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Names of Firms and Wealthy Men
Who Haven’t Donated Dealt
Out to Workers.
There was a sort of lull before a
tempest of effort in the Oglethorpe
campaign Monday, and at the noon
day luncheon the reports of all the
committees but four fell below the
Jt.OOO mark for the first time in the
campaign, $3,005 being reported.
“This is nothing to grieve about,”
Ivan K. Allen, chairman, asserted.
"Only half a day's work to-day, you
see, and you’ll find the rest of the
day will show up in grand style :r.
the subscriptions reported Tuesday.
Besides, we’ve got a new plan.”
Scramble for Prospects.
This was the plan.
The names uf a couple of hundred
big firms and wealthy individuals
were lead out from cards, and as each
name was called one or more of the
50 workers present got up and said:
I'll take it.”
It was almost like an auction. Some
of the firms and some of the men were
contested for as> eagerly as if the
workers expected to land something
big on their own hook.
"Just hear ’em bidding.” whispered
one, as some popular firm was an
nounced. And that was what i sound
ed like.
"These people haven’t subscribes
yet,” Mr. Allen announced. "Most of
idem haven't been approached. Here's
where we clean up."
And that was the general impres
sion.
How Committees Resorted.
Central Committee: George R. Rus-
Bcy $20. 11. M. Beutell $25, Frank East
man $50. Charles Pelham Ward $25.
Mrs. B. K Boyd $200, St. Elmo Massen-
gale $100. Total. $420.
Ad Men’s Committee: W. G. Peebles
$50.
Dr. .T. Cheston King's Committee.
W. L Fain $25. Fisher & Cook $50, L.
IHudgins $25, .1. O. Ivinard $100. To-
tah $200.
John A. Brice’s Committee: William
D Alexander $30. Mrs. C. F. Williams
$25. A Friend *25. .1. P. $10. Goldin's
Harness Factory $5, Lowry Arnold $10C.
Total, $195.
A. W. Farlinger's Committee—L. W.
Rogers $50, John C. Candler $10. A. P.
Flowers $20. John S. Candler $125. Asa
Warren Candler $25. Charles E. Powell
$5. Keeley A. Grice $5. W. R Powell
$10. John H. McCord *30. »\ Oatley $5.
T. W. Jones $5, Gordon W. Donaldson
$5: total $295.
Dr. H. J. Gaertner’s Committee—
Fred Wiedemeyer $10. W. S. Anslev
$50. E. E. Treadwell $25. Judge R. B.
Russell $50. A. A Johnson $50, Ren
Clement $25. E. L. Barrett $25 S. Cain
$10. vS. T. McElroy $10. T. K. Suinmer-
our $25, Mrs. A. C. Brown $25, C. P
Lively $5. J. E. McElroy $25. Ethel
Simpson *25. Myrtice Johnson $25, T. A.
Rainey *100. c. a McDaniel $25. P. X.
Sutmnerour $25; T. B. Toy $25, A
Fr*end $100; total $705.
Charles G. Glover's Committee—John
Chalman $10. J. B. Reynolds $5. Dr. O.
G. Kelley 25. Paul E. Eggle $10. G. E.
Cooper $10. J. S. Wilson $10, Leslie O.
Shores $5: total $75.
Joel Hunter’s Commttee—J. L Harri
son $100.
C. D. Montgomery’s Committee—J.
W Brown $25. Julian Field $25, George
J*. Dozier 350: total $100.
L P. Bottonfield’s Committee: W. IL
Hoyt. Jr.. $10. J. S. Spratling $10, B. E.
Thomas $10. V. C. Black $10. Thomas
M. Clarke $500. L. R Carmichael $50.
J. E. Cochran $5, ' Wifi lam C. Andrews
$5. J. Hendon $5. R. V. Anderson $10
Frank Campbell $4, Miss Etta LaFon-
iftin $5. C. E Turner $5, R. A. Battle
$5, F. n. Jackson $5, M. E. Howell $f,.
c. W. Cm bach $5. H M. Lindsey $5,
E. H. OTTddick $1, H. II. Johnson $5.
J. P. Ham brick $5, Harry Bruce $5, G.
Gunter $5, F. A Plaster $5, Charles
Carter $5. Russell Elliott $5. C. N. Hol
lis $10, E. H. Counts $5, G. W. Scott.
Jr.. $5. R. B. Fossv$10, L. A. Ruppers-
burg $10. I. X. Cain *25. Frank I>. Pier
son $10. G. A. Blackwell $25. Wi’ev T.
Blackwell $25. W. M. Black $5. B. A.
Oliver $20. M. P. Angier $25. Total.
$865.
$1,500,000 Refund to
Go to Insurance Firms
Woman Drifts at Sea!
Alone With Dead Man
MIAMI. FLA., I >ec. 15. Alone In a
small boat with the body of George D.
Smith, former proprietor of Halcyon
Hotel, a large tourist hostelry, Mrs. M.
Nearer, of Kansus City drifted over
Blscayne Bay five hours last night, tint!]
her tries attracted tishermen.
Smith had died front heart failure
He formerly lived In New York where
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Doctors Decline to
Obey Eugenic Law
MILWAUKEE, Dee. 15.—Physicians
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 January 1
An agreement not to Issue the certi-
fieates was signed by all the members
of the Milwaukee County Medical So
ciety.
iGun Relieves Youth
Of Money Trouble
Bl TLER. Dec. 15. -Heath For, 23
year-old son of Sam Foy. residing In
he upper part of the countx, commit-
ted suicide this morning bv shoot in?
himself with a shotgun. * shooting
Despondency over financial trouble”
Is supposed to have beeri the acuse.
BATE THl BUTTLE TO
SCALE IS BEAOY SAVE FRANK'S
LIFE OPENS
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 rates are.
For the first 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, ami 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 posted
in all automobiles for rent.
Continued From Page 1.
not know Mary Phagan by sight and
by name? You may say someone told
him. but who told him?
Meeting Prearranged. He save.
"His meeting with Mary Phagan on
Saturday was alj prearranged by bi n.
Mary did not know that signs had
been posted telling the employee* to
draw their pay on Friday nigh".
Frank knew that she would come
al the usual time—noon Saturday.
"When Helen Ferguson, a friend of
Mary's, went to get Mary's pay Fri
day night. Frank would not let Iter
have it. He knew if he did Mary
would not be at the factory on the
morrow. Every step leading up to the
tragedy was planned. Even Jim Con
ley was asked bv Frank to com?
around on Saturday so as to be on
watch while the Phagan girl was
th, re.
"The State roved without ques
tion that Frank was of bad charac
ter. We established it b ,p the best
witnesses obtains*ble — by girls, young
girls, who had worked at the facto v
and who at the tin e of their testifying
had been removed from the influenc. s
I 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 called the attention of the
court to the testimony of a conductor
who said that the car on which Mary
Phagan rode reached the city at 12:03.
a fact which tAe Solicitor said ef
fectively set at rest all the quibble
over the time element. Mary could
have entered the factory and gone to
the metal room with Frank before
Monteen Stover entered, lie declared.
Dorsey and Attorney Arnold were
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 closing his address,
charged that Frank was convicted
solely on insinuation, innuendo 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 thit
such inconsequential and irrelevant
evidence could be used to damn a de
fendant, but here it is, right here in
the record!” he exclaimed. "It is al
most unbelievable that su<h met hols
could be used in convicting a man,
and that they could be successful in
a Georgia court of justice.”
Arnold accused Solicitor Dorsey of
; laying hold of every insignificant clr-
| cumstance and twisting it into .1
; most suspicious Incident in order to
| realize his ambition for Frank’s con-
I viction.
lie cited the letter Frank wrote to
his uncle. M, Frank, as an example
of the manner in which Dorsey had
distorted every particle of evidence
Into a mountain of suspicion.
The letter. Arnold said, was *he
most natural message in the world,
and yet the Solicitor had made it out
. as a subterfuge and as a most positive
Indication of Frank’s guilt.
Calls Dorsey Unfair.
Dorsey Improperly and unfairly had
argued that Frank’s wife had a von-
1 sciousness of his guilt, Arnold de-
| dared, because she had not visit 'd
i him at the Jail for several days after
| his arrest.
He hud 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.
“lie was guilty 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 lie 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 thf testimony of the lying Jim
Conley.
"It Is built upon just such flimsy j
circumstances as I have cited. It is,
evidence which a Judge should not I
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 to 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 made 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
Epps, a State’s witness, testified that
he rode to town with Mary Phagan
the day she was slain and that she
arrived at Forsyth and Marietta
streets 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 to the attorney, in order to
make it fit in with his theory that
Monleen Stover, who entered the fac
tory at 12:05. was unable to find
Frank in his office because it was at
this moment that the 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-asking for an extension
of time before lie 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 would be
given an additional two hours, which
will complete the case Tuesday after
noon.
Always the exemplification of sar
torial perfection, Mr. Arnold was
dressed in a light brown striped suit
that had Hie appearance of being
fresh from hi® 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
ive** John N. Starnes and Patrick
Campbell, who were detailed to aid
tlie Solicitor in the inveatigation of
the mystery, arrived soon ajter the
hearing began.
The arguments were heard by Su
preme Court Justices Beverly D.
Evans. S. C, Atkinson and H. Warner
Hill.
II 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, represent ir>g
the State, and finally by Attorney
Rosser, who will close for the de
fense.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The Na
tional Government may be eompe’led to
refund $1,500,000 erroneously collected
from insurance companies under the
corporation tax law as "dividends" as
the result of action by the Supreme
Court to-day.
Tlie court dismissed an appeal of H.
C. H. Ilerold. 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 tlie
overcharged tax without any further lit
igation.
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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 to 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 (acts just
as they are: -
Eighty Suits That Were
$29.75,-$35.00 to $40.00, Are
Forty-Five Suits That Were
$21.75, $25.00 and $29.75, Are
$10.00
$14.75
Thirty=Five Suits That Were
$37.50, $50.00 to $55.00, Are
$19.75
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
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