Partly cloudy; Wednesday probably fair. See Plain Dealer's Editorial LOCAL WEATHER. I PLAIN DEALER. TEMPLE'S SKETCHES FROM CLEVELAND LIFE Page. SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR SIXTEEN PAGES CLEVELAND, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1915 PRICE In and Greater within 85 Cleveland miles ONE CENT- TWO TWO SHIPS BELIEVED LOST ON Squash the "bug." AN THE LAW NO FEAR OF CRISIS, SAYS WASHINGTON Wilson to Make Another Appeal to Berlin Before Relations End, Belief.
'Indisputable Rights of Americans' Crux of Case. ALe BY PLAIN DEALER'A LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON, July it Is admitted that Germany's latest reply on the Lusitania case is unsatisfactory, administration officials were active today in denying there 19 any sign of a crisia. It is understood the delay in Secretary Lansing's visit to Cornish, N. to confer with the president is to bear out this impression.
The presldent, Lansing 'it is said, making did the not trip insist on air. at once, because it would give rise to reports that he considered the situation grave enough to demand immediate attention. The judgment of officials who are in the confidence of the president is the two governments will ad. dress themselves to the new questions raised in Germany's reply and that at present the suggestion of breakIng off diplomatic relations is so premature that it may. be Hee No Danger of Rupture.
A crisis, one of the officials said, would be foreshadowed by the calling' of congress into session as no action other than argument can develop without the presence of congress. On the point of a. diplomatic rupture, a high official said today: "Breaking off diplomatic relations is: Inconceivable as. a remedy way punishment. In fact, it would only be an evasion of the well considered statement of the president, who in notes said to Germany that we I would hold her to a strict accountability for infractions of international law resulting in the loss of American (lives by reason of German submarine attacks on unarmed merchant Vesgels." According to foreign diplomatic view, the controlling question will turn largei; on the" defensibility or indefensibility of the following paragraph in the president's note of May 13: "American citizens act within their indisputable rights 'in taking their ships and in traveling wherever their legitimate business calls them upon the high seas and exercise rights in" what should be the welljustided confidence that their, lives will not be endangered by acts done in clear violation of universally acknowledged, international obligations, and certainly in the confidence that Continued on 4th Page, 4th Column.
.11: CENTS NO: 194 LAKES SIGNS MUST AGREE WITH CAR SYSTEM -RULES COUNCIL. 1, Fight for Uniform Arrangement Won; Battle to Im- 1'2 prove Fare Paying Plan Lost. Witt Opposes All Changes, Declares Certain City Editor Has 'Brain15 ACTION FOLLOWS HOT SESSION OF 4. COMMITTEE Street Railway Body is Vic2 tim of er's Ire. Cleveland car riders must continue to put up with a tangled system of fare paying, but may 4 rest assured that the signs they see on cars are telling the truth.
Pay-leave cars will no longer be marked "Have your fare ready," cars bound for the Public square will be marked lic square" and not bear the title of the other terminal of the line. Council last night unanimously supported a resolution from Councilman E. A. Meyers providing that' signs both in and on cars conform with the actual facts of the operation of the maystem, thereby removing all directions fare paying ant requiring the company to display 1 the sign' "Public Square" prominently. on all cars bound for the square on all lines.
Vote Down Dittriek Ordinance. The councilmen, however, voted down the Dittrick ordinance providing that the pay-leave system prevail on all cars- bound from the Public square and pay -enter on all cars bound to the square. This would have eliminated the confusing optionai system of pay-enter or pay-leave for side entrance cars bound for square, depending upon where the passenger sits. Witt, who fought the members'of Street Railway Commissioner committee on street railways in their efforts to remedy existing defects at! their meeting yesterday afternoon, made the fight in the council chamber last night. The ordinance: by Councilman Alva R.
Dittrick came in for his hearty condemnation. "Every car in the city except the Detroit and Clifton cars are operasks declared the commisated practically. the way Dittrick asioner, leaping to his, feet. "The only difference is that" on -bound trips those going to the rear of center entrance cars pay as they leave. "It is immaterial to me what the council does in this matter, but the rear 'half of the car as a.
platform by having the pay-leave system in operation is a great convenience. Let's take the center entrance cars off the Detroit and Clifton lines and have it all uniform. "Because some city editor 1 has a brainstorm and writes stories that are not based on fact, I see no reason why you councilmen should dance around." 45 Ordinance Loses 14 to 11. Put 1 to a vote, the ordinance lost, 14 to 11: Those voting against the measure were Councilmen A. J.
Damm, F. Durkin, Robert Foster, P. V. Kalina, R. J.
Koch, Charles Marquard, James J. McGinty, J. W. Reynolds, William Rolf. J.
F. Sledz, J. E. Smith, W. G.
Tack, W. F. Thompson, and J. E. Votava.
Councilman Meyers' resolution, adopted by council, reads as follows: "Be. it resolved by the council of the city of Cleveland, state of Ohlo, that the Cleveland Railway be and it is hereby" directed to change all signs now g. carried on its cars, either on the inside or on the outside, so that they, will conform to the actual facts of the- operation of the street railway system; and that the further directed to place destination sign "Public square" on ali cars round for the square, and "Be it further resolved that the clerk of council be directed to send a certified copy of this resolution the Cleveland Railway way committee yesterday' afternoon: At the meeting of the street rail-, 'it was recommended by a 3 to 2 vote that council adopt the Dittrick ordinance, amending it to. provide that the straight pay-enter, system prevail on cross town lines, the UnContinued on 10th Page, 3d Column. Today's Plain Dealer TEMPERATURE IN CLEVELAND (Comparisons.) July 12, 1014.
July 12, 1915. Highest, Lowest. Highest, Lowest. S6 69 77 60. Thermometer (Omelal,) Readings Testerday.
193 11 12 3 m. p. 70 3 p. p. p.
m. 70 p. p. 72 p. 10 8 p.
(Klosk.) p. 81 10 p. 9 p. 78 12 p. 8 p.
80 11 p. ada Weather Forecast and Complete Temperatare Table on Page 13, The News Index. Pages. 1-Two Steamers Lost in Huron. Car Signs Must Tell Truth.
Barber and C. Y. Grants Made. German Note Causes No Crisis. British Envoy's Life Attempted.
Smith Blames Townships for Vice 2-Official War Statements. Asquith Bars War Criticism. Last German Raider Destroyed. 3-Many Gardens in Bad Shape. Says ex 4-Willis Still Ousting Foes.
Mayor Baker Wants a Badge. U. S. to Recognize Carranza. Edison on Navy Board.
5-Plain Dealer Movie Contest. Illegitimacy Curb Found. Convicted Miner Cries 'Frame-Up' 6-The Editorial Page. 7-The Women's Page. Society and Club News.
8-One Killed, Five Hurt, by Trains. Platoon System Urged in Schools. Kohler for City Court Clerk. 9-Sporting News. 10-Sporting News.
11-The Week's Theaters Cosmopolitan Cleveland. "Pub-12-Lake Marine News. Real Estate and Building. Insurance. 13-Grain and Produce Markets.
Railroad News. Classified Advertising. 14-Classifed Advertising. 15 -Classified Advertising. 16-Financial News.
MAKES U.S. SHIP. ACT. SHIELD FOR SUBMARINE Teuton Commander of Submersible Then Blows Up Russian Boat. LIVERPOOL, July an American: ship is alleged to have been used as a shield by a German submarine for the sinking of another vessel is the story related by members of the crew of the American bark Normandy, which has arrived here from Gulfport, Miss.
The story is that the Normandy was stopped by a 'German submarine off southeast coast of Ireland Friday night. The captain was called aboard the submarine, but was allowed to return under the threat: that his ship would be destroyed unless he acted as a shield for the submarine from an approaching vessel, the ateamer Leo. The submarine submerged, proceeded around the bow of the Normandy, and ten minutes later the crew of the Normandy saw the Leo blown up, Twenty-Ave persons were on board, of whom eleven were drowned, including, three stewardesses. Those saved included three AmerIcang- Walter Emery of North Carolina, Harry Clark of Sierra and Harry Whitney of Camden, N. J.
All these three men when interviewed corroborated the story. HAS $2,500,000 HOME, AND OHIO PAYS THE BILL Giovanni 'Numbers Servants by Score Only Patient in State Hospital. LIMA, July Catino, has the largest and most expensive home in the United States and probably a larger corps of attendants than any man in America. Giovanni is the Arst and only patient of the new Lima State hospital for the criminal insane. The 500.000 structure, largest and beat equipped of its kind in the world, and its scores of employes are all to his care.
He eats his meals in the big dining room. with its soundless floor and is king of all he surveysfor few days. ville where he had been tried for at Catino. was sent here from Marymurder. LAYS ON HANDS, 'CURES' Patrolman's Scolded by and 'Dumb' Man Who: Begs.
AKRON, July Abe Morledge discovered today his touch possessed strange curative powers. Under Its Influence, Michael 0'Day, 33, "deaf and dumb," regained his speech. Morledge interfered with 'Day's ef. forts to obtain, donations because of his' affliction. Then O'Day became very Voluble in his protestations.
Thomas Succeeds Frohman. NEW YORK, "July Thomas, playwright, is to succeed to the artistic. direction of the -affairs of the late Charles Frohman. according to report tonight. Al Hayman to to remain as business bead of the theatrical producing house.
SMITH SHIFTS VICE RESPONSIBILITY TO TOWNSHIPS' CHIEFS Sheriff Says Regulation of Resorts is Up to Mayors, Constables and Marshals Asserts His Nineteen Deputies Work Overtime on Matters of Routine. HOUSE RAIDED SATURDAY TO BE ABATED BY ORDER County Liquor Board Ready to Cancel Licenses if It Gets Proof. Sherif W. J. Smith in a statement last night thrust responsibility.
for the wide open conduct of certain road houses scattered through Cuyahoga county from his own shoulders upon "township mayors, 'marshals and constables. As the chief police officer of the county Sheriff Smith affirmed his inability, with the working force at his disposal, to regulate conditions in outlying townships, where notorious resorts have been running openly, "Despite his plea it was ascertained that Sheriff Smith hasinot asked either the county commissioners or 1: the common pleas judges, as the permits him, to authorize an increase in the force. "If the mayors and police officers of the townships in which vice resorts are running tolerate them and do not even them: to the sheriff's office, what. chance do' we have of getting at the evil?" was the sheriff's comment. A Points to West Park Raid.
he pointed tor the raid made Saturday night on the resort kept by. Thelma Sarber at Stop 13. Bereard, in six former residents of the Cleveland segregated vice district were arrested. This raid occurred in West Park. "Why, a village policeman was on traffic duty within a hundred yards of this resort," said the sheriff.
"We passed him on our way to make the raid. There were other village offcials nearby. "The power to: regulate roadpities. 'houses is vested In township author- I It's up to them to do their I duty." The sheriff contended that routine county business occupies all the time of nineteen deputies in his office and that no provision is made to warrant expenses necessary in work of a purely investigating character: in I outlying townships. Coincident with Sheriff Smith's demand that township officials do their duty, a demand that was not served until revelations had been made showing exact conditions throughout the county, the county liquor license commission through its secretary, A.
J. Kennell, yesterday announced it is prepared revoke liquor license's held by roadhouses and resorts on county roads leading out of the city to the west and southwest. if it verifiles the information that licensed saloons have been supplying liquor to immoral resorts." Orders Resort Abated. Another important development in the war on county vice came yesterday afternoon when Mayor William E. Loesch of Newburg Heights village held the trials of six former residents of the Cleveland segregated district arrested In the West Park raid Saturday night on Thelma SarContinued on 3d Page, 2d Column.
COUNCIL GRANTS BARBER SUBWAY, Y. FRAMO 9 i 3 Approves Freig. 5 minal on 55thst Undergo ine After Hot Minority, Defeated by Administration Forces, ens Referendum on Both Projects. CHARGES MAYOR BAKER: LEANS TO CORPORATIONS Bernstein, His Twelve Amendments Discarded, Hurls 1 Accusations. Council last night passed the Cleveland Youngstown freight, terminal and Barber subway franchises, minority members fighting to the bitter end and as they went down in defeat threatening referendum action on hoth projects.
referendum would inject the proposals into the coming municipal campaign Ag conspicuous issues. The grants are two of the most important pieces of rallroad legislation the city has had to consider in recent years. Both are gigantic undertak2 ings. One gives the Cleveland Youngstown Railway Co. the right to lawlerect a great freight terminal in the lower Broadway S.
vicinity, the city vacating forty streets for: the 3. purpose. The other permits the Cleveland, Akron Canton Terminal Railway backed by Ohio C. Bar: ber, to construct a subway under. E.
Doth-st from the lake to the southerly limits of the city. 1 The Cleveland Youngstown grant was approved first, by a vote of the being the vote the Ave' minority members present and, the vote of Councilman William Stolte, of the administration. Councilman: W. S. FitzGerald, minority floor leader, was away, Persistent opposition of the minority and introduction of twelve minority ments, all of which defeated, prevented Anal action' until 9 o'clock.
Barber Vote on Strict Divialon. The Barber grant was passed within the next hour by a vote of 20 to 5, a strict division between adminisI tration forces and the minority. The minority began Immediate ef. forts looking toward a referendum, and by a resolution prepared in advance and submitted before adjournment asked council to vote to lay both projects before the voters in November. Adam Damm moved the resolution be referred to the committees on Judiciary and printing.
Mr. Bernstein termed this dodging the issue and indicating lack of courage on the part of the council to vote "yes" or "no" on the resolution, Inasmuch as there would be no meeting again until in August after vacation, when the forty days in which the ordinances would become effective, would have elapsed. The motion to refer was approved by a vote of 13 to 12, equivalent to ending the posaibility of council originating a referendum. One vote more would have Insured a roll call on the resolution direct. Administration Councilmen R.
J. Koch, David Moylan, Joseph Sledz, J. E. Smith, William Stolte, W. G.
Tack and William L. Wagner voted with the minority against referring the resolution to committee. Council adjourned at 11 o'clock, an hour far later than that established by councilmanic custom, not to conContinued on 2d Page, 3d Column. You Can Use An Automobile This Summer A practical and economical way to enjoy an automobile, if you feel that you cannot yet afford one, is offered by those garages and individual owners in Cleveland who offer their cars for hire by the trip, the" hour or the day. Their names and telephone numbers may be found over in the Want Ad pages of The Plain Dealer, under the "Autos to A word 'to them will bring to, your door a well furnished, easy-riding car of any size desired, accompanied by a good driver.
4. Owners of cars to hire can keep them always in demand by advertising them where the ad' will' reach everybody in Cleveland who is When an ad is ready to gert leave it with or, Telephone it 'to The Plain Dealer Main or Erie 9 WRECKAGE IS SEEN, CREWS FEARED Choctaw of Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. Thought to Have Crashed Into: Oil Boat in Fog. Collision Supposed to Have Occurred on Lake Huron, Near Alpena, A Mich. OVER FORTY MAY HAVE GONE DOWN.
IN CRAFT Lake Captain Makes Report of Debris Floating in Water. HURRAH FOR TONSILS! L. THEY'RE OUR FRIENDS What Doctor Wan Defends the Spongy Things, NEW YORK, July 12. (Leaard Wire.) -The tonsils which. with the more famous appendix, many years have been labeled da the ultimate in the useless, at last live found a protector.
Dr. R. G. Eccles of Brooklyn, in the current laaue of the Medical Record, describes the tomalls as something of a garrison for the leucocytes, those. "soldiors of of the blood" rush to any part ELI.
body which becomes infected. "The tonsils are the frat open doors through which the leucocytes may pass to perform their most effelent work of salvation," declares Dr. Eccles. He adds that to remove the tonsils 18 like ordering away A trained and ent army from the border of a country about to be Invaded. "They're what Belgium was to France," he MANY CHINESE PERISH; FLOODS HIT PROVINCES Distress Great, Aid Needed at Once, U.
S. Consul General Cables. WASHINGTON, July. LOss of many liver as result of. unprecedented floods in the provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangel, China, was Announced today In a dispatch to the state depart.
ment from Consul General Cheshire at Canton, The consul general's message said: "Great distress among the Chinese in the Interior of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, Many lives lost. Shameen flooded two or three feet. There is a total of trade and railroad traffic. Contributions to suffering humanity urgently needed at once, Kindly Inform the Red Cross and the Christian Herald." Shameen la an island in Canton harbor on which foreign concessions are" 1o- PLUNGES 80 FEET, DIES Man Loses Life at Filter Plant; Another Killed at Boiler Works. Plunging eighty fert from the top of derrick late yesterday afternoon, John Howeton, 26, structural ironworker, 2044 W.
10th-st, met death in sand pit at the city's filtration plant, foot of W. 45th-st. Howeton was working ou the derrick erected on top of the steel framework of the plant. A score of workmen, who had been watching, saw him lose his balance and plunge. Howeton's body WAS taken to Baxton's undertaking rooms.
While working under a which was shifting large ploces of Iron the Ohio Machine Boiler plant, 1503 S. yesterday afternoon, Joseph 24, boilermaker, 3485 W. wag struck on the which head fell and killed by 8 of iron from the derrick. His body WAS taken to It. C.
Hieber's Wooster Child Killed. WOOSTER, 0., July 3- year-old son of Ward: Musser. WAS killed today, when the rear wheel of a wagon loaded with hay passed over his head, crushing it to pulp (SPRING-RICE SAVED FROM GANG ATTACK British Ambassador All but Waylaid After Shooting of J. P. Morgan.
Government Seeks Evidence of Plot to Wreck Steamers. BY PLAIN DEALER'S LEASED WIRE. NEW YORK, July 12, An traordinary account of an attempt to waylay Sir Cecil Spring- Rice, the British ambassador, was given to an official of Nassau county late this afternoon by one of the chauffeurs of J. P'erpont Morgan. On the night of July 5, the Mon: day Morgan following by Holt, the the attack British upon ambas- Mr.
sador decided 'to visit the home of Willard D. Straight in Greenvale. The trip took the automobile through a lonely section of the Jericho turnpike, about a mile from Greenvale. The Morgan limousine had acarcely passed outside the ring of guards around the Morgan estate when the chauffeur noticed another machine, a large touring car, about 100 yards In advance of him. The fact that the car had no rear light.
was the first thing that. arouged the chauffeur's suspicions. He noticed also that It kept the same distance, slowing down when he slowed down and speeding up when he did. When both cars reached a narrow strip of the Jericho turnpike, a mile from Greenvale, they were still the same distance apart. The mysterious car ahead slowed.
up and swung across the road, an effective barrier to the approaching Morgan machine. Six men jumped out of the stalled Continued on. 2d Page, 5th Column. FEAR ENGINEER MAY BE LOST 8. R.
Shipman. The steamer Choctaw of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. fleet and another steamer are supposed to have been lost with all hands on Lake Huron a few miles north of Alpena, in a dense fog late Sunday night or early yesterday morning. C'apt. Nelson Brown, master of the steamer James H.
Reed of the Inter-Lake Steamship Co. fleet, arrived at Sault Ste. Marie, last night and reported he had run through wreckage of a ship off. Presque Isle, Lake Huron, at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. After and hour's search of the wreckage he found no floating cabin of a steamer first was sighted.
A close examination showed the cabin bore the name Choctaw. Believes Two Ships Sank. In the wreckage were a number of oll. barrels. The Choctaw was coal laden and never carried oll.
Buch traffic is handled by. a few ships and It 18 Capt. Brown's opinion the Choctaw and another ship came together in the fog and both sank. It 1s probable a at least forty persons were lost if Capt. Brown's theory la correct.
The Choctaw carried A crow of twenty and a small steamer. would have at least elghteen or twenty in her crew. "We were steaming abreast of Presque Isle at 10 this morning when I sighted what appeared to be a cabin. of A steamer," said Capt. Brown.
was floating to my starboard. Getting closer, I plainly made out the name I slowed down: and stood by nearly an hour, but saw no signs any direction. "Other wreckage also was floating around in a small area. Among this were oil barrels. As the Choctaw Idid not carry oil, I think she must (have been struck by some steamer that did and sunk with all hands.
"The Choctaw passed me going into Lake Huron last night In the fog. There was' a little sea running; but a very heavy fog prevailed. Bound for Sanit Ste. Marie. The Choctaw was bound for Sault Ste.
Marie with coal. She passed up at Livingstone channel, lower Detroit river, at 4:30 Sunday morning and at Port Huron at noon. It would require about twelve hours for her. to run to Alpena or little north of there, which would bring her in the vicinity of Presque Isle about midnight. 3 J.
H. Sheadle, vice president of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron and directly in charge of vessel property of the company, heard of the report late last night. He could not understand how such an: accident could have happened. The steamer Choctaw was a steelship, 266 feet keel length, 38 feet beam, and 22 feet 6 inches deep. She had a carrying capacity of 3,000) tons and was built in this city in 1892.: Officers of the steamier Choctaw were: Charles A.
Fox, Mt. master; S. R. Shipman, 4312 Clinton-av N. chief engineer; Lars Bru, Cloveland, first mate; Hans Larson, Zimmerman, second mate; John J.
Iliggins, Cleveland, assistant engineer. The reported loss of the Choctaw brought overwhelming anxiety last night to a bride of seven Mrs. S. R. Shipman, wife of the chief engineer, and married only last December, struggled to keep back the tears when told of tho probable dis-.
taster to her. husband's ship. "I received a letter from him only? this morning," she said. "I feel sure? that if the boat was, lost he must have gone down, with It. As engineer he would.
have had little chance to escape..
