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Suffragists Win a
Victogry in Senate
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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 37.
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 amepgment 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 36 to 34.
500 Fight Fire to Save
U. 8. 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 Cruz 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
is believed all will be accounted for.
All the help available will be sent
from here.
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@Girl 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, 19, who ran away from
home to realize her stage ambitions.
A charge of embezzling $5OO from a
firm in which her fafler is a partner
has been made against the girl.
MUSIC IN ATLANTA WOMEN’S VOICES
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
VOL. XII. NO. 198.
COLD WAVE ENDANGERS FRUIT CROPS
Mr. and Mrs.
Henry F.
Becker, former
Atlantans, who
declare Frank
is innocent.
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Here to Meet Agents,
-Sees Big Crop Year
; ,I‘- K. Passmore, first vice ' presi
dent of the Penn Mutual Life Insur
ahce 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,
“C’onditions all over appear to me
to be better right now than any pre
vious year. Prospects 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
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Public Service Post
ALBANY, March 20.—Willlam F.
McCombs, chairman of the Democrat
fe National Committee, has declined
Governor Glynn's offer to nominate
him for a position on the First Dis
trict Public Servicg Commission, to
succeed John E. Eustis,
Mr. McCombs' reason for his decli
nation was that he desired to practice
law.
AT A A AT A
THE WEATHER. |
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; Forecast for Atlanta and '
{ Georgia—Rain and colder %
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Read for Profit—GEORGIAN V/ANT 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. F. VonHerrmann, weather fore
caster, is seriously mistaken.
“The temperature will' fall to about
25 degrees,” said Mr. VonHerrmann,
“with a severe and Killing frost, fa
voced by the damypness remaining
from the recent ram. Saturday will
be fair, and probably with a rising
tempergture after midday, so that the
afternoon will not be unpleasantly
cold.”
The vast rush ‘of cold air down
from the great Northwest was re
sponsible for the suddenness and se
verity of the change Thursday night.
| Real Nip Coming Friday.
"~ The thermometer shrank to 32 de
‘grees Iriday 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 feels 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.
I In Richmond six inches of snow
Ivovored tha 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 at Memphis and
(‘hattanooga and many of the smaller
towns heavy snowfalls were reported.
In Atlanta the rain of Thursday
afternoon and evening was followed
Friday by a cold gnap that sent the
mercury in the weather bureau's
thermometer down two degrees In
less than two hours. At 7 o'clock,
ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1914.
CONVICT BOSS IS FOUND GUILTY
Georgia Child Labor
Conditions Terrible,
onairions lerripie,
Says A.J. McKelway
Dr. A. J. McKelway, a nationally
famous C(hild 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,K “Ten
‘year-old children are allowed to work
lin the cotton mills of this State, a
Icondltion that prevails nowhere else
in the country. The child labor laws
of Georgia are virtually no laws at
all, for all the good they do.
“A defense of the child labor laws
that are now on the statute books of
this State is a defense of child labor,
of the practice of allowing little
children to work ten and twelve
hours a day in the cotton milis.”
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’Shoots Wife Fatally
And Wounds 3 Others
WASHINGTON, March 20.—Mrs.
Herbert Kabanski was fatally shot;
her mother, Mrs. Solomon Raboy, and
her brothes .amnd«husband were seri
ously wounded; and Policeman Ed
wards narrowly escaped death to-day
when Kabanski, a former soldier, tried
to kill his wife and her family at her
mother-in-law’s home,
Kabanski was separated from his
wife and jealousy is said to have
caused the shooting.
Hoke Smith Calls
Vocational Board
ocatlonal Board
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WASHINGTON, March 20.—Sena-1
tor Hoke #mith, chairman of the]
Commission on Vocational Education,
recently appointed by the President,
has ca¥led a meeting in Wa..shington!
for Apnil 2. I
Representative Hughes, of Geor'gia.l
is the other Southern member of the
commission, i
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Hewlett Will Live
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~ With Japan Lepers
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‘Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
. LONDON, March 20.—The Rev A.
IS. Hewlett, a cousin of the novelist,
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 his estate suall go tu
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
Georgia peach crop has been Injured
by the cold. It was stated Friday at
the office of E. L.ee Worshaw, Stata
Entomologist, that there is little like.
lthood 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 East 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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Georgia Farmer, After Killing
Three, Fires His Home and
- Shoots Himself. ‘
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VIDALIA, March 20.—Ollie Eu- |
banks lics at the point of death, with‘
a bullet in his brain, his wife and two
children are dead, their bodies muti
lated by gashes from an ax and knife,
and nis plantatl(m buildings are fire
scerred and in ashes as the result of
'Eubanks’ insane derire to destroy his
family and worldly possessions at his
Emanuel County plantation near Oak
Park early to-day. ‘
| After killing his family Eubanks
walked to the house of a neighbor
named Page a few miles distant, and
Irelmed the details of the crime to
Page's son, whom he had called from
bet “telling Mmy - that e had “Mved in
|troublp and torment for five years,”
and that he as now on his “road to
Ihe]l,“ and warted his family with
him,
‘ Slays His Family.
! Eubanks is said to have stated that
he had some dispute with his wife
Iduring the night, and that he had
)knm‘kod 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 vears
old, across the footboard of her little
bed and cut her throat with the same
i knife.
. Not satisfled with the destruction
’3l"‘“o.\' 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
:lrash and destroyed the well bucket
'and rope, so that no water could be
procured to stop the fires he had
' started.
Shoots Self in Head.
| After relating the detaiis of his
deeds to the Page boy, he ordered
him to call Page from the house.
' While the hoy was gone.to get his
| father Eubanks pulled a .44-caliber
pistol from his pocket and fired a bul
| let into his own head Physiclans say
he will die. While Eubanks was at
| the Page farm some plantation ne
'gruos discovered the fires he had
| started and extinguished that in the
Eubanks home before the bodies of
the sla™ family had been burned
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Builder Stricken
In Doctnr's Office
|- W, T. Ward, aged ). a contractor
‘ll\'lng at No. 298 Mangum street, 18
[n Grady Hospital I'riday mornin,
following a stroke of apoplexy whiw
at the office of Dr. George A. Vimson
in the Miman Building. He is uncon
scious and littie hope is given for his
recovery.
Mr. Ward was stricken with apo
plexy two vears ago and since that
time has been taking treatments fron
Dr. Vimson Friday morning, whniie
on his way to the doctor's offica, he
felt that he was to be stricken again
He hurried to die office, but the doc
tor was not in. * A few minutes later
he collapsed.
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Wilson and Huerta
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“Are in Same Boat
NEW YORK, March 20.--Wiison
Huerta arrived here to-day. They are
the twin sons of Marianna Florio 'l
rat, Mexican Consul at Philadelphia,
and his wife, who arrived on the Ward
liner Morrn C'astle from Mexico. The
twins were born at sea on St Pat
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Indictment Charging Assault to
Murder Is Dropped at Re
quest of the Solicitor.
James A. Harris, a 20-year convict,
caused something of a stir in thel
Criminal Division of the Superior
Court Friday when, as a witness Inl
the case of Clyde A. Thomason, fors
mer convict camp boss, on trial for
whipping a convict, he declared that|
some of the evidence in favor of
Thomason had been manufa(‘mredl
by Captain Tom Donaldson, former- |
ly County Superintendent of Public |
Works, Harris also declaréd that the
guards at the Adamsville camp and
‘some of the county police with whom
he had dome in contact since his im
prisonment, were as “fine a bunch of
Igrafters" as he ever had met.
| Thomason was 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 was
also charged with shooting James
Harris, the witness who accused Don
‘aldson of framing” testimony.
Thomason was found guilty on the
'assault and battery charge and at lhel
request of the request of the Soliei
tor the indictment for assault with
intent to murder was quashed. Mr.
Dorsey said he did not think the in
dictment could be prosecuted on ac
count of the character of the com
plaining convict and certain circum
stances that had been explained to
him.
Judge Hill imposed a fine of $2OO
or twelve months imprisonment on
the convicted boss.
Ask Indictments Be Quashed.
Ben Conyers and Luther Rosser,Sr.,
attorneys representing Thomason, at
the beginning of the hearing Friday
moved to quash the indictment on
the ground tha' Philip Weltner, sec
retary of the Prison Reform Associa
tion, was in the Grand Jury room at
the time the charges against Thoma
gson 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 his
activity in the matter the true bill
was not legal
Mr. Weltner admitted on the wit
ness stand that he was in the Grand
Jury room &t the time of the inves
| tigation, but said he was not there
at the time the indictment was drawn.
I He said he aided the Grand Jury in !ts
recent probe of the convict camps, and
that the case of Thomason came up in
the course of the general investiga
]llnn
| Judge Ben Hill overruled the mo
tion to quash the indictment,
Lashed for Criticising “Boss.”
Brannon was the first witnesss
called by the State., He said that he
had been lashed by Thomason on De
lr'vmhr-r 19, 1913, because on the day
| hefore he had said, after witnessing
the shooting of Harrig, “Oh, God! you
murdered that man, and it was a cruel
and cowardly murder.” Following
this assertion, he said that Thomason
threatened to get even
william Flynn, a convict, who wit
nesged the whipping of Brannon,
when called by the State, said that
the lagshing had been one of the most
eruel ever given In the camp. He
sald that he was working in the yard
and heard Brannon's cries for mercy.
i 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. (‘olonel Peel noti
fled the police.
It is thought that the same thieves
enterel the grocery 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
.
Yet? Taft Asks Hill
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.
“I feel like a four-year-old,” Mr.
Taft answered.
“l 1 feel as young as vou do,” Mr.
Hill came back.
“Jim, can vou tango vet?"
“I can’t, but I could if T wanted to.”
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Robert Lansing Made
Counsellor to Bryan
WASHINGTON, March 20.—Robert
Lansing, of New York, was to-day
nominated by President Wilson to be
counsellor of the State Department
to succeed John Bassett Moore,
C'one Johnson, of Texas, was nomi
nated by the President to be Salicitor
of the State Department, succeeding
Joseph W. Folk, who recently re
signed to become chief counsel to the
Interstate Commerce (‘ommission.
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Bavaria Opens New
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War on Standard Oil
Special Cable to The Atianta Georglan.
MUNICH, March 20.—Another fight
against the Standard Oil Company in
Germany was begun to-day by the
Bavarians 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.
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Took Stamps to Write
To Wife to Avoid Suit
PHILLIPSTOWN, N. J., March 20.
William Keenan, arrested for stealing
two postage stamps, said he had to
write a letter to his wife everv day ‘o
keep from being arrested for aban
donment. 3
\VJHEN night
. 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
EDITION
Detective Declares He Has Found
No Evidence of Deliberate
Plot on Frank.
A. S. Colyar, dictographer,
quondam lawyer and mysterious
fgure in the Phagan murder case,
has been brought into the ligh*
:hy the latest activity of Detgf:
‘tivo Burns and his operatives.
~ This became known Friday shortly
after the day’'s most immportant devels
opment—Burns’ positive declaration
that he already was in a [)OGI(I(\II’tO
clear up the mystery of Mary Pha
gan's missing purse and py envelope
and of the rtbbons and flowers miss
ng from her hai
The strange disappearance of the
sialn girl's mesh bag has remained
one of the baftling and unexplained
features of the case up to the present.
Jim Conley, havirg never before men
tioned it in any of his sworn state
ments, startled ‘he courtrcom at the
trial of Frank by declaring that he
gaw it on Frank's desk when he went
in to write the I.irrder notes after the
girl had been killed.
Will Explain All, He Says.
. Burns was non-committal wnhen he
was asked If he actually had found
the missing articles or simply had
ascertained their disposition by the
murderer
“I will explain everything about the
megh bag, the pay envelope and the
other articles when my final report
is made,” he promised.
Another important contribution to
the dav's developments came in the
shape of an interview with Henry F.
Becker, former maste mechanic at
the pencil factory, by The Georgilan's
correspondent In Irvington, N. J. It
was on an old order pad used by
Becker in 1900 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 &a& &
worthless, no-account negro, was the
person who slew the little girl.
Burns admitted Friday that he had
located Colyar in an Alabama city
and that his men were investigating
every Incident of Colyvar's connection
with the murder mystery, including
his alleged effort to obtain by a $l,OOO
bribe testimony drfnmmnl'_\' to Frank's
character
Says Colyar Ought To Be in Jail,
“If ail 1 hear about this man is true,
he ought to be in jail,” said Burns,
| imagine he has 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
(‘olvar's connection with the detective
department and with Chief Lanford,
for whom | generallv understood
he was working when he dictographed
('olor | Thomas B. Felder and Mayor
Woodward. The detective wishes to
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