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The Atlanta Georgian
The Paper That Goes Home and Stays There
VOL. XIII. NO. 126.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECPAIBER 30, 1914.
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ALLIES PLAN ATTACK ON TURKISH CAPITAL
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U. D. C. Given Right to Carve Great Monument
To Southern Confederacy in Side of Stone Mountain
War Shows Woman
No Weakling, Says
Mrs. Wm. E. Corey
Allies Claim Proof
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STATE TO HURRY FRANK HEARING
Clerk O. C. Fuller, of the United
States District Court, within the next
few days will certify to the record in
the habeas corpus application of Leo
M. Frank and forward It to the Clerk
of the United States Supreme Court
In Washington as the first definite
step in placing the famous murder
case before that tribunal for the re
view made possible Monday by Unit
ed States Supreme Court Justice La
mar, when he granted a writ of error
on an appeal from the decision of
Judge W. T. Newman,
Solicitor Dorsey will confer Thurs
day with Attorney General Warren
Grice, when the Attorney General re
turns from his Christmas vacation,
and will determine on a course of ac
tion to expedite the proceedings.
It is expected that the Solicitor,
probably with Mr. Grice, will proceed
to Washington as soon as the record
is sent up by Clerk Fuller and move
that the case be advanced on the
docket for an early hearing.
May Be Heard in 90 Days.
If the case is advanced the chances
are that it will be heard within the
next 90 days. Should It be placed on
the docket in regular order, however,
it would not be reached for at least
eighteen months, and possibly two
years.
Clerk Fuller is allowed 30 days in
w'hich to certify the record and send
It to Washington. The record consists
of the original petition for a writ of
habeas corpus, the decision of Judge
Newman denying it, and the excep
tions to this decision filed by Frank’s
lawyers, setting out. the points on
which they alleged the Judge erred.
How Decisions Would Work.
The effect of a decision by the
United States Supreme Court favor
able to Frank would mean another
hearing before Judge Newman on the
question of whether the condeir. ;d
man should be liberated '-'ll on
a habeas corpus writ, according to
the opinion of his counsel. An '-
verse decision would leave the case
where it stands to-day.
There has been much speculation
on this point, as the impression has
prevailed that a favorable decision by
the Supreme Court would mean the
immediate freeing of Frank ..uncut
further hearing, habeas corpus pro
ceedings being based on the sole
question of whether a prisoner is be
ing illegally detained and should be
released.
Attorney Leonard Haas, of counsel
for Frank, said Tuesday that, as no
evidence was heard by Judge New
man when he denied the writ, a re
versal of his decision would ser -he
case back to him for a hearing of evi
dence as to the alleged prevalence of
mob spirit in the courtro. during
the trial of Frank and on his absence
from the courtroom when the verdict
was announced—the points a* *'«ue.
The hearing before the Supreme
Court, Mr. Haas said, would have the
same effect as if the S*- f - -imply had
filed a demurrer to the petition for
habeas corpus and this demurrer were
up for decision.
Should-Judge Newman, after hear
ing evidence both from the State and
from Frank, again deny the writ,
Frank still would have the -ht of
another appeal to the Unite ’ ~ otes
Supreme Court. A reversal of Judge
Newman on this second hearing would
free Fr the -erne as if Judge
Newman should grant the vrit.
Defying Court
Order, Ousts
Husband
Mrs. Alva Hembree, of College
Park, Tuesday was allowed ten days
by Judge W. D. Ellis, of the Superior
Court, in which to eject Alford Ware,
a tenant, from her College Park home
and save herself from punishment
for contempt of court.
Mrs. Hembree was adjudged in con
tempt for alleged violation of . n in
junction issued last December by Su
perior Court Judge J. T. Pendleton,
restraining her from disposing of this
property or from altering Its status in
any way.
Mrs. Hembree’s husband, A. I. Hem
bree, clerk in a West Mitchell street
place of business, had his wife cited
for contempt on the ground that she
had "altered the status of the proper
ty" by removing his belongings from
the house during his absence and
renting the place to Ware.
Divorce Suit is Pending.
Hembree and his wife have been
separated since November last year,
It was shown, but since that time had
continued to live in the College Park
home, occupying separate apartments.
Divorce proceedings were instituted
by Mrs. Hembree last June, but still
husband and wife remained under the
same roof. This situation continued
until about two months ago, when Mrs.
Hembree rented out the place while
the husband was absent. The divorce
proceedings are pending.
Attorneys Hines and Jordan argued
that Mrs. Hembree had acted in good
faith, and that she meant no contempt
of the court; that she was in need of
money and that the husband, when
he left the home, declared he might
never return.
Receiver To Be Asked.
Attorney J. F. Golightly, represent
ing the husband, told the court he did
not want to be harsh with Mrs. Hem
bree, but urged that the original
status of the property should be re
stored In order that Hembree’s inter
ests could be protected.
Judge Ellis said he didn’t think
Mrs. Hembree meant any harm by
renting the property, but declared
court orders must be obeyed. He was
disinclined to punish Mrs. Hembree if
she would get rid of her tenant and
leave ^he property as it was original
ly, to be finally disposed of through "dared.
the courts.
Attorney Jordan announced
would file an application for a
ceiver for the property.
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Four Dreadnoughts
Urged for U,S, Navy
WASHINGTON, Dec. °9.—Fout
dreadnoughts and two new v sttle
cruisers will be urged In a resolution
by Representative Stephens, of Cali
fornia, in the House Naval Commit
tee.
Mr. Stephens also favors the con
struction of sixteen submarines in
stead of eight, recommended by Sec
retary of the Navy Daniels
2 Southern States
Begin Fair Buildings
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29.—Work
will be begun at once on the Alabama
and Texas buildings at the Panama-
Pacific Exposition.
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TB GIL B K
Great Britain’s action In placing
resinous products \and turpentine In
the list of absolute contraband of war
will be disastrous to the interests of
South Georgia, and, indeed, to all
Georgia, if It is maintained, in the
opinion of Charles J. Haden, Atlanta
attorney and president of the Georgia
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Haden’s statement to The Geor
gian followed the protest made on
Great Britain’s policy in a telegram
from Governor Slaton to Secretary of
State Bryan, and is of the highest In
terest In v^ew of America's formal
note of protest and warning against
Britain’s attitude Just presented*^
the English Foreign Secretary,*l§»ir
Edward Grey. '
Mr. Haden is as well the president
of the Chandler Land Corporation, an
organization which owns 120,000 acres
of yellow pine land, and, therefore,
probably the most extensive producers
of resinous products.
Lumber Trade Hard Hit.
Mr. Haden’s protest, as he explained
it Tuesday, bore the note of expert
authority.
"Not only willt he naval stores busi
ness suffer,” he said, "but the lumber
and crosstie industry is so intimately
associated with the other that it will
suffer if free traffic in our turpen
tine and resin is not allowed.
"Thus, with a lumber business
amounting to $25,000,000 a year, and
a naval stores business amounting to
more than $6,000,000 a year, Georgia
will feel keenly the blow of an ac
tion such as Great Britain has de-
State Department
Spineless as Worm,
Says Jas. R, Mann
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Declarer
"there is not as much nerve in the State
Deartment as would supply an angle
worm,” Minority Leader Mann made a
bitter attack in the House to-day on the
Administration’s Mexican policy.
"There have been executions, murders,
starvation and rapine in Mexico," he
said. “We are preventing any one else
from restoring order there and yet we
do nothing ourselves. We have as much
nerve in our State Department as would
supply an angle worm. If the Adminis
tration had the proper conception of our
duty we could easily bring order out of
chaos and could it without going to
war.”
Turning from Mexico, Minority Leader
Mann referred to the action of England
in interrupting American commerce on
the seas and said:
"We ought to keep out of entangling
alliances in the European war, but we
should not resign all our rights. England
has been persistently seizing neutral
ships and cargoes and carrying them
into her own ports. I know of one
American vessel kept in an English port
with a perishable cargo since Novem
ber 5.
"I am glad that the Administration is
taking the position that we have our
rights on the sea. both as regards Eng
land and Germany and others. There is
no danger of going to war because we
stand up for these rights. England
could not afford a war with us and
neither could Germany,"
■1915 School Budget
.Asks for $730,000
Would Paralyze Many Counties.
“It is to be hoped that the protest
of Secretary Bryan will prevail with
the British authorities, and that the
embargo will be lifted.
“Otherwse. it will mean practically
a paralysis of Southeast Georgia and
Florida, where everything is wrapped
up in the naval stores business, even
to the affairs of the small merchant.
In at least fifteen or sixteen counties
It is the dominant industry.”
Mr. 1 Haden produced a publication
of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce
to explain the extent and value of
the turpentine and rosin industry in
Georgia. The latest census figures
showed that 8,056,752 gallons of tur
pentine were produced in a single
year, at a value of $3,556,965, and
904,103 barrels of rosin, valued at
$3,371,676.
The following statement, pointed
out by Mr. Haden, is significant:
“Turpentine and rosin, known tech-
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All theNews—and First
On Monday afternoon, The Georgian went on to
the streets of Atlanta with an extra, announcing Leo
Frank’s first victory in the courts—and this extra was
placed in the hands of the people 25 minutes ahead of the
issue of The Journal carrying the same story.
This was by far the biggest news story that has de
veloped in the Frank case in months, and it was printed,
as usual, in The Georgian first,
ALL THE NEWS, ALL THE TIME, IN THE
GEORGIAN—AND FIRST!
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The Board of’Education, at a meet
ing Tuesday -«4iernoon, will glv* the
final tou<?h«s tfti its 1915 budget to be
presented to Council, aggregating a to
tal of $730,000 outside of any contem
plated new buffings.
The members of the board expect* to
ask for funds for two new schools,
which they say must be constructed
regardless of a bond issue. One is fob
Ansley Park, in the Eighth Ward. The
Tenth Street School, which is the only
one now serving this section, Is one of
the most overcrowded schools in the
city. It is still necessary to run four
double sessions there. Residents are
also very Insistent upon a new school
for East Atlanta, the Battle Hill sec
tion of West End. and for the Fifth
Ward.
The school budget for actual running
expenses Is almost^$100,000 more than
the year just ending. The salaries of
teachers next year will reach $587,581.
This Item has developed an opposition
among a minority of the members of
the board. Messrs. James L. Key, Har
vey Hatcher, A. P. Morgan and Dan
Green uhged cutting some of the sala
ries, as there Is fear that Council may
trim the budget. A majority of the
members is firm against this move,
however.
PUNNED 10
The United Daughters of the Con
federacy have been given permission
to have carved in the north side of
Stone Mountain a gigantic figure typ
ifying the Spirit of the Confederacy.
Definite announcement of this was
made Tuesday to The Georgian by
leading members of the organization
who have been working for months to
bring about a realization of their pre
tentious plan.
Permission was contained in a let
ter vyrittep by Samuel
owner of the motBfffiifcg-W
Plane,
LONDON, Dec. 29.—The follow-
ing general order by General Joffre
was issued to French armies in the
field on December 17:
“We have proof that the lieuten
ant commanding the Seventh Com
pany of the One Hundred and
Twelfth Bavarian Infantry Regi
ment hat communicated to hi* men
the following order by the general
commanding the Fifty-eighth Bri
gade of the Fourth Bavarian
Corps:
“‘From to-day no more prison
ers will be made. All prisoners will
be shot to death. The wounded,
with or without arms, will be put
to death. Prisoner*, even if taken
in large bodies, will be put to death.
No living men must bo left behind
us.’
“This order has been carried out.
Interrogation of the German pris
oners proves that numbers of
French prisoners have been shot
dead.”
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according to the aptwlmcemeiit d
mads Tues&ay. Mrs. f^lhne Is hon
orary president of the Atlanta Chap
ter of the U. D. b., and has led In the' A
movement to have the colossal figure
sculptured in the mountainside.
At the recent general meeting of the
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—"Whatever
else this war may prove—whatever
Jpfit be gained or lost, or however
Daughters in Savannah Jt was decided- governments may stand or fall it has
to allow the entire U. f>'. C. or*ant*a- ,t '“ *-■
tlon to have a part In the work, and
Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens, of
Brandon, Miss., president general of
th* Daughters, was empowered to ap
point a committee to start the cam-
Shooting of 2 U, S,
Hunters Is Probed
BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 29.—Careful
and complete investigation of the
shooting of Walter Smith and Charles
Dorsch, the two American hunters,
by the Canadian infantrymen yes
terday is promised by those In au
thority on both sides of the Niagara
River.
Friends of the bereaved Smith fam
ily to the number of 150 sent a peti
tion to Washington asking that the
Investigation be started without de
lay.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.—Secre
tary of State Bryan to-day announced
that the State Department had begun
an inquiry Into the shooting of two
American duck hunters near Fort
Erie, Canada, yesterday by Canadian
guards.
Arkansas Bill for
$1 Minimum Wage
LITTLE ROCK. Dec. 29.—Nine hours
should be the working day and $1 the
minimum wage, according to a bill to
be Introduced In the Legislature this
winter by the State Labor Commissioner
Taft’s Bodyguard, 65,
Takes Young Bride
DALLAS. Deo. 29.—Captain Bill Mc
Donald. former President Taft's body
guard, was married here Monday to
Miss Pearl Wilkinson, of Quanah, Texas.
She is less than half hie age. which is 65.
paigrn.
Considering Name*.
Mrs. Plane, Mrs. A. McD. Wilson
and other local U. D. C. leaders are
awaiting the appointment of this
committee_in order to go ahead^ Mrs.
Stevens is now at Brandon looking
over eligible names, and it is expected
that Mrs. Plane and Mrs. Wilson, who
helped launch the project here, will be
among the Atlantans to be named.
This committee will choose the
sculptor, collect subscriptions for the
preliminary work, and decide on the
style of the mammoth statue. The
figure will be the largest in the world.
The first idea, and probably the one
which will prevail, was to make it
after General Robert E. Lee. It is
estimated that to prepare the prelim
inary plans and cut the monument
outline will require eighteen months,
and that several years will be required
before the statue is completed. The
names of Horatio Taft and other noted
sculptors have been suggested to un
dertake the work, but the sculptor will
I be picked by the committee.
Prominent Dughters, among them
Mrs. Wilson, have looked over the
statuary of Europe to obtain ideas.
Mrs. Wilson considers the Lion of
Lucerne one of the world’s greatest
creations, and she favors the great
Danish sculptor who fashioned it. An
other mentioned prominently Is Rodin,
the noted French sculptor.
The United Daughters of the Con
federacy have Just completed a Con
federate memorial at Arlington Cem
etery, Washington, and are under
taking another at Shiloh. The Stone
Mountain colossus will be the next
great undertaking, and the indica
tions are that the Daughters will
show more enthusiasm over It than
over any similar work.
Would Perpetuate Mountain.
It is understood to be the desire of
the Venables to perpetuate Stone
Mountain and this great monument
which shall stand through all the
ages, and to do this a plan is said to
be under way to convey a part of It so
it can never be entailed. The moun
tain is now under a 99-year lease, but
the quarrying operations have had lit
tle effect on the great mass of gran
ite, which is some seven mil''" •’round
the base.
Less than a year ago W. H. Terrell
suggested that a monument on the
pinnacle of Stone Mountain would be
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created for woman the opportunity to
show she is no weakling. No longer
may man think of her as a creature of
necessary comfort merely," declares
Mrs. William Ellis Corey, who ha*
Just returned from Europe.
"Braver even than the splendid men
who are Jiurllng themselves upon Brit
ish, French German and Russian bay
onets are the women of Europe, who,
armed with the cross and the medi
cine chest, are with their fighting men.
T have Just come back for a stay
in New York of maybe three months.
I can not pretend to know what this
war will mean economically or polit
ically. All that I know is that every
thing connected with it is cold, cruel,
huge.”
Hammond Quits as
Mayor’s Secretary
Frank Hammond, formerly an Atlanta
newspaper man and more recently sec
retary to Mayor Woodward, Tuesday
announced his resignation as secretary.
He left his position at the City Hall to
represent the Rochester Photo Press
Company, of Rochester, N. Y., in its
Atlanta territory.
The Photo Press Company is an ad
vertising concern and Mr. Hammond,
having had experience In this line, will
go to his new position well qualified.
He will have offices in the Empire Life
Building.
Cold Weather Due
Wednesday Morning
The Atlanta Weather Bureau predict*
a cold wave for Atlanta and vicinity
following the rain of Tuesday.
The prediction Is that the temperature
In the early hours of Wednesday morn
ing will be 32 degrees, falling to 25 de
grees before night. The skies are ex
pected to clear.
Term Extended So He
Can Aid in Jail Show
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Dec. 29.—Ray
Farrell, a prisoner, asked that his re
lease be postponed so that he could
be an end man In a minstrel show at
the county Jail. His request was
granted.
Sky Pilot Ascends
To Loftier Trade
SUMMIT, N. J.. Dec. 29.—The Rev.
Robert C. Hull, pastor of the First
Baptist Church here, resigned to be
come a partner of James (£. Mars,
the pioneer aviator.
DECK!
With Adverse Condition, and No
Big Structures, Permits Keep
Up to Nearly Normal.
City Building Inspector Ed Hays is
very much gratified at the amount of
building permits for 1914, which
Tuesday totaled $4,572,010. Although
the amount is approximately $600,000
short of 1913, there have been no un
usually large structures started this
year, and in view of the country-wide
business depression the construction
work In Atlanta, even In recent
months, averages pretty near normal.
The prospects are bright for the
new year. An early beginning on a
number of large structures. Including
the office building of Dr. E. L. Con-
nally, at Whitehall and Alabama
streets, is contemplated.
Comparative figures month by
month of 1914 with 1913 show that
the slump in building operations has
not been as great as is generally sup
posed. In 1913 there were 1,072
dwellings constructed and in 1914
there have been or are being built
759 structures.
Here are the building permits for
each month of the two years:
January—1913, $395,005; 1914, $320,-
965. February—1913, $423,581; 1914*
$335,965. March—1913, $435,581; 1914,
April—1913, $429,305; 1914,
May—1913, $771,657;
June—1913, $656,189;
July—1913, $439,943;
$496,602. August—1913, $348,356;
$372,033. September—1913. $384,723;
1914, $178,004. October—1913, $338,-
340; 1914, $215,988. November—1913,
$278,904; 1914, $228,104. December-
1913, $216,001; 1914, $140,347.
ARMY IS
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$561,644.
$565,879.
$732,299.
$419,654.
By FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY,
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 29.—While the
Austrian army in Northern Galicia is
in retreat, the battle between the Ger
man and Russian forces in Poland
continues a deadlock, with advances
at some points offset by retirements
at others.
Having cut in two the Austrian
army that pressed forward after the
lifting of the Russian siege at Kra
kow, Grand Duke Nicholas, the Rus
sian commander-in-chlef, is now ex
pected to exercise similar strategy
against the German contingent of
Field Marshal von Hlndenburg’s ar
mies. The master stroke of the Rus
sians has crushed the Austrian forces
and it will be some time before they
can ralljr, re-form and be In a posi
tion to give any material aid to the
Germans.
In the meantime, it is believed that
Krakow will again be under siege
before long.
Official dispatches state that all the
important passes in the Carpathians
are now held by the Russians. The
efTorts of the Austrians to transport
troops to the relief of the hard-driv
en forces in the Carpathians proved q
miserable failure.
Official dispatches say that General
Danki’s Austrian army, wnose pur
suit of the Russian army after the re
lief of Krakow, has been turned into
a retreat, is In danger of annihilation.
Hundreds of stragglers, overcome by
the cold weather and lack of food, are
falling behind In the retreat and are
being ma^e prisoners.
Allies Prepare to
,,Storm Turk Capital
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ATHENS, Dec.- 29.—France and
England have made preparations to
occupy Constantinople, It was learned
here to-day. A fleet of transports
bearing a big allied army has been
assembled with the fleet off the west
ern entrance of the Dardanelles.
The French and British warships
are preparing to launch another se
vere attack upon the Turkish forts in
a srupregie effort to force a passage.
The chief reason for this great at
tack, it Is said, is the necessity to
supply fresh arms and ammunition to
Russia.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 29 —
There are at least fourteen British and
French warships in the allied fleet off
the western entrance of the Darda
nelles. Apprehension was caused
here to-day by reports that the al
lied fleet is preparing for another ter
rific attack against the Turkish forts
defending the waterway.
A statement was issued by Turkish
headquarters urging-^ie.people to re
main calm and gi.vdrijHa&Sufances that
there Is no chahc^ of tfiK Dardanelles
being forced, owAy flb^the strength of
the Turkish
It Is reporte^uh^fr^r fleet of French
and British Jhaa Joined the
warships, anfftfiat alf are crowded
with troops’jS^ the invasion of Turk
ish soil as spun as a InnjftgJij pan. be
effected.
1914,
1914,
1914.
1914.
Fight Is Dropped to
Put Bible in Schools
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Dec. 29.—Court
action to reintroduce the Bible Into the
public school* will be abandoned, ac
cording to the Rev. Robert P. Shepherd,
educational secretary of the Illinois
Sunday School Association, which be
gins its annual convention here this
evening.
Battle Goes On in
The West in Stor%
By FRANKLIN P. MERRICK.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARI8, Dec. 29.—AlthtjugllM severe
storm has been raging oY«/ the great
er part of the battle front rince‘6Hiti-
day night, fighting still is In progress
at some points. The Germans utilised
the stormy weather in an effort tp
deliver surprise attacks in West
Flanders, east of Amiens and on the
heights of the Meuse, but all were
repulsed.
The French War Office has issued
an official communique saying that
French artillery Is everywhere prov
ing superior to that of the German
armies. The statement follows:
“In the report sent from German
general headquarters to the Berlin
newspaper* it was stated that the
French would find difficulty in prov
ing that their artillery could gain the
upper hand against the German guns.
Have the Germans forgotten the staff
order published in The Frankfurter
Zeitung on December 8, in which the
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