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TTTF ATT AMT A OFOIUMAN AND NKWS BELIEF FRANK MIDSUMMER DAY DREAMS 1HE COOH IS ON THfT WAR PATH AGAIN DEAR, SHE SAID SHE WOULD B(?tAA ME IN TWO f ! TI—r. i r Solicitor Prepares to Battle Ap peal of Doomed Man for a New Trial. Continued from Page 1. " as sa 'd to be damaging to the su perintendent. If the case is reopened by a new trial, the Solicitor proposes to have the strands of evidence even more strongly woven than they were at the first trial. The investigation is con tinuing with almost the same vigor that it did in the early days of th mystery, except that only three de tectives are working on the case now. They are Bass Rosser. J. N. Starne:- und Patrick Campbell. Frank Aids Counsel. Whenever a report comes to the Solicitor’s office of any new evident** It is investigated by the detectives "ith the sa/ne care as it would hav* received before Frank was condemned to death, it is regarded as likely that Dorsey will have a number of nev\ wi ncf^eg if another trial is grantei the c/in video man. I'/Tank, apparently as cheerful an 1 optimistic as he was before the twelv- Jurors voted him to hang, is assisting liis attorneys in picking out what hi consider** ihe weak points of Solicitor \ k* case against him. With a masM of clippings and court tran scriptions before him. he is boiling d<»*i7n .m- most important testimon;. of me trial and noting the variou-* 1/ i>'* s of the Investigation as it pro gressed Incidentally, he is preparing « statement in reply to! the closing j argument of the Solicitor which he ha- described as "as full of holes as . sieve. ’ The ; rlsoner is being made coni- for’able at the Tower during in» period that he is awaiting final dispo- j sFion of h : » case. A new* bed and s>Tn»' other furnishings were brougiv f ere. and Franks quarters were th roughl cleaned and renovated. The prisoner’s wife and his mother Ai :r ed him during the afternoon, hit* wife remaining until nightfall. His mother will return to Brooklyn within a »hort time, but probably will be baou in. Atlanta when me arguments for a new trial are made October 4. Solicitor Dorsey has no doubt that an indictment against Conley as ac cessory after the fact will be returned l>v the next Grand Jury. The indict, ment will be the first thing that will be brought to the attention of the Grand Jury when it meets the first ■week in Sepemher. Frank Works on Statement. Frank continued Thursday to work on the statement which he Intends as an answer to Solicitor Dorsey's dos ing speech before the jury. He also received many visitors, among them bis mother. Mrs. Rea Frank, who will leave shortly for her home in Brook lyn. Mrs. Frank’s bearing showed no traces of the effect which the death sentence imposed upon her son must have had. She was dressed in a white shirtwaist and black skirt, with the broad-brimmed black hat which was familiar to courtroom at tendants during the trial. The prisoner's father-in-law. Fmil Selig, joined him at breakfast and re mained for two hours. Frank’s wife did not visit her husband during the morning. Friends reported the convicted su perintendent as being in good spirits and very much engrossed In the state ment upon which he is working. Piecharges Jury Which Tried to Indict Conley. Here’s a ‘Black Hope;’ He Weighs 338 Lbs. A negro who said he was the big gest in the world appeared hm the <tar witness in Police (’.ourt Thurs day morning. Ho Is Anthony Varner, of No. 402 Smith street, an employee on the Southern Railway coal chute. He weighs 3FS pounds. He admitted to 1 Ret order Pro Tern Preston that he ad “ailed" a few tim< s. hut said he ad never been real sick. A South- rn Railway locomotive lav on him or nine hours one time, he said. lie testified again-1 ‘ SHck" Jack- on. a negro accused of stealing i lantern. Dispensary Carries Election By 4 Votes Sl’MTEH, S. C. Aug 28 After a egal fight lasting two days the Com- nfssioners of Flection declared the re sult In favor of the dispensary by 4 • tes majority. The prohibitionists allege unfair treat- nent at the hands of the board and will ■ontest the election. The managers' returns ami the first count by the Hoard of Canvassers gave the prohibitionists •I majority which was changed hv the vithilraw ng of alleged Illegal prohibl- ion votes. j Peeking Divorce from l Wife Now Bird Woma 4 DI’RHAM, Aug. 28.—Divorce pro ceedings have been started by W. A. I a cobs against his wife. Mary Thomp son Jacobs, alias Miss Tiny Broadnock. Jacobs, a prominent Durham man, i marries in 1905. In 1906 his wife ran i away with a carnival man. Nothing was heard of her until her picture ap- oeared In papers in connection with or having made a leap into ake Michi gan from an aeroplane last week. It l ad been reported that Mrs. Jacobs was dead. Atlanta Cycle Racer Near Death in Spill COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug 28.—L. Porkle, a motorcycle racer, said to be from Atlanta, while speeding on Lie Columbia track to-day at 55 miles in hour was hurled 25 feet in the air when his machine crashed through the fence. lie was picked up unconscious and hurried to a hospital. He will re cover. The Grand Jur which took up the question of indict ng Jim Conley, ac cuser of Leo Frank, pver the protest of Solicitor Dorsey, will be discharged Friday by Judge George L. Bell, of the Superior Court. A new GranJ Jury will be sworn in next Tuesday. It is significant that the Grand Jurv w^hich cought to indict Jim Coni-y will not have the opportunity to in dict him as an acknowledged acces sory after the fact ! n the murder ot Mary Phagan. Judge Bell is expected to return Thursday while his colleagues. Judge Pendleton and Judge Ellis, will return in time for the new term which be gins next Tuesday. Sheriff Denies Frank Is Favor'd Prisoner. Denying vigorously that the floors of Leo Frank's cell were being oiled and varnished, Sheriff Mangum Thursday morning declared he was treating Frank just like any other prisoner. "It is fo'.ly to talk about Frank’s cell being oiled." said the Sheriff, "when the floor of the cell is made of concrete. "I am treating Frank just like any other prisoner. Certainly ni one can blame me for allowing him to eat food that is sent to him by his rela tives and friends—and that is the only difference in treatment." Gadsden People File Suits Against Roads GADSDEN, Aug 28.—Mrs. \V. B. Wood has filed suit against the Southern Railway, asking $2,500 dam age because f’he was forced to pay fare on a train for which she had bought a ticket. She was going from Gadsden to Duncan. S. C., when a train auditor told her the ticket was invalid and she would have to sur render It and pay cash fare. Clyde Caddell, through his next friend. Lyle Caddell, has filed suit .against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad for $50,000. The plaintiff alleges he lost both his lower limbs by being run over by a car in the Gads den yards last December. Governors To Meet In Madison In 1914 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO., Aug. 28.—Madison. Wis., has been chosen as the meeting place for the Governors' Conference next year. The time of the meeting was left to the executive committee. The executive committee, consist ing of Governor McGovern, of Wis consin. Governor O’Neal, of Alabama, and Governor Ammons, of Colorado, was re-elected. The office of secre tary-treasurer was abolished, sepa rate offices being created. J. F. Fort was elected treasurer for the coming year and M. G. Riley was re-elected secretary. RATE ADVANCE HALTED. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—The In terstate Commerce Commission to day suspended advances in rates on log shipments over the Southern railroads from points in Alabama to Chattanooga, Tenn., until May 10. BASEBALL BLOW KILLS. TRENTON, MO., Aug. 28.—John Cole, aged 19. of Blue Ridge, Mo. died this morning after being hit in the head by a baseball in a game yesterday. Clemency Record of Blease Reaches 747 GREENVILLE, S. C.. Aug. 28.—With the pardon to-day of Ben McBee. of Greenville, serving life sentence for killing his brother-in-law. John Fowler Governor Blease’s clemency record reaches 747 In two and one-half years. ISS HELEN PARDEE DEAD. PART A.—Miss Helen Pardee died he home of her sister, Mrs. A. H. Jsong. after an Illness of several iths. She was more than 70 years- ige and practically all of her life been spent in Sparta, Dynamite Used In Fighting Tick Law HUNTSVILLE, Aug. 28.—There I has been a violent uprising in Paint ■ Rock Valley, in Jackson County,, against the regulations and restric- j tions of the cattle tick law. Two dip- i ping vats have been blown up with dynamite. At Trenton a gang of men cut the telephone wires and destroyed the dipping vat with a charge of dyna- ! mite. On the wreckage they left a j note giving warning that "blood will j flow through the town if the thing is i rebuilt.’’ An attempt was made to blow up this vat once before. Send Your Roll To Me FOR Free Deve oping AND 8-Hour Finishing Service Send roll for trial. Don’t send any money. Pav if O. K. " Write SHELLEY IVEY, Manager, The College “Co-Op,” 119 Peachtree St., Candler Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. YOUR HERE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY OFFERINGS, BEST MAKES AT ABOUT HALF PRICE leers & Pond, Chickering & Sons, Bush & Gcrls, Kranich & Bach, Kurtzmann, Knabe Bros., Strohber, Hoffmann. WE MUST MAKS ROOM. NEW AND GUARANTEED. NOW $268 $275 Mahogany Case $127 $3C0 Walnut Case, new $136 $325 Mahogany Case, new $146 $350 Oak Case, new $158 Special List-Store Worn $550 Packard, mahogany $318 $500 Kranich & Bach, mahogany . . . $312 $500 Bush & Gerts, mahogany $308 $475 Kohler, mahogany $296 $450 Standard Make, mahogany .... $287 $500 Frederick Player, mahogany . . $268 CLEARANCE SALE, BEST MAKES USED UPRIGHTS $500 Painter & Ewing, mahog any $243 $450 Strohber, mahogany . . $238 $dCO Kimball, oak $218 $450 Concver, mahogany . . $228 $400 Standard Make, maheg- any $183 $375 Standard Make, oak. $138 $1,150 Steinway, at a sacrifice. $475 Vose & Sons, walnut. . . $168 $4G0 Bush & Gerts, mahogany $158 $4C0 Hallet & Davis, walnut $138 $350 Sterling, ebony • $112 $350 Cooper, ebony $ 75 ^ DON'T WAIT; CULL EARLY FOR CHOICE, THEY ARE GUflRAMTEEO > • WESTER MUSIC CO. 64 PEACHTREE ST. MACON-157 Cotton Ave. Two Boys Held as Alexander R. Lawton Robbery Suspects Commissioned Major When Policemen Hannah and Don- ahoo Thursday morning arrested Hus ton Jenkins, 15, and McKinley Har mon, 17, an automatic pistol taken from Jenkins began firing in th° hands of Hannah. Before the police men could learn the mechanism of the gun It had fired twelve times. Jenkins and Harmon were taken on suspicion of having had something lo do with the robbery of VV. Moore’s dairy, 444 Decatur street, early Thurs day morning. A pistol and several cases of soda water were taken. Jen kins was taken to the detention home. Harmon was locked In the city jail. Tramp ‘Student’ Gets Chaingang Sentence HUNTSVILLE, Aug. 28.—VV. G. Maloney, charged with being a tramp was arraigned ir the City Court, anj w hen asked why he was stealing rides on trains, he answered that he was making a study of the people of the underworld. Mayor Smith sentenced him to twenty days on the chaingang and told him that he would have a go>d opportunity to continue his studies and at the same time help the citj with his work. CRUDE OIL UP 5 CENTS. WICHITA PALLS, TEXAS. Aug. 28.—The Texas Company and Mag nolia Petroleum Company to-day an nounced an increase of 5 cents in the price of crude oil. advancing the quo tation to $1.05 per barrel. Alexander R. Lawton, Jr., of Sa vannah, wag commissioned Thursday morning as major in the First In fantry of the Georgia National Guard, stationed at Savannah. Major Law- ton succeeds Major George H. Rich ter. resigned. The promotion of Major Lawton followed an election by the members of the First Infantry and later con firmation by the State Military De partment. Postmaster's Home Aat Zetella Robbed Griffin, Aug. 28.—While he was at Mount Zion campmeeting last night the residence of E. R. Rogers, post master at Zetella, was entered by burglars and more than $100 in cash and a large quantity of stamps were taken. Entrance was made through a kitchen window and a trunk contain ing the money was broken open. Sus picion rests upon a negro familiar with the house and surroundings. Violence Feared In Courthouse Rivalry GADSDEN, Aug. 28.—The fight over the removal of the Cherokee County courthouse from Center to Cedar Bluff Is growing acute, and violence may follow. It Is stated more than $30,000 has been raised by business men of Cedar Bluff to get the court house at that place. Twenty-five years ago the court house burned at Center. Cedar Bluff made an effort to get the new build ing. but failed. Fifteen years ago the courthouse was again destroyed by fire and again Cedar Bluff failed to get the new building The Com missioners and Probate Judge are be ing petitioned to call an election to decide the question. Missing Boy Falsely Reported To Be Dead A false report that Arthur Riley, 19, of 76 Almo avenue, had been killed by a train underneath the Bellwood avenue viaduct, has intensified the mystery of the disappearance of the youth, missing since Tuesday. llis brother. M. D. Riley, has taken up the matter with Police Chief Beavers and asked that a thorough search be made. Riley explained that Wednesday he received mysterious information that Liis brother had been killed under the Bellwood avenue viacfiict, but that in vestigation showed there had been no such accident. High Masons to Meet In October Reunion BIRMINGHAM. Aug. 28.—Thirty- third degree Masons from Washing ton. D. C., New York, Savannah, Nashville. Montgomery, Little Rock and other parts of the coutnry, who will attend a sovereign meeting in October, will he in Birmingham the week of October 6 to participate in, a Scottish Rite Masonic reunion to be held In the Masonic Temple here. It Is announced there will be 35 candidates tp take the degfees from the fourth to the thirty-second, in clusive. YOUTH SLAYS FATHER. LEXINGTON, Aug 28—After a family quarrel at the breakfast table, Bstill Winchell, aged 15. killed his father, James Winchell, with a shot gun at Harrows, Ky. WWW All Charge Purchases for Rest of August Go on Sept. Statement. . RICH & BROS. CO.! Clear away— Fill Your Shirt Waist Box! J Eighty-seven (1587) Waists, ; $1 waist in stock, to go at . . Fifteen Hundred including every > ’to A store must plan ahead. Septem ber 1st marks the start of fall business. Sum mer waists, therefore, should not be here. True, these particular waists are pretty and practical styles for early fall. True, many women would buy them throughout Septem ber at full prices. True, too, however, that these waists conflict with our store plans. Bought to sell before August 31st, they now pay the penalty for having lingered. Every $1 Waist in Stock Goes at 69c as well as about a hundred waists formerly selling at $1.25 and $1.50. Up wards of a score of styles in all, in charming white voiles and lingeries. There are tvaists with high or low necks; long, three-quarter or short sleeves. Waists that button down the back; waists that open in front. Plainly trim med waists; and waists elaborately em bellished with laces and embroideries. More than a thousand and five hundred waists in all, including about every style “good” this season. All sizes. The values are EX TRAORDINARY—see the window for proof. Buy enough waists for the rest of the sum- mer and fall. Because standard $1 waists come but seldom at 69c (Selling Starts at 8:30; Ready-to-Wear—Second Floor) I i Ml to, Sz I = 75c Long Silk Gloves at 39c Purr silk, mind you, in the firm Tricot weave. > Not the thin, sleazy silks flimsy as cheesecloth; but full '5 plump weight silks biiat will wear and wear. Double tipped fingers, of course. The gloves are full fashioned and finely finished, hull button length. Klack, white, tan, brown, lavender and navy, sizes, save 514 In white. See window display. A really supe 16 All rlor 75c glove for only 3!)c. 25c & 50c Chamoisette Gloves 10c Natural chamoisettep in standard 25e and 50c qualities. Broken sizes, however, break the price. If your size is G 1 /^, 7, 71/;, or 8, select any quantity you wish at 10c a pair. (Gloves—Main Floor, Left) Ladies’ Initial Handkerchiefs i Making way for the new , lines by clearing the tag ends '• of broken lines. About every 1 initial in each lot. Sold only by 1 the half dozen : 6 for 89c; value $1. 6 for 49c; value 69c. 6 for 69c; value 85c. 25c Handkerchiefs 15c Ladles’ all-linen Handkerchiefs with one corner daintily embroidered. (Main Floor—Left) J Notion Sale A hundred and one little things at savings of a cent to a dime on each. Staple articles, always needed. Buy up to Saturday noon and save. (Main Floor—Center) Blanket Sale You will pay from a fifth to a third more for these identical blankets and bed ding articles after Saturday. Huy now while the price- bars are down. (Main Floor—Left) For Travelers A specially planned sale | of wicker, cane and leather | suit cases; and cowhide, imi- \ tation seal and walrus hand | hags. Former prices $5.95 I to $8.50; choice now at $4.95. (Main Floor—Right) ; -hi to , to £ Foresighted Women Will Buy Furniture Within the next fifteen hours; for after that prices advance 10 per cent to 50 per cent. -Less than a scant score of shopping hours, and the August .,^4- CS«1« ru.rkt ^*JWW,/WUWM. RICH & BROS. CO. M. ftICH & BROS. CO. Furniture Sale ends. If you need furniture, therefore, these are not moments for marking time. ^ We don’t say this to hurry you in—merely to warn you that if your furniture purchase is not made by Saturday at 1 P. M., yours will tic the loss. Upon request furniture will be stored for future delivery until October 15tll. (Fourth Floor) I