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1 THE nnnn rfi TheWeather Thunder Showers Established July 29, 1786 Circulation Greater Than That AH :Otbft.r Pittsburgh Morning Papers Combined TEN CENTS A WEEK. TWO CENTS A COPY. Harrounln Marmon Car Ill MIS Wins 500-Mile Race-One Dead, Six Injured IF ITEMS (S) JL -JL -Lf JL. K-J 1 "3 PITTSBURGH, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1911.. 3 I MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATION IN PITTSBURGH 1 i I IIR NAMES OF THE WINNERS, Lozier Second, Fiat Third, Time 6.41:08 in the Great Speedway Test.

Impressive Services Arc Held in the County's Ceme- teries Weather MECHANICIAN KILLED THEIR CARS AND PRIZES The first 10 men to finish the race with their winnings follow: Kame and car. Prize. Ray Harroun, Marmon HO. 000 Ralph Mulford, Losier 6.000 D. Bruce-Brown, Fiat 3.000 Spencer Wishart, 2,000 Ralph De Palma, Simplex 1,500 Charles Men, National 1.000 W.

H. Turner, Ample S00, Harry Cobe, Jackson. 700 Fred Belcher, Knox. 800 Hughie Hughes, Mercer 500 Total MANY SEEK PLEASURE Arthur Greiner's Amplex Upsets and S. P.

Dickson Is Hurled Into Fence. Principal Observances Are Held 7 ri fi i --ij-u air in LawrenceviUe and the North Side. ACCIDENTS THRILL BIG CROWQ jJDOOQTQCiaiOOil nOOQC nil nsfi 1 1 inn 11 1 11 1 ill II- Y7 I EXERCISES AT JENKINS' GRAVE Thinks Mother Asleep, Finds She Is Dead If TjL Ly. The little green tents wher the soldiers sleep And the sunbeams play, and the women weep. Are covered with flowers today: And between the tents walk the weary tew Who were young and stalwart in '82, When hey went to the war away.

The little green tent is a country's shrine Where patriots kneel and pray. Fifty years ago the first lives were lost in the Civil war. This gave Memorial Tav vesterdav special significance. It Wilkinsburg Woman Prepares 1 ii 'AT" Breakfast fdr Parent Whom Death Had Claimed. fBr Associated- Press to Gazette Times.

I MOTOR SPEEDWAY, 1NDIANAPO" LIS, May 30. One life was sacrificed and several men were injured to- day in the first 600-mile motor race on A speedway. The great test of skill anl endurance was won by Ray Harroun, driving a Marmon car, in 6 hours 4t minutes 8 seconds. Closely pressing Har roun for the victory were Ralph Mulford, with a Lozier, who finished second, and David Bruce-Brown, who drove a Flat to third place. It was a great day for Michelln tires, nine of the 10 winning cars being equipped with them, THE DEAD.

8. V. Dickson of Chicago, mechanician for Arthur Grelner. driving an Amplex car. THE INJIRED.

Dave Lewis, mechanician for Teddy Tetilaff (Lozier). right leg broken near hip. Harry Knight, driver of Westcott, breast bruised and possibly internal injuries. John T. (i lover, Knight's mechanician, body bruised.

Bob Evans, mechanician for Jack Towel 1 SLEEPING IN ROCKING CHAIR When Mrs. Kdith M. Miller of 810 West street, Wilkinsburg, descended from her bedroom yesterday morning to the kitchen of her home for the purpose of preparing breakfast she saw her mother, Mrs. Virginia Rhoads, apparently asleep in a I was the forty-third memorial celebration held In Pittsburgh. Long ago the day meant more than the decoration of the graves of the dead and yesterday was no exception.

As the years go by the day has become more than one of sorrow. Jt is a holiday and as Buch it was observed. Nature smiled yesterday. The sun thane brightly all day and made possible everything which, had been planned. Through the hot morning the veterans of the two wars and many other military organizations marched to the cemeteries in different parts of the county and placed flowers on the graves of the dead.

Hanks Growing Thin. Time has thinned the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic. The lines s-r .4. -11 Miss (jf 3 Vpper 1-eft Hand, Old Comrades TalkinK Over War Experiences. I pper Rlbt Hand, Firing a Salute Over the Grave, of the Soldier Dead.

Lower Left Hand, Elanth Reslment Boys' Brigade. Lower Right Hand, Children of the Sixth Ward School, North Side, Carrying Flower, and Planta to Place on Craves. rocking chair. As Mrs. Rhoads often slept during the night in a chair downstairs, the daughter was not alarmed and went about her work quietly so as not to disturb the sleeping woman.

When the meal was prepared the daughter called to the mother, but received no response. She went to her and shook her, and still receiving no response to her efforts, summoned Dr. W. J. Martin of 36 Trenton avenue, who said Mrs.

Tobacco Trust Will (Jackson), body bruised when he leaped from car. John Wood, mechanician for Joe Jager burger (Case), run over and bruised after leaping from car. Arthur Grelner, driver of an Ampler, knocked unconscious, arm broken. Pickson Hurled Into Fence. Many thousand spectators roared encouragement to the 40 pilots that started the race at 10 o'clock this morning and with unflagging enthusiasm cheered th leaders in the last laps of the race anl watched the field pound around thg that marched to the burial grounds of Obey Supreme Court Taft Speaks As An Enemy Of Warfare their comrades were thinned and uneven.

Some could no longer march and drove to the bvarial grounds, where they deposited flowers on the graves of men they Firecrackers Active Early Three lilazes Started by Little -Noise-Producers i and IJoys. Issues Statement That It Will Rhoads had been dead for several hours. Heart disease is believed to have caused knew Intimately in life, those with whom Undertake in Good Faith a Readjustment of Affairs. they fought nd those they never saw, While the thousands were dedicating GOIEIIIT TO FOW "RULE OF REM" Vigorous Eeply to Harlan's Dissent in Oil and Tobacco Cases. death.

Mrs. Rhoads Was aged 6L She was born in Lewistown, Pa. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Cooper, were pioneers of that region.

Mrs. Rhoads is survived by -her daughter, a sister and a brother. the day to a living refutation of "the theory "at men forget, others devoted their time, to the joys of living. President Says at Memorial Celebration, We Should Strain Every Nerve to Avoid War. fBr Associates Pbess to Gazette.

Times NEW YORK, May 30. The American Tobacco Company will undertake in all good faith a readjustment of its affairs 'At Forbes Field' Pirates HORRORS OUTWEIGH BENEFITS course to decide the lesser honors. In the most serious accident of the day S. P. Dickson of Chicago, mechanician for Arthur Greiner, driving an Amplex, lost his life Jn an upset on the.

back-', stretch. The race was on only few minutes and the Amplex was in its thirtieth mile when the rim of one of tha front wheels flew off. The car twisted and hopped about on the hurling Greiner and Dickson from their seats. Dickson was thrown against a fence 20 feet from the car and terribly mangled. He was killed instantly.

Greiner was knocked unconscious, but after he had been revived at the hospital it was found that his only injury was fractured arm. Crowd Too Hit for Soldiers. A series of succeeding accidents thrilled the immense crowd, pitched to a fearful expectancy, and kept thousands of eyes strained on the track for a fatal colllson that seemed imminent whenever several as directed by the United States Supreme Court, according to an official statement carefully prepared by officers of the company- and given out this afternoon by W. W. Fuller, the corporation's chief counsel.

"The Supreme Court in this reads the statement, "has said that the Sherman anti-trust law should be given aa Heavy Loss By Fire in Verona Workers, Citizens and Oakmont and Verona Departments Fight Flames. Fire, thought to have been caused by firecrackers, did J400 damage to the barn of John Kress, a butcher of Luty street. Reserve township, yesterday afternoon. The blaze was discovered by a son. Oscar Kress, who, lyin sick in bed.

saw the flames from his bedroom window. Young Kress immediately called for help from the city fire department from a telephone near his room. Companies 5, 49 and 42 answered. A line of about 1,000 feet of hose had to be laid before a stream from a city water plug could reach ihe blaze. When Br A5POCIATKD HKKSS TO GAZETTS TIMES.

WASHINGTON. May 30. Under the shaded arches of the Arlington Nationil Cemetery President Tatt spoke today, not so much as the friend of peace but th9 played two games of ball and won both. About 30,000 persons spent the day watching the local athletes down the Chicago players. Hirer Regattas Held.

At Oakmont, erona and Homestead, the canoe clubs held regattas. The river was freckled with arm-propelled craft. The Fert Fitt Rifle Club held its annual shoot at the Highland range. On Schenley oval about 10,000 persons gathered In the afternoon for the opening of the Schenley Matinee Club season. The boulevards breathed an odor of gasoline, left in the wake of motor cars filled with pleasure-loving persons, i The principal memorial observance was OFFICIAL STATEMENT Fire totally destroyed the large grocery store of John Crookston in East Ralroad avenue, Verona, with two smaller ad the firemen arrived the flames were getting the best of a bucket brigade.

Quick work by the firemen saved a row of a dozen frame houses, including Kress' resi-idence. North Side boys and firecrackers caused application more extensive than has been given in any other case. It has said that the American Tobacco Company is embraced within its terms. My clients, of course, will obey the law as now interpreted and will, in good faith, undertake the readjustment of their affairs under the direction of the Circuit Court of tha southern district of New York, to whicn court the Supremo- Court has remitted the matter for direction." Said Delancey Nicoll, who assisted in presenting the case to the Supreme Court for the company "It will require long planning and at enemy of war. Thousands of veterans tramped the hot asphalt of the capital's streets, crossed the Potomac and trudged the dusty roads to Arlington to hear the President speak.

Thousands of others came in automobiles and by street cars and when Mr. Taft. vith Secretary of War Stimson, came whizzing up to thj vine-covered amphitheater there were fully' 10,000 persons in the seats and crowded about the speakers' stand. It held at the Allegheny and St. Mary's cars flashed close to each other.

The crowd was too big to be controlled by the company of militia and the hun Cemeteries. The services were jointly Br Associated Pbess to Gazette Times. WASHINGTON, May 30. That the government means to formulate- its antitrust policies in accord with the "rule .) reason," as laid down in the Standard Oil and tobacco trust decisions, notwithstanding the vigorous dissents of Associate Justice Harlan and the large number of bills introduced ia the Senate ta amend the Sherman anti-trust law, was made evident today. Administration officials, after a day'a consideration and study of the tobacco decision and a thorough comparison with i a fire in West Canal street.

They threw a lighted cracker against tne front aoor of the Junk shop of Jacob Oppenheimer, 209 Canal" street. joining buildings, with a total loss of almost J20.000, at 2 o'clock this morning. For a time it lighted up the whole Allegheny Valley and threatened a great part of the town. Aid was asked at 3 o'clock this morning from the Oakmont fire promptly responded. The Verona department was all out and workers from the Pennsylvania railroad shops, whose headquarters were above the burning grocery store, were fighting the blaze with probably the most impressive and Firemen were called when it was seen was that the cracker, when it exploded, had ignited some papers which were lying in the door.

The damage is about J50. tention to detail, and it will be long before the full proposition will have been worked out. However, I feel sure that we shall be able to present a plan which dreds of special policemen posted about the grounds. The spectators swarmed across the infield when Dickson was killed and pressed close about his body and that of the unconscious Greiner. Soldiers had to club their guns to clear a space for the surgeons when the ambulance arrived.

The throng was wild with excitement after the first accident and rushed bacs and forward over the field when other accidents were reported from one point or another around the track. In the stands men and women were on their feet for hours, cheering their favorites and exclaiming ith apprehension when the Standard Oil decision, were' agreed will meet with approval and enable the bringing about of a new condition fully held by Gen. Alexander Hays Post No. 3, Col. James C.

Hull Post No. 157, Col. James H. Childs Post No. 230, CoL O.

H. Rippey Post No. 41, Col. R. C.

Shaw Post No. 206, Duquesne Post No. 259, Davis Camp, Sons cf Veterans. Eighth Regiment Boys" Brigade and the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic The line of parade formed at Grant street and Fifth avenue. Lining up on both sides of the street the veterans were peered again and again by the crowds which had gathered.

Led by two bands and escorted by the Boys' Brigade, the veterans marched to Pertn avenue and Fifth street, where they boarded cars tor the cemetery. Services IVere Impressive. The commander of the day was Thomas accord with the legal requirements." most largely attended Memorial celebration Washington has seen. The President said Far be it from me to minimize in any way by these suggestions the debt we owe to the men buried here, who carried on the successful struggle that resulted in the abolition of the cancer of slavery, and which seemed ineradicable save by such an awful slaughter of the brightest and brav-est- and best- of the nation's youth and I shall not stoo to discuss whether it might have been possible to accomplish the same great reform by milder methods. Vhetber that be or not, the supreme sacrifice of these men who He about us in the cause of advancing humanity can never be lessened or obscured by such a Two Killed in.

Western Wreck. SPOKANE, May 30. Derailed at a Bharp curve. 26 miles east of Lind, the Columbian, eastbound passenger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee Puget Sound railroad, was wrecked early today. The engineer arid fireman were killed instantly and one passenger injured seriously.

that "the rule of reason" is no new feature of the Supreme Court's interpretation of law, and one member of the cabinet, whose views always have been regarded as retlecting those of the administration, made a comprehensive statement to that effect. hose which they secured from the Pennsylvania shops at Verona. The headquarters of the Verona post of the G. A. R.

was also above the grocery store, and all its belongings were destroyed, including old battleflags. The residence of John Besterman on one side of the grocery store and the tailor shop of John Gatto on the other caught fire and were almost totally destroyed. A bucket brigade is assisting the local firemen. Practically every male resident of Verona is on the scene. America May Get Two Cardinals.

LONDON, May 30. (Special.) Owing to the steady increase of the number of Catholics in the United States, it is stated that the Pope has decided that America in future shall be represented in the Sacred College by two cardinals. It is understood that the purple is likely to be conferred on Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco, thus giving equal prestige to east and west. Official Statement Made. The statement, attributed to "an official closos-to the administration," follows in part Justice Harlan in his dissenting opinion in the tobacco case, objects vigorously to the application in the construction of tha act of Congress of the "rule of reason," ttt which attention was called by the chief i.i.ti.-e In his opinion in the Standard Oil NEWS SUMMARY Conversational; Subjects.

suggestion. But the thought at which I would but hint this morning is that even in the hallowed presence of these dead, whose ideals of patriotism and love of their countrymen it needed a war to make everlastlnelv evident, we should abate no effort nnd should strain every nerve and avail ourselves of every honorable possible device to avoid war In the future. DOMESTIC. President Taft spoke at Memorial Day celebration as enemy of war. Page 1.

Rav Harroun in Marmon car, won 500- Continued on Third Pace, FOUR PEBISH IN FLAMES Silverton (B. Hotels Burn, Cans-' ing $250,000 Property Loss. NELSON. B. May 30.

Fire at Silverton, B. today destroyed an entire block of business buildings and caused the death of at least four persons. THE KNOWN DEAD. Robert McTaggart of Sandon. Robert Pairgrieve.

V. Pairgrieve. I'ntdentilied roan. AH those who perished were in th Windsor Hotel. The hotel register was burned and it may be that the ruins contain the bodies of other persons.

Some of the guests of the Windsor Hotel who escaped were severely burned. Among the other buildings destroyed was tha Victoria Hotel. The property loss IS MEMORIAL DAY HERE AND IT'S A BOY! Lhota Baby 'Arrives to Take-. His Place With Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July and Other Children Named After Days on Which They Were Born. S.

Maple, Post 259; adjutant general. Edward Abel, Post 259, and chief of staff, Charles F. McKenna, Post Xo. 3. The regular program was carried out.

Including the depositing of flowers, music and the salute to the dead by a firing squad. The Rev. Charles P. Cheeseman delivered the rrlncipal addresses. While the exercises wre being held in Allegheny and St.

Mary's cemeteries, the women of the James A. Garfield Circle No. 15, Ladies of the G. A. conducted services in the Arsenal lot cf the Allegheny Cemetery over the graves of the victims of the Arsenal explosion in 1862.

Cniondale Cemetery, North Side, was also the scene of impressive services. At o'clock the parade formed at Stock case and again In the tobacco case. But Justice llarian has not always regarded the Judicial function as excluding; the right to interpret statutes in the light i of reason and to refuse a literal applica-tl to the words the act where that I would involve a manifest wrong. In the case of Church of the Holy Trinity against 1'nltcd States, the court had under consideration the act of Congress known as the alien immigration act, passed February 28, TUFT JSKEDJOJID DUNNE Ex-Newspaper Writer in Toils in mile automobile race in which one man was killed and six hurt. Page 1.

The tobacco trust will obey the Supreme Court order to dissolve. Page 1. Government to apply "rule of reason" in dealing with future trust prosecutions. Page 1. STATE.

War veterans honored dead in many Pennsylvania towns. Page 6. Five persons wounded in firing of salute. Page 6. LOCAL.

New prices for finished uteel cause much guessing in the trade because of narrowing margin for independents with but the Lhota family Is no ordinary family. Lhota started on his record-break Mexico Not in Madero Plot. SAX ANTONIO, May 30. The aid of President Taft, Gov. Colquitt of Texas, and Philip C.

Hanna, American consul general at Monterey, has been sought to secure the release of William L. Dunne, the former San Antonio newspaper man, who was arrested at Monterey, and Dan De VH'iers, arrested ing feat over 25 years ago. ton avenue and federal street. John S. Of possible explanations for the phe ivit'Oi was commander or the day.

The nomenon there are these: Lhota is the seventh son of a seventh son and until formation was a3 follows: Swift's Boys Brigade and their band yesterday had seven sons himself. Lhota WIFE PROVES LENIENT JUDGE The Church of the Hidy irmity in New York had made a contract with the Rev. E. Walpole Warren, an alien residing in Kngland, to remove to New York and enter into its service as Its rector and pastor for a compensation to be paid to him; and because of that contract, an action was brought asainst the church by the United Slates to recover the penalty prescribed for a violation of this act. Justice Brewer wrote the opinion of the court, in which ail the other justices, including Justice Harlan concurred.

He premised by conceding "that tlio act of the corporation Is within the letter of this section, for the relation Ton! limed on Third Page. SURGEON 01SGAHDS KNIFE no raw material supply of their own. i is also a policeman, and some neom jue rauerson i obi ss, u. A. and "Hooray Look who's here It's Me- mortal Day and it's a boy, too," triumphantly shouted Policeman John Lhota of the North Side, in the ecstasy of his joy just after 8 o'clock last night.

"I knew it; I knew it!" And John Lhota, seventh son of a seventh son and father of 10, now 11 children, every one born on a holiday, legal, national and other kinds, had reached tije height of his ambition every holi-dav date on the Lhota calendar was filled! Memorial Day had been a momentous day to the Lhota family of Villa street. Look what It had brought! So brimming full was the cup of happi I Page 3. i think policemen do wonderful things. Then, too, Lhota is a Bohemian, a race around which mystery clings. Of the so at El Paso.

It is charged they were concerned in a plot against Francisco I. Madero, former provisional president of Mexico. R. 11. Smith, Texas legislator, today wired President Taft that Dunne is guiltless of any complicity in a plot and that his detention is an outrage.

band; Keystone State Infantry; A. E. Hunt Camp No. 1 and Alien Camp 15. United Spanish War Veterans; Col.

John B. Clark Post No. G. A. and band; Gen.

J. B. Sweitzer1 Camp No. Continued on Swond lutions the one about being the seventh son of a seventh son is generally accred ited the best one. What genii cannot the seventh son of a Sentences Husband to Go Home and Do Better.

ST. LOUIS, May 30. (Special.) Ordered by Judge Kiminel in Police Court to pronounce sentence upon her husband, accused of cruelty and failure to support, Mrs. Henry Rischard today listened to tha inarticulate plea of her 2-year-old daughter and set the head of the family free. Attaches of the court witnessed an seventh son compel to do his bidding? IDTO CUTS UP CAPERS ness of the delighted father after all the excitement was over and Memorial Day Dr.

Jackson of Pittsburgh Perforins Three Features Y'esterday every member of the Lhota family held their breath. What a family it would be if but, bosh, it had sounded too good to be true when Papa Lhota whispered around the tidings the little bird had told him. And how Papa Lhota was left to sleep in peace, that he stood his 10 eldest in a row and mused. What sturdy children they were, the three girls unusual procedure. Judge Klmmel hea.r-1 the ovidence.

He escorted Mrs. Rlschardf Wilkinsburg woman prepared the morning meal tor her mother whom she thought asleep, but later discovered had been dead for hours. Page 1- Reformed Presbyterian synod convenes in Kighth Street Church with nearly ajo delegates present. Page 2. Col.

K. 1. Meier, veteran president of the American Society of Merhanii-al Kn-gineers, is felicitated on the seventieth anniversary of his birth by hundreds of engineers attending the spring meeting in Pittsburg. Page 8. Sl'OltTIXG.

National League baseball scores: Pittsburgh 1. Chicago Pittsburgh 4, Chicago St. Louis 4. Cincinnati Cincinnati 6. St.

Iouis New York 4. Brooklyn New York Brooklyn Philadelphia 3, Boston 0 (10 ir.ningsj; Philadelphia 11, Boston 4 rage 9. American League results: St. Louis 4, Chicago 1: Chicago 2, St. Louis letrolt i.

Cleveland 2 ill) innings); Detroit 6. Cleveland Philadelphia 3, Xew York 0: Philadelphia 8, New York Boston 6, Washington 5 (10 innings); Boston 5, and the seven boys from Christmas, Fourth of July, on down the line, pa.it Tree and Electric Light Pole Are Wrecked by Runaway. Two men and a woman and W. a negro chauffeur, bad a narrow escape lroin injury- or death in the Port Fitt boulevard yesterday afternoon. The automobile in which they were riding became unmanageable.

When near Dallas avenue the steering gear went wrong. Th-J Thanksgiving, Labor Day, SL Anthony, Hobo Hotels and Their Guests, By CEOHOK A. ENGLAND. New Life at Ancient Nineveh, By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

Greatest Religious Crusade, By JAMES li. MORROW. John, to Georg St. Patrick and St little church holl- the Unusual Operation. PHILADELPHIA, May 30.

Delegates to the convention of the 'Laryngologieal Association witnessed a remarkable su-gical operation here today when Dr. Chevalier Jackson of Pittsburgh, without the use of a knife, removed a brass paper clip that had been imbedded in a young woman's lung for eight years. The instrument used was a bronchoscope, to which was attached a tiny electric light, a reflector and minute forceps. The tube was lowered down the throat and the clip was removed alter about an hour's work. Washington and days.

to the bench and admonished her to fix punishment. As she hesitated the lisping Da Da fthe child was heard. Rischard hung his head, grasped the child in his arms and strode forward. "Will you do better by me, Henry?" the wife asked. Give me another chance and I will," was the reply.

had smiied. There had always been a feeling among the Lhotas, even Papa Lhota admitting that Memorial Day was too important a holiday to neglect. H2 should invoke his magic powers, they thought. Lhota himeslf takes the matter philosophically. On the mystery surrounding the strange happenings in the Lhota family he ret'i'ses to shed any light, but such For not only were all the 10 children born on holidays, hut each has been I machine run into a tree, breaking it off.

named for a holiday, except Memorial Day. and theffsther promises that. ready. Christmas," or "It's time to Of Next Sunday's Gazette Times Then the auto turned a complete circle nnd crashed into an iron electric light Kile, breaking it oIT rn'cr the ground. The niaciiine then was stopped.

None of the occupants was injured. of a seventh son of a seventh From an impending term in the workhouse, he left the court room with his wife on his arm and carrying the child. is the way son. so to school. Fourth of July," might sound out of place in an ordinary family, Washington 4.

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