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4 TIMES GAZETTE The Weather Cloudy Established July 29, 1786 3 TEX CF.XTS A WEEK. TWO CENTS A COPY. IT SATURDAY SIORXIXG, MAY 20, 19K Sons of Johnny Harvard Marching Into Pittsburgh FAVORITE WIRE TAPPING PROBE CAUSES BITTER CLASH FUNSTON FEARS NEW BISHOPS CANDIDATE OF EAST LEADERS A BORDER CLASH NEARDOUGLAS ALL CHOSEN; 2 FORMERLY HERE Mexicans Resent Seizure of Cattle Illegally Brought Into the United States. i i Committeeman Upham Be-: Federal, State, City Officials Drs. W.

F. Oldham and TROOPS COME HOME Vpper picture-rton and Ne FPffflflOI 1 Harvard men In A V' it Liberty avenue. 1', P' -V-illIt Lower picture Largest lass "JT JS "AXA 'I delegation A ftl i Til i i V-' -1 4 1 t- SHIPPING BILL IS HELD UP BY FILIBUSTERING Plot to Get Zeppelin Plans Is Revealed in Gotham Divorce Court lieves Only One Candidate Will Be Named at Chicago i IT. R. WILL BE SATISFIED Special Telegram to The Gazette Times CHICAGO, May 19.

Elihu Root is the prime favorite of the big men of New York ana the East, and if the Eastern Republican leaders can nominate him they will, according to Fred W. Upham, chairman of the Republican national convention local committee, who returned from New Y'ork today after conferences with Chairman Charles D. Hilles of the National Committee, W. Murray Crane, William Barnes, George R. Sheldon, treasurer of the committee, and others.

Sentiment for Hughes is largely con- fined to the newspapers, Mr. Upham saj-s, though in the event of a dead lock the name of Hughes might be sufficient to broak it, in which event Ue mitrbt he the nominee. Inere is absolutely no question Liitti Root is the favorite of the prominent men of the East," said Mr. Upham, "and I am confident that these parts-leaders are going to make an honest effort to convince the convention that Mr. Root is the man for the place.

If Root does not get it I believe the nomination will come West. Despite the claims of both the Root and Hughes men. Root will have a majority of the New York delegation. Gov. Whitman, who is for Hughes, will not have more than five or six followers, I am told.

i K. and the Platform. i "The Roosevelt men are more set against Hughes than anyone. The I Progressives don't relish the idea of going to the Supreme bench for a candidate. They do not know where Hughes stands on the issue of preparedness.

The impression in New Y'ork is that if Col. Roosevelt is per- ymitted to write the Republican plat- I form he will be satisfied. 1 There will be only one candidate nominated in Chicago, was the positive statement Mr. Upham made. "I talked to William Barnes and he has canvassed the national delegations and gives Roosevelt only SO votes in the Republican convention.

"At the start-off the party leaders made two columns one. was Roosevelt and the other was They have got beyond that now, but they do not know yet who the nominee is going to be." IVTAN KILLED WHEN CAR TOPPLES William Tyson, a car repairman of 1SJ4 Metropolitan street, was killed instantly, and James Rowlands, a brake-man, of 1-19 Juniata street, was perhaps fatally injured, when a box car they were repairing in the Allegheny yards of the Pennsylvania toppled off the jacks and crushed them last night. Rowlands was taken to the Allegheny General Hospital in the auto patrol from the Allegheny Police Station. He received internal injuries and bruises about the body. Signals Urged To Save Autos At Crossings American Railway Association Adopts Standards to Reduce Accidents.

NEW Y'ORK, May 19. Specific standards for Drotecting grade crossings on raiiroads of the country, to lessen the likeiihood of accidents, were adopt- e(J today at the semi-annual meeting of the American Railway Association, This action was taken on the recom- mendation of a committee which re ported that, largely because of the in- creased use of the automobile, acci- dents at grade crossings in many parts of the country have increased 1.000 per cent in the last five years. It is planned to standardize crossing i I i i i 1 I I I Canadian Woman Won I in Order to Obtain From; Inventor's Wife Charges Affections of Husband Him German Airship Britain's Admiralty. Drafts For Use of Great Involved in Dispute Over Gotham Police Practice. W.

J. BURNS IS NAMED Commissioner Woods Admits Giving Private Detective Right to Listen on Line. WAR PLOT IS INTIMATED NEW YORK, May 19. Disclosures, developments and charges followed in rapid succession today in the Thompson legislative committee's inquiry into the wire tapping activites of the New Y'ork police. After hours of verbal exchanges between State Senator George F.

Thompson, chairman of the committee, and municipal officers, Police Commissioner Arthur Woods was per- mitted to take the stand to attempt to Earlier in the day, when the contro versy between Mayor Mitchel and Senator Thompson had reached an acute stage, the Mayor accused the Senator of "cumulative treachery" to the United States because the committee chairman Insisted on going on with his inquiry after Mr. Mitchel had protested that to do so might involve the federal government in grave interna-I tlonal complications, associated by the Mavor with munition contracts. Sena- tor Thompson asserted the nited States was in no way involved. He was supported in this contention by District Attorney Swann. Statement Complicate Case.

This phase was complicated tonight when United States Attorney H. Snow-den Marshall declared "any publication of the facts at this time would be most regrettable from the standpoint of the administration of federal justice." "I have inquired into the circumstances concerning the investigation into the listening on the wire of Seymour Seymour," Mr. Marshall said, "and find the case involves national issues." Eate today, after occupants of the offices of Seymour Seymour had been examined by District Attorney Swann, it was announced the com- mittee was satisfied no crime had been committed by the Seymours or the other men who shared their offices. A few minutes later a public inquiry into the motives that Impelled the police to .1 LlfJ LUIS OCJUIUUl OCJ 1I1UUI II J.O 'begun. Commissioner Woods was called after Continued on Second Page.

$700,000 for Music School i fflirflfrA Rml'pr 111 UlUritl cult auo, iv. A irui tuna vi $700,000 to provide for the establishment in Chicago of a great school of music "for the benefit not only of said city but of all America." was left to the Chicago Orchestral Association in the will of Bryan Lathrop, wealthy real estate broker. The will was filed for probate today. Under its terms the income from tha fund would be used in establishing and maintaining such a school in connection with the orchestra of the DOWNTOWN FIRE DRAWS CROWD Fire, which attracted hundreds of persons to the vicinity, broke out on the third floor of the Weldon Building, 431 Wood street, at 11 o'clock last night. The third and fourth floors of the are occupied bv Cowes-Carnes company, stationery dealers, the second and fifth floors are vacant and the fjr3t floor is occupied by the Boyd, Boyd Boyd, trunk manufacturers, The fire was discovered by Frank Malone, a (watchman.

A score of fire-lighting machines were soon on the scene and it was only the prompt work of the firemen which kept the flames from spreading. Streams of water were thrown on the building from Wood rut tun vim iiiiwwiviiiiiii i nbku LIVERPOOL, May 19. Max Wood Moorhead, claiming to be an American "independent" missionary, who arrived on May 13 to attend a Bible conference, was sentenced today to three weeks' imprisonment and recommended for deportation for neglecting to notify the authorities of a change in address. WILSON GOES TO NORTH CAROLINA WASHINGTON. May 1 9 President Wilson, with Mrs.

Wilson and a large party, ieft here tonight for Charlotte, X. C. where he will re iew a parade and speak tomorrow at the annual celebration of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. They traveled on a pn-ate car attached to the second section of a regular train. C.

B. Mitchell Filled Pittsburgh Pulpits. HAMILTON SEVE NTH i The Rev. Ir. William F.

Oldham of New York and the Rev. Dr. Charles B. Mitchell of Chicago were elected bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday at Saratoga Springs. Both were formerly connected with churches in Pittsburgh.

Dr. Mitchell held the pastorate of the Smithfield Street Church, while Dr. Oldham acted in a like capacity at the Butler Street Church. Dr. Franklin Hamilton was elected a bishop, ending the balloting.

Dr. Mitchell is the son of the late The Krv. Dr. Charles H. Mltehrll.

Rev. Dr. D. B. Mitchell, who a number of years ago was a member of the Pittsburgh conference.

He was transferred to Kansas. It was there that the newly elected bishop received his edu- cation before coming to the Smithfield Street Church as pastor about 20 years Tie neKr the Pittsburgh position' four years. Mrs. Mitchell is a Pittsburgher and has two sisters. Miss Mary and Miss Ella Aull, who reside at 424 Lincoln avenue, this city.

Mrs. Mitchell has two brothers, who were also of Pittsburgh. They are Maj. W. F.

Aull, now of Wayne, and Charles H. Aull of Omaha. Neb. Dr. Oldham, since leaving the Butler Street Church, has held the office of secretary of the Missionary Society with offices in New York.

He has been a frequent visitor here. Dr. Oldham was born in India and for a number of years was a foreign missionary. The Rev. Adna W.

Leonard, named a bishop on Thursday, once was pastor of the Smithfield Street Church, as were the late Bishop Naphali Lucock and the Rev. Dr. A. B. Leonard, father of the Rev.

Adna W. Leonard. All Biihops Now Chosen. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. May 19.

The Methodist General Conference broke all records for the election of bishops today and tonight the seventh and last member of the Episcopacy had been chosen. With the BUkop W. K. Oldham. election on the seventeenth ballot of Dr.

Franklin Hamilton, chancellor of the American University at Washington, D. C. and a brother of Bishop John V. Hamilton, the number to be chosen by this conference was completed. Dr.

Hamilton secured 514 votes. The final ballot was taken at o'clock and was the seventeenth of the day. Dr. Matt 11. Hughes of Pasadena, Cal a brother of Bishop Edwin II.

Hughes of San Francisco, was elected on the twelfth ballot with 649 vo'es. Drs. William Oldham of New York and Charles Baird Mitchell of Chicago were both chosen on the fifteenth with 579 and 569 votes re-MOectively. East evening. Dr.

Herbert Welch, president of Ohio Wesleyan University; Dr. Thomas Nicholson 'of New York, secretary of the board of education, ard Dr. Adna W. Eeonurd of Seattle, were elected. I 1 a lelHl 'lVlearrnm to The Gaxette Tliucal NEW YORK.

May 19. How Mrs. Alice Andrews, wealthy Canadian soviet woman and aviation expert, in her eagerness to furnish the 800 Troopers in First Instalment of Force to Return to Columbus, N. M. COWBOYS DEFEAT BANDITS Sncui.

Tn.nuM to Tm Gizctti Times.) WASHINGTON', May 19. Declaring that he was entirely able to handle the situation should it grow serious, Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston Informed the War Department today that ill-feeling has developed between Americans and Mexicans at Douslas, resulting from the action of local authorities in seizing cattle illegally imported across I the line from the Mexican side. Gen.

Funston expressed apprehension that a clash miht result, but stated that the fojve of Regulars which were at IVmsUs could ccp w-th any further i truble. Secretary ef War Baker announced tonight receipt of a report from Gen. Funston concerning the killing of Sergt. Harry Furman cf the machine gun com- pany, I wenty-ltiira mianvry. iuiusj border near El Paso.

The report stated that Furman had gone Into the strip of Mexican territory lying on this side of the Rio Grande and that his dead body had been found In the spot where It had fallen from his horse. Gen. Gavira, the Mexican commander of Juarez, the report states, had endeavored in every way possible to co-operate with the American officers In the investigation. The inquiry showed that the body had not been moved and that two chambers of Furman's revolver were! empty and showed of having been recently aixhbrxa. Tb -Suidrcr's bw and ccoutrements.

Gn. Funston states, were returned. A Mexican testified that the American soldier in an intoxicated condition, had ridden across the line and had fired his revolver, and that the shots had been returned by the immigration guard at Juarez. On the other hand. Gen.

Funston reported, an American immigration testified that he had seen Furman shortly before the latter's death and that he appeared to be perfectly sober. Gen. Funston closed report expressing the belief that the facts in. the. case would probably never be known.

I State Department officials are inclined to doubt reports that Carranza is preparing to send to the United States an ultimatum demanding immediate withdrawal of American forces from Mexico. It was declared at the department that reports received from Special Agent James Lynn Rodgers at Mexico City indicate favorable attitude on Carranza's part. Although officials of the department are continuing to insist that no special significance is to be attached to the approaching conference of the American, consuls on the border, the report Contlawrd on Second Pin. WOMAN KILLED BY A TRAIN Miss Sablna Hoffman, aged 27, daughter of John G. Hoffman of Allison Park, and one of the best-known residents of the county, was struck by a Baltimore sjid Ohio train at West Etna yesterday morning.

She died in the Allegheny General Hospital a few hours later. Although the accident occurred at 8:30 o'clock, no one except the engineer of the train witnessed it. Miss Hoffman had spent Thursday pight at the home of the Rev. T. R.

Lewis, pa3tor of the First Presbyterian Church of Etna, and started home shortly after 8 o'clock. It is supposed that she waited at the crossing until a westbound train passed and then Stepped in front of an eastbound passenger train. SWEDISH S1TUAT10NRELEVE0 May 19. It is learned from the foreign office that the tension between Sweden and the entente allies has been ended, although no official statement is forthcoming at this time. Lord Robert Cecil, minister of war trade, said an agreement had been reached today, but would give no details.

NONE RESCUED FROM STEAMER I TORPEDO SINKS FRANCE. May 19. Non the or crew of th French roasting steamer Mira wre whf-n Bh? mink rtyult of a torpedo attack in the on May 16. Sinking of the Mir whs announced by-IJoyds lrr I-mdtn Thursday, hut no details were given, was a. vessel cf tons, owntd in Marseilles.

I I admiralty witn secret plans ior ouiuung uingioies, it is cnargeu, iornieu an alliance with Thomas Rutherford MacMechen, inventor, and former president of the Aeronautical Society of America, which culminated in the breaking up of his home, was told today in Justice Giegerich's court in CITY HUES GRADUATES OF Association of Clubs Convenes in William Penn for Annual Meeting. PROMINENT MEN HERE The Harvard man of a half-century ago i gray, austere ana dignified, rubbed i shoulders with the debonair and sprightly youth of a later generation at the convention of the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs in the William I'enn yesterday. Many were the men of note, govern- ora, jurists, federal officials, doctors i and bankers, lawyers Snd Irastness men. the heads of great corporations, and representaties of the chief banking houses in the country, that poured into the city yesterday and Tilled the corri- dors of the hotel with a shifting, eddy- ing crowd of vermilion-adorned savants I come to do honor once again to their alma mater. The East, with its soft "a's" and its I absence of "r's" as in "Ha'va'd," has de- scended on Pittsburgh and the town is being painted red the deep crimson of the university.

Many were the hearty handclasps of old friends long sop-1 arated. "Hello, old man, so glad to see you." "Where in the world did you drop from?" "I thought you were dead, but you look prosperous enough to have made a million," and similar greetings echoed back and forth all afternoon at I the hotel. Clam Dinner In the Evening. Assembling in William Penn way in front of the hotel, the whole conven- tion boarded special street cars for the i Schenley Hotel, where class dinners were held in the ball room last night, The representatives of each class were assigned a special table and the rest of the evening was given over to I Harvard songs and general frivolity, There were 44 classes represented the oldest being that of 1855, in the person of Edwin Hale Abbot, and the latest being 1916, a delegation of seniors from the university being present. Met With Bra Band.

A delegation, 150 strong, arriving in a special train from Boston and New York, was welcomed at the Pennsylvania Station In the morning by a local committee with a brass band. Other special trains brought almost as many from Chicago, 111., St. Louis. and other Western points. On arrival at the registration headquarters in the hotel visitors were Continued on Second Page.

Germans to Treat French Officers as Criminals BERLIN, May 19. "Eight French officers who had been confined in the prison camp for officers at Madgeburg have been taken to Beeskow, Prussia, where they will be treated as convicts," says the Overseas News Agency. "This measure was taken by way of reprisal for the Infamous treatment of imprisoned German officials in France." POLICEMAN MUST PAY $615 Charles W. Allen, a negro policeman, was ordered by a jury in the United States District Court yesterday to pay $t75, the hospital and doctor bills of John Kavalewski. a tailor.

The testimony was to effect that Kavalewski was intoxicated and sleeping on a cellar door in Forbes street, near Brady, when Allen, In attempting to awaken him, struck him on the sole of one foot with his mace, breaking an ankle. 'vavalewski sued for Allen's defense was that the blow from his mace was not responsible for the broken ankle: that Kavalewski received the injury in falling while bcint taken to a la.trol box. i Mrs. MacMeehen's suit for divorce. Neither Mr.

MacMechen nor Mrs. Andrews was in court. Mrs. MacMechen hid her face in her hands during the testimony. Miss Mary Humphrey, daughter of United States District Judge Humphrey of Springfield 111., and a niece of Mrs.

MacMechen, told of a confession she said Mr. Mac Democrats Lose Important Features in Committee of Whole, but Restore Them. i FINAL VOTE TODAY WASHINGTON, May 19. Filibuster- by Republican Leader Mann to- prevented Democrats from, car ryine tMr pan to pass the ad ministration shipping bill before ad journment. Debate on the measure closed at 4 o'clock this afternoon and three hours biter it was ready for passage, virtually as reported by the committee, in spite of persistent efforts to amend it.

Representative -viann uemanaea tener votes on many oi trie nunarea or more amendments offered by Republicans, and when a final vote on the measure itself was about to be taken he insisted that the formality of reading the engrossed bill be observed. As the bill had not been engrossed, there was nothing to do but adjourn. The vote probably will bo reached early tomorrow afternoon. Absentee Loae Point. Early in the day, while the House was in the committee of the whole, Republicans succeeded in striking out the section prov.o.ng ior tne purchase ot ships by the government, but this was restored by the House itself.

The only result of the strict party vote by which the section was stricken out, 106 to 90, was to give the Republicans an oppor- Continued on Serond Page. Six Waiting for Car, Struck by Automobile Two women and four men, waiting on a street car, at I'enn and Negley avenues, last niyht, were injured when an automobile driven by Mrs. Stella lilackwell, aned 51, of 726 Summerlea street, crashed into them. The injured: Mri. Marie Jackxnii, 1 Continental street; riiht shoulder hurt; taken to the Pittsburgh.

Hospital. II. Martin, 714fi Race street: bruised; taken to the Homeopathic Hospital. Mrs. K- H.

HuEFler, 129 Stratford avenue taken home. l.ouU Shaekelford, T6 Orphan street; taken hotn. f. k. raster, fiS.VS FranUstown ave-j nue; taken home.

Thomn Johnson. 2 IS Summerlea street; taken home. The latter four recM ved only minor injuries. i Mrs. Biackwell was taken into cus- tody by Motorcycle Policeman Thomas A.

Sailley but was released on a $. 1 forfeit. At the Frankstown Avenue Police Station she said she ran her i car into the crowd to prevent a col lision with truck. street car and an auto i i i I I she said, Mrs. Andrews had not only BASEBALL POOLS ACTIVE AGAIN Fred C.

Hasley and Guy Mangan, both of the North Side, were arrested yesterday at their offices in the Lyceum Building, accused of having sold pool tickets on the clearing house figures. The police also say that sellers of baseball pool tickets are becoming active after a period of idleness, due to raids last summer. Detectives have been sent out to procure evidence against them. BRITISH WONT RELAX BLOCKADE LONDON. May 19.

Replying to the German suggestion that Great Britain, in response to the change in the German submarine campaign, should modify the food blockade. Lord Robert Cecil, minister of the war trade, said today there was not the remotest possibility that British economic pressure on the central powers would be relaxed. "BILLY" CLARK'S SLAYER ARRESTED ALBANY, X. May Harrington, aged 40, was arrested today charged with the murder of "Billy" Clark, the S-year-old boy, whose body was found April In the "plnebrush" wilderness, some six miles from this city. Detectives say Harrington has con- fes-sed the crime.

The boy had been missing three weeks. LOCAL BOYS MAKE "SHEFF" CLUBS NKW HAVEN', May 19 lections to the exclusive secret socie- ties of the Sheffield Scientific School Yale, were announced tonight. C'his- holm Garland of Pittsburgh was elected a member of Berzilins or the Colony, and Lawrence: Alderdice- of Pittsburgh, a member of Book and Snake or the Cloister. I i I Mectien made to her. He admitted, infatuated him, but retained a grip on him because she had in her pos- session dirigible plans anu st-m-i u- signs that, in some unexplained mau- ner, were taken irorn me men ui German war office.

Walter V. Camp, a German, said to lie the only man in the United States possessing a knowledge of the y.entiptin construction, testified he was a "loose" partner of Mr. Mac- Mechen. Heire I Witnes. What do you m-an by Moose part- ner'?" inquired Justice Giegerich.

"Why, Mr. MacMechen was to take our plans to England, present them to the Admiralty, and if they were ac cepted we were to divide the replied Camp. -ir December, 181 said Miss Hum- phrey, who Is heiress to more than aa yt MacMechen asked me l.w'.vw. if his wife had told me of their trou-i bles I told him she had not, and then he explained they had not been very happy together. For many years, MacMechen told me, he had been greatly bothered by women who insisted upon forcing their attentions upon him.

because It was not his fault, ne saiu, men were always interested in him- "Three, days out on a steamer bound for London, he told me. he met Mrs. Andrews. He told her about his interest aviation, and she explained she "was just as deeply interested and was going to the Admiralty office with plans 'From that time Mr. MacMechen told me.

'Mrs. Andrews and I were constantly together, discussing dirigible plans. Tiny took an apartment in London, lie told me, and made daily trips to the testing grounds where the dirigibles were being made'. Begged for Silence. "Ho finally explained it was impossi ble for him to leave jwiurewn.

since she was in possession of the most valuable plans he had. He begged me Contlnaed ou Second Page. signals throughout the country in order street and a private alley in the rear, that motorists may easily recognize the The damage was estimated by As-warning. The special committee was i distant Fire Chief Robert McKinley at authorized to join with a committee of the National Association of Railway Commissioners in recommending stand-I fiMPRlP.flM MISSlfiNIIRY IS PI fl ards to be followed and to obtain legislation in all the states requiring compliance with such standards. The association recommended five specific practices for adoption by public service commissions and other city i or stale aumorines men nave juris- -'diction over railroads.

These standards' cover uniformity in approach warning, signs: Color of light for night Indica- I tion: I'se of a disk approximat-! ing Ifi inches in diameter with the word "stop" painted thereon in large! i letters, instead of vari-colored flags I now in use by crossing watchmen; i painting of crossing sates alternate. diagonal stripes of black and white (somewhat like a barber's pole): rules governing crossing watchmen or flag-; men while controlling or regulating street or highway traffic.