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EIGHT PARTS
INCLUDING
Star's Sunday Magazine
And Colored Comic Section
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WEATHER.
Thundershowers today; Mon
day fair, with moderate south to
west winds.
FULL REPORT ON PAGE THREE.
:No. 482 ?No. 19,632.
WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 1914
FIVE CENTS.
WILLIAMS QUITS
TO HELP ALBANIA
American Minister to Greece
Resigns, Knowing He Will
Not Be Upheld.
HIS STATEMENT CREATES
A SENSATION IN ATHENS
Tall Text of Explanation Gives
Inquiry Into Atrocities
in Epirus.
#perlal Cablegram to The Star.
ATHENS, June 27.-The public state
ment by George Fred Williams, United
States minister to Greece and Monte
negro. in relation to the rebellion in Al
bania against Prince William of Wled
has created a tremendous sensation here.
The brief extracts cabled to the United
States have not contained the most in
teresting points in the statement, the
full text of which makes it clear that
Mr Williams, realizing that the United
States government would not approve his
acts, has already resigned his office as
minister.
Some clue to the acts referred to Is
contained in Mr. Williams' assertions:
"I wilt not conceal the fact that I
have taken measures which promise to
unite the people of Albania under can
tonal forms,'' and "I hope to be instru
mental in saving one whole section of
the country from destruction."
Full Text of Statement.
The text of Mr. Williams* open state
ment. as supplied by him, follows:
"In the week ended June 6, as minister
of the United States to Greece and Mon
tenegro. I represented to my government
that conflicting reports concerning atro
cities in Epirus and misunderstandings
between the provisional government of
Epirus and the international commission
of control at Durazzo led me to believe
that disinterested investigation by me
would help peace and save human life.
"I was therefore authorized to visit
Epirus. observe conditions and report,
also to communicate with the interna
tional commission. My mission was com
municated to the Greek government and
to the diplomatic corps at Athens.
"I was eagerly welcomed by Provisional
President Zographos at Argycastro. He
and the Holland officers on the Albanian
side furnished me with every facility for
Investigating the wrongs practiced by the
soldiers at Kodra and elsewhere. I left
Kpirus feeling assured that no further ex
cesses would be tolerated.
President Zographos also laid before me
all the documents ^concerning the negoti
ations for the acceptance of the Wied gov
ernment, and I was allowed to take
copies of them. I proceeded to Durazzo
fully conscious th?.t my facts were essen
tial to the international commission and
that President Zographos would welcome
any fair basis of adjustment.
Not Received by Commission.
"Arriving at Durazzo I sent a mes
sage to the commission that without de
siring to intrude upon their duties I
came possessed of the situation and
placed myself at their disposal. The
passage was not presented to the com
mission at its following session, and I
received no answ.r. I learned that It
had been decided beforehand that I
5oould not be received.
"Mr. Zographos was suspicious that
the conference and protocol of Corfu
were mere traps laid by the commission
to secure peaceful possession of Epirus
without the promised international guar
antees The action of the commission
and other evidence which I possess sat
isfied me that these suspicions were
correct.
"I thereupon began personal inter
views with various persons high in
authority. Including commissioners,
gendarmerie officers, ministers of the
prince, medical and naval officers,
Christians and Mohammedans.
"I had treated my business seriously,
and the union of six great powers to
constitute a government in Albania.
"I uncovered at Durazzo an epochal
scandal of anarchy, incompetence, hy
pocrisy and murder. Its panorama was
visible from my chamber window, the
prince's palace, guarded by foreign ma
rines. being on the right, the six war
ships of the powers lying at anchor in
the center and the malarial marsh
stretching out on the left, from which
came the sound of musketry mowing
dovtn Albanians with Albanian bullets.
Government of Armed Foreign Force
"My !\ri?t effort was to find the Al
banian government. 1 found none ex
cept the six warships, and' they were
silent. I~took opinions on the accord of
London Every one agreed from its plain
reading that it created no government
except one o' armed force from abroad,
for which all the authorities were clam
oring.
"Five ostensible governments were In
^sight. First, the six great powers with
all the power: second, the commission
with control of the civil administration
and finance; third, the Holland gend
armerie with control of the military;
fourth, the prince without any powers
remaining; fifth, the ministry with no
powers.
"Each one of these governments was
lighting every other, saving the first,
which apparently is so discordant within
Itself that It has abandoned all the rest
to their fate. All are cursing the powers
for their discord and helplessness and
are expecting at any moment to be
driven out of Durrazzo.
"I found a state of anarchy, and that
the sovereignty of Albania remains
where it belongs, in the people of the
country. I found a prince, calling him
self a king, with no powers, no terri
tory and no subjects, except his wife
and children.
"it was at this point that I deter
mined to take upon myself the re
sponsibility for the statement, which
the United States government cannot
and will not indorse. I doubt not that
my government will be as much
shocked by it as will be all diplo
matic authorities.
People Murdered, He Says.
"I am impelled to this statement by
two considerations. First that the people
of an inoffensive nation are being mur
dered in cold blood; second, that the so
called government of Albania is merely
a state of anarchy.
"I had read the statements of the press
treating the Durazzo government as a
serious subject and attempting to give it
dignity by ridiculous falsehoods, and I
deem it to be my duty to expose it as a
screaming farce performed before a suf
fering and bleeding people.
"The Wied government has shown skill
and success in one respect only. It has
been able to prevail upon the various re
ligious and racial force of Albania to set
upon eafh other with murderous purpose.
Hundreds of Albanian lives have thus
been sacrificed at the hands of Albanians.
"The process has been as follows; The
Catholic missionaries and Meredtes were
induced by specious promise to come
from the north to fight the insurgents
around Durazzo. Thereupon the Mo
hammedans of the north threatened the
Catholics for their act and their bishop
was promptly arrested. Thereupon they
attacked, and the religious war is open
ed in the north and central Albania. Tne
Avlons district, which is mainly Mo
hammedan, was forced to raise troops j
against the insurgents to the north of
them, and in the process of Impress
ment several were killed.
"The same people are fighting the |
Christians of Epirus In the south.
Starts Religious War.
"And a Christian prince assigned to
govern Albania, who had a breath of
Christ's spirit, would have first an
nounced a purpose to bring all races and
religions into accord and cause old ani
mosities to be buried. Instead of this
the Prince of Wied has started a re
ligious war throughout Albanla.
"I could not await the acceptance of
my resignation by my government to
denounce these cruel and inhuman pol
icies practiced upon a people which has
committed no offense and is the victim
of an international conspiracy against
its liberty.
"I need not explain how my mission to
in vest! prate individual Instances of mur
der In Epirus became insignificant in com
parson wth the duty to protest against
such organized premeditated and whole
sale murder within a nation. I use the
word murder because it is not war.
"The Prince of Wied has no more right
than I have in Albania, and the blood of
the murdered is on his head. I am not
afraid to match my efforts for freedom
with his bloody rule before the great
Judgment seat."
Suffragist Leader Jubilant
Over Reception by Clark
and Marshall.
"Speaker Clark, when he told us today
that 'woman's suffrage is as inevitable
as the rising of tomorrow's sun,* sound
ed a prophecy that guarantees us victory
this fall in Missouri, one of the six cam
paign states."
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of
the National American Woman's Suf
frage Association, made this statement
last night just-before she left Washing
ton. She was enthusiastic over the re
ception given by both Speaker Clark and
the Vice President at the Capitol to
delegation of the officers of the Na
tional Suffrage Association, who brought
more than 300 resolutions, from thirty
eight states, urging congressmen to sup
port suffrage legislation .before July 8.
"The executive board of the associa
tion is now bending all its energies to
finance and wage a victorious fight in
the six campaign states of Nevada,
Montana, North and South Dakota, Mis
souri and Nebraska this fall. I now feel
sure that we will win in Missouri. I
hope we will win in the other five. IX
we win them thl# time, we will win
more next year.
Every Vote In Favor.
Dr. Shaw said that since the nation
wide demonstration of suffrage day. May
2. she has attended the meeting of the
International Council of Women at
Rome, representing 7,000,000 women
from twenty-eight widely separated
countries, and that when a resolution for
woman suffrage was presented there
every vote was cast in its favor.
"This shows," she said, "that the de
sire for suffrage Is not merely from
this country, but from all the world.
? 'Since the close of that international
meeting, three other big events have
showed us that suffrage is advancing
by leaps and bounds. There was the
legislature of Denmark. In which the
lower house declared something like 125
to 6 In favor of suffrage, entering a reso
lution to dissolve the upper house and
curtail the appointive power of the king
if the suffrage legislation Is not con
firmed. Then there was the greatest and
most momentous decision by the higher
courts in Illinois, upholding the en
franchisement of women, ard there was
the indorsement of the suffrage resolu
tion in the biennial convention of the
clubwomen of the country at Chicago,
where representatives of nearly four mil
lions of women enthusiastically declared
for. equal franchise."
Wouldn't Dare Come Home.
Miss Genevieve Clark, the Speaker's
daughter, was one of the suffragists in
the party that visited the Capitol.
"Your father came across with his
suffrage support," a friend suggested.
"He wouldn't have dared come home If
he hadn't," she smilingly replied.
August 15 has been set by the execu
tive board of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association as a
special "campaign day" to be observed in
all the states. On that day every suf
fragist will be asked to do something for ,
the fund which is to be used for the
campaign states. August 15 was chosen !
being the Saturday which ?ccurs in the
week of August 13, a day "*? eel
brated by suffragists as the birthday of |
Lucy Stone, the founder of the Ameri
can Woman SufTra*e Association.
This Is a part of far reaching Plans
Just announced by the executlve boar
through the congressional committee for
helping the fall campaign in North and
South Dakota, Nevada, Montana, Mis
souri, Nebraska and Ohio.
Names Special Committee.
The national board has appointed a spe
cial "campaign committee" to co-operate
with the state presidents. Mrs. Medill
McCormick is chairman of this commit
tee, whose headquarters will be in Chi
cago With this committee will serve a
special campaign finance committee, with
the national treasurer. Mrs. Stanley Mc
Cormick. as chairman, whose special
work will be to collect the funds for this
' phase of the national work.
Mrs McCormick says that one feature
of the campaign will be the sending out
of "flying squadrons," which will include
the best speakers that the national asso
ciation can produce. Dr. Shaw has prom
ised to give two months of her time to
?H- ramnaiKn beginning September 1.
Miss lane Addams has promised fifteen
tovl and Mrs Desha Breckinridge, ten
da'vs The initiative petitions for a rer
sEdXdv^.r SoK
*e t,'J, I frw days. Petitions have
aire^d? ??n Sm V Nebraska and in
the other four campaign states the suf
frage amendment comes before the voters
after having passed the legislatures.
ASX SUFFRAGE IN MISSOURI.
Petition! Signed by 33,000 Persons
Are Presented.
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.. June 27.?Pe
titions requesting the submission to the
voters of Missouri next November of a
constitutional amendment granting wom
en the ballot were filed with the secretary
of state here today. The petitions were
signed by more than 33,000 persons.
AnACKS STORY OF
EMPRESS'CAPTAIN
C. S. Haight Tries to Show
Collier's Chief Was Not
Responsible.
CALLS ATTENTION TO
SERIOUS DISCREPANCIES
Attorney Implies Kendall and Wit
nesses Deliberately Told FWse
Tale of Disaster.
QUEBEC, Que.. June 27.?Contentions
that the story submitted to the Empress
of Ireland wreck commission by Capt
Kendall and officers of the lost liner was
false, that the present heading of the
sunken hull proves the Storstad's owners
convictions as to how the collision oc
curred, and that Capt. Kendall of the
Empress, unnerved by the appearance of
the collier after his steering: sear had
broken down, lost his head, formed the
main part of the address made this
morning: by C. S. Haight, summing: up
for the collier's owners. He attempted
to show that the collier's captain was
not at fault for the collision, which .was
caused solely by the Empress being
stopped directly in the path of the Stor
stad. His speech required four hours.
^ "What man," asked the lawyer,
"would be brave enough to face the
world and declare that on a clear night
he had placed his vessel across the bows
of another?
Gives an Explanation.
"If the steering gear of the Empress
broke down," continued Mr. Haight,
"there was' an explanation for one of
the most surprising movements ever
known at sea."
He referred to the testimony of Capt.
Kendall that when he met the fog he
had put his engine full speed astern
from full speed ahead.
"I submit," he said, "that there is an
explanation to be found for this sur
prising order if it is true that something
had gone wrong with his ship's steering
gear. There must be some emergency
to make him put his engines full speed
astern when the vessels were from two
to four miles apart and on a safe and
clearing course.
'There are some serious discrepancies
in Capt. Kendall's story," continued Mr.
Haight. "He said that a sheet of fire
burst from the side of the liner; no one
else saw it. He claimed, too, that there
had been a terrible impact, while the
wireless operator said the Jar was very
slight.
I "He swore that the Impact swung the
1 vessel around six points of the compass
in the water; Mr. Hillhouse, the expert
said that was impossible. He swore, too.
that the Storstad rebounded from the
side of the Empress like a rubber ball,
while U? expert MM tha{ could not bap
pen. Worst of all. he swart that after
the impact the 8torat?d backed any 4
mil* and left a thousand people to per
ish-"
Lord Mersey, addressing Mr. Halftht,
said:
"Tour case involves the conclusion that
Capt. Kendall and his witnesses have de
liberately placed a story before us that
Is false."
"That is the effect of It" the attorney
replied.
He Beta Inconsistency.
Counsel for the Empress of Ireland ar
gued that the opposing counsel had tried
to prove both that Capt. Kendall of the
Empress was to blame and that the ma
chinery of the vessel was faulty. Loth
of these things could not be true, he con
tended.
Edmund L Newcombe, acting on be
? half of the Dominion government, said
he thought the facts which had been
brought out in the hearing were not in
consistent with the belief that the offl
| cera of tne Storstad and Empress were
| telling the truth and were not attempt
ing to mislead the court.
I Mr. Newcombe was of the opinion that
! there had been faults on both sides; that
the Storstad should not have ported her
helm, and the Empress should not have
stopped in the course of the Storstad
when she could have gone safely on.
The commission has now ended its
labors as far as the hearing of evi
dence and the addresses of counsel are
concerned. After a private hearing to
be held next week a finding will be ren
dered.
BOY BATHEB IS DBOWNED.
Lee Garrett Sinks in Biver and His
Body Has Not Been Becorered.
Lee Garrett, thirteen years old, son of
Samuel Garrett, a guard at the District
jail, and nephew of Policeman Harry
Garrett of the fourth precinct, was
drowned yesterday afternoon while bath
ing in the river at the foot of 14th street
southeast.
A number of boys were in swimming,
the police were told, and when young
Garrett disappeared beneath the sur
face of the water his companions were
unable to save him.
Members of the crew of the police
boat dragged the river for the body, but
their efforts proved futile. At a late
hour the search was abandoned, and ar
rangements were made to resume the
dragging this morning.
DB. B. N. BANSDELL TO WED.
Naval Officer to Take Hiss Dorothy
Layman a Bride.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June aT.?The
engagement of Miss Dorothy Layman,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Lay
man of this city, who are in New York,
to Dr. Robert Cathcart Ransdell, U. S. N.,
who is attached to President Wilson's
yacht, U. S. S. Mayflower, was announced
here today. Dr. Ransdell is a son of
the lat^ Col. Daniel M. Ransdell, former
sergeant-at-arms of the United States
Senate. The wedding is to take place at
the Ritz-Carlton hotel in New York July
15.
CLASP HANDS AND SHOOT.
Prominent Young Virginians Fight
' Dnel With Bevolvers.
KREEL1NG. Va., June 27.?With their
left hands gripped together ?'Blackhead"
Vanover and Anderson Estep. two young
and prominent farmers of K)ickenson
county, fought a duel upon the mountain
side near Osbomes Gap this after
noon with revolvers. Both men Were
wounded. Vanover has a bullet wound
in the bowels, severing the principal in
testine, and is said by physicians to be
mortally wounded. Estep was shot in
the shoulder.
The cause of the quarrel is said to have
been undesirable attention paid Van
over's sister by Estep, who had been
warned by her family to cease communi
cation with the young womta.
AU parties are prominent
SQUASH CENTER DISCUSSES A CERTAIN RECENT DISCOVERY.
ALIEN URBAN METHODS
WILL BE INVESTIGATED
American Municipal Executive* fad
? Civic Leader* to Make For
eign Tour.
More than 100 American municipal
executives and civic leaders, from all
parts of the country, under the official
direction of the Southern Commercial
Congress, with headquarters in the
Southern building, during the summer
will study urban conditions in ten for
eign countries.
This commission has been organized
by Dr. Clarence J. Owens and will be
under his personal guidance. The party
will sail July 9 on the Adriatic of the
White Star line. II is proposed to
attend the international congress on
municipal problems in London, July
20, and the lnterurban exposition in
Lyons, France, July 27. The next field
of research will be at Paris and the
party will visit eight other countries.
The State Department, through Sec
retary Bryan, has instructed all dip
lomatic representatives in the countries
the party is to visit to extend every
possible courtesy and to prepare in
advance of arrival all possible statis
tics and Information in municipal and
civic subjects that can be obtained.
The commission will be under the
official direction of Senator Duncan U.
Fletcher, president of the Southern
Commercial Congress. The working
executive will be Dr. Clarence J.
Owens, managing director of the South
ern Commercial Congress. Dr. Owens,
last year, conducted a party of 118
persons, representing thirty-six states
and five Canadian provinces, through
eighteen European countries, in mak
ing agricultural Investigations.
Last year the commission studied
rural problems. This year it will
study urban problems.
Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, minister to
Denmark, who last year entertained
and was of valuable assistance to the
commission in their research work, was
invited to accompany the party, with
Mrs. Egan. His continued illness
forced Dr. and Mrs. Egan to decline the
Invitation.
PROBE OF CLOSED BANK
Chicago Institution Accused of
Profiting From Use of Worth
less Paper.
CHICAGO. June 'Si.?Investigation of
events preceding the change of La Salle
Street National Bank to a state institu
tion will be the keynote of the govern
ment's inquiry into ? the closed bank's
affairs. District Attorney "Wllkerson said'
tonight.
Charges have been made, to federal off!-,
cials that i"ood securities were substi
tuted for worthless paper in the vaults
of the national bank to' enable It To* pass
the last inspection of government -exam-*
iners. These securities, wej-$ .vi,tj\d/*a^p.
as soon as the examiners left the bank,
it is alleged. Before time for another
examination the bank forfeited Its na
tional charter and became a state insti
tution.
Uneasiness caused by the failure of
the five Lorimer-Munday banks is be
lieved to be the cause of a run late to
day on the North Avenue State Bank.
By 9 o'clock about flJMM) in small ac
counts had been withdrawn. Business
men in the neighborhood expressed confi
dence in th ? institution and endeavored
to reassure depositors .lined up in front
of the paying teller's window.
ICetherlands Consul Dead.
CHICAGO, June 27.?George Btrkhoff.
jr.. consul here for the Netherlands
since 1886, died today at kla country
I home near Holland, Ulch.
SECOND BLAZE IN
SALEM IS CHECKED
City Is Frightened When Alarm
Sounds as Spafks Fire
Two Houses.
FIRE PROMPTLY STOPPED
WITH AID OF MILITIAMEN
Several Smaller Blazes in Catas
trophe Thought to Have Been
Firebugs' Work.
SALEM. MasB., June 27.?The city be
came excited -for a time tonight when
a general alarm was sounded for a Are,
which was not subdued untii .lt had de
stroyed two houses and badly damaged
a third on the western side of the burned j
district. A brisk wind blowing over the
glowing embers of Thursday's conflagra
tion carried the sparks high and far over
the undamaged portion of the residential
quarters.
Militiamen dropped their police du
ties and turned firefighters, carrying
hose up ladders and assisting the regu
lar firemen in other ways.
Prompt action of the fire department
and the militia made it certain with
in an hour after the fire was discovered
that there would be no further spread.
Not Definitely Known.
While the cause of the blaze was not
definitely decided, it was believed to
have started from a spark from the
still glowing embers of Thursday's fire.
Shortly before 10 o'clock a heavy driz
zle of rain set in. From the point of
view of the firefighters this was desir
able. but it promised much distress in
the tent colonies. The relief committee
at once began preparations to provide
adequate shelter.
The state police, under Deputy George
C. Neal, began today with the city of
ficials an investigation of reports from
several sources that a number of the
smaller fires which contributed to the
destruction of One-half of Salem during
Thursday's conflagration were of incen
diary origin.
Will be Beported.
An effort was made also to determine
the cause of the main fire which started
In . the Korn . Leather works. The result
of the investigations will be reported at
the cause of the main fire, which started
will begin early next week.
While the police were looking Into the
cause of the fires the state'and the city
relief committee, working together, per
fected their organizations. Edmund Bil
lings. collector of the port of Boston,
who- is a member of the state committee,
declared tonight that nearly a million
dollars would be needed for adequate
relief.
. .This was payday for hundreds of mill
operatives who lost both homes and em
ployment by the fire. Some of the firms
were unable to make payments, as their
records were buried under smoking
ruins.
Others not only paid the wages due,
but added extra money for the married
men. Several of the business houses
which suffered from the fire opened
temporary executive offices and an
nounced that they would begin Monday
clearing away the debris preparatory to
erecting new plants.
Indians Driven From Mexico.
SHAWNEE, Okla.. June 27.?Fifty fam
ilies of Kickapoo Indians arrived here to
day from the state of Coahuila, Mexico.
The constitutionalists, charging they were
friendly to Huerta, confiscated their
property and drove them from the coun
try, they declared: These Indians left
this section ten year* ago for Mexico and
after a residence In Sonora left tlM main
body and located In Coahuila.
*
FOR IMPERSONATION
If. S. Hani* of Mississippi, En
listed Man, Convicted of Prac
ticing Deception.
AMNAPOUS, Md., June 27 ?M. . P.
Harris of Mississippi, a young enlisted
man in the nary, tonight was escorted
to the boundaries of the government
reservation at Annapolis and there dis
honorably discharged from the service
because he had impersonated another
man in an examination for admission
to the Naval Academy as midshipman.
Harris won a designation from Unit
ed States Senator Williams to take the
entrance tests under a new plan of Sec
retary Daniels of the Navy Department
for the benefit of enlisted men.. He
passed the tests and later took the
place of T. D. Long;re, also of Missis
sippi. and passed the first examination
for him in Virginia.
Deception Is Discovered.
When Longre appeared at the Naval
Academy to take the physical test the
deception was discovered because his
handwriting did not agree with that
in the first examination papers.
Although kept in ignorance of the
investigation by the academy authori
ties and told that he was suffering
from a slight physical defect, Longre
left Annapolis when publicity was
given to the affair and did not return.
Summary Dismissal Directed.
Tb?i Naval Academy authorities
recommended a court-martial for Har
ris, but the ruling of the Secretary of
the Navy was for dishonorable dis
charge. Harris had been a prisoner
aboard the prison ship Reina Mercedes
since the discovery of his guilt.
Longre's case has been referred to
the civil service commission at Wash
ington.
ARMED MEN ON GUARD
Batte, Mont., Merchants Fear Dam
age Through Clash of War
ring Miners.
BUTTE, Mont., June 27.?Merchants of
Butte placed armed men ' in their stores
tonight to guard against unforeseen con
tingencies. Since the riots caused by fac
tional fights in the local union of the
Western Federation of Miners the situa
tion has. been tense, but the city out
wardly was quiet today.
The new independent union of miners
formed in opposition to the Western Fed
eration of Seiners reported It has signed
2,2S> members out of the 9,000 metal min
ers here. The first meeting of. the new or
ganisation known as the Butte Mine
Workers" , Union will be held tomorrow
night.
Federation Local to Beorganize.
The faction loyal to the Western Fed
eration announced that it would be ready
Monday to resume the work of reorganis
ing the Butte local.
The inquest -into the death of Ernest
J. Noy, killed during the rioting Tues
day night, was continued today until July
6.
Many witnesses testified reluctantly.
All who entered the coroner's office were
searched for weapons. On good authority
it was said that seten "gunmen" of
Butte went to Anaconda last night with
the avowed intention of killing President
I Moyer, who did not go to Anaconda from
' Helena as he had announced he would.
ROOSEVELT HEEDS
HEJOMME
Threatened With Permanent
IHness, He Modifies Plans
for Fall Campaign.
WILL SEE NO VISITORS
SAVE BY APPOINTMENT
Will Remain Some Time at Saga
more Hill?Representative Hine
baugh to Direct Progressives.
OYSTER BAT. N\ Y.. June 27-After
hearing: his physician's decree that he
mufet either take a prolonged rest or
Incur the danger of permanent illness.
Theodore Roosevelt today made plans
to conduct the fall campaign, so far as
possible, from Sagamore Hill.
John McGrath, his secretary, engaged
a cottage in the village, and expects to
move here from New York Monday. Col.
Roosevelt probably will spend a great
deal more time at home in the four
months before election than he intended
before Dr. Alexander Lambert informed
him last night of his physical condition.
Will See Pew Visitors.
Another decision which Col. Roosevelt
reached was to stop the steady proces
sion of visitors to Sagamore Hill. He
was told that his constant interviews
with political leaders from all parts of
the country were too much of a strain
on him, and that for the next few
weeks, at least, he should see as few
persons as possible.
"Beginning next week," he said to
night, "I shall see no one at Sagamore
Hill except by appointment. If others
come, I shall have to decline to see
them."
He added that there would be at least
one advantage in this arrangement.
"It will give me an opportunity to re
new my acquaintance with Mrs. Roose
velt and my children and grandchildren,"
was the way he put it.
Hinebaugh to Take Charge.
Col. Roosevelt was asked whether the
burden of taking the lead in the pro
gressive campaign would be shifted to
another's shoulders. He said that Rep
resentative Hinebaugh of Illinois, chair
man of the progressive congressional
committee, would have charge of the
congressional campaign, and that in each
state the state chairman and national
committeeman would be in charge.
He nevertheless expects to keep in
close touch with the more prominent
leaders, such as George W. Perkins of
New York, and in a general way to direct
the campaign. AU important matters of
policy will be laid before the colonel, but
he intends to free himself from details
so far as possible.
Middle West Progressive.
Senator Clapp of Minnesota came to
Oyster Bay today, and talked hopefully
Of. the political outlook in the middle
west.
"The senator told me," said Col.
Roosevelt, "that in Minnesota, as else
where in the middle west, the progres
sive party was in splendid shape, and
that when I went out there I would be
surprised to see the way in which the
movement had spread."
Frank A. Munsey of New York and
Judge Wanaxnaker of the Ohio supreme
court also came to see Col. Roosevelt
today.
1W0 CLERKS KILLED;
BANDITS GET $2,200
Fosses Scour Country for Robbers
Who Shot Lumber Company
Workers.
LAUREL, Miss., June 27.?Hundreds of
men are searching the country tonight
near Stevens, Miss., twenty miles south
of here, for three colored highwaymen,
who late today shot and killed two em
ployes of the Gilchrist-Fordney Lumber
Company, seriously wounded a third and
escaped with the company's weekly pay
roll of $2.2U>.
Those killed were J. V. Simmons and
Rees Fitspatrick, clerks in -the office of
the lumber company. Wyatt Robinson,
another clerk, was wounded by a bullet
that shattered his shoulder.
The hold-up occurred just outside of
Stevens station, where the three clerks
boarded a railroad motor car for the
company's logging camp, six miles away.
They had gone a short distance when
they came on an obstruction on the
track. When they alighted the colored
men Opened Are, killing Fitzpatrick in
stantly. Simmons, fatally wounded, died
a short time afterward. Robinson was
wounded. The negroes took the money
and escaped.
Robinson made his way back to Ste
vens and gave the alarm. A posse was
formed quickly and a special train was
sent with a large party to join in the
hunt.
The highwaymen's victims were promi
nent young men of this place.
PROGRESSIVES COTOTED OUT.
Too Few Votes to Qualify in Horth
Dakota Primaries.
GRAND PORKS, N. D.. June 27.?The
progressive party of North Dakota has
fallen short of the number of votes re
quired to qualify candidates for - a place
:?n the general election ballot.
Under the law party candidates must
have 25 per cent of the total vote cast for
its gubernatorial candidate in the last
previous election. The progressives reg
istered only 2,430 votes in the state, thus
eliminating the party from the primary
fight.
The law regulating qualifications of can
didates will be tested in the supreme
court, according to leading progressives.
Fireman Killed at Akron.
AKRON, Ohio, June 27.?Henry Luet
tervelt* a fireman, twenty-three years
old and who had been married six
weeks, was killed and Fire Chief John
Mertz badly injured at a fire in the
Akron Transfer Company's barns today.
The two were crushed under debris when
the second floor of the burning building
fell- Six other firemen fell with the floor,
but were saved.
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V
MADE VILLA TOOL
TO AID OWN CAUSE
Gen. Angeles Charged With
Fostering Break With
Carranza.
ACCUSED OF ACTING
ON BEHALF OF HUERTA
Breceda Says Troubles Between Con
stitutionalist Leaders Can
Be Composed.
Alfredo Breceda, private secretary of
Gen. Carranza, leader of the revolu
tionist forces in Mexico, issued a state
ment here last night charging that
Gen. Felipe Angeles had stirred up the
recent contention between Carranza
and Gen. Villa, and that Angeles was
in reality an agent of Gen. Huerta. ,
Breceda's statement. Issued after a
long conference with Luis Cabrera, one
of Gen. Carranza's representatives here
who is working: for participation of the
constitutionalists in an Informal peace
conference with delegates to the
Niagara Falls peace conference, admits
a breach in the constitutional ranks
that probably cannot be healed unless
mediation should succeed.
Villa Is Convinced.
The statement says that Villa has been
convinced that "the real purpose of An
geles was to use him as a tool for his
ambition to become provisional president
of Mexico."
M& Breceda said that he was not au
thorized by Carranza to make this state
ment, that he did it on his own respon
sibility.
A striking paragraph in the statement
says that certain foreign elements have
been impressing upon the American peo
ple and government that Villa is the chief
factor in the constitutionalist revolution.
It says:
"The principal foreign element doing
this work in favor of Villa are two inti
mate friends of Lazaro de La Garza, the
financial agent of Villa.
"One of them is a fellow of many doubt
ful connections In the United States and
he claims to have in Washington people
to help him In official circles.
? Said to Have Misled Villa.
?*The other one Is an American who has
posed during several months as a confi
dential agent of the State Department for
the revolution, but who, as a matter of
fact, has only been a political attache and
adviser of Villa In international matters.
The attitude of this man. who is an inti
mate friend of De La Garza and of the
German fellow, has led Villa and Angeles
to believe that they could count upon the
sympathy and the support of the Wash
ington government, which to a great ex
tent contributed to encouraging the in
subordination that existed in the interior."
She statement of Mr. Breceda is, in
part, as follows:
"The troubles between Villa and Car
ranza have not all the importance that
has been supposed and can be com
posed when the real causes of the
>reak become known. Villa, who had
been the leader showing more spirit
and vindictiveness in the war against
Huerta, had appeared always in an en
tirely subordinate character to Car
ranza, and entirely submissive to Car
ranza in spite of persistent attempts
made to make him appear as hodling
personal ambitions and as disloyal
toward Carranza.
"Gen. Angeles was a commander in
the federal army; he was sent as one of
a commission to Europe by Huerta: he
stayed there until October, 1913; he
then asked to come into the ranks and
the colors of the constitutionalist
army.
Change in Attitude.
"Since the arrival of Angeles near
Villa a change in the attitude of the
latter was felt; nearly all the acts of
Villa meaning disagreement with Car
ranza. such as the imprisonment and
attempted shooting of Chao, were due
to the advice of Angeles.
"Carranza was acquainted with the
real causes of the attitude of V ilia,
and, consequently, he ordered the im
mediate discharge of Angeles from the
position he held.
"Attempts have been made to patch
up the break and to induce Villa to re
cede from his attitude. Nothing has
been obtained when Villa realized that
the most of the revolutionary leaders
have a-ssured their loyalty to Car
ranza, and when Villa was convinced
that the real purpose of Angeles was
to use him as a tool for his ambition
to become provisional president of
Mexico.
Discussion Delayed.
"In view of this revelation. Villa has
agreed to postpone the discussion of
his grievances until the revolution has
triumphed. Carranza has also consid
ered that the campaign against Huerta
must be the chief purpose and that it
would be impolitic to spend time in an
attempt to subdue Villa.
' Carranza Is the first chief of the con
stitutionalist army, according to the plan
of Guadalupe, which is the law under
which the revolution is carried on. This
leadership was given to Carranza by all
the military leaders who supported the
revolution and by all the subservient
followers who have ratified this leader
ship when they joined the revolutionary
m"This character of leader cannot be
taken from Carranza unless by ame
ment of the majority of the military
'^The military forces composing the
constitutionalist army are not V ilia?
forces, as it is sometimes understood.
Men in Villa's Army.
"The soldiers composing Villa s troops
number about 12.000. Outside of Villa s
division. Gen. Angeles has his own body
of troops, composed of t,5"0 federal sol
diers and officials who have surrendered
or deserted to the constitutionalists, and
who are bound to increase in number as
Angeles advances.
? The forces which are outside of \ ilia s
and Angeles' divisions, and who have ex
pressly manifested their adherence to
Carranxa, number more than men."
Carranza Fails to Send
Definite Decision on
Plans for Conference
Definite word has not yet reached
Washington from Carranxa as to whether
he will authorise acceptance of the invi
tation to confer Informally with the dele
gates to the peace conference regarding
the internal affairs of Mexico, according
to JkWredo Breceda, Carranza's confiden
tial secretary, and L#uis Cabrera, an
agent here, of the constitutionalists Both
say that Buch word Is hourly expected;