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1 A / ,— ‘"'MW— OVER 100,000 the SUNDAY AMERICAN'S net PAID CIRCULATION Tht National Southern Sunday Newspaper The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN Wa.NT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 117. ATLANTA. OA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1913. Copyright, 1900, By The Georgian Co. O PTT'VTQ PAY no - ' r A> a Q. murk. South Georgia EDI .r 1 7 IN NET, LANFORD WARNS CLUBS [DORSEY ENDS SPEECH AGAINST NEW FRANK TRIAL H 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 0. S.GIRL MISS BAIN CHAMPIONS THE TANGO BUT DRAWS LINE AT TURKEY TROT FELDER 10 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 t l' §§ M 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. j : i f . # hT, \ • v * »- :1a Hi ' W' y i A ,L0. : JBL.ili il 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,