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VOLUME XII. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1913. NO. 69. S' OF It Coincides in Practically Every Feature With Theory Held by Solicitor Dorsey, • Detectives and Pinkertons L OWNER ON TRIAL FOB “PUNTING" DYNAMITE Alleged W, W. Wood Planted Explosives During Textile Strike at Lawrence The theory of the murder of Mary Phagan entertained by the city detec tives and outlined in The Journal first er\ Sunday a week ago is the theory Sn which C. W. Tobie, manager of the criminal department of the William J. Burns agency, believes. Mr. Tobie, who has been employed by Attorney Thomas B. Felder, has as sumed charge of the investigation of the Phagan case for the Burns’ agency pending the arrival of his chief. To The Journal Monday morning he outlined his theory of the case in the office of. Colonel Felder. “The Phagan murder is not in my opinion a hopeless or impregnable mys tery,” he said, “and I am confident that we will find and convict the guilty man. “There are several features of the case which I do not care to mention which have not been worked out. I am going right after these ends of the af fair, and believe that I will get re sults.” Mr. Tobie, who appears more of a prosperous business man than a detec- tive, leaves a long fecord of success behind him,'and has worked on a num ber of the most famous mysteries which have been solved through the Burns agency. He does not consider the Phagan case as even v an unusual mystery, and declares that rftany more chies have been left to work from than in some cases where he has success fully hunted a murderer. As a premise, Mr. Tobie says that the murder was evidently committed by some one who had either been con nected with the factory at some time rprn a ?6 C ° nneCted Wi * h 11 on Sa turday. thH h in n asked for Ws theory, he declared premeditated!" 1 " 1011 the raUraer waa HIS THEORY OUTLINED "J iTiirL th £ an insulting proposal ,T aa made t° Mat 'y Phagan,” he said, and she rejected it. When she would Ter T .TT t e J 101 t0 Speak of the mat - Rnrt 1 think her assailant became angry f“ d atrUCk , her ’ The f Q rce °f the blow, together with the force ef her falling body caused a fracture at the base Of her skull, when her head struck the iron lathe handle. ■■Her body was carried into a nearby closet, where attempts were made to revive her. When she failed to revive the man reasoned that he would certain ly be charged with a heinous crime when she recovered, so. panic stricken, he tied the cord around her neck tight enough to cause strangulation if she should revive. “I believe that later the body was carried to the basement, the murderer 'taking it there with a view -to cremat ing it in the furnace. Then realizing •that the sight of smoke would prob ably cause comment, as it was known -that the factory was not in operation that day, he gave up the attempt. “In an effort to throw suspicion from himself he wrote the notes and pulled ^the staple out of the rear basement door to make It appear as if the body had been carried in from the outside. NEVER LEFT FACTORY. “The idea that the murder was not committed in the factory is prepos terous. Not only was the crime com mitted there, but some one very fa miliar with the place is responsible. Further, I do not believe the girl left the factory after she went for her pay.” The Burns man came directly here from Chicago with orders to drop ev erything in making his search for Mary Phagans slayer. He is working di rectly for Mr. Felder, who is raising a fund by. public subscription to pay for the investigation, which, he says, he is certain will result in the conviction of the murderer. Mr. Tobie declares that he is hampered in no way in his work and is going to give his best efforts towards bringing to justice the criminal, regardless of who h$ may be. Mr. Felder again urges the people to support the Burns funl. “If the people want to see this mystery solved the Burns people will do the work,” he said. “And we must ask the support of the people. If they respond to the appeal for funds, William J. Burns himself \Vill come here at the earliest possible mo- merft, if Mr. Tobie has not found the evi dence to convict the murderer before he arrives from Europe.” The Bums man has no criticism of anything that.has been done in working the case, and* says that the unworked features to which he is devoting his at tention,* were overlooked probably be cause the officials were thrown off the track by the many false rumors and clues, which presented themselves soon after the crime was discovered. CONFERS WITH SOLICITOR. The Burns agent has already had a lengthy conferer with the solicitor gen eral, who gave him considerable infor mation on the investigation. “Mr. Dorsey,” he said, “informs me that I am to be accorded just the same treatment given other detectives on the case, and in this he assumes a very proper attitude. We want to do our work from the ground up, and it is only proper that we should.” Solicitor General Dorsey on Monday was In conference for some time with Chief of Detectives Newport Lanford, and during the morning he interviewed several witnesses in the case. While Mr. Dorsey is said to be preparing to submit the testimony in the case to the grand jury in the briefest form possible not to injure the case, It will probably take that body more than & day to dispose of the matter. NOT A NEW ARREST. - James Connolly, the negro sweeper at the National Pencil factory, who was arrested two weeks ago. when found washing a shirt in the factory, has nev er been released. The police are detain ing him because of their belief that he, like Newt Lee, knows more about the murder of Mary Phagan than he has told the officers. Connolly, who has been sweated reg ularly by the, officers, was given the handwriting test on Sunday. He wrote from dictation the words on the notes found by Mary Phagan s body, and his writing will be placed in the hands of the solicitor general to be compared by his experts with the original. (By Associated Press.) BOSTON, May 19.—William W. Wood, president of the American Woolen com pany, and a textile manufacturer of in ternational reputation; Frederick E. At- teaux and Dennis J. cfollins were placed on trial today, charged with con spiring to “plant” dynamite at Lawrence during the textile strike in that city in January. 1912. The trial has been awaited with spe cial interest because of the presence of Mr. Wood and also because it is the first time in Massachusetts that a se rious criminal charge arising from la bor difficulties has been preferred against a manufacturer. The indictment and arrest of the mill man last August caivsed a sensation. At- teaux is a dealer in chemicals and a friend of Mr. Woods. Collins is a dog fancier of Cambridge. It Is charged that the three defendants conspired with John J. Breen, an undertaker of Law rence, and Ernest R. Pitman, a builder of Andover, to place dynamite in a house occupied by striking textile oper atives for tho purpose of prejudicing public opinion by making it appear that the strikers had posession of an ex plosive which they intended to use in damaging mill property. The police discovered the dynamite and arrested several strike operatives who lived in the house. All subsequent ly satisfied the court of their innocence and were discharged. Soon afterward Breen, a member of the Lawrence school board, was arrest ed, convicted and fined $500 for “plant ing” the explosive. Pitman, who built the wool mill of the American Wool company, committed suicide on the day that the Suffolk county grand jury be gan an investigation of the alleged con spiracy. U. S. ASSEMBLY FAV8BS SWEEPING REFORM LIST Decides to Make Christian Union Herald Paper Exclu sively for Young People "HAPPY JACK” WEARS SMILE TO OEATH CHAIR Slayer of "Paddy the Priest” Is Electrocuted in Sing Sing, Protesting Innocence (By Associated Press.) OSSINING, N. Y., May 19.—John Mul- raney, who was to have been put to death as a murderer on March 17, but won a sixty days’ reprieve by declaring in a personal appeal to the governor that he was going to death as the martyr of a criminal ‘code of honor,” was electro cuted at Sing Sing orison today. “Happy Jack,” as he was known to his comrades, bore to the last the smile that had won him his nickname, and called back to the other inmates of the death cells a cheerful “good-by.” Charles Becker, the former New York police lieu tenant, and the gunmen involved with him in the Rosenthal murder, were among the fourteen who answered. The murder of which “Happy Jack” was convicted was that of Patrick Mc- Breen, known as “Paddy the Priest,” a New York saloon keeper, who was shot while standing behind his bar on the night of October 3, 1911. John J. Dow ling, who died before he could be tried, and Mulraney both signed confessions to the murder, but in the death house Mul raney repudiated his admissions, claimed an alibi and asserted he had accepted the conviction following a “crook’s” code of honor not to squeal on the other fellow. Justice Rosalesky, of New York, decided, however, that there were no grounds for a new trial. The United Presbyterian assembly adopted Monday morning the report of the special committee on reform, which included, among other recommendations, urgent appeals for temperance; stricter Sabbath observance; the reading of the Bible in public schools; “equal rights and complete justice” for all men in all stations of life; for a single standard of purity; uniform divorce laws; the proper regulation of marriages; for the principle of arbitration in industrial disputes, and for release from employ ment one day 'In seven. The assembly decided that fn the fu ture the Christian Union Herald shall be published In the interests of the young people, and adopted resolutions to observe Labor day Sunday every year and to take active steps toward better ing social and economic conditions gen erally. “BOOZELESS” WHITE HOUSE. The adopted report of the special committee on reforms rejoiced “in the attitude taken by our president, vice president and sec retary of state in banishing liquors of all kinds from White House functions during the present adminis tration,” and in the passage of the Webb-Kenyon interstate commerce bill, which was designated as “a severe blow to the liquor traffic and indica tive of a nation-wide sentiment nc*t even dreamed of by the most sanguine friends of temperance.” After indorsing the recently published report of the standing committee on re form, the special committee declared that its report would view conditions as “truthists,” not as pessimists or opti mists. Praise was given to the work of the National Reform association; the Anti- Saloon league; the W. C. T. U.; the Lord’s Day alliance. CITIZENSHIP CONFERENCE. It was recommended “that we remem ber in our prayers the Second World’s Christian citizenship conference to be held In Portland, Ore., June 29 to July 6.” The committee indorsed a plea from the federal council of the Churches of Christ in America, urging the board of directors of the Panama-Pacific exposi tion “to adopt every means possible to prevent the exploiting of the exposition by commercialized vice and to protect the visitors to San Francisco from such influence as would tend to lower public morals.” Gratitude to God was expressed Tor “history’s striking evidence of His blessing upon the nations and individ uals who have honored His Holy Day,” •and .“foiw the national legltflattofr which has closed all first and second class psotoffice on the Sabbath and given a rest day to about 350,000 employes.” SUNDAY CLOSING EXPO. It was decided to urge upon the na tional officials that any appropriation made to the Panama-Pacific exposition be conditional on its managers signing a contract with the treasurer to close the exposition on the Sabbath. It was urged that all government exhibits be covered on Sundays, if the exposition is kept open. The passage of “an effective Sabbath law for the District of Columbia, for bidding all unnecessary work and all theaters and games on the Lord’s day,” was urged. Unceasing war against the social evil and the white slave traffic was urged. It was urged also the Bible be read daily in the public schools, the commit tee noting “a determined effort to for bid the reading of the Bible in our public schools.” A TRAIN HITS AUTO Three Women and One Man Meet Death-Another Is Se- » riously Hurt (By Associated Press.) WARREN, Ohio, May 19.—Three women and one man are dead and an other man seriously injured as a re sult of a Baltimore and Ohio express train striking the automobile In which the party rode at Leavittsburg, Ohio, late Sunday afternoon. Four of the occupants were carried for 200 yards on the pilot of the engine. The dead are: MRS. HENRY TURNER, seventy-five. Mrs. FRANK HOUSEL, forty. MRS. WARD TURNER, forty. WARD TURNER. Frank Howard was removed to his home seriously injured. Frank Housel. the sixth member of the party, jumped just before the collision ocurred. All of the party were residents of Warren. Mr. Turner, who was driving the au tomobile, failed to see the train ap proaching until within 100 yards of the crossing. When he attempted to apply the brakes he stopped the engine and the machine coasted on the track in front of the train. THREE ENGLISH SPIES LIBERATED IN GERMANY William Opens Doors as Act of Grace in Connection With King George’s Visit (By Associated Press.) BERLIN, May 19.—Emperor William, as an act of grace in connection with the visit of King George of England to Berlin for the marriage of Princess Vic toria Louise, today granted a pardon to three English spies undergoing long sentences in German jails. THE JAPANESE SITUATION AT A GLA/VCE POSSE ENTERS SIMP TO GET 6LAGK DESPERADO Negro WantetHti ScAitti ••Caro lina for Assault and Murder Located Near Ludowici (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) WAYCROSS, Ga., May 19.—Early this afternoon, a posse of Liberty and Wayne county people will enter the Altamaha river swamp to get the ne gro desperado, Austin, wanted In South Carolina for assaulting a white woman and killing two men. The hiding place of Austin was dis closed by a negro who has been feed ing him. A through Atlantic Coast Line train was stopped at Ludowici for the Jesup posse and theer will be hun dreds in the man trail this afternoon. While Austin is wanted in South Carolina the murderer is wanted for many causes. The Georgians will deal with him promptly if he is caught, it is believed. DF E Frisco Woman Fined $2,000 for Declaring False Value on Imported Goods SUFFRAGETTES HIRE . FIREBUGS IN LONDON * (By Associated Press.? LONDON, May 19.—Confirmation of ■ the hint that militant suffragettes were j hiring women of the lower class as I members of their “arson squads,” was received this morning when Nellie Rob- | inson was arrested outside the famous new college chapel at Hempstead. The woman described herself as a servant and said she was awaiting the arrival of two suffragettes under whose direction she was going to fire the church. The police magistrate remarked that she “seemed to be in course of train ing as a professional petroleum incen tive under miscreants worse than her self.” Grocers Meet (By Associated Press.) ST. LOUIS. May 19.—The National Retail Grocers’ association convened, here today with several hundred dele gates in attendance. Advocaes of New Orleans, Omaha and Cleveland are urg ing the claims of those cities for next convention. POLICE PROTECT SILK STRIKERS RETURNING PATERSON, N. J., May 19.—Through a lane of police two blocks long, twen ty hands formerly employed by the silk mill of the Arthur Price company, went back to work today after a strike of more than two months. Hundreds of pickets of the Industrial Workers of the World sought to prevent their return, but the police guard was too effective. There was a lively scrimmage for a time, and sixty pickets were arrested. The Price mill is a comparatively small one, employing normally thirty hands. The return of its strikers with demands unsatisfied is heralded by the manufacturers as meaning the near-end of the strike. Leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World, on the other hand, maintain that the fight will go on unabated and that few others will yield. ENGLISH-GERMAN SQUABBLE SETTLED? (By Associated Press.) TRENTON, May 19.-A fine of $2,000 was imposed on Mrs. Agnes Mangels, of San Francisco, who is alleged to have landed on May 12 from the steamer Amerika at Hoboken without declaring a proper value of goods brought by her from abroad. Mrs. Mangels entered a plea of non vult. Her^counsel pleaded with the court to extend mercy and not impose a prison sentence. The value of the goods brought Into the country was estimated by the federal customs appraisers at about $5,500, of which $1,800 was declared. It was stated to the court that restitution to the value of 60 per cent of the goods had been made to the customs officers. Miss Agnes Tillman, a niece of Mrs. Mangels, was cited to appear because of alleged improper declaration of gowns and jewels but the charges against her were withdrawn. Miss Tillman agreed to pay the duty for the full value of her property. TRUSTS’ PRODUCTS MAY BE PUT DN FREE LIST Senator Kenyon Ask's Amend ment to Tariff Bill Free List ing All Trust Products (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 19.—An amend ment to the tariff bill introduced today by Senator Kenyon proposed that when any corporation or concern was ad judged a monopoly, its products should automatically go on the free list. Mr. Kenyon has hope that the finance com mittee may favorably consider the amendment, but, if not, he will press it on the floor. The proposal has almost unlimited possibilities for overturning schedules. The question of whether products of concerns reorganized since the supreme court held them to be monopolies might still be under monopolistic con trol also would enter into the appli cation of the law, should the Kenyon amendment be incorporated. Sub-committees of the finance com mittee plan to meet every day this week to consider the wool, cotton, sugar and chemical schedules of the tariff bill. On all these manufactur ers are here pleading to be heard against the rates of the Underwood bill. Chairman Simmons has called a meeting of the entire finance com mittee for tomorrow. A set of ques tions to manufacturers proposed by 'Senator LaFollette are to be sent out. Woman of Wealth Starves to Death in Yonkers Mansion (By Associated Press.) BERLIN, May 17.—Controversy be tween Great Britain and Germany over the Bagdad railway, which is to run under German auspices from Konia, in Asia Minor, to the Persian gulf, is* ap proaching settlement satisfactory to Germany, according to an official state ment. The German government and the Ger man supporters of the scheme who In 1911, toofl first steps toward an Anglo- German understanding, have been kept fully informed as to the Anglo-Turkish negotiations and they approve of the im pending solution. They expect, however, to receive further compensation for the German concessions and that this will be arranged by direct negotiations be tween Germany and Great Britain. DISTRICT COURT IS IN SESSION AT ROME, GA. ROME, Ga., May 19.—The United States district court for the northern district of Georgia convened Monday morning, March 19, in the federal building, Judge William T. Newman, district judge, pre siding. The following court officers will be In attendance: Hon. F. C. Tate, United States district attorney: John W. Henley, assistant district attorney; O. C. Fuller, clerk; John D. Stewart, Fred L. Beers and John C. Printup, deputy clerks; Wal ter H. Johnson, United States marshal; J. H. Rhinard and L. B. Griers, deputy marshals. Sixty odd criminal cases have been set for trial, thirty odd grand jury cases and a number of civil cases. The court will likely be in session all the week. DRY WEATHER HUNTING THE .FARMERS ’COTTON FORT GAINES, Ga., May 17.—The continued dry weather has caused the farmers of the county no little trouble in not getting up a stand of cotton. In many places they have planted over and still have no tsand or seed to plant again. YONKERS. N. Y.. May 19.—In the spacious residence occupied by herself and her brother on a fashionable resi dence street here, Ada Dunscomb, a middle-aged spinster, was found dead last night a victim of starvation, ac cording to Coroner Dunn. So far as the searchers could dis cover, there was no food in the house. The authorities stepped into the case when a physician whom S. Whitney Dunscomb, Jr., sixty years old, the dead woman's brother, had summoned, found Miss Dunscomb dead on a couch in her bedroom, .her body clad in mere rags, and notified the coroner. The Dunscomb residence has been a house of mystery to the neighbors for the twelve years since the family moved here, the blinds always being drawn, no servants .being employed and no one ever being seen to visit the mansion. The officials who visited ttie place to day reported that the costly old furni ture seemed to be falling to pieces from neglect, while dust and dirt had been allowed to accumulate, apparently for years. Dunscomb was reticent as to himself and the family affairs in general, only saying he would go to New Jersey to notify relatives there of his sister’s death. Neighbors believed the pair to be wealthy. RA*TE CASE IS DECIDED AGAINST “S00 LINE” WASHINGTON, May 19.—A railroad is not warranted in exacting increased rates merely because it has not direct facilities for delivering shipments, the interstate commerce commission today held, in effect, in a contested case in volving freight rates on ice from Wis consin points to Chicago. The “Soo line” has no terminal facili ties in Chicago. “If it cannot afford to pay for terminal services,” the com mission announced, “it will doubtless have to retire from competitive traffic. It may not either by itself or in con junction with other carriers maintain unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory charges.” KERN'S RESOLUTION MAY BRING ON Ml PROBE Senate Wrangles Over fnve? tigation in West Virginia Mine District (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 19.—Senator Kern’s resolution to investigate condi tions in the West Virginia coal strike region was again the unfinished bilsiness when the senate met today. A vote was expected before adjournment. Senators opposing the inquiry resolu tion in its present form planned today to have it referred to the labor com mittee to determine whether an investi gation should be conducted. Should it develop that the* resolution could not pass as it now stands, its proponents probably would propose that it be re ferred to the same committee, directing, however, that a subcommittee of three conduct an inquiry. If this were done, Senator Borah, who introduced the orig inal resolution In the last congress, would be appointed chairman of the subcommittee. ** CANADIAN LOOT SPENT- IN CHICAGO SALOONS (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, May 19.—Almost $100,000 of the $271,000 in Canadian money stolen from the branch of the Bank of Montreal at New Westminster, B. C., has been exchanged for United States currency by Chicago saloon keepers, ac cording to the assertion of the super intendent of a detective agency made last night. Michael J. Flanagan, proprietor of a saloon,' was arrested early yesterday morning when two men accused him of giving them Canadian money to ex change. Three other saloon keepers are under surveillance, and arrests may re sult. William J. Lawler and Charles O’Leary, arrested on Saturday night, charge Flanagan with being the receiv er of part of the stolen money. Law ler asserted he received $545 in bills frqm Flanagan on Wednesday after noon. The money finally reached the local braftch of the Bank of Montreal and was traced back. Three of the alleged robbers who tunnelled into the vault of the "West minster bank, are in prison, awaiting trial. The fourth member of the gang is hiding in Chicago, detectives say, and it is from him that Flanagan is said to have obtained the money which was given to Lawler. President Wilson Is Urged by Mexican Rebel Leader to. Withdraw Luther Tellsworth From Piedras Negras „ . <By Associated Press.) EAGLE PASS, Tex., May 19.—Governor Carranza, the Constitutionalist leader, is preparing a message to President Wilson notifying him that United States Consul Luther Tellsworth at Piedras Negras is persona non grata, and requesting his withdrawal. He declined today to dis cuss reasons therefor but said later he would make a statement. Consul Ells worth declined to talk about the matter. Piedras Negras is the Mexican town opposite Eagle Pass and is the headquar ters for the Carranza regime. No Proof Against U.-S, Ambassador Wilson WASHINGTON, May 19.—White House officials today when Informed that dispatches from Mexico City in terpreted Secretary Bryan’s statement of last Saturday as an indorsement of Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, ex r pressed the opinion that there never had been any proof to substantiate the charges recently made against the am bassador. ANTI-ALIEN LAND BIEL . SIGNED BY JOHNSON Measure Becomes Law August 17-Referendum Petition Already in Circulation OBy Associated Press.) SACRAMENTO, Cal., May 19.—Governor Johnson signed today the alien land bill, against which Japan protests, and which the California legislature passed by an overwhelming majority over the remon strances of President Wilson and Secre tary Bryan. The act will go into effect ninety days from date, or August 17. Referendum Petition Is ' Now Being Circulated SAN FRANCISCO, May 19—The Asiatic Exclusion league of California instructed its legislative committee to ijq. | arart a petition for a referendum vot*a on the alien land bill to be circulated* immediately after the measure i a signed by Governor Johnson. The objections of the league are based pn the clause in the Webb act which permits three-year leases. It ts the purpose of the organization to cir culate at the same time an initiative petition for a law which will exclude Japanese and Chinese from both own ership and lease holds under any con ditions. The burden of the speeches at he exclusion league’s meeting today was that the leasing clause is a Joker which will allow the Japanese ultimately 1 to own the land is effect at least. Tne speakers denied the wisdom of the ar gument that to withdraw the leasing right immediately from the Japanese would work too great a hardship upon landowners. A meeting will be held today at which the the petition will be taken up more fully and possibly a rough draft of the proposed initiative • law will be presented. The meeting Sunday was presided over by the president of the organiza tion, Olaf A. Tvettmde, one of the con victed labor leaders in the Lost Angeles Times dynamiting case, who is now Out of the federal prison at Leavenworth on ball. Tveltmoe was re-elected presi dent of the Asiatic Exlusion league yes- terday. ■m 3,000 MEN JOIN BIRMINGHAM STRIKE (*>y Asqx’atfd BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 19.—Be cause master builders and contractors refused to grant demands of organized carpenters for a raise of five cents an hour, making the wages fifty cents, 3,000 union men, carpenters, plumbers, structural iron and steel workers, painters hoisters, bricklayers and other craftsmen went out on a sympathetic strike this morning. Three skycraper buildings are in volved, an < 'timate being made that building work to the amount of $5,000,- 000 is being*interfered with. Contrac tors who have signed with the carpen ters are feeling the strike also. OLDEST CITIZEN OF LITHONIA IS DEAD LITHONIA, Ga., May 19.—Mr. Robert C. Jason, aged eighty-eight years, the oldest inhabitant of this community, passed away at 2:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. He was a Confederate vet- eran and is survived by one son and two daughters. Alleged Forger in Cell Makes Money Writing For Papers VALDOSTA, Ga., May 19.—Charles T. Sweet, one of the prisoners In the Lowndes county jail, who Is charged with forgery, is having considerable success in disposing of short stories which he has written. Sweet has been a sort of poetic genius and has trav eled all over the country, having been in Uncle Sam’s army at one time. Be fore he got in trouble he contributed a number of articles to the newspapers and after he was placed in jail on a- charge of forging a relative’s name on a note at the bank, he bought a type writer and has devoted much of his time to writing stories. During the past jveek or two five dif ferent magazines have had short stories or poems from his pen and in each in stance they have paid him for them. Sweet is going to be tried next week and he is, confident that he will be ac quitted, as he claims that he had per mission to sign his mother’s name to th^ paper in question. DANIELS ENTERTAINED AT HIS BIRTHPLACE WASHINGTON, N. C„ May 19.—Secre tary of the Navy Daniels arrived from Norfolk, Va:, Sunday afternoon for a short visit to this, his birthplace. He was met by a comrhittee of citizens headed by Mayor Kugler, and given for mal welcome. The program of entertainment in his honor today includes a luncheon and a trip down the Pamlico river. Prior to the luncheon he will deliver a brief ad dress. The secretary will leave for Raleigh. N. C., tomorrow afternoon. STANDARD OIL FIGHTS FOR LIFE IN MISSOURI (By Associated Press.) KANSAS CITY, May 19.—Further hearings in the case in which the Stand ard Oil company of Indiana seeks to show why it should not be ousted from Missouri as a trust were begun hero today before Commissioner Montgom ery, appointed to take testimony by the Missouri supreme court at the time of the suspension of its ousted decree against the company.