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Following Defeat
WASHINGTON, March 20.—Advo- |
cates of woman suffrage won a \‘h--I
tory in the Senate to-day by defeat-'
ing a motion by Senator Bryan tn‘
refer to the Judiciary Committee a
newly introduced woman suftrage
amendment presented by Senator
Shafroth. The motion to refer the
proposed amendment to the Judiciary
Committee was defeated, 25 to :}7“
The resolution for the amendment
then went to the Committee on \\-U,,‘
man Suffrage. ‘
Though defeated yesterday in their
effort to secure a two-thirds vote for
a constitutionai amendment giving |
women the right to vote, =uffrage
leaders weic jubilant to-day because
the ballot in the Scnate 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 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 he accounted for.
All the:help available will be sent
from here.
Girl Held as Thief
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, whoran away from
home to realize her stage ambitions.
A charge of embezzling $5OO 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
COLD WAVE ENDANGERS FRUIT CROPS
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Henry F.
Becker, former
Atlantans, who
declare Frank
is innocent.
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Life Insurance Head, |
. Here to Meet Agents,
Sees Big Crop Year
~ Sees Big Crop Year
1. K. Passmore, first vice presi-i
dent of the Penn Mutual Life Insur-"
ance Company, is in Atlanta to at-l
tend the meeting of the agents of |
the Bagley and Willet hmuram‘e}
agency at the Piedmont Hotel. Mr. |
Passmore is returning to Philadelphia I
after an extended tour of the South,
having visited all agvnvies of thel
company
“Conditions all fover appear to me
to be better right now than any pre
vious year. Prospects for a bumper
crop are excellent,” he said.
“The Penn Mutua! 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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i ALBANY, March 20.—William F.
! McCombs, chairman of the Democrat
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|le National Committee, has declined
| Governor Giynn's offer to nominate
| him for a position on the First Dis
| trict. Public Service Commission, to
| succeed Johfi E. Eustis.
| Mr. McCombs' reason for his decli
l nation was that he desired to practice
| law.
| B T SRS e
| RAILROAD WINS SUIT.
{ GADSDEN, ALA. March 20.—The
i_]ll!"\’ in the cagse of M. R, Brewer
|against the Nasghville, Chattanooga
jand St. Louis Railway returned a
{verdict in favor of the defendant to
!day. Brewer sued for $3,000 because
ithz- depot at Mountainboro was noi
open when he alighted from a train
lut that place.
Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results
VOL. XL Bo). 198,
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The vast rush of cold air down
‘rrum the great Northwest was re
|>‘punsibio for the suddenness and se
'\'prity of the change Thursday night.
Snow fell during.the night in Virginia,
Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabanm:a
and North Georgla, and Friday morn
ing the temperature began dropping.
In Richmond six inches of snow
covered th- 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 st Memphis and
(‘hattanooga and many of the smaller
towns heavy snnwfalls were reported.
} In Atlanta the rain of Thursday
afternoon and evening was followed
lli‘rldn.\- by a cold snap that sent the
mercury in the weather bureau's
fhermometer down two degrees in
less than two hours. At 7 o'clock,
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 K. L.ee Worshaw, State
Entomologist, that there is little Hke
lihood that great damage was done,
becanse the high wind kept frost
from forming.
Eight Inches in Tennessee.
BRISTOI, TENN, March 20,--The
heaviest snow o' the winter is falling
in East Tennessee and Southwestern
Virginia to-day. The fall which be
gan at midnight had attained a depth
I over sthe capital to-day.
Kentucky Snow_ Bound.
LOUISVILLE, KY., March 20.— The
heaviest snow of the winter covers
Kentucky. Roadg in many sections
| are impassable .nd farm work, which
‘ was well started, has ceased entirely.
i NEGRO SLAYER CAUGHT.
AWILMINGTON, N. C,, March 20—
After an exciting chase, which eon
tinued almost a!l nigkt. Alfred Lynch,
a negro, charged with the murder of a
white man named Hatc i, fgreman of a
lumbet camp in Onslow Cbunty, was
captured. The negro attacked Hatch
with a knife, almost severing his head
from his body. :
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1914.
CONVICT BOSS IS FOUND GUILTY
Georgia Child Labor !
eorgla uill apor !
Conditions Terrible,
onaitions Lerripie,
-Says A.J. McKelway
Dr. A. J. McKelway, a nationally
famous Child Labor expert, passed
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 chi\dl
labor laws, declaring that condinnnsi
in this State are terrible. l
~ “Georgia is the last place on earth|
‘that should defend her child labor |
laws,” said Dr. McKelway, “Ten-%
‘_\'ear-old children are allowed to work
in the cotton mills of this State, a'
condition ‘hi'il prevails nowhere else
in the country. The child labor laws'
iot 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 Ii((le‘
children to work ten and twelve
hours a day in the cotton mills.” |
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Shoots Wife Fatally
- And Wounds 3 Others
1 WASHINGTON, March 20.—Mrs.
Herbert Kabanski was fataily shot]
lh(-r mother, Mrs. Solomon Raboy, and
her brother and husband were seri
ously wounded, and Policeman Kd
wards narrowly escaped death to-day
when Kabanski, a former soldier, tried
to kill his wife and her famMy at her
mother-in-law’s home. “
Kabanski was separated from his
wife and jealousy is said to have
caused the shooting.
Slayer of Companion
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Held Guilty by Jury
GREENSBORO, N. C., March 20.—
Guilty of manslaughter was the ver
dict returned to-day by the jury in
the Guilford County Superior Court
tryving John Nalls, a foung white man
of High Point, charged with the mur
der of Edgar Craven, his companion.
After a trial of many sensational
features, the casxe went to the jury at
5 o'clock vesterday afternoon. The
case has attracted attention through
out this section, both the defendant
and the deceased being of prominent
families.
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Hoke Smith Calls
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Vocational Board
"WASHINGTON, March 20.—Sena- |
tor Hoke Smith, chairman of tha:
Commission on Vocational Education,
recently appointed by the President,
has called a meeting in Washington |
for April 2.
Representative Hughes, of Georgia, |
sis the other Southern member of !hel
| comimission, |
{Hewl&tWill Live
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| With Japan Lepers
'Speclal Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, March 20.—-The Rev A,
8. Hewlett, a cousin of the noveliat,
Maurice Hewlett, has resigned from
Bt. Paul's Church, Birkenhead, to
spend his time among the lepers at
Kumato, an island off Kyushyy,
[Japan.
Church Gets Estate
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'For 100 Years Masses
! NEW YORK, March 20.—The wi!l
|of the Rev. Cyrus Kisle, flled here,
fi»rovhh-v that his estate sauall go to
lSt. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
lif masses for 100 vears are said for
ltho repose of hig soul and those of
| two friends.
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| FEVER RECORD BROKEN,
WILMINGTON, N. C,, March 20,
Breaking a record of 50 years, Wil
lmmztnn was entirely free of typhold
fever from the last of December until
now. The present case is that of a
non-resident, Records show that the
ldiseuw has been here continuously for
50 vears, with the gingle break.
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Georgia Farmer, After Killing
Three, Fires His Home and
Shoots Himself.
VIDALISA, March 20.—Ollie KEu
banks lies at the point of death, with
a bullet in his brain, his wife and.t\\'()
children are dead, their bodies muti
lated by gashes from an ax and knife,
and nis plartation buildings are fire
scorred and in ashes as the result of
Eubanks' insane desire to destroy his
family and worldly possessions at his
Emanuel County plantation near Oak
Park early to-day.
After Kkilling his family Eubanks
walked to the house of a neighbor
named Page a few miles distant, and
related the details of the crime to
Page's son, whom he had called from
bel, telling him that he had “lived in
trouble and torment for five years
and that he as now on his “road to
hell,” and warted his family with
him,
Stays His Pamily.
Fubanks is said to have stated that
he had some dispute with his wife
during the night, and that he had
knocked her out aof bed with a knife,
latpr 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, & girl 6 years
old, across the footboard of her little
bed and ~ut her throat with the same
knife
Not satisfied with the destruction
already wrought, FEubanks 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 could be
procured to stop the fires he 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 Eubanks pulled a .44-caliber
pistol from his pocket and fired a bui
let into his own head Physicians say
he will die. While Eubanks was atl
the Page farm some plantation ne
groes discovered the fires he had‘
started and extinguished that in the
Kubanks home befofe the bodies of
the slain family had been burned.
Builder Stricken
In Doctor's Office
l W. T. Ward, aged !, . vontractor
}H\'ing at No. 388 Maugum street, is
in Grady Hospital Wrida; morning
following a stroke of apoplexy while
at the office of Dr. George A. Vimson
in the Inman Building. He is uncon
gcious and littie hope i glven for his
recovery.
| Mr. Ward was stricken with apo
plexy two years ago and since tnhat
time has been taking treatments frn-‘nA
Pr., Vimson Friday inorning, while
on hig way to the doctor's office, he
felt that he was to be stricken again,
He hurried to the office, but the doce
tor was not in. A few minutes latgr
he collapsed.
Wilson and Huerta
Are in Same Boat
| NEW YORK, March 20.—Wilson
| Huerta arrived here to-day. They are
the twin sons of Marianna Florio i~
rat, Mexlcan Consul! at Philadelphia,
and his wife, who arrived on the Ward
liner Morro Castle from Mexico., The
twins were born at sea on St. Pat
| rick’s Day.
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Indictment Charging Assault to|
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Murder Is Dropped at Re- |
quest of the Solicitor. ,
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James A. Harris, a 20-year convict, |
caused something of a stir in the|
Criminal Division of the Snporiori
Court Friday when, as a witness in |
‘the case of Clyde A. Thomason; for
~mer convict camp boss, on trial for |
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whipping a convict, he declared that
some of the evidence in favor of!
'Thomason had been manufa«'mredl
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by Captain Tom Donaldson, former- |
‘l_\' County Superintendent of I’uh!ivl
l Works. Harris also declared that the
guards at the®Adamsville camp and
some of the county police with whom
he had come in contact since his im
prisonment, were as “fine a bunch of
grafters” as he ever had met
Thomason was on trial for the whip
ping. of James Brannon, a convict. At
the cenclusion of this hearing another
case, charging assault to murder, will
be heard. The former camp bhoss was
alsa charged with shooting James
Harris, the witness who accused Don
aldson of framing’ testimony.
Thomason was found guilty on the
asgault and battery charge and at the
'T“q\lé.fll of the request of the Solici
tor the indictment for assault with
|intom to murder was quashed. Mr.
'!)urnoy sald he did not think the in
dictment could be prosecuted on ac
count of the character of the com
plaining conviet and certain circum
stances that had been explained to
him.
Judge Hfll 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 that P’hilip Weltner, uec-l
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 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 at the time of the inves
tigation, but said he was not there
' al the time the indictment was drawn,
| He said he aided the Grand Jury in !ts
recent probe of the convict camps, and
that the case of Thomason came up !n
the course of the general investigi
tion.
Judge Ben Hill overruled the mo
tion to quash 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 De
cember 19, 1913, because on the day
Ih(-f()rc\ he had said 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,
| willam Flynn, a convict, who wit
]neued the whipping of Brannon,
winen called by the State, said that
the lashing had been one of the most
cruel ever given in the camp. He
luaid thgt he was working in the yard
and heard Brannon's cries for mercy.
Harrls was the next witness, He
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Thief Bags Thirteen
Chickens in Visit to
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Colonel Peel’s Roost
C'hicken thieves early Friday morn
ing raided the chicken coops of Colo
nel 'W. 1.. Peel, ypresident of the
American National Baak, who lives
at No. 1339 Peachtree streect. Six Buff
Orpingtons and seven Rhode Island
Reds were gtolen. Colonel Peel noti
fied the police,
It is thought that the same thieves
entere ! the grocery store of J. ”'l
Barrett, No. 1212 Peachtree street.
Entrance was gained through a back
window. A large quantity of oats
and cern was taken.
‘Jim, Can You Tango ‘
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Yet? Taft Asks Hill!
ST. PAUL, March 20.-—~'"Hello, Jim
Hili,” 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.
Hl{ll shoutgd. Y 1
“l feel like a four-year-old,” Mr.
Taft answered, ; {
“l feel as young as you do,” Mr.
Hill came back. |
“Jim, can you tango yet?” \
“I can’t, but T could if I wanted to,”
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Robert Lansing Made.
Counsellor to Bryan
WASHINGTON March 20.—Robert
Lansing, of "New York, was tb-day
nominated by President Wilson to be
covngellor of the State Department
to succeed John Bassett Moore,
(CCone 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
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- War on Standard Oil
‘Speclai Cable to The Atlanta Georglan.
MUNICH, March 20.— Another fight
against the Standard Oil Company in
Germany was begun to-day by the
Bavarian Government. The Govern
’m 't issued a decree prohibiting the
| delivery of that company's product.
i Fears that the American company
im.nld galn 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
!i\"(-p from heing arrested for aban
i donment.
\V/H EN 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.
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Detective Declares He Has Found *
No Evidence of Deliberate
. Plot on Frank. .
A. S. Colyar, dictographer,
quondam lawyer and mysterious
jgure in the Phagan murder case,
ihas been brought into the ligh%
Ihy the latest activity of Detees
tive Burns and his aoperatives.
' This became known Friday shortly
fter the~day's—meost iinDortantideveds s
opment--Burns' nositive decldaration °
that he already wasg In a position te
clear up the mystery of Mary Phl-'f
’g.m's,miusing purse and py onvelopci
;and of the ribbons and flowers miss<’
‘ng from her hat
The strange disappearance of the
slain girl’'s mesh bag has remained:
one of the batfling and unexplained
features of the case up to the present.’
Jim Conley, havirg uever before men<
tioned it in any of his sworn state
lnwsn(s. startled ‘he courtroom at the
tria! of Frank by declaring that he
saw it on Franik's desk when he went
in 1o write the lorrder notes after ths
girl had been killec,
Will Explain All, He Says.
Burns was non-committal when he ;
was asked If he actually had found
the missing articles or simply had
ascertained their disposition by the
murderer,
“1 will explain everything about the
mesh bag, the pay envelope and the
other articles when my final report
ig made,” he promised.
i Another important contribution to %
the day's developments came in the
lshap? of an interview with Henry F.
Becker, former. maste mechanic at
the pencil factory, by The Georgian's
correspondent in Irvington, N. J. 1€
was on an old order pad used by
}Hm‘kor in 1909 that the death notes
were written by Conley.
| Becker in his interview with The
iHeorgxan representative expressed his
'flrm belief in the Innocence of Frank
and declared that he was confident
{rh:n Jim Conley, whom he knew as &
worthless, no-account negro, was the
ipm'snn who slew the little girl
| Burns admitted Friday that he had
iln--mmi Colyar in an Alabama city
and that his men were investigating
im'm'v incident of Colyar's connection
with the murder mystery, including
l"w alleged effort to obtain by a $l,OOO
i bribe testimony defamatory to Frank's
;» haracter
Says Colyar Ought To Be in Jail,
“If all 1T hear about this man is true,
he ought to be in jall” said Burns,
“I imagine he nas been successful in
I-w«-umnx much of the imprisonment
. which he deserves not so much bes
cause he is clever, but because the
authorities think he is not entirely res
sponsible.”
Burns will find out every detall of
i"lxl)’|r'n connection with the detective
|department and with Chief Lanford,
[ for whom | generally understood
he was working when he dictographed
‘o'ulu, | Thomas B. Felder and Mayon
|\\'oudward4 The detective wis'ies 1@
| Continued on Page 5, Column 1.