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CHARLOTTE N. C., THURSDAY tVENlNG, JUNE 8, 191 I
pTjrppj In Charlotte 2 Cents a Copy aDily—5 Cents Sunday.
^1 Outside Charlotte 5 Cents a Copy Dally and Sunday.
ipjoaty Bill Is
epoi ted With The
Rod Amendment
P
taction Loses iis Fight
1 Unhobbled Bill-
. firanct Committee
Agreement Ajter an
: ^ejsion.
VEDRINE FLEW
for Canadian Re-
EM Free From
r,.s, Made by Pie-
’t and Others, Fails
Piv Associated Press.
Paris. June 8.—‘ iio” estlmatf^s
thiit \ordrine, the w.iUer of the Par-
if' ID-Madriil r:ifo, whose proiier name
!s .lulec: Vedriut'S. attained the pi'odi-
irif'us si'eod of i.)5 miles an hour on
I’ui'sday, covering the 77 5-10 miles
H*!>arating Dijon and St. I^aurent-Les-
Maoou in ou minutes.
The paper quores the aviator as
sayme; that he was pushed by a wind
s.i violent that at times he flew with
" as a>. ltd u!>!-n ri^p ,.,ii niachine perpendicular.
;io oomn i;ft e I He ;ilso ercnimtered wind pockets
me S.—The Ca-
d Tr
i^dr.v wi-'.u'ut
n amendiiien!
d ';’ulp iir.nM
V -■'’•'in”' b%
that caused his monoplane to make
frigl.Tful (irnr.s, sometimes descend-
ini; !H>0 feet in a few seconds. Ve-
dnnes suitered only through the
.-tr;;;n I'ln his oyos.
■I
iity
. ' • f '• .tive
, . i'...; el ■' '.'r. i».-d*
■■'S. ^ nii;ni-
.. ii,' Senator N -1-
'Vi'uld ha\i
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• piMdii is. This
•!? a ioli call ar;!
; p’.’,d out T ) the
I MOD
;1. Tiif li;ter provi-
.■•’i’. rod bv ?. :’.at-»r,
t i ■ ;'l- '■ "tf -tT'd
' . i ' Mr. 1\. rn.
i^i;nni(!ns to ill-
s in ’lie tree Ms'
I ! :*■ i! r^fiuirine the
■'!. m wiod P'llp
" ^3 'voe clut}
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a;.'! 'iinm.-’!s, and'
’ art ■, McCuin-,
' and SK'ne,'
’' ■; 111' 1.1 rt ^ .
'• fav(liable report
(Ml th*^ SliC-
,.;i urfav.iraMe r;-:
: » '* 7 to 7. 'T'].e,
-i i -llowed a motion
.• rof nmmendation
-r, Baib y
rr-' cat’ their b:.l-
\ . i’.fimaiely t uani,-'
r.v A«:sociated Pi ess.
V.'a>h'!ig’on, D. C , June S.—Elbert
H. Gary undertook today before the
iiouse Steel Trust investigating com-
.niMee to show ihat the United States
F'ee . -iriioration of \vhich he is the
I'end doos not now control as large a
pe’.roniage ot the steel business of the
i i.Ir. d ir^tat.'S as ii did in the day of
i formation.
in.^isted ;hat. as against a
ptT r toirrc.! of the domestic busi-
n^-s in 1:)''' the corporation at the
pr*‘ient time is able to direct only nO
1' r (\ n: of .the domestic output. Of ex-
;iori business, h >\' ever, Mr. ixary said
the sieel c-)'pora^ ion controlled about
Mil per cent.
V.’ashington. D. C., June S.—Judge
C’bert f^'tvy, of the T’nited States
."'T* . : t o’-povaiion. expected today to
'■••.nrl’itie his testimony before the Stan
I y ;-rpcl inv. KTigating committee. He
i.'kt d flie ('omniittee for an opportuni-
■y t‘> tell the exact percentage of the
str-t'l business of tho cotintry Avhich
!! :■ coip.n--:i:iu controlled at the time
if i-,>- organization and how that per-
( on had been reduced since that
tii'ie. .:ary also desired to tell
the committee what companies, taken
over v.'hen the steel corporatioo was
rormrd, were competitors of each oth-
>-r ar-ti v hat rompatuis were not.
I'lifi'e we.e present before the com
mittee today, waiting to testify, Nor-
Piesideni the Star
Attraction
Brooklyn To - day
Governor Dix, Ambassador
Bryce And Other Notables
Also on Hand—Over 'Qm
Hjundred Thousand Sunda?/
School Children Take Part.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, June 8.—Thomas Foulkes,
of Danbury, Iowa, the v/ealttiy farmer
w-ho has 'been prosecuting his former
fiancee. Miss Loda Vine Miller, and
her brother. Attorney J .Marion Mil
ler, of charges of defrauding him out
of $11,812 and two tarms, won his case
today in the criminal court.
Foulkes told a remarkable tale of
w’hat he characterized as a “financial
wooing.” He said he bought kisses
and caresses from the object of his af
fections with loans of from $50 to $600
and that after he lost the amount of
money named in his suit and after his
two farms had followed the money,
his charmer had advised him to go to
President Will Outline Ejects
of Reciprocity on The South
at Speech to Cotton Seed
Crushers—Many Speeches on
Program.
By Associated Press.
New York, June 8.—Brooklyn- ■^ill
entertain President Taft this after
noon, with Governor Dix, Secretary of
War Stimson and British Arnbassadoi’
Bryce and other “iiotables lending lus
ter to the occasion. After the presi
dent reviews a parade of Sunday
school children, sees a lacrosse match
and speaks in two clubs and tvo or
more churches, he will go to Manhat-
California, read the Bible constantly; tan to attend the dinner of the Nation-
and marry a widow. He added that it al Cottion Seed Crushers’ Association
A POSSIBLE EXTENSION OF THE HOBBLE SKIRT IDEA.
Shocking Murder
nd Burglary At
Jamestown. N. C.
n.inti >n i ^leam, Percival Roberts, jr,
' Jp.-nes Gayley, of the Steel Corpo-
■ ,/ ‘ji a:ii'n directora-e.
' '' 'v7ccic-inni i ^^^len the United States Steel Cor-
' . 'j formed in 190‘1, said
•iir i.an lent .e ^ judjrp Gary, the companies actually in
.0 bill at today .s
compent ion
->veral minori-
• \i .. f-d and it |
. ,ld ■ presen'.( d
. rri; >rr it was decid-
• • \.vu Tuesday tue
• a.-i. or theiH.
Tariff
■Ads the Boar
took him six years to discover that his
affections were not returned.
The brother was accused of having
planned the alleged raid on Foulkes.
11 ip by Repre-
,1.1'r ot *h' republi-
iii';;.iui 0.
■ • ' h :.-; \\'ll be fol-
f I'or mem-
;ppi>sit ;on
. , , were the Carnegie Steel
u t ni'.r *ne mo^io j, subsidiary of the Federal
..i^.si! .v^CoiT’rs. '' 'isreel C 'tnpany, the American Steel
[1 H)p Tomi.any nnd the National Steel
Comr n.'- The American Steel &
Wire Company, the National Tube Co.,
ihe .American Tin Plate Co., the Amer-
u an Sheet Steel Co.. the American
liridge C ■>, and the Lake Superior Con
solidated Iron Mine Co. were not in
comj)etition with each other nor were
the comi'anios first named.
"The iirincipal competition was be-
ween the Illinois ftteel Co. and the
arnegie Steel Co.,'’ sand Mr. Gary,
. "in the sense that they were making
^fh- ?;une articles, principally rails.
.. Juiiv ■—Tl.o'A'ool j i»nt freitrht rates from Pittsburg to
I,ay wa-i the busir.ess Chicago wer*' so large nearly $3 i>er
;■ • di-lni’f, opened ton, that the markets were' fairly well
; f“ h b. Mr. Und'jr- (lofiaed.
"'t is a fa-.n though that the Carne
gie (’■). (lid at times compete with the
Illinois SToel Co. outside its natural
ir.'arUf'i. (;nce I remember that the
► ans ci'mmittee,' Illinoi
ot-is in ih« « oin-Mng inro the hands of receivers and
toj^^hen it did actually come near doing
i that.
j ‘ I believe that if unrestricted and
I unrestrained destructive competition
1 had continued the Illinois Steel Co.
I would have l>een driven out of busi-
yTl Q ^ believe that if the former
C/n, O. OUUUI I mana'^oment had continued in control
the Carnegie Steel Co. would have
■ [been driven entirely out of business
every steel company doing# business
in the United States. That is the opin
ion of many people who know the
facts.
“The condition showed an improve
ment after the F'ederal Steel Co. was
formed, i'he point was reached where
we believed it possible to organize a
company that would be self-sustained
and that would secure a vep’ large
proportion of the expert business in
steel.”
The United States Corporation at
the time of its organization in 1901,
publicity. We have endeavored from
lh»j beginning to publish all the facts
and Ilgures relating to our business.
We oelicve. thnt enforced publicity
of corporations is Ihe most efficient
thing that has been suggested to se
cure and maintain fair conduct ot
business.
“We also have always had the
disi'ositicin to k'^ep avay from ?iny
possible monopoly in any lines of our
business and we have refused to at
tempt to exerci&e a monopoly. Wliile
sometimes our stockholders have com
plained becaiise we have permitted in
dependent concerns to increase their
production faster than we did, it was
because of this fixed policy of the
corporation that we aoted as vie did.
“With respect to our competitors
we never have made an effort to keep
prices above a reasonable figure and
never have suggested any such in
crease. The only reason w'e attempt
ed to maintain what I call a reason
able price or to prevent sudaen and
v.'ide fluctuations in prices was be
cause we feared the results visited
on otlier concerns which raaintaincd a
different policy and because these
conclusions did follow another pol
icy there i& no doubt that we' have
secured a large amount of their bus
iness. We have always attempted tc
foilow a good business policy and we
knew our motives might be better
understood when the question of mo
nopoly and restraint of trade were
straightened out.
“The condition of our employes al
ways has been up];ermoRt in our
minds and we have always kept
wages high. We have refused to de
crease wages when our competitors
did and >ve have spent millions to
improve the working conditions of our
men and the sanitary conditions of
the pltUits.”
Mr. Gary denied specifically that
the steel corporation had ever been
offered or accepted rebates from the
railroads. He submitted a copy of a
letter he addross-ed in 1905 to the
presidents of all the leading rail
roads co.utloniug them against giving
With Stocking Tied Tightly
t
Around Tkicai Mrs. Joel
Bill is Found Dead in Room at
Her Mother's Home in James-
\
town.
,.ru.i Wh7n Z 1-ebates to any officers or agents of
arnes.f. so d rails at $16 whe^ corporation. This letter had
llmoks Steel (’o. was considering go- ^
Mother Found Body—Robbery
Thought to be Motive—Only
Few Dollars Missing—Nine
people Were in Home and
Heard Nothing.
Special to The News.
Greensboro, June 8.—A shocking
burglary and murder at Jamestown
last night developed at 7 o’clock this
morning when^Mrs. Dr. Joel Hill, of Lex
ington, whose husband recently died,
was found dead in an upstairs room
of residence of her mother, Mrs. J. S
Ragsdale.
Mrs. Ragsdale, who is 65 years old,
arose early and going into the dining
room found cn the dining table
three bundles of silverware tied up
in a napkin.
Alarmed, she ’phoned her son, M.
G. Raj?sdale, president of the James
town Cotton Mills, who lived across
the street, to come over.
Arriving, he w^ent up stairs, finding
his sister in her night clothes lying
on the floor. A stocking was tightly
bound around her throat, another was
crammed down her mouth, her hands
tied behind her with leather straps.
The body Was still w^arm.
Every drawer in the' room had
been ransacked, the silverware and
other valuables that were tnere, had
been taken, this being the loot found
tied up in the dining room below.
Windows to the upstairs room Mrs.
I ...o
€ Court
l ollowiug exchanges
liran f-mbassy a ad
r lia-' i>* I. :i d' Cidod
, (i.'-.^c (• i.irt shall try
:) > lilor ot the Ameii-
.li:PL’a, vslio fatally
I.. Saunit-id, a blue
j'v ! irb a;:.- during a
' nil' )1 hospital
I .
a 1! '.ii .-i: Ml ' )i juris-
; • i: / that Jh ■> liO'ri'al
: ( r: iror;- and c (»nse-
Aiis one tor court
;iri ' inpliance with the
1 government in
a; li»'i '^iated.
Dix Signs Bill.
> , .li.no s.- f'rovernor
: :i la v i)rohibiting the
r..ii ringes or nee-
boen written, Mr. Gary said, as the
fosuU, of a report that had reached
him that rebates had been paid to a
minor official of one of the subsidiary
companies.
Representative Young questioned
Mr. Gary concerning the dismantling
of plants taken over by the steel cor
poration.
“We have never purchased any
plant,” Mr. Gary insisted, “with the
intention of tearing it down or get
ting it out of the way for the pur
pose of cutting out competition.”
“In buying properties have you
ever made it a condition that the
former owners should not re-enter
business in compitition with you or in
certain districts?” asked Mr. Young.
“No such agreement ever was made
that I know of.”
Girl.
Search for Lost
By Associated Press.
Hibbing, Minn., June 8.—The coun
s/,W '.tildKellao-, XVrcucIlly ■'oontrolled' try side abo.a Bengal, 20 milesjouth
the steel industry. He submitted fig-
ares, however, calculated to prove that
this control had l>een declining rather
than Increasin".
Mr. Gary denied any knowledge
of any agreement in the steel in
dustry whereby business territory
was apportioned and violators of the
agreement punished.
“Our policy,” he said, “has been
of here on the Great Northern, is
searching today for a lost girl, Mary
I^uise Graff, 14 years old. She started
Sunday from Bengal to the Sitica sandj w'ere no signs of footprints
By Associated Press.
New York, June 8.—The condition
of W. E. Stokes, the Tnillionaire pro
prietor of the Hotel Ansonia, and wide
ly known horseman, who was shot last
night by two young women in their
apartment, w^as such this morning that
his physicians say he wdii recover. The
young w^omen, Lillian Graham, an
actress, and Ethel Conrad, an illustra
tor, formally charged with the shoot
ing, Avere taken to police headquar
ters this morning on the verge of
collapse. Three Japanese servants In
the apartment house, in West 80th
street, where Stokes was shot, are
held as witnesses.
Miss Graham and Miss Conrad will
be arraigned in court later and held
to await the result of Mr. Stokes’ inju
ries. A further examination will be
made to ascertain whether the two
bullets stil Iremain in the millionaire’s
ankle and thigh.
By Associated Press.
Guadalaaraj, Mexico, June S.—The
volcano Colima became active yester
day when the earthquake shocks w^ere I rnay
felt and today is emitting smoke and j churches before reviewing
lava. The towns of Tonila and Sa-n
Andres were badly damaged by the
disturbances, a portion of them being
destroyed. A relief train has been
sent to the scene from this place.
Many Victims.
Mexico City, June 8.—Dispatches
from Tuxpau, a few miles east of the
volcano Colima in the southern part
of the state of Jalisco say that Zapot-
lan suffiered severely from yesterday’s
earthquake. The number of victims is
said to be large. A church and sever
al houses were throM'n down and other
dwelling places rendered unsafe.
Thousands of persons are homeless.
The dispatches state that the center
of the disturbance was the volcano
Colima which has become active.
The toVns of Tonila and Platanar,
i situated near the volcano, have been
damaged.
tonight.
It is expected 150,000 Sunday school
children will participate in today’s
celebration. The president will review
the parade from a stand in Prospect
Park between 3:30 and -1 p. m.
He is scheduled to arrive over the
Pennsylvania Railroad at 1:04 p. m.
Mayor Gaynor and the borough officers
will meet him at the Brooklyn end of
the Williamsburg bridge and escort
him first to the Hanover Club. Here
he will meet the officers and pastors
of the Sunday school union. At the
Union League Club next the president
will take luncheon v/iili Governor Dix
and the other distinguished guests.
Then he will go to the Tompkins ave
nue Congregational church to address
the children gathered for address pre
ceding the parade. If there is time he
speak to gatherings at other
the pro
cession.
The la crosse match he will see after
the parade will be at the- Crescent
Athieric Club grounds between teams
representing the club and the Montreal
Athletic Association.
At 6; 20 p. m. the revenue cutter
Senara will take the president and
his party across the bay and down
East river for the Cotton Seed Crush
ers banquet in Manhattan. At the
request of several southern senators.
President Taft intends to outline in his
speech here the elfect reciprocity with
Canada would have upon the south.
President 1'aft 'will leave at mid
night.
Frank Tmmbule
Quits C. & 0. Ry.
By Associated Press.
New York, June 8.—Frank Trumbull,
chairman of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railwaj'^ announced today his retire
ment from the directorate of the St.
Louis and San Francisco; Chicago &
Eastern Illinois; Evansville & Terre
Haute: Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Memphis and Kansas City, Memphis
& Birmingham Railways. Mr. Trum
bull’s resignation was due to press of
other business.
Senous Eajihquake
Was Recoided
By Associated Press.
Poasdam, June 8.—The seismograph
at the observatory here registered a
catastrophal earthquake in the
neighborhood of the Caspian sea at
1:04 o’clock this morning.
MADE FAST FLIGHT.
By Associated Press.
Buc, France, June 8.—Aviator Ave-
rigo, flew from Orleans to this place to
day in 55 minutes (the distance approx
imately is £5 miles). He traveled at a
height of 7,500 feet in a northeast
wind, having a velocity of 30 miles an
hour.
TWENTY-TWO HURT IN WRECK.
Japanese Force
Annihilated
By Associated Press.
Liege, Belgium, June 8.-Twenty-tw'o
persons were injured today w’hen a
street car ran into a pasenger train
at the railway sation at Angleur, three
miles east of this city.
py Asso^'iatSd Press.
■Victoria, B. C., June 8.—News was
, ^ ^ ^ , , brought by the steamer Kamakura yes-
Hill was using had been entered by Qf almost annihilation on
climbing on the trellis from the , 8 of a Japanese force in Formosa
ground below.
The sheriff and several officers are
scouring the country for the murder
er, the crime arousing the whole
neighborhood.
The handsome residence stands
near the railroad station.
The criminals are supposed to be
tramp burglars.
Mrs. Ragsdale has two farm boys
rooming in the house, whom she calls
to get up at 4 o'clock. It is supposed
thfet the burglar heard this ,call and
the tramping of the boys overhead,
while he was in the dining room,
a’ld beat a hasty retreat, leaving the
plunder as it was found.
Mrs. Hill was evidently gagged, fol
lowing her outcry on the discovery of
the burglars, since his presence was
not suspected until Mrs. Ragsdale
found the silverware in the dining
room.
Sheriff Jories and posse returned at
12:50 from Jamestown, with no clues.
Nothing si missing save the pocket-
book, with but a few dollars. Nine oth
er people were sleeping in the house
at the time and heard no racket. There
Mrs. Dr.
nit, a distance of two miles, with a
iunch for her father, who has a force
of men working there and has not
been seen since. Bloodhound^ will aid
Joel 'Hill was a daughter of Mrs. J. S.
Ragsdale, at whose home her deain
occurred.
She came Friday on her way to her
in the search. The country about hera home, at Lexington, from Philadelphia,
is wild and sw^ampy, where she had been tor treatment.
by the rebels against whom the Ja
panese have been campaigning for the
last three years.
It seems that three tribes, which
made peace, were incited to fresh re
bellion by two tribes which remained
obdurate. Forty men of a force sent
against the Formosans were ambushed
and after fierce fighting but ten escap
ed.
The dead were mutilated, their
heads being carried off by the head
hunters. Inspector Ikeniot, who com
manded the party, was found with his
nead missing and a broken sword hilt
tlutched in his hand.
II
8.—Startling
today by a
Ban on “Treat” Drinks.
By Associated Press.
Bloomington, Ind., June 8.—Prohib
iting fraternity men from giving or
receiving a “treat” drink of intoxicat
ing liquors of any kind and barring
fraternity freshmen from entering a
saloon In Bloomington, stringent reso
lutions have been unanimously
adopted by the Pan-Handle-Hellic
council of Indiana University, of
which Dean Barnhard, son of Repre
sentative Barnhard, of Indiana, is
president. The resolutions also pro
vide that every fraternity man is in
honor bound to report any delinquent
and each and every chapter is order
ed to provide a penalty for breach of
the resolution*.
By Associated Press.
St. Petersburg, June
revelations were made
criminal w^ho murdered an pfficer of
the army and the oflicer’s wife at Se-
bastapol. The man was arrested at
Tsaritsyn and now' says that he has
in the course of his career killed 57
persons, including among his victims
Dr. Popoff, a surgeon ot Kazan. The
doctor s assit-ant and a mid-wife were
accused of his death, and, being con
victed, are now serving terms of im
prisonment.
The President Departs.
By Associated Press.
"Washington, June 8.—President
Taft left this morning for New York
and Brooklyn. He will be back in
Washington early tomorrow.
By Associated Press.
Viterbo, June 8.—Simonettl, a police
official, was called as a witness today
in the trial of the Camorrists for the
murder of Gennaro Cuccolo and his
wife, to tell what he knew of the crim
inal organization.
The witness said the “classical”
Camorra no longer existed.
The Camorrists of the present day,
he described as simply groups of crim
inals who blackmailed thieves, geeting
from the latter stolen goods for next
to nothing. They also practiced usury
He denied that Gennaro Abbatemaggio,
the informer, was a member of the
Camorra.
The witness adAitted that Enrico Al-
fano was at the head of these criminal
gangs, the operations of which he il
lustrated by a case in which Alfano
was directly involved. A public sing
er, Simmonetti said, had been robbed
of jewels and sought the aid of Alfano
in recovering them. The Camorrist
took the jewels from the cab driver
who had stolen them and pocketed a
reward of $1,000. Later Alfano Viaa
compelled to engage in a pistol fight
with the real thief, who v/ished to get
his share of the reward. Both ca’u
driver and Alfano were arrested.
Take Body to Galveston.
By Associated Press.
^Washington, D. C., June 8.—The
body of Dr. Austin B. Chamberlain,
secretary-general of the supreme coun
cil of the Southern jurisdiction of the
Scottish Rite Masons, who died here
last night of apoplexy, will be taken
tonight to Galveston, "^’here an efab-
orate Masonic funeral v.ill be held.
Sensational Trial Ended.
By Associated Press.
St Petersburg, June 8.—The sen
sational trial of the twelve men, in
cluding two noblemen, a lieutenant, a
priest and four lawyers, charged with
conspiring to secure the fortune of
the Late Prince Bohdan Oginsky, was
ended today with the sentencing ot
seven of the defendants who were
found guilty.
Staff Captain Omitry Von Liarliar-
ski was condemned to two years im
prisonment and his accomplices were
deprived of their civil rights-