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ATLANTA. GA., MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1915.
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The heaHng; of the plea of Leo M.
Frank for a commutation of the death
sentence to life imprisonment was re
sumed Monday morning before Gov
ernor Slaton in the Governor’s office
in the Capitol, in the presence of a
crowd that thronged the office and
the corridors, as on Saturday.
Solicitor Dorsey was present and
ready to begin his argument in oppo
sition to commutation. Mr. Dorsey
had prepared an extensive brief of
the evidence and law in the case,
from which he was to make his
speech. It was his purpose then to
turn this brief over to the Governor
for furtner perusal at the close of the
hearing. It was the {solicitor's re
quest that he be given* time^-to pre
pare this brief that resulted in the
sudden halting of the proceedings
Saturday shortly after noon.
Former Congressman William M.
Howard, who presented Frank’s plea
Saturday morning, will make the
closing argument in behalf of the
condemned man. It was announced
Monday that no others of Frank's
counsel would speak. It was under
stood that Mr. Howard had planned
to reply to parts of the argument of
former Governor Joseph M. Brown on
Saturday.
State Senator C. E. McGrego, of
Warrenton, was expected by Solicitor
Dorsey to appear before the Governor
Monday to oppose interference with
the death sentence.
It w’as generally believed that the
hearing would he concluded Monday,
because of the fact tltat Governor
Slaton has an engagement to deliver
the commencement address Tuesday
at the University of Georgia, in Ath
ens.
Governor Slaton and attorneys for
bot^ sides spent much time Sunday in
studying the details of the famous
case and in preparation for the hear
ing Monday. The Governor has made
no announcement as to when he will
inspect the plant of the National Pen
cil Factory, as he was invited to do
by the State and defense, but this in
spection is not likely until after his
return from Athens.
It generally was believed Monday
that the Governor would announce his
decision on the question of commu
tation before the end of the week, be
cause of the brief time intervening
before the date set for Frank’s exe
cution—Jun 22.
American Union to
Protect Neutrality
Is Being Advocated
(By International News Service.)
*ASH1NGT0N, June 14.—
Dr. Santos A. Dominici,
Minister from Venezuela,
to-day strongly indorsed the
Hearst newspapers’ plan to call a
' conference of American republics
< to meet to consider plans for pro
tection of neutral commerce.
“My Government has presented
S this subject for consideration of
the United States and South
American republics," said Dr.
Dominici. “Naturally, the United
States being the greatest of our
American republics, we must
S await the conclusion of the Amer
ican State Department. Person-
> ally, I think the neutral nations of
this continent should devise means
that will protect us against inva
sion of our rights.
“The moment it is possible, there
should be convocation of neutral
powers of this continent, at least.
The United States, I trust, will
take the initiative and ask the
American republics to send dele
gates to such a conference in
Washington."
GIRLS DRUGGED 81
Biggest and Best Field
Here for Dixie Golf Title
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Fulton Cotton Mill District People
Aroused by Stories of
Young Women.
W ifeGuardsCarnegie,
Ill, Taking Rest Cure
(By International News Service,)
BAR HARBOR. MAINE, June 14-
Andrew' Carnegie is in seclusion here
under orders from his physician to
take an absolute rest all summer.
“Mr. Carnegie is to have absolute
quiet,’’ Mrs. Carnegie said to-day. “I
will see to it that he gjets it. i w’ill
protect him. He has been sick, suf
fering from an attack of grip, but Jiis
health has improved since we came
here a week ago."
As a sample of her “protection," it
is said, Mrs Carnegie once in a while
beats the Iron master at golf.
Laborer’s Image to
Go on New Dollar
SAN FRANCISCO, June 17.—A coin
bearing the image of the face of a la
borer w'ill be ’aced in circulation by
the United States Government for the
first time in the history of the world’s
coinage, when a special gold dollar,
commemorative of the Panama-Pa
cific Exposition, is stamped in a few
days at the San Francisco mint, it
was announced to-day.
The coin will have a double signifi
cance, for it w * n commemorate labor's
share in the building of the nation and
will recognize the efforts of the work
men who built the Panama Canal.
Germans Attacked in
Turk Anti-War Riots
(By International News Service.)
ATHENS, June 14.—Anti-war riots
are" reported to have broken out in
Constantinople.
German soldiers were attacked in
the streets by Turks.
The populace of the Fulton Bag and
Cotton Mill district is aroused over
the drugging of two young girls who j
live there, and the police are search-
ing^for two young men wearing Palm j
Beach suits and straw hats, who gave
the girls "white pills” to smell, after
which, they say, they knew nothing
for several hours They are in the
Grady Hospital and recovering rap
idly.
The girls are Maggie Nix. 11 years
old, and May Blackwell, 11. of No.
60-A Wyman street.
The girls said they met two young
men in a drug store near their home
early Sunday afternoon.
‘They gave us something to smell—
like white pills.” they stated ‘ Then
we did not know anything until it
was night. We woke up in an old
house, kind of vacant place, and an
old woman was there, who fussed at
u? and drove us away We felt very
sick.”
It was then 10 o’clock at night. The
girls wehTTjiome and were later taken
to the hospital.
Taft Laughs at Self
As Bryan's Successor
ALBANY. N. Y., June 12.—Ex-Pres
ident Taft, w’ho appeared here before
a constitutional convention commit
tee, declined to discuss the note to
Germany.
He laughed loudly when someone
suggested him as a possible successor
to William Jennings Bryan as Secre
tary of State.
“This has beerf an evening filled
with humor,’’ he said, “so why not
end it with a joke?”
A8 the result of two automobile ac
cidents Sunday afternoon, in which
ten persons narrowly escaped death,
four were being attended by physi
cians for severe injuries Monday. Two
of them are women, who are reported
to be in a serious condition.
Miss Emma Plunkett, sister of Mrs.
W. C Shepherd, living on the Johnson
road, and Mr. Shepherd, a dairyman,
are both at the Georgia Baptist Hos
pital, Miss Plunkett suffering from in
ternal injuries and Shepherd-with a
dislocated shoulder and la sprained
ankle and cuts on the fac4 and hands
Oscar Plunkett, of Birmingham, trav
eling freight agent for the Wabash
Railroad, brother of Mres Plunkett,
aviso was injured when tne machine,
w hich was driven by Shepherd, turned
over on the Roswell road a few miles
south of Roswell.
Shepherd. Mrs. Shepherd, her broth
er and sister and Mrs. Shepherd’s 12-
month-old baby boy were returning
from Roswell when a tire on the ma
chine blew' up. causing Mr. Shepherd
to lose control of the car. According
to Mrs. Shepherd, the car turned half
over, pinning her husband and her
sister under the machine. She jumped
from the rear seat with her baby in
her arms, escaping injury, and her
brother crawled from under the ton
neau, sustaining only minor bruises.
Mr. Shepherd and his sister-in-law
were rushed to the Georgia Baptist
Hospital in a machine owned by Clyde
Tuggle, who was less than 100 yards
in front of the Shepherd machine
when the accident occurred
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Meet Col. Roosevelt
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and
Mrs. Roosevelt, who have been spend
ing a week with John M. Parker, the
Progressive party leader in Louisiana,
at his summer home at Pass Chris
tian, Miss., passed through Atlanta
Sunday en route to New York
The Colonel was met at the Termi
nal Station by C. W. McClure and a
number of other Atlanta Bull Moosers
who talked national politics with him
during the fifteen minutes his train
remained here.
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Charles Veazy
Rainwater,
prominent At
lanta golfer,
swinging his
iron. Below ig
John M.
Brame, the
Montgomery
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Some safe cracksman, too clever to
rely on “soup” and strong-arm tac
tics, and also an acrobat in his ac
complishments. got into the strong
box of the West End Pharmacy Sun
day night and came out w'ith $350. No
merchandise was taken.
The door was opened by the combi
nation. Dr. Brewer, an employee, dis
covered the theft about 6:30 o’clock
Monday morning, and called the po
lice When detectives arrived at 8 46
o’clock—-two and a quarter hours
later—this is what they discovered.
The thief had climbed a telephone
pole beside the at ore and swung him
self to the roof. He had cut enough
wire from the pole to use as a rope,
down w'hich he let himself through the
skylight to the storeroom below.
Then he. put in as much of the night
as w r as necessary in experimenting
wilh the combination of the big safe,
which was opened with no damage at
all.
The pharmacy is located at l^ee and
Gordon streets, in the heart of the
West End residential section. The
proprietor i« Or. P. L. Pro van o.
County Officials to
Hold State Meeting
JACKSON. June 14.—County offi
cials from all parts of Georgia will
attend the annual convention of the
County Officers' Association at. Indian
Springs Wednesday and Thursday,
June 16 and 17.
The sessions will be held at the
Wigwam Hotel, and Judge J. A. Cobb,
of Americus. president, wdll preside.
Other officers include J A. Blount.
Waynesboro, vice president, and M
S Joyner, Mlllen, secretary and treas
urer.
Old Glory Out
For Atlanta
Flag Day
The Stars and Stripes were unfold
ed in Atlanta. Monday. Patriotic or
ganizations prepared to celebrate
Flag Day, and the public was Invited
to Join with them.
The Elks' home on Ellis street,
where exercises will be held Monday
night at 8 o’clock, and the Piedmont
Driving Club, where the Daughters of
the American Revolution will pay
tribute to the national emblem Mon
day afternoon at 4 o'clock, were pro
fusely decorated with flags.
The Georgian and Sunday Ameri
can had distributed thousands of but
tons on which were inscribed a flag
with the words, “Peace, Prejmred-
ness.”
The public is Invited to the Elks'
home to hear a program of music,
orations aKd prayer. The Daughters
of the American Revolution have in
vited the United Daughters of the
Confederacy and the Uncle Remus
Association to join with them.
Bishop Nelson Again
On Sewanee Board
NASHVILLE. TENN.. June 14.—
BLAhop C. K. Nelson, of the Episcopal
Diocese of Atlanta, has been re-elect
ed on the hoard of regent* of the Uni
versity of the South, at Sewanee. by
the members of the board of trustees
of the university, meeting here Dr.
John H. P. Hodgson, of New York,
also was re-elected on the hoard of
regents.
The Rev. James C Morris, dean of
St. Mary's Cathedral, of Memphis,
was elected to the chair of ecclesiasti
cal history In the theological depart
ment of the university.
British Supply Ships
Wrecked in Collision
(By International New* Service.)
PORT SAID. EGYPT. June 14 —
The British steamships Radnorshire
and Dawlish collided off Newport
Rock to-da\ while carrying war sup
plies. and both were badly damaged
The Dawlish ('aught Are and was
beached The Radnorshire, although
holed underneath the water line, was
able to make port.
Three seamen on the Dawlish w'ere
Injured.
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New Orleans, and George Braungarty,
a local hardware dealer, were others
injured in an automobile smash Sun
day, when a machine in which they
were riding crashed into a telephone
pole on the Marietta road, hurling
them from the car. Both were taken
to the Grady Hospital. Miss Rhea ms
later was taken to the home of Mrs
P J. Everett, of No 101 Hurt street,
whom she is visiting
In the car with Miss Rheams atid
Baungarty ^'ere Mrs Everett, her
husband and another guest of Mrs
Everett. Mrs. A U Butler, of New
Orleans. They all escaped injury.
The *tart of the Southern golf
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championship at East Lake is exactly
one day distant, and the famous At-
j lanta. Athletic Club course is con-
i gested with earnest and occasionally
frantic golfers, rehearsing for the big
event, and the Atlanta hotels w'ould
be congested, too—only the 150 visit
ing players are all assisting at the
congestion of East Lake
This is Monday, and the next day
will be Tuesday—also qualification
day for the^contestants. That is the
real desideratum, as they say in the
provinces.
H. F. Smith, of Nashville, president
of the Southern Golf Association, ar
rived Saturday night and will tak*
charge officially of the big course
Tuesday morning, when wmuld-be
qualifiers to the number of about 150
visitors and 100 Atlantunt will be
sent away from the first tee in pairs,
one pair every five minutes begin-
It IF you want to take a “fishin’ chance
«• to pull one of these “funny looking fin-
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By FREDERICK RENNET.
(Special Correspondent Internat'onal
News Service.)
PETROGRAD, June 14.— As a. re
sult of the signal defeat of General
von Mackensen’t main army moving
along the railway to Moeciska Wed
nesday night the attempt on Lemberg
ha* been abandoned.
Von Mackens/fen started his attack
with three hours of terrific artillery
cannonading, to which th* Russians
did not reply. When the German In
fantry were within 200 yards of the
trenches the Russians opened a mur
derous fire and charged. They took
the Teutons' front line along both
sides of the railway and remained
there.
The Germans and Austrians at
tempted to fortify their second line,
but the Russian*, pressing on in
great numbers on the north and south,
passed beyond.
Crossfire by Russians from both
ends killed 20.000 before dawn, when
the German* began a disorderly re
treat. The Russians remained In close
contact, with them, continuing the
fight.
Prisoners from the other German
army, which on Thursday was de
feated at Zurawno. are being sent
through Lemberg incessantly. Cap
tured officers for the first time show
their gratitude^because they are still
alive. All the prisoners are exhaust
ed from the five weeks’ fighting.
Part of the army of General von
Linsingen Is moving In the direction
of Bukowina. It evidently will rest
upon the Roumanian frontier, where
the Russians are numerous Heavy
fighting is expected there.
It is thought the Germans will cross
the Roumanian frontier for safety,
seeing their attempts to reintrench
themselves are futile. The Russians
hold the mountain roads, thus pre
venting supplies from reaching them.
The entire operations of the Auetro-
Germans in Eastern Galicia have been
ruined by their distance from base*
and the amazing vigor and mobility
of the Russian infantry. The army
which intended to recapture Lemberg
now is broken in two, defeated and
separated from the army In Bukowina.
Mackensen s army seems to be be
ginning to withdraw to Western Po
land for a renewed attempt against
Warsaw The operations in Courland,
in th#> direction of Kovno. evidently
are intended to ascertain the strength
of the Russians in the north.
Italians Repulse for
Whole Line
By BRIXTON D. ALLAIRE.
(Special Correspondent International
News Service.)
ROME. June 14.—Partial destruc
tion of the Austrian fortress at Mal-
borhgetto by the Italian guns and the
repulse of fierce attacks by the Aus
trians all along t'he line are reported
in an official statement Issued to-day
by the War Office. Malborghettot*
about nine miles northwest of Prae-
dil Pas*, and lies upon the mountain
height dominating the valley of the
Fella River.
The text of the official statement
follow#:
“At a number of point* along the
frontier, from Tonale Pass a* far as
Oarnia, the enemy ha* attempted,
mostly by night attacks, to arrest th*
progress of our offensive. All These
attack* were successfully repulsed.
“In the region of Tonale the enemy,
supported by strong fire from his for
tifications. delivered attacks against
our positions near Tonfle Saddle the
Ohandy Peaw, Monte Ptssola, the Val
ley of Glubicari, Monte Piano, the Ml-
surna region and Sesisl Pass, east of
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