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ALWAYS FIRST ® ® The SUNDA Y AMERICAN Order it NOW '-== Both Phones Main 100 The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—-GEORGIAN WANT ADS—-Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 21. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27. 1913. 2 CENTS. PAY NO MORE ... .■ . -■ ■ — — ■ ‘AMERICANS MUST QUIT MEXICO’ —■ 1 +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ 4.*+ 11 ipv cc:d\/ioi: oai i crrA m ^ . -w- ^ . - JURY SERVICE CALLED SUPREME LOVE TEST MRS. F. V. L. SMITH. +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ 4-»4- 4-«+ +«•!. +#+ + , + Wilson Tells Congress Situation Is Critical 4-e4« +#+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ -r*+ 4-#4» 4. #4. +•+ FRANK TO LEAD OWN FIGHT FOR LIFE Frank Trial ‘Temporary Widow’ and Husband Happily ‘Reunited.’ “If you are not sure whether you love your husband, let him serve on a jury for four weeks—then you’ll know!” Mrs. Frederick V. L. Smith, of No. 481 Cherokee avenue, said it—and sighed. But it was a happy sigh, for Mr. Smith, his face wreathed in one of those “I, John, take thee, Mary" smiles, was coming hurriedly up the sidewalk home from business fully an hour earlier than usual. Not 24 hours before they had been reunited, after Mr. Smith had been a stranger to his own home—a stranger to every place except the Kimball House and the courtroom— for four long weeks, serving on the famous Frank jury. “I don't think there is anything,'* Mrs. Smith continued, “that would cause a woman to realize how much she loved her husband as to have him be on a jury; to be a 'widow' and yet know that your huSband is in the same city that you are. “Let him pass you two or three times a day, and not be allowed to speak to him—only to look and wave a handkerchief. Let those old dep uty sheriffs stop him when he goe3 to say ‘hello.’ and caution you to be quiet when you start to ask him if he is being taken care of, if he gets enough to eat and if his plo.thing needs mending—why, I don’t see how you can help making a vow never to speak a cross word to him. •Little Dan Cupid may bear the burden during courtship and honey moon, but after marriage he has a great aid in jury service. I’ll just bet if a womaii who fusses and nags her husband would let him serve on a jury for a month or so she'd be per manently cured. • It’s & tv.?rible thing to be a tem porary wRn'v. There must be a bet ter word to e^^ess it than ‘terri ble,’ but ii I don’t know *t, unless I say it was simply awful. I had almost rather my husband would be dead than be on a jury. I don't think a real widow has a bit harder time than a ‘temporary one.’” Mrs. Smith, besides being one of the most beautiful of the eleven “temV porarv widows,” is also one of the most remarkable. When her husband was caught in the jury net he was not given time to get any one to take charge of his business. So Mrs. Smith, despite the fact that she had a baby to take care of. step ped into the breach, and during the four weeks of the trial has conducted her husband's business afTairs a well as he could himself. Every morn ing saw her at his office in the Em pire Building—and every noon and evening saw her at the doors of the courthouse waving greetings to her “dead” husband. Wife at Last Collapses. The strain, however, was too great, and during the last week of the trial Mrs. Smith worked solely on h-r “nerve.” She came home Monday evening very nervous, and shortly after 8 o'clock, when she received a telephone message from her husband that he was coming home, she col lapsed. Mr. Smith, returning at 1 j o’clock, after an absence of four weeks, found his wife unconscious and physician* bending ove r her. Mrs. Smith was unconscious foi* nearly two hours, and for more than half an hour of that Lime it was feared she was dead. By Tuesday afternoon, however, she had fully recovered her strength. Solicitor, However, Is Undecided Whether to Move Against the Negro This Week or Wait. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atalnta and Georgia^—Generally fair Wed nesday and Thursday. \ In the desperate battle that has been started for the life of Leo M. Frank, sentenced Tuesday to hang October 10 for the slaying of Mary Phagan, the two brilliant legal generals, Luther Rosser and Reuben Arnold, will have in active council with them the con victed man himself. Solicitor Dorsey, asked Wednesday when he probably would ask for the indictment of Jim Conley as an ac cessory after the fact, said that he knew of no reason why It should not be done at once on the convening of the Grand Jury. He added, however, that he had made no decision on the matter, and that the indictment might be asked when the Grand Jury sits this week or the indictment might be allowed to hold over for some time. The So licitor had every confidence that the verdict of the jury* in Frank’s case would be upheld. Frank told friends Wednesday that he was planning to have a large part in the conduct of the fight to obtain a reversal of the verdict of last Mon day afternoon. Frank rendered his attorneys assistance during the prep aration of his case for presentation at the trial which has just ended, but all of the decisions of any conse quence were left to them. The convicted man followed every move of Rosser and Arnold, as well as of Solicitor Dorsey, with an un ceasing vigilance and with a thor ough comprehension of the purpose involved. Friends say he feels that he is competent to have a part In the mapping out of the future cam paign for his life and liberty, and ex pects to have a considerable voice in every plan that is proposed. It is his life that is at stake, and he Is convinced that he has obtained a sufficient knowledge of legal pro cedure at least to advise and sug gest and, at times, direct as to what shall be done. October 10 Jewish Sacred Day. That he Is not without tactical abil ity In a law court was demonstrated by his statement to the Jury, An impressive coincidence in the sentencing of Leo Frank to hang or. October 10 Is that this is the most deeply sacred day of al of Frank’s religion—-the Day of Atonement It is the day for confession of sins. It probably is as universally observed by members of this faith as Good Friday, for example, is observed by the Roman Catholics. The setting of this date, however, may be regarded as little more than a formality, as It is certain that Frank will not go to his death on that day. The arguments for a new trial will be heard on October 4, and if the motlor Is denied an immediate appeal will be made to the Supreme Court, and this will necessitate a postponement in the date set for the execution while the matter is being thrashed out in the higher courts. While the beginning of the real battle will not take ntaee until Octo ber 4. Frank's lawyers entered at once into a new plan of campaign for his freedom. Reuben Arnold is taking a few days’ vacation, but will return to the city shortly to resume his work on the case, in the meanwhile wit nesses are. being examined and data obtained in reference to several of the points on which a new trial will be asked of Judge Roan. Bad ‘Boy’ of 63 Is Forced By Father To Sign the Pledge CHICAGO. Aug. 27—The sad story of an erring son has been placed on police court records. William H. Palmer, Jr., Is his name. He is a rollicking rake of 63, and his father. William H. Sr., who is 86. called on the police to check William's industry in the sowing of wild oats. Said the father to Judge Sabath: ‘‘I think he should stop sowing wild oats. He drinks a great deal. He comes home and acts like a young colt. I find It difficult to control him. You can .see for yourself that he must be hard for me to manage. He weighs 250 pounds, while I weigh only 95. He is out every night carousing, calling on women, and I can’t do any thing with him. “I tell him he’ll ruin his constitu tion if he keeps on the way he’s going. He always ha? been a wild, head strong boy. I want you, Judge, to help me make a man of him. He’s got to sign the pledge ” “I agree with you,' said the Court, addressing the father ‘'William is getting to be a big fellow now. It's time he learned to behave himself. I’ll give him just one minute to sign the pledge." William signed. * Slayer of Former Husband and Bride Turns Her Prison Into Dainty Boudoir. Willard Exonerated By Coroner’s Jury LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27.—After several hours of deliberation over the testimony presented by witnesses of last Friday’s fight at Vernon between Jess Willard and "Buil” Young, which resulted In the death of the latter, the Coroner's jury returned a verdict ex onerating Willard. Several physicians who attended Young after the fatal blow was de livered testified that the Wyoming fighter's physical condition was bad and that Young had a cigarette heart, and that he was suffering from .in affection which had robbed him of stamina which he may have formerly possessed. The verdict of the Coroner's jury will have no bearing upon the pros ecution of Willard, McCarey and the others charged with manslaughter, according to a statement of Prosecu tor W. J. Ford after the inquest. Boys' High Seeks Alma Mater Song Plans for offering a cash prize for the best original words for an alma mater song for the alumni of the Boys' High School of Atlanta are complete. The purpose of the contest is tc arouse interest among the hundreds of alumni of the Boys' High School in the alumni organization. The class of 1910 has taken the lead in this, and the cash prize has been raised among its members. Among the speakers at the 1910 class banquet recently were Dean Pa- den, president; E. H. Orr, Jr., James Manry, Joseph Yampolsky and James Mangum Danish King Saves Actress From Sea Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, Aug. 27.—According to The Budget, King Christian of Den mark, while cruising in the royal yacht, Rita, off Jutland, rescued Cine ma. the actress, from drowning. Cinema, a Copenhagen actress, jumped overboard from a boat to es^, cape fighting boatmen. She becajne exhausted and the King ordered the royal boat lowered to rescue the actress, who was taken aboard just in time. Honors Requisition Asked by Sulzer HARRISBURG. PA.. Aug. 27.— Governor Tener has honored requisi tions for Daniel Buegeleisen, charged with forgery, and Charles Clay, with abandoning children, on request made by William Sulzer as Governor of New York. He did this on an opinion furnished by J. E. B. Cunningham, First Depu ty Attorney General. MILLEN, GA.. Aug. 27.—In a cell transformed as if by magic into a boudoir, as dainty and complete as can be found in any home. Mrs. Sarah Perkins Godbee, charged with the mur der of her divorced husband and his young bride, awaits her preliminary hearing in the Jenkins County courts Thursday as calmly and dispassion ately as though she had already been assured of her freedom. The cell itself reflects the cheerful ness and hope that fill the accused woman’s mind. Despite the steel ceil ing, the rough concrete floors and the iron bars, her cell is attractive and distinctly feminine. The roughness of the floors is concealed by soft rugs, the iron bars at the windows are hid den behind little white curtains that catch every flutter of the breeze; the toilet accessories, washstand and china are in blue and white, the color In which her home is furnished. All the Comforts There. Two white beds with fresh linen, two rockers and several straight chairs. a little blue and white table on which rests a vase constantly filled with fresh flowers, a glass pitch er of ice water, a glass stand filled with fruit, a bottle of toilet water, stacks of magazines and letters—all combine to transform the cell into a typical woman's room. Mrs. Godbee takes as much care and pride in her personal appearance as she d»es in the appearance of her cell. She usually w r ears negligee—a dainty, pale blue kimono brocaded in pink and yellow butterflies and finished with Valenciennes laces. She is rarely alone at night. Her relatives or her daughter. Miss Sarah Godbee, more usually the latter, always spend the night with her. The daylight hours see streams of friends coming and going, all with words of encourage ment and many with fresh dainties and conveniences for her comfort. Mrs. Godbee’s calmness and care free attitude is the marvel of Jenkins County officials. She talks and laughs as she did before the double murder of which she is accused; she chats freely with her friends, and is always glad and willing to see visitors. Gos sip of the current topics of the day falls from her lips as readily now as before the crime, and she has become an inveterate newspaper reader. Keeps Silent on Killing. Only on one subject does Mrs. God- bet* preserve a close silence. Of the killing of Judge Godbee and* the events leading up to it she will say nothing. She will give no inkling of the causes that led her to shoot her former husband and his bride, and si lence is the only answer to inquiries as to her line of defense. When the killing is brought up, Mrs. Godbee always smiles softly and changes the subject of conversation, prattling Innocently of the latest hap penings in Mlllen society or of the great world events. The excitement created in Millen by the killing hau not subsided, •though it has been almost two weeks since the crime was committed. Sen timent appears to be divided, some claiming that the accused woman has suffered until she could suffer no longer; while others express the opin ion that Judge Godbee was not alto gether to blame for the marital trou bles that brought on his death. Four Atlanta Boys On 15-Day Hike to New York on Bet From Peachtree to Broadway is a long walk, but four Atlanta boys set out Wednesday to accomplish it in fifteen days, as the result of a bet of $500 made between them and George Alien, of the Central Railroad. The boys are Lloyd Snead, 19 years old. No. 236 Cooper street; Clarence Burel, 18 years old, No. 79 West North avenue: Jack W. Lipscomb, 22 years old, No. 232 East Hunter street, and F. J. Lipscomb, 18 years old. of the same address. The distance from Atlanta to New York afoot is more than 900 miles. The condition of the bet is that the boys walk it in fifteen days. This wifi necessitate them covering 60 miles per day. Oldest Sneezer Is Dined by Hay-Fevers BETHLEHEM, N. H„ Aug. 27.— America's oldest sneezer — Major Richard Muckle, of Philadelphia, aged 88—wa* given a banquet here last night by the United States Hay Fever Association. The major has suffered from the sneezing, sniffling fever for 75 years. Cummins Predicts Free List Change WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Progres sive Republican Senators to-day fore cast the acceptance by the majority of the Senate Finance Committee of a modified form of the Kenyon amendment to the tariff bill providing for the free listing of trust-made goods. The Kenyon amendment .provides that the courts shall decide whether monopolies exist. Senator Cummins to-day declared he expected the amendment to be so modified that the determination of whether competi tion exists shall be left to the Presi dent. All Japan for War, Claims Tokio Editor BOSTON, MASS., Aug. 27.—Joseph D. Halluday, editor of The Japan Ad vertiser. of Tokio, who has arrived here by steamer from Yokohama, de clares all Japan is eager for war with the United States. The uneducated classes would plunge Into the struggle at once, first seizing the Philippines and Hawaii, but the educated classes favor wait ing ten years until the Russian war debt shall have been extinguished he said. "The feeling," Mr. Halluday added, "is that the white and yellow races mull fight out their differences.” News Butcher Fined For Selling Liquor TIFTON, Aug. 27— J. C. Dasher, news butcher on the Atlantic Coast Line between Waycross and Albany, was arrested here Tuesday afternoon by Chief of Police J. O. Thrasher, charged with keeping on hand intoxi cating liquors for illegal sale. Dasher entered a plea of guilty be fore Recorder J. S. Ridgdill and was fined $75 or four months in the chain- gang. Powers Let Turkey Retain Adrianople Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 27.— Announcement was made by the grand porte to-day that the Euro pean powers have agreed to allow' Turkey to retain Adrianople, in spite of the threats of Bulgaria to try to take Adrianople as soon as she can collect sufficient resources to declare war. Fugitive Boxer Asks French Citizenship Special Cable to The Georgian. PARIS. Aug 27.—Through his coun selors Jack Johnson, the negro cham pion heavyweight pugilist, who fled to France from the United States after he had been convicted in the latter coun try of w’hite slavery, to-day tiled dec larations of his Intention to become a French citizen. E FDR PEACE K PRESENT n WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Emphasizing the fact that the United States must remain the firm friend of the people of Mexico in their present stress and trouble, President Wilson to-day read his long awaited message on Mexican affairs to Congress. The message was distinctly pacific in tone and contains little in the way of recommendation for future policy except the single one that this Government must urge earnestly that all Americans should leave Mexico at once and that the Unted States should as- sit them to get out of Mexico in every way possible. The President counsels delay CHATTANOOGA MAN MISSING. CHATTANOOGA, Aug. 27.—E. VV. Reed, local manager for H. G. Wool- worth, disappeared August 9 and has not been heard of since. Mrs. Reed is visiting relatives in New York and has no information concerning hej husband. before further action is taken and says: The President counsels delay be fore further action is taken and says: “Impatience on our part w'ould be childish and would be fraught with every risk of wrong and folly. Th? door is not closed against the re sumption, either upon the initiative of Mexico or upon our own, of the ef fort to bring order out of the confu sion by friendly co-operative action, should fortunate occasion offer. Must Await Understanding. “So long as the misunderstanding continues we can only await the time of their awakening to a realization to the actual facts. We can not thrust our good offices upon them. The situation must be given a little more time to work itself out in the new' circumstances, and I believe that only a little while will be necessary. The circumstances are new. The re jection of our friendship makes them new and will inevitably bring its own alterations in the whole aspect of af fairs. The actual situation of the au thorities at Mexico City will presently be revealed.” President Wilson’s message is un expectedly brief and closes with the statement that several of the great Governments of the world have given the United States their generous mor al support in urging on the provision al authorities at Mexico City the ac ceptance of our proffered good of fices in the spirit in which they were made. The President relates the cir cumstances leading up to the Lind mission and all the facts in connec tion with it. His recommendations are less dras tic and less conclusive than was ex pected. The President’s Message. The messag follows: Gentlemen of the Congress—It is clearly my duty to lay before you very fully and without reservation the fact, concerning our present relations with the republic of Mexico. The deplora ble posture of affairs in Mexico I ne*d not describe, but I deem It my duty to speak very frankly of w’hat this Government has done and should seek to do in fulfillment of its obligation to Mexico herself, as a friend and neighbor, and to American citizens whose lives and vital Interests are daily affected by the distressing con ditions which now obtain beyond our southern border. "Those conditions touch us very nearly. Not merely because they lie at our very doors. That, of course, makes us more vividly and more con stantly conscious of them, and every instinct of neighborly interest and sympathy is aroused and quickened by them; but that is only one ele ment in the determination of our duty. “We are glad to call ourselves the friends of Mexico, and we shall, I hope, have many an occasion, in hap pier times, as well as in these days of trouble and confusion, to show that our friendship is genuine and disinterested, capable of sacrifice, and very generous of manifestation. Will Prove Sincerity to Mexico. "The peace, prosperity and con tentment of Mexico mean more, much more, to us than merely an enlarged [ field for our commerce and enterprise. They mean an enlargement of the * field of self-government and the realization of the hopes and rights of a nation with whose best aspirations, too long suppressed and disappoint ed, we deeply sympathize. We shall yet prove to the Mexican people that we know how to serve them without first thinking how we shall serve our selves. “But we are not the only friends of Mexico. The whole world desires her peace and progress, and the whole world is interested as never before. Mexico lies at last where all the world looks on. Central America is about to be touched by the great routes of the world’s trade and intercourse run ning free from ocean to ocean at the Isthmus. The future has much in store for Mexico, as for all the States of Central America, but the best gifts can come to her only if she be ready and free to receive them and to enjoy them honorably. "America in particular—America, North and South and upon both con tinents—waits upon the development of Mexico: and that development can be sound and lasting only if it be the product of a genuine freedom, a just and ordered governments founded up on law. And so can it be peaceful and* fruitful of the benefits of peace. Mex ico has a great and enviable future before her, if only she choose and attain the paths of honest constitu tional government.” Situation Not Promising. “The present circumstances of the republic, I deeply regret to s&y, do not seem to promise even the foun dations of such a peace. We have waited many months, months full of peril and anxiety, for the conditions ther to improve, and they have not improved. They have grown worse, rather. The territory in some sort controlled by the provisional author ities at Mexico City as grown smaller, not larger. The prospect of the paci fication of the country, even by arms, has seemed to grow more and more remote, and its pacification by the authorities at the capitol is evidently impossible by any other means than force. “Difficulties more and more en tangle those who claim to constitute the legitimate government of the re public. They have not made good their claim, in fact. Their succcss- in the field have proved only tempo rary. War and disorder, devastation and confusipn, seem to threaten to become the settled fortune of the distracted country. “As friends we could wait no longer for a solution which every week seems further away. It was our duty at least to volunteer our good of fices—the offer to assist, if we might, in effecting some arrangement which would bring relief and peace and set up a universally acknowledged politi cal authority there. • “Accordingly, I took the liberty cf sending the Hon. John Lind, formerly Governor of Minnesota, as my per sonal spokesman and representative to the City of Mexico. W. R. POPE DIES AT MONTICELLO MONTICELLO.—W. R. Pope died at his home here to-day, after a three-days illness. Early Sunday morning he was stricken with par alysis. He was manager of the Planters’ Warehouse and was about 57 years of age. The funeral will take place Thursday.