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/ TIT?: ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SEEK TO PROVE SLATON URGES HOME SCIENCE COURSE AT OPENING OF SCHOOLS BE ilSED Attorneys for DeVense Working to Secure Affidavits Show ing Prejudice. An important movfmant in the bat tle for the life of Leo M. Frank, sen tenced to be hanged October 10 for the murder of Mary PbagAn, was dis closed Monday In the Information that a rigid investigation Is being conducted into the record of every man on the jury which convicted him of the crime, with a view of running down the stories that several of the Jurors had a well-defined bias against the defendant before they went into the Jury box. This information was supplemented by the sensational statement that an affidavit was in possesion of persons interested in behalf of the convicted I man. which stated that one of the | veniremen had declared in the pres ence of two or three witnesses that If he got on the Jury he “would vote to hang Frank, regardless of the evi dence.” This affidavit is said to be corrob orated by the verbal statements of one or two other persons who were present at the time the remark is said to have been made. The reports of bias in respect to several others of the jurors are being investigated. Solicitor Dorsey Is entirely confi dent of his ability to prove that Frank had a fair trial. Means Much to Defense. If this attitude of bias and preju dice can be established In reference lo one or more of the jurymen the de fense will have won a vital victory in its battle for a new trial, the motion for which will be argued October 4 before Judge Roan. The allegation of prejudice, how ever, will be only one of the grounds on which Frank’s lawyers will ask a new trial. It will be their claim that the* verdict was not warranted uni was not borne out by the evidence in the < a»e. They will charge that the Jurors were subjected to undue infiuen *e end intimidation by the clamor of the crowds that several times mani fested their hostility toward Frank and their approval of Dorsey’s ef forts to convict him A strong fight also will be made In the fact that parts of Conley’s testi mony. admittedly incompetent at the lime they were given, were allowed to stay in the records when the de fense made an objection on the fol lowing day. Detectives Seek New Evidence. Solicitor Dorsey Is combating every move of the defense. He has convict ed his man; lie believes absolutely in his guilt of the prisoner, and no does not intend that any effort :.o save Frank’s life shall he successful. The Solicitor has three detectives working on the case whenever ad ditional information comes to his of fice. Detectives Starnes, Campbell and Rosser have been detailed on ertain angles, just as they were be fore the trial and before the State was rewarded with a conviction. Dorsey is said to have a score of new witnesses in readiness in the event that the defense is able to get a new trial from Judge Roan or the Su preme Court. One of them is said to be a Jailer who was on guard in Frank's part of the Tower during the period before the trial. Newt Lee Disappears; Detectives Search City. City detectives are making a close search of the city for Newt Lee, th-3 negro night watchman at the Na tional Pencil Factory, who mysteri ously disappeared after his release from the Tower August 26. He is wanted as a witness before the Grand Jury Tuesday, w'hen the Jim Conley case will be taken up by Solicitor Dorsey. Even Lee’s attorneys, Graham & Chappell, are in ignorance as to his whereabouts, according to their reply to City Detective R. H. Starnes* re quest of them for his address. The negro was to meet the detec tives at police headquarters Saturday night, but did not appear. His fail ure to show up was not regarded as important until the detectives fail“d to find him Monday. The fact that ne could not fie located at . nv of the places where they felt certain of find ing him and that his attorneys also knew nothing of him caused the of ficers to redouble their efforts Lee is regarded as one of the nn^! important witnesses in the effort :o indict Conley. As a matter of fact, he will be practically the only witness called by the Solicitor, as Conley’s admission that he helped move th* body is regarded as sufficient to bring an indictment a^' an accessory after the fact. Soirn' of Atlanta’s pupils with shining morning faces, ready assigned to classes Cheaper Motor Fuel Invented by British Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON. Sept. 8.—The joint com mittee appointed by the Royal Auto mobile Club, the Automobile Associa tion and the Society of Motor Manu facturers to find an efficient substi tute for gasoline has discovered a process which, It is said, will produce 40,000,000 gallons of motor spirit an nually without depleting the coun try’s mim*ral resources. The spirit can be sold for not more than 28 cents a gallon, probably for less. The annual consumption of mo tor /spirit in Great Britain is about 100,000,000 gallons, and the present price of gasoline is 42 cents a gallon. Want Government to Own Ry, Mail Cars WASHINGTON. Sept. 8.—A definite start on the preparation of a bill for Government ownership of telegraph lines will shortly be made by the House Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads. The committee will start work on it as soon as the regular session convenes in December. The committee will take up also a bill for Government ownership of railway mail cars. The Postoffice De partment now rents about 1,100 cars at $5,500 a year each. A car can be built for $7,000. which will last ten or twelve years. HUERTA CERTAIN AD IN CEORGIAN TO HE ELECTED BRINES EONELT PRESIDENT Attendance Expected to Break Record—Esti mated at 26,000. Fancy Bed Salmon can ‘Cash Gro. Co. 118 WHITEHALL School opened Monday. It was one of the most satisfactory "first days” in the history of the Atlanta public schools. While there is as yet no means of comparing the total enroll ment with that of previous years, the swarms of new students that ap plied for admission to every grade from first to the last indicated that all records would be broken by from 1,500 to 2.000. The enrollment for the scholastic year ending last June was 24,065. Su perintendent William F. Slaton pre dicted that the record for this year w'ould be close to 26,000. While every school in the city was i a scene of great activity, the Boys’ I High School, on Courtland street, de- . veloped into a storm center that near ly swept the corps of teachers and as- ! sistants off their feet. It was here j that the parents and children came j for tickets of admission to one or another of Atlanta's schools. Delay Causes Congestion. They could have come at any time during the vacation, but very much I like other human beings, they w’aited j until the last moment, with the re- j suit that for hours Monday there was I a long line of impatient men, women i and children trying to get admission to the superintendent's office The line at times extended through the door and out into the street. J Tn the crowd there were little girls with bright, clean .dresses; wee lads with caps in hand, or, awed into for- i getfulness, with caps * still on their heads. There were mothers, matron ly individuals with one child in tow L<n - maybe a whole brood. And there | even were fathers, some of them bald- ! j headed and rather ashamed of being ' mixed up in a mob of fretting wom en and pushing, shoving children. Every child who was entering the j first grade of the public school sys- | tern, every pupil who was becoming ' an attendant in ‘he Atlanta schools I for the first time, and every student l who found it necessary to transfer ■ from one district to another was compelled to get one of the tickets I of admission. Girls’ High Less Crowded. The scene was somewhat different at the Girls’ High School, although several of the rooms were filled wi*a applicants for registration. On v prospective students of the high i school registered. The old students were firs* on hand and were regis- ; tered within a spat. of 3" minutes 1 The registration of the- girls fr >:n the grammar grades and from | schools outside the city then was j taken up and proceeded through th-^ ! I da .y;. . I Government Paper Proclaims His Right to Run—Seek Loophole to Dodge Constitutional Bar. By N. A. JENNINGS. (Special Correspondent of Hearst Newspapers.) MEXICO CITY, Sept. 8.—There is not the slightest doubt that Huerta will be a candidate in the Presiden tial election on October 26. How this will be accomplished when a consti tutional amendment forbids a Presi dent holding more than one term is r.ot worked out, but a way will be found. Huerta will run and be elected. The fact that he is merely Presi dent ad Interim will probably pro vide a loophole for constitutlona’. lawyers to show the way for his can didacy. His campaign was openeo to-day when El Noticioso, a Govern ment evening newspaper, printed an article, apparently inspired, saying: “General Huerta holds the right to figure in the approaching elections, and it is absurd to pretend to elim inate the man who has shown such aptitude for governing the nation.” Huerta to Raise Loan. Minister Gamboa reiterated to-day that Huerta never said he would not be a candidate, which is considered here tantamount to saying he will be. Despite the objections of the Min ister of Hacienda, or agriculture, to accepting a domestic loan, it will be raised by order of Huerta, and $100,- 000,000 Mexican, or $50,000,000 in gold, is expected by Government officials from this source within a few weeks. State Department advices from La- paz to-day reported a sweeping fed eral victory near that city. The railroads between Durango and Torreon have been put in running or der by the revolutionists, who have stated their intention of retaining charge of the road. “Hurry Out" Order Explained. The statement issued to Americans in Mexico by Consul General Arnold shanklin has the indorsement of President Wilson. This statement ad vised Americans that they were not ordered out of the interior, and that there was no immediate necessity of their getting out. “It is the President’s wish.” said Mr. Shanklin. “that Americans in Mexico understood that there was nothing mandatory in that section of his recent message to Congress re lating to the departure of our citizens from Mexico. “He merely desired to issue a warn ing and to outline a policy which will guide the Administration in the future.” Macon Youth and Cobb County Girl Elope Following “Want” Column Romance. MARIETTA, GA., Sept. 8.—Miss Pearl Meadows, the pretty 20-year- old daughter of a Cobb County farm er, living near Acworth. tired of farm life and advertised in The Atlanta Georgian for a husband last week. John R. Heard, of Macon, aged 25. saw the advertisement in The Geor gian and answered it. Following this Heard came to Marietta yesterday > and got a marriage license without ever having seen Miss Meadows. He then proceeded to her home. An elopement was arranged and the pair left for Acworth. Arriving there, they found Mr. Meadows had phoned for their arrest. The couple hurried to get a license, a preacher was obtained and just as the father arrived the couple were pronounced man and wife. The father then withdrew his ob jections and the couple left for At lanta to spend their honeymoon. New Haven Denies Receiver Is Likely BOSTON, Sept. 3.—Howard Elliott, president of the New Haven road, is in Boston to-day preparing to pre sent to-morrow to the Public Utili ties Commission the railroad’s pro posal to Issue $67,550,000 in debenture bonds. Mr. Elliott declared there was no immediate possibility that the road will go Into a receivership. For the month of July, he said, the road’s earnings equaled all expenses and taxes, one-twelfth of the annual charge for dividends and interest, and a $200,000 surplus. Three happy youngsters See the Colgate offer in this issue BIRMINGHAM, ALA. $2.50 ROUND TRIP. Special train will leave Terminal Station 8:00 a. m., Thursday, September 11th. Return any time until Sat urday midnight. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Fund Enables Scores To Enter Schools. -Scores of needy children, whose parents are unable to buy their books, started to school Monday. Others were deterred from entering because of lack of books and sufficient clothes. Many philanthropically inclined per sons have contributed to The Geor gian’s fund to buy* books for these children. It is not too late to add to the fund for this worthy cause. Subscription* 5 ' will be received all this week. It is the desire that every child in Atlanta ! shall be properly supr lied with books, j and that there shall bo no reason J why any child shall be thrived of his - right to an education. Subscriptions continue to come to j Georgian office for the school- IS Established 1865- New York. In all of these cities they had the teaching of domestic science and they made much of it. “Atlanta boys and Atlanta girls are ennui d to the best on earth They >fld have thes« advantages if Coun cil were disposed to appropriate the money. It is only extreme neglect that has allowed the girls to be with out domestic science and the bovs without the ptoper amount of man ual training. “Pure food and scientific cooking is one of the most important things in the world. A man of millions will ruin his stomach and his digestion bv improper foods and then will be gla l if he might trade h : s millions for the health that once was his.” Miss Muse at the Girls’ T 1eh School echoed the sentiments of the superin tendent. “We have a little of the parapher nalia alreadv,” she said. "We h»ve scores of girls who are eager to take the course ir. domestic science, but we have no teacher and no appropri- Miss Jessie Muse, the principa 1 .' ation for the other necessary equin- I said that the prospects were bright ment. 1 hope that the public demand I for a much larger enrollment than will force action in the matter." in any previous year. During the school year of 1912-13 682 girls were enrolled. TJiis number is expected to go beyond the 700 mark this year. The total attendance at the Boys’ j High School was 372. There wore 21 students in the Girls’ Normal School. Several new schools will be opened this year to accommodate Atlanta’s rapidly growing school population. Among them will be the Capitol Ave nue Night School, which formerly was conducted by the Jewish Educa tional Alliance; the new school m Moreland avenue and the school Tn Euclid avenue, which now is being placed in condition. Mourns Cooking Course. Superintendent Slaton, from his of fice In the Bovs’ High School, kept In almost constant telephonic com munication with the outlying schools and directed the many perplexing de- tails of the annual opening. Mr. Sla ton, while greatly encouraged by the growth and progress of Atlanta’s schools, expressed his disappointment that the city had not yet made up its mind to follow the example set bv other cities and install a domestic science department in the Girls’ High School, the English-Commercia 1 School and in the seventh und eighth grades of the grammar schools. “The young women of the South.” said the superintendent, “are never so beautiful, never so sweet and nev r so charming as when their sleeves are rolled up and they scientifically are preparing a meal for their father, brother or guest. “It is not necessarily our idea to make cooks out of the coming gen eration of women, but we want to fit them to preside in the best households In the land, to d'rect the operations in their own kitchens and dining rooms and to give instructions to the servants. 'r,.. 8e :. r w 8 „rl$2.50 TO BIRMINGHAM many cities, among them St. Louis, Indiana polls. Cleveland, Boston and The book fund edged the ceived: Mrs. John A. Boykin Cash Jacobs’ Pharmacy .. Mi s. C. S. L’Engle . . W R. Woody T. F. Moore Mrs. C. B. Howard Since those last acknow! following have been re- $1.00 25.00 5.00 2.00 1.00 5.00 3.00 I Inman Park Girls’ Club 10.00 Miss Carson’s class. Central Congregational Sunday school 6.00 Gorilla Escapes; Crowd Climbs Poles JONESBORO, AUK , Sept 8. -A huge gorilla, carried as an attraction by a carnival company showing here, escaped from its cage at the show grounds and terrorized the town for several hours. As the gorilla bounded from its cage, the crowd scattered in every direction, some climbing to roofs of houses. The animal finally was lassoed. And Return, September 22. Special train ^leaves Old Depot 8:S0 a. m., arrive Birmingham 1:30 p. m. Tickets good returning on regular trains until Sep- SEABOARD. S2.C0 TO CHATTANOO GA AND RETURN W. and A. Railroad will sell rouYid trip tickets from Atlanta to Chattanooga and return for train leaving Atlanta at 8:35 a. m Thursday. September 11, 1913 good returning not later than train arriving Atlanta 7:35 p. m. Saturday, September 13. 1913. C EL H A UMAX. General Passenger Agent. -EISEMaN BROS., Inc -Incorporate d 191 2 A snappy style for young men in the sensational new color—“chloride” gray Band to match, bow in back. A hat style “up to the ninute.” $3.00 Headwear Styles of High Degree! A “smart" stylo In stif block fop young men. Roll brim bow in back. Black only. $4.00 ::rrr.====Sr ui 11 i 1 Ijljlll —jIii i Fall Fashions in Men’s and Young Men’s HATS! The last wori in stylish hats for young men. olue and brown models have rich velvet bands to match. Brown and black have banda of h#hvy ribbed silk. $3.00 and $4 .00 The newest and most exclusive shape ever before shown in flat set styles— different and b« tter than anything else you'll see in this vogue this fall. Bow In back. Made in two proportions—for young men and men of mature years. $3 00 and $4.00 Q Our extensive Hat Department now occu pies spacious quarters at the left on main floor. The department is larger and better stocked than ever before, and the pick of America’s best styles and makes is shown exclusively. SI Bros., Inc. 11-13-15-17 Whitehail *'€ * 4 1