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VOL. I. NO. 22.
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ATLANTA, GA„ SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1913.
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INQUIRY INTO
IMPERATOR
Child's Heart Found
Under His Left Arm
| Hospital Physician Reports That the
Displacement in No Wise In
conveniences the Boy.
EQ
^Y SHIP LINE
Hamburg-American Officials In
vestigate $350,000 Blaze That
Caused One Death and Panic
Among Passengers at Hoboken.
KANSAS CITY. Aug. 30—A case
which is puzzling the phyfdcians at
the General Hospital is that of a 7-
Year-old boy whose heart is located
under his arm. Charley Butera and
his mother, Mary Butera, 23 years old,
are both patients at the hospital suf
fering from typhoid fever.
When the physicians attempted to
listen to Charley’s heartbeats by
placing the instruments on the usual
spot, they could hear nothing. In
vestigation showed the heart to be
several inches from normal position,
on the left side and directly under the
arm.
Charley is perfectly normal other
wise and is making a good fight
against typhoid fever.
They say the new location for his
heart is just about as good a? normal.
Tragedy on Greatest Liner Had it Hives Six Epigrams
Occurred at Sea Would Have
On Equal Suffrage
Equaled Titanic—Fate Seems... _ _ .. ,
I California Congressman Says Vote
to Have Marked Leviathans, WIM Be Granted women in
S
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Sentenced to Hang October 10,
He Methodically Lays Plans
to Secure New Trial.
YEAR’S DELAY IS ASSURED
Friends Declare Final Vindication
Is Certain—State Hunts for
New Evidence.
XEW YORK, Aug. 30.—"Has fate
marked the world’s greatest ocean,
liners for destruction?”
This is the question uppermost in
the minds of Hamburg-American
Hine officials investigating the cause
of the fire that swept the Imperator,
the biggest passenger . carrying
steamer alloat, as it lay at the dock
at Hoboken, drove 1,200 steerage pas
sengers into a panic, claimed one of
ficer’s life and caused a loss of $350,-
000
Every State.
Had the fire occurred at sea under
the same conditions, the tragedy
might easily have been a duplicate of
the Titanic disaster. Even with the
fear of drowning removed, the blaze
caused a great panic that only a
miracle prevented from resulting in a
terrible loss of life, while even with
the aid of a great city’s fire-fighting
apparatus, the task of subduing the
•flames was difficult.
What would have been the result
had the fire broken out in mid
ocean, is a question that sends terror
through the minds of the investiga
tors.
Notables on Passenger List.
The Imperator. in commission three
months, docked with the greatest
'passenger list in the history of trans-
Atlantic travel. In addition to 1,200
steerage passengers, the first-class
cabin held among the 763 passengers
George Ade, William Ellis Corey,
Samuel Untermyer. Mrs. Rudolph
Spreckels. F. W. Woolworth, Julius P.
Meyer, vice president of the line, and
Allis»on Armour.
The origin of the fire is a mystery,
although Captain Ruser states it
must have been burning some time
before it was discovered in the fifth
deck, or provision room. By heroic
work the flames were kept from
spreading to the first cabin and su
perstructure and within four hours
were under control. They had licked
their way into the coal bunkers, how
ever, and the firemen were forced to
fight them for hours before the last
spark was quenched.
Second Officer a Hero.
Acts of heroism offset others of ar
rant cowardice, during the worst of
the fire. While half the orew of 1.180
men fought the flames, the other half
landed the panic-stricken steerage
passengers. Second Officer Gerbracht
vas the hero of the day. This brave
seaman voluntarily gave his life while
♦.struggling to close the fireproof doors
to confine the flames to the provision
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3ft.—Con
gressman John E. Raker, of Califor-.
nia, delivered the following epigrams
on woman suffrage to-day:
Women are early birds when it
comes to voting in California.
Their influence keeps perfect order
around the polls.
Suffrage has come *o stay not only
in California, but all over the United
States.
In two years women will vote in
every State in the Union.
There is no reason why one-half the
ability and integrity of the country
should be deprived of the vote.
Father can hold the baby while
mother votes, the same as mother
holds it while father votes.
Co-respondent Is
Tortunate Mann'
Emile Willomann, of New York,
Names Near Namesake in Suit
for Divorce.
NEW YORK. Aug. 30.—A curioua
divorce complaint, naming ‘‘One
Fortunate Mann” was filed yesterday
in the Supreme Court by Attorney. S.
Lawrence Miller, of No. 5 Nassau
street, in behalf of Emile Willoman.
The complaint states that Willoman
married Angele Bartley in London,
England, on January 10, 1911. She
is alleged to have been guilty of
misconduct in January, 1913, dith the
“Fortunate Mann.” Miller was not in
his office yesterday and his client
could not be located.
room. .
Gerbracht was equipped with a hel-
met 3iipplied with oxygen from pumps
,, n the outside. The seamen who
.manned the pumps deserted In a pan-
• „ f l>ar and Clerbacht, although he
might have fled to safety, clung to his
ta«k un.il he was overcome and roast
ed to death. Two sailors, reported to
have perished with him, were found
Fire boats from New York City
were rushed to the Imperator to aid
the Hoboken department, not only In
saving the liner, but in preventing the
flames from spreading to nearby
shipping.
Big -Panic in Steerage.
Panic broke out among the 2,000
men and women steefage passengers
when the Are was discovered and
while they rioted and clamored to
K et off the ship. The steerage pas-
* nge rs were being held on board the
Un er overnight. It was too late to
transfer them to Ellis Island when
the ship docked.
WhUe half of the crew of 1.180 men
fought the spreading blaze the bal
ance got all the steerage passengers
,0 safety on the pier.
The tire was discovered in the pro
vision room about 5 o'clock. Fed by
,h,. oils and fats of the foodstuffs.
1 It spread rapidly, and at 7:30 o'clock
•
' . <- -.00 ooo liner was doomed. A.
"our the crew was assisted by
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Millionaire Brewer
Gives Overall Party
Edwin Lemp, St. Louis, Invites
Friends to Forsake the Golf
Links for the Farm.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 30—Edwin Lemp.
the young millionaire who has tem
porarily retired from the brewing
business, and who ha* become a
farmer, has sent out inyltations for
an overall party to be held at his
home located near Meremac High
lands.
He has requested a dozen or more
of his friends to forsake the golf links
and get a real coat of tan from the
efforts of manual labor.
Clean Talk Leader,
Mad, Exclaims *—!'
Fall From Grace Results When He
Fields Grounder and Suspender
Button Breaks.
CHICAGO. Aug. 30.—Advocates of
clean language are shocked. Thomas H.
Russell, president of the Clean Lan
guage League of America, has lapsed.
Mr. Russell started to a picnic. He
missed his auto. He started for a street
car and missed that. He reached the
picnic late and Sound another was sub
stituted for him on the speaker’s pro
gram. He only smiled.
He fell over a root and ijpllled ice
cream on his flannels. Still he smiled.
A hall game was proposed. Mr. Rus
sell stooped for a grounder. Something
gave way at his back. A button flew
and a loose suspender hit him in the
face.
“ !” came with volcanic fury.
Camera Finds ‘Sick
Clerk' at Ball Game
New Head of the New Haven Rail
way Employs Photographers
as Detectives.
NEW HAVEN, Aug. 30—There is con
sternation in the New Haven road’s
general offices here following the dis
covery of the ’ company’s gum-shoe
photographer at a local ball game, where
he snapped a picture of a clerk out on
“leave of absence for sickness. ”
This photographer also has been pic
turing trainmen at the bar during work
ing hours and as- a result the carpet in
the superintendent's office is being worn
by men called to explain.
With the sentence of death seem
ingly weighing as lightly on him as
an order of his family physician to
quit smoking, Leo M. Frank, his re
markable imperturability still undis
turbed. is going about his final fight
for life in as methodical a manner
as he managed affairs of the Na
tional Pencil Company, of which he
was superintendent.
No more dramatic display of stoi
cism has ever been kndw than that
of Frank, when in less than 48 hours
after he had heard Judge L. S. Roan
declare that he must die on th e gal
lows Oetober 10 as the murderer of
Mary Phagan, he ordered Herbert
Schiff, his assistant, to come to the
jail and go over the affairs of the
pencil factory. It is understood that
Frank has decided to direct in a
general wfiy from the jail the work
ings of the company as he did before
he was charged with the most noted
crime in the history of the South.
Frank knows that he will not hang
October 10. The motion of his coun
sel for new trial will not be heard
until October 4. If this is denied, the
case will b e carried to the Supreme
Court immediately.
Year’s Wait Almost Sure.
On account of the vast amount of
evidence which will have to be re
viewed, and the ponderous legal
points that are sure to be presented,
it will be impossible for that court
to hand down its decision in less
than several months. It is altogether
likely that it will be a year before
the case is either affirmed or re
versed and remanded to the lower
’court.
His counsel has assured him that
they are confident of a reversal. At
torney Luther Z. Rosser is now go
ing over the evidence with Solicitor
General Hugh Dorsey in an effort to
reach an agreed statement of the
points in^ issue in order to facilitate
the work of the court and curtail the
bulk of the transcript.
So, realizing that his fight is not
of days, hardly of months, and per
haps of years, Frank has in a busi
nesslike manner arranged to have
his long wait ip jail made as com
fortable and as useful as possible.
Fits Cell as an Office.
He has fitted up his cell with com
fortable furniture. He has an ade
quate table on which to do his work,
both in reference to his fight for life
and the affairs of the factory, and has
brightened the appearance of the
steel cage to make it as pleasant as
possible during the daily visits of his
wife and his mother.
On the other hand, the prosecution
is just as vigilant to see that there is
no escape for Frank. It is determined
that he shall pay with his life for
that which the Solicitor so fervidly
declared he took.
Solicitor Dorsey, it is known. Is di
recting the work of detectives, who
are seeking any new evidence which
might develop to strengthen the case
of the State should there possibly be
a reversal.
The Solicitor hardly believes it is
possible that the Supreme Court will
send the famous ca4e back. He be
lieves that the defense will largely de
pend on the applause of the specta
tors as an Influence on the jurors, to
have the Supreme Court rule in its
favor.
It is said that the Solicitor will be
able to prove by the jurors that they
were not influenced in the slightest
by the applause; in fact, that they
heard none.
Friends Remain Loyal.
Frank’s friends have remained in
tensely loyal, even after the verdict
was brought in. They still maintain
his absolute innocence and believe
that when public feeling has had an
opportunity to die down and another
trial obtained, there will be as speedy
a verdict clearing Frank’s name as
the one by which he was branded
Mary Phagan’s slayer.
Attorney Reuben Arnold, worn by
the four weeks of trial, left Atlanta
soon after the the verdict was reach
ed. but the more massive and rugged
Rosser has remained on duty, pre
paring the motion.
Frank is proving of great assistance
Lo his counsel and is now at work on
a reply to the speech of the Solicitor,
which he will publish if his lawyer
consents.
Eugenic Marriage
Permits in Demand
Forty-six Applicants Qualify Under
New Wedding Law at
Pittsburg.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 30.—The first
eugenic marriage permit in Pitts-
t)urg, as provided by the new State
law. has been issued, and when the
marriage license clerks closed shop,
23 men, amid continual evidences of
embarrassment, and 23 women, all
ablush, answered delicate little inti
mate questions regarding their physi
cal selves so successfully that none
was denied the coveted certificate.
“Putting a premium on perjury,”
said a license clerk, Walter Nevin.
“The law' is a joke, or else we have
had before us 46 of the healthiest
specimens of manhood and woman
hood that ever came down the pike.
“The only change is it takes thir
teen minutes to issue a license now.
where it used to take only three min
utes.”
10,000 Posters Invite
Everyone to Wedding
THE CAUSE OF IT ALL IN MEXICO
President Victoriano Huerta, of Mexico, in the uniform of
a general. Below is shown the arrival of Special Envoy Lind
in Mexico. Mr. Lind is marked by the cross.
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U.S.PROPERTY VALUED 11
Thirty-two Shot or Tortured, Millions
in Ransom Extorted, Women At
tacked During 18 Months' Reign
of Anarchy Since Downfall of Diaz.
Riot Call for Police Completes
Friends’ Joke on Young
Chicago Couple.
VICTIMS TRUSTED ‘STARS
AND STRIPES’ FOR SAFETY
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—The wedding of
Fred Kloese. No. 530 East Seventy-
third place, and Miss Alida De Vos,
No. 6035 South Morgan street, was not
the quiet, orderly affair they had
planned. The friends of Kloese found
out their plans
These friends had 10,000 handbills
printed and small boys distributed them.
The bills announced in boxcar type the
wedding, and invited everybody.
And most everybody came with horns,
bells, bags of rice and lusty voices, and
sent in a riot call for the police by way
of a joke.
Sunday American Prints Partial Sum
mary of Outrages—Complete State
Department List Is Withheld by
Orders From the White House.
ay iifrt-^TtorfAL.
Dislocates Her Jaw
Laughing at Joke
Factory Girl Adds to Excitement by
Screaming Lustily With
Mouth Wide Open.
CAMDEN, N. J., Aug. 30.—Jennie
Ochinpa, 20 years old, laughed so hard
at a joke told by another girl in the
cigar factory, where ^he is employed,
that her jaw's became locked. The 200
employees of the place were panic-
stricken when the girl began to scream
with her mouth wide open
A hurry call to the Cooper Hospital
brought an ambulance, which increased
the excitement.
Tango Dance Party
In Swimming Pool
Auto Lamps to Light
Harvesting at Night
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—More than'100 non-combatant
Amorican citizens slain by Federals, rebels and bandits.
At least 32 other non-combatant American citizens shot or tor
tured.
Innocent American girls and young wives, who believed them
selves protected by the American flag, maltreated before the eyes
of their helpless fathers and husbands.
Millions of dollars in ransom exacted from American citizens
tortured or threatened with death.
Property valued at more than $150,000,000, owned by Amer
ican citizens, destroyed.
This, in part, is the terrible story of anarchy and murder in
progress in Mexico. In no section of Mexico is the situation im
proved. It is steadily growing worse after eighteen mopths of an
archy that has followed the overthrow of Porfirio Diaz.
On July 24 Mrs. Paul Hudson, wife of the owner of the Mexi
can Herald, stated that when she left Mexico City the list of Amer
ican dead for 1913, on file at the American Embassy, numbered 86.
Since then many others have been murdered.
LIST OF THE VICTIMS IS REFUSED.
The Sunday American has requested the Department of
State In this city, and the American Embassy in Mexico City for
this list. It was refused.
'Pile Wilson-Bryan policy of delay and non-interference in
Mexico on the ground that all, or nearly ail, outrages are due to
overt acts of tho Americans involved, does not find sympathy m
any quarter here.
In the belief of Senators and Representatives the situation has
readied a crisis wheitc something must be done.
Men back from Mexico a^ert that the list at the embassy is
merely fragmentary. It tells only in small part the terrible story
of murder, rapine and destruction enacted against Americans.
Here is a partial list of the murders and other outrages com
piled by The American from censored press dispatches. The com
plete list can not be given for the sole reason that it is withheld
from the public by an order from the White House.
One-Piece Bathing Suits Are To Be
Costumes at Colorado Summer
Resort Affair.
Horse Dead, Family
Prints Mourning ‘Ad’
Owners of Equine Pet Thank All
Who Aided in Obsequies or
Extended Sympathies.
BLOOMSBURG, PA., Aug. 30 —B. F.
Battin, of Bloomsburg, had for years
a family horse named Sailor. When
he died the family inserted in a local
paper the following card of thanks:
“We kindly . thank the employees of
Mrs. J. L. Dillon and for the use of
her team, the employees of the Blooms
burg State Normal School and all others
who assisted in the funeral of our pet
horse. Sailor, also the friends who ex
pressed regrets for our loss. August
4 Sailor ate his feed at sunrise, was
hitched to a buggy and at 6:30 fell dead
in sight of his stable. He was loaded
on a wagon, hauled 1 mile and was
decentlv buried before 11 o’clock
“B. F. BATTIN AND FAMILY.”
GLENWOOD SPRINGS COLO , Aug.
30.—Glenwood Springs resort society has
put over a new one. The daylight
tango dances have been surpassed fn
startling fashion, for invitations to
“tango in the swimming pool Saturday
night” are oub. and the colony is agog.
“Wear the one-piece bathing suit.”
Those giving the party will say only
that it is to be a stunning affair.
North Dakota Farmers Transfer
Headlights to Binders and
Dodge Hot Days.
Partial List of Victims
Slain in Reign of Terror
Barefooted Mayor
Walks Up Street
GRAND FORKS, N. r>AK.. Aug 30 —
By transferring the headlights from
their automobiles to their binders, farm
ers of the Red River Valley are con
ducting harvesting operations through
the night, and lying idle during the
day.
This is owing to intense heat, more
than 100 horses having died from pros*
tration last week.
Jack London Invited
On Cruise of World
When Townsmen Object, He Tells
Them He’ll Do as He Blamed
Pleases.
OLARINGTON, OHIO, Aug. 30 —When
his fellow-townsmen remonstrated with
Colonel Sam Teachappott, the pic
turesque Mayor of Clarirtgton, when he
emulated Sockless Simpson, of Kansas,
and walked down the main avenue in
his bare feet, while the street was
crowded, he told them to mind their
own business and that he would do as
he blamed pleased, or wor<}8 to that ef
fect
Colonel Teachappott. who Is a vet
eran of the Civil War, has caused much
controversy, and efforts have been made
to have him removed from office, but
without result.
Millionaire California Sportsman to
Build $100,000 Yacht for
Two-Year Trip.
SANTA BARBARA. Aug. 30.—Com
modore Frank Garbutt, of Los Angeles,
millionaire sportsman, now erasing the
Santa Barbara Channel islands in his
yacht, is preparing to make a two
years’ cruise of the world, it is re
ported, taking with him a party of
friends, including Jack London; the
novelist.
It is said that for the trip Garbutt
will build a $100,000 yacht either at
San Pedro or San Francisco, the craft
to be finished in a year.
WOLF, U. G., mining engineer, murdered July 16, 1913, by outlaw*
in Northern Sonora.
GRIFFIN, BENJAMIN, rancher, murdered July 5, 1913, near
Chuiohipa by bandits.
WILLIAMS, JOHN H., mining engineer, killed by stray bullrt
March 8, 1913, when rebels attacked Nacozari.
GAROW, BORIS, consulting engineer, killed when an attack was
made on Neuva Buena Vista on February 21, 1913.
HOLMES, MRS. E. W., killed by a shell during the bombardment
of Mexico City in February, this year.
WARD, FRANK, shot in back by bandits in his home near Yago,
Tepic Territory, April 9, 1913.
HOWARD, JOHN S. H., United States customs inspector, assas
sinated on Mexican soil, near Eagle Pass, Texas, February
10, 1913.
UNIDENTIFIED PRISONER, who was in Deputy Howard’s cus.
tody.
SOTO, BABLO, merchant of Naco, Arizona, killed by stray bullet
during conflict between Federals and rebels on March 24„
1913.
BUSHNELL, L., mounted policeman, killed in Naco, Arizona,
March 24, 1913, by a stray bullet fired by rebels.
HORACE, FRANK, killed by bandits in Coalcoman, State of Mich-
eacam, in March, this year.
RUSSELL, HERBERT L., manager of American Vice-Consul
McCaughan’s ranch near City of Durango, murdered by rebels
September 29, 1912. Consul Theodore C. Hamm cabled a re
port to the Department of State.
WILLIAMS, ROBERT, policeman of Phoenix, Arizona, killed by