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DORSEY IS AGAIN SCORED BY FRANK COUNSEL
DID YOU KNOW
your feet weigh more
WHEN YOU ARE ASLEEP?
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NEXT SUNDAY’S AMERICAN
The Atlanta Georgian
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VOL. XII. NO. 120.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1913.
Copyright. 1906. o pL YTTC PAT NO
By Th® Georgian Ca ^ CL.> J o. \tuRE
NIGHT
EDITION
COUNTY SCHOOL CLOSED BY GOSSIP
Board Orders Mayson District
Term Reopened—Buggy Rides
Started Gossip.
ients of the Mayson School
( D,strict are enduring a closed school-
' and are up in arms against
1'jltoii County Superintendent of
S N E. C, Merry on account of
■ • ■ '--sing of their school because of
allied gossip.
!-' V*-ra! dav« ago parents were sur.
ir'-ni to have their children return
• ••in .-rhnol -with the statement that
I*"!.or was gone. They did not
in ignorance. D. W. Wili
n'. a loader of the Chattahoochee
L \. r loinmunity, came to them with
'• r of explanation from Superin-
'endent Merry.
recited that two teachers had
-me to him and resigned because the
urents of their pupil9 talked about
: cm. and, what was more surprising
the members of the community,
"On account of the long and slan-
- ‘rous tongues of some members of
e 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
Th- Messenger, an organ of Park
Street Methodist Church, in which re
criticised the heads of the church for
"arbitrarily” changing Dr. S. R. Belk
from that charge to presiding elder of
Lie 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 an explanation. Superin
tendent Merry’s letter vas read to the
board. It caused mingled laughter
and anger.
The Mayson District people de
clared that 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
took her to the school in a bug&,7
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
"hole community, and that the school
should be reopened .January 1. The
£• ssip was branded as all slander and
false.
All Settled, Says Merry.
' was just a lot of women’s gos-
said Superintendent Merry. ‘‘It
' all settled now, and I don’t see
anv reason for saying anything about
i! in the papers.
We couldn’t very well accuse the
"hole community of circulating the
slanderous stories about the two
>oung women. We did the next best
and closed the school so as to
discipline the persons who had been
re M>--ns;ble for the lies. The young
w- it ; -j who are teaching have got to
Protected.
1 he school board met and found
there was nothing to investi
gate - , far as the young women were
/warned. was the gossiping wom-
n who were to blame. Because one
1 the young women had two miles to
i! ’•» school and a man of the com-
mumty took her in his buggy, the
started wagging. Before it
t trough there were all sorts of
m circulation and there was
aSia for any of them.”
i\
I'HE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Cloudy Friday night
an d Saturday.
Frolic With Tech
Boys To-night and
Help Xmas Fund
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.
CHAMP CLARK GRILLS
CALAMITY HOWLERS
Atlanta Main Point
In Chicagoans’ Tour
Of Southern States
W. IT. Johnson, commercial agent
in Atlanta for the Nashville, Chatta
nooga and St. Louis Railroad. Friday
received notification from the head
offices of the road that the trade ex-
ter sion 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 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
M~ Leahy immediately communicated
with Mell R. Wilkinson, Incoming
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, suggesting that a formal invi
tation be extended to the Chicagoans.
Corporation Loses
Fight to Limit Suits
In a number of cases decided by
the Supreme Court Friday, involving
the Central Power Company, of Ma
con, and various litigants, the^ court
held that where a power company op
erates through its lines, dams and at
tachments in various counties it is nor
necessary for parties moving for dam
ages to proceed to the county in which
the company y is located at headquar
ters for the purposes of suit. Suit
may be brought in any county in
which the alleged damages arise.
The Central Power Company has
held to the view that it could be sued
only at headquarters.
Bill Calls for New
Georgia Judgeship
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—A bill to
create an additional district jwlge 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.
Displays Roll in
Cafe: Loses $580
Police Friday were 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.
Shot in Face on Hunt,
Farmer. 32, Is Dead
T
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—A letter
calling President Wilson’s “History of
the American People” a “joke,” and
declaring it “full of torylsm 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.
Officers Raid Stills
To Reduce Murders
LOUISVILLE, IIY., Dec. 19.—In or
der to cut down the Christmas supply
of “moonshine” whisky and thereby
decrease holiday murders in the Ken-
J tucky mountains, revenue officers are
! busy raiding stills in that region,
j body was sent Thursday morning to
| Panthersville for funeral and inter-
I ment.
RACING
RESULTS
AT CHARLESTON.
FIRST—Five and one-half fur
longs: Cliff Maid 103 (Turnon, 31-5,
7- 10, 1-3, won; Kettle Drum lofi (Con
nolly). 4, 2, even, second; Dick’s Pet
100 (McTaggart), 8, 3, 7-5, third. Time
1:10 1-5. Also ran: Sir Caledore, Belle
of Normandy, Peacock. Stellata
SECOND—Five and one-half fur
longs: Flatbush 09 (McTaggart), 5,
8- 5, 7-10, won; Bulgarian 100 (Mur
phy), 4, 7-5, 7-10, second; No Man
ager 104 (Nathan), 12, 5 5-2, third.
Time 1:09 3-5. Also ran: Roger Gor
don, Rocnir, Woodrow, Belle Torre.
THIRD —Mile and a quarter: Out-
lan 101 (Ward), 7, 5-2. 4-5, won; Ja
bot 110 (McTaggart), 11-5, 11-10, 3-5,
second: Earl of Savoy 105 (Turner),
15, 5, 2, third. Time 2:11. Also ran:
Ella Crane, SpinJle, Dynamite, and
Charles F. Grainger.
FOURTH—Seven furlongs: Celesta
104 (Goose), 12-5, 9-20, 1-6, won;
•Shackleton 112 (Glass), 13-20, 1-3,
1- 15, second; Armor 107 (Ferguson),
100, 25, 4, third. Time 1:29 3-5. Also
ran: Cracker Box, Star Bottle Ta Nun
Da.
FIFTH—Six furlongs: Sherlock
Holmes 115 (Byrne), 11-5, even, 3-5,
won; Prince Chap 115 t Goose), 5, 5-2,
6-5, second; Early Light 107 (De-
ronde), 9, 7-2, 2. third. Time 1:16 4-5.
Also ran: Dr. Jackson, Stentor, Bat-
wa. Snowflakes, Captain Jinks. Lady
Orimar, La Sainrella, Mad River,
Union Jack, Margerum.
AT JUAREZ.
FIRST—Five and one-half fur
longs: Prospero Boy 98 (Gentry), ,
8-5, 4-5, won; Hykl 98 (Neylon), 7-5,
2- 3, out, second; Tigella 96 (Phillips!,
20, 8, 4, third. Time 1:16. Also ran:
Ida Cook, Ajax, Christmas Eve, Hat
tie Me., Meshach.
Race Entries on Page 15.
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CHAMP CLARK.
The opeaker of the House created quit** a stir when he left his plat
form and charged the Republican party with inciting talk of panics and
hard tim**s as a political measure against the new Democratic tariff act and
the proposed currency law.
Judge Warns Auto
Thieves as He Gives
One 6-Month Term
Announcing thr.t he was deter
mined to break up the stealing of
automobiles In Atlanta. Judge An
drew I'alhoun imposed a six months’
sentence In the county chalngang on
Frank Corry, 17 years old, Friday.
The young man pleaded guilty to
stealing a tire from the automobile of
Howard Pattillo, which he had used
for a ride December 15. Lorry 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.
Jesse Wood Boomed
For Mayor Pro Tern
With the race for Mayor Pro Tern
between Aldermen I. N. Ragsdale and
J. R, Nutting practically a tie and
embarrassing to a number of mem
bers of Council who are friends of
Teachers See “Farce”
In Board's Agreement
On Holiday Extension
What is regarded by the teachers
of the Atlanta public schools as
“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.
Lindsey Approves
Children on Stage
Hugh V. Hulsey, a farmer, who was |
accidentally shot while hunting near
East Lake Thursday afternoon, dk-J
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.
CRUISE 18 MONTHS IN YACHT.
MOBILE, Dec. 19.—After eighteen
months’ continual cruising, having
come from New York down the At
lantic coast to Florida and New Or
leans, the auxiliary gasoline yacht
Gerhilde. carrying a party, including
C. Henry Stanwood. Mrs. Stanwood
and their son, Jack, has arrived here.
both, it was discovered Friday that
the custom of electing a Mayor Pro
Tern from the Aldermanic Board was
only a precedent and not a law.
Accordingly a boom was started for
Councilman Jesse M. Wood, of the
Sixth Ward, for the place. Many be
lieve Councilman Wood will get the
place on a compromise.
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 ”
/
NEW SMOKE
ACT VETOED
LATEST
NEWS
.
WASHINGTON, Dec 19.—The j
Owen substitute for the House cur
rency bill was adopted in committee
of the whole of the Senate to-day.
DISTORTION
OF FACTS IS
Urges Public Hearing of Protests
Before Council Again Acts
* on Measure.
The City Smoke Board's plan to
strengthen the smoke ordinance in
the movement to abate the smoke
nuisance in Atlanta was referred
back to Council for more deliberate
consideration by the veto of Mayor
Woodward Friday. His action was
taken at the behest of a large num
ber of clti. «ns who called to register
their protest.
The present law lg (hat no furnace
shall be permitted to emit black
smoke for more than twelve minutes
to the hour. The law proposed hv 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
essary to strengthen the law and the
owners of the smok** producers had
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 any
hardship on the industrial interests.
“I want you to understand that you
must not take my veto of this meas
ure as a disapproval. The law Is not
intended to go into effect until April,
Rnd I understand that you were not
elven 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. Wlneooff, 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. H. 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
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 nay that no one who had
made proper provisions to comply
with the twelve-minute law will be
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—With a cer.
tified check for $15,000, President
Charles H. Ebbets, of the Brooklyn
club, to-day left for Cincinnati hoping
to induce the Cincinnati club direc
tors to change their minds and turn
Joe Tinker over to the Brooklyn
club.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Making
of a false statement either verbally or
in writing “for the purpose of bring
ing on a stringency in the money
markets of this country” is made an
offense against the Government pun
ishable by not less than ten years'
imprisonment and a fine of not less
than $5,000 in a bill offered in the
House to-day by Representative
Church, of California.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—Senator
Newlands this arternoon demanded
that another Democratic conference
be held on the currency bill to con
sider the number of regional reserve
banks Only ten names are required
on a petition for a conference and the
opinion was expressed that these
names would be obtained, thus de
laying the vote which President Wil
son and the Administration leaders
confidently hoped for to-day.
BATON ROUGE, LA., Dec 19 —
The whole student body of the Louis
iana State University is searching the
city and vicinity for Henry Boyd, son
of the president of the university,
who disappeared Wednesday night.
His brother left him in bed and tnat
was the last seen of him.
PEORIA, ILL., Dec. 19.—H. M
Pindell, President Wilson’s nominee
as Ambassador to Russia, appeared
in the police court this afternoon a»
a witness in cases involving the own
ership of three disorderly resorts.
■PindoU’6 paper has been taking the
lead in a vice war. Attorney for the
defendant subponaed Pindell.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 19.—War
Minister Blanquet’s famous regiment,
the Twenty-ninth, which has taken
part in more active fighting in the
past three years than any otbfcr, was
sent to-day to drive back the rebels
from the Federal District. Two troop
trains, carrying 200 soldier®, have left
for Cdfernavaca to give battle to the
Zapatistas. Rebels have entered the
city of San Luis Potosi and part of
it has been looted.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—An
nouncement was made this afternoon
by Attorney General McReynolds
that Special Assistant James W. Orr
had about completed a petition pro
viding for the separation of the Cen
tral Pacific Railroad from control by
the Union Pacific. Such a suit will
be filed by the Department of Justice
within a short time.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 19.—Denounc
ing the system of education taught
bv Dr. Maria Montessorj as being
valueless, Mrs. R. L, Craig, a member
of the City Board of Education, to
day prevented the expenditure of
more funds to experiment with the
system. Supplies needed for promot
ing the instruction advocated by the
noted Italian woman were denied the
schools of Los Angeles by the board.
CHICAGO. Dec. 19.—A jury In Fed
eral Judge Mack’s court this afternoon
returned a verdict of guilty in the
case of Robert Linn, a mining pro
moter, charged with using the mails
ta defraud. The Government alleged
that Linn attempted to sell $10,000,-
000 worth of stock in a mine that
was valueless.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—Six-year
terms for members of the House of
Representatives with a popular recall
governed by State law in each in
stance were proposed by Representa
tive Kent, of California, to-day in a
joint resolution.
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
Court of Georgia portions of Solicitor
General Dorsey’s argument and brief,
which, they assert, are filled with
glaring misstatements and misrepre
sentations. v
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
slip never reached the hands of th«*
authorities, and that another had be n
substitued for *lt with three punches
missing In order to throw suspicion
on Newt Lee, the night watchman.
Frank’s counsel insist in the brief
they are preparing that this is willf M
and inexcusable perversion of the ev
idence, for which there is absolute v
no warrant in the record.
Point to Trial Testimony.
They point to the testimony in the
trial 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, ^hows 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 the
prosecution at the trial, they say. with
the notation of the date rubbed out.
Frank was given the slip to-explaln
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 n >r
know by whom. The slip contained
three “skips,” indicating that the
night watchman had .missed punchin g
the clock that number of times.
Solicitor Dorsey, at the oonclusio i
of 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 Hie
■lip.
Dorsey Also to File Brief.
There is nothing in any of the tes
timony, therefore, Frank’s lawyers
contend, to warrant the Solicitor's
claim that there was a substitutl >n.
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
with the brief of evidence to show
that there has b en misstatement or
misrepresentation. The supplemental
brief will bo finished next week, an«1
will be filed with Clerk of the Su.
promo Court. Solicitor Dorsey also
will be served with a copy.
The Solie tor asked the privilege of
filing a supplemental brief, making
assertions against the defense similar
to those made against him.
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 w’hy this should
not be reduced to six minutes to the
hour.”
Inspector Poole said that he exer
cised discretion in making cases.
Mayor Woodward questioned his right
to exercise any such discretion.
"When the lav/ 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 city
schoolhouses and other municipal
buildings are violating the law I am
reluctant to demand that you obey It.”
All present agreed that the smoke
nuisance still was 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 axe will
ing to spend a little money.”
YUAN WOULD BE DICTATOR.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PEKIN, Dec. 19.—President Yuan
Shih-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.
NEXT
Sundays American
IS BARRED FROM THE
Atlanta Penitentiary
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tution, written by Julian Hawthorne, but
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