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I VOL. XIV. NO. 12.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1015.
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AFTERNOON
EDITION
British Troop Ship in Dardanelles
Torpedoed and Only 600
Are Saved.
By JOHN C. FOSTER.
(Staff Correspondent of the Interna
tional News Service.)
LONDON, Aug. 17.—The British
transport Royal Edward has been
sunk by a submarine in the Aegean
Sea while conveying troops to the
Dardanelles. It is feared that fully
1,000 men aboard the vessel perished.
The Admiralty announced the de
struction of the transport to-day. The
official statement says that there were
on board the ship 1,602 men, and gives
the number saved as 600.
That a British transport had been
sunk became known at the Admiralty
in the forenoon, but it was not until
12:40 o'clock this afternoon that the
official announcement was made.
The submarine which sank the Roy
al Edward is believed here to have
been the German U boat which had
previously sunk two British warships
off Gallipoli Peninsula. Since the loss
of the warships greater precautions
than ever have been taken, but the
sinking of the Royal Edward indi
cates that the submarine had suc
ceeded in reaching the route followed
by Britsh ships taking new forces to
the Dardanelles front.
Russians Fighting
As They Fall Back
(Evolutive War Diepatches of The
Atlanta Georgian and The Lon
don Unity Telegraph.)
ROTTERDAM, Aug. 17.—Tremen
dous obstacles in the way of the Ger
mans following their advance from
Vistula line have been created by the
Russians. Not only are the rear
guards fighting stubbornly, but no
single point has been relinquished
until the railroads, bridges and ev
erything of military value have been
destroyed.
Reports from the German side are
now emphasizing the difficulty im
posed by the Russian methods.
A message from a special corre
spondent at headquarters to Cologne
Gazette says:
"The great area west of the Vis
tula is covered by ceaselessly rolling
forward processions of wagons bring
ing supplies.
"In this devastated country 40 rail
ways and bridges are destroyed and
incredible amount of work has to be
done, only by the most tremendous
exertions have we been successful in
carrying supplies to the army in great
quantities over the Vistula."
Germans Begin Slow
Battering on Forts
By FREDERICK RENNETT.
(Special Correspondent of Interna
tional News Service.)
PETROGRAD, Aug. 17.—In the re
gion of Dvinsk Wilkomir, the Ger
mans are not making any general at
tack now, but are being content with
only short counter attacks in an ef
fort to crack the Russians. Having
repulsed the Germans from Riga, the
Russians have within a fortnight
thrown the enemy back over 30 miles.
The Germans now evidently un
derstand they can not get Kovno as
they did'Antwerp, and hence have
changed their method to a slower but
fiercer hammering at the forts.
All their attacks have been repulsed
at Novogeorgievsk. Tne latter is
widely blockaded, but its artillery tire
has been successful against the ene
my’s batteries. The fort is holding
down t$.e big German siege army.
Causeway Connecting “City With
Mainland Washed Out and
All Wires Are Down.
(By International News Service.)
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Aug. 17.
The officials of the Santa Fe Rail
way to-day confirmed the report that
a section of the causeway at Gal
veston had been washed out by the
hurricane of yesterday and last night.
Work trains are already on the
way south.
The telegraph people have been ad
vised to pre^mre for as much dam
age as in the flood of 1901, but this
is supposed to refer to property
damage.
Mangham Tardoned
To BeWithDyingWife
J. J. Mangham. the Griffin capitalist
who was sentenced to five years in
the State’s prison for irregularities In
the conduct of the Boyd-Mangharn
Manufacturing ICompany, was free
Tuesday, having been granted a par
don by Governor Harris, upon the
recommendation of the Prison Com
mission and the petition of leading
citizens of Griffin.
The Governor, in a statement issued
in connection with the granting of the
pardon, said that he had been in
formed that Mangham’s wife was
near death and not expected to re
cover, and had begged that her hus
band be freed before her death.
Mangham was at his wife’s bedside
on parole when the pardon was hand
ed to him by his attorney, Eugene
Black. He f>ad served four of the
five years of his sentence.
“Aeroplane” Dining
Room in Waldorf
NEW YORK. Aug. 17.—George C-
Boldt has signed leases with represen
tatives of Vincent Astor and William
Waldorf Astor, Jr., whereby he retains
control of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
until April 30, 1928. The total rental
for the term is approximately $10,000,-
000. Improvements will comprise an
“aeroplane” dining room, ice skating
rink on the roof and “hurricane deck’’
above the roof garden.
Day Leaves Ansley
For Florida Job
Charles Day, assistant manager of
the Hotel Ansley. has been made as
sociate manager of the Seminole Ho
tel in Jacksonville, Fla. He will take
u“p his new duties September 1. He is
a hotel man of wide experience and
had been with the Ansley since its
opening.
Youth Out of Work
Attempts Suicide
John J. Spence, Jr., 19, of No. 10
Tilden, near Howells Station, was
recovering in Grady Hospital Tues
day from the effects of carbolic acid,
taken with suicidal intent.
He had been despondent over his
failure to get work.
Vida Bispham, Bride,
Will Go to the Front
PHILADELPHIA, Aug 17.—It has
just become known that Miss Vida Bis
pham, daughter of David Bispham, the
noted baritone, was married to Rlccardo
Alessandro Daddl-Bergheri, of Florence,
on the eve of the latter’s departure for
the front and is studying nursing to go
to the front with the Italian army,
Warden J. E. Smith,
Bound and Cuffed
Papal Premier
Is Recalled by
Peace Move
By FRANKLIN P. MERRICK.
(Staff Correspondent of the Interna
tional News Service.)
PARIS. Aug. 17.—Cardinal Gaspar-
ri, the Papal Secretary of State, has
been hurriedly recalled to the Vati
can from a health resort because of a
peace development, according to the
Rome correspondent of The Paris
Journal.
“It is repeatedly affirmed.” the cor
respondent continued, “that Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria sent an au
tograph letter to Benedict XV com
plimenting the Pope on his initiative
effort for peace, for which the Em
peror also ’praises God.’
'‘The peace campaign has been in
tensified among Catholics. Bishops
of all countries have been asked to
use their influence to that end.”
The correspondent attributes the i
peace moves to Germany, adding:
“Socialists are being incited to or
ganize' an international peace con
gress, wherein Germans will partici
pate. Deputy Margari, secretary of
the socialist group, confirms this
news, stating also that the German
socialists disapproved of the violation
of Belgian neutrality, and are willing
that country should be surrendered.”
Newsboys’ “Father,”
Home Foua^u'wDJes
(By International News Service.)
TOLEDO, OHIO. Aug. 17.—Gohn E.
Guenckle, widely known as the “fa
ther of newsboys,” founder of tho
National Association of Newsboys,
and for many years its president,
is dead.
Mr. Guenckle’s work for newsboys
has attracted attention throughout the
world. He took it up while a railway'
ticket agent, but about eight years
ago he received the aid of philan
thropists and was enabled to devote
his attention solely to ameliorating
the condition of the little newspaper
venders
As a result of his efforts. $100,000
was raised in Toledo for a newsboys’
building.
THE WEATHER AT THE FAIR.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 17.—The
weather at San Francisco to-day is
clear and cool; maximum tempera
ture, 66; minimum, j$4.
Leo M. Frank was found at 8 o'clock Tuesday, his body, still warm, hanging by the neck to a tree
near Frye's gin, two miles from Marietta, on the Roswell road,
A mob of lynchers thus completed their plan of vengeance which included overpowering officials of the
State Prison at Milledgeville shortly before midnight Monday, an automobile rush with their captive to
Marietta, and the hanging within a few miles of the spot where Mary Phagan, the little factory girl, for
whose murder Frank was convicted, rests in the cemetery of the Cobb County town,
The final dramatic scene of the most famous tragedy that Georgia, the South and the nation has
known was enacted about 5 o'clock in the half-morning light near the isolated gin. So quietly was the work
of the lynchers performed that people in Marietta did not know that Frank had been brought to their very
doorstep for more than two hours. When the news reached the Cobb County seat a throng at once hurried
to the mill. The body was still hanging to the tree,
At least twenty reputable men recognized the features that have been printed in papers of five conti
nents. Identification was made doubly positive by the scar of the scarce healed wound inflicted on Frank
by his fellow prisoner, William Creen, a few weeks ago at the prison farm.
The bringing of the body to Cobb County, where Mary Phagan was born and reared, was but an exam
ple of the relentlessness of purpose of the mob members.
As the mob leaders left the prison officials, bound and handcuffed, they informed Superintendent J. N.
Burke that Frank’s body would be found near the grave of Mary Phagan. To insure this and prevent any
possibility of interruption of their plan by officers of the law, every telegraph and telephone wire out of
Milledgeville had been cut-save one. This one wire, communicating with Augusta, flashed the news to
the world in the early morning that Frank was at last in the hands of the.men whose vengeance he has
been living in dread of since the day he was arrested as the slayer of the child.
That wire and the news it told prevented the purpose of the lynchers of bringing their captive's life
an end in Marietta. Every Sheriff in South Georgia had been ordered to keep a vigilant watch on all auto
mobiles passing through their section.
It was known that the lynchers and their victim were in eight cars, and long before daylight the
sheriffs had drawn their cordon.
It’s Good-by to
Washington
in Histories
OAKLAND. CAL., Aug:. 17.—With
pacificists apparently In control of the
National Educational Association con
vention, many policies are being put
forward that, if adopted, will change
the textbooks of the future. General
Goethals, builder of the Panama Ca
nal, will supplant George Washing
ton as the popular schoolboy idol;
Thomas Edison will be given the
space in the books now devoted to Na
poleon Bonaparte, and Abraham Lin
coln’s story about the Irishman and
the dog may supplant his Gettysburg
address.
David Starr Jordan blamed the
method of teaching history, saying
that it should teach the growth of man
and not hi« destruction.
Mrs. W. I. Thomas, of Chicago, sec
retary of the Woman’s Peace party,
said that teaching of peace must start
in the kindergarten. The peace dream
was shattered when Mrs. Thomas had
said that if war came she would put
her two sons in the ceilar and stand*
on the door 'before she would let them
go.
Mrs. W. B. Owen, who, like Mrs.
Thomas, is the wife of a prominent
Chicago educator, replied by saying
that if the United States was invaded
by a foreign enemy she w’ould put ri
fles in the hands of her three sons and
send them to the front, and do all she
could to repel the enemy herself.
The lynchers were evidently apprised of this fact. For when they reached the swampy
banks of Little River it was decided to run no risk of being balked by a rescue party. It was
then planned that to take their prisoner right to the Marietta cemetery would be inviting a
battle with law officers. Frye’s gin was then the place selected.
The gin house is fifty yards off the Roswell Road, but not visible from the highway. The
nearest farm house is 200 yards away. The place is located just a mile and a half from the Nat
ional Cemetery.
Frank on his death ride was not even clothed. He was sleeping in the cell house when
the lynchers arrived. And when the throng from Marietta arrived, the hanging corpse was
clad only in a silken nightshirt, with the initials “L. M. F.” embroidered over the heart. His
feet and legs were bare. He was blindfolded and handcuffed, and was swinging from a giant
oak tre.
How Frank Was Taken From Prison
MILLEDGEVILLE, Aug. 17.—Leo M. Frank, convicted as
the slayer of Mary Phagan, was taken by a mob from the State
Prison Farm here between 10 and 11 o'clock Monday night and
rushed away in an automobile, after the mob leader had announced
to captured prison officials that Frank would be taken to Marietta
and hanged over the grave of the little girl for whose death he
was serving a life term in prison.
The mob worked quickly and quietly, and by a surprise at
tack succeeded in capturing Warden Smith, Superintendent Burke
and the three prison guards on duty.
The mob of between 5? and 75 men quietly approached the
prison farm in their automobiles, eight or ten in number, about
10:30 o’clock, and had within a few minutes secured Frank and
were speeding away with him in the general direction of Eaton-
ton.
Warden Smith, asleep at his home, was awakened by tfa*
crowd, and when he came to the door in answer to the mob lead
ers' insistent demands he was seized and handcuffed. With the
warden in their custody and his keys in their possession, the
ers then proceeded to the home of Sup'jfrintendent Burke.