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VOL. XII. NO. 23. \TLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1913. 2 CENTS.
LIND ATTACKED IN WASHINGTON
ATLANTA MAN TELLS
OF MEXICO SITUATION
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DAWSON FAVORITE IN GREAT RACE
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FRANK CALMLY WORKING ON APPEAL
Defense Confident It Will Get
New Trial on Ground Demon
stration Influenced Jury, i
Americans Arming Themselves as Protection
Against Threatened Clash, Says
Newspaper Man.
rhe Atlanta Georgian publishes be-
v an article written by F. B. Cook,
American newspaper man, who ar-
red in Atlanta Thursday from Mon-
rey, Mexico, where he has been
ice the beginning of the diplomatio
changes between President Wilson
d Provisional President Huerta,
lich have brought the Mexican slt-
.tion to its present crisis.
Mr. Cook crossed the boundary line
e week ago. As a newspaper man
came in close touch with condi-
ins in Mexico and from his obser-
tions has been enabled to deduce
e terrible consequences to the hun-
eds of thousands of Americans
ere should war be declared.
These he portrays in the following
tide:
By F. B. COOK.
Every American in Mexico has
med himself. Bven the women
rry pistols in their handbags.
ieir homes are arsenals.
Thousands of them are swarming
ross the border into Texas. The
lin which bore me from Monterey
San Antonio was packed with
nerican refugees. They carried
Ith them their personal effects and
e cash into which they had con-
irted their business assets and real-
Those whom they left behind
'em are following just as fast as
ey can get away.
The great danger to American resi
sts of Mexico is not for those in
e large cities so much as in the
ral districts. In Monterey, where
ere are probably 30,000 resident
nericans, and in the City of Mex-
3, where there are twice that num-
r, they are prepared to resist.
Besides being armed they have
irred their windows. Should the
0r8t come the American colonies in
e larger cities could easily muster
small but veritable army to protect
emselves. .
Helpless in Rural Districts.
In the rural districts, however,
here there are thousands of Ameri-
ns practically helpless, matters
D uld b> different. The mountains
„ n ow bristling with roving bands,
me of them semi-bandits, and but
ie flash of a war would start them
i a murderous . mpage which would
ual the days of the Sioux and
paehe.
Very few Americans have decided
stay and brave out the situation.
Those who have, base their action
on the close proximity of Uncle Sam’s
troops who are massing along the
border.
It has been figured that ten hours
after being ordered, the American
soldiers could reach the City of Mex
ico. This, of course, does not reckon
the possibility of blockades. The
troops would have to make the dis
tance by rail and it would be the eas
iest thin# in the world to tear up the
tracks. Yet Americans with whom I
discussed the matter declared they
could hold out for at least ten days*
A peculiar thing, I noticed, was that
the American women were not as
anxious to leave Mexico as were their
husbands and fathers. The lure of
the climate seems to have proven
stronger than the fear of being mur
dered. The Mexican climate is the
most wonderful in the world, and,
coupled with the romantic people, has
a fascination hard to resist.
People Seem Happy.
Despite the uneasiness which pre
vails In every city, the streets each
night are filled with people, and the
plazas, or parks, are crowded with
gaily dressed throngs. Should the
cry of war ring through the streets,
though, it would find It armed, with
al its fickleness.
There Is ho room for argument even
in the City of Mexico as to who would
be the victor, should war be declared.
Huerta—or Wurtha, as the Mexican
Provisional President’s name is pro
nounced—has a very unstable follow
ing. The Mexican soldiery is but skin
deep, and has but the one desire—to
be on the winning side. It is said that
all but the very loyalest of Huerta’s
friends would not hesitate to join
with the American force should it in
vade the country.
Yet, after a successful invasion,
there would have to be a repetition
of the old l.tdian warfare, to accom
plish a final extermination of the
mountain tribes. They are the most
dangerous and least accessible people
in the country. They owe allegiance
to no faction and desire none. They
would have to be put off on reserva
tions as were the redskins.
As the situation is now, Americans
are not in danger, unless they bring it
to themselves. They receive civil
treatment from the natives so long
as they accord such.
The lawyers for Leo M. Frank 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 given 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 rno»nk*sM^h*m.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 impossible for Frank to rerelv?
an impartial trial when the jurors
could so readily observe the temper
of the people.
Frank “Man With Iron Nerve."
A Pasting the lawyers with every
means at his command is Frank him
self. His coolness and confidence witn
the sentence of death hanging over
him have won him a reputation at the
Tower for a man with an iron nerve.
He greete 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 his 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
torneys ippfoved, but they have in
structed him to have nothing to say
at prepent.
He is continuing hie 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 jeallty 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 rails 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 pencils
which his concern manufactures.
“I am innocent,” he has told his
friends, "and aooner or later the
world will know it. I am confident
that my innocence will be proved, so
there is no need for me to w^ry.”
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 Mm at the trial. He quieted his
hysterical wife when the news of the
Jury’s verdict reached the Tower. His
altitude has been the same all
thrush the week.
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 tie 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. •
Wants Son in Prison
To Break Drug Habit
In order that he may be sent to the
penitentiary for a year and cured of
the cocaine habit, the police are search
ing for C. L. Mauldin, 22 years old, of
Mountain View, who is supposed to be
haunting some of the drug dens of At
lanta. IFfoufld, the boy will be arraigned
before Recorder Broyles on statutory
charges that will permit of a year's
imprisonment.
The search is being conducted at the
request of the boy’s father. John Maul-
dirt, who called at headquarters Thurs
day night and asked the aid of the iaw
to reform his son. Mauldin declared that
his boy had become addicted to the
use of the drug while on a visit to At
lanta several months ago, and that
since then he refuses to stay at home.
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
held next week at the Speedway, un
der the auspices of the negrods of At
lanta, As an added attraction, the
only successful negro aviator in the
world, Burton, will malte 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.
GIRL ISM CURS SEEK
ELGIN Mi
TROPHY
Marsha Warrington, Not Young
Woman With Whom Defendant
Fled, State’s Chief Witness.
War Cloud Draws
Georgians to Army
COLUMBUS, Aug. 28.—A recruit
ing army station has been established
In Columbus, and notwithstanding the
fact that it has been opened less
than two days, there have been a
number of applications by young men
who are desirous of trying army life.
The possibility of a fight with Mex
ico is having the effect of attracting
a lot of attention among thoF*e fond
of adventure, and a number of those
who have joined have an idea that
soonor or later they will have the
privilege of going to Mexico and see
ing actual service.
‘Eve Was Made From
Adam's Backbone'
PITTSBURG, Aug. 29. — Woman
was made out of the backbone, not
the rib, of Adam was a theory ad
vanced by Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs,
of Chicago, who discussed woman's
suffrage on Schenley lawn.
"Read the first chapter of Genesis,
not the twenty-fifth and twenty-
sixth verses of the second,” declared
Mrs Stubbs, “and you will find that
God created man—male and female—
at the same time.
"And ev6n if it were true that
woman was made out of man. it must
have been out of the backbone of
Adam, not a rib.”
Screwdriver Clew
To Peachtree Thief
With an oily screwdriver as their
only clew, detectives are searching
for the burglars who entered the Gun
ter-Wat kins Drug Company, at Wal
ton and Peachtree streets, Thursday
night and stole $5 in change from the
cash register.
The thieves removed one of the
glass panels from the rear door on
Walton street. The screwdriver was
found on the sidewalk Friday morn
ing.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29—Gov
ernment attorneys in the white slave
trial of F. Drew Oamlnetti to-day
admitted that they were depending
upon the testimony of Marsha War
rington as their strongest evidence
against Camlnetti, although the name
ofi Lola Norris was linked with that
of the' defendant in the elopir.ent to
Reno. Miss Warrington’s testimony
was effective in bringing about the
conviction of Maury L. Diggs on the
same charge.
When the trial was resumed to-day
the court attaches had the dally bat
tle with the crowd of curious men
and women. The story repeated by
Marsha Warrington on the stand yes
terday, which was to be comrfttded
to-day, was the attraction.
Federal Judge Van Fleet asked the
court officers to Inform every young
girl In the corridor that testimony
was being given that was unfit for
them to hear. This did not deter
them, and all who could get in the
van of the crowd sought seats in the
courtroom, determined to hold them
throughout the day.
Wife and Girl Meet,
For the first time since the story
of her husband’s infidelity became
public property, Mrs. Maury I. Diggs
heard it yesterday from the lips of
Marsha Warrington, "the other wo
man.” Marsha told the same story
she did In the Diggs trial.
Mrs. Diggs sat just Inside the rail
that divides the audience from the
bar of the Court. She listened in
tently, rigidly wincing at certain
parts of the testimony.
Concluding her testimony for the
day Marsha Warrington walked to
a seat at the table of counsel for
the Government. Facing her, as she
drew near, stood Mrs. Diggs at the
table of counsel for the defense,
staring her steadfastly In the face,
with only the width of the aisle be
tween the two tables separating
them. The girl turned her head and
looked away.
Caminetti's Wife Absent.
Midway between the two tables
stood Diggs, who, after adjournment,
joined his wife. He looked noncha
lantly, first at one woman and then
at the other, talking the meanwhile
with Camlnetti.
The girl’s story to-day was a
somewhat curtailed repetition of her
testimony in the Diggs trial and car
ried her through the earlier stages
of her experience with Diggs to the
point where Diggs said scandal had
surrounded them and began to urge
the necessity of flight. Her exam
ination will be resumed to-morrow.
Whatever the testimony of Lola
Norris may he, Camlnetti has an
nounced that he will not dispute it.
The prosecution has stated that It
will attempt to prove that Miss Nof-
rig was pure until she met Camlnetti
and that it was in Reno that she
yielded, after promise of marriage
was made to her.
Thus far the wife, children and
mother of Caminetti have not ap
peared in the courtroom.
Start of Great Road Contest Is
Made Promptly at 11 o'Clock.
Dawson First Over Line.
ELGIN, ILL., Aug. 29,—Promptly at
11 o’clock to-day*Starter Fred Wag
ner held a revolver close to the ear of
Joe Dawson and counted the last ten
seconds before the hour in a vojee
that could scarcely be heard above the
roar of the big racing auto’s engine.
As the last second was ticked off
Wagner *flred the revolver and Daw
son’s Deltal racer leaped across the
starting line. Dawson was the fa
vorite in to-day’s race for the Chi
cago Automobile Club trophv former
ly known as the Cobe trophy.
The other seven race entrants were
started on the eight and one-ha*f
mile road course at intervals of 30
seconds.
The drivers, who were on the course
at 5 o'clock this morning, found it in
excellent condition. AH were agreed
f that previous Elgin track records
| would be lowered, because of the wM-
j ening of the most treacherous curves.
And confidence was expressed that
| the world’s road record would fall to-
j day or to-morrow.
I The entrants in to-day’s race were:
I Car. Driver, Mechanician
Deltal Dawson Goetz
Mercer Pullen Vollman
Mason Rickenbacher Donnell
Mercer Wishart Jenter
Mason Chandler Jones
Nyberg H, Fndlcott McNamara
Mason Mulford Walker
Mercer Luttrell Haynes
Joe Dawson, winner of the 1912 In
ternational Sweepstakes at the In
dianapolis Motor Speedway, as the
ruling favorite, with Ralph Mulford
and Spencer Wlshart picked to finish
close to the front.
Asserts Conductor
Kicked Her; FilesSuit
Alleging that a conductor on a Sol
diers’ Home car carried her by her sta
tion at South Delta and then kicked and
pulled her off the car on the return trip,
Hattie Winston, aged GO years, filed suit
Friday morning in the Superior Court
for $3,000 damages.
The plaintiff claims that as a result of
the conductor’s irtAtrnent she has suf-
fu t;d both mental and physical anguish.
Former Amelie Rives
Sues for Auto Scare
NEW YORK, Auk. 39,—Princess
Amelie (Rives) Troubetzkoy, former
wife of John Armstrong Chaloner and
present wife of Prince Pierre Trou
betzkoy. has started Supreme Court
proceedings to recover $3,000 from
Charles P.. DuVergey, of Coxsackle,
Green County. New York. She de
clares that hts automobile, driven at
a fant speed, frightened a horse on
which she waa riding and caused In
jury to herself and the- horse.
She says the nervous shock to her
self was so great that she has been
deprived of $2,000 which she would
have received for her work as au
thoress.
Union Men Invited
To Special Sermon
A special Invitation has been ex
tended to members of labor unions
and working men of all the trades
and professions to attend the services
at the First Presbyterian Church Sun
day morning.
Dr. Hugh K. Walker, the pastor,
will preach a special Labor Day ser
mon on "The Creator of a New Or
der of Life,” with some reflections
and prophecies suitable to the cele
bration of Labor Day.
Castro's Revolution
Entirely Crushed
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
CARACAS. VENEZUELA. Aug. 29.
President Juan Goine*. of Venezuela,
decided to-day that th© Castro revolt
is at an end.
"I can guarantee that the country
will all be at peace within six
months,” he said.
The President figures that it will
take that long to put down guerrilla
‘bands and bandits who owe allegiance
‘PeaceBeWithYou;’
Bryan Is Off Again
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—
Having been informed early
yesterday by Governor Lind
that no developments were to
be expected in the next 48
hours in the Mexican situation,
Secretary Bryan to-day pro
ceeds dwith his plans for the
resumption of his lecture tour.
The Secretary 1ft Washing
ton at noon for Doyleston, Pa.,
whre he will lecture late to
day. He also will speak at
Kennth, Pa., to-night, return
ing to Washington to morrow
and leaving to-morrow noon to
deliver two more lectures in
nrthern Maryland.
Stockingless Maid
Stirs Atlantic City
ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 29.—'Th*
stocklngless maid has arrived. Spec
tators who were out early on the
boardwalk this morning be'neid 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 diecovered it
was nature’s garb.
Columbus Votes on
Commission Rule
COLUMBUS, Aug 29.—The steering
committee for the campaign to be
waged for the commission government
election, to be held in Columbus De
cember 10. is beginning to formulate
Its plans for the fight.
There Is considerable opposition to
the commission idea on the part of
a number of the present Aldermen and
other city officials, as well as from
other sources.
Slices Heel, Avoids
Poison By Sting Ray
ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 29.—John
Bwanson, who whipped out a fish
knife, slashed his heel to the bone,
leaped overboard and swam a mile
and a half to shore after being
wounded by a sting ray, may recovei,
as the knife cut and the cauterizing
by the salt water, will save him if
he survives the exhaustion and loss
of blood.
Shaw Takes Tumble
From His Motorcycle
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Aug. 29.—The unique
George Bernard Shaw confesses to
day he has taken up autocycling. Ha
also admits he has had several acci
dents.
Once, while delivering a play to n
client, a .vtone caught in the front
wheel, and he was shot over the han
dle bars into a hedge.
Steers Stampede at
Sight of Cornfield
OLIVE BRANCH, MIPS., 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.
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 back all persons but
the firemen from the danger zone.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Showers Friday, fair
Saturday.
United States Envoy Scored for
Money Offer to Huerta—Move
Called Dollar Diplomacy.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Thi
Mexican situation showed no new
phases in Washington to-day. Th€
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 Lind's
second note.
The next move must b e made by
Lind, and the President has left the
future policy of the United States, as
far as the "peace mission” is con
cerned, in Lind’s hands.
If Lind takes any decisive action
in the matter of returning to Mexico
City, it will be a surprise to the Whits
House, since he has given the Presi
dent no program on what he intends
to work. He has intimated that he
would return to Mexico City If he
saw any loophole in the second Gam
boa note which might permit of fu
ture negotiations, but has not yel
said definitely that he would do so.
The State Department has not
heard from Lind since yesterday
morning, when he communicated his
views on the second Gamboa note.
Lind Scored in Washington.
Criticism of Mr. Lind’s indiscretion
in his supplementary suggestions to
General Huerta in which he holds out
as a gait for the acceptance of the
America program the support of this
Government in gaining financial re
sources from American hankers, 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 sa
harshly denounced.
Mexican dispatches received by the
State Department to-day do not in
dicate any anti-foreign outbreaks
during the past two days. The Con
sul at Saltillo Informed the depart
ment that direct telegraphic commu
nication with Mexico City has been
restored. Th^ arrival of a large sup
ply of medicine and hospital appli
ances at Torreon was also reported to
the department.
Americans Aid Wounded.
The inhabitants of Torreon are said
to be in dire want as the result oi
the battle recently fought between the
rebels and federals, and two Ameri
cans, George Richardson and. Ernest
Boehringer, have volunteered to carry
another supply of medicines from
Vera Cruz to Torreon in their auto
mobile. The medicine and hospital
supplies for this trip have been do
nated by the officers of th© American
battleship New Hampshire.
The gunboat Wheeling arrived at
Frontera, according to Navy Depart
ment advise to-day. She will remain
here for some time investigating in
juries to foreigners reported within
the last fortnight.
U. S. Moves Secretly i
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 proposals.
Mr. Lind was still here this'wio™-
ing, but refused to say whether or net