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* « rnmnm VOLUME XII. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1913. NO. 76. STRIKE IS SEMITE Industrial War Breaks Out Again in West Virginia Coal Fields as Probe Begins Its Second Week (By Associated Press.) CHARLESTON, W. Va,. June 16.— With industrial war again declared in West Virginia tne senate coal strike investigating committee today con fronted a situation, critical and compli cated. Word from the isolated sections of Paint Creek and Cabin Creek that the strike was again on drifted into Charleston from a half dozen sources and representatives of mine operators and state officials sought in vain for definite word from the little camps along the creeks. The union attorneys appearing be fore the committee said they were cer tain that the men had declined to go back today at meetings held yesterday but they were unable to make any Es timate of the number of strikers. There were comparatively few union men in the field, they said, but they believed that both union and non-union men decided to quit. With the New river district, a few miles away from the creeks, awaiting only the match to set off a conflagra tion of excitement, the state officials to day watched the situation with fear and trembling. For days the New river miners, numbering 15,000, have threat ened trouble and it was feared the new outbreak on Paint and Cabin creeks would precipitate the struggle. The miners’ meetings at Eskdale and Kayford yesterday according to reports reaching Charleston, voted to renew strike on the ground that the opera tor® had not lived up to their agree ment to take the srikers back to work without discriminating. This claim and the story that mine guards had “beaten up” four men on Cabin creek on Satur day. caused the decision. The senate committe prepared today to call upon the mine operators for their side of the controversy. Ex-mine guards, detectives, keen eyed miners and union organizers thronged the lob by of the hotel where the committee sat. Contradiction and explanation or the stories told all last week by ,the men and women who lived through what former Governor Glasscock called a “reign of terror” in the strike dis trict, was the program of the. operators who had seventy witnesses on hand. The committee urged that the num ber of ( witnesses be held down to the lowest possible figure. Only senators Swanson, Martine and Kenyon were on hand to begin today's hearings, Sen ators Foraker and Shields having re- tstnqg ,.tg; Waahlggtog _Xftgt ...week. Jta The sensational statements of -Lee Calvin, ex-mine guard relating to the ©hooting up of the strikers’ camp at Holly Grove have crystalized much or the ill feeling and even among the at torneys before the committee and occa sional word of bitterness shows the un dercurrent of resentment. The presence in Charleston of John P. ■White, president of the United Mine Workers of America, today resulted in several conferences among union offi cials. He was in Charleston principal ly to make an appearance and give bail in the criminal case brought against the mine officials in the federal courts and charging conspiracy under the Sherman law. A. H. Honaker, a merchant at Holly Grove, said he was arrested by mine guards and taken from his house. He had allowed miners to erect tents on his property, he said, after they had been ejected from the company’s houses. Elizabeth Fish, a pretty mountain gairl, said she and May Claypool and another young woman w’ere met by mine guards who made them wade the creek, enforcing the order by guns. C. L. Workman, a stable boss, said that the guard systJm was mainly re sponsible for the trouble. C. R. Shaw, of Parkersburg, said he was taken into the coal fields during the strike, with his wife and children He said he worked at Mucklow for four weeks and that he received no pay. “It was all used up the company store,” he ©aid, “and the store said I owed the company money.” Ill UE III MIS IRE The Rebellious Tribesmen on Mount Bagsag in the Phil ippines Are Driven From Stronghold by U. S. Troops (By oted Pres?.) MANILA, June 16—Complete rout of the rebellious Moros on Mount Bagsag was accomplilshed by the American forces during the night with the loss of six men and seven wounded. Reports of the engagement, reached here by wireless from the island of Jolo, are very meager. All of the Americans killed were members of the several companies of scouts. In the first advance upon the mountain last week six Americans ,were killed. The number of dead among the Moros is not known. Last night’s battle begun just be fore dark. The fighting was fierce but the American advance so determined that the Moros at last stole away and left the mountain clear. They are now at large and will be pursued ceaseless ly. Brigadier General John Pershing, commanding department in Mindanne, is leading his forces. Hand-to-Hand Conflict Fought on Last Friday (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, June 16.—The war department had no report today of the latest fighting on tne Island of Jolo. A belated, report from Brigadier General Pershing received today gave further details of the fighting last week as fol lows : “Friday at noon Captain Patrick Moy- lan, of the Philippine Scouts, with the Thirty-first and Fourteenth companies, Philippine Scouts, took Mount ‘Bunga, after a hand to hand fight. One scout of the Thirty-first company was killed. Mountain side very precipitous. Gun carried up by hand.” STABBED TO DEATH,- IIS SLATER SHOT Dave Yancey, Special Deputy, is Killed While Trying to » Capture Negro Snatch Thief Monday Noon FALSELY LABELED MEAL IS South Carolina Commissioner Starts Probe-Other News of Palmetto State SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD AVIATOR IS DEAD (By Associated Press.) BALTIMORE. Md., June 16.—Archie Erwin Caltridar, seventeen years old, said to be the only boy scout in the United States that had ever passed suc cessfully the examination in “aviation” for which he received a gold medal about eighteen months ago, died at the home of his father here yesterday, aft er an illness of ten months. Xhe young man was formerly a student at the Baltimore Polytechnic institute and de voted all his spare* time while there and later to‘ aero-mechanics. Over a year ago he constructed two model aero planes which attracted much attention. BUTTS COTTON CROP INJURED BY COLD t Dave S. Yancey, special deputy at tached to the sheriff’s office and the criminal division of the city court, was stabbed to death about noon Monday by Eugene Watson, a negro whom he was seeking to arrest for snatching another negro’s pocket book. Yancey met his death after a long chase and a hard fight with the negro, who was later desperately wounded and finally captured after a battle with the city police. Watson was on the corner of White hall and Forsyth streets, when he snatched a purse containing $4.55 from Jesse x Winn, another negro. Winn gave chase, yelling “stop thief.*' A number of white people joined in the chase after the thief, and among them was Yancey, who outdistanced the other pursuers. Yancey fired twice at the negro and wounded him in the right leg. ^ After a chase through back yards and over fences the negro crawled under a house in the rear of 303 Rawson street. Yancey yelled at him to come out an< * surrender. The negro did come out, but not to surrender. KNIFE IN HAND. The deputy was leaning over looking at the man as he crawled towards him, but did not see, evidently, the knife in his hand. Before Mr. Yancey raised up from his stooping posture, the negro had commenced stabbing him. The keen knife blade slashed across the deputies’ neck twice, and then the negro stabbed him in the heart. As Yancey was toppling to the ground, the negro’s knife was raked across his stomach, making another fatal wound. When Yancey sank dying on the ground, his slayer picked up his re volver. Only two chambers are said to have been emptied at that time. With the revolver in one hand and the bloody knife in the other, and blood pouring frmo the wound in his leg, Watson started his flight. At no time did he try the streets, but kept running through back yards, hurdling fences, until he arrived at the corner of Wind sor street and Woodward avenue, where he crawled under a vacant house. Two white boys came up just at the end of death struggle and hurled rocks at the ’fleeing negro, but were unable to follow him to the hiding place. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) COLUMBIA, S. C., June 16.—Commis sioner Watson said today that he had selves- advices that a big mill in Richmond, Va., was writing letters to the trade in South Carolina, telling them they were putting up meal ninety-six pounds to the sack and marking it “un bolted,” but putting “bolted” meal in the sack. Mr. Watson took vigorous measures in the matter and addressed a letter of warning that he would make a case in every sack of such meal ship ped in this state and take it in the United States courts. Commissioner Watson has been clothed with federal as well as state authority in this mat ter and he has determined to make an example of this mill. A copy of the letter which this mill was writing to the trade was sent to Mr. Watson. MAKING PEANUT MEAL. The Sea Island Cotton Oil company, of Charleston, of which Mr. Edward R. Eve is the general mTTTiager, in a let ter to Commissioner of Agriculture Watson tells of the experiment they made in the manufacture of peanut meal. He says they propose to make at least a few carloads of peanut meal this fall, that it will run somewhere between 30 and 35 per cent protein, 6 to 8 per cent fat, and will look almost as w'Hlte as corn. meal. A few hundred pounds recently made as an experiment and which he gave to feeders for trial report excellent results, says Mr. Eve, the meal being found good for both horses and milk cows. In making the meal the whole peanut is crushed in the hull and meal is made out of everything except the oil that can be pressed out. BUYS MUCH CANNED GOODS. The state of South Carolina buys $13,984,000 worth of can goods each year and comparatively none of this is manufactured in the state, notwith standing the fact that all the facilities are here for the business. The census report cn the canned goods just out show that there is canned, in South Carolina yearly 5,250,148 pounds of oysters valued $268,438, and 631 cases of okra and tomatoes valued at $1,262. All the balance of the millions spent for canned goods by Palmetto people goes to other sections, and Cfm- missioner Watson is using these figures effectively in driving home the argu ment of the importance of the develop ment of the canning industry and the virgin field here for this enterprise. REBELS EVACUATE TOWN DF ZACAtECOS, MEXICO After Pillaging Government Offices, Rebels Move at Sight of Federals (By Associated Press.) MEXICO CITY, June 16.—Mexican rebels who captured acatecas last week evacuated the «place later upon the approach of federal reinforcements. The rebels before decamping got the equivalent of 9,000 pecos in gold by forced loans and by robbing the gov ernment offices. They also obtained 1.000 rifles, a number of machine guns and a quantity of ammunition. Four-Days’ Quarantine 'Suspended on Border AUSTIN, Tex., June 16.—In response to a request from Secretary Bryan, Governor Colquitt today wired the state department at Washington that in cases where - American refugees from Mexico could show health certificates issued by federal authorities at Tam pico the state regulations requiring four days in quarantine before landing at Galveston will be suspended. The action of Secretary Bryan fol lowed the holding of the tug Beryl with twenty refugees under quarantine four days. The governor was also advised that the Red Cross, acting in conjunction with the state department, is endeavor ing to remove from Mexico to the United States various American refu gees who arc in desperate circum stances and that the steamship Mexi- cano, due to sail from Tampico today, had refused to accept any of these ref ugees for passage to Galveston on ac count of what is considered the arbi trary and unjust regulations of the state quarantine department. Senator Cummins and Governor H adley are trying to find a way to make tlieir two hearts beat as one. §0,000 VETERANS WILL BE AT Already 45,000. Confederate and G, % 1TT Yeterans Have Asked for Accommodations JACKSON, Ga., June 16.—As a conse quence of the recent cold considerable complaint is heard from farmers about the damage to the cotton crop. There is no doubt but that the crop was se riously injured by the cold east winds. Some samples brought to town Satur day looked parched and withered. While the cotton crop in Butts is about a month late this season, prac tically all the crop has been chopped cut. With the return of hot weather -tie plant will come out very fast and will probably soon reco\%r from the re cent setback. PURE FOOD OFFICIALS CONVENE IN MOBILE (By Associated Press.) MOBILE, Ala., June 16.—The sev enteenth annual convention of the As sociation of American Dairy, Food and Drug officials will hold its first session tonight, when addresses of welcome will be delivered by Mayor Schwarz and President Armbrecht, of the cham ber of commerce, wtih response by Hon. George L. Flanders, of New York. There are approximately 200 delegates in the city, representing all sections of the country. Governor O’Neal will ad dress the convention Wedensday, and the sessions will close Friday night. STEAMER ARRIVES IN PORT WITH HOLE IN BOW (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, June 16.—The steamer Jessie Spalding, which was in collision on Lake Superior early yesterday, ar rived at Sault Ste Marie today with her bow stove in, but with the crew safe, according to a telegram received here today from her captain, L. A. Garu. First Watermelon Appears at Quitman .UITMAN, Ga., June 16.—The first watermelons of the season appeared here this week, S. Strickland bringing a thirty-five-pound Watson and J. W. Avera a twenty-eight-pound Watson. The shipping season will not really be gin until the 20th, however. The pros pects are for a fine season and the best crop in years. It is estimated the acreage in the county has been in creased fully 33 1-2 per cent and at least 1200 cars will be shipped from the county. STATES WIN VICTORY OVER RAILWAYS IN RATE DECISIONS West Virginia, Oregon and Arkansas Rates Upheld as Valid While Part of Mis souri Rates Are Declared Valid (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON,* June 16.—Validity of two-cent passenger laws and maximum freight rates in Arkansas, Missouri and West Virginia were upheld by the supreme court today in another series of decisions in the noted state rate cases. No decision was announced in the Kentucky case. In the Missouri case the great majority of rates con tended by the railroads as confiscatory were held valid. State freight rates established in Oregon also were ap proved. All claims that state laws attacked interfered with interstate commerce were swept aside, following the prece dent set in the Minnesota rate decision a week ago. In the majority of the Missouri cases and in the Arkansas case the court held the railroads had presented too general data on which to base a claim that their property was being taken without com pensation through the operation of the new rates. (By Associated Press.) PHILADELPHIA, June 3 6.—Forty- five thousand veterans of the Civil war, wearers of both the blue and the gray, have asked the Gettysburg Anniversary commission to provide accommodations for them during the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the famous bat tle next month. These figures were given out yester day at Harrisburg by Dr. Samuel C. Dixon, of the state department of health, as a final estimate. Under the most favorable conditions there would be many cases of illness among these old soldiers during the en campment, Dr. Dickson estimated. But a much greater number, it is feared, will suffer because of the heat, the excite ment and the strain of travel. Among other provisions for caring for the sick, arrangements have been made with hos pitals in cities within a radius of forty miles, to receive cases from the emerg ency hospital to be installed on the field. Harrisburg, Lancaster, York, Chambers- burg and Hagerstown, Md., will give aid. An estimate of the accommodations which Gettysburg's 5,000 inhabitants can offer to the crowds of visitors in dicates that 25,000 at most can be given sleeping quarters. Food, perhaps, will be available for more, but the pressure of passenger train service probably will limit the amount of food which can be brought into the town. To provide against a famine among the veterans the anniversary commission has arrang ed that all supplies for them be brought in before they arrive. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION HAS HAD MARVELOUS DEVELOPMENT From Seventy Schools Sixteen Years Ago, Thousands Have _ ^ •GiMwn, awMwstiiutions" for the 6 it^nff thtsf legislation until ^ | | 1 or SUa A *1 n n4-l n ‘ Farm Training Are Now as Thick as Cities, Almost BLEA5E GALLS ON VOTERS TO REBISTER PROMPTLY Fears Possible New Law, He Says, That May Disfran chise Many 1 Special Dispatch to The Journal.) COLUMBIA, S. C., June 16.—Profes- sing to see a disposition on the part of some South Carolians to have con gress enact a law providing that only those qualified to vote in general elec tions shall have the right to participate In preferencial primaries for United States senators and congressmen, Gov ernor Cole L. Blease today issued an address to the people of South Carolina urging them to get registration certifi cates. He calls upon every white man in the state to provide himself with a registration certificate. This warning is sounded by the gov ernor in the light of the ratification ov the seventeenth amendment providing for the election of United States sena tors by direct vote of the people. He de clares that he does not believe the leg islature or Democratic convention will throw any restrictions around the pri mary but declares there is a certain ele ment urging congress to pass restric tions in order to deprive part of the white people from voting. While he does not call any names it is believed here that the governor is slapping at United States Senator B. R. Tillman and State Chairman Joh*n Gary Evans and Representative W. F. Steven son who is mentioned as a possible op ponent of his in the next senatorial race. north central and the south central states contain 1,478 of the 1,910 schools, or more than 77 per cent of them. The remaining 432 schools are about evenly other three BY RALPH SMITH. v WASHINGTON, D. C., June 16.—Of ficials of the department of agriculture delight in pointing to the wonderful in crease of interest in agricultural educa tion in the United States during the past few years. Sixteen years ago, for instance, not a high school in the land was teaching agrictulture; at present the number is in excess of 2,000. Six teen years ago there were 61 state agri cultural colleges and 3 agricultural schools—or 70 institutions .in all which agriculture was taught; now agriculture is taught in about 2,600 state and private -colleges, public and private agricultural schools, and public and private high schools. Speaking with regard to this devel opment of interest in the scientific rais ing of crops and farm animals, Dick J. Crosby, specialist in agricultural educa tion In the office of experiment stations, notes that it has not extended over the whole of the sixteen-year period, but has been more marked in the last four years, and most rapid in the last two years. “Four years ago,” says Mr. Crosby, “the agricultural education service of the office of experiment stations listed less than 350 institutions as teaching agriculture; two years ago, less than 900; now, about 2,600. Between 1908 and 1910 the number of institutions teaching agriculture was practically doubled, and between 1910 and 1912 this number was trebled. And while six teen years ago, or even ten years ago, the public high schools were hardly thought of as effective agencies for the education of the rural people along vo cational lines, at the present time they constitute more than 80 per cent of the agencies engaged in teaching agricul ture, not including, of course, the one- teacher elementary schools, which have never been listed by the department.” As Mr. Crosby points out, there are several types of secondary schools in which agriculture is taught. First in order of establishment and in value of agricultural equipment are the agri cultural schools connected with state agricultural colleges, as in Minnesota and thirty-six other states. These schools use the land, live stock, farm equipment and laboratories of the agri cultural colleges, and their classes are largely taught by professors and in structors in the agricultural colleges. ►Secondly, there are the separate agri cultural schools,, which include country schools, like those in Maryland, Michi gan, Mississippi, North Caroling and Wisconsin; congressional district schools a.; in Alabama and Geor gia; judicial district schools, as in Oklahoma, and schools serv ing larger districts, sometimes a serving larger districts, sometimes a whole state, as in Arkansas, California, olorado. Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York. Pennsylvania and Vermont. These schools have been established pri marily for the purpose of teaching agri culture. The third type of school is the pub lic high school In which a department of agriculture has been established or a teacher of agriculture employed or an agricultural course conducted by a sci ence teacher with some agricultural teaching. A study of the geographical distribu- I tion of public high schools in which j agriculture is taught—both the schools j receiving state aid and those not re- ceiving such aid-^-reveais the interest ing fact that two-thirds of them are in the twelve states constituting the group known as the north central states, and one-third in the other thir ty-six states. The two groups of states in the Mississippi valley known as the EXIST OVER CUKY BILL President Gives Out Strong Interview Declaring That Differences Among Demo crats Have Been Healed (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. June 16.—In an in terview of smashing directness and of unqualified terms, President Wilson this morning endeavored to kill off the teem ing rumors of Democratic difference of opinion alleged to be threatening cur rency legislation at this time. He said he knew of no such differ ences. He still had every reason to ex pect currency legislation at the extra session of congress. He knew the cur rency bill would be completed within twenty-four to forty-eight hours. He felt authorized to state when completed it would present the composite views of all his advisers on the subject with the best and most practicable and use ful ideas preserved. He said he would have his message to congress ready to present within the present week, and he expected to read it himself, although he had not yet consulted the leaders on the subject and that he would be guided by them. In regard to the fundamental lines on which the currency legislation is to bo drawn, the president was not so com municative. He said he would be glad to discuss the proposed features of the bill, but that he was not a banker and never had had extensive dealings with bankers. Therefore he did not feel com petent to handle such a subject In an off-hand way. His fear was that if he attempted to do so he might mislead the country Inadvertently and therefore he considered it much better that dis cussion of the terms of the proposed legislation wait till the bill day before the country as a finished entity. When asked about Representative Henry, of Texas, and his movement to have currency legislation deferred until the money trust had been investigated more thoroughly, the president said he had not talked with Mr. Henry and knew nothing more than he had seen in the papers. But he added that he did not believe Mr. Henry had seen the pro posed currency bill. The rumor that Secretary Bryan also is opposed to currency legislation until after the money trust is fully exposed was denounced by the president as positively untrue. He said he knew be yond question that this was erroneous. Mr. Bryan is not opposed to currency legislation at this time, although the president admitted that Mr. Bryan might not have entered largely into the cur rency legislation as one of the factors in its preparation. The president said several members states having 185, the south Atlantic states 129, and the western states 118. At first thought this distribution seems greatly out of proportion, but Mr. Crosby points out that it is not so. “When we consider the fact that these two central groups of states contain two-thirds of the farm population of the country,” he said, “it does not seem so very strange that they should have three-fourths of the high schools in which agriculture is taught; nor are we greatly surprised to learn that the agricultural colleges in these states enroll more than 64 per cent of the college students in agriculture in the United States. The hopeful thing about it is the fact that the best agricultural regions are recognizing the value of agricultural education and providing so generously for its support.” The 1910 high schools in which ag riculture is now being taught are dis tributed by states as follows: Alabama, 87; Arizona, 1; Arkansas, 14; California, 42; Colorado, 11; Con necticut, 1; Florida, n; Georgia, 9; Idaho, 10; Illinois, 25; Iq^iana, 62; Iowa, 43; Kansas, 132; Kentucky, 5; Louisiana, 28; Maine, 13; Maryland. 8; Massachusetts, 30; Michigan, 38; Min nesota, 132; Mississippi, 12; Missouri, 167; Montana, 5; Nebraska, 191; Ne vada, 3; New Hampshire, 6; New Jer sey, 2; New Mexico, 1; New York, 42; North Carolina, 20; North Dakota, 19; Ohio, 335; Oklahoma, 19; Oregon, 6; Pennsylvania, 85; South Carolina, 6; South Dakota, 12; Tennessee, 34; Tex as, 55; Utah, 19; Vermont, 6; Virginia, 52; Washington, 19; West Virginia, 20; Wisconsin, 118; Wyoming, 1. Delaware and Rhode Island are the only states having no schools of this sort. Experts of the department say that wherever the teaching of agriculture in high schools has been taken seri ously, wherever suitable equipment and capable teachers have been provided, the schools and everyone connected with them have been benefited; the attend ance has increased; the school work has assumed a more businesslike air, and the relations between teachers, pu pils and parents have become closer and more sympathetic. STATUES IN CAPITOL ARE SHIFTED MONDAY (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. June 16.—This 13 “moving day” for John C. Calhoun, Pe ter Muhlnberg, Lewis Cass, of Michi gan, and other celebrated staues of great men in statuary hall at the Cap itol. The “all hands around” movement was made necessary by the arrival of another addition to the group of Amer ica's immortals. This' was the staue of Zachariah Chandler of Michigan. “It's sure tough on us," complained a capitol guide, as he watched the per spiring workmen pull and haul the statues into different positions. "We'll have to learn the layout of all these old guys all over again.” The work did not proceed without friction. A band of Kansans almost raised the roof of the capitol with their protest when they discovered that John J. Ingalls had been relegated somewhat to the rear. They Anally were pacihed by Superintendent Elliot Woods. It is expected the work will be completed tonight. JURY SYSTEM TO BE INTRODUCED IN PANAMA WASHINGTON, .Tune 16.—One of the immediate results of the conference be tween Secretary Daniels and Genei^l C-oethals, chairman of the Fanama'com- mission. now in Washington, will be introduced into the canal zone of the jury system tor the trial- of persons charged with felonies. the regular session, but that the rea son was altogether that of the physical difficulty of contending with the weather conditions in Washington during the summer. He added .that he did not be lieve the weather would stop the legis lation. He said he took not the slightest stock in the stories of differences of opinion stopping the bill. He Said of course there had been differences. The subject was of a nature to cause that. When the Democrats came to Washing ton, they knew what they wanted to do with the tariff, as far as the gen eral principles were cqncerned, and they could go ahead without much delay. But on the currency there was not that crystallization of opinion. Almost ev erybody had a different view as to some feature of it. It took time for these differences to be ironed out. But it had been done, almost completely. The differences had been honest, and they had been disposed of with the single purpose of preserving the very best out of all the ideas of fered. Therefore it could not be called the Glass bill nor the Owen bill nor the McAdoo bill when it Analy was of fered in the two houses. But he wanted it Anally and emphati cally understood that he expected the movement for this legislation to go right ahead, and that he was quite con- Adent that It would be passed before congress adjourned. BLACK HAND SPLINTERS E J, D, Trappani and Family Are Absent From Los Angeles Home and Escape (By Associated Press.) LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 16.—J. D. Trappani, a wealthy fruit dealer here, formerly of New Orleans, whose resi dence was dynamited early today, told the police. he believed the attempt on his life was planned by an organized society, with headquarters in New Or leans. Trappani and his family were not at home when the explosion occurred. The building was wrecked. Peffeine Principe and a man who refused to give his name were arrestd. Thy were both badly burned when their clothing caught fire from the explosion. Trappani told the police a gtory of demands for money, threats and pursuit covering a period of eleven years. He was the object of mysterious attacks in New Orleans for nearly nine years, he said, and shortly after his arrival here two years ago, received letters demand- ing various sums. These he ignored. Last week, he said, he received a de mand for $300, accompanied by a threat that his family would be killed unless the money was paid to a “black hand” society. This letter also he ignored. TRAIN FERRY RAMMED BY BIG GREEK STEAMER (By Associated Press.) SWINEMUENDE, Germany, June 16. —The Greek steamer Monolaus today rammed a car ferry while it was convey ing a train loaded with passengers from Swinemuende across to the opposite landing place, a half hour’s trip. |The side of the ferry was crushed, but the skipper managed to beach the vessel in time to save the passengers.