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l-tlMS on ffime TVhb CTN AltOIAL BBPOKTSt Final Edition New Trk Market doling rrls Fair Tonight. Sunday Cloudy. NTCTMBEB 7404. Yesterday's Circulation, 51,094 .WASHINGTON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAttCII 30, 1012 Fourteen Pages PRICE ONE CENT. SUIT ILL BE Wktwmhimt PEACE AND WAR IN COLLISION OVER MEMORIAL 1 REBELS IN MEXICO TO HOLD UP RIFLES SENT TO AMERICANS State Department Gets Unconfirmed Report That Torreon Has Been Taken by Orozco's Men. r Sought Here Leaders in Threatened Coal Battle FILED JOINS Ti i T . m I In i IN T ST P:.mi f 'A m MIB41 Wordy Argument Between Mrs. H. F. Dimock and .Guard Officers. BOTH WANT GROUND IN ARMORY SQUARE Head of the Washington Memorial Association Says the Diniocks Live Long. Peace and war collided today. Tne collision occurred beforo 'the Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Peace was represented by Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, who appeared in behalf of the George Ws,hlngton memorial building, which the George Washington Memorial Association proposes to erect on Armory square in this city. War was represented by offlcers of the District National Guard, who want a fine armory for the guard erected on this same tract of ground. The guard officers do not object to a memorial building for George Washington, but they believe it 'should be built somewhere else than on Armory square. The George Washington Memorial Association is not opposed to an armory, but it does not want it located on Armory square. Committee Favors Bill. The committee, after consideration reported the bill favorably. The building for a George Wash ington Memorial ia intended to bo erected by the George Washington Memorial Association on. the. site known as Armory Squaro which Iks between Sixth and seventh streets wst and U street north arid B street south. Senator Root has, introduced a. bill to allow the construction of the memorial building orf the square, named. The officers of the District Guard who appeared included Col. S. E. Smiley, ad jutant general of the District Guard; Col. W. E. Harvey, and Col, R. L. rarcnerter, who will succeed Colonel Smiley as adjutant general. Colonel 8raUey and Colonel Harvey talked. Colonel Smiley pointed out that the proosed building was not beyond the needs of the guard and that if the arm ory was built one company and per haps more of coast artillery would ba organised at once. He discussed the guard situation here and emphasized the necessity for a good armory. Colonel Harvey Spcak3. Colonel Harvey followed, and among other things pointed out that the arm ory facilities hero wero poor and In adequate compared with the provisions for armories mado by many of the States. If the guard was to bo kept up better armory facilities wero needed. The proposed building would provide for 3,lX)i troops, and would le a center of defense for the city lrh time of trouble. "I quite agree with you as to the need for the guard," bald Senator Hcj burn, "but tho question is whether a flat, shed-looking building shall take poase&slon of a great architectural op portunity." Mrs Dimock then took tne floor foi a brief, but vigorous speech. She said she wan working for peace and that was the best reauon possible why tho (memorial building should be where she proposed. "The building Is going to be built." BBS said. "I come of a long-lived fainllv whose members frequently live a hun dred years." SOCIALISTS TO MEET AT INDIANAPOLIS iReferendum Vote, Moving Conven tion From Oklahoma City Was About 2 to 1. CHICAGO, March 30. The Socialist .national convention will be held at Indianapolis, Ind., May 'J. Announce ment was mudo todav by John M. work, national secretary of the So cialist party, that t'- referondu n vote of the part. wMc 1 has been in piogicts for over a niontu. rcs'iite 1 In JS.iOO for Indianapolis and ll,f..l for Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City had been originally selected by the party s executive committee and the change was made rh the result of a demand foi a i if -erondum. WEATHER REPORT. FORECAST FOH TUB DISTRICT. Fall tonight. Sundav increasing cloudiness; moderate temperature. TEMPERATI'RES. V. S. BUREAU. I AFFLECKS. ta.rn 44 I S n. m 63 3 a. m 47 I it a. m .'.3 10a. m 4S i 10 a. m 31 o. m 6i U a. m to 32noon K5 12 noon Gl 1 p. m 61 i 1 p. m. (In sun), us 2 p. m K I ' p. in. (in suit). 6S TIDE TARI.E. Tday High tide. 5.64 a. m. and G.:"3 p. m. Low tide, 12. W a.' m and 12.. "5 p in. Tomorrow Hlgn tide, fits a in and 7 16 p. ni. Low tide, Vi.lS a- m. nnd 1 JO r nu SI N TALI y j.'j! , butt gets gun rla- o:j fessssssssssssiR fesssssssssssl B -. v , t - siji -., ,&. fa. I , EVA GROSS, Who Disappeared From Train While on Way From Georgia to New Tfork. POLICE OF SEVERAL CITIES SEEKING GIRL Eva Gross, Who Disappeared While On Way To New York, Sought Here. All effoits on the part of the police nnd Y W. C. A. officials of this city and other places between Thomosville, Go., and Freepoi t, N. Y.. to locato slx-tecn-year-old Eva Gross, who dis appeared while changing trains at tho Union Station nbout two weeks ago, have to this time proved futile. The girl was placed on a train at Thomasvllla and was supposed to co 'fo Vt school at Freeport, N. Y. She seemed' perfectly willing to go to the jfchool and officials of the industrial school at Thomasville declare they know of no reason why she should attempt to run away. Several daj s ngo a clue of the girl oi some girl who answers her descrip tion minutely was received at Police Headquarters, and detectives Immedi ately renowed their efforts to locate her. M. Bishop, superintendent of tho In dustrial school at Thomasville, stopped In Washington estcrdav en routo to Freeport, and held a conference with Captain Boardman regarding the miss ing girl. Superintendent Bishop left photographs of tho girl with the local police, and continued on his way to New York with tho view of urging tho police of every place along the lino to the girl's destination to renewed efforts In their search for her. WOMAN WILL DEFEND ACCUSED MURDERER Miss Lucille Pugh, Suffragette, As signed To Plead For Life Of Colored Man. NEW YORK. March 30 A new chap tci In legal history was written today when a woman lawyer was assigned as chlel roundel to defend an accused mur deier. The attorney Is Miss Lucille Pugh, more than ordinarily good look ing and a member of the exclusive Pugh family of North Carolina. She will defend Leroy Poindextcr, colored, arrostcd for shooting to death Thomas Brown, a white man, on March 7 after a dispute crowlnir out of a cian came. The assignment carries a fee of 1500 irom tne state. Miss Puch Is un ardent suffracotte and her good looks created somewhat of a sensation when sho came, into court. She affects a somewhat mannish stylo of attire, wearing a swallowtail coat and .i derby hat. PRIMARY LAW IS PASSED IN ILLINOIS House Unanimous For Bill Setting April 9 As Date For Vote. SPRINGFIELD, HI., March 30.-By a vote of llo to 0, tho house this morn ing passed tho benuto Presidential pri mary law giving Illinois a voto of Pres idential nomination in the Stato primar ies, April 9. The bill piovldes for a vote with Con gressional districts as a unit. The bill has ulrcad, passed the senate, and Governor Denccn is pledged to sign it. Hawkins Held for Grand Jury in $3,000 Rodnev Hawkins. chaiged with twenty-live i uulits of noiisebieaklug, was held foi the grand Jurv today. Bond wdH plated at $.1.M Hawkins is cluuged bv the police, with tho "key wml;" that has been going on In vari ous seitioiis of the cltv. tinlv three charges wi ic preferred against him t"da but the olbei cnints will lie pre tmted to the giard 1m I law kins pleaded guilt to the three charge. Five Companies to Named for Alleged Violations. POOLING OF RATES A SPECIFIC CHARGE Steamship Lines To Far East Also To Be Accused Of Rebating. Civil suit for the dissolution or the allogcd Steamship trust operat ing between New York and the Far East via tho Suez Canal, is to bo filed in tho New York courts by the i Department of Justice. This suit is one of the moat import ant ever undertaken by Attorney General Wickersham's trust-busting organization. It will be alleged that this pool of steamship companies has practiced rebating and is guilty of many other violations of the Sher man anti-trust law. It was the original intention to file this suit late yesterday afternoon, but plans of the department miscar ried for some reason not known here. Five Companies Named. Five of the blgRest steamship com panies operating out of New York will benamedas defendants. They arc tho Hamburg American Line, the Ameri can Asiatic Steamship Company the Anglo-American Oil Compan, the China and Japan Steamship Company, and tho Lancashire Steamship Com pany, through their American ngonts, Two specific violations of the Sher man law will jbc charged pooling of freight ratcsbv,-aH thalipea nmned, and rebating by them to the iirins that ship exclusively b one line The alleged Steamship trust has been under investigation oy the De partment of Justice for two yeaia Agents of the Department of Justice have been obtaining 'Vldenco nnd slowlv working up the case It was put into shape by tho trust busting division under Assistant Attorney General Fowler, and after a conf-r-ence with District Attorney Wise. Attorney General 'WickerBhani K-t,i-mlntd to rile nult List of Defendants Includes a Number Of Foreign Magnates NEV YORK, March 30. Among the defendants to be named In the Govern ment's suit to dissolve the live steam ship companies alleged to be component partj of a shipping trust ate. "William Barclay Parsons, James H. T McMurtrie, It, H. Blake, G. V. Plton, Thomas 1J. Hoyden, Paul Gottheil, Wll helm Voelkens, Thomas A. Sparks, II. V Voeikcns, L. Walter. It. IT. Goodwin. William Bod, It. A. Sew ell, Herbert Barber, James Barber, A. L. Hautman, SkefflnRton S Norton, Joseph T Lilly, Edward M. Norton. J. W. Itan, lioward Houlder and partners, ltd.; Andrew Wclr and Company. Hou, der Mlddleton and Company, Barber and Company, Inc . Itiinkln, Gilmore and Companj, Dodwell and Company, ltd . Bucknall Steamship Lines, ltd.; Isthmian Steamship Company, ltd In u petition covering elght-tlve pages of rtnely printed cop tho Gov ernment will set torth what It declares to be copies of written agreements, drawn and signed b the defendant companies in London, April 13, 1905. In these agree meuts the company arranged an East ern and Western pool, under the terms of which all their earnings should be "lumped." current expenses paid, and the prolUs proportionately divided. Shippers who patronized their lives were rewarded with a rebate. It is al leged, of 10 per cent, for their "loyalty." In order to eontiol all the business the the agreement specified that, whenever necessai, Independent ships should be hired and the expeiiBs paid fiom tho pool." All business betkeen New York London, and the Far East was apportioned to the different companies In tho iniMt. according to their num ber of ships, the Government charged. Since framliiK the original agreement In London numerous conferences, tho bill allege. hac been held In New Yolk. Weeklv meetingb of represent atives of the defendants havo been held since January 1, 1!W Other confeienies worn alleged to have been held at Hongkong and Slnga-poic Last Minute News Told in Brief SUGAR VERDICT TODAY. NEW YORK, March 30 Federal Judge Hand charged the Jury which has been considering the conspiracy charge mado against the officers and directors of tho Sugur Trust It was believed that a verdict would be i cached before night CARPENTERS TO STRIKE. CHICAGO. March CO -The executive council of tho Carpenters' Union issued a gcneial strike order to the 17.000 mem bers of the local organization The men are directed to appear at union head quarters Mnnduv morning Instead of r.olng to ni Virding to union of hciala the strike will cause a complete H'': 9 Hl iwwp flHyHll :yl Ihariontobehere lor I TOMORROW; C0W1ES W ON COURT MISSION WM: H.TRUEODfiiLC. STANLEY MAY CALL MORGAN TO TESTIFY Steel Investigating Committee About To End Its Sessions. J. Plcrpont Morgan may be sub poenaed to appear before the Stanley Steel Investigate Committee. After the commltteo had decided to end its hear ings the iiucstton of holding the hear ings open until Morgan returns to this country was raised In executive ses sion this afternoon. The matter is now being thrashed out in a closed session, and word comes from the commltteo that the majority of the members want to hear the master of finance. Will Let Contract For New Car Line A contract for tho construction of the Chevy Chase to Great Falls elec tilc lino Is to bo awarded early next week by the Chevy Chase to Great Falls Iand Company. This informa tion was admitted by officers of the company today. The new lino will run from Brad ley lane In Chovy Chaao through the center of the land owned by the com pany to a terminal on tin; Maryland side of tho river at Great Falls. It will connect with the Washington Hailwny and Electric Company's line at Wlhconsln avenue and with the Capital Traction lino neat Chevy Chase circle. The secretary, treasurer, and direct ors of the newlv organized Keal Es tate Trust Corpoiatlon. which will be closely Ulantllled with the Chevy Chase to Uicat Falls project, will bo chosen at a meeting of the stock holders tn be held early next week suspension of activities in tho building trades within two weeks. JAPAN IN MEXICO. NEW YORK, Maroh 30. A special cable from Toklo says that Japan has succeeded In obtaining the long coveted concessions in MagHalcna bay from Mexico. Tho cable says: "It Is reported here, In Toklo' that negotiations between Mexico and Japan were concluded a few da) a ago for the establishment of a largo Japanese settle ment at Magdalena bay. but an Amerl c an protest, based on the Monroe doc- ' trine la exi-cctcd." Will File Brief in Supreme Tribunal on Minnesota Rate Case. Gov Ji'dson Harmon, 'of Ohio, candi date for the Llcniociatlc Presidential nomination, and member of the com mittee of governors appointed by the lntei ested States In look after "States' lights In the Minnesota rate case. Is criming to Washington to appear le foie the Supicme Com t Monday and present a brief in behalf of the StateB. This case, niTcctiug as It docs the right of the State's tn regulate raihoad traffic and charges within their borders, Is the greatest "States' right issue" ever brought before the country sinco pre-clvll wai times and the fi'incd Drcd Scott decision. Though the brief pieparcd b Govenor Harmon and the two other members of the committee relates specifically to the Minnesota cHbe and the Sanborn decision. It is undo! stood that it has been made broad enough to coer the positions of the other Stales at interest. Several States in tho Middle West, aside from Minnesota, now have late cases, involving "Stutes" rights," bofoic the Supreme Court. The Missouri case stands at the head of the list on the calendar and may come up Monday. It Is understood that Governor Harmon anticipated tuts ract. The Sanborn decision, which became of national Importance Immediately after its utterance, was handed down hi tho case brought In the United States Circuit Court for the Minnesota dis trict by the railroads of the State. It Inveighed against the powers of the Stato HHllway and Warehouse Com mission to fix State .rates lower tnaii the Inter-State rates. The State commission, not satisfied with the Intel state late.-, uxed State rates on pasengor and freight tiafllc within the State, that were appreciably lower. The railroads attacked the rates In tho circuit court before Judge San born. In hit) decision, Judge Sanboin up held the contention of the tall road men that the rates were connseatorj He said that the State had no right to tlx lower and confiscatory rates. He gave It as his opinion that If such action was permitted by the State, interstate traffic would be lntei fered with to the detil ment of the commerce of the entire country. Tho State- took the case to the su preme court, and at the conference of govoruorB in New Jersey last summer, a commltteo headed by Governor Har mon was appointed to file a brief for Minnesota and all the States at interest. Governor Harmon will arrive in the clt tomorrow morning, so that he mav have a day to confer with his political managers, and look after things In the Washington headquarters of his boom. He Is makluc a strong bid for the six vatcs of the District of Columbia, which has all the poweis of a State in the Democratic convention. It Is probable that he will confer with local Demo cratic politicians nnd aspirants for na tional committeeman. URGE PEACE IN MINES. LONDON, March 30 It was stated at tho headquarters of the miners federa tion that the officials are counselling the men to vote to accept tho minimum wage bill and declare tho strike ft Mos,t of the officials are hopeful that this advice will be taken. STEEL TOWER BLOWN OVER. BERLIN, March SO. Tho great stcpl tower at Nauen. tho tallest with tho exception of Eiffel Tower In Paris. In the world, and from w hicli It had been expected to communicate direct by wire less wi'.h merca. whs 'demolished bv u windstoim No one wub injured The tower will be rebuilt. RAILROAD EMPLOYES ON VERA CRUZ LINE THREATEN STRIKE A startling, but unconfirmed report reached tho State Department today that Torreon, tho last Important city standing between the rebels nnd Mexico City, had surrendered. - At tho same time a warning has been received here that the rebels do not intend to permit tho consignment of arms sent out from New York city to reach Mexico City, and that General Orozco will attack tho Americans, if necessary to prevent it. It was stated at the War Department if the attack on the shipment of arms is really made intervention will at onco follow. The report as to the fall of Torreon is not confirmed. The communi cation containing tho rumor camo from Ambassador Wilson, who simply reported the sensational report, current in Mexico City. ALL COAL MINING IN COUNTRY TO BE E Soft Coal Men Reach Com promise, But Work Will Stop Temporarily. CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 30.-Com-plete suspension of the coal mining in dustry of the Cnltcd States for. at least two weeks beginning next Monday will result from a wage scale compromise, effected carlv today bv the bituminous joint confeience, following by eight hours a suspension order closing all tho n.nthiacitc mines. Almost 670,000 miners In the haid and soft coal fields will be come Idle next Monday, April 1, pending the taking of a referendum vote on tho question of stilko in both the hard and soft coal fields. Appioval of the bcale committee's compromise, giving the miners an in crease of 5 cents on a ton of screened lump and 3 cents a ton on mine-run coal, was almost assured this morning when the Joint committee of the whole reassembled for final action In the bi tuminous contioversy. Miners Are Ready To Quit Colleries; Call It a Strike W1LKESBARRE. March 30 -President John P. White s order for the sus pension of all work in the anthracite fields on April 1 found the miners pre pared, and as a unit they will not re turn to work Monday and will fight out their demands with tho operators. The decree of the national president came ns no surpriso here. In anticipation of It the men have been dismantling their workings for the last few days. More than lo.OnO have already left the col lieries and will not take advantage of the oppoitunity to get In the last day. Miners Anticipate Strike and Refuse To Enter Mines Today SHAMOKIN. Pa , March 30Antici patlng the suspension order which goes Into effect at midnight Sundaj, many of the union laboiers in this vlclnty icfuscd to report for work today. Oth ers who went underground simply did so to clear up coal already brought down and to bi Ing out their tools. The sentiment among the men was all for lighting. Miners in Lehigh Field Cheer for Last Day of Work HAX.LETON, Pa, March 30.-Cheer-Ing because It was their "last day," tho "Otioii miners of the Lehigh coal field went to work todav determined to clean up oiil.v the scattered ends of their woik und bring out their tools. Thero Is no question that the entire field will bo tied up Monday. No attempt will be made by the Lehigh Valley Coal Com pan to operate its collieries next week, but the Independent opciators have not decided on a course of action. Private Gilfoyle Declines Promotion Officials of tho Police Department were ptescnted with hii unusual sltua tlon today, when W M. Gilfoyle, a pil vato of the Eighth precinct, declined to accept a promotion In rdiik. Gllfo K was the man who bi ought about tie ariest sevcrjl davs ago of Rodnev Hawkins, colored, who the police 3iv admitted he was responsible for the large number of robberies In the nortli west section of the city during the last tew mouths. Because of the good w'oik done hj the pollctman Major Sylvester, desiring to show hi appreciation, Issmd unlets put ting Gllfovlo in plain clothes and trans feirlng him to the Detective Uureau. where he would he In lino for a promo tion t" a detective sergiant flllfovb thank' d tne major, nut told him he would piefei tu leinain uhcic he wu The ie-tuest waa granted. SUSPEND 0 MONDAY Report Doubted Here. The Stato Department Is unwilling to believe the report, however, since the dispatches just previous to the reported surrender stated that the federals arc falling back to make a stand at Tor reon and have erected fortifications. The reports reaching the State De partment as -to conditions already exist ing in the vicinity of Vera Cruz did not tend to allay the fears based on the so-called Intention of the rebel? to capture the American shipment of arms. Lying between the seaport itself and Mexico City is a stretch of mostly mountainous country 2S3 miles long. Rebel marauders In the pay of Zapata are looting the country at will, and matters have been considerably aggra vated by tho trouble on the railroad as the result of which a general strike bv the American railway conductors and engineers now appears sure. It was learned today that the rifles which the American ambassador a, Mexico City intends to distribute to Americans at a little over Jfi each aro ically woith about J100 each rn Mexico. The icbel commaiider-in-chlcl, who seems to be plentifully supplied with money, has been paying that price for arms for some time. The shipment of 1,000 Krag-Jorgen-sens, not counting the value of the am munition of revolvers. Is worth J100.0OC, a prize rich enough to tempt the rebels under any conditions. The rebels. It is learned, have no faith In the report that the arms are really Intended for American non-combatants In Mexico Cit. The belief among the followers of Oiozco is that the con signment Is secretly meant for federal use, and this belief is based on thu knowledgo that the United States has not been enforcing thf prohibition against the exportation of arms aa far as the Government t loops are con cerned. War Supplies Sent In. Munitions of war intended for thns loal to Madeio have been finding their way continually across the border, it Is stated, and, although it was impossi ble to transport them through the rebel lines Into Mexico City, they have served to furnish security and protection to residents near the Mexican border. Tle State Department, having full knowledge of the impression prevailing among the rebels nnd fearing to further Inflame the hostility against the Ameri cans, sought to transmit the Krag Joigensens to Mexico City secretly. It was for this reason that a Ward linei and not a transport was selected for the purpose. It was similarly In tended to ship arms by other private v essels from time to time, if It should be necessary. The disclosuie as to the shipment, however, which came from New Yoik city as the result of the careless talk of an employe, has thwarted tho Govcrn menfs plans. The dispatches from Vera Cruz today fciiv that the lailroad running from that city to Mexico City cmplojs nbout 900 Americans as engineers nnd conductors. The disagreement which threatens to end In the strike centered about a de mand of tho men for higher wages. President Madcro. hearing of tlm thieatened strike, and the report that the rebels mean to captuie the shln racnt of arms, if possible, has detail- (Continued on Ninth Page.) IN CONGRESS, TODAY SENATE Senate not in session todav Will meet Monda . District Guaid offUcis- oppose having Armory Square taken for George AVashington Memorial Building. Former Governor Bates of Massachu setts lieaid In opposition to plans for public health depaitment or bureau HOUSE. The Housi- met at noon Debate on th3 wool bill wns les'med By agreement 'he general debate on the hill will clojo Monday afternoon The Stanley Steel Cmmittco resurid Its Inquiry and will close Its heating toda. White House Callers. SENATORS Curtis, of Kan. Dillingham of Vt. htepheiison, of Wis. Jones, of Wa.i'i. CONGRESSMEN. Madden, of III. 'Dickinson, jf Mo Mott. of N. V. Kendall, of lonn. Mtzgeiald, of N V. llrav, of Moo, rnowhind. of Oal. Thavn. of Mass Haugcn, of Iowa. Antluuiv. of iCan othi:r callers James J Hill lianiel M till in of St. Johns, New UrunwicU .