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X T HUGE MOVEMENTS OF FRA always first ® <a> The SUNDA Y AMERICAN Order It NQW= a-*---, a— Both Phone* Mein 8000 The Atlanta Georgian. Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 8. ATLANTA, OA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1913. Copyright 1906. By The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. p m a Jr?:° PENCIL FACTORY GIRL WHO WILL TESTIFY FOR THE FRANK DEFENSE Eula May Flowers, Who Will Testify for Frank. ACIPASSES * '6. , " " <%v.. ' s.,' ! WV* ■A 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* . I 4 V