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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-24
FINANCIERs MAY SEE PLAY,
Will BE Invited to witness BelRiar
Entertainment.

The delegates to the Pan-American
financial conference. which opens here
today. will receive formal invitations
through John Barrett. director-general
of the Pan-American Union. to attend A
presentation of THE Spirit of the Ma
tons in Music and Rhythm" to be given
at the Belasco Theater on May "a under
the auspices of the committee for the
relief OF the children OF Belgium.
The chairman OF the committee said
last night that. In addition to raising
funds for the Belgian children. the pro
duction is being given at this time to
give the delegates OF the South Ameri-
can countries an exhibition of the talent
of American youth.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-24
GOLF DREAM: FALLS; HURT.
Club Steward Walks Out of window
in His Sleep.

Ardsley. n. Y. May 23.-Joseph Cos
tello. a steward at the Ardsley Club. was
removed to his home in Dobbs Ferry
with a broken arm. broken collarbone
ard numerous other injuries sustained
while walking in his sleep.
Costello. asleep in the dormitory OF
the clubhouse. walked out French win
dow that opens to the floor He awoks
as he struck a wire that broke the
force of his twenty-five foot fall He
thrust his arms out and probably saved
himself from death as he landed on the
cement paving. Costello said he was
dreaming he was playing golf Just be-
fore he hit the wire and woke I'D.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-24

easy to locate as we'll as witnesses
who had been present when the as
saults were made. The fact that there
was so much corroborative testimony
from disinterested sources was what
led District Attorney Perkins to con-
clude that his case against the gang
sters would not be affected by any cry
that he was depending on the "squear"
of disreputable persons and was per
scouting those mentioned in the in
dictments
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-24

Rieger described one job that he said
was the meanest he ever had to do. 1t
was to hit q man who had just asked
him to come and have q drink. suppos-
ing his advances to be with friendly in
tent. Rieger's story ranked with that OF
''Dopey Benny when he told Of throw
ing a woman down the cellar steps Of
saloon because he thought Of his Ulster
IN that hx" and couldn't make up his
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-24
MEXICAN TEACHERS IN U. S.
Csrranza Sends Fifty-three To study
Methods Here.

New York. May o3-Fifty-three Mexi-
can school teachers arrived today on
the Ward Liner Monterey from Vera
cruz TO study school methods in this
country. They were sent here by Gen
Carranza. and will go to Boston to
observe the scholastic curriculum in
the public schools of that city.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-24
SMYRNA GARRISON MUT1NHs

Athens, May .2s.-A regiment of the
Smyrna garrison have mutinied and
large number Of the officers and SOL
diers have sought refuge aboard the
allies ships
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
OPPOSE INCREASE
IN DEFENSE FUND
HOUSE PASSES THE ARMY AP-
PREPARATION BILL, CARRYING
HUNDRED MILLION.
Advocates Of Immediate strengthening
Of the Military Establishment De-
feated in Effort to Get Increase
Of Appropriation

Washington.-After two days of de-
bate on the general state of the ma
tional defenses, the house on Friday
night passed without a roll call the
army appropriation bill, carrying $1O1,-
100000.
Advocates of immediate strengthen
ing Of the military establishment
fought to the last for additional appro-
priations, but their efforts met with no
encouragement from either Demo
cratic or Republican leaders.
The last roll call on a motion by
Representative Gardner OF Massachu-
sets to recommit the bill with in
structions to report back an amend
ment carrying $1,OOO,OOO for aviation,
was defeated, 1853 to "a.
The bill, which carries funds for the
maintenance of all branches of the
army during the coming fiscal year.
includes 100000 for the purchase OF
twenty-five aeroplanes and $4,000 for
an armored motor car. These items,
and efforts to add to them, furnished
texts for long discussions on the use
of the aeroplanes and armored motor
car in the European war The appro-
priation for the purchase Of field ar
ttllery material was increased from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
TELEPHONE TRIUMPH
COMPLETE CIRCUIT FROM NEW
YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO.
FIRST MESSAGE BY INVENTOR
Line Officially Opened Jan. 20, 1915
$500 Miles In Length. Trans
mission Clear and Distinct.

New York.-From the fifteenth
floor of New York skyscraper, in the
Office of Theodore N. Vail, president
Of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph company, Alexander Graham
Bell Monday afternoon telephoned to
Thomas A. Watson in San Francisco,
sending the first message ever tele-
phoned across the continent
Although engineers and scientists
have worked for nearly forty years
perfecting transmitters. receivers,
lines, cables, switchboards and various
telephone apparatus that all COM
bined made transcontinental tele-
phoning possible, John J. Carly. chief
engineer Of the Bell Telephone Sys-
tenn, insisted that the inventor of the
telephone should have the honor Of
sending the first ocean to ocean mes
sage, and thus it was that DR.. Bell and
Mr.. Watson were at either end of the
line Monday afternoon.
In a little workshop in Boston, June
3, 1875, 1t was Alexander Graham Bell
who spoke and Thomas A. Watson
who heard the first message ever sent
by telephone. Come here Watson, l
want you," were the first words ever
conveyed over a wire. That wire was
only sixty feet in length. The line
used Monday is 3,400 miles long.
A bit Of sentiment that entered into
the celebration Of the opening Of the
transcontinental line was that the
sixty feet Of wire used in the first
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
JAPAN DEMANDS
STARTLE CHINESE
WANTS ALL GERMAN AND AUS
TRAN CONCESSIONS AND FUR
Their EXTENSIVE PRIVILEGES.
Chinese Feel That Granting Of De-
mands Would be to the Detri-
ment Of Treaty Rights of
other Nations.

Pekin.-Certain political and terri
torial demands which Japan has made
upon China following the Japanese oc-
cupation of Kiao-Chow have become
known in Pel1in, and their extent is
disquieting to Chinese officials.
These demands, twenty-one in num-
Der, were communicated to the Chi
nese government January 20 by the
Japanese minister here. They include,
first, that China turn over to Japan
all existing German and Austrian
concessions; second, that China pledge
herself not to give concessions in the
future to any country except Japan;
third, permission to build a special
territorial railroad; and fourth, min
ing privileges in Shantung and Kukien
provinces, in Canchuria, in eastern
Mongolia and in the Yang-Tse valley.
1t is felt in Pekin that il these de-
mands were granted the result would
be tantamount to turning over to
Japan all the regions above named as
spheres Of influence, to the detriment
of the treaty rights Of other nations.
The Pekin government has not re-
piled to the Japanese note.
Chinese officials are particularly in
censed just now at rumors circulated
here that China is negotiating with
Germany TO the end that German of.
ficers reorganize the Chinese army.
This report is denounced as without
foundation
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
LABOR LAW DECLARED VOID.
Employer May stIpuIate Workman
Must Not Belong to Union.

Observation-Disclosures may re.
quire employees to renounce union af-
filiations as a condition of employ
ment, the supreme court held Monday.
Justices Hughes and Holmes present
ed a dissenting opinion, in which JUS
tice Day joined The decision was
made in suit over the so-called Kan
sas coercion statute, which 1t holds
unconstitutional, and, according to
Justice Day, laws on like lines in Cali.
fornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana,
Massachusetts,, Minnesota, New
Hampshire. New Jersey, New York,
Oklahoma, oregon, Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin, and in Porto Rico are in
validated along with the Kansas law.
Under the Kansas statute it was I'm
lawful for any individual or corpora
ton to coerce or influence any person
to enter into an agreement not to join
or remain member of labor organi-
zation as condition of securing or
continuing employment. The case
Monday arose from the conviction Of
7. B. Coppage. division superintend-
ent Of the Frisco railway system, for
threatening A. R. Hedge, switchman,
with dismissal II he did not withdraw
from the Switchmen's Union of North
America.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29

talk in Boston was spliced into the
line Monday, thirty feet Of it at New
York and thirty feet at San Francisco.
Ever since the telephone was dis
covered, America, the land of its
birth, has kept the lead, using more
telephones than all the rest of the
world. More than twenty-one million
miles of wire in this country now
unite nine million telephones in 10000
cities, towns and villages. All the rest
Of the world has less than 1--WE million
telephones.
In 1876 the longest telephone line in
the world was from Boston to Cam
bridge, two miles; in 1884 it was ex-
tended to New York, 235 miles. Chi
cago and New York were connected in
1895, and in 1911 New York could say
Hello" to Denver.
In the forty years since the tele-
phone was invented nearly a hundred
types of transmitters, and numerous
repeating instruments and other de-
vices have been used and discarded
for something better, but 1t is asserted
that no single new discovery has been
responsible for this latest and great.
est achievement in the telephone art
In the two circuits of the transcon.
tinental line there are approximately
six million pounds of copper wire. or
about two hundred carloads. This
wire is stretched on 10000 poles.
which If they were loaded on railroad
cars would make twenty trains of
thirty cars each.
The route OF the transcontinenta1
telephone line is from New York to
Pittsburgh, thence to Chicago, Daven.
port Des Moines, Omaha, Lincoln.
Denver, Salt Lake City and to San
Francisco.
It is understood that the rate will
be about $21.OO for three-minute talk
from New York to San Francisco.
Stationed along this great stretch
Of telephone line the day 1t was omen.
ed were repairmen every few miles
in the big centers, in the little towns.
en- the prairies, in the mountains. and
out on the desert, ready to splice the
wires in case they were torn down by
sleet or wind. to solder break or re
place an insulator broken by a storm
or a mischieyous boy. Like soldiers
on picket duty. these repairmen will
be kept on constant vigil, night and
day, in good weather and in bad. for
1t Is advertised that this line is soon
to be opened to the public for CON
slant use.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
GERMANS RESUME
ATTACK ON ALLIES
BATTLE WITH FRENCH TO THE
EAST or YPREs AND BRITISH
AT Ia BAsSEE CANAL.
Ruasians Making Another Effort to
Advance in East Prussia, While
There Has Been Slackenina of
Fighting in Poland.

The Germans have made a some
what more determined effort than
usual against the French and British
lines in Flanders and northern France.
They have delivered an attack on
the French to the east of Ypres and
no less than five attacks on the first
division of the British force on either
side of La Bassee canal
Both British and French official re-
ports assert that all these attacks
failed Of their object and that the Ger.
mans suffered heavy losses.
The Germans, ON the other hand,
while admitting that their attack on
the British north of the canal was I'M
successful, say that on the south side
e0f the waterway their efforts resulted
in complete success and that the Brit
ish attempts to recapture these
trenches were repulsed with heavy
losses.
These attacks followed a heavy
bombardment by British artillery OF
the German positions beyond La Bias
see, in which, according to reports
AASA DOutO6hVy OhC us gun
was destroyed. while the Germans
were prevented from getting a second
heavy gun into position.
The Russians are making another
EFFORT to advance in East Prussia,
while In Poland there has been
slackening In the fighting on obth
sides for the moment The Russians
appear to be concentrating them.
selves on their offensive north OF the
Lower Vistula, while the Austro-Ger.
mans are busy making preparations to
meet the Russian advance through
the passes Of the Carpathians and in
southern Bukowina.
Russian submarines have made their
appearance In the western portion of
the Baltic sea and have succeeded in
torpedoing the German cruiser Ca
zelle, which, however, reached port
with the assistance of a Swedish
steamer. Their activity has stopped
the trade carried on by German steam
ers between Germany and Sweden.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
ANARCHY REIGNS IN
MEXICAN CAPITAL
MANY WOMEN NEAR DEATH FROM
TREATMENT AT HANDS or
THE VILLA TROOPS.
General Oregon Turns Down over
lures From Gutierrez to Join In
His Movement Against Both
Old Factions.

Washington.-Anarchy, panic and
disorder are said to reign in Mexico
City by dispatches from Vera Cruz on
Saturday to the Carranza agency here,
Rafael zubaran. Carranza's minister
of the interior, charges that many
women in the capital are near death
from their treatment at the hands OF
Villa troops.
Eulalio Figuerra. one OF the broth,
ers of that name. is reported to hava
abandoned Villa and applies for ad,
mission to the Carranza ranks.
General Alvaro Obregon has de,
clined to accept oyertures from Gen,
eral Eulalio Gutierrez to join the lat
ter In an independent movement
against Carranza and the VillarZapata
coalition, but will remain loyal to
Carranza, according to an announce,
ment Saturday by the Carranza
agency here.
AS message received from Obre-
gon was dated Puebla, January %,
the Carranza agency deduces that
there is no truth in the report that
Puebla has been taken by the forces
Of General Zapata.
The Carranza agency issued the
following advices from the border:
Generals Maclovio Herrera and
Luis Gutierrez joined their respective
forces and attacking a Villaista col
umn defeated and completely routed
It, The Villaistas were attempting to
penetrate to the coal fields Of Coahu.
liza, as they are very short OF fuel
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
BRITISH VESSEL IS
LOST OFF IRELAND
MERCHANT VESSEL VlKNoR BE.
LiEvED TO HAVE BEEN STRUCK
BY MINE LAID By GERMANS.
Vessel Had Been missing Several
Days When Some of the Bodies
and Wreckage Washed Ashore
and Loss Became Known.

London.-It was officially announced
at the admiralty Monday that the Brit
ish armored merchant vessel Viknor
had been lost off Ireland with all
hands. The vessel, it was stated,
either struck mine or foundered.
The admiralty, in its statement,
says:
she has been missing for some
days, and must now be accepted as
lost, with all her officers and men.
The cause of ner loss is uncertain,
but as some bodies and wreckage have
been washed ashore on the north
coast of Ireland, it is presumed that
during the recent bad weather she
either foundered or being carried out
of her course, struck a mine in seas
where the Germans are known to
have laid them"
The Viknor was formerly the Vik-
ing, and was Communicated by the
admiralty on December IL. She was
in charge Of Commander Ernest o..
Ballantyne. The number Of her crew
cannot be ascertained.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
.FooD EXPORTS EXEMPT.
Shipments From United States TO
Germany Permitted by Germans.

Shipments From United States TO
Germany Permitted by Germans.
Washington. Count Won Bernstorff,
the German ambassador, notified the
state department on Tuesday that his
government had given official assur-
ance that no foodstuffs shipped from
the United States to Germany would
be seized for military or any other
governmental use.
The order of the federal council of
Germany for the seizure Of all stocks
OF corn, wheat and -four In Germany
BY February | had been construed by
some officials here as likely to de,
prive the owners OF the cargo of the
American steamship Wilhelmina of
che right they claim to land their
food supplies in Germany. The basis
of their claim was the declaration
that the grain was not intended for
the German army or the German gov
eminent, but for noncombatant indi.
yiduals, and therefore not subject to
seizure according to the terms OF The
Hague convention
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
BRITISH VICTORS IN
NORTH SEA BATTLE
ATTEMPT OF GERMAN SQUADRON
TO REPEAT ATTACKS ON ENG
LAND FRUSTRATED.
Armored Cruiser 5iuecher Sunk and
Two Battle Cruisers Seriously
Damaged In Running Fight in
the North Sea.

London.-An attempt by a German
cruiser squadron to repeat the attack
recently made on Scarborough, the
Hartlepools and other British coast
towns, was frustrated Sunday by the
British patrolling squadron, and in a
running fight In the North sea the
German armored cruiser Bluecher was
sunk and two battle cruisers were Sc
riously damaged. The British ships
suffered only slight injury. So far as
is known, only 1913 Of the Bluechers
crew of 1856 were saved.
A battle also occurred between the
light cruisers and destroyers accom-
panying the bigger ships, but the re-
suit of this engagement has not yet
reached the admiralty.
The Germans were observed some
time after dawn proceeding in the d.
rection of the British coast When
they sighted the superior British feet
they turned and made at full speed
for home waters and 1t was only after
stern chase that the faster British
ships got within range of them.
For more than four. hours the rum
ming battle lasted, the firing being
plainly heard In North Holland, where
it was judged the fight took place
north OF the islands OF Ameland and
Schiermonnik-O Cog.
The Bluecher, which was slower
than the other German cruisers, fell
behind and succumbed to the heavier
guns of the Lion. which was leading
the British squadron. The other Ger
man ships got within the mine and
submarine area, two of them in bad
ly damaged condition and it was dan
gerous for the British battle cruisers
to follow.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
DR.. [. o. HOWARD

DR.. L. o. Howard, chief Of the bu-
reau Of entomology of the department
Of agriculture. with DR.. Edward Pick
erlns Of Harvard, and Or. Henry Skin
ner Of the Academy of Natural Sci
ences Of Philadelphia, Is contemplate
ing bequeathIng his brain, after death,
to his brother scientists. Their rea.
son Is that brain specialists get few
specimens of any great value for
study, most of their specimens be.
ing from criminals whose brains are
OF the lowest type.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
Thaw Back in Tombs.

New York.-Harry k. Thaw is again
in the Tombs. Brought here Sunday
morning from Boston. his only stop
over on the way from New Hampshire.
he was locked up in the prison which
he left almost seven years ago, when
he was committed to the state asylum
for the criminal insane at Matteawan,
following his acquittal of the murder
Of Stanford White, on the ground of
insanity
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
wouLp rAx LAReE FoRTuNEe.
Daniel cugeenhelm Suggests Plan to
Aid the Poor.

New York.-Taxation of large for
tunes. upon the death Of their owners,
to aid the poor; the establishment Of
government agencies to find work for
the unemployed and provision for the
comfort of aged workers, were advo-
acted by Daniel Guggenheim, president
of the American Smelling G Refining
company, on Thursday, at the inquiry
by the federal commission on indus
trial relations into the cause OF indus
trial unrest
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
Insurssnt leader HANGED

manufactured Noriel, the insur-
gent leader. and two accompIices, who
were found guilty of having Killed a
political enemy at cock fight in
1902, were hanged here early Tues
day. The early hour Of the execution
possibly prevented disorders. for
!. winch the army had been ordered to
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
CATASTROPHE IN CANADA.
Blasts Starts Landslide, Causing Loss
Of Life and Property.

Vancouver, B. C.-Three engineers
were killed and five others injured at
the British Columbia Transport COM
pany's quarry, Pitt river, twenty miles
from here. A blast SO shook the four
acres Of ground on which the COM
pany's wharf offices and machinery
stood that they Slid off the banks into
the river.
More than a score of men were
caught In the landslide. Three still
are missing and are believed to have
been drowned. Where the company's
office formerly stood is now more than
thirty feet Of water.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
Give Miners slidina Scale.

Douglas, Ariz.-Six thousand men
employed by the Copper Queen Con
solidated Mining company and the
Calumet e Arizona Mining company
will be placed on a sliding wage
scale February 1. The present wage
scale will be established as a mini
mum and increases win be based on
the average price Of copper for the
preceding month.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
MARCHING ON MEXICO CITY.

General obregons Troops Defeat
villa; zapata Forces Blocking Road.
Observation-Disclosures published
by Carranza headquarters here Tues
day say General Obregon continues a
vigorous march toward Mexico City.
having defeated Villa-zapata troops at
Apam and Irolo and taken two towns
fifty miles northeast of the capital.
and that zapata force advancing on
Fuebla was defeated twenty miles
west of that city.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
steel Mills at Full Capacity.

Milwaukee.-The Illinois Steel COM
pany's mills, a branch Of the United
States Steel corporation, will be run.
ming practically at capacity this week
when LOCO additional men will be put
on, according to an official of the
company in Bayview The plant has
run for the first time for three CON
secutive weeks since the slump in DC
tober. Prospects now are that the
plant will continue to run indefinitely
at or near to capacity the official
said
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
May Get Back prize.

washington-Under the terms of a
bill introduced Tuesday by Senator
Lodge, former President Roosevelt
would have returned to him the s40,-
900 Nobel peace prize awarded him
fn 1905, which he turned over to the
government as fund for the founda.
tion for promotion of industrial
peace.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
Independence for Fillplnos.

Washington.-A promise of com.
plete Independence for the Philippines
when I'm the judgment of the United
States the people of the islands shall
be fitted therefor" is contained in a
revision of the preamble to the pend.
ing bill TO enlarge the self-government
Of the Filipinos, adopted Monday by
the senate committee,
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
WOULD BUY CANAL ROUTE.
Bryan Declares There WIN be Need
Of Second Interoeean waterway.

OF Seconu Interocean waterway.
Washington Suggesting that it was
not unlikely that the United States
some day would build another inter.
oceanic waterway to supplement the
Panama canal, Secretary Bryan ex-
planned on Monday that he regarded 1t
as wise precaution for the American
government to negotiate treaties with
Nicaragua and Costa Riea giving this
country an option on a canal route
across that section Of Central Amer
lea. He also spoke Of the Importance
Of naval base in the bay of Fon.
SEGA and announced that the state de
partment was prepared to treat for
this with Honduras, Salvador and Me.
aragua.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-01-29
MlnIstera onnose Rollt.

Cincinnati, Ohio.-The Methodist
ministers association Of Cincinnati
went on record on Monday as opposed
to the holding Of the "Gunboat" Smith
Jim Flynn boxing contest here on Feb
ruary l.