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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. Chamberlin=Johnson=DuBose Co. Atlanta — New York = Paris Chamberlin=Johnson=DuBose Co. 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. Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Company