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DORSEY IS AGAIN SCORED BY FRANK COUNSEL DID YOU KNOW your feet weigh more WHEN YOU ARE ASLEEP? That's Only One of a Hundred Interesting Things Revealed in NEXT SUNDAY’S AMERICAN The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results 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. IOTO rncxi • .._.iXXAT UOXAJL XE-WXS aXLJUVZ.O'X. 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 Because it contains an expose of 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 it.