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) Copyright, 1913, by The Georgian Company. ★★★★ ATLANTA, QA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DORSEY DEMANDS DEAID PENALTY FDR FRANK IN TRRILEINDDL0S1PLEA; CASE TO JURY MONDAY Solicitors Scathing Address Halted by Adjournment—Had Spoken for More Than Six Hours—Cheered by Big Crowd Outside the Courthouse. I PRISONER CALM, WIFE SOBS AS STATE CHARGES MURDER Slain Girl’s Mother Breaks Down, but Defendant Faces Spectators With Hint of Smile After Perversion Charge Is Hurled at Him. Robert F. Maddox One of Commit teemen Named by Conference of Financiers to Attempt Defeat of Administration’s Currency Plan. Amendments Asked Virtually Take All the Substance From Meas ure While Leaving the Wording Little Changed in Appearance. CHICAGO, Aug 23.—Resolutions at tacking the Owen-Glass currency measure, now before Congress, and raising a committee which includes Robert F. Maddox, of Atlanta, to fight its passage, were adopted unanimous ly by the American Bankers’ Associa tion at the closing session of its con ference at the Hotel LaSalle to-day. The committee, composed of seven of the strongest bankers in the United States, was named by A. Bar ton Hepburn, of New York, chairman of the conference. The members will take the resolutions to Washington and urge the passage of amendments which the bankers’ organization has indorsed. Those named on the committee are: James B. Forgan, president of the First National Bank, Chicago. George H. Reynolds, president of the Continental and Commercial Na tional Bank, Chicago. E. J. Hill, president of the National Bank of Norwalk, Conn. R. F. Maddox, vice president of the American National Bank, Atlanta. Sol Wexler, vice president of the Whitne^ Central National Bank, New Orleans. Joseph Chapman, vice president of the Northwestern National Bank, Minneapolis. Festus B. Wade, president of the Mercantile Trust Company, St. Louis. The resolutions which were adopt ed by the conference as a whole were worked out from a report of a com mittee of fifteen, known as the “cur rency commission” of the American Bankers’ Association. This report was a comprimise between the radi cal faction, led by James B. Forgan. who declared that the entire bill should be renounced by the bankers, and the conciliatory faction, led by George M. Reynolds, who contended that it would probably get the bank ers more to work in harmony with Congress. The bill, as revised by “the curren cy commission” an Indorsed by the entire conference, carries out the For gan idea by emasculating the Owen- Glass bill in spirit, while retaining its outward form and wording, thus pla cating the Reynolds faction. The Vital Changes Asked. The Important changes in the Owen-Glass bill recommended by the conference include the following: That there shall be noet more than five Federal reserve banks instead of twelve. That many of the provisions of the bill applying to national banks shall be optional instead of compulsory. That national banking associa tions which do not come under the provisions of the bill within one year shall not be dissolved as provided by the bill in its present form. That the Federal Reserve Board shall consist of three mem bers chosen by the President, three members by the directors of the Federal reserve banks, and the Secretary of the Treasury, In stead of four members chosen by the President and three others to be members ex-offlcio, the Secre tary of the Treasury, the Secre tary of Agriculture and the Comptroller of th© Currency. That the provision for a Fed eral advisory council shall be eliminated, none being necessary if the bankers are given direct representation oh thef Federal Reserve Board as recommended. That the section of the bill re lating to note issues and bank reserves shall be rewritten entire ly. That the entire section relating to savings departments shall he eliminated, the bankers feeling > that savings departments now conducted by national banks are hampered in an unwarranted manner. The above changes represent only Continued on Page 9, Column 3. Duchess DeChaulnes Is Reported Engaged Paris Society Links Former Theodora Shonts With Andre De Fou- quieres, French Beau Brummel. Special Cable to The American. PARIS, Aug. 23.—Rumors of an en gagement between the Duchess De Chaulnes, formerly Miss Theodora Shonts, and Andre de Fouquieres, the French Beau Brummel, are being whispered in society circles here. During the Beauville season the young widowed Duchess and the French dandy have been seen much together. DeFouquieres stayed at Co- bourg, but it was noticed that he was at the side of the American Duchess at every party she attended. The Duchess has one son. Her hus band, the Duke, died a few months after their marriage. I DeFouquieres recently visited the United States, where he gave lectures on fashions and was well received by society there. Caruso Sadly Says: ‘My Star Is Dimming' Tenor Thinks Public Soon Will De sert Him for Young and Brilliant Star. Special Cable to The American. ROME, Aug. 23.—Caruso, who is taking the cure with his eldest son at Monte Catini, is in a philosophical mood. To a newspaper man he said: “It is about time the public ceased to take an interest in me. There are plenty of young stars rising who soon will shine with dazzling brilliancy in the firmament of art. Mine is dim ming: don’t you think so?” Then he sadly shook his head and walked slowly away. Steer Pursues Girl ■ Up Flight of Stairs Her Red Dress Enrages Animal, Which Breaks Away From Keeper. NORTH ESCANABA, MICH., Aug. 23.—A red dress worn by a young woman so enraged a 2-year-old steer that it broke away from Frank Case, who was leading it through the streets. •" The young woman ran up a nearby stairway, with the infuriated steer in hot pursuit, the animal chasing her to the third story of the building There she escaped by slamming a door in the animal’s face. Pleasant Stovall Arrives at Berne BRIDL'S SECRET IS REVEALED 8? FEAR OF DEATH Young Atlanta Couple Had Kept Pact Entered Into About Ten Months Ago. Death’s shadow alone Saturday af ternoon was responsible for the bar ing of a secret ardently kept for ten months in the hearts of two young Atlanta people, when Miss Eula May Shaw, of No. 572 Capitol avenue, made known that soince Thanksgiv ing day she has been the wife of Frank J. Baker, of No. 11 Eugenia street, who now lies stricken with typhoid fever in the Georgian Hos pital. The announcement came as a com plete surprise even to the parents of the young couple. Miss Shaw and Mr. Bakec met about a year ago at the home of Miss Shaw’s aunt, Mrs. George Gillon, of St. Charles avenue. After that they met often and on Thanksgiving day Journeyed to La- Grange, Georgia, *where they were quietly married by Rev. L. B. Vaughn. « The pair decided to keep the mar riage a secret for one year. Mr. Ba ker is 21 years of age. The year was not yet up when young Baker wa? taken ill. His wife was a constant visitor to the Georgian Hospital. Several weeks ago Mrs. Baker, who keeps on working as a bookkeepeV for the Foote & Davies Company, left Atlanta for her home In Moul trie, Ga., to spend her vacation with her parents. Mr. Baker decided to run down over Sunday and visit his wife. While in Moultrie he was sud denly taken ill. His condition became so serious that his wife insisted on taking him home to Atlanta. One morning last week Baker’s mother was nonplussed when she answered the door bell and beheld her son, pale and wan, on the arm of a young woman whom she had never seen before. The young woman was Miss Shaw, who announced: “I have brought your sick boy home.” The bride remained at the Baker homestead several days until her husband was removed to the Geor gian Hospital. It was decided to make the announcement of the mar riage public. Georgian Presents Credentials as United States Minister to Switzerland. Special Cable to The American. BERNE, SWITZERLAND, Aug. 23. Pleasant A. Stovall, of Savannah, Ga„ presented his credentials to-day as United States Minister to Switzer land. He succeeds H. S. Boutell, of Illinois. From a photograph by a staff photographer of The Sunday American. The Weather. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia — Local showers Sunday; fair Monday. Insisting upon the application of the Mosaic law of “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” Solicitor General Hugh M, Dorsey demanded the life of Leo M. Frank yesterday in expiation of the murder of Mary Phagan on April 26. Nothing less than the death penalty would satisfy justice, de clared the Solicitor in one of the most bitter and impassioned ad dresses a Georgia courtroom audience ever has heard. It was the closing argument of the State before the fate of Frank is placed in the hands of the twelve jurors. It was inter rupted by adjournment at 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon. The So licitor had been speaking since 9 o’clock in the forenoon and was exhausted by his efforts. His address had begun at 3:30 the aft ernoon before and had consumed a total of six and a half hours. CROWD GREETS HIM WITH CHEl RS. When, weak with fatigue, he asked for a recess and court ad journed until Monday morning at 9 o'clock, a great crowd awaited him outside to cheer him and rend the air with their yells because of the magnificent fight he has put up to send Frank to the gal lows for the murder of the little factory girl. The demonstration was spontaneous and was of greater mag nitude than that of the night before. He had aroused to the high est pitch the admiration of the populace for the earnest and de-i termined battle he was conducting for the conviction of the man ho deemed guilty of the murder. Men in front of the courthouse cheered with all their might as Dorsey came in sight from out the courtroom doors. Men fromi across the street took up the cheer and the little Solicitor was given the demonstration of a governor or some other popular hero as he quickly tucked his books and records under his arms and escaped through the crowd into his law offices in the Kiser building. HURLS CHARGE DIRECTLY AT FRANK. If his tongue was tipped with venom and bitterness, it can hardly be said that the Solicitor was not sincere and in earnest* Every word and every pharse that he uttered during his long speech —the longest of the trial—carried with it the conviction that the speaker was in deadly earnest. Much of the time he was talking directly at the prisoner and was accusing him of murder and other crimes unmentionable. He looked Frank right in the eye. He leveled his finger at the defen dant sitting calmly between his mother and his beautiful wife. He called him a “red-handed murderer” and a pervert. Frank did not flinch. • i During a brief intermission, Frank even walked in front of the spectators with the suggestion of a smile on his face. If there was any fear of the verdict in his heart, it was kept buried there, far out of sight of human eyes. LIKENS FRANK TO OSCAR WILDE. Dorsey compared the defendant with that prince of per. verts, Oscor Wilde, and there was never a flicker of Frank's eye nor a change in his quiet, speculative expression. Dorsey told of other men who had possessed good reputations and yet had been guilty of the most heinous offenses—Theodore Durant, of San Francisco; Pastor Richeson, of Boston; Mayor McCue, of CharlottaviQe, Va.; Henry C. Beattie, of Richmond; Dr. Crippen, and others. In the same connection he mentioned the name of Judas Iscariot and Ben edict Arnold, both of whom, he said, were supposed to be of good character until they had become traitors and betrayers. “Character isn’t worth a cent when you’ve got the evideno® before you,” shouted the Solicitor after he had compared Frantt with some of the most infamous persons he could call to mind. PRISONER ENCOURAGES HIS WIFE. His denunciation at times was so unsparing and his words » like a physical blow that it seemed that the prisoner must quail bo. fore him. But Frank maintained his composure. In fact, during a, lull in the storm of inv :: tive he occasionally would lean toward^ his wife or his mother and whisper a few words, accompanying them with a smile. For all that his manner betokened, he might be talking of some amusing incident that had jus»i occured to him. If the Solicitor’s words failed to affect Frank, he was prob* CALM AND COLD WHILE HIS LIFE IS AT STAKE L EO M. FRANK is described as the most remarkable prisoner ever brought before the bar of justice in Georgia. Under the merciless arraignment of Solicitor Dorsey yesterday he sat unmoved and apparently the most unconcerned man in the courtroom. Through all the hours he sat and gazed steadily at the prosecutor. EDITION FOR NORTH GEORGIA