Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 20, 1915, Page 1

aN00V0COTO00Y 8 Loeat Temporaturs g & Maximum.. 82 £ Minimum. 1 THE LAKELAND EVEN ING TELEGRAM & e Ry °! 2 Partly cloudy & tonight Fridiy_showers, ¥ YOLUME IV MISTRI'S|FINAL PROPOSALS _ "REECTED AND ITALY TARES ONE STEP NERER WAR * ot s sxrsersn oar, aus | DARAES. COUNSEL SIAN LINE ON RIVER SAN HAS Scok[s 'I'[DDY IN ADDRESS 10 JURY BEEN DEFINITELY BROKEN AND TEUTONS HAVE CROSSED RIVER i g (By ssoclated Press.) B (By Associated Press, London, May 20.—Austria’s final l_;\ racuse, M -—William M 1s have been rejected unani- [ V'S chief counsel for willjam and | Barnes in his suit for libel ag Theodore velt, concluded jury today by ass: former president ssor of a ] v by the Italian council ministers at Rome, and the two na- tions are a step nearer war. With (he assembling of the Italian parlia- ment today a declaration of the gov- the real pc ernment’s policy is expected. The [Personality Fytalian Green Book, issued today, | Jury in consider shows that Italy’s demands which |1R8 the creditibility of the defend- Austria has falled to [satisfy, are|®i to remember his statement in based on the claim that she is en- [ Which he said never again woulq po titled to compensation for Austria’s |P¢ & candidate for president. advance into Siberia. P e Rl The Russian fortified line along | CONVERSATION CLASSES the River San, on which great reli- ARE LEARNING RUSSIAN ance is placed to check the Austro- German advance, has been definitely | London, May 20.—Russian is the broken. The claim of the Teutons |POPular language fad of the hour, that they had crossed the miver is a"d.POD}'PrSa(iun classes are thriv- confirmed today in the Russian offi- ‘?2 in high society as well as among ¢lal announcement at Petrograd. |OUns men lflokitfg for commercial przemisl, which the Russans won ;‘"’"“"KS n ‘Russm after the war. from Austria after a siege of several he King's College of the University months, is now under attack by the |°f L‘m‘l“"_ plans to establish a school Augtrians, One of the Breatest bat- ‘l’)f l?’lfl‘flflwl ,{anglxaxcs, to include tles of the war is apparently im-| 0'°% Serbian and o|.hur Balkan pending along the San, on the north. | ton8ues as well as Russian. An offer The Russians claim successes in op- of ""_ appropriate library for this erations against the German forces|PUrPose has been made by Seton Wason. There are now in England rhic v he Baltic region. : which invaded the .seventy Russian students, driven out 1of the German and Belgian universi- ties, who are taking courses mostly nst Roos address to the ing the his e Yl-Hyde instead of Barnes. Ivins urged the FAIR OF PARIS WILL BE AR ‘ ~ HELD WHEN WAR IS OVER engineering and medicine LISBON IS QUIET: NEW MINISTRY HAS BEEN FORMED {By Associated Press) Paris, May 2.—The proposed or- ganization of an annual “Fair of Par to take the place of the Leip- sic fair, so far as Frenchmen are cerned, has been taken up officially. 'The Municipal Council has adopted a resolution calling upon the executive authorities to take the necessary measures for the organization of such (By Assoctated Press.) a fair immediately on the cessation Lisbon, May 20.—A new ministry of hostilities, The Grand Palais with | having definitely been formed, the such annexes as may prove necessary [revolutionary committee has been dis- will probably be selected as the site. [solved and the capital is quiet. This proposition is not altogether the outcome of the war as many suppose, but has been agitated by Parisian merchants for more than ten years PREACNER UPHOLDS STRIKERS FOR VIOLET ACTS GERMAN ATLANTIC CABLE CO. DECLARES DIVIDEND (By Associated Press.) Berlin, May 20—The German-At- lantic Cable Co., notwithstandinz the cutting of its cables at the out- break of the war, has just declared a dividend of 6 1-2 per cent, which is only one per cent less than for the previous year. PUBLISHED IN THE BEST TOWN IN THE BEST PART 0f THE BEST STATE (By Assoclated Press.) Washington, May 20.—Rev. Dan- iel 8. MeCorkle of Sunrise, Wyomins, today told the industrial relations commission that the sending of armed forces into the Colorado coal strike region was treason and he ad- Yocated the execution of the men proven guilty. He declared strik- €rs were justified for resorting to violence in view of the fact that thv‘ invaders were ‘“‘armed anarchists.’ FLORIDA ARRIVALS York, May 20—Miami— Douglas, E. B., Monticello Hotel. New Jacksonville, Fla.—Dux, Dr. H., Park Avenue Hotel. | Orlando—Larrabee, L. S., Marl- borough, Merritt—Dardonville, Mrs. J., Flanders; Dardonville, J., Flanders. Jacksonville, Fla.—Huber, E. L., Bristol; Ulurich, F. J,, Bristol. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS (Furnished by the Security Abstract and Title Co., Bartow, Fla.) Leon Prine and wife to Curtis Langford. Lake Wales Land Co. to D. C. Mims, Lake Wales Land Co. to Wi. A. Varn and wife. John E. Warren and wife to Cyn- this Northeross et al. Florida Development Co. to Axel H. Johnson. L. T. Keen to W. 8. Acree. Florida Development Co. to P. T. Kenzedy, C. M. Yearwood and wife to C. G. Langtora. J. A. Newsome et al. to Clifford Brown et a1, C. G. Langtord and wife to Cur- | gurated president of th tis Langforq. John W. Wethington et al. to T . Lockwood et al. Florence B. Inman to Poinsettia Park Co. Board of Public Instructions to Geo. C. Beals. J. B. Wofford to ( Farmer. Charlotte Wofford to C. *. Farm- er. David B. Stewart to '. C. Farm- er. Geo. T. Flemings and wife to Truman T. Yeazer et al. Malloy & Miller to Nellie K. | Brown. Winter Haven Water and Light Co to Annie Harie Klemm E. R. Hall Jr., et al. to R. B. Linger. R. B. Linger to E. C. Linger. W. F. Taylor to F. Clifton Martha B. Wallan to Thomas B. Simmons Deen Turpentine Co. to James E Cochran. C. B. Hendricks and wife to W J. Durrance et al. A. H. Ruwe and wife to State Bank Winslow. g C. L. Wilson and wife to Wm. Koch . G. E. Bevier and wife to Cornelia Perry Bevier. Susie Browning and husband to James Calvin. Eliza Miller et al. to Wm. ! Hul:ieilt-f::ée Development Co. to 0. Li:“‘:.etD:]\'.ls and wife to J. B. Cochran. R JOHNS HOPKINS NEW PRESIDENT Baltimore, May 20.—Dr. Frank 1 be formally inau- e Johns Hop- Dr. Goodnow J. Goodnow wil kins University today. assumed charge of the fice last October and busy to find time fo auguration. RESDENT RETRNS A T0 WASHIGTON (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 20.—The May- flower, with the President aboard, arrived from New York this morn ing. The President breakfasted at the White House. !P ANCIENT CHURCH HAD NARROW ESCAPE FROM DESTRUCTION (By Associated Press.) London, May 2 The ancieng church of vhere Pepys the dia ed, recently had a narrow e e from a fire that de- str d a large cork factory neaby. Pieces of burning cork rained on the roof of the church, which dates from 1430, and was one of the few churches to escape the great fire of London. When firemen reached the roof, the timber cove cistern damag ng the water but no further was done. The buildings in the district are old and congested. SOUTHERN SECRETARIES ASSOCIATION CONVENED TODAY IN MONTGOMERY Montgomery, Ala., May 20.-—The Southern Association of Commercial Secretaries which met here today was addressed by W. P. (. Hard- ing, member of the Federal Resgerve Board on the “Farmer and His Bank.” One of the interexting fea- tures of the meeting is expected to be a survey of what business organ - izations of the South did lust year for better farming and marketing methods and improvement of agri- cultural conditions generally. was ablaz BOOKIES PLAN QUIET BETTING — New York, May 20.—Racing will begin at Belmont Park today, the same as last year with fifteen days meeting given by the Westchester Racing Association. The bookmak- ers have been on the quivive Blldl there will be a bit of quiet bouing.' but owing to the arrests of last year it has been planned to feel the way very carefully before any plunging. There has been a bit of quiet bet- ting through the winter, but the old days are far in the discard. TEXAS BANKERS ADJOIN Waco, Texas, ) 20.—The Tex- as DBankers' Association, which has been in session here for several davs, adjourned today. The bankers re- ported b picking up. The fed- eral reser system was discussed in its relation to the business and de- velopment of the system in trade re- lations HOLSE AMENOED THE JDICAL SHLARY BL (By C. F. Johnson) Tallahassee, Fla., May 20.—The House this morning took up a re- consideration of the judicial salary bill and amedded the measure to pay circuit judges only $4,300, supreme judges $4,500, and judges of the criminal courts of record in counties of fifteen to twenty thousand only $1,500, counties of 20,000 and over $1,800. The House passed the bill back to the Senate by a vote of 60 Ito 1. The salt water fish bill was taken up as a special order and consumed the balance of the time until the noon adjournment in the House. The Senate jumped on to the bunch of insurance bills from which they have shied for some days. Sen- ate bill No. 41 for bidding on pay- ment or dividends by insurance com- panies organized in the State under certain conditions was finally placed on its second reading, and Senate bill No. 41 for bidding on payment of dividends by insurance companies organized in the State under certain conditions was finally placed on its second reading, and Senate bill No. 10 was taken up, which brought out ,arguments for and against the meas- | ‘ure, many amendments being of-| fered. This bill was still pending Senate. LARELAND, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1915 NOVEL HOME OF RN These French troopers have fou hutch, each compartment of which ho (Y CONMISSION WAS N REGULAR SESSON LIST AT Lakeland, Fla.,, May 20, 191;. Regular session of the City Com- mission with Messrs, Eaton, Toph, Irvin and Flanagan present. Minutes of May 5 and 19 were read and proved. were respectively ap. Petitions from N. A. Riggins and Jno. Patterson for corrections in as- sessments was referred to the spe- cial tax committee for investigation and report . Several persons cited to appear before the Commission for not com.- plying with sanitary ordinance were given time requested to comply thereto, provided their premis were kept sanitary at their own ex pense in the meantime. The resignation of Neil McLeod as park keeper was on motion accepted. The resignation of H. D. Menden- hall as commissioner from the Fourth ward was accepted to take effect June 15, and election to fill the vacancy caused by his resigno- tion was ordered called to be heul on Tuesday, June §. Petition of F. W. Pope for build- ing permit on-lot “A”, block 6 cf Munn’s survey was on motion ferred to a special committee Messrs. Irvin and Flanagan for iu- vestigation and report at adj:urued session . o The commissioner of municipal activities, E. C. Flanagan, preferred written charges against the superin- | tendent of the light and water plants, and recommended his imme- diate dismissal from the service of the city. On motion Friday, May 21, at 8 a. m., was the time set for hearing on this case. On motion the bill of J. E. Bus- sard was allowed and ordered paid. On motion the commission ad- journed to meet in adjourned ses- sion at 8 a. m. Friday, May 21. 0. M. EATON, Chairman. Attest: H. L. SWATTS, City Clerk. Y. M. C. A. SECRETARIES MEET Monterey, Cal., May 20.—The employed officers’ conference of the Young Men's Christian Association ' of North America met here today. The meeting will cover three days and those present will attend the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Committees on all kinds of the advanced apd education work of lhei, “Y” will report and their reports: will be discussed and embodied in general recommendations. Promi- nent among those present is R. P. Kaighn, secretars ° international committee; W. W. Lippold, educa- tional director; Dr. George J. Fish- er, international physical director; executive of- | when noon adjournment was taken.|g. F. Denison, general secretary; has been t00 The insurance measures promise t01J. Q. Ames, industrial r a formal in- consume the rest of this week in the Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, religions secrctary; secretary. BOOST-REMEMBER THAT SATAN STAYED IN HEAVENIUNTIL HE BEGAN T0 KNOCK HIS HOME TOWN FRENCH SOLDIERS nd comfortable quarters in a rabbit lds one man. §. PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONVENED TODAY (By Associated Press.) Newport News, May 20.—The Southern Presbyterian General As- sembly opened its fifty-fifth conven- tion here this morning. The conven- tion continues for ten days. Devo- tional exercises were followed by a business session. ‘“Evangelism” is the chief topic of today’s discussions, During the past year each of the colleges in the South has raised its standard so that they have as endowment of at least one hundred thousand dollars, and an annual income of $12,000. The church schools have been otherwise strengthened along lines laid down at last year's annual meeting. Among other things done during the year have been the installation of family altars, and increasing the | salaries of the ministers. |NEW OHIO RIVER LUMBER RATE Wiashington, May 20.-—The In- iterstate Commerce Commission will today take up the matter of lumber | rates to Ohio river points which they have been investigating. Tle pro- posed individual joint rates have |been held up pending the decision. | CHARGED WITH BEING A SPY . SOLDIER COMMITS SUICIDE (By Associated Press.) London, May 20.—Anton Kuep- ferl, claiming to be an American citizen, and once a resident of Brook- 1yn, who has been on trial charged with giving military information to |England’s enemies, committed sul- cide last night at Brixton prison, it is reported, by hanging himself. Kupferle left written testimony | bearing testimony as to the fairness |of his trial. He confessed he was a soldier and said he wished he could die as a soldier and not mount the scaffold as a spy. {JEWISH REFUGEES SERVE UNDER BRITISH FLAG (By Associated Press) London, May 20.—The Alexandria )correspondent of the Jewish Chron- icle sends to that journal an inter- esting account of the formation in ‘that city of the Zion Mule Transport Corps, a Jewish legion composed al- | most entirely of refuzees from Pal- |estine. Those refugees who were of Russian nationality expressed the | desire to serve under the British flag, and the British military authorities ;limmodlau-ly took steps wth a view | to forming a Jewish regiment under command of Colonel J. H. Patterson. Officers and men wear on their litary caps the Jewish token, the “Shield of David,” in addition to the British ensign, and in the camp the words of command are spoken in He- brew. DIXIE HIGHWAY GOMMISSION MEETING IN CHATTANOOGA MANY CITIES SENT DELEGA- TIONS TO FIGHT FOR THEIR IN- TERESTS; GLARK HOWELL, OF ATLANTA, IS PRESIDING (By Associated Press.) Chattanoo, May 20.—Commis- sioners from Illinois, Indian , Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida met here today to select a route for the Dixie Highway from Chicago to Miami, Florida. The ses- sions probably will last through Sat- urday. Clark Howell, Atlanta’s com- missioner, is chairman and is presid- ing over the meeting. tense rivalry hetween tions for the highway many cities sent dele for their interests. DR. CLARK TALKS AT INTERNATIONAL CONF . ON WORLD PEACE (By Assoclated Press) Mohonk Lake, N. Y. May 20— The opponents of armed strife who find no discouragement to their ef- forts in the present world war had as their spokesman here today Prof. Bates Clark of Columbia University and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In his address before the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration Dr. (Clark not only assprted that the war has converted the world to a ‘“‘vigorous pacifism,” but suggested that an effective Peace League might develop naturally from either the Triple Alliance or the Entente Cord- iale, now arrayed against each other in the world's greatest war. To insure that the “present Arma- geddon” shall never be repeated, he said, “a strong League of Nations is indispensable, and various plans for such a league are forming.” It is necessary, he declared, to create a league of peace without reference to combinations that now exist. Al- though the two greatest leagues of Europe are now at war, this fact does not warrant the conclusion that such unions are by their nature war- breeders, ‘‘Defensive unions are in line with the whole trend of politi- cal evolution, Great nations, created by combining smaller ones, are the order of the day, and so are federa- tions of a looser kind, such as those whlc'h preceded the German Empire and our own Federal States. “Whenever peace shall be univer- sal it will have come by first estab- lishing itself within larger and larg- er areas till it ends by embracing the world. European wars have oc- curred in spite of alliances rather than because of them, and the gen- era] effect even of imperfect unions has been to lengthen intervals of | peace. It is an even century since a war akin to this one was waging | {in Europe, and it is forty-four years since a war between any two great nations has taken place on that con- | tinent. The consolidating tendency | in itself makes for peace however | imperfectly the more imperfect unions may sometimes work, and the extention of the principle of unions is the only means that can ever make peace universal. Complete unions must come first through con- federacies and leagues. “The present leagues have sev- eral times acted as peace preservers. During the Moroccan trouble they averted a general struggle; they did the same during the two Balkan wars, and they might have done it in connection with the Austro-Ser- bian conflict if, as unions, they had been more complete than they were. It is a safe guess that if it had been definitely known that France, Rus- sia and England would act as a unit in opposing theinvasion of Serbia, it would have been delayed tilll dip- lomacy would have had time to pre- vent it altogether and thus save hu- manity from the greatest disaster of modern times. “It is possible either to work di- rectly for a new league of peace or |to utilize one of the existing unions 135 a nucleus. Is it possiple to give to either of these leagues the char- acter that will make them, beyond {al] doubt, guardians of peace? Can the neutral countries exert decisive | influence in this direction? It takes no especial study to show that a sit- uation probably will soon exist that will bring an effective league for There is in- various sec- routes and ations to work Ilaws even the suggestion of picket- ling. No 166 JUSTICE MCOY AND ATTORNEY INRIGGS CASE GOME T0 CLASH FORMER SENATOR BAILEY TRIED *T0 WITHDRAW FROM THE CASE BUT WAS PREVAILED UPON TO CONTINUE ARGU- MENT (By Associated Press) Washington, May ~The ar- gument in the Ri National bank injunction suit against Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller Williams tween Former Senator Bailey and was marked today by a clash be- J ce McCoy» Bailey threatened to withdraw from the case and Me- Coy threatened tc refuse to hear his sument When Bailey wag argu- ing for admissibility of an affidavit disclaiming relations between the bank and Lewis Johnson & Co., stock brokers, McCoy interrupted him saying he had already ruled it would be admitted that further ar- gument only took time. Bailey re- torted that justice already had tak- en more time than he intended to take for what he intended to say. McCoy replied that his remark was highly improper and if a repetition occurred he would rule him out of the case. Bailey started to withdraw but other lawyers of the bank pur- suaded him to continue his argu- ment. —_— HONOR HEAD OF LARGEST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Brooklyn, May 20.—The thir- tieth anniversary of the ordination of Dr. John F. Carson of the Cen- tral Presbyterian church in this city s being celebrated by his friends today. Dr. Carson has risen from the head of a small congrega- tion to the largest church in the United States of his denomination, with a membership of 22,667, and to moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. 8. ONE REASON OF SUBMARINE WARFARE Listed in the cargo of the White Star steamship Cymric, which sail- ed from New York to Liverpool Sat- urday were: 4,301 cases of cartridges. 3 cases of pistols. 1,750 shells. 1,152 empty projectiles. 10 cases of firearms. 36 cases of percussion fuse. 17,740 bars of copper 156 coils of copper. 95 reels of copper wire. 6,050 cases of sheet brass. 698 cases of brass rods. 2,042 plates of spelter. 1,562 cathodes. 140 automobile numerous ¢ No American A trucks, and '8 marked ‘“hardware.” on board. Washington Unionists are actively envaged in securing names to refer- endum petitions, that much of the work of the last legislature may be undone. Senate bill No. 637 out- —_— precluding war within reach and of- fer to the neutral states an oppor- tunity to do an essential work in securing it. d “The two great defensive leagues : will themselves make the treaty that shall end the war, but the neutral countries may then be in a rare strategic position for influencing the future relations of European coun- tries. “If, as we have assumed, the war had ended neither ta a draw nor in a sweeping victory for one side—if the unsuccessful league has kept most of its territories and its fight- ing strength—the situation will throw an enormous power into the hands of the neutral states. By joining either union they might § cause it to preponderate over the other; and by joining the victorious one they could make safe against any attack and able, if it were dis- posed to do so, to guarantee the peace of Europe. In the smaller states of Europe the opinion is 3 growing that their own liberty and i a League of Peace are one and insep- arable. It is therefore vital for them to give any combination which they join a non-aggressive character—to make it true commonwealth of na- tions, great and small, and fully committed to a just and peaceful policy.”