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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09
EX-SENATOR PERCY
MADE POWERFUL
ARGUMENT
PRESENTED CASE OF STATES
VITALITY INTERESTED IN PRO-
LECTION FROM FLOODS.
The RANSDELL.HUMPHRIES BILL
Conceded To Be Most Likely To Pass
Congress Since Hearings Before
Rivers and Harbors Committee
Enormous Expense Main Objection.
(By F. D. Lander, Jr.)

Washington, Dec. 9.-Chances that
landlords on the banks of the lower
Mississippi river will receive protec-
tion from the federal government are
result of the hearings on the Ransdell-
Humphreys bill before the rivers and
harbors committee of the House.
1t is now generally conceded that
if any levee bill passes Congress it
will be the Ransdell-Humphreys bill
The main objection that opposition
congressman hold is the enormous ex-
pense the proposition entails, and as
the Newlands bill provides for a much
greater expense, it is agreed this bill
is out of consideration at least for the
present.
The hearings comprised statements
from representative men from each of
the five states most vitally affected
by the floods which devastate the
enormous overflow section, and when
these gentlemen had finished their
speeches which showed the interest
that is taken in the bill by people of
the states represented, former Sena-
tor Leroy Percy of Mississippi took
charge of the case and for nearly two
hours held the committee gripped by
the power of his argument.
| He made it national rather than a
, sectional question. He appealed to
, national .rather than sectional senti-
ments. He told of the vast waste that
! is bound to accrue to the United States
If this important section is left unpro-
tected and the fact that he held prac.
tically the entire committee in an at.
titude of evident sympathy during his
argument evidences the effect he had
over that body.
! He said the feasibility of levees is
nothing new, nothing the wisdom OF
which has not been vindicated by
, time and experience" He reviewed
the history of the devastating floods
of the lower Mississippi and told Of
what has been done in the past and
how much and how little good it has
accomplished.
Then he pitched headlong into an
swering the most effective argument
that has been advanced against gov
ernment appropriations for the lowel
Mississippi-the argument that the
government should not be called OF
to do the work but that it should bt
done by the states.
'You ask" said Senator Percy, "why
the national government should b.
called upon to bear all or any part o
the great expense incident to thi
work. 1t is simply because the pro
position is so immense that the govern
ment is the only power big enough t,
cope with it. This is distinguishe,
from every other proposition that ha
ever come or ever will come befor
this committee in the magnitude O
the work itself, in the magnitude II
II CONTINUED on Page Eight.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09

The hearing of charge of assault
and battery against Gentry Burkes and
his wife. Lille Burks, was the occasion
for airing the details of family row.
in which the wife used her slipper, her
teeth and her once strong arm-now
hanging useless by her side as a result
of the scrap-and both sides pictured
how the other was the aggressor in a
melee which stirred up the whole
neighborhood in which it occurred.
Believing that as the wife was cor
roborated by the seventeen-year-oli
son. his honor discharged the woman
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09
EX- X-CATHOLIC PRIEST
IS EPISCOPAL RECTOR

South Bend, Ind Dec. 9.-Rev. Vic
tor Won Kubinyi, bishop of the Hun
garian National Catholic Church, and
formerly Roman Catholic priest, is a
rector in the Episcopal church. Rev.
Won Kubinyi was received into the
Episcopal church on Sunday by Bishop
John H. White, at the st. James
Church, which was filled with men,
bers of the parish and more than two
hundred followers of the former Cath
olic priest.
These followers will be received in.
to the Episcopal church as soon as
proper routine can be observed, all
having signified their intention of fol
lowing Won Kubinyi.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09
THAW'S NUTT'NESS
MUST Be DECIDED
SANITY OF FUGITIVE TO BE DE-
cIDED IN FEDERAL COURT, Ac-
coRDING TO DECISION.
(By Associated Press.)

Concord, n. H., Dec. 9.-Whether
Thaw is insane must be determined
in federal court, according to a de-
cision rendered here. Thaw is now
held for conspiracy and when the mat
ter came up the question arose as to
whether he could be a menace to the
public if liberated. To determine this
question his sanity must again be
threshed out.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09

and candles. The sheriffs are holding
Koras for investigation.
Satisfied that Lopez was alive in the
mine, Sheriff Smith of Salt Lake coun-
ty ordered the bulkheads replaced in
the exits. His action caused vigorous
protests.
"It will occasion a useless waste of
life to continue the search" said Sher-
iff Smith, as he ordered every deputy
out of the mine.
The discovery of the blankets and
tracks of Lopez indicated that he had
not succumbed to the poisonous gases
forced into the tunnel last week to
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09
ARGUING MOTION TO QUAsk
bILbO- HOBBS indictment
. . . . . . . . y . . . . . =
= SHIP SINKS; RESULT
. OF PECULIAR MISHAP.
(By Associated PreSs.)

= New York, Dec. 9.-When =
= loading the steamer Zulia in East =
= River, a steel shaft being lowered .
= into the hold dropped from the .
. sling and pierced hole in the =
. ships bottom. The crew was I'M =
. able to stop the rushing water .
= and the craft sank, causing an .
. estimated loss of 100000. =
= . = . q . . . . . = . . = . .
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09
FOR
PARDON co TO
WASTE BASKET
(By Associated Press.)

Hartford, Conn.,, Dec. 9.-Letters
and petitions asking the pardon of
Mrs. Bessie Wakefield, sentenced to
be hanged, are now estimated to have
reached 25,000. They are all going
into the waste basket as fast as re-
ceived by the governor. Many in
genious methods are used to prevail
on the governor to save the woman"s
life.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09
NJ REYNOLDS ASKS
few CHANGES
IN LAWS
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF At
ToRNEY GENERAL DEALS MORE
WITH COURT MACHINERY.
SILENT ON ANTITRUST PROGRAM
President Wilson Expected to Deal
With Subject in Special Message to
Congress, However-NoveI Solution
OF Federal Judge Problem.
(By Associated PreSs.)

Wy aooOCtutCu IfCSSsJ
Washington, Dec. 9.-Attorney Gen
eral McReynolds in his first report as
head Of the law department of the
government submitted to Congress to-
day, makes few recommendations for
legislation. The changes he urges
have more to do with the machinery
of courts than with the fabric of the
law.
On an antitrust legislation program
the attorney general was silent. He
asked Congress for no amendment to
the Sherman act, the rod his depart
ment uses to bring trusts to terms.
and he points out no fault in its opera
tion.
President Wilson, however, intends
to send a special message on the
trust question to Congress in the near
future, and that undoubtedly will en-
body some of the attorney generals
views.
Attorney General McReynolds made
it clear, however, that so long as he
was head of the department he would
oppose court DEGREES in antitrust suits
where the combination was dissolved
into parts under the control of the
same stockholders. That plan, adopt
ed in the Standard Oil and Tobacco
cases, he calls a fundamental defect
and later adds in the same connection
my fixed purpose is to oppose any
plan of dissolution which would leave
the separate parts of the unlawful com
bination under the control of the same
set of men,"
The attorney general offers a move
solution of the problem of superan
nuated federal judges. Such judges
under the Constitution hold office dur
ing good behavior although they ma.
retire at the age of seventy after tel
years service.
81 suggest" says the attorney gen
eral. IAN act providing that when an
Judge below the supreme court fail
to avail himself of the privilege of re
firing now granted by law, that tn
President be required, with the adyic
and consent of the Senate, to appoin
another Judge, who shall preside owe
the affairs of the court and have pre-
cedence over the older one. This wi
insure at all times the presence of
Judge sufficiently active to discharg
promptly and adequately the duties {
the court"
Mr.. McReynolds suggests thu
clerks of United States courts shoul
be appointed for specified terms an
subject to removal by the Presidel
for cause and asks that provision |
made for a review by the Supren
, Court of the now final decisions
, the Court of Customs Appeal, on app
cation only by the government.
: approves the bill introduced by Re
: resentative. Clayton giving the S
, preme court power to promulga
rules for trials on the law side of fe
. eral courts. He reminds Congre
a Continued on Page Five.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09
MSTRUCTS JURY
DISMISS CHARGE
AGAINST CRAIG
(By Associated PreSS.)

Shelbyville, Ind, Dec. 9.-Judge
Blair instructed the jury to dismiss
the case against DR.. William B. Craig,
charged with the murder of DR.. Helene
Knabe at Indianapolis. The motion
to dismiss was made for the defendant
when the taking of testimony was
concluded yesterday.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09
Be SOMETIME BEFORE
DECISION ANNOUNCED
Defense Lawyers Charge That Grand
Jury, Returning Bills, Was Not Prop
erly EmpaneIed-State's Attorneys
Denounce Statement as False.
(By Associated Press.)

Vicksburg, Miss, Dec. 9.-When ar
guments on the motion to quash the
indictments against Lieut.. Gov. Bilbo
and Senator Hobbs, charged with brib-
cry, began in private chambers, it
was indicated that it would be some
time before a decision was reached.
Only one of the many lawyers who
will speak for one side or the other
had spoken this afternoon.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09
FOUR THOUSAND REFUGEES
Reach THE TEXAS BORDER
, = 80 = . = = = = = = . . . 4
, CHINA WANTS SOME 4
, GOLDEN EGG MONEY. 4
(By Associated PreSS.)

. San Francisco, Dec. 9.-When =
= China learned that eggs were =
= selling for 75c a dozen on the =
= coast, Shanghai merchants start =
. ed out for some of this attractive =
D business. Three thousand dozen q
= arrived from China today. =
. . Q = = = . . . . . . . . . q
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09

Houston, Tex. Dec. 9.-Last night
the number of known dead as a result
of the flood which has spread over the
lowlands in half a dozen counties in
South Central Texas reached $50, with
several thousand refugees marooned
in half flooded cotton gins and dwell
ling houses, safe from the water for
the time being, but suffering from
hunger and exposure. Four-fifths of
the dead and marooned were negro
farm hands.
OF the dead the greater number lost
their lives in the vicinity of Bryan,
where a thirty-mile stretch of levee
along the Brazos river crumbled under
the pressure of the food
Hampstead, in Waller county, from
which reports up to last night had been
meagre, reported twenty drowned and
others missing. Reports from half a
dozen other small towns in Waller and
adjoining counties advanced the total
fatalities to $50 in ALL
The San Felipe section of Austin
county, where fears were expressed
for several hundred persons marooned
on slight elevation, received a ship
ment of motorboats from Houston
which rapidly removed the refugees tc
safety.
The great danger was freezing ant
starvation. For the second successive
night ice was forecast over the thirty
mile district about Bryan, where 1906
persons, mostly negroes, are maroonet
with little food or fire.
Urgent appeals for blankets and foot
were received from all over the strick
en- district from Central Texas almos
to the Gulf coast. A train load of pro
visions was ordered from Austin t.
Cause, in Milan county, on the Bra
zos, for 500 marooned. Close to Sim
onto, in Fort Bend county, near tn,
mouth of the Brazos river fifty persons
were shut up in a warehouse withou
food.
The Brazos crest went through
dam near Richmond, flooding stat
convict farm. The prisoners had bee
removed.
Texas cities Monday all began pour
ing money and supplies into the floot
ed district, Houston raising $4,000 4
cash.
Danger of additional fatalities alon
the Colorado river, to the west of tn
Brazos, is believed over. The crest c
the flood in that stream is passing int
the Gulf.
In the vicinity of Bryan seven {
J those drowned were members of rescu
parties whose flimsy boats were owe
turned.
One of the most heroic sacrifice
was that of three young Bryan bushes
men, two of whom died in tree mort
} of that city from exposure after the
= two motor boats had capsized. The'
| three, Howard Cavitt, Clifton Elzie al
) Asa ]. Robbins, started Saturday noe
with Tom Evans, another Bryan ma
Continued on Page Four.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09
THE MARKETS.

Chicago, Dec. 9.-Wheat closed firm,
three-eighths to five-eights higher.
Provisions five to ten higher.
New Orleans, Dec. 9.-Cotton
steady, seven to eight up.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09

Houston, Dec. 9.-The race of motor
boats against starvation and danger
of death from exposure continued in
the last two miles of the Brazos
river course. No more life loss was
reported but many thrilling tales of
rescue and suffering are coming from
the flooded district.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09

vicksburg, Miss, Dec. 9.-That the
grand jury which indicted Lieutenant
Governor Theo G. Bilbo and State Sem
ator G. A Hobbs was irregularly
drawn was a charge made by the de-
fense when the cases of the two were
called here Monday. This was brought
out when a motion was made to quash
the indictments.
The grand jury that found the in
dictments was a special, body and
made the returns against Bilbo and
Hobbs the day after it was convened.
The regular jury reported that 1t fin
ished it's work and was discharged
Dec. /. On Dec. 2 new grand jury
was drawn and ON Dec. 3 the indict-
ments were returned.
The defense charged that the sheriff
arranged the list from which the new
jury was impaneled and that the list
was not submitted to the court as u.s.
ual in Mississippi 1t is even charged
that certain names were arbitrarily
eliminated
During the afternoon Sheriff Hyland
was placed on the stand and ques-
toned with regard to the impaneling
of the grand jury. The sheriff testi-
fed that he had not consulted with or
been directed by any one. Asked by
the dafapsa 10 ha wac m ont; p;Iho
man, Mr.. Hyland said he did not know
whether he would be for or against
him.
Court adjourned half an hour earlier
than usual, as two witnesses for the
defense. Frederick Sullens and How
ard Williams, of the jackson News
had not arrived. They reached the
city last night, but after few min
utes consultation with counsel, they
were informed they would not b,
needed.
Wants Hearing In Open.
The case was called at IL O'Clock
the courtroom being crowded. W. ]
Groom, for the defense, presented
;, motion which District Attorney ]. I
G Thames asked to be permitted to e,
\, anime. The prosecutor said it cor
- tained certain statements that wer
h. untrue and requested that it be rea
in the cloak-room-
n. Vigorous opposition was made I
Is this by counsel for the defense, VIII
II insisted that what was said should b
j. said in the courtroom, from which tn
jury might be excluded if necessary.
= District Attorney Thames di
claimed any improper motive in askin
for the conference, but said he did n,
wish the public to be biased for
against the defendants.
I Il do not want the men who are
try this case to hear the motion of II
defense, and there are grave and il
portant reasons why the matters s
,,t forth should be taken up in chal
nd bers," he said.
ON Mr.. Groom charged in reply that N
wv. Thames asserted the motion was ma
Ter for political effect. He said the Ia
ow provided for trials in open court, al
ult the court had no right to exclu
red hearers when the testimony was sa
n a cious. He stood on his right a
ole declined to leave the courtroom
Judge Mounger at this point rul
or in favor of the proposal. He said
old had always consented to hear motto
ian in an ante-room, and would make
|lnr
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09
CONTINUE TO COME FROM THE
FLOODED DISTRICTS ALONG
BRAZoS AND COLORADO.
DEATH LIST REACHES I50
No Additional Fatalities Reported To-
day-Race of Motor Boats Against
Starvation and Danger Of Death Con-
tinues-FIood Waters Entering Gulf.
(By Associated PreSS.)

Houston, Dec. e.-The known
dead in the Texas flood was 1863
up to noon. Ten more were re-
ported from the Bryan section.
The bodies were found when the
water receded.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09
NORMAL FIVE DEFEATS
WOMAN'S college 1872

The Normal girls basket ball team
defeated the Woman's College team
yesterday afternoon at the Normal
court, 12 to 2. The two points made
by the Woman's College team were
made on fouls. The game was full of
vigor from the first whistle, both teams
doing excellent work for their respec-
tive schools. Miss Dovie Welbourn of
the Normal team starring for the Nor
NAL. throwing every goal credited to
them.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-09
= = . = = = . = = = = =
THE WEATHER.

. Mississippi-Fai tonight and 4
= Wednesday. Frost and freezing I
q temperature.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
VICTIM BEATS
2ROBBERSAND
SEXES PISTOL
Routs Pair After Giving Them
Good Pounding = Fires as
They Flee Up Alley.
CHICAGO. Sept. a7.-John Youn

CHICAGO, Sept. 27@John Young
Of No. 3716 North Paulina street, is
a man with no regard whatever for
the prophecies He does not play
according to Hoyle. Tonight he out
ragged every rule in the book for
the guidance Of highway robbers by
shamefully beating and maltreating
two poor holdup men.
And he crowned his infamy by tax
ing their pistol away from them,
shooting at them, chasing them iE-
ANONYMOUSLY down an alley and then
sticking" the police on them
The robbers were doing their work
strictly according to the rules. Armed
with q pistol they waited for Mr..
Young near No. 62e West GARFIELD
boulevard, where 1t is dark and lone
ly, and he had no chance to get
help.
Hold up your hands" said one Of
the robbers in gruff voice. Keep
quiet now or I'll blow your block
Off"
All unsuspectingly the robber then
trusted himself within reach Of Mr..
Young, never dreaming that the VIC
tim would do anything irregular
But Mr.. Young smashed the robber
in the eye, a clear violation Of the
ethics of the game. Then he seized
the pistol with one hand and mauled
the poor holdup man until he let
loose of Il.
Disguised with his conduct, the
robbers turned TO leave, when Mr..
Young further violated the code by
beginning to shoot at them.
So violent and ungentlemanly was
Mr.. Young's conduct that the poor
robbers were forced to flee at the top
Of their speed, while he kept on hurl-
ing lead at them from their own
weapon.
81 think I winged one OF them,
said the shameless Mr.. Young when
an auto load of police came out to
stop the firing.
His crowning piece OF infamy was
to keep the poor holdup's pistol and
to ask the police to arrest the robbers
II they can ind them.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
Girl Makes New
Swimming Mark
Peoria Water Nymph Ends Ten-MiIe
Journey In Hours and
"a Minutes.

PEORIA. I'LL, Sept 27.-Martha
Kasjens. 1s-year-olC daughter Of J
G. Kasjens. president Of a local man
ufacturing company, established a
new amateur record between Peoria
and Pekin by swimming ten miles IN
hours "a minutes
A rough head wind delayed her
speed in two different portions OF the
distance. while for q few minutes at
one time she swan through a squa! Il
OF wind and rain. During the long
swim she did not leave the water,
rested but once for hve minutes
alongside an accompanying skin and
was fed on two occasions with milk
and beef tablets
While considerably exhausted At
the end of her journey, she laughing
ly declared that she could repeat he
performance at much greater speei,
and says her next feat will be twenty
miles
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28

near Forest Park. and sprawled him
self out for a rest in rocker in the
center of the lobby. BY and by the
clerk asked him for whom he was
waiting, and the stranger replied for
train"
The clerk replied that trains did not
pass the hotel, and asked a police
man to direct tho ruralist to the
Union Station. An hour later. guests
at another hotel saw him walk in, re-
move his shoes and settle down for q
quiet sleep. Again a policeman was
called and again the stranger replied
he was waiting for a train"
At the station the stranger re-
marked; Fine lot of stations you
got in this town"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
Appoints a Mother
For the MOtherless"
Kansas City Police Commission
Names Woman a Policeman
In Tenderloin.

KANSAS CITY, Sept. IA po-
licewoman who will walk beat"
composed largely Of disorderly resorts
and cafes frequented by all-night
merrymakers, is to be appointed, &C
cording to a decision reached by the
Kansas CITY Board of Police Commits
sioners to-day
The commissioners announced the
policewoman is to be the city
mother to the motherless, rather than
a ranting moralist," and that her
principal duty will be to help those
who wish to be helped, but, because
of social conditions, have no friend
to whom to apply
I'VE will consider the police de-
partment amply repaid If we save
from wrong living half dozen
girls" said Commissioner Reynolds,
but we expect the policewoman to
do far more than that"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
MOCK WEDDING
PERFORMED To
OUTWIT FATHER
Parent ChuckIes During Ceremony
Until He Is Persuaded to
Give Real Blessing.

PETOsKEY, MICH, Sept. H.
When Miss Gertrude Haertel. daugh-
ter Of Henry Haertel, proprietor Of the
Haertel Inn of this city, asked per-
mission to stage a mock wedding IN
the hotel parlors last night for the
amusement Of the guests. Papa Haer-
tel smiled blandly and said, Go as far
as you 1IKe."
tense Of indecision she selected Cor
don Hildreth, Of Grandville, Mich, to
be the bridegroom and announced
bride herself Papa Haertel applaud
the ceremony.
And we've got to have a real min
lister" insisted Miss Haertel, and real
orange blossoms"
Sure" said Papa HaerteL MAKE
II Just like the real thing"
The Rev. Charles Panhorst was
engaged to officiate. He did, and
Papa Haertel enjoyed the ceremony
immensely.
II was a great idea. Gertrude looked
lust like a bride and Hildreth was
1ust as embarrassed as though he
were actually getting married. Then
Hndreth slipped the ring on the
brides finger and led her to Papa
Haertel for the blessing.
You might as well bless Us, you
know" announced the bridegroom.
We're really married. got the H.
cense this afternoon"
Papa Haertel Is still gasping.