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4 EXTRA The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XIX. NO. 113. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1913. By Copyright. 1306. The Georgian Co o ri'\Ts; PAY N ° 1 O. MORE ROAN ATTACKED IN FRANK APPEAL c&j C& Atlanta Women Rescued in Macon Hotel Fire '2, s As go % e' Smashes Phone Pole Averting Auto Crash I Richmond Man, Believed to Have Perished in Room, Appears, "Reformed.” MACON, Dec. 11.—J. R. Thurmond, of Richmond, Va.. who was believed to have perished In the Hotel Wil liams fire, which caused a loss of ?! 10,000. made his appearance at noon to-day. and Indignantly denied the re ports of his death. “This affair has converted me,’' he paid, “for I’ll never take another drink." The porter put Thurmond to bed in an intoxicated condition, and it •* was believed that the man failed to escape from his room. However, he jumped to the roof of a two-stcry building and reached the ground without mishap. He then went to bed at another hotel, awakening at noon to learn that he was given up a* < J ea d Only the walls of the hotel, a four- story building, are standing, and they are expected to fall any minute. Atlantans' Narrow Escape. . Sixty-seven guests were in the ho tel, and for a time it was impossible to tell how mfyry of them had es caped. The register and other rec ords of the hotel were burned. A Jewelry salesman named Levy, from Chicago, claims that his stock of diamonds, appraised at $10,000, was lost In the fire. Mrs. R. Miller and Miss Alice Mill er. of Atlanta, came down a fire es cape from the third floor in their night clothing Just as the ceiling of their room fell In. All of their clothes and possessions were destroyed. Brady Knight, of Eatonton, found the stair way and Are escapes cut off by sheets of flames, and so he tied quilts and sheets together and reached the grourfd with the use of this impro vised rope. Honeymooneri Hit. A honeymoon c .uple, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Lorig. of Macon, the bride for- * merly being Miss Martha Cohn, of Al bany, had an exceedingly narrow es cape, and were rescued by firemen, being taken out of a window, almost suffocated. They lost diamonds and other jewelry, mostly wedding pres ents, valued at $4,000. The i.*e was discovered by a po liceman at 4:45 a. m., and at that time the roof was blazing. Defective wir ing was supposed to have started the lire. Wilson, Threatened With Grip, Cancels All Engagements WASHINGTON. Dec. 11.—'Threat ened again with an attack of grip. President Wilson canceled his en gagement* to-day and suspended all executive business. He Is suffering from a bad cold in the head and from a mild attack of ’aryngltis Dr. Grayson is determined not to take any chances with his patient, and probably will . xsist upon his throwing aside all work and out-uf- door exercise until the grip ■ en tirely eliminated from his system. The President will remain within his room to-day and probably until Monday. A delegation of temperance work ers was much disappointed at not being able to see the President. Vaccine Perpetuates Smallpox, Is Charge WASHINGTON. Dec. 11.—With practically every civilized nation urg ing its invitation upon the Interna tional Anti-Vivisection and Animal Protection Congress, now in session here, Belgium to-day appeared to be the. delegatee’ choice for the next gathering three years hence. Porter F. Pope, of Philadelphia, de clared that the "continued prevalence of smallpox in America is solely due to the continued practice of vaccina tion ” Man Kills Negro Who Shot Brother-in-Law DARIEN, Dec. U.—When J. ?■ Mew, a farmer, went over to Gen eral Island, opposite Darien, to loot after some hogs, he saw a negro with one. As Mew hailed him \e negro opened fire, shooting Mew in the face. Mew's brother-in-law, who was with him. flred on the negro, killing him. Let the Record of Results Be Your Guide Every mail brines evidence of quick and satisfactory results re ceived through Hearst’s Daily Georgian and Sunday American “Want Ads.” THIS “WANT AD" FOR SALE—Turkeys. At 17© per Leod, pound Write A. Jr.. Quitman, Ga. C. Me- appeared in three issues of Hearst’a Daily Georgian. X HUNDREDS OF LETTERS similar to the following are on file in our office: Quitman, Ga The Georgian Company. Dear Sirs: Inclosed And chsck In payment for the ad you put In your paper. I must say that I am well pleased with the results. Tours truly. A C. M’LEOD, JR. To Save Xmas Poultry From Warm Weather WASHINGTON. Dec. 11. Declaring the loss of poultry during the Thanks giving period because of the warm weather wM “almost a calamity of na tional import,’’ agricultural specialists have issued warnings to poultry deal ers. and those engaged in dressing, on how to chill and preserve poultry so as to prevent loss during the Christ mas season. Hose L No Place For Xmas Money CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—The following ad vice to women Christmas shoppers was given to-day by Chief of Police Glea son : "Take your husband shopping with you. Let him carry the money. "An Inside skirt pocket is an excel lent place to carry money while in a crowd.” the chief said, "but don^ put it in your stocking." Hill Finds Ink Blot; Bank Officers Quit AT PAUL, Dec. 11.—One little Ink spot Is reported to have caused a shake up In J. J. Hill’s First National Bank that to-day resulted in the resignation of W. A. Miller, vice president, and F. A. Nienhauser. cashier. As the story goes. L. W. Hill recent ly received a statement of his account with a drop of ink upon the figures. Then the shake-up. Woman of 116 Made Shroud 55 Years Ago NEW YORK. Dec. 11.—Although cheerfulness is the recipe by which Mrs Hannah Kosokoff says she has at tained the age of 116 years, she has a burial shroud beneath her bed. She made it herself 55 years ago when she thought her time to die had come. LILLIAN DEMANDS APOLOGY. LITTLE ROCK, Dec 11—Lillian Russell forced the management of the Hotel Marion to apologize publicly for having advertised that she woula dance with a guest at a cabaret show In the hoteL All Records for Volume of Busi ness Here Broken by Early Christmas Mail. The wave of prosperity reported in all lines of business In Georgia and Atlanta has found an echo in the business jf the Atlanta postoffice. Postmaster Bolling H. Jones said Thursday that the volume of mall that passed through the local post- office Wednesday night was greater by many thousand pieces than that of any previous 24 hours In the history of the office. '’We broke every record that was ever heard of around here.” said Mr. Jones. "We handled 240,000 pieces of first class mail and fully 300,000 pieces of second, third and fourth class mail. There tvere 25.000 parcels alone, which Is about the number that has passed through the office every day for the past two weeks, and there were thousands of other pieces of mail that I have not in cluded in these figures. Flood of Calendars. “One Arm alone mailed 15,000 cal endars Wednesday afternoon, and in asmuch as they are about two feet long and difficult to handle, they are equal to fully three times that amount of ordinary mall matter. “The increase in the volume of business that passes through the At lanta office has been apparent for sev eral we^ks, but we had no idea It would reach the tremendous propor tions of last night. We require be tween 1,000 and 1,500 mail sacks—all of them large ones—to handle the Atlanta mail now, and this number probably will be doubled when the Christmas rush comes. Mr. Jones declared that In view of the great increase in the business of the postoffice those who contemplate sending away Christman gifts should mall their packages as soon as possi ble. Shudders at Prospect. “If the volume of mall reaches the stupendous total of 600,000 pieces three weeks before Christmas." he sairl. "think what it will reach when the Christmas rush begins in earnest. Unless parcels are mailed at once there can be no oertAinty In their de livery, because there Is a limit to what our force can do. We have working nov all the extra men we have room ,c or. and though they are handling th“ present volume of mail in fine shape, if it gets much larger It is going to he very hard to handle. "People seem to be spending more money than ever before for Christ man gifts." Mr. Jones also said Thursday he had about 1,000 “Santa Claus letters” which children have placed In the mail, and which he has authority ot turn over to any charitable institu tion or responsible person who wishes them. These letters exceed by sev eral hundred the number that were mailed last year, and unless someone asks for them they will be sent to the dead letter office to make room for those yet to come. Rich South African Is Shot by Assassin Specie Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRI CA, Dec. 11.—Sir Lionel Phillips. South African mining magnate and multi-millionaire, was shot three times, but probably not fatally wound ed by an assassin while in Commis sioner street to-day. The assailant was arrested. He said he acted in revenge Blr Lionel was one of the group of flve men, Including John Hays Ham mond. of New York, who were sen tenced to death for instigating the Jamieson raid in 1896. which brought on the Boer War. He was formerly with Cfeci 1 Rhodes. Lee Will Case Goes To Jury After Trial Lasting 3 Weeks The Lee will case went to the jury at 11 o'clock Thursday morning, aft er s two hours’ charge by Judge Bell, and a verdict is expected to-day. The trial lasted three weeks. The contestants in the suit are the daughters of Mrs Lee. The suit is styled “Mrs. Annie LitRue Lee Mi- *•11, caveatrlx, against Mrs. Maud I^ee Thompson." Mrs. Mtzell claims her sisters were awarded their share of her mother’s estate prior to her mother's death, snd that the entire estate left by her mother was willed to her. Two wills were Introduced, one of which awarded the estate to Mrs. Mi- zell and the other dividing it among all the children. Charges of forgery' have been made in connection with the signing of the last one. A $40,- 000 estate Is involved. Jealous Suitor Held As Dancer’s Slayer NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Benjamin Clare, a professional tango dancer, was shot and killed early to-d&y while standing with Miss Marie Mc Gee in front of her home in Long Island City. On Information furnished by Miss McGee the police arrested James Cassidy and Patrick McCurdy, a Jeal ous suitor. It was charged Cassidy shot Clare through the heart while McCurdy held the victim's arms. U. S. System Blamed For Postal Thefts SAVANNAH, Dec. 11.—In sentenc ing Lee Baisden. a negro postmaster of Pembroke, Judge William B. Shep pard, in the United States District Court to-day, said that the Govern ment was responsible for the preva lence of larceny among fourth class postmasters on account of the sys tem by which it pays them on a per centage bas's for the number of stamps sold. What Does Senate Do With Fruit Knives? WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 "Why did the Senate buy grapefruit knives?" This Is a mystery precipitated by pub lication of expense items of the United States Senate in a report from the sec retary. However®, the need of grapefruh knives is not more mysterious than other Items, such as timothy hoy, oats, meal, bran, arnica, mustang liniment, floss pillows, mineral wat o s and taxi ‘ cabs. Promoter of Panama Lands Found Guilty LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11.—Dr. John Grant Lyman, of London, New York. Chicago and other cities, was found guilty of using the mails to defraud In promoting a development company dealing in Panama lands. According to the Government's charges. Dr. Lyman obtained $30,000 from persons whom he interested in his Panama lands. Under the verdict the court may sentence him to flve years’ imprison ment and assess a fine of $1,000. BUT SAVES OTHERS Attorney Watt Kelly Is Injured. Three Companions Escape as He Wrecks Car. Watt Kelly, an attorney with of fices In the Temple Court Building, was injured, and three other Atlanta business men, his companions, had narrow escapes Thursday when an automobile in which they were riding crashed ihto a telephone pole at North Boulevard and Auburn avenue. The pole was severed at the base and fell over into' the street, barely missing the occupants of the machine Mr. Kelly was thrown against the side of .the automobile and suffered severe hurts to his chest and knee cap. With him were Herbert Ferrell, manager of the United Building Com- par.y; Edward O’Beirne, a partner with William H. Rhett in an insur ance company, with offices in the Hurt. Bull cling, and Rhett. who was driving the machine. The accident occurred when Rhett, in order to avoid a collision with an other automobile, swerved his ma chine to one side. Witnesses declared that the second machine was driving on the left side of the street, running alongside of an Auburn avenue street car. Rhett. rounding a curve in Au burn avenue, was confronted with the otner car, which was bearing down upon him. , With a quick turn of his wheel, he sent his car Into the pole. The other automobile drove on past, paying no attention to the other, and proceeded down the street. The identity of Its occupants was not learned. Mr. Kelly was hurried to his office, where medical attention was given him. He then was removed to his heme. The party had been out on High land avenue inspecting some building operations. Prisoner Is Freed; Prosecutor Jailed WAYCRG88, Dec. 11.—Charged ’$'ith an offense for which negroes are frequently lynched. William Young to-day walked from the Ware Supe rior Court, cleared by a Jury of twelve white men. Evidence tended to show that the charge against the negro was not true, and resulted In a quick verdict. J. E. Bird, the prosecutor, is In Jail facing rtlal on a charge of assault with intent to murder, the negro hav ing him arrested because Bird had shot him. Mrs. Young May Head Milwaukee Schools MILWAUKEE. Dec. 11.—Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, who withdrew yester day as superintendent of the Chicago public schools, may head the public schools of Milwaukee. Sentiment for her engagement as a successor to Carroll G. Pearse de veloped among the school directors this morning. 6-Day Bike Racers Keep Ahead Record NEW YORK, Dec. 11.— At 2 p. m., the eighty-sixth hour, the leading learns in the six-day bicycle race were miles ahead of the former mark, made in 1909, and. had covered 1,700 miles* 579 Pensioners in Alabama Cut Off MONTGOMERY, ALA., Dec. 11.— The report of the Htate Pension Board submitted to Governor O’Neal to-day, strikes from the roll 579, of whom 149 were deserters from the Confederate army or navy and the others ineligible because of Inaccu rate records This means a reduc tion of $40,300 per annum. There were 3,484 on the roll before the list was purged. To Remodel School For Use as Hospital EUFAULA. ALA., Dec. 11.—The work of remodeling the old public school building for hospital purposes will be started shortly. Bids for the remodel ing are now being received by the Eu- faula Hospital Association. The need of a hospital here was clear ly demonstrated by the recent fatal wreck on the Central of Georgia Rail road. * !OHN TEMPLE GRAVES RETURNS TO ATLANTA COLONEL JOHN TEMPLE (.HAVES. •• "f* • BATTLE I Will Be Permanently Associated j Elevator ComiUOH With The Atlanta Georgian and j Carrier, Is Rilling Hearst’s Sunday American. Qf Supreme CoUl’t Colonel John Temple Graves, for the past six years editor of The New York American and special writer *or the various Hearst publications, has returned to Atlanta to be permanent ly associated with Mr Hearst’s At lanta newspapers as that publisher's direct personal representative Colone 1 Graves’ work In Atlanta and the South will be wide In scope and far-reaching In consequence. He will stand for Mr. Hearst and his aspira tions and ambition In Southern jour nalism. He will project his personal ity sharply into the Hearst publica tions in the Bouth, and his work will be Mr. Hearst’s work. Needles to *ay, Colonel Graves Is being cordially welcomed on all sides. He numbers his friends in Dixie by the thousands. He is Attached to the South by ties of blood and long as sociation and acquaintance The en tire period of his young manhood was sj»ent In Dixie, as an editor in Georgia and Florida, and, although he has had high honors conferred upon him abroad, his heart still is, and ever has been, most at home among Geor gians. Colonel Grave* has been intimately associated with Mr. Hearst in New York and Washington, and has been sent to Georgia bees use Mr Hearvt believes him pre-eminently the man to bring the Hearst publications close to the hearts and firesides of the Southern people. Of course. Colonel Graves is glad to be “back home." as tie expresses it, “Old Brer Rabbit was no more de lighted when thrown Into the briar- patch than 1 am delighted to be in the Bouth again permanently, and where I may serve the people of my native section to the full snd final limit cf my ability. "Mr. Hearst has great ambitions for The Georgian ami The Sunday American. I shall strive to help him realize them completely." Mrs. Graves and the children will not return to Georgia until later <n the winter, and perhaps not until spring. _ . The Georgia Supreme Court to-day held In the ia*e of Lucy L. Allen against Mrs W. I). O-ant, owner of the Grant Building in Atlanta, that the owner of a public building in which a public elevator is operated Is a common carrier under the law, In so far as such owner’s obligation to exercise extraor dinary*, diligence In handling passengers Is concerned. Miss Allen brought suit for $25,000 damages against Mrs Grant, setting forth that she was seriously hurt and permanently disabled by a falling ele vator in which she was a passenger, and that the accident was due to negligence of the defendant. Mrs. Grant demurred on the ground the owner of the building was not a common carrier, and hence not subject to damages. $985,000 of Pabst Estate to Germany MILWAUKEE. WTS., Dec. 11.- More than $985,000 In United States money will leave America within a few days for the land of the Kaiser. According to the Pabst will, the estate was left in trust for Mrs Emma Sohen- lein. Captain Fred I’abst’s daughter, to revert «to her when her daughter Edith should attain the age of 10 years. Tne child reached her tenth birthday Octo ber 13. Mercer Junior Head Acquitted by Class MACON, Dec 11.*—The president of the Junior law class at Mercer Uni versity underwent an Impeachment trial last night and was acquitted. The president was charged with high crimes and misdemeanors in that he had "bootlicked" and that he had "Insulted" the class and demeaneu himaelf In a manner unbecoming hlR official position. FAIR PAYS 40 PER CENT PROFIT. GADSDEN, ALA., Dec. 11.—'W. R. Bradford has been elected president of the Marshall County Pal* Association, succeeding Thomas E. Orr A 40 per cent dividend was declared thitrye&r* Trial Judge Termed "Vacillating” by Defense Attorneys—Hear ing Likely to Start Monday. Severe criticism is made of Judge L. S. Roan for certain phases of his conduct of the trial of Leo M. Frank and for his re fusal to Rrant a new trial, even though ho himself had doubt as to the defendant’s guilt, in the brief and argument prepared by Frank’s lawyers to be presented to the Supreme Court of Georgia next Monday. The document was received from the printero Thursday. The brief of evidence, another bulky document, will be completed Thursday afternoon. The attorneys for the defenae will exchange briefs with Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey later In the day and all of the lawyers concerned in the famous cose will be ready to re-engage In a bitter legal battle which had its be- go nlng on July 26, when Frank s trial was started. Judge Roan Criticised. Judge Roan is characterized in tne printed arguments of the attorneys a* ■vacillating" in his conduct of the trial at many time*, and his action in refusing a new trial is described as Indefensible, In view or his open!- expressed doubt of Franks guilt. The argument on this particular phase of the appeal to the Supreme ' curt concludes with numerous legal citations designed to show that Judge Roan was shirking a plain duty when he refused to take the burden of a decision In the matter Several of the citations quote the Supreme Court as saying that when the trial judge is nssalled with doubts as to the Justice of the verdict there is no course open to him but to grant a new trial. The documents which are to be submitted to the Supreme Court are said by lawyers to be the most vol uminous ever died In Georgia In an appealed case. 600 Pages in Brief. The brief of evidence alone consists of about 60h large pages with type of ordinary size. The arguments and narration of the facts of the case consume an other 389 pages, snd the original no tion for a new trial, the amended tno- t.on and the Judge’s charge make up another book of 159 pages. The total Is approximately 1,100 printed pages. The case of Frank vs. the State i* listed eighteenth on the calendar of the Supreme Court and will be reach- ed Monday, In all probability, the others being mostly cases from other parts of the State, which will not be rrgued except through the briefs sub mitted. Sues Wife, Who Made Odd Bed Regulations Charging thaj hl» wlfs made Ilf® mis erable for him by many strange art* of cruelty, one of them being the re quirement that he lie at a certain angle In bed while sleeping, Dud well J Sacrey has brought suit for divorce from Mrs. Anna Sacrey. He further charges that she would not let him read ax much as he wanted to. that she kept the house In a disordered condition; that she kept pictures of strange men In the house. To prevent him from taking the child 1 or a walk on Sundays, he chargee that she would smear the child with dirt so that it would not be presentable. 250 Reported Dead; Tornado Hits Canoes 8pec!al Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE. WEST AFRICA. Dec. 11.- -More thar* 250 natives are believed to have per ished to-day when a tornado blew* twenty passenger-carrying canoes outi to era Many upturned canoes lgtcr found, J2L—4