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Menille fette fe. TEE ASSOCIATED FE1SI DISPATCHES LAST EDITION 4:00 P. M. Weather forecast: OCCASIONAL SHOWERS. VOL. XVII., NO. 142. ASHEVILLE, N .0., TUESDAY AFTSEN00N, JULY 23, 1912. Sc PER COPY We OK GUN Mil II TIE TOILS Gangster Known to Have Been in the Rosenthal "Mur der Car" Surrenders to Police. PROBLEM NOW TO GET THE MEN HIGHER UP Hope Actual Assassins Will "Squeal" on Others Three Are Held With out Bail. New York, July 23. Gunmen want ed for the murder of the gambler, Herman Rosenthal are beginning to fall Into the net set by the police. Harry Vallon, one of the five gang sters known to have been In the "mur der car" the night Rosenthal was shot surrendered today. Within ten days Deputy Police Commissioner Dough erty says he expects to round up the entire gang. With the men who actually did the shooting in the toll, the main work of District Attorney Whitman and Dougherty will begin that of trying to learn the identity of the conspira tors who so greatly desired Rosenthal to be done away with before he could make further revelations of relations betwen the police and gamblers. Sev eral prominent citizens have offered to finance an investigation of whether a police partnership with gamblers led to the slaying of Rosenthal. Dough erty thinks that from one of two score or more gunmen Implicated he may find one who will "squeal" on the others and thereby get at the men higher up. Whitman today stated that the po lice department with the exception of Dougherty has shown no inclination to help in the case. Supreme Court Justice Giegrich to day adjourned until tomorrow argu ments on a habeas corpus writ sworn out by Louis Webber and Sam Paul, charged with being accessories in the killing of Rosf i.thal. Posenthal's wid o"w Is to be the principal witness be fore the grand Jury today. Three Held Wlhout Ball. "Bald Jack" Rose, Sam Paul, "Bridgle" Webber, William Shapiro Hnd Louis Llbby, all held by the police for complicity In the murder of Rosen thal, were arraigned before Coroner Felnberg. The results of the hearing, In which the district attorney won the first scrimmage with the attorneys for the accused, are briefly as follows: Rose, gambler and friend of Lieu tenant Becker, whom Rosenthal charged with being his partner, was held without ball for the coroner's In quest Thursday. Rose Is said to have hired the "murder car" In which the gun men later went to assassinate Rosenthal. Loulp Ubby, part owner of the auto mobile, was held fqr the presentation of further evidence Thursday and the case of William Shapiro, chauffeur of the car, was likewise put over to that day. "Bridgle" Webber, the gambler in whose place In Forty-second street the gun gang Is said to have congre gated, and Sam Paul were held with out ball until Wednesday. Jack Sullivan, alleged go-between for Rose and Lieutenant Becker, was held as a material witness In 1100 ball, which was furnished. Another equally Important develop ment of the day was the entrance of Mayor Gaynor Into the case. By or der of the mayor the independent In vestigations which have been conduct ed by the police and the district attor ney's office have been concentrated under District Attorney WJiitman. Mayor Oavnor this morning summon ed Police Commissioner Waldo and in structed him and Deputy Commis sioner Daugherty to act in harmony with the district attorney no matter what friction might have crept be- iween them. The result was that Dougherty went at once to see Mr. Whitman. Search for Actual AssbhIiiw. Meanwhile the country-side search for the actual assassins of Rosenthal continues, both the police and private detectives whom the district attorney had employed taking an active hand Five men whose names have been ob tained from those under arrest are wanted and some of them are under rtood to be In Chicago, having fled from New York the day following the shooting. Commissioner Dougherty has admitted that the actual murder rs are not In custody. The grand Jury is busy with two propositions the question of police Participation In gambling as charged " Rosenthal and the murder. Lieutenant Charles Becker, head of the "strong arm squad," who has been the central figure In the charges wtlnst the police, was yesterday transferred to an uptown precinct "here he will do desk duty When Coroner Felnberg called the hearing to order District Attorney Whitman, for the peop'e. asked ad lonrnment of the cases Involving t'hapiro and Llbby. Mr. Whitman de flared that "public Interest -and the merest of Justice" demand an ad lournment Adjournment In these anes were then ordered until Thurs Im Counsel for "Jack" Ttoae objected l"tonment In his client's esse Whitman thereupon asked that C'catlnued on pace seven. durdered Her Husband X With Poison Is Charge Mrs. Maude Hamlin Arrested Sheriff Rice of Madison Be Disinterred Charged with poisoning her hus band, John Hamlin, about three weeks ago at their home in Madison county, Mrs. Maude Hamlin, a woman about 30 years of age, was arrested this morning in West Asheville at the home of Floyd Clemenger, where she had been staying, by Deputy Sheriff John Rice of Madison county, who was assisted by the authorities of Buncombe. The arrest is the result of suspicions concerning the cause of Hamlin's death. His body is to be disinterred tomorrow and an autopsy performed, and It was decided that it would he well to have Mrs. Hamlin in custody pending the result. At the time of Hamlin's death it seems that the physicians had been rather puzzled to account for his ail ment, but no inquest was held. It is said he became afflicted with some peculiar trouble and died in about five days. It was thought probable that arsenic might have been the cause of his death. Sheriff Rice stat ed that after Hamlin's death there was considerable talk about the case, and all of the suspicions together were of such force as to warrant tak- POSTOFFIGE BILL REPORiranTE Good Roads Feature Lopped off Railroads Are to Get More. Washington, July 23 The postofflce appropriation bill, shorn of good roads provision inserted by the house and embracing the revised parcels post sy. tem with charges based on zones of distance, was reported to the senate today by the postofflce committee. The total appropriations proposed by the bill are above those of the house measure, which carried approximately S2o0.000,000. One of the principal Increases Is In the pay of railroads for transporting malls. In striking out the Shackleford good roads feature of the house bill, which provided for federal Improve ment of highways, the senate commit tee recommends an Investigation by a special commission of three house members and three senators, and pro vides for no highway improvements until this commission has reported. The Barnhart amendment In the house bill for regular publication of names of stockholders of newspapers and periodicals was changed to pro vide for publication once a year, when lists of stockholders are required to be filed with local postmasters. WILL BE A DOCUMENT TO STIR THE COUNTRY K. senator Dixon Declares of the Third Party's Plat form. Chicaso. July 23. Senator Dixon today discussed with leaders of the third party movement the platform to be drafted for submission to the na tional convention. It will be a platform that win stir the country." said tne senator 10- day. 'It will be a document tun ot nu- mnn merest ana win uiuviuc cally for the solution of great prob lems." AS TO FREE TOLLS THROUGH THE CANAL Senator Percy Thinks We Have No Itiglit Under Treaty to Discriminate. Washington, July 23. "I do not be- Umm we should give rree ions inruugo the Panama canal to our shipping, either coastwise or International," de cleared Senator Percy In the senate tda'' ., H. said he did not believe the Hay -I Pauncefort treaty with Great Britain permitted the United States to dli crlmlnate against foreign shlplpng In the Interest of American commerce He said the neutrality of the canal had been guaranteed by the United States In turn for Great Britain's sur render of her protest right against Its fortification. LORIMER RECEPTION Man Ousted from Senate win n Principal Speaker at ai falr Tonight. Chicago, July 13 A public recep tion will be tendered William Lorlmer at a downtown theater tonight by his friends. Lorlmer, who recently was ousted from the senate, will return here today from his summer home An automobile parade will form at the station and escort him to tne nan. Lorlmer will be ta principal speaker and will devote his main re marks to the flnr disposition of his case In the senate. Cardinal Gibbons 1 Today. naltlmora. July II Cardinal Gib bone Is 71 rears old today. He spent the day quietly at his home In Carroll county and Is reported to be In ex cellent health. in West Asheville by Deputy County Body Is to for Autopsy. Ing up the body and making an ex amination of the stomach contents. One of the things reported to the offi cers was that Mrs. Hamlin had told a neighbor that she intended to "get rid" of her husband. There was also a report that she had bought some kind of poison at the Marshall drug store, but this had not been, con firmed. Added to these was the un certainty of the physicians as to the cause of the sickness and death. The Hamlins lived about two miles from Marshall on a rented farm. So far as the officer knew the woman and her husband had never had any considerable trouble. Sometime after her husband's death Mrs. Hamlin left Madison and lately has) been staying with her friends, the Cievengers. She was considerably excited when arrested but soon regained her com posure aid told the officers that 80 long as mere were suspicions, she wuuiu 11KB lo unuergo trial 10 Sei them at rest. She was dressed In mourning and was not unprepossess- ing in appearance. Sheriff Rice took her to Marshall on the afternoon train. E "inston Churchill Makes Plea for Maintenance of Brit ish Naval Supremacy. London, July 23. The speech of Winston Churchill first lord of the ad miralty, in Introducing the supple mentary naval appropriation of $5,- 000,000 In the house of commons yes terday afternoon, fully indoraed as it was by the prime minister, will cause graver concern to the country than any warnings wmcn nave gone Be fore. Without, the least offenslveness the first ford of the admiralty sketch ed the "unprecedented" rise of the German fleet, which he described as "extremely formidable.' In order to bring home its size to URGES BUILDING OFMOH WARSHIPS his hearers, Mr. Churchill likened it a new party. His address was deliver to the great fleet which all saw at e(j at a meeting of the New York Spithead, a short time ago. His text state county chairmen of the national was "Build! build untiringly!' through successive years, as the only means of meeting the menace in the North sea. And as if that were not enough, Mr. Churchill told the house that If the information received by the admiral ty that a Medlterrenean power meaning Austria was contemplating stand four-squared to democracy another considerable naval program ' which is to be literally a party of the proved to be true, "it will constitute people, which will fight for live is a naval factor requiring our prompt 1 8uegi not dead ones, and which will attention and not included In any.emD0(jy protest against corruption in forecast I have given of future naval constructions." Mr. Balfour, the former leader of the opposition, was prompt in his sup port of the government program. "Those who have listened to the aDeech of the first lord," he said, "must now be convinced that there Is no use talking about dropping our ship building. The cost of the navy must Increase as long as Insane com netiMnn in shlD building goes on else where. And though modern peace is 1U ovnonniVA HH Hlirifiii wim, . much cheaper than modern war." A notable feature of the debate was Premier Aequlth's call to the domin ions to Join In the defense of "our common heritage," and his remarks foreshadowing an early summoning of the statesmen of the self-governing colonies to participate in determining the policy of the empire. Mr. Churchill said the direct cause of the Increase In expenditure on the British navy was to be found in the new German navy law. the main fea ture of which was the increase in the striking force of ships of all classes. The effect of the new German navy law would, he said, be that nearly four-flfthi of the entire German navy M h maintained In full perman ent commission and Instantly ready for war. The first lord continued: Siinh oreoaratlon Is remarkable and as far as I am aware finds no ex ample in the previous pracui- modern naval powers. Mr. Churchill then announced the British ship building program for the next five years, saying that five bat tleships were to be constructed next year and four In each of the follow- '"The'four battleships at Gibraltar, .h- .noaker said, would be raised to ih. vessels. Six old battleships ..M K withdrawn from Malta and be replaced by four battle cruisers of ih. invincible type and quality. The armoured cruiser squadron there was to be strengthened by the addition of a submarine flotilla. The naval station at Malta also was to be Increased, Mr. Churchill said, and new torpedo boat stations were to be .tnhiihrt at Alexandria. The first lord declared that he had heard one of ihe Medlterrenean pow m contemplated another mnaldera bio naval program so It was not un iib.iv that the British Mediterranean squadron would have to be reinforced In 111. ' Is "Colombia University" Now. N'sw York. July II After being "Columbia oollere" tor 110 yearn; the Instil m!?Ti at last has had Its name . hanged to ' Columbia University. BEGIN A WAR ON UNIONISM Massachusetts State Board Re port Upholds Strikers on the Boston Elevat ed Railroad. . iL CHARGES OF PERJURY AND COERCION MADE Grand Jury Considering Bills Against Line's Superintend ents, Who Denied Oppos ing Organization. Boston, July 23. The offl'clal report fnllrnvln.r nn invpatlentinn nf the n ton Elevated road strike, conducted by a state, board, finds the employes were Justified in believing that many mPrl WBrR riWharizerl because nf form- ling a union and recoaimends that the two parties confer syith a view to reaching an amicable agreement. The strikers todajf presented their grievances to a grand Jury, before which the president and two directors were summoned to testify in connec tion with the Institution of charges of coercion and perjary made against some of the road's division superin tendents, who denied the discharges were due to union activity. ROOSEVELT IMS THE in PARTY Outlines Reasons for Its For mation in First Speech Since Chicago. New York. July 23. In his first speech since he returned from Chlca go. Roosevelt today set forth his rea- sons for leading in the formation of .progressive party. "No- man knows better than I said Roosevelt, "that enthusiasm and high principles cannot' be effective without organization and work. A great responsibility rests upon you men who are undertaking the organi zation of a new party which Is to h,oth of the old party machines. L DROP AGAINST JUDGE HAHFDRD p0wer of Congress tO Press Impeachment Case Won't Be Invoked. Washington. July 23. Chairman Henry D. Clayton of the house Judi clary committee last night announced that he considered unnecessary fur ther Impeachment proceedings against Federal Judge Hanford of Washing ton, who yesterday resigned. In lenathv statement Chairman Clayton declared that while congress has the uower to try a federal official for im peachment even after he has resigned he. believes that course unnecessary In this case. Chairman Clayton Instructed the sub-committee, now In Seattle taking testimony In the Hanford case, to dis continue its work. "Of course there will be no formal action on the part of the committee on Judiciary until report Is made by the sub-committee which I appointed to Investigate the allesed misconduct of Judge Han ford." said Chairman Clayton. Word of the resignation of Judge Hanford was recjlved here with sur orlse. Representative Merger, tne socialist member from Wisconsin, who intro duced the resolution that began the impeachment Inquiry of Judge Han ford's conduct, announced he would drop the matter. "It closes the case, so far as I am concerned," he said. "I take Judge Hanford's resignation as an admls alon of guilt. It cannot be con strued otherwise. I was fighting cor ruptlon on the bench generally not Hanford personally. I never knew the man." President Taft will take no action until the letter of resignation readies Washington. Twenty Hurt In Oar Wreck. Erie, Pa., July 13. Twenty persons were hurt when a traction car Jumped the track at Four Mile creek, a sum mer resort near here, today. Japan's Crown As Mikado Is 1 sfl pfc tHSIsI'" CROW FRINGE OF ,TAWt The condition of Mutsuhito, emperor of Japan, is such that the at tending physicians have little hope of osed as acute nephritis. The crown to go to his father's bedside. The em stantly at the emperor's bedside. A buletin on the emperors condition at 9 o clock tonight says: "The emperor was somewhat sleepless during the day. His temperature is 98.72, his pulse fitful." COMPLETE TICKET new mtm Progressives in State Will Have Candidates for All Offices. ABbury Park, N. J., July 23. The New Jersey progressive mass conven tion met today and determined to put n the field for the November election a complete progressive ticket, but has not yet decided as to the me-tnod by which the ticket shall be nominated. The executive committee Is against any declaration for the Immediate es tablishment of a new party. HOUSE GOyyilTEE AGREES OX BEEF TRUST INQUIRY Washington, July 23. An immed! ate inquiry into the existence and ram ificatlons of the so-called beef trust was virtually agreed upon today by the house Judiciary committee, with the reservation that It might be an ob stacle If the senate took up Impeach ment proceedings against Judge Arch bald. MITCHELL SENTENCED Federation of Labor Man Gets Nine montlu Appeals and Makes 14000 Bond. Washington, July 23. John Mitch ell, vice, president of the American Federation of Labor, today was sen tenced In the District of uoiumoia Supreme court to nine months im prisonment for contempt or court, growing out of the Buck Stove and Range case. An appeal was taiten ana (4000 ball was furnished. Brlde-to-Be Missing. 1 New York, July 23. Although a general alarm was sent out yester day, no trace has been found of Miss Doreas Snowgrass, the Mount Vernon nurse who has been missing since July 17, by the police or the young woman's friends. She was engaged to marry Eugene F. Schmidt, a well- to-do young man. Gives Views From the Washington, July 23 Representa tive Martin W. Littleton of New York, member cf thi democratic majority of the house steel trust Investigating committee, today formally presentod his views to the committee dissenting from the legislative recommendations of Chairman Stanley. He agreed to sign the Stanley report with many reservations. It is said that Mr. Stan Prince 111 Near Death saving the ruler. His case was dlag- prince is also ill and has been unable press and crown princess are con WILLING TO TAKE ONE BftTTtESflIP Senate Hopes House Can Reach That Basis of Compromsie. Washington, July 23. One battle ship instead of two will be accepted by the senate if that basis of com promise can be reached by the house democrats in their caucus tomorrow night, A conference between the two houses over the naval bill, set for to day, was postponed after It became known that the house democrats were planning again to fight out the battle ship issue among themselves. WOULD BROADEN SCOPE OF COMMERCE COURT Law to Give to Larger Juris diction to Review Cases Advocated. Washington, July 23. Legislation to give the Commerce court Jurisdic tion to review cases wherein the In terstate commerce commission has re fused to grant relief in so-called "neg ative orders" was urged today before the senate Interstate commerce com mittee. Luther M. Walter of Chicago advocated legislation particularly so as to allow shippers to appeal from the finds of the commission in "tap" Mn? cases from the southwest. John L. Marble, secretary of the commission, expressed fear that the proposed legislation might not only give to shippers the right to appeal, but might give the railroads a broad er right of appeal than now exists. Senate Committee for Labor Depart mcnt. Washington, July 23. The proposed department of labor, for the creation of which the house passed a bill last week, was Indorsed by the senate com mittee on education and labor today and will be recommended for passage. of Dissent Stanly Report ley had but two other members nf the committee of nine In complete accord with him. They are Representatives Heall of Texts and McGllllcuddy of Maine Littleton's views favor principally a Joint body of the senate and house to study the trust question. He declined to support a proposed hill to put upon a corporation the burden of Its "reasonable" restraint ot trade. TIFF BILLS' An Excise Tax Act May Be the Only Revenue Reform Measure to Pass Con gress. DEMOCRATIC WOOL BILL SEEMS LOST And a Substitute for the Free Sugar Proposal Probably Will Be Adopt ed. Gazette-News Bureau, Wyatt Building, Washington, July 23. Polls of the senate made yesterday by Interested senators Indicate that the democratic wool bill will be de feated, the democratic excise bill will be passed and that a substitute for the democratic free sugar bill will be adopted. It will happen thus if a compact between the regular and Insurgent re publican senators is carried out. The substitute sugar bill will eliminate the refiners differential and the No. ID Dutch standard of color test, and will make a very slight reduction of the prevailing stariff rates on sugar. During the extra session of con gress a year ago the insurgent repub licans of the senate worked In open alliance with the democratic senators In order to pass bills through the sen ate making reduction of the steel, cot ton and wool tariff which they con sidered exorbitant. Because of the impending national campaign, in which they wish to figure as protec tionists, the "progressives" have beer induced to withdraw from their dem ocratic alliance. The Insurgent and regular republicans togeth..- have 51 seats In the senate, and the democrats but 43. Without Insurgent aid the senate democrats are helpless and the former group HaWfound It politic to cooperate with the standpatters to shelve the democratic tariff program until after the election. The Insurgents and the regulars, however, do not .form a happy family. and its reunion is a decidedly unstable affair. On behalf of the regulars, Smoot of Utah prepared a substitute wool bill, which he argued, gave the reductions on wool and woolens Justi fied by the difference of cost of pro duction abroad as shown by the tariff board. But the rates of the Smoot bill were higher than those In a bill supported by the republicans of the house. Senators Simmons, Brlstow. LaFollette and most of the other in surgents flatly refused to back Smoot's measure. Hence the republican plan was reduced to one of mere opposi tion to the democratic bill without of fering a substitute. Old Guard Opposes Kxclse Tax. The old guard regulars oppose the house excise or Income tax bill. But the progressives declined to enter into any combination to defeat this prop osition. The prospect is that the In come tax will pass the senate with a majority consisting of democrats and Insurgent republicans. It Is the only one of this winter's revenue reform measures likely to go to the president for signature. A lively fight over the sugar bill Is. ahead, from all Indications. The sen ate finance committee has reported a substitute which leaves the present rates Just as they are, but eliminates the Dutch standard and differentials, which will have the effect of cutting the rates somewhat and removing an advantage now possessed by the American Sugar Refining company. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, whose proposition the finance com mittee accepted, will speak In favor of the committee's substitute. Senator Simmons yesterday secured the adoption of an amendment to the sundry appropriation repealing the prohibitory provision of one of the appropriation bills which contained a provision prohibiting the payment of expenses of government experts as signed to deliver lectures to farmers associations and conventions The adoption of the senior senator's amendment Is a great victory for the farmers of the entire country. It means that the government will con tinue to furnish expert who will give valuable Information to the farmers which heretofore has been a great help to them. GlasATork for Roosevelt. Charleston. W Va July II. That he will support Theodore Roosevelt and not President Taft for the presi dency is the substance of a statement Issued last night by Gov. William B. Glasscock, republican, and at last sets at rest the question whether he had deserted Colonel Roosevelt The governor makes it clear that he pro posed to do all he can to elect the regular republican ticket with the ex ception of President Taft Provide for Americans Protection. Madera, Chihuahua, July II. NVirv ousnnm In the foreign colony was al layed today by orders from General Oroseo placing Col. Jose Bermudes in charge of the rebel garrison, with In structions to permit Americans to re tain their arms. The exodus of women and children Is almost 100 per cent r only three American women are left here.