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THE FST:STrGKQ:Wa- j; g THE GIAmOTTE IfEWS Sunday 1 1 PAGES TODAY ,-"Gr e a t e r C Si a r 1 o tit e - s H 6 m N e w s p a p e r ' EDITION K Established: Daily, 188S Sunday 1910 CHARLOTTE, N. C., SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1914. Price : Daily 2c ; Sunday 5c m R Q t o hi His IPICOfti RREON THE J NGER SPOTS v Sudden Change in the Situation at Either Point light Precipitate a Crisis, it is Thought Bryan and 0?nie!s Watch Dispatches. hie Huerta Has Apologised ror Arresting American Ma r.es the Incident is Far From Closed Latest Devel opments in the Situation. John E. Nevin, Staff Correspond ent of the United Press.) Arlington, April 11. Tampico Torreon were the danger spots , - Mexican situation tonight. At place, it was admitted here t-udden change in the situation - precipitate a crisis that would the hand of the United States i - ave was the general outlook thai c.Tiavy of State Bryan remained : : desk until a late . hour. And ;; viarv of the Navy Daniels left vid.-v with Rear Admiral Fiske - of the bureau of information . all dispatches bearing on Mexi -.-,v affairs were to be sent to his i0 :? as soon as received. While Provisional President Huerta izi apologized for the unwarranted ?nv-t of an officer and enlisted men ttora the gunboat Dolphin, the inci is far from being closed tc nisht. Huerta is. conducting an inves tiaa ion. Pending its conclusion . the ir.iid that the American liar re- . a salute of 21 guns from th v- a! forts at Tampico is held -up, v ast that is the understanding o I:??', naval officials here. But it is be-; Sieved to be certain that so soon as ie inquiry end Rear Admiral Mayo will insist that the salue be ac iuriel. Naval precedent demands ;h: And there is little doubt felt in ra i l circles that the Mexican i'ed-:ral- will agree to do so of their own iccoru. This incident, however, has served 1) emphasize 'on how slender a uread hangs the precipitation of trouble for the United States. Had ::? arrest not been promptly disavow ed and the apology made, Mayo would Lave been compelled to raze the derul forts at Tampico. "And there ire gcave fears entertained by offi cial; in close touch with the situation ha another such incident may soon :e precipitated, where the outcome sill be more serious. , But it is not' alone for Mexicans than danger is threatened. -The. inter national aspect of the" Mexican mud- rue was far more clouded tonight BAT TLESHIPS TO BE CHRISTENE WITH WATER This is the Reported Program i o be hollowed by Secretary Of The Navy Daniels in His War on The Demon Rum. Daniels Has no Idea of Chang ing His Order; May Ask Con gress to Pass Legislation Making it More Binding He ' Talks on the Question. 4 With Lilies and Sweet Flowers ' ' if i han in many weeks. Spain demand ed, through Ambassadefr' Willard, at Madrid today, that its nationals, vf rywnere in the constitutionalist rritory be protected. This 'govern ment is asked to see that 'this is icijp. And Carranza has absolutely denied Secretary of State Bryan. The atter has made two peremptory de mands that Carjanza force Villa to respect the rights of Spaniards in the erritory that he conquers. But the :er.:andi5 have been ignored not even -emg accorded the courtesy of a "ep'y. Secretary Bryan tonight admit- ?d that he had no reassuring infor cn on. this subject. And for the time it was evident that the "i''i t ntnnplomotit u-ao trnnVilin premier. -iJiana and liermany have putj po'ecticn of their enormous financial! interests at Tampico squarely up to ibis country. Secretary Bryan insisted tonight that he was doing everything e could to force both sides there to direct their fire there away from the fox-igu sections. Admiral Mayo's com inds to the commanders on both Kfb; have been peremptory. But t;re is a real fear that should the fe;?rals be forced to evacuate Tarn- they may decide to demolish all hn property there before doing 'a the hope that the United States be forced to intervene. And on ether hand. there is the positive " ledge here that the constitution r.s look on the British almost , as a as the Spaniards as their ene - And they demand some good ' is why British, or even German cuy should not be confiscated ; take the city. word of the final outcome of the lighting' near San - Pedro, 50 f northeast of Torreon has ' tins city. Secretary Bryan that his advices show that the 1 eyen more bitterly contested Aas that at Torreon proper. But r,i positively declined to make : "- tbe text of his messages from ! ' i Ham m, who at Torreon as -rver for the state depart- ' " bhiri is due in this' city, prob iiorty night or Tuesday morn ! mors of impending changes in :i!r: 's policy after he has c'on vitli Secretary Bryan and ' ' Wilson were being discuss There was nothing official ; ' - to base them other than ',: J- that Lind would, insist ;n;ie had come when tempor ;,':J cease and sharp action t'arraiza to drive Huerta ' !' be taken. But Secretary , , ouiu not discuss Lind at .'all, .' " i resident is at a West Vir- ":o ( !,"a'!tli resort. M ' niinued on Page Nine.) Washington, April 11. Warships chistened with water, the one thing which the superstition of the veteran seaman most fears, are expected to be come a reality in the United States navy in the very near future. And the individual responsible will be Jo sephus Daniels, of North Carolina. President Wilson's secretary of the navy. Naval officers in the confidence of the secretary said tonight that the new rule was simply carrying to its proper consequence the order of the secretary that the Demon Rum should oe Danished from the navy. They said that, while ihe secretary will, in a.11 probability1, not.be able to force pri vate constructors of Uncle Sam's war craft to use water instead . of cham pagne at their christening functions, his power over the government built vessels is absolute. it is expected that . the secretary will issue his order to this effect in the near future. He refused to dis cuss his plans tonight. But he made it very plain that he does not intend to be swayed from his intention of making the navy "dry" by any protests from outside. Hopes of certain offi cers that the opposition to the order abolishing the wine mess would result in reconsideration . by the secretary were shattered by Daniels himself. "So far as the navy department is concerned this order is already in effect," said the secretary when ask ed whether it would be necessary for the president to approve it befomit is promulgated. "It will be enforced af ter July 1. And I want to say now that there will be no reconsideration of it so long as I am the head of the navy." It was very plain from his attitude thaC should his legal advisers tell him that the president must approve this order, Daniels will insist that the ex ecutive do so or he will quit. And whether the president believes the order a wise one or not it is also cer tain that he will approve it rather than permit Daniels to. retire under circumstances winch would subject the administration to sreat criticism and precipitate it into a wet and dry fight. Members of congress heard tonight that Secretary Daniels has a trump j card up his sleeve in his battle to put "Demon Rum" overboard. Legislation by congress to reinforce his order abolisXig wine messes on battleships and in navy yards is to be asked by Daniels, it was reported. Such ac tion would force a. test vote in con gress upon the prohibition question. Daniels is said to be considering a recommendation- that it consider a "rider" to the next navy appropriation bill which will abolish liquor in the navy. He will cite the abolishment by congress in an army appropriation bill of the army canteen. His plan is said to be based upon the contingency that a new administration with a new nftvv secretary might revoke his anti- rum order. If congress itself abolish- pd the wine mess, it is believed the law would stand for all time, without rpneal. x- , , 1 Members of congress aiso pomtea out today that Daniels' oraer u ac tually tested might be found invalid without approval by congress unless President Wilson should conclude to O K." the general order or uan- iels as a formal navy "regulation. PH.- W," I $ A W SvW SFte-y t 4 sr . A' ---- - Tt v s jdt f 4 t MS" W 4 'X FOUR GUNMEN'S LIST CH1GE OF EPR1EVE mi Justice Goff Denies Application For New Trial on Behalf of New York Gunmen Who Stand Convicted of Murder ' of Herman Rosenthal. Men For Whose Lives Desper ate Legal Fight Has Been Waged Will Be Taken to Electric Chair at Sing Sing Monday Morning. t- .t J X4 r.'S-J 4. Mi 5S5. V i ' wJk Tig'. A 4 X r,'- r v ? 5 - V " X, Zf X r.v.'. : -Si : T 1 3- US. ir J 6. . - 1 fe JNjL viH i, . J "Go fortK ye radiant triing's of scent and bloom Who Know not toil or spinning Brighten with life My risen Son's cleft tomb The Easter triumph winning!" . : I'or SO th- ul: IV' if-- ;(; ! . i-'i ROUSING lELGBIEif "1ec4st: WILL THE BULL ; ' ' " . : ': ' - . b n n f- fl T" T . t fflUUbt bt! P L ANN E D FOR UN D ERM 00 DOWNPOUR THREATENS EASTER FINERY. Washington, April 11. The elements will probably not make tomorrow's cmnhinv szladsome spring Easterday over the eastern half of the country at least. The weather bureau's advice tonight was either to carry an um brella and wear a raincoat or else leave off Easter finery. :t will be "un settled" over most of the country east of Mississippi river, with downpours nf rain threatened. The p'rospect for fair skies was a little more encouraging in the. Middle West. -" ' - - HALF MILLION DOLLAR FIRE IN NEW BRUNSWICK. St. Andrews, N. B. April 11. Fire which started in a pile of : shingles where workmen were repairing tne roof of the Algonquin summer hotel this afternoon, totally destroyed the big structure with a loss which ba close to $500,000. The blaze was driven before a high wind and fire fighting facilities were inadequate to cope with it. The hotel building was owned by the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Washington, April 11. Democrats tonight made plans for a "rousing welcome"' Monday ' to- Representative Oscar Underwood, house leader, when he returns from the" South after win ning the senatorial fight in Alabama. Underwood's appearance on the house floor Monday is to be the signal for the demonstration. His opponent, Rep resentative Hobson, returned several days ago. The return of Underwood will sig nal renewal of activity "in the house to wind up the 'business of the ses sion Underwood has been given re sponsibility, as house leader, oy tne president to push through the admin istration's legislative program before adjournment.- Here- are a few of the problems Underwood must solve. An agreement m tne nouse juui ciary committee regarding four anti trust bills tied up in committee dis agreements. Whether "labor exemption" shall be included in the anti-trust pro- 1 gram. . , , . , Agreement, with probably a demo cratic caucus, upon a rural credit bill. Expedition of four more big appro priation bills. . "Passage of bills to create an inter state trade commission and for in terstate commerce commission reg- X Washington, D. C, April 11. North and South. Carolina:. Lo- cal rains Sunday; colder in in- - terior. Monday probably fair. --. Georgia: Rain Sunday; colder X in north and west portions. Mon- X day. fair, except; rain and colder in south portion. : .'' . Virginia, local rains and colder' X Sunday. Monday, fair. )'? MATRICIDE ARRESTED. Wnllv SDrinas. Miss., April . 11. John Smith, 18, .son- of Mrs. James Smith is - under arrest here - charged with murdering his -mother and rob bing her of $900. The boy, the author- ties charge, beat his mother ;to .death, threw her body in a cistern and escap ed. Bloodhounds were placed . on his trail, he was captured today-in an old barn 12 miles from his home.. . How Would You Like a Suburban Home? . G. A. R. CAMP CONTRIBUTES TO.U. C V. REUNION. Jacksonville, Fla., April 11. The lo camp Grand Army of the Repiib lic -today asked permission of the United Confederate Veterans to make a substantial cash donation to the re Snion 'fund. The offer was promptly accepted. ? ' Look carefully at this picture. It illustrates splendidly what a fine piece of property can be made of a subur ! ban home and how an investment of l - i : : A. C l-nilrn'iH capiiriHoc Decide v.hether the La Follette sea- this kind pays big interest, not. only men's bill and a presidential primary, in the money return, but also health be passed before adjourn-: and happiness. Bargains in - homes ! like this are constantly being offered in our Want Ad section. If you are interested in a suburban home, turn to our Classified Advertisements now j and read the opportunities there. If I you have a home , or other property, bill can ment. Underwood will continue as party leader in the session next winter, Representative Claud Kitchin,-. of North Carolina, being slated as his successor. SURGEONS WILL MEET AT ROCHESTER, MINN. you want to sell, a little Want Ad will find a buyer. New York, April 11. The American Surgical Association today decided to hold the next annual meeting at Rochester, - Minn., and elected Dr. George E. Armstrong, Montreal, Can ada, president; Dr. Robert G. LeConte, Philadelphia, secretary. FOOTING IN SOUTH? "solid time. Washington, April ll.-Progressvve eader Murdock predicted on the v. i-ij nart.V llWUi would get a tootnoia m v viio full for the first mill L1L VU1J He prophesied Louisiana would send bull moose congressman to me next session. His predictions were based on what he called an attack on the prosperity of New Orleans! and Louisiana. "You have broken the back of the sugar industry of which New Orleans i. ; ha Smith " he is. tne ceniev shouted at the democrats, "you nave taken away from the great Southern seaport of New Orleans a reserve bank, and vou have destroyed the ad- vantage of that seaport uy juui ac tion on the tolls repeal bill." wo likewise accused tne reyuu- licans of. combining with the dem- onmts in an assault on the xsew ur iBarc. mint appropriation yesterday, ,nH innidentallv assailed the division - " " - - a. of "Louisiana so that one nan oi lib nonnit. co to " Dallas in tne reserve bank division and the other halt to Atlanta. Representative Payne, repuDiicau pHsrpd in with a comment that jviur . o V 1C ,1 dock hoped, by voting ior a nan u en employes in the New Orleans mint to carry that state for the "humble bee party." CHANCELLOR KIRKLAND HIGHLY HONORED. New York, April ll.-The four gun men convicted of the murder of Her nan Rosenthal must die. Justice Goff cf the supreme court tonight denied the application of their counsel for a new trial, shattering the last hope of the men that they might be saved from the chair. Monday is the day set for the exe cution of the gunmen m Sing bmg prison. The men who will go to their death are: "Gyp the Blood' (Harry Horrowitz); "Dago Frank" Cirofici; "Lefty Louie" (Louis Rosenberg) and Whitey Lewis" (Jacob Seidenshner) Justice Goff, in his opinion held that the testimony of the witnesses Dresner, Burwell, Reo and Kalmason was worthless and of nineteen affi davits submitted by counsel for the defense, he declared that only four those submitted by the witness named were even worthy of consideration. "On the law, and the facts, the de fendants have had a fair trial and a jury of their fellow citizens has pro nounced them guilty," said Justice Goff. "The court of last resort has unanimously affirmed that convic tion. Appeal has been made for ex ecutive clemency in these last mo ments a year and five months after the conviction when the crime itself is almost forgotten and human sym pathies are deeply touched at the prospect of four human beings paying the highest penalty known to the law, strenuous efforts are made to arrest the judgment of the law. Were these efforts directed alone to human sympathy; there could be but one answer ..But... they are not directed to human sympathy. They are directed to an instrument' of law whose, sole ddtyTin to administer justice and no matter how. harsh it may seem to be it is nevertheless justice to deny the motion.'. Justice Goff laid great stress on the fact that each of the witnesses introduced by the defense today had waited until the last minute to make known . their testimony. "The impression made on my mind," he said, "was most persuasive of dis belief of what they said." Goff expressed the opinion that Desner's testimony indicated it was made to fit that of Jack Rose in the trial proper and he quoted from Rose's testimony indicating similar points. Of Burwell, the justice said, the point on which his testimony rested was his . statement that one of the four defendants, pictures of whom he had seen, was th man he claimed he saw shoot Gambler Rosenthal. "Burwell never saw either one of the four defendants and the only knowledge he has of them was derived Irom his seeing some pictures pur porting to represent the defendants in a clipping from a newspaper," said thee ourt. "It is unnecessary to dwell for a moment on. the utter insecurity of such testimony as tending to show anything like accurate identification. The mere negative statement that a man who fired the shot was not one of four persons whose faces are out lined in a newspaper, without any evidence that such outlines are true and correct representations of the de fendants and in the face of the posi tive testimony that the defendants fired the shots, is worthless." Justice Goff discredited the evidence of the other witnesses in a similar way. PRESIDENT WILSON'S GET- RIGHT PDLIG How Administration Has En deavored to Regain a Some what Weakened Reputation For Fulfilling Its Internation al Obligations A Threefolc Program. Issues Involved in Settlement With Colombia and in Pana ma Tolls Question Forget ting. Party Expediency President Has Tried to do The Right Thing. By GEORGE H. MANNING. TO MAKE FIGHT ON NEGRO JUDGE "TheWantAdWay Iowa City, Iowa, April 11. J. H. Kirkland, - chancellor of Vanderbilt University, today was eiecea presi dent of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, in convention. Centenarian Dies. Sanford, Maine, . April 11. Mrs. Pauline Parrell, who was 100 years old last September, died here today. She is survived by eight children, forty-nine grandchildren and eighty great grandchildren. Washington, April 11. "Judge" Ter rill, the negro jurist whom President Wilson named for another term on the municipal bench of Washington, will come up for confirmation in the sen ate, by unanimous consent, at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon when Sen ator Vardaman is expected to launch all of the oratory he can muster against the confirmation of any ne groes for high offices by a democratic administration. It was learned tonight that this con sent agreement, under 'which Terrill will be considered was reached yes terday, in secret session; There is strong hope among the Southern senators that they will defeat Terrill. There has not been the clean ing out of negroes from the govern ment service that was expected by certain Southern senators. "Negro doorkeepers sit around at good salaries, and make dirt for white scrubwomen to clean up, over in the navy department," one of the South ern senators said today, in outlining his nlans for a fight against Terrill. "If we can beat Terrill, it will give Daniels and others an idea as to how we feel about it." .Senator O'Gorman, of New York, is said to be in line with the Southern senators. He has been having a fight on his hands over the District of Col umbia recorder of deeds, Johnson, a negro, having a white woman consti tuent employed in Johnson's office. (Continued on Page Two.) Washington, D. C, April 10. The , personal popularity of President Wil son, that of his administration and the demd'eratic party as well, which has suffered somewhat during the past month because of the president's stand on the repeal of the Panama Sanal tolls exemption clause, is bound to greatly increase as little by little it be comes more generally known and ac cepted that in. taking up the subject at this - particular time he threw to the winds all thought of party politics in his desire to remove the feeling of international distruct in which this country is held by foreign nations and set the United States on a better footing before the world. With the vote on the Panama Canal" . tolls repeal out of the way over a week- in the house, and the storm clouds gathering as the interest in . themat- ter becomes more intense in the sen ate, senators and congressmen are trying to satisfy themselves as to whether . it was wisdom or folly for President Wilson to bring the subject to an issue right at this time. From a purely political standpoint it would have been wiser to let the matter drift along until after the November elections the Panama Canal will not be opened until after the next con gress is elected anyway. By letting the tolls repeal drift along until after November the possibility of presenting a somewhat divided par ty at the fall elections would have been avoided. The charge thatthe repeal ,. was unwise"and un-American would also not have been manufactured as a campaign argument : against the demv oeratic party. Congressmen, to be elected this fall on the democratic ticket, must necessarily uphold the Wilson administration. Yet against them they have the speeches of Speak er Champ ClarK and Leader Oscar Underwood, two acknowledged party, leaders, declaring that the administra tion is taking a step in the wrong di recting, in repealing the tolls clause, and that the democratic party is with out honor for breaking itc platform pledge. It is extremely doubtful that Pres ident Wilson with all the political as tuteness which he has exhibited since going into the White House did not carefully weigh all these probabilities, and consider them insignificant in view of his plain duty lo make amends for some of the diplomatic blunders committed by this country, and the majority of the voters of the country will probably view the matter from the president's viewpoint before long.- The Canal tolls repeal legislation isy only one of three important steps Pres ident Wilson intends to have tha United States take to set us right be fore the world. The recent ratificatioc by the senate of the numerous arbl. tration treaties marked the first step. Amends must yet be made to Colombia for the act of the Roosevelt administra tion in taking Panama away from her, The administration will probablj face another storm equal to that now raging about the Canal repeal act when the bill is placed before congress to pay Colomdia $25,000,000 as an in demnity, but President Wilson intend to give the United States a clear inter national conscience regardless oi whether his administration becomf3 for the time unpopular, believing thaf time will demonstrate to the people that his course was proper. - ' It is becoming plainer daily tha; President Wilson believes that not un til these three things are. accomplish ed will we be able to look the world ' in the face as the honest man looks into the eyes of his neighbors. The undertaking of , this program called for a good deal of courage on. the part of the president. In the first place, the carrying out of such a pro gram meant a reflection on two pre ceding administrations. The taking of Panama was one of the notable acts of the Roosevelt administration, and the legislation exempting American coast wise ships from the payment of canal tolls Jaore the signature of President Taft, although it was passed by con gress one branch of which was demo cratic. , Anticipated Contest. . The president, when he decided to push for these three things must have understood that he was inviting just such a contest as has arisen over tht free tolls bill, and such a contest as will ' arise when the senate is asked to ratify a treaty with Colombia pro viding for a, settlement with that country on account of the taking of Panama and when- the entire congress is asked to appropriate $25,000,000 to repay the Republic of Colombia an in demnity. Unquestionably the chief ex ecutive fully realized that he was ask- A . V- V 4 . 3 111 h . r '. 161: 5 .Vm 4