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JUSTICE WHERE
OLD GLOCT FLIES
Wilson Makes Patriotic Address
at Flag Day Exercises.
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BRYAN AND DANIELS SPEAK.
The President Tells Immense Throng
Assembled Before the State, War
' and Navy Buildings That the Ban
ner Flying Over a Reunited Nation
Was "Meant To Stand For the Just
Use Of Undisputed National Power."
Washington, D. C.—Waving his hand
toward an American flag hoisted by a
squad of navy bluejackets, President
Wilson told a great crowd assembled
before the State, War and Navy Build
ings to celebrate Flag Day that, flying
over a reunited nation, this banner fqr
the future was "meant to stand for the
Just use of undisputed national power."
"Our spirits, as well as our States,
are now reunited," said the President,
"and nobody questions our ability to
push forward our economic affairs
upon lines of unparalleled success and
prosperity.
"I sometimes wonder why men take
this flag and flaunt it If I am re
spected I do not have to demand re
spect If I am feared I do not have to
ask for fear. If my power is known
I do not have to proclaim it I do
not understand the temper, neither
does this nation understand the tem
per of men who use this flag boast
fully.
"This flag for the future is meant
to stand for the just use of undis
puted national power. No nation is
ever going to) doubt our power to as
sert its rights, and we should lay it to
heart that no nation shall ever hence
forth doubt our purpose to put it to
the highest uses to which a great
emblem of justice and government can
be put
"Is It not a proud thing to stand
under such an emblem? Would it not
be a pitiful thing ever to make apology
and explanation of anything that we
ever did under the leadership of this
flag carried in the van. Is it not a
solemn responsibility laid upon us to
lay aside bluster and assume that
much greater thing, the quietude ol
genuine power? So it seems to ml
that it is my privilege and right as
the temporary representative of a
great nation that does what it pleases
with Its own affairs to say that we
please to do justice and assert the
rights of mankind wherever this flag
Is unfurled."
Secretary Bryan and Secretary
Daniels delivered addresses dwelling
upon the Presidents' idea that the mis
sion of the United States is one of
liberty and justice.
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^ C.—Declaring the
United States is the greatest factor in
the movement toward ueace Secretary
tne movement toward peace, secretary t
Bryan, speaking here at the Flag Day
celebration in the Postoffice Depart- p
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ment, said ideas regarding what con
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undergone a change. "Formerly power
was thought to be dependent on the
number of battleships or muskets that
a nation possessed," he said, "but that
is not the idea today, and it will be
•ven less so tomorrow."
BLACK HANDERS SENTENCED.
Two Get Eight Years For Attempted
Extortion In New York.
Philadelphia.—Aramanag Kazazian
and Garabad Narinian were convicted
in the United States Court here on a
charge of conspiring to extort through
the mails $7,000 from Miran Karag
heusian, a wealthy merchant of New
York. Each was sentenced to eight
years' Imprisonment. In the trial the
merchant testified that he had received
In the last seven or eight years many
threatening letters demanding money.
It was also testified that Kazazian had
boasted of killing eight persons In
Marseilles, but this was ruled out of
the case by the court
WAR IS DECRIED BY BRYAN.
Says He Is Glad To Bel Wilson's
Spokesman For Peace.
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Washington, D. C.—Discovery of a
new counterfeit $5 national bank note on
of the series of 1902-1908 on the First
NEW COUNTERFEIT FOUND.
It Is a Five-Dollar National Bank Note
Of 1902-1908.
National Bank of Plattsburg, Mo., was
announced by the Secret Service. The
counterfeit bears the portrait of Ben
jamin Harrison and is poorly executed.
The lathe work, particularly on the
back, also is not well defined.
TWO KILLED IN WRECK.
Engineer and Fireman Of Southern
Train Die In Derailment.
Danville, Va. —Engineer John Win
gate of Danville, and Fireman Pickard,
of Southern Railway train No. 29,
bound from New York to Birmingham,
were killed in a derailment at Sadler, of
N. C., about 16 miles south of here,
all the coaches except the last three a
left the track, but no passengers or
other members of the crew are report
ed Injured.
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KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK.
Fireman Dies In Collision Near Somer
set, Ky.
Somerset, Ky.—John Simmons, a
fireman, was killed, and Sam Bryant,
an engineer, was seriously injured In
a collision between northbound Clncin
n&ti, New Orleans and Texas Pacific
Tt.ti'rxvnrt train No. 14, known as the
Carolina Special, and two freight
engines near here. All three engines »
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were turned over. None of the pas- at
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TO MEXICO CITY
Gen. Carranza Says He Has
100,000 Men.
IS CONFIDENT OF VICTORY.
How the Constitutionalist Chief Is
Worshiped By the Rank and File
Of Hia Army—The Federala
Are Now Bottled Up.
Saltillo, Mexico.—"We no longer
consider the Federal army a serious
hindrance to our advance on Mexico
City. We may be in the capital with
in two months or a little more. There
are one hundred thousand men in the
rebel army eager to proceed and con
fident of victory They have already
captured 120 pieces of field artillery
and 175 machine guns, which repre
sents more than half the equipment of
the national arsenal."
This is a summary of an interview
with General Venustlano Carranza.
Optimism, stimulated by the record of
victories already achieved, pervaded
the manner and statements of the rebel
commander-in-chief.
Any impression that Carranza is
lacking in tenacity of purpose is mis
taken. The set of his teeth and the
angle of his jaw indicate detèrmina
tion of purpose, when an effort is
made to look beyond his mild-spoken '
manner.
The dynamic qualities credited to
the great generals of history, includ
ing Funston and Roosevelt, do not ap
pear on the surface with Carranza. His
exterior is that of a diplomat, and is
the identical type found among the
leading ambassadors in the world cap
itals. His loyal associates, however,
are already referring to him as a com- ;
posite of Napoleon, Gladstone and Bis
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amounts to worship by the rank and
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file of his following. If there have j
been dissensions the successes to date
have dispelled them for all that can
be gathered here.
Carranza explained that only the
great waste of desert country between
Saltillo and San Luis Potosi and be
tween Torreon and Zacatecas prevent
ed an immediate advance on Mexico
City. Saltillo and Torreon are supply
depots. The troops going to San Luis
Potosi and Zacatecas cannot carry
with them over the desert sufficient
sustenance with their equipment with
aid from the broken rallr0 ads
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which are being temporarily repaired
t it movement 0 f trains, at least
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South from the desert the country Is
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horse, and the lack of railroad facili
marck.
No Dissensions.
Carranza is held in admiration that
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ties will not be permitted to hinder the
advance. The last stage of the jour
ney will be memorable in the history
of the revolution.
The Carranza force have all the am
munition they deem necessary to reach
and take Mexico City. The Fédérais
are said to be bottled up at Zacatecas
and Villa is now supporting the ad
vance fighting led by Natera. A bat
tle has been raging at Zacatecas for
three days. Losses have been heavy
on both sides, but no figures are obtaln
able.
Zacatecas is a city of 80,000 inhabit
ants, and is an important strategic
point General Hernandez' reports
routing the Fédérais at Xjcotencatl,
Huejutla, Valles and Tamiahua, in the
state of Hidalgo.
ANTILLA LANDS AMMUNITION.
1,600 Case* and Two Aeroplanes Sent
To Rebels From Tampico.
Tampico, Mexico.—The steamship
Antilla, in from New York, discharged
her cargo of ammunition for the Con
stitutionalists. Sixteen hundred cases
of ammunition and two aeroplanes
were Immediately dispatched north on
a special train. The Antilla will sail
for Tantopuca to recover the body of
Weston Burwell, the American report
er murdered by Fédérais April 22.
INSANE ITALIAN STABS 25.
Runs Amuck While On Voyage From
Boston.
Pünta del Gardo, Azores.—Twenty
five steerage passengers on board the
V'hite Star steamship Canopic were j
stabbed by an Italian fellow-passenger f
who suddenly went mad and ran
amuck while on the voyage from Bos
ton. Five of the wounded men are in
» serious condition. The incident hap
pehed shortly before the arrivel here
at toe Canopic, which is on her way to !
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ALL SIGN THE
FIRST PROTOCOL
Actual Beginning of the Peace
Agreement.
TOOK THREE WEEKS TO DO IT
Omits Method Of Transfer Of Govern
ment Of Mexico, Which the Mexi
can Delegates and the Media
tors Suggested.
Niagara Falls, Ontario.—Delegates
from the United States and the Huerta
' reduced to the form of a protocol after
more than three weeks of discussion
In the last three days of which so seri
ous a disagreement had arisen that the
success of the entire mediation pro
gram was threatened.
No Mention Of Huerta.
The brief protocol was significant of
government Friday formally affixed
their signatures, in the presence of the
mediating representatives of Argen
tine, Brazil and Chile, to the first
protocol of the series through which it
is hoped to restore peace in Mexico.
The agreement reached Friday in
relation to the manner of transferring
the executive power from Huerta to
the new provisional government stood
the acid test of reduction to writing.
It provides this:
A government is to be constituted
in Mexico of a character to be later
provided, which shall be recognized by
the United States on (date to be fixed),
and which from that day forward shall
exercise public functions until there
shall be Inaugurated a constitutional
president.
This plank in the peace plan was
two things: .
; Huerta as the provisional president
and it omits the method of transfer
which the Mexican delegates and
mediators suggested and to which the
United States strenuously objected on
, the ground that its rétention would be
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It makes no mention of General
j ing regime. The Mexican plan provid
ed that Huerta should name as Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs the man agreed
upon here for provisional president
The omission of reference to the
method of succession and the flat state
ment that on a certain date a provi
sional government shall arise in Mex
ico to which the United States will
accord recognition satisfy the insist
ence of the American delegates that
no steps should be taken that could be
construed as a recognition of Huerta.
On the other hand, the Mexican
delegates, while abandoning the Con
stitutional form of succession as a part
of the protocol, are satisfied because
it does not specifically deny Huerta's
right to name as minister of ^foreign
affairs the man chosen here for pro
visional president if the latter sees fit
to accept designation from him It is
not considered probable, however, that
the new provisional president, who is
likely to be a Constitutionalist, would
taxe the executive power directly from
Huerta, but he might do so from some
other individual wtiom Huerta might
leave in authority.
TWO ROBBERS SHOT.
Men Wanted In Butler Fall In Battle
With Police.
Ellwood City, Pa.—Peter Brown, of
Buffalo, was wounded, perhaps fatally,
and Clarence Davis, of Newcastle, Pa.,
was seriously hurt in a pistol battle
with the police on a Pittsburgh and
Lake Erie Railroad train near here.
VERA CRUZ NEAR FAMINE.
Department Of Commerce Arranges To
Have Supplies Sent Promptly.
Washington, D. C. — News of a
threatened famine among the inhabi
tants of Vera Cruz and vicinity set the
telegraph wires to work out of the
Department,of Commerce, and Secre
tary Redfleld had received assurances
that American merchants soon would
have large supplies of food on the way
to the Mexican port to be sold at
moderate prices.
CHEATS GALLOW{ /&R TIME.
Man Waiting To Be Hanged Heart
Newt Of Respite.
Wheeling, W. Va.— While dressed
and waiting to be taken to the gal
j lows, on which he was to be hanged
f 0 r the murder of his wife, Silas Jones
was notified by the warden of the
Moundsville Penitentiary that Gover-lin
QO r Hatfield had telephoned a respite
0 f 3 g days. Leading citizens of Hunt- !
ington, W. Va-, where Jones resided, j
! interceded in his behalf, declaring that
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Will LeadGreatest FleetThrough
Canal.
ORIGINAL PUNS CHANGED
Navies Of Nine Nations Have Already
Announced They Will Send Ships
To Panama For the Opening
Ceremonies.
Washington, D. O.—President Wil
son next March will lead personally
the great international fleet of war
ships from Hampton Roads to Colon,
to participate in the formal opening of
the Panama Canal, by passing through
on the bridge of the world-famous old
battleship Oregon as leader of the long
line of fighting craft of all nations, and
then, after proceeding northward,
enter the Golden Gate at the head of
this armada and attend the Panama
Pacific Exposition at San Francisco.
This announcement was made by
Secretary Daniels, who has been work
ing a long time to bring about the
notable program. Originally the Presi
dent was to go from Washington to
Hampton Roads to greet the com
manders of the international fleet as
they arrived and to participate in the
ceremonies attendant upon the depar
ture'of the vessels on their long cruise
around the North American continent.
Afterward he was to make the trip by
rail to San Francisco to visit the ex
position at some convenient later date.
Had Promised Goethals.
The President, however, has deter
mined now to do full honor to the ex
position by making his advent upon
the scene at the head of an armada
the like of which the world has never
seen. Also he will redeem his long
standing promise to Col. George W.
Goethals by not only visiting but
formally opening the Panama Canal.
He will make his passage through on
the Oregon with Rear-Admiral Charles
E. Clark (retired), who captained the
ironclad in her famous Spanish War
cruise around Cape Horn. Also on the
Oregon will be most of the members
of the Cabinet.
The President, according to the
present program, many details of
which remain to be worked out, will
leave Washington for Hampton Roads
accompanied by his official family on
the yacht Mayflower on March 5, 1915.
The international fleet will have been
gathering in the roads since January
1, but the President feels obliged to
defer'his own departure until the date
mentioned because of his desire to re
main in Washington until the session
of Congress closes.
So far nine maritime countries have
signified their intention to take part in
the naval parade through the canal,
and it Is certain there will be other
participants announced before the end
of this year. The countries that al
ready have accepted are Argentina,
Cuba, France, Germany, Great Britain,
Italy, Japan, Portugal and Russia.
The entire Atlantic fleet of the
American Navy will form the nucleus
around which the international naval
forces will gather. The officers and
men of the fleet will he the nation's
guests and will make excursions from
Hampton Roads to the capital and to
nearby Eastern cities while arrange
ments are being made for the long
cruise from Chesapeake Bay to the
Golden Gate.
After the ceremonies at Hampton
Roads the Presidet will take up his
quarters on the super-dreadnought
New York. Then the start will be
made for Colon, with the New York
leading. The ships will form a column
many miles in length, for it is esti
mated that there will be nearly 100
ships in the procession.
Arriving at Colon within a week
there will be a delay of a day or two
while arrangements are being made to
the vessels through the canal.
pass
This will be done with all ceremony,
the line being headed by the ancient
steam launch Louise, the gift of the
'American Government to the Govern
ment of France. The Oregon is to fol
low with the Presidential party.
The fleet i^iould be transferred from
the Atlantic to the Pacific in the course
of about four days.
When the ships have made the pas
sage and have anchored in Panama
Bay fresh supplies of coal, oil and pro
visions will be taken aboard and the
procession will start for the North.
It is probable a brief stay will be made
at San Diego, Cal., to do honor to the
Panama-Califomia Exposition in prog
ress at that place in connection with
the canal celebration.
If all goes well the first vessels of
the international fleet should pass
through the Golden Gate by April 16,
1916.
SUFFRAGE ACT UPHELD.
Illinois Supreme Court Calls Women's
Act Legal.
Springfield, 111.—The Illinois Su
preme Court declared the Illinois Wom
an's Suffrage act constitutional. The
point also was raised that the suf
frage act in reality amended the gen
eral election laws, although no refer
ence was made in its title to Its
amendatory effect, as Is demanded by
law.
EXPLOSION IN "MOVIE" PLANT.
Valuable Filme Are Destroyed and
Actora Narrowly Escape.
Philadelphia.—Many thousands of
feet of moving-picture film were de
stroyed, part of the plant was wrecked
and 10 small dwellings were .burned
a fire that followed an explosion
the Lubin Manufacturing Company
this city. The value of the film and
the loss on the prospective income
from the pictures are estimated at hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars.
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