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VOL. XII. NO. 117.
ATLANTA. OA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1913.
Copyright, 1900,
By The Georgian Co.
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Detective Chief Declares Every
Drinking Place, High and Low,
Will Be Watched Closely.
chief of Detectives Newport Lan-
fi>rd declared Tuesday that the arrest
of seven locker cluh managers Mon
day afternoon on a charge of violat
ing the prohibition laws is but the
forerunner of a campaign of watch
fulness that will include every club
in the city, from the highest to the
lowest.
“I have only begun to fight,” de
clared the Chief. "The locker clubs of
Atlanta must obey the law. I expect
to hove my men watch the clubs
night and day to see that the law
I, not violated, and if we learn that
any club Is selling liquor to persons
other than members, they will be ar
rested and prosecuted.
-yesterdays arrests do not mean
that the probe of the locker clubs is
over. We are working cases against
olher clubs that may eventually lead
to arrests and prosecutions.”
Managers Plan Court Fight.
The seven managers of locker clubs
who were arrested Monday afternoon
are planning a vigorous fight against
the evidence that will be submitted
by the Chief, who personally accom
panied Detectives Moon and Patrick
on the raids. The club men have en
gaged attorneys and declare that they
y-ih carry their fight to the highest
court in the State before they admit
their defeat.
"We have tried to conduct the
clubs according to the law,” said one
of them Tuesday, “and so far as we
know we have done it. If any person
other than a member has sought li
quor it has been without our knowl
edge.”
The cases of three of the managers
of the clubs who were arrested Mon
day are set for trial before Judge
Broyles Tuesday afternoon. They are
H. R. Smith, of the Theatrical Club;
A. R. Smith, of the Metropolitan
Club, and William Wolpert, of the
Owls' Club. City Attorney Mayson
will take part in the fight against the
locker club men, and will conduct the
prosecution of the seven cases.
The cases of the other four man
agers will he tried Thursday before
the Recorder. They are C. H. Butts,
of the Central Cluh; C. A. Morris, of
the T M. A.; H. R. Pitts, of the
Beavers’ Club, and S. R. Green, of the
Eagles.
Offered All Clubs “Bait.”
Chief Lanford declared Tuesday
that his men had been working on the
locker club cases for the last ten
days, and had thoroughly investigat
ed every club in the city.
We gave them all a chance to vio
late the law," said the chief, “and
the seven whose managers we arrest
ed fell for it. In every club in the
c 'ty we made from one to five efforts
to obtain purchases of liquor. The
same bait was held out to all of the
Dubs, my detectives going into the
'■ubs and either buying liquor them
selves or having others , who were
hot members buy it.”
Whitfield to Name
Legislator Jan. 9
ord,* LT ° X ' Dec ' lf >-—Judge H. J. Wood,
a sAT. 01 County, has called
9, to ,tl m e ! ecti01 ? for Friday, January
T-tglslatuS' , a -Keptesentatlve in the
of the late 4° n the unexpired term
Jlldgp fj V’ r<i
ca n<iidat* a'-iJ' enn ’ the only avowed
w l|00l books h V0 »L ate o publica-lon of
c o«t; the oT ‘h** State, to be sold at
* uL of 1 u ’ State road, with
h -b:, ... ucfoase in rental annual-
fountles thr, ,' 1B k h . a 1. d ,axaliotl in the
^t'ermer,' '..t . "hlch the line passes;
, “dustrla! schools and re
tool teachers prompt pa >' of public
Chuircli Laid in Ashes
% Arsonette Band
,. hiVJtRp!* !? Atlanta Georgian.
kpbcoim] i Jpr D>.—St. Ann's
‘“'day deatrevia u at Ai Sburtli was
are set by -Tff. • an incendiary
'“*« extensive" :,gettes - The damage
:, und about i, ''“•Puge leaflets were
ul tiia ruins.
City Electrician's
Pay To Be Raised
As Turner Leaves
While Council did not hear the “graft”
probe report on City Electrician Turner
Monday, it raised the salary of the office
from $1,80 Oto 12,400 a year, beginning
January 1, 3 915. The electrician who
will hold the office under the new sal
ary will be named at the election next
fall.
The probe committee, composed of the
Board of Electrical Control and the
Council Committee on Electric Lights,
will make its report at the next meet
ing. but the fact that the raise in thje
salary of the office was allowed to go
through without any protest indicates
that the findings will be mild.
Before the salary raise goes to Mayor
Woodward to be signed it must be
passed by the Aldermanic Board.
II IN FIRE
CINCINNATI. Dec. 16.—Two per
sons perished in an incendiary Are
which to-day destroyed the old West
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MISS BAIN CHAMPIONS THE TANGO
BUT DRAWS LINE AT TURKEY TROT
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Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
HOME, Dec. 16.—Dorothy McVane.
daughter of Professor McVane, of
Mustache Medal for
All-American Player
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Nelson Norgren.
picked by nearly every expert in the
United States as halfback of the first
All-American football team, and captain
of the University of Chicago squad, to
day was declared the most successful
cultivator of a mustache in the uni
versity. He was presented a handsome
set of shaving “tools” by the girls of
the Senior class.
Miss Donna
Bain and Mr.
Crane doing
the real tango,
at loft. At right
they are shown
dancing the
Maxixe.
Gary to Have Woman j
Head of Police Force
GARY. IND., Dec 16.—Mrs. Kate j
Woods Ray. a suffrage leader, to-day j
was appointed a member of the board
of public safety by Mayor Knotts. The
other two members of the board have
promised to elect her president. She
will he the only woman head of a met
ropolitan police force In the United
States.
‘Biggest Night Ever’
Planned in Chicago
CHICAGO. Dec. 16 —Mayor Harrison
to-day announced that he would not or
der cafes to close at 1 o'clock on New
Year's morning, as in former years.
Managers of the largest restaurants
in the loop district predict the “big
gest night ever.” In eleven loop cafes
7,350 reservations for tables have been
made.
Indict Wholesale
And Retail Beer Men
MACON, Dec. 3 6.—Three wholesale
and two retail near-beer dealers were
indicted here by the grand Jury on the
charge of violating the State prohibition
law.
The wholesalers were the Acme Brew
ing Company. C. C. Porter and Ike
Bashinsky. The retail dealers were Ed
Loh and the Hotel Dempsey.
N.C.&St.L.Ry.Head
Dying of Pneumonia
NASHVILLE. Dec. 16.—John W.
Thomas, Jr., president of the Nashville
Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, who
has been ill at his home here for some
weeks, has taken a sudden turn for the
worse and his death is expected within
a few hours.
Mr. Thomas has pleural pneumonia
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Girl Kills Herself
With Carbolic Acid
ZEBULON. Dec. 16.—Miss Jessie Rog
ers, about 18 years old, committed sui
cide at the home of her father, about 3
miles from Zebulon.
While her mother was preparing a
meal she went to her room, took car
bolic acid and was dead in a few min
utes. No cause is known for the deed.
Hotel Head Drops
Dead in Elevator
MACON, Dee. 16 —C. W. Brown, Jr.,
receiver for the Hotel Lanier, dropped
dead at midnight as he stepped on the
hotel elevator to go to his room. Heart
trouble is said to have been the cause.
Mr. Brown started in the hotel busi
ness ten years ago with the Kimball
House in Atlanta.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—-Fair Tuesday and
Wednesday.
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i Expert Who I.s Showing Atlanta Society New
I )an<*es Talks of Their < irigin.
End Turner Hail, used by the Salva
tion Army as a lodging house for
needy men. Scores of men were
overcome by smoke. Many were se
riously burned. It is feared that
eight of thefe may die.
The first body'removed was that of
C. W. Sundeli, manager of the lodg
ing house.
The blaze was discovered by Wal-
lie Mayer, a member of the Chicago
American League baseball club and
formerly star catcher of the Bir
mingham Southern League club, who
risked his life in saving eight chil
dren in a smoke-filled tenement house
next door, to which the flames had
communicated.
The police arrested Fred Meyers,
who is suspected of having set fire to
the building in revenge for having
been refused admittance. Meyers had
been heard to make threats that he
would fire the lodging house.
Harvard University, has
been arrest-
ed at Taranto, Italy, c
larged with
espionage upon the I tali;
n naval base
situated there. United
States Am-
bassador Thomas Nels*
n Page was
notified to-day by the
Italian Gov-
eminent of the arrest.
Miss McVane, who ma
de a success-
ful debut here as a s
nger in “La
Boheme” three years ag<
, had gone to
Southern Italy o sink"
with a small
opera company.
Her familiarity with
Italian naval
officers at Brindisi gav<
rise to sus-
picions among the aut
horities and
she was watched by s
eeret service
agents.
In addition to Miss Mar Vane’s
friendship with Italian naval officers,
her French maid was also seen often
walking with officers at Brindisi.
When Miss MacVane went to Ta
ranto from Brindisi, sh* was kept
under strict surveillance. Her mail
was intercepted and the authoriti-s
claim to have found evidence against
her.
Immediately after her arrest Miss
yiaaVane &uempted to worn lo
refused to accept her letter. Later
Mr. Page was officially notified. Miss
MacVane asked that her father, Pro
fessor Silas M. MacVane, he notified
of her plight.
Miss MacVane went upon the stage
against her parents’ wishes, and has
been making her home in Europe dur
ing the past four years.
Professor Gone on
Leave of Absence.
CAMBRIDGE. MASS., Dec. 16.—Si
las MacVane, professor of history at
Harvard Gollege, whose daughter,
.Miss Dorothy MacVane, is under ar
rest in Italy, left this cbty about a
year ago on an indefinite leave of
absence. He took his daughters,
Dorothy. Edith and Emily, with him.
Friends of the family from time to
time have received letters from Rome
telling of Miss Dorothy's success in
grand opera.
FIGHTS THIEF OF POOR.
JOLIET, ILL., Dec. 36.—Seeing a man
armed with a long knife robbing the
poor l*'>x in St. .Mary’ s Church, Father
.1 o. Murray, the rector, fought for an
hour with the thief. The priest was
sitting >n his captive when the polioe
arrived.
Comes a defender of the much-
flouted, much-maligned tango in the
person of charming Miss Donna Bain.
But the turkey trot—horrors! Miss
Bain positively shuddered Tuesday
when it was suggested that her com
mendation might extend to this other
modern dance
“Oh, my, no!” she exclaimed, with
a scandalized expression. “I can’t
even bear to think of it. Believe me,
1 don’t dance it. Why, I may say I
don't even know how—and that is
saying quite a little, for I pride my
self on knowing most of the dances
of American and foreign origin and
knowing them well.”
It probably is just as well to ex
plain right here, although most At
lantans know it, that Mi.-s Bain is an
authority on dancing.
She Is an Atlanta Girl.
She is an \tlanta girl, but foi the
last six years she has been in New
York, part of the time giving expo
sitions of the old f
at fashionable teas arid other exclu
sive functions, and more latterly
teaching the people of tin* ullra smart
set how th.e best of the popular dances
should be executed.
She lias made herself a student of
dancing, not only in Amerii hut
abroad as well. Wr it doesn’t
know about the pedigree and per
formance of dance steps ancient and
modern is hardly worth adding to
one’s store of knowledge.
And it was plainly evident in her
conversation Tuesday that she didn’t
think much of the lineage of the tur
key trot. The tango—that was differ
ent!
“Nothing in the modern dances so
much resembles the stately old min
uet. as does the tango,” she vouch
safed. “That is why I like it. It is
the most beautiful dance I ever have
seen when it is danced properly.
There isn’t any undignified ‘rompish-
ness’ about it.
Calls Turkev Trot “Horrible,”
“It is the dance of the ultra set.
In its present form it originated with
the best Parisian society. The real
p(-*pie don’t go In much for the other
m>;! of dances -like the turkey trot,
I mean.
••The turkev trot—that’s horrible,
i .m i icularly the w riggling of the
. (Milder- and the other outlandish
movements. The slums of San Fran-.
, gave America the turkey trot
Ti it nrobably accounts for its unlove*
ly and ungraceful characteristics.”
Miss Bain is the daughter of Don-
M. Bain, ah Atlanta insurance
man. During her brief visit in At
lanta she is a guest at the home of
Hr. and Mrs. Frank Ellis, No. 1
Peachtree circle. Mrs Ellis is her
mother’s sister. Miss Rain is demon
s'.* ting the new dances with Donald
i' ane at iiic Piedmont Driving Club
'•■ill-' here. She will leave imme
diately alter the holidays.
Justices Likely Will Try to Reach
Decision on Appeal by the
End of January,
Repeating his vehement asset-
tions that Leo M. Frank is with
out a vestige of legal or moral
right, to any sort of respite from
the hangman's noose, Solicitor
Dorsey concluded his address be
fore the Supreme Court of Geor
gia Tuesday in opposition to a
new trial for the factory super-
intendent.
The Solicitor maintained that
Frank had obtained a fair and impar
tial trial, despite the assertion to
the contrary of counsel for the de
fense. He said that nothing essen
tially prejudicing Frank’s case had
entered into the trial ta any time. No
man could have been convicted on
clearer or more unmistakable videnc *,
he argued.
If there had been any error—and
he was inclined to doubt it—the er
ror had been of the most harmless
and technical and inconsequential
kind, an error of the .sort that gives
the prisoner's attorneys a frail weap
on to grasp in their desperate battle
to save him from the fate that the
State claims he deserves.
Upholds Admission of Conley Evi
dence.
Dorsey resisted strenuously the.
claim of the defense that Conley's
evidence on Frank’s alleged immoral
ity and perversion was inadmissible.
The Solicitor argued that all modern
courts were coming to recognize the
necessity of admitting evidence of
acts and crimes other than the crime
for which the defendant was on trhl
in cases where tin* truth could be
reached only through the introdu -
tfon of such evidence. This was the
situation, ho said, in the trial of
Frank. It was necessary to have a
knowledge* of these extraneous acts
of Frank's in order to arrive at ihe
motive which was at the bottom of
the murder of Mary Phagan. With
this knowledge a flood of light was
let in upon the minds of the jury and
they were able to see the underlying
causes of the tragedy, he argued.
Dorsey scouted the contention of
the defense that the trial had been
by tlie mob rather than by a judge
and jury. Trivial incidents, he told
the court, had been magnified into
mountains of importance. When one
of the defense’s own witnesses pur
posely had made a facetious remark,
the defense had presumed to inter
pret the ripple of laughter as a storm
of jeerin gand ridicule directed at
Frank’s lawyers. It was nothing of
the kind. Dorsey asserted. It was
only a natural outburst, quickly curb
ed, which always follows a witty re
mark in a courtroom.
In this manner the Solicitor said
the defense grasped at trivialities and
technicalities all the way through
when, as a matter of fact, there was
nothing substantial in the whole trial
that might be used as the ground
work on which to erect a plea for a
new trial.
Attorney General to Speak.
Dorsey, who had entered upon his
address Monday, in a quieter and less
controversial manner than was his
wont during the trial of Frank,
warmed to his argument Tuesday
morning and concluded in his char
acteristically vehement style.
Attorney General Thqjnas S. Felder
and Luther Z. Rosser remapped to be
heard after the Solicitor Had finish
ed. The Attorney General was not
expected to speak at length. Rosser
had only one hour and twenty min
utes rightfully belonging to him, as
two hours and 40 minutes of tbo de
fense's four hours had been consumed
by Reuben Arnold on Monday,