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VOL. XII. NO. 16. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1913.
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Senate Resolution Asks for Con
stabularies to Protect Foreign
ers in Turbulent Republic.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Senator
Penrose to-day introduced a resolu
tion in the Senate declaring it to be
the sense of that body that the Presi
dent of the United States should es
tablish constabularies in Mexico and
place in them a sufficient number of
troops to protect the lives and prop
erty of American citizens.
The resolution also declares it to be
Atlanta Mother
Wants to Ship Her
Boy by Parcel Post
Is a 5-year-old boy mail matter?
Can he be vvrapepd up, with a tag
around his neck, stamps on his head
and handled like a sack of mail?
Jacob Unger, a stenographer in the
office of Superintendent of Malls I. C.
Hart, at the Federal building, wants
to know.
Mrs. James E. Vaughn. 387 Pied
mont avenue, telephoned Superintend
ent Hart’s office late Tuesday.
"Can parents s<end 5-year-old boys
by parcel post?" she inquired.
"I want to 9end my son to Augusta
and I thought it would be so nice to
send him by parcel post. Then I'd
know he wouldn’t get lost or run
over."
Unger told Mrs. Vaughn he would
look through the parcel post regula
tions and see if boys are listed as
merchandise, and are mailable. He is
still looking.
Boston’s Tore and
Aft’ Skirt Winks
Oh!-Coquettishly
Fugitive Not to Appear at Writ
Hearing Because of Danger
of Deportation Arrest.
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 21— Aid
from the Federal authorities in
having Harry K. Thaw deported
to New York State was invoked
to-day by Acting Governor Glynn
and Attorney General Carmody.
Telegrams w«r\ sent to the Sec
retary of Commerce and the Sec
retary of State, as follows:
"In the name of the State of
the sense of the Senate:
That it has been the policy of
the United States to maintain the
Monroe Doctrine.
Tfiat the United States recog
nizes its responsibility under this
doctrine.
That there is internal lawless
ness and warfare in Mexico.
That the continuation of this
condition will add to the compli
cations there.
That the first duty of the Unit
ed States is to protect the lives
and property of its citizens at
home and abroad.
That the extension of such pro
tection will lessen the danger of
foreign interference, and that it is
not the policy of the United States
to aid or assist any faction.
The resolution explains that in
sending troops\ into Mexico for the
purpose of protecting American citi
zens and their property there was
no intent of hostility toward Mexico
and that it could not be considered an
act of war.
Asks Money for Protection.
Senator Penrose asked that the res
olution lie on the table, as he did not
intend to discus it to-day. He then
introduced a proposed amendment to
the first deficiency appropriation bill
providing for an appropriation of $25,-
000,000 for the protection of lives and
property of American citizens in Mex
ico.
This money is to be available at any
time up to July 1, 1914. Senator Pen.
rose, asked that this amendment also
lie on the table.
"American citizens in Mexico have
their rights in international law’ and
under the Constitution,” said Penrose.
"Rather than appropriate a paltry
$100,000 for the removal of these
Americans from Mexico I would spenJ
$25,000,000 to assure their safety and
protection in Mexico.”
Owing to the seriousness of the
Mexican situation, both Senators Ba
con and Lodge of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee insisted that
all matters pertaining to it should be
referred to the Foreign Relations
Committee.
Republicans Protest.
The resolution brought forth a
storm of protest, chiefly from Repub
lican Senators, who said they thought
the President was doing everything
possible to better conditions.
Senator Smoot said he was op
posed to intervention, and believed
President Wilson was doing every
thing that could be done. Senator
Bacon (Georgia) said that many Sen
ators, including himsetf, restrained
themselves with difflculty^when dis
cussing the Mexican situation.
Senator Fall, of New Mexico, urged
that not only the Senate, but the gen
eral American public, be given more
information as to the policies of th-3
Administration and the exact situa
tion and conditions in Mexico.
"There is a growing sentiment in
the United States of resentment," said
Senator Fall. "I believe the people,
should be informed rather than in
flamed."
Senator Penrose consented that the
resolution he introduced on previous
■days respecting the Mexican situation
now be referred to the Foreign Rela
tions Committee. He said he would
be glad to furnish the Foreign Rela
tions Committee with the facts in his
possession which promoted him la^
week to attack William Bayard Halo,
a personal representative of President
Wilson in Mexico.
BOSTON, Aug. 21.—The "fore and
aft” skirt created a sensation in
Cambridge streets to-day, when a
young woman wearing one was seen
promenading Harvard Square.
The skirt had a very slight slash,
w'hich allowed an emerald petticoat
and silken hose to wink coquettishly
an she walked.
By leaving one side buttoned all the
time the garment may be wrapped
about the waist as one piece of cloth.
All that remains to do is to button up
the one side.
Result: The coiffure is not disar
ranged and the young man does not
have to miss the first act waiting for
"Snooky Ookums" to dress.
High Cost of Walking
Now Confronts Us
CHICAGO. Aug. 21.—Shoes that
cost $2 to $2.50 to-day may cost $5 and
$7 in a few' years. This gloomy pre
diction was made by J. Harry Selz,
newly elected president of a million-
dollar shoe manufacturing corpora
tion.
The reason, he told the assembled
salesmen of his company, was the
alarming decrease in cattle produc
tion in the United States.
Millionaire Taking
Woman's ‘Fast Cure'
SEATTLE. WASH., Aug 21.—Rob
ert Graham, the millionaire British
bread king, is taking the "fast cure"
under the notorious Linda Burfield
Hazzard. despite the warning of the
British Vice Consul that several Brit
ish subjects have been starved to
death.
For thus killing one of her patients,
this woman is now under sentence
to the penitentiary.
Bryan to Stump for
Democrat in Maine
WASHINGTON, AUg. 21.—Secre
tary of State Bryan will do his first
electioneering since becoming a mem
ber of the Cabinet, early in Septem
ber.
He will spend two days in Maine
trying to elect William R. Pettengill
as Representative from the Third
Maine District. The death of Repre
sentative Goodwin caused the va
cancy.
‘Tango’ and ‘Trot’ on
Last Legs in Chicago
CHICAGO, Aug. 21.—Last rites
were being prepared to-day for the
tango and the turkey trot in Chi
cago restaurants and cafes following
the action of the City Council in
adopting an ordinance prohibiting
these dances and barring the wearing
of tights in cabaret performances.
Mayor Harrison said he would sign
the ordinance in time to make it ef
fective August 30.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair Thursday and
Friday.
New York, we request that you
ask Canadian immigration au
thorities to deport Harry K. Thaw
to the State of New York. Haste
is necessary.”
SHERBROOKE, QUE.. Aug. 21.—
The legal fight to prevent the de
portation or extradition of Harry K.
Thaw into New York by Canada was
carried to the very seat of the Do
minion Government to-day by W. L.
Shurtleff, of counsel for Thaw.
Shurtleff left here for the Canadian
capital to lay Thaw’s case before the
Department of Immigration.
Mr. Shurtleff said he would make
a direct appeal for the release of
Thaw on the ground that he is il
legally detained here.
"We will ask ‘British Justice’ for
Thaw'." said Mr. Shurtleff. "If Thaw
is to be sent out of this country, we
contend he should be deported at
the point w'here he entered Canada
and not turned over to New York.”
It was learned that Mr. Shurtleff
carried a promise from Thaw to the
immigration authorities in Ottawa to
leace Canada at once if allowed to
choose his destination. This destina
tion would be either Europe or South
America.
Judge Arthur Globensky postponed
the hearing of arguments on Thaw’s
petition for freedom on a writ of ha
beas corpus from 10 o’clock this
morning until 2 o'clock this after
noon in the Superior Court.
May Seek Further Delay.
Thaw’s counsel said they would
seek further delay until next Monday.
After a long night conference, coun
sel for Thaw' decided that they would
not produce the Matteawan fugitive
in the Superior Court to-day on the
writ obtained yesterday.
It w’as supposed that Thaw’s law
yers did not wish to subject him so
soon to the danger of arrest by the
immigration authorities.
District Attorney E. A. Conger, of
Dutchess County, New York (in
which Matteawan is located), was
unable to see Thaw until to-day, al
though Sheriff Hornbeck, also of
Dutchess County, who arrived here
with Mr. Conger, was able to get to
the prisoner. Hornbeck ha« in his
pocket a warrant charging Thaw with
conspiring "against the peace and
dignity of the State of New York to
escape from the State asylum at Mat
teawan."
An investigation of the manner in
which Thaw' came Into possession of
a railroad ticket for Detroit, Mich., is
being made. The Dominion authori
ties are not satisfied that Thaw
bought the ticket himself.
It was learned from an authorita
tive source that immigration officers
who are here plan to arrest Thaw on
the ground that he smuggled his way
into Canada if he gets his freedom
on a habeas corpus writ. The village
of St. Hermenegitde, where Thaw
and his companions came into Can
ada from the United States, Is not a
port of entry.
Suffragettes Cut
London Phone Lines
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 21.—Part of Lon
don was isolated to-day, so far as
telephone communication was con
cerned.
Suffragettes had cut the wires.
DEFENDER OF FRANK WHO
RIDICULES PROSECUTION j
Attorney Reuben Arnold, who opened the closing argument for the defense in the Frank trial.
WITH KNIVES
As a result of a knife battle fougnt
within a few' yards of the doors of
the New Hope Church, in Cobb
County, three miles out of Marietta,
after prayer meeting Wednesday
night, two mep are dead, one is
probably fatally wounded and a
fourth is held by a Coroner’s verdict
on a charge of murder.
The dead are Fred Lemmings and
John McElroy. John Harper has
wounds in a shoulder and lung and fs
in a serious condition.
Fred Harper is held by the Coro
ner's Jury charged with killing Lem
mings.
The trouble between the Harpers
and the Lemmings dates back to the
last term of the Cobb County Su
perior Court, when Charles Lem
mings, a brother of Fred Lemmings,
was sentenced to the chaingang on a
charge of cursing before women. The
Lemmings clan assert that he was
not guilty, but haJ been railroaded to
the chaingang through false testi
mony.
Wednesday night the warring clans
met at the doors of New Hope
Church. When the pastor pronounced
the benediction and the congregation
filed slowly out of the little church,
the warring families met almost li-
rectly in front cf the doors. Hot
words were exchanged.' Knives
flashed and the battle began amid tne
screams of the women and children.
Sulzer and Glynn
Imbroglio Has Echo
In Georgia Capitol
That the Sulzer-Glynn gubernato
rial mix-up in New' York State has a
far-reaching effect w'as indicated at
the Georgia Capitol Thursday wher
the Governor found his hands tied in
connection with efforts to have Ho
mer Reed extradited from New York.
Reed is charged with bad stock ma
nipulation in Appling County.
Following the fndictment Reed fled
to the District of Columbia and later
to New York when Governor Joe
Brown made efforts to have him ex
tradited just before he retired from
office.
In the meantime the matter was
held up just long enough for the Sui •
zer-Glynn imbroglio to interfere. The
upshot of the whole matter now it
that Mr. Sulzer, erstwhile Governor of
New York, according to the ruling of
the Attorney General of that Stat;,
has the requisition papers for Reed
in his pocket. The final disposition
of the ematter has all the Georgia
statehouse officials guessing.
Free Wool Is Urged
By Nevada Senator
WASHINGTON. Aug. 21.—"I am
heartily in favor of the free raw wool
provision of the tariff bill,’’ declared
Senator Pittman of Nevada, one of
the greatest wool-producing States in
the country
“I am firmly convinced that the
provision is for the best Interest of
my State and other States."
Postmaster Hugh L. McKee Wed
nesday denounced as false the state
ment that he would comply with the
demand of First Assistant Postmaster
General Roper and resign his position
as postmaster of Atlanta.
"Most emphatically do I assert,"
said Mr. McKee, "that I will fight the
recent request of the department. Had
my resignation merely been requested
on the grounds that the Administra
tion wished to appoint another man, a
member of the Democratic party, in
my place, I most certainly w’ould have
complied with teh request at once.
"In the letter demanding my resig
nation it was stated that charges of
inefficiency had been filed against me.
I will not resign without knowing
what these charges are. I am guilty
of absolutely ng violation of any rules
of the PostofiifS> Department and can
disprove any charges.
"While it is true that perhaps I am
not familiar with ail the minor de
tails of the postal erevice, I have men
under me who are familiar with them.
All complaints come to me. Hence I
know when everything is running
smoothly. Mr. Cole, my assistant, is
competent to hanole all financial mat
ter?, and my superintendent of mails,
Mr. Hart, is a man with eighteen
years' experience in the postal service.
Reuben R. Arnold, defending Leo M. Frank against
the charge of a brutal murder, with all ofthe eloquence
at his command in his argument to the jury Thursday,
placed on the prejudice of race the responsibility for
what he described as one of the worst conspiracies
against a man’s life that ever had come before a Georgia
court.
His address followed a scathing arraignment of Frank by
Frank A. Hooper, who opened the argument for the State and
demanded the conviction of the defendant on the plea that the
evidence presented left no other conclusion than of Frank’s guilt.
Arnold declared that in order to get a case having any sem
blance of merit against Frank, the State had been compelled to
draw many of its witnesses from the dregs of humanity, had been
forced to depend upon the ever-shifting stories of “the black prince
of perjurers, the miserable Jim Conley,” and had been driven to
change its own theories from time to time, discrediting its own
witnesses as they changed. \
Charges Efforts To Make Time Agree.
Directing his remarks as much to the counsel for the State as
to the twelve men in the jury box, he charged that in order to
place Frank’s life in jeopardy, Solicitor Dorsey and his colleague,
Hooper, had gone to the extreme length of assuming on the one
hand that the street car on which Mary Phagan came to town was
several minutes ahead of time and on the other that the clock at
the factory was five or ten minutes behind time.
They had established by their own witness, George Epps, he
said, that Mary arrived in town at 12:07 o’clock and then forth
with had started out to destroy Epps ’ testimony and arouse the
assumption that she got in town at 12:02 or 12:03.
Arnold was only well started on his address when recess came
at 12:30. He began a review of all of the circumstances preceding
and following the crime as soon as court opened in the afternoon.
Through all the day Frank’s mother and wife sat by him. The
younger Mrs. Frank sat much of the time with her arm linked
with that of her husband. Very little change in the appearance
of the three persons was observable. Frank smiled slightly when
Hooper satirically was describing Frank’s actions at the Selig
home Saturday night when he is said to have interrupted a card
game which was in progress by the relation of a funny story he
had read in a magazine.
Hooper Emphasizes Gantt* s Trip to Factory.
Mr. Hooper emphasized various features of the State’s case
that had not been clearly brought out before, dwelling particularly
on the incident of J. M. Gantt’s visit to the factory on the after
noon of the tragedy and how Frank had at first refused to let him
enter, and how the accused man had called up Newt Lee, the
watchman, later, fearful, said Hooper, that Gantt had discovered
something.
Arnold to Attack Every Argument.
After Hooper had finished his argument he began presenting
authorities to the judge to guide him in making his charge to the
jury. He declared that the jury should not be charged that direct
evidence was superior to circumstantial evidence.
Attorney Reuben Arnold, opening for the defense, had pre
pared an exhaustive review of the evidence, planning to attack
every argument made by the State no matter how apparently un
important.
It seemed probable that Mr. Arnold would talk most of the
afternoon. Luther Rosser will follow him. He has stated that he
will not talk more than two hours at the most, and Solicitor Dor
sey will close with what is expected to be the masterpiece of his
career. The Solicitor will be unsparing in his words and go into
greater detail in discussing the evidence against Frank.
Before Thursday’s session began Frank had expressed him
self as entirely confident of the outcome.
“I am certain that I will be
acquitted and set right before
the world,” he said. “It has
been a terrible ordeal, but I
await the outcome with the ut
most confidence.”
"May It please your honor and gen
tlemen of the jury," began Mr. Hoop
er, "the object of this trial, as of all
other cases, is the ascertaining of
truth and the attainment of justice.
I want to distinctly impress upon you
the correctness of our position. Wj
want it distinctly understood that we
are not seeking a verdict of guilty
unless this man is guilty.
"We want it distinctly understood
that the burden of proving him guilty
is on our shoulders. We recognize
that this has got to be done beyond a
reasonable doubt, and from the evi
dence. We cheerfully assume this
burden.
"There is not one connected with
the prosecution who would see a hair
of the head of this man injured
wrongfully.
"We want him to have the rights
and protection of the law just as any
other citizen. He is entitled to the