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VOL. XII. NO. 23. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1913. By^&iTdo. 2 CENTS.
AMERICANS REFUSE TO FLEE FROM MEXICO
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$20,000 Forgery Charged to Savannah Man
ARREST
Savannahan Says Spite Caused
His Trouble, and It All Came
From Business Deal,
NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—Completing
the details of his wedding, scheduled
for to-night, Robert J. Norton, a
prominent business man of Savan
nah, Ga., was arrested In the home
of Miss Edna Robinson, the prospec
tive bride-to-be, in Brooklyn to-day
on a warrant charging forgery. Tne
warrant was sworn out by the Chief
of Police of Savannah.
According to a telegram ^received in
Brooklyn headquarters to-day, Norton
is wanted in Savannah for the alleged
forgery of a check for $20,000, which,
it was said, he cashed there shortly
before cfcming North to prepare for
his wedding.
Despite his prtoestatlons of inno
cence, Norton was arraigned before
Magistrate Steers, who held him in
$2,500 bail for a further hearing on
September 3.
“My arrest is an outrage,’* stated
Norton. “There is nothing but spite
behind this affair. I can not under
stand why they pick out this time,
the eve of my wedding to a respecta
ble woman, to place me in this pre
dicament. The forgery they charge
me with was no forgery at all, but a
business deal pure and Simple. I’ll
make somebody suffer when I reach
Savannah.”
Miss Robinson accepted Norton's
claim that his arrest was without
cause, and said that they would be
married just as soon as he was ready.
Evelyn Thaw's Child
Seriously Ill Abroad
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 29.—Little Russell
Nesbit Thaw, the young son of Mr*.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, is dangerously
ill with measles and specialists fear
fatal complications.
Mrs. Thaw left her son here when
she went to New York. While at the
Brighton Beach with his nurse the
little fellow became sick. “Teddie ’
Gerard, a friend of Mrs. Thaw, has
been nursing the sick child.
Mrs. Thaw has not been told of her
son’s illness.
Eve Was Made From
Adam's Backbone’
PITTSBURG, Hug. 29. — Woman
vas made out of the backbone, not
he rib, of Adam was a theory ad-
■anced by Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs,
,f Chicago, who discussed woman's
uffrage on Scbeniey lawn.
"Read the first chapter of Genesis,
tot the twenty-fifth and twenty-
(xth verses of the second,” declared
Jrs Stubbs, "and you will find that
Sod created man—male and female—
X the same time.
“And even if it were true that
t oman was made out of man. it must
tave been out of the backbone of
tdam. not a rib.”
Screwdriver Clew
To Peachtree Thief
W!th\n oily screwdriver as their
/;n!y clew, detectives are searching
for the burglars who entered the Gun-
ter-Watkins Drug Company, at Wal
ton and Peachtree streets, Thursday
night and stole So in change from the
cash register. .
The thieves Iremoved one of the
glass panels from the rear door on
Walton street. The screwdriver was
found on the sidewalk Friday morn
ing. \
Castro's Revolution
Entirely) Crushed
J;ial Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
■ARACAS, VENEZUELA, Aug. 29.
«sident Juan Gomdfz,,of Venezuela.
*ided to-day that/the Castro revolt
fct an ehd.
■<I ca n guarantee that the country
\i all be at peace within six;
Jths," he said.
lie President figures that it will
{ that long to put down guerrilla
xnds and bandits who owe allegiance
o no one.
Stockingless Maid
Stirs Atlantic City
ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 29.—The
stockingless maid has arrived. Spec
tators who were out early on the
boardwalk this morning beheld a
young woman with her ankles bare
and her feet Incased in white buck
skin •‘sneakers.”
At first passers-by thought she wore
flesh-colored hose, but her more in
quisitive sisters soon discovered it
was nature's garb.
Steers Stampede at
Sight of Cornfield
OLIVE BRANCH, MISS., Aug. 29.—
The sight of a prize corn field on the
farm of Alex Stephens caused two
carloads of Texas steers to stampede
to-day when they were taken from a
train to be watered.
The cattle tore up ten acres of the
valuable corn before their guards
could corral them.
beats man with his leg.
'ARRYTOWN. N. Y.—Michael Broh-
got into an argument with James
Stay, who wore a wooden leg Mc-
y unstrapped his wooden pedal and
■d it on Brohpy. Brohpy is in the
liital.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Showers Friday, fair
Saturday.
Negro Chauffeurs to
Race at Speedway
Some of the fastest negro automo
bile drivers of the United States will
be seen in the races that are to be
h§ld next week at the Speedway, un
der the auspices of the negroes of At
lanta. As an added attraction, the
only successful negro aviator in the
world, Burton, will make several
flights in his aeroplane.
A number of valuable prizes have
been offered for the automobile races,
and the chauffeurs of some of Atlan
ta’s most prominent business men
have entered. A handsome loving cup
will be given the winner in the hun
dred mile race.
Defense Confident It Will Get
New Trial on Ground Demon
stration Influenced Jury.
U, S, Likely to Order
Army-Navy Game
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Not
withstanding the determination of
the athletic associations of West
Point and Annapolis not to play the
annual football game this fall, it is
more than likely that the Secretaries
of War and Navy will issue a per
emptory order that the game be play
ed on Franklin Held, Philadelphia,
either on Thanksgiving Day or the
Saturday preceding or following that
day.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels said
he would have a conference with As
sistant Secretary of War Brecken-
ridge and discuss the matter thor
oughly.
PRESIDENT READING
MESSAGE ON MEXICO
TAN GLETO CO NGRESSi
President Wilson reading his message on Mexico to both
branches of Congress from the rostrum of the House of Repre
sentatives. Seated behind him are Speaker Clark and Vice Pres
ident Marshall.
ELGIN. ILL., Aug. 29.—Ralph De
Palma, driving a Mercer car. was
leading in the Chicago Automobile
Militants Who Beat
Premier Sent to Jail
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, Aug. 29.
Winnie Wallace and Flora Smith,
militant suffragettes, who * attacked
Premier Asquith while he was playing
golf yesterday afternoon at Elgin,
were committed to jail to-day in de
fault of $50 each, and held for trial.
The Premier has a black eye and
numerous cuts and bruises.
If It had not been for the Premier’s
daughter, Miss Violet Asquith, the
statesman probably would have been
seriously injured, as he was taken
unawares and could not defend him
self.
Roosevelt Blames
Tango on Indians
CHICAGO, Aug. 29.—The poor In
dians have got something else * to
shoulder now. Colonel Roosevelt
says the Hopis invented and danced
the tango, turkey trot, bear cat. griz
zly and and a horde of similar dances
centuries before Newport or Narra-
gansett Pier got the craze.
He also told members of the Chi
cago Progressive Club, on his waj’
back from a two weeks’ vacation
bear and nurse children, and in the
God made woman fools to match men
and woman’s duty as a voter would
not interfere with her domestic
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duties.
The lawyers for Leo M. F*rank Fri
day were engaged in getting together
every scrap of evidence possible to
sustain them in their contention that
the jurors who convicted their client
were intimidated or unduly influenced
by the series of demonstrations out
side the courthouse and inside during
the latter part of the trial.
The newspaper accounts of the ova
tions that were giver? Solicitor Dor
sey and the popular acclaim which
met every victory of his will form a
large part In the showing which the
defense proposes to make on this par
ticular phase of its movement for a
new trial.
Witnesses have been found who
will testify in regard to the applause
that broke out in the courtroom Sat
urday morning when the Solicitor en
tered to resume his argument to the
jury. There was a spontaneous wave
of hand-clapping.
The defense will represent that it
was impos^ble for Frank to receiv?
an impartial trial when the jurors
could so readily observe the temper
of the people.
Frank “Man With Iron Nerve.”
Assisting the lawyers with every
means at his command is Frank him
self. His coolness and confidence wltn
the sentence of death hanging over
him have won him a reputation at the
Tower for a man with an iron nerve.
He greets* his friends with the cheery
manner and hearty handshake that
he would employ in his office or in his
home. There is no suggestion of the
dejected and broken man condemned
to be hanged.
He discusses his case more freely
than he did before the trial, but only
to bis friends. He is observing his
lawyers’ admonition as to interviews
with the newspaper reporters. He
has nothing to say to them. He even
has changed his mind, it is under
stood in regard to the statement he
planned to make in reply to the argu
ment of Solicitor Dorsey. He was in
tending to make it public if his at- j
torneys approved, but they have in
structed him,to have nothing to say
at present.
He Is continuing his work along
this line, however, in preparation for
the new trial which he is entirely
confident of getting. When he is not
chatting with his friends he is looking
over testimony that was given at his
trial and is picking out the points in
the address of the Solicitor which he
maintains were based on false as
sumptions and misrepresentations
He has every appearance of a man
engaged in ordinary business or pro
fessional routine. In reality he is
taking a remarkable role in the des
perate fight to save himself from the
gallows. That so much is at stake
seems not to affect him in the least.
He goes calmly and unhurriedly about
his work in his quarters at the Tower.
Declares He Is Innocent.
He makes notations here and there
on the testimony and on the address ;
of the Solicitor. Occasionally he de
sires to put something into writing,
and he calls for the stenographer from
the pencil factory. The stenographer
comes and the prisoner dictates page
after page of matter in much the
same businesslike tones that he would
acknowledge orders for the pencil*
which his concern manufactures.
"I am innocent,” he has told his
friends, “and sooner or later the
world will know it. I am confident
that my innocence will be proved, mo
there is no need for me to worry.”
His wife and his mother have visit
ed him. To them he has been as
cheerful and optimistic as to his
friends. He was the comforter when
Solicitor Dorsey was bitterly excoriat
ing turn at the trial. He quieted his
hysterical wife when the news of the
jury’s verdict reached the Tower. His
attitude has been the tame all
through the week.
M
CUPl JUGStT T0*EiEXWVO0 S" UATPJSXWaOO
Mrs. Sylvia Hawkins,
Slayer, Cannot Take
Her Child to Prison
The request of a mother, Mrs. Syl
via Hawkins, of Gainesville, who faces
a life term in the penitentiary for the
slaying of her husband, to take her
3-year-old child to prison with her
will not be granted.
This decision was announced Fri
day morning by Secretary Yancey of
the Georgia Prison Commission, who
declared that under no circumstances
could the desire of the mother be
fulfilled, as it was contrary to the
spirit of the law.
Although Mrs. Hawkins never has
formally written to the Prison Com
mission, she has conveyed in various
ways, it is said, her desire to have
her child in prison with her.
According to the Prison Commis
sioners the fir.af commitment papers
of Mrs. Hawkins never have been
forwarded to th^m and until this is
done no official decision will he made./
However, it is settled definitely that
the mother will not be permitted to
take her child into the State prison.
300 Casks of Benzine
In a Burning Oil Ship
NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—The oil ship
Bergermeister lay at the Bush docks
in Brooklyn to-day with fire eating its
way toward her hold where 300 casks
of benzine were stored.
Policemen held beck all persons bu‘.
the firemen from the danger zone.
Club Cup race here to-day at the
end of 117 miles. He recovered first
place from Ralph Mulford when the
latter’s Mason car was forced out of
the rape with engine trouble. The
fight for second place atthis distance
was close between Spencer Wishart
in a Mercer and Joe Dawson in a
Deltal.
Endicott’s Nyberg car was two laps
behind Mulford, and Luttrell, in a
Mercer, was hopelessly behind after
having made six laps in good time.
Up to the tim** when he was forced
out of the race by a broken crank
shaft in the eleventh lap, Mulford had
made the fastest time, according to
the latest official time for once around
the course. He made the 8 1-2 miles
in 7:01.
DePalma in Race.
Dalph DePalma was at tho^ Wheel
of the Mercer, which was entered a.-*
Ed Pullen’s mount. The noted Italian
driver at first declined to enter to
day's race, electing to save his ener
gies for to-morrow’s race when he
will defend the Elgin cup, which ne
won last year. The announcement
that DePalma would drive was greet
ed by thunderous applause from the
stands. He was an equal favorite
with Dawson.
At the eleventh hour Harry Endi-
cott was permitted to enter the race
with his Nyberg car. The A. A. A.
had barred cars of the Nyberg make
from sanctioned meets without giv
ing a Reason. Kndicott and his broth
er, “Bijl” Endlcott, who will drive in
to-morrow’s races, showed papers
proving that they owned the Nyhftrg
racers as individuals. The car nljfme
enlereU to-day was changed on the
program to “Endlcott Special.”
DePalma gave the crowd near the
first curve a thrill on his first lap
when his machine missed by inches a
gate that stood open. The Italian
race pilot h;is said that he always
enters a race expecting to have threa
narrow escapes.
Course Dangerous in Spots.
The course on the back stretch was
rough and dangerous spots appeared
after the cars made their first lap.
The timers announced Dawson’s
first lap was made in 6:25, which
was 20 seconds under the fastest lap
ever made on the Elgin course.
DePalma had his second narrow es
cape in his third lap when his car
bumped over the rough track near the
"Hairpin turn,’’ left the course and
plowed up a field of corn for nearly
100 yards. He righted the car and
was back on the track with little loss
of time and no apparent damage to
his car.
The grandstand crowds were treated
to a real brush when DePalma,who had
fallen back to second place, urged his
car to the last speed notch and pass
ed the Mason car piloted by Chandler.
DePalma was 23 seconds behind Rick-
enbacher on the sixth lap. He re
gained the lost ground in a burst ol
speed and passed the Mason driver on
a narrow portion of the back stretch.
The entrants in to-day’s race were:
Car.
Deltal
Mercer
Mason
Mercer
Mason
Driver.
I )awson
De Palma
Rickenbacher
Wishart
Chandler
Endlcott Special Endlcott
Mason Mulford
Mercer Luttrell
Mechanician
Goetz
Voliman
Donnell
Jenter
J ones
McNamara
Walker
Haynes
Chattanooga Girl
‘Tangoes’ Her Way
To Jail in Chicago
CHICAGO, Aug. 29.—Eight news
boys, a dozen taxicab chauffers and a
miscellaneous crowd of more than 200
of the “common people” stood at
Clark and Randolph streets at mid
night and watched two policemen
trying to arrest two women who in
sisted on tangoing their way to the
police station.
The women were Mrs. E. F. Wirth,
wife of a druggist living at No. 2673
West Washington boulevard, and
Miss Lucile Lowrey, who says she is
a Chattanooga, Tenn., society girl,
visiting at the Hotel W'arner. The
two, in company with a party of about
six friends, entered a cafe shortly aft
er 10 o’clock. They dined—and had
liquid refreshments as well.
Mrs. Wirth and Miss Lowrey evinc
ed a desire to tango—and did. The
way they did it was distasteful to
Manager Corbett of the cafe, and he
asked the pair to leave the floor.
They refused. Corbett sent for po
lice assistance, and Patrolmen Con
don and Dodd responded.
The fair but unquenchable danc
ers were landed on th e street in good
shape, but there they f again insisted
on dancing. It took three-quarters
of an hour to get the women to the
Central detail, but Condon and Dodd
stuck to the job.
WOMAN AIDS ARMY SPY.
VERSAILLES, Aug. 29.—A charge of
selling army secrets to Austria to-day
was lodged against Captain Guieu, of
the French artillery. Captain Guieu fled,
accompanied by a woman.
Envoy Lind Is Attacked in Wash
ington for Loan Offer—Called
Dollar Diplomat.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 29.—Trains
leaving this city to-day for Vera
Cruz carried many Americans, who
are following the advice of President
Wilson to get out of Mexico and thus
escape the dangers of warfare.
However, many members of the
American colony, not alone here, but
in the other cities, are remaining. It
is estimated that not more than 10
per cent of the American residents
in the republic will flee, unless the
situation becomes much worse than
it really is now.
Many American families, including
women and children, are remaining.
Consul General Shanklin issued a
manifesto directed to American resi
dents of Mexico, quoting President
Wilson’s advice that foreigners leave
Mexico.
More Than 2,000 to Stay.
A number of influential American
residents who have all their posses
sions invested here, have decided to
stay until actually forced out by the
dangers of war.
They believe that if they should
leave the country they would not be
able to collect indemnity for damage
to their property. It is believed that
between 2,000 and 3,000 Americans
will stick to Mexico City.
Mexican officials profess to believe
that the exodus is unnecessary or at
least premature. President Huerta
continues to declare that foreigners
are safe in this country and would
be protected even in the event of war.
Gamboa Still Hopeful.
Foreign Minister Gamboa said that
he is feeling hopeful over the out
come of the present relations between
Mexico and the United States.
He refuses to admit that Huerta
will resign. It is believed that if Spe
cial Envoy John Lind -eturn to this
city it wifi not be befoi he middle of
next week.
Mexicans are apathetic toward the
diplomatic battle.
President Not Back
Of Lind’s Offer of Loan.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—The
Mexican situation showed no new
phases in Washington to-day. The
second Gamboa note has acted as a
damper on whatever hopes were held
that a solution of the problems now
confronting Mexico might be reached
on the basis of the supplementary
suggestions made in Envoy land's
second note.
The next move must be made by
I.ind, and the President has left the
future policy of the United Slates, as
far as the "peace mission” is con
cerned. in Lind s hands.
Criticism of Mr. Lind’s indiscretion
in his supplementary suggestions to
General Huerta in which he holds
as a bait for the acceptance of the
American program the support of this
Government in gaining financial re
sources from American bankers, Is
growing in Washington.
The President has indicated that
Lind made this step practically on his
own initiative and has not yet signi
fied his approval of it. Critics of the
Administration say it is dollar diplo
macy in almost the Identical form,
which caused the Knox administra
tion of the State Department to be so
harshly denounced.
U. S. Moves Secretly
In Mexico Now.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VERA CRUZ, MEXICO, Aug. 29.—
Closest secrecy to-day surrounded the
movements of John Lind, the special
envoy of President Wilson, who came
here with pacification proposal*.
Mr. Lind was still here this morn
ing, but refused to say whether or not
he would go to Mexico City during the
day to attempt to reopen negotiations
with the Mexican Government.
“I am under obligations to keep
silent," said Mr. Lind. “1 would bo a