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" - . - ,',7 lr i - a;' - " - - 7 'VY'V:' r7- Ti:: VZATttZH. -A , ;.- -11118611161 weather with'" showersy tonight or Wednesday. Light to mod erate southeast to south .winds. 1 VOLUME El GHTEEK WILMINGTON N C,V TUESDAY, JULY; 9. 1912 PRICE 5 ttoEE ; CENTS i A r " IBB ALL BY . i- nnpi7pr7ig "1 i ASSOCIATED PRESS' NEWS. Carried by : the . Evening Dispatch, ! Together - with Extensive Special Correspondence. ' ' - -' T7? 1 -i r I HiSill in rani v . 1 - "'.... -,tr, . J ' ' -.Jt jf. . ... . . . ; , . . f. , .... .... tf i u r i r. -a.- 1 1 1 1 if ..ii FI il - - f , ' UDlted SMos First Is Olppio Canes ' . --x- -v Had a,: Clean Lead : Over all Other Countries Thisoing---Woo Oth er Triumphs n Today's Contests--American Relay Team Ruled Out and Cause Criticism. Stockholm,- "Swefien, 7 July 5 9. The fourth . day of athletic section,- of the Olympic Raines. Degan In dull threaten-1 Ing weather. . Several thousand enthn-1 siasta , assembled -r in the Stadium for the morning's hlg events. The Ameri cans .were well represented in:thQ speq-' tatorss" benches and s.w' two of. their men run away . :with.. two first ttfla'cas. George V, Bonhag, Irish Ameri3h,rAt C. gave a ' fine exhibition" ia'; the iflrst heat,', Louis, Scott, .Patterson Y,M.C. A., took tfce-seconl heat,' Wr'estli'ng'pjrb ceeded ' simultaneously ;wlthi -the run ning. .The list of mpeti tors pf 'these events runs, into the hundreds. Bonhag, in -first heat of the five' thousand metres race- easily led the :field thrpughoutj except.fof a ..brief moment in the mid die' of the race, , when Hill, an "Austral lian, was ahead during' the last mile. The; resm$ of the second beat virtuaily duplicated v the flrst7; The Americans maidovtbe pace for two . thifds of race. Th.ef United StatesT'showed poorly in the; third heat. Garn'eit Wiekoff; of the Ohio University i started: going lame andTrwithdrew A before - covering - two thirds of the; distance," Karlsson won th; third heat.-;; Tie Swedish victory was greatly applaudedlHarry Heb ner, , United 'States, won "the first Ti6at of the' hundred metres swimming, back stroke; for men.'; His time, was one minute and twenty ' one seconds. The second, heat was won by-'Fahr, Germa ,ny ; and ' the third ' heat . by Baronsi, Hungary, y- - , r . . : ' , - t The world 4 ! lr k "Hlnterrupt. ororrect errors of a state established byMissr.Fanny mont 1 -V - W rvM ming; was " Durach. v of. nstralla- whp .'won the hundred -metres racey. f ree ! stylel'.Her time . warfone minute, .nineteen and fouF ftbs -Becbeds., - - -7V Tfelvin W. .Sheppard, Irish-American irda .theTBrst- heaC of the fifteen hun dred metres "flat- race. His time was four minutes- twenty seven and two-third- seCbnds.v. -Ladeira, University Pennsylvania,' was second; ,Hare, Brit ain, was' third. J The United ; : States - lead, by . five points, in all events contested -today at the Olympic games, including swim ming, athletics, shooting and all kinds of sport.' Up to this, morning, accord ing to 74he Official . list, . the score standsrf-United StatesU 59; : Sweden, 54; Great Britain," 36; ' France, 17; South America, 11; . Germany, ,.11; Denmark, 10; Finland, . 8; Norway, 7; Italy 5; Hungary,. 4; Russia, 3; Aus tria, 3; Greece, 3 ; Holland, . 1 ; : Aus tralia, 1.. The United - States will not increase :: herf lead today because in the only event to be concluded,;, the Javelin ; throwing, ' Lemming, of Swe den, will be the victor; Yesterday's decision, J , disqualifying.: the United States relay team in the four hundred metre . race, 'caused considerable - talk. American ofacials ? assert, that both Sweden and British runners commit ted the same foulr but the Americans oniy were. punisneiL, , ;r.- . jt.. TAGBflllT TELLS 0F7 - -CilOPillGI) FOiiOS Washington, July 9. Thomas 1 Tag gart, Indiana's ? Democratic, leader, testified today before the Senate Cam paign Expenditures Committee. Tag gart was. imable te remember rmuch about the contributions to the Demo cratic campaign fund in 1908. From hearsay he ; expressed the belief that August r Belmont, Thomas , , F. -: Ryan and Cord -.Meyer, New Yorkers, 5 con tributed - vTaggart added " that" these , were three among the thousands., .The witness said - that he, contributed thousand dollarsV: He estimated that the committee had twenty or , thirty men soliciting funds throughout the State. Taggart said that when . George F. Peabody resigned as' treasurer, A gns,t Belmont succeeaeu uiui.; ; uvu know Jwhetherv Peabody; wa'Sj'dlsgted SpROHtelTlOHifARTY ; National CoE$ntIon Opens In Atlantic .City Tomorrow...; - r Atlantic -City; N: J.; fuly? 9. Plans have ben inmhleted for the ProhlDi: tion National convention, whch be'gins tomorrow. Every train brought a score 01 delegates. Clinton nowatu, w Rochester, who '. will : be temporary chairman nf , fha nntiTention.'. has , ar rived, '-zj' ' y 7 Special 7 attraction Baroness Vy on Zieber will : sinar' three"' songs at 9:()0, 9:30 and 10:00 d. m. "The NigKtln gale." "When The Guards Go By' and "The Last Rose of Summer" 7' It i - " .. . .; 7 w - . . ."7" 'i 7 CWo! ;l:7ing; ttoltf Defense. Will introduce Other-Prison. ers as Star Witnesses This After ; noonLawyers' Argument Expected . "Tonaorrow. -' 7 - ' Wytheville, VaT, uly ftBefore an other twenty four; hours Claude -Allen's fate may be in the jury's -hands.' There was a brief session, of court-tills morn ing and -five witnesses were examined. The testimony was substantially the same as the, previous "witnesses gave. Adjournment was taken to i &0 o'clock this . afternoon; ;15ur!ng the interim the" court s and counsel "retired" to J consider instructions to the jury. The defense expects to frest its ' ca.se: before adjourn- fjpHow : tomorrow Floyd" Allen. Victor Allen,' Priel Alien; and Sidna Edwards, were, brought here at boon from Roan oke.. They wilL be .called as witnesses in Claude's hehalf this afternoon The defense, it is said, swill play their vbig card in Introducing- these witnesses LORILlEfl I'lMCIIES DEBATERS CLOSELY ' Washington, July The fighi ver the .rTght of Wllliani'Xrfrimer,of ,101 nois td 'his seat' Jn7the Senate, r; eonr tinned today,, with several h Senators on the speech-makinff .regram. This is the third: day pf. the" general, debate; last Saturday, in 6rderto7 carry 'out the agreement for a vote on that date. Lorimer today watched : the . proceed- a speech' in "defense of ,lils Senatorial Tights. : 1 A TQte wilbe reached 'the last xf.tho week,.- c '-t . - Senator Fletcher, of . Florida spealc- kig in favor' of Lorimer, 'said the 'op position to lorimer. ' was '"due to cer tain newspapers. 1 He contended that there wasn't any evidence that preda tory wealth was a factor, in Lorimer's election,' or In retention xf his seat.- - CHARTERS ISSUED FOR . liliTjiiicERiis Special to The Dispatch.- i Kaieigh, N, ;U.,Juiy two Wil mington concerns were chartered to day,, as "follows; ',7..: :t47-::. : : 7: ' The . Hanover Realty Co., . with au thorized capital of one" hundred thous and and three thousand . subscribed by L- J. Carter, D: B. Leonard and E. C. Dollar..- -' The Hamilton Trust1; Company to build apartment housesand deal in real estate, authorized capital, one hundred and - fifty thousand, with three-thous and subscribed by A. O., Schuster, ' j: W. Powell and 1& C.5Sidbury f Joseph, W.: Little, of Wilmington, Is associated with Jere N. Day; ' of Jaftkaonville. 1 N.: C. in charterlner the Onslow: Publishing Company,, to print a new weekly paper 'in; Onslow CflLlOllSTS ilAVE ' v -1 V APPEALED THEIR GASE : Viterbo. Italyf July .9. The accused in the Camorr'a trial, yesterday sen tenced to long - prison terms," ha, ve ap pealed fb the Court of Cassatln. Di Marianas; - who ;cut his throat .with : a piece of glass, in the prisoners' iron cage yesterday, was, securely tied (to- day to prevent jl repetition of his act. . ''i". -. ri. h v'svt-'?.:..' " ..i" v. LfiViYEn DARROW -.,; , .. t :.-, . . '-. J - V . '.i , ).' . ... - r , 1 ji 1 ' .'-Los Angeles, Cat., July 9. Further evidence -of the good reputation . of Clarence S. ;Darrow,. in, Chicago, ,was proved at today's session of court,-by additional (Character 'depositions 'from half a hundred prominent Chicago bus iness men. 7 These included . lawyers and 'minteerp. c7, , " LlfJIY SOUTIiECII 1 f:illTl!lPEH;linilESTED " Annision,": Ala.,' July " 9 Militiamen from the' mid-Southern and Southeastern-States, quartered at 'Camp Pettis, were stirred7 to,aayty wholesale '.ar rests of guardsmen who farted to report for duty at theamp. ': 7 7 nnnnrt niiiDsnTLD uuu ONHnauiLn ; 'j-'' y-; ,-r':V ' - (ill - l'7 " 7' 1 IW7 .v i ! I '7s , J7j - . , s'-7- --'7 ; y' 2 .K :!(: . - - :- J 7f , 7;" -?if :k:' .-. 7K r5-s n " 7 . If , ( H i tf ' -'v77'V,c' vr -x - - r . ;t , - - v ; A - - 77'--it I r- 7-'f 71 n !? 7. . , ; , 7 VK; v J 7 --4 - re 1 - va A 'icy -7 .-:vt . . . v ?7rt ';7i '7, ;-7 . . ' 7v.i--; i'aM MRsrrn.: vnsw.s&z itndianapoIis,.Ind., July 9. Governor 3Iarshall are an ideallyhappy, pair.. ifuKi jicjuiue iu a uiuucBi uuiubo- viuycj uur jjnAi euau wb uuru, ia iuuiaua uu never nas uvea xratsiae" the State. j'The same is true' of Mrs. .Marshall.-; The overnorfihluf tt the State was hi first Dolitical office'-- GoTernbr - ar&juus- iatber was: a1 nephew of. TBI Up .In Wake County the Cause of Much 'f Warm Factional Feeling Governor Kitchin . In Jtde West-r- ? Webb Will Head the State Demo cratic Committee.'' . r . .. Jt: , Dispatch News Bureau. , ''7 Raleigh, N. C., July 9, 1912. : The, hearing' of the Wake Forest special tax case was continued until next Monday at noon. Judge Ferguson j agreeing no wait, until the attorneys could prepare their briefs. The fight has .become so warm between the two factions at the college seat that W: C. Brtfwer commissioner f rOm - that sec tion;9the county, will be opposed for renomination as a county commission er, Mr. .Brewer, having worked against the, tax;- It is charged that he used un fair Jin eans. It was Mr. Brewer who two years ago led a bolt in the Demo cratic, party and carried with him 700 voters.,. His opponent for county com missioner is Roy; H. Mitchell, a prom- inept young 'merchant. "7 The -conditiori" of Master -Nathaniel Punn 'Jr., who was , injured by being thrown 'Jrom a buggy Sunday, was much:.-improved todaj" and' the. little felkwwill be all rlght.in a few days. The father, N. A. -Dunn,' has not been able -to: 'figure out Just what prompted his --youngster to venture- ffom the home to the First Baptist church, a drs tance of nearly, a mile, unite' the' family horse and ' go : for a drive. The lad, whor.is. not five years' old was having a ; bigl time all by himself until the horse "became frightened and ? upset hehuggy. " s, : . i :f i Governor. Kitchin will return .Thurs day night or Friday from the moun- UiJtVifAshe county,' where tomorrow ne win maKe a political speech. The Governor Is 'confident of winning; the senatorial nomination, and his .friends think that a lot of. good gingery speech es, ; such as ' the Governor ia wont , to makewill turn the trick. - - : ; . -; Charles'-A., Webb of Asheville, will be 4 elected ' tonight Chairman -of the Democratic Executive ; Committee, to succeed A. H.-Eller. " 7v ;:-7-f" . "7" ' CJ MANY MINERS KILLED. . 7 Conisborough, Yorkshire, England, J uly i 9.--Fo rty miners were killed and many injured In, an explosion In the Cadeby Colliery this morning. . 1 7 " Lumlna Tonight. i Special ' attraction.' Baroness Von Zieber - will sing t three, songs :at '9:00, 9:30 and ,10: 00 p. m. - "The Nlghtin galer "When The Guards' Go "By; and "The Last Rose of Summer.,' 7 v it - -Big' Novelty- Film, Grand Today. v ' Lubln's fascinating "The Dream of the : Moving Picture Director. - It ? -.vV. : u ,:' . 71-- i -: "The Laurel Wreath of Fame." yEssanay's-v film 'torn - from7 history's pageGrand -Theatre today ,'' ' It... SPU CASE i Thomas -R.. Marshall;"he Democratic They have no childreh; are devoted to - the - iate chiefs Jump MarKliaU. -l Endowment Fund of '$150,000for Bap tiet 'University. 'forWomen . at Ra- : leigh Has Been: .Raised CoHege Free From Debt and-in" Fine, Shape. Special to The Dispatch. x' . - Raleigh, N.Cj July 9.-rTe one hun dred and fifty thousand dollars endow ment fund for Meredith College, the Baptist school for women, - has --been reached; -according to-announcement made today. The campaign was launch ed ' at HendersonviHe, I in - December 1910, but the aggressive .. work only started -last yean The General Edu cation Board " of New York appropriat ed fifty thousand dollars, provided the Baptists : would raise ; " double - the amount- and clear all indebtedness, which aggregated ' fourteen thousand. Most of the contributions were small. Rev. C. J. Thompson, formerly of At lanta, in charge of the campaign, will become district secretary of the 'For eign Mission Board. 7 V? ELKS ARE III THEIR , - YEARLY COIIVEIltlOll Portland, Ore., . July . 9.-rThe formal opening of the forty j eighth ; Grand Lodge of the Benevolent Order of Elks gecurred last night, and -today, was marked by the opening sessions. Near ly all ; the committees which had been in session the past -week were ready b report to' the Grand Lodge Follow ing the. usual routine proceedings, the torder '.. of business called' for reading the annual Teports of John P.lSullivan, Grand Exalted Ruler, Fred Robinson, Grand Secretary, and Edward Leech, Grand -Treasurer. The Grand Lodge proceedings seemed to create -.subordinate interest to, the election of offi cers which .occurrs . ; Thursday. 7 The next convention cltv will also be chos en then" Rochester probably will re-1 ceive the convention next year. At lanta is campaigning to get -the con vention the year, fqllowjng. . ' . v According ,to the Grand w Secretary's annual report, the total value of prop erty owned by subordinate lodges, -at the close of the . fiscal year of March 31st, was $20,391,832, which the re port -- states makes s the order the wealthiest J in America.?;, Portland, is the" richest, witlr assets exceeding one third ;of a million dollars New York is : second" ' The, total membership - is 384,724, " a net Increase last- year - of 25,065 ' " VV 7 - : - " , -Esperanto. Congress Opens. Boston, -,Mass.,VJuly9.The, Fifth North American -Congress of" Esperanto-- onened today. Every section of th United btates is represented. ; r- .; a ?::::St'.S:-;S:K?5 1.,-.. nominee for Vice President' and MraV each other -and live as quietly . as his 4, L.Ci vV "M Z w.rw TELLS ABOUT Ii Roosevelt Does Some, Analyzing, , Whereby . He Declares4t is Shown That William H. Taft Was Not Legally Nominated JJoeth -Tell of the Primary Fights, Etfe. -. New, York, July - 8t"Mr. -Taft's Majority;. An Analysis'e; is the sub ject of an editorial by Theodore Roos evelt which appears in the current is sue of The .Outlook. X' r The writer says in part: , '-.-y "The - Chicago Evening' Post? and the Indianapolis. Star were -originally Taft papers. They believed that the voters ought to choose Mr. Taft over me in the - primaries, and advocated their doing so. But they also believ ed that the voters themselves hadrthe right to decide. "When- the Taft "man agers in' Indiana stole -the majority of the delegates for Mr,. Taft. these -papers' immediately :. protested,' f taking the same attitude that another paper, which had favored Mr Taft, t 9 Spo kane Spokesman-Review, shortly aft erward took in reference to the theft of the Washington delegateB .o A "The Chicago Evening, - Post,, on June 24th, spoke of the Chicago ; con vention as folloiws": . " 'In our judgment that nomination was a tainted nomination. ;Therewas in it trickery and fraud.. Stripped, of its practical essentials, , it; was.a'nom ination made by a minority j instead of a majority. The miserable 21 votes above the nominating point -which the steam roller drivers were able to mil's ter fade instantly" away under scru tiny from any standpoint of represen tative - determination.' ; .' j ' "When I went" intgHhe contest for the nomination, I -was, of course,': pit ted against very heavy ,: odds. t To start with, Mr. Taft had '.over, 260 delegates from the territories and f rom S tates' controlled by Federal - office-holders in .which there": was no real Republicanparty,"and he-thus be gan the .contest with nearly'-lialf , the necessary numher -: of delegates to nominate him In s addition - h9 had with him the votes of certain purely boss-controlled States,-like ewYork, Connecticut Rhode Island, Utah, Wy oming and Colorado where- the . voters had no 'chance toexpress : their: pref erence ' (and .where the .leading pa pers were controlled by the special in terests, so that the sources of-general information . were choked, 'and ; , the truth was sedulously hidden from the people). Adding these votes -td - the' others, Mr. .Taft had nearly' 40Q dele gates ln; whose "selection the-, people had no say whatever. '-r' -f-;" ' ;. . Fight in Primary -States77 ' : 'Nevertheless, we started in," mak ing : our ; fight . especially ' in the pri mary States In "these Stales the "rank and. file of, the Republican voters: had their say instead of the politicians, and - in these States we beat jUr..-. Taft on the 'popular vote over 2 to 1 In' a GocipsfSr Cfosot: J Will GOV. ; fflsffip Meets the Governor lit Trenton For an ' Audience-rWHson Attends to" Official ? Duties Today,' MotorinjB to Trenton r. From Sea Girt , ; - -7 " Trenton; N. J" July . - 9.-Govenior WHson motored for' two " hours in a blazing hot sun from his summer home at Sea Girt and upon his arrival Gov ernor Wilson buried " himself in State anairs. ; Samuel Uompers; the v labor leader, was one "of the afternoon call- ers. ine governor returns to Sea Girt r tomorrow - - - ; - - j ttxr '7 ALLEGATIONS FALSE Declares Lawyer: In. Opening the ,Hei ning-Funk Case In Chlcago i r ; Chicago, I1L, July 9.StateJitorney w ayman xoaay entered mto Hen- nmg-Funk case' with" the ; statement that Mrs,' JoBephine cHenning admit ted that the allegations "made against Clarence S. .Funk, ' General v. Manager of the International Harvester C6.i in his suit for damages for alleged alien ation of her affections, were false. The suit filed by Henning, asking twenty:fi ve thousand - dollars- damages from Funk, charging him specifically with associating with Mrs.- Henning on several occasions, , was decided in Funk's favor" last October.- 7 . 1 . i ' . rf , 2 r . '' , " , , . Lumlna.Tonlght. ,x : Special attraction. 'r Baroness ; Von Zieber will -sing three songs atl 9 : 00, 9:30 and 10:00 p. m.- "The .-Nlghtin-gale, "When The Guards Go By " and "The Last Rose of Summer'rj, lt total vote of three millions; -or there abouts; and in delegates' beat : him very nearly in the 'proportion-of' T to J l So overwhelming . was': our - vMory ut me . sxaies wnere me people" had even a . nartial rhsnftA 1 1 - . mrMM themselves inprimaries thate "o3c came .Mr. Taft's nearly so!ld vote from the rotten-borough States,' and among-the boss-picked delegates, and obtained a clear majority of all I the delegates elected to . the ' convention; that is, about 76d delegates. . By Mr. Taft's direction and ' connivance, and under the personal supervision of his private secretary and' one.' member -of his cabinet,'. Messrs.' Barnes Penrose, Guggenheim, Crane, Franklin Mur phy andMr. Taft's other- lieutenants proceeded to steal -from the ; people enough delegates- fradiiulently to con vert my majority Int a minority. ' . The nominating vote for Mr.: Taft was 561, being 21 beyond the neces sary majority to. nominate '-him. From these 21 the first W be-subtracted are two votes which c the chairman, ,Mr. Root,' in his capacity of. modern ; Autolycus, the : 'snapper-up of unconsidered trifles took " from Massachusetts. This leaves a majority of ' but 19. - There were on" the roll over - 90 delegates ' who had been de feated by the people as delegates, but had -been seated as such by the -National- Committee. Not one . of the 90 men opposing the -Taft delegates' had as poor a title as the Taft delegates from the borough .of Manhattan iof the' city of New York. . As regards ,78 of them, 'thir title - was absolutely plain,' and quite as good-as -the title of the uncontested Taft delegates. D& ducting ? merely the - latter r ' numbed Mr. Taft's vote sinks at once' to '481, or 60 less than were required for his nomination. ..These 481 represent .the maximum.- of . legally ' obtained votes which Mr. Taft could claim in the convention It was 60 votes less than were necessary for a nomination; Not only was the nomination of Mr. Taft absolutely fraudulent, but so was -the seating of., Mr. 7 Root, I and so.,. was every, motion adopted by, the fraudu lent National, convention. l . -vi 1 i "But : there 1 are other 1 deductions which must 'be made from Mr, Taft's delegates, if we .wish to find out the exact extent to which they. represent ed the people In. the first VpIace'-we must deduct the .12 votes ;from' terri tories i, which cast , no electoral votes. This -'reduces t Mr, : Taft's-", vote to ' 469. Subtract Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina and Vir ginia,' Where there, is- no real Repub lican" party, and Mr Taft's vote Ibe- comes 220. Subtracting from these the boss-picked delegates from the States where the people had no choice;' there remain about 70 delegates, considera bly less than 10 per cent of the total 1,078 all told. To these 70 delegates, and .to these only, Mr. Taft was mor ally entitled. . The other seven-eighths of his nominating vote. came;;f rom fraudulently seated delegates dele gates s representing. States and terri tories, where ther was no'-Republican vote - - and boss-picked delegations from States .where the people had no power to express their wllL" ': "The .cbnventon'a 'makeup was fraudulent;' its action was i fraudulent and ...binds no. Republican; and. it should be repudiated by, every, man who sincerely. believes tn honesty' i::: mm 01 a -M bgj Ilils Dproiog Member of Tariff ' Board Selected as , Secretary Other Officers 'to be Nam.--' ' ed at Meeting-of National Commit- - ' tee 1 July 19th-Western "Members J ' 1 .Wanted Hllles. ; , 1 WashIngton;:vf July, V FreBident ; -Taff this' morning met the' jsukcom ' ' mlttee-of 'nine, from', the ; Republican i 7 National Committee jto v resume'-the; . work of choosing a N'alldriaIXChalr-7 man. - Before the committeemen "went " to i the Whlt ttmM Sfrf WA "C: ZZ-'77. 7 -L -1 'the appointment of a man who- Vould be: approved by the 1 Westernr' Republicans; V The sWestern; members'. 1 . ' - ' altitude,' r brought- forward 'V again 7, S vnaries D. Hilles, the President's sec-s x , retaryai- the possible 'chairman, . : v Uater v'ltjilles5 was unanimously choiek; chairman -of lti&? Republican' ' ' National Committee,- and - James B. . Reynolds, a tariff, board member, was'".; Chosen "secretary -of the .Remiblican 1 - National Committee it '.-j, . a." :r Chairman. Hilles and " the. .full Re- publican Committee .will meet, in New f York July! 19th to anpoint a treasurer;' ther officers and .an. advisory ' com-' mittee. Hilles iwill. iresign; -as.. the' President's secretary,, bui, it, is ; unlike-1 ly the 'President will appoint a -sue- v cessor. The twofc assistant secretaries ; will perform the duties! -(vvM mo of platform: ILIPORTAUT- PUlIiKS : - Washington, "July, 9.Two. planks of 7 the pformadopted.hy'the National- , Democratic coveiitilou at.Baltimdre, eyeCsupplied 'byUbe Southern Com-j-' n mercial"-Congress. .7 '7 r"' .- them nJJTural agricultural systems V and'theother oi'VocatTonar education . shows the constructive a"nd immense-; -ly influential work' the Southern Com-' ' mercial Congress'1 Is5 .doing rin' the agri- 7 -cultural 'and industrlaVttpbuiJding of : ' the sixteen Southern States' and the - " Nation. -,".-7y -'V'''""'""-. - ' " - Both planks' were' prepared by Sen- ' ator Duncan -U. Fletcher, ;of Florida and were presented to the resolutions ' ) committee in ' Baltimore They 'were . ; incorporated - in the' platform,1 ver-' ' ; batim, as follows:.' " f' "Of equal importance' with the'ques- tion of currency relorm is the ques- Uon of rural credits or agricultural . finance.- Therefore, t we '''re'cdminend 7 that ; an investigation 'of8, agricultural -credit , societies. In -foreign countries ' " be made so that. It may be ascertain-' . ed whether a system' of. rural credits may be devised ' suitable to conditions in the Xmited-Statesi- r - - , f "We recognize the s value" of ' voca- - -tional educatlcnand7urge Federal ap propriations for such'' training and ex tension teaching In agricultural In" co operation with the' several States".' 4 ' Two- dth'er planks' ; were : submitted by' the Congress."'?' One' of these pro- . vided for, Federal control "of improve- ' ments -and levees -of, the ' Mississippi ; -River andthegs otherilqrreclamation of the sajnp landA; of ..the .cpuitry. -While not adopted by the 'resolutions. ictamitteX Verbatjmthe ; substance" of -fA both resolutions was incorporated in ; ' the platform "7f7w'--, - i . - The Southern Commercial Congress believes that a system' of agricultural, i finance, and-vbcatfonal education are - two of the most important problems tr. confronting, not pttly; the .South, 'but the Nation. - A bill by-Senator Carroll f; '. S.' Page, of .Vermont,-- providing for National vocational education, is now -pending in Congress. - This bill has 7 the backing ot- the Southern ICommer 7 cial Congress. -The Congress -is now: , organizing . a-" Nationals commissions comprising two leading men of each.' ' . of the States in the Union,' who will r go abroad next May to study European -systems "of -rural 'finance. David Lu-" t bin, American delegate; to the Interna- , tional of Agriculture, ai Rome, will ac ; company this commission on Its tour. PLAGUE REPORTED TODAY Washington,! July 9.--No new cases - of the bubonic-plague were reported from Cuba or Porto. Ricp .today.' Three steerage, suspects on the steamer Chalmette, comjng r from the plague -zone . in ' Havana, were', taken' off the . vessel at New, Orleans, and are being detained. 7Word-fcomeB v,from 'New, , York, Galveston and other ports that the work., of destroying the- rats along ' water-fronts Is proceeding rapidly. , v ' ft?' 7 - .'The Laurel Wreath ' of Fame;w Essanay's, film torn from history's page. Grand '.Thfeatre. today- . '. , lt J'tr7 -.V ? I.: j 77t, 1 "!t '1 S s J 77 U- f7r ''i ' "! 1; i.-' . N ! 1 . f K