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VOIR FEET WEIGH MORE
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NEXT SUNDAY'S AMERICAN
The Atlanta Georgian
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VOL. Xil. NO. 120.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1913.
Copyright. 190®.
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MAYOR VETOES NEW SMOKE LAW
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Closes School Because of ‘Scandalous Tongues’
CHAMP CLARK GRILLS
CALAMITY HOWLERS
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FRANK LAWYERS REOPEN ATTACK ON DORSEY
OP 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
o call to the attention of the Supreme
ourt of Georgia portions of Solicitor
General Dorsey’s argument and brief,
which, 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
taken 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
Kip never reached the hands of the
authorities, and that another had bean
Mibstitued for it with three punches
m ssing in order to throw suspicion
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
f rial to bear them out. They contend
that everything in the record brands
the Solicitor's statements and insinu
ations on this subject as false and
grossly unfair. The evidence, accord
ing to their assertions, shows that
Frank removed the time slip in the
presence of the officers, commented
on it, marked it “ApTil 26, 1913,” and
later turned it over to Chief of De
tectives Lanford.
This same slip was produced by the
jrosecution at the trial, they say, with
'he notation of the date rubbed out.
Frank was given the slip to explain
’o 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 the
night watchman had missed punching
'he clock that number of times.
Solicitor Dorsey, at the conclusion
• 'Frank’s statement.it is cited, arose
and 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 tes-
1 mony, therefore, Frank’s Iaw’vers
ontend, to warrant the Solicitor's
1 'aim that there was a substitution.
The evidence points exactly to the op
posite conclusion, it is held.
Other points in the Solicitor’s ar
gument are taken up and compared
"ith the brief of evidence to show
'hat there has been misstatement or
misrepresentation. The supplemental
l! 'mf will be finished next week, and
"ill be filed with the Clerk of the Su
preme Court. Solicitor Dorsey also
wil ’ be served with a copy.
The Solicitor asked the privilege ot
fi; ing a supplemental brief, making
assertions against the defense similar
ll ’ 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 holidays this Christ
mas. Monday and Tuesday were
added as holidays, but two days will
be added to 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
next 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 calls, 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 Wilsons diplomacy
will settle the matter.
Jesse Wood Boomed
For Mayor Pro Tern
With the race for Mayor Pro T. rn
between Aldermen I. N. Ragsdale ami
J. R. Nutting practically a tie and
embarrassing to a number of mem
bers of Council who are friends of
both, it was discovered Friday that
the custom of electing a Mayor Pro
Tem from the Aldermanic Board- was
only a precedent and not a law.
Accordingly a boom was started "or
Councilman Jesse M. Wood, of the
Sixth Ward, for the p^aee. Many be
lieve Councilman Wood will get the
place on a compromise.
Displays Roll in
Cafe; Loses $580
Police Friday were searching for a
pickpocket who got a w allet contain
ing $580 from R. R. Whiteheatd, 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
pil*. was seriously burned about the
face this morning. Her costume
caught fire.
Corporation Loses
Fight to Limit Suits
in a number of cases decided by
l he Supreme Court Friday, Involving
Central Power Company, of Ma-
r ° n - and various litigants, the court
f ‘ ( 1 that where a power company op-
‘ at ‘ through its lines, dams and at-
^hments in various counties it is not
'ary for parties moving for dam-
to proceed to the county in which
h* company is located at headquar-
r? for the purposes of suit. Suit
m t ay be brought in *any county in
1 'he aileged damages arise.
1 Central Power Company has
to the view that it could be sued
Daniels Can’t Stop
‘Wine Launching’
WASHINGTON. Leo !%. -Secre
tary Daniels has ruled that he has "o
jurisdiction over the kind of fluid
that may be used to christen battle
ships. Pure water was suggested for
the Oklahoma or releasing a white
dove from the deck.
ar headouarters.
Urges Barbed Wire
On Mexican Border
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—A barbed
wire rence along the Mexican boun
dary to check incursions into Ameri
can' territory was proposed in a bill
introduced to-day by Senator
Ashurst.
Frolic With Tech
Boys To-night and
x Help Xmas Fund
Board Orders Mayson District
Term Reopened—Buggy Rides
Started Gossip.
Residents of the Mayson School
District are enduring a closed school-
house and are up in arms against
Fulton County Superintendent of
Schools E. C. Merry on account of
the closing of their school because «>?
alleged gossip.
Several days ago parents were sur
prised to have their children return
from school with the statement that
the teacher was gone. They did not
wait long in ignorance. D. W. Will
ingham, a 'sader of the Chattahoochee
Rriver community, came to them with
a letter of explanation from Superin
tendent Merry.
It recited that two teachers had
come to him and resigned because the
parents of her pupils talked about
them, and, what was more surprising
to the members of the community,
added:
"On account of the long and slan
derous tongues of some members of
the community the school is ordered
closed.”
Known as Letter Writer.
Superintendent Merry had already-
gained fame as a letter writer by a
communication recently published in
The Messenger, an organ of Park
Street Methodist Church, in which he
criticised the heads of the church for
"arbitrarily” changing Dr. S. R. Belk
from that charge to presiding elder of
the Gainesville District That caused
him trouble, but it didn’t arouse half
the indignation the school letter did.
The residents of the Mayson Dis
trict swooped down on the County’
Board of Education Thursday and
demanded on explanation. Superin
tendent Merry’s letter *.vas read to the
board. It caused mingled laughter
and anger.
The Mayson District people de
clared tha: such a letter was a reflec
tion on them.
How Gossip Began.
When the board heard the case, it
developed that Miss Myrtle Fain and
Miss Fronia Brooks, the two teach
ers. had complained to Superinten
dent Merry that certain persons in
the community were slandering them.
One of the young women had to go
two miles from her boarding house
to the school. Because a kindly dis
posed neighbor of the opposite sex
took her to the school in a buggy
the young woman said the people
began to talk.
The other young woman said the
slander against her had a similar
foundation.
They both resigned.
The board decided that an indict
ment could not be brought against a
whole community, and that the school
should be reopened January 1. The
gossip was branded as all slander and
false.
All Settled, Says Merry.
It was just a I6t of women’s gos
It’s ready!
A whirlwind of laughter and fun
is awaiting you at the Grand The
ater Friday night when the Tech
boys give their annual dramatic
performance. The curtain will be
raised promptly at 8:30 o’clock.
Everyone in Atlanta who is in
sympathy with the Empty Stock
ing Fund—and that’s everybody—
should go to this show. One-quar
ter of the proceeds will be donated
to the fund.
After the show there will be a
dance at Segadlo’s Hall. A small
admission will be charged to fill
the empty stockings.
Help the little ones to a merry
Christmas, and have a good time
yourself by taking in these events.
Becker’s Mother Dies
Ignorant of His Fate
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—A letter
culling President Wilson’s “History ol
the American People” a "joke,’’ ami
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.
1
LANSING, MICH., .Dec. 19.—Co
eds at Olivet College who have been
denied the privilege of dancing the
tango, the hesitation glide and other
new steps are learning to wrestle in
the solitude of the girls’ gym, under
the direction of Miss Marion A. Keese,
director of women’s athletics.
Miss Keese says wrestling provides
•excellent exercises for women, and
should be taught in all girls’ classes.
sip,” said Superintendent Merry. “It
is all settled now. and I don’t see
any reason for saying anything about
It in the papers.
"We couldn’t very well accuse the
whole community of circulating the
slanderous stories about the two
young women. We did the next best
thing and closed the school so as to
discipline the persons w’ho had been
responsible for the lies. The young
women who are teaching have got to
be protected.
"The school board met and found
that there was nothing to investi
gate so far as the young women were
vancerned. It was the gossiping wom
en who were to blame. Because one
of the young women had two miles to
go to school and a man of the com
munity took her in his buggy, the
tongues started wagging. Before it
was through there were all sorts of
stories in circulation and there was
no basis for aony of them."
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Ignorar.i \
that her son is in the death chamber’,
at Sing Sing awaiting the opinion of i
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
Be* ker in Sing Sing. Mrs. Becker
never knew’ of her son s trouble.
Wilson to Pick Gulf 1
Town for Vacation
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, but it is
generally expected that he will choose
some point on the Gulf of Mexico.
Denied Dances, Co-eds
Take Up Wrestling
Lindsey Approves
Children on Stage
CHICAGO. Dec. 19.—Children
Should be permitted to w r ork 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.”
Urges Public Hearing of Protest*
Before Council Again Acts
on Measure.
Judge Warns Auto
Thieves as He Gives
One 6-Month Term
Announcing that he was deter
mined to br**ak up the stealing of
automobiles in Atlanta. Judge An
drew Calhoun imposed a six months’
sentence in the county ohaingang on
Frank Corry, 17 years old, Friday.
The young* man pleaded guilty to
stealing a tire from the automobile of
How’ard Pattillo, which he had used
for a ride December 15. Corry has
been in the courts a number of times
recently, but been released upon his
brother agreeing to pay for the use
of the automobiles he had ridden in.
Corry pleaded guilty when brought
before Judge Calhoun Friday morning
and Pattillo expressed a desire not to
prosecute him.
YUAN WOULD BE DICTATOR.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PEKIN, Dec. 19.—President Yuan
Shih-Kai 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.
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CIIAMP CLARK
The Speaker of the House creat d quite o stir when he left his plat
form and charged the Republican paHty with inciting talk of panics ami
hard times as a political measure against the new Democratic tariff act and
the proposed currency la w.
Chief Construction
Engineer of L. & N. Is
New N.C.&St.L.Head
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
in il.
NASHVILLE, Dec. 19.—John Howe
Peyton, chief engineer of construction
of the Louisville and Nashville Rail
road, was to-day elected president
and a director of the Nashville, Chat
tanooga and St. Louis Railway, ef
fective April 1, 1914, to succeed John
W. Thomas, Jr., who died Wednes
day.
The delay in Mr. Peyton taking of
fice is due to the road’s charter pro
vision that a president or director
must be a bona fide stockholder for
at least 90 days. For the interim
Major E. (\ Lewis, chairman of the
•board, w’as elected president.
Mr. Peyton was elected general
manager of the road, effective Janu
ary 1. He has been prominent of late
in the construction of the new Lewls-
ourg and Northern Railroad, a IamiIb-
ville and Nashville line, and has been
assistant to President Milton H.
Smith, of the Louisvilel and Nash
ville. He was also in charge of much
of the construction work on the Louis
ville and Nashville line between Car-
tersville and Etowah, for th*-* Atlanta*
(Mncinnati trunk line.
Bill Calls for New
Georgia Judgeship
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—A bill io
create ari additional district Judge for
Georgia was introduced in the House
to-day by Congressman Edwards, of
the First Georgia District, who wants
to relieve the congestion of business
in the Northern and Southern Dis
tricts.
The bill provides that the new
judge shall reside at Savannah and
shall hold the district courts of the
Eastern Division of the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia, and may be assigned
to preside in any other division of
either district in the State,
Atlanta Main Point
In Chicagoans’ Tour
Of Southern States
NV. H. Johnson, commercial agent
in Atlanta for the Nashville, Chatta
nooga and St. Louis Railroad. Friday
re< eived notification from the heud
offices of the road that the trade ex-
tei sion committee of the Chicago
Chamber of Commerce is completing
arrangements for a trip through the
Stales of the Southeast in January
and that Atlanta will be included in
the itinerary.
A special train will carry the Chi
cagoans on the tour, which Is expect
ed to have far-reaching commercial
results. Several hundred industrial
concerns will be represented.
Mr. Johnson called the attention of
W. H. Leahy, secretary of the indus
trial and statistical bureau, to the
approaching invasion of Chicago
merchants and manufacturers, and
Mr I^eahy immediately communicated
with Mell R. Wilkinson, incoming
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, suggesting that a formal invi-
tatic j be extended to the Chicagoans.
Shot in Face on Hunt,
Farmer, 32, Is Dead
The (hyv Smoke Board’s plan
to strengthen the smoke ordi
nance in the movement to abate
the smoke nuisance in Atlanta
was referred hack to Council for
more deliberate consideration by
the veto of Mayor Woodward
Friday. Ilis action was taken at.
the behest of a large number of
citizens who called to register
their protest.
The present law Is that no forme*
shall be permitted to emit Mark
smoke for more than twelve mlnote*
to the hour. The la w proposed by the
Smolte Board and passed by flouncll
reduces that limit to six minutes to
the hour and Includes all residences
with as much as a thousand feet ra
(Station within the Jurisdiction of the
law.
After Mayor Woodward hat! heat'd
Smolte Inspector Boole and Chairman
R. M. Harwell, of the Smoke Board,
outline the reasons why it was nec
essary to strengthen the law and the
owners of the smoke producers had
insisted that It would work a hard
ship on them, he said:
Wants Public Hearing.
"I think the movement to redu ’«
the smoke evil in Atlanta is a good
thing, but I don't want to work any
hardship on the industrial interests
"I want you to understand that yon
must not take 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 send 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. office 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 H. Fauss, of the
Capital City Laundry; Councilman C.
D. Knight, of the Piedmont Laundry;
A. II. Harris, of the Atlanta Paper
Company; Julian Boehn, Charles
Wynn and J. F. Letton.
They declared that they had been
put to great expense to comply with
/
Hugh V. Hulsey, a fanner, who was
accidentally shot while hunting near
East Lake Thursday afternoon, died
Friday morning at a private sanita
rium. He was 32 years old.
The hunter was in the act of leap
ing over a rail fence when his shot
gun slipped and exploded, tearing
away the right side of his face.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgiar—Cloudy Friday night
and Saturday.
the twelve-minute law’ and now a
year later it was demanded that they
:nust live up to a law just twice as
strict.
No Added Expense.
“I want to say th«tt-uo 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
less 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 ths
hour.”
Inspector Poole said that he exer
(ised discretion in making cases.
Mayor Woodward questioned his right
to exercise any such discretion.
"When the law is being violated, it
is up to you to make a case,” said
the Mayor.
"Another thing I want to say, gen
tlemen, is that so long as the cit>
schoolhouses and other municipe'
buildings iu*e violating the law’ I am
reluctant to demand that you obey It."
All present agreed that the smoke
nuisance still w r as very bad In At
lanta, and they expressed a desire to
co-operate in reducing it.
"I want you to understand this per
fectly,” said Chairman Harwell. “You
can’t co-operate unless you are :jwELU
ing to a Utjl*.money*’