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■ CTATE I O EDITION oxe^extJ ESTABLISHED 1832. . WEATHER: PROBABLY SHOWERS TUESDAY. GOV. AMMONS i IN SHE ZONE ** r-“ ___ Colorado Legislature Goes Into Session, Facing Crisis in State. MAY HOLD MILITIA AND ROCKEFELLER FOR MURDER Long Series of Prosecutions Are Planned by Rival Clans in Warfare. DENVED, Colo., May 4.—To pay the price for the seven months' strike and civil war In southern Colorado the State Legislature met here in special session today, in response to the call of Governor E. M. Ammons. Al though the principal prpose of the session, as specified in the call, is the appropriation of funds to meet the cost, of maintaining troops in the field and to pass other laws suggested by the strike, luese will probably be overshawoded at the outset by a plan to impeach the governor. That such a resolution will be introduced in the House seems certain, hut friends of / the executive are sure it will fad. , With the impeachment matter out of the road, it is probable that bills providing for compulsory arbitration, establishment of i permanent con stabulary and regulation of the use of mine guards in strike disputes will be introduced. Some members are bitterly opposed to 'he constabulary measures as discriminating against union men. Wh le the session is organizing, both operators’ and miners' leadtis are turning their attention to pos-ibie prosecutions as the outgrow*h of the lighting during the past two weeks in the coal fields. John P. White, John • K. Lawson, John McLennan Edward Doyle, Frank Hayes and other district and international leaders of the United Mine Works have been threat ened for the mine owners with ar rest on charges of murder or con spiracy to murder in connection with last week s battle at Forbes, when * seven mine guards were slain, and the battle of Walsenburg the same day, which cost the lives of Major H. P. 1.ester, of the hospital corps, and two tanners. The union leaders say they do no; fear any such prosecutions, however It is reported that Judge Horace HawkinB, attorney for the miners, Will bring charges against John D. Rockefel er, Jr., in connection with the massacre of Ludlow, if uny of the union men are accused. The miners point to the verdict of the coroner s jurv returned at Trinidad on the military board ot inquiry returned here Saturday night. The one held the mine guards and militiamen re sponsible for the deaths of eleven men and two women at Ludlow; the other held tile operators responsible for the battle of Ludlow. „ The work of disarmament of mine guards and strikers in all the coal fields is proceeding rapidly under the direction of United States troops. Major W. A. Holbrook, commanding the Second squadron. Twelfth cavalry, at Trinidad, today ordered all sa loons in Las Vahimas county closed. He also issued a drastic order to raiiroads and express companies, for 4 bidding them to ship any weapons into Colorado except for use of the Federal troops. Two troops of cavalry today re lieved the militia on guard in Boulder county, in the northern eoa! field, re tiring' the lust State troops except the men at Oak Creek, Routt county. The Eleventh United States cavalry, Colonel James Lockett commanding, is due at Trinidad today, making a total of nearly 1,400 regulars in that district. Lockett will supersede Ma jor Holbrook in command at Trini dad. United Mine Workers’ Officials May Call for General Strike INDIANAPOLIS, May 4.—The ques tion of calling a general strike in tlm , mining industry of the country will be taken up at a meeting of the in ' ternatlonal officers of the United Mine Workers of American and the execu tive board, to be held here today. At the offices of the organization it Was said that petitions had been re ceived from all parts of the country, asking that a general strike tie called, w The twenty-nine members of the executive board are here and reports will be made by each as to conditions 1 in his respective locality. It was an nounced at the headquarters of the organization that a statement would likely be given out during the day. President John P. White, of the mine workers' organization, will preside at the conference._ OLNEY IS NAMED AS GOVERNOR OF Wilson Picks Former Secretary j of State to Head New System. PAUL WARBURY CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE MEMBERS Other Appointments Will Be Made Within a Few Days. WASHINGTON, May 4.—President Wilson has selected Richard Olney, former secretary of state in the Cleveland administration, to be gov ! ernor of the federal reserve board. 1 and Paul Warburg, of New York, to be a member of the board. Although the President had offered the governorship to Mr. Olney, word Richard Olney. i of his acceptance was being awaited today, but friends here were Inclined to believe he would not decline. Mr. Olney was offered the ambassa dorship to Great Britain by Presi'eit Wilson early last year, but. ex tressed an unwillingness to leave the country, on account of his business interests. Ho Is being strongly urged by friends of the President to accept this place which the President has spoken as of equal importance to a place on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Olney, though 7S years old, is active, and has had a long experience in the business world and finance, which the President and his advisers believe would especially be adapted for the head of their re serve board., Mr. Warburg, who was connected with Kuhn, Loeb & Co., has been of fered membership on the board and has accepted. Formal announcement of his selection, as well as the other three members of the board, besides the governor, is expected to be made within the next two or three days, as offers are being made to the men whom the President has selected. It I Is understood that a Southern banker is to be one of the three, but no inti mation has come as yet as 10 his identity. judicial Washington, as well as bOiking circles generally, are await - I ing the announcement of the full per 1 sonnet of the federal reserve board with intense interest, as it formally will set in motion the new currency law which was signed December 23 last. With the selection of the twelve regional reserve banks the organisa tion of the board lias been the most vita! step in the operation of the cur rency law. The banks are being or ganized and the expectation of odl : dais is that within another month the i entire system will be in full swing, al though there are certain transactions | which will occupy a greater length of j time. 500 See Aviator Fall to Death 1 AKRON, O., May 4 — H. P. Harris, a ! snvor Lake aviator, fell 600 feet to liis death in an exhibition flight north of J here yesterday. He drew only a few : breaths after being taken from the ; wreck and died in an automobile on the way to the hospital. Five hun dred persons saw the accident, which was due to a flaw in construction. r ^ APRIL JAINS -^ IN STAR ADVERTISING --- _. 1 j During April, 1914 ▼ THE EVENIN6 STAR showed an increase in paid advertising over the correspond ing month of 1913 of 203,602 agate lines. This is a record of A Ann which we are proud fiUuiDUfc and which we believe . . no other Newark Agate Lines newspaper can show. PASTOR’S TEAM j FIGHTS TO PLAY j BALL ON SUNDAY Will Invoke Law to Test Sum mit Mayor's Right to Prevent It. FIRST GAME SCHEDULED FOR THE COMING SUNDAY St. Teresas Will Meet Seton Hall. Unless the City Of ficials Interfere. Imperial to the Evening Star.J SUMMIT, May 4.—The question as to whether Mayor Francis H. Bergen can prevent St. Teresa’s baseball club lrom playing Sunday baseball on the Carlton Academy baseball field Is to be fought out in the courts. Mayor Berg • has notified Hev. Conrad Schotthoefer, pastor of St. i press's Church, who organized the baseball team, that :f an attempt is made to play Sunduy baseball he will prevent it. Former Mayor William Newton Adams, wno resides in Bed lord road, and whose home Is about 600 feet from the Carlton Academy ground, has also informed Father schotthoefer that he will tight to the tatter end any attempt to play Sun day games. Will Play Next Sunday. Charles H. Schultz, owner of Carl ton Academy, which is this city's l'ashionaule school for boys, and who placed the baseball field at Father Schotthoefer's disposal, has requested uie priest to proceed with the ar rangements for the scheduled open ng game next Sunday between St. Te resa's team and the Seton Hall Col lege varsity nine. Mr. Schuitz has engaged Lawyer Elmer L. McKlrgan, of this city, to conduct the legal ;.ght against the prohibition of the game by Mayor Bergen or ex-mayor Adams. PI ns had been made. to have a practise game on the Bedford road gio.mds yesterday afternoon, but it was decided to play the game in East Summit. There was no interference y the police with this game, nor w th the game played in North Sum mit between the Summit Stars and the Orange Valley baseball club. "I Must Uphold I.mw," Says Mayor. “I am not opposed to Sunday base ball or Srnday golf or similar amuse ments when they are not disturbing to others," declared Mayqf Bergen to dav. The great trouble with baseball is that you can't have a game without noise. If a fellow rnakes a three base hit or a home nm, the specta tors wi'l make the welkin ring. That's been my experience, and I've played baseball. “I've got to supress Sunday baseball when anyone makes a complaint. I'm sworn to uphold the law and all I can do is oppose it until the law overrules me.. If Sunday baseball can be p’ayed in the eastern or northern sections of the city without protest from the residents, I have no objec tion.” Cun Play in Suburb*.. According to Father Schotthoefer, Mayor Bergen advised him that while he personally Is opposed to Sunday baseball, St. Teresa’s team would be allowed to play Sunday games either in East Summit or North Summit. For several years Sunday games have been played on the North Summit baseball Held, which is only a short 44 ontlnurd on Page H, Column 6.) MILITANT RUINS Portrait of Henry James Is Slashed—Gandstand Burned in Ulster. LONDON, May 4.—The portrait of Henry James, the novelist, by John Singer Sargent, the American artist, hanging in one o fthe galleries of the Royal Academy, was ruined this aft ernoon by a suffragette. The woman who committed the out rage gave her name as Mrs. Wood. She belongs to the group of mili tants called "the wild women.” Carrying a butcher’s cleaver under her cloak, Mrs. Wood approached the painting in a casual manner. While the attendant was in another part ol' the. room she whipped out the cleaver, and with swift, sure strokes slashed the picture repeatedly before bystanders seized and stopped her. rMs. Wood was aeeomi>anied by a man who attempted to impede those who restrained her. The crowd turned on him and gave him a beat ing. When the police appeared on the scene Mrs. Wood was turned over to them. The Academy was opened to the public today. The picture damaged by Mrs. Woods was considered one of Sargent's masterpieces, and was one o fthe most prominent canvases at the exhibition. It is badly gashed, one of the marks of the cleaver be ing across the face. BELFAST. May 4.—The arson squad of the militant suffragists re sumed its campaign in Uuelter, burn ing the new grand stand of the Cave Hill Tennis Club. SS. Guantanamo, in Line of Firing at Vera Cruz. Back With 40 Refugees NEW YORK, May 4.—The Ward 'In., steamer Guantanamo arrived to day from Tampico, Vera Cruz and Havana with twenty refugees from vie.vCio City, eighteen from Tampico end two from Vera Cruz. Most of them are women and children. The Guantanamo was at Vera Cruz during the recent lighting, and for a time was in line of fire while the 1‘nited States forces were landing. About sixty bullets passed through the chart house and othe rstructures. None of the ship’s company wits in- | jured, aa ai lkqpi under cover, j_SCENES FROM VERA CRUZ, MEXICAN CITY HELD BY U. S. No. 1. Mexicans hanging around headquarters in hope of getting food. No. 2. t'. S. aeroplane flying over French | battleship “Conde." English battleship “Essex” In harbor. _ FUNERAL WARSHIP President Will Co to Brroklyn, Unless Public Business Prevents. WASHINGTON, May 4.—President Wilson plane to go to Brooklyn Mon day to meet the Montana, which is bringing to the United Stales the bodies of the men killed at Vera Cruz. This statement was made early today by Secretary Daniels after a conference wit hthe President, In case public business makes it impos sible for President Wilson to leave Washington he will send a personal representative with a letter from him to meet the funeral ship. Owner Must Submit Passaic Abbatoir to Local Inspection [Special to the Evening Star.] TRENTON, May 4.—Holding that an ordinance for the inspection of animals before and after slaughter is within the powers of a local board of health, the Supreme Court has af firmed the action of the Passaic Board of Health in enforcing such a regulation. Joseph Feld, of Passaic, contested the board’s right to enforce its regu lations against him, claiming that he was licensed by the State Board of Health and the requirements of the Passaic board constituted a discrim ination against him. The court found no discrimination, as other meat dealers are compelled to live up to the city's regulations. Hospital Ass’n Elects [.Special to the Evening Star.I SUMMIT. May 4.—.At the meeting of the Overlook Hospital Ass, elation Saturday night these officers were elected: Charles J. Canda, president; j George H. Williams, vice-president: i James Ely, secretary, and Dr..William | EL Lawrence, jr., treasurer. 70 WITNESSES AGAINST BECKER Whitman Will Present Many New Persons in Second Murder Trial. NEW YORK, May 4.—For the sec-j ond trial of Charles Becker, former police lieutenant, on a charge of hav ing instigated the murder of Her man Rosenthal, which will begin on Wednesday, District Attorney Charles S. Whitman, will call seventy wit nesses. Many new faces, it is said, will be seen In the witness chair, and several witnesses prominent in the first trial will not appear. As at the first trial, the State's case will be made around the story of Jack Rose, which will be corro borated by "Bridgie" Webber and Harry Vallon. The other member of the quartette made famous in the previous trial Is Sam Schepps. but the ruling of the Court of Appeals in granting Becker a new trial dis credited his testimony and made it valueless at the coming trial. The ] sensational feature of the first Becker trial too, will be missing. The death ] in the electric chair* in Sing Sing pr'son on Easter Monday of the four gunmen convicted of the actual mur der of Rosenthal removed them from I the scene and prevented a repetition j of the drama enacted when they were I led Into the courtroom to he identified j by witnesses as the murderers. For the defense Martin T. Manton persists in a policy of silence as to j his plans. It Is said, however, that Becker is anxious to take the stand ! in his own behalf and that Manton , may permit him to do so. It is expected that several days will be occupied in securing a Jury. The trial will probably occupy three weeks or a month. PASSENGERS Cl’T BY GLASS PATERSON, May 4.— A doxen pas sengers were cut with living glass and the front vestibules of two Hub don trolley cars were smashed last night in a head-on collision on Twenty-first avenue, near Twenty eeventh sttesW _ _ BOVS BATTLE WITH LONG FOREST ORE Morristown Boarding School; Students Whip Out Flames and Save Cottage. l>p«*€ial to the Evening :Mar.| MORRISTOWN, May 4.—Forty boys I of the Morristown Boarding School and twelve fire wardens bAttled yes terday afternoon against a forest fire extending over a mile at Horse Hill, a suburb. With the help of chemical extinguishers and brush brooms, with which they whipped out the llames, they finally succeeded in subduing the fire and in saving a bungalow and several cottages belonging to Asso ciate Principal Thomas Quficy l'| >wn. The boys were all volunteers. They worked under the leadership of two of their fellow students, William Akin, of St. Louis, and Thomas Kech, of East Orange. Aided by the schoolboys the fire wardeus soon made headway against the fire. They worked manfully to gether from 3 p. m. until long after dark and they got the fire out. N’one of the boys was injured in tlie fire-fighting. Some of them had their hair singed slightly, and most of them had blistered hands. When they returned to the school in the evenirg an especially good dinner was wilt ing for them, with a message of thanks from the head fire warden. Police Asked to Recover Stolen Jewels Worth $10,000 NEW YORK. May 4—The police today were asked to recover Jewels valued at $10,000 belonging to Mrs. Henry Hutt, formerly wife of Henry Hutt, the artist, which were taken from her West End avenue apartment by a burglar on last Thursday. The theft wus committed while Mrs. Hutt and her son veer at dinner. The stolen consisted of a gold watch, a diamond necklace, sev eral Jeweled bracelets and numerous and pins. IS THE POSITION TAKEN BY U. S. Believe Mediation Will Blow Up if Vera.Cruz Activity Continues. BV JOHN* K. N'EVIN. United Press Correspondent. WASHINGTON. May 4.—It Is still up to Huerta. That was even more the position of the United States to day than it has been for more than a year. He retains the power to force drastic action. If the activity on the part of General Maas's troops at Vera Cruz increases the mediation conferences will blow up with a loud noise even before they are well com menced. That has been determined by the President and his advisers. They believe that the demonstrations at Vera Cruz are intended as a bluff. I!ut if persisted in the bluff is to be called by the rifles of the marine de tachment and of the fighting Fifth Brigade. The three mediators here in Wash ington have again been very flatly told that our continued participation in the mediat!on negotiations defiends entirrly on the irnmuneness of Ameri can troops and Americans generally trom any attack whatsoever by Mexi cans. JENNINGS, HELD IN BANK CRASH, A Randolph Jennings, former treas urer of the wrecked Roseville Trust Company, pleaded non vult to eight indictments against him today in the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Judge Harry V. Osborne presiding. Today had been set as the trial j date for Jennings on the eight in dictments, all of which charged him , with false certification of checks, hut ; at the opening of court Jennings, j through John De Graw, his lawyer, j announced that his client wished to plead non vult Prosecutor Hood 1 said he was willing to have the p eas accepted, and Judge Osborne granted consent In rapid succession Jennings then) pleaded to the following indictments: i June 27. 1912, false certilication of a[ check drawn by Wili am C. Arm- j strong to the order of Jacob Ward for j the sum of $2,'X>0; January 11, 1913, check of Raymonu E. Smith in favor of W. W. Cohen, $1,096; June 3, 1913. check of John B. Faunce, president of ] the Intercity Land and Improvement j Company, in favor of Wolfe Gold- i berg, $3(Xi; June in, 1912, check of Home Ice and Products Company. Raymond E. Smith, treasurer, drawn in favor of the company, $7,500; April 29, 1913. check of William C. Arm strong in favor of .lames W. Gillispie. $1,361.95; March 25, 1913, check of Frank Bruno Company in favor of Maryland Lime and Cement Company, $500: February 5, 1913, check of John B. Scarlett in favor of Cl nton Hill Building and Loan Association, $92, and June 30, 1913, check of J B. Faunce in favor of Kilorc & Swarts, $256. Jennings had nothing to say. except to respond "yes” when prosecutor Hood eight time*, asked him if lie pleaded non vub to the indictment against him After pleading he left Hie Court House witli his bondsman to await sentence, which will prob- ; ably not bo imposed until after the ! disposition of the conspiracy charges in which Jennings is jointly indeted wth Ravmond E. Smith, treasurer, and William J. Thompson, bookkeeper of the wrecked Institution, and a number of depositors who were able to get money from the hank by over cert ideation of checks by the bank officials. The first of the conspiracy indict ments to be tried will he that in which William C. Armstrong, an East Or- j ange contractor; Smith, Jennings and Thompson are named. Armstrong, it is alleged, obtained over $35,00ti of the wrecked trust company’s funds through his ability to get checks cashed by the officials of the bank when he had no funds on deposit there. This trial is scheduled to start on May 25 in the Court of Oyer- and Terminer, with Chief Justice' M Ilham ,S. Outrunere presiding as the trial judge. , . jwl'v;. ■ CARRANZA MAY JOIN ARMISTICE Mediators Believe Rebel Chief May Agree to Quit Hostilities if His Army Captures Saltillo. BULLETIN. n\ C. H. RAYMOND United Press t orrespondeut. ON BOARD t. 8. S. U LEVELANB. OFF MANZANILLO. Mexico <by wire less to San Diego, C‘al.», May 4,—Ameri cans and other foreigner* are leaving Manzanillo by the hundreds in fear of violence. The pier of the elty ha* al ready been bnrned. (•nay mas new-paper* declare Admiral Howard commanding the Utncrican Pa eitlr fleet intends to notify the authori ties of that port that he will bombard at the expiration of forty-eight hour* unless Americans are accorded better treatment, according to advices from there today. WASHINGTON. .May 4.—The Mexi can situation in all its aspects was again before the South American mediators when they resumed their session at the Argentine legation to day. They planned as their first move of the day to go together to the State Department for a reply to their re quest for the appointmen of a dele gtate from the United States, with his name, if the appointee had been determined upon. The Huerta dele gate. it was believed, would be either Joaquin D. Casasus, now' on his way here from Carlsbad, or Zamacona R. Inclan, former Mexican financial ad viser at London; and the Carranza delegate probably Rafael Zubaran, now here. It was learned from an authorita tive source that Carranza had sent a further telegram to the mediators, in quiring as to their request for the appointment of a Carranza aelegate; the extent of his functions, and whether this would be limited to the controversy between the United States and Huerta, beyond which Car ranza nas shown no signs of nego ' tialing. Anti-American demonstrations at La Paz on April 28 was reported in a delayed massage from the La Paz consult aboard the Jupiter, en route j to San Diego. He said the Federate had given protection and that the consulate had been turned over to the British viceconsul with Federal troops quelling the disturbances and the town was in quiet W'hen the con sul and a group of refugees left for Ban Diego. The mediating envoys reached the I state department urul wen* into cou.-^ , ferenoe with SecretfAy Bryan shortly* before noon. Ambassador da Gama, i»f Brazil, and Minister Xaon, of Ar gentine. arrived first. A few minutes later the Chilean minister. Mr. Suarez, joined them. Secretary Bryan said ; that some announcement might be I made later. Ff*r C (implication?*. Meantime the mediators were chief ly concerned in not having any unto ward warfare by advance posts and skirmishers to cause complications in the negot ations. Besides the actual steps they have taken, they view their largest work thus far as being a sus pension of a condition of war. and the time tills has given to consider the possibility of finding some middle ground of adjustment. They were now reasonably hopeful that an open rup ture and warfare was put off. except for the movement of the Carranza forces. The tense situat’on at Mex ico City also gave some concern, as it was realized a crisis might come from that quarter at any time. But with these two dangers avoided for the present—warfare and a possible c atastrophe at Mexico City—the me diators were determined to go stead ily forward in shap!ng the procedure for then- meeting with the delegates from the three parties. Their sesssion continued to be most Informal, no voting having been taken up to this time, and all decls'ons having been reached by unanimous agreement. They began iate this morning, having been together until nearly I a. m. last night. Three ses sions were expected for the day, morning, afternoon and night, farranxay iiaxrr Not Vina!? In circles close to the Huerta rep resentatives news of Carranza's first refusal to agree to an armistice was not taken us final. It was pointed out that it would have been surprising if the Constitutionalists had accepted the armistice on the eve of getting possession of Saltillo. Once in pos session of that Federal stronghold the attitude of the Constitutionalists toward the arm stice might be modi fied. General Huerta's reported ut terance that he will never resign is not taken seriously in the Huertatista circles here. He is said to be sincere ly desirous of bringing the whole controversy to a speedy end. REFUGEES’CL IS | From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. May 4.—Claims arising front the Mexican war trouble today swamped the office of Cone Johnson, solicitor of the state depart ment. Piles of letters announcing either definite claims or giving inten tion n> file claims piled into his office. Refugees whose property has been destroyed by Mexicans or has van ished through abandonment in flight informed Johnson that they would expect reimbursement. Some held that the I'nited States it self ought to settle because it was getting the refugees out of the tro mle zone. Others held that the Mexican government, the only responsible party in cases of destruction, should pay their damages. Many of the letters were tabloid tragedies. They told of hard-eameJ money invested in Mexican property only to be swept away l>y depreda tions or lost when the owners fled for their lives at the warning of the dan ger. The writers saw a life wirk swept away in a flush. Other* w-re in angry tone and plidniy score.) th*» administration as being inefficient. y Most of the claims, it was admitted, will not be sotlled lor —mini la Mima, __ _ i «jjg