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ATLANTA, 0A„ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1!>13.
MOVIE FILM
Daniels’ and Garrison’s Inquiry
Into Offensive Army and Navy
Dinner Reveals New Element
Which Irritated the President,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Investi-
gation by Secretaries Garrison and
Daniels into the famous Carabao ban
quet revealed that the point of great-
irritation to President Wilson
stuck out from a moving picture film.
Worse than the “Damn” doggerel,
more satirical than the battleship
••Piffle’' and more daring than the
Bryan lecture schedule was*this pit -
torial caricature and the printed
comments accomnanying it.
The film showed the long pursuit
of the United States Army of a Fili
pino colonel and former desperado,
his capture and his being made the
governor of a province.
Concerning this moving picture, the
advance notices cf the banquet said:
"By this film, just as in last year's
ironical ‘Filipino declaration of in
dependence.’ the Carabaos showei
their lack of sympathy for recent de
velopments ^id tendencies in Philip
pine government.”
Double Barb to Sting.
TJie double barb of this sting to
the Administration’s feelings is that
while the picture might be laughed
ar the comment is a direct attack on
the Wilson-Bryan Philippine policy.
If stands, too, as an example of cut
ting derision of that policy by the
very officers of the army and navy
who have taken part in the fighting
work of the Filipino problem.
Dr. Joseph M. Heller, secretary of
the Washington “corral” of the Car
abao. made haste to assume respon
sibility for the issuance of the ad
vance matter to the press concerning
the banquet. It was the publicity of
the thing that was also offensive to
the President.
Dr. Heller declared, too. that the
advance matter “w r as prepared hur
riedly” and that the sentence re
ferred to “would have been elimi
nated on careful inspection.”
Three Others Apologize.
Three other apologies for the ban
quet have appeared—Major Gen >ral
Aleshire, U. S. A.. Brigadier General
McIntyre, U. S. M. C., and Rear Ad
miral Howard. In response to a de
mand of the President. Secretaries
Garrison and Daniel® to-d..y received
each a copy of the following letter -
"We have been appointed by the
committee in charge of the recent an
nual dinner, Milita-. Order of the
Carabao, a subcommittee to submit
certain data requested.
“The subcommittee also desires to
express to you the deepest regret at
the criticisms in the press of the re
cent Carabao dinner. The society,
composed largely of army and navy
officers, is greatly distressed that
anything in its entertainment should,
be offensive to Us invited guests. The
principal song reported to haj^e given
offense was composed by soldiers on
tho way to the Philippines in 1899-,
and has been sung at Carabao din
ners and similar occasions ever since.
Song Not on Program.
“P was not on the program for the
recent dinner, but wae sun? once,
end when asked for a second time
ners there have always been presented
fi t the singing table. During the din
ner there have always been presented
entertaining features, and songs have
been practically the same on all such
occasions.
‘‘It ha9 been stated in the press that
’be songs were known in advance.
1 hat is true, as the songbook printed
th s year is practically the same as
#ongbooks heretofore printed, 29 of 25
*°ngs being the same, and the others
have not been mentioned a* being in
an v way objectionable.
The printed statement that 'the
performance, according to advance
statements given out by the Carab«y>
Society, was designed to show the
k of sympathy for recent develop
ments and tendencies in the Philip
pine government, is so abfeurd that
•t seems hardly necessary to deny
Very respectfully,
“J. B. ALESHIRE,
“T. B HOWARD.
“FRANK MTXTYRE.”
Stork Leaves Baby
In Burning House
EHIEl PA., Dec. 20.—A baby was
tn the home of Guy T. Justice,
superintendent of the Erie Associa-
“d Charities, while the house was on
nre.
firemen succeeded in preventing
flames from reaching the room
*here the mother and child lay.
‘Aeroplane Joe,’
Savannah Man’s
Song,GoesJustSo=«
“Time brings about changes, we '
cannot deny,
I For a little bit later, this very
same guy,
Was seen tearing up roads and
ploughing up fields
With one of those six-passenger, j
foredoor automobiles;
Those who now think he could
ever be checked,
j Must consider for a moment with
greatest respect,
This guy has experience we would
do well to gain,
For he’s soaring through mid-air
with an aeroplane.
Chorus.
"Aeropiane Joe, w.« admire you so, j
You are teaching us a lesson of
progress we know.
Aeroplane Joe, always on the go,
Just keep on going,
Oh, Aeroplane Joe."
Did Not Pray for
Investors, He Says
Pastors Annoyed When Requests for
Supplications Come From
the Grain Market.
BOSTON, Dec. 20—The Rev.
Charles L. Page, assistant pastor of
the Dudley Street Baptist Church, de
nied to-day a report that he had
made unfortunate investors of rail
roads the subject of a prayer. He did
this, he said, in justice to the rail
roads and to himself, after he had re
ceived a telegram from New York
reading:
“Noticing your prayers for inves
tors in railroad securities, will you
kindly include investors in wheat for
May delivery, both in Chicago and
New York; also investors in flaxseed
and corn, thereby obliging several
parties interested in the above, and
who will anxiously await resultsV”
Women of Alabama
Expect Ballot Soon
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.. Dec. 20.—
The next regular session of the Leg
islature will be petitioned to adopt a
law enfranchising women. This in
formation is given out by Mrs. Solon
Jacobs,, president of the Alabama
State Suffrage Association. T-he Bir
mingham Suffrage Association and
the State organization have been
active for the past year and longer,
and it is believed the interest has
been aroused sufficiently to warrant
expectation of some action by the
Legislature.
“If women are given the right of
franchise.” said a prominent member
of the State organization, “some radi
cal changes will be shown the people
in conditions.”
Jury Scores Sheriff
And Chief of Police
BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 20 —The final
report of the Grand Jury of the Sep
tember term of the Criminal Court of
Jefferson County, in a long and acrid
statement, censures the Sheriff of
Jefferson County and the chief of
police of Birmingham for not pushing
the war on vagrants.
There is a word of censure for per
mitting gaming to go on in the city,
and some criticism is passed on the
Excise Commission of Jefferson
County.
The Grand Jury presented during
its session several hundred true bills,
heard more than 2.000 witnesses and
put in more time than any previous
inquisitorial body.
Two Oregon Towns
Have Women Mayors
TROUTDAI.E, OREG.. Dec. 20.—
Oregon and the West won another
woman Mayor to-day when Mrs.
Clara I.atourelle Larsson, daughter
of the late Joseph Latourelle, one of
the most prominent pioneers of Ore
gon, was elected head of the Trout-
dale town government, with only five
votes to spare.
Her opponent was S. A. Edmund-
son. Mrs. Larsson, the Mayor-elect,
has been long identified with wom
en's clubs and civic organisations.
Oregon now has two women Mayors.
Mrs Lucy Keyes, 101,
Recalls Lafayette
NEW YORK. Dec. 20—Mrs. Lucy Wil
liams Keyes, of Cambridge, who still
remembers the visit of Lafayette to tfiis
country and tbe running of the first
railroad train between Boston and Wor
cester, observed her 101st birthday
quietly at the Baptist Home in Brook
line street, in that city.
She was able to receive relatives and
a small number of friends who called.
POETS (EDGE
TIME'FOB HI
Savannah Conductor Declares His
Lilting Ballad Never Got Rec
ognition He Paid For.
COURT FULL OF RHYMESTERS
Aspiring Troubadours Say They
Sent Money and Got Noth
ing in Return.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Robert J.
Kellogg, of the Kellogg Music Com
pany, of No. 1431 Broadway, was put
on trial yesterday In the United
States District Court for using th •
mails to swindle young poets, whom
he is said to have promised to make
famous at prices ranging from $14 to
$21.
B. R. Hutto, a street car conductor,
of Savannah. Ga„ said that after he
had been assured by Kellogg that his
“Aeroplane Joe” would make a “tre
mendous sensation.” he sent on $4
extra to have a picture of himself
sitting in an aeroplane displayed »n
the cover of the song.
After Kellogg s office was raided by
the postoffice inspectors. Hutto said,
he received a letter from the publish
er saying that the photograph had been
confiscated by raiders, but that he.
Kellogg, was perfectly willing to I*t
the go toward paying the last *n-
s tall men t on the. $20 fee for setting
the words to music. Kellogg, accord
ing to the witness, generously agreed
to waive all rights to the song and to
a flow Hutto an undivided profit in
the sale of the same.
Judge Grubb and the jury heard a
stanza from “Aeroplane Joe.”
Then the judge cracked a gavel,
restoring ordfcr.
Rhymers Crowd Court.
The courtroom was crowded with
the rhymers. There were pastoral
poets fresh from the virgin soil; city
poets, black poets, white poets, poets
who depended on versification for
their living, and lookeu it; amateur
poets with other sources of income,
who looked better fed: girl poets with
dreamy eye, lawyer poets, doctor po
ets, and, lastly, widow poets—each
with a story to tell of how Kellogg
offered to set their lines to music,
give them 100 printed copies of the
same free, attend to copyright mat
ters and thereafter sell their songs
to high-class musical concerns, in
suring them a 2-cent royalty on eacb
song.
Prominent among the bards was
the lawyer poet from Louisiana who
wrote “The Ocean Severed the Tie
That Bound the Two in Twain,” a
tragic poem written around the Ti
tanic disaster. He was too modest
to give his name, and as he hasn’t
been called as a witness as yet the
Government authorities also kept it a
secret. He vouchsafed the informa
tion anonymously, however, that
when he played the tune composed
by Kellogg to fit his Titanic poem he
found that it sounded suspiciously
like “There’ll Be a Hot Time in th£
Old Town To-night.” Other poets
say they had similar experiences. One
of them insisted that he had a love
sonnet set to “Hail Columbia.”
“Widow Lady” It Victim.
Mrs. Offie Kime, who ascribes half
her fame to the fact that she came
from Petersburg, lnd., and the other
half to her poem. “Won’t You Come
to Me, Dearest Mother?” told Judge
Grubb that she was “a widow lady”
trying to make some “honest” money
out of poetry. She modestly protest
ed that she never really expected to
sell her songs outside of her home
town.
During her examination Assistant
United States District Attorney
Charles H. Griffiths turned sharply
about to point at the defendant In the
dramatic manner of prosecutors, but
found his accusing forefinger leveled
at an empty chair. Judge Grubb
called a short recess until Kellogg
was found In the hall, smoking a
cigarette. Things had become »oo
tense for him, he said.
Mayme's Sorrows.
Mayme Schneider, of Reading. Pa,
pleaded guilty to murdering the
King's English in “If You Knew.”
She said she sold 95 copies to her
friends. This, she declared, was nqt
her first venture, as she said she
placed a song with another musical
firm and got dividends of 35 cents in
the first six months. Kellogg, she
said, didn’t even pay that much.
Frank Brown, from Savannah, Ga.,
testified that he wouldn’t have said
a word about not getting his hundred
sample copies or a cent In royalties
after paying his $21. but he really had
to draw' the line when his love song,
"Burneas Mine,” came back to him
with a number of words deliberately
“forged into it.”
Boy Is Acquitted, He
Then Admits Guilt
“Guilty, but Not Proven,” Was Ver
dict of Jury Which Set
Youth Free.
MACON, Dec. 20.—“Guilty, but not
proven,” was the verdict returned by
a Bibb County jury in l he case of
Fletcher Davidson, a 12-year-old boy,
charged with burglary. Acquittal was
recorded.
Five minutes after he walked from
the courtroom, the boy confessed to
the Sheriff that he had burglarized
Brantley’s meat store and robbed the
till of $250. While the Jury was out
deliberating the youngster, who is
Ore leader of a gang of mischievous
boys, remarked to Sheriff Hicks: “I’ve
got no chance to get off. There are a
lot of rubes on my jury."
The boy hid in the store on a Sat
urday night, and. after it was closed,
stole the money. Then he escaped'by
a back error.
Fletcher Davidson has been In the
toi’s ol| the law several times, but
has never been convicted. There Is
another charge pending against him.
that of horse stealing. He is an or
phan whose only relative is a sister,
living in Columbus.
Steamship War May
Follow Steerage Cut
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. Dec. 20.-The Berlin
correspondent of The London Times
is authority for the statement that
the North Atlantic Pool lines have
agreed to reduce steerage rates to
Canada from $35 to $30 as from Jan
uary 1.
This will probably be the signal for
the beginning of a rate-cutting war
on the part of Companies. Hitherto
they have been holding off until the
conference scheduled to take place in
Paris on January 21. They will prob
ably now be forced to follow suit.
The While Star and Cunard Com
panies, which run steamers to Conti
nental ports, will be affected first.
President of Chile
To See Panama Fair
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Ramon
Barros Luco, President of Chile, will
probably visit the United States dur
ing the Panama-Pacific Exposition at
San Francisco in 1915. To members
of the American delegation now in
Chile on behalf of the exposition au
thorities here Luco has expressed a
keen desire to visit this country. The
intimation has been received cordially
here, both in official circles and among
those having to do with the exposi
tion.
Tiie Chilean executive will come of
ficially and will be accorded all the
honors of his rank as the head of a
sister nation.
Finds Bracelet, Gets
$5,000; Sails Home
NEW YORK. Dec. 20.—While at
tending a dinner-dance at the Plaza
Thursday evening. Mrs. C. D. Simp
son lost a bracelet valued at $3,000.
Yesterday the bracelet was returned
by William Row. n, . taxicab chauf
feur, who found it on the pavement.
Mrs. Simpson rewarded Rowan with a
check for $500, and Rowan immedi
ately booked himself for Lemonsfield,
Limerick County, Ireland, where he
will visit his mother.
Mrs. Marvin, Titanic
Widow, to Wed Again
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Mrs. Mary
F. Marvin, one of the survivors of the
Titanic, whose husband was lost
when the ship went down, will be
married to Horace De Camp on
^Christmas afternoon in the Harlem
Presbyterian Church.
The Marvins were returning from
a honeymoon trip at the time of the
disaster. They remained abroad,
purposely a few days late, to take
the Titanic.
Gets Overtime Pay
After Forty Years
WALTHAM. MASS., Dec. *0.—
Government pay for overtime work
performed 40 years ago has been
awarded Alderman John Handrahan.
A letter from the War Department
to-day informed him That he had been
allowed $500 for extra work at the
Watertown arsenal in 1873.
Alderman Handrahan hopes to re
ceive the money before Christmas.
We Didn’t Go So Fast’
Says Woman of 102
NEW YORK, Dec. 20—“In my
youth we didn’t go so fast,” said Mrs.
Priscilla Ayres Inslee, of New Bruns
wick. X. J., who is 102 to-day.
“We didn’t have sterilized milk,
and we got our water from the pump
which sometimes was near the barn
something forbidden now.”
Lopez, ‘Human Tiger,’ Kills 6, Still Is at Large
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Hunted by Famous Gunmen, but Without Result
Bandit Who Vowed to Outdo
Tracy Holds Impregnable His
Refuge in Old Mine.
BINGHAM, UTAH, Dec. 20.—Alive
or dead Rafael Lopez, the Mexican
“human tiger,” is still in the Utah-
Apex Mine and the strangest man
hunt since the days of Tracy, the ban
dit, continues.
Stimulus was given to the hunt by
a story told to the Sheriffs by Sam
Rogers, a mine shift boss.
Rogers said he had .seen and talked
with the desperado yesterday and the
day before and would meet him again
to-day. The work of searching sec
tions. bulkheading them off from the
remainder of the mine and filling the
workings with poisonous fume® Is In
progress.
“I know they have me cornered In
this mine.” Lopez is quoted by Rog
ers as telling him Thursday. “This
is my grave. I’ve made up my mind
to that. I am not going to commit
suicide. * V
Plans Fight to End.
“I am going to wait here for the
end. and I shall fight whenever I have
to. I could have killed more men than
I have.
“Time and again I have followed
posses In here and heard their plans
for killing me. I easily could have
killed every one of them.
“Nobody would have known I was
in here if it had not been for Julio
Corrello and Mike Stefano, whom I
thought were my friends. If I could
kill them both I would die happy.”
Spanish Dancer Kindled
Fires of Lopez’s Madness.
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 20.—This
is the tale of Rafael Lopez. 28, the
Mexican “human” tiger, whose thirst
Rafael Lopez, the most bloodthirsty bandit of the West since
the days of Tracy, and a scene showing a posse trying to smoke
him out of a mine in Bingham, Utah.
for blood has cost six lives and or
phaned nineteen children.
Lopez, alive or dead, is still uncap
tured, a hunted animal In the 35
miles- of workings of the mine at
Bingham, whpre he battled with nine
Sheriffs and two hundred armed men
who sought his life.
To-day Sam Rogers, a mine boss,
said he had seen and talked with
Lopez Yesterday and the day before.
A former cowboy, late a horse
thief In the wild Powder River coun
try of Wyoming, I pez left that sec
tion a few years ago and came to
Utah. At Bingham, with Julius Cor
rello. a half-breed, he leased a part
of the workings of the Utah Apex
Mining Company’s copper property
known as the Little Mlnner tunnel.
They prospered and Lopez spent his
money freely.
Then there came to Bingham a
pretty little Spanish woman, a dancer
known as “Carmen,” whom Lopez
sought to win. A rival, Juan Valdez,
also a Mexican, came upon the scene.
Lopez, angered, on the night of No
vember 20 quarreled with Valdez in
the latter’s cabin. Pistol® were drawn
and Valdez was shot through the
heart.
Vows to Outdo Tracy.
Declaring he never would be taken,
Lopez dashed to his own cabin, and
arming himself, set forth into the
night.
“I’ll make Harr* Tracy look like an
amateur!” he shouted to his partner
Corrella as he armed himself with a
30-30-caliber rifie, many rounds of
ammunition and two automatic pis
tols. Hi® pockets bulged with cart
ridges.
Chief of Police Grant, of Bingham,
forming a posse of Otto Witbeck,
Nephi Jensen and Julius Sorensen, at
once started out to capture Lopez.
The four trailed Lopez down a can*
yon until the following afternoon.
A few' minutes after 5 o’clock that
afternoon Sorensen, pale as death,
dashed to the Jones’ ranchhouse on
the shores of Utah Lake, a few miles
from Bingham, and, calling up the
Sheriff’s office In Salt Lake City, no
tified that, official that his three com
panions had ridden Into an ambush,
and that Lopez had fired three shots,
killing each of his companions. So
rensen had returned the fire, but had
failed to hit Lopez.
Gunfighter® in Pos®e.
Sheriff Andrew Smith. Jr., with a
fresh posse of 200 men, rushed to
] Lake Mountain, where the killing of
i the officers had occurred. The posse
of noted gunflghtc-rs, including “Dia-
j inondfteld Jack” Davis, spread out and
guarded every avenue of escape.
Meanw’hile the people of the two
counties were terrorized and praying
for the capture of the desperado who
bobbed up in the most unexpected
* places and vanished after torturing
and robbing his victims.
Definite information came to the
Sheriffs, nine of whom were now en
gaged in the pursuit, that Lopez was
actually back in his old familiar haunt
In Bingham.
It came from Mike Stefano, a miner,
who said that two days after the Val
dez murder Lopez had crept to his
window, ravenously hungry and with
his feet frozen and bleeding. He forced
Stefano to carry a big supply of food
and clothing Into the old Little Min
nie Tunnel, threatening to kill Ste-
fano’s family if he revealed his hiding
place.
Smudge Fire® Lighted,
Sheriff Smith resolved to smoke
Lopez out. The tunnel mouths were
closed with bulkheads, save two, and
twelve men volunteered to light the
smudge fires within the mine.
Douglas Hulsey and Tom Manda-
rlch, stooping over to light the fires,
were shot dead. Lopez was crouched
unseen in a little drift above them.
The posse, helpless, was a target
for the Mexican’s bullets. The sur
vivors finally got out of the mine
alive.
Later the mine w’as completely
sealed. Hundreds of pounds of sul
phur, barrels of coal tar, and more
than 100 pounds of pepper were
burned and forced Into the mine. Then
the Sheriff burned great quantities of
wet black powder to form the deadly
powder damp, and the mine was kept
sealed a week.
It w'us opened and, after waiting
for 48 hours for the fumes to escape,
men ventured again Into the depths
of the earth to search for Lopez. They
are still at work.
George W. Hulsey, a brother of
Douglas Hulsey, is one of the posse
who are still searching for Lopez. He
came from California to aid in aveng
ing his brother’s death.
BRYAN GETS
ALL DODGED
Question of South American Pol
icy, Evaded Forty Years, Put Up
for Debate in Style Which May
Embarrass the United States.
Nations’ Right to Intervene When
American Is Convicted Included
in Program for Conference Ap
proved by Secretary of State.
WASHINGTON, Dec. TO In Kivlns
his approval to th© program for the
fifth Pan-American conference to b©
held In Cantiago de Chile next year.
Secretary of State Bryan has opened
the way for the discussion of a vital
principle affecting the rights of Amer
icans in r^atin America which the
smaller countries of this hemisphere
have for a generation urged the Unit
ed States Government to abandon.
Of eleven topics for discussion at
the conference, all but the last on the
program are entirety Innocuous and
within the usual strict precautions
taken to prevent the raising of em
barrassing questions at Pan-Ameri
can meetings.
The last number, however, agreed
to by Mr. Bryan as chairman of tho
program committee Is & topic which
has never before been permitted to
come before the Pan-American con
ferences and one which former mem
bers of the conference regard as
charged with dynamite so far as the
Interests of the United States is con
cerned.
Here'® the Dynamite.
The eleventh topic for discussion is:
“Declaration as a principle of
American policy that aliens do not
enjoy other civil rights or other re
courses than those guaranteed by the
Constitution and laws of each coun
try to the citizens thereof.”
International lawyers of experience
In Latin American affairs regard this
proposal as revolutionary In so far as
it seems to have the assent of the
present Administration through Sec
retary Bryan’s having acquiesced In
Its appearance on the program.
It Is regarded as nothing less than
an attempt upon the part of certain
of the smaller and less stable coun
tries to draw the United States Into
an agreement to curtail its righ’t to
Intervene diplomatically on behalf of
an American citizen In any of those
countries.
Taboo for 40 Year®.
For 40 years efforts have been made
from time to time to induce the
United States to accept the proposed
principle either by actual Incorpo
ration in a treaty or by giving full
recognition to statutes to the same ef
fect enacted In those countries.
Throughout the entire period every
Secretary of State has flatly refuWd
to yield any ®uch limitation on tha
right of American citizens \j appeal
to their Government w'hen in difficul
ty In a Latin-American country.
There is reason to believe that Mr.
Bryan accepted the proposal at Its
face value and in perfect good faith
without acquainting himself with the
traditional attitude of his Govern
ment toward such a principle. Ho
seems to regard the principle tail
down as In accordance with United
States policy.
Had he looked in the work of John
Bassett Moore, counselor for the State
Department, he would have found in
the “Digest of International Law”
many declarations of the determined
opposition of the United States to
proposal* depriving American citi
zens of the right of appeal to the
Washington Government from deci
sions of Latln-American court® or
authorities.
Secretary Blaine’s . iew.
Secretary Blaine In discussing the
treaty clause proposed by Ecuador,
to tbe effect that an American tak
ing part in international questions
should be treated, tried and con
demned as a citizen of Ecuador and
should not appeal to his home gov
ernment, said:
“The general principle which main
tains is that the judgment of the
courts of a country can not be ac
cepted as finally determining Us in
ternational duties and liabilities. Once
admit that they are to be so accepted,
each nation is left to fix the standard
of its own conduct and the measure
of its obligations.”