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VOL. I. NO. 22.
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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1913.
HUE SPILLED
Rickenbacher Hurled Through Air
and Aide Dashed Through Fence
When Car Plunges Into Ditch
at Elgin Road Race Saturday.
Ralph Mulford, in Mason, Wins
Second Place After Terrific 1
Speed Duel With Wishart, Mil
lionaire Driver, Finishing Third.
Alabama Feudist
Is Given Parole
Cross Pearce, Sentenced for Killing
Sarge Kennedy, Given Liberty
By Governor O’Neal.
ANNISTON. Aug. 30.—Cross
Pearce, one of the defendants in the
famous Pearce-Kennedy feud case,
which has been in the courts of the
State for several years, has been pa
roled by Governor Emmet O’Neal and
is at his home at Jacksonville.
He is a son of Dr. J. E. Pearce, who
was sent up for life for the murder
of Shell Kennedy. ‘Cross Pearce is
said to have shot Sarge Kennedy.
The case again came into the lime
light recently when W. P. Kennedy,
father and grandfather of the two
men killed, escaped from the peni
tentiary, where he was held for al
leged complicity in the conspiracy
which is said to have resulted in the
death of the two Kennedy®.
Ada Kennedy, th^ sixth and last of
the alleged conspirators, is yet to be
tried. She is a sister of Shell Ken
nedy.
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Tennessee Town Is
Swept by $250,000
Fire; 20 Autos Burn
’
Explosion of Gasoline Tanks in Gar
age Hastens Spread of Flames
at Columbia.
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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ELGIN. ILL.. Aug. 30.—Gil Ander
son, In a Stutz car, this afternoon won
the Elgin National road race of 301
miles. Anderson led the field of racers
after the fourth lap. Anderson’s time
was 253: 3S.97, an average of 71.5 miles
an hour.
Ralph K. Mulford. in a Mason car,
pulled across the finish line second,
after a game fight to dislodge Ander
son from first place. Mulford, veteran
of many automobile races, piloted his
car consistently throughout the en
tire race.
He started in to win and pushed
Anderson hard through the first half
of the race, at the same time waging
the only really spectacular speed bat
tle of the race with Spencer Wishar*
the young millionaire Mercer driver.
Mulford and Wishart fought for place
until the younger driver, nearly ex
hausted by the driving pace he had
been keeping up. was forced to drop
back.
Wishart Furnishes Thrills.
Spencer Wishart, winner of the
third place, was the pacesetter during
the first half of the contest. He
forced Anderson to drive his Stutz to
the limit of its speed, to keep ahead,
* and Wishart and Mulford alternated
in the official time records in second
j and third places. Wishart toward the
last of the race was forced back to
| sixth place. He held this for miles,
I while the leaders went farther ahead.
| in the last three laps Wishart ga\e
1 the crowd another exhibition of his
I spectacular driving and pushed his
! way up to fourth place. When Erwin
j Bergdoll was forced to stop for gaso-
i line on his thirty-fourth time around
’ the course Wishart slipped into his
; place and held it until the finish.
Burman Out of Race. j
I Boh Burman. with his Keeton car,
I was out of the race on his seven-
! teenth lap. His engine collapsed and
he was forced to push the car off the
course.
Joe Dawson’s rear tire burst as he
was passing the grandstand, and the
: rapidly-revolving wheel tossed half
; of the scorching hot tire into the
i rr3W d A man who attempted to
! pick up the piece of rubber was
burned on the hand.
Henning’s Veile car was officially
i declared out of the race. He had
covered four laps when his car went
into the ditch.
, Two Racers Near Death.
Ed Rickenbacher in his Mason car,
the first to meet with a mishap, nar
rowly escaped death when his ma-
chine went off the track and over
turned The driver and Edward
O'Donnell, his mechanician, Were
. thrown clear of the wrecked machine.
Twelve cars remained in the entry
V , ist at th e starting hour. Harry Endi-
cott Who was prevented from win
ning third place yesterday by the
crowd rushing on the track before
the race was over, withdrew his Ny-
berg car from to-day’s card.
The Deltal car, which Joe Dawson
drove yesterday, was not made ready
for to-day’s race because no driver
could be found who was considered
competent to handle it. Hughie
Hughes’ Tulsa was scratched.
The starters were:
Driver.
Wm. Endlcott
Rickenbacher
Mulford
Wishart
Anderson
Dawson
Haupt
Burman
Henning
De Palma
Grant
Bergdoll
MEW TRIAL IN $500,000
INSURANCE SUIT DENIED
CHATTANOOGA, Aug. 30.—Chan-
T N McConnell refused to-
iayto grant a new trial in the Great
Southern Agency case. Stockholders
,f the defunct concern recently were
’Ld approximately $500,000 in
, warded a pp ^ 0 ffl ce rs on the
laims ag . , The rage attracted
^"attention throughout the South.
Life Is Held Too
Cheap, Says Judge
Homicides in Birmingham Subject of
Charge to the Grand
Jury.
BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 30.—Judge W.
M. Fort, who will charge the Septem
ber term of tho Grand Jury, has pre
pared his charge for Monday.
He will call for a vigorous investi
gation of homicides, holding that hu
man life is held entirely too cheap m
Jefferson County. Since the last
Grand Jury there 1 ave been at least
a dozen killings among white people.
Fifty men have been summoned to
appear in court Labor Day, from
which number eighteen men will be
selected to act as an inquisitory body.
Foreigners Given
U. S. Citizenship
Fifty Applicants Take Out Natural
ization Papers in Bir
mingham.
BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 30.—More
than 50 foreigners—Slavs, Russians.
Greeks, Poles, Germans, Italians
French and others—took out final cit
izenship papers in the Federal Court
here to-day. The larger portion of
the men seeking American citizenship
work and reside in the manufactur
ing and mining sections of the county.
It developed that several of the for
eigners had been participating in lo
cal elections for several years. No
prosecution will follow.
Crime Wave Sweeps
Over Birmingham
Coroner’s Report Shows More Than
Twenty Homicides During
August.
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.
BIRMINGHAM. Aug. 30.—A crime
wave has swept Birmingham and Jef
ferson County during the month of
August, according to the report of
Coroner Spain, made public to-day.
This report shows that the Coroner
was called upon to conduct inquesU
in more than 80 death cases, more
than twenty of which were homicides.
There were so many killings that the
Coroner did not nave time to make
investigations in all the cases.
Tech to Close Record
Summer Term Friday
Examinations Begin on the Follow
ing Monday—Fall Term Will
Open September 22.
Car.
Case
Mason
Mason
Mercer
Stutz
Marmon
Mason
Keeton
Velie
Mercer
Isotta .
Erwin Special
The largest summer school in the
history of Georgia Tech will close
next Friday, September 5. The sched
ule of fall examinations will begin
the following Monday. September 8,
and continue two weeks. The fall
term will open September 22.
One hundred and forty young men
have been in attendance at the sum
mer classes. The majority will con
tinue at the school during the year.
BIRMINGHAM HEADQUARTERS
FOR BIG TEXAS OIL COMPANY
BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 30.—The Tex-
as Company, the big oil concern, is
considering making Birmingham a
district headquarters. Manager Cook,
of Atlanta, has spent two days in
Birmingham with W. A. Greene,
treasurer of the company, looking
over the situation here. A heavy
trade in this district has been worked
up lately.
EXPRESS COMPANY IS FINED
FOR GIVING LIQUOR TO MINOR
GADSDEN, Aug. 30.—The South-
ern Express Company was to-day
fined $100 in Circuit Court of DeKalb
County at Fort Payne for delivering
liquor to a minor.
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 know 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 October 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 way from the jail the work
ings of the company as he did before
he was charged with th e most noted
crime in the history of the South.
Frank knows that he will not hang
October 10. Thg 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’® 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
Generhl 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 in 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 litere 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 case barkj 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.
Fri«nds 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 rugge.5
Rosser has remained on duty, pre
paring the motion.
Frank is proving of great assistance
to his counsel and is now at work on
a reply to the speech of the Solicitor,
which he wnl publish if his lawyer
consents.
COLUMBIA. TENN., Aug. 30.—Fire
this morning broke out in a Ware
house owned # by Dobbins & Ewing,
spread to the garage of the Colum
bia Motor and Implement Company
and then to four of the best business
blocks, causing a loss of $250,000.
Heavy explosions from large gaso
line tanks in the garage threw the
flames hundreds of feet Into the air
and distributed fire over the adjacent
buildings.
The Maury Dry Goods Company,
Evans, Parker & Moore and Bogart-
zky & Bauman were among the losers.
There were 21 automobiles de
stroyed. The Masonic Temple suf-
f«_ved small damages. The library of
the Students’ Club was destroyed.
Miss Elliott Balks
At Tree’s Realism
Actress Refuses To Be Carried From
Stage by Two Negroes—Given
White ‘Super.’
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Aug. 30.—Maxine Elliott,
who makes her re-entry to the stage as
Potlphar’s wife in Sir Herbert Tree’s
production of "Joseph and His Breth
ren” at His Majesty’s Theater on Sep
tember 2. has found Sir Herbert’s well-
known insistence for realism more than
she bargained for.
In the las! act Miss Elliott should be
carried off the stage by two great Ethi
opians. To the actress’ surprise she dis
covered that Sir Herbert had actually
epgaged two negroes for the job.
The American actress displayed such
race prejudice that two white men who
have to black up have been substituted.
m
TILL THURSDAY 10 OBEY
Thirty-two Shot or Tortured, Millions
in Ransom Extorted, Women At~ ;
tacked and United States Property
Valued at $150,000,000 Destroyed.
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COL. FELIX DIAZ TO ENTER
RACE FOR THE PRESIDENCY
Special Cable to The American.
MEXICO, CITY, Aug. 30.—Advices from Vera Cruz
stated that Special Envoy Lind would not wait longer than nexf}
Thursday for developments to bring him back to Mexico City. I?
conditions at that time are such that the pacification negotiations
can not be resumed he probably will wait no longer, but will
turn to Washington.
Foreign Minister Gamboa indicates that the negotiations are*
ended so far as his Government is concerned, and that there wilT
he no definite move on the part of the Mexican Government to re-1
snme the conversations, but that President Huerta is open to any*
further suggestions that President Wilson cares to make.
Contrary to his purposes, President Wilson’s repeated de.»
mands that Huerta resign have started a presidential boom for tha
incumbent of the National Palace. Although Huerta can not le-|
i gaily succeed himself he can follow the course adopted by Porflrior
Diaz of resigning on the eve of a presidential election and then
being re-elected.
In official circles resentment against President Wilson’s ad
vice to Americans to Hee the country is growing. It was pointed
out that under the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty of 1848 Mexico is,
bound to protect all Americans within her border. This treaty
likewise governs international disputes between Mexico and th®
United States. Through disuse it fell into obscurity.
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ut.iict
Dislocates Her Jaw
Laughing at Joke
Factory Girl Adds to Excitement by
Screaming Lustily With
Mouth Wide Open.
Tango Dance Party
In Swimming Pool
One-Piece Bathing Suits Are To Be
Costumes at Colorado Summer
Resort Affair.
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 she is employed, f
that her jaws 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.
Horse Dead, Family
Prints Mourning ‘Ad’
Owners of Equine Pet Thank All
Who Aided in Obsequies or
Extended Sympathies.
BLOOMSBITRG, PA.. Aug. 30 —B. F.
Battln, 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 loaned
on a wagon, hauled 1 mile and was
decently 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 in
startling fashion, for invitations to
“tango in the swimming pool Saturday
night” are out 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.
WHITE MAN ARRESTED
FOR ATTACK ON GIRL
GADSDEN. Aug. 30.—James Ham
mond, a white man, was arrested at
Guntersville to-day charged with at
tacking a little white girl in David
son County, Tennessee. Hammond
posed as a doctor at Guntersville a>ii
was ''curing'’ negroes of "consump
tion” at $1 a head. He had collected
$100 when arrested.
Auto Lamps to Light
Harvesting at Night
North Dakota Farmers Transfer
Headlights to Binders and
Dodge Hot Days.
GRAND FORKS. N. r>AK . Aug 30.—
By transferring the headlights from
their automo to their binders, farm
ers of the Rev River Valley are con
ducting harvestii.. 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.
BIG COTTON GIN BURNS
AT TYL0R, ALA,; LOSS HEAVY
SELMA, Aug. 30.—The big ginnery
of William Moore at Tylor, nine miles
from here, was totally destroyed by
Are. The loss of several thousand
dollars is not covered by insurance.
Three bales of cotton burned. Th^
fire is wiought to have been of in
cendiary origin.
Jack London Invited
On Cruise of World
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' crusing 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 Ran Francisco, the craft
to be finished In a year.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Aug. 30.—Colonel Felix Diaz, who is en route to*
Japan on a special diplomatic mission, announced here to-day tha8
he will he a candidate for President of Mexico to succeed Victo-
riano Huerta. The election will be held October 16.
Property of U. S. Valued
At $150,000,000 Destroyed
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—More than 100 non-combatan*'
American citizens slain by Federals, rebels and bandits.
At least 32 other non-combatant American citizens shot or t,or»
tured.
Innocent American girls and young wives, who believed them-*}
selves protected by the American flag, maltreated before the eye® !
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 Arne**;
ican citizens, destroyed.
This, in part, is the terrible story of anarchy and murder irt.
progress in Mexico. In no section of Mexico is the situation Im
proved. It is steadily growing worse after eighteen months of an
archy that has followed the overthrow of Porfirio Diaz.
On July 24 Mrs. Paul Hudson, wife of the owner of the MexlV
ean 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.
The Wilson-Bryan policy of delay and non-interference irt
Mexico on the ground that all, or nearly all, outrages are due to
overt acts of the Americans involved, does not find sympathy in
any quarter here.
In the belief of Senators and Representatives the situation has
reached a crisis where something must be done.
Men back from Mexico assert 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.'
Partial List of Victims
Slain in Reign of Terror
WOLF, U. G., mining engineer, murdered July 16, 1913, by outlaws
in Northern Sonora. t
GRIFFIN, BENJAMIN, rancher, murdered July 5, 1913, near
Chuiohipa by bandits.
WILLIAMS. JOHN H.. mining engineer, killed by stray bullet
March 8, 1913, when rebels attacked Nacozari.
GAROW, BORIS, consulting engineer, killed when an attack wa*