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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
INSURANCE BILL
FIRST GENERAL
ACT PASSED
Lower House Adopts WOhlwender
Measure After Half an Hour
Of Debate.

The first general bill Of the session
passed Thursday morning by the
House. was House Bill No. Q, which
perfects the insurance laws covering
the reinsurinR in other companies by
concerns wishing to retire from busl-
ness in the State. II was introduced
by Wohlwender, OF Muscogee, and
Cook, Of Chattahoochee. Some little
opposition was expressed. and 80 min
utes was consumed IN debate.
Representative Sheppard announced
that the Ways and Means Committee
would not meet until next Tuesday,
on account Of a death in the family
OF Chairman Akin. A report will be
made by the committee next Wednes-
day. Mr. Sheppard stated. Resolu-
lions Of sympathy for Representative
Akin were adopted
The following local bills were IA
vorably reported, placed on a third
reading and adopted:
BY Paulk Providing a Board OF
County Commissioners for Ben Hill
County.
Rhodes and Lipscomb-To amend
charter OF Athens.
Moon and Hines-Providing for a
city recorder for Lagrange.
The Rules Committee killed a res
olution by Pharr, Of Gwinnett, in
struCting the Constitutional Amend.
ments Committee not to consider any
new county bills at this time.
The University Of Georgia Com
mittee reported favorably on a bill
providing for an agricultural indus
trial and normal college to be To-
Gated in South Georgia and TO be
branch of the university.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
BARROW COUNTY
BILL PASSED
BY HOUSE
Measure Approved 1856 to 35 De-
spite the Hardeman Opposition.
Crowded Galleries Cheer,

The bill creating the new county Of
Barrow, to be made up of sections Of
Walton. Gwinnett and Jackson. with
winder az the county seat, passed
the House to- day by vote Of 1856 to
So
The measure came from the Con-
stitutional Amendments Committee
with a unanimous recommendation
for It's passage, but 1t was not put
through the House until after a gem
uine display had been INDUCED In.
The fight against Barrow was led
by Hardeman, OF jefferson. who at
tackled it by moving to postpone &C
ton upon it until next session. Had
that motion prevailed. the bin would
have been killed, beyond hope OF res
direction.
Barrow County has been looked
upon generally as apt to win out. II
has been before the Legislature be-
fore, and many members who voted
for II to- day explained their votes
by saying that they voted upon the
merits Of the proposition entirely,
which were evident enough to the
Constitutional Amendments Commit
tee to get a unanimous favorable re-
port therefrOm.
The impression is that Barrow viii
pass the Senate and go to the people
for ratification in the next general
election.
During the voting on the bill, the
galleries were packed with citizens
from the territory affected, and when
the vote was announced the result
brought great applause.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
Kentucky Car Strike
Spreads; One Dying

LEXINGTON. KY, July 1o.-Strik-
ing street carmen announced this
morning that all employees OF the
Kentucky Traction Company and the
Lexington Utilities Company will be
called out tomorrow morning, tying
up street and interurban car systems
here.
Demands will be served to-day for
nine-hour day with pay for ten
hours. and reinstatement OF nine dis
charged workmen. Some OF the men
have been on strike for a week
The first violence occurred late
Wednesday. when FIVE men were in
tured IN a riot. One Of them. ]. w.
Bell OF Chicago, Is dying in a hos
pital.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
New York Dressmaker Describes
PetticoatIesS Mode and Harem
Skirt From Paris.

NEW YORK, July 10.-"The 'prudes
can not stop them-they are here.
That is, they are in Paris, which
means that American women Of fash
ion win bring them home with them
this fall and winter" said Mime. Ber-
nard, Fifth Avenue modiste, who has
just arrived from abroad with the
first hArem skirt and the silhouette
gown.
The former resembles Turkish trou-
sers, which have succeeded the slit
skirt and the latter is a new French
creation OF lace and pleated tulle,
worn with tights of silk Of white or
flesh pink, with no suggestion of a
petticoat unless it be of filmy mate
rial.
The slit skirt has been the most
graceful and attractive made for
women which has been worn in many
years, so all of the great fashion lead
ers OF Paris declare" said Nine. Ber-
nard. The harem skirt is an adapta-
ton of the slit skirt with the tendency
to the full and natural figure about
the hips, which is the dernier cri.
Turkish trousers, properly adapted,
are an ideal costume for the modern
woman of fashion. The ones I saw in
Paris are the most fascinating and
bewitching froCks l have ever seen.
The silhouette gown, which is built
on GreCian lines, is extremely beauti-
full, provided the figure is graceful 1t
is like looking at a beautiful woman
through a fleecy sunlit cloud
The gown is so arranged at the
hem that by means of a slit up the
front-to the knees-and by pulling
the diaphanous pleated tulle and lace
crisis cross about the ankles a sort Of
trouser effect is obtained which only
shows when the wearer moves about"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
Society Leaders, in
Masks, See Risque
Paris Play 'ILove It.

Special Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, July 1O.-Wearing OF masks
by society women who attend racy
theatrical productions, but who are
ashamed to let their relatives and
friends know of it, has come into vogue
here.
A large number Of women from court
circles are daily attending the risque
French show, Il Love It." but all wear
masks for fear of the censure of their
husbands and Of Queen Mary, who has
forbidden any of the ladies' of her court
from entering the Middlesex Theater.
where the production is on.
Clergymen are beseeching the censor
to close up the theater, declaring it
will debase all who see it because Of its
gross morality.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
SWEARS CONLEY.
Boosted Of
Staying
W. H. Mincey, Insurance Agent,
Makes Startling Affidavit for
Frank Defense.
Continued From Page /.

him And then he told Of his meet
ing with Conley. Holloway replied
that Conley had not been in the
factory that day, no one knowing at
the time that the negro had hidden
himself in the boxes to the right Of
the stairway on the first floor
The shock Of the tragedy had not
yet worn off, and all was confusion in
the building. Because no one sus-
pected that Conley had been in the
factory on the Saturday Of the crime
a fact which Conley later admitted
when under the third degree Of the
detectives, little attention was paid to
MinCey's story at the time
Says Police Wouldn't Listen.
He states that he went to the po-
lice station and was told that they
did not want his story. He saw Con-
ley and identified him as the negro
with whom he talked on the after
noon that Mary Phagan was murder
ed.
When Conley himself broke down
and admitted that he had been hiding
on the first floor, Minceys sensation
al story took on the highest signih-
canoe. He returned to the factory and
repeated the details of his former
statement An interview was ar
ranged with a lawyer acquaintance
not connected with the case in any
way. This attorney heard his story
and took him to Attorney Rosser,
where the statement was taken in
sworn form.
We do not want your statement
unless you can swear to the truth Of
every word Of it," he was told. He
then dictated the affidavit which is
now in possession Of the defense.
MinCey was a solicitor for the
American Insurance Company until
about two weeks ago. He left this firm
TO teach school He Is said to be en-
ployed in Chattanooga, but will re-
turn to testify at the trial Of Leo
Frank July % He lived at 1873 Davis
Street until last October and then
moved to another part Of the city
Defense Has Faith in II.
Uncovering for the first time the
bulwark OF defense which Frank =
lawyers have built up round him. as
well as containing tho irst report OF
a confession from Coney, the am
davit signed by MinCey at once takes
it, place as the most important docu-
meHt or piece Of evidence that has en-
tered into the case.
Yes we have the affidavit" admit
ted one of the lawyers for the defense
Thursday afternoon. we have had
Il for some time. We place the ut
most reliance in Il. We believe this
man is telling the truth II forms one
Of the strongest foundations for our
belief in the guilt Of Jim Conley.'
c. J. Graham, of the law firm OF
Graham & Chpapell. announced on
Thursday that the hearing on the
writ OF habeas corpus for Newt Lee
had been set by Judge Ellis for Sat
uriay forenoon at 10 o'clock. He
said that he would subpoena 80 wit
nesses to appear at the hearing
among them Leo NJ. Frank and Jim
Conley.
Franks attorneys will fight his APP
pearance at the hearing and the state
is expected to try to prevent Conley
from testifying Solicitor Dorsey is
strongly opposed to the freeing OF
Lee until after the trial of Frank, and
has declared that he win use every
effort 10 thwart the movement OF
Lees attorneys.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
Fly Pests Cost U. s.
Sl57,8OO,O00 a Year

WASHINGTON, July 1o.-Figured
out in money, to say nothing Of the
loss in human life, the cost to the
United States annually of supporting
its fly population amounts to $751;
100000, say Government experts who
have been making a study of the re-
suits Of the germ spreading activities
Of these insects.
1t is estimated that the fly is re-
sponsible for an expenditure of $50
100000 for the handling of tubercu-
losis cases, attributable to germs
spread by the pests, while 10000, 900
represents the cost of typhoid fever
cases originating in the same way.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
Trainmen Will Not
Meet With Wilson
To Discuss Strike

NEW YORK, July illumination was
given here to-day by W. G Lee, Presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of Trainmen.
and A. D. Garretson president of the
Order of Railway Conductors, that they
would not accept the arbitration of Pres
ident Wilson and Secretary OF Labor
Wilson in the wage dispute Of the train
men on railroads east Of Chicago, which
threatens to precipitate 100000 men in
a strik
Lee and Garretson said they would not
go to Washington Monday to meet
President Wilson and the Secretary Of
Labor
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
FightsInsuranceSuit
Under Suicide Clause

COLUMBUS. GA. July ia suit OF
NJ l. Richardson. administrator of the
estate of F. NJ. Richardson. who was
shot and killed October %, 1912, against
the Prudential Life Insurance Company,
TO collect a $4,000 policy. is being heard
in City Court.
When the father. NJ. L. Richardson,
pany refused to settle, claiming that
the insured committed suicide.
A similar suit for $4,000 is pending
against the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
U. s. Marshal Ready
To Quit on Demand

PENSACOLA, July 1O.-Thomas F.
McGourin, for many years United
States Marshal for the Northern Dis
trict of Florida under Republican
administration, said this morning
that he expected to receive a demand
for his resignation at once.
He did not say positively, but init
mated that he would comply. It is
understood that the Marshal for the
Southern District of Florida will be
asked to resign.
Those who claim to know declare
Frank L Mayes, editor of The Pen
saCOla Journal, will succeed Nc
GOurin.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
Forest Fire Zone
Under Martial Law

MILL VALLEY. CAL, July 10
Martial law was declared in Mill Val
ley to-day and troops were ordered
to draft every able-bodied man for
duty fighting forest fires that threat
en- to wipe out the town. The soldiers
were expected to stop the exodus of
men fleeing with their families.
Efforts were being made to get
women and children to places of
safety
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
GARRISON PLANS
TOABANDON1OO
ARMY POSTS
War Secretary Calls Them Use
less, DemoraIizing, WastefuI.
Ready to Fight Congress.

WASHINGTON, July 10-The most
radical and dramatic move in army
administration since Elihu Root reor-
gained It a decade ago has been de
termined by Secretary of War CARR
SON He intends TO fight Congress on
the question OF maintaining 100 or
more absolutely useless" army posts
in the interior.
He intends to withdraw troops from
at least 70 per cent Of them in the
interest of economy and efficiency,
and next Wednesday will start on a
five weeks tour Of the posts to crys-
tallize the details Of the policy he an
nounced to-day.
Scores "Pork Barrel" System.
Secretary Garrison is disguised
with the "wasteful and extravagant
way in which the army is being con
Quoted" and lays It all to the system
Of maintaining army posts as part Of
the pork barrel into which every
member Of Congress dips his fingers.
There are at present 157 posts in the
country, an average Of one post 10
every ESQ soldiers in the army. Every
State IL represented.
The Secretary of War has made a
preliminary investigation, which has
proved to him that the maintenance
Of all these posts, of which he be-
lleves that 100 are unnecessary, is not
only demoralizlng to the army. but
the most extravagant way Of wasting
Government money ever devised.
Plans to Block Congress.
II Congress obstructs his policy of
unifying the posts, the Secretary Of
War intends to use his executive
powers Of Withdrawing troops from
those posts which he believes are IN
necessary. He declares he has abso-
lutte power in this direction. and. with
the Presidents consent, could concen.
trate the entire army in Washington
IL he so desires He intends to use
this power in fighting Congress
should the latter determine to nullify
his policies of post concentration.
Mr.. Garrison will be accompanied
by Major General Leonard Wood,
chief of staff. and Quartermaster
General Aleshire.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
Queen of Greece
Cables for Chewing
Gum for Troops

NEW YORK, July 1O.-Solon G.
Vlasto, editor of The Atlantis, to-day
received a dispatch from Queen So
phia, Of the Hellenes asking for a
shipment Of chewing gum.
To make him more certain why
chewing gum was so urgently needed,
Miss ContOstavlos. a lady in waiting
to the Queen, Cabled later:
Chewing gum is against thirst"
Mr.. Vlasto cabled $4,000 at once and
is about to send the chewing gum.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
Paving Of 73 Miles Of
Florida Road Begun

MIAMI, July demonstration of
IS miles of paved road through Dade
County near the coast as an i'm
portant link in the Miami Montreal
highway has begun.
The work is being done by farmers
at a cost of s120,0OOO. Native coraline
rock is being used.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10

The plan Of centralizing the army
has been under consideration for sew
eral years. General Leonard Wood,
chief Of stan, on his last visit to At
lanta, stated that If the plan was
ever put into effect Fort Mcpherson
would become one Of the largest posts
in the country.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
WHEN TAGGED OUT

Take Horsford's Acid Phosphate
Especially recommended as an invigorator to
oTcrworked body and brain. healthful tonic
Adv
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-10
RoUcIcAULT. ACTOR, DIES.

NEW YORK. July lO.-Aubrey
Bolcicault. actor and playwright. son
Of Don Boucicault. died here to-day
OF pneumonia
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-20
TRAPS HUSBAND
WITH HER RIVAL
Street Throngs Hear Screams
of Angry Wife as She Sur
priSeS EStranged Hubby.

Frantic screams of a woman today in
a building at III IL Whitehall street
excited throngs in the street below. and
resulted in a hurried investigation By
Policemen White and Jones and the ar
rest of ]. II. Gresham, a foreman for
the Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany. and his wife.
Mrs. Gresham told the police that she
had surprised her husband, and that he
forcibly held her to allow another wom-
an to escape from his room and flee
from the building. She screamed for
help, she said, in an effort to attract
the police and prevent the escape of
the woman
Mrs. Gresham and her husband. it is
understood are separated, Mrs Gresh-
am living at sc Houston street, and her
husband having a room at III IL
Whitehall street Mrs. Gresham today
Unexpectedly called at her husbands
room, and then the scene ensued
She described the other woman" to
the police as wearing a brown dress
and carrying handbag. Mrs Gresham
said this woman disappeared in the
throngs in Whitehall before the officers
arrived No trace of her could be found
Gresham made no statement. He and
his wife will be arraigned before Re
corder Broyles Wednesday afternoon
Both were freed on copies of charges,
pending the trial
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-20
INDIAN CHIEFS WHO
LEASED OIL LANDS
DEFENDEDIN HOUSE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-T. j.
Leahy representing the deposed MEM
bers of the Usage Indian council before
the house committee on Indian af-
fairs today, defended the acts of the
council and criticised the secretary of
the interior for rejecting the leases be-
tween the Indians and the Uncle Sam
Oil Company.
Secretary Fisher and f. II. Abbott
commissioner of Indian affairs, were
present to refute charges of the Indians
and the indepedent oil company that
the department is favoring the Stand
ard Oil Company.
am here representing the chiefs
and assistant chiefs and certain mem
beers Of the Usage council who were de-
posed, Leahy said. II think l know
enough about what has transpired to
assert that there was nothing wrong,
improper or criminal in any of these
leases | am certain an investigation
OF this case will convince any one that
no crime has been committed by any
member of the Usage council and that
in approving these leases the council
acted for the best interests of the
tribe"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-20
OH|OFLOODPUT
MISSISSIPPI Oh 7

MEMPHIS, TENN, Jan. 20.-The
Mississippi river is now over its banks
at all points between Cairo and Helena,
Ark, flooding farm lands not protected
by levees. Hundreds of families have
left their homes seeking safety in Mem
phis and towns on the bluffs.
The river reached flood stage today,
and the weather observers predict it
will pass this by night. Certain parts
of the manufacturing section of North
and South Memphis are under water,
and many mills have closed down.
Unless the river gets to the 40-foot
stage, there is no danger to property
back of the levees
The United States engineer in charge,
Major E. M. Markham, has rushed Ia
borers and supplies to Beulah, Miss,
where there is place in the levee
still unrepaired since the last flood If
caught in it's present state, thousands of
acres will be overlooked A crevasse
appeared in Beulah in 1912
Practically all of Hickman, Ky. the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-20
CASHIER, COMPOSING
TO THEFT OF $4,000,
SAYS HE SPECULATED

WOODVILLE, MISS, Jan. 90
Charged with embezzlement of $4,000,
c. c. Macleod, cashier of the Citizens
Bank of Wilkinson County here, today
in jail confessed, blaming stock spec
ulations. A wild plunge" to recover
small losses failed, he said. The short
age was discovered in a difference on
the books of the Hibernia Bank and
Trust Company at New Orleans with
the Citizens accounts.
Macleod is 80 years old and married.
The Bank Of Woodville closed Septem-
Der 20, when r. G. Jones. cashier, dis
appeared and was found to be short
$14,500.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-20
SLEUTHS HOT ON
TRAIL Of BANDIT
Postal and Railroad Detectives
Plan Arrest of Southern Rail-
way Robber Today.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Jan. 20.-An
arrest is expected to be made at once in
the hold-up of the mail clerks on train
No. IL of the Southern railway, which
left Birmingham early yesterday morn
ing and from whom registered mail was
stolen.
The train was at Riverside, less than
20 miles from Birmingham, when a
white man got into the car and, at the
point of pistols, ordered the two mail
clerks to hold up their hands. Then he
asked for the registered mail securing
two registered jackets with mail for
Atlanta
The robber left the train at Lincoln.
several miles away, about ESQ o'clock.
A good description of the robber was
secured and the postoftice inspectors
and railroad detectives are working on
the case The loss is reported to be
small.
Officers who returned to Birmingham
late last night stated that they know
the bandits name and have him To-
Gated Postoff1ce inspectors were very
secretive about the matter and while
they maintained that the bandit is sur
rounded somewhere near the scene OF
the crime, there is reason to believe
that he is now in Birmingham and that
he Will be arrested today.
Off1cials state that it will be neces-
sary to check up all the registered mai
which left Birmingham before they can
give the exact amount of loss.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-20
OLD DUTCH WINDMILL
is POPULAR WITH
EVERYBODY

The Old Dutch Wind MIL, Alien
ta's newest and most unique family
theater, is rapidly coming to the
front as one of the sights OF the
city.
The big revolving wings Of the
mill, studded with hundreds of
many -colored lights, presents a beau
tiful spectacle indeed, and is with
out doubt the most beautiful llu-
mination In the South.
The house is brand new, and the
appointments are clean, bright and
very attractive which adds much to
the pleasure of visit.
This week The Neale Musical
Comedy Company will present a new
play entitled 1.-The Hans and Nicls,"
one of the brightest play1ets Of the
year
The motion pictures for the week
are the best that will be seen in any
theater in town, and all who attend
are assured of one of the best shows
they have witnessed this season.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-20
SMOKE WARFUND
CALLED M|SERLY
"Miuht as Well Abolish Depart.
ment," Is HarweII's Com
ment on Appropriation.

chairman R. NJ. Harwell, of the smoke
and gas commission, declared today that
+bs councllc finance committee had just
az well recommend the adjustment of the
denartment as to provide such a misery
appropriation.
THE committee gives us $500 for lab
oratory equipment, but not penny for
office equipment or expenses" he said.
I'VE can't afford to pay an inspector
50 400 a year to sit in an office and peck
a typewriter. Yet great deal of the
work of the department is mailing out
notices and information.
birmingham has five smoke inspectors
now at work. To stop the smoke nui-
sance in Atlanta we must have more
money. Inspector Poole must not be in
numbered with duties which prevent him
from getting out of his office and making
observations.
I'VE are going to make our appeal di-
rect to council"