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VOL. XII. NO. 120.
ATLANTA. UA., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 1*0. 1910.
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MAYOR VETOES NEW SMOKE LAW
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FRANK LAWYERS REOPEN ATTACK ON DORSEY
CHAMP CLARK GRILLS
CALAMITY HOWLERS
OF FACTS IS
Solicitor's Statement as to Time
Slip Taken From Factory Is
Vigorously Assailed.
Attorneys for Leo M. Frank an
nounced Friday that they were en
gaged in the preparation of a supple
mental brief, in which they proposed
to call to the attention of the Supreme
'ourt of Georgia portions of Solicitor
leneral Dorsey’s argument and%brief.
vhich, they assert, are filled 'with
glaring misstatements and misrepre
sentations.
One of the statements of the Solici
tor which the defense is attacking
most vigorously in its supplemental
brief is in reference to the time slip
iaken out of the clock by Frank the
morning after the murder of Mary
Phagan in the National Pencil Fac
tory.
The Solicitor claimed that this time
slip never reached tho hands of the
authorities, and that another had been
substitued for it with three punches
missing in order to throw' suspicion
on Newt Lee, the night watchman.
Prank’s counsel insist in the brief
they are preparing that this is willful
and inexcusable perversion of the ev
idence, for which there is absolutely
no warrant in the record.
Point to Trial Testimony.
They point to the testimony in the
trial lo bear them out. They contend
'hat everything in the record brands
the Solicitor's statements and insinu
ations on this subject as false and
grossly unfair. The evidence, accord,
tng to their assertions, shows that
Frank removed the time slip in the
presence of the officers, commented
on it, marked it “April 26, 1913,” and
later turned it over to Chief of De
tectives Lanford.
This same slip was produced by tho
prosecution at the trial, they say, with
the notation of the date rubbed out.
Prank was given the slip to explain
to the jury in his formal statement.
He looked it over and remarked that
he had made the notation, but that it
had been rubbed out. He did not
know by whom. The slip contained
three “skips,” indicating that tho
night watchman had missed punching
*■ clock that number of times.
Solicitor Dorsey, at the conclusive l
f Frank’s statement.it is cited, arose
tnd explained that he had made the
erasures, believing them to have been
made by the detectives to Identify the
slip.
Dorsey Also to File Brief.
There is nothing in any of the te a -
timony. therefore, Frank’s lawyers
1 ontend, to warrant the Solicitor’s
aim that there was a substitution.
1 he evidence points exactly to the op
posite conclusion, it is held.
Other points in the Solicitor’s ar
gument are taken up and compared
vv ith the brief of evidence to show
’hat there has been misstatement or
misrepresentation. The supplemental
"’■mf will be finished next week, an<1
’ ill be filed wdlh the Clerk of the Su.
feme Court. Solicitor Dorsey also
111 be served with a copy.
The Solicitor asked the privilege ot
'.g a supplemental brief, making
' -rtions against the defense similar
° those made against him.
Teachers See “Farce"
In Board 's Agreement
On Holiday Extension
What is regarded by the teachers
of the Atlanta public schools as a
“farcical move” was the response of
the Board of Education to the demand
for additional hoiidavs this Christ
mas. Monday and Tuesday were
added a9 holidays, but two days will
be added lo the school term in the
heat of June.
Friday is the last day of school un
til after the Christmas holidays, Jan
uary 5, and, 25,000 will immediately
begin the celebration of Christmas.
President W. R. Daley said that the
two extra holidays practically meant
a confiscation of $4,400 of school
money.
After that remark. Mayor Wood
ward made a motion that the two
days be added to the school term
s^ext June, and it was unanimously
adopted.
Women Awaiting
Wilson's Ruling on
Social Precedence
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Wives of
Cabinet members and members of
Congress are more anxious to have
President Wilson make a ruling on
the question of social precedence at
the Capitol than their husbands. The
women declare they are embarrassed
as to the proper order of call a, pend
ing a decision.
Mrs. Claude Swanson, wife of the
Senator from Virginia; Mrs. Duncan
U. Fletcher, wife of the Florida Sen
ator. Mrs. Garrison and Mrs. Red-
field, wives of the Secretaries of War
and Commerce, and Mrs. Burleson,
wife of the Postmaster General, be
lieve President Wilson's diplomacy
will settle the matter.
TO PHI OFF
Young Swindler Falls Into Trap
Set for Him at Window of
Downtown Bank.
Displays Roll in
Cafe; Loses $580
Police Friday w’ere searching for a
pickpocket who got a wallet contain
ing $580 from R. R. Whitehead, a
fruit-tree dealer of Kingston. Ga., on
Thursday afternoon.
Whitehead had come to Atlanta to
purchase some mules. He displayed
his money in a downtown restaurant
when he paid for his lunch by peeling
a bill from the roll.
Santa Costume Takes
Fire; Woman Burned
KNOXVILLE, TENN.. Dec. 19.—
Miss Sophia Preston while assisting
her sister, a school-teacher, in play
ing Santa Claus for the latter’s pu
pils was seriously burned about the
face this morning. Her costume
caught fire.
The teacher's hands were burned
in putting out the blaze, but she
saved her sister’s life.
Daniels Can't Stop
'Wine Launching’
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—Secre
tary Daniels has ruled that he has no
jurisdiction over the kind of fluid
that may be used to christen battle
ships. Pure water was suggested for
the Oklahoma or releasing a whir<°
dove from the deck.
"I have no doves, no wines, no
champagnes,” he wi >te “It is a thing I
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Declaring that he had been driven
to desperation by the constant hound
ing of loan sharks and the approach
of Christmas, S. B. Dickie, a young
telegraph operator, living at No. 131
South Pryor street, was bound over
under $500 bond Friday by Recorder
Broyles on charges of forgery and
cheating and swindling.
“I had to have money to keep my
creditors from running garnishments
on my salary,” said Dickie. “I have
fairly been haunted by loan sharks
w f ho each day threatened to get my
job. With Christmas so near, I had
to have the money. I am guilty.”
Dickie was arrested in the Third
National Bank after he had walked
into a cleverly arranged trap set by
bank officials.
Sends Fraudulent Telegram.
Thursday morning the bank re
ceived a telegram, purporting to come
from the First National Bank of Bir-
mingham, which read:
‘Honor draft of R. A. Carter for
$86.”
Officials of the Third National, be
coming suspicious, telegraphed the
Birmingham bank for verification of
the order, and were informed by that
institution that the telegram was a
fraud.
Harr *. Scott, of tiie Pinkerton force,
was notified, and, with two city de
tectives. waited in the lobby of the
Third National for Carter.
Walks Into Trap.
Shortly after noon Dickie appeared
at the cashier's window and pre
sented a telegram, which was ad
dressed to R. A. Carter, and reading:
“Have wired Third National Bank
to honor your draft.'' The dispatch
was signed by th^ Birmingham bank.
The three sleuths who were wait
ing were signaled by the cashier, and
they formed in line behind Dickie. As
soon as he had received the $80 he
was taken into custody.'
So quietly was the arrest made that
other patrons of the bank \yere not
aware of the trouble.
Yuan Plans To Be
Gay "Night Life" of
Sclmiidt Bared by
Former Companion
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—The ‘night
life” of Hans Schmidt, on trial for
the murder of Anna Aumuller, was
revealed when the case was resumed
^o-day before Judge Foster
Lewte Mann testified that he and
Schmidt frequently had called on
young women members of St. Boni
face Church.
“We went to dances and vaudeville
shows,” said Hann. "Sometimes
Schmidt would hold impromptu hops
In the basement of the church, and
he always picked out the prettiest
girl for himself.”
Schmidt's lawyers said they would
probably be compelled to allow the
prisoner to testify In his own behalf,
as Schmidt had threatened “to explain
everything in open court” if they did
not put him on the stand.
Gen. Wood to Head
Eastern Division
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—Major
General Leonard Wood, chief of staff
of the army, will succeed Major Gen- |
eral Thomas H. Barry as commander
of the Eastern Division, with head
quarters at Governors Island, N. Y. t
immediately upon the expiration of
his term as chief of staff, it was an
nounced by Secretary of War Gar
rison to-day.
General Wood had planned to tour
Europe and Asia, but at the request
of Secretary Garrison he will remain.
Major General Barry lias been or
dered fco the command of the Philip
pines Division to succeed Major Gen
eral Franklin Bell.
Becker’s Mother Dies
Ignorant of His Fate
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.— Ignorant
that her son is in the death chamber
at Sing Sing awaiting the opinion <*?
the Court of Appeals, which will de
cide whether he will end his life in
the electric chair, Mrs. Becker, moth
er of former Police Lieutenant Charles
Becker, died to-day.
News of her death was sent to
Becker in Sing Sing. Mrs. Becker
never knew of her son's trouble.
Wilson to Pick Gulf
Town for Vacation
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—A letter
calling President Wilson’s "History of
the American People” a. “joke,” and
declaring It “full of toryism of the
worst kind.” may cost George Fred
Williams, of Massachusetts, the post
of Minister to Greece.
This letter, which Williams wrote
several years ago to former Senator
Pettigrew, of South Dakota, has
reached the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, and Williams'
nomination is being held up until the
committee learns ’whether the Presi
dent knew of the letter when he
named Williams.
■ Urges Public Hearing of Protests
Before Council Again Acts
on Measure. ,
Rev. T. E. Converse.
Veteran Presbyterian
Minister, Is Dead
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—Pass
Christian and Gulfport. Miss., are
the two winter resorts which Presi
dent Wilson now is considering for
his coming Southern trip.
Aiken, S. C.. to-day presented an in
vitation to the Chief Executive to
spend his vacation there, blit it is
The funeral of the Rev. Thomas E.
Converse, pastor of the Druid Park
Presbyterian Church, who died Thurs
day night at his home. No. 163 Lin-
wr.od avenue, will be held Saturday.
Dr Converse was one of the oldest
and best-known Presbyterian minis
ters in the South. Me was born in
Philadelphia 72 years ago For a
-p.. f n pi . | generally expected that he will choose nuir.bpr of years he lived lh Kentu<-k>
DlCtcltOr 01 Liim a some point on the Gulf of 11k 1 ™ I in vhich S'ate he \\;i
CHAM
The speaker of the.House creat
form and charged the Republican pa
hard times as a political measure aga
tlie proposed currency law.
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CLARK.
•d quite a stir when he left his rdat-
Ay with Inciting talk of panics and
llhst the new Democratic tariff act and
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PEKIN. Dec. 19. President Yuan
Shili-K’ai to-day issued a mandate
suggesting the definite termination
of the Chinese Parliament. Dissolu
tion of Parliament would place Yuan
Shih-K’ai In the position of dictator.
The question has been submitted 10
the Administrative Council, which is
| expected to take affirmative action.
Officers Raid Stills
To Reduce Murders
LOUISVILLE, IvY., Dec. 19.— In or
der to cut down the Christmas supply
of moonshine” whisky and thereby
decrease holiday murders in the Ken
tucky mountains, revenue officers arc
busy raiding stills in that region.
Corporation Loses
Fight to Limit Suits
n a number of cases decided by
^ Supreme Court Friday, involving
ne Central Power Company, of Ma*
and various litigants, the court
*d that where a power company op*
a tes through its lines, dams and at-
;lr nents iir various counties it is no*
’ ssanjr for parties moving for dam.
*?■"' to proceed to the county in which
fi* company is located at headquar-
' r for the purposes of suit. Suit
be brought in any county in
h the alleged damages arise.
^ ne Central Power Company has
to the view' that it could be sued
n headquarters.
Lindsey Approves
Children on Stage j
CHICAGO. Dec. 19.—Children
should be permitted to work on the
stage under proper safeguards, Judge
Ben B. Lindsey, of Denver, told the
Drama Club, adding: I have seen
factory children who dislike the life,
but I never saw a stage child who did
not want to remain in the profession.”
Owes $778,877: Has
$100: Promoter Fails
BOSTON. Dfr 19.— Colonel Isaac
VanHorn, a Boston promoter hat
ing a handsome summer hom» a:
Holdern^e.'. N*. f* has on die a bank
ruptc5 petition git tng his liabili
at $775,877 and his assets as $100.
NEXT
Sundays American
IS BARRED FROM THE
Atlanta Penitentiary
Because it contains an expose ot - that insti-
tution, written by Julian Hawthorne, but
Atlantans can secure this great story by or
dering from a dealer, or by phoning Main
100. There are dozens of interesting features
m it.
married. He i
formerly was editor of The Christian I
Observer, published ai Louisville, He j
j had been pastor of the Druid Park j
I Church three years, during which
I erne he also was or e of t/ie editor.--
of The Presbyterian of the South •
Dr, Converse’s wife, three (laugh- i
lets, Sarai:. Rosa Irvine and .Ml ired, ;
and a brother. James E. Converse, of •
.VIorriMown, Term., survive.
Denied Dances, Co-eds
Take Up Wrestling
LANSING, MICH.. Dec. 19. Co-I
eds at Olivet College who have been
denied the privilege «*f dancing the
tango, the hesitation glide and other
new steps are learning to wrastie in
the solitude of the girls’ gym, under
the direction of Miss Marion A, Keeae,
director of women’s athletics.
Miss Keese says wrestling provides
excellent exercises for women, and
should be taught in all girls' classes.
Prison for Baron 7v 7 ho
Hacked Lame Gobbler
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LERLIN. Dec. 19. Lieutenant Bar
on Von Foerstner, Germany army of
ficer . whose despotic actions started
trouble between the military authori
ties end the citizenry of Alsace, was
court-martialed to-day and sentenced
to 42 days' imprisonment
The specific harge egainet liin 1 was
slashing a ''rirpled shoemaker with
* his a word.
Pastors Contribute
Sermons in State's
Campaign on Weevil
.VI V.CON Dec. 19. Macon preacher#
hive volunteered to contribute ser
mons to ihe movement just organ
ized her< for the resin I a nee to I he
boll weyvii invasion
•S'ate headquarters for the < onduct
«. f a boll weevil campaign will be
opened n Macon soon by i lie- Geor
gia Chamber of Commerce, and a
fight wi! be planned 'bat will earl
into eve. county of Georgia.
Macon merchants, bankers and
farmer.-; ..Mended the meeting and
subscribed to th» fund. Several min
isters also were present. The State
i hamber, plans a ‘ boll v, revil day” in
January, /hen the afrentlon of the
entire State will be drawn to the
propos'd ion.
Polecat's Hide Stirs
Whole Neighborhood
I ALTON, Dec. 19 Declaring that
his household had been deprived of
rest and sleep for 48 hours because
one of his neighbors had killed a
polecat and tacked the skin on his
house to dry, Patrick Kelly called on
the police.
The owner of the hide was forced
to take it down and bury it.
Atlanta Main Point
In Chicagoans’ Tour
Of Southern States
" H. Johnson, commercial age tit
in Atlanta for the Nashville. Chatta
nooga and St. Louis Railroad, Friday
](.<» ived notification from the head
office® of the road that the trade ex-
tersion committee of the Chicago
Chamber of Commerce is completing
arrangements for a trip through the
States - of the Southeast in January
and that Atlanta will he Included In
the. itinerary.
A special train will carry the Chi-
« goans on the tour, which is expect
ed to have far-reaching commercial
results. Several hundred industrial
concerns will be represented.
Mr Johnson culled the attention of
W. H Leahy, secretary of the Indus
trial and statistical bureau, to the
approaching invasion of Chicago
r ui ('h ints and manufacturers, and
M-" Leahy induedlately communicated
with Mell J i. Wilkinson. incoming
president of the Chamber of Com
merce. suggesting that a formal invi
tation be extended to the Chicagoans.
Bandits Rob Train of
$2,500 Worth of Silks
NTACK, N, Y Dec. 19. Six mask
ed robbers to-day held up a west
bound Erie freight train at FaiPview,
near here, and while three covered
rhe crew with revolvers the other
three unloaded ilks valued at about
$2,500 from the «$rf- ami carried them
«wh’ in an automobile. The men
es^ajed.
Inez Milholland Calls
Militancy “Vulgar”
PRINCETON. N. .7 Doc. 19 Alr.a
Inez Milholland Boi?.-evain r*mei\ 1
an enthusiastic welcome here when
she addressed the Princeton Socialist
Society.
The suffrage leader declared the
English militant movement was not
enr !i'»naJ, but highly strategical. She
regretted the necessity of those “vul
gar methods.'
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Cloudy-Friday night
and Saturday.
The City Smoke Board's plan,
to strengthen the smoke ordi
nance in the movement to abate
the smoke nuisance in Atlanta
was referred back to Council for
more deliberate eonsideratiem by
the veto of Mayor Woodward
Friday. Ffi.s action was taken at
the behest of a large number of
citizens who called to register
their protest.
The present law is tli&t no furnace
shall be permitted to emit black
smoke for more than twelve minutes
to tho hour. The law proposed by the
Smoke Board and passed by Council
reduces that limit to six minutes to
the hour and includes all residences
with as much as a thousand feet ra
diation within the jurisdiction of the
law.
After Mayor Woodward had heard
Smoke Inspector Poole and Chairman
R. M. Harwell, of the Smoke Board
outline the reasons why it was nec-
j ess&ry to strengthen the law and the
owners of the smoke producers ha 1
insisted that it would work a hard
ship on them, he said:
Wants Public Hearing.
“I think the movement to reduce
the smoke evil in Atlanta is a good
thing, but I don’t want to work anv
hardship on the Industrial interests
“I want you ot understand that you
must not atke my veto of this meas
ure as a disapproval. The law' is not
intended to go into effect until April,
and I understand that you were not
riven an opportunity of a public hear
ing. Therefore, I will sod it back to
Council for a public hearing before
its repassage.”
Of the 30 or 40 men present In
spector Poole said he thought all of
them had complied with the twelve-
minute law. There were manufac
turers, otfice building owners, hotel
men. but most conspicuous were the
laundrymen. Someone jokingly re
marked that the meeting looked like
a laundrymen’s conspiracy to keep
smoke circulating.
Among those present were Attorney
Ed Meyer, W. F. Winecoff, E. G. Grif
fin. of the Bell Laundry: E. H. Wil
son. of the Troy Laundry; W. J.
Stoddard, George IL Fauae, of the
Capital City Laundry; Councilman C.
D. Knigfct, of the Piedmont Laundry,
A. 11. Harris, of the Atlanta Paper
Company: Julian Boehn, Charles
Wynn and J. F. Letton.
They declared that they Fiad eben
put to great expense to comply with
the twelve-minute law and now a
year later it was demanded that they
must live up to a law just twice as
strict.
No Added Expense.
I want to say that no one who had
made proper provisions to comply
with the twelve-minute law will be
put to any expense to meet the six-
minute law,” said Inspector Poole
“The reason for this law is that in
many cases I find that through care-
letffc firing plants are making smoke
nine and ten minutes to the hour.
There is no reason why this should
not be reduced to six minutes to the
hour. ”
Inspector Poole said that he exer
cised discretion in making case*.
Mayor Woodw ard questioned his right
to exercise any such discretion.
‘When the law is oeing violated, it
is up to you to make a case,” said
the Mayor.
Another thing 1 want to say, gen
tlemen, is that so long as the city
schoolhouses and other municipal
buildings are violating the law I am
reluctant to demand that you obeyTt.”
All present agreed that the emok*
nuisance still was very bad in At
lanta. and they expressed a desire to *
co-operate in reducing iL
“I want you to understand this per
fectly,” said Chairman Harwell. “You
can't coroperate unless you are will
ing to spend a little money.' 1