The Augusta herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1914-current, June 28, 1914, Home Edition, Page TWO, Image 18

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TWO TELLS OF THE ROW CARRANZA-VILLA * Breceda Issues Statement Charqinq That Gen’l Anqeles Inspired the Controversy. Ad mits Serious Breach in the Rebels Ranks CAN’T BE HEALED UNLESS MEDIATION SUCCESSFUL Villa Has Agreed to Postpone Discussion of His Grievances Until the Revolution Has Triumphed and Huerta Over thrown. Washington, D. C. Alfml f !V#*« <*-l;c, private f»eoratHr.v of fU-neral Carranza, the Congtftutlona.ll*; leader, tonight is tued a statement In Which he «hurKed tint i o#tiora. Felipe -AngeWn had lii aplred the r*< cut controversy between t’arrunza and Villa. He *lho accused AiiKftle* of being hi reality an agent of General Huerta Braced*'» statement wna Inmied after a conference with I ad* Cabrera, one of I'airinzu K repreHentativea who Ih work ing for participation of the ConnUtu- Uonnlint* In an Informal peace discus cion with the delcgatea to the Niagara Fall* mediation conference. Hre<*da admit* that there la a serious breach In the ConHtitutlonallHtfi ranks which prob ably cannot he healed unless mediation 1* successful In tlie statement Hreceda asserts that lis felt called upon to make known the jreal facts In the contention between Vil la ami Cnrninza Imoause "public opinion In the United HOute* hag beau greatly misled ’ The Statement. >' The statement in prtrt follows: r "The troughs liHwcui Villa and Car ranza have hoi all the. .inportance that lias been supposed Villa had appeared Hlwsys In an entirely subordinate Hiar arter t<» t'arnnsa. Had It not been for the interference Of Felipe Angeles, chief gather of the happening** occurring late ly, there never would have been diffi culties." "General Angeles was a commander hi *lhe Federal army; lie was sent on a mis sion to Kuiope by Huerta, lie stayed there until October, IfM; he then ask ed to Join the Constitutionalist army. Angles was accepted. Ills nomination was We 1 accepted by the revolutionary leader* With th< beginning of the mil itary activities aga n rorn on h Id* lng to the wishes of Villa. General Car ranza sent Angeles from bomta to help Villa in the investment of Tor freon. Change In Attltuds. "Hlnce ttiat time, a change in the at "titude of Villa was felt, nearl? all of his acts meaning disagreement with 4'arrauKa. On June 12th. Carranza ask ed Villa to send some reinforcements to Nstera who was Investing Zacatecas. Villa, acting under the advice of Ange-i les refuse to seud such reinforcements unless he could fake personal charge of the assault. Currans* Insisted Villa a fit of sngcr tendered his resigna tion n* military «oUStttt*uidcr of Hie northern division. rarmnsfi found himself obliged to ac cept the resignation. He convoked the officials who were under orders of Villa that they could choose by themselves thetr active lender. lhit officials. In fluenced by Angelee. refused to appoint a subeUtuU *gi'UUH to support Villa. They thus r™ In an uttfunhi of dis obedience toWhrds Carranza Carranza Knew. "CiirratiXu was acuunlntcd wltl|' Itfe real « Muses of the attitude of Villa and cnnaeuucully he ordered tin* Immediate ' discharge of Angeles from the position j Jit held. "Attempts havij been made to patch up tin hrc*k and Indue- Villa to recede from his attitude Nothing had besn mu aim'd until Villa realised that iiiohi II the revolutionary leaders had os mivcd their loyalty to Uarransa, and that the real purpose of \ngeles was to Use him ms a topi for his ambition tc» ts opus provisional president of Mexico "in view of this revelation. Villa h«s agreed to postpone the discussion of his gnevance* until the revolution has triumphed." fipta eda then charg4-s that the atti tude of Villa, foaten-d <»n tli* Inside by Ange’-es also bus been 4-n« "uv.uoml by • efrtalu foreign elements, chiefly In timate friends of laiaro de la (larga, flnancia) agent Of Villa. •*Onc of them Is a fellow of many i ntted tfiates." the statement continues. "The other ia an American who has posed during several months as a con fidential agent of the state department for the revolution but who has only hren a political attache and adviser of Villa In international matters. The lat ter lies led Villa and Ang4-les to believe they could cotint on the sympathy and the support of the Washington govern ment thus a great extent encouraging the Insubordination that existed In the Interior. "Carranza Is tjie ttisd chief of (Its Oongtltutlonallst army, according to the plan of Guadalupe, which Is the law under which the revolution Is catTled on. Thf slenijerohlp cannot be taken from Carranza unless t»v agreement of the majority of the military leaders ’ What Travelers Say. Cagle P*es, Texas No signs that a South Atlantic Tennis Doubles Championship to Be Played Off at Country Club on Tomorrow Intereninjf Point, Never Before Raised in South, is Thus Set tled—Became of Objecting to Play Fifth and Deciding Match on Sunday, Warinar Team, of Columbia, T7us Not Defaulted —Carter and Orr, of Atlanta, to Be Here To See Some Splenc’id Playing. Cbslrmno Ridgely, of the tennis tournament committee of the Country Club, announced Saturday afternoon that the question as to when and whore the doubles championship of the South Atlantic Tenuis Tourna ment. recently ended here, should be played, had been decided, and that the bis event is called for I o'clock Monday afternoon on the courts of the Country Club. It will be recalled that one of the Waring Brothers, from Columbia who were the opponent! of .1 K Orr, Jr., and K V. Carter, both of Atlanta, at ter having won two and lost two off the beat-three-out-of-five set*, declin ed to play the deciding set on Sun day. The two team*, still In the beat of 'ajiirlta. then left for their homes. The coroniltte here sought the advice of the K&lioral lawn Ten nis Association on matter if whether they iiad the right to deinull the Waring* for refusing o jdaj ou definite understanding has been reached with the object i»f healing the lYreach •between General Carranza and General Villa has been apparent «t <’i rrunza hdlduuarters, according to travelers Who riled here today ffroni Haltllio and Mon terey. Utmost secrecy was maintain* headquarters regarding develop* immts ami i strict censorship was en forced they said. It was reported, said the travelers that Villa had expressed the Intention of taking the burden of the defeat of Huerta on his own should ers, and that be was prepared to fight his own way Into Mexico Citp without regard to what Carranza proposed to do. MISSING FROM HIS STATEROOM E. Harlston Simons, of Promi nent Charleston Family, Dis appears From Steamer—ln 111 Health. New York 10. Harlston Simons, a wealthy New York bachelor, first cabin passenger on the steamship Baltic, was missing when the shir* arrived from Ku rope today. lb- had disappeared on June 24th during the night, leaving bis outer clothing in Ids stateroom. Offi cers of the ship believed be Jumped over boa t d Mr. Simons, who was »0 ye*rs old, was a member of a prominent family In (*h ir 4-« ton, . w 0. Ills brother. Chas. Dewuv Simons, was a brother-in-law of the lut4* K. 11. fb'rrlman. His rela tives declared today that Kuropenn phy sicians had given Mv Simons no hope about bis health, which was bad. .1 Harrtman Simons, a nephew, was trying today to have a ste mshlp sent to the point where It is believed his tin cb- Jumped overboard to search for the body. Four Fatalities in Last Night’s Electrical Storm Lima. Ohio One man l« deart and tlneo fatally hurt In Allen county us tin. n.MUIt of last night'" electrical morm. Henry I'arrlck died of hear tfallure while running to escape the Htorni Ru»- Hell .111, f Lnwrenee Crider, father and non were fatally ahockert when they I irked up a live wire. Burl Woodruff wan mortally hurt when lightning "truck a ham In which he had taken ahelter. MURDER CHARGE FAILS. Fonda, N. Y. —<leorge W. Potter, the wealthy Palatine farmer, nrrested yesterday for complicity In the mur iler of hia neighbor, John Barrett, upon the so-called confession made liy one of his farm hands, was discharg ed this afternoon when arraigned be fore Justice Huhbard here. At Potter'K examination /today the farm hand, Lewis Reach, declared that neither he nor Potter was near Barrelt’s home on the night he was murdered, and the house burned to conceal the crime. WAS UNMANAGEABLE. Superior, Wi«. According to Cap tnfn Hoy of the tug America, the an cluir of the big freighter mutual'* gpt uway aa the steamer was entering L> hailior. The alilps stern was awning abound Hgalust the concrete plerp and she Insame unmitnagcahle. The Ma taufa* whistles shrieked for hoi and the tugs America und Ooulder went tn the rescue. It Is not known how badly the Matnnfa Is damaged. One of the fiercest galea In years Is blowing and the lage Is rushing in monster waves through the ship ennui where the Mntuufii was heating against the iders. EMPHATIC PROHI OPPOSITION. Louisville, Ky. With re-election <>f officers and adoption of resolutions the business of the 34th Seengerfest of the North American Saengerhttnd, which has been assempled here since Wcd tU'M.ny, ended today. The place of the next meeting In 1917 will he decided by the executive hoard. Among resolutions adopted was one opposing In emphatic terms the pro posal for nation-wide prohibition. 5 DEATHS FROM HEAT. St. Louis Five deaths In St. Louis from the brat were reported during lust night and this forenoon. The tem perature nt noon was 93 degrees. BILL BY GEORGIAN. Washington. A bill to prohibit ne groes from hecon int; commissioned or non-commissioned officers of the army r navy, was introduced today hy Rep resentative Pork, of tJeorgia. $25.00 suits to order, host goods, Mo. hair serges, fancy, etc., dome mwe $15.00 atF. G. Mtrtin*. Sunday. Answer to the committee's queries was that It would not be gt K >d policy to default the Waring*. The committee then requested the .wo earns to mutually agree, if possible, on a time and place ,o p!«v off the match before July ltth. The com niltlee Mated that If the teams couldn't agree. It would order the match played here on the Country Club courts on July 11th. The team* came to an early agreement, however *Bd everything has been wound up ’ Titer* Is a great teal of Interest In the match which Is to decide the doubles champions of the South At lantlc Tournament, front tne fact that it settles a i>oliit never before brought up in tennis In this 3 art of ihe country, ntid also from the fact that the participating player* are racquet star* of this section The rivalry between the teams is extreme ly keen and there should b a good crowd present to watch the playing. The enure match will he played over, Woman Who Figures in Death Mystery and Building Where She Lived 1 'N 1 —^i>»ir*l»»Axio>/Ak. KJKmivicEj. 'J Stamford, Conn. —Waldo R. Baliou. wealthy and prominent in the citys affairg, a former city councilman, was u»d with Ids skull crushed early on the morning of June 24. at the entrance of the Ripawa apartments, and cd In a hospital without recovering consciousness. Mrs. Helen M. Angle, a rich and accomplished widow of forty, was taken to police headquarters and held ithout bail, after the police found prints of a woman’s naked foot in blood, leading to wher Ballou lay, from ■r apartments on the second floor. At first Mrs. Angle refused to make any statement, except that she tew nothing of the murder, though she admited the man had called upon her on the evening of June 23, at o'clock and remained until 10. Shelatter confessed that she carried Baliou out to the street. But still main lin'd that he had been drinking and had stumbled and fallen on the stairs. This statement was not made unUl <• police had found in her apartment a blood-soaked cloth and dress and skirt of Mrs. Anglo’s spotted evi ■ntlj with blood, as well as Ballous sti iw hat, crushed in front and ldood stained. The police believe th*t illou was killed with a heavy weapon. i i 110 VIOLENT - WEEK'S STORM Water 2 to 4 Feet Deep in LaCrosce Streets. 1,000 Pas sengers Have Narrow Escape Lacrosse, Wt»—The third violent storm of the week todky devoted large soctlon" of Wisconsin, Minnesota ayd lowa Though less severe than the tor nado of Wednesday morning the storm did more damage generally. Water ran from two to four feet deep in the streets of l-aCrosse.* Railroads expe rienced serious washouts. At Vree hurg, Minn., the tracks are under four feet of water. At and around New Alhln and Lan sing. lowa, the rivers overflowed their banks and neighboring .fields for miles were deeply hurled under sand and mud. Not only are crops de stroyed hut the land Is seriously dam aged permanently hy the light sand being east upon It. At Vlrouua tlje Idg l.avold Tobacco Factory was blown down. Many barns went down, stock was kliled hy lightning or drowned and roads are Impossible. The steamer Sidney with 1.000 ex cursionists aboard was out on the Mis sissippi when the storm broke. Cap tain Streckfns made a dash for port and succeeded in landing ills passen gers only with great difficulty. The river was it sen of white caps. All over LuCrosse basements were flooded with large loss to stocks of goods St rets and {sidewalks are pil ed high with mud. J. Randolph Anderson's Mother Dead in Savannah Savannah, G*. -Mrs. Jane Margo ret Anderson, widow of Col. Edward Clifford Anderson and mother of J. Randolph Anderson, president of the state senate and candidate for the Democratic Nomination for governor of Georgia, died tonight after an Ill ness of thro woks nt the age of 74 The funeral will he held Monday morning. Mr*. Anderson was n great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson and was a native of Albermarle coun ty, Virginia. Kills His 2 Little Boys, Then Takes Poison Dose , 4 Fort Lauderdale. Fla. J. M. Heim burger who came here reontly from Hebron. North Dakota, took his two small sous Into the woods here today and killed them with a hatchet. Its then committed suietdc by drinking poison.• it Is believed that Insanity wa* the cause. Don's miss Sheron's Special Sale on Monday, 60c Candies at 39c. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. mu ASSETS RETAIL STORES Statement Issued in Behalf of Merchandise Creditors of the H. B. Claflin Company. New York. —A statement issued to day in behalf of the merchandise creditors oT the H. U. Claflin Co., urging that the assets of the retail Rtores he guarded wherever possi ble. "The commercial paper held''by the note-holders,” says the statement, "is in most cases, as we tire informed, of promisory notes made hy various retail Stores throughout the country, which were controlled by the H. B. Claflin Com,; any and w hich paper was made payable to H. B. Claflin Company, and was by it discounted with its endorsement. It is there fore of greatest importance, both to merchandise creditors and to note holders. to see to it that affairs of these retail stores throughout the country are so managed as to prevent ruinous liquidation and destruction of assets. The merchandise creditors' commit tee tutends to do everything it can toward saving the retail stores from receiverships where possleble and where re-organized and that the good will of the going concerns is not de stroyed and dissipated. "So far as we know of the receiver ships which have occurred have been other than friendly and for conserv ative purposes." Grand Rapids Store. Grand Rapids, Mich. —John A. Hnn geder, manager of the Spring Dry Goods Company of this city, a C+nflln store, has been appointed receiver of the concern. 11.00, J 1.50 and 17.00 Ferguson Me- Kihny shirts at *6c. Come quick. F. G. Msrtins. New Tariff to Bring 22 Million Over Estimates Washington Democratic leader I’ndarwood told the house today the new tariff would pro luce $292,000,000 for the year, twenty-one mimotu more than the estimates. The Income tax ihis year, he said, would produce $85,- o*lo,ooo, ten millions less than the es timates. because incomes were not taxed for the full year its urged that the treasury's million dollar fund or collecting ihe tax be increased to s million and n half. SPEAKS AT WOODLAWN. Mias Emma Lester, returned mis sionary from China, whose, home Is in Augusta, will speak at the Wood lawn Methodist Church this morning at 10:15 o'clock. The public is cordially invited to attend. 25 per cent off on all straw hats. Panamas, $3.00, 13 oo and $6.00 at Martins. Hold Without Bail, FITS 3 i !!e s a- 4b*le. (Jangh i“'' L l ' c n " r, T 'fetShTOrtJrs •Hjpsr-giH'cesß fi'M •'jtTmoiU m*';! ; t(' Tim SrCe'r "cf° tf’.iPfrei- “pjre'ati ;->rldftk the T»roi^«Ml '<l ixp’.i'n at-ftr P. Parent yitv; -jCatmt-liTOaii anq' ife pn.'ineap iyaUw. i-o irj-faimij tjn f,oii?cTpiig' rMi? ‘nfimis 3 liffeteßs nn'it'r Tiv' v-fjn?oV? ff? tifir was i<‘rtn/f)i'artTi; wcconybift; ab«if an ftoilr after ho Avas ’vounw. t Pticflnmon iVnm/ir! t>'Qi rt ! wkCowon rtarr,cf.,i i.) c i-aymaoicr Lon | Washinrton.—The president today norrlnated Paymaster Sam'l. McGow an to be paymaster general and chief of the bureau of supplies and accounts with the rank of Rear Admiral. AUTHORIZE SALE OF l WARSHIPS Senate Adopts Completed Con ference Report. President Has the Power of Disposal. Washington. Authority to sell the battleships Idaho and Mississippi fi nally was conferred on President Wil son today by adoption in the senate of the completed conference report on the naval appropriation hill. The re port was agreed to by the house yes terday. Arrangements practically have been completed for sale of the two battleships to Greece. The bill carries appropriation for three new battleships and sets aside some $140,900,000 for support of the navy. -In the final conference an appro priation for $3,000,000 dry dock at the Norfolk Yard were stricken out. conn m IHE LIKE FROM S P.M. TO I ft The Augusta Military Rand will give another of its delightful concerts at the Rake this afternoon between the hours of 5 and T o'clock. The band will be directed by C. C. Howard. There are sure to he hundreds of people to spend the afternoon at the Rake, where cool breezes blow and where there is none of the heat that is so oppressive in the down town part of the city. The Proaram. Following is the program for the concert this afternoon: 1. March —The Peacemaker, Howard 2. Characteristic—lndian Interk mezzo Margin S. Descriptive—All Aboard for Dixie Ram pe 4. Cornet Solo—lda Polk (Sikes) Rrickiey 5. March-—White Seal ..Howard INTERMISSION. « March—Gay New York. N. Brown 7. Idyl—Forge in the Forest .. .. '. .. Mlehalls S. Overture—Grand Medley Super ha Dal bey 9. Tresohlc Casler 10. Star Spangled Ranner.. ..Brooks Suffragettes His King’s Hat With Pamphlets London. Suffragettes circumvented the police today and bombarded King George and Queen Mary with leaflets at the entrance to Hyde Park, A bun dle of the papers struck the king's hat and knocked It sideways, while the queen's parastß caught another shower of the pamphlets. Two women were seized by the po lice and carried away struggling vio lently. DOCUMENTS OF LORIMER BANK ART KSING Evidence Submitted to State- Auditor’s Office, Made in Re port Prior to Failure, Has Disappeared * Paynter Owed Bank $29,150 a Fortnight Etfore Illinoisan Ousted From U. S. Senate. Chicago.—Disappearance from the office of James J. Rrady, state auditor, of documentary evidence hearing on the failure of the LaSalle Street Trust and Savings Bank was reported today. One of the missing documents was the report that the hank was in a shaky condition. This he submitted to Chief Clerk Bacchus of the state auditor's office. Rife soon afterward resigned to be come secretary of the LaSalle Street Trust and Savings Bank and Vice President of the Broadway State Bank, another of the Lorimer-Munday string. Bacchus later became a vice president of the LaSalle Street Bank. The Paynter Transaction. A statement of the transactions of Thomas H. Paynter, former United States senator from Kentucky, with the Lorimer-Munday hank, was made public at the district attorney’s of fice. On July T, 1912, the report shows that Paynter owed the bank $29,150. Two weeks later, on July 14, Lorimer was ousted from the senate by a vote of 55 to 28, Paynter voting in favor of Lorimer. The record shows that Paynter made no reduction in the balance against him between July 2 and September 30. On Oct. 22. when the bank became a state institution, the balance against Paynter had been reduced to $21,650. Paynter made various payments up to June 2 last, when the account was wiped off, but he started a new one by obtaining a loan of $2,676. Ten days later the hank failed. NEGRO BANDITS GETMJOO Two Employes of Lumber Co. Killed in Attack. Posses Quickly Form and Give Chase Laurel, Miss. —Three negro high waymen late today shot and killed two employes of the Gilchrist-Fordney Lumber Company, at Stevens, Miss., 20 miles south of this place, seriously wounded another, and escaped with the company’s weekly payroll, amount ing to $2,200. Those killed were J. V. Simmons and Reese Fitzpatrick, clerks in the local office of the lumber com pany. Wyatt Robinson, another clerk, was the third member of the party. The hold-up occurred just outside of Stevens station, where the three clerks hoarded a motor car to carry the mon ey to the company’s logging camp, six miles away. Shortly after leaving Stevens sta tion the men encountered an obstruc tion on the track. They alighted to clear the track. The negroes, who hod been in hiding, then opened fire At the first * shot, Fitzpatrick fell dead. Simmens was fatally wounded and died within a few minutes. Immediately the three clerks fell the negroes came out of hiding and secur ed the money. Although badly wmunded, Robinson made his way back to Stevens station and gave the alarm. A possee was forni%i and took up the pursuit. A special train, carrying a large number of men to aid In the pursuit, was sent from here. JAPAN PRESS IS INDIGNANT Tokio, Japan.—The Japanese press generally expresses indigatlon today at the attitude of the United 1 States hi the correspondence between the two governments recently published. Several newspapers insits that a remedy must be found Tor the “in sulting” situation. The Nichi Nichi is especially vio lent in its utterances. It condemns what it cals Japan's flattery of Amer ica by participation in the exposition at San r ranclsco and says that, in stead of doing this. Japan should, in view of thp United States govern ment's inability to control .he states, consider the wisdom of taking action against California in order to obtan satisfaction. $17,075 For Emergency Transferral of Mines Washington—The War Department asked congress today for $17,075 for the "purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaports and for continuing torpedo experiments.” The acting chief of ordnance ex plained in a memorandum that' the estimate was to reimburse the appro priation for the current fiscal year, for submarine mine material for con tinental United States and for the cost off material “transferred in an emergency to the Philippine Islands." There was no lurther explanation. SI.OO wash pants at Martins. Boys' blouses —shirts, pants, suits huts and capa at Martina. Sheron’s superb Chocolates, 60c value, Monday 39c. SUNDAY. JUNE 28. PREDICTION OF INK DEFICIT IS ONLY A DREAM So Declares Democratic Leader Underwood to the House in Analysis of Govt’s Revenues For Hqjf Year Ending Tues day Receipts Will Be $733,000,- 000, Leaving a Surplus of $30,000,000. Next Year Re ceipts Are to Be Swelled By $100,000,000 Through the Income Tax. Washington.—Fortified with ..offi cial figures from the treasury depart ment, leader Underwood today told the house there would be no deficit in government finances and that any prediction of one was a dream, based on wishes springing from political antagonism. In an analysis of the government’s financial situation, Mr. Undyrwocd announced that th e total receipts of the government for the fiscal year ending next Tuesday would aggregate $733,000,000 leaving a surplus of $30,- 000,000 and that with only half year's operation of the ineom" tax. That did not include Panama expen ditures, estimated at $35,000,000. Next year, he declared, Panama expendi tures virtually would pass away, and canal receipts would pay running ex penses. For Collecting Tax. M. Underwod’s speech was in sup pot of the senate amendment to the legislative appropriation bill to in crease the treasury fund for collect ing tile income tax from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 which the house finally agreed to. Mr. Underwod explained the in crease was for collecting the income tax from persons and corporations trying to evade it. "For next year,” He predicted, “we can be asured of collecting more than $100,000,000 from the income tax even if no more proportionately is collected titan was collected this y^ai 1 and more proportionately will be col lected.” $22,000,000 More. Mr. Underwood said customs receipts ; were producing in the current year $22,000,000 more than the administra tion had expected and that the treas ury department reported these figures of the total revenues for the current year just ending: "Income and corporation tax $7.1,- 000,000, which had been estimated at ; $95,000,000. Internal revenue $309,- | 000,000, estimated at $312,000,000. Cus : toms receipts $292,000,000 esimated |at $270,000,000. Miscellaneous re ceipts $57,000,000, estimated at $59,- ! 000,000.” Representative Payne, of New York, I author of the last Republican tariff ] law% contended that the Republicans* I should have been credited with some | of the receipts in the current year, as i the reduction in the tariff rates under the Underwood bill did not cover tlie I entire fiscal year. HON DID IT GET IN THE PAPERS? Reports of Supposedly Secret Proceedings of Senate Com mittee Stirs Wrath of Chair man Stone. * Washington.—How such complete reports of procedings of the senate foreign relations committee, supposed to be secret, on the pending Nicara guan and Colombian treaties got into the newspapers is about to be investi gated. At a meeting today Chairman Stona was authorized to ask the senate to authorize examination of senators and * newspaper correspondents to find where the information for the public came from. Senator Stone said he regarded tho giving out of information about what toop place in the committee meetings as “a disgraceful performance.” He read into the Congressional Record a statement declaring that all .newspa per reports of what had occurred in meetings of the committee were “un authorized and inaccurate, and are moreover unworthy of belief, because whoever gave ut the alleged informa tion betrayed the confidence of the committee and government and delib erately violated his word of honor." • Rockefeller's Donations Amount to $12,550,000 New York. —A donation of $2,550,000 from John D Rockefeller go the Rocke feller Institution of Medical Research was announced late today by Henry James, manager of the Institute. This gift brings the sum total of Mr. Roeke leller's contribution to the institute up to $12,550,000. DEATHS WALKER, MR. KLDRED P.—Died yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the City Hospital In the 54th year of his age after an extended illness. The remains will be con veyed from the residence. 707 Twiggs Street, to the City Ceme tery Chapel this afternoon at 5 o'clock, where the funeral ser vices will be held, Rev* Thomas Walker officiating, and the inter ment will follow in the city Cemetery. Deceased Is survived by one brother, J. C. Walker, of this cUy. ' • THE WEATHER Washingtcn «—Fortran: Georgia and South JarolnlM —Local thunder showert Sundi 5 and probably Monday.