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AMERICA’S GREATEST CAR STRIKE GRIPS CHICAGO
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By HERBERT TEMPLE.
(European Manager International
News Service.)
LONDON, June 14.—An additional
estimate of $1,250,000,000 in the cost of
the war for England firing the year
ending March, 1915, was introduced in
Parliament to-day.
This practically doubles the original
estimate of the cost of the war, the
Increase being made necessary by the
increased demand for munitions.
Money is also being advanced to
Italy to carry on' the vJar against Aus
tria.
Russians Kill 20,000
Men in Dawn Attack
By FREDERICK RENNET.
(Special Correspondent International
News Service.)
PETROGRAD, June 14—As a re
sult of the signal defeat of General
von Mackensen's main army moving
along the railway to Mosciska Wed
nesday night the attempt on Lemberg
has been abandoned.
Von Mackensen started his attack
with three hours of terrific artillery
cannonading, to which the 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 Russians, 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 Germans 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
Linslngen is moving in the direction
of Bukowdna. 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 Austro-
Germans in Eastern Galicia have been
ruined by their distance from bases
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 the direction of Kovno, evidently
are intended to ascertain the strength
of the Russians in the north.
Italians Repulse Foe
Along Whole Line
By BRIXTON D. ALLAIRE.
ROME, June 14.—Despite floods
caused by rain and dike-cutting op-
erations, the Italians have advanced
six miles in a southeasterly direction
from Monfalcone, according to dis
patches from the front to-day.
Partial destruction of the Austrian
Continued on Page 2, Column 4.
By FREDERICK WERNER.
(Special Correspondent International
News Service.)
BERLIN, June 14.—The German
Foreign Office, in an official statement
published to-day in The Lokal Anzei-
ger, announces that it will be weeks
before the German Government can
give its answer to the second Ameri
can note relative to submarine war
fare.
“The German reply will be so exten
sive, touching so many points in
volved in the negotiations, that it will
be necessary to collect evidence from
many different sources," says the
statement. "It will take considerable
time to get together all the material
necessary for the reply, and it will be
weeks before Germany's answer can
be given.”
A slight division of opinion is no
ticeable in the press, some of the
newspapers adopting a milder tone to
ward the United States than others.
Britain Must Yield, Too.
“The question now is to find a
modus vivendi satisfactory to both
parties,” says The Tageblatt. "This
much is certain: Without concessions
by England, no satisfactory solution
can be expected. If the United States,
in dealing with the question of how a
modus vivendi can be found which
gives justice to all, observes real neu
trality, then it will not be difficult to
attain a satisfactory result. Com
plete neutrality would, at the same
time, best serve American interests.
We are firm in the confidence that the
relations between Germany and the
United States will smooth the road to
a complete understanding and so help
righteousness and humanity to vic
tory.”
The Lokal Anzeiger and The Berlin
er Tageblatt agree that the latest
American note exhibits no sharpness
of tone, but is friendly in spirit to
ward Germany, and will afford an op
portunity for further negotiations.
“President Wilson’s note was more
conciliatory than the English and
their friends had expected,” said The
Koelnische Zeitung. “The peace
which Mr. Bryan preached can also
be secured in President Wilson s w r ay,
but America also must know how to
show respect for Germany’s sacred
rights.”
Warned of U. S. Opinion.
A remarkable warning against
the mistaken American opinion is ut
tered -in Vorwaets by its New York
correspondent. He says:
“Germany will do well to realize
that at leant nine-tenths of the Amer
ican people approve the note sent to
Germany and of the energetic tone of
the last paragraph. (This refers to
the first note.)
“There is no question of immediate
war, but the breaking off of diplo
matic relations will be unavoidable,
and confiscation of Geman ships-lying
in American ports, estimated at many
millions in value, will not be unlikely
if Germany should further continue to
do what is regarded here as absolutely
unjustifiable criticism of American
citizens and infringement of Ameri
can Interests.”
The writer further warns against
placing any reliance on German-
American or Irish-American opinion.
Most Irish, he says, become thor
oughly Americanized, and are above
all practical politicians As for rjer-
mans, “those who live here do not
leave their own country because they
had been too happy there, and they
remain in the United States, as they
are better off and find conditions here
better suited to their taste*”
These Figures Tell
Story of Chicago’s
Big Trolley Strike
T OTAL employees of surface
and elevated lines on strike,
14,000.
Miles of track tied up—Surface,
1,095; elevated, 215.
Passengers carried daily—-Sur
face, 3,044,650; elevated, 712,000.
Incomes of lines daily—Surface,
$86,000; elevated, $25,000.
Capital tied up—Surface, $140,-
000,000; elevated, $90,000,000.
Cars standing idle—Surface, 3,-
125: elevated, 1,518.
Other unions in Chicago now on
strike or locked out—Carpenters,
20,000; painters, 10,000; lathers,
900; sheet metal workers, 800.
Idle because of strikes and lock
outs (estimated)—Nearly 200,000.
14.000 m
Too Modest to
Prosecute
Bunko Man
’Gene Knox, stamp clerk at the Post-
office, loser last week of $5 by a
scheme revived here by L. C. Smith,
alias C. C. Edwards, of Augusta, told
the beat policeman Monday that his hu
miliation as a victim was so great that
he would not go to police court to testify
against Smith, so the prosecution rested
largely on two young women—Miss Lena
Wlttig and Miss Evanda Henderson,
cashiers in a book store and a down
town restaurant, respectively.
Incidentally, Smith’s suavity disap
peared as the charges piled up. and he
was in a state of collapse as Judge John
son fined him $50 and put him under
$1,000 bond. Adding to his embarrass
ment, Bertilllon Expert M. J. Wright
asked him for his picture for the police
department’s art gallery, and promised
to send copies to the leading cities of
America.
Smith is alleged to have visited nu
merous persons in stores with a $10 bill
in his pocket. Buying a small article,
according to the charge, he would pass
over the bill, and then discover that he
had smaller change. Seeing so much
money and confused through carrying
so many figures in the head, the store
officials would usually lose a $5 bill as
Smith bowed his way out, with a smile.
Policeman Guy Lindsey placed Smith
under arrest, and several identified him.
workers
North Dakota Gets
Snowfall Foot Deep
(By International News Service.)
STURGIS, S. DAK.. June 14.—Snow
fell here to-day. the fall ranging in
depth from four to twelve inches.
Rain fell continuously for twelve
hours, and then the downpour turned
to snow.
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, June 14.—The first half
day of America’s biggest street car
strike passed quietly and with no se
rious disorder, but trouble began this
afternoon when two elevated trains
were bombarded by strikers armed
w'ith bricks and lead pipe, injuring
two escorting detectives.
The city was never so in
convenienced in its history. Hun
dreds of thousands of workers were
compelled to walk to their places of
employment, other thousands rode to
work in every conceivable makeshift
vehicle capabie of traveling on wheels,
the steam roads carried all the pas
sengers their scores of extra trains
could carry, and many hundreds re
mained at home, not caring to brave
the hard rain.
On the South Side branch of the
elevated lines, five car trains were
operated at fifteen-minute intervals.
Officials of the line intended to con
tinue running trains without passen
gers until dark. The only cars run on
the surface lines were United States
mail c^rs, which were not interfered
with.
Chief Wants 1.000 More Police.
Officials of the surface lines issued
a statement at noon in which they
said strikebreakers would be put to
work and cars would be operated as
quickly a? arrangements could be per
fected.
Chief of Police Healey, who fears
trouble when the lines begin to carry
passengers, has prepared a report to
the City Council asking an appropria
tion, that he might employ 1,000 spe
cial policemen for duty.
The strike of the carmen, who are
demanding more pay and improved
working conditions, was officially
called at midnight, but the last car
was not run into the barns until five
hours later. The strike order called
out 14,000 conductors, motormen and
elevated guards.
Schools Not Closed.
Tbe public schools were not closed
to-day, although 3,000 teachers were
forced to find some means of reaching
their schoolrooms. The telephone com
panies, guarding against a possiblo
shutting down of their downtown ex
changes, held 700 e-irls at the hotels.
Dr. Broughton
Calls Bryan
Near-Traitor
Dr. Len G. Broughton, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Knoxville,
former pastor of the Baptist Taber
nacle, and of Christ Church, London,
announced Monday on his arrival in
Atlanta that at his lecture Monday
night at the tabernacle he will roast
William Jennings Bryan to a turn for
his conduct following his resignation
as Secretary of .State. Dr. Broughton
declared that Mr. Bryan is guilty of
little short of treason, and that he will
be rebuked by the American people
like no citizen or public official was
ever rebuked.
"Mr. Bryan comes in the field of our
vision because he has misconceived
the meaning of statesmanship and
done himself, his administration and
his country an irreparable wrong. " as
serted Dr. Broughton. “He had a right
to resign as Secretary of State, but
certainly there can be no honoT, Jus
tice or patriotism in his going to the
country to discredit the President and
weaken his leadership in an hour when
everything is invol/ed in the loyalty
of the nation.
"Such a course is well-nigh trea
son, and if I do not misjudge the tem
per of the American people he will be
made to feel the rebuke more than the
man he trie* to rebuke.
"But our vision takes in more than
Mr. Bryan’s platitudes. It takes in
every attempt to %|nresent Christian
statesmanship in terms of effeminate
weakness and sentimental nonresist
ance when at the door of the nation
stands a madman and an assassin.
“The church can be content with
nothing short of the reign of right and
justice, whether it be in the nation or
the city.
“I expect Mr. Bryan to try to come
back and keep his promise to go be
fore the people. He is that kind of a
man. But the people are not apt to
listen to him. He should keep quiet,
and if he refuses to do that he should
be shut up. His vacation trip is a for
tunate thing Just at this time.”
Dr. Broughton declared that Mr.
Bryan had planned to say one thing
to the German-Americana and then
had said another. “He evidently had
intended to try and turn this class
against the President, but on second
thought asked for support. This coun
try has been given a great black eye
abroad, where we were already re
garded as a nation of shopkeepers,
willing to sell anything for the dollar.
But Europe will find out that Is not
true.”
At the train to meet Dr. Brough
ton were his brother Dr. Joseph
Broughton; Dr. J. L. White, pastor ot,
the Tabernacle, and others. A large
crowd is expected to hear his lecture.
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‘Where fishing’s good’ on lake or stream
To cast your hook, and sit and dream—
Far, far away from noise and strife—
Fishin’—Oh, Gee! but that’s the life.
The best places to go fishin’ are advertised daily in the
SUMMER RESORT CLASSIFIED
SECTION OF THE GEORGIAN
It’s real authority for the deciples of
Walton—Consultthe columns
and write for full
particulars.
School Board Meets
To Elect Teachers
The Board of Education met Mon
day afternoon for the purpose of
electing a teaching force for the com
ing year. The recommendation of
the teachers” committee of the Board
was ready for presentation by Acting
Superintendent L. M. Landrum.
Members of the Board still were
undecided, it was said, whether to
name an assistant superintendent
until M. L. Brittain, State Superin
tendent of Schools, has announced his
decision on the offer of the superin
tendency. It is likely this place will
be left open for the time being,
though W. F. Dykes, principal of the
Boys’ High School, is understood to
be the man decided upon.
Judge Harris Writing
Inaugural This Week
MACON, June 14.—Judge Nat E. Har
ris. Governor-elect, hsa declined 30
invitations to deliver addresses and
speeches this week, so aa to have time
to prepare his inaugural message He
has been working on the document for
several days but will not complete it
before the latter part of the week.
.Judge and Mrs. Harris will leave Ma
con Saturday to make the exe^- tive
mansion in Atlanta their home for two
years Their home in Macon has been
taken by Warren Grice, the retiring At
torney General, who will practice law
ber*.
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CHIEF FILES
m.
Chief Beavers formally joined the
issue between himself and Chief Lan-
ford Monday w-hen he filed charges
before the Police Commission against
the head of the detective department.
The step assures a thorough probe of
the friction between these two police
heads which has been a cause of
much comment by Police Commis
sioners for several months.
At the same time the charges are
taken up, a special meeting of the Po
lice Commission having been desig
nated for the purpose for Tuesday
night, the report of the investigating
committee branding Chief Beavers’
administration of the department as
inefficient will be considered. This
report touches on the lack of co-op
eration between the two chiefs, and
the trial of Chief Lanford and the
action on the report likely will merge
into a single issue.
The opinion is general in political
circles that the row’ between Chief
Beavers and Chief Lanford will result
in one or the other, and probably
both of them, being deposed Back
of the report and of the controversy
is the broad question of efficiency of
the police. There is a strong dispo
sition among some of the commis
sioners to bring about a'general reor
ganization of the department.
The specific charges Chief Beavers
will bring against Chief Lanford will
be the sworn testimony of Sergeant
S. J. Roberts that Chief Lanford used
abusive language to him over the
telephone. The dash between these
two officers was a result of a con-
fiilct of the authority of the two
branches of the department.
Many affidavits have been prepared
for presentation which will show that
there have been many similar clash
es. Certain of the police officers,
whose cause Chief Beavers has
espoused, will endeavor to prove mis
management against the detective
chief.
But Chief Beavers is the head of
the whole department and responsible
for its discipline and efficiency. The
supporters of Chief Lanford will en
deavor to place on him the blame for
any irregularities.
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LIFE OF
Lowry Back Home,
Eyesight Restored
Colonel Robert J. Lowry has re
turned from New York, where he un
derwent an operation for cataract of
the eye, and his fiiends welcomed him
Monday by the score. The operation
was very successful, restoring Colonel
Lowry’s sight completely.
On March 4 Colonel Lowry observed
his seventy-fifth birthday, but on ac
count .of his illness the usual party
was called off.
State Secretary Cook
Signs Last of Bonds
The Secretary of State. Phil Cook,
Monday completed the arduous task of
signing the last issue of State bonds,
which completes the signatures to the
whole isarue of $3,500 000, ajid the bonds
are now ready to turn over to the pur
chaser.
It is understood the bonds will be
shipped to New York, where they will
be handled in whatever way the pur
chaser sees fit.
5,000 WELSH MINERS QUIT.
CARDIFF, WALES, Junc< 14 Five
thousand Welsh coal miners struck
to-day because of the introduction of
the open-chop system.
Webb-Kenyon Law
Doesn't Bar Liquor
For Personal Use
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, June 14.—Hold
ing that the Webb-Kenyon liquor law
did not apply to interstate shipments
of liquor designed for personal use.
the Supreme Court to-day overturned
the conviction of hte Adams Express
Company in Kentucky courts far
transporting liquor from Tennessee to
consignees in Whiteley County. Ky.
The court merely determined that
the law did not apply to shipments of
| this kind. It did not pass on the ulti
mate constitutionality of the law.
The Adams Ex press Company was
indicted, convicted and fined for
• transporting liquor into the county in
j violation of a State law which prohib-
I ited the introduction of liquor into
any section of the State that had gone
"dry.”
The shipmenl was an interstate
shipment, and as such would not have
been subject to State laws, but for the
Webb-Kenyon law, an act designed to
permit the States to deal with liquor
shipments from other States as they
pleased. The law provides in effect
that the shipment or transportation
of liquors from one State to another
in violation of any State law "is here
by prohibited.”
Marshall Writes
For Commutation
Governor Slaton Monday received a
letter from Thomas R. Marshall,
Vice President of the United States, in
which he asked the Governor to com
mute the sentence of Leo M. Frank to
life imprisonment.
Vice President Marshall stated that
the only reason he had for asking for
commutation of sentence was that he
did not believe in capital punishment
His letter was very brief. .
After listening to the argument of
Solicitor Hugh Dorsey that the sen.
tence of the court be carried out and a
plea by Dr. C. B. Wllmer, of St. Luke’s
Episcopal Church, who urged com
mutation, Governor Sisson, before
whom the hearing on the appeal of
Leo M. Frank for mercy was resumed
Monday morning, ordered a recess at
1 o’clock Monday afternoon until 2.30
o'clock, and announced that he would
go to the National Pencil Factory on
South Forsyth street and inspect the
scene of the slaying of Mary Phagan.
to acquaint himself with the physical
details of the crime.
Accompanied by attorneys for the
defense and representatives of the
Solicitor's office, the Governor a few
minutes later began a thorough in
spection of the factory, paying par
ticular attention to the metal room,
where, the Slate contended, the crime
was committed, arid the basement,
where the body was found. The ele
vator, over the working of which
there has been much controversy, also
was closely scrutinized by the Gov
ernor.
Dorsey Speaks Three Hours.
Solicitor Dorsey closed his argu
ment at about 1 o'clock, taking nearly
three hours to present his protest,
against commutation of Frank's sen
tence He reviewed the trial evidence
in detail, but brought out nothing
| new. as he had intimated he would
i do. He argued that the evidence
J plainly convicted Frank and that
without the testimony of the negro
Jim Conley the verdict would have
been the same.
The hearing opened at 9; 20 o’clock.
Mr. Dorsey opened by handing the
Governor some copies of petitions,
which he stated he had received, and
presented by request.
Mr. Dorsey spoke of the noise and
confusion in the courtroom, at the
time of Frank's trial, and stated that
this was natural to expect, from
those interested In the case. He cited
the point that the de'ense did not
protest, or move for a new’ trial, at
the time, on this ground.
Mr. Dorsey said: “While Judge
Roan may or may not have doubted
Frank's guilt, he did not state that he
had not had a fair trial. On the con
trary, he did state that Frank had had
a fair trial, and that the noise in the
courtroom at the time of the trial was
not such as to impugn the fairness of
the trial.
Record Shows No Outcry.
• The fact is that the record before
Judge Roan and the Supreme Court
shows that there was no outcry
against Frank; that no one offered to
do him bodily harm There was no
outcry against the court, Us officers
or any person, as stated in newspa
pers from coast to coast, and was ab
solutely false
"Frank again ooupled the idea of
disorder in the court with his plea to
the United States Court when he ap
plied for a new trial on the ground
that he was not present when the ver
dict was rendered. His allegations of
hostile sentiment in and about the
courtroom have been rejected, be-
cause found to be untrue.
••We have affidavits from jurors,
court officers and citizens to the effect
that there was no need of the appre
hension feared by the newspapers at
the time of the trial.” x ^
Mr. Dorsey gave way at this time to
Dr. C. B. Wiimer, who wanted to be
heard.
Reads Pastors' Petition.
He read a petition from ministers of
Atlanta—a petition for the commuta
tion for Leo M. Frank, based on hu
manity and the welfare of Georgia.
Th« petition complimented the Solici
tor, and stated that a life sentence
would uphold the verdict of guilty.
“The petition is presented In the
personal discharge of our consciences
and the exercise of our rights as citi
zens," stated the petition.
Dr Wiimer stated that there was
nothing in what he would say that
was based on mercy. They appealed
on moral grounds and for justice.
“We appeal against provincial prej
udice. which has,been evident against
outside interference, against prejudice
of Gentiles against Jews.
Justice Should Satisfy.
“The people ought to be satisfied
with justice. Ther» is a class of peo
ple who mean well, but It takes a
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