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1 • % 4 EXTRA The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 117. ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY, DELE MB EH 17. 1913 Copyright. 1906, By The Georgian Co. bay no J *' 1 MORE EXTRA FRANK'S FATE WITH SUPREME COURT JUDGES K3 C*3 K<3 1X0 CXO KO CXO (XO KO Hawthorne Articles Barred From Federal Prison Society Girl Works Day as Hotel Maid w V . CfV, cl 5*5 c*5 s 53 1,000 Quarts of Whisky Seized in ,",rnmnb**** CRUELTY TO MAYOR AND r 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. Continued on Page 7, Column 3. 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 Continued on Page 6, Column