Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 285, 21 August 1911 — Page 1
FA AJDIUJM AND STJN-TET.KGRAM. VOL. XXXVI. NO. 285 RICHMOND, IXD., MONDAY, EVEXIt. AUGUST 81, 1911. SINGLE COPY 8 CENTS
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ON SHOULDERS OF ROOSEVELT IS ALL THE BLAME PLACED Secretary Wilson States to Committee Members of the Remsen Board Were Selected by Ex-president.
Victims of the Aeroplane Meet in Chicago
BRITISH WARSHIP TO STOP VIOLENCE 111 RAILROAD WAR Rioting at Hull So Serious Government Makes Martial Move and Dockmen May Join Strike.
HOT GUILTY PLEA MADE BY BEATTIE Oil FACING COURT
OWEII PROPOSES All INVESTIGATION OF GREAT 190 PANIC Oklahoma Statesman Wants to Find Out Who Was Responsible for It and If It Was Not Conspiracy.
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PROTEST OF FRUIT GROWERS THE CAUSE
fThey Remonstrated on a Department Ruling; Roosevelt Agreed a Board of Last Resort Was Needed. - (National New Association) , . WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. Responsibility for creation of the Remsen board and selection of its members was plac- l d on Roosevelt's shoulders today by Secretary of .Agriculture Wilson who testified before the congressional committee. Investigating the Wiley-Mc-Cabe improglio. - After a trip to California, where fruit preserves representing a $13,000,000 industry, protested against a ruling of the department regarding the amount of sulphur allow- . ed In preserved fruits, Wilson declar- " ed he consulted Roosevelt who agreed to the etsablishment of the court of last resort, and furnished names of experts he wanted on thv board and he (Wilson) appointed them. Secretary Wildon defended the board throughout. Tie said he became convinced in 1907 that a court of last resort was needed for the administration of the pure food laws. Testimony of Wilson. "I was out In California," said Wilson, "and a number of fruit growers came to me and protested against the ruling of the department that there should not be 350 milligrams of sul- ' phur to one kilo of preserved fruit. They told me they had a $13,000,000 industry and thr.t their trade was being ruined by that ruling. I told them to go head and preserve their fruit as 'before and I would see that nothing wss done until we had referred the question to the leading chemists ' of ..the. country.' -' i -"l.csme-back. to-Washington and 1 President Roosevelt agreed with me that there should be a referee. : He , wrote letters to the various colleges .for recommendations concerning the ' most available experts, and then he sent me the nsmos of the men he wanted appointed on the new board, and 1 appointed them." This was the first direct evidence that Mr. Roosevelt, Instead of Secretary Wilson, made the selection of the board, which it is claimed has hampered the work of Dr. Wiley in enforcing the pure food laws. Tslls About Rusby. Secretary Wilson was asked to explain the employment of Dr. H. H. Rusby, of the bureau of chemistry, around which the present controversy centers, because Dr. Wiley Is charged With having technically violated . the law In paying Rusby more than a lawful per diem. "I was signing some papers as a part of my daily work," said Wilson, 'when Dr. Wiley brought a paper to toe and said it was an agreement with Dr. Rusby. I know it called for $1,600 year, hut did not go into the matter f details." "Dr. Wiley has testified," said Rep. Floyd," that he lad presented a $2,000 contract which you were willing to Sign. Do you remember that?" "I do not remeiriner anything about Sv $2,000 agreement. I don't claim that Wiley did not mention It, but I do not recall such a controversy." Secretary Wilsou declared when he feigned the Rusby agreement he had no personal knowledge that anything was wrong with it. ; ATVOOD DELAYED HIS START TODAY ' Because of Heat He Did Not , Ascend at Lyons, N. Y., Until 4 O'clock. (Natlorml News Association) LYONS, N. Y., Aug. 21. Harry N. Atwood, the young aviator who Is fly Ing from St. Louis to the Atlantic seaboard, delayed his start for Utica, 103 miles distant, today to avoid the sun and heat and to give his biplane a thorough examination. He said he would start at 4 o'clock 'this afternoon. Atwood was tip early and began examination of his machine for the last stage of his big journey. , "I can make better progress in the cool "f the day," he said, "and that is the reason I postponed my start until late In the afternoon. Of course, my plans are always subject to change for there is nothing certain in the work. My 104-mile trip from Buffalo 'In 131 minutes yesterday sort of tired me and I was glad to get the rest" Atwood said he would probably land at Syracuse, ' f0 miles distant ' from Lyons. If he needed fuel or wanted a
Photograph taken at Chicago - of William R. Badger at the wheel of the
machine in which he was killed, and the wreck of St. Croix Johnstone's ' aeroplane being lifted out of the lake after the aviator had been drowned. The accidents that claimed the Jives of the two daring young flyers were spectacular in the extreme. Badger's machine "buckled" in mid-air and fell a twisted mass of wood and scrap Iron, killing the aviator . instantly, Johnstone's machine got beyond his control while 500 feet in the air and dropped into the lake, carrying him to his death. PROPOSED BUDGET MORE THAU USUAL County Board's Recommendations for 1912 Heaviest, in Several Years. With the recommendation of. the county commissioners that $21,000 be appropriated for the purchase of voting machines, the total budget for 1912 for county expenses now amounts to $19,818.40, according to the legal notice advertised on Monday by county auditor Demas S. Coe. The budget recommended is the heaviest asked by the county commissioners in several years. This year the total amount-asked - was $15L000 and .for several years previous was approximately the same amount. The county council, including Ellas Hoover of Hagerstown, Ray Robinson and Harvey Cook of Richmond, Louis Hampton, near Richmond, John Judklns of Cambridge City, Frank Worl of Jackson burg, and Joseph Helms near Centerville, will pass on the recommendations of the board of commissioners at the September meeting of the council. 1 The 'budget is heavier than usual this year because of the estimate for the election expenses. The registration law has increased the expenses of elections. In appropriating money for voting machines, although it is not proposed that the county pay the ful amount at first payment but make the purchase by the deferred payment plan, the commissioners had to recommend the entire amount in order to make the appropriation legal. The county tax rate for 1912 has not been determined and likely will not be known until a few days after the council meeting. The county auditor cannot determine the rate until he is informed of the estimated expenses of the county as Indicated by the action of the council in approving and disproving recommendations for appropriations by the county commissioners. The county rate for this year was 45 3-20 cents on the hundred dollars assessed valuation. HYDROGEN EXPLODES KILLING TWO MEN (National News Association) PARIS, Aug. 21. To men were killed outright today when a hydrogen tube in the government plant at the Aerostatic Park In Chalais exploded, nartly wreck! n the plant.
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PATRONS TO TIGHT TO REOPEN SCHOOL 1 r" Residents of School District No. 8 File Action Against Township Trustee. An attempt' to compel the reopening and reBtablishment of district school No. 8 in Franklin township will be made in the circuit court by the ten patrons of the school, including Emil M. Tsschaen and nine others. Mandamus action .was instituted in this court by the state on relation of the patrons against Nathan S. Graves, trustee of the township, who closed the school bacause last year the number of pulls was less than 15 the minimum number allowed by law. The trustee upon closing the school served notice on the patrons that the children in the district, numbering 19 for the fiscal year of 1911-12 would be taken by hack to Whitewater school during the term, but this displeased the patrons both because of the distance which their children would have to travel, and because they did not wish to abandon the school. As all efforts to have the trustee rescind his order were futile the relators instituted mandamus action. The patrons allege that the building is large enough to accommodate 25 or more pupils and that trustee Graves has $1,670.88 in the tuition fund which is sufficient to meet the expenses of employing a teacher during the ensuing term, and also $2,202.39 in the special school fund, which is deemed sufficient to meet the incidental expenses. The defendant will not fight the case, it is understood, but will allow the attorneys for the relators to present evidence and authorities to the court and allow Judge Fox to decide the case upon these facts.. The state school authorities may become interested in the action and endeavor to defeat it. The state school officials were the ones who advised the trustee to close the school for at least one year, despite the fact there are more than fifteen pupils to be enrolled. CHICAGO TEAMSTERS DEMAND BETTER PAY (National News Associations CHICAGO. Aug. ,21. Teamsters employed by the big' packing companies are preparing to strike; today unless their demands Tor more pay are 'complied with. A strike vote was taken yesterday.
AVIATION ALTITUDE RECORDJSJROKEII 1 1,268 Feet Height Attained by Beachey at the Chicago Meet.
(National News Association) CHICAGO, Aug. 21. The official figures on the world's altitude flight made public ; today credits . Lincoln Beachey with a height of 11,268 feet, nearly 500 feet higher thany anyone else ever flew. Through the generosity of the aviators who took part in the international meet here last week, Mrs. St. Croix Johnstone, widow of one of the birdmen who perished last Tuesday will receive approximately $12,000. A special memorial meet is on today a testimonial from the aviators to Mrs. Johnstone. The entire proceeds will be given to her and birdmen will give the greatest . exhibition of their ; stay here for the benefit of the big crowds. - - Several records. were broken at the meet here. Tom Sopwith, the English aviator, broke the passenger carrying records for one and two passengers and the speed. record with passengers. Beatty broke the duration record with a passenger staying in the air for three hours. 22 1-5 seconds and Parmalee broke the altitude record. One of the grewsome results of the death of Win. Badger, the millionaire Pittsburgher, was the advertisement In Chicago newspapers of a reward of $50 for a handsome cigar case he carried the day he felL Members of his family believe he was robbed of the trinket by souvenir hunters as he lay dying on the ground. ' The promoters of the meet will have to pay a deficit of $50,000. This was announced today after a balance of receipts and expenditures had been taken. Eighty thousand dollars In prizes were given, of these, Sopwith won $13,120, and Lincoln Beachey won $10,622. The third on the list was C. P. Rodgers, who won $9,960. SPECIAL COLLIDED WITH FREIGHT TRAIN (National New3 Asooiation . CHICAGO, Aug. 21. The "Uncle Sam Special, crack train of the St. Paul railroad, crashed head-on with a freight .train at .the North , Morgan street crossing early today fatally injuring George Bower of Washington, D. C a. chef on the private car of a Mr. Windsor of Toronto and injuring six others. The Windsor family was not aboard the train.
UNION PREPARES TO REOPEN CONFLICT
Claim RailCompanies Have Violated Terms of AgreementSituation Still Serious Outside of London. (National News Association) HULL, Eng., Aug. 21 A British cruiser arrived here today to put down violence in the railroad strike. The dock employes threatened to join the strike. The railroad employes refused to return to work. MAY REOPEN WAR. LONDON, Aug. 21. Charging that railroad companies were violating the terms of their agreement with the employes of the labor union, entered into with a government board Saturday night, the union men went into session today with the possibility confronting them that the war would be on before tomorrow. , As Secretary J. H. Thomas of the General Union of Railway Employes, declared to the National News Association, the companies had failed to live up to their agreement, "they are not carrying out the settlement themselves at all" said Mr. Thomas. "I have been informed that the strike may be again called unless the roads change their attitude." , Although Mr. Thomas did not explain just what managers refused to abide by in the settlement plan it was learned that it was the matter of taking back their employes who had been active in stirring up strike sentiment: , Many Return to Work. Thousands of rail empleyees had al ready returned to work today obeying the orders issued from Central head' quarters of the union here The Midland,' London and ' Northwestern, London Brighton, and South coast and other important systems operating out of London issued statements to their patrons that they would have full service restored before Tuesday night. , A Agreement in Disfavor. The situation outside of London was not so assuring. Reports from Hull, Manchester, YOrk, Newcastle, Cardiff, Llanelly, Wales and various Important rail centers in Scotland stated that local affiliations to the general union were stubbornly opposing the terms of settlement ' agreed upon Saturday night. Eight thousand solfliers were still on guard today at Dalanelly, Wales, where twelve deaths had occurred from strike violence. While people today were hailing David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequoc. as the great Pacificator, owing to his good work on Saturday in "bringing both sides together, the murmurings of dissatisfied rail employes in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland threatened to tear down all that had been accomplished. , , " Owing to the destruction of tele graphic communication in Ireland jy strikers, news of the plan of settlement through a royal commission was also slow in reaching here. - It received a hostile reception from radical spirits among the " strikers," who vented their dissatisfaction in rioting in which many were injured and much property was damaged. Cost is Enormous. t The labor troubles up to date have cost Great Britain $75,000,000, it was estimated today. This includes loss in wages and to business' through the paralysis of industries and tying up of rail and maritime traffic. While there was still promise today that the government would be able to bring the dispute to a speedy close and to restore peace, among railroad men, the strike of dockmen and other trade unionists in Liverpool and other cities remain unchanged. General secretary Lowth of the railroad men's union, . sent telegrams today to the heads of various local affiliations to await further developments before taking defiant steps in any direction.' This order followed upon the heels of a manfesto directed by the union to all railroad employes to return to their posts as final victory was in sight. -. CATHOLIC KNIGHTS WENT TO COLUMBUS ' . ' ' : ' . '1 """ -'-.. " More than a hundred members of the Knights of St. John and St. George and the Ladies Auxiliary of the two orders attended the Sunday session of the National Federation of Catholic Societies at Columbus, Ohio. The local delegation, accompanied by the Richmond City band, left here about 7 o'clock on Sunday t morning, returning that evening. The delegation entered the mammoth parade and an excellent afeowinc
Young Virginia Aristocrat, Charged with Killing His Wife, Placed on Trial for His Life Today.
POSTPONEMENT WAS REFUSED BY COURT Defense Intimates It Will Attempt to Fasten the Crime on Paul Beattie, Cousin of Accused Man. (National News Association) CHESTERFIELD, C. H., Va., A ug. 21. Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., charged with murdering his wife because she stood between him and 17 year old Beulah Binford, a girl with whom he was In love, was brought to trial today after Judge Watson had refused a plea of counsel for defense for a postponement It was brought out when Attorney Smith, counsel for Beattie, addressed the court, that the defense is searching for two witnesses by whom they will try to break down the alibi of Paul Beattie, second cousin of the accused . man, who is alleged by the state to have purchased the shot gun with which Mrs. Beattie was killed. This was the first intimation that an effort might be made to fix the crime on Paul Beattie. The defense asked that the writ by which jurors were summoned to' indict the prisoner, and the return of the sheriff thereon, be quashed as irregular. This motion was overruled. Pleads Not Guilty. Beattie was then called to the bar and the indictment charging him with the murder of his wife was read to him. In clear tones he responded "not guilty.;--.' - Henry Clay Beattie, Sr., father of the ""defendant, . arrived ," here jus', be fore .court opened with 'Hill Carter, one of the counsel for the defense, las Beattie, another son, and sev eral veniremen. They drove up to the court house in u wagon of thj old prairie schooner type, behind a four-mule team. An outrider with a whip with a 12 foot lash, rode the near mule. ; The Beatties went into a little ante room in the court house without speaking to any one. . When young Henry. Beattie arrived at the court, houee he smiled cheerfully when he faced the crowd which greeted his arrival, and started unconcernedly at the photographers. He was met at the gate of the court yard by his brother Douglas. The prisoner was taken into the court house immediately and seated behind a row of newspaper men and women, who confronted Judge Watson as he mounted the bench. Young Beattie glared angrily when he saw the newspaper men. He declared that some of them wer4 "damned mean to take advantage of a man behind the bars." The trial began shortly after 10 o'clock and by noon seven jurors had been accepted. FOR 1 912FESTIVAL Informal Meeting Was Held on Sunday. So much interest has been manifested by the business men of the city as to the possibility of the Fall Festival project being revived for 1912, that an informal meeting Sunday of several of the executive and general committeemen of 1910 festival they announced a willingness to again assume charge in promotion of the 1912 festival. In the event the festival is to be held in 1912, and the old organization is at the helm, the predictions for the 1912 event will be commenced next winter so the promoters can have the advantage of the fair and festival hand books which go to press at that time. ". ' The G. A. R. encampment took the place of the festival this year and this is the sole reason why -the event was not held this year. To have held both would have been too great an undertaking for the Y. M. B. C members. The 1910 event was not a success because of the tricks played by the weather man. Rain spoiled the events of the early part of the week. No one blamed the committee for the failure, but the committee are the more anxious to assume charge . of their former offices in case the festival is revived, in order to prove that the 1910 affair would have been remarkably successful bnt for the poor weather. GOES TO KOKOMO ' Clayton Martin who has been associated with the Jones Hardware company in the stove department for some time has resigned to accept a position as salesman with the Globe 'Stove and Range company of Kokomo.
OWEN DENOUNCED IT TREASON TO NATION .
Statesman Says That the Eighty Billion Outstanding Stocks and Bonds Controlled by a Few Men. (National News Association) WASHINGTON. Aug. 21. The senate today in the house amendment Abolishing the national monetary commission after March, 1912. Senator Owen of Oklahoma introduced a resolution calling for a sweeping investigation of the panic of 1907, and pro posed the appointment of a committee to make inquiry to ascertain who were the chief beneficiaries of the panic, who ; suffered from it, and whether or not it was brought about by a conspiracy of large corporations or financial leaders, or by the aid of officials of the government. This Is the direct outcome of the merger of the steel trust and the Tennessee Coal and Iron company, which was sam tioned by President , Roosevelt. Senator Owen requested that the resolution be referred to the committee on contingent expenses. , Makes Direct Charges, He charged that the panic of .1901 was artificially created, that It wai brought about by a conspiracy, and that its object was to use the panic tot political purposes. He denounced It as treason against the United States and the people of the United States. He pointed ' out the . government reports showed . that the ; total outstanding stocks and bonds of corporations was eighty billion dollars aad that the to. tal wealth of the United States was only one hundred and seventy billion dollsrs. "These stocks -and bonds are so held that they can be manipulated by a few men," he said. ... He also said these men used their powers to bring on the panic of 1907. USED GAG RULE TO HEAR COTTOd BILL House Leaders Agreement Carried Out Denounced by Democrats. (National News Association? WASHINGTON, Aug. j 2L A. gaff rule was brought Into use in the house today for the first time during, the extra session. Representative Anderson, Republican insurgent of Minnesota, was the cause. He refused to give unanimous consent to take up the cotton bill, the last important measure, and voted on it after four hours debate on the program which Representative Underwood snd Mann, the two leaders had agreed upon. The rule committee Immediately convened to adopt the "gagger, while ; the bouse went ; on considering unimportant bills. When the company brought out the role to give the cotton bill the right of way Representative Madison' of Kansas, a minority member of the committee, denounced it. It was the most drastic gag rule, be said, that could ever nave been framed, and was similar to those which the , Democrats denounced on the stump in the last campaign. The rule he said was even more deadly than that used by the Republicans when they jammed 7; the Payne-Aldrfch bill through. It was agreed to debate the rule forty minutes then take np the cotton bill proper. The gag rule vas adopted by a vote 143 to 107. Following its adoption Underwood accused the Republicans of not dealing fair.'y with the Democratic side. ty.-v." ii"'! . ' ''t "l had an understanding this morning, said Underwood, "with Mr. Mann the minority leader, and Mr. Payne, the ranking Republican on the ways and means committee, that we would take up this bill in this way. They accepted the rule and I expected no opposition.'! cannot see every msn on the Republican side, but after I have gained the consent of the leaders on that ' side you are not : dealing fairly with" us in'goin? back on that ment and making an Issue of this. THE WE ATI MOXIOUIOl iXspefl pil wBiuoi Troon onv axvis