WILDCAT STOCK DEALSJENIED Riggs Bank Enters More De tails In "Persecution" Case BRANDEIS ATTORNEY FOR U. S. Bank Officers Declare Comptroller Falsified to Create Bad Immpression of Institution President Wilson and Some of the Cabinet Members Not Pleased With Williams' State ment Attacking Bank. Washington, April 14.—The open fight between Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller Williams on the one side and the Riggs bank on the other took another turn when the bank made public a statement answering the charges of Comptroller Williams that they used the bank as a brokerage office and that the institution had loaned more than $1,000,000 to women on highly speculative issues of stocks and that the officers of the bank had dealt in wildcat securities. The bank's officers in their latest statement charge Comptroller Wil liams with having included in his statement a falsehood for the purpose of creating the impression that the department of justics regarded hia charges as warranting legal action against the officers. The bank officers emphatically deny the comptroller's statements in regard to the making of loans on highly specu'" ve securi ties without proper co.. al. They accuse Mr. Williams of malicious mis representationespecially in his ef forts to create the impression that of ficers of the bank have been borrow ing money from it on "wildcat" stocks. They point out that Comp troller Williams, in citing the col lateral on these loans, mentioned only a small part of the securities, pmitting entirely stocks of a standard character. In connection with the comptroller's reference to wildcat stocks the of ficers of the bank suggest that if Mr. Williams' scrutiny had been closer he might have discovered collateral to a particular loan in the bank which would have interested him personally. This collateral, the officers say, con sists of "$5,000 Georgia and Florida Railroad company bonds of little or no marked value, of which road he (Williams) was formerly the presi dent, and which bonds he was instru mental in marketing." The bank of ficers aver that this loan is adequate ly secured by other collateral. The bank's charge of a falsehood against Comptroller Williams is based on an incident which occurred im mediately after the cabinet meeting, and which has strengthened the im pression that some members of the cabinet, and possibly the president, are not entirely pleased with the character of the statement which the comptroller made public, i Attorney General Gregory, upon leaving the cabinet meeting, said that .Louis D. Brandeis, the Boston lawyer, had not been retained as special coun sel by the department of justice, but had been engaged by the treasury de partment. He added that the Riggs bank matter never had been laid be fore the department of justice of ficials with a view to proceedings against the bank's officers. These re marks by the attorney general seem to contradict the statement of Comp troller Williams, who said: I "The recent investigations of the Riggs National bank disclosed irregu larities and unlawful practices on the part of certain officers of sufficient Importance to merit their reference to the department of justice and that department engaged the services of Louis D. Brandeis of Boston some weeks ago as special counsel in the case." t This conflicting statement by the attorney general immediately caused a scurrying about in the treasury de partment. Louis D. Brandeis already pad arrived on the scene from Boston In response to a hurry call from Comptroller Williams. He and the comptroller, together with Judkins At kins, a local attorney, who has been palled into the case on the govern ment's side, hurried to the department Of Justice. A conference followed and later Attorney General Gregory is sued this statement: { "The department of justice has em ployed Mr. Brandeis as special coun jjel to assist in the defense of the in junction proceedings brought by the ftiggs National bank. Up to the filing bf the suit the department of justice had not K-ore it for consideration the controv rsies in the treasury de partment and the Riggs National bank, but k-.ew in a general way that these existed and might result in some Character of litigation." Conductor's Blow Costs $BOO. ; Pittsburgh, April 14. —Harry Levine flras awarded $BOO in hfs damage suit the Pittsburgh Railways com pany growing. out of an assault by a [treat car conductor on July 30, 1913. The conductor is alleged to have ftruck Levine in the face and injured llxn seriously. f Vk Receiver For West Virginia Bank. Grafton, W. Va., April 14. —Blanch- E. Hiatt of MoundsvlUe was ap pointed receiver of the Grafton bank. If which Institution T. F. Lanham is Arssliasi. The bank voluntarily ieeed liar doors tw* mantfes ago. CUSTER OPERATOR QUITS KEYBOARD Telegrapher Who Flashed Mas sacre Retires From Game. ON DUTY TWENTY-ONE HOURS Carnahan Sent Eighty Thousand Words In Two Shifts, and Receipts of His Office In Two Days Were $3,000. Newspaper Man Gave Carnahan Fifty Dollar Biil For Extra Work. John M. Carnahan, the telegraph op erator who sent out from liismarck, N. D., one of the biggest stories the world ever read—the story of the Cus ter massacre on the Little Big Horn in July, 1870— has just retired on a pen sion and is planning to spend the rest of his days in Oklahoma on his Kay county farm, where he will raise chick ens, pigs and other domestics. For seventeen years Carnahan was at the frontier station of Bismarck and when he left there it was for Missoula. Mont., where he lived for twenty-four years. Previous to being stationed at Bismarck be was at La Crosse. Wis., and so after fifty years as an opera tor Carnahan will draw a pension, and Oklahoma will have within its boun daries "another veteran who helped make the history of the early days of the Indian west. The Bismarck garrison, including many friends of Carnahan. was in the Custer expedition. The operator and the post surgeon rode out from the post with the expedition when it started if June, 187G, to punish the Sioux Indi ans. They went twelve miles with the Seventh cavalry and then returned with the last dispatch General Custei ever sent. It was addressed to Presi dent Grant and told of the plans for the expedition. On the night of July 5 the steamei Far West came down the river am tied up at Bismarck when most people were in bed. The Far West brough the wounded from Reno's commam and the official dispatches which tol of the complete annihilation of Cus ter's outfit Flashed Word of Massacre. Carnalian was carlled from his be< and found on his desk in the telegrap office a carpetbag full of oflicial re ports of the fight and its results. H? sized up the job, and bis first wire a<- tion was to flash the word east tha the massacre had occurred. Then In settled down to the transmission o the official story to the department o war at Washington. For twenty-om hours he did not leave the key. Coffe; and sandwiches were Lauded him uov and then during the long shift, and ; wet towel was kept on his forehead With the reports finished he fell int bed and for three hours slept the sleep of exhaustion; then he got up and re turned to the key. For two days the eastern papers had been clamoring for detailed news of the massacre, but Carnahan could not leave his official work, and until now there was no one to send it. He start ed in, however, and sent all he could find out to New York. Chicago and St Paul papers. He sent as much story as he had strength to get and prepare, and that was the way the details of the disaster were sent out. Carnahan had sent 80.000 words in the two shifts, and the receipts of his office in those two days were $3,000. As fast as they could arrive special correspondents hurried to Bismarck to get the intimate details of the big story. O'Kelly, a New York man. was the first big one on the ground, and Carnahan sent for twelve hours more on his stuff. There were 22,000 words, and the tolls on the special dispatch were $1,320. O'Kelly gave Carnahan $3O for his ex tra work, and the veteran operator siiL has that $5O bill. Carnahan is the man who handlec the official correspond ince betweei President Grant and General Custei which preceded the Little Big Horn expedition and which has always been supposed to have caused the resent ment which drove Custer to reckless ness on the fatal ride. But that is a story Carnahan has never told. During the fifty-three years at the telegraph key many thrilling stories have passed through his hands, espe cially during the early days of his ca reer, when he was on the border be tween the north and south during the civil war. BIRD SCARES PEACH MEN. Sparrow-like Visitor Has Jersey Grow ers Up In Arms. The perennial rumor that the peacb crop is about to be destroyed cropped up in Egg Harbor, N. J., when employ ees in the large orchards of Charles F. Stuckel discovered a small, reddish brown bird on the trees. With its small, stout broad bill the bird, which is about the size of a spar row. was attacking the buds ferocious ly, much in the manner in which a woodpecker works its way in search of worms. According to the Stuckel folk, this particular bird has a capacity of about 6.000 buds an hour. Several of the birds were shot and sent to the state agricultural experi ment station at New Brunswick to de termine whether they are protected by law. Meanwhile the farmers are tak ing down their shotguns to save their peach crop. ROCKEFELLER AND SON ON FIFTH AVENUE Photo copyright, 1915, by American Press Association. Unconventional photograph of the oil king and John D., Jr., taken as they were leaving church together in New Y'ork. HE MAY RUN FOR PRESIDENT. Congressman James R. Mann, minority leader of the house, is favorably mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for president in 191 G. LLOYD-GEORGE PREACHING TEMPERANCE Photo by American Press Association. Chancellor of the exchequer of England and his statement on the evils ot trink, which he calls England's greatest enemy. .r A u \ ± : . • ' : Z ■ itiK t 1 THE PATRIOT S J.JETOLD Li,JU , SfISTEr Mora • • Yi-dly 0 SCll J li aiwv • t)3 1t,3,1. MAbc A L- j i iwihhESblQiif Many Anecdotes or Famous Author o. Sea Stories— 3ej..n und Finished in One Night His First Effort, "The De struction of the Unf,t," Writing on a Washtub Until Dawn. Morgan Robertson, one of the fore most writers of sea stories, who died suddenly in his hotel room in Atlantic City, proved that he was a prophet as well as a teller of tales. In 1808 he wrote "Futility," in which he vividly described the wreck of the Titan, the largest and finest steamer ever con structed. the wreck being caused by au iceberg in the vicinity of the Titanic catastrophe. When the Titanic went dowu, just fifteen years after the book had been written, the similarity of names in the imaginary book and the locality where the ship hit the iceberg made a profound impression. Mr. Rob ertson followed the sea for many years before he took up literature. Illustrating the impossibility of one man knowing all there is to know, Rob ertson told this story: "I used to sail with a skipper who was a good seaman, but be was what you might call all at sea when he was on land. He was driving one day along a country road in England when he came to a signpost. An index finger pointed in the direction from which the skipper bad come, and the inscription on it read, 'Selkirk, 12 miles.' "Now, Selkirk was the town for which the skipper was bound. He did not want to turn around, so he climbed the post, tore the sign loose and nailed it to a post on the other side of the road, so the baud pointed in the direc tion he was going. Then he climbed back into the buggy and drove on." "I admire a liar," Robertson used to say, "even when his prevarications strain my credulity. A friend of mine, who objects to efforts to pry Into his personal affairs, recently limped into my workshop. " 'What's the matter with your foot?' I asked, more to be polite than because I cared what was the trouble. "Then he gained my everlasting ad miration by a display of nerve and mendacity I never saw equaled. 'An eel stepped on it,' he said." Gets Clippings on "Ghosts." Robertson used to delight in telling this story: "Sometime ago I gave an order to a concern which furnished newspaper clippings, telling the manager that I wanted ghost stories. 1 undertook to explain that what 1 wanted was fiction that dealt with spirits and spooks, and the clipping man said he understood and would fix me all right "In a few days I began receiving clippings about ghosts. One of the slips was taken from a country paper in Pennsylvania and it said that a rival sheet had 'given up the ghost' Another clipping, taken from a Louis ville paper, was a pert paragraph from some other paper regarding Bryan and the Democracy, over which was the caption, 'Hamlet Without the Ghost.' "Another clipping referred to the pro duction of Ibsen's 'Ghost' in London while the fourth was an editorial para graph from a North Carolina paper in which a political convention was re ferred to as a 'ghost dance.' I never realized before that there were so many kinds of ghosts." In 1896 while he was in New York a friend handed Robertson one of Rud yard Kipling's sea stories and told him to read it. He did and that night he began and finished his first short story, writing on a washtub until dawn. H called it "The Destruction of the Un fit" After a long delay it was accept ed by a magazine which paid $25 for it During the year that followed Mr. Robertson wrote and sold about twen ty short stories of the sea. Since then not a year and perhaps not a month passed in which one or more of his sea pieces did not appear. SAW WAR MAIMED TRADED. Mrs. Maugan Says Limbs of Prisoners Were Matched. Mrs. May E. Maugan, fashion buyer, arrived on the Arabic after having spent six weeks in Paris and paid a high tribute to the women of the French capital. She saw the first ex change of prisoners that took place at Boulogne. "The women of Paris are wonderful," she said. "They have taken hold of the city and seem to be running it You find them everywhere, on the tram cars, managing the shops, delivering the mail and filling thousands of posi tions hitherto occupied by the men Quite Logical. Teacher— Freddie, why do you spell bank with such a large "B? f Freddie— "Cause pa said that a bank was no good inless it had a large capital! ENGLAND AGAIN SEES ZEPPELINS Kaiser's Air Cruisers Appiar Over North Coast Tow.is MANY BOMBS ARE DROPPEu New Castle, Great Naval Base, One of Places Attacked —Extent of Dam age Not Yet Known—Success Stays With Russians, Who Are Forcing Their Way Into Hungary Repulsing Austrians at Every Point. London, April 15. —German Zeppe- Uns last night passed over north coast towns dropping bombs in their flight. Their appearance caught the people unprepared and bombs began fal-ing before all of the inhabitants had been warned of their approach. News of the raid has caused groat excitement in London, where the pub lic has recently been disposed to poke fun at the tlireatened attacks by air and to jeer at the accounts of Count Zeppelin's preparations. The extent of damage done is not known. Newcastle was the first city attacked. From it the squadron of Zeppelins turned to the north and slipped over Blythe, Tyne, Wall's End, Seatonburn, Cramlington and other small places. Eight bombs were dropped at Blythe. It is not known yet whether all of the raiders escaped, but it is con sidered probable that one at least, if not more, were brought down. The military authorities, in anticipation of a repetition of the Yarmouth attack by air, have placed aerial guns in all of the coast towns and fortifications and the gunners have been in con stant practice. It is likely that the raiders were trying to destroy the big navy yard* at Newcastle and to cripple the coal ing facilities which, as is well known, are the largest in the world. Any damage to them at this time would be of serious concern to the government. Austrians Forced to Retreat. v Lemburg, April 15. —In a desperate attack by the Russians on the right flank of the Austrian position at Mezo laborcz on the Hungarian side of the East Beskid mountains, about fifty miles south of Przemysl, the Aus trians were forced after a twelve hour battle to make a precipitate re treat. The whole main crest in this district which the Austrians consid- j ered impregnable now is in Russian hands. The main body of the Austrian army then moved on Rostoka, where they found the Russians prepared in a Strong defensive position, and they again were repulsed. Another attack made by the Austrians in the south ern district of Uzsok and Veretzkim met with a similar check, the Rus- J sians occupying a position three miles from Uzsok. SUNDAY MAY GO TO ENGLAND I High Officials Want Him to Help In Prohibition Campaign. Paterson, N. J., April 15. —In view of the fact that Sir Henry Randall, chairman of the men's business cam paign for prohibition of England, an organization backed by the king; Gen eral Kitchener, Lloyd-George and others, had asked in London for Billy Sunday's cable address caused the re porters to flock toward Lady Hope, who was attending a Sunday meeting here, to ask her whether or not Billy would be a success in England in her opinion. "I think," Lady Hope answered, "that Mr. Sunday would be a great force for good as far as the English prohibition movement is concerned. English audiences, I believe, would ' respond to him, especially after they have begun to grasp his mannerisms and phrases." "Yes," concluded Billy heartily when the suggestion was made to him, "the ocean voyage would do me a lot of good," the inference from all this being that Billy would not abcolutely hate the idea of taking a run over to England during the coming summer vacation. WON'T STOP OYESTUFFS Exports From Germany Can Come to U. S., England Says. Washington, April 15. Arrange ments have been completed for the shipment to America of two cargoes of German dyestuffs which were paid for by the American importers before March 1 and are now at Rotterdam. This Information was conveyed to the state department by the British embassy. The cargoes in question are on the steamers Guantanamo and City of Savannah. According to the ar rangement, those cargoes will not be , interfered with by the allied fleet, pro vided they are under a neutral flag and consigned to Secretary Redfield of the department of commerce for the direct use of the consumers of the dyestuffs. Willard Sues Film People. New York, April 15. —Champion Jess Willard filed a suit in the su premo court for $lOO,OOO damages and for an accounting from the Universal Film company. The complainant al leges that there has been a violation eg the agreement. 3
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