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w . * H o: pi R 15 V b« A*- al m o;! i 22 r T? H pt 77 J 2< R N w 6 o p b 2! T cl F P U o V. o If w o dll o I tf F oj y< r» F li E C lr a H F W T n p b K F H 1 r« K 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.” |R d Salmon Sale | 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- -EISFMAN BROS., Inc -Incorporated 191 2 If $1.00 25.00 1.00 5.00 6.00 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 Headwear Styles ————n ■iiimnimii ■ wnimini— ■■■■hipii■■■ mi————— ■■■ h nmiT—'■■■mi i r ~ —!■ of High Degree! A “smart” si * In in sti f block for 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. 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