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IOWA CITY DJMLY PRESS YEAR-EVE JOWA DEBATE A "IGNORED IOWA CITY, IOWA, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1912 VOL XIV No 113 IS IMPORTANT DISTRESS CRY IOWA FORENSIC STARS OF HIGH SCHOOL CIRCLES. Forest City and Boone Will Compete at Science Hall, for Laurels of State. Forest City and Boone high schools will battle for the state cham pionship ol Iowa, in debating circles tonight. Meet at Science Hall. The contest will take place at the Science Hall auditorium, of I- and the interesting war of wits will be free to the public.

A crowded house ought to greet tie young men, who speak under the auspices of S. U. I. Forest City has won. from Marion, Sigourney, Decorah and Grundy Center, and thus caprured the championship of one section of Iowa; while Boone has "licked" Missouri Valley, Cherokee.

Eagle Grove, Sutherland, and Algona, and thus won the championship of the other half of the state. Iowa City Men Aid. Dr. F. C.

Ensign registrar at S. SEAMEN ON TITANIC SAID STEAM ER WENT YTHEM Cc-uldn't Have Helped But See Their Signals--Was Stationary For Hours, then '-Skipped" lulled TAFT QUIET MYSTERY OF TAFT "LICKED AFTER BATTLE "GHOST SHIP" TO A FRAZZLE" PRESIDENT RESTS IN NEW YORK COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE! TEDDY GETS DELEGATES AT FROM SPEAKING TOUR. MOUNT TEMPLE STORY LARGE FROM MISSOURI Today Gives Principal Eulogy on Gen. Captain of Liner to Say if is i A i Contest Ends in Complete era! Grant--Tomorrow Will Resume Attacks on Teddy. New York, April Failed to Respond to Call for Help 26 President Washington, April 25-- The sensa-j arr i ed here from Boston early tion of the day was the testimony of! Jchn Edward Buliey, a Titanic seaman before Senator Fletcher.

That some sort of a vessel stood by in plain sight of the sinking Titanic with its precious cargo going down to death, and did not heed their -cries for help, was made apparent by Bui- There was a ship near us when we said BuSley. "We thought she was coming towards us, and iif she had everyone on the Titanic could have been saved. But she remained stationary out the water and then when the survivors of the Titanic were in te life boats, she sailed right by us. We thought the ship was coming to our aid, and we told the passengers TJ. is the presiding officer, and! the ship was coming to rescue us.

I the judges will be Supt. H. E. Black-1 think that is what-kept them quiet. TOOT- Trrtf fta-m Slnsn Towa Citv: 1 mar, Prof.

Sam Sloan, Iowa City; and Supt. Maey Campbell, of West liberty. Problem at Issue. The question tonight will be: 'Resolved that the movement of organized labor should receive the support of public opinion. The Boone boys--Leslie llackey, De Wayne Stillman, and Jos.

E. Wells--will affirm. The negative speakers from Forest City will be Edward Wartchow, Irwin Larson and Freeman Paulson. These are recognized as six of the best young forensic stars in Iowa, and the outlook is that a redhot, exciting and closely-contested debate awaits lovers of battles of brains. SHOT OFF APPLE WON When the ship started in our direc- lon, we all started for her and hink that is -what kept us together.

never heard of her any more, he lay out there stationary ail night, her steamr lights buraing brightly, "hn towards morning sh lifted anchor nd sailed right by us." far out was this shio," was isked. "About 3 mSes." "Why could she not see your rockets?" "She -could not help but see them. She was bond to see them and to get ur wireless signals." "Did you see her before you were in the water?" sir, and we told the passengers she was coming to rescue us." Did she come to you bow-on?" Yes sir. She was stationary -there 'or three hours off or 5art. We mad her bat she went by us." "You are sure it was not anallus in BT United Presa.

Belgrade, April 26--VeBs Stmiick a sturdy young Servian, has wen the belle of Tchatchak Serria, by a Tar- lation of the Wilhelm Tell act. In accordance with an old family tradition, anyone who wanted the marry Lubika Yutehitch, youngest and most beautiful granddaughter of an octogenarian peasant, had to shoot an apple off a pole en top of the town gate. Velka Sin? itch and a hated ri Tal had galloped full speed at the gate, together, and Yelko's brought down the apple. shot GRAVE DIGGERS REVIVE SPIRITS By Cnited Press, Belgrade, April 26 Finding numerous burials, due largely to this morning, expecting 10 rest, alter By Victory for Strenuous Colonel Taft Men Bolt By I alte-d ini April com-! St. Lams, April 20--Colonel Roos-e- iuee investigating the Titanic dis-j veil got eight delegates at large from FACTORIES O.K.

IN IOWA CITY STATE INSPECTOR FINDS LOCAL PLANTS DO WELL. J. N. Rifabte and Deputy, Mrs. Stev.

enson, of City, Make Careful Investigations Here. State Factor Inspector J. X. Ribole, or" Mo.r.c-s, spending couple of City, inspect- strenuous campaign in Massachu aster hope to be able to solve Missouri, each to have half a vote, ''Yes sir. It too low down the water to be a star." NEW CAMPANILE IS By TTnited Press.

Venice, April, solemn dedication ceremonies, the beHs of the -Campanile of St. Marks cathedral today rang out over Venice, for the first time in nine years. Xine years of work rebuilding the famous pile, culminated in a great celebration the church and state authorities, attended by representatives in every province in Italy and -every country in Europe. Meanwhile Pope Pius who more than any man loved the old Campanile that coSapsed in 1902 wept in the Vatican at Rome because he could his setts yesterday. He went to the home of his brother Henry Taft for breakfast, and afterward went to the North River pier and took boat for Governor's Island, where the funeral of General Grant was to take place.

President Taft delivered the principal eulogy. Tonight, Taft will make a campaign speech at Newark, X. at which he is expected to repeat his attacks on Roosevelt. He will dine tonight in Newark at the home of A. H.

Leach, where he will meet twenty of the leading politicians of New Jersey, and the political situation will be discussed. Today, Taft played golf, after returning from Governor's Island, and motored this afternoon to Trenton, where he is to speak at 4 p. at the dedication of the assembly room of the Union League club. Taft at Boston Boston, Mass, April 26--President Taft last night broke loose from im- perfsonai Scjr renomin- ation and devoted his entire speech here to an attack on Roosevelt and a defense of the charges against administration that have been made by Col onel Earlier in the day Taft spoke along the same lines at Springfield and (Palmer, twice at Worcester and Natiaek, South Faianingham, and several other small towns. The attack comes in the midst of one of the most bitter campaigns ever, waged in Massacusetts Both sid-ea realize ihe moral effect which a victory the primaries next Tuesday iave throughout the country and both are making an effort to win them.

Colonel RoDser-elt's friends are angry tonight at the attack of the president and the Colonel himself is expected to give decisive answer. Says He Is Misrepresented Taft's address, delivered in the Bason Arenabefore a large audience, charges that the colonel and his supporters have misrepresented him, not only as to the work he has done, but as to hla speeches. Several times, he declared, the coloner has taken 'garbed versions" and used them for his own purpose. He charged the colonel with violating his own principle of a "square deal." Col Roosevelt, the president said, not the Arrangements deaths caused by the sudaen changes of temperature with the advent of Spring, rather depressing, the Belgrade grave-diggers have formed a "Happy-Evenings weekly meetings Convivial are held to preserve the proper spirit of optimism. ROOSEVELT WILL ANSWER TAFT By Tnlted Press.

New York, April 26--Colonel Roose velt was delighted with the receipt of the news that he had carried Missouri. He was at the Outlook office preparing speeches for his Massachusetts campaign, when the word came. In the next few days he 'will answer Taft's bitter speech of yesterday lie also tours Massachusetts. He says he is glad of this opportunity to "Mt back" at Taft had been made to have the ringing of the beUs. the artiHery salute that was ffirel, and the epeejfche made transmitted to Pope Pius from his old home "by long distance telethon but the pope's physicians decided against it.

They said that the excitement which -the o3d associations would arise would be too much for th w-eakened pontiff. The wonderful architecture of the the mystery of the "ghost ship" which several witnesses have testified within to five miles, from thje Tiitaniy -when she was calling franticallj for help. It 13 believed that this ship the Teaiple, liner of the Canad Ian Pacific line, and her captain, J. H. Moore, now here, response to the committee's request, and will testify today as to the position of the ship the night of the great disaster.

Women Could Not Jump. A sailor on the Titanic today told Chairman Smith of the investigating committee thai some of the women were not saved but were drowned because they could not jump across the three foot space between the rail of the steamer and the swinging lifeboats. On Way to Testify. 'Stanley Lord and Wireless Operator Higgins on the California are on their vay from Boston to testify. Too Crowded to Row.

Albert Haines, a sailor on the Titanic, and in charge of one of the boats, said he was unable to row the boat because it was too crowded and could not go to the rescue of the men in the water. Steamer Went Seven Hours uater. Ernest Hill, a sailor on the Califor nia, said he saw the Titanic's distress signal the night of the wreck, but that the steamer did the rescue of the Titanic until seven hours later. Builder Said Would Sink. Samuel Hemmy.

of the Titanic crew, said that Mr. Andrews one of the builders of the Titanic, who was on board, said that when the ship hit the iceberg that the ship was sinking-'and would go down in a half hour. after a fight which lasted most of yesterday anl all night last night On the test vote in the convention Roosevelt had 6t3 votes and Taft 4S9. But this was after the credentials committee controlled by the Roosevelt men, had seated most of contesting Roosevelt delegates. T.ift men may hold another convention.

Roosevelt wflll have 10 delegates from and Taft 10 after the district conventions are held At present Roosevelt has 14 and Taft S. JUDGE M. J. WADE AT Washington, April 26--Judge Wade of Iowa ty arrived here today and will aprear before house committee tomorrow in the Haugen-Murphy contest. Judge Wade will also jattend a meeting o'f on the didmocratic national commit- ing the local manufactories, movinjt picture shows and kindred instita- tions, ing men, women or children, where machinery is used.

He is accompanied in his local examinations Uj S. K. enson, of Iowa City, deputy state inspector, rtiMeseutmi; 100 low a Labor Bureau and S. also. Iowa City ifr Praised.

Mr. Ribble was well-pleased with the showing: here. This is the first examination of tis kind made in Iowa City, in years. He states that tuo owners aud man agers have done well in the of safeguarding the interests of em- playes, in reference to tlangeroun machinery, fire protection and like. Iowa City will doubtless rank with the best towns in the state, in this respect.

'be Saturday ait Strathcona, Canada, April 26--E. Zurich, -who crossed from Antwerp to St. John, N. on the Canadian Pacific railway steamer, Mount Temple has made a statement here concerning what wag observed from the Mount Temple at sea the Sunday night the Titanic went down. According to Mr.

Zurich, tpasseng- ers on board the Mount Temple heard of the distress of the Titanic at 12:15 o'clock Manday morning, when a wireless call for help was caught. Tfhia Baltimore. Woman Admitted Representative Pepper has succeed ed in getting admitted to this country German young woman Ellen Aage. i She was excluded at Ellis Island because of a deformity which enabled fihe immigration officers technically to shut her out. She was going to visit her sister Mrs.

Stoppe, of Davenport. Mr. Pepper took the matter up with the department of commerce and labor today and she was admitted Attorney Joe M. Otto is back from Des Moines, where he transacted professional business. T.

M. Thompson is home from a prolonged business and pleasure trip to the Pacific slope. violated the solemn promise to the American people not be a candidate for a third term. "That promise and his treatment of it," Mr. Taft added, "only throw an informing light on the value that ought now to be attached to any promise of this kind he may make in 'the Declares He Fought Lorimer In substantiation of his declaration that he was not a partisan of Walliaan Lorimer, the president quoted a letter he wrote to Colonel Roosevelt in Jan 1911.

in the course of which he said: "I have read as much of the evidence as I could get at and am convinced that there was a mess and a mass elec be stamped with lie disaproval of the senate. SEVEN! Y-SfX AT By United ITeM. St. Petersburg, April 26--Seventysix children and grandchildren gathered at the deathbed of Simon Filj, an old soldier who had just celebrated his 113th birthday, at Warsaw. Filj is said have been the last sur vivor of those who could claim to have seen Napoleon Bonaparte, Tapt.

Moore changed his vessel's course at once and headed for the Titanic. Life-boats were swung from davids meanwhile and other prepar ations Tvere "made for lending assistance. The northern course was not held long however, says Mr. Zurich, because a great field of ice loomed up ahead. It was reported among the crew and passengers, according to Mr.

Zur ich, that Captain Moore made no further -efforts to penetrate the floes, saying he could not afford to danger the 2,000 souls he had aboard his ship. Lights of Titanic Seen The statiement of Dr. Quitzrau that Take Life Joyously. Take life too seriously, and what IB it worth? If the morning UB to no new joys, if the evening bring ui aot the hope of new pleasures, IB It while to dress and undrew? Does the sun shine on me today that I may reflect on yesterday? That I may endeavor to foresee and control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled--the destiny of HAS I By United Press. Toronto, On.t, April 26--A dispatch has been received from the cable ship Minia, which is searching for victims of the Titanic disaster at the scene of the wreck.

The message states that the body of Hays, president of the Grand Trunk railroad has been recovered. passengers and crew believed they a of Corruption upon which" his ecuU see the lights of the unfortu- tion was founded that ought Titanic is born out by Mr. Zur- Roman Coins Found In England. The process of cleaning the coins found a few -weeks ago in a Roman rase In a field upon a farm at Edwln- Nottinghamshire, England, that they comprise 369 denarrl, dating from 69 to 192 A. D.

Although these coins must have been buried for centuries, they In a perfect preservation. restored Campanile flashed from behind the last disfiguring scaffold after the last of the civil authorities had made his speech. Long before the churchmen of St. Marks had fceldjfcr'veaj their religious celebration at which' was hung for the first time an antiphony ordered by Pope Pius. A special prayer of benediction composed for tite occasion by the pope was also recited.

Among the bells that pealed from the tosvers was one set of Sve presented by Pope Piug when he was Patriarch of Venice, The four others of the set were broken when the old Denies Abuse of Patronage The use and tbase of federal pat- as a means of getting cele- ich. With two companion passengers he disobeyed the captain's orders whlcfe forbade entrance upon the upper deck at any time. He is -fairly positive that they saw the masts of the Titanic, and says he not ready to accept the assertion merit system. The federal he said, were under the dictatorship of tie congressmen, rot the presi-i dent, and he added that in Indiana and Montana, federal office that their ship at least forty mil- named es from the wrecked liner at the time He thinks the Mount Temple niight tanic ety the spot before tie Ti- and this supposition he former Senator Beveridgej says, seerced to have been. eiue- tain- and Senator Dixon, were working in i the interests of Roosevelt.

In tie south he said, the roajorityj of tie office holders are ed by others on board. -T- Storage Cat Moat. A man down in Massachusetts found blacksnake frozen In the BBOW. He took the snake up cart- fully so that it would aot break--it Was as as the rod of Moses In the original form---and took it aoma and put it by the fire. And it thawed, out.

It wrfggled around In tie heat and would have bees all right again If It hadn't been for family cat The cat It. "WETS" WINJT POLLS Springfield, Aprii 2o--Clark county yesterday in a local option election changed from the dry to the wet ranks by a majority estimated at 1,700 by the wets. The drys conceded that the liquor forces won by 700 or more. The vote in Springfield, the- largest dry city in the state, waa nearly 13,000, the vv-ets carrying it by about 3,000. Twenty-seven counttas which went dry three years ago haTO held local option elections and eighteen oT them have changed to wet.

Above AH Others. is only real aager ignorance. had seen the lights and the distress TRANSPORT TO SAVE AMERICANS By Washington, 26--The Army Transport Buford will leave Sam Francisco tonight for ports on tha western coast of Mexico. Thetrans- port will pick up Americans in these ports and the surrounding country and bring them back to tae United States. Tie-Ir vessel sighted the Carpathia sJgcals.

Mr, Zurich said, and, keetr.ua- i "I went back to the cabin and flres- Campanile collapsed, but the pope re'. Roosevelt GRANT'S BODY 10 WEST POINT United Press. New York, April 2S With military honors of General Frederick Grant was taken to the cemetery at West Point from Governor's Island today. The body was received at the West Point dock by the cadets and was ese corted to the cemetery. President Taft, Vice President Sharman and other notables attended the funeral stored them.

A phonographic record of the first ringing of the be-ll was made and was dispatched by a special rnesseng er to Rcoae, to be delivered to tae Vatican, services. for Spoiled Beauty. A. curiout Judgment was given in a German court the other day. A lit- tie girl of three who was placed la.

a Waning institution had been bitten by tke yard dog, the bite tearing a scar on the cbeek. The little one's guar- ian put In a claim, not In respect at the pain caused, but because the scar kad lessened her chances of securing a husband when she became old to marr. The court upheld the guardian's claim, and placed the febagea at $600. are wrkisg for the inatoin. The seven governors was cruising around evkient- urged Roosevelt to enter the race a- 1 the Mount Terrple sighted rr-jice.

gala are using the Dower of the car- ioas state offices in his sor-port, Mr. of ice during Sunday Iy trying to get out the ice. Circles Around Scen of Wreck "A Russian boat came along- side of ss but did not give any word. It i i 2 a Circle around where the Ti- said to have sunk, as as around us. little later, at 6 o'clock we sight Ms and DP.

Quitrau to Testify Taft declared. Toronto, April Qjlt- speech throughout throws off zrai. who has been asked to test all pretense of the and before the senate cotrm'ttee the way the president "goes after" his gating the Titanic disaster, started one time friend and bis predecessor to Washington, last night, in com- -rr- r.iarks anew the bitterness of a tre-i rl'ance with the request from Senator; c-i the Carpathia of us. mace a circle around waat was said be the scene of the w-reck. We didn't see any wreckage or bodies.

At- 8 o'clock we got the general ines- from the Carpathia that the Titanic had struck an iceberg and was the bottom of the sea. The Car- ppthia that 700 had been saved and all others on board and there no ncpd to stand by. We then continued on our course" convention campaign ailed in recent times that is unpar- Smith "I retired The interesting Titanic pictures at Dever's Pastime, last night, were of especial interest to Iowa City people who discovered, among the throng besieging the White Line offices, Harry B. Hess, a former Iowa City man, now in New York city, where he is a leading business man. about o'clock Sunday n'ght, April 14, and was awakened by th sudden stopping of the machin en of the Mount Temple" Dr Quitz- ran said.

'I opened the cabin iocr and looked out. I saw a oonnk- of and several and asked them what was wrong. told me the Titanic- had struck an berg and was sinking, and that they Rev. J. B.

Rendell be installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian church, in iluscatlne, tonight. Rer. Dr. Francis "1. Fox, of Iowa City, student pastor at S.

U. I. will da- liver the charge to the pastor. A Unash and family have removed C.ty from their old home, near Solon, and will reside at 828 East Market. Mr.

Unash is one of Johnson county's substantial citizens and he and his family will be welcome to the county's metropolis. WEATHER FOR IOWA 4 4 Fair and cooler tonight and Saturday. Probably frost tonight..