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10 MANY LIVES LOST IN ST. LOUIS CLUBHOUSE FIRE HUERTA GUARDS . 5. EMBASSY . ' . Washington Begins Probe of Raid by Rangers, Who Deny Cross { ing Border for Body. WASHINGTON, March 9.—-The United States Government took prompt action to-day to investiga'e the raid of arm2d Americans into Mexico and to prevent sim.lar occur rences in the future. At the request of Secretary cf State Bryan, Secre tary of War Garrison ordered General Bliss, who is in command of the American troops on the border, to in stitute a prompt inquiry into the facis connected with tk: recovery of the body of (‘lemente Vergara. General Bliss was instructed also that extreme precaution must be taken to guard against any similar occurrence that might imbroil this country and Mexico, He was asked to lend all the aid possible to Uni ted States Consul Garrett at Nuevo l.aredo, who has been ordered to make a complete report at the earliest possible moment. Wilson Not “Stampeded.” At both the State Department and the White House it was stated that further action would depend upon the official reports received from the civil and military representatives of the Government, President Wilson refused to be “stampeded” by the sensational re ports telegraphed from the border, and =at tight on the Mexican lid. The President intimated ~that he had received official advices that Mexican officials had consented to th: removal of Vergara’s body, al though the administration had no knowledge in advance of plans for Letting Vergara's remains. It is understood the President wants a complete statement from Gtovernor Colquitt, of Texas, but be licves there ove no complications in sight at present. Alarm High at First. Alarm over the Mexican situation ran high in Government circles for many hours to-day, following the re ceipt of dispatches from the border stating that a party of Texas Rangers had invaded Mexico and had recov ered the body of Vergara, the Ameri can hanged by Federal troops near Hidalgo. Belief that intervention in Mexico would be forced by the methods of the Texans was frankly expressed in many quarters, but the excitement was quelled in great measure by the receipt of the foliowing dispaten from GGovernor O. B, Colquitt, of the Lone Star State: “Captain John B. Sanders, com manding Company B, Texas Rangers, at Laredo, advises me by telegraph that he has recovered the body of Clemente Vargara. Body Secretly Delivered. “I wired him for full particulars. He advises me that he did not go into Mexico at all, but was informed that the body of Vergara would be deliv ered on the Texas side of the river at a placed named at 3:30 o'clock Sun day morning. He went there and found it. “As to who brought it across tae river he says he does not know. He said he had no assistance in this mat ter from the family and relatives of Vergara, who, however, fully identi fied the body.” Secretary of State Bryan returned early to-day from his trip to Spring field, Mass., and immediately took the helm at the State Department, where Assistant Secretary Osborne had been in charge during the absence of his chief. Mr. Bryan immediately sent a long cipher dispatch to United State Consul Garrett at Laredo, ask ing for a full report on the case. Secretary Bryan refused ‘¢ discuss the recovery of Vergara's body. BLEASE READY TO FIGHT. COLUMBIA, 8. C.,, March B.—Com parative calm prevails to-day be tween the Blease and anti-Rlease fol lowers in the lLower House of the General Assembly of South Caro lina, following the most dramatic scenes enacted in that body in recent years. Roused to a fury by the adverse action of the House on a resolution by a Blease follower to reopen the Sfate Insane Asylum investigation, ind an attack upon him by Represen tative Stevenson, of Chesterfield, as reported in The Columbia Record, the Governor ascended the rostrum last night and made a bitter attack upon Stevenson, Declaring that if the statements in the paper were true, he would fight it i personally, that he would be dead r vindicated and that “Charlie” S“mith would be Governor in the ning, the Governor declared that I vis a man and would fight those titacked him. bty KILLED BY AVALANCHE. NNA, Magrch 5 —Two Austrian ! r< and fifteen soldiers were killed v when they were buried in ah vhe while conducting maneu y Urlralpes MAR'S CROPS MENACED. } L AGSTAFF, ARIZ., March 6.—Crops o anel Mars are threatened by a . «tv spring frost north of the Pro i‘-‘" + cording to astronomers at the oWI Observatory, . THIE GEORGIAN'S NEWS BRIEFS NEW EVIDENCE FOUND | BY FACTORY FOREMAN | Lemmie Quinn, foreman of the National Peneil Factory, who discovercd that the murder notes were written on a pad used in 1909, ol SAT R N . A 5”; s G 3 PR TR R fi//fi" e R W PR T i e e . / s ’/23\‘{;" R A e R R e G I . »:.:z':'-x-j,:-f':vrfz'.:f R R N RS e O T 2 4 e G AR L LY T T Cai g T b P pic *':"f%??'?f'f‘f:fié’ A i N e ’ 2 \'z % 2 B %% \: BA AN R N g e Se 7 ‘,‘&,g B g AR h’; SRS T e P B T R Y i e RS Bi iR So S e R R R S R b BEE B ot R R e ee ST S 8 P e fi. 2 % ST SRR 52 Ed ifi% s M A ;i : SRS R NPR L) |BEEEE FTR "RS e 3st e ! 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N My o e N e \% s e -“':‘-;;1;55?&2.’5::?5’:&?} v N e g e s Y S 7, Ko sy e 7 ‘y W s o aoy & o R e MR \IN B R o \ bW s v G /i 1 AL 05 NN o N 2 / ,"&?f@' s W ‘,"Lg,;,éfi ..",3:_:;,;5 N\ > il T e - . ie e A B fi O} ,%4‘ «”’/"""* B \Q 3 3 N\ Rt e e e e B N/ <e, Gern T 5 e /588 e i R — o R AR R R S o, : Frank's lawyers were busy Monday putting into shape the new evidence to be presented to Judge Ben Hill in the extra« ~dinary motion. While the motion will contain a great mass of evidence set forth as “newly discovered,” it is more than likely that the principal point—the mainspring of the new battle—will be the date on which a certain pad of paper, used by Conley to write the “murder notes" on, was used previ ously for its more regular office of transcribing factory orders, Old Pad Was Used. The defense wiil try to show that the pad on which Conley wrote the murder notes could not have been taken by Frank (as Conley stated) “from his desk,” because it was an old pad, used up not later than 1608, while H. . Becker was master me chanie, and, containing merely the carbon duplicates of ald requisitions, would not have been in Frank's of fice, but down in the basement, with other waste paper. In fact, the discovery has been made that just below the second line of Conley's straggly writing there ap pears the faint imprint in carbon of a bold and characteristic hand—the traces of the signature of H. F. Beck er, who left the factory months before U.S.Senate Asked to Pay Goethals Honor . WASHINGTON, March 4.—A joint resolution extending to Colonel George W. Goethals the thanks of Congress for his work on the Panama Canal and pro viding for his appointment as a major general in the United States Army, was introduced to-day in the Senate by Sepator Lodge. The resolution provides also for an in crease of one in the Ifst of active major generals in the Army. The resolution was referred to the Senate Committee on Military Affairs from which an lw mediate favorable report is expected. BIG FIRE IN LA GRANGE. LAGRANGE, March 9.—Callaway’'s new department store was destroyed by fire to-day, the origin of which is a mystery. The loss is about $125,- 000, with about $90,000 insurance. Kress' new store, next door, was saved by & fireproof wall. Abdut 125 persons are thrown out of employ ment by the fire. The store will be rebuilt, FAVOR SUPERVIS!ON. NEW YORK, March 9.—Darwin P. Kingsley, president of the New York Life Insurance Company, in a letter to the presidents of practically all life, fire, accident and surety compa mes; tndorsed Federal sapervision’ of insurance companies, o 2 the murder of Mary Phagan, but who was there in 1909, at the time the de fense will contend the order blanks were used. The blanks thenm¥selves, in fact, were dated for some year previous to 1919, as the blank date was “190—" instead of "“191—," as it would have been for the later issue, Old Copiss in Waste Paper. The defense contends that the old carbon copies of Becker's order blanks had been carried to the basement as waste paper, and will attempt to show, in the plea for a new trial— and in the trial itself, if granted— that it was in the basement, near the body of his victim, that Jim Conley hurriedly procured the old order blanks, and after a slovenly attempt to erase the carbon traces, inscribed the straggling characters that placed the blame on some ‘long, tall, black negro”—the antithesis of shott; stocky, “ginger-cake” Jim Conley. For the rest of the “new evidence,” there is the repudiation of Albert McKnight, that of Nina Formby and Georgs Epps, and the statement of Mrs. Ethel Harris Miller that she saw Frank at the corner of Whitehall and Alabama streets at the time he was supposed by the State to have been helping Conley to dispose of Mary Phagan's body. Girl Refuses to Bare Shoulder for Judge MORRIS PARK, N. Y., March 6,—Be cause . Miss Marie Grether refused to bare her shoulder to corroborate her story, Magistrate lLeach discharged Otto Straub. accused of striking her with a snow shovel, - WANTS WIGS FOR JUDGES. BOSTON, March 9.—Discussing “legal ethics” at the Boston Univer sity Law School, former President Taft said: *Ldwyers should wear wigs and gowns as they do in England, to show respect for the court. All judges ought to wear a distinguishing robe. Peopl thould be made to observe propriety in court. They should be careful of their dress.” SPRING FRESHET ON MARS, FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ, ‘March 9.—A late spring freshet has occurred on Mars in the region north of the Pro ponts, and_ was still visible at 2 o'¢lock of the Martian afternoon, a few days ago, according to announce ment from the Lowell Observatory, WOOES WITH DICTIONARY. BOSTON, March 9.—With the aid of a dictionary, Paul S. Whitcombh wooed Angelina Houghton, of Havana. She;"pe;l;; t:’x;lyspanis.g‘anddu Span -Ish-Fngltsh® dictionary figured promi- B . - ae et tiaeiasd GHARRED BODIES TAKEN FROM RUINS Hundred Men in Building When Blaze Starts—Loss Estimated at $400,000. ST. LOUIS, Mar, 9.—Late this af ternoon two more were reported missing in the Missouri Athletic Club fire, They are T. G. Little, a sales man from Chicago, and Mike Thuma, an out-of-town guest. This makes the total of dead and missing 38. The seriously injured number 290. There is -considerable confusion over the list of the missing, and it will be perhaps 24 hours before the correct figures on the casulty will be obtainable Twenty-two persons beHeved to have lost their lives in the holocaust was the first estimate. But as the checking-up process at the temporary headquarters of the athletic club went on, it was seen that this esti mate was teo low. Nameé after name of men unaccounted for hours after the first had burned itself out was added to the already long list. Nine Bodies Have Been Recovered. “The probability is that all of the missing are dead,” was the word sadly given out by athletic club di rectory this afternoon. More than two score were injured in the fire which destroyed the ciub, one of the finest Institutions of its kinds in the United Stat:s, and the building occupied by the Poatmen's Bank. A hundied men, as far 28 known, were in the club build ing when the fire sterted. The loss to property is about $400,000. The ruins \re being searched for bodies. Five bodies were recovered early, and four more at neon. The list of identified dead includes: JOHN MARTIN RICKEY, Chicago, treasurer of the IFord Manufacturing Company. JAMES RILEY, 55, St. Louis, C. I KOSSLER, 49, manager of the Ludlow-Saylor Wire Company, St. Louis. All of these men were Kkiiled in leaping from the upper floors of the eight-story clubhouse. Mordecai Brown Safe. For some time it was feared that Mordecai Brown, manager of the St. Louis Federals, ¥nd been lost, but later Mr. and Mrs. Brown were found at a hotel. The fire is believed to have started in the main dining room on the third floor of the main building. Nearly all the guests and residents of the club had retired when the fire started about 1:50 a. m. A few guests were in the lobby., These, withh Manager and Mrs. Magill, went through the up per halls and awoke everyone. When the guests emerged from their rooms, every hall was filled with smoke. The third, fourth and fifth floors were ablaze before the first alarm was given Less than an hour later fire was chooting from every window in the building, and at 2:45 o'clock the roof collapsed. All Injured in Escape. None of the persons in the building escaped without some hurts. The most seriously injufed were rushed ‘o the City Hospital. Others were cared for in the St, Regis and other nearby hotels, The firemen early gave up hope of saving the Athletic Club and the Boatmen's Bank Building, and devoted their entire efforts to saving guests who were about to leap out of upper windows, and to preventing the spread of the flames. Boatman's Bank officials said at the close of the business on Saturday that there was $1,349,449 in currency and $27.464 in coin in two large spherical safes, which are in a heav ily constructed vault of steel set in concrete with a reinforced ceiling. The Benton Commisslion Company's building, directly back of the Ath letic Club, was slightly damaged. SUES FOR SEAT OF PANTS. Damage to the pants and feelings of J. Oscar Phillips, resulting in the to tal ruin of the former and the ex asperating embarrassment of the lat ter, is charged in a suit filed Friday in the Superior Court against the Georgia Railway and Power Com pany. The claim also includes damage to the skirt of Mrs, J. Oscar Phillips, ani to her feelings, to a total extent of $2OO, classified as follows: The panis of J. Oscar Phillips, §25. . The skirt of Mrs. J. O. Phillips, $25. The feelings of both, $l5O, OFFERS HUSBAND'S BODY. NEW YORK, March 6—Officials of the Museum of Natural History are pondering over the problem to-day as to how they shall answer a letter from a Texas woman who offers the “fossilized” body+of her husband for vale, o 3 ; “He was no gaod to me when alive and I thought 1 might make some thing out of him.as a fogsil. “"What will you give for him?’ is the gist of her letter. - - g This is the first husband who ever appeared in the fossil market. and lack o} control of BED WETTING i