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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
SEEK TO PROVE
in
Attorneys for Defense Working
to Secure Affidavits Show
ing Prejudice.
4n important movemenl in the bat
tle for the life of Leo M. Frank, sen
tenced to be hanged Oeftobar 10 for
the murder of Mary Phagsin, 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 possession of persons
interested in behalf of the convicted
man, which stated that one of the
veniremen had declared in the pres
ence of two or three witnesses that if
lie 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 to
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 an 1
was not borne out by the evidence in
the case.
They will charge that the jurors
were subjected to undue influen ’e
anti intimidation by the clamor of
the crowds that several times mani
fested their hostility toward Frank
tnd 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
time they were given, were allowed
to stay in the records when the de
fense made an objection on the fol
lowing day.
Detective* Seek New Evidence.
Solicitor Dorsey is combating every
move of the defense. He has convict
ed his man. he believes absolutely
in his guilt of the prisoner, and n-i
does not intend that any effort to
save Frank’s life shall be 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
certain 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, v >ne 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, the
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, when 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
tive's at police headquarters Saturday
night, but did not appear. His fail
ure to show up was not regarded as
important until the detectives failed
to find him Monday. The fact that he
could not fie located at env 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 mc^f
important witnesses in the effort : >
indict Conley. As a matter of fact,
he will be practically the only witness
called by the Solicitor, ns Conley’s
admission that he helped move the
body is regarded as sufficient to
bring in Indictment a i an accessory
after the fact.
SLATON URGES HOME SCIENCE
COURSE AT OPENING OF SCHOOLS
Sortie of Atlanta’s pupils with shining morning faces, ready
to be 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 mineral resources.
The spirit can be sold for not more
than 28 cents a gallon, probably for
•ss 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 I
Government ownership of telegraph i
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 j
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.
Attendance Expected to Break Record—Esti
mated at 26,000.
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
j will be a candidate in the Presiden-
i tial election on October 26. How this
will be accomplished when a consti-
j tutional amendment forbids a Presi-
! dent holding more than one term Is
I r.ot worked out, but a way will be
j found. Huerta will run and be
elected.
The fact that he Is merely Presi
dent ad Interim will probably pro
vide a loophole for constitutiona’.
lawyers to show’ the w’ay for his can
didacy. His campaign was openec
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.”
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OR
R.E.LEE
Fancy
Red Salmon can
6 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
would be close to 26,000.
While every school in the city was
a scene of great activity, the Boys’
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
that the parents and children came
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
like other human beings, they waited
until the lust moment, with the re
sult that for hours Monday there was
a long line of impatient men, women
and children trying to get admission
to the superintendent's office. The
line at times extended through the
door and out into the street.
Tri the crowd there were little girls
with bright, clean .dresses; wee lads
with cups in hand. or. awed into for
getfulness, with caps' still on their
heads. There were mothers, matron
ly individuals with one child in tow
Ln maybe a whole brood. And there
even were fathers, some of them bald-
headed and rather ashamed of being
mixed up in a mob of fretting wom-
I en and pushing, shoving children.
Every child who was entering the
first grade of the public school sys-
I tern, every pupil who was becoming
an attendant in ‘he Atlanta schools
for the first time, and every student
who found it necessary to transfer
from one district to another was
compelled to get one of the tickets
of admission.
Girls’ High Less Crowded.
The scene was somewhat different
at the Girls* High School, although
several of the rooms were filled wi‘n
applicants for registration. Onv
prospective students of the high
school registered. The old student*
were first on hand and were regis
tered within a spat of ST minutes
The registration of the girls fr >:n
the grammar grades and from
I schools outside the city then was
taken up and proceeded through the
day.
Miss Jessie Muse, the principn 1 .
said that the prospects were bright
^ for a much‘larger enrollment than
Macon Youth and Cobb County
Girl Elope Following "Want”
Column Romance.
MARIETTA, GA., Sept. 8.—Mis:!
Pearl Meadows, the pretty 20-year-
old daughter of a Cobb County farm-
er, living near Ac worth, 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 Ac worth. 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 w ife.
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. 8.—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.
In any previous year. During the
school year of 1912-13 682 girls wore
enrolled. This number is expected to
go beyond the 700 mark this year.
The total attendance at the Boys’
High School was 372. There were 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 Schc j1, which formerly
was conducted by the Jewish Educa
tional Alliance; the new school in
Moreland avenue and the school on
Euclid avenue, which now is being j
j placed in condition.
Mourns Cooking Course.
Superintendent Slaton, ’from his of-
flee m the Boys’ High School, kept
in almost constant telephonic com-
i municatlon with the outlying schools
j and directed the many perplexing de-
j tails of the annual opening. Mr. Sla-
j ton, wdiile greatly encouraged by the
growth and progress of Atlanta's
j schools, expressed his disappointment
that the city had nut yet made up its
; mind to follow the example set bv
j other cities and install a domestic
! science department in the Girls’ High
I School, the English-Commercial
‘ School and in the seventh . nd eighth
! grades of the grammar schools.
“The young women of the South.”
said the superintendent, “are never
i so beautiful, never so sweet and nev 'i
so charming as when their sleeves
I are rolled up and they scientifically
| are preparing a meal for their father,
] brother or guest.
i “It is not necessarily our idea to
1 make cooks out of the coming gen
eration of women, but we want to fit
I them to preside in the best households
| in the land, to direct the operations
in their own kitchens and dinin.-T
| rooms and to give instructions to the
servants.
City's Neglect Is Scored.
“I have Inspected the schools of
many cities, among them St. Louis,
Indianapolis. Cleveland. Boston and
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
could have these advantae. » if c*oun-
, oil were disposed to appropriate th» '
( money. It is only extreme neglect
that has allowed the girls to be with
out domestic science and the bovs
without the pioper amount of man- |
j ual training
| “Pure food and scientific cooking is
one of the most important things in ;
the world. A man of mtll'ons will :
ruin his stomach and his digestion I
improper foods and then will he gla 1 I
if he might trade h’s millions for the I
health that once was his.”
i Miss Muse at the Girls’ ’ieh Scho>l
j echoed the sentiments of the superm- I
| tendent
“We have a little of the pnrapher- '
- s ild '■ VVi h»ve I
i scores of gir’s who are eager to take
the course lr domestic science, but
we have no teacher nd no appropri
aticn for the other necessary equip
ment. I hope that the public demand
will force action in the matter.”
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* 1
will be received all this week. It is
the desire that every child in Atlanta
•shall be properly supt tied with books,
and that there shall b« no reason
why any child shall be thrived of his
right to an education.
Subscriptions continue to come to
The Georgian office for the school -
book fund. Since those last acknowl
edged the following have been re
ceived ;
Mrs. John A. Boykin
(’ash
Jacobs’ Pharmacy
Mrs. C. S. L’Engle
W. B. Woody
T. F. Moore
Mrs. C. B. Howard
Inman Park Girls’ Flub
Miss Carson’s class. Central
Congregational Sunday school
| Established 1865-
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$1.00
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Gorilla Escapes;
Crowd Climbs Poles
A snappy style for young men In the
sensational new color—“chloride” gray
Band to match, how in Lack. A hat
style “up to the ninute.”
$3.00
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yOi.ng men. Roll brim bow in back.
Black only.
$4.00
JONESBORO, ARK., 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 oofs of houses.
The animal finally was lassoed.
$2.50 TO BIRMINGHAM
And Return, September 22.
Special train leaves Old
Depct 8:30 a. m., arrive
Birmingham 1:30 p. m.
Tickets good returning on
regular trains until Sep
tember 25. SEAEOARD.
$2.CO TO CHATTANOO
GA AND RETURN
W and A Railroad will sell
round trip tickets from Atlanta to
Chattanooga and return for train
leaving Atlanta at 8:35 a. m.
Thursday. September 11, 1913,
good ietuming not later than
train arriving Atlanta 7:35 p. m.
Saturday, September 13. 1913.
C. E. HARMAN,
General Passenger Agent.
The last wort in stylish hats for
i ung mei <. r blue and brown
models have rich velvet bands to
match Brown and black have band*
of heavy ribbed silk.
$3.00
The newest and most exclusive shape
ever before shown in flat set styles—
different and le tter than anything else
you'll see in this vogue this fall. Dow
in back. Made in two proportions—for
young men and men of mature years.
$3 00 and $4.00
Fall Fashions
in Men’s and
Young Men’s
HATS!
and
Qur extensive Hat Department now occu
pies spacious quarters at the left on main
door. The department is larger and better
stocked than ever before, and the pick of
America’s best styles and makes is shown
exclusively.
Bros,
Inc.
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