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. — ^ricv - immm OVER 100,000 THE SUNDAY AMERICAN'S Set PAID CIRCULATION ftc National Southern Sunday Newspaper The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results EVENING EDITION VOL. XII. NO. 117. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1913. 2 CENTS. p more° OURT HALTS FRANK TRIAL CLASH C&) C&3 C&) C$3 WAVERS ORDERS NEW LIQUOR RAIDS F 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 L 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 Continued on Pago 2, Column 2«