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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03
Melvin Vaniman and Brother
Victims of Explosion Which
Wrecks Akron 500 Feet
Above the Sea.
THOUSANDS SEE ACCIDENT
Airship, Soon to Start for
Europe, on Trial Cruise Of
Atlantic City-Mrs. Vaniman
Foresaw Fatal Mishap.
ACCIDENTS TO DIRIGlBLES.

AUGUST s. 1eo1-Dirigible Of Santos
pumont destroyed at Paris, balloon
ist having narrow escape from, death'
October 19, 19ot-DirigibIe Of San
tos. Dumont burst at Monaco ana
hurled him into sea; was rescued.
May u, 19o2-M. Severe and COM
nanion killed at Paris by explosion OF
diriqible 1900 feet in the air.
October 10, 19o2-Baron eradsky
and his assistant killed at Pierrefitte,
France, when dirigibe broke up IN
the air.
October 10, 19o7-British military
diriqible the Null Secundus wrecked
in oale near London; no fatalities.
AUGUST 5, 19os-The Zeppelin ! was
struck at Echterdingen by gust OF
wind while anchored. expIodeH and
was totally destroyed; no fatalities.
MAY. 1eo9-The Zeppelin II struck
a tree at Goeppingen and badly dam
aqed: no fatalities.
September %. 1eo9-The French
military dirieibIe Republique' W'he
travelling from Paris to Antibes' at a
heiqht of 600 feet, exploded killing
four French officers.
April 25, 1o10-The Zeppelin " was
DESTROYED in a squall; no fatalities.
June %. 1910-The Deutschland !
was totally wrecked on her maiden
VOYAGE in the Teutoburg Forest; no
fatalities.
September II, 19to-The Zeppelin
VI was destroyed at Baden Baden; no
fatalities.
May IS, 1911-The Deutschland IL
was wrecked no fatalities.
June 28, 19t2-The Schwaben ! was
destroyed by fire and explosion at
Dusseldorf; a nurob.r Of soldiers we're
injured.
Number Of aeroplane fatalities up
to July I, 1912, 15o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03

Atlantic city, July = tSpeciaD.-While
thousands Of people, Mortified beyond ut
tarance. looked on from the boardwalk
and beach, the dirigibe Akron built by
Melvin Taniman 10 attempt the over
Atlantic passage, burst into fame and
plunged into the sea this morning kill
ing its crew Of five men. The dead arc
raniman himself. his younger brother,
Calvin Vaniman: Walter Guest, Fred
erick Elmer and George Bourillion. The
big airship was blown 10 pieces by an
explosion, probably produced by a too
rapid expansion Of gas.
The BODY Of Calvin Vaniman fell from
TIE Akron as the understructure was
dropping through the air, and was re-
covered not long after the accident, but
the other men were carried down into
the sandy bottom, Gagged in the wire
framework of the craft. 1t is probable
they were killed instantly by the explo-
sion. Bourillion's body, when taken out
by a diver. was crushed and torn and
most Of the clothing had been ripped
away
The Akron mounted easily and grace
fully into the air early to-day for a trial
cruise. The sands were black with per-
sons who watched her as she floated up
ward under splendid control and sailed
out over the sea until she was five hun
dred feet above Absecon Inlet, half a
mile from the shore and a quarter of d
mile south Of Brigantine Beach, which
is across the inlet from this city.
When she went up the soft wind that
blew across the inlet had not dispelled
the haze and the sun was only a bronze
ball in the misty sky. But the clouds
dispelled and soon the sunshine SHIN
mered on her great yellow envelope that
stood out so dashingly against the blue
Of the sky.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03
THIRD PARTY CALL ISSUED
Chicago, August /, Place and
Time for T. R. Convention.
[Ry Telegraph to The Tribunel

GBy Telegraph to The Tribune.l
Chicago, July 2.-The national conven-
tion Of the Roosevelt third party will be
held in Chicago, beginning August l..
Directly following the announcement of
the nomination of Woodrow Wilson by
the Democratic National Convention,
Senator Joseph Dixon, acting on behalf
of Roosevelt. announced that the call
was being made.
At the same time Medill Mccormick
field marshal for Roosevelt in Illinois,
in compliance with an urgent message
in the forenoon from oyster Bay, left
Chicago for New York, and will confer
with Roosevelt and Dixon to-day re-
gardng the convention.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03
NAMING OF WILSON
BLOW TOROOSEVELT
Snl;t Of Radical Vote Certain if Colonel Per
sists in Running for Presidency and Many
Democrats Will Rally to Taft.
STATEMENT HANDICAP
nv 4 Staff Correspondent of The Tribunc)

Staff Corrcspo Of The Tihunc)
Of Governor Wilson constitutes
blow the third party Colonel Roosevelt has confessed to
than one friend nomination OF the erseyman more
than that The nomination OF Wilson claimed as
great victory Bryan and it must be confessed that
promoting this administered severe blow to Murphy
M there grave Of whether ne mas not
,,so defeated his cherished ambition
Bryan TO destroy
his nonnauo out
,os, control of il It destroyed Clark 1t snged his
accomplished election OF his rival Governor
Wilson hardly surprising h Mr. bryan
qmzzica expression
From point the Democracy has tor once shattered
couted on 10 ounoe
the crucial point 1t the
opnion picked their strongest man. and
the candidates are compelled
to the truth Of this assertion go
From Republican point must also De ADMITTED hat whe
things himself extremely Vulnerable
attack candidate than would have been champ
Governor Harmon, or Oscar Underwood
MEANS DIVISION THE RADICALS
the induced continue Its ehor TO secure inc
election Wilson makes the tor
the Democracy doubtless be the reelection OF PRESIDENT Ia
for the Wilson and Roosevelt while
will be concentrated on the PRESIDENT
There Colonel Roosevelt will hd expen
abandon his third candidacy
Wilson above all others VINO
was nominee who would deprive the third
term party While the Jersey pedgogue does not
appeal possessed by the average Demo
radical element Coon
which could to him from the
Will
President perhaps but not the less genuney
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03
*Absent, 2.
CHURCHILL BESTOWS A KISS
Minister Held by Legs to Salute
the Blarney Stone.
IBy Cable to The Tribune.

London, July 3.-Winston Churchill
First Lord OF the Admiralty. who paid
visit of inspection to the Haulbowline
Dockyard. at Cork. yesterday. motored
afterward to Blarney Castle and kissed
the famous Blarney stone. after ascend
ing a tower 100 feet high to do this.
He had to lean over the top Of the
tower head foremost, while Sir James
Long held him by the legs TO prevent the
hone of British democracy from falling.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03
HouN, pAWG AND MOOSE DEAD

Seagirt. ~ j.. July some OF the mes
sages received by Governor Wilson to-
night we're IN a light vein. One, from a
yerscy city man. recommended friend
for appointment as minister TO ireland"
Ano.her from Baltimore, read: we
killed the houn dawg and the bull moose
at 800 IIaleujah"'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03
Women Faint at Sight Of It.

IL was almost minute before the
crowd could comprehend what had hap
pened' even though what was left OF the
AKRON lay floating on the waves. But
"hiie women tainted and we're carried TO
'"e inlet pavilion TO be revived, men put
out in motor boats. one Of these was
'uhciiman Harry Cook, member OF
,ne america Exhibition Company, which
.ad helped TO finance the unsuccessful
"isht OF Walter Wellman In 1910, voy-
'ee IN which Vaniman, the practical
Continued nm ...,., .. .at., ,oI,n,n
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03
MRS SARAH PLATT DECKER ILL.

San Francisco. July Mrs. Sarah Platt
Decker, former president of the General
Federation OF Women's Clubs, was taken
to a sanatorum here tonight and Is sara
to be seriously Ill.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03

Continued on ssvsntI page, third column.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03
Shoots Upward Suddenly.

II must have been that the tempera-
ture rose suddenly when this happened,
for the Akron, which had been drifting
lazily along in the air lanes, shot up
ward quickly. and then a tiny flash Of
light appeared atop the balloon. This
spread like an electric spark. and a great
burst of fame and smoke followed.
The bag split at the top. A deep rum
BILE came across to the watchers, terri
flying them into stiffness Yellow gray
smoke completely hid the Akron, billow-
ing up around her, and then rolled in
turgid clouds above her in the wind.
The undcrstructure ripped from its
meshing and the forward part Cf the big
gas bag up-ended. described a slow ark
and then jumped in 'l,' air as the car
tore free and fell IN, ocean, never
once turning ii. it's d..
Half way d'wn tho oody Of a man
hew out Of the car and rocketed to the
ocean, striking the water before the
urdestructure splashed great wave
hfty feet TO the west Of the man, who
was Calvin Vaniman. The gas bag had
Wayered for a time, fiuttered like a live
lhlng and then, Crump!ing into the sem
Dlance Of a wrinklCd. dead apple, tum-
Died down in a spiral. with smoke curl
ing from II, ana fell into the ocean II
hundred feet from where the car had
struck
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-03
Swing to New Jersey Governor Made on 46th
Ballot, Though He Gained Steadily
on Three Previous Polls Of the Day.
BRYAN CLAIMS ALL THE CREDIT
Release Of Underwood Delegates Comes as Murphy and
Sullivan Are Planning to Switch New York and Illinois
Delegations to House Leader Temporarily. and
p Aterward Return to Speaker Clark. -.
fRy a staff Correspondent Of The Tribune.l

Baltimore July (Wednesday)-Woodrow Wilson, Governor OF
New Jersey President Thomas R. Marshall Governor of In
President the ticket completed by the Democratic
National this morning Governor Marshall nominated
the Vcedency by accamaon after two ballots Governor
Burke of North Dakota the othel chief candidate
The first Marshall polling 389 votes, to 3O5 23 for
Burke the Indiana Governor gained steadily OBJ
tanning Burks 87 H and North Dakota then with
drew Buke's
The convention then adjourned sine die. az "a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-01
Hadlex rurns Moose Down.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 1.-Governor
Hadley has again turned down the bull
moose party, it was learned today and
some believe that split more serious
than was thought possible In Missouri
has resulted.
A. A. B. Woerheide, of st. Louis,
made an attempt in a caucus to have
Hadley's administration indorsed. but
was turned down. Woerheide kept up
his fight and finally called Hadley by
long distance telephone to explain the
situation, but Hadley declared there
was no change in his determination to
remain regular
AS a result there is a growing cold
ness toward the progressive party
among Hadley's friends, it Is asserted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-01
chloaao eambIers Are AetIve.

.[United Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, Aug. IA bomb was ex-
ploded at the side door of the saloon
operated by Nanny" Abrams, 72f
Vest 18th street today, partially
wrecking the place but injuring no
one. Abrams was the first member
of the Illinois legislature to cast his
vote for William Lorimer for U. S.
senator and he was mentioned as one
OF the men who profited by the vote.
The police believe the bomb was set
off by members OF the gambling fra
ternity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-01
= Honor Wept Great Quantities
? While ProclalmIns His Innocence
of the Charges Against
Him.
FF HAS SUPPORT
Citizens Get Out the Band and sua.
0est Hanging Court In Efflsy
But Postpone tho
lnsult.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. |
MACON, Ga. Aug. Hundreds of
signatures had been obtained TODAY to
a petition demanding that congress
take up the charges upon which Col
w. A, Huff, for ten years mayor and
one of the most popular residents of
this city, demands the impeachment
OF Judge Emery Speer OF the United
States district court. The petition
points out that Colonel Huffs charac-
ter Is unimpeachable and that his
charges are SO serious as to reflect
both upon moral and professional con.
duct of the jurist.
Judge Speer has announced tha.
some other federal Judge will pass on
the contempt proceedings he has
brought against the former mayor.
Meanwhile Colonel Huff is out on bail
and he stated today that he had re-
ceived offers of unlimited funds for
his fight from friends here. He posi-
lively refused to withdraw or modify
single allegation made against the
federal jurist despite the fact that
Speer, with tears streaming down his
cheeks, denied each separate allega.
tion from the bench and asserted that
Huff was in conspiracy to ruin him.
While Judge Speer was passing to
his place on the bench a great crowd
filled his court room aud many tried
| to get close enough to Colonel Huff
to shake hands with him and assure
him of their support. Speer sat glum
/ ly and emphatically denied each of the
| allegations his accuser had brought
against him. The judge denounced the
newspapers for printing the charges
and the newspaper correspondents for
sending them broadcast throughout
the country He asserted that the
Huff estate had doubled during the
thirteen years that 1t had been in the
custody Of the court and while ad.
mitting this seemed a long time for
such an action to remain unsettled In
sisted there was good reason for It..
He denied he had gone to Eagle River
Alaska, at the expense of the estate,
that valuable bear skin rug had
been purchased from estate funds or
that he had appropriated for his own
use mining stock that should have
gone to the estate.
AS the judge continued his emotion
overcame him and the tears were
streaming down his face at the finish.
He then announced that he would
admit Huff to bail and would ask an
associate Judge to pass upon the con-
tempt proceedings.
Last evening large crowd headed
by band proceeded to Colonel Huff's
home and serenaded him. Some OF
the more radical wanted to proceed to
Judge Speer's home and hang him in
efflgy, but the leaders persuaded them
not to do so. Judge Speer is going to
Nova Scotia for four-month's vaca-
tion and unless congress acts there
will be nothing done about the case
until he returns.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-01
Weather Conditions.

There have been showers in the
northeastern states where the pres
sure remains low. and scattered show
ers from the southern mountain region
to the lower Missouri Valley, on the
front of an area of low pressure, which
is central in western Texas this
morning.
The pressure has risen in the north
ern plateau region, and the high area
extends thence to the central val
leys, causing generally far, cool
weather from the mountains to the
Atlantic coast, except in the extreme
south, where 1t continues warm.
naiIv Rjver 9uIIefin
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-01
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and Vicinity: Generally
fair tonight and Friday Not much
change in temperature.
Illinois, Iowa and Missouri: Gener-
ally fair tonight and Friday. Not
much change in temperature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-01
The Cancer Cure.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
BERLIN, AUG. 1.-Physicians are
examining today the forty-four per-
sons DR.. Adolf zeller says he cured
of cancer without operating.
Some of the investigators are skep-
tical. Others think a great discovery
has been made.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-01
Convention plans.

C1lCAGO, AUG. IA revised pro-
gram for the national progressive
convention was announced at the
headquarters of the party here to-
day. Instead Of speaking on Monday
night as had been arranged, Colonel
Roosevelt will deliver his declaration
of faith at Tuesdays session of the
convention.
The convention will bs called tc
sorder Monday noon by Governor
Hiram Johnson of California. Prayer
will be offered by DR.. q. F. Dornblaz-
er of the German Lutheran congrega-
tional. Albert ]. Beveridge, formerly
u. s. senator from Indiana, will be
chosen temporary chairman and he
will deliver the keynote speech Of the
convention. Permanent organization
will be completed before the first days
session is adjourned. Colonel John M.
Parker of Louisiana will be perman-
ent chairman.
On Tuesday, Rev. Father Andrew
Stetz will pronounce the invocation.
Rooseyelts speech will follow. Re
ports of committees, including the
platform committee will be made and
action will be taken upon their recon-
mendations
Prayer by Rabbi Gerson s. Levi will
open the Wednesday session. Nom
nations for president and vice presi-
dent will be made and speeches. of ac-
ceptance will be delivered by the two
nominees.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-01
WILL AIM BLOW
At THE NEGROES
Colonel Roosevelt Promises Declara.
tlon Which He Predicts VIII Not
Prove Very =
Popular. 4
FACTS, NOT THEORIES
Slight Changes Made In the Program
for the Bull Moose Con.
ventIon Of Next
Monday.

lUnited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
OYSTER BAY, Aug. THAT he Will
take a radical stand on the negro
question. which will probably not be
popular, was the declaration today Of
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. He said
that he had completed declaration OF
where he stands comprising some
l,500 words and that it will be made
public within the next few days.
He said that neither of the domin.
ant parties have taken a fair or log
ical stand on the question
II have dealt with facts and not
with theories" he said. "The policy
of the progressive party must be made
clear on this and every other point
Roosevelt positively refused to dis
cuss report that District Attorney
Whitman Of New York might be the
progressive candidate for governor of
New York or Governor Wilson's state
ment favoring a gradual reduction of
the tariff.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-01
Daily Observations.

Mean temperature 31st, II.
Lowest temperature, 62.
Highest temperature, 49,
Lowest temperature last night, SO.
FRED q. GosBWIsCH,
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-01
Daily River Bulletin.
River Forecast.

RlVer Forecast.
The river will remain nearly sta
tionary, or fall slowly, from Daven-
port to Keokuk during the next forty
eight hours.
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Temperature unchanged. Lo- |
cal temp p. m. 10; 7 a. m.
63.
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
H. K. WILLARD AND
SONS HOSTS TODAY
TO OOLD INHABITANTS
After Luncheon at Occi-
dental New Hospital Build
ing Will Be Dedicated.

With Henry X. Willard and his two
sons. Master Henry August Willard.
I'd, and Master William Bradley Willard,
as their hosts, the members OF the Asso-
citation Of Oldest Inhabitants of the Dis
trict of Columbia lunched at the Oc-
cidental Hotel this afternoon.
Following the luncheon the Oldest In
habitants will be conveyed by the hosts
to the Garfield Hospital to attend the
dedication of the new building of the
institution.
The guests gathered at o'clock and
the exercises began at o'clock.
The luncheon is given IN celebrat tion
Of the ninetieth birthday Anniversary Of
the late Henry Augustus willard,
who founded the Willard Hotel, now
succeeded by the New Willard. He
was a vice. president of the Oldest In
habitants at the time of his death.
The building to be dedicated Is given
to the Garfield Hospital as memorial
to Mrs. willard
The list of speakers will include Con-
the State in which Mr.. Willard was
born; B. II. Warner. T. r. Jones, and
others Of the business and professional
men of the city who knew Mr. WILL
lard. President r. NJ. Noyes. of the
oldest Inhabitants, will have part in
the exercises.
to II. X. Willard by the Oldest lnhabi-
tants at his wedding anniversary nearly
or n9O.
The hosts of today have announced
their intention of making the luncheon
an annual event.
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
.LANDLORD|SM HERE
ECL|PSES EUROPE'S
SOCIALIST ASSERTS
Thomas A. Hickey Tells
Convention of Systems
Evils.

INDIAN. POLLS, Ind, May 14.-"Land.
lordlsm that eclipses the well-known
Irish methods that are fostered by the
British government is the cause of most
of the trouble in the United States"
declared Thomas A. Hickey, of Hallets-
Vile, Tex, to the national Socialist
convention today and precipitated an
argument that lasted for several hours.
Hickey was delegated by the national
committee of the organization to in
vestigate the single tax theory pro-
mulgated in America by Henry George
and his report denounced land owner
ship not alone in the United States,
but everywhere where the question of
rentor and lessee is a potent problem
Hickey in his report said:
"a revolution has occurred In land
ownership within the past fifty years
which we have no parallel in the
world. and which today presents to the
people of the United States a problem
that demands an immediate solution.
In 1860 land renting was unknown in
the great state of Texas. In those days
1t was not uncommon to buy a section
of land for as low as so cents per acre.
After the war public lands were grabbed
wholesale by tricky spectators, who
were ably assisted by corrupt Legis-
lature; the railroads received an enor.
mour part of the public domain; they
were given land at the rate of sixteen
sections for each mile they built, the
total amount Of which was thirty-five
and one-half million acres. Chicago
syndicate received 100000 acres, now
worth $GO,o00,o 900, for building the State
capitol, which was 'scab' Job, the
stone for 1t being Quarried by conviCts
and put in place by imported English
'scabs.' Cattle companies fenced in
millions of acres, and as result we
find that renting commenced in the lat
ter portion of the 6O's-with the result
that in 1870 per cent of the land Of
Texas in cultivation was, operated by
renters
I'm 1900 the twelfth census showed
nifty per cent of the cultivated land op-
Grated by renters. Since 1900 a steady
and continuous increase of renting has
been going on all over the State, so that
the thirteenth census shows us that Y
per cent of the cultivated land Is operat-
ed by exploited tenants, who are suffer
ing from landordism as severely as the
Irish tenants in the Saltee mountains in
ireland. OF the miSera bles who till the
land in Southern Europe"
Despite the fact that the industrial
unionists headed by William ID. Hay
wood were defeated in their attempt to
get control of the committees of the
party, 1t was stated by Big Bill and
his chief lieutenants that they had no
iii feelings" and that they would work
hand and glove for the party. Already
the 'impossibilists," as the Industrial
lists are characterized by the intellectual
element that is in control of the conven-
tion have agreed to abide by the rulings
OF the convention for the present"
They admitted today that they could not
expect to amend the party platform and
that It would be replica of that of four
years ago.