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Show uu GEORGIANS PLAN AN ATTACK ON SLATON Atlanta. Ga.. June 25. Persistent rumors that persons incensed against Governor Slaton because of his commutation com-mutation of Leo M. Frank's death sen- ' tence to life imprisonment, contemplated contem-plated acts of violence against the governor tomorrow, caused state. 1 county and city officials tonight to 1 take extensive precautionary- meas- 1 ures Mayor Woodward ordered all near-beer near-beer saloons closed throughout Saturday, Satur-day, and also directed that special i ilcemen be held In readiness for possible possi-ble disorder County officials have taken steps to reinforce the constabulary. constabu-lary. Governor Slaton's proclamation creating cre-ating a military' zone surrounding his country estate still was in effect tonight, to-night, eighty militiamen patrolling the place. Adjutant General Nash has announced an-nounced that he will double this force tomorrow night, and that he will maintain main-tain the cordon of troops there as long as he deems it advisable. At Marietta, near here, where Mary Phagan resided, the board or trade tonight to-night appealed to the mayor to take precautions against possible disorder there The mayor promised to order a sufficient increase in the police force to insure against public demonstrations. demonstra-tions. The Marietta committee also ap pealed to residents for the preservation preserva-tion of order. Circulars the committee distributed called attention to the fact that Jewish Jew-ish merchants had been threatened in notices posted on the doors of their stores, warning them to leave Marietta Mariet-ta by Saturday night 'or take the consequences con-sequences " Despite these notices, prominent residents res-idents of Marietta said tonight there was little racial prejudice there because be-cause of the Frank case, and that they did not anticipate trouble. The request re-quest to the mayor, they explained, merely was a measure of precaution I oo- |