Wednesday, September 24, 1913 Leo Frank Again Made President Of B’nai B’rith, Atlanta Constitution.

The Atlanta Constitution,

Wednesday, 24th September 1913.

PAGE 1, COLUMN 4

Prominent Atlantans Are Elected Officers of This Jewish Charitable Organization.

WITH FRANK IN JAIL HIGH HONOR PAID HIM

His Re-Election Comes With Announcement That He Is Still Conducting Affairs of Pencil Company.

At the recent elections of the Jewish Order of B'nai B'rith, Leo M. Frank, president, was unanimously chosen as head of the order again, and a number of prominent

Atlanteans were selected to fill the more important offices.

Among them are: Arthur Heyman, of Dorsey, Brewater, Howell & Heyman, vice president; Milton Klein, monitor; Dr. B. Wildauer, treasurer, and B. Kaufman, warden.

Sam P. Cronheim, secretary for a number of years, remains in the office, the election for secretary, to which Mr. Cronheim has been chosen several times, not coming

off until next January.

Leonard Haas Honored.

Another well-known Atlanta attorney, Leonard Haas, of the firm of Haas & Haas, is past president of the district grand lodge, which includes the states of Virginia, North and South Carolina Georgia and Florida, and the District of Columbia. Mr. Haas and Mr. Klein are considered the leading men in the B'nai B'rith South of Washington.

Leo Frank, the young superintendent of the National Pencil factory, and graduate of Cornell university, who, after a few years' residence in Atlanta, was chosen to head the leading charitable organization among those of his religion, and who occupied that position at the time last April when he was arrested on the charge of the murder of Mary Phagan, a young girl in his factory, held the office all during the summer while he remained in the Tower.

At the recent elections Superintendent Frank, then in the Tower under conviction of the murder and sentenced to hang October 10, was chosen as head for the second time and without opposition.

Conducting Pencil Factory.

His continuance in the high office of the B'nai B'rith came with the news that he was continuing, as far as possible, to direct, from his cell, the affairs of the pencil factory, over which he had charge when he was arrested.

He was convicted after what has been termed the hardest-fought legal battle in the history of Georgia, and his attorneys have already made application for a new trial, charging that he was convicted contrary to the principles of law.

The hearing is set to take place on October 4, just six days before the date upon which Judge L. S. Roan sentenced him to hang. It is generally believed, however, that the hearing will not actually take on that day, as the defense will file its amended petition for a new hearing, and it is believed that Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey will ask a postponement in which he may have time to prepare an answer.

Goes to Supreme Court.

Should Frank be denied a new trial by the superior court judge who hears this argument, it is already stated that the case will go to the supreme court, and, in that case, his fate will not be known until possibly next March, or even later.

It is not known which one of the four superior court judges in Fulton county will sit at the hearing. Judge Roan, in case of a postponement, would then be on the court of appeals bench, and the duty would devolve upon either Judge John T. Pendleton, Judge W. D. Ellis, Judge George L. Bell, or the newly-appointed Judge Benjamin H. Hill.