The Modesto Bee from Modesto, California • 1

tomim A73VEHTIBERR WHO WANT KEHULTS USE THE EVENING PAPER MODESTO CALIFORNIA SATURDAY JUNE 20 1914 VOL LV NO 143 MRS ROTTGER WINS CAPITAL PRIZE COLLISION OF AERIAL CRAFT RESULTS IN NINE FA TALITIES Maxwell Car Is Won By Mrs A Fray! SEVENTY-FIVE MILLION IN GOLD EXPORTED TO EUROPE NEW YORK June The greatest gold movement in years is now taking place The exports to Europe since January 1st have nproxlmated seventy-five million dollars The last of an unprecedent- ed government consignment of forty-three millions in gold was plac- ed today in the sub-treasury Bankers have been notified that begin- nlng Monday five millions of this will be available dally Most of the shipments abroad are in the shape of liars and bricks If the consignments were made into dollars and placed three inches apart the exported gold would reach from Now York to San Francisco Wall street brokers explain the foreign shipments by say- ing that money is cheap in America while a higher rate is available abroad It is expected that the lowering of the exchange rate abroad will cause the return of much of the metal 1ENNA June 20 A military aeroplane this morning rammed the Austrian military dirigible Parseval amidships while the two airciaft were 2500 feet above the aviation field Enzers- dort and Fischamend The dirgible was set on fire and collapsed seven of the occupants being killed Following the ao id-t the aeroplane suddenly took a right angular course and crashed arth the two occupants also being killed It is believed the accident was caused by a broken steering gear he dead included Captain on 31aschke a prominent Austrian aviator four lieutenants one naval oificer a civil engineer and two mechanics Hundreds of spectators witnessed the accident which in the number of lives lost through a collision of aircraft will as a prominent place in aviation history Judges Compelled to Spend Hours In Counting the Millions of Votes In The News' Great Circulation Girls In All Portions of County Receive News Now Leads All Papers In Stanislaus County In Circulation Mexican Mediation Is Still Undecided Rescuers Forced To Flee From Flames Total Death List of the Hillcrest Disaster Numbers Two Hundred Coffins Orbered From Scenes Enacted By Families of Victims At Mouth of Tunnel Were Pitiful While Officials Insist There Is a Faint Hope for a Satisfactory Settlement the Mediators Themselves Are Not So Sanguine-Day's Developments In the Mexican Situation WASHINGTON June 20 The fol-1 impossible II has been learned that! lowing statement' was announced from I Villa has become dissatisfied with the the White House this morning: constitutionalist representatives at Regarding the visit of Peace Me-! Washngton and Niagara especially diator Naon of the Argentine Repub- Rafaal Zubaran company and is lis to the White House which several Pannng senc own personal of the morning papers have nilscon-: representatives is undo stood that trued all the president car'es to10 baa decided lo name I olonel Etise-s tuU relative the conference in! bio Galwdo and John Roberts the general discussion of the me-1 latter American correspondent to whom Villa has taken a fancy that a diation situation resulted and that the Winners In The Contest We the undersigned judges of the Modesto Evening News Voting Contest find after carefully counting and checking the votes that the winners of the Seventeen prizes are as follows: Mrs Fred Rottger Overland Automobile Capital Prize with 19129620 votes Mrs A Fray Maxwell Automobile Grand Prize with 3307320 votes IJ 1 1 FIRST DISTRICT PRIZES Mrs Ethel Ferlin winner of Piano with 13075270 votes Myrtle McLean Winner of Diamond Ring with 1303500 votes Doris Winner of Busines Course with 627070 votes Ana Thompson Winner of Gold Watch wtih 596620 votes Meldred Suggett Winner of Kodak with 489180 votes SECOND DISTRICT PRIZES Mrs- Maud Oldenhag Winner of Piano with 3236 120 votes Mrs Helsley Winner of Diamond Ring with 952730 votes Irma Winner of Business Course with 555570 votes Mrs Irma Witmer Winner of Gold Watch with 277270 votes Francis Powell Winner of Kodak with 262291 votes THIRD DISTRICT PRIZES Mrs McLaughlin Winner of Piano with 190810 votes Hazel Griffith Winner of Diamond Ring with 156240 votes Ruth Winner of Business Course with 125060 votes Arlien Cowan Winner of Gold Watch with 118280 votes Anita Winner of Kodak with 98160 votes HARTER MAZE SCOTT ED HUNSUCKER Judges Superintendent Quigley Fifty-two corpses have been recovered Tbe inquest will be held this afternoon-Two hundred coffins have been ordered from Winnipeg General Manage Brown hopes that some of those entombed are still living Pitiful scenes are being enacted at the mouth of the tunnel where the fatherless children and the widows are standing in a vain hope that their loved ones may be I HILLCREST June A fire i which started at seven this morning in one of the tunnels of the Hillcrest mine where many men were entombed yesterday has forced the rescuers to flee in order to save their lives The company's revised figures announced this morning state that 236 entered the mine yesterday and that only 41 emerged alive making the total number of fatalities 195 including CALIFORNIANS OPPOSING ANTI-TRUST LEGISLATION WASHINGTON June 20 California trade organizations have deluged congress with petitions opposing the enactment of any trust legislation at this session of congress It required two pages to include the petitions presented to the clerk of the house VERA CRUZ June 20 Tt is almost certain now that Huerla is planning to commit some overt act to force in-j' tervention Arrivals from the Mexi-1 can capital today think lie is merely watting until the announcement of the failure of mediation Mexican troops are constantly insulting and! sneering at the American soldiers and llie army officers think that the Mexicans aro deliberately trying to inflame the American soldiers For the first time since the occupation of Vera Cruz Huerta's troops pillaged the baggage of the passengers who were coming hero from Mexico City president is still hopeful of Ultimate suroess" The reports published in (ho eastern papers this morning were t0 the effect that the wavering mediaton may yet bring about peace Naon consulted last night willi the president Bryan and Louis Cabrera the Washington agent of the constitutionalists It was made known at the conference that neither side had receded from its position hut that there were still some slight grounds for a peaceful solution Immediately following the conference with the president and Secretary Bryan Minister Naon stated that there still was encouragement for mediation and Secretary Bryan reit-eratyd his declaration that mediation was progressing satisfactorily No official word came from the president It was learned later that one of the objects of Mr Naon's visit was to induce the constitutionalist leaders to waive temporarily their objection to the consideration of the internal affairs in Mexico by the mediation conference He is said to have suggested that if the constitutionalists would agree to a provisional government to succeed Huerta that the mediatory powers and the United States would aid in settling the internal conflict The grand capital prize in the absolute honesty ami straight-for-1 praise that is but voiced by the great subscription contest ward business dealings and that people ot' this city and county was won by Mrs Fred Rottger the affair was conducted along! as the past the News will be at the fore-front and of this city with the magnificent (such clean and straight lines is I every effort made to have the pa- vote of 19123620 due entirely to their efforts per ktep 8t with the filiert itv Mrs A Fray in District No There was entire good feeling comity in this Golden State 2 won the second prize Maxwell manifested among the contestants ANOTHER MAJOR BASEBALL LEAGUE WILL BE FORMED NEW YORK June 20 After a meeting of the National Baseball Commission this afternoon President Johnson of the American League stated: "It is practically certain at a new major league will be formed composed of four teams from the International League and four from the American A e-e- HEAT RECORDS IN KANSAS ARE BROKEN and while some of them had to I lose we do not believe that there are any sore-spots and while we congratulate the winners on the excellent work accomplished we also desire to thank the losers for their sportsmanlike way of taking defeat Graduates of Eighth Grades Are Announced State Prison Board Refuses to Show Lieniency Toward Ex-Grafter at Their Session This Afternoon KANSAS CITY June The season's heat record was broken here yesterday throughout Kansas Oklahoma and Missouri Many harvest hands were overcome by the heat and as a result the harvesting of the grain has been delayed The highest of fi rial temperature yesterday was reported at Arkansas City where the thermometer registered 105 touring car with 3307320 According to the rules of the contest but one car could be won in one district and Mrs Ethel Fer-lin of this city who rolled up the enormous vote of 13075270 was awarded one of the pianos as a prize The enormous vote cast at the finish of the contest was a surprise and the judges were engaged for hours in counting the votes and it was not until three o'clock this afternoon that the entire result was known In addition to winning the 1914 full equipped Overland car Mrs Rottger also won the special prize of $15 worth of auto supplies donated by the Modesto Auto Supply company Harp Laurence Spanggard Garner District Adah Belva Cavlor Helen Clink John Earl Cupp Edith Garvey Arthur Livingston Pearl Putnam (Contiuued on page S) The News is much gratified at the success of the contest just closed as hundreds and hundreds of new subscribers have been added to our already large subscription list and the News has now the greatest guaranteed eireula-i tion of any paper in Stanislaus! county Since the present management assumed charge of the paper there has been but one ob- AGED GEOLOGIST GOING TO CRATER OF MT LASSEN ISIS THEATRE Phone Wain 7U1 NIAGARA FALLS Tunc The Mexican envoys issued the following statement this noon: 'The Mexican consul at El Paso telegraphs us that from private messages interpreted al Juarez it has been learned that there is no truth in the reports of the differences between General Villa and Carranza and that all factional differences have been satisfactorily settled Villa has issued a declaration addressed to Americans proclaiming General Angeles as president of Mexico Carranza is completing plans to depose by force of arms Governor Mnytorena of Sonora To this end he is quietly increasing to two thousand his forces under Elias Gallos the rebel military commander in There Is every prospect of tt break in the conferences and the failure of mediation Some are hoping that Huerta will weaken at the last moment and Instruct his envoys to accept America's demand lmt this possibility is remote TONIGHT Many pupils and their parents have been anxiously awaiting the outcome i of he eighth-grade examinations throughout the county and this evening the News is ab present a complete list of the graduates through the kindness of Deputy Superintendent of Schools Lewis The list follows: llelpassi District Lloyd Snedigar Raymond Perry Olmstead Thomas Bisbee Kimball Bonita Russell Thoming Morris Walter Bell Roy Virgil Bonham Zella Marion Reed Maude David Lily Olive Fil-ippint Doyle Fetterman Ethel Bello Fink I Central District Laurence Baker Velva Merrill Cole i Janet Mary Macintosh Denair District Emmet Doane Harold J- Chance Richard Gilbert Waring Alvin Oyer Orval Ray Yost Tobias Callus Oliver Chance Bruce Elwood Guyer Ruth Adeline Larson Grace Mary Gallno Emma Jessup Alice Covert Dorothy Marie Robertson Edna Prettier M--v trifle Witmer Dry Creek Ruby Pearl Montgomery Falrvlew District-Dean Kenneth Harp Rose Mariq Dezzani Jack Wayland Wayne REDDING June Geologist Biller is ascending to the crater of Mt lessen this afternoon The Rged government surveyor left Manzanita fice but for the convenience of per and that we have succeeded in early this morning with two those living out of town the prizes our aim is evidenced bv the way and the first two miles of the journey were made on horseback- will be shipped to them if desired the subscription list lias grown nler cUmb the lMt three wlth The News desires to thank the and the advertising earned of lo- judges for their strenuous work in cal merchants The fact that the counting the votes and also to Miss News is a real up-to-date news- SAN QUENTIN June The application of a parole for Abraham Ruef was denied this afternoon at a session of the state prison board whose members considered 200 applications It was generally expected that Ruef would not be able to obtain tile desired freedom This decision puts a quietus on the efforts made by several organizations and a Sau Francisco newspaper to pave the way for a pardon for one of the former San Francisco grafters although ho was largely a tool for the "higher according to the reports It was known that Ruef was confident ho would receive his parole following which he intended to go on the lecture platform as one of the citizens When the news was convey ed to him he was visibly disappointed although ho would make no comment Several prisoners who have aided the officials in discovering plots for TOURKOV June 2ft General Villa escapes were parolled but their des-sUtl here this morn Inc rains de- tin hums have been kept secret for laying his departure- On account of fear of possible violence at the hands the torrents which has swollen many of ex-convicts who have already server the streams washing out bridges led their terms and are "laying" for an early movement of his troops is them CUB WOMEN LEAVE CHICAGO OF THE a two reel feature "CAUGHT IN THE RAIN Keystone Comedy NAVY AVIATOR" NURSE AM NIGHT lluuu- SitluUi i EVENINGS AT ALWAYS Mto paper has been a great aid to the Indies engaged in this contest as it was an easy matter for them to' The management ot the contest gather in subscriptions was in the hands ot Hollister As a general thing we do not be-md Murray Shipp of the jlieve in self-praise but when su Nmthwestein ni illation Coni- wonders in the newspaper field pany- gentlemen that the pro-j have been accomplished wo feel! prietors of the News have known that we are to be pardoned if we for a great many years for their indulge in just a little of that self- CHICAGO June 20 The last of the 10000 delegates to the twelfth biennial convention of the general federation of women's clubs which adjourn--i -if-- jpcotpns last'ne two weks left Chicago today for their homes The meeting just closed the delegates declared today will show results in the advancement of women ail over the world.