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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 •+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ 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.”