
kicked her, striking her left cheek and
crushing both the upper and lower jaw
bones.
Physicians here removed the crushed
bones, and later decided to carry the
child to Atlanta for treatment in a hos
pital there.
Charlton Goes Back
To Italy in Steerage |
NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Porter I
Charlton will be taken back to Italy-
next Thursday In the*steerage of the
steamer Re d’ltalia.
A lieutenant and a brigadier of the
Italian military police have been sent
over to take charge of the prisoner
and have notified the Italian Consul
that they were instructed to get steer
age tickets for their return journey.
State Pays $1 Per
Minute for Prayers
MADISON’, WIS., Aug. 12.—Prayers
for the Legislature eowt the 8tate $843
During the session of 1913. Officiating
chaplains receive *3 for each invoca
tion. In the Assembly 153\;nvocations
were offered, at a totul compensation
of 3159, while In the Senate there
were 218 Invocations, costing $384.
Estimating the length of each of
the £81 prayers at three minutes they
cost $1 a minute.
Flies 800 Miles in
Day Without Stop
Special Cable to The Atlsnta Georgian.
BREMEN. Aug. 12.—Aviator Seguln,
flying for the Pommery trophy, arrived
here to-day after covering 800 miles on
a non-stop flight. The Pommery trophy
goes to the aviator making the longest
cross-country flight between sunrise and
sunset of the same day.
Revision of Balkan
Borders Agreed To
' reels I Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VIENNA. Aug. 12 — Revision of the
Balkan territorial boundaries In tha
peace treaty signed in Bucharest Sun
day Is likely. Germany having yielded In
principle to-day to a reformation of the
lines.
The fate of the Turkish Islands In the
Aegean Sea will he left to the powers.
Having cuffed and battered the theories of Dr. H. F. Harris
about to its satisfaction, the defense in the trial of Leo M. Frank
settled down Tuesday to spend most of the day in establishing ex
actly where Frank was practically every minute Saturday, April
26, the date upon which Mary Phagan came to her death in the
National Pencil Factory.
Among those to be called were Mr. and Mrs. Emil Selig,
Frank’s parents-in-law, who know of the time at which he left and
arrived home the day of the tragedy ; J. C. Loeb, who rode on the
street car with Frank on his return to the factory in the afternoon;
Miss Rebecca Carson, who met Frank on the street on his way to
the factory, other acquaintances who saw him during the day, and
employees at the pencil factory who know of some of his move
ments in the factory Saturday forenoon and afternoon.
For the first time since the trial began there were vacant
seats in the courtroom when Tuesday’s session opened. All who
desired were given admittance, but there was room for many others
The convening of court was
delayed for several minutes be
cause of await for Attorney Reu
ben Arnold. During that time
Frank talked animatedly with
his attorney, Luther Rosser.
MACON, Aug 12.—The preacher, a mi . , . , ,, . ,,
deason and one of the women mourn- T!ie - V St0 ° d m the middle of the
ere wer* killed in a shooting affair
at a negro funeral at Round Oak, in
Jones County, late yesterday after
noon.
The preacher stopped the services,
upon hearing pistol shots near the
church, and rushed out to quell the
disorder. He ’A*a* shot just as he
stepped out of the doorway. The oth
er two were killed in a general shoot
ing affray that followed. The negro
minister was T. M. Howard, of Ma
con.
In the excitement the funeral was
forgotten, and the corpse lay in the
church all night, but this morning
another preacher was secured and the
interment took place.
Sheriff*^toberts went to Round Oak
early this morning when news of the
affair reached him at Grays.
Mourners Forget
Corpse When 3 Are
Killed at Funeral
SUICIDE BY DYNAMITE.
ALTOONA, PA., Aug. 12.—Placing
two sticks of dynamite in his vest
pocket, Henry Boldt, 55, applied a
match to the fuses and was blown to
pieces.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta
and Georgia—Fair Tues
day and Wednesday.
Augusta to Share
Crop-Moving Fund
AUGUSTA, Aug. 12.—Albert 8.
Hatch, president of the Merchants’
Bank and a member of the committee
of the Augusta Clearing House Asso
ciation, sent to Washington to con
fer with Secretary McAdoo, of the
Treasury Department, in regard td
money with which to move the crops,
has returned and announces that Au
gusta spoke for $600,000, which she
will get If she wants it. Hatch said
Augusta could have probably gotten
more had she asked for it.
Georgia J, 0. U, A. M.
In Session at Macon
MACON, Aug. 12.—The nineteenth
biennial convention of the Junior Or
der of the United American Mechan
ics met here to-day. with about 150
delegates, representing the various
councils In the State, in attendance.
It is probable that the next meet
ing will go to Athens, and that Ben
jamin J. Symons, of Savannah, will
be elected councilor to succeed Judge
W. W. Shepard, of Savannah. O. H.
Puckett, of Atlanta, state treasurer.
Is assured of re-election.
Slaying Ends Feud
Of North Carolinans
ALEXANDER, U. C., Aug. 12.—A
feud of four years' standing ended In
the killing Monday evening of Dr. W.
J. Clontz by O. M. West, a rural mail
carrier. Three bullets were fired,
either of which would have been fatal
■ West met Dr. Clontz on the street
and, with the remark, “I hear yon
said you would kill me on sight,”
drew a revolver and began firing.
West surrendered to an officer and
later wa,s carried to Asheville and
lodged .it* jail, ’ .
courtroom and the prisoner
seemed perfectly composed. At
torney Arnold arrived and asked
that C. B. Dalton be called. He
said he did not want him on the
stand, but wanted to be sure he
was there.
C. E. Pollard, an expert accountant,
was the first witness called. He be
gan to teztlfy as to the time required
to make out the finance sheet. At
torney Rosser said that the defense
probably would conclude its expert
testimony with Mr. Pollard, and that
Miss Huttle Hail stenographer for
Montag Brothers, would be the next
witness.
Pollard testified that tlie minimum
time in which Frank could have com
piled the finance sheet was three
hours and eleven minutes. This bore
out the testimony of Herbert Schiff,
Prank's co-worker, and Joel Hunter,
expart accountant.
The defense had what was prob
ably its best day on Monday. Medi
cal experts were on the witness stand
the larger part of the day. The pur
pose of their testimony was to knock
down, one after another, ‘.he sensa
tional statements of Dr. H. F. Harris,
secretary of the State Board of
Health. All of the witnesses joined
in ridiculing every important theory
or conclusion that was reached by
the distinguished chemist and physi-
I clan.
Experts for Defense.
These are the medical experts called
by the defense to combat the testi
mony of Dr Harris:
Dr. Willis P. Westmoreland first
president of the Georgia State Board
of Health, and president of the At
lanta College of Physicians and Sur
geons.
Professor George Bnchman. demon
strator in physiology at the Atlanta
College of Physicians and Surpeons:
formerly one of the faculty of the
Jefferson Medical College, Philadel
phia.
Dr. T H. Hancock, a specialist in
surgical practice.
Dr. J. C. Olmstead, a graduate of
Columbia University, and a practi
tioner in Atlanta for 32 years.
Here is a summary of Dr. Harris'
theories on the death of Mary Pha
gan and the consensus of the four
medical experts' opinions in regard
to the theories:
How Views Clashed.
Mary Phagan came to her death
within half or three-quarters of
an hour of the time she ate her
meal of cabbage and w heat bread
at home. The condition of the
cabbage shows It had been in her
stomach no longer than that when
death stopped the digestive pro
cesses.
“No man in the world could ex* .
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