Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 19, 1913, Page 3

| | PAGE TWO EXTRA SESSION CALL IS ISSUED Congress Will Reassemble on April 7. NOT CONFINED TO TARIFF Absence of Specific Reason in Procia- mation Indicates That Other Legis- tation May Be Enacted Before Ad- journment Is Taken. Washington, March 18.—President Wilson has issued the formal procla- | mation convening congress in extra | session at noon on April 7. The president’s pronouncement was bri followed form closely. It that “whereas, public and od merely inti sts require” congress should be eonvened in extra session by order of the executive Originally Mr. Wilson had fixed Bpon Apri] 1 as the date, Representa- tive Underwood, the Democratic ma- jority leader, having informed him that the tariff bills to which it was agreed congress should give immedi- ate attention would be ready on that date. Mr. Underwood found, how- ever, that the ways and means com- | mittee would need another week to @raft the tariff schedules and the proclamation is in deference to the wishes of Leader Underwood. Other Legislation Possible. The absence of any specific reason for the calling of the extra session is explained by the fact that Mr. Wil- gson’s statement immediately after his election declared that he would call an extra session to revise the tariff. President Wilson plans to point out specifically his wishes for the extra session in his first message, in prepa- ration. This, it is known from talks the president has had with members ef congress, will outline the adminis- ‘tration’s idea of how the tariff should be revised and just what schedules should be taken up. The belief in general is that the en- tire message will be taken up with a @iscussion of the tariff, with the ex- eeption of the last paragraph or two, which will draw attention to the need ef currency legislation at the earliest possible moment and will indicate the purpose of the president to send later @ special message on that or other gubjects which he believes should be taken up by the new congress. UPHELD BY HIGHEST COURT Kansas Bank Guaranty Deposit Act Is Legal. Washington, March 18.—The su- Preme court formally upheld as con- stitutional the Kansas bank guaranty deposit act of 1909. The act was held constitutional about two years ago after objection by state banks, but the national banks of Kansas still persisted in their fight against the law. The supreme court granted a re- straining order to prevent Postmaster General Burleson from enforcing the newspaper publicity law while the court has under consideration the question of its constitutionality. Watson Trial Postponed. Augusta, Ga., March 18.—The trial ef Thomas E. Watson, charged with sending obscene matter through the mail, has been indefinitely postponed. REAR ADMIRAL EATON. Death of Naval Officer Subject of Special Inquiry. @ 1913, by American Press Association. EATON INQUEST IS BEGUN Court Investigating. Death of Rear Admiral. Hingham, Mass., March 18.—The death of Rear Admiral Joseph G. Eaton was the subject of an inquest |in the district court here. As in the proceedings of Saturday, which were informal and preliminary, Associate Justice Edward B. Pratt presided. “Every person who may have any | knowledge of the death or the cause of the death of Admiral Eaton will be called before this matter is finished,” | said the district attorney. | Among those who will be called are Mrs. Eaton and her two daughters by !a@ previous marriage. WANT REGULATION OF THEIR DUTIES ‘Janitors Object to Caring for | Dogs and Hooking Dresses. Chicago, March 18.—Two thousand union janitors, through their business agent, Edward Quesse, applied to the | Chicago Federation of Labor for a ‘regulation of their duties and hours of work. | Quesse said that the janitors too ‘long have been “handy men” about the house and that it was time they had relief. The federation voted to stand behind the janitors in their de- | mands. A few of the things objected to by janitors are caring for dogs, cats and other household pets, running er- rands, moving pianos and taking up rugs and mending furniture without extra pay. “While other union men work eight | and ten hours a day,” says Quesse, | “the janitor has to be ready for the | call of duty twenty-four hours of the | day and seven days a week. We are ' everybody’s servant. We must know how to do everything about the house from regulating a furnace to hooking up a woman's partv dress.” This is the mattress that shows you what's inside. Sis the quality of cotton used and the way they are made that give Stearns & Foster Mattresses their perfect comfort and wonderful life. An exclusive ‘web process.” Let us show them to you today. We are sole agents his season finds us showing the most complete line of Go-Carts and Baby Carriages we have ever shown, and that means the greatest showing ever brought: to Grand ; Rapids. The newest and most improv- ed carts on the market are shown in thi§ display and you will find many improvements in these carts thut add to the The Store for Real Values ou’ll find this store leading in value glv- ing in all departments. A comparison of style, quality and price will convince you of the fact that your dollar reaches the maximum of buying power at this store. Compare our prices— we're willing to put our time against yours. .comforts of the baby and prove a convenience to the mother. Carriages, Sleepers and English Perambulators in ‘inely finished wood and high grade : attan bodies. You'll find a good assortment of all lines at prices that will prove our statement as to v7lue-giving. GEORGE If The Furniture Man _ KREME: . Opposite Post’ « ifice GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1913 LANDIS WOULD PROBE MATTER Tells Grand Jury to Look Into Oleo Compromise. THINKS ACTION ILLEGAL | Declares That Under Penal Code Sec- | retary MacVeagh Had No Power to Negotiate Agreement With Alleged Fraudulent Manufacturers. Chicago, March 18.—Judge Landis, jin the United States district court, in- structed a special grand jury to in- | vestigate alleged butterine frauds |compromised by the internal revenue ; department on March 4. The grand jurors are to learn if the manufactur- ers were not guilty of conspiracy to defraud the government under section 37 of the national penal code. The jurors also were instructed to | tional government was guilty of con- | spiracy. Judge Landis told the jurors that it | was discovered two years ago that | big oleomargarine manufacturers were using cottonseed oil treated with sul- phur which resulted in the imitation looking like real butter. The manu- facturers, he said, were warned that they would use the colored oil at their own peril. Ignores Recommendation. A committee of the house of repre- | sentatives investigated the whole mat | ter, the court related, and calculated | that the government had been de- prived of $1,200,000 in taxes. The com- mittee also recommended that the | case be not compromised. Neverthe- less as one of the last acts of his late administration Secretary MacVeagh of the treasury department compromised | the penalties at $101,000. This compromise, continued Judge Landis, was based on the law giving | the internal revenue department au- | thority to compromise cases where the internal revenue law has been violat- ed. “If the manufacturers have been guilty of conspiring to defraud the government, however, the case comes under section 37 of the federal penal code,” said the court, “and a charge made under that law cannot be, com- promised by the treasury department.” MacVeagh “Stands Pat.” Washington, March 18.—Franklin MacVeagh, former secretary of the | treasury, when informed of Judge Landis’ action in the oleomargarine cases, said he “stood pat” on the statement he issued a few days ago, explaining the compromise, and that (he did not think it “worth while to comment on Judge Landis’ instruc- tions to the grand jury.” BIG STEEL PLANT CLOSED Shuts Down Following Strike of Six- teen Hundred Men. Pittsburg, March 18.—The Oliver Iron and Steel mill has been closed by the company officials. Only two de- partments, employing 100 men, are in operation. The 1,600 strikers were joined by 1,400 workers, made idle by the closing of the plant. Efforts of the strikers are now bent toward getting a conference to consider the formal demands pre pared and submitted to the company Officials. It was reported that the company’s offer of 10 cents a day ad- vance to all day laborers who now re- ceive $1.50 for a twelve-hour day had been turned down by.all but fifteen of twenty laborers who returned to work. SHOT DEAD BY POLICEMAN Negro Who Accosted White Woman and Slashed Officer. New York, March 18.—Daniels T. Davis, a negro, accosted a young white woman who stepped from an uptown subway station and grabbed her by the arm until she screamed. A policeman who interfered was slashed across the face with a razor. wielded by the negro, who then fied. Although weak from loss of blood the policeman gave chase. He fired five shots at the fleeing negro, four of | which pierced his body, causing death. | ALLEGED TRUST SUSPENDS Naval Stores Company Has Ceased Its Operations, Savannah, Ga., March 18.—An- | nouncement was made here that the American Naval Stores company has suspended operations. The company is Yeing prosecuted by the government for alleged violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Kansas City Theater Robbed. Kansas City, March 18—Two men entered the Garden theater, bound the watchman, Jerre Trahee, and placed him where for five hours he was forced to sit and watch them work to open the safe in the theater Office. They escaped with $590. Trahee’s cries after the robbers had gone attracted a newsboy, who cae in the window and released | ascertain if any member of the na-|} MISS BESSIE YOAKUM. ‘Daughter of Rail Magnate to Marry Princeton Man. ENGAGEMENT IS ANNOUNCED | Daughter of Prominent Railroad Man to Be Married. New York, March 18.—Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin J. Yoakum of this city and San Antonio, Tex., have announced the engagement of their younger daughter, Miss Bessie F. Yoakum, to Francis R. Larkin, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Larkin of New York. Mr. Larkin was graduated from Princeton in the honor class in 1911. He is now in business here, and Miss Yoakum, who made her debut in New York about three years ago, is fond of outdoor sports, riding and is an excel- lent shot. Miss Yoakum’s father is one of the best known railway men-in the United States. He is chairman of the board of directors of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad and of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad. NO GLUE TO DARING GOTHAM CRACKSMEN Take Fortune in Loot From Pawnbroker’s Vault. New York, March 18.—Not since the days when Inspector Byrnes cleaned the city of the big yeggs and safeblow- ers and established his famous dead- line has the central detective bureau faced as big a burglary job as the $300,000 looting of the steel and brick vault of Martin Simons & Co.’s pawn- shop. That the job, one of the biggest in the history of safecracking, was the work of two master cracksmen was accepted as a certainty by the police. The loot was mainly in the shape of highly valuable jewelry. They left behind $400,000 worth of diamonds and other jewelry which might have been taken if there had been more than two men in the job. The robbers had evidently made a careful study of the location and con- struction of the vault, which stood be- hind a partition in the rear of the shop. The top of the vault was of brick reinforced with steel bars, but the three sides were of cemented brick only, two feet thick. The robbers attacked the vault by way of the cellar of the tenement next door. They shoveled to one side two tons of coal to get at the par- tition wall between the buildings, broke their way through with drills and sledges and cut a trap door in the floor, just to the side of the vault. Then brick by brick they broke a two- foot hole in the vault’s side, climbed inside, used their pocket searchlights and rifled the drawers and strong boxes of loot. ee dee be de be be he oe heife fee h BOMBS GO OFF OFFICE. Calcutta, March 18—Two postoffice employes were 6eri- ously hurt when two bombs exploded in the office. The in- fernal machines were sent by post, their wrappers being ad- dressed to two English editors, and they exploded when the clerks canceled the stamps. The postal authorities kept secret the names of the ad- dressed that a rigid investiga- tion may be made. IN POST- CO Oe i ee Sa A ae i ie Sa ae Sa a eS i a OF fe be ode fe ode fe fe fe fe obs ode obs ob of oe oe oh oe Aho fo ide Sotho she. fe afo sfe ake fe ehe ahead fe No Evidence of Foul Play. Southampton, Eng., March 18.—The postmortem examination of the body of Frances Leslie, the young American actress who was found dead Saturday on board the steamship Oceanic, showed that death was due to an at- tack of epilepsy. There was no evi- dence of foul play. Minimum Wage for Teachers. Des Moines, March 18.—The senate passed the ‘school teachers’ minimum wage Dill, fixing the minimum wage, according to grades and experience, from $32.50 to $60 a month. ree Our business has far exceeded all expecta- tions, which proves conclusively that the most discerning wo- .men appreciate that when we say SPRING a» SUMMER a, ata SUITS, COATS, SKIRTS ——_AND-—_—___ DRESSES MADE TO ORDER Hand-Tailored to Order Suits, $20 to $50 Full Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back without delay or argument WE are introducing a new corset for stout women, which is not only the greatest figure-reducing corset yet produced, but is a very remarkable value, simply as a corset, saying nothing of its splendid new style-feature. —as shown in the picture. It is the new— One glance tells what this corset does. You have an extremely long corset which is made perfectly comfortable by those wide gores of Lastikops Cloth—the new and durable elastic fabric that will outwear the corset. Two models—No. 322 (low and No. 324 (medium bust). Unheard-of value atthe price .. DRY GOODS CoO. bust), $300 The Wrecked Sublime Porte. Hans Andersen ranks Constantinople first among European capitals in point of beauty, then Stockholm, Edinburgh and Lisbon. The Turkish capital has suffered less from fires than most orl- ental cities, but one occurred in 1863 which turned the name by which the sultan’s government is generally known into a misnomer. Among the buildings attacked was the Seral palace, where councils are held and ambassadors re- ceived. The chief gate of the palace, the Bab-i-Humayum, or sublime porte, from which the government derives its title, was burned down and has never been rebuilt. Musical Tones In Architecture, It has long been believed that each of the mammoth buildings of the world will vibrate in response to some spe- cial musical tone. Architects believe they have found the tones for such fa- mous structures as the cathedral at Cologne, Notre Dame in Paris and St. Paul’s in London. Certainly it is true that each of these buildings returns to the ear of the'listener that one tone tn- tensified and augmented to a surprising | extent. The corollary statement that this keynote if sounded long enough and with sufficient force would bring disaster has never been proved.—Chris- tian Herald. The French President. The French president enjoys some petits benefiices apart from the $240,- 000 he draws yearly as salary and al- lowances. Supplies of vegetables for his table come from the kitchen gar- dens at Versailles, fruit from the or- chards of Fontainebleau, game from the state forests and hay for his horses from the meadows at Rambouillet. Moreover, the state pays the wages of his stable hands and his coachman, but not his chauffeur’s.—New York Sun Occupational. The young woman store detective when proposed to was silent. “Then you cannot be the sunshine of my life,” said the young man in dis- appointed tones. “How can I?” she answered. “I am a professional shadow.”—New York Post. Perfectly Logical. She—V ‘aid you would die for me ,ou refuse to get up and lig. uw - He—That’s perfect ly logical. If I died for you I’d be don: with it, but if I get up once and lig the fire you'll want me to do it every morning.—Boston Transcript SALE OF SCHOOL AND OTHER STATE LANDS State of Minnesota, State Auditor's Office. St. Paul, February 24, 1913. Notice is hereby given that on April 21, 1918, at 10 o’clock A. M., in the of. fice of the County Auditor at Grand (Rapids, Itasca (County, in the state |of Minnesota, I wili offer for sale cer- tain ungold state lands, and also those | state lands which have reverted to the state by reason of the non-paymnet of interest. Terms: Fifteen per cent of the pur- chase price and interest on the unpaid balance from date of sale to June ist, 1914, must be paid at the time of sale. The balance of purchase money is pay- ‘able in while or in part on or before forty years from date of sale; the rate of interest on the unpaid balance is four Per cent per annum, payable in advance on June Ist of each year; provided, the principal remains unpaid for ten years; but if the principal is paid within ten years from date of Sale, the rate of imterest will be computed at five per cent per annum. Appraised value of timber, if anyy must also be paid at time of sale. Lands on which the interest ts delin. quent may be redeemed at any time up to the hour of Sale, or before resale to an actual purchaser, All mineral rights are reserved by the laws of fhe state. Not more than 320 acres can be sola or contracted to be sold to any one purchaser. Agents acting for purchasers must fur- nish affidavit of authority. Appraisers’ reports, showing quality and kind of soil, are on file in this office. Lists of lands to be offered may be obtained of the state auditor or the state commissioner of immigration at St. Paul, and of the county auditor at above address SAMUEL G. IVERSON State Auditor. EASTER PLANTS ana FLOWERS DULUTH FLORAL CO THE HOME OF FLOWERS Complete Assortment at all Times. Reliable and Moderately Priced. Goldfish Shrubbery and ~ Novelty Baskets. RY -~