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-TT- 1 *«r ; XTRA SUN BIRMINGHAM EDITION VOL. I. NO. 22. Copyright, 1513. by The Georgian Company ★★★ 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. s 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. Sr 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. - ^ 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. »w's»>tcopye.*«r ov .ktscsmu/og. 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*