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THE CALL ISSUES A FOURTH EDITION AT 6 A. M. DAILY CONTAINING ALL THE LATE WORLD AND tITY NEWS > ■ h _ :.' Mfeh«*M Tpinporaiwrp <»st«*rda.v, ,%O: I.ovrrxt Thur«dar Ntsili«. :\ti. For «1.-l:.iU of the W.-nthe. **•«* Pane s. San Franriern a ba - y -~ : ~ square oan rrancisco m^es in arca> \ vith HA 7" square miles -£"*- of safe anchorage, with depths 18 to c>o feet at low tide. VOLUME CXKL-NO, 42. BANKER CORNERED REFUSES TO BARE RECORD OF DEALS New York Finance Master, Asked to Name Transac tions and Promotions With List of Joint Ac :ounts of Big Concern, Puts It Up to Directors WALL STREET CHIEF SQUIRMS ON GRILL Hearing Is Halted While Baker, Whose Institution Earned 18,000 Per Cent, Sees Lawyers ■— Money Trust Investigators to Get Information Wednesday {Special Dispatch to Th# Cell) WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.—There was one frantic and suggestive incident in the investigation Into the money and credit trust before the Pujo committee today. Chairman Baker of the First National bank, New York, was again on the ■tand. The significant moment came when Samuel Untermyer leaned forward and, looking Mr. Baker in the face, asked him to produce a record of all the pro motions and transactions of the First National bank with a list of names of those with whom the bank acted in joint account. A-β Mr. Baker yesterday showed that In 88 years the First National bank had earned profits amounting to more than 18.000 per cent of its original capital stock and that it had organized a se curity company through which It might take care of transactions which the law forbade the bank iteelf to undertake, it will be seen that Untermyer actually demanded the opening of the door that would reveal to this country just how far this bank was engaged directly or ndirectly in a system through which it Is said that a combination of bank powers had organized In Wall street. BASKER FIDGETS IX CHAIR Baker's face flushed darkly. Hβ wrinkled his brow, contracted his eye lids, shifted uneasily in his chair, twisted his eyeglasses slowly, looked with a rapid side glance at his counsel and his son, who were watching him •with intense Interest, and then an nounced that he had been advised by his counsel that the committee had no power to compel him to give the names of the persons or corporations who had such promotions and syndicate transactions in Joint account with his bank. Untermyer's small finger became tense. He demanded to know whether Baker thought that such transactions by a national bank should be kept secret, and whether he thought It was not in the power of congress to get at , such facts. He asked whether Baker actually refused to give these facts to the com mittee. Baker clenched and unclenched his hands, moved restlessly and pro tested that he wanted to help the com mittee, but felt that it had, no right to ask for such Information, and further, that he had no right as head of the First National bank to give It. SUPREME MOMENT ARRIVES The supreme psychological point had been reached. Untermyer looked tri umphant. He suggested that Baker might like to consult with his counsel. The banker at once swung around In his chair and joined beads/ with Senator Spooner and his son. The con versation was In whisper, but there . was much nodding and shaking of t ads. The issue had been Joined on the very threshold of the secrets of the great national banking system. Baker had either to answer or be put in the position of defying congress. The spectators began to feel that something important had happened and leaned forward with new interest. Presently Spooner left the excitedly whispering group and entered into a confidential talk with Untermyer, while Baker listened to what looked like an argument pressed on him by 1 is keen faced son. Ql BSTIOn TO DIRKCTOItS In the end it was agreed that Eakor' should be allowed to confer with his lawyers when tho recess came and then the committee know whether he vould give the information demanded. Alter the recess conferem ■<• Baker t-<ld the committee his counsel thought tlie committee had no right to ask such a question, but if Hie committee in ■ d "absolutely" be would lay it be fui- th« I'Ohj-iJ of directors of his bank nexi Ti Mrtlwy and turn the result over Wednesday. It was finally understood that tlie directors of the First National and the li: v would give the • ;i account of. 'promotion nn<J .-•;■ n«-li< a to" "iterations for tlie last i.-!i years i>f both 'inrik and security I rations under $500,00(1 (were to be excluded. The nam< jointly Interested arc to be glfen. l'.aker admitted that of th<* Jioo.ooo.- I of deposits in th« Ftret National Continued «n Page 2, Column 7 "The People's Newspaper" MAN JAILED IN FREEZING CA YE Quarry Hand Seeks Shelter From Storm and Sleel Makes Escape From Refuge Impossible ST. IX)UIP. Jan. 10.—James Meyer, a quarry worker, was , recovered today from a cave on the Alton Illinois bluffs, Where he had been imprisoned since Saturday niglit by a sleet storm and the ice. Hβ was taken to the St. Clair county farm Jn a serious condition. Members of a train crew heard cries from the cave, which Is about 7r> fort up the side of the bluff, and notified the Alton police. A policeman, two, locomotive firemen and a young athlete volunteered, and climbed the. icy face of the bluff. They took Meyers from the cave and lowered him to the ground. If is , believed the man was caught in t!ie cave by the sleet storm early Sunday and feared to climb down the icy bluff. When Aie was found he was lying: on tho rock floor with no cover ing but a worn overcoat. A small fire was burning near by, but his last scrap of fuel had gone to feed it. GIRL WIFE IN CUSTODY Eva Jam**, Who Shot Herself, Refuses to Stay at Infirntary vAE&HEDA. Jan. 10.—Mrs. Eva James, "the girl wife of Sydney Jame?, who shot herself through the left breast Sunday, following trouble with her 44 year old husband,because she refused to stay at the county infirmary, where she was taken for treatment, but returned to her home here, has been taken into custody by the county probation officer. The girl has been on probation eince her elopement and marriage several months ago. She will be detained at the county receiving hospital in Oak land until her case is disposed of in the Juvenile court. AUTO MYSTERY IS SOLVED Two I,os Angeles Lads Admit Taking and Breaking lp for. Junk LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10.—The mys terious disappearance recently of 31 automobiles was explained today by the arrest of two young chauffeurs. George Nelson and Edward Frame. 17 and 18 years old, respectively. The boys con fessed that for two months they had made a practice of stealing automo biles and. after dismantling them, sell ing the tires and other parts to junk dealers. They said they received only 8 cents a pound for the tires and 15 cents a pound for the inner tubes. DRINKING CAUSED WRECK Lackananna Engineer's "Good Time' , Paid for In Forty Lives ALBANY, N. T., Jan. 10.—Engineer i William H. Schroeder had been drink ing the night before and had slept less than three hours, hence the wreck on the Delaware, Lackawanna and West tern railroad at Corning, N. T., last Independence day, in which 40 persons lost their lives and 75 others were in jured. The state public service com mission so declared today. The en gineer was indicted for manslaughter, but never brought to trial, the indict ment being dismissed. OIL SUIT SHIFTS HERE Hearing of Famous Action Concluded at Los Angeles; Cane Resuraril in City Monday LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10.—With the testimony of J. 11. Storke, who drilled the Scottish well in the Elk hills. At torney Charles R. Lewers concluded the hearing of the famous $10,000,000 Elk Hills oil land suit in this city and the hearing was adjourned to San Fran cisco, where it will be resumed Monday. BROKERS BACK DIVORCE Attorney Says Syndicate Is Behind Mrs. William Guggenheim (Special Dispatch to The Call) CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—A Wall street syndicate Is backing Mrs. Grace Gug genheim in her fight against her former husband, William Guggenheim, accord ing to Attorney aJcob Newman, whose flrra represents Guggenheim. The law yer refused to make public the names of the men in the syndicate. LEPERS ARE SHOT BY LAW Chinese Authorities Execute Thirty- nine Victims of Disease SHANGHAI, Jan. 10. — Thirty-nine lepers recently were put to death by order of tire provincial authorities oJ Nannink, province of Kwangsi. The sufferers were shot and their bodies burned in a trench. These advices were received in Shanghai today in letters from a mission at Nnning. MRS. NIXON IN MAN HUNT Senator's Wife Heads Posne Which Finds Burglar I nder Bed RENO, Xev.. Jan. 30.—Heading a searching party looking through her palatial residence for a burglar, Mrs. George S. Nixon, "widow of Senator Nixon of Nevada, last night discovered the intruder under a bed in her room. A butler tackled the man and held him untii the police arrived. TALLEST WOMAN IS DEAD (8o««faJ Dispat'-h to The Call.) QUIXey, 111.. Jan. 10.—Miss Ella Ewing, S feet 4 inches in height and known M the taliost woman in the world, is dead. She owned a magnifi cent country home with all the furni ture built in proportion, to her size. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1913.—PAGES 1 TO 8. SUFFRAGETTES IN STIRRUPS TO HEAD PAGEANT Wife of Lieutenant Burleson of Fort Myer Will Be the Commander of "Cavalry Women" in Demonstra tion in Washington, D. C, on Afternoon of March 3 EVERY STATE WILL SEND DELEGATION Advisory Committee, Head ed by Senator and Mrs. La Follette, Includes Works and Kahn of California and Many Other Active Leaders in National Life j (Sptctsl DiupaMi t» The Cnlii I WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Society women on horseback will head the pa jgeant of suffragettes along Pennsyl-: 1 vania avenue on the afternoon of March 3, the leader of the "cavalry women" to hp Mrs. Burleson, wife of Lieutenant Richard Burleson of Fort Myer. The squadron will be picked from among: the society women riders of Washington, although it is possible that other cities will be represented. Mrs. Burleson. who practically will be marshal of the parade, is an attrac tive young woman and a familiar figure | along the bridle paths in this vicinity. She is an excellent horsewoman and has! ideas about things military. rj\rnors xikce to ridk Among the women who already have announced their intention of riding are Mis? Julia Goldsboro. Mrs. Churchill Candee, Mrs. Glenn A. Sinnin. Mrs. Charlotte Weikert and Mr*. Mary Mor gan, (he latter a niece of Gifford PJn- Chot. It is expected that the squadron of "cavalry women" will Include more than 50. Much" 1 interest has been aroused over the big pageant, which will be under the auspices of the National Woman's Suffrage association. The promoters plan to have about 2.-WO women in line and to have every state in the union represented. The Woman's Suffrage union of New York, the Woman's Suf frage society of Connecticut and similar organizations already have given assur ance that they will have delegations in the parade. nOUK MAKERS' SECTION Plans are to divide the pageant into sections. A "home makers' section" was today with Mrs. Moore, wife of Commodore W. S. Moore, as chairman, and Mrs. Knox, wife of the secretary of stafp, as vice chairman. Invitations will be sent all over the country asking women to participate in this feature of the demonstration. Some of the prominent sections and their respective chairmen are as fol lows: Actors, Mrs. Cells. La Follette: artists, Mrs. Irving Moller; Australian women. Mrs. Leslie Street; college women. Miss Klsl" Hill; lawyers, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey (chairman),' Miss Gertrude Leonard fvlee chairman); women's cliibj». Mrs. p. t. Dubois; working women. Miss Bliss Finley. The advisory committee, which is headod by Senatr> r and Mrs. La Follrtte. Include* the following; Senator and Mr«. Sutherland of Utah, Senator ami Mrs. Bourne of Or« --pori. Senator and Mrs. Galiinger of N>-v Hampshire. Senator and Mrs. Townaend of Michigan, Senator and Mrs. Polndexter of Washington, Sena tor and Mrs. Chamberlain of Oregon, Senator Joseph l>. Bristow of Kansas, senator <harles Curtis of Kansas. Sen ator Kenyon of lowa, Senator Works of California, Mrs. Stone of Illinois, Mrs. Kent of California, Admiral and Mrs. Walnwright, Commodore and Mrs. W. S. Moore, General and Mrs. Anson Mills, Colonel and Mrs. Selden Day, Mrs. Gillett Hill, Mrs. P. B. Claxton. Mrs. F. T. Dubois, Mrs. Thomas L. Mac Donald. Mr. and Mrs. John Willkle, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Kahn. Rev. and Mrs. U. G. Pierce, Mrs. Janet Richards, Mrs. Eugene Carr, Mrs. Robeft Baker, Mrs. Clark E. Carr of New Mexico, Mrs. Ryan Devoreaux, Colonel and Mrs. H. F. Blount, Mrs. Lyjnan B. Swormstedt, Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. MacFarland, Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Mrs. Carl Crantoft and Mrs. Theodore Noyee. MORAL BACHELORS, HEAR! There's a Young; Widow In Chicago Who Wants One of You If there's a "good, moral' , bachelor left in San Francisco still in search of a wife he may take hope again. Mrs. V. Dlckson, whose address is "general delivery, Chicago, 111," which is a trifle indefinite if a gentleman were going to rail, is a widow 2* years old in search of husband Xo. 2. She made her wants known in a modest request received yesterday by Post master Fisk. "To the postmaster of San Francisco," she writes, "Dear sir. T am a widow, 24 years old. and would like you to help me get a good, moral hiipband. Xo objections to a middle aged man. I am employed v a teacher." STIMSON TO ASK $1,650,000 FOR PRESIDIO REPAIR After Conference With Mur ray and Kahn, Secretary of War Decides to Request Congress for New Bar racks, Stables and Depot at San Francisco Post CAVALRY TROOPS TO MONTEREY POST Barns to Be Removed to Make Way for Federal Building at Exposition— Extensive Plans to "Dress Up" Reservation for 1915 Are Included in Program (Special Dispatch to The Call) WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.—At a con ference today Secretary of War Stlm son, Major General Arthur Murray and Representative Kahn discussed plans which will probably result In the ex pending of $1,560,000 for new barracks, quartermaster's department and stables Jat tiip Pre&idio at San Francisco. Dmrtng the conference it developed that in accordance with the new policy of concentration of troops at the large center?; it is planned to transfer the cavalry now at the Presidio to Mon terey and in their place maintain«three regiments of infantry. To provide for Mrs. Dorothy Morgan Cutler Slingsb}), wife of Lieutenant Charles H. R. Slingsb]} of Victoria, B. C, with the sub stituted infant, and a photograph of the altered record of birth certificate at the local office of the board of health. this change and to make room for the government exhibit building at the Pacific r.Nposltion and to place the Presidio in first class condition for exposition visitors. S*C retary Stimpon will send to congress in a few days supplementary estimates of money needed by the department. The estimates -will total $1,660,000 divided as follows: For removing the Presidio stables from their present site and construc tion of new stable buildings. $500,000; for constructing a seven story quar termaster's department at Fort Mason. $400,000; for the construction of citadel barracks near the Presidio entrance, 575.000. The removal of the stables Is neces sary to make room for the government exhibit building at the exposition. The present stables are old and unsightly and the department haa been contem plating the building of new stables for some time. The opportunity of work ing in conjunction with the exposition plans is welcomed by the army of ficials. The exposition territory also takes up the space occupied by the quarter master's store near the Fort Mason docks. It is planned to construct a much more adequate quartermaster's depot than the present one, and at the same time make way for the exposi tion. The new barracks at the Presidio en trance are designed for the accommo dation of a complete regiment. They will be of the latest design with refer ence to comfort and sanitation and will, with the other improvements planned, bring all the Presidio buildings up to date. YREKA MAN MISSING vniJKA, Jan. 10.—Samuel Gardner, former supervisor of Siskiyou county, who disappeared January J after cash ing a check for $S."», has not been heard from since. Relatives are trying to trace ■ him. "An Independent Newspaper" WOMAN CLEARS SLINGSBY CASE Aid to Crime Tells of Babe's Purchase INVALID WOMAN BURNED IN BED Oakland Hostess Is Injured Carrying 86 Year Old Patient From Pyre (Special Dispatch to The Call) OAKLAND. Jan. 10.—Mrs. Caroline Hynes, 86 years old, was burned to death at 7 o'clock tonight In the home of Mrs. Emma Swafn, 805 East Eighteenth street, and Mrs. Swain was painfully Injured about the hands and face In rescuing the aged woman. Mrs. Hynes, who is an invalid, was in bed with an oil lamp burning be side her on the floor. In attempting to adjust the wick of the lamp she overturned it, setting the bed on fire. Her cries attracted the attention of Mrs. Swain and she rushed in to find the bed a mass of flames and Mr.<=. Hynes unable to extricate herself. Mrs. Swain dragged the woman from the blazing bed clothes and wrapped her in a rug. extinguishing the flames. The police removed Mrs. Hynes to the receiving hospital, where she was given treatment by Dr. George c. Reinle and Dr. W. H. Irwin. GREAT CINDERELLA SHOW t Sixty ChnriiM Glrla All Demand Rub ber* of Diminutive Size (B{*ti*l Dispatch to The Call; CHICAGO, Jan 10.—Sixty chorus girls figured in a real life presentation of Cinderella at a Madison street shoe Btor*». A wholesale purchase of No. 2 size rubbers was made on the order of the management of a local theater ©wine to icy pavement*. DIPLOMAT, LOVE VICTIM, ENDS LIFE Capitalist, Leaving Note Re ferring to "Laura/ , Kills Self in Hotel (Spwfal Dispatch to The Call) CHICAGO. Jan. 10.—Tired of life, dis appointed in love and apparently will ing to sacrifice himself for another or others. Ernest Bodenheim. a German diplomat and capitalist, drank a mix ture of poison and then fired a bullet into his brain in his suite at the Blackstone hotel today. The suicide, who was the French vice consul at Cassel, Germany, was found dead in a chair drawn up to a desk where he had written four let ters, two of them in German and the others in English. He was ciad in his pajamas. A small automatic pistol was clasped in one hand and a stump of a cigarette in the I other. , In one of the letters he mentioned j the name of a woman, referred to as j "I>awra," adding that Herman Katz, a Memphis, Term., business acquaintance, "knows of my love affair." At the inquest Katz denied knowl edge of the suicide's love affair and asserted that the diplomat's ill health was responsible for his act. "He suffered from nervousness and insomnia for years and often threat- I ened bis life," Katz said. The victim apologized for hie art | :and sought to explain bis deed to his! J friends, urging one of them to super ] intend his funeral and send his be- i i longings to his home in Germany. The suicide is the first that has oc- j curred in the fashionable Elackitone. I WEATHER jf ORECAST: Pair; heavy light north wind. Er-TTBItt.T lady rtestree position in light house work; wages'sls to <2O: good referencp*. Ad- TWO CHAIR shop, 1 steady: 3 ewll llTlng rooms; >.->h«>ap rent: lease over fair; price $^00. SEE CLASSIFIED PAGES FOR CONTINUATION OF THESE ADVERTISEMENTS PRICE FIVE CENTS. INDICTMENTS LIKELY FROM SORDID STORY OF MRS. DUII Friend of Retired English Naval Officer's Wife in Statement to District At torney Asserts She Burned Dead Child in Stove at Home and Doctor Was Paid $50 to Supply Child of Lillian Anderson—Heir Got by Advertisement ASTOUNDED TO SEE RECORDS CHANGED Detectives Hounded Her for Last Two Years, She Says —Advised False Mother to Confess Everything and Halt Scandal Inquiry —- Witnesses Are Subpenaed and Ferrari Will Hold the First Examination Today —Extradition Is Expected A sordid story of the purchase and substitution, in 1910. of a wronged girl's two day old infant as her own, f ■ burning of the body of her child, trbfch had been stillborn and the conceal ment of the whole transaction from her husband by Mrs. Dorothy Morgan Cutler Plingsby, was told last night by Mrs. O. H. Blain of 1522 McAllister street, •who assisted in the crime. The maze of theories in which the Slingsby case has been hitherto con cealed was eliminated, and by state ment of Mrs. Blain the entire history ot the transaction lies unshielded by an> feminine or even human sentiment. The only touch of maternal feelin? in the history of the transaction con cerns futile appeals of the child's reai mother to be told at least where trie child had been taken, and of these ceas ing after the first two months, with tli» young girl swallowed up in a Mty's darker side, unidentified, where her pa.«r Is not known, and at most would not be cared about. MOXET CONCERNED IN DEAT, Money casts its reflection at the ha.«<» tof the crime, although the motive , :, indicated by what so far has Tippii brought to light, are twofold—first, th» desire for an heir to share the $1,000, --000 estate of her husband's father in England, who was near death's door, and, second, the revulsion of a 48 year- Aid woman going hark to her husband ohlldlpss after coming to San Francis™ from Victoria to gain the best possible medical care to bring an heir Into th« world. Her husband Is Lieutenant Charles Henry Raymond Slingsby. R. N. (retired), son of the late Rev. Charles Slingsby of Yorkshire, England. The transaction was brought par tially to light some time ago when th« mists surrounding the facts of the case were parted enough for the state board of health to order the cancellation of the false birth certificate In San Fran cisco records by which the child was accredited to Mrs. Slingsby, and the filing of a true record in which the names of the illegitimate child's par ents were given. TWO INDICTMENTS LIKELY The details revealed now are the re sult of an investigation initiated by District Attorney Fickert. Assistant District Attorney Ferrari has subpe naed six witnesses to appear this after noon at his office in the hall of justice Sacramento Valley Early Orange Belt 3.600 acres. f16.66 per acre. Perfect for oranges, lemon*, figs, olives, deciduous fruits RUd tokay jcrap«'«i. Plenty of water for Ir rigation by gravity at lte per leek: •'; miles from good railroad town: red gravel loam: Ulglitlv rolling. Oranges from nearby gnrvM marketed every your hy Dec. 13; never m loss from frost or freeziug. Big profit tn »ob dlTlding. ____________ Alfalfa and Bean Land 4700 Acres, $25 Per Acre AH lerel. deep, strong soil: nenr oleftri' , railway: plow u> Solaoo Irrisated Farms Co. Big development. Fart overflow from nack water. V. S. (Joy. work will rei-lalm. ("an be made to produce MO.OOO l"' r ynr now. Suhdivided would s«>H for $l-V>, $■_•(« per acre: pl»nfv water tor Irrigation. Other large holdiugs at Wholei-ale Prices. Harrigan, Weidenmuller Co. Agems Lnd*>r Contract, i 545 Montgomery Street, *• F. ,