Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 141, 18 April 1912 — Page 1

PAIXAJMITM ANO SUN-TELEGRAM XXXVII. NO. 141. RICHMOND, IXD THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1012. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS.

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tLevee on Mississippi Breaks, and Two Entire Counties in Mississippi Are Now Under Water. 1EVERE WAS HAVOC WROUGHT BY WATER Couriers and Telephones Warn Residents, Who Hastily Gather Belongings and Flee for Lives. (National News Association ) MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 18 The lississippi river levee at the Lobdel plantation, four miles Bout hof Beulah, Miss., broke early today, flooding Washington and Bolivar counties, rich cotton raising lands. Eight towns are tin imminent danger. This is the first levee to break on the Mississippi bank f'the river. Thousands are fleeing from the lower Mississippi delta, which is being overflowed. ' Reports received at the United States engineers office say the levee break is now over two miles wide and water forty feet deep is pouring through it. Hundreds of families were caught in their homes, warned only by the raring waters. They gathered a few belongings, and ran ahead warning others. Word was sent to Greenville, Miss., and warning was carried by couriers and telephones. Not half the population of Bolivar end a half dozen other counties will be able to escape the flood. At 7 o'clock this morning the towns of Benecit, Dahomey, Beulah, Cleveland, Pace, Shaw, Choctaw and Leland lire from two to six feet under water nd it is rising rapidly. Many of the richest cotton plantations in the south will be Inundated. The loss to planters will be'great. , Water from this break will re-enter the Mississippi river through Big Sunflower and Yazoo rivers. If will give relief to the country north of Greenville, Miss., and Vicksburg. Greenville is in danger of being inundated. Rescuing parties have been jsent into the country, north and east ;f that place. AN APRIL BLIZZARD 3s Raging Fiercely Through the Middle West. (National News Association) CHICAGO, April 18. An April blizlard that extended from Nebraska. to Chicago is raging here today. Snow has fallen in Chicago most of the Slight and today is being swept in a wet drizzle before a stiff breeze. Snow fell in Nebraska and Iowa and the northern part of Illinois. In Missouri a cold rain has given place to cloudy, cold weather. It is cloudy and cold in Nebraska. The snow in this section melts as (fast as It falls although the ground jwas covered heavily enough to be perceptibly white. It is reported that no jclamage to crops has been done. THE WEATHER iTATE Cloudy tonight, Friday fair. Frost toniaht. t0CAL Fair and continued cold to- ; night and Friday; frost tonight. HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY. Forecast for Richmond and vicinity: Cloudy, continued cold tonight and Friday. Maximum temperature 48 at 9 a. m. Wednesday. Minimum temperature 36 at 6 a. m. Thursday. Temperature at 11:30, 47. Barometer 29.8. Rainfall since yesterday .53 inch. Direction and velocity of wind, N. V., 15 miles an hour.

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STATE COMMISSION HAS ARMED HERE To Inspect Schools to See the Kind of Vocational Training Offered.

The commission appointed by Governor Marshall recently with the idea of ascertaining what vocational training is now offered in the public schools throughout the state and to secure ideas for needed improvement along this line, will visit Richmond this afternoon. A meeting will be held at the high school auditorium this evening at which time Will W. Yarling, of Shelbyville, state senator, and chairman of the commission, will make an address. Frank Duffy, secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, also a member of the commission, will speak. The meeting will be open to everyone and has been arranged by the committee appointed by the Commercial club, composed of George H. Knollenberg, chairman, Pres. R. L. Kelly of Earlham college, Supt. of schools Mott, Sharon E. Jones and W. 55. Carr. Mr. Knollenberg probably will preside at this evening's meeting. The meeting will open at 8 o'clock. The presiding officer, after Mr. Yarling and Mr. Duffy have talked upon the question of the betterment of vocational training in the schools of this city, will call on manufacturers and others in the audience for their views concerning this matter. A very favorable report was made by the Commercial club committee which insepected the schools of the city a short time ago for the purpose of ascertaining the advantages offered here along the vocational training line. The training offered students in the Garfield and high schools is said to be above the average of such schools in other cities of the size of Richmond in this state. same A SOCIAL HYGIENE -EXPERT TO SPEAK Dr. Hall of Chicago Will Address Young Men and Women Tomorrow. Under the joint auspices of the city school board, Earlham college and the Young Men's Christian association, a social hygiene campaign is to be waged In this city tomoriow by Dr. Winfield Scott Hall, of the Northwestern Medical School of Chicago. Dr. Hall will talk at the Garfield school, Earlham college at the high school. He will speak to mothers and daughters at the high school auditorium in the afternoon and at a men's meeting Earlham college and at high school. According to the arrangements made by the joint committee representing the college, Y. M. C. A. and the school board, Dr. Hall will talk to the boys and girls at separate meetings between 8 and 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. Parents of the pupils are cordially invited to attend. Between 9 and 10 o'clock Dr. Hall will address separate meetings of the men and women of Earlham college. At 1:45 o'clock Dr. Hall will deliver an address to the boys of the high school and following that he will talk to the girls of the school. At 4 o'clock Dr. Hall will address the mothers and daughters at the high school auditorium. This address,, which is primarily intended to bring mothers and daughters into closer sympathy with each other, is open to all adult women. The men's meeting will be held at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening at the high school hall and is open to all young men. CRUELTY ALLEGED IN DIVORCE SUIT , Charging cruel and inhuman treatment Lola Murphy today filed suit in the Wayne circuit court for divorce from Ira Murphy. The complaint also asks the custody of their two children. Owing to the fact that the complaint was withdrawn by the attorney for the plaintiff immediately following its filing specific instances of the defendant's alleged cruelty could not be obtained. They were married in March, 1906, and separated, March 1911, living together for five years. Guggenheim, the millionaire smelter York, and Isidor Straus, the mllliooaire

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Mrs. Guggenheim, wife of the "Smelter King" who went down with the great ship, is shown on the steps of the White Star Line building with her brother-in-law, Mr. DeWitt Seligman and several other anxious relatives of Titanic passengers. Once or twice Mrs. Guggenheim broke down and berated the steamship company, declaring that the lives of all the passengers would have been saved if the company had acted when the first news of the accident was received by sending boats to the rescue from Halifax.

DORR MAKES; DENIAL Refutes the Charge He Killed George Marsh. (National News Association) STOCKTON, Cal.," April 18. William E. Dorr, arrested here on a charge of murdering George Marsh, the Lynn, Mass., soap manufacturer, denied any knowledge of the crime, Questioned by Chief of Police Briare, Dorr said he had not read the newspapers and knew nothing of the murder of Marsh until told of it after his arrest. "I have ju returned from the east," said Dorr, "but I did not go near New York. After leaving Stocktoh, I went to Fresno, Los Angeles, New Orleans and thence to Chicago. I remained in Chicago some time and while there I was robbed of $200 by some whe who gave me knockout drops. I never saw George Marsh in my life." - When arrested Dorr had $104 in his pockets. He admitted that he had $1,800 when he left Stockton but declared the remainder w as spent seeing the sights. TEMPERANCE THEME FOR MAYOR TODAY4 The four who faced the mayor in police court this morning on the charge of public intoxication were much the worse for wear. , Each pleaded guilty in turn and all went down in default of money to pay fines of, $1 and costs. Before fining them, the mayor read them a lengthy sermon on the evils of intemperance, this being called forth by the statement of one of the men who said he had four grown hJKttu in Aurora 111, where he wanted to go. The mayor said it should be provided by law that wheneveF'Kman demor.strates by getting drunk, his inability to drink w ithout taking to4j much, he should be arrested when seen drinking again, and the saloonkeeper who sells the liquor should lose his license. The men fined were John Ingersoll. Billy Sharp, Dan Daily and Harry Webster. Sharp was found back of the M. Ruracly plant with his left eye closed and black from a fall. king; Henry R. Harris, one of the merchant philanthropist , f

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MRS, BASS-LOGAN MADE HEW RECORD Waltzes for 17 Hours, Forcing One of Her Partners to Quit. Mrs. Isabelle Bass-Logan, who started in the Eagle's marathon waltz at the Coliseum yesterday morning at 8:57, stopped dancing this morning at 2 o'clock, having in that time danced several miles and broken the world's record, having overlapped the previous record of 16 hours and forty minutes by twenty-three minutes. There were no contenders for the title. Etters and Mrs. Logan were the only ones to start at the. stipulated time, nine o'clock, and although there were several other couples who danced for several hours, they did not try for second and third prizes. First prize was $40. When two o'clock came .Mrs. BassLogan was notified that she had broken the world's record. -She asked the managers of the dancing affair if 'they did not want her to dance an hourrbr more longer," but they told hef she had-danced long enough. When Ktters quit at nine o'clock, he said he was "all in," and went home. Sherman W'hite, who played for the dancers, also quit at the same time Etters did, took a few moments rest and then played again until the dancing stopped. His drummer, Emmet Wolfe, played all the time. The drummer also broke a world's record. The affair was given under the auspices of the Eagle's degree team. In the evening at 7:30 o'clock, several hundred dancers took the floor and danced around the marathoners for several hours, until a late hour. There were about six hundred people present to watch the dancers trying for the world's record. There is some question as to the validity of Mrs. BassLogan's claim to the world's championship title, inasmuch as she" did not dance the entire time- with one partner. However, when Etters quit dancing. she kept in motion until another partner came forward. Although the rules of the contest were that tha dancers were entitled to two minutes rest out of each hour, no tin was taken by the dancers. MAKE PROTESTS ON REGISTRATION LAW It was the substance of the opinion i oi me nepuuuean county cnairmen of the First, Second. Third. Fourth Fifth and Sixth districts, who attended the meeting called at Indianapolis last evening for the purpose of having the registration and corrupt practices acts explained to them, that the former law was unfair, inasmuch as it fails to provide for the registration of absent voters or those who are physically unable to appear at the time for registration. Wajrne County Chairman Robbins attended the meeting. Predictions were made that amendments to the act remedying these defects will be offered at the next meet ing ol Uie General Assembly.

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LORIMER QUITE ILL Either Too Much Speak Too Much Roosevelt. or (National News Aseoclttloa) CHICAGO, April 18. U. S. Senator Lorimer is seriously ill at his home here. Overwork during the primary campaign and worry over the senate investigation are said. to have been the cause. His throat is troubling him. This, members of his family say, is the result of his strenuous public speaking campaign. They say that while he Is seriously 111 there is no cause for alarm.

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m BILLBOARD FIGHT TO BE DISCUSSED Discussion of the methods suggested for the elimination of billboards in this city and especially on the west side of the river will require most of the time of the meeting of the West Richmond Improvement association tomorrow nighL The meeting will be held at the Baxter school building. jThe committee appointed by the presldent of the organization some time ago will make explanations of its report, which was submitted at the last meeting or the association. The West Richmond Improvement association is decidedly opposed to the billboards, declaring that they are unsightly and are really a detriment to the city. One plan which has been suggested is that every merchant In the city be Invited to attend a future meeting at which time the members of the association will explain their views' on the subject and a request will be made of the merchants to refuse to advertise en billboards in the, city.

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They Will Practically be Under Arrest When They Arrive In New York as Government Learns They Have Plotted to Make Escape From Testifying Before the Committees of Congress i . . A Few of the Titanic Life Boats Sank

This Startling Information was Revealed Today-Last Boats to be Lowered Over the Levanlhian's Side were Dragged Down With the Great Ship-Now Known Jhat Col. J. J. Astor was Drowned

National News Association) WASHINGTON April 18 Kvery officer of the Titanic coming in on the steamer Carpathia will be practically placed under arrest the moment of arrival. A sub-committee of the senate commerce committee, which went to New York today is armed with subpoenas, whereby officers and members of the crew will be held by force, if necessary, to testify in the investigation of the loss of the Titanic. This extraordinary action of the government is taken at the direction of the president, and is the result of a report that the Titanic's surviving officials were planning to Jeave for England on another ship of that company without giving the United States government time to question them. It was reported at the navy department that a wireless message, sent by J. B. Israay to the White Star officials in New York, had been picked up. in which they were directed to book passage for hi mon an outgoing steamer. It was the purpose, according to the report, for Ismay to trans-ship to this steamer and return to England without setting foot on American soil, and thus escape subpoena to appear before the investigating committee of congress. ;' ' j "'"' , FOQ HAMPERS VESSEL. First Relief Tug Scully, Via Siasconset Station, April 18. The Cunard rescue ship Carpathia, with the survivors of the Titanic on board, ran into a fog off the lower New England coast today, but continued on her way to New York' at reduced speed. Wireless communication between the Scully and the Carpathia confirms the report that Mr. and Mrs. Isador Straus "were not saved. All the children 'and practically all the women were rescued. Carpathia Captain Edward J. Smith.

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is sending nothing but wireless messages from Titanic survivors. It is postive Col. Astor. is not on- board, although questions as to the fate of Benjamin Guggenheim were unanswered. Carpathia wireless man positively refused to answer questions. .

ANOTHER SHIP WRECKED. HALIFAX, April 18. Two hundred passengers have been taken from the stranded steamer. Earl Grey, which struck on a ledge two miles west of Stoney river. The Karl Grey has nine feet of water in her hold and Is in danger of being pounded to pieces. SHE WILL ARRIVE LATE. NEW YORK. April 18. A heavy fog settled down over New York bay this afternoon, reaching out as far as Sandy hook, and rendering improbable the docking or the Carpathia with the Titanic survivors on board until tomorrow unless a breeze sprang up to brush away the murky curtain. Surveyor General Henry of New York Port. 'after, taking stock of weather conditions said that he did not believe the rescue ship would dock until 11 a. m. Friday, at the earliest As the, day advanced and the mantle of sijencs aU tributed to steamship officials to give out no information until the ship reaches New York, still bung with unexplained mystery over the Cunard liner, and the anxiety of those on shore deepened. To all wireless intreaties of high and low alike the Carpathia turned a deaf ear. FEW LIFE BOATS LOST. BRANT ROCK, MassApriI 18. That some or the life boats being used to rescue the passengers or the Titanic (Continued on Page Ten.) of Titanic

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