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Suffragists Win a
Viotogr in Senat
y e
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Following Defeat
WASHINGTON, March 20.—Advo
cates of woman suffrage won a vic
tory in the Senate to-day by defeat
ing a motion by Senator Bryan to
refer to the Judiciary Committee a/
newly introduced woman suffrage
amendment presented by Senator
Shafroth. The motion to refer the
proposed amendment to the Judiciary
Committee was defeated, 25 to 37T.
The resolution for the amendment
then went to the Committee on Wo
man Suffrage.
Though defeated yesterday in their
effort to secure a two-thirds vote for
a constitutional amendment giving
women the right to vote, suffrage
leaders were jubilant to-day because
the ballot in the Senate showed a
majority for their cause, the vote be
ing 35 to 34.
500 Fight Fire to Save
U. S. Redwood Forest
SAN JOSE, CAL., March 20.—Five
hundred men are fighting desperately
to save the famous National Redwood
Forest from destruction by fire. They
have succeeded in gaining control of
one of the four fires that broke out
in the Santa ('ruz Mountains yester
day, but the others are steadily eat
ing their way toward the noted red
woods.
Reports reached here early to-day
that several men were missing, but it
i believed all will be accounted for.
All the help available will be sent
from here,
@Gir]l Held as Thief
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From Father's Firm
CHICAGO, March 20 —Policewoman
Lula Parks, of the Chicago force, will
be sent to New York to bring back Miss
Marie Stopper, 18, who ran away from
home to realize her stage ambitions.
A charge of embezzling $6OO from a
firm in which her father is a partner
has been made against the girl
MUSIC IN ATLANTA WOMEN’S VOICES
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
YOL. XII. NO. 198.
COLD WAVE ENDANGERS FRUIT CROPS
Mr. and Mrs.
Henry F.
Becker, former
Atlan‘tans, who
declare Frank
“is innocent.
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Life Ins Head
11e insurance aead,
Here to Meet Agents,
.
Sees Big Crop Year
1.. K. Passmore, first vice presi
dent of the Penn Mutual Life Insur
ance Company, is in Atlanta to at
tend the meeting .of the agents of
the Bagley and Willet insurance
agency at the Piedmont Hotel. Mr.
Passmore is returning to Philadelphia
after an extended tour of the South,
having visited all agencies of the
company,
“("onditions all over appear to me
to be better right now than any pre
vious year, ?l'nspm'lh for a bumper
crop are excellent,” he said.
“The Penn Mutual company has
shown its confidence in this section
by investing $7,000,000 in Georgia se
curities., The company has more than
' $30,000,000 of insurance in force in
this State.”
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McCombs Declines
Public Service Post
ALBANY, March 20.—William F.
McCombs, chairman of the Democrat
ic National Committee, has declined
Governor Glynn's offéer to nominate
him for a position on the First Dis
trict Public Service Commission, to
succeed John E. Eustis.
Mr. MeCombs’' reason for his decli
nation was that he desired to practice
law. \
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| THE WEATHER. ¢
) PForecast for Atlanta and |
Georgia—Rain and coldsr
Friday,; fair Saturday.”
Read for Profit— GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results
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One of the chilliest nights enjoyed
(or otherwise) by Georgia in any
March of its weather history will de
scend with nightfall Friday, unless
C. K. VonHerrmann, weather fore
caster, is seriously mistaken.
“The temperature will fall to abaut
25 degrees,” said Mr. VonHerrmann,
“with a severe and Killing frost, fa
vosed by the dampness remaining
from the recent ramm. Saturday will
bhe fair, and probably with a rising
temperature after midday, so that the
afternoon will not be unpleasantly
cold.”
" The vast rush of cold air down
from the great .\'urthwnét wag re
sponsible for the suddenness and se
verity of the change Thursday night.
Real Nip Coming Friday.
The thermometer shrank to 32 de
grees Friday morning, and ice was
plentiful. The real nip of the cold
wave, however, will be felt Friday
night, and it might not be a bad idea
(Mr. VonHerrmann fancies) to switch
off the water where pipes are much
exposed to the outside air,
The weather director .t-ls reason
ably, certain that this is the last kick
of the dying winter, and is of the
opinion that the frost will not do se
rious damage, owing to the restrain
ing influence of previous cool weather
on vegetation,
Snow General North,
Snow fell during the night in Virginia,
Tennessee, Texas Oklahoma, Alabama
and North Georgia, and Friday morn
ing the temperature began dropping,
In Richmond six inches of snow
covered the ground at 9 o'clock Fri
day, and 1n Baltimore a heavy snow
storm sent the thermometer below
the freezing point, The snow was
general throughout Tennessee, Nash
ville having the heaviest snowfall in
three years, while &t Memphis and
Chattanooga and many of the smaller
towns heavy snowfalls were reported,
In Atlanta the rain of Thursday
afternoon and evening was followed
riday by a cold snap that sent the
mercury in the weather bureau's
thermometer down two degrees in
les® than two hours. At 7 o'clock,
ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1914.
LAYS GRAFT TO CONVICT GUARDS
Georgia Child Labor
C t((;I'I;' Terribl
ondaitions lerripie,
Says A.J. McKelway
Dr. A. J. McKelway, a nationally
famous Child Labor expert, passel
through Atlanta Friday, en route to
Washington from New Orleans, where
he has been attending a conference
on child labor. Dr. McKelway com
mented vigorously on published ut
terances defending Georgia's child
labor laws, declaring that conditions
in this State are terrible.
“Georgia is the last place on earth
that should defend her child labor
laws,” said Dr. McKelway, “Ten
year-old children are allowed to work,
in the cotton mills of this State, a
condition that prevails nowhere else
in the country. The child labor laws
of Georgia are virtually no lawy atl
all, for all the good they do. |
“A defense of the child labor laws
that are now on the statute books of
this State s a defense of child labor,
of the practice of allowing little
children to work ten and twelve
hours a day in the cotton mills.”
Shoots Wife Fatally
And Wounds 3 Others
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WASHINGTON, March 20.—Mrs,
Herbert Kabanski was fatally shm;l
her mother, Mrs. Solomon Raboy, and |
her . brother and husband were :mfld
ously wounded, and Policeman Ecle
wards narrowly escaped death tn-day‘
when Kabanski, a former soldier, tried |
to kill higs wife and her family at her
mother-in-law’s home. 3 I
Kabanski was separated from his
wife and jealousy is said to have
caused the shooting.
2 Held as Burglars
In Jail at Kirkwood
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Fugene and Charlie Broglin, ne
groes, were placed in jail Thursday
at Kirkwood by Marshal Phillips, fol
lowing a hearing Wednegday on a
charge of burglary. |
They were held to the Superinr‘
Court under $2OO bond. The negroas,
it is said, were caught in the act of
entering the home of Colonel W. C.
Cousinas.
Hewlett Will Live
With Japan Lepers
Speclal Cable to The Atlanta Georglan.
LONDON, March 20.—The Rev A.
S. Hewlett, a cousin of the noveliat,
Maurice Hewlett, has resigned from
St. Paul's Church, Birkenhead, to
spend his time among the lepers at
Kumato, an island off Kyushyu,
Japan,
NEW YORK, March 20.—The will
of the Rev. Cyrus Kisle, filed here,
provides that hik esrate sghall go to
St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church
if masses for 100 years are said ‘or
the repose of his soul and those of
two friends,
the official observation time, the tem
perature was 32 degrees—just freez
ing; and at 8:30 o'clock the ther
mometer registered 30 degrees, a drop
of 2 degrees.
It is not known as vet whether the
(ieorgia peach crop has been injured
by the cold. It was stated Friday at
the office of E. Lee Worshaw, State
Entomologist, that there is little like
lihood that great damage was done,
because the high wind kept frost
from forming.
Eig‘ht Inches in Tennessee,
BRISTOL, TENN., March 20.—The
heaviest snow of the winter is falling
in Bast Tennessee and Southwestern
Virginia to-day. The fall which be
gan at midnight had attained a depth
over the capital to-day.
Kentucky Snow Bound.
LOUISVILLE, KY., March 20.—The
heaviest snow of the winter covers
Kentucky. Roads in many sections
are impassable and farm work, which
was well started, has ceased entirely.
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&Georgla Farmer, After Killing
~ Three, Fires His Home and
Shoots Himself,
VIDALIA, March 20.—Ollie Eu
banks lies at the point of death, with
a hullet in his brain, his wife and two
children are dead. their bodies muti
lated by gashes from an ax and knife,
and nis plantation buildings are fire
scerred anl in ashes as the result of
Foubanks' insane desire to destroy his
family and worldly possessions at his
Kimanuvel County plantation near Oak
Park early to-day.
After Rilling his Tamily Eubanks
walked to the house of a neighbor
named Page a few miles distant, and
related the details of the crime to
Page's sun, whem he had called from
Bed, tettmg-wime that e had “fived In
trouble and torment for five years”
and that he as now on his “road to
hell,” and warted his family with
him.
Slays Mis Family.
Fubanks is said to have stated that
he had some dispute with his wife
during the night, and that he had
knocked her out of bed with a knife,
later going for an ax, with which he
tried to hack off her head. Next, he
went to the crib of an infant daugh
ter, where he stuck the knife in her
head, killing her instantly Later he
pulled another child, a girl 6 years
old, across the foothoard of her littie
bed and ent her throat with the same
iknife.
Not satisfied with the destruction
alrédady wrought, Eubanks lighted a
torch and set fire to every out-build
ing and the Eubanks home, after
which he filled the well mouth full of
trash and destroyed the well bucket
and rope, so that no water <ould be
procured to stop the fires bhe had
started. .
Shoots Self in Head.
After relating the details of his
deeds to the Page boy, he ordered
him to call Page from the house.
While the boy was gone to get his
father KEubanks pulled a .44-caliber
pistol from his pocket and fired a bui
let into his own Il"';llI *Physicians say
he will die While Eubanks was at
the Page farm some plantation ne
groes discovered the fires he had
started and extinguished that in the
lEUI)HHI\‘H home before the bodies of
ilhf- glain family had been burned.
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Pastor F. A, Line Will
Preach on Frank Case
| The Frank case will be discussed
by the Rev. Fred A Line at the Uni
versalist (‘hurch, No. 16 East Harris
street, Runday morning., His subject
will be “Vital Aspects of the Frank
Case.”
Mrs. Mclendon, State president of
' the FEqual Suffrage Association, and
Leonard Grossman will speak on the
subject of “Kqual Suffrage -A Moral
Issue,” at the evening service,
.
Wilson and Huerta
.
Are in Same Boat
NEW YORK, March 20.—Wilson
Huerta arrived here to-day. They are
the twin sons of Marianna IFlorio*'i
rat, Mexican Consu! at Philadelphia,
ind his wife, who arrived on the Ward
liner Morro (astle from Mexico, The
twins were born at sea on St. Pat
rick's Day.
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Prisoner Shot by ‘Boss’ Says
Capt. Donaldson Was Defended
With ‘Frame-up’ Evidence.
James A. Harris, a 20-year qonvict,
caused something of a stir in the
Criminal Division of the Superior
Court Friday when, as a witness in
the case of Clyde A. Thomason, for
mer convict camp boss, on trial for
whipping a convict, he declared that
gsome of the evidence in favor of
Thomason had been manufactured
by Captain Tom Donaldson, former
ly County Superintendent of Public
Works., Harris also declared that the
guards at the Adamsville camp and
some of the county police with whom
he hda come in contact sinee big im
prisonment, were as “fine a bunch of
mfl:r";m?i?'“;\"(:\'fix‘ fiad met. ;
Thomason is on trial for the whip
ping of James Brannon, a convict, At
the conclusion of this hearing another
case, charging assault to murder, will
be heard. The former camp boss is
charged with shooting James Harris,
the witness who accused Donaldson of
“framing” testimony
Ask Indictments Be Quashed.
Ben Conyers and Luther Rosser,Sr.,
attornevs representing Thomason, at
the bheginning of the hearing Friday
moved to quash the indictment on
the ground that Philip Weltner, sec
retary of the Prison Reform Associa
tion, was in the Grand Jury room at
the time the charges against Thoma
son were being investigated and that
Weltner practically conducted the
prosecution there The attorneys
contended that Weltner had no au
thority there and that because of hils
activity in the matter the true bill
was not legal
Mr. Weltner admitted on the wit
nesg stand that he was in the Grand
Jury room at the time of the inves
tigation. but said he was not there
at the time the indictment was drawn,
He said he aided the Grand Jury in ta
recent probe of the convict camps, and
that the case of Thomason came up in
the course of the general investiga
tion.
Judge Ben Hill overruled the mo
tion to quasgh the indictment,
Lashed for Criticising “Boss.”
Brannon was the first witness
called by the State. He said that he
had been lashed by Thomason on e
cember . 19, 1913, because on the day
hefore he had caid, after witnessing
the shooting of Harrig, “Oh, God! vou
murdered that man, and it was a cruel
and cowardly murder,” Following
this assertion, he said that Thomason
threatened to get even.
The next day he was given nine or
ten lashes across the bare back. The
gtrap was about four feet long, three
and one-half inches wide and one
quarter inch thick,
After the first blow, Brannon said
he begged for merecy, but that Thom
ason pald no heed to his cries, He
said that he didn’'t know he had vio
lated a rule when he expressed his
opinion of the shooting of Harris,
At the time of this trouble Bran
non said that Harris himself and a
number of others were all chained
together.
Heard Lashed Man's Cries.
William Flynn, a convict, who wit
nessed the whipping of Brannon,
when called by the State, said that
the lashing had been one of the most
cruel ever given in the famp. He
said that he was working in the yard
and heard Brannon's cries for mercy.
Harris was the next witness, He
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Thief Bags Thirteen
Chickens in Visit to
Colonel Peel’s Roost
Chicken thieves early Friday morn
ing raided the chicken coops of Colo
nel W. L. Peel, president of the
American National Bank, who lives
at No. 1339 Peachtree street. Six Buff
Orpingtons and seven Rhode Island
Reds were stolen. C(‘olonel Peel noti
fied the police.
It is thought that the same thieves
enterej the groc-er,i' store of J. H.
Barrett, No. 1212 Peachtree street.
Entrance was gained through a back
window. A large quantity of oats
and corn was taken. ‘
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‘Jim, Can You Tango
? Asks Hill
Yet?' Taft Asks Hi
ST. PAUL, March 20.—" Hello, Jim
Hill.” said former President Taft
when met by the veteran railroad
builder as he arrived for a speaking
engagement in the twin cities.
“Hello, judge; how are you?’ Mr.
Hill shouted.
“1 feel like a four-year-old,” Mr.
Taft answered.
“l feel as young as you do,’” Mr.
Hill came back.
“Jim, cail you iango yei?”
“I can't, but 1 could if I wanted to."‘
St o oA d
Robert Lansing Made’
Counsellor to Bryan
AR A N
WASHINGTON March 20.-<Robert
L.ansing, of New York, was to-day
nominated by President Wilson to be
counsellor of the State Department
to succeed John Bassett Moore.
Cone Johnson, of Texas, was nomi
nated by the President to be Solicitor
of the State Department, succeeding
Joseph W. Folk, who recently re
signed to become chief counsel to the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Bavaria Opens New
.
War on Standard Oil
Speclial Cable to The Atlanta Georglan.
MUNICH, March 20.—Another fight
against the Standard Oil Company in
Germany was begun to-day by lhel
Bavarian Government. The Govern
ment issued a decree prohibiting the
delivery of that company's product.
Fears that the American company
would gain a monopoly led to this
action,
.
Took Stamps to Write
To Wife to ll)A.void Suit
PHILLIPSTOWN., N. J., March 20,
William Keenan, arrested for stealing
two postage stamps, sald he had tu
write a letter to his wife everv day ‘o
keep from being arrested for aban
donment, I
HEN night
\IX/ comes, you,
who have no
homes, wish to have a
comfy room, bath, clean
linen, and a comforta
ble bed in which to re
pose in sleeping rest.
And it is a provident
hand that leads you to
such. The character of
the advertisers in the
“Want Ad" section of
The American and
Georgian, under the
caption of Rooms for
Rent, warrants you to
make a ready selection,
and with whom depends
only upon the locality
in which you wish to
live.
SUNDAY AMERICAN
HOME.
Detective Declares He Has Found
No Evidence of Deliberate
~ Plot on Frank, i
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A. S. Colyar, dictographer,
quondam lawyer and mysterious
fAgure in the Phagan murder case,
}has been brought into _the light
by the latest aectivity of Detec
tive Burns and hié operatives. I
This became known Friday shortl}'\
after the day’s most important devél
opment—Burns' positive declaration
It:\m he already was in a position to
1.-lam- up the mystery of Mary Pha
gan's missing purse and py enveiope
and of the ribbons and flowers miss
ing from her hart
The strange disappearance of the
‘zslain girl’'s mesh bag has remained
ona of the ‘batfling and unexplained
features of the case up to the present.
Jim Conley, havirg never before men
tioned it In any of his sworp state
ments, startled *he courtroom at the
trial of Frank ‘hy ‘declaring that he
caw it on Frank's desk when he went
in to write the I.vrder notes after ths
girl had been killed,
Will Explain All, He Says.
Burns was non-committal vwhen he
was asked if he actually had found
the missing articles or simply had
ascertained their dfsposition by the
murderer,
“1 will explain everything abeut the
mesh bag, the pay envelope and the
other articles when my final report
igs made,” he promised.
‘ Another important contribution te
the day's developments came in the
‘shm\o of an interview with Henry F.
‘Hm'kor, former maste mechanic at
Ithp pencil factory, by The Georgian's
correspondent In Irvington, N. J. It
luas on an old order pad used by
Becker in 1909 that the death notes
were written by Conley.
' Becker in his interview with The
Georgian representative expressed his
firm belief in the innocence of Frank
and declared that he was confident
‘that Jim Conley, whom he knew as a
worthless, no-account negro, was the
person who slew the little girl
Burns admitted Friday that he had
located Colvar in an Alabama eity
and that his men were investigating
every incident of Colyar's connection
with the murder mystery, including
his alleged effort to obtain by a $l,OOO
bribe testimony defamatory to Frank’s
character
Says Colyar Ought To Be in Jail.
“If all I hear about his man is true,
he ought to be in jail,” said Burns.
“] imagine he hag& been successful in
escaping much of the imprisonment
which he deserves not so much be
cause he is clever, but because the
authorities think he is not entirely re
sponsible.”
Burns will find out every detail of
Colyar's connection with the detective
department and with Chief Lanford,
for whom i. «= generally understood
he was working when he dictographed
(‘olot | Thomas B. Felder and Mayor
Woodward. The detective wishes to
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