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Evening star., 1913-12-08
N|NETY-S|X PERSONS
LOSE LIVES IN FLOOD
Large Territory in Texas Over
run by Water-PIans
for Relief.

HOUSTON, Tex, December S.-Ninety-
six persons were known to have perished
up to noon today in floods that have
swept through several sections OF Texas
Twenty-Five OF those drowned last night
or early today were in territory where
warnings have been posted for several
days.
The crest of the food today vas nearing
the gulf in the Brazos and Colorado
rivers.
Cold weather that set in during the
night added to the discomfort OF thou
sands Of refugees in the south Texas
flood territory.
In Trees Awaiting Rescue.
Throughout the wa,er-bound districts
of the Brazos and Colorado rivers flood
victims waited in ginhouses and trees
for rescue boats to take them to concen-
tration camps on the levees that re-
NAMED above the tide.
While the BraZos crest reached the gulf
Saturday, its fall today was slow. and the
territory along the river 100 miles up
from the gulf eSerienced a record over
flow. This seriously delayed rescue work.
st. Louis to Extend Relief.
ST. LOUIS, December S-Plans for ex-
tending relief to the Hood sufferers of
Texas will be formulated at a meeting
of the executive committee Of the Bus-
ness Mems League here today. The meet
ing was called yesterday on the receipt
of a telegram by Mayor Henry w. Kiel
from the mayor Of Lagrange, Tex, ap-
pealing for aid.
The telegram stated that the vicinity
was in urgent need Of immediate financial
assistance. 1t estimated the damage to
Lagrange and the vicinity at $500, Geo, and
said the city had no railroad communi-
cation.
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SAYRES ON SIGHTSEEING TRIP.
Spend First Day in London on Tour
Around the City.

LONDON, December S.-Francis Bowes
Sayre and his wife. who was Miss Jessie
Woodrow Wilson, spent their first day in
London making i sightseeing trip around
the city.
Mr.. Sayre tomorrow viii accompany
Walter II. Page, the American ambassa-
dor. to Cambridge University. to partici-
pate in the commemoration feast at Trim
ity College.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sayre arrived in London
yesterday. They were met by the Ameri-
can ambassador and Mrs. Page and
drove to the ambassadors residence
where they will be guests
Mr.. and Mrs. Sayre had a rough
crossicg on the steamship George Wash
ington. During the first two days out a
hurricane ragged. The steamer reached
Plymouth twelve hours late.
Evening star., 1913-12-08
"FRAME-UP," SAYS MCGUIRE.
Ex-Mayor of Syracuse, N. T., Pleads
Not Guilty to Indictment.

NEW YORK. December s.-James X.
Mcclure, former mayor Of Syracuse, n.
Y. pleaded not guilty today to an in
dictment charging him with soliciting a
ve-thousand-dollar contribution from
the Union Oil Company, a California
corporation, for the use of the democratic
state campaign. He was given until De-
cember % to change or withdraw his
plea. Bail was fixed at S1,5oO. and the
bond WAS quickly furnished.
Returning from the south Saturday
after d trip in the tropics, MCGUIRE last
night issued a long statement saying that
the charge against him was "a frame
up, Matched by interests whose materials
were rejected by the state"
Evening star., 1913-12-08
Famous Automobile Pilot Killed.

BRUSSELS, Belgium. December s.
Camille Jenatzy. the. Belgium auto
mobile racing pilot. was accidentally
killed in a forest near here today by
the editor of a Brussels newspaper.
Both were members OF hunting party
on the game preserve of a wealthy
friend. Jenatzy had been racing since
1903. when he won the international
cup race in Ireland. He took part in
the Vanderbilt cup race in October,
1905, but did not finish. In the Wander.
bilt race Of 1906 he finished 6fth.
Evening star., 1913-12-08
HANS SCHMIDT ON TRIAL.
Priest Who Confessed Staying Anna
Aumuller in Court.

NEW YORK. December S.-Hans
Schmidt. one-time assistant rector of ST.
Josephs Church, was placed on trial to-
day for the murder of Anna Aumuller.
crime which he confessed after portions
of the girls body had been washed ashore
last September by the Hudson liver.
His defense of insanity was made by
his lawyers without his consent. The
district attorney charges that Schmidt is
shamming insanity, and that his plea to
be permitted to expiate his crime In the
electric chair is insincere.
Evening star., 1913-12-08
SILENT ON PARENTS DEATH.
Fernald M. Eldridge Refuses to Dis
cuss Maine Case.

AUGUSTA. Me. December S.-Fernald
NJ. Eidridge. arrested yesterday in con-
nection with the death Of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William b. Eldridge, whose
bodies were found in their partially burn
ed home at West Gardiner. persistently
refused today to discuss the case.
An autopsy was performed today, and
preparations were made for an inquest
later in the day. The police claim to have
discovered in Eldridge's lodgings evi-
dence that the young man contemplated
Evening star., 1913-12-08
For Maryland and Virginia.

Estimates for improvements in Mary
land and Virginia are follows:
Maryland-Ellz and Little Elk rivers,
5. 500. harbors Of Eockhall. Queens
town, Claiborne and Cambridge. and
Chester. Choptank. Warwick. Wicomico
Pocomoke La Irappe and ManOhin
rivers, and Tyaskin creek, S30,50O: Cor
sica river, 81. 500; Tuckahoe river. 81, SEQ.
Nirginia-Mattaponi and Pamunkey
rivers, Occouuan and Aqua creeks.
$1,000; Rappahannock river, $4,000;
Nansemond river. $4,000; James river.
turning basin at Richmond and works
on fourteen mile reach, $4,000; Apo
mattox river. 5000: waterway, Nor
folk to North Carolina sounds, $4,000:
inland waterway Norfolk to Beaufort
inlet, N c. 100000: operating and
care of same, $1,000.
Evening star., 1913-12-08
JOHN BARTON MILLER
MUST go TO PRISON
United States Supreme Court
Refuses to Direct Review
of the Case.
Three Times Convicted of Embez-
zling Funds of Cooperative
Building Association.

The Supreme Court Of the United States
today refused the application OF attorneys
for John Barton Miller, formerly secre-
ary-treasurer Of the now defunct First
Cooperative Building Association of
Georgetown. for writ Of certiorari for
the review OF his conviction by the Dis
trict Court of Appeals. The refusal of
the Supreme Court to grant the writ re-
moves the last hope ente; tanned by At
torneys Henry E. Davis and John E.
Laskey of saving Miller from a term in
prison.
The case against Miller has been one
Of the most bitterly contested legal
battles ever Waged in the courts of
the District of Columbia. Following tlS.
collapse in 1908 of the building asso-
citation in which he was secretary treas
urer Miller was indicted. the ind ctment,
which contained thirty-three counts. al
than 100000 Of the associations funds,
in addition to the destruction of many
of it's books and records.
Twenty Years in Prison.
Tried first before Justice Stafford, a
verdict of guilty on two counts of the in
dictment. involving the misapplication of
about $1,60O, was returned, Justice Stat
ford thereupon. imposing a sentence of
ten years imprisonment on each Of the
counts, or twenty years in all. On TAX
ing the case to the District Court Of APP
peals a new trial was ordered.
The verdict of the jury in the second
hearing was practically the same as that
returned at the first trial, and Justice
Wright imposed a sentence aggregatng
twenty years in the penitentiary- An
ether appeal and third trial followed,
Justice Gould this time passing sentence
of twenty years Imprisonment after the
Jury had returned a verdict Of guilty ON
the two counts in the Indictment.
Efforts to have the case again re-
viewed by the District Court of Appeals
proving fruitlesS, Attorneys Davis and
Laskey prayed the Supreme Court Of the
United States for a writ of certiorari to
compel the local court again to review
the long-pend.ng case and to direct a
fourth trial for their client.
Wipes Out Final Hope.
The issuance of the writ was opposed
on the ground that Miller had been three
times convicted on the charges against
him; that the sentences in each convic-
ton We're the same-tWenty years I'M
prisonment-and that no new evidence
and no evidence of irregularities in the
conduct of the previous trials had been
introduced or could be shown.
Touay's action of the Supreme Court
of the United States removes the final
hope for Miller and leaves the local
court free to enforce the prison sentence
imposed upon him by three separate
justices and as the result of three trials.
Attorneys Davis and Laskey were not
inclined to say what further steps would
be taken in behalf of their client. though
it was believed brief delay will be
asked in order to permit -Liller to close
up his business affairs here before enter
ing upon his prison sentence.
Evening star., 1913-12-08

in view of the liability of its being needed
TO make repairs to the old piers in the
present structure, which are at any time
liable to serious accidents which may in
voive a suspension of traffic over the
bridge for a time, if not its destruction.
Evening star., 1913-12-08
British Warships at Naples.

NAPLES. Italy, December 8-A
squadron Of nine British warships ar
rived in port here today. Their stay
is to last five days and many festivi-
ties have been arranged In honor OF
the officers and men.
Evening star., 1913-12-08
Eastern Roads Rates Attacked

The New York Produce Exchange be-
fore the interstate commerce commission
today attacked east-bound rates and
regulations of the eastern railroads on
grain, faxseed and like commodities
from western and northwestern states.
Evening star., 1913-12-08
Accumulation Classsd as Evil.

Senator Swanson maintained that one
OF the greatest evils existing under our
banking system today was the vast ac-
cu.nulation OF the reserves of the banks
in New York city. which were used large
H. for stock speculation to the detriment
Of business.
lie approved of the provision OF the bin
which limited the loans of the federal
reserve banks to commercial. industrial
and agricultural purposes. saying that
great advantage would accrue 10 all these
interests when the $685.. 100000 of re
sources which would be provided for
these banks would. be dedicated to this
purpose and not used. as now. for specula-
tive ventures. He claimed that this would
insure accommodation 10 ieSltlmate buSi-
ness and enterprise.
The advantages which accrue to the
country from requiring the deposits of the
United States Treasury to be put in these
banks We're pointed out by Senator Swan
son. He said this would give from $125-
oso. .oo0 to 500, 900, 600. now locked up, for
legitimate business purposes, much to the
advantage OF commerce and trade
Yield Government Profit.
The senator claimed that the banks
would be very profitable, and from con-
servative estimates made by experts
would yield the government annually in
pEOnI bttNCtI Si-.VOO,poO diAu
after paying per cent interest on the
stock TO the member banks
The duty of the democratic party to
pass this bill was clear, he said. He COM
mended the President for his courage and
insistence upon this legislation declaring
that craftsmanship consisted of both the
wisdom to discern the right pathway
and also the valor to follow it. He said
that the President possesses in a pre-
eminent degree this capacity and courage
! which make real craftsmanship
Evening star., 1913-12-08
Presented to President Wilson.

Sir Robert Hadfield Of Sheffield, Eng
and, called upon Secretary Daniels today.
and later was presented by Mr.. Daniels
to President Wilson. Sir Robert and
Lady Hadfield plan to visit the Naval
Academy at Annapolis before returning
to England.
Evening star., 1913-12-08
Gen. Bixby, in Annual Report,
Estimates for Preliminary
Work at Great Falls.
S3,O00,0O0 Is NECESSARY
TO BEGIN UNDERTAKING
Chief Engineer of the Army Also
Recommends Improvements
in the District.

Seyera! in pOrtaBt commandments re-
spectinE public works in this city and
vicinity are contained III the annual re
port Of Gen. William III. BiXby, as chief
OF engineers OF the army. made public
TODAY Chief Of these is an estimate OF
$iG0U.O0o for preliminary work the
Great Falls water-power project, designed
e. Increase the water supply and 10 fur
nlsh power for electric lights for the Dis
trict OF Columbia. Gen. Bixby says it is
proposed To apply the entire sum TO the
requirement OF land and water rights by
ordinary methods of purchase or by con-
demnation proceedings. TO the purchase of
materials 10 the payment OF pro rata
share of the expenses of the United States
engineer office. and to the payment OF
services in erecting the power plant COM
p.ete.
1t is estimated also that $4,000 can be
profitably expended in the next fiscal
year IN maintaining the Improvement OF
the Potomac river at this city That prof.
ect included the dredging of the Virginia
AMI Washington channels and the recia-
NATION of the flats opposite this city The
work began in 1Ss2, and is now completed.
The Io,aI expenditures up to June 80
last were S;,u:o.j6I Gen. Bixby says
that the work has been of great benefit
TO navigation and 10 the general health
of the community. Larger and deeper
draft vessels are now engaged in trade
ne says. and il is understood that freight
rates have been materially reduced from
those formerly charged. The maximum
draft that could be carried June 80 1913
at mean low water over the shoalest part
OF the Wasain~ ton channel was twenty
four feet and Of the Virginia channel 16.j
feet. The mean range of tide is about
three feet. The Potomac river Is navl-
SablS to the foot of Little Falls. three
and one-haf miles above Georgetown.
but the Aqueduct bridge. which crosses
the river AZ Georgetown. li3 miles above
the mouth OF the river. has no draw and
limits the navigation OF large steamers
nd rnasted vessels. y draft of twenty
three feet can be brought to the mouth
OF the Anacostia river from the Atlantic
ocean by way of the Chesapeake bay and
ri
Evening star., 1913-12-08
FOR EARLY ACTION
ON CURRENCY BILL
Senator Swanson Says the
Measure viii Be Beneficial
to Legitimate Business.
INSURES TO THE BANKS
A VIGOROUS CO-WORKER
Prevents Accumulation of Money for
Speculative Purposes, He Declares,
Addressing the Senate.

Declaring that the currency system con-
tanned in the pending democratic currency
bill gives the banks Of the country
neither master nor slave, but q
strong. vigorous co-worker and assistant, =
Senator Swanson of Virginia today urged
the Senate to speedy action on the
measure.
The senator said the measure was wise.
prudent and conservative; that it retained
all the good features of our present cur
rency and banking system and only
eliminated acknowledged evils and sup
Piled confessed additional needs: that 1t
was advantageous in that it continued our
present currency without diminishing its
volume. aggregating $4,000 600, ,00o; that II
continued the country's system of inGe-
pendent banks, whicn has been mos;
beneficial in The development of this coun-
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Objects to Central Bank.

The evils OF central bank were point
out by Mr.. Swanson. who claims that the
advantages of a central bank were far
exceeded by the objections to such a
bank. He claimed that under the pro-
posed system about one-fortieth of the
banking capital Of the country and about
one-fortieth of the banking resources of
the nation would be included in the sys-
tenn. and that the vast amount of bank
ing capital and resources unaffected by
the system would be left for business
and accommodation as now existing. He
asserted that while the capital and re-
sources OF the federal reserve banks
created under the bill were small, in
comparison 10 the capital and resources
undisturbed by the bill, yet it was ample
for the purpose sought TO be obtained,
and made the federal reserve banks far
greater in capital and resources than the
Bank of England, the Bank of France
OF the Reichsbank of Germany, and thus
would be more potential In correcting
panics and money stringency than are
those banks.
Evening star., 1913-12-08
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and Tuesday; CON
tinued low temperature minimum
tonight about p degrees.
FULL REPORT ON PAGE SIXTEEN.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-22
Office In Panic When Paymaster
 Shoots Pistol


 The accidental discharge of a .Ss- calibre revolver at the office of the Bridgeport Brass companys plant this morning while it's operation was being demonstrated by Arthur MeelSer of 1,07s Fairfield avenue, paymatser at the plant, resulted in a narrow escape for Leonard M. Allen of 1,24S Noble avenue, head of the bookkeeping de- pertinent, and several others of the office employees. Missing by a, narrow margin MT. Aliens body, the bullet passed through a desk and hit the wall with sufficient force to cause it to re- bound into the center of the room.
 According the meagre details given out, the revolver had just been pur- chased for use in the office should emergency demand the protection of the pay roll The cartridges had all been supposedly elected when MT. Meker started to explain the workings. Later examination showed that one re- mained.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-22
FRISCO IN GALA
 ATTIRE FOR THE
 BIG PORTOLA FETE

San Francisco. Oct. 22-Four hun dred years ago, Don 'Vasco Nunez De Balboa stood silent on 8 peak in Darien, the discoverer of the Pacific Ocean. Today, his personator for San Francisco's portola festival whizzed through the Golden Gate on the United States destroyer Farragut and landed with imposing ceremony at a decorated pier. Then, escorted by B. 600 men, composing regiments naval forces, state naval guards and the naval militia, he proceeded through the city's gaily decorated streets to Union Square, where the queen of the festival received him as her royal con sort.
 Assembled in the harbor here in honor of the celebration are the cruis- CTS Charleston, St. Louis, South Da- kota and Pittsburgh, the gunboat Yorktown and the supply ship Buff faIo.
 Chinatown is mass of festive bunting, the Chinese Six Companies having spent many thousand dollars in decorations.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-22
Three Suicides
 In The Family Of
 Slayer Spencer

Chicago. Oct. 9&-The case of Hen ry Spencer, the confessed murderer now awaiting trial for killing aGra. Mildred Allison Rexroat, has aroused widespread interest among students of criminoIogy. An investigation of his antecedents has brought to light these facts:
 That his father, a lifelong victim of alcoholism, died a suicide.
 That three years after his father had killed himself. Spencer,s only brother took his own life.
 That one of his sisters killed her self because of despopdency after Spencer had been sentenced to his first term in prison.
 That g. third sister married and, sT- ter bearing two children, died of tub erculosis.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-22
Failure Of We'll Known Business Man To Keep Appointment With Owner Of Franklin Block Leads To Investigation That DisCIoses His Unexplained Ab- sence--Is Active Church Member Family Frustrated By Suddenness Of His Departure

Henry R. Greene, a business man of prominence, active church mem Der, and socially prominent in the Beardsley Park section of this city is today among the missing. He has not been seen for several days Friends observed that he was acting in an ex- treme1y depressed manner. An at tachnaent has been issued against his business in the Franklin Building and at his home, 1131 Noble avenue, his wife is prostrated with grief at his prolonged absence and it is feared that some untoward accident may have befa11en him.
 Through the filing of an attachment for a large sum of money against the firm of Barfram & Greene in the Franklin Building, news of the disap- pearance of the only surviving part ner of the long established firm leak ed out. It later became known that he had not been in his office for sew era1 days and that every effort on the part of his creditors to locate him In this city had failed.
 At his home, his wife was too i'll from the shock of his disappearance to be seen and his mother while re- fusing to dIvuIge such information as they might possess, intimated that it was feared he might he dead. GA little son has been taken from school pend ing developments in the mystery.
 A prominent attorney connected with the case said today:
 ss4rs Greene owed Louis w. HILL. trustee of the Hill estate, owners of the 2FSranExlin building and other pro- perttes considerable sum of money. on account of the rents which MT. Greene has collected for MT HfI who has control of that property. As these collections were long overdue MT. Hill
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-22

sought MT. Greene and an appoint ment was finally made to meet at a lawyers office and discuss the matter This was for 8 o'clock yesterday morn ing. The appointment was not kept and 1t was later found upon tnvesti- gation that the office safe of Bartram & Greene had been locked and no trace of the rea1-estate agent could be found in this city. It was there- fore believed necessary to place an at tachment upon the office which was done yesterday by Sheriff Richard Brown. This attachment is returnable the first Tuesday in November and uTa- large sum owed to MT. Hill is made sheriff will be in possession
 Though Mr. Hill referred all in quirers to his attorneys, it was learned that he had personally endeavored to find the missing businessmen and had instituted. a. search both in this city and elsewhere in the hopes that the financial tangIe might be strengthened out.
 aged, began his business career as a clerk with the late A. R. Bartram, a real estate and, insurance man Of note. So apt was the progressive Greene that it was not long before he had been made Junior partner in the firm. Upon the death of Bartram the bl1si- ness went to him and he has since conducted it.
 - Greene who is a prorninsnt em ber Of the Washington Park M. E. church bears an excellent reputation. He is a singer and member of the church for which he actively worked. He maintained nice residence on Noble avenue which he has occupied for about ten years.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-22
WILL GIVE M'NEIL'S $lOO TO
 EXECUTIVE BOARD
Democratic Candidates Letter of Acknowledgement to Sem
 ator From 22nd.

Frederick c. Mullins today wrote the following letter of acxnowIedg ment to Senator Archibald McNeiI. fo1 the 1atter's $1O0 contribution to his campaign fund:
 Bridgeport, October. 22, 1913. MT. Archibald McNeiI, Jr,
 Office of Morning Telegram, City. My Dear MT. McNeiI:
 Please accept my grateful acknow1- edgment of yours of yesterday assur- ing me a1ld the Democratic party of your unqualified support and contain ing a check drawn to my order for $100. This, with your permission, l will turn over to the treasurer of the Democratic Executive Committee to be used for the benefit of all the can didates on the ticket as 8 part of the fund needed for necessary election ex- penses.
 did not require this expression from you, to assure me, that the Democratic party, which has so often had occasion to honor you and your esteemed father. could count upon your continued adherence to the cause, nevertheless thds assurance of your good will is very pleasing to me.
 Since I believe myself to be the candidate of the entire Democratic party, I hope to have the good will of all who voted on your side at the primaries. The nomination came to me unsolicited and I was not called upon and did not make any promises to any faction or any person within or without the party.
 As a result of the action of the Democratic City Convention, I now represent those who voted against mo at the primaries equally with those who voted for me.
 Very sincerely yours,
 FRED c. MULLINS.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-22
Somebody Got This
 PoIiCeman's Number

The question now before the house is. who has Policeman Robert Wolfe 8 number? The officer has also lost his goat, but that is another story.
 A few days ago the policeman took his coat down to a. Main street tail or's to have the garment pressed. When he returned to claim it he found that the number on the neck band of the. coat was missing. He did a little sleuthing and learned that some for ner stage hands in a local theatre were running around with police nu- morals on their coats. They had the officers number but he proposed to get it back.
 As we hustle to press the officer de- c1ares he will get his number and also that of the stage hands. But then, any number of things might happen.