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The Atlanta Georgian
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VOL. XII. NO. 117.
ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY, DELE MB EH 17. 1913
Copyright. 1906,
By The Georgian Co.
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1,000 Quarts of Whisky Seized in
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CHIEF OPENS
SWEEPING
CRUSADE
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
itlnr*freight depot, at the foot of
: ; .ring street, by detectives Tuesday
| af rnoon consigned to Will Strong,
a otorious negro blind tiger keeper,
fn wing the order of Chief Beavers
for 1 'keeping crusade against the il
licit sale of liquor.
Officiate of the Western and Atlan-
immediately were notified by the
-..dice to hold the whisky pending a
•h'>rnugh investigation of the origin
|-t the shipment and its intended use
in Atlanta. Strong was placed und»r
| . will be arraigned for trial
iefore Recorder Broyles Tuesday aft
ernoon, charged with operating a
I blind tiger.
The negro has been tried repeated-
y nn blind tiger charges, particularly
when he was the proprietor of the old
Vendome Hotel in Ivy street, a notori.
ous resort.
Recorder Scores Clubs.
That Recorder Broyles is working
n harmony with the action of the
I ;olice was shown by his severe ar-
I raignment of the locker clubs in the
use of J. W. Durden, a young medi
cal student, who was tried Tuesday
| for disorderly conduct.
Young Durden was arrested after
e had broken into the Girls’ High
School. Washington and Mitchell
I streets. Monday night. He had un
dressed, and, leaving his clothing in
he building, proceeded to his home
at No. 151 Capitol avenue, clad only
I in a blanket
Letters found afterward in the
lothing identified its owner and Dur-
cn was arrested. Before Recorder
| Hroyles he pleaded intoxication and
declared that he had purchased the
Quor in a locker club of which he
| was not a member.
"They must have served some aw-
| ‘ il stuff up there,” said the Recorder,
to have had such an effect on you.
Bnese miserable locker clubs that dish
ut poison to young men should be
| severely dealt with.”
T>Y M. Slaton, Superintendent of
>ohool8, appeared in court to make a
P^a of clemency for Durden. On this
,ea > the .‘rtudent was fined only $15.75
| a nd warned to refrain from further
'• isits to locker clubs.
Lanford Opens Crusade,
hief Lanford declared that the
Jn ; s conducted on the locker clubs
••londay is but a forerunner of a cam-
‘aign of watchfulness that will in-
1 ‘•'■He every dub in the city, from the
i.ighest to the lowest.
■ nc seven managers of locker clubs
j w v re arrested Monday afternoon
P anning a vigorous fight against
‘•vidence that will be submitted
' • 1 hief, who personally accom-
68 Moon and Patrick
1 1 The club men have ea-
- - c aumneys and declare that they
rr - their fight to the highest
n he State before they admit
j th eir defeat.
e have tried to conduct the
a " r ding to the law,” said one
I uesday, “and so far as we
A >s “ have done it. If any person
bar. a member has sought liq-
haa been without our knowl
edge."
T- R, to Start After
Beasts of Jungle
Cab,e to The Atlanta Georgian.
MBA, BRAZIL, Dec. 16.—
Roosevelt and his party ar-
“* re to-day from Porto Mur-
n board a Paraguayan gun-
f ‘ y "’ll leave shortly for the
’ hunting expedition. A
greeted the party when
The
Probe of Banquet
Is Laid to Pique of
Secretary Daniels
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—That
either Secretary of the Navy Dan
iels, Postmaster General Burleson or
Secretary of Commerce Redfleld
“peached” to the President concern
ing the happenings at the Carabao
banquet Thursday night, resulting .n
the investigation ordered by the Pres
ident. who was piqued by the satire
and songs at the feast ridiculing his
Philippine policy, is the current gos
sip among army and navy officers to
day.
The story is that Secretary Danieis
became irritated after he had made
a speech at the banquet because it
wa* not as well received as a speech
made by Representative Kahn, of Cal
ifornia. Daniels left the dinner to at
tend a reception o« the Congressional
Club. Meanwhile certain “stunts”
were enacted, among them being the
“Damn, Damn, Damn, the lnsurrec-
tos” song, which, it is asserted,
aroused Mr. Daniels' ire. Following
this number, moving pictures were
shown, which, it is said, reflected on
the Administration’s Philippine pol
icy. Redfleld and Burleson, it is as
serted, expressed their condemnation
and shortly thereafter left the ban
quet.
Ex-Southern Leaguer
Saves EightFromFire
CINCINNATI, Dec. 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 Deague baseball club and
formerly star catcher of the Bir
mingham Southern Deague club, who
risked his life in saving eight chil
dren in a smoke-Ailed tenement house
next door, to which the Aarnes had
communicated.
W. McE. Johnston,
Of Macon, Is Dead
MACON, Dec. 16.—William MeEwen
Johnston, probably Macon’s wealthiest
citizen, died to-day after an illness of
several weeks as the result of paraly
sis. He was 64 ye&rs of age.
Mr, Johnston came to Macon from
New York about 25 years ago, but he
was bom and reared in Tennessee. In
New York he was associated in Wall
street with his uncle, the late Richard
Wilson, and there made a fortune. He
was vice president of the American Na
tional Bank of Macon, and largely in
terested in other enterprrses.
J. C. Roberts, Pardoned, Relates
New Horrors—Hearst Papers
With Exposes Ruled Out.
Wilson Has Reversed
Lever, Says Uncle Joe
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16 —“President
Wilson reversed the lever, the Demo
cratic Congress 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.
Church Laid in Ashes ™
By Arsonette Band
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
DIVERPOOD, Dec. 16.—St. Ann's
Episcopal Church at Aigburth was
to-day destroyed by an incendiary
Are set by suffragettes. The damage
was extensive.
A number of suffrage leaflets were
found about the ruins.
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,
led by agitators preaching “death to
foreigners,” are burning Isolated vll-
William H. Moyer, warden of the
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, ha»
barred from that institution all news
papers containing articles written by
Julian Hawthorne, who begins the
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
by John C. Roberts, who was released
from the prison Monday afternoon,
pardoned after serving flve years.
“The order was Issued some time
yesterday,” said Roberts. “I learned
of it through one of the convicts who
works in the office. He came to me
and asked me if T 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 has 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 a 1!
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
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 111 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
forced to 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
horn 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 off
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 beating his fits gr*»w worse.
“I found enough concentrated lye
in my milk on September 7, 1912, to
HOT TILT
Bitter Personal Attacks Viewed by
Politicians as Indications of
Mayoralty Fight.
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STREET FAIR TAX RAISED.
GADSDEN. ALA., Dec. 16.—In the li
cense schedule adopted for 1914 street
fairs were raised from $100 to $500 a
year and electric light companies from
k $500 to $600. [
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 office of Mayor of Atlanta
next year intensifies the 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
Woodwaxd Monday and urged an ap
propriation of $500 to open the doors
of the Child’s Welfare Exhibit
week 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 whether
the appropriation could be made le
gally.
When he said 1t 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 Candler 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 ofT the crematory contract and
It would do the same to 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 $600 for the children
and mothers of Atlanta, aren’t they?
Score* Spratling, Too.
“As for Alderman Spratling. 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
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 way* than
one. He 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; but 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 epposed to establishing a prece
dent for appropriating money illegal
ly, no matter how good the cause
“As to former conduct. I’ll compare
records with Jim Woodward any
time.
"If there has ever been an ffcsue
when he did not stand for the worst
interests nf this city I don’t know
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, Dunford 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 *iis
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
Hambrick 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 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.
U. S. Radium Wasted,
Says Federal Report
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16 Deposits of
City Electrician’s
Pay To Be Raised;
No Protest Made
While Council did not hear the^'graft”
probe report on City EIectrieian*Turner
Monday, it raised the salary of the office
from $1.80 Oto $2,400 a year, beginning
January 1, 1916. 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 ItR 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 Alde.rmanlc Board.
N. C.&St.L.Ry.Head
radium-bearing minerals In the I'nlted i rv • P P^nnmnniO
States are being rapidly depleted by j UVlDii Ul I Ilty 11IJ10II Id;
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 was shipped to Europe in
1912 carnotite ores values commercially
at $792,000.
‘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
7.360 reservations for tables have been
ma/la
NASHVILLE. De< 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
wogse and his death is expected within
a few hours
Mr. Thomas has pleural pneumonia.
Gary to Have Woman
Head of Police Force
GARY, IND., 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 board have,
promised to elect her president. She
will he the only woman head of a met
ropolitan police force in the United
States. __
Pretty Marie Freeman, an amateur
actress.of no mean ability, has 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. D. 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 WinecofY, 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.
Harrell was delighted to give his
assent.
Immediately Miss Freeman donned
the 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
WASHINGTON. Dec 16.—Presi
dent Wilson to-day has practically
re p tvered from his attack of grip. He
cancelled his engagements for to-day,
however, with the exception of a brief
Cabinet meeting held in the Presi
dent’s library In the mansion and not
in the executive offices.
Dr. Grayson desires the President
to stay within doors for at least an
other day so as to forestall any
chance of a relapse.
A third time within less than
four months the fate of Leo M.
Frank hangs in the balance. Ar
guments in the appeal for a new
trial were concluded Tuesday be
fore the Supreme Court by an
eloquent and scathing address by
Lnfcber Z. Rosser, chief of coun
sel for the convicted man. When
adjournment was taken at 1
o’clock by Justices Atkinson,
Evans and Hill the case was in
their hands for consideration.
Frank and his friends first awaited
the 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
after the arguments for a new trial
had been presented before Judge Roan
in the week between October 22 and
29. His unfavorable ruling Octobei
31 put the case up to the Supreme
Court.
Virtually Last Stand.
The fight which was concluded
Tuesday is regarded as virtually the
last stand of the defense, as the seal
of the Supreme Court’s unanimous
approval on the verdict of the jury
and the 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 hearing
on Frank’s alleged immorality and
perversion was introduced for the sole
purpose of obtaining Frank’s convic
tion on the charge of murder and not
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, “hut 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 soon as all that filth was al
lowed to come from the lying lips of
Conley and Dalton, the Jury, of course,
said right away that if he was guilty
of these terrible things, he must
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 the
assertion that this was entirely prop
er and legal argument. I suspect that
no Attorney General ever made such
a statement before in the court of
last resort.
“Let us see if it is proper. The
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,
we are proscribed by the law from
placing her on the stand. If we could
place her on the stand, she would not
be permitted to tell whether she re
garded her husband as guilty or in
nocent; that would be a mej-e con
clusion.
“Yet the Solicitor by his argument
virtually places her on the stand and
makes her say: ‘I have a conscious-
ness that my husband is guilty of the
murder of Mary Phagan.’
“And the Attorney General of the
State comes here and says that it is
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