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- - r 1 . til- ' THE WEATHER. THE MODERN IDEA. Fair today; showers at night or Sat- t-Jav 111 "t :l t Llu" iaii iu cast To keep the money stirring you've got to keep your Advertising Going. EOUNDE 7 'S&g -V. ' ' i."' VOL. XC NO. 36. TITAN IG INQUIRY 101 SATISFACTORY Chairman Smith Has Some More Trouble With Wit nesses in New York. S EVIDENCE UNCONFIRMED The Senator Fails to Find That News Of the Disaster Was Withheld For 12 Hours By the White Star Line New York, May 2. Testimony tak en today by Senator William Alden Smi:h. of Michigan, chairman of the Senate committee investigating the Titanic disaster, did not reveal any facts tending to confirm the report that news of the Titanic disaster which the White Star Line made pub lic on Monday evening, April 15th, had reached New York early that morn ing. To determine this question was the principal object of the Senator's visit here, and he had before him today in private hearing John Bottomly, vice president of the American Marconi Company; E. J. Dunn, the New York merchant who testified in Washing ton that he had been informed by the son of a Western Union operator that a message had been received in New York on Monday morning telling of the Titanic's fate, and the operator himself who returned to the city to day. .Mr. Smith said, after having been absent since Sunday night. These two witnesses were disposed to be recalcitant, the Senator said, and ttir examination was very unsatis factory. He declared he would call the operator again when he hoped to obtain more definite information. Vice President Bottomly, according to his stenographic testimony, dis claimed all knowledge of any such new being received here at the time reported. "Do you knowjofypur own knowl edge or have you -been informed by any person, by "wire, wireless, cable letter, word of mouth, or otherwise, that information regarding this disas ter reached a New York office of your company or the White Star Line on Monday, April 15th, prior to 10 o'clock?" was the question Senator Smith put to him. No, I don't know of any such mes sage." Mr. Bottomly replied, adding that the Marconi Company received its first message of the sinking of the Titanic about J o'clock P. M. Mon day. The witness testified that he had made every effort to get news of the disasrer from the Carpathia and had sent instructions to all wireless sta tions asking them to furnish the com pany with all the news they could ob tain He denied that he had in any ay tried to influence Cottam and Briee. the wireless operators on the Carpathia, in regard to the sending and recept of information until the vessel had passed quarantine, when, tt'ith Mr. Marconi's consent, he had siven wireless permission to Bride to sell his story. Thp witness denied that operators f his company were instructed not to give information to any ship not fitted ith Marconi wireless. nator Smith .said that tomorrow he expected to take the testimony of a man "cognizant of the" fact that numbers of the crew couldn't turn a rr ain bolt in one of the watertight ronmartments on which depended its efficiency." FAIL IN MIDSHIPMAN TEST Less Than Half of Candidates Pass the Entrance Exemanation Annapolis, Md., May 2. Only 43 ler cent of the candidates for admis s;"n to the Naval Academy as midship rn' " were successful in the recent m-r. al examination conducted under c.vii ervice 'regulations at the various stations throughout the country, ac t'lrdiiiK to announcement made at the a !, my today. This is a little bet ,rf than last year, when 37 per cent nuniif -d. it was stated that 275 took th ttsts and that 113 measured up. Tii:.- year there will be between 300 and p.., midshipmen vacancies follow ing t ; . e graduation in June. In the :tr! ' of present conditions hardly 50 f" " -nt will be filled. The second t of the mental examinations held at the Naval Academy in .1,1.. iestoring Naval Cadets Char ' uis Clifford and Gaston Lee in-.- o their rank were favorably t yesterday by the House Com ' " ' n Naval Affairs. The cadets '" dismissed for absence without ' from the battleship Vermont in ' Representatives Peters, of ss:" husetts. and Sission. of Mis- : i. championed the bills for the r'-:'i-'dement of the young saflors. COLLISION AT SPITHEAD. B ntish Battleship and German Sailing Vessel Damaged. 01 ion. May 2. The British battle- Si, ' 'A ; : r-lMDress rf InHI n.-aa In collision a Herman sailing- vessel early to- f 1 " battleship received a gaping hole j" 'r side above the main deck while merchantman lost headgear and 10! '-topmast. The Kuipress of India was in mid- M1:,"i.el in tow of the cruiser Warrior ai mo ume of the crash. RADICAL CHANGE PROPOSED Methodist Episcopal Conference May Limit a Minister's Stay in a Giv en Church to Five Years. Objections. Minneapolis, Minn., May 2. Limita tion to five years as the longest time any minister shall remain in a given church, it is expected, will be recom mended to the Methodist Episcopal General Conference by the bishops to morrow as a means of stimulating the growth of the church. Much opposition is expected to arise over the proposal. At present the 19, 000 Methodist Episcopal ministers scattered over the world, are allowed to remain in any pulpit indefinitely. The new plan, supported by the 24 active bish6ps at the Conference, will means a restoration of the time limit, abolished in 1900. In favor of the change the bishops have received these arguments : "Because some of the churches will not have the less able minsters all the time ,and none of the churches will have the better ministers exclu sively; because the prominent pulpits, now held by a few, will be thrown op en to younger men." Against the change these objections were made: "That preachers ' who plan great work will not be in a pulpit long enough to accomplish it; that many great preachers have left the church because hampered by a time limit; that large congregations cannot be built up from a pulpit where there are frequent changes." It is said that many of the ministers have occupied the same pulpits for more than 12 years and their objection to the bishops' proposal, when it comes before the conference, will be based on their reluctance to leave a com munity where they have lived so long. "It is expected also the bishops will recommend radical changes in the amusement restrictions now imposed upon church members and these changes will be in the nature of re storing John Wesley's method of al lowing the conscience of individuals to dictate what shall be prohibited, in stead of having the church decide. In delivering the first section of the bishops' report, signed by all the bish ops and received by the 850 delegates as the most important- document to come before them; Bishop Earl Cran ston, of Washington, D. C, described as "critical" the fact that in the last year the church has gained "less than 2 per cent, in membership, notwith standing the outlay of millions of dol lars." "The greed for wealth, sports, and forms of amusement have taken away from the church, it is useless to deny," he said. He attributed the small growth partly to the system of drop ping from membership those who left their church without letters and fail ed to report to another church within a year. "In the last year." said the report, "the church has made a net gain of but 55,000, which is less than 2 per cent., as the outcome of the year's ac tivities and the outlay of many mil lions of dollars. The statistical para dox glares" us out of countenance. "A fair calculation reveals the as tounding fact that probably not less than 500,000 members disappeared from our rolls by reckless use of the 'dropping' process. "Nevertheless, we still face the pat ent fact that our distinctive doctrines are not being emphasized as they once were, or, where practiced, are aiscrea ited for the time by a gainsaying world drunk with vain philosophies and sat ed with gluttonous indulgences. Pleading for an emphasis on the dis tinctive Wesleyan doctrines, the re port said that they were the only pow er to save the Nation against vice. The report also charged that the ,t.Mi nresw was being used "as a free forum by the promoters of disaf fection." . x . The tendency of ministers to go to a church because the salary was invit ing, Bishop Cranston pronounced a sr'c.ies of commercialism." ordered a commis- dni, nnnointed to investigate the Epis copal supervision of the 325,000 negro members in Southern States. William W. Lucas, of Meridian, Miss., charged that although Bishop rm,Tv.on r Mfvplv's residence was fix ed as New Orleans, the bishop had resided" there not more than days in the last four years. Mr. Lucas and all Southern delegates declared that unless the negro members secured tne leadership they sougni mey n"" ed to separate. MERIT SYSTEM FOR CONSULS. r-rntion of Legation Buildings Ahroad Favored. Washington, May 2. The House Foreign Affairs Committee today re ported favorably the Sulzer bill estab- lishing tne mem 1 Xa"vA The committee also voted to report favorably a second bill for the con struction of legation and embassy ohmnd. These include an e btn, in the City of M- ico $150,000; TOKio, - Son building in Berne, $140,000 and a residence lor tne consul B Hankow, $60,000. rm, ,m nrnvides a system of ex ;tT, which consuls must pass to qualify for office and extends the pro visions to the under1 secretaries of em- baThf plan has been in operation for gome time, having first been instituted by an executive order by President i vmAvaii hv an order of .4M ft The State Department has urged adoption of this system by Thfi bill now goes-to the Senate. WTXMJJSTGTOlSr, N. HOPE TO ADJUST ALL DIFFERENCES General Committee Repre senting The Anthracite Miners Hold Session. REJECT TENTATIVE MEASURE Objection to the Agreement Was Based On the Tenure of the Contract Period Favor a Two-Year Agreement New York, May 2. Calling of a min ers' convention to approve or disap prove of the sub-committee's agree ment for settlement of the wage and other differences between miners and operators in the anthracite coal fields, was practically decided upon by the committee of miners' representatives and members of the boards cf the three anthracite districts affected, at a session here tonight. Another joint conference with the operators will first be sought by the miners, in all probability, to see if further concessions can be obtained, it was said after tonight's session. The miners' committee adjourned until to morrow, when a decision will be reach ed, it was announced, whether a fur ther conference with the operators shall be sought or an immediate call be issued for a miners' convention. This action followed the rejection by the miners full committee today at the joint conference with the Opera tors' committee of 10. of the tentative agreement for a settlement reached recently between the sub-committees of the two interests. If a convention is called, as seem ed certain tonight it will be, William Green, who represented President White, of the United Mine Workers, in today's conference, said that it will be held either in Scranton or Wilkes barre and will be composed of 400 delegates from the three districts. Such a convention could be convened within four days after notice of it was given, it is said by Mr. . Green. Mr. Green expressed the opinion that if a convention were held at once, before another conference with the operators, it would uphold the action of the min ers' full committee and vote disapprov al cf the sub-committee agreement. In a statement tonight the operators' committee indicated a disinclination to meet again with the miners' represen tatives until the latter had endeavor ed to secure ratification of the pend ing settlement agreement. New York, May 2. "The outlook, while rather complicated, is not dis couraging. It is hoped all ainerences may yet be adjusted." This was the statement made early tonight by William Green, represent ing John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers, shortly before the convening of an evening session of the general committee represent ing the mine workers of the anthracite coal regions, which today rejected the tentative agreement for settlement of the miners' wage and other demands, which had been approved by sub-com mittees representing the operators1 and the mine -workers. This agree ment, it had been' hoped, would result in the speedy resumption of work in the mines, where a suspension affect ing 170,000 employes became effective April 1st. Objection to the agreement, which had been approved by President John 'P. White, of the United Mine Workers of America, was based on the tenure of the contract period which was tot four years; the abolition of the slid ing scale and failure to recognize the union to the extent demanded. The proposal for settlement of the wage dispute was voted down by the miners while in conference with the operators. After adjournment of the conference William Green, represent ing President John P. White, of the United Mine Workers, who is ill in Iowa, announced that a conference would be held tonight to determine whether the tentative agreement, re jected by the general committee of the miners, should be submitted to a 'referendum vote or to a convention of representatives of the 400 unions in the anthracite regions. Should the referendum vote be decided upon, Thomas Kennedy, president of Dis trict No. 7, said the offer of George F: Baer, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, to submit the entire question in dispute to the sur viving members of the Anthracite Coal Commission, which settled the strike 10 years ago, would be submitted for the consideration of the full member ship of the local unions. From Messrs. Green and Kennedy it was learned that a majority of the members of the general committee favored a two-year contract with the mine operators and they stated that this was the principal objection to the tentative agreement considered in the joint conference this afternoon. TIDAL WAVE AT FUNA POINT. Village Destroyed and Population Al most Annihilated. Victoria. B. C, May 2. The steam ship Maxama today brought news from Australia of a tidal wave 18 feet high which swept over the Fijian town of Funa Point, wiping out the village of 80 houses early last month. The population was nearly wiped out, and the few survivors have noth ing to eat. C, FRIDAY MOKEOTej MAY 3, 1912. OFFICIAL RESULTS RECEIVED Underwood Gets a Plurality of 13,21i Votes in Georgia arid 5,464 in Flo :. rida Has Entire Dele gation. . 1, Atlanta, Ga., May i 2. Delayed r turns from the Presidential primary held in Georgia yesterday continue t&l add to the plurality of Oscar Under wood. Official results have been r ceived from 106' of the 146 counties,?, j. . . - a i .1 . . m : i ' I ana inese, wim me uiiumtiai returns from the other 40, show a plurality for the Alabamian of 13,215 votes. Th;ef official canvass, it is stated, will change these figures but slightly. J - The total votes for the four caudi-a dates are given by the Atlanta Ca-3 stitution as follows: f ? Oscar Underwood, 71.556; , Woodro Wilson, 58,341; Champ Clark, 20,869 g Judson Harmon, 8,0 - Although Governor Wilson carried more than 30 counties in the State, in, eluding all the larger cities, he wiy not get a fraction of the Georgia dele gation to the Baltimore convention." Under the order of the State Dem cratic Executive Committee the State convention, which meets May 29t, will be composed of delegates instruct ed for the popular choice of the Stat; This means that Mr. Underwood ;-s sure of the 28 delegates from Geprglfj, Result in Florida. : JackscnviBe, Fla., May 2. Retur-r's from Tuesday's Presidential prefe ence primary, with several counties missing, and a few others incomplete tonight, show a majority for Unde'J wood .over Wilson of 5,464 votes. 1 a the contests for State officers a fee 5 ond primary will be necessary to de cide the winner in at least two race ?. Park Trammel is4 leading in the..raj for Governor, with 3,000 votes; Cror.jl well Gibbons. W. H. Melton. G. Xf- Watson following in the orer namely A run-off will be necessary betwpi Trammell and Gibbons. Congressman Frank Clark and J. Hilburn. his leading opponent the second district, also will enter te second primary. Figures cn othi State offices have not been compiled. LIFE INSURANCE MERGER Jefferson Standard and Greensboro Life Committee to Meet Today ;' (Special . Star Correspondence.) v Raleigh, N. C, tlay.-The specif committee of 12 each from the Jef ferson Standard, of Raleigh, and The Greensboro Life Insurance Co.,: it Greensboro, to perfect the detail yt the proposed merger of the two insur ance companies will be in session. Washington, D. C, tomorrow to agru on the name of the consolidated co$i pany and the location of the home -- fice, whether it shall be Raleigh 'it Greensboro or some other North Cat lina city that offers inducements. T?e business interest of Raleigh are strid ing to retain Raleigh as the home t.f fice even at the sacrifice of the J?0 ferson Standard name which has coi p to be widely and favorably known linked with the commercial stabili jy of the capitol city. ' ENGINEERS NAME MORRISSf-V Selected As Their Arbiter In Railway Wage Dispute ? New York, May 1. P. H. Morr sey, of Chicago, president of the Ri j- 'ways and Investors' Association, w selected today by Grand Chief Star and a committee of locomotive en; neers to act as their arbiter and rep resentative on the arbitration bosffl of seven, which is to determine fin ly the demands for increased wa$jB made by the engineers. f, The arbiter for the railroads will ot be selected for several days. ,v District representatives of the Engi neers' Brotherhood left for Uieir hon ps this morning and Grand Chief St; 5e departed for Cleveland this afternoi . OUTLINES The postoffice appropriation bill c, u& taining many novel features past d the House yesterday. Returning from Augusta, Ga o Washington, President Taft yesterjy made short speeches at Florence, 5"jfld Sumter, S. C. . The anthracite miners' comnjUfie was in session at New York last hifgit and hoped to adjust the differenfigs between them and themine oper$.ts. The crevasse in the Mississippi pr er levee at Torras, La., was about. VjiO feet wide last night and goverrjmtsnt engineers abandoned hope of cosjag it up. s . i A witness at the trial of Floyd iAl; fcn yesterday testified that the oUtji"w had made threats to kill Bill Foslei ;In the event that he Was convicted; y the court. . ; ; . A plan to limit the stay of minls js at a given church to five year .;?ill be . recommended to the Methoj ist Episcopal .Conference today in' 13 sioj at Minneapolis. 1 R- The "Lily White" faction of the j le publican party in Louisiana yesterday split Mp into two wings, with ther "re sult that three different sets of d "le gates will go to the Chicago con ?n tion. Chairman Smith, of the Senate c jm mittee investigating the Titanic ;dt as ter, examined several witnesfee? f in New York yesterday in an effiorjto ascertain if the White Star Line ' iad withheld news of the catastrophe,Tiut bis inquiry met with little result.: : New York markets: Money onHfall steady, 2 1-2 to 2 7-8 per. cent.; j ;pot cotton closed quiet, unchangedi F;.iur steady. Wheat, spot easy; N04 2;;jred 1.20, elevator, export basis tojai ave and 1.22 3-4 f.o.b. afloat. Corn, fpot easy; export 86 1-4 . nominal 'f.j b. afloat. Rosin and turpentine, steady. TAFT HONORS THE IIRYJF BUTT Pays Tribute to His Lost Aide at Augusta Memorial Services. CAME NEAR BREAKING DOWN President Was Guest of the City and Met Many of His Old Friends Visibly Affected by Trib utes to Butt . ' Augusta, Ga., May 2. Coming as a friend to pay a tribute to the memory of a friend, President Taft spent to day in Augusta as the guest of honor for the occasion of the city's memorial service to the memory of Major Archi bald Butt, one of the, victims of the Ti tanic disaster of April 14th. The memorial services were follow lowed by an informal reception at the Commercial Club, where Mr. Taft met many of his old I friends, and after ward the President was entertained at the home of Landon Thomas. He Jeft on his return to Washington at B:50 o'clock. The President was visibly affected by the tributes paid to Major Butt. There were tears in his eyes as he .called up memories of the man who rwas his aide ever since hp entprd thp White House and who had traveled thousands of miles with him. Mr Taft made only a short speech, but he came near breaking down twice. "Never did I know how much he was to me until he was dead," said the President. "Lacking nothing of self-respect and giving up nothing he owed to himself, he conducted himseif with a singleness of purpose and to the happiness and comfort of the President who was his chief. To many fine qualities he added loyalty and when he became one of my fam ily he was as a son or a brother." Mr. Taft told how he met Major Butt, first in'thMtrpplnes .nd later as aide to President Roosevelt. He dwelt on Major Butt's devotion to Mr. Roosevelt and himself. "It has always seemed to me," said the President, "that Archie never mar ried because he loved his mother so. The greatest sorrow of his life was when she left him." Mr. Taft concluded with a word more as to Mr. Butt's spirit of self sacrifice. "Self-sacrifice," he said, "had be come a part of his nature. If Archie could have selected his time to die, he would have taken the one God gave him." Spoke at Florence and Sumter, S. C. Florence, S. C, May 2. Although not on a campaign trip, President Taft made two short speeches in South Carolina today on his way to Washing ton from Augusta, Ga. He delivered the first at Sumter from the rear plat form of his private car and the second at Florence. Big crowds greeted him at both places. The President preached prosperity and declared his opposition to doc trines that he said would destroy that prosperity if written into law. "What we want is prosperity," said Mr. Taft at Sumter. "We want quiet and the least disturbance to business so that capital may be invested and all may enjoy ""plenty. In South Caro lina I have not always had the support that would make me believe it worth while to ask for your suffrage, but I know there is a strong sub-stratum in South Carolina as in other btates, or nvicfinor orrfc-irprnTVi on a n rl there is a desire to maintain it, that may be used to continue it as it is." Henry Jackson, collector of inter nal revenue for Georgia, and one of the Taft leaders in that State, was a guest in Mr. Taft's car. RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. Senator Simmons' Amendment for State Included The Mississippi. Washington, May 2. Carrying $8, 064,010 in addition to the appropria tions provided for by the House, the rivers and harbors appropriation bill aggregating $32,126,530 has been agreed to by the Senate Committee on Commerce and will be reported in a few days. The largest single increase to the House measure was $2,500,000 for the Mississippi, making $6,000,000 for that waterway. Among the appropriations as in creased by the Senate committee ag gregate: Inland waterway, Norfolk to Poanfort. N. C. for a dredge, $200,000; Cape Lookout harbor of refuge, $300,- 000: Cane Fear river muu.uuu. The bill authorizes the appointment of a board of three engineer officers to examine Galveston, harbor and cnan nel, Texas City harbor and channel, and the Port Bollivar harbor and channel near Galveston, with a view nf securing: a depth of 6b feet, tne ne cessary cutting off of bends or widen ing of channels in the Sabine-Nachez channel, Texas, and change of the route of the channel from Arkansas Pass to Cavallo so as to pass by the tnwn of Port O Connor, Texas. tkq Sfi noo.000 for improving the Mississinm' river includes $4,000,000 to repair and build levees on account of the flood. Advanced SDrina Styles. One cf the features as will be shown at-the Grand from Paris photographs CREVASSE-GROWS MUCH IVIOER Flood Waters Pour Through Breach at Torras at Rapid Rate and a Lake of Water Covers the Town and Parish. Torras, La., May 2. A lake of wa ter tonight covers the town of Torras to a depth ranging from two to six feet and the Mississippi flood waters are pouring through the crevasse, which occurred in the levees late -yesterday, at -the rate of 12 miles an hour. The torrent of flood water has covered the little towns of Lettsworth, Innis, Binvenue and Smithland, and is rapidly flooding Pointe-Coupe par ish, between the Mississippi and At chafalaya rivers. While the water from the Torras crevasse may eventually inundate sec tion of six or eight parishes south of here, State and Federal engineers to night state that the very severe dam age would largely be confined to Pointe-Coupe parish, north of a line from New Roads to Melville. The crevasse tonight is about 800 feet wide. The Federal and State engineers abandoned the idea of attempting to close the crevasse at jioon today. Capt. C. O. Sherrill, chief of the United States Engineers in charge of the Fourth' district levee work, as signed all of the boats under his con trol here to the rescue work and his forces, together with those under Capt. Lomax, U. S. A., on the steamer Nako mis, transferred practically all of the pe&ple in the town and several thous and head of live stock to points on the east side of the river. These Federal forces also assisted in saving thous ands of dollars wdrth of household goods from the buildings. Situation Is More Desperate Baton Rouge, La., May 2. With an ever-widening rent in the west 'levee line at Torras, letting the waters of the Mississippi through to the rich su gar lands of Pointe Coupe parish, the State's big farm at Angola, on' the east side of ihe river, flooded by a crevasse an ncor today; weak spot in the ground lay embankment above Morganza, threatening conditions on Baton Rouge and with a steady rain falling to soften the already strained levees, the situation in Central Louis iana is the most desperate since th2 floods began pouring down through the Mississippi Valley. It became .appa rent early today that the Torras :i e vasse could not be stopped and ihe Federal .ml State engineers turned from the constantly widening gap 4.1 4- J AT .- 1 1 i- .. nlf most hopeless task of saving remain ing levees where even greater dam age might be done by crevasses. Captain C. O. Sherrill, chief of the Federal engineers, freely admitted to night that the situation is alarming at several points south of the Redriv er. Captain Sherrill and a force of several thousand experienced work men are laboring day and night now, but they are facing greater odds than ever before were presented by floods in the lower Mississippi Valley. After a hurried survey of the threat ening situation along the water front here, Captain Sherrimrnmediately Dut a force to work closing the cross levee which runs from the river back to the hills. The water here is near ly two feet above the previous flood record and rising rapidly. At 7 o'clock tonight the flood was within 12 inches of the top of the sand bags which have been placed along the river levees protecting Front street. Although several huttdred people were today removed from the terri tory flooded by the Torras break, hun dreds of others are lining the west bank of the river awaiting the arrival of boats to transport them to high lands. Appeals have been coming in all day long for gasoline launches and small craft to assist in getting people out of the overflow country south of Torras. COLLECTS DEBT WITH KNIFE. Woman Draws Weapon on Official Who Owed Her $500. Chicago, May 1. Alice McMorrow, of Philadelphia, collected $500 today from a Chicago deputy coroner through the medium of a silver-handled knife. - She met Deputy Coroner Michael G. Walsh in the county building. A few words were spoken and then onlookers saw the flash of a knife. Walsh grabb ed the woman. Other deputies sepa rated the two, and the woman was tak en to the coroner's office. After a few hours the woman left, smiling, with the knife, and $500 in her hand bag. Coroner Hoffm'an explained that the woman loaned Walsh $500, which Walsh did not repay. "I told him to pay the debt or lose his job," said the coroner. "He paid, and Alice McMorrow left a note with me declaring the debt settled, and re gretting the circumstances of the knife." J ROCKY POINT BERRIES. Receipts Light and Rain Needed Con dition of the Markets. (Special Star Correspondence.) Rocky Point, N. C May 2. Receipts of berries were, light todar. Some rain needed to develop the fruit. Tone of market quiet. Washington 7 to 15 cents; Philadelphia, 9 to 13 cents; Newark, 10 to 12 cents r New York, 10 to 14 cents. Express and telegraph service rotten. Worst on record. Ex press receipts three to ten hours late. Berries have to be held over for next day. Condition appears scalded, hence low prices. Some extra fancy Hefflins and Klondikes are being marketed. Fine growing weather on growing truck which is generally worked and in fine condition. Beans are now in bloom. ti WHOLE NTJMBEK 13,391. WITNESS TOLD OF THREATS TO KILL Gives Damaging Evidence Against Floyd Allen, On Trial For His Life. SEVERAL WITNESSES ON STAND Prosecution Will Try to Show That a Conspiracy Existed to Shoot Up Court Defense Will Try Contradiction. Wytheville, Va., May 2. "I'll kill Bill Foster before the sun goes down tomorrow night if I'm convicted." Floyd Allen, the first of the Hills ville Court House assassins now on trial here for his life, was charged with making this remark before the shooting on March 14th, according to the testimony today of I. B. Weddell, of Montgomery, one of the first day's witnesses for the prosecution. 1 On cross examination Weddell stuck to his story, though he admitted no oth er persons were present during his conversation with Allen. Six witnesses, three of them spec tators at the shooting affray, testified. The first, D. W. Bolen, a lawyer, who was defending Allen in the court where the murders occurred, testified that he saw Claude Allen fire the first shot and that it struck Judge Massie. Court officials returned the fire, he said. Two of the jurymen who were then trying Allen, testified, one of them that Allen had fired in the direction of where he last saw Foster, the common wealth's attorney, who was killed. Oth er witnesses told of conversations with Allen in which he had threatened Foster. Prosecutor Wysor, opening the case, said he would show there was a con spiracy among the Aliens to shoot up the court, if Floyd Allen were convict ed. Attorney Willis, of the defense, retorted that reports., of the tragedy had been grossly exaggerated, and that he would introduce testimony to show that Bettie Ayres was killed .by a bullet from Clerk Dexter Goad's re volver and not by the Aliens. The defense would show, he said, that Floyd Allen had beenwounded before he had taken part in the shooting. SEARCH IS ABANDONED S flea me r Minia Will Dock Monday With 15 Bodies Recovered New York, May 2. The Western Union Cable steamer Minia, which has been searching the scene of the Ti tanic for bodies ,is returning to Hali fax with 15 bodies and will dock Mon day, according to a wireless message received here this afternoon by the White Star Line. This means, offi cials of the line state, that the search for bodies has been abandoned for the present and may be postponed indefi nitely. ' The message states that the Minia found the bodies widely scat tered over a great area, so that the search became daily more difficult. Most of the bodies now on the Min ia, it is believed, are those of members of the Titanic's crew. even dead bodies buoyed up by life belts, together with parts of the wreckage of the Titanic, were passed on April 26th in latitude 41.13 and longitude 49.34 by the steamer Gi braltar, which arrived today from Mid dlesboro. When the bodies were sighted the Gibraltar was stopped but no signs of a living person could be seen and the steamer proceeded. Halifax, N: S'., May 2. White Star Line officials here had a lengthy con ference today with Captain Lardner, of the Mackay-Bennett, discussing the utility of a proposal to send out a third steamer, the Seal, to search for further bodies of Titanic victims. Cap tain Lardner expressed the convic tion that it would not be possibleo find any more. The idea, it is likely, will be abandoned. The bodies of 59 unidentified vic tims, seven of them women, will be buried tomorrow. Fifty-six- will be placed in one common grave in Fair view cemetery and three will be in terred at Mt. Olive. Twenty-seven have been shipped to friends. Eleven more will go tomorrow. This will leave 93 bodies at the morgue, claims for a majority of which have been sent in. Some of these will likely be bur ied in Halifax. At the funeral services tomorrow 100 seamen from the Niobe will as- 'sist in the services. J, - POSTOFFICE BILL PASSES Measure Carries Number of Radicaf Additions and Appropriations Washington, May 2. The postof-; -fice appropriation bill, carrying ap proximately $275,000, was passed by the House today 227 to 5. The meas ure carried in addition to the appro priations necessary for the conduct of the department, a number of radical additions. Among those were .Federal aid for good roads, the eompulsory publication by newspapers, magazines and periodicals of the names of their owners and the establishment of a parcels post in connection with tho rural free delivery service. The good roads provision added between 16 and 18 million dollars to the appropria tion and this amount, it Is expected, will be materially increased in the jhext postoffice measure. - -- i : mil , n today. i - - .- ' - - - V 6 v - ; f-
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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