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VOLUME XIII.
ATLANTA, GA_ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1913.
NO. 6. *
I HIT BY
HOBSOm IN SPEECH,
“A Dummy, Used as Tool of
Wall Street and Liquor In
terests," Hobson Calls House
Leader Underwood
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Representa
tive Hobson launched a hot attack
against the senatorial campaign of Dem
ocratic Leader Underwood in the house
today ^rhen he charged that his support
of Underwood’s presidential candidacy
at the Baltimore convention was “ob
tained under false pretenses.”
Hobson, himself a candidate in the
present Alabama contest, referred to
printed report of a recent speech in
which he charged that Mr. Underwood
was the “tool of Wall street and the
liquor interests,” and read from the
senate investigation of campaign contri
butions the testimony of Senator Bank-
head contining the record of a contri
bution of $36,000 from Thomas F. Ryan,
and Bankhead's statement that Under-
wod had not known who financed his
campaign.
“Had I know,” shouted Hobson, “that
Thomas Fortune Ryan, the man whon
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Mr. Bryan rebuked and named before
the Baltimore convention and. accused
of being the tool of Wall street, had
financed the major portion of the cam
paign of Oscar W. Underwood, I not
have supported him, but I would have
only would not have support
ed him, but I would have
fought him, and what is more, he never
would have been the choice of the peo
ple of Alabama.”
“The support of the people of Alabama
for Mr. Underwood for president was
secured under false pretenses, and I here
declare that their support of him for
the United States senate shall not be
obtained under similar false pretenses.”
UNDERWOOD CHALLENGES IT.
Underwood, on his, feet at once, was
loudly cheered by Democrats and Re
publicans as he was recognized. The
majority leader first referred to Hobson’s
published speech and said he had been
waiting to answer it “when he could
look Mr. Hobson in the face.”
“I would like for the gentleman,” Mr.
Underwood continued, turning toward
Hobson, “to say here what he said in
his Alabama speech, and whether he
charged me with being a tool of Wall
street and the liquor interests.”
“I used the double word,” replied
Hobson. “I read the testimony I have
Just read here from the campaign con
tribution hearings, and I assumed that
what Senator Bankhead said was true—
that Mr. Underwood did not know his
campaign was being finraced by Wall
street. I asked the people of Alabama
why, when charges were publicly made
tha.t his campaign was being financed by
Wall street;' my friends didn’t find out.
I said that he was in the hands of the
managers and was being used and ap
parently did not know it.
rn "‘-'that, with the present state of affairs,
Bad Boys Reformed
By Electric Spanker
HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Oct. 13-
Two schools in this city where dis
cipline has always been a matter of
the istructonrs’ strength of arm have
been transformed by means of an elec
tric “spanker” into institutions of learn
ing with the best average deportment
of all the schools in the city, according
to Superintendent Wilson M. Foulke.
Both schools known for years as un
ruly, had exhausted the patience of the
school board. A day or so after the
school season opened a carpenter and
an electrician appeared at one of the
schools and began the installation of a T? nr’tnpr 0 fvP-fQ
“spanker” in a small anteroom. As riliTTltZi VJtsLo
the “spanker” gradually assumed shape
and the electric connections were made
the unruly pupils began to ask ques
tions, and finally they w?re given a de
monstration of its ability to administer
punishment.
The “spanker” deiivers about five
short, sharp blows a second. After sev
eral of the boys had become subjects
of a test of the “spanker” they had
some stories to tell of its punishing
powers.
Immediately the “spanker” was com
pleted in one school it was installed in
the other institution. According to Su
perintendent Foulke, since the “per
suaders” have been installed and their
abilities become known, not one unruly
pupil can be found in either school.
Deer Runs Through
Kitchen and Escapes
MICHEAUD, La.. Oct. 13.—Captain
William Hooks, of the Micheaud estate,
and his guests on a deer chase lost
their quarry because the finely antlered
stag ran through the captain’s kitchen.
The stag had been raised in the
Micheaud forest and circled before the
dogs, with the riders hastening to cut
off points. Suddenly near the Hooks
home the dogs lost the trail and the
riders came back.
There the cooks told Captain Hooks
that while they were busy about dinner
the stag jumped through an open win
dow, floundered for a moment on the
floor and then dashed out through the
door, heading for the swamp. When
the dogs came a moment later they lost
the trail at the winddw and were too
excited to pick it up on the other side
of the house.
Dead Turtle Heads
Try to Eat Chicks
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John Lind and O’Shaughnessy
Wired to Warn Huerta Gov
ernment Not to Injure Men
Now 'Under Arrest
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—After a
conference between Secretary Bryan
and President Wilson today it was an
nounced at the White House that tele
grams had been dispatchd to both John
Lind at Vera Cruz and Charge
O’Shaughnessy at Mexico City to make
representations to the Huerta govern
ment that the United States would look
with displeasure upon any injury to
the Mexican deputies nbw under ar
rest.
It has been left entirely to Mr.
Lind’s discretion whether he should re
turn to Mexico City to impress those
views on the Mexican authorities, but
Charge O’Shaughnessy has been di
rected to address himself to the min
ister of foreign relations and make it
plain that the United States attaches
“the gravest importance” to the ar
rest of the dtputies and is keenly inter
ested in their fate.
President Wilson told callers toaa*
he did not see how a constitutional
election could take place in Mexico.
So far as the immediate policy of the
United States is concerned, it was made
known by the president today that
there would be no departure from the
original position that the Mexicans
should settle their own affairs.
There are no plans today for any in
crease in the number of American war
ships in Mexican waters.
The government here practically has
abandoned all hope of seeing an elec
tion or treating any further with
Huerta as an individual. There is a
disposition in a'dminstratlon circles to
await the course of events, with the
hope that the factional lines ^111 be
so tightly drawn as to bring • aoout a
natural adjustment without outside in
terference.
“My opinion is that there can be no
constitutional election in Mexico under
existing circumstances,” raid Senator
Bacon, chairman of the foreign rela
tions committee after a conference with
President Wilson at the White House.
The senator said he had not discussed
that phase with the president, but that
it was obvious that with the arrest of
the deputies and the dissolution of con
gress no one would dare to take issue
with Huerta and that there could not be
any free expression of the people’s will.
Mr. Marshall Denied
Auto by Congress, May
Take to Mi
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Visitors to
the capital soon may be treated to the
sight of Vice President Marshall scout
ing up Pennsylvania avenue to the cap-
itol astride a motorcycle. The vice
president has laughingly told friends
that he might purchase such a machine
since congress saw fit to refuse to au
thorize the purchase of an automobile
for his usb. An appropriation for the
purchase of cars for the vice president
and speaker of the house was stricken
out of the urgent deficiency bill.
“I still have the street cars and walk**
ing is good,” Mr. Marshall told friends
who sought to commisserate with him.
Mr. Marshall indicated he had not in
spired the item providing public funds
for purchasing an automobile for him.
Worth of Experience
CHICAGO, Oct. 13.—Miss Tessie Wil
liams has large, soulful brown eyes.
William Maroch, of Horicon, Wis., had
$4,000. Now Miss Williams, ’tis said,
has both and Maroch has lost his desire
to get married.
As William Maroch tilled the soil on
his large farm at Horicon, he was visit
ed by a fortune teller. She told him he
was to get married soon. Maroch look
ed into her eyes. They are big and
brown—and believed her. In fact, he
proposed on the spot and the next scene
is in the Union depot in Chicago.
“We were to go to St. Louis to get
married and she was to meet me at the
Union station this morning,” mourned
Maroch, “and I have not seen her since.
I am not going to get married.”
GIRL IS
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liss Dorothy Haugh, Visiting
in Thomasville, Found Dead
in Room-No Clue to Reveal
Murderer
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
THOMASVILLE, Ga., Oct. 13.—Miss
Dorothy Haugh, of Valdosta, who was
visiting her mother in this place, was
found murdered in her room at the
Southern hotel this morning. Her moth
er entered the room and found her
corpse.
The entire skull of the young woman
was mashed in, as if she had met her
death from a blow by some blunt in
strument.
Nothing was found in the room, how
ever, which indicated it might have
been used for that purpose.
The only clue to the identity of the
murderer is the pistol found on the
floor. One chamber had been discharg
ed, but the bullet did not take effect in
the body of the girl. Her mother said
she heard a shot some time during the
night.
The coroner's Jury is investigating
the crime, but so far no arrest has
been made.
More Than 436,000
Tons of Useless Water
Shipped Every Year
(By Associated Press.'
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—More than
436,000 tons of useless water is shipped
annually in conjunction with one prod
uct alone, scientists of the depart
ment of agriculture have discovered,
arid they attribute to this wasteful prac
tice much of the high cost of living
and the distressing scarcity of freight
cars each year during the shipping sea
son. The experts, who have been mak
ing an investigation of shipping meth
ods, today made public their findings.
In corn shipments, from the fields to
the centers of consumption, the experts
found that because of the failure of
shippers to dry the corn before load
ing it just 436,682 tons of water were
hauled to market each year.
On this excess freight was paid and,
in addition, the corn deteriorated be
fore it reached the market. .
The experts found that potatoes al
so were costing the nation heavily
through the failure of shippers to dry
them before shipment.
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COUNTY BOY IN
LINE FOR GA. CORN PRIZE
J. 0, Lucas Local Winner With
Yield of 143 Bushels at
Low Cost
QUITMAN, Ga., Oct. 13.—J. O. Lucas,
who won first prize last year in the
Brooks county boys’ corn club, is again
the winner with a yield of 143 bushels
produced at a cost 2.7 cents per
bushel. Last year young Lucas
won first prize with a yield of 112
bushels per acre, the largest yield per
acre ever produced in Brooks county up
to that time. His record this year
places him in the running for the state
record and he will enter that competi
tion
The next highest yield in the club
was made by Edwin Johnson, who won
second prize with 67 1-2 bushels pro
duced at a cost of 43 cents per
bushel. Shelley Shearer won third
place with 62 1-2 bushels. The lowest
yield recorded in the club was 30 1-2
bushels. Twenty-nine boys were enroll
ed in the club last spring, and thirteen
reported yesterday with corn exhibits.
The district agent, C. V. Cunningham,
said this was the largest per capita of
any club he had visited. A large num
ber of the entries always drop out be
fore the harvest season.
The prizes offered by local business
men for the best yield included a $20
shotgun and $15 in cash prizes. Other
prizes awarded were three free schol
arships to the corn club course at the
state college of agriculture, four free
trips to Atlanta to the boys’ corn club
show, two free trfps to the state fair
at Macon, besides several cash prizes
and agricultural implements.
SIXTEEN BELIEVED
TO HAVE PERISHED
Hudson Bay Tug Twenty-One
Days Overdue-No News
Received
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(By Assooiatod Press.)
EDM EN TON, Alberta, Oct. 13.
teen persons are believed to have per
ished with the Hudson Bay company's
tug Primrose, which left Fort Chipe-
v/ayan for Fort Fond du Lac twenty-
five days ago. Generally the trip re
quires only four days. Names of the
Primrose’s crew and passengers are not
known here. »
Giraffes End Their
Journey Unscratched
Cy DeVry and his two giraffes have
breached Chicago without a scratch.
This is a record of which Cy has reason
to feel jproud, for the journey was a
leng one, clear from New York, and the
railroad cars were not tall enough for
the long-necked beasts. Their escort,
who is keeper of the Lincoln park zoo
at Chicago, trusted to luck that they
would keep their necks inside the cars
while the train was going through tun
nels, and luck was with him.
“One trip like that is enough for me,”
said Cy.
Antony and Cleopatra, the giraffes,
said nothing but seemed pleased that
their journey was over. They wore
purchased in Europe by Mrs. Mollie
Neuberger, who paid for their passage
to New York and presented them to the
Chicago zoo.
- FULTON, Mo., Oct. 13.—“Turtles live
forever” is an old saying, but does a
turtle’s head live after having been
separated from the body? M. F. i3ee is
positive that it does. See killed two
turtles by cutting off their heads. He
threw the heads in the barnyard and
was engaged in making turtle soup when
he heard a commotion among his
chickens. One of the turtle heads, he
found, had caught a chicken and from
all appearances was trying to swallow
it. See freed the bird and went back to
the house but . again there was a dis
turbance in the barnyard and he found
the other turtle head with a chicken
firmly caught. The heads became quiet
only after the chickens had been chased,
j away.
COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS
AT MANILA RESIGNS
Girls Heart Found,
To Be on Right Side
JOHNSTOWN. Pa., Oct. 13.—The
Cambria County Medical society, at its
meeting tomorrow afternoon, will be! „ “ TTTv
given an opportunity to examine Myrtle MANILA, Oct"?3—Colonel’H. B. Me-
SwaJiow, the eleven-year-old school girl coy, deputy collector of customs at
of Moxhama whose heart is located on | Manila, and Charles H. Sleeper, director
her right side. of the bureau of lands in the Philip
pines, resigned today, and Manuel
Tinio was appointed to the bureau of
lands.
This appointment is regarded as im
plying the adoption of a new attitude
toward the Friar land question.
Governor General Harrison says he
does not intend to make any further
changes at present. The names of the
new members of the commission win
be announced Monday. The reductions
to be made in the salaries of officials
are to be ;onfined to those in the
higher poisLlons.
The discovery of this rare case was
made by Dr. Charles Hammer while he
was examining pupils at the Village
Street school, Moxhama, a few days
ago.
Dr. Hammer said that the use of his
ears and stethoscope showed that the
heart of the girl was on her right side.
Every test known to science has been
made by Dr. Hamer to substantiate his
belief and members of the medical so
ciety will be asked to examine the
young girl tomorrow. The girl is rug
ged and In splendid health.
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ANOTHER BIG SERIES SOON
TWENTY KITES IN 57
MIGHT SAVE SULZER
New York Executive's Fate to
Be Voted Publicly by Im
peachment Court
IE
REFORM ADVOCATES SAY
—
(By Associated € Pres5.)
ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 13.—Before the
Sulzer impeachment court convened
this afternoon none of the Judges had
the slightest idea just what form of
procedure would be followed. General
opinion was that the testimony whicn
had been heard in the last three weeks
would be considered privately, but tnai
the actual voting would be done in
public.
Governor Sulzer this morning negan
his third day of seclusion. Last Sat
urday morning it was announced that
he would see no one until a verdict hau
been returned. Because of this a rumor
has been current that, now that the
evidence is all in, a break has come
between the governor and his attor
neys. Judge Herrick denied this to
day.
Upon the vote of twenty members of
the impeachment court depends the de
cision whether Sulzer will continue in
office. If twenty vote for his cause, a
two-thirds vote cannot be obtained
against him, there being fifty-seven
members of the court.
250 Persons Routed From
Homes by Fright-Grocer’s
Life_Threatened
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—-Despite the
j recent round-up of Italians suspected
of responsibility for most of the bomb
outrages committed in New York, the
east side was disturbed today by one
of the most terrific bomb explosions
| in years.
Every pane of glass throughout the
entife block was shattered. The gro
cery store of Candele Gatto was
wrecked. Gatto had received several
blackhand letters recently.
The blast drove 250 persons from
their homes.
Plans of Opposition Under
Cover-Extra Session Opens
Monday Afternoon
Looks Like 30 Cents
But He Spends $25,000
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Oct 13.—
Trailing a heavy, soiled canvas sack, a
seedy-looking individual, whose name
is withheld, sauntered into County
Treasurer McDougald’s office and asked
if the bonds recentl3 r voted to extend
San Francisco’s municipal railway had
been placed on sale. A youthful clera
waited on the stranger.
“Yep,” said the clerk, sizing up his
questioner. ‘How muen do you want;
about 30 cents’ worth?”
The man slammed his sack down on
the table. Then he began stacking up
$20 gpld pieces.
“I reckon, young feller,” he said,
“that I want about $25,000 worth, but
I won’t do business with you.”
Treasurer McDougald closed the deal
within fifteen minutes.
“Now, if you will turn over to me
about $1,000,000 worth more I will take
them. I have applications on file now
for that amount.”
“All right,” said McDougald, “call
around Tuesday and get them.”
u Modern Adam” Comes
Out, Fully Clothed
BOSTON, Mass.,Oct. 13.—After having
emerged fully clothed from the Maine
forest which he entered naked two
months ago, Joseph Knowles, artist, is
on his way to Boston.
Knowles went into the Dead river
wilderness In August, to prove that a
man could live, in the twentieth century,
Just as Adam did. He took no food, no
clothing, no weapons, no implements of
any kind. Today he says he was never
in better physical condition. His great
est .suffering In the forest was the lack
of human companionship.
Knowles carried out all the conditions
of his pledge. When he came out of the
woods he was attired in bearskin gar
ments. He said some people still ex
pressed doubt as to his ability to live
as a primitive man and he offered to
raise $20,000 to put up as a wager that
he can repeat the feat Just completed,
with a score of people watching him.
Roosters As Watchdogs;
In Philippine Islands
American soldiers in the Philippines
have to fight against the watchful roos
ter as well as against the belligerent
native, for the rooster has a way of
giving warning when an enemy ap
proaches, just as the geese did in an
cient Rome. One of the vices of the
Moros of Mindanao is cock fighting. As
a consequence chickens are everwhere in
the island and the American troops have
often had to reckon with the vigilant
Moro rooster that has given a timely
alarm not only to a hamlet or a village,
but to a whole countryside. The fight
ing cock is a sentinel of great loyalty.
Let a company of troops set out on a
night hike along a lonely trail toward
the camp ground of a band of hostile
natives and quietness becomes a factor
of the very first importance. To sur
round, surprise and capture the insur-
rectos is the aim of many a night’s ex
pedition, especially in the Mindanao and
Jolo districts, where the disturbances
are of almost daily occurrence. The
slightest noise will arouse the light
sleeping rooster in the trees. At once
they sound a loud call. Other roosters
In the usual fashion take up the alarm
and in a few minutes for miles around
the night is reverberating with these
danger signals. The insurgent Moro
needs no further notification.
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Bad As Load
Of Guinea Pigs
COLFAX, Cal., Oct. 13.—The South
ern Pacific company faces a perplexing
problem here. The owner of four per
forming bears has had them forwarded
from place to place, running up a
freight bill and standing off settlement
of the freight charges until funds were
available. The Colfax agent' decided to
hold the bears. Now It is figured the
cost of feeding the bears will be more
than the freight charges.
(By Associated Press.)
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. IS.—The
stage is set for a renewal or tne ngnt
over the prohibition law enrorcement
bills l n the Tennessee legislature. A
large crowd is in Nashville for the
reconvening of the two houses this
afternoon. Conferences by the re
spectlve sides was the program this
morning. Indications are that
quorum will be on hand.
The propositions before tne extra
session include law to prohibit or
regulate shipments of liquor into the
state, and also intrastate shipments,
to provide for th© removal by courts
of city and county officers failing to
enforce the Jaw, and to provide for the
abatement of saloons, gambling and
disorderly houses as nuisances on the
motion of citizens.
Friends of the bills claim seventeen
votes In the senate, a majority, and in
the house, on preliminary moves, fifty,
also q, majority, with many more on
a final vote. Plans of the opposition
have been kept secret
The extra session will meet this aft
ernoon and adjourn out of respect to the
late Senator 'Nat Baxter’s memory, if
the program at noon is carried out. A
special message from the governor,
however, will be sent In outlining the
alleged plans of the ene
mies of the law enforce
ment bills to accomplish their defeat
First, denial to the majority of the
right of roll call in order that "fraudu
lent and arbitrary” rulings may be made
as to the result of viva voce votes, sec
ond, substituting for the bills proposed
others with the “teeth” removed; third,
by ousting eight members of the house
friends of the bills, who prior to Au
gust 1 served as deputy fire marshals.
In this connection, he declared this plan
without legislative precedent. He de
clared about an equal number of the
opposition were reported to have held
two offices, too.
Speaking of the bills the governor de
clared they conferred no power upon
his office, but “they bestowed upon the
people the power to set in motion the
machinery of the civil law.”
It Is rumored that the law enforce
ment members In the house plan to
amend the rules so as to deprive the
speaker of much of his power.
TELEGRAPHERS THREATEN
TO WALK OUT IN TEXAS
(By Associated Press.)
DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 13.—A walkout
of telegraph operators over the entire
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway
system Is threatened, general officers
of the road said here today. Tho men
want a ten-hour iday, 10 per cent wage
increase and overtime. Yesterday the
general committee of the Order of
Railway Telegraphers conferred here
o n the situation. General Manager TV.
A. Webb, of the railroad, said the oper
ators’ demands came as a surprise, and
that he could not predict the outcome.
About 700 men are affected, including
many station men and clerks, who also
act as telegraphers.
STEAMER AGROUND
JN MISSISSIPPI
(By Associated Press.)
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 13.—The
steamship 'Momus, of the Southern Pa
cific line, bound from New Tork to New
Orleans, ran aground at the entrance
to the Mississippi river this morning.
The steamship Chalmette is standing by
and a tug has been sent from New Or
leans. It is hoped to have the Momus
clear at high tide this afternoon or to
night. Southern Pacific officials say
that 133 first cabin and 35 second cabin
passengers are in no danger.
Woman Refuses Food
For 67 Days and Dies
PALO ALTO, Cal., Oct. 13.—Mrs.
Grace H. Foss died today of starvation
after a fast of sixty-seven days during
which time she took no nourishment ex
cept water. Mrs. Foss, who was forty-
five years of age, resisted all attempts
to feed her. Her decision to starve is
attributed to melancholia. She was the
wife of a well-to-do contractor.
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Graphic Stories of Wreck and
Burning of Volturno Told by
Survivors and by Steamer
That Went to Rescue
ON BOARD NORTH GERMAN
LLOYD STEAMER GROSSER KUR-
FUERST AT . SEA. by Wireless Tele
graph to Cape Race, Oct. 13.—With 105
survivors on board from the steamship
Volturna, burned to the water’s edge
during a gale in mid-Atlantic and aban
doned on Friday last, the Grosser Kur-
fuerst Is approaching New York.
Passengers and crew of the Grosser
Kurfuerst witnessed some thrilling
scenes when their vessel, called by dis
tress signals from the Volturno, ar
rived in her vicinity.
They found the Volturno burning
fiercely and her crew and passengers
helpless in the heavy seas. It was
learned by wireless messages from the
flaming vessel that the fire had been
started by an explosion in the forward
hold at 7 o’clock on Thursday morning,
ship’s time.
FLAMES LEAP EIGHTY FEET.
On the arrival of the Grosser Kur
fuerst, the flames from the hold of the
Volturno were leaping eighty feet Into
the air through the hatchway. Fifty
or more of the Volturno's crew and
steerage passengers had been killed.
Six boats were lowered from the Vol-
turno’s advlts, three of them, still emp
ty. were smashed against the vessel's
side. One boat, with forty passenggere,
capsized while launching. A11 perished.
The two others, with sixty and eighty
pasengers on board, got away, but ap
parently are lost In mountainous seas.
TWELVE LINERS ANSWER.
Twelve liners were brought by the
wireless within hall of the Volturno.
The Cunarder Carmanla was first. She
reached the scene at about noon.
Then followed the Zeldlich, the Gros
ser Kurfuerst, the Kroonland, the New
York, the Devonian, La Touralne, the
Narragansett, the Minneapolis, the
Asian, the Rappahannock and the Czar.
The sea was running too high to al
low the taking off of the Volturno's
passengers.
During the day time the flames from
the Volturno's hold were kept more or
less under control, but about 9 o'clock
on Thursday night the Are reached the
coal bunkers, and It was found neces
sary to close the bulkneads. The
pumps, therefore, were unable to work
at full pressure, and the flames broke
out through the entire forward part of
the vessel.
PASSENGERS IN PANIC.
At 9:40 on Thursday night another;
explosion occurred on the Volturno
and caused a panic among her despair
ing passengers and crew.
The Grosser Kurfuerst launched
three boats and rescueij thirty-two poi
sons who had been washed Into the
sea. One of the rescuing lifeboats was
out for six hours and was nearly lost.
All those remaining on the Volturno
crowded together at the after end of
the vessel and were taken off safely
after daybreak on Friday,
HERO OF DISASTER.
Second Officer E. Lloyd, of the Vol
turno, was one of the heroes of the
disaster. He fell from a height of
twenty feet while repairing the wireless
apparatus on board his vessel, hut con
tinued to fight the fire all day and at
7 o’clock ln the evening made a peril
ous trip to the Grosser Kurfuerst In
a small boat with three others from
the Volturno. The little craft was sink
ing when she was picked up by one of
the lifeboats from the Grosser Kur
fuerst. The total number of those
saved Is believed to be 523.
BALLROOM FLOOR
BUILT ON SPRINGS
SPOKANE, Washi, Oct. 13.—A ball
room floor on spring's! Effect—a “live”
footing; for <$ancers; lends buoyancy
and exhilaration to dancing: Impossible
to get on a “dead” floor. Cost, $2,000,-
000; location, Davenport hotel.
It’s the latest in building: construc
tion. The floor is suspended on cables
like a suspension bridge. Under the
rhythmic motions of the dancers u
“keeps time to the music,” swaying no
ticeably.
Curfew Bell May
Ring in S. F., Oct.
13
BAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 18—In
the old days of this town it was the
custom for the police to round up all
young boys caught on the street after
8 p. m. The law to this effect has
lagged for a long time, but the board
of supervisors recently passed a resolu
tion asking the police to enforce the
ringing of the curfew bell.
Toes Come High;
Asks $25,000 Each
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 13.—Perhaps it
is because of bis name that Jack Dia
mond puts such a high value on his
toes. In a suit he asks $25,000 for each
of two toes lost in a street railway ac
cident.
Custom Officers Take
Aigrettes From Hats
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo today upheld New
York customs inspectors ln their re
moval of aigrettes from the hats of
women landing in New York from
abroad. It was denied, however, that
the plumes were "torn” or removed
forcibly.
'In view of the stringency of the
law,” says the treasury department, “all'
collectors of customs have been In
structed to direct inspectors to Inform
travelers coming to the United States
from abroad that bird plumage prohib-
ed of entry must be removed from lrats
and turned over to the customs au
thorities before the passenger leaves
the dock.”
The report adds that every courtesy
consistent with the law will be ex
tended.
,.y.