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a OCKERCLU t. OVER 100,000 THE SUNDAY AMERICAN’S NET PAID CIRCULATION The National Southern Sunday Newspaper The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 116. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1913. Copyright. 1906. By The Georgian Co. 9 rF\ T TS PAT NO ^ L JLx> I o. MORE. FINALS DIXIE LEAGUE ASKS DATES OF SOUTHERN f'\ % A. i' CONTINUOUS BASEBALL PLANNED Proposition Made to Southern Moguls in Meeting Here Taken Under Consideration. ELOPERS SO SURE OF PARENTAL BLESSING THEY REFUSE TO WORRY In 1915 there Trill be two baseball leagues in the South—the Southern anti the Dixie. Everything; may be peaceful between—and again It may not. The Dixie League has announced that It will have clubs in Atlanta. Birmingham, Chattanooga, Nashville Memphis, New Orleans. Shreveport and Little Rock. The first six cities named possess Southern League franchises. Little Rock and Shreve port have in the past been Southern League cities, but their franchise* were transferred. The Dixie league is anxious to join organized baseball. It Is for continuous baseball In the cities where the Southern holds franchises It wants to be classed as an "A” league, the same as the Southern. Southern League Meets. The board of directors of the. Southern League met to-day at Hotel Ansley. During the session of the Kavanaugh magnates. Messrs. Pom eroy and Hood, local attorneys, ap peared before them as representa tives of the Dixie League. They asked that they be allowed to join the Southern organization in continuous baseball; they asked to be allowed to rent the grounds of the Southern League In the six cities that that now hold Southern franchises. Messrs. Pomeroy and Hood meant business. They hinted that there would be a Dixie League In 1915 whether the Southern league cared or not. They put the magnates of Judge Kavanaugh In such a position that it Is not unlikely that their bid will be heeded. At any rate, after an hour’s oration by Messrs. Pomeroy and Hood, the directors of the Southern League elected President Ka/anaugh, Char ley Coleman and A. J. Heinemann as a committee to consider the plea of the newcomers and to report what they consider advisable at the spring meeting of the league. Leaguj Is Divided. For the betterment of the sched ule the Southern League clubs were divided Into two sections—the North ern and Eastern. Under the northern heading will be Atlanta, Char -.nooga, Memphis and Nashville. The southern division will consist of New Orleans, Mem phis, Montgomery and Birmingham. It is hoped that by this re-arrange ment Atlanta will not be forced tj cut short many of the Saturday games, a feature of last season’s echedule very unpleasant to the Gate City fans. An amendment .o the rules of the league was offered when one of .hi magnets asked that a vote be taken to see whether or not managers who are not players be allowed to go on the coaching lin.-- It was voted down. Cchedule Committee Named. The present guarantee of {125 per game stands, although some of the moguls asked that it be raised to {250. The following schedule commi'tr, the same as last year’s, was elected: Judge Kavanaugh. O. B. Andrews and C. Z. Coulson. All eight of the clubs were repre sented at the meetings to-day, aa follows: Atlanta: E. Callaway, A. J. Ryan. Charles Nunna-lly and Mana^r Billy Smith; Chattanooga: O. B. An drews; New Orleans: A. J. Heine- man and Charley Frank: Mobile: C. Z. Coulson and Manager Brls-oa Lord; Memphis: F P. ’oleman, Nashville: W. O. Htrziv Montgom ery; M. P. Wilcox and Manager Boo by GHlks: Birmingham: R. H. Baugh a nH \v. XJ. Smith. Happy pair members of prominent families. Divorces Wife for Soft Drink Habit Because, among other things, his wife spent his money on soda foun tain drinks, ice cream and in other "foolish ways," H. L. McConnell was granted a total divorce from Mrs. Bessie McConnell In Judge Ellis’ court Monday. McConnell charged that he gave his wife all of the salary he received as baggagemaster at the Southern Rail way Company. Mrs. McConnell de nied the charges McConnell ex pressed a willingness to provide for and educate .lh& children. Awaiting “parental blessings,” Mr and Mrs. L. G. Barnes, a well-known young couple of Calhoun, Ga., who eloped to Atlanta Saturday night and were married, were confident Monday they would be forgiven and were so happy they refused to worry about it. The blessings haven't arrived as yeL The happy young pair will reside at No. 121 Capitol avenue. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. G. P. Stone at his residence. No. 354 Luclde street, immediately after the couple arrived In Atlanta. ‘‘Believe me, I was scared,” said the bridegroom, who is but 19 years old “I wasn’t,” Interposed the bride, to aphold the honor of their newly- established wedlock. Mrs. Barnes City Council Passey Bill Fixing New Taxi Rates For Atlanta The new ordinance fixing a new scale for taxicab rates was unani mously adopted by Council Monday afternoon. The new rate calls for $3.50 for the first hour’s service, and $3.00 per hour thereafter. Owing to a petition submitted by Peachtree and Whitehall street mer chants, Council deferred action on the automobile parking ordinance which forbids the parking of ma chines in downdown districts for more than 30 minutes was postponed until after the holidays. Councilman Thomas I. Lynch, of the Second Ward, tendered his res ignation at the meeting, announcing that he had moved from his district. It is probable that Tames L. McCord will secure the position left by Mr. Lynch. NEW YORK, Dec. id.—When the super-dreadnought Wyoming docked this afternoon at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, her commc.ndcr, Captain F. L. Chapin, waremoved in a dying con dition from Bright’s disease and placed in the naval hospital* Mrs. L. G. Barnes, who was Miss Clara Mae Littlefield, of Calhoun, Ga. Bride 16, groom 19. His parents thought him too young to marry. Cincinnati Cancels Sale But Ebbets Maintains Shortstop Is Brooklyn Player Now. — CINCINNATI, Dec. 15.—The direc tors of the Cincinnati baseball club j this afternoon canceled the $25,000 deal by which Shortstop Joe Tinker was sold to the Brooklyn club. The directors derided that players and not cash were wanted in ex change for Tinker, and Immediately after voting on the cancellation of the cash deal they wired Charles H. Ebbets, president of the Brooklyn club, stating that they would con sider a new offer for Tinker If it In volved some Brooklyn players. The Cincinnati directors wanted in exchange for Tinker either Pitch ers Yingllng or Ragon afid either Outfielder Moran or Stengel They first stated they wanted either Pitch er Nap Rucker or Outfielder Zach Wheat, but Garry Herrmann, presi dent of the club, told them there was no chance for such a deal. The acquisition of Herzog and Hartley, of the Giants, in exchange for Bescher was ratified. Ebbets Says He Will Fight to Keep Tinker. new YORK, Dec. 15.—“Under the baseball laws. Joe Tinker Is the legal property of the Brooklyn club, and I Intend to keep him at any cost,” was the retort made this afternoon by President Charles H. Ebbets, of the Brooklyn club to the action of the Cincinnati club In cancelling the deal made Friday whereby, for *25,000, Tinker was sold to Brooklyn. “President Herrmann, of the Cin cinnati club, and myself entered Into the contract in good faith,” continued Ebbets. "He was the representative of the Cincinnati club, and a a such, under baseball laws—and every other law, too—his acts are binding. He sold Tinker to me for $25,000, and 1 intend to keep him, If T have to go to the courts to gain my end." Tinker Wants to Play With the Cubs. CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—”1 will not join any club now until Chicago has been given a chance to hid for my services.” said Joe Tinker this after noon on being apprised of the action of the Cincinnati directors with re gard to Manager Ebbets' offer for the shortstop, "I consider the deal open and also that Chicago has a right to bid if It desires. I am anxious to play for Chicago again. Murphy must be given a square deal in the matter.” “My reserve list goes forward by mail to Cincinnati to-night,” said (‘harles W. Murphy, owner of the Chicago Cubs, when informed this afternoon that the deal with Brook lyn for Shortstop Joe Tinker had ap parently fallen through. ”1 will make a bid for Tinker's service, but am going to offer Cincinnati some play ers, as they seem to want them rather than money.” WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The Re- publican National Committee at its meeting here to-morrow promises to declare by a small majority in favor of calling a special convention ac cording to Charles P. Warren, of Michigan, chairman of the law com mittee of the national body. Chair man Warren to-day declared that this action was forecasted by an unoffi cial canvas of the committee. CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 15.—Harvard football authorities said to-day that they had received a communication from the University of Michigan au thorities offering October 15 as the only open date Michigan has for a game next season. Frederick W. Moore, graduate treasurer of Harvard athletics, said to-day that this date probably would b£ accepted. SCORED BY St State’s Evidence in Frank Case Is Called Most Flimsy That Ever Convicted a Man. WASHINGTON. Deo. 15.—Becau.s of his serious physical condition, | President Wilson to-day pardoned J. j C. Roberts, who pleaded guilty at t Louisville to counterfeiting Mexican i bank notes. Roberts was sentenced | 1 September 13, 1909, to six years in the penitentiary and a fine of $30. MEXICO.CITY, Dec. 15.—Yaqui In dians from Sinaloa have gone on the war path in Lower California, ac- cording to reports received to-day. inn Two towns have been captured and Managers Arrested and Put Un- looted. The first advices received I w. r e e k c.°: e "“C" V^r^tedTh/, der $300 Bond Each as Climax p«c.nt b attack^ bae " de, ” t,d m th * ir j of Two Weeks’ Probe. Replying to the savage atacks that had been mado by Reuben Arnold upon his methods of conducting the investigation into the Mary Phagan murder mystery, Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey Monday, in the pres ence of the Supreme Court, defied the attorneys of Leo M. Frank and an nounced that he not only had r.o apology to make for rny of his ac tions but that he would repeat them if he had the investigation to conduct over again. "They say that I have summoned witnesses contra to law,” he de clared, "but I would n ’ hesitate to do it again if similar circumstances arose. They are so obsessed with the idea that something was wrong in the way we interrogated the witnesses that they have set down I.i black and white that I made Minola McKnight make her second affidavit up there ir. my office. “As a mater of fact, it was at the police departmert. I neither coun seled for nor a^inst it. If I could not help the detectives solve the mys tery, I certainly was not going to place obstacles In their path.” Dorsey countered on the charges made by the defense w'hen he char- | acterized Arnold’s argument as i "abounding in misquotation and mis representation." And he added: "It does not stop there. Here in this brief there is the most elaborate misstatement of facts one '■’ould find in a long search. Startling New Theory. “I am going to ask the privilege to file a supplemental brief In order to call the attention of your honors to some of the most glaring examples.” The Solicitor voiced a startling am plification of his theory of the mur der before he progressed far In his argument against the Judges of the Supreme Court granting Frank a new- trial He had suggested during the trial that the fact that Frank ap peared .startled when Mrs. Arthur White came suddenly upon him as he stood before the safe In his office was an indication of his guilt. To the Supreme Court ho ventured the opinion that Frank at that mo ment was taking Mary' Phagan’s pay envelope out of the box in the safe with the intention of destroying It, and that he was thrown into a panic by the sound of Mrs. White’s voice as he was doing this. "When Frank was standing there at the safe he was planning to get and destroy the envelope so that no one in the world ever would find it,” said the Solicitor. Asked About Pay Envelope. "The only suggestion that he ever made to the detectives in an apparent effort to help them in the solution of the mystery —save his evident at tempts to throw suspicion on Lee, Conley and Gantt—was his query to the officers: Have you found the pay envelope?* "We contend that he had gone back to the metal room and had attacked the little girl and foully had mur dered her, and then had gone back to his office and opened the safe to ab stract and destroy the pay envelope which Mary had come to the factory to get. That’s why he was startled "We contend that he had had his lustful eyes on the girl for weeks be fore. We have the background of bad character. Twenty of the State’s witnesses testified to that. This was the underlying cause of the whole tragedy and its explanation. "He said when he went to Identify the girl that he did not know her and he had to go to his bouks to look up whether he had paid her or not. He thought he had the Saturday be fore. Yet on Monday he told the de tectives that Gantt knew Mary Pna- gan w-ell and was an intimate friend of hers. "How did h» know this If ho did Continued on Page 7, Column 4. CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Prince Hanish, head of the sun oult, found guilty of sending obscene matter by express from one State to another was to-day sentenced bv Federal Judge Mack to six month* in the house of correction and a fine of $2,500. ROME. GA., Dec*. 15.—Frank B Wood, aged 45, was knoo. -d from a stepL.dder by a flying belt and killed this afternoon at the Rome Furniture Factory. Wood was repairing the belt on a moving pulley wnen it oroke and struck him in the face. He fell, striking headforemost on a concrete floor, dying of concusion of the brain en route to hospital. COVINGTON, Dec. 13—A promi nent white woman of StarrsviHe, 5 miles from Covington, was choked this afternoon and rendered uncon scious. • Her assailant is unknown. Sheriff Hay and a nack of dogs have gone to the scene with a large num ber of Covington people. Feeling is high. EL PASO, TEXAS, Dec. 15.—A warning to General Villa that he will the loss of lives and destruction of property of all foreign residents of Chinuahua was oontained in a mes sage from the Secretary of State’s office which was taken to Chihuahua to-day by Felix Sommerfeldt, courier for the United States. RACING RESULTS AT CHARLESTON. FIRST- Six furlongs: Pluvious, 113 (Ward), 9-2, 8-5. 3-5. won; Flying Yankee, 115 (Rightmeier), 3-1, 3-5, out, second: Willis, 114 (Skirvln), 12-1, 4-1, 8-5, third. Time, 1:16 4-5. Eaton, Schaller, Charles Cannell, Rag man, Belfast, Beverstein and Mike Cohen also ran. SECOND—Six furlongs: Agnler, 110 (Neander), 3, 9-10, 2-5, won; Kiva, 110 (MoTaggart), 8-5, 4-5, 7-20, second; Laura, 100 (Martin), 10, 7-2, 6-5, third. Time, 1:18 3-5. Tomboy, Tom Holland, Puck, Berkley also ran. THIRD—Mile and 20 yards: Joe Dlebold, 108 (Goose). 13-5, 7-5, 3-5, won; Pardner, .12 (Deronde), 4, 6-5, 2-5, second; Dr. Waldo Briggs. Ilf (Turner). 7, 5-2. 1, third. Time, 1:43 3-5. Counterpart, StarbottJ Harry Lauder, L. II. Adair also ran FOURTH —F*i ve and one-naif fur longs: Lady Lightning, 105 (Bux ton), 8, 3, 7, won; Floral Park, 112 v>, 6. 2. 1 second; BhftfWOOd, 107 (Byrne). 7. 11-6, 3-5, third. Time 1:08 3-6 Ella Bryson also ran. Carl ton G. fell. FIFTH RACE—Mile and eighth: Master Jim, 104 (Deronde), 11-5, 9-10, 2-5, won; Outlan, 104 (McTag- gart), 5-2, 9-10, 2-5, second; Spindle, 109 (Goose), 18-5, 7-5, 7-10, thirl. Time. 1:67 2-5. Pierre Dumas, Hal- deman, L. M. Eckert, leachsand. Kiddy Lee also. SIXTH—Mile: Chartler, 119 (Goose), 14-5, 11-10, 11-20. won; Tod dling, 108 (Ward), 4, 8-5. 7-10, sec ond; Camel. 116 (Skirvin), 25. 8. 4. third. Time 1:43 4-5. Chemulpo, Fairy Godmother, Michael Angelo. Gerrard also ran. AT JUAREZ. FIRST—Six furlongs: Frazzle, 100 (Taplin). 3. 1, 1-2, won; Robert, 110 (Claver), 5, 8-5, 4-5. second. Garden of Allah 107 (Cross), 2, 7-10, 2-5, third. Time 1:17 2-5. Durin, Crex. Gold Dusk, Brack Bonta, Topnot. also ran. SECOND—Six furlongs: Peter Grimm. 107 (Groth), 1, 1-2. 1-4, won; Garter, 107 (Estep). 3. 1, 1-2, second. Amity, 107 (Kitsrhbaumi, 3, 1, 1-2, third. Time. 1:16 2-5. Attica. Re lent. Pretty Dale, Strange Girl, San bernito, New' Capital, Lady Adelaide also ran. THIRD—Five and one-half fur longs: Augustus Heinze, 105 ( Klrsch- baum). 4. 3-2, 7-10, won; Old Gotch. 105 (Ramsy), 3, 1. 1-2, second; Tran sact, 104 (Benton), 8, 3. 3-2. third. Time 1:07 4-5. Society Bird, Mystic Boy. Dalston, Stevesta. Hinata. Colo nel McDougall also ran. Race Entries on Page 2. n H Ag the culmination of a secret ln- I vestigation carried on for two we*k* detectives, led by Chief Lanford In person, raided seven locker clubs late Monday afternoon and arrested the managers on charges of selling liquor to non-members. The clubs and their managers arei The Theatrical Club. No. 67 1-2 North Forsyth street, H. R. Smith, manager; the Metropolitan Club, For syth and Mitchell streets. A. P. Smith, manager; the T. M. A.. In Marietta street. C. A. Morris, manager; the Central Club, No. 9 1-2 North For syth street. C. H. Butts, manager; the Owls Club, in the Thrower build ing, William Wolpert, manager; th* Beavers' Club, No. 67 1-2 Hunter street, H. P. Pitts, manager. A case was also made against th« Eagles Club, Viaduct place, Samuel Green, manager, and the arrest of Green is expected soon. Chief I^anford after the raids d«>- dared that during the previous In-* vestigation from two to three viola* tlons had been proven against the clubs raided. In some cases It was declred the 1 violations had been flagrant. The ; managers of the clubs were taken to the police station and held under bonds of $300 each. In every in- I stance the bond was forthcoming Im- | mediately and the men we^e re- I leased. The Investigation by the detectives, it became known Monday, had pen etrated every club in the city. Every effort had been made to ascertain whether the various clubs were in clined to sell liquor to non-members and out of the entire number only th* seven raided were found guilty. 154-Game Schedule Likely In 1914 For Southern League An interesting development to At lanta fans came at the meeting o4 the moguls of the Southern Base ball Association Monday afternoon when the possibility of a 164-game schedule was seriously discussed. Sentiment seemed to be pretty well divided as to whether the longer schedule or that of 140 game* as at present, was the better. It w'aa finally decided to instruct the sched ule committee to prepare two sched- ules—one for 154 games and the oth* er for 140, with a recommendatlo'i to the league as to which It consid ered better. The longer schedule wifi carry the baseball season into the last week in September, as there was not talk of on earlier start than April 15 Judge Kavanaugh, of Little Rock, Ark., presided and the moguls had not yet reached the question of whether Little Rock should get MonU gomery's berth. Woman Is Held on Swindling Charge Mrs. G. Q. Aiken, residing for th* past several weeks at No. 118 Capitol avenue, was arrested Monday after* noon on a charge of obtaining monejr under false pretenses made agalnM her in Cincinnati. She had been em- ployed by a wholesale firm here. She said she came to Atlanta wltU her husband and little daughter but had been deserted by them. She de nied knowledge of the Cincinnati crime with which she is chargwf