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iillL A1 LtA j\ l A U1LUKU1AA AMI ALUS.
Committees Plan to End Cam-i
paign During Week—1,200 At- 1
lantans Have Subscribed.
The campaign for the raising of
the Oglethorpe fund turned into the
home stretch Monday, and the com
mittee has determined to raise this
week $60,000 still needed from At
lanta.
The splendid work of the cam
paigners has served to give greater
energy for the last dash, and Monday
morning they went to work with a
vim. Extra committees have been
added, and a thorough “clean-up” of
the city will be made in taking sub
scriptions for the university.
So far 1,200 Atlantans have sub
scribed to the fund. The daily lunch
eons will be continued at the Pied
mont Hotel during the week, at
which the various team captains will
make their reports. Many preachers
in the city gave talks on Oglethorpe
University Sunday and urged congre
gations to assist in the work.
Of more than usual interest was the
talk of Dr. Thorn well Jacobs at the
Central Congregational Church, in
which he told the history of Ogle
thorpe University from its founda
tion in IS21 to its death during the
Civil War period. Dr. Jacobs spoke
by request.
‘‘Oglethorpe traced its beginning
from the organization of the Midway
< Congregational Church in Liberty
County in 1773, which was organized
by' a colony frorn % Dorchester, Erg-
land,” said Dr Jacobs. “The church
fostered the idea of a university, and
in 1S21 it became a reality, and from
the beginning was fahious.
“Its faculty and students during
the Civil War gave everything to the
Confederacy'. The money of the
school was invested in Confederate
bonds, while the students marched
forth to fight for the cause. It was
founded by' several denominations,
and named for Georgia’s most noted
Episcopalion, James Edward Ogle
thorpe, nnd is being born again under
the combined efforts of all denomi
nations.”
'Womna Drifts at Sea
Alone With Dead Man
MIAMI, FLA., Dec. 15.—Alone in a
small boat with the body’ of George D.
Smith, former proprietor of Halcyon
Hotel, a large tourist hostelry, Mrs. M.
h Bearte of Kansas City' drifted over
Biscay no Bay five hours last night, until
her cries attracted fishermen
Smith had died from heart fa’lure.
He formerly lived in New York, where
he conducted a famous restaurant in the
Red Light District.
Doctors Decline to
Obey Eugenic Law
j MILWAUKEE, Dec. 15.—Pli.vs : cians
of Milwaukee County to-day’ announced
that they would not make examinations
and issue certificates to prospective
brides and bridegrooms as required by
the Wisconsin eugenic marriage law
which will become effective .lanuarv 1.
An agreement not. to issue the certi
ficates was signed by all the members
of the Milwaukee Countv Medical So
ciety.
Mrs. W. S. Lounsbury
Dies From Paralysis
Mrs. W. S. Lounsbury. 43. died
Monday’ from a stroke of paralysis
at the family residence, No. 267 .North
Jackson street. Funeral services will
be held at the First Methodist Church
at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon,
the Rev. H. M. DuBose officiating.
Mrs. Lounsbury’ had a wide ac
quaintance in Atlanta. She had been
a member of the First Methodist
Church for many years. She is sur
vived by her husband, who is con
nected with the Travelers’ Bank; one
daughter, Miss Ethel Lounsbury;
three brothers, H. S. and M. A. Crow
foot. of Stamford. Conn., and C. S.
Crowfoot, of Atlanta, and two sisters.
Mrs. Arthur Brewer, of New York
City, and Mrs. Sarah S. Mith. of
Peekskill, N. Y
$1,500,000 Refund to
Go to Insurance Firms
WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.—The Na
tional Government may be compelled to
refund $1,500,000 erroneously’ collected
from insurance companies under the
'< orporation tax law “dividends" as
the result of action by’ the Supreme
Court to-day.
The court dism 5 ssed an appeal of H.
C. H. Herold, internal revenue collector
of Newark. N. J.. from a decision of a
lower court holding in favor of the Mu
tual Benefit Life Insurance Company of
Newark.
It is expected that the Government
will drop this fight and permit the in
surance companies to get back the
overcharged tax without any further lit
igation.
Court Order Revokes
Lumber Firm Charter
A decree dissolving the charter of the
Union Piopolis Lumber Company was
handed down by Judge John T. Pendle
ton, in the Superior Court, Monday
morning.
Some time ago more than iwo-thirds
of the stockholders filed a petition ask
ing that they be allowed to surrender
the charter. It was asserted that no
body would suffer loss by the dissolu
tion.
There Are No Better
Trains to
FLORIDA
Than the Electric
Lighted, Vestibuled
Dixie Flyer
AND
South Atlantic Limited
Sleeping Cars
Library, Observation
Car, Coaches
Leave Atlanta from Terminal Sta
tion Daily at 8:30 p. m. and 10:10
p. m. Arrlva Jacksonville 7:30
a. m. and 8:50 a. m.
Winter Tourist Rates
For Further Particular*
Ask the Ticket Agent
Central of Georgia
way
Fiurth National BankBuHdinx
Corner Peachtree and Marietta
Phone Main 400.
Gun Relieves Youth
Of Money Trouble
BUTLER, Dec. 15.—Heath Eoy. 2.1-
year-old sop of Sam Koy, residing in
the upper part of the county, commit
ted suicide this morning by shooting
Himself with a shotgun
Despondency over financial troubles
is supposed to have been the aeuse.
RATET
SCALE IS READY
The Council Ordinance Committee
Monday decided upon a new scale of
taxicab rates. The ordinance will be
offered at the meeting of Council
Monday afternoon, and it is expected
it will be adopted without opposition
The raios are.
For the firsq half mile. 50 cents:
one mile, 75 cents; one and one-half
miles, $1; two miles, $1.25; two and
one-half miles, $ 1.50, and 25 cents for
each additional half mile. There will
be an extra charge of 25 cents for
each passenger more than one.
The new rates by the hour are $3.50
for a five-passenger auto for the first
hour and $3 for each hour thereafter,
and $4 an hour for a seven-passen
ger car for the first hour and $3.50
for each hour thereafter.
Proprietors of automobile renting
establishments protested against
some provisions of the ordinance, es
pecially the hour rates. They ob
tained an amendment of the ordi
nance as originally drawn increasing
the rates by the hour.
Another provision of the ordinance
is that these rates shall be postod
in all automobiles for rent.
SAVt FRANK'S
LIFE OPENS
Continued From Page 1.
not know Mary Phagan by sight and
U* name? You may sav someone told
him. but who told him?
Meeting Prearranged, He says.
“His meeting with Mary Phagan n
Saturday was a" prearranged by him.
Mary did not know that signs had
beep, posted telling the employee* to
draw their pay on Friday nigh*.
Frank knew that she would corrte
on the usual time—noon Saturday
“W ien Helen Ferguson, a friend of
Mary's, went to get Mary’ pay Fri
day night. Frank would not let her
have it. He knew if did Maw
would not be at the factory on the
morrow. Every step leading up to th.?
tragedy was planned. Even Jim Con
ley was asked by Frank to com-?
around on Saturday so as to be on
watch while the Phagan girl was
tYure. *
“The State roved without ques
tion that Frank was of bad char.a-
ter. We established it b the best
witnesses obtainable—by girls, young
girls, who had worketl at the facto y
and who at he time of their testifying
had been removed from the influences
of he factory.
“The defense sought to establish
Frank's good character. They did it
by friends of the defendant who knew
nothing about the factory or Frank’s
conduct there. But it was at the
factory that the murder was com
mitted and it was there that his im
moralities took place.”
Advances Time Argument.
Dorsey tailed the attention of the
court to the testimony of a conductor
who said tlm: the car on which Mary i
Phagan rode reached the city at 12:03, |
a fact which the Solicitor said ef
fectively set at rest all the quabbl* 1
over the time element. Mary could
have entered the factory and gone to j
the metal room with Frank before
Monteen Stover entered, he declared.
Dorsey and Attorney Arnold were I
the only speakers of the forenoon.
Attorney Arnold spoke two hours
and 40 minutes, leaving but an hour
and twenty minutes under the four-
hour argument granted each side by
the court. The Solicitor said that
Attorney General Felder would oc
cupy part of the time for the State.
Arnold, in dosing his address,
charged that Frank was convicted
solely on insinuation, inuendo and
trumped-up charges, and that the So
licitor had gone outside his functions
as a prosecuting officer in order to
hang the defendant.
Says Dorsey Twisted Facts.
‘‘Your honors would not believe that |
such inconsequential and irrelevant
evidence could be used to damn a de- j
fendant, but here it is, right here hi j
the record!” he exclaimed. “It is al- '
most unbelievable that such methods!
could be used in convicting a man. j
and that they could be successful ir: j
a Georgia court of justice.”
Ar nold accused Solicitor Doj*»ry\ of .
laying hold of every insignificant cir
cumstances and twisting it into a
most suspicious incident in order to
realize his ambition for Frank’s con
viction.
He cited the letter Frank wrote lo
his uncle, M. Frank, as an examn>
of the manner in which Dorsey bail
distorted every particle of evidence
into a mountain of suspicion.
The letter. Arnold said, was *h<»
most natural message hi the world,
and yet the Solicitor had made it out
as a subterfuge and as a most posithe
indication of Frank’s guilt.
Calls Dors«> Unfair.
Dorsey Improperly and unfairly had
argued that Frank’s wife had a con
sciousness of his guilt, Arnold de
clared, because she had not visited
him at the jail for several days after
his arrest.
He ad branded Frank as a red-
handed murderer merely because
Frank had been in the factory at the
time.
The Solicitor had declared the de
fendant guilty, first because he was
nervous, and later because he was
calm and collected.
, “He was guilt*y because he had
hired counsel.” said Arnold. "He was
guilty because he had told Newt Lee
he could have a holiday Saturday
afternoon, the day Mary Phagan wa*
murdered He was guilty because big
John Gantt scared him Saturday
night.
“Why, your honor, they haven’t a
shadow of a case against Frank. ex
cept on the testimony of the lying Jim
Conley. ^
‘ It is built upon just such flimsy
circumstances as I have cited. It is
evidence which a judge should not
even submit it to a jury.
The early part of Arnold s address
to the court was given over to a de
scription of the National pencil fac
tory, where Mary Phagan was mur
dered. and to a review of the entire
case, which he characterized one of
the deepest murder mysteries that
ever had perplexed a community.
His first direct argument had ref-
erence lo the time element which
played a large part in the testimony
and arguments throughout Frank's
trial and later in the arguments in
behalf of a new trial before Judge
Roan.
He contended that the testimony of
the State’s own witnesses mad** it
palpably impossible that Mary Pha
gan could have been attacked or
murdered at the time the State con
tended the crime was done. George
Kpps. a State’s witness testified that
he rode to tow’n with Mary Phagan
the day she was slain and that she
arrived at F'orsyth and Marietta
streels at 12:07 o’clock. Allowing four
minutes to walk to the pencil fac
tory, Arnold argued that the fac
tory girl could not have reached
there before 12:11 o’clock. But the
State, he said, maintained that the
Phagan girl had arrived there be
fore 12:05 o’clock, or actually before
the car on which she rode arrived in
the city. Dorsey had to do this, ac
cording ti* the attorney, in order to
make it fit in with his theory that
Monteen Stover, who entered the fac
tory at 12:05, was unable to find
Frank in his office because it was at
this moment that tlie young superin
tendent was in the rear of the fac
tory in the act of strangling the Pha
gan girl to death.
Gets More Time.
Arnold, in making for an extension
of time before he began his argu
ment. represented that the trial had
been so long and the testimony so
voluminous that it could not be prop
erly discussed In the usual two hours
allotted to each side. He asked for
an extension of at least three hours.
Presiding Justice Beverly D. Evans
announced that each side w’ould be
given an additional two hours, which
will complete the case Tuesday after
noon.
Always the exemplification of sar
torial perfection, Mr. Arnold . was',
dressod in a light brown striped suit
that bad the appearance of being
fresh from his tailor. A pair of thick-
soled tan shoes, a neglige shirt with
blue stripes and a carefully tied
brown cravat completed his visible
attire.
A number of Frank's friends list
ened interestedly to the arguments
of the opposing attorneys. Detect
ives John N. Starnes and Patrick
Campbell, who were detailed to a.<4
the Solicitor in the investigation of
the mystery, arrived soon after the
hearing oegan.
The arguments were heard by Su
preme Court Justices Beverly D.
Evans. S. t\ Atkinson and H. Warner
Hill.
It was expected Monday when the
hearing began that the arguments
would be practically in the same or
der as before Judge Roan in the
hearing for a new trial. Attorney Ar
nold making the opening argument,
in behalf of a new trial and being
followed by Attorney General Felder
and Solicitor Dorsey, representing
the State, and finally by Attorney
Rosser, w ho will close for the de
fense.
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To-morrow There Will Be a Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Co.
Clearaway Sale of Suits
Does the simple announcement suffice? Perhaps so to those
who know the Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Co. methods of
conducting suit sales when their object is clearaway stocks.
If you, who are reading this, should happen to be one who
does not know our rather decisive methods at such times, read
below with the confidence that the prices stand for facts just
as they are:
Forty=Five Suits That Were
$21.75, $25.00 and $29.75, Are
moo
$14.75
Thirty=Five Suits That Were 7C
$37.50, $50.00 to $55.00, Are $17.1 e)
Eighty Suits That Were
$29.75, $35.00 to $40.00, Are
The price-cuts are a bit unusual, are they not ?
And the suits, we might best tell you what they are by telling you what they are not.
They are not makers' odds and ends thrown together for sales purposes. Such Suits
do not enter here!
They are Suits that our buyer selected; smart styles, tailored to perfection, of mate
rials and in colors that need no argument in their favor. Such Suits as we have been mak
ing an enviable reputation on, such as you will be very proud to own.
Are you in need of a suit?
Christmas shopping gives place momentarily to such an event, unless it includes a
suit as a gift.
Note the number of suits involved in this sale---one hundred and sixty in all. The
smart thing to do would be to get a very early start. The store opens at eight o'clock.
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