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; Marshall Called On To Subdue Wife of Embryo Postmaster Women of Indiana Town Declare Her Social Pretention* Have Become Unbearable. PEACEPLAN President Has Taken First Step, It Is Reported, for Diplomatic Arrangement in Which U. S. Troops Will Guard Americans Huerta’s Changed Attitude and Professions of Friendship Taken to Forecast Armistice Pending Election of His Successor. WASHINGTON. Aug. 2.—Presi- dent Wilson is believed to-night to have taken the first step toward di plomatic intervention in Mexico. Precise details of the plans are withheld, but it is virtually certain that it contemplates the tender of the good offices of tjie United States iu bring about a truce or armistice pending final settlement of the civil war. By this plan the American army and navy are to be utilized to safe guard American lives. Huerta Heeds U. S. Demand, y Huerta has heeded the peremptory demand of the United States for the immediate trial of the persons who shot Charles B. Dixon, Jr., United States Immigration Inspector, at Juarez, and has ordered the case to proceed expeditiously. Huerta has also telegraphed to the Governor of Chihuahua immediate ly to release Charles Bissel, Bernard McDonald and Bissel*? chauffeur, who are held by the Federals under sen tence of death at Chihuahua. Not only did Huerta inform Nelson O’Shaughnessy, American Charge d’Affaires at Mexico City, of these facts, but he sent to the State De partment an absolute disavowal of the Dixon shooting coupled with the most fulsome protestations of regard for the American Government. He regrets “very much that the American Government should as cribe to the influence of the Mexican Government any action which might be construed as antagonistic to Amer icans during his occupancy of the executive authority.” Huerta assures the State Depart ment "that no injustice or violence shall be done to Americans with his cognizance while he is in his present position.’ The Huerta statement added: "The Mexican Consul at El Paso has Informed the Mexican Foreign Office that the matter of the shoot ing of Dixon has been satisfactorily arranged. It is stated that the Gov ernment at Mexico City seems most desirous of meeting the desires of the United States in every way pos sible.” House Inquiry Asked. Representative Stephens, o? Texas has introduced a resolution pro viding for a joint Senate and House committee to investigate Mexican conditions, report on outrages to which Americans have been subject ed, the prospects for establishment of a stable government in Mexico, and recommendations for a fixed Ameri can policy toward Mexico. He be lieves peace, if brought about, will be only temporary. In the Senate Senator Sheppard of Texas introduced a resolution looking to the possible recognition of the Mexican revolutionists as belligerents The resolution requests the Foreign Relations Committee to advise the Senate whether, in its opinion, this nation should recognize the belliger ency of the revolutionists in Mexico and accord them the proper interna tional status to which they are enti tled. The State Department to-day made the extraordinary announcement that Dr. Gaza Aldapo, who is soon to be Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mex ico, "has spent much time in the Unit ed States and is reported as in sym pathy with American institutions.” Mexico’s Sudden Change. It is not known definitely to what the 'lightning changes are due in the Mexico situation, bu* it is believed by many officials it was the prompt and ' effective action of Brigadier Genera! Bliss, coupled with the dispatch of the additional vessel, the Wheeling, to Continued on Page 4, Column 4. ) WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Thomas R. Marshall, the well-known Vice President, has been asked to arbi trate a social war between the women of Blanktown, Ind., arising over the nomination of a new postmaster. He received a letter to-day asking that he halt the confirmation of the man because his wife is putting on airs over the fact that her husband stands so well with the Administration. Mr. Marshall declines to give the real name of the town or the name of the letter writer. But it ts some town —the letter says so. Only last week there was a church social there, to provide funds for a new sidewalk around the place of worship, and $18.19 was netted easily from the sale of ice cream and cake. There are a first-class drug store, two grocer ies and a hardware store. One of the grocery stores also has a good line of d 'ess goods The letter says so. It is some town. When the news first filtered In that a certain man was to be named post master, the wife of the nominee went to the store and bought some new clothes. Since then she has been al most unbearable, according to the let ter, and Heaven onlv knows what she will be if there is a confirmation! The women say that the wife of the nominee is a social upstart, anyway. Mr. Marshall is happy that some use for a Vice President has devel oped. Hotel Elevator Is New Bridal Vehicle Two on Honeymoon Climb Stairs Nine Times—Inquires Price of a Ride. CINCINNATI, Aug. 2.—They hailed from Kensington, Ill., so they told the clerk at the Grand Hotel, and were on their honeymoon, as the bride groom informed the bell hop. They registered as Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gleason. "Bert” was a spender. He tipped the bell hop who carried ice water to the top floor a whole half dollar. The day was hot, very hot, and made stair-climing an irksome task. Bert knew, for hadn’t he and Mrs. Bert tried it nine times by actual count. It was after those hot-weath er climbs that the call for ice water came. When the bell boy came along, the bridegroom, pointing to the ele vator, asked: "Say. kid, what does It cost to ride on that thing?” And Kensington is only a few miles from Chicago. Sylvia Panklmrst Tries ‘Sleep Strike’ Heavy Police Guard Is Thrown About Jail to Keep Off the Suffragettes. Special Cable to The American. LONDON, Aug. 2.—Miss Sylvia Pank- hurst, who is again in Halloway Jail for inciting to riot, has developed a new method of worrying tpe prison authori ties. She Is on a "sleep strike,” be sides refusing food and water. Two of the women arrested as the re sult of the demonstration outside the jail last night were sentenced to-day to two months in prison. A heavy guard of police has been placed about the jail. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst was weaker to-day as the result of her exertions yesterday at the pavilion meeting. At 45 Is Graduated With His Daughter Missouri Professor, Having Realized Ambition, Will Resume College Work. SPRINGFIELD. MO., Aug. 2.—Pro fessor J. Turner Horner, president of Horner Institute, at Purdy, Mo., and his daughter. Miss Eva May, have been graduated together from Drury College, each with the degree of bach elor of arts. Though 45 years of age and for many years engaged in educational work, Professor Horner had never held a diploma. Flying Fire Engine Predicted by Mayor Silk Hatted Executive of New Eng land Town Expects Air Craft to Fight Flames. BOSTON, Aug. 2.—A flying machine fire department for Salem was predicted to-day by John F. Hurley, silk-hatted mayor of that city. "This is the age of the motor-driven vehicle,’’ he said, "and horses are too slow for Salem We are going to have flying machine fire engines, flying ma chine garbage wagons, etc.” The Dreadnought of the Future Expected to Cost Millions More Than Battleships of To-day. ENGLAND WORKING HARD Some of the Features in the American Construction Which Now Lead the World. September Morn Should Pay Visit to Atlantic City Stockings About All Necessary Bath ing Garb for Women There Under New Rules. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 2.— Women bathers may appear hence forth on the beach here in the most abbreviated of skirts. Also they may wear thos«e garments slashed any where from an inch above the knee clear to the waist. One-piece swimming suits are legal. ! too, as long as there Is a bloomer ef- i feet from the waist line down. But there Is one "don’t.” Girls more than 16 years old can not go about publicly without stockings. The en forcement came yesterday when a girl was banished from the beach because her shapely nether extremities did not have the customary encasements. WASHINGTON Aug. 2.—Englani and the United States are running a race in the development of the dread nought. This ship is expected to be the last word in marine architecture; a Titan of the seas which will cost millions more than the splendid bat tleships of to-day. It will be an of fensive and defensive giant. England recently announced that her future dreadnoughts will have a complete torpedo-discharging equip ment below the armor belt. Rear Admiral Fiske has just patented a device for dropping torpedoes from flying aeroplanes—a method which, according to naval experts, will prove to be infinitely cheaper and fully as effective. England, also, is perfecting a steel net to surround her battle ships below the water line, hoping to render them immune to torpedo at tacks. In the meantime American naval experts are bringing the internal combustion engine—otherwise the modern high-power petroleum motor —to a high state of efficiency. They hope ultimately to supplant costly steam propulsion. Speed is likely to cut a large figure in the battle fleets of the future. The former separate functions of the battleship and cruiser must be com bined in one ship. Germany already has recognized this fact by classing her latest marine monsters as "battle cruisers.” The dreadnought must not only be able to fight; she must also be able to "run away and live to fight another day.” A naval constructor has thus de fined the function of the naval archi tect : "To place the highest possible gun po^er on the smallest possible ves sel.” Although battleships are steadily increasing in size, the tendency is to make the ship as small as possible with the gun power placed upon it. The new Pennsylvania, planned to be one of the biggest dreadnoughts ever conceived, is not large in proportion to the mighty "muzzle velocity” she will possess. As a matter of fact, her gun power will be greater iij ratio to her size than any other battleship in Uncle Sam's navy. Queen and Duchess at Odds Over Low Gowns British Royalty Refuses to Counte nance Fashionable Costumes at Wedding of Kinswoman. Special Cable to The American. ! LONDON, Aug. 2.—The antipathy of i Queen Mary to low-cut afternoon toilets ! has been the cause of some friction be- j tween her Majesty and the Duchess of ! Fife regarding the latter’s wedding ar rangements. ! The Queen will permit Princess Mary I to be a bridesmaid only on condition j that none of the bridesmaids wears a frock cut lower than one inch in the j neck in front. The Duchess of Fife resents such re strictions, and has appealed to her mother and to Queen Alexandra, but Queen Mary refuses to alter her atti tude. Bodies of Dead To Be Made Transparent Hospital in Philadelphia Plans To Do Away With Dissection by New Method. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2—A new method of medlcaj instruction, doing away largely with dissection, will be put into practice at the Hahnemann Medical College next term. Physicians and surgeons of the col lege are perfecting a. process, based on discovery of a fluid by a German scientist, which will make the human body transparent. Students can study the veins, mus cles and bones far more easily, it is said. The fluid can not be used be fore death. Elopes in Nightdress To Be Barefoot Bride Daughter o f Rich Pennsylvania Mer chant Climbs Out Window to Join Fiance. Few Spinsters Among Red Haired Girls Missouri Thinks It Will Soon Be Famous in Other Things Than “Houn Dawgs.” COLUMBUS, MO., Aug. 2.—Are red- haired girls more popular than their sisters? If not, then think of the number of red-headed spinsters you have known. You will have to think a long time before you can remember a single Titian-haired wall flower. If the theory of connoisseurs of feminine beauty is true, Missouri will become famous, not for commonplace things like mules and "houn’ dawgs,” but for red-headed girls. This year at the University of Mis souri there are more red-headed co eds than, ever before. And, although they did not monopolize masculine at tentions, they had to keep date calen dars at finger ends to avoid misun derstandings. WAYNESBURG. PA.. Aug. 2.— Barefooted, bareheaded, without money and scantily clad, Lena Cage, ! the 15-year-old daughter of Charles Cage, a wealthy merchant of this city, eloped early this morning. She climbed from the window of her home shortly after midnight, and getting in a big motor car with her suitor, Franklin Hurley, disappeared. The girl’s father, with several of ficers, has searched in vain for the pair. Aged Thief Is Sent To Whipping Post Offender, 65 Years Old, Confessing Theft of Three Pounds of Butter, Is Lashed. Society in Fright Fever *j*#*J‘ Gem Theft Is Epidemic v#+ *I***i* +•+ Mrs. Rumsey Big Loser Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey, one of the heaviest losers in the epidemic of jewel robberies. ‘ 1 mpi 5M8 ' m® s fv M ■ ■w .'orrjtioKt 19 1A »Y TXt lAKm.U, 3TVDJOJ Colonists ;lt Narragansett Pier Believe That Monkey Is Implicated in Mysterious Thefts. Wife Grows Tired of Kisses andBunsMenu Unvarying Makeup of Bill of Fare Proves Too Much for Balti more Woman. WILMINGTON. DEL., Aug. 2.— Samuel Patterman, a white man, aged 65, one of the oldest prisoners who has ever been fastened to the whip ping post, received five lashes at the workhouse. He pleaded guilty in the General J Sessions Court to the larceny of thr^e pounds of butter, and in addition to the lashes he was sentenced to four months in prison. By order from the court, no saloon proprietor in the city can sell liquor to Patterman. BALTIMORE. Aug. 2.—Kisses ani, buns for breakfast, kisses and buns for luncheons, kisses and buns for dinner. This has been the menu, says Mrs. Rosie Schwanke, ever since her mar riage to Frederick Schwanke on July 7. Mrs. Schwanke is the sister of Mrs. Theresa D^ems, the famous unkissel wife. “It’s not that I don’t love my hus band," said Mrs. Schwanke. " I do, and love his kisses, too; but buns are too monotonous.” i Schwanke will be given a hearing I to-mofrow. 6,000 Bachelors and Maids Must Pay Tax Minnesota Legislature Passes Law Which Favors Heads of Families Against Single Persons. MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 2.—Nearly 6,- 000 bachelors and unmarried women in Minneapolis will pay taxes on all their personal property this year un less they can show the City Board of Tax Levy that the $100 exemption available to heads of families is un fair to the single ones. The last Legislature amended the tax laws allowing‘only heads of fam ilies to deduct $100 from valuation of theii personal possessions. NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. I., Aug. 2.—The fashionable colony, here for the polo season, is in a fever of fright. Dances and dinner parties nowadays are rather drab affairs, with the notable lack of jewelry from the gowns of the women. Nervous ness everywhere is apparent, and ev ery other man might be a private de tective. The recent series of mysterious jewel robberies tells the story. One after another the summer cottages have been entered and their stores of gems rifled during the last week. Al together. jewels to a value of far more than $250,000 have been stolen. As a result the society folk have dispatched their jewels to safety de posit vaults in New York, or have locked them securely in household safes, and have commissioned detec tives to watch. Many of the cottages along the Ocean road have been bar ricaded, and almost all are under guard against the mysterious robbers who already have counted several prominent victims. The heaviest losers by the series of robberies were Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey, daughter of the late E. H. Harriman, arid Mr. and Mrs. John E. Hunan, of New York. Jewels valued at $76,200 were stolen from the sleep ing apartment of Mrs. Rumsey. among them a rope of pearls valued at $60,000, which was Mrs. Harri- man s wedding gift to her daughter. FIRST WEEK OF ERA! TRIAL ENDS WITH BOTH SIRES SURE OF VICTORY Solicitor Dorsey Indicates That Real Sensation Will Be Developed for State in Closing Days of Famous Mary Phagan Mystery Case. ANOTHER WEEK OF ORDEAL IN THE HEAT IS EXPECTED "Shore Acres,” the home of the Ha nans, was robbed of forty or fifty pieces of jewelry—brace lets, earrings, pendants and hair ornaments, whose value probaDly was $150,000. Mrs. Walter Ives, ot New York, is loser by the depredations of the burglars, having reported partic ularly to the police the loss of a val uable pearl necklace. The police have not made the least headway in clearing the mystery. The most plausible theory entertained is that the robber entered the Rumsey home one morning, while Mrs. Rum- sey and the servants were on the veranda being « ntertained by an or gan grinder, who was passing through the village with his trained monkey. The police thought he probably acted as lookout while the thief entered the cottage fiom the rear. Or, according to the more startling theory of C. C. Tegethoff, agent of the Harriman estate, the grinder and hf- monkey may have been the actual robbers. "It is not beyond possibility," he announced following an investigation, "that the monkey was the actual thief I have heard of such things.” Many people believe the robber en tered the house one night the Rum- seys were at the Casino dance. Mrs. Ives, another loser by the burglaries, was at this same dance, and thus color to the theory of a midnight in truder Is given. The summer colony probably will establish a private pojice force as a result. Last summer this expedient was observed, after the loss of a num ber of valuable articles. Routing of Detective Black and Sur prise in the Testimony of Pinkerton Agent Gives the Defense Principal Points Scored—Newt Lee Hurts. Slow and tedious, almost without frills, full of bitter squabbles between lawyers, made memorable by oppressive heat, the first week of Leo Frank's trial on the charge that he killed Mary Phagan, the little factory girl, has drawn to an end. With the close of the week came the promise that still another six days, or more, will be consumed in taking the testimony. When the last witness was dismissed just before the week-end recess was taken, it was realized that few telling blows had been delivered by the State. However, the promised sensation of the prosecution still is impending, and Solicitor Dorsey hints at hitherto unrevealed lines of evidence that seem to point directly to Frank’s guilt. SCOTT TESTIMONY HITS STATE. Thus far, however, the apparently contradictory testimony of the State’s witnesses, particularly that of Harry Scott, Pink erton detective, and .John Black, city detective, seems to favor the defense. The corps of city detectives have told of Frank’s ner vousness and excitement the day following the discovery of Mary Phagan's body. The Pinkerton man testified to the prisoner’s composure and balance. This was but one detail of the difference, but the lawyers for the defense made much of it. Frank’s attorneys, Luther Rosser and Reuben Arnold, have been from the first wonderfully powerful factors in the trial, and are the agencies about whom the friends of the defense build all their hopes. Time and again this hope has been jtrstified. Under the grill ing administered by Rosser, witnesses have squirmed and twisted their bodies and their statements as it were a material instead of a mental fire to which they were subjected. Detective .lohn Black was one of these. Time and again he contradicted himself as to 'details, and several times he confessed that he did not remember. Black it was who, of the city police force, was among the most zealous in obtaining evidence against Frank. Solicitor Dorsey had stated that he expected to show by Black's testimony that the detectives had gone to Lee’s house only after Frank had informed him that several punches were missing from the watchman’s clock; that Frank’s attorneys, even before Frank’s arrest, had insisted that Frank’s house be searched; that the bloody shirt found in Lee's house was a "plant” in Frank's favor. Much of the prosecution's plans in this regard were fruit less, however, because of Black’s confusion under cross-examina tion. NEWT LEE HOLDS GROUND. One witness, however, and a witness damaging to the defense, who was unperturbed by a pitiless cross-examination was Newt Lee, the negro night watchman of the National Pencil Factory. The negro steadfastly maintained his original story that Frank was nervous the afternoon of Mary Phagan’s disappearance, that he had made conflicting statements concerning the watchman’s clock, and that he had seemed frightened when he found J. M. Gant iu the factory the afternoon on which the little girl probably was slain. An evident attempt was made by the defense to place sus picion on Newt Lee. The manner in which Lawyer Rosser ques tioned L. S. Dobbs, the police sergeant who found the body of the dead girl, seemed to imply that much of the negro's behavior was suspicious. Dobbs declared that Lee had read the hardly legible notes that were found at the side of the dead girl, and had read them easily. This point the defense urged. Frank’s lawyers also in ferred that it was strange the negro should identify the girl as being white in the dim-lighted gloom of the factory basement, and at e time when he confessedly was frightened out of his wits. The attempt of the defense to throw suspicion on Newt Lee, however, seemed to be of no avail. The steadiness and ingenuous ness of the old negro absolved him, in the minds- of those who heard, of guilt in connection with the murder. Except for Lee, none of the witnesses of the week revealed anything of injury to the defense. Mrs. J. W. Coleman, Mary Phagan's mother, and George W. Epps, the nswsboy friend of the little girl, were merely witnesses of incidental facts. Grace Ilix, a companion of Mary Iji ttn in the; fact^- by the prosecution, gave evidence telling that Fr> * l. x • ' able t aamtanc'