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A Piano-Player for the Most Popular School Teacher in Richmond Til K TJMKS KOUNDKI) 1M6. THE DlSI?AT':il KOUNUED 1SH. WHOLE NUMBER, 19,656. RICHMOND, VA., MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1914. WEATHER TO-DAY?PAIR. A Piano-Player for the Most Popular School Teacher in Richmond PRICE TWO CENTO READY FOR FIGHI OVER PROPOSED REPEALQF TOLLS Forces in Both Houses: Are in Battle Array. ODDS NOW FAVOR WILSON victory! Champions of Exemption for American Ships Say Vote Will j Be Close, but Administra tion Followers Arc in Doubt Only as to Size of Their Majority. Washington, March IS.-?debate on repeal of the toll exemption clause of the Panama Canal a'-t will becln late tills week In the House, and a vote In that body on th* Slrns bill to carry out the recommendations of President Wlb'm Is expected by ;Jat'ir <!ay night In the Senate an earnest effort will be made by administration leaders to pave the v. t. for early ac tion on the Issu^. by bringing It Fijuarely before the Committee on In 11-r'>re:'ie ?'anals !'?? ? ieration and j ejiort by the time the House has dis posed of tii.- subject. Opposing in both houses are arrayed for the : i:ht. the priispcet be ing that the i>i.--?"plon* of toll exemp tion for Am'-rl.-.in c.,a? t wise |?hlps will lose when the roll <-:i11 h have been talten In both houses, llepresentatlves Adamson and Sims, in charge of the repeal for It. the House, are only doubtful as to the . Vs of the majority their cjiiiF" will have. T .ey predict that it will be large, while Majority Leader Cnderwo'd arid some "f the 1 orno'-rats who avtree with him that it Is arv e' or.oi .;< mir:->ke to reverse the nation's policy r- rd ;r.?r canal tolls, insist that the vte will he dose. ll'l.nriiiM n'n Kellirri tunltril. In the Senate the return of Senator d (iorman, of New York, chairman of the Committee on Interoeoanic Canals, it: awaited with int'iest, in view of the tact that Senator Owen, a majority metnber of the committee, has intro duced a bill :,l:r.liar t :l\>? Sin.: bill, f>>r the purpose of expediting settlement ??; the coj.trovers;. a:< soon as possible. Senator Owen .g'eeks to have the com mittee take the repeal bill up at once, and pas, upon it. Senator O'Jorrnan. who will lead the opposition, took the position before leaving: Washington last week that his committee should do nothing with the repeal uriv!V \ he House had acted. Adrninlstrat. an Senators, after conferring with the President, determined that the Issue Is so clearly drawn that there is no reason for delay, and that the Senate tihouhl be ready to discuss the sub Jc t lrr.mcdlatel> after the House ac tion, or even before, should the Sims bill mee* unexpected delay i:; tne lower bran- h That the vote in committee will be close i.s certain, and opp"ne: Js of the rcpcaT"" Insist tl.' ?? ? ;. will \.>tu : gainst the J'i c.Hider.* s plea. In that ev.Hi, there will be a minority repvrt. upon whi< h the controversy in the Sen ate will hinge Aiding Senator Owen it. leading the admimsti tion forci's v. ill be Senators Hok' S:: ith, of t( org ;a, and James, of Kentucky. Various polls of the Senate on the icpeal <iues tion have indicated that the Presi dent will be sustained b. a majority of from ten to twenty vol ? Another matte;- included in the for eign relations of the government, which It Is planned to undertake this week for consideration, is the pending trfttty with Nicaragua, negotiated in the Taft administration, \\h;>h the present ad ministration wishes to have amended and ratified a soon as possible. The Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate expects Secretary of State Hryan to nppear on Wednesday In explana tion of the administration's desires re lating to the treaty, which is designed primarily for acquirement by the United States of the Nicaraguan canal rlKhts and rights to naval station sites in the Bay of Fonjjecn, in exchange for a payment of $3,oi>0,000 in gold. Whnl Treaty I'rovideii, 11 y the terms of the treaty, as oriei nall.v framed, Nicaragua would grant In perpetuity to the United States the exclusive rights for an interoceanic canal through the San Juan Uiver and the Great Lake of Nicaragua, or by way of any other route over Nicara gua n territory. Article 2 of the treaty proposes that "in order to facilitate the protection of the Panama Canal," and the rights contemplated in Nicaragua, Nicaragua shall lease to the United States for ninety-nine years the Great Corn and Kittle Corn Islands, In tho Caribbean Sen, and rights to a naval base on the Gulf of Fonseca. Karly in the present administration. Secretary Hryan proposed to the Sen ate committee that the treaty bo amended In such a way that the United States would procure virtual control of Nicaragua through a protectorate similar to that exercised over Cuba. J le would add to the treaty fe atures sim ilar to the "Piatt amendment" relating to Cuba. To this proposal there was considerable opposition In the commit tee, and It Is expected to be revived now. Under the proposed plnn of amending the treaty Nicaragua, besides granting the canal and naval station rights, would agree: t That war should not be declared without consent of the United States. That no treaties be made with for eign governments that would tend to destroy her independence or give for eign governments a foothold In tho re public. That no public debt would be con tracted beyond the ordinary resources of government. That the United Ktatps should have the right to intervent- at any time to preserve Nicaraguan indepondenco or 1o protect life or property. Anxious for Settlement. The administration, it Is understood, wishes the Nicaraguan treaty matter settled as soon as possible in line with Its general policy to clear tip the for eign situation, and Senator Sliively, of Indiana, acting chairman of tho For eign Relations Committee, who has (Continued On Second Page*) STORM TAKES HEAVY TOLL Tllnptitehei* llpport J.r.OO Live* ?n ? luri-lranr-in Russia. St. Petersburg; March 15.?Details of the hurricane which swept the Province of Kuban, Southern Russia, on Satur day with received here to-day. A northerly gale caused numerous water spouts off the-east coast of tho sea of Azov. and the shore from Yoisk to the strait of Kertsch, a dlstanco of about 000 njiles, was flooded. Six vil lages were dumaged. One hundred ant> seventy-Hlx construction employes o'n trie Kuban Hallway sleeping In a shot, who were awakened by the storm, fled ?r i train and endeavored to escape. T he engine and cars, however, were ovurturnod and swept away. Most of the mm were, drowned. The hurricane raged for ten hours. When it ceased, the receding floods revealed scones of great destruction. Eight utiles of the railway embankment were in ruins. The wrecked train was covered wits the bodied of dead workmen, oniy for try-eight of whom got to shore Many courageous rescues of persons float ing, on wreckage have been reported. Many bodies have been washed ashorn at various points. The meagre dispatches received to day reported that 1,500 lives had been lost as a r?sult of tho storrn, but no reliable details, giving what may bo termed an accurate estimate, have J come to iiand. | A similar catastrophe occurred along th<- shores of the sea of Azov thlrty I seven years ago. NEAR-RIOT ON STEAMER i'licht Over Ilmzlllan King (.'annrn Tense ! , Situation. i fSpeclal to The Tlin<-.?-Dispatch.] V."w ,V"rk' ?A light over a J-razilian (lag caused a near-riot on board the steamer Verdi to-day. while th" v?-sst*l was on h* r way from quar antine to her dock in South Hrooklvn. " 1' erraz, a Brazilian coffee ni'-r J'bant was standing on the deck wav r *r? tiie flag of his country when a number of American passengers began to < haff Jiirn. Ferraz became Infuriated and start-d to wave the flag in the faee or William \V Yager, a builder of S.-iri Francisco, who was standing at one side. After asking the Hrazillan to desist several times. Vager suddenly struck out with bis list, catching Ferraz on th- face. The latter fell to the deck like a loj?. At tills point the situation became very tense and the ofllct-rs fearing a r: ?? l>etween the International passen gers. rush* d between the two and s. pa rated them. No apology was made. Forraz has it abrasion two Inches long on his forel.-ad. GETS EXCELLENT RESULTS Mnrronl Hsperlrnrntn With Nmt Itndlo. Telephonic A p|inriituA? Rome. March 16.?The Duke ?f Anruzzl lias reported to the Mlnlstrv of th- Navy that excellent results were obtained by Wlljiam Marconi last week In iiis experiments on board the bat tleship Reglna Klena with a new radio t-b phonic apparatus. Communication was had with ships nearly forty-live miles away. T-l-phonlc connection continued between the ships for twelve hours, according to the report. Th- dtiHe reported also that wireless I- i-graphy experiments were carrle<] '?ut. and that communication bv this method was had with Home, a dls tance of .1R0 miles. Venice CftS miles Cllfden. Ireland, 1.70 miles, and Can ada, 4,002 miles. . FACES ELECTION ON LIQUOR 1'rrstdrnt of XV. C. T. IT. Hturt* Move ment In l.ei Ington. Kjr. [Speoial to The Times-Dispatch.] Hex I ngton, Ky., March 15.?This city, whl'-h has some of the largest dis tilleries in the South, as well as a big brow cry, and in which li'juor has r.'-er. sold all during the years of :t^ existence, faces a local option elec tion Mrs. Frances K Reauchamp. of Lex rntrton. State president of the Woman's t. hrlstian Temperance Union, said to . e.-iv 'h;>.t she would bf-trin circulating P-tltR-ns in the city and county at once .or an election on the iluuor' question to be held In October. If prohibition carries, all saloons will be- put out of business here on Jan uary 1 One hundred and fortv are licensed to operate now. ONE MORE BODY IN DEBRIS Total of Twcnty-Xlnr Recovered From Atlieltle (Tub Ruins. [Special to The Times-Dispatch 1 1 St I.ouis. March 15.?Three more bodies w-re reroverci to-day from the Missouri Athletic Club tire ruins, bring ing the total to twenty-nine, of which | twenty nave been Identified. At least ; one more is known to be under the ? debris. It will be Thursday before the several hundred diggers get into the basement, where it is expected bodies of which there is no record may be lOllTiri. b?'V; ,,,enVfled to-day was that, of Allen Hancock. Cuff buttons w nno,tllPr body hore the Ini sible Identification was impos DO NOT BREED CELIBACY ? "resident of Wrtlenley Refutes Charge Women** Colle^pR. , ?<? The Times-Dispatch.] ! , . .'l?1*1 Mn?s.. March 157? Presi I dent I-.lbn K. Pendleton, of Wellesley ? Col.ege offers statistics to disprove statements made recently that women's I colleges are breeding places for cell hac>. olleRlf-y in thirty-seven vcara | has mothered girls. - Including i "j10 and nongraduates. ? Over 5 - 000 of these have married and thev have given birth to 5,723 children. An incomplete poll at Mount Holyoke j shows that 1,125 out of l,?53fi graduates have wed and have had 2,106 children. SIGHTSEEING IS FASHION Women of Admlnlstrntlon Vlevr Show Pinces of Cnpltnl During f.ent. ,,J special to The Times-Dispatch.] March 15?Led bv Mrs. vv tlltain Jennings Hryan. wife of the , Secretary of State, the women of the I administration have turned I.ent into I a sightseeing period. Very few of t.bem know the sights and show places of the-national capital through which tourists throng bv the ! mri'i1,1"" S each year. So sightseeing I parties have become the fashion, and jUtth a few friends these notable wo I "un. rree<l for a time from irksome so cial duties, enjoy watching the wheels I go round in the nation s workshop. SENATOR'S s6?aRRESTED Young Clapp In I'nrty When tinby Desl.vs Is lilt will, iinC ?f I'onnnts. I >pcclal to Tho Tirnos-Dinpatch.j Now Haven, March 15.?One of the students arrested last night during the disturbances In a theatre when Oaby Deslys was struck on the head by a bag of peanuts, proved to-day to be Iturus Clapp, a son of the United States Senator from Minnesota. Clapp is a freshman and a prominent member of the Vale track team. DEATH OF SUMITAKA HASEBA Recently Fleeted President of Jnpnnrse House of Itcpresentntlve.N. Tokyo, March 15.?Sumitaka ilaseba who was elected president of the House, of Hepresentalives recently In succes sion to Ikux.o Oalca, died suddenly to day from heart disease. M. Haseba sat as president of the House from 1!?08 J" c 1,1 lM- Haseba visited the United States to study its industries. COMMISSION BILL LESSSEVERETHAN ORIGINAL DRAFT Desire Is to Make Es pionage Least Irksome to Big Business. TO BE PRESENTED IN HOUSE TO-DAY Measure Creates Federal Trade Boards to Supervise Operations j of Insterstate Corporations, ; Excepting Railroads- and Common Carriers?New Provisions Defined. [Special to The Times-Dispatch.]. ! Washington. March 15.?The House j Interstate Commerce Committee will present to the Mouse to-morrow Its re draft of the bill creating :i Federal trade commission. to supervise the op> ra t lf?ns of Interstate corporations, ex cepting' railroads and common carriers. The new l.ill j.s less drastic than the original draft, and Is prepared with the view 'if making government espionage least irksome to bli; business. Its new provisions are expected by the cotnmit tee to commend themselves to the man agement of ail legitimate business. Tlx? hiil bearing the approval of President U ilson and Attorney-General M'Ueynolfls was made public to-day. following many conferences apiong the members of the Mouse Interstate Com merce Committee. Democrats expect this measure to command substantial Republican suj.port, and an efTort prob ably "-will be made soon to bring about concerted action between the Senate and Mouse on this" phase of the ad ministration program of commerce reg ulation and antitrust legislation. The new bill was unanimously agreed on by Its frainers. a subcommittee of Demo crats and Republicans, headed by Rep resentative Covington, of Marvland and It is approved by vlrtuallv the full committee. Theory of CommlnMlon. "The whole theory of the creation of the commission," said Mr. Covington to night, "has been to make it an efficient, independent body. In most of the mat ters of publicity It has entire control of the facts gathered. Publicity Is left to its discretion, and the bill contains ample authority for It to prevent tho disclosure of those necessary trade se crets valueless to the public, in pro moting lawful competitive business, but which, when disclosed, simply af ford opportunity for Injurious use by competitors. Powers of investigation, safeguarded by proper constitutional limitations against unlawful searches and seizures, are given to this non partisan body." v The bill will transfer all the powers and duties of the Rureau of Corpora tions and the Commissioner of Corpo rations to the proposed commission of three members, presidential appointees, subject to confirmation, whose salaries would be 510,000 annually each. Only two of the commissioners could come from the same political partv. The original Clayton bill, from which the Covington bill differs substantially, had provided for five commissioners, and that the present Commissioners of Cor porations should be automatically chairmen of the new commission. The new bill makes no mention of the Com missioner of Corporations. It makes the fixed tenure of the commissioners six years, and the commission would choose its own chairman. The Covington bill defines as a cor poration all bodies incorporated un der the law. and joint stock associa tions and all other associations having shares of capital or other capital stock or organized to caVry on business for profit. Annnnl Reports Required. Section 9 of the bill requiring an nunl reports to the commission would provide that: "Every corporation engaged in com merce, excepting corporations subject to the acts to regulate commerce, which, by itself or with one or more other corporations owned, operated, controlled or organized In conjunction with it so as to constitute substantial ly n_ business, until it has a capital of $5,000,000 or more, or has a less capital, and belonRs to any class of corporations which the commission may make, shall furnish to tho com mission annualy such Information, statements and records of its organi zation, bondholders and stockholders and financial condition, and also such information, statements and records of Its relation vO other corporations mci its bus ness and practi :es while en gaged in commerce, a?. the commission shall require. And the commission may, to enable it the better to carry out the purposes of this act. prescribe as near as may be a uniform system '7,nnUa' r,'l>orts- Th^ annual reports shall contain all the required Informa tion and statistics for the period of twelve months, ending with the fiscal M??.r co,l'o?ation s report, and the> shall be made out under oath or otlierwi.se in the discretion of the commission, and filed with the com wRh nnMa' U:' iM W?shington ' lhrce months within the close of tho year in which report Is made unless additional time be granted in nliLfn80 iV th? colnm,8sio?- The com mission also may require such special reports as it may deem advisable." This section penalizes violations at *100 a day. I he Clayton bill made no such classification of corporations but penalized violations at 11,000 a day InveMftendons iiikI Reports. no^ h?r k"R investigations and re provhlc thnt:COm,r lh" bm w?'"" "The commission shall, on the dl rectinn of tho President, the Attornev fC.ner.il or either Mouse of Congress Investigate the organization, ri?anage ment and business of any corporation while engaged In commerce to aid in ascertaining whether or not the cor poration Investigated is violating tho nets relating to restraint of trade. And the commission shall make a report of such investigation, which may Include recommendations for readjustment or business, jn order that said corpora tfon may thereafter maintain Its organ ization, management and conduct of business |n accordance with law. Re ports made after investigation niav be made public, in the discretion of' the commission. "When in the course of any investl (Contlnued Ot) SecomT Pag el) TO CLAIM SHE IS Confession Reveals Plan to Get Money From Girl's Father. SEVERAL MAY BE INVOLVED IN PLOT Wife of Los Angeles Chauffeur Bears Striking Resemblance to Missing Heiress?Family in ^ New York Placed No Cred ence in Story?Cranks Still Active. [Special to The Tiroes-r>JsT>ate"n.] Los AnR' li'K, March 15.?The younp woman who claimed to he Dorothy Arnold, t)i?? missinp New York heiress, confessed to ner real identity her to night and furnished thf police infor- j mation ronrcrnlm? a plot to obrain .1 larjsunt of money from Francis H Arnoirl, the father of the New kYork , pirl. The younc woman here, who bears I a striking resemblance to the pictures : published >f .Miss Arnold, !.s Mrs. I'hai lfs < ?'Dell, tin; wife of a ;? o 111 m chaHi'ft'tir. H*-r mother ts Mrs l"s plawn, living at 1H West Twenty-; eighth Strc-t. To-r.lsht wh"n !t was learned that a Los Anpeles attorney had visited Fran cis K. Arnold In New York and de- : . mambd th^ reward for locating tnc | missing heiress, Nick Harris, detective, ( took steps which will lead to the ar rest of Mrs. O'Dell. Mrs. O'Dcll has beon known h'-re un der a number of names, whm >-i>:t<-en years of ape yhc wan married to v street car conductor named Miller. She lived In San Francisco with him for a shof. time, and then came to Los .-\n peles. Three years apo she was found bourd and pagged In h<-r tio:ne by tie j police. and when questioned she 1 "lai n? d tha*. her husband had mistreat- i 1 ed her. This was subsequently dis- J 1 proven, and the vonnir woman admitted j that she had bound aird gagg< d herself. I I'nnscd llml Ciiwt*. In May, lSt'2, she married O'Dell. At j that time she claimed to have a divorce f"Oin her tirst husband. After fre- 1 quent quarrels she left her husbann and assumed the name of Miss TC'.ia i Evans. When she moved to Avenue R3 ! she adopted the name of Mabel de More, j While livinp at that address she was arrested for passing fictitious checks, j She claimed then that she was Mrs. A. j R. Haugh. the wife of an automobile ? mechanician. The police here nr<* convinced that ) Mrs. O'Dell was directed to claim that I she was the missinK' heiress. in sup' ! port of this theory is tne fact that a i lawyer went to New York to secure I money from Mr. Arnold. Several men ! and women who knew the young worn i -in intimately here are suspected jf be ing involved in the plot, and it is prob i able that a number of arrescs will bo j made. No Credence In Story. [Special to Th<- Times-Dispatch.] New York, March 1T>.?Francis R. I Arnold, father of Dorothy Arnold, who disappeared December 12, 1M0, places 1 no credence in the story told by a pirl | in Los Angeles, Cal., that she is the 1 missinp heiress. Furthermore, Mr. Ar nold believes his daughter was forcibly abducted in Fifth Avenue, and that she , is no longer alive. | "My daughter was snatched up in ; Fifth Avenue and carried away," he ' said to-day. "THat is all there is to it. This may sound unreasonable, but j here in the newspapers only to-day, we read about a man try inp to kidnap a woman i:i the street and drap her into a house. 1 tell you New York City is no safe place for an attractive young woman. Convinced of Her Dentil. "I am convinced that my dauphter I Is dead, and I base that on my knowl 1 edpe of her character. If she were alive, she would communicate with me. or come home, knowing that J am here; waiting and that this is her home. There is now no mystery concerning the fate of my daughter, save as to the disposition of her body. ?"If she were alive three lines In her handwriting would identify her to me. I am sure this you up woman in I,os i Angeles is not my daughter. If they | think out there that she is, let them | send me an example of her hand | writing, and I will quickly know." | The report that Dorothy Arnold was 1 In Los Angeles Is no new one to her ' father. Twice messages nave been sent to him from California declaring she was there, and a few weeks ago a man who said he was a Los Angeles lawyer called at the Arnold house and demanded the reward offered for the discovery of the pirl. "About two months ago," said Mr. Arnold, "two messapes came 'collect* to me from Los Angeles. 1 refused to receive them; they were followed by a lawyer from Los Anpeles. He said that (Continued On Second Tape.) Inform Yourself A Aviso person, when lie starts 011 a journey, first informs him self. Ho finds out whnt Is to ho seen nn<l plans to enjoy what is worth while. lie can't see everything, so he arranges to visit lite places which Rive him the greatest pleasure and profit. That's common sense. Ho it should he in shopping and especially .jjuring Spring Opening Week, when there are so many stores and shops to visit. The wise shopper should rend the advertisements in The Times-Dispatch in order to de cide where to go ami what to purchase. Monroe 1 TRIPLE WEDDING AT WHITE HOUSE IS LATEST 8UIVI0R Washington Society En tertains Itself Discuss ing Possibility. ALL PRECEDENTS WOULD BE BROKEN, Announcement of Engagement: of Miss Margaret Wilson to Boyd Fisher Is Expected, and Miss Bones Is Reported Engaged to Dr. Cary Grayson. [Special to The Times-Dispatch.] Washington. March 1"). The possi bility of a double, perhaps a triple,' wedding at the White House in June is the topic with which all Washington1 society to-day entertained itself. Mi>s Ele mor Wilson is to marry Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo. This has been announced. The annoutu ? ?mer.t of the engage inent of Miss Margaret Wilson, ebb st daughter of the President. to Boyd Fisher. of New Yoi k and Princeton. is expected I?y many friends of the Presi dent's faintly. I Finally, there is a strong rumor that! Miss Helen Woodrow Hones, cousin of; the President, i* engaged to I>r. ?'ary| Grayson, U. .S. X.. the President's friend: and physician, who is attached to his, personal staff at the White House. If these anticipations are realized, it j is expected that three weddings 'will take place at once, and all will lie held : j in the White House. Miss Hones has ? made her home with the President's family ever since Mr. Wilson has been; | in the White House Such an event would, of course, smash all precedents. There never has been j a double, much less a triple, wedding | in the White House, nor has there ever, been a President having the honor of' I having three of his daughters married I at the White House. Sightseers Disappointed. Washington sightseers were on the ; I qui vive all day to catch a glimpse of [ the fourteenth White House bride and i bridegroom-elect. Quite a crowd gath I ered aroUnd the Central Presbyterian I Church, where it was rumored Miss j Wilson and Secretary McAdoo would attend church together, but when the I White House carriage rolled tip It con tained only the President and Miss Mar- I 1 garet Wilson and Miss Eleanor Wilson. ] Mrs. Wilson, who is still confined to 1 her room, did not accompany them. After luncheon, Secretary McAdoo walked In the east gate of the White House and spent a short time there. : He left In a White House car, accom panied by his fiancee. Their destina tion was the Dresden Apartment House, where they took tea with -Mr. and Mrs. ! Francis McAdoo, son and daughter-in ; law of the secretary. Further details of the Kleanor Wil- ! 1 son and Secretary McAdoo romance j are coming to light. An Interesting j feature is found in the gossip that the | gallant Secretary of the Treasury won] , his bride despite the ardent attentions of a Mr. King, of Princeton, who has been wooing Miss Wilson since her Princeton days. In fact, some of her friends assort ! that Mr. King was an accepted suitor | before Secretary McAdoo danced his I way into her heart. At any rate, when ' the presidential family established the I winter camp at Pass Christian In Jan- j i uary, Mr. King made one of the party land was Miss Elennor's constant es ' cort, both there and at the Madrl Gras i ! gaities in New Orleans. >1 r. Ivinpr Disappears. Just what happened there and after ! the return of the family to the White j House Is only conjecture, but at all I events Mr. King thereafter disappeared I from efjuat ion. The story of the missing letter that, 1 when found, told the romance between i Miss Wilson and Secretary McAdoo, is I described at the White House as being i "very roinnntlc, but untrue." j As a matter of fact, however, the ! news that they were engaged first I leaked out from Wllllamstown, Mass., i where her sister, Mrs. Frances Royes Snyre, the thirteenth White House j bride resides. Propinquity is said to j have been a fector in the match. At i the State dinners and functions at the j ? White House the Attorney-General and j Secretary McAdoo. being the bachelors ! of th<- Cabinet, were constantly paired ? off with the White House young wo ? men, and most of the time Secretary ; McAdoo was Miss AVllson'a dinner part j nor. jSCHIFF"MAKES* NOTABLE GIFT Presents to I.llirary of Congress 4,000 Volumes of Jewish 1.1 tern t ii re. [Special to The Times-Dispatch.] Washington, March 15.?-Jacob H. Schiff, the New York banker, has Just made a second' notable Klft to the 1 l.lbrary of Congress, consisting of more ; than 4,000 volumes, touching every field j of Jewish thought and learning, reli gious and secular, extending over many centuries. I Many of the books are first editions ! and rare. Among them are more than i 100 manuscripts, many of which bear j early dates. There is an excellent col ! lection of Jewish melodies and songs, accompanied by notes, and a fine col ! lection of books and periodicals printed I in Palestine. Of especial note is the j ; extensive representation of the pro ! ducts of modern Hebrew literature. In 1012 Mr. Schiff donated to the ; library a collection of 10,000 volumes j of Jewish literature. WILL MEET AT ATLANTA j Southern Newspaper Publisher* Gather j i There To-Day In Annual Convention. j Atlanta, Ga.. March 15.?The twelfth J ! annual convention of the Southern | ! Newspaper Publishers' Association will l.o held here to-morrow and Tuesday. | Newspaper men began to arrive here I to-day for the meeting. I Advertising, newspaper circulation | and newspaper ethics are. the chief j subjects to be considered. In addition to Southern newspaper publishers who will speak, Don C. Seitz, general man ager of the New York World, and Jar an Rogers, publisher of the New York Globe, are to address the con vention. Mr. Seltz will speak of "The Editorial Ideal and Good Business: Do They Conflict?" and Mr. Rogers will discuss "Advertising and Newspaper Development." Another speaker will be John Stewart Bryan, of The Times-Dispatch, of Richmond. SUBSTITUTE MEASURE It In Prrp*rrd to Tnke Pluee of Owen mil. Boston, March lo.?Features of a stock exchange regulation measure, proposed by a special committee of the Chamber of Commerce as ft substi tute for the Owen bill, were made pub lic to-night, with the explanation that the substitute had been prepared and handed to Senator Owen, In accord ance with a request made by members of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, when the chamber repre sentatives were In Washington. The Owen measure provides that the I'osttnaBter-Oenernl shall be the Judge as to whether a stock exchange shall t>e deprived of tho use of the malls In cases where fraudulent transactions In securities appear, but the substitute vests this authority In the propped In terstate trade commission, with a right of appeal to tho Federal courts. Un der the Owen bill also, stock exchanges must ;>? incorporated under State laws. The substitute does not requiro Incor poration. Before a security may be listed or dealt with r.n any exchange, a state ment of th" condition of its corporation for the preceding throe years only ts demanded by the new draft, while the Owen bill requires a complete history <>f the corporation from its beginning. Corporations whose securities are not are inn listed with any stock exchange, must file with the interstate trade com mission the same Information that they i.i i - ? v.. ?n mm niey would have to lile with the exchanges if they were applicants for listing, ac cording to the substitute bill. The measure prohibits members of exchanges manipulating securities and prices by fictitious deals. It f'?rldds the yelling or lending of a customer's security without his consent in writ ing. Carrying an account of margin for an employe of a bank, trust com pany, or Insurance company, and sell ing on behalf of a director or trustee of any corporation securities of that corporation whi< h he did not own at the tune of the sale, also s.re pro hibited. GUNMEN MENACE PEOPLE Five I'lNtot FiBiitK on Streets of Mnn Iwittuu During Twenty-lour Hours. New York, March 15.?Outlawry is attain menacing tho safety of Now York's highways. In the twenty-four hours beginning at midnight Saturday, there were live gun lights on the streets of Manhattan. In one case, there was a running battle lasting almost an hour. Gangsters and gunmen were re sponsible for most of these outbreaks. Robbery and feud are not alone ram pant. It is becoming unsafe for wo men to walk abroad unaccompanied. A fourteen-year-old girl, Violet Craven, on Thursday was enticed into a club at Kast Fifty-first Street and First Avenue and kept a prisoner there over night by young gangsters. For a week Father Magrath. of the Catholic Sea men's Mission, In West Street, has been making a determined search for a gangster who a week ago to-night at tacked his twenty-year-old sister in Charles Street. A citizen who went to her rescue was beaten up by the gang ster's companions into insensibility. Uptown, another woman was wound ed by a pistol shot during a gang tight. Highway robbery, burglary, assault, gambling, are all Included In the carni val of crime, with which ther-pollce t seem unable to cope. One of the most daring of these out | breaks occurred early to-day, when a | gang dragged Vincent Marci, cashier ! of a Child* restaurant in One llun , dred and Twenty-tifth Street, Into a I doorway at Twentieth Street, east of j Seventh Avenue, to rob him of the ! day's receipts of the restaurant, which ! he was thought to have about him. ! When they failed to tlnd the money, tho 1 live men murderously assaulted him In | revenge. Six policemen attached to the West Seventeenth Street Station, went to Marci's rescue, and a pistol battle fol lowed .in which more than 10t? shots were exchanged, and bedlam reigned for an hour, while the gangsters were being rounded up. Five of the gang were captured, and 1 although they had returned the fire of tho policemen, no guns were foutid on ' them when they were searched. SCHOONER l*N DISTRESS KllNhn Atkins ArrnltN Coming of Rev enue Cutter. New York, March 15.?With her lower sails stripped, her rudder head carried away, and short of provisions n's the result of running into a heavy gale, the four-masted schooner lOlisha I Atkins, of ltath. Me., from Tampa, Fla , to Baltimore, was spoken late yester day In latitude 36.5::. longitude 71. IS by the steamer Verdi, which arrived here from South American ports to-day. Captain I'enrlce, master of the Verdi, reported that he had sent a boat with . provisions for immediate needs to the Atkins, and had then notified \\y wire less the l.'nited States Revenue Cutter I Service and the agent of the schooner | at Baltimore. When last seen by the I Verdi the Klisha Atkins was heading west under favorable weather. Captain J. I"). Wildof, of the Revenue Cutter Service In tills district, who re ceived the wireless message from tho Verdi, sent word to Washington that the revenue cutter Itasca, of this sta tion, was In Delaware Breakwater and short of coal, and could not go to tho relief of the schooner. ,lt was believed that the revenue cutter Onondnga, now on the Norfolk station, would go to the assistance of the Atkins. flitter to the Hesciic. Norfolk, Vn., March 15.?The revenue cutter Onondaga received a wireless from the steamer Verdi stating that a schooner In distress has been sighted In latitude .'ft! degrees 50 minutes north, longitydc II2 degrees I minutes -IS sec onds, west. 'The message stated that the rudder head of the vessel was gone, j all lower sails gone and she was short J of provisions. The name of the schoon j or was not given. The Onondaga will ; go out in search of her in the morning. EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN Number of I'erNonn Killed nnil Mnny Houses Destroyed. Tokyo, March 15?A serious earth quake occurred to-day in the Prefature of Akita, Island of Hondo. A number of persons in the city of Aklta were killed and many houses destroyed or damaged. In the village of Kowakubi. which \vas ruined, there were manv casualties. The disturbances badly damaged rail road and telegraph lines. The volcano Asatna-Yama, ninety miles northwest of Tokyo, Is in eruption. Akita Is a garrison town on the sea of Japan. It docs a considerable < x port trade, especially in rice The population of the city Is about .'10,000. Asama-Rama is the largest active vol cano in Japan. A majority of its active periods have been productive of show ers of ashes only. Its last great erup tion was in 1 K7:i. when several villages on the north side of the mountain were obliterated by huge streams of lava. The crater Is about three-quarters of a mile In circumference. Dentil of lienrrMl llrlil. f Special to The Times-1 >lspatch.l Washington, March If.. - Brtgadier Oeneral George C. Held, I'. S. M. died at his residence here to-day after a brief Illness. Besides a long and honor able service in the Marine Corps, tJen eral Reid was a graduate lawyer, and often practiced before the courts. MEXICAN BORDER TO BE PATROLLED BY TEXAS RANGERS Entire Force of Fifteen Mounted Men Assigned To Duty. COLQUITT PRAISES THEIR ACTIVITIES List of Incidents Made Public by Governor Shows Men, as Peace Officers, Forestalling Trouble Before It Reaches Stage of International Com plications. Austin, Ti'xns, March 15.?The entlro force of Texas Rangers. totaling at present fifteen mounted men, was as signed to duty on the 800 miles of Texas-Mexican border to-day, with the ? arrival of two Rangers at Haymond ^ i 11??, Pexas, ir. r>- ponso to an appeal from tlfty-three persons there for pro tection against cuttle thieves. Along with news of the Hangers' dis position. (iovernor < >. 1!. Colquitt tnndo public a lengthy list of the T- xiis bor der trouble?. on which his appeals for i more power to protect the boundary have been based, and which explain I the nature of the Hangers' activities. ; 1 hese incidents show the Rangers as ; peace oillcers; not as an armed power I which might cause the United States government emharrassment. Many of j these incidents arc comparatively petty i crimes, not included within the scope of ? neutrality laws, and outside the police paths of I'nlted States troops on border patrol duty. The records indicate that in handling them, the Hangers some time forestall trouble before it has reached the stage of international com plications. .tliikc Many Timely .Arrests. The timely arrest of a cattle or a l horse thief before lie has had time to escape into Mexico has warded off I more serious consequences, such as the ? killing of Ciemento Vergara, the Amer ican, which grew out of horse stealing. ! The records indicate also that while many of the lawbreakers have come across the International line, in raids from Mexico, some mischief-makers have been residents of American terri j tory in sections where the Mexican j population is large, and have used Mexico as a refugo. The sending of Hangers to Raymond i villo was based on a petition asserting that "for the past few months cattle thieves have been depredating and sev eral murders have been committed." With this petition, another signed by | twenty-eight persons, and making the I same charges, was made public to night from Seb:i st in, Texas. Hanger ' Captain J. H. Hughes, who brought | these petitions to Austin three days ago. after a personal investigation, said , that an American named Howell had i been killed and that several Mexicans, ! names unknown, were reported slain; j that the killings were alleged to have | grown out of depredations l*y persons I who took refuge in Mexico, and that l the petitioners believed more police I protection would allay the trouble. On Uorder SIX) .Miles I.our. How tit teen Hangers can furnish any real protection a Ions- a border S00 { miles long was explained In a statement by Captain Hughes. In some places one j Hanger is assigned to patrol tifty to 100 j miles of bbrder, he said. These Hang ers, clothed with all the police powers j of both State and county oillcers, aro j feared by the trouble-makers, who (know that the Hanger can arrest them j even on suspicion. The present disposition of Hangers | on the Texas border is: Company A?J. R. Hughes, captain, K1 Paso; Raymondville, two men; Ysleta, one; llebronville, one; Lyford, ; one. ( Company H?J. J. Sanders, captain, I-iaredo, with three other men; Shafter] I one; Carriv.o Springs, one; Palafox, two! Company C?Mini roe Cox. captain, emergency calls. In ten cases during tho last three I years, in which Governor Colquitt has j acted through tho State Department at ' Washington in efforts to secure tho j extradition from Mexico of alleged I criminals,. wanted in Texas, none of tho applications, which the Washing | ton authorities duly presented, has been i successful, according to tho Texas ro : cords. Typical Instance. i The first of these ten instances is , typical of the entire trouble, for tho annoyance it caused is to-day cropping out afresh near I .a redo. This was the j application on January 1911. for iJionlcio Martinez, alias Juan Garcia, accused of murder in Caldwell County, Texas. Martinez has been seen along the border of late near N'uevo Laredo, j Mexico, and is accused of making secret ! expeditions into Texas, but the Rangers j have been unable to capture him. Some j of the complaints reaching the Texas State Department were confidential, es ' peclally those charging demands for ; money, because the victims said they feared for their lives if Mexicans heard <>f their action. Governor Colquitt said i he has received letters asserting that If the Cnited States should intervene there ; are American families residing among Mexican settlements on the Texas side who would be massacred Immediately ; by the foreign neighbors. He said he 1 did not know how much truth the.ro 1 was in such reports. As an indication j that tho Rangers' activities made for peace and order. Governor Colquitt i made public part of his correspondence in 1!>11 with President Taft, who re commended that the Federal govern ment pay for nn Increase In the Ranger | force for border patrol at that time.. Federals Return to \tlnek. Kl Paso, Texas, March 1.V-- a private message received here to-day states : that the Federals, after being defeated I in an engagement with the rebel forces yesterday at Monclova. Coahulla, returned to the attack and routed the ! rebels, with a loss of L'Oo killed. Tho ? Federal losses were not stated. J Alarmed by threats against his, life, j made by former members of his own j command. General Mercado has appoal j ed to General Scott, commander at Port Hliss, for protection Mercado | says the men blame him for their In j carceratlon in the prison camp, j A car load of Mauser cartridges for I use of Villa's troops around Torreon, i was received here last night, and Iri I mediately transferred to Juarez for