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. MBfflgnaLaBg uimimujiiwii mujj».ynL. i. t* < \ always first <u> ® SUNDA Y AMERICAN Order it NOW— ■ — Both Phones Main 8000 The Atlanta Georgian, Florida Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 7. ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1913. Copyright 1906, By The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. p m a Jr£° EXTRA FIGHT OF FOOD EXPERTS RENEWED DIAGRAM OF THEORY AS ADVANCED BY DEFENSE Joe Agler Sold to Jersey City Club; Price Is $3,000 Joe Agler, the sensational first base man of the Crackers, was sold this aft ernoon to the Jersey City club, of the International League. It Is understood that the price paid for the young athlete is $3,000. Agler will report to the Skeeters at the end of the Southern League season The International League schedule calls for games two weeks after the South ern closes, and Agler will probably catch the first train Kast after the^ last I game Is played at Poncey Park. VOTE PLOT PENSACOLA, FLA., Aug. 11.—Ten of the parties charged with conspi racy to defraud the registration books and illegal voting in the recent city election were arraigned before Court * of Record Monday morning. Four pleaded guilty to the charge of illegal voting; two pleaded guilty to voting when under age, and the other two admitted they were not citizens of the United States. Two latter were Greeks, not naturalized. They were fined $10 and costs or 45 days at hard labor each. Police and Fire Commissioner Pou, Registration Officer Maura and others, charged with conspiracy to defraud registration lists, pleaded not guilty and trial was set for Septem ber 16. Of the fourteen arrests following investigation, eight have now pleaded guilty and the others say they will fight the case to the end. Clayton Leads for Senate in Alabama BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 11.—While Governor O'Neal did not feel ready to make an announcement as to the appointment of a successor to the la:e Senator Joseph F. Johnston, it was generally understood this afternoon that the Governor will make an ap- polntment, several judges having 1 made briefs on the subject. The ap pointment may be announced In Montgomery Tuesday afternoon. Con gressman Henry D. Clayton, accord ing to popular report, will most likely get the appointment. The Governor and staff this after- • noon reviewed the Fourth Regiment in camp here. No KnOx-Hobson Trade. ANNISTON, Aug. 11.—Friends if Colonel John 13. Knox, the noted An niston lawyer, deny that there has been any coalition between his friends and the Hobson adherents to get Knox appointed to succeed Senator Johnston, with the understanding that Knox will not oppose Hobson in in open election. Electric Plant Site Causes Mayor to Quit MILTON. FLA., Aug. 11.—Mayor W Clark announced to-day that he will iesign when Council meets to-morrow afternoon, and that as soon as his resignation is accepted he will tile Injunction proceeding- against the city to restrain the bond trustees from erecting an electric power plant near hU handsome resi dence. When the site was selected the Mayor protested, but was ignored. W. A. McLeod, former Representa tive ot Santa Rosa County in the Leg islature, will probably be elected to succeed Mayor C.aik. MOBILE, Aug. 11— Dr, Matthew Brewster, rector of exclusive Christ Church, of this city, in whose edifice only the wealthy and select worship, has aroused the Ire of his congrega tion by coming out as a defender of W. M. Dcyle, a socialist speaker, who was amsted here for blocking the streets while preaching the doctrine of the Socialist party. When Dr. Brewster, who before coming to Mobile was the rector of the leading Episcopal church of New Orleans, heard of the arrest of Doyle, he rushed to the police station and denounced the arrest as an outrage, saying that no one should be stopped from free speech. Doyle is a stfiking machinist and on eof the foundries where machinists are on strike is owned by one of Dr. Brewster’s lead ing church members. The affair cre ated a sensation in church circles. Negro Drowus Self To Escape Capture TALLAHASSEE, Aug. 11.—John Balkman. a negro, who two months ago seriously shot Deputy Sheriff Matthis, drowned himself in Lake Jackson rather than be captured by Sheriff Houston and a possfe. The negro was located three miles from Tallahassee, where dogs were put on his trail, and ran into the lake. When he saw the posse ap proaching and It was evident that he would be arrested, he sank in the water, after he had attempted to shoot a member of the posse. His body was recovered. Girls Buru to Death Iu Home at Bartow TAMPA. Aug. 11.—The home of J. O. Bradley, at Bartow, burned to the ground last night and their two daughters, Emily and Geneva, were burned to death. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley were sleep ing on the second floor, In the con fusion they did not notice that the young women had not escaped. When they got out doors the house was en veloped in flames and rescue was Im possible. The screams of the girls, one of whom was 20 and the other 14, could be heard as they burned to death. New Passenger Rate Ends Alabama Fight MONTGOMERY, Auk. 11.—Tariff sheets for the 2 1-2-rent passenger fare on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad were received at ticket of fices throughout the State to-day. The new rate becomes effective at midnight. The adoption of the fate probably enda the fight that the Railroad Com mission has waged for four years, al though the railroad threatens to ap peal to the United States Supreme Court. BLIND TIGERS CAPTURED. ST. AUGUSTINE. Aug. 11.—Sheriff Perry and deputies to-day brought 4n five negroes charged with operat ing blind tigers in the country. The.’ were caught in raids made Saturday night and Sunday. IS READY Plans for the great automobile tour which Hearst’s Sunday American will inaugurate to find a new All-South ern, open-all-the-year-round route from Atlanta to the Pacific Coast, virtually have been Completed, and the tour will start on Monday, Au gust 18, under conditions that prac tically assure the success of the movement. * The proposed route, which will be thoroughly mapped and charted by the pathfinding expedition, will ex tend from Atlanta through Birming ham, Montgomery, New Orleans,, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Tucson, Phoenix and Yuma, and will then connect with the State roads of Cal ifornia for San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The pathfinder will be E. L. Fer guson, one of the most widely known automobile drivers and tourists In America. He has been in Atlanta for several days, making preliminary preparations for the tour, and- is much pleased with the response that greeted the publication of the details of the movement in yesterday’s Am erican. Southern automobilists, who here tofore have been barred from touring across the continent via a Southern, open-all-the-year-round route be cause no such route has ever been explored and mapped, have greeted the movement wijji enthusiasm and many offers of assistance. Big Send-Off Is Planned. Some idea of the sentiment that exists among Atlanta motorists can be gained from the plans that are being made to godspeed Mr. Fer guson when he starts on his journey. When he leaves Atlanta next Mom- day in the big touring car that has traveled most of the roads of the country, he will be escorted out of the city by many local automobilists and motorcyclists who realize what the proposed tourists route would do for the South, and who are indorsing the movement with their usual en ergy and enthusiasm. It Is Mr. Ferguson’s Intention, dur ing the path-finding expedition, to put forth every effort to Interest the farmers and the citizens of the cities and towns he visits in the proposed route and in good road building all over the South. The lack of good roads Is all that has prevented tha Southern States from being the Mec ca of motorists the year round, and It is the purpose vf the newspapers that are behind the expedition lo make Mr. Ferguson's trip a “good roads booster” from start to finish, so as to make the proposed Southern route a reality before the beginning of the Panama Exposition at San <r"rancisco in 1915. It Is estimated that more than 5,00ft motor cars will cross the continent from the Atlantic coast during the exposition, and the ma"oln,T an I charting of a Southern route, with itj advantages In climate and scenery, will divert the greater part ->f the traffic from the established Northern rotate through Chicago and Denver. The defense’s theory of the killing of Mary Phagan is that the little girl, after leaving Frank’s office unmolested, was seized by the negro Conley at the foot of the stairs, crowded back into thv-rwwrromrr antb there battered into insensibility, if not instant death, after which she was dragged to the trapdoor in the extreme rear and thrown into the cellar below. Later the negro went into the cellar, placed the cord around the girl’s neck, and drew it very tight, perhaps thus snfflng out the last fluttering breath of life in the insensible body. The motive assigned to the negro is robbery. night demolished that store, and fire which followed destroyed the entire block in which the Skinner store was located. The loss Is $50,000, par tially covered by insurance. Early to-day the Sheriff from Greenville fcnd a posse of regular and special deputies arrested a negro, charging him with being the man who placed the bomb in the Skinner building. While the officers claim to have strong evidence against the black man, they have not stated what It is. The feeling against the ac cused is running high, and it is re ported that the negro has been spir ited away by two deputies to prevent any possibility of a lynching. The buildings destroyed are as fol lows: Skinner Hardware CompanjL loss $6,000, insurance $3,000; Meach- am Kirkland drug store, loss $3,000, insurance, $1,500; S. E. Berham clothing store, loss $3,500, insurance $1 0; People’s Bank, all fixtures lost, but vault and valuables saved; House & Balliard barber shop, loss about $500 Mr. Skinner owned all of the build ings destroyed. The offices of the Mayor and a number of the city offi cials were in the bank building. r ’’’hey lost their office fixtures. Practically all of the residents were attending church when the explosion occurred, and turned out in a body to flp-ht the fire, their efforts confining the blaze to the one block. There !s no regular fire department in the town. No reason can be assigned for the motive of the person or persons in throwing the bomb into the store, un less it was due to some grudge against some of the occupants. Hope of Early Vote on Tariff Bill Given Up WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—All pre dictions of an early passage of the Democratic tariff bill by the Senate are going glimmerirg. Majority lead ers realize that, notwithstanding the fact that they have set a new record in pushing consideration of this meas ure.' only a beginning has been made, and the earliest anyone now will promise completion of the task *s September 15. Ten days ago, when a member of the Finance Committee Maid he thought the Senate would pass the bill by August 20. there were some who thought It might be possible, but only four schedules have now been con sidered. 36 paragraphs in these hav ing been passed over for future con sideration. ^Legislature to ena^t laws looking to the reform of the tax system and the equalization of taxes in the State. Assorting that the greatest dis parity in the tax returns of the Slate Is not between the city and rural communities, but between the rural communities themselves, Governor Slaton urged the enactment of a law that would compel each county to pay Its proportionate share of the ex penses of the State. Shows Disparity in Returns. "One rural county will make returns three times as much In proportion to value^as its neighbors.” said the Gov ernor’s message- “What .sound argu ment can be offered in favor of this injustice? County lines are but im aginary, separating Georgians only by a fiction, and all should be and I be lieve are willing to contribute their proportion to the general burden. “Legislation accomplishing this purpose, both in regal’d to visible and Invisible property, will so operate as to make the same percentage ef fective on every citizen, regardless of the county in which he lives.” Scores State of Treasury. In his message Governor chiton emphasizes the deplorable condition of the State Treasury, .which has no: nearly enough funds to meet the ex penses* of the State Government ami asserts that under a system of tax equalization a deficit of this size could not exist. “Tax equalization does not neces- sarilv mean increase of taxes,” he says. "The man giving in now more than his due should have his valua tion reduced to such proportionate amount as universally enforced will economically support the State. The man who Is delinquent In this regard should be raised.” Sylvia Pankhurst Captured in Fierce Biot of Militants Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, Aug. 11.—“You women are overstepping the ordinary bounds of lawlessness—you are becoming an archists.” 9aid thp magistrate In Bow Street Police Court to-day in sentenc ing militant suffragettes who took part In street fighting yesterday when Miss Sylvia Pankhurst led a mob of 10,000 women in an assault upon the residence of Premier Asquith. Sunday’s fighting was the bloodiest at all militant riots. Screaming and struggling with maniacal fury the suf fragettes and their bodyguard of hired dock workers gave the police such a furious contest that more than 50 per sons were hurt. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst had a spe cial bodyguard of men. but her es cort was overpowered and she was taken to Holloway jail. Senate Clears Decks For Tax Reform Work. With the decks cleared at last o! local bills, the Georgia Senate Mon day afternoon faced a sharp fight on the substitute to the Sheppard tax reform bill following the filing of a minority report by four of the mem bers of the Finance Committee. Senator Du Bose, one of the minor ity signers, declared he would fight the measure when It comes up for passage. The bill, he declared, was not fair to the people and was framed as a result of “bulldozing” efforts by the Governor. On the other hand, Senator Miller, of ttie Twenty-Fourth, joint framer of the bill and chaitman of the Finance Committee, declared him c «»lf ready tc Continued on Page 3, Column 0. A ^Gainsville Claims 10,200 Population GAINESVILLE, FLA., Aug. 11.— The new city directory being pub lished will show a population for GainesWUe of over 10,200. Although Gainesville has now the best water in the State, the supply Is not sufficient from the Boulware Springs, and there Is under construc tion new waterworks, a corporation supplying in addition Inexnaustlble supply from artesian wells. A large standpipe is also being erected for fire purposes. Attached to this plant Is to be elec tric light plant with capacity to meet all demands. Poles and wire are al ready placed and current will be turned on about November 1. BOV HELD FOR MAIL THEFT, GADSDEN, Aug. 11.—David C. Cla- born, a 15-year-old boy, was foun I guilty in Federal Court to-day on a charge of larceny of mall from a box In the Boa* postofflee. Sentence was suspended until next term of court. MOTHER GIVES AWAY BABY. MOBILE, Aug. 11.—A pretty blue eyed baby. 6 weeks old. was given o the Salvation Army by a 15-year-old mother at Meridian, Miss., and since that time has been given over to a couple of considerable wealth. Professor George Bachman, a native Frenchman, one time an instructor in the well-known Jefferson Med ical College of Philadelphia, and now at the head of the Physiological Department of Physicians and Surgeons, was the star witness of the defense at the Frank trial Monday, forming one of the briliant array of medical ex perts gathered by Leo Frank’s lawyers to batter down the theories and conclusions presented to the jury by Dr. H. F. Harris, Secretary and Director of the State Board of Health. Among the distinguished physicians to follow him at the after noon session of court were Drs. Willis F. Westmoreland, T. H. Han cock and J. L. Olmstead, Dr. L. W. Childs, a graduate of the Univer sity of Michigan, was called at the opening of the defense’s case. Dr. Bachman had no hesitancy in belittling the testimony of Dr. Harris. He seconded Dr. Childs in saying that it was meH guesswork to say that Mary Phagan was killed within half or three- quarters of an hour after she had eaten her simple dinner of cab bage and biscuit. He was shown the specimen of cabbage taken from the stomach of the murdered girl and declared that there was no way of telling by its appearance that it had not been in the I stomach seven or eight hours before death came. Appears to Trip Up Expert. Solicitor Dorsey set out in the cross-examination to test mi- 1 nutely the witness’ qualifications as an expert. He appeared to trap | him in one or two instances. One was when he asked Dr. Bachman the meaning of the word “amiduiin,” as used in the description of starch in its various stages of digestion. “I never heard of such a word,” said the witness. ‘‘You never did?” “No, and no one else ever did. It isn’t in any dictionary.” ‘‘Nor in any medical work?” inquired the Solicitor. Webster’s International Dictionary gives the definition of ‘‘amiduiin” as "a variety of starch made soluble by heating.” Dr. Bachman was called to the stand after Solicitor Dorsey had finished a searching cross-examination of Herbert G. Schiff, assistant to Frank at the Pencil Factory. Says Cabbage Was in Stomach Long Time. The medical expert said that the average time required for the digestion of cabbage, according to the standard of his profession, was four and a half hours. The principal process of digestion took place in the small intestine in the case of cabbage and other carbo hydrates, he testified. Attorney Reuben Arnold showed him the specimens of cab bage taken from the stomach of Mary Phagan. “Those pieces apparently were not masticated at all,” the physician said. “They would have interfered with digestion and the passage of food out of the stomach into the small intestine by obstructing the pylorus. They would undoubtedly have kept all of the solid contents in the stomach for some time. “Just from my observation of those pieces of cabbage I would say that they could have been in the girl’s stomach for seven or eight hours before passing out.” Attacks Dr. Harris’ Conclusion. He attacked Dr. Harris’ conclusions based on the fact that only 32 degrees of acidity were found in the girl’s stomach on the ground that there was no way of telling whether the acidity at the time digestion was stopped was ascending or descending. If it were descending, he said, it would indicate that the acidity had risen to its maximum point and was on its downward course, a con dition which obtains only when the food has been in the stomach for a considerable period. Dr. Harris’ theory that no digestion had taken place in the j small intestine he combated by declaring that the formalin in the j embalming fluid would have destroyed the ferments of the pan- i creatic juice and would have left no way of telling whether or not Dr. Harris’ theory was correct. Impossible to Make a Guess. Attorney Arnold then propounded a hypothetical question to the witness embracing all of the conditions which were found in the stomach of Mary Phagan and then asked him if he or any other doctor could hazard a guess as to how long the food had been in her body before death. Dr. Bachman replied that it would be impossible. The most important admission that the Solicitor wrung from the witness was that if one didn’t find maltose in the stomach, but did find starch it would be probable that digestion had not pro gressed very far. On tlie redirect, Arnold asked the witness: ‘‘Do you know of anyone else in the world, except Dr. II. F. Harris, who would venture an opinion of the nature he has given on the data in his pos session?” Dr. Bachman said he did not lie added also that the medical profession never accepted a pro nouncement of this sort unless it was confirmed by other experts. New Theory Sprung. A new and important development could have compiled Saturday fore noon, instead of Saturday afternoon following the crime, the intricate financial sheet which the defense has introduced. Herbert Schiff. assistant superin tendent of the National Pencil Fac tory, already had identified the finan cial sheet as the work of Frank, pre sumably done by the superintendent on Saturday afternoon, as this was his usual time for doing it. v _ Reuben Arnold had displayed the sheet to the Jury and h.id drawn the jurors’ attention to the fact that the writing was regular, clear and with in the State’s theory of the murder j out any sign ot trembling or nervous- of Mary Phagan came to light Mon- ness on the pnrt of the writer. The day when Solicitor Dorsey sought to • evident purpose was to show that, establish that Leo Frank very easily l rank, after brutally murdering a