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VOL. XII. NO. 117. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1913. 2 CENTS. p more°
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WAVERS ORDERS NEW LIQUOR RAIDS
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U. S. GIRL HELD AS SPY BY ITALY
/ith Seven Managers Under Ar
rest, Chief Lanofrd Warns That
Crusade Is Only Begun.
Declaring: that before the week is
: .ssed every blind tiger in the city
ill be put out of business. Chief of
police Beavers Tuesday ordered a
raid on what is declared to be the
fountain heah of all illicit liquor traf
fic m Atlanta, a wholesale blind tiger,
which is supposed to supply the re
tailers.
Tiie raid on this establishment will
made sons time Tuesday and its
n.vners subjc ;ed to the severest pen
alty of the law.
That Recorder Broyles is working
in harmony with the action of the
police was shown by his severe ar
raignment of the locker clubs in the
case of J. W Durden, a young medi
cal student, who was tried Tuesday
lor disorderly conduct.
Young Durden was arrested after
c had broken into the Girls’ High
School, Washington and Mitchell
streets. Monday night. He had un
dressed, and, leaving his clothing in
the building, proceeded to his home
at No. ir.1 Capitol avenue, clad only
in a blanket. •
Puts Blame on Club Liquor.
Letters found afterward in the
• Thing identified its owner and Dur
den was arrested. Before Recorder
Broyles he pleaded Intoxication and
declared that he had purchased the
liquor in a locker club of which he
Was not a member.
The club named by Durden was one
which was included In the raid on
seven conducted by Chief Lanford, of
the city detective force. Monday aft-
U mi said that he had
lpft Place hardly knowing what
uas doing, and had started toward
-Ms home at an early hour Tuesday.
^ remembrance of his ac
tions at the school building.
• hey must have served some aw*
1 1,1 U P there,” said the Recorder,
o haw had such an effect on you.
rnese Miserable locker clubs that dish
° ut poison io young men should be
severely dealt with.”
k<!:, on. Superintendent of
< -tools, app<Micd in court to make a
) 'a " f V for Durden. On this
P T ,he st udent was fined only *15.75
• r ■ warned to refrain from further
Vl,its '0 looker clubs.
Lanford Opens Crusade.
' ■ declared that the
■> , "iidurted on the looker clubs
■ 3 but a forerunner of a cam-
1 watchfulness that will in-
' '' ry l ' lub in the city, from the
‘f"* 1 to the lowest.
.. 1 T' 0 f ' ni > begun to fight," de-
' ' ' hlef ' " T be locker clubs of
m Obey the law. I expect
night men wa t c h the clubs
;■ n ■ !aj to see that the law
: f| n f l if we learn that
0 , h . ng liquor to persons
rested ! a tnPmhers ’ they will be ar-
T v d and prosecuted.
i esterrlav' .
that ,u ' ' arrests do not mean
over m Pr ° be of the locker club* is
other t ’ ' vor king cases against
" at may eventually lead
' rosecutlon*."
JZZT Plan Court F| a ht -
onagers of locker clubs
,ed Monday afternoon
porous fight against
e t at will be submitted
panied D " ho l‘ ers onally accont-
1 es Moon and Patrick
j a ., i ^ 1 be club men have en-
■ '• and declare that they
com fight to the highest
"•ate before they admit
“We have
to conduct the
1 the law." said one
■ K "and so far as we
:I If any person
1 :• a- " mt| cr has sought lln-
:i without our know 1-
The
“ ho were j
are Planning
e evil
the
•nied
°n the raj,^
*aged ,
Violating the Law
Mayor’s Pet Hobby,
Says Judge Candler
Biter attacks on each other by
Alderman John S. Candler and Mayor
Woodward, interpreted by many as
soon to be issues of the coming May
oralty race, were made Tuesday over
policies of municipal administration.
Mayor Woodward had attacked Al
derman Candler for preventing the
passage of a resolution appropriating
$500 for the Child’s Welfare Exhibit
by making the point that it was il
legal. He said if Alderman Candler
had been that particular when he,
as acting Mayor, signed the crema
tory and fire alarm system he would
have saved the city a lot of trou
ble.
Alderman Candler declared he
would compare records for honoring
the law with Mayor Woodward.
“He never hesitates to violate the
law when it suits his purpose,” said
Alderman Candler.
“When issues have been up for
consideration if he ever took any but
the side that was worst for the wel
fare of the city of Atlanta I don’t
know when it was.
sira USED
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New City Officials in
Macon Wednesday
MACON, Dec. 16.—There will be a
change in nearly all of the department
heads of the city of Macon to-morrow,
when the men who held office for four
years under the Moore administration
give way to the appointees of the new
Mayor and Council.
G. 8. Riley becomes Chief of Police:
L. A. Miller Chief of the Fire Depart
ment, Walter DeFore City Attorney,
Davy Jones City Clerk, Jack Deltz
Chief Sanitary Inspector and George
Oxley Street Superintendent.
Church Merger Plan
Stirs Macon Baptists
MACON, Dec. 16.—The proposed mer
ger of the Tabernacle Baptist Church
and the Second Baptist Church has
stirred up considerable feeling among
the members of the two congregations.
Two Sundays ago a favorable vote was
taken on the union.
The older members ol* the Second
Baptist declare that although their
church Is on record as agreeing to con
solidate, the action does not meet with
the approval of a majority, and that If
the plan is perfected they will organize
a new church.
T. R. to Start After
Beasts of Jungle
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
CORUMBA, BRAZIL, Dec. 16.-^
Theodore Roosevelt and his party ar
rived here to-day from Porto Mur-
tinho on board a Paraguayan gun
boat. They will leave shortly for the
interior on a hunting expedition. A
large crowd greeted the party when
it arrived here.
Burglars Leave Loot
When Girl Screams
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.— Miss Jessie
Harding braved three burglars who
had entered the home of Garrett Wood
ward, on Washington boulevard, and
screamed so loudly that the men fled.
They had $5,000 worth of furs, cloth
ing and jewelry piled on a table ready
for their departure.
Emma Cams Given
Her Second Divorce
CHICAGO, Dec. 16— Emma Caru*
on the stage, Mrs. Lillie Emma Carus
Everall in real life, has just obtained
a decree of divorce from Harry J.
Everall, a wealthy Eastern wine
agent. This was Miss Carus’ second
appearance in a divorce court.
Called Liar Twelve
Times; No Damages
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.
verdict was returned in
Court in the $300,000 «u
William L. Washington,
against Atwood Violett.
alleged Violett called him
times. The complainant
for each time.
An adverse
the Supreme
it brought by
stock broker,
Washington
a liar twelve
asked $26,000
Dorothy MacVane, Daughter of
Harvard Professor, Appeals
to Ambassador,
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Dec. 16.—Dorothy MacVane,
daughter of Professor McVane, of
Harvard University, has been arrest
ed at Taranto, Italy, charged with
espionage upon the Italian naval base
situated there. United States Am
bassador Thomas Nelson Page was
notified to-day by the Italian Gov
ernment of the arrest.
Miss MacVane, who made a success
ful debut here .is a singer in "La
Boheme” three years ago, had gone to
Southern Italy o sing with a small
opera company.
Her familiarity with Italian naval
officers at Brindisi gave rise to sus
picions among the authorities and
she was watched by secret service
agents.
In addition to Miss MaeVane’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, she was kept
under strict surveillance. Her maid
was intercepted and the authorities
claim to have found evidence against
her.
Immediately after her arrest Miss
MacVane attempted to send word to
Ambassador Page, but the authorities
refused to accept her letter. Later
Mr. Page was officially notified. Miss
MacVane asked that her father, Pro
fessor Silas M. MacVane, be 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 veara
Professor Gone on
Leave of Absence.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Dec. 16.—Si
las MacVane, professor of history at
Harvard College, whose daughter.
Miss Dorothy MacVane, ie under ar
rest in Italy, left this city about a
year ago on an indefinite leave of
absence. He took his daughters,
Dorothy, Edith and Emily, with him.
Friendli of the family from time to
time have received letters from Rome
telling of Miss Dorothy's success In
grand opera.
Probe by Grand Jury
For McCann Mystery
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—District At
torney Cropsey. of Kings County, will
conduct a Grand Jury Investigation into
the disappearance of Jessie Evelyn Mc
Cann. This is in compliance with a re
quest made by the police, who believe
that all the facts connected with the
disappearance have not been given to
them.
Relatives of the girl and numerous
young men will be subpenaed. It is al
leged that her motive for leaving home
has been concealed.
Tired of Foreigners,
Chinese Burn Towns
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
HONGKONG, Dec. 16.—Many foreign
missionaries are in peril from a revolt
in Southeastern China. British offi
cials were notified to-day that hundreds
of natives have armed themselves, and,
lert hy agitators preaching "death to
foreigners,” are burning fsols
lager
isolated vll-
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair Tuesday and
Wednesday.
City Electrician's
Pay To Be Raised;
No Protest Made
While Counell did not hear the “graft”
probe report on City Electrician Turner
Monday, It raised the salary of the office
from $1,60 Oto $2,400 a year, beginning
January 1, 1915. 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 the
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 Aldermanir Board.
Whitfield to Name
Legislator Jan. 9
DALTON, Dec. IS.—Judge H. J. Wood,
ordinary of Whitfield County, has called
a special election for Friday, January
9, to name a Representative In the
Legislature to fill the unexpired term
of the late 8. E. Berry
Judge G. G. Glenn, the only avowed
candidate, advocates publication of
school books by the State, to be sold at
coat: the lease of the State road, with
a graduated increase in rental annual
ly; double trackage, and taxation in the
counties through which the line passes;
betterment of industrial schools and re
formatories. and prompt pay of public
school teachers
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
Gary to Have Woman
Head of Police Force
GARY, INP.. Dec 16.— Mrs. Kate
Woods Ray. a suffrage leader, to-day
was appointed a member of the board
of public safety by Mayor Knotts. The
other two members of the hoard have
promised to elect her president. She
will be the only woman head of a met
ropolitan police fores 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. 16.—Three wholesale
and two retail near-beer dealers were
indicted here by the grand Jury on the
charge of violating the 8tate prohibition
law.
The wholesalers were the Acme Brew
ing Company. C. C. Porter and Ike
Bashlnsky. The retail dealers were Ed
Loh and the Hotel Dempsey.
Church Laid in Ashes
By Arsonette Band
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 16.—St. Ann’s
Episcopal Church at Aigburth was
to-day destroyed by an Incendiary
fir© set by suffragettes. The damage
was extensive.
A number of suffrage leaflets were
found about the ruins.
FIQHT8 THIEF OF POOR.
JOLIET, ILL., Dec. 16.—Heeing a man
armed with a long knife robbing the
poor box In St. Mary”s Church, Father
J. O. Murray, the rector, fought for an
hour with the thief. The priest was
sitting on his captive whsn the police
arrived. * ;
Dll LEAGUE
WEE SEAL SELLER IS
ONE OF “PACEMAKERS'
Wallie Mayer Risks Life Rescu
ing Children From Tenement.
Two Perish in Blaze.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 16—Two per-
sons perished in an incendiary fir©
which to-day destroyed the old West
End Turner Hall, 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 these may die.
The first body removed was that of
C. W. Sundell, 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 smokt-fliled 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.
A dozen persons were taken from
the burning structure suffering from
semi-suffocation. Some of these are
still unconscious in the hospital.
The basement of the building was
used for stabling twelve horses. All
of these perished. There were also
rags and paper collected by the Sal
vation Army wagons to be sorted and
baled in the basement. This made
excellent fuel for the flames.
The first floor was used for a work
room and offices. On the second floor
was the chapel, dining room and
library. The two upper floors were
used for lodgers.
While the flames were in progress
the firemen could hear a canary sing
ing in the building. Several dogs
were found on the upper floors. They
followed rescue * parties into the
street. The structure, it was said,
had been condemned by the city
building department.
N.C.&St.L.Ry.Head
Dying of Pneumonia
NASHVILLE, Dec 16—John W.
Thomas. Jr., president of the Nashville
Chattanooga and St. Louis Hallway, who
has been 111 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.
Hotel Head Drops
Dead in Elevator
MACON, Dec. 16.—C. W. Brown, Jr.,
receiver for the Hotel l^anier, 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 wltli the Kimball
House In Atlanta.
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 S
miles from Zebulon.
While her mother was preparing a
meal she went to her room, took car
bolic acid and was dead tn a few min
utes. No cause is known for the deed
INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATE.
MACON, Dec. 16.—Furman College,
at Greenville, S. C., and Mercer Uni
versity will engage in an oratorical
contest on Monday, April 13, at Green
ville, thus renewing the intercollegiate
debate between the two institution*
Miss Jeannette
Samuels, who
is one of the
most enthusias
tic and most
successful
Christmas seal
sellers.
Jeannette Samuhls Isn’t Quite 8
Years Old Yet, but She Is a
Little Hustler.
Diminutive Miss Jeannette Sam
uels, who confesses that she isn't
quite 8 years old yet. has the pluck
and vim to be a winner at almost
anything she undertakes,
Rome time ago this tiny miss decid
ed she wanted one of the pretty Shet
land ponies offered by The Georgian
for special work. She w'ent at it with
such enthusiasm and vim that she
won the pony ail right, and received
the hearty congratulations of all her
friends.
So the Red Cross Christmas seal
workers were more than fortunate to
enlist the sympathy and the help of
Miss Jeannette, who lives at No. 301
South Pryor street.
Up ot yesterday she had sold among
her friends $6 worth of the insignias.
Yesterday afternoon, after school was
over for the day and she had had her
lunch, Miss Jeannette reported at the
Piedmont to Mrs. Leo Grossman,
chairman for the day, and said she
was ready to go to work.
”1 am going to sell heaps and heaps
of the seals before supper time,” she
said. And she did sell hundreds of
them. How could anyone resist this
pretty child, with her appealing face
and soft voice?
The sale of the seals is going on
apace, and with every promise of
reaching the mark set for this city—
one million. Mrs Leo Grossman did
flne work Monday, beginning the
week with sales that sent the marker
on the thermometer up some dis
tance toward the desired goal.
For the balance of the time the sale
of the *eals will be pushed vigor
ously, each new chairman striving to
set a new record. This spirit is ac
complishing wonders in bringing suc
cess in the movement.
While the sales are going forward
so briskly In Atlanta, the suburban
points are not being neglected. Mrs.
Alonso Richardson, president of the
Woman’s Club of College Park, has
charge of the work In East Point, Col
lege Park and Hapeville. and so far
her reports are very gratifying.
Work is being done also in other
suburbs, and all of this will go
swell the grand total for Atlanta,
since it will be counted into Atlanta
mill,
BIFFS' I USE
WAYNESBORO, Dec. 16.—George
and William Hart and Robert Pas-
chall, the three negroes held for the
murder of Mrs. Seth Irby, near Wrens
yesterday afternoon, escaped mob vio
lence last night by a ruse worked by
the Sheriffs of Jefferson and Burke
Counties.
The negroes first were carried
from Louisville to Waynesboro, where
a mob quickly formed, and the mili
tia was called out to avert a lynch
ing. The Sheriffs then hid the ne
groes In the woods and spirited them
to Augusta early this morning
Mob Surrounds Jail.
It was thought the negroes would
be safe in the Burke County jail here,
but stories of the unusually brutal
nature of the crime with which they
are charged, brought In after the ar
rival of the Sheriff and his prisoners,
led to threats of violence, which
caused the local officers to spirit the
negroes to Augusta in an automo
bile
The local company got to the Jail in
record time after a message from the
Governor's office ordered the militia
on duty. The building was already
surrounded by an angry crowd, com
posed largely of men from Jefferson
County, where the crime was com
mitted.
Woman Brutally Sla'n.
The crime with which ttte negroes
are charged was committed yesterday
afternoon above Wrens, near the
Glascock County line, where three
negroes went to the house of Seth
Irby, a white man, attacked his wife,
cut her head from her shoulders and
beat it into a pulp.
When Irby returned home from a
visit he had made to a neighbor neai*
by, he found his family of small chil
dren covered up in bed, badly fright
ened, and the headless body of his
wife lying on (.ho floor.
LANT’ Blf
Each Side in Appeal Fight Makes
Accusations That the Other Is
Distorting Evidence.
The Supreme Court of Georgia
Tuesday put a summary check
upon a verbal passage at arms
between Solicitor Dorsey and Lu
ther r A. Rosser, chief of counsel
for Leo M. Frank. The court
cautioned the lawyers that there,
was no occasion for any squabble
over the evidece, as the justices
proposed to go over the brief
most thoroughly before a deci
sion would be reached.
Excitement also was lent to Tues
day’s hearing on the appeal for u
new trial by DoTsey’s repetition of
the charge that Frank or his friends
deliberately had engineered a “plant’’
against Newt Lee hy secreting a
bloody shirt at the negro’s house.
Dorsey was commenting upon the
testimony of Miss Hattie Hall, a
stenographer at Montag Bros., when
the ruction between the opposing law
yers was threatened.
Dorsey Attacks Testimony.
The Solicitor remarked that it was
“very, very strange” that Miss Hall at
the Coroner’s Inquest should swear
that she had helped Frank on the
financial sheet the morning of the
Saturday that Mary Phagan was
murdered, and then, at the trial, when
it became necessary for the defense
to establish that Frank did the work
on the financial sheet Saturday aft
ernoon. and not Saturday morning,
that she was mistaken and that she
never had seen the financial sheet at
all.
There was a buzz of whispered pro
test among Flank’s lawyers and after
a moment’s hurried search through
the brief of evidence, Attorney Ros
ser arose indignantly to make objec
tion.
Presiding Justice Beverly D. Evans
cut the lawyer shgrt before he could
clash with the State’s attorney.
“There is no necessity for an objec
tion, Mr. Rosser,” he said. “You can
interpret the evidence as you under
stand it when you present your argu
ment. The court will ready every
line of the evidence so there will be
no opportunity for the justice* to be
under a misapprehension as to ex
actly what was testified at the trial.’’
But this wa3 such a flagrant mis
statement of the facts and the evi
dence,” persisted Attorney Rosser,
“that I couldn’t let it pass without
calling it to your honor’s attention.*’
Dorsey Makes Retort.
Dorsey resumed his address with
the spirited remark that he was cer
tain of his ground; that he had
checked up on all the evidence and
that he had quoted it substantially as
it was in every instance.
“Talk about twisting and contort
ing,” he said, “I want to say their
brief of argument is most misleading
and unfair. I ask that your honor
stay close to the brief of evidence
and see exactly what the witnesses
had to say.”
Continuing his argument, the So
licitor presented a graphic portrayal
of what the State believed Frank had
done at the factory on the Saturday
afternoon Mary Phagan was slain
"No. Frank wasn’t working on the
financial sheet,” he declared. “He had
other work to do. By one of the de
fense’s own witnesses, in addition to
Miss Hall, we established that Frank
always made out the lnancial sheet
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