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11 SHIP0FS0RR0V1EAT iinrnTf.rr YOUTH BECOMES NEWHEAD OF AMERICAN ASTQR FAMILY llliiCI WUUtU BECAOSEHEIIATEDT.fi. OF FIRST TO TESTIRT TT' THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1912. inn 111 AY lit UllL GUGGENHEIM'S RELATIVES AT SHIPPING OFFICES' LUi NEW YORK TOMORROW WBMBfB SBSSBaBBsBBaWB Committea Starts Work In tha Titanic Collision Investigation. KEY MEASURES PROPOSED International Conference to Consider Uniform Laws and Regulation la Pan of Alexander! 1 "WASHINGTON. April 11 Th somber tvk o5 investigating tfc wreck of the Titanic a i ru today by the senate (ommiri) committee.

A subcommittee of headed by Senator William Alden of JlflcMean. was ntmM to take testimony. J. Uruce Ismay will oe among first aFked to testify. tMher nrifmhfrs ot the senate subcom Mi rc Senators Peikins, Itourne.

iiirton, fclniona, Newlande and Fletcher. Senator hmith said that ha feared his committee woul1 be without Jurisdiction to rompfl Mr. Imay and other Hritish subject connected with the International Mercantile Marine to attend its hearing anl give testimony. "We. may not have jurisdiction over the Individual." Hjl Mr.

Kmlth. "but the American congress is not without Jurisdiction over the harbors of the United Hates. It la. for these men who make lis of (he harbora to mett the public demand for info. matlon In regard to this terrible disaster and to do It now." Leave for New York.

Senator Prnlth said that and several ether members of his committee would present this argument to Ismay and othere In the hope that they would be willing to accept subpenaa from the icrBfant at rin of the senate, who acfnniniiny them. i Chairman 1 ndt'h and other members of i the committee left Washington, tnis afternoon, for New York. They said that co tiTe would be lout In requesting the officials to testify. The senators may go down the harbor on a revenue cutter to Intercept the Carpathia. Witnesses will t) ask ml to come to Washington at once, according to prenent plana.

Immediately after his appointment as rhalrtnan of the p'lbcommittce. Senator nuth went to the White House to confer lh President Taft. One object to ice the President to detail George supervising inspcctor aeneral of ine steamship Inspection service, to ac torr.jany the committee to New York. Wished Nagel "to Go. He also desired to request that Secretary Rage, of the department of commerce and labor, who has Jurisdiction over inspection of vessels, to go with tne committee.

Senator Smith expressed a willingness to rerate with any committee from the hoi. In the investigation, but Irani feMei disposition to delay his course In order to procure co operation. He said the testimony, of. the survivors would be Much more valuable to the governmen; If pf'C' ri' Immediately on arrival. riator announced today that he would chII a medJn; of the foreign "relation committee Saturday with a view to reporting out the Martina resolution requesting the President to open negotiations for an International agree mnt in repard to the safety, of passengers at lea.

Others Who Will Oe Called. Am on fir those "who will lie summoned to I pear tiff ore the congressional investt tatinc committer besides President J. lru Ismay. wilt be the Second, third, fourth and fifth officers of the Titanic, who are reported to have been saved, and any other officers ot the. ship who may finve survived and are on the Carpathia.

An Important feature of the Investigation may be the messnse transmitted II rpiit th Titanic, April H. the day of the ciiiiitnity, from the steamer Amerlka. to dm ci owrnphic: olfice of the United r. ny, civintr notice of Icebergs In the litanlc'a vicinity. Amazed by Reports.

Xavsl official are of the opinion that r.ne rf the iceherjrs reported by the Amerlka through (he. Titanic waa the cause of the Tiiunlc's wreck. These ofneers were mi'Vl by the reports that the Titanic aj nutng ahead fit full speed in view of li.ti known preai rice cf danger. A joint investigation of the Titanic ratatroih by a committee representing litu houses of congress Is favored by Chairman Alexander, of the house on mercantile marine. The action of t(i? senate in authorizing an ln by its committee on com.

nierce wiii be followed by a suggestion from Chairman Alexander to the house commute on rules that a Joint Inquiry be prcponed. The rules committee is now the resolution Introduced by lif i es. ntattve Mott. of New York, 'providing for an investigation by tha house. Propose International Conference.

Mr. Alexander presented In the house toiay. a Joint resolution proposing an International maritime conference to consKior uniform laws and regulatlona the greater security of life and property on merchant vessels at sea." Included in the subjects for the conference ipeclMd in the Alexander resolution are regulations for etUclency of crews, con utrtMtion of vessels, equipment of lifeboat, ulrelecs apparatu searchltghta ii, marine bells, lite saving and tire ex hing apparatus. li.e resolution would request the Presl 1 nt to invite foreisn nations to the con ferenca and would empower the latter to tonsider "regulations for an international ystem of reporting and disseminating in formation relating to aids and perils to oa vh ation." Chairman Alexander was emphatic to Say in hla declaration that the present and martlme regulations of the I'mted Btates. if properly enforced, are ttrong enoueh to compel an adequate numi.fr of lifeboats on vessels entering or leaving United Blates ports.

While the Titanic had never cleared from an Ameri ran port, the congressional investigation Is expected to show the extent to which other great ocean 'Tinera adhere to the American safety regulatlona. Mnv member of the house are openly erpo'1! to immediate action looking toward an Investigation of the disaster. Cbtiri an Henrv. of the rules committee. aid bxiav that he believed the senate and oficluN of the navigation bureau could make the proper inquiry without further iction by the house Sulzer Oppose investigation.

rterreaentative Sulxer, of New York, also opposed an Investigation. It is only throwing dust In the peoples eves." he said, "The matter was fui'y rone into when the Flocum burnel In New York aeveral years aao. What we wart 1 to make steamship owners criminally liable for failing to properly equip treir Make it a felony and send thri criminally nerlirent steamship men i jiil and we Vtil have no more of these i'it, i restriction of wireless telegraph rtivitv and regulation that will pre vent by amateura in tlmea emertrency were taken up today by the committee on merchant marine A report from a subcommittee which has reen frsmlnsr a bill was laid before the committee at an executive session. Alexander Wireless Elll The Alexander bill to regulate lre telegraphy was favoratly acted upon th rnerriant marine committee to and reported hack to the house ortlv' after noon. It would rigldljr re the operations of amateurs to wave not exceeding two hundred Experimenters and others en 1 In "imfortant work mlKht receive perm us from the secretary of i an labor to operate under ex itr wave lengths.

I Alexander evolution for the estab I tjf recognised trans Atlantic ttAi i rri'itea. by International airree Tv. a was "also favorably reported by ee. The two measures prob i Vo'; i up for action at an e.irly i ini tJ ti, nerd for leplyliitlon, 1 rVar Iv the Titanic rataetropr.e. I.

of tne nt of a kiV who la chargta wlu Si MR. AND DE WlTT 'SELIGMAN, MRS. BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM (CENTER) AT THE WHITll STAR LINE OFFICES IN NEW YORK. WAITING FOR SOME NEWS FROM BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM. THE MINE CAP ITALIST, WlfO WAS A PASSENGER ON BOARD THE TITANIC I the administration of the American navi gation laws, today aid the Titanic disaster drew a lesson for the world, to heed.

He expressed unqualified approval of the augrestion of an international congress' of maritime nations to discuss the momentous Question of safeguarding: ocean The secretary added hfa. Voice to the chorus of other government officials' and the congresa for the enactment of laws compelling steamships, as far aa practicable, to carry lifeboats sufficient every human aboard in of emergency. While the safeguarding of human life should be the controlling object governmental action, the secretary believes the question could properly be dealt with' by international agreement in order to place all onf the same basis. This would regulate the matter in fairness to all and maintain competition. Ufaboat of Practical Value.

"The lifeboat has been jnade pf real practical value by the advent of wireless telegraphy," said the secretary. This fact has been demonstrated by the terrible calamity of the Titanic. The wireless telegraph, sounding appeals for help in time of disaster, has made the lifeboat on the ocean of as much value in the saving of human life as it has always been in the Aastwlse traffic It la a eafa place 'for a limited time when a ship quickly sinks, and the wireless will bring the help. "The American laws are much more stringent than those 'of other nations." said the secretary; "htit the question of applying them to foreign ahlpa is one of policy which must be Klven serious consideration." He pointed out that had the Titanic held an American certificate she would have been obliged to have had life sav Jng apparatus for about 2.30D people. P.

A. B. WIDENER. The well known Philadelphia street railway magnate hadseveral relatives on board the Titanic and was ao anxloua caller the office of "the White Star line in New York seeking some tidings of those lost. BUILT TELEPHONE LINE TO ADVISE HIS MANY PATIENTS Dr.

Albert D. Pyke, One of, the Best Known Practitioners In State, Dies at Lafayette. Special to The Indlanapolia News.l LAFAYETTE, April IS. Dr. Albert D.

Pyke. age fifty three, one of the leading physicians In this part of the state, died this morning at Romney, after a long illness. Dr. Pyke was a native of Lafayette. He was educated at Purdue and Rush Medical and was graduated from the latter institutions in He began the practice of medicine at Komney.

About twenty years ago, when his practice became so extensive that he scarcely waa able to cover the territory with horse and buggy, he put up an indent ndent telephone line for his patients, laying ten miles of steel wire from his home to the country districts around where he had the largest number of patients. Krorn this humble beginning grew an independent system of three hundred miles ot metallic circuit which placed in convenient communication nearly every rural home In i Randolph township, also a number of small towns in that vicinity. Six years Ago Dr. Pyke sold hla system to the Hell Telephone Company. His hcait began to fail four years ago.

Tuberculosis developed three years ago, and since he has been much of the time In Albuquerque. N. and Hooper, Colo. In February, when hi condition waa serious, he was called home by the sudden death of iits daughter, Margaret White, at Indianapolis, and the long trip and shock of tier death hastened his end. He was a thirt econd degree Mason and XBember of Murat temple.

Mystic Shrine, of Indianapolis. A widow and three sons, learning, itavid and Albert, three brothers and wn eLotera aurvlve, School Debt Not Out wed. In an opinion to Oreathouse, state superintendent o( public instruction, Attorney General Hpnan holds that a sthool debt contracted In 1S75 ar, which the Intereat has been paid reKlarly has not been outlawed, thw pavtr.em of the Interest having krpt it valid. The question came up from Bowling Green, Clay county, where a debt of J12.ii contracted in and the intereat paid annua llv. The powilr.ir Green school authorities sought ro have the debt declared Invalid in order that the school corporation might ne ebatiVned and the school turned over to the township.

The attorney aer.cral hebVnich tranxfer could not be made br.ui uvfuebt waa paiL His Relatives Among Missing i 1 111 0 mm JL SECRETARY NAGEL TO LOOK AFTER IMMIGRANTS; NAVIGATORS CURIOUS WASHINGTON. April 18. In accordance with the agreement reached last night between President Taft and Secretary Nagel, the latter left for New York this afternoon to make certain that immigrants to tha United States who aurvlved the Titanic disaster will receive sympathetic and lenient treatment. Secretary NageJ pointedly intimated that there would be practically a cora pi eta relaxation of all stringent Immigration regulatlona In connection with the aliens 'who fortunately escaped? a grave In th sea. ROME, April 18.

A mission from the Vatican to tha President of the United States waa ended jjr death, when Major Archibald Butt, military aid to the President, went to. the afoottora with the Ill fated Titanic. The Vatican announced today that a letter which was lost With Major Butt had been resent to the President. 'J, "i 'r The pope also announced that he haJ sent to the President his condolences on the death of Major. Butt, and had received an acknowledgment from Wash lngton.

'v 1 I NEW YORK. April 1. Navigators here are anxious to know what orders Captain Smith received from the owners regarding the time he was expected to dock his charge on this sldev The Titanic had been advertised as an 'express train" boat, which would leave and arrive on schedule and with whose operation "pothlna; could Interfere." 4 i I. w.i "7.., 1 "LONDON, April la The relief fund being raised by the lord mayor and which was started yesterday focirthe benefit of the Titanic's victims, totaled 1150,000 at 6 4 1 1 QUEENSTOWN. April it The steamer Baltic, New York for Liverpool," reported 731 miles west at 2:30 a.v m.

She is due at Queenstown 'about 9:30 p. m. Friday. The Baltic heard the, distress tall of ths Titanic, but was unable to give' assistance. FEAR SISTER PERISHED INDIANAPOLIS WOMEN FIND NAME AMONG VICTIMS.

POST CARD TELLS OF PLANS Mrs. Richard Haney, Wl Bates street, and Mrs. Michael Delaney, 434 West Merrill street, are much worried oVer the fate of thel sister. Miss Ellen Toomey, who, they say, expected to sail from Lon who. Miss Haney says, expected to sail from London for America on the steamship Titanic.

In the published lists of ee ond class cabin passengers, who are unae counted for there appears in some "the name of Ellen Tooney, and An others the name is spelled Toomey, ana the women fear the flame" is that of their slater. Miss Toomey last November went to County Limerick. Ireland, for a visit to her old, home, and later she went to Lon aon. Airs. Maney says sne received a poai 1 amam II Will lln WL IU'WH would sail for America on Titanic SAYS COUNTY TREASURERS SHOULD NOT REPAY MONEY IN STEAIVISHIP DISASTER Governor Holds Custodians of School Board Funds Paid Out Mors Than They Received.

Following a conference 'today ef the state board of accounts. Governor Mar shall, who head of the board, announced that he would write the attorney general to the effect that no crftlclsm would be directed against him from the board of accounts in the event suit was not brought to recover certain moneys from E. J. Robison and Frank S. Flahback, former treasurers of Marion county, who were charged by examiners for the state board with amounts paid for surety bonds as treasurers ex officio of the Indiana polls board of school commiaaloners.

the payments having been made from school city funds. Mr. Robison was charged with $312.60 and Mr. Flshback with The attorney general waa to be informed, however, that If any taxpayer of Marion county should petition for action, it would be his duty to bring suit. The letter will accompany the report of the examiners which the Governor will submit to the attorney general.

Various other constructive charges made for surety bonds paid from the school funds and other charges, made for payments on contracts, where there was no advertising were not considered by the board and will be permitted to take their course in the courts: Governor Mrshali explained tha action of the board thua: "The ofiice of county treasurer is a constitutional ofnee. and, tn my opinion, tha legislature had no right to saddle on the Marlon county treasurer the car of the school board funds. But it was saddled there and Mr. Robison and Mr. Flshback assumed and performed the duties.

When they assumed the duties, each offered to provide personal bond, but the school commissioners insisted on surety bond, and offered to pay the cost of them. The proposal waa accepted in each case. The county treasurers received J1.500 a year for their work as ex officio treasurers of the school city, and their own records show it cost them in additional dep uty hire to do the work. As a matter of equity, the board and I dki not believe they should be required to repay the money." The Governor aald the other instances, which had to do with officials directly connected with the school commissioners, were not to be considered as parallel with those of the former county treasurers. because ihelr offices were not constitutional offices.

ADMINISTRATION TICKET WINS D. A. R. Congress Elects Ten Vice Presidents In Washington. WASHINGTON.

April 18. The administration ticket of ten vice presidents general and two honorary vlce prealdents cenersl of the Daughters of the American Revolution was victorious in an election concluded today. ill Believed to Be Titanic Victim MISS ELLEN TOOMEY. sister of Mrs. JUchard Haney and Mrs.

Michael Delaney, of Indianapolis. MINERS VOTE AGAINST CONVENTION KILLS PLAN I TWO THIRDS MAJORITY. HOPE FOR A LIABILITY LAW Special to The Indlanapolia Newa TERRE HAUTE, April ll The plan for mutual accident Insurance was defeated by a two thirds vote by the miners in the United Mine Workers' convention in this city, yesterday afternoon. A special committee and officers of the organization had recommended the plan and they were greatly surprised when it was defeated, 'me convention also defeat Ml a proposed change in the constitution to levy an assessment of 30 cents a month to create a defense, fund to organise the nonunion miners in Kentucky. Terra Haute may lose future conventions, as a change was made in the constitution which permits the sitting convention to nam the meeting place for the following one.

It was stated that the reason it waaJ decided to defeat the Insurance plan was that it was believed Indiana would yet have a liability law similar to the one in Illinois, under which the burden is borne by the operators. 'Basis of the Opposition. The opposition to the defense fund was based on previous failures to organise the nonunion miners in Kentucky. It was contended that the national body should not shift this duty to the state body, and it was further stated that If there waa not an organisation among nonunion miners they need never expect another advance in wages. The proposition was acted favorably on to buy stock in the Terra Haute Labor Temple Association, which will be built In thla city.

It was not decided what amount it would buy. The boy scout movement was condemned. The convention instructed its legislative committee to draft a bill to be Introduced in the next session of the general assembly. This bill will provide for better safeguards about tha mining industry in the way of additional rescue shafts and the drilling of holes in the face of the mines to be used in lowering medical supplies in the event of an accident or disaster. The delegates to the State Federation of Labor were instructed to vote for the election.

of officers by popular vote. ACCIDENT NSURANC Continued from Page One. Lehane will be posted at the pier where the Carpathia will dock with all of the morgue machinery ready to be put in instant motion. Many Wish to Go Abroad. There were many pitiful scenes at the White Star, Cunard and customs house offices today.

Frenzied relatives of those whose names are among the missing, demanded the right to board the Carpathia. It was a difficult task to restrain many of them, who refused to be convinced that there would be little to be gained' by personally the grief stricken survivors. Passes were issued only to those who were able to prove that they were cloae blood relatives of the survivors on the Carpathia. Flatly Refused to As the day wore, on the Carpathia flatly refused to answer' messages, although half a dosen ships and land stations were in easy distance of her. The George Washington, of the North German Lloyd line, kept pounding calls at the Carpathia for hour after hour.

Land stations along the coast could hear the Washington calling the Carpathia repeatedly without reply. The land stations also endeavored to tnake the Carpathia answer, but nearly always, without avail. It was hinted by the waiting crowds that the silence of the" Carpal hia was owing to the presence on board of J. Bruce Ismay, and that that White Star official was acting as censor. At the.

White Star offices this was denied, and Vice President 1 Frankrln declared that Mr. Ismay was overwhelmed by. the catastrophe. MET WITH MANY ICEBERGS. Freight Steamer on Same Path aa the Titanic Had Narrow Escape.

NEW YORK, April IS. Captain William Ferrie Wood, commander of the freight steamship Etonian, of the Leyland line, had a narrow escape from accident with Icebergs where the. Titanic sank. He arrived In New York yesterday, afternoon and gave following graphic of narrow escapes In the ice fields: "When I first learned I was approaching the Ice fields I was In latitude 42, longitude 60. That was at noon on April 12.

From that time on I steamed about fifty miles, and it was then that I sighted the icebergs and the Ice fields. I saw that the ice field was an.Ainusuaily heavy one and approached it with caution. "Aa I got nearer I saw that there were at least twenty icebergs, and the field extended as far as the eye could see. I maneuvered north, south and west, proceeding very slowly, taking great eare to avoid the ice. It was nearly 6 o'clock in the afternoon when 1 sighted a schooner with, none of its sails set.

"I hailed the schooner and asked the captain if he wanted to be reported. He replied that he did. Then I Inquired how far the ice field extended. In answer he aald that the field extended as far as he could see from aloft and warned me to be careful. "I then came to almost a stop, and crept along with the greatest caution until I passed the field.

I estimated that the field of icebergs extended at least on hundred miles. That was from 40.42 degrees north and 49.50 west. "As wegot close enough to the largest iceberg I maneuvered about for a good position and took a photograph of it. I believe that the iceberg which I photographed waa at least five hundred feet long and one hundred feet In hlght at Its tallest point. I should judge that the berg should have been at least several times that bulk under water, as icebergs always float lo w.

There was another one nearby, but it waa a long, flat, low one. The water was very cold and was making a "If it had been very hasy there would have been no course for me and no Way for me to get clear. But luckily it waa clear enough for me to see my way, and see that there waa no straight course through the field which was directly in ovy path and In the path tbat the Titanic must have taken. "It ia no wonder to me that the Titanla struck one of these bergs, it probably having attempted to proceed at night, and the base must have added to the darkness. The only course through the field was a winding one.

"After clearing the field myself I passed three steamers, and warned them by means of the Morse lamp of the The captains of all three steamers thanked me One of the steamers was the British steamer United States. I did not bother with the names of the others. "The schooner norothy Baird. "When I sighted it. had all its sails lowered and waa waiting for daylight.

The captain informed me that he was afraid to move because of the ice. The weather was fine, the sea was smooth and the glass was high. "It is not possible that the schooner Dorothy Baird could have been very far away at the time of the accident to 'the Titanic, because there was no wind, and it could not have proceeded very far." 1 HIGH RAILROAD OFFICIAL. John Borland Thayer Early Entered Pennsylvania's Service. Borland Thayer, second vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad, was born April 21.

ISO, at Philadelphia, Pa. After leaving the University of Pennsylvania, in 1831. he entered the service of the Pennsylvania railroad as a clerk in the Empire line office, and about eighteen months later was transferred to the general freight department. On the reorganization of thai department he was appointed chief clerk. Three years later he waa appointed freight solicitor of the United Railroads of New Jersey division.

From February. 1889, to May, 1892, he was out of railway work. He returned to the service of the Pennsylvania railroad, in May, 1392, as division freight age it of the Northern Central, with headquarters at Baltimore. He waa promoted to assistant general freight agent, with office at Philadelphia, December 1. 1894.

and in March, 1897, waa made general freignt agent in charge of through traffic. He was appointed general freight agent, also of the Northern Central. Philadelphia, Wilmington Baltimore, and West Jersey Seashore railway companiea in May, 1899. Mr. Thayer was elected fifth vice president in charge of traffic on June 1, 1903, and in October, 1906, he became fourth vice president.

On March 24, 1909. he was elected third vice president, and subsequently second vice president. Mr. Thayer is a director c' the Long Island railroad and various subsidiary companies. ACKNOWLEDGED V1TH THANKS.

Liner Mesaba Told the Titanic to Be ware of Bergs, NEW, YORK, April 18. The Atlantic transport liner Mesaba, in today from England, gives the information that at 7:60 o'clock last Sunday night the following messages passed between the Mesaba and the Titanic, both bound for New York: 1 'M. iO. Y. Latitude 42 to 41.13 north.

lonsritu.de 49 to o0.) west, much heavy packed ice and great number of bergs. Weather clear. CLARKE. "Captain Mesaba." Thanks. M.

M. G. Is the call of the Titanic. The Titanic, at the time the messages were exchanged was estimated by Captain Clarke to do aoout ninety miles aftern of the Mesaba. Explanation of the failure of the Mesaba to get the O.

call of the Titanic, when she hit the berg, via made by Stanley Adams, wireless operator of the Mesaba. who said today that he had his instruments tuned for a much greater' radius than nlnetv miles, after warning the Titanic, and the waves passed him by without registering on hla receiver. On Sunday morning at 6 o'clock the Mesaba ran into what Captain Clarke was the largest field of ice he ever encountered. The field was from seventy to ninety miles wtae ana aotteo with between seventy five and one hundred enormous bergs. The Mesaba ran 120 miles out of her course to avoid tne ice Held.

On Sunday night the orerator aboard th Mesaba heard the Titanic tnlkina with Cape Race and later sent the Titanic the message of warning quoted. Again, at 9 o'clock Monday night, the Mosaba heard the Olvmpio talking with the Parisian, and learned for the first time that t.S" a WILLIAM VINCENT ASTOR. William Vincent Astor, who will become head of the American branch of the Astor family If his father, John Jacob Astor, Is among the lost on the Titanic is not yet twenty one years He was born. on November 15, 1S91. in the old William Astor mansion, at Fifth avenue and Thlr ty ouf th street, where the Waldorf Astoria now stands, and from which his parents moved shortly after his birth to the then new Astor residence at Fifth avenue and Sixty sixth street.

He was a delicate child, arid until he entered Harvaid last autumn he spent about six months of each year at his father's country house, at Fernclilt, on the Hudson; three months at Newport and three months at the town house. He waa somewhat tall, with dark, straight hair and dark blue eyes, resembling his father, especially as to the lower part of the face. lie has always been fond of yachting and automobliing. Juat before he went to Harvard laat autumn he got into, the habt of speeding his automobile so rapidly through the streets of Newport that he. with Herman Oelrichs and George Henry Warren, was called before a police magistrate and lectured.

He accompanied his father on the trip to the West Indies two years ago In which the Astor yacht. Nourmahal. waa not heard from for several weeks. John Jacob Astor and his son Vincent were believed to have been drowned and their vessel wrecked at that time. Vincent Astor has been thrown particularly into his father's company since his mother, Ava Willing Astor, obtained her.

divorce from John Jacob: As, tor, in November, 1909. Under the divorce decree, which waa granted by Supreme the Titanic had failed to profit by the Mesaba's warning and had been de stroyed. WAS BUTT ON PEACE MISSION? I Said to Have Had Message, From King of Italy on Tripoli'. NEW YORK. April 18.

Major Archibald Butt, believed to have eone down with the "Titanic, was bearing: an autograph letter from the King of Italy to President Taft regarding the Tripoli war, according to a special Washington dispatch to the World. The trip of Major Butt, ostensibly for his health, the dispatch says, was in reality caused by the urgent demand of the United States by Zia Pasha, the Turkish ambasaador, for intervention. Aa the United States sees no reason to take the state department advised the President that by following the precedent In the Russo Japanese war, he could use his offices in behalf of tha bel ligerents. As a result, the President personally Interested himself, the report says, and sent Major Butt, so that the official hand of the United States does not appear at all. The dispatch says that the king's letter statea tbat any stepa and action the United Btates will take to bring the war to an end will be appreciated by him, provided Italy's sovereignty over Tripoli is recognized by this country.

Whether Turkey will voluntarily consider the loss of Tripoli is a question yet to be decided. BABY BOY SOLE 'SURVIVOR. Wife and Daughter of H. J. Allison Refuse to Leave Him.

NEW YORK. April 18. A three year old boy on board the Carpathia is the only survivor of the family of H. J. Allison, a wealthy merchant of this city.

Allison, his wife and their daughter went to their deaths on the Titanic laat Sunday night. The wife and daughter refused to enter the lifeboats unless Allison could accompany them, but they 'placed the boy with his nurse in one of the boats and he was saveu. This fact was developed today by the White Star line officials for W. J. Allison, brother of the drowned man, who has been haunting the offices for the last forty eight hours, hoping against hope that some others of the family were saved.

When the news that th baby was all that was left was broken to him today, Allison swooned and had to be asaisted to his home. EXPENSES OF THE RESCUE. Work of the Carpathia Estimated to Cost Ten Thousand Dollars. NEW. YORK.

April It Is said that th rescue of the Titanic's passengers by the Carpathia will cost the Cunard line something like $10,000. The vessel will have been delayed on her way to the Mediterranean at least ten days, and will have to coal atnd provision again, as the eight hundred extra passengers she is bringing here will have reduced her large allowance for her long voyage to the Mediterranean and the Adriatic very much. T.lie Carpathia sailed with nearly all of her first cabin berths filled. 1 i STEAD'S MANNER OF DEATH. He Was Confident He Was to Be Killed In London.

LONDON, April 18. It Is recalled that William T. Stead, the Journalist, who. Is amonir the Tltanc's missing, and whose occultism waa notorious, asserted some time ago that a clairvoyant had revealed to him the manner in which he would meet his death. He said at that time, in speaking of the revelation.

"I shall be imprisoned twloe more before I die. I shall finally be kicked to death In the streets of London. This makes my mind quite easy when I travel, and I never insure myself against' risks of any kind." LA PROVENCE GREETED TITANIC Passengers In Deepest Gloom When They Learn of Vessel's Fate. HAVRE. France, April 18.

It was a saddened ship's company that debarked here today from the liner I.a Provence, which brought Myron T. lierrlck. the new United States ambassador to France. The La Provence, on Sunday aft Court Justice Mills in Rockland county. to papers beine sealed.

John Jacob As tor waa to have custody of Vincent and Mrs. Astor of the only other child of the marriage. Muriel, now ten years old. At the time of the divorce the amount of John Jacob Astor's settlement on his wife was not made public, but it waa said to be in cash, on the provision that this sum wouiu later re vert to MurleL Vincent Astor's rumored engsgement to various young society girls, notably Mls Margaret Andrews, the daughter of Paul Andrews, of Newport, has been made the subject of gossip for the last year or two, The young man. Just before going to Harvard last autumn, however, said he wasn't engaged to any one, and that hla only Interest was in his studies.

Mr. Andrews last autumn also denied his daughter's engagement. The John Jacob Astor fortune, which Vincent Astor would share with his step mother and perhaps with bis sister Muriel, haa been estimated at S100.0o0.uoo. John Jacob Astor's real property holdings in New York alone were stated authoritatively last autumn to be worth more ilia rt inn i uu ijr ivui ill Bireri half of the Waldorf Astoria hotel, part of his estate, assessed at more than t3.300.000. At the time that Mrs.

Ava Willing Astor obtained her divorce no information was given out concerning the financial settlement, but It has since been rumored that Muriel Astor. having been placed by the court in her mother's custody, will not be among her father's heirs. The 100,0 OX estate will, it has bean said, be divided between Vincent Astor and Mrs. John Jacob Astor. Just how It will be divided in the event of Colonel Astor's death, Mr.

Dobbyn, John Jacob Astor's secretary, refused to say. ernoon, exchanged pleasant wireless messages with the big; Titanic, then hastening to her doom. The La Provence passed out of wireless range with the Titanic late in the afternoon and not until the wireless naanea me, news or tne oleaster on Tuesday was tnythlngr further beard from the ship. The LaTrovence passengers and crew were stunned by the news and the ship waa shrouded In gloom tor the remainder of the voyage. Ambassador Herrtck proceeded to Paris this afternoon.

OPEN TITAN jC RELIEF FUNDS. Mayora of London and New York Will Receive Money. NEW YORK, April 18. Mayor Gaynor received the following cablegram: 1 "London. England, April 17.

The Mayor, New York: "Opening fund relief sufferers Titanic disaster. Will warmly welcome your Lord Mayor. London." Mayor Gaynor et once asserted that money for th relief of sufferers would be received at th mayor's office, and cabled th lord mayor as follows: "Lord Mayor, Lotilon: "Relief fund Titanic sufferers has our sympathy. Will open one here. Mayor New Tort Flags on tb city and other municipal buildings have been put at half masfr by Order of Mayor Gaynor in sympathy for those lost of the passengers and crew of the Titanic Friends In Indianapolis.

Members of th family of Charles if. Jlaya. president of the Grand Trunk rail road, are cios rrlenda of Mr. and Mrs. Harry J.

Milligan, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Ksppes and Mra.

W. P. Flshback, of thla city, who went to the Hays home in Canada, where they were guests at th Urn of the marriage of one of the daughters, of which therjn are several. Among th passengers on th Titanla wer Charles M. Hays, Mra Hays and a daughter.

Mra. Hays and daughter were saved, but it is thought that Mr, Hays was among those that perished. Feara for Rush County Doctor. Special to Th Indianapolis Ksws. RUSHVILLE, April IS.

Dr. Frank W. Cregor, of Greenfield, formerly a practicing physician of this county. Is believed to have perished in the ocean dlaaster. According to advices received by his friends recently, he expected to sal from Liverpool the same week th Titanic set sail after a year's sojourn on th continent.

His name haa not appeared in the list of survivors. Picture Watched Silently. At Keith's theater pictures of th Titanic are being displayed, showing the big ship In motion and a number of interior views. These art displayed in the middle of a bill that is mostly comedy, and last night when they were announced on the screen, the audience at once became extremely quiet. As th various pictures were shown there was not the slightest demonstration of any kind, and the silence lasted for som time after the pictures wer withdrawn.

Friend on Titanic. Charles S. Stone has received a telegram stating that William F. Hovt w. on th Titanic and hla name is not among inone wiw were savea.

iir. JJoyt waa a member of the firm of Houghton, Lee Hoyt. lace importers of New York, and Is well known in Indianapolis, both in a business and social way. He was booked to sail on the George' Washington, but at the last moment changed to ths Titanic, as he wished to go on th first trip of the new ship. Mrs.

Edgar Meyer Safe. NEW YORK. April. 18. A wireless message was received by relatives of Mrs.

Edgar Meyer, daughter of 'the late Andrew tfaks, reporting that she aa among the survivors on board the Carpathia. Her name was not included in the list of survivors. Her husband, who Is vice president of a copper company, was not rescued. Discharges a Sleepy Jury. tSpectal to The Indlanaiulls Xews.J WINCHESTER.

April 18 ItocsiiKo members of a Jury tio arin(r the damage suit of Chnrles K. Fulk sumnKt Ann llwicmi went to tlep In ths 1ury box Wellies, 1uy afternrx.n the court liim hnn pj the entire tody. The lury hd cuiisMvred an olaer case ail nit.t Tuesday. ROOSEVELT CHARGES WCRT KIND OF MISREPRESENTATION. FACTS IN THE ILLINOIS CASE fFrotu a Sl.T Correpondnt CHICAGO.

April IK Theodore Roosevelt's declaration in Iowa yesterday there waf an understanding bt tween Lor imer and "President Taft and lnttri i tlon that Lorimcr was for Taft in IKin Ui because the President was protect'. him. haa caused much unfavorable comment her. The statementa are denounce i as I he worht kind of misrepresentation. The Chicago News, which lias been notabiy Impartial in the Taft icoosev lt jt l'o letfe nht.

In a dLspatrh from Washington the day after the Illinois election, th situation. Its Washington corrWri1 ent, quoting those in a position to k' the real situation in the LotimvT tute, telegraphed: 4 The Rock Bottom Facts. "What are the rock bottom facts shout Mr. Taft's connection with Lorimer? They are that he never engaged for a minute In the work of helping Iorlmer to retjilh his seat, nor haa aked any other person to do It. and anything to the contrary is a lie out of whole loth.

No one is more surprised than the Ireident ver the change la sentiment in the Lorimcr committee. "He was advised In a general way that there was new evidence In Ilia rase and naturally supposed tha prosecution to be strengthened. As for the penpl supporting Taft in Illinois, they could not help it. They did not do it hcaue trey loved hint, far from It. but because tt hate Roosevelt.

The Ixsrimer hatred for tlon In know, grows out of tne Hamilton Club banquet afialr." GIVES VIEWS ON PRESIDENT. Roosevelt Say Man May Be Good Lieutenant but Not Commander. AUBURN. Neb April 13. Theodore? Roosevelt's views on the qualifications of a President were brought out in a speech which he delivered today in Nebraska City.

"Often we have to try a man out," ht said. "He may be a first class lieutenant, but does not do in command of the army. Often the lieutenant, when he becomes commander, means well, but means eil feebly, and you don't get much out ef it If you have a lot of strong men around him who don't mean well at all." After again charging that President Taft had intrusted hla fate to Senators Lo rimer, Penrose, Galllnst and omers whom he characterized as opposed to tbe rule of the people, he "When I was President I saw all those men. I consulted with them, hot I dul not let them be my masters. Whenever there waa a lineup between them and the people I was sgalnst them." Ha brought out a lauh from the crowd with a new epigram.

He waa speaking of the "silk stocking whlgs," who, he raid, were against him. He said: "The silk stocking, if he Is a game man. Is Just as rood as if he did not wear any socks at all." RUFFIN SAYS TRACTION SALE IS DESIGNED TO DEFEAT SUIT Charges Parry and Stevenson With Trying to Avoid Contract With Him. That David M. Parry and William E.

Stevenson, who bought the property of th Indianapolis, Newcastle A Toledo Electric Railway Company at a sheriff's sale last spring. Induced the Union Trust. Company, receiver for the roadv to file a petition March 17. 1312. asking that the road be sold.

In order that larry and Stevenaon might defeat a suit brought aaalnst them by Richard W. Kuril is th allegation made by ItuRin tn an answer to the petition of the receiver. The petition of. the receiver was fled after lluiiin. who la from Boston, brought suit agalast Parry, Stevenson and others, asking the court to enforce an allured contract in which Parry and ot hers agreed to sell Ruriln the road for Ruffin alleges In his answer that the' Bole and only end to be attained by the sale of the property on the petition of th receiver Is to enable l'arry and Stevenson to avoid their contract obligations and to deprive Judge liartholomew.

Of superior court. Room 6, of the of hearing th suit on th contract. Ruffln's Assertions. It Is also charged that such an order Is sought for the purpose of putting It beyond th power of Parry and tever.on to comply with th terms of the alleged contract. Such an order would work Kri at and Irreparable injury to Ruffln, it 1 alleged, and that the loss and injury caused by the violation of contract obligations Psrrv and Htevsnson can not bx com pensated adequately in damags.

Hur.n's attorneys entered a general denial to the cross complaint of Parry and Htevenson, In which it is alleged that Kuflln has no Claim on the property whatever. 1 In a number of interrogatories fVlrd by Parry and fcjtevenson, Hutiin is Sfkel whether he was not furnished with a complete etatement of the aflairs of company and where he had this which. Ruriln avers, he was ready to pay l'arry and othere. Ruffln allege that. tha owners of the road refused to tell Mm of the indebtedness of the road.

In ati answer to Rufttn's cross complaint. l'arry and Htevenson alleged that they found that Ruffln made false representations l' regard to th money, and that they not car to go further in the deal with Ruflln. HO NEW BATTLESHIPS. House Naval Committee Agrees to Build Soma Small Boats. WASHINGTON, April IS.

The naval committee of th house todny voted against battleships and cruisers as part of this year's addition to the American fi. t. Tb following prop ram was airred the committee: Two fuel Ac I each: four submarines. Aci each; torpedo boat destroyers, each, ami a tender tor the destroyers. A.

direct vote on the question of building battleships resulted in the defeat ot the proposition, which has alr. ulv been turned down by the house I i' caucus. The proposed naval prog: rat" ts less than that of lat year. committee will recommend an at.pr 'pi ih tion of to convert the tal and Prometheus into repair It will also provide that part of the marines are to be detailed to the l'ii; .,3 const stations. The senate fins nee committee ordered an adverse report on te 1 chemical tariff revision till.

It v. i strict rariy vote, the Republi MO 1 "fibers trot'g atralnst it and the I :r.o0! ats for it. The vote was eight to ix. ADMITS SALOON WAS Keeper Confesses Fact in Ceurt a i Is Sentenced to Workhouse. James Flnley, a saloon kerer si Commerce avenue, said i i i day that he bad lost 1" buftaen in the lit t'.

fir 9 trying hard to u. loss before 1 It a shown by ot 1 1 1 bt recouping by I on s. i i i 1 1 1 IT Whitehead und a i i renr lxr. Kin ley was ttu to or for viol.it1'' if appealed tie i wss I J' ft! 1 on Sund v. i i i A in.

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