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1 V I I ■ V ■ OVER 100,000 THE SUNDAY AMERICAN'S NET PAID CIRCULATION The National Southern Sunday Newspaper The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANl ADS—Use for Results VOL. XI1. NO. 117. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 19115. Copyright. 1906. <) prVTQ PAY NO By The Georgian Co. - ' I . \ L O. MOUJ3 EXTRA HOME EDITION FRANK’S FATE WITH SUPREME COURT JUDGES l*3 C*3 C*3 CXKJ C*3 C*3 Hawthorne Articles Barred From Federal Prison Society Girl Works Day as Hotel Maid CrtS <v sv 1,000 Quarts of Whisky Seized in Tigers' Ex-Southern League Star Rescues Eight j Children From Fire With Seven Managers Under Ar rest, Warning Is Issued to Locker Clubs. More than 1,000 quarts of whisky were discovered at the Western and Atlantic freight depot, at the foot of Spring street, by detectives Tuesday afternoon consigned to Will Strong, a notorious negro blind tiger keeper, following the order of Chief Beavers or a sweeping crusade against the il licit sale of liquor. Officials of the Western and Atlan tic immediately were notified by the police to hold the whisky pending a thorough investigation of the of the shipment and its intended use in Atlanta. Strong was placed und3r arrest and will be arraigned for trial before Recorder Broyles Tuesday aft ernoon charged with operating a blind tiger. The negro has been tried repeated - on blind tiger charges, particularly when he was the proprietor of the old Yendome Hotel in Ivy street, a notori ous resort, -v Recorder Scores Clubs. 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 ase of J W. Durden, a young medi al student, who was tried Tuesday for disorderly conduct. Young Durden was arrested after ae had broken into the Girls’ High School. Washington and Mitchell street?. Monday night. He had un dressed, and, leaving his clothing in the building, proceeded to his home at No. 151 Capitol avenue, clad only in a blanket Letters found afterward in the clothing identified its owner and Dur den was arrested. Before Recorder Broyles he pleaded intoxication and declared that lie had purchased the liquor in a locker club of which he was not a member. "They must have served some aw ful stuff up there,” said the Recorder, "to have had such an effect on you. Tiies*' miserable locker clubs that dish "Ui poison to young men should be severely dealt, with.” W M. Slaton, Superintendent of Schools, appeared in court to make a piea of clemency for Durden. On this plea, ihe student was fined only $15.75 *nd warned to refrain from further v '-sits to locker clubs. Lanford Opens Crusade. ' hief Lanford declared that the raids conducted on the locker clubs Monday is* hut a forerunner of a cam paign of watchfulness that will in clude every club in the city, from the highest to the lowest. The -■ ven managers of locker clubs "ho w« v. arrested Monday afternoon * re planning a vigorous fight against evidence that will be submitted h Lie C hief, who personally aceom- Puiied Detectives Moon and Patrick n the raids. The club men have en- A attorneys and declare that they ' *rr\ their tight to the highest uurt In the State before they admit their defeat. ^ l e have tried to conduct the : ; ii)s cording to the law,” said one ■ hem Tuesday, ‘ and so far as we now we have done it. If any person L*-r than a member has sought liq- r a> been without our knowl edge." CINCINNATI, Dev. 16.—Two per sons perished in an incendiary fire 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 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. CRUELTY TOMAYQR AND L DOT TILT I J. C. Roberts, Pardoned, Relates Bitter Personal Attacks Viewed by W. McE. Johnston, Of Macon, Is Dead MACON, Dec. 16.—William McEwen Johnston, probably Macon’s wealthiest citizen, died to-day after an illness of several weeks as the result of paraly sis. He was 64 years of age origin j Mr. Johnston came to Macon from New’ York about 25 years ago, but he was born and reared in Tennessee. In New York lie was associated in Wall street with his uncle, the late Richard New Horrors—Hearst Papers With Exposes Ruled Out. William H. Moyer, warden of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, has barred from that institution all news papers containing articles written by Julian Hawthorne, who begins tl\e story of his life in the local peniten tiary in next Sunday’s American, ac cording to a story told The Georgian and United States District Attorney Hooper Alexander Tuesday morning b> John O. Roberts, who was released from the prison Monday afternoon, pardoned after serving five years. “The order was issued some time yesterday,” said Roberts. “I learned of it through one of the convicts who Wilson, and there made a fortune. He I works in the office. He came to me was vice president of the American Na tional Bank of Macon, and largely in terested in other enterprises. \ Wilson Has Reversed Lever, Says Uncle Joe WASHINGTON, Dev. 16.-"President Wilson reversed the lever, the Demo cratic CongTess followed his direction. This reversal has so slackened business that in many places it has almost stopped.” “Uncle Joe” Cannon in this fashion described conditions in the country, putting the blame squarely on the Dem ocrats. “All business, big and little, was go ing ahead when this administration be gan.” he added. Covent Garden Sold; Biggest London Deal Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, Dec. 16.—The biggest real estate deal in the history of Lon don took place to-day when Walleb> Deeply, M. P., bought the whole of the Duke of Bedford’s Covent Gar den estate for a price which is said to exceed $15,000,000. The parcel is fifteen acres in extent and includes the Market Opera House. T. R. to Start After Rome Potters' Field Claims U, S. Sculptor Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. ROME, Dec. 16.—Franklin Simmons, the famous American sculptor, who died in the Hotel D’ltalie Wednesday, was buried in the potters' field. Mr Simmons died suddenly while taking a hot bath in the hotel. He was not known to the proprietor, and his identity was not discovered until the body had been committed to the pauper burial grounds. Church Laid in Ashes By Arsonette Band Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LIVERPOOL, Dee. lb.—St. Anns Episcopal Church at Aigburti) was to-day destroyed by an incendiary fire set by sulfragettes. The damage was extensive. A number of suffrage leaflet." were found about the ruins. Tired of Foreigners, Beasts of Jungle! Chinese Burn Towns Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. 'Rl MBA. BRAZIL. Dec. 16.— ot Roosevelt a*nd his party ar- to-da> from Porto Mur- '•oard h Paraguayan gun- ,,Pv will leave shortly for the j of nat ivrs have ; a unting expedition. A j by agitator." : pf»ed ;’*p pari y ^ mi j for< ?:•<- ' lages and asked me if I wouldn’t try to get someone to make the warden let the papers come in, because every man of the 900 confined there wants to read what Hawthorne hap written. And Warden Moyer is afraid to let them do it, because he knows as well as they do that Hawthorne will write the truth, and that the truth would not be very flattering to him.” Trying to Bar Hearst Papers. Roberts declared also that it is well understood among the prisoners that Warden Moyer is seeking to bar all Hearst papers from the prison be cause of the stand they have taken in the fight for reform and for an in vestigation of the prison. “He did bar The Georgian and The Sunday American once,” said Rob erts, “but the superintendent of pris ons came down the same day and made him rescind- the order. He told the warden that he must not attempt I to bar any papers from the prison. | We have noticed, however, that copies of The Georgian are awfully hard to get. and especially when they con tain a story of the ill treatment the men are forced to undergo.” Roberts spent more than an hour in the office of the United States Dis trict Attorney with Mr. Alexander Tuesday morning, and made formal complaint against Warden Moyer's conduct of the prison. He told sto ries of the hardships the men are force dto undergo, and charged that Warden Moyer each evening sells to the surrounding neighborhood bread baked in the prison bakeshops by the prisoners, underselling the union bakeshops and bread dealers of At lanta and disposing of extra large loaves for 4 cents each. Lye in His Milk. Roberts also told Mr. Alexander of finding concentrated lye in the milk that was served to him in his cell, and of another man who drank a cup of coffee that contained the lye and had to be operated upon, narrowly es caping death. He told of a man named Kennedy, who has fits' and of whom Julian Hawthorne has told, being put in the “hole” and shackled to the wall, the guards not even taking him down when a fit came upon him. “Kennedy has been in the hole oc and on for more than three weeks,” said Roberts. “He told me they chained him up like a wild beast, and he was forced to writhe in the ago nies of his fits while shackled to, the walls. Kennedy is the man who was beaten over the head by guards until the doctors told them to quit, and after the healing his fits grew worse. • I found enough concentrated lye in my milk on September 7, 1912, to Continued on Page 7, Column 3. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. )XG. Dec. 16.—Many foreign in peril from a revolt !hina. British offi- to-day that hundreds •med themselves, and. preach 1 ng dea'L “ HONG I missionaries are in Southeastern 1 cials w ere notifie* THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Fair Tuesday and I Wednesday Politicians as Indications of Mayoralty Fight. Bitter personal attacks on each other over policies of municipal ad ministration were made by Alderman John S. Candler and Mayor Wood ward Tuesday which are interpreted by many as probable issues of the coming mayoralty election. The fact that political experts pick these two to be the final contenders for the oftfve of Mayor of Atlanta next year intensifies lie color of their lucid diction and sharp re joinders. Of their numerous and feeling “respects” the exchanges on Tuesday carry the weightiest sig nificance. It is unusual that such an ordinary procedure should .have suddenly de veloped such a tempest. A delegation of women and men called on Mayor Woodward Monday and urged an ap propriation of $500 to open the doors of the Child's Welfare Exhibit this weea without admission. Ashley Introduces Ordinance. At Mayor Woodward’s request Councilman Claude L. Ashley intro duced a resolution providing for the money at the meeting of General Council and it passed the lower branch. When it reached the Alder- manic Board, Aldermen F. J. Sprat- ling and J. W. Maddox objected to it. While they were arguing Alderman Candler called on City Attorney James L. Mayson for a ruling as to w hether the appropriation could be made le gally. When he said it could not Mayor Pro Tern Warren ruled the motion to pass the appropriation out of order, and no vote was taken. Reports were circulated that the action of the Aldermanic Board was a personal thrust at Mayor Woodward. Anyway, Mayor Woodward made it personal. He said: “If Alderman Candier had been so particular about conforming to the law when, as Acting Mayor last year, he approved the crematory contract for $376,000 and the fire alarm con tract for $106,000, he would have saved the city thousands of dollars. “The Supreme Court knocked the spots off the crematory contract and it would do the same tp the fire alarm contract If it should ever have occa sion to pass on it. “In view of this, he and Attorney Mayson are a fine pair to stop an appropriation of $500 for the children and mothers of Atlanta, aren't they? Scores Spratiing, Too. "As for Alderman Spratiing. he’s another fine specimen. The public will remember that he is the Aider- man who borrowed hundreds of dol lars from near-beer dealers and J brewers' agents* when he was slated to be chairman of the Police Com- | mittee under Mayor Winn. The Po lice Committee controls the beer sa loons of the city and the beer people were glad to lend him the money, of course. “This thing is a sample of what the people may expect from that bunch.” Tf Mayor Woodward was displeased Alderman Candler was more so. “Mayor Woodward’s statement speaks for itself in more ways than one. lie is always ready to violate the law when it suits his purpose. “The Child’s Welfare Exhibit is a fine thing. So are the churches of Atlanta and the private hospitals fine things; hut we can’t legally appro priate money to them. He’s Ready to Compare Records. “We were about to establish a prec edent yesterday that might have caused much trouble in the future. I would have liked to have helped the Child’s Welfare Exhibit, but I had to be opposed to establishing a prece dent for appropriating money illegal ly, no matter how good the cause. “As to former conduct. I'll compare re ,. or f!* with Jim Woodward any time “IT t iere has ever been an issue a pn he did !*«•• s and for the worst nmesl* < f i - I tv l don’t know a hen ii «««" — Miss Marie Freeman, snapped as she worked as maid to get idea of how a stage maid should act. \ fiSSSs ry h Platonic Marriage Agreement Fails; Divorce Is Sought Asserting that he had found it Im possible to live under the same roof with his wife. despite the fact that they had agreed so to live on a purely platonic basis, J. W, Dun ford Tues day filed a second petition for di vorce in the Superior Court against Mrs. Nanny Dunford. The petition states that Dunford filed suit several years ago, but that it was withdrawn after he and ’lis wife had reached the platonic agree ment. He charged cruel treatment in his first petition, and in the second one charges that even under the agreement the cruelties continued. Mrs. Dunford was Mrs. Nanny Hamhrick prior to her marriage to Dunford. 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 ma*le 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. U. S. Radium Wasted, Says Federal Report WASHINGTON. Dec. 16 Deposits of | radium-bearing minerals In the United J States are being rapidly depleted by I wasteful exploitation, chiefly for the benefit of foreign markets, says a re port Issued by the Bureau of Mines. From Colorado and Utah, said to pos sess the most important radium-bear ing deposits in the world, the report said, there w r as shipped to Europe in 1912 earnotite ores values commercially at $792,000. \ City Electrician’s Pay To Be Raised; No Protest Made While Council did not hear ihe "graft” probe report on City Electrician Turner Monday, it raised the salary of the office from $1.80 Oto $2,400 a year, beginning .January J, 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 Uontrol and the Council Committee on Electric Lights, will make its report at the next meet ing. but the fact that the raise in Ihe 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. 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 111 at his home here for some weeks, has taken a sudden turn for the w«*rse and his death is expected within a few hours. • Mr. Thomas has pleural pneumonia ‘Biggest Night Ever' Gary to Have Woman Planned in Chicago Head of Police Force Pretty Marie Freeman, an amateur actress of no mean ability, lias Solved the problem of how to act. Miss Freeman, who lives at No. 148 West Tenth street, will play the part of the maid in the S. V. I), society vaudeville entertainment for the benefit of the Home for the Blind at the Atlanta Theater Wednesday night. The problem then with Miss Free man was “how to act like a maid.” The answer was easy: “Why, I will just go and be one for a while,” she said, and she, did. Tuesday morning Manager Frank Harrell, of the Hotel Winecoff. re ceived the surprise of his life. It was in the form of a telephone in quiry from Miss Freeman to know if he desired the services of a maid for a day. When the object of this inquiry was explained to him, however, Mr. Harffell was delighted to give his assent. Immediately Miss Freeman donned he costume which she will use in the play Wednesday night and repaired to the Winecoff, where throughout the greater part of the day she pursued the duties of a regular maid. President, Better, Meets His Cabinet CHICAGO. Dec. 16. Mayor Harrison to-day announced that he would not or der cafes to close 1 o’clock on New Year s morning, as in former years. GARY. JND.. 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 Managers of the lai g**st restaurants j other two members of r tie board the loop district predict the gear night over.” In eleven loop 7..J50 reserva'ion* for <.»oics have made promised will he the ropolitan i te*. to elect her inly womai presld head Do 16.—Presi- has practically ttack of grip. He WASHINGTON, dent Wilson to-ua recovered from his i cancelled his engagements for to-<lay, however, with the exception of .t brief Cabinet meeting held In the Presi dent’s library in the mansion and not in the executive offices. Dr. Grayron de ires Pres id Mil. sta> v\ : nn for A third time within less than four months the fate of Leo M. Frank hangs in the balance. Ar- truments in the appeal for a new trial were concluded Tuesday be fore the Supreme (-ourt by an eloquent and southing address by Luther Z. Rosser, chief of coun sel for the convicted man. When adjournment was taken at 1 o’clock by Justices Atkinson, Kvans and Hill the ease was in their hands for consideration. Frank and his friends first awaited Ihe outcome of the.charges of murder against him on August 25 after Judge Roan had charged the twelve jurors In the case. A decision was longer in coming ifte- the arguments for a new trial had been presented before Judge Roan in the week between October 22 and i'J. His unfavorable ruling Octobei 11 put the "case up to the Supremo Court. Virtually Last Stand. The fight which was concluded Tuesday is regarded as virtually tlm last stand of the defense, as the seal of the Supreme Court’s unanimous approval on the verdict of the jury and tin* subsequent decision of Judge Roan will make it most difficult to ob tain anything beyond a temporary respite from the Federal courts or the Governor of the State. Tuesday was occupied in the con clusion of Solicitor Dorsey’s argu ment and by arguments by Attorney Rosser and Attorney General Felder. Rosser attacked savagely the attitude of the Attorney General and the So licitor in Their persistence in the ad missibility of all the evidence that went before the jury that convicted Frank and in their contention that nothing improper was done by the State in obtaining evidence. Frank's lawyers charged that the entire bulk of the testimony bearing on Frank’s alleged Immorality and perversion was introduced for the solo purpose of obtaining Frank’s convic tion on the charge of murder and nor because it had any actual relevancy to the crime of which Frank was ac cused. “That jury may have thought they were writing ’guilty of murder,’ you - * honors,” he said, “but what they wrote in reality was ‘guilty of perversion, guilty of immorality, guilty of the thousand and one suspicions that the Solicitor directed against the defend ant.’ "As feoon as all that filth was al lowed to come from the lying lips of ( on ley and Dalton, the Jury, of course, said right away that If he was guilty of these terrible things, he must bo guilty of murder, and so they rendered their verdict.” Attacks Felder’s Argument. Attacking Attorney General Fel der’s support of the Solicitor’s argu ment that Mrs. Frank’s failure to visit her husband at the jail was an indication of her consciousness of his guilt, Rosser said: “The Attorney General ventures tht» assertion that this was entireh prop er and legal argument. I suspect that no Attorney General ever made suph/ a statement before in the court last resort. “Let us see if it is proper. Tho Solicitor by his argument virtually makes the wife take the stand and testify as to her consciousness of her husband’s guilt or innocence* /Now. w«* ire proscribed by the law from placing her on the stand. If we could place her on the stand, she would nor. he permitted to tell whether she re garded her husband as guilty or in nocent: that would be a mere con clusion. "Yet the Solicitor by his argument, virtually places her on the stand and makes her srav: ‘I have a conscious ness that my husband is guilty of th*> murder of Mary F’hagan.’ "And the Attorney General of tin* State comes here and says that it i* Continued on Page 7, Column 1.