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VOL. XII.
NO. 11.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1913.
Copyright 1906,
By The Georgian Co.
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SULZERIN
Impeached Governor Posts Sen
tries and Defies Foes—Attack
on Murphy Planned.
Slit Uniforms for Another Big Jewel
Chicago Policewomen Theft Stirs England
CHICAGO, Aug. 1
shorn of the “lady cops” turned to
real fear to-day when the “Catch ’em
Skirts” was announced. The “Catch
’em” is a skirt of the usual narrow
Malefactors’ ! Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BIRMINGHAM, ENG., Aug. 15.—
ALBANY. N. Y.. Aug. 15.—While
Albany swarmed to-day with scores
of private detectives who kept every
State officer under close surveillance,
the stage was set for a fight in court
to determine whether William Sulzer.
who was impeached by the Assembly
for high crimes and misdemeanors, or
Martin H. Glynn, the Lieutenant Gov
ernor, shall exercise the prerogatives
of the office of State executive until
the Court of Impeachpient sits on
September 18.
Surrounded by strong guards. Mr.
Sulzer, the impeached executive, held
the official gubernatorial residence
with the privy seal of the Common-
1 wealth in his possession. The Grpat
* Seal of the State, however, was
I chained to a pedestal in the office of
: Secretary of State May.
It was learned to-day that Lieuten
ant Governor Glynn will resort to
the power of his riffice to force Sul
zer to relinquish his claim as Gov
ernor in case he elects to ignore a
formal letter infomflng“fltm That Mrr
Glynn is the executive.
State Secretary for Glynn.
The letter, which is a brief one,
contains the statement that the As
sembly has impeached William Sul
zer and calls upon him to turn over
the possession of the office, State
documents and the custody of the
executive chamber forthwith.
“I recognize Mr. 'Glynn as Govern
or, and shall officially honor no com
mands of Mr. Sulzer.” said Secretary
of State May to-day. “If he takes
exceptions to my position, I shall ask
the Attorney General for an opinion
and abide by it.”
It is understood that Mr. Glynn is
to make a request in the form of an
Poor Woman! She’s
Losing Figure and
Getting Horse Feet
Los Angeles, I
Cal., Aug.' 15.—
“In a few gen
erations Ameri
can women will
have feet like
horses.” said Miss
Clara Houston, of
Chicago, owner 'f
the most perfect
feet in the world,
“unless they stop
wearing slippers
and shoes that
throw’ the feet
out of shape and
squeeze the toes
so that they over
lap.” According
to Miss Houston,
dancing i s ex
tremely harmful
for the feet. She
declares that tho
tango* and the
turkey trot have
made a number of
chiropodists pros
perous this year.
Washington, D.
C., Aug. 15.—The
wife of the Amer
ican farmer is
losing her. figure
This is due tc
water — its hand
ling, not its use
— according t o
President Joseph
Cook, of the Mis
sissippi Normal
College. “The
water for the
kitchen has to be
lifted so many
times after it is
drawn from the
well,” said Mr.
Cook, “that the
lift a day will be
brought up to a
ton, and the lift
ing of a ton a
day w i I take
the elacticity out
of a woman’s
s»tep, the bloom
out of her cheek
and enjoyment
from her soul.”
KILL ED IN
Miller Given Boost
For Macon Mayoralty
MACON. Aug. 15.—In the clash
over the naming of a new City Ex
ecutive Committee by a mass meet
ing at the Auditorium last night,
the Mayoralty boom for Representa
tive Wallace Miller received pro
nounced impetus.
While the present candidates. A. L.
Dasher and Bridges Smith, through
their friends, sought to name the new
committee and Mr. Smith practical
ly triumphed in this respect, yet the
nominations were all put by former
■fiettretiunttuUr*..L“F‘"rmWN'
announced that he whs present to
protect Mr. Miller’s interests. The
charge was made on the floor that
the administration had corraled
eleven unnaturalized Assyrians and
was voting them.
Hugh W. Pennington Meets Death
in West Point Route Crash
Near Hogansville, Ga
Hugh W. Pennington, No. 165 South
Pryor street, was killed when a
through freight on the Atlanta and
West Point Railroad between Atlanta
and Montgomery w’as ditched at Ho-
gansvllle, Ga., early Friday morning.
According to officials of the road,
the wreck was caused by a spreading
of the rails. Eleven cars of merchan
dise and three cars of baggage were
derailed, the engine remaining on the
track. None of the traLi crew was
injured.
As a result of the wreck passenger
trains on the Atlanta and West Point
are being detoured over the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic by way of
Union City and LaOrange, Ga
When Is Boarding
House Not One, Is
Riddle for Mayson
Recorder Pro Tern. Preston has re
quested City Attorney Mayson to be
present in police court Friday after
noon to construe the city boarding
house ordinance and tax ordinances,
which are apparently in conflict.
The question was raised in the ease
of Mrs. B. E. Carroll, of No. 15 Hous
ton street, accused of conducting a
boarding house without a license. A
vides that all boarding houses must
recently enacted city ordinance pro-
have a license. The tax ordinance
provides that all boarding houses of
as many as fifteen rooms must pay
a license fee and specifies the amoiint.
Mrs. Carroll’s house contains less
than fifteen rooms and she contends
that she does not need a license.
proportions, but equipped with a long
slit and a drawstring. The “lady
cop” can’t run fast when the slit is
closed for ordinary gait. But if speed
is necessary, the wearer pulls a mys
terious string, and—lo! a long slit,
reaching up to the knee, appears. -r-r ■ -rj- /*>4\
Only policew omen, of course, wlil | Xj.6I*6 S Y OUT L/I.13/I1C6
be allowed to wear the new skirt.
Another sensational Jewel robbery was offlcla] ()rdpr t0 _ day> whlch the Sec
reported to-day. The police were in
formed that a packet containing
“thousands of pounds worth of jew
els” had been stolen from the mail?
between London and Birmingham.
Recently a necklace valued at $750,-
000 w’as stolen between Paris and
London. The same thieves are sus
pected in both cases.
Fifteen Tons of Bad
Chicken Confiscated ;
To Get $2,500 Dog
CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—The $20,000
] collection of Airedale Terrace Amer-
| ical and English bulldogs, owned by
j Franz Porter, was offered for' sale
CHICAGO. Aug. 15.—The Govern- | to-day by Frank L. Wean, referee In
ment to-day was holding 32,000 : bankruptcy.
pounds of cold storage chicken and 66 [ The Porter kennels were reputed to
bnttk-s of imitation champagne. Li- j be the finest in the West. Several
bels ordering the seizure were Issued j jogs in Porter's collection cost him as
after the poultry was traced from | muc .j, as $2,500 each.
F^Kans is City to Philadelphia and back
L to Chicago.
The report of a Government in
spector said 93 per cent of the fowls
were diseased and unfit for food. The
imitation champagne was labeled
“Extra Dry Champain.”
NEGRO ATTACKS JAILER.
COLUMBUS.—When Jailer Lay-
field went to the assistance of Officer
Beahn in arresting a negro, a brother
of the man wanted made a murder
ous assault on the jailer with a pick
handle.
What Do You Know
About Ice Cream ?
What do you know about tho adulterations, the
dangers, the poisons in the soda water and other
“soft drinks’’ that your children take?
I)r. Wiley, the great food specialist, formerly
head of the national health department, KNOWS
ALL ABOUT SUUI1 THINGS.
See what he has to sav on the subject in the
August number of (iOOI) IIOUSKK KEPI NO, now
on the newsstands.
Know the risks that you and your children
run, and protect yourselves. Read Dr. Wiley’s
articles on pure food every month in Good House
keeping Magazine.
retary of State will honor. Thus two
moves will be made to secure at once
an opinion from the Attorney Gen
eral
Street Gatherings Banned.
All the reserve police are on duty
with instructions to prevent street
gatherings which may culminate in
political riots. Never before, even
during Senatorial investigations, have
so many private detectives swarmed
the State capital. Every man in pub
lic life is being watched.
It has become known that Judge
D. H. Cady Herrick and other of Mr.
Sulzer’* counselors are casting about
to find if they can bring criminal
charges against Charles F. Murphy*
State leader of Tammany, on the
ground that Mr. Murphy had con
spired with other Democrats to cause
the downfall of the government.
Friends of the Governor declare that
the executive could have forestalled
Impeachment in the Assembly If he
had consented to relinquish his fight
for certain State measures. This he
refused to do in the full belief that
the Assembly vote would show a ma
jority against the Impeachment res
olution.
Fresh complications have been add
ed by the fact that Aaron J. Levy,
. majority leader in the Assembly, has
J become overcome by the excitement
I and is confined to his bed, suffering
from nervous prostration.
Give Legal Aid Free.
I The following lawyers have con
sented to repiesent Governor Sulzer
without charge: Irving G. Vann of
Syracuse: Harvey D. H in man, of
Binghamton: A. G. Fox, of New
York, and Louis Marshall, of New’
York.
Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, may
get into the fight, as he has offered
Governor Sulzer $100,000 with which
ro fight Tammany if Mr. Lawson is
I allowed to direct the campaign.
Friends of the Governor urged him to
accept.
Mr. Glynn has retained Attorney
Edwin Countryman, Patrick C. Du
gan and several other well-known
lawyer’*. Although 75 years old, Mr.
Countryman is regarded as one of the
J beat lawyers in this city.
Wrote a Poem for
The Judge; Is Freed
Grace Church Plans
A Record Revival
GOiiSI FIT: CROWDS
Col. Peel Praises
English Organist
Colonel W. L. Peel, of the Atlanta
Music Festival Association, who has
heard Eugene Wyatt play, declared
Friday that music lovers here will be
given a rare treat Sunday afternoon
when the famous English organist
appears at the free concert in the
Auditorium. Mr. Wyatt, who has
been the organist at the Crystal Pal
ace, London; Royal Albert Hall, and
musical director of All Hallows Ca
thedral, is one of the world’s emi
nent organists.
He has frequently played in Lon
don to more than 12,000 people at a
time. His Atlanta program will be
of a nature to give full play to his
brilliant ability and technique.
CHICAGO, Aug. 15. — James J.
Ahearn, who claim* to be a poet, was
formin■ ■ wpewwa 1 r stupor by
: South Chicago police. When
I raigned he defended himself before
j Judge Sullivan. He was asked to
1 prove his occupation, and retired to
another room with a pencil and an
inspired look. This is what he did:
“I hope, Mr. Judge, the day never
comes
When you, like myself, will have to
write poems.
And may you and your wife
Live a happy life.”
“It wouldn’t be right to send you
to jail,” said the Judge. “You’d bo
writing poems for all the other pris
oners. Discharged.”
Antis Fight Special
Suffrage Committee
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—On the
ground that the womansuffragists
were wasting the time of members of
Congress, and that such waste was*
“politically immoral.” anti-suffragists
appealed to the Rules Committee of
the House to-day against the crea
tion of a special committee on wo
man suffrage.
Mrs. William Force Scott, of New
York, attacked Miss Jane Adams,
saying there wan no good reason for
the latter's suggestion that the pres
ent committees of the House were
unable to deal fairly with the suf
frage question.
What is expected to be the greatest
revival In the history of the church
will begin Sunday at the Grace Meth
odist Church, corner of Boulevard and
Highland avenue. Dr. Charles O.
Jones has arranged the revival and
will be assisted by O. W. Stapleton
arid the Rev. J. M. Bass, of the South
Georgia conference. Mr. Stapleton
will conduct the choir with the assist
ance of J. Gordon Moore and Miss
Ruth Chapman.
A feature of the revival will be the
holding of cottage prayer meetings
sixteen of which have already been
arranged. These cottage prayer meet
ings will be held daily, while there
will be services at the church morn
ing, afternoon and evening.
•;;h3 Brewers Operated
On for Appendicitis
ST. JOSEPH, MO. Aug. 15.— 1 Three
brothers, Frank, Henry and M. A.
Matheny, of Bioekton, Iowa, were op
erated on at a hospital here to-day
for appendicitis. The operations, one
after the other, were performed by the
same physician, and all the patients
are doing well.
Another brother died of appendici
tis severul months ago without in
j operation.
University Club to
Widen Its Influence
A non-resident board of advisers
for the University Club has been sug
gested by Thomas W. Oonnally. sec
retary, and others, and to sound the
sentiment of the members a letter
has been sent out to them. Mr. Con-
nally said Thursday he had had a
stack of replies, and that most of the
correspondents favored the idea.
The plan Is to make the University
Club more of a social and educational
organization and to extend its influ
ence over the State. To accomplish
this the officials of the club feel that
it is necessary to name an advisory
board of non-resident members. At
oresent the club is run by a govern
ing board of Council in conjunction
with the executive committee.
Picnicker Falls Into
Burgoo Pot; Stewed
LEXINGTON. KY, Aug. 15.—Nat
Gist is near death to-day after be
ing boiled in a kettle of burgoo at
the Blue Grass Fair last night.
He was tending the fire under the
huge caldron which was burled so
that the top of the kettle was level
with the ground. His foot slipped
and he tumbled head first into the
boiling food.
1
Wife Given 63 Cents
l
A Week Asks Divorce
CINCINNATI, Aug 15.—Because her 1
husband insisted that 63 cents a week
was enough to support herself and baby,
Mrs Bessie Horowitz has asked for a
divorce.
Girl in Diggs Case
Withstands Grill
BAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 15.—The
trial of former State Architect Maury
I. Diggs on a charge of violating the
white slave law was resumed to-day
with Lola Norris, one of the princi
pals in the flight to Reno, on the
stand.
The self-possessed, confident bear
ing that marked Miss Norris’ first
appearance on the witness*stand yes
terday had not deserted her and she
answered the questions flung at her
by the defense In a frank, firm man
ner.
Miss Norris testified that she was
a good girl until she arrived in Reno,
and the defense made unavailing ef
forts to discredit this statement.
Bankers Again Name
Maddox As Delegate
R. F. Maddox, vice president of
the American National Rank, who
represented the Atlanta Clearing
House at the conference of bankers
with Secretary McAdoo in Washing
ton, also will represent the Clearing
House at a conference of the Amer
ican Bankers’ Association in Chicago
August 22.
This conference of bankers from all
parts of the United Slates will dis
cuss the new currency hill.
Rich Youth Weds
In Tennis Romance
NF'V YORK, Aug 15.—William
Welgntman III, a member of the
widely-known Philadelphia famil/.
and grandson of the “Quinine King of
America.” married Miss Mary Healy
Powers, of Shelby. Iowa. They are
now on a trip around the world.
It W’as across a tennis net that
Weightman carried on his courtship.
Fumigate Trail of
A Smallpox Victim
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.. Aug 15.—A
number of railroad depots and car*
will undergo a rigid disinfection as
the result of a trip from Fairmont’
Neb., to Clinton and Weldon. Ill., of
of Clayton Townsend, who has small
pox.
Interest in the trial of Leo M. Frank surged up
ward magically Friday when it was reported about the
courtroom that the defense was nearing the close of its
case, and that the defendant himself would be placed on
the stand within a short time to make his only state
ment before his fate was placed in the hands of the
twelve jurers.
The rumor spread outside the court house mysteriously and
an unusual number sought admittance early in the day, although
it was regarded as most unlikely that Frank would go to the stand
until afternoon. Luther Rosser said he thought he would call the
defendant about the middle of the afternoon. Attorney Arnold
announced the defense probably would rest by night.
As the last witnesses were being called by the defense, Frank,
his wife and his mother viewed the proceedings with the same
calmness that has marked their demeanor since the trial began,
with the exception of the outburst of the mother two days before.
On Friday she looked steadfastly downward and slightly toward
the judge’s bench as though she might be having some difficulty
in maintaining her attitude of confidence and calmness.
Likely Rot to Call Mincey.
As the defense neared the close of its case, the probability of
the calling of W. H. Mincey diminished. Mincey is the insurance
solicitor who swore that he talked to Conley the afternoon of the
murder of Mary Phagan, and that Conley boasted to him of kill
ing a girl. The attorneys for Frank would not announce definitely
their intentions in respect to Mincey or with what credence they
looked upon his story.
Solicitor Dorsey brought before the jury for the first time,
Friday the intimation that Frank might have sought to have dis-
quised bsi handwriting when he was asked to write the test notes
by the police and detectives.
M. O. Nix, a credit man at Montag Bros., was called to the,
stand to identify Frank’s handwriting on the financial sheet.
When Dorsey took the witness over for cross-examination he
showed photographic copies of the notes Frank write and asked,
Nix if it was Frank’s writing. The witness was unable to say.
The Solicitor did not suggest any motive in disguising his hand.
The Solicitor endeavored to get Joseph Stelker, cne of the fac
tory foremen, to testify that Frank did not go in to view the body
of Mary Phagan when he was taken down to identify the girl.
Stelker testified for the defense that some cf the red varnish used
in the factory made stains very much like the supposed blood'
spots found on the factory floor.
The defense continued calling
France Trains Eagles
To Fight Aeroplanes
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Aug. 15-—The French
War Office will use eagles to harass
possible enemies In aeroplanes, ac
cording to Pastor Schuster, well-
known ornithologist, who declares
birds are being trained to attack mod
els of aeroplanes, destroying them
with their l«eaka and claws.
FIRST SEA ISLAND
BALE ARRIVES AT ADEL
ADEL, GA., Aug. 15.—Adel received
the first bale of Sea Island cotton In
the South Thursday. It was grown
and marketed by J. S. Jones, weighed
450 pounds and was shipped by J. E.
and W. B. Wilks to Malloch, of Sa
vannah. This is thirteen days earlier
than last year.
character witnesses at intervals
throughout the forenoon. Nnoe
was cross-questioned yesterday
and all said Frank’s character
was good.
When the case was resumed Friday
it was very problematical when the
defense would finish. According to
Luther Rosser, the defense may rest
before evening with Leo Frank hav
ing told his story on the stand, but
Reuben Arnold was of the opinion
that the defense still would be put
ting in evidence to-morrow.
Frank’s statement on the stand un
questionably will be one of the strik
ing features of the trial. He has
studied the State’s case carefully, and
it is said will not content himself
with merely denying his guilt and
explaining his movements on the fatal
day, but will go somewhat into what
he believes are the weaknesses of the
State’s chain of circumstances.
According to Frank's friends, the
prisoner has been anxious for his at
torneys to allow him to be cross-
questioned, but they have doubted the
wisdom of allowing him to go through
the ordeal after the strain of the last
few months.
I>r. J. E. Summerfleld, No. 300
OLD CITIZEN PASSES AWAY.
VIDALIA. J. A. McArthur, one of
the most prominent citizens of Mont
gomery County, is dead at his home
at Longpohd, after an illness of some
time. Mr. McArthur was a member
of one of the best known families in
this part of the Sta te.
the first witnesses called Friday and
both responded fivorably to the usu
al qu j stions about Frank’s character
put by Attorney Arnold.
No attempt at. cross-examination
was made by Solicitor Dorsey. The
State had an equally imposing army
of witnesses—most of them women—
ready to go on the stand in rebuttal
of the evidence upholding the pris
oner’s character.
A curious problem will arise when
they are summoned. The State can
only ask its witnesses as to the gen
eral character of the defendant, just
as the defense has done, and it will be
up to the defence to ask about par
ticular Incidents on the cross-exami
nation or rest content with allowing
the opinions of the State’s witnesses
to go unchallenged. In that event it
would be merely one group saying
Frank s character is good against an
other saying it Is bad, with the jury
to decide which it prefers to believe.
B. J. Nix, of Marietta, an office boy
for the National Pencil Company
from April to October, 1912, was the
third witness of the morning.
Q. What days were you off?—A. I
w’as off nearly every Saturday until
September.
Q. What time did you leave on the
, Saturdays you worked?—A Usually
Washington street, who said ho hart j worke d until 4 or 6 o'clock,
lived in At'anta for nineteen yearn
and F. Schi.f, No. 38 Fair street, who!
has lived here for fifty years, were,
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Occasional showers
Friday and Saturday.
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Q. Do you recall missing any Sat
urdays when you were supposed to
work?—A. No.
Q. Did you ever know Frank to
have any women there drinking with
him?—A. No.
Dorsey took the witness on cross-
examination.
Q. When they were working on that
building on Forsyth street, vfifctot timo