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SUNDAY WANT ADS PAY Itrlng your copy to-day. Real. I-Xntc. nuxtnrM Cliaarrn. Uo*r?J crtt Wanted. Help Wanted. AUTHENTIC DRESS STYLES t<"or >roitio? arc oliarinlaaly lllu?<ra(til dally on the llouac hold Fage of THE TIMES-DISPATCH THE TIMES-DISPATCH NUMBER 19,898. RICHMOND, VA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1914.?TWELVE PAOES frith YEAR FAIR PRICE 2 CENTS, DATE NOT FIXED j FOR WITHDRAWAL American Forces to Remain Until Conditions Are More Improved. GENERAL SITUATION ENVELOPED IN DOUBT Washington Has No Desire to Interfere in Controversy Be tween Chieftains. OFFICIALS SHOW CHAGRIN Guarantees Asketl l>y United States* Must Bo Carried Out. WASHINGTON. November 1L\?Presi dent Wilson and .Secretary lJryan have decided not to tlx a date fur the Amer ican evacuation of Vera Cruz until It Is determined which faction can domi nate that_ part of Mexico sufficiently to carry out guarantees asked by* the United States as a prerequisite to with drawal. General Candldo Agullar is in com mand of troopa In the Immediate vi cinity of Vera <.'iu/., and i.s believed loyal to General Carran/.a, who is In open conflict with tli?? national ron ventlon that dcclarcd General Gutler rjjj! Provisional President of Mexico. The President is unwilling to wlth draw tho troops until the guarantees can be (iiforceil. and until there is no danger that aome other faction will disclaim responsibility for negotiations hitherto conducted with Cnrranza. The Washington government does not desire to Interfere In the contru \ersy between the various military chieftains, but administration officiate showed plainly to-day their chagrin at the fact that several generals who wrote their names on the Mexican flag recently pledging their word to abide by the acts of the convention at Aguas > alient's, have refused to support lien eral Gutierrez.. I X KItTAI.Vrv KN VIvLOI'S I IttlNKIIAI. MTCATIOX Tho United States will continue its custom of dealing with each element that Is In de facto control of a certain; territory. Special agents are accom panying tiutlcrrcz, Villa and Carranza. Kroni all cainc advices to-day reflecting the uncertainty and doubt, which en veloped the general situation. Ofllclal advices showed that General Carranza'has moved to CQfUqba for a !lfAjth/bt(ft> 1 lr?/i^ t^iilerSti6?w to have' left Mexico City he'chi'isc he doubted the loyalty of General Ulanco, commander of troops guarding the capital When General Hlanco started from Aguas callentcs for Mexico City, he was ar rested at Sllao 1>\ General Pablo tJon zalep, who had Iteen regarded as a Carrahzn Mipporter. Dispatches from | Agua?cullcutcs to-night, saying Gon zales would stand by the convention, j were taken to mean that Hlanco would ' be released, and that the two men might work In harmony In the control of Mexico City and.the surrounding tcr II lory. If the report concerning Gon i.alcs la verified, it also will mean that 1 Villa's big columns, which moved southward to-day, will have uninter rupted control of the territory between Aguuscallentes and Mexico City, leav Ing Carranza to operate east of the Mexican capital. t>tspatch<ri given out by Uafael Zubaran, Carranza's Washington repre sentative. say Generals Obregon, Olanco. Gonzales, Vlllareal, Hay and others would support the llrst chief. Zubaran gjtve out a telegram from Carranza announcing that hostilities ' had opened between his forces and those of the convention. II K.VIC A N CHIEFS AGAIN ASK LUAUbltS TO IllIT 1?[? PASO, TEXAS, November 12.? Otllclal reports from Mexico City to day said several chiefs, headed by Gen eral Pablo Gonzales, Cnrranza's prin cipal leader, have sent a message to the "first chief" and Provisional Presi dent Gutierrez, asking a second time that both Carranza and Villa resign their popitions. It also was reported, hut unconfirmed, from the Villa side, that Gonzales has deserted Carranza and offered his services to the conven tion, The signers of the two telegrams In cluded Gonzales, General buiclo Blanco and General Antonio Vlllareal. They asked Carranza to resign "to prevent circumstances growing graver." Tlity advised the first chief that they also ha<l bought the elimination <rf Villa. "Should he not retire absolutely," they said, "we pledge ourselves to sub jugate him to law and order." They requested Gutierrez to order Villa to leave the country. They promised they also would arrange for Carrnnzu to leave Mexico. Rafael Muz<|ulz, Carranza's consular chief, stated to-day that he had official advices from Mexico City that a total of loi',000 troops had remained loyal to the lirsl chief. Villa agents tjever have claimed that more than oncrhalf thai number were in the regular divi sion commanded by the northern ehlcftain. <u:.m:hai. situation MtlHli C'U.MI'MCATKt) (Special to The Times-Dispatch.] WASHINGTON. November 1L\?-The administration is devoting itself to safeguarding the interests of American citizens and those of other foreign nationalities in Mexico City, because of the report that anarchy would pre vail there on the arrival of General Zapata and his troops, and General Villa with hifutroops. General l&ia'iifoii, in a short message to the Sc JSiry of War to-day, de nounced as false publlshecK??;. "?rts that lie had told General Caiiwlo Agullar that he would evacuate Vera Cruz. The general situation has become so complicated, by reason of official news received at the department, that talk of recalling General Funston has been stopped. The State Ocpartmn.it has dispatches tliut the national convention of Mexico bus <|eclare<l Carranza to be. "in re bellion." and that General Villa has started 011 his march to Mexico City,' wlioro he may ho joined by the army of General Zapata. Thtf State ' Depart ment Is hi communication with John H. Sllliman, Itn agent at Mexico City, and with Geprge C. .Carothers. who re (Continued on Second PngeTr i EMDEN'S CAREER PRAISED Final I>e*trurtlon of' Crulnfr Atvrnya j Counted On. I1I5RLIN, November 12 fvla The Hague and Lopdon).?All the mum big papers of Merlin unite In publish : ing articles in priiise of the coimnorcc i destroying career of the German cruiser Kmdcn. and they declare that li %.? final destruction always had been counted upon. The Kmdcn was driven ashore oji ' the Co'cos Island by the Australian eruiser Kydncy. The Morgenpost stlys that since tho j beginning <'f the world never has a single ship tnk^n part In International warfare with such terrible results, and all the papers reprint from London Journals laudatory articles on Captain Curl von Muller. the commander of the ICinden. ! Major Moraht, the military critic, I writes In the Tageblutt: "There has been no question that the career of the ISmden was bound to conio to tin end before long. Tho Brit ish admiralty would have lost the con j fldence of the nation unless It finally J succeeded In destroying her. In view i of the great difference between the fighting power of the IStndcn and that ' of her opponent, the Sydney, it is no i wonder that she suffered severely. Tier ? career has been a glorious one and 1 never will be forgotten." CROWN PRINCE BLAMED Failure to Hold 111* I'odltlon Compel* Itetrent Atoms Whole I-lnr, ; LONDON. November 12.--The I'etro ' grud correspondent of the Daily Mall t r.ends tho following: "It Is now admitted semiofficially. J but not mentioned In tho otneial i'oii1 mu.ilcatlons, that it was the failure of i the German frown Prince to hold his i position in the centre which compelled a retreat along the whole line. While | General von Hlndenburg 011 the left and ; the Austrians on the rinht wore both I maintaining their positions, tho crown j prliure's army was lleeing back to the I Fatherland. | "The Russians poured in betwoen ' the wings thus left in danger atid 1 attaekod them, each 011 two sides, forc ] Iiik them to scramble back to the fron 1 tiers, and losing terribly all the way. "The excuse made In Germany of j bad roads l.i ridiculed here, since in spite of bad roads the Russians ac complished marvels I11 marching, i "It appears that six German princes were killed in this battle, three of the ? L'npo family and one each ?,f the houses ] of I less'-, Waldcck and Reuss.'' LOST PASSPORT IN BERLIN Mnrrlcnn'n Story Implicate* fierman Korflicn IIIHrr, CHICAGO, November 1".?Charles A. Inglls. the Chlcagoan whose American passport was found on the person of | Carl Hans IkkJ.v, executed In London : as a German spy, to-day told how he lost the passport In Berlin. Ills story I ' Implicates the German Foreign OIHcc, and is being investigated by the State Department at Washington. Inglls returned a few days ago after a long stay in Europe. Caught In [ Herlln when war broke out, he took : his passport to the German JForeign ; Ofljee to hu.ve'Unapproved. He handed (?"It t'd'a clerk, he said, expecting that i It would be returned later to the Amer ' lean embassy. It failed to reappear, however. At th<- Foreign Ofllec iio could obtain no trace of It. lie got a second docu ment. by which he was able to leave . t-rerinany. ] Mr. Inglls said the c.i-iginal paper 1 contained a description which Is said I also to have .been applicable to Lody. GETS ANOTHER DECORATION Iron t'ro?? of tlie Fint Claim for (iea-! oral IIudr von HcIott. | BICRLIN. November 1- (via The1 j Hague and London).?The dccora- | | tlon of the Iron Cross of the first class \ has been conferred upon General Hans | von Below, who some weeks ago was j given the second class decoration of I this order for military valor bef?<-e 1 Namur. General von Below's wife was for- j merly Mrs. Nina Bryce Turnbull, of; Philadelphia. General von Below and Mrs. Turn- ; bull were married in Buenos Aires in I April of 1907. General von Below was j then a major and had been detailed i by the German government to assist in i the reorganisation of the Argentine] army. Mrs. Turnbull was Miss Nina Bryce.' Her first husband was Frederick Turn-] bull, of Philadelphia. BOUCK WHITE RELEASED ' Welcomed F.nthuntantleally l?jr Friends ua lie Leaves Jail. NEW YORK, November 12.?Bouck | White, pastor of the Church of Social: Revolution. was discharged to-day from the Queens County Jail. He had served his six months' sentence for raising a disturbance in Calvary Bap tist Church. A delegation of fifty friends, each wearing a rod flower, welcomed him enthusiastically in the Jail courtyard. An automobile, draped with flags?, took him away. Standing uncovered in the courtyard. | White led in singing "The Hymn of' Liberty." and "I'm Coming Here To Morrow." lie has announced his in-; tenlion to try again to discuss with, tho Rov. Cornelius Woelfkin. of Cal-' vary Church, where John D. Rocke-j feller, Jr.. worships, the grievances of 1 the strikers at the Colorado mines, lie1 will resume his church duties. 1 VOTE AGAINST COTTON POOL j Mm- of l*'ourtcrn >'n<lonal llnuki of ' Riinlvn 'I'nlit- Adrernr Action. BOSTON". MASS., November 12.?Nine! of the fourteen national banks of this ; city took adverse action to-da.v on the ; advisability of entering the $135,000,000 cotton pool, which Is being forincii ! under government allspices to llnance j the Southern cotton crop. Two others,, the Commercial and the Fourth At- ' lantic, voted to enter the pool. Many of the bankers wer<5 said to favor extending tiananeinl help to New England cotton mills in their purchases of cotton, rather than to growers direct. FOR WORK NEARFIRING LINE Mrn, llnrrj- I'njne \Vhllney Organising So-Colled Flying Honpltdl, I'AHIS, November 12 t9:."0 l\ M.).? Mrs, Harry Payne Whitney has arrived In I'arls from Now York with fifteen j trained nursea and four physicians. I She Is organl'/.Ing a so-called flying | hospital for work near tiie tiring -line, i This hospital will be affiliated with the American ambulance us an auxiliary, but will lie directed, it is understood, by Mrs. Whitney herself. .She will con tribute $200.0*00 to the hospital.* i IIE8I' FOIl lUi.SlNKSS OU I'f.KASliRE. I York Itlvdl' l?liw to Baltimore, 3:10 I', M. j except tfunilwy. one xvay, \I.:A round I trip. DoilRhtlul ami invicorutlni; sail. Services as President ol Louisiana State Health Hoard Recognized. DR. M'GUIRE NEWTON MADE SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT Assistant Health Commissioner Freeman Heads Section on Public Health. MKIHCAl. CONVENTION liNDKI) Sccretarj Sealc Harris Says It Has Itcen Greatest Association Has Kvcr Held. ? nomination by the councilors, I >r. i Oscar Dowllng, of Shreveport, La., was j ycstnrilaj; morning fleeted president >>f th'- Southern Medical Association: l>r. ' 11. C. Dorr, or RateBvllle, Ark., first vice-president, and I jr. McGu.rc X?w ; ton. of Richmond, <r:i*on<l vtce-president. The nominations of the councilor* were ' received without question, and the three i officers ele'cted by acclamation. It was i stated that politics had not entered into i the deliberations of the councilors, and t that they had been guided solely by the Interests of the association and the ? fitness of the men upon whom their ! selection fell. J RECOGNITION OK skiivicks AS STATE HHA I,Til OKFICK.K I Dr. Howling is one. of the larger figures represented in the membership I of the association, recognition of his ' services as a public health officer hav | Ing been accorded in all parts of tho country. He !s president of the .State 1 Hoard of Health of Louisiana, and Is i a graduate of Vanderbllt University. ? Originally. his family came from Vir ginia. and he was born In Alabama. Af.'er finishing his eours.- at Vander bllt. he studied abroad several years, and th or. settled down as a specialist in e ear and nose diseases. His practice quickly brought lilin recogni tion, and he wan elected president of his State Board of Health, and Is now in charge of tho Louisiana State health j train, consisting of threr. cars filled I with permanent exhibits of the work done In Louisiana and adjoining States I in the. tight against malaria and other ! pestilential diseases ondemlc. or oc casionally epidemic, In that section of the country. In rls Inaugural address to the body i Dr. Howling'referred at Bonio length 1 to'ihe evil of patent medicines, dcclar J iiig that something must be1 done to I regulate ths sale of proprietaries, lie aBked the co-operation of the medical ' profession In the fight on patent medi I cine the sale of which he regarded as i one ot the things most inimical to the i ethics of the profession of medicine. : AM-UX W*. KB10 EM AN IlKAIW SHCTIOX ON PI.IIK1C HKA1.TH Section officers were elected an fol i lows: Public Health. Dr. Allen W. ! Freeman, of Rich-.nond. assistant S'ate health commissioner of Virginia, chair man; Dr. J. A. Hayne, of Columbia. S. ! O.. vice-chairman, and l>r. \V. S. J | Leathers, of University of Missis-^ slppi, secretary. Bye Kar. Nose and Throat: Dr. J. B. Green, of Asheville. N. C.. chairman; Dr. E. II. Cary, "of Dallas, Tex., vice- ; i chairman, and Dr. T. \V. Moore, of I t Huntington, W \*.. secretary. I Surgerv: Dr. Isadorc Colin, ot N?w | Orleans, chairman: Dr. John 11. Black-, burn, of Bowlinfc Green. Ky.. vicc- , chairman and Dr. !?'. Webb Griffith, of , Asheville. N. C.. secretary. Medicine: Dr. W. II. Deaderiuk. of Hot Springs. Ark., chairman; Dr. C. L. j Minor, of 9sheville, N. C.. vice-chair- ! man. and Dr. Stuart Roberts, of At lanta, secretary. > Dr. Scale Harris, secretary-trcasurer. , continues in office for two years more. ; Dallas, as announced lit this paper yesterday, was selected as the city for j the convention In 1013. The council ors and the board of trustees remain until further appointments are made, as follows: Dr. II. H. Martin, chair-, man. Savannah. Ga.: Dr. W. S. Leathers. University. Miss.; Dr. Louis Abranison. Shreveport. La.; Dr. \V. S. Thayer. Bal timore. Md.; Dr. Joseph Graham, Dur ham, N. C.; Dr. Tt. II. McGlnnls, Jack sonville, Kla.; Dr. Robert Wilson. Jr.. Charleston, S. C.; Dr. J. Shelton llors lcy, Richmond, Va,: Dr. L. S. McMurty. Louisville. Ky.: Dr. lCdward H. Cary. Dallas. Tex.: Dr. J. N. Baker, Mont gomery. Ala.; Dr. J. A. Crislcr, Mem phis. Tcnn.: Dr. C. P. Meriwether. Little Rock. Ark.; Dr. A. R. Shands. Washington. D. C\; Dr. G. C. Rodgers, lilklns, W. Va.; Dr. Milllngton Smith, Oklahoma, Okla. Board of trustees?Dr. H. H. Martin. Savannah, Ga.; Dr. B. L.- Wytnan, Bir mingham. Ala.; Dr. G. C. Savage. Nnsh vllle. Tcnn.; Dr. W. W. Crawford. Hattlcsburg. Miss.; Dr. Isadora Dyer. Now Orleans. La.: Dr. James M. Jack son, Miami. Kla. The medal for scientific research was ?for thu third time awarded to Dr. C. C. Bass. <;|?L)ATUST MKKTIXt; ASSOCIATION HAS 11 KM) The convention which has just closed is regarded, said Dr. Scale llarrls, .scc rctury-trensurer and editor-in-chief uf the Southern Medical Journal, as the greatest mooting the association l\is held in the eight years of its history. | "All the members." he said, "ure de lighted. :?ot only with the meetings, but ns well with the hospitality of Itichmond and Virginia doctors. It took six generations of education, cul ture and retlnement. to produce such gentlemen ns the Virginia doctors are to-day, and they deserve every tribute, which can be paid to thom. Without any question, this lias been the iln^st convention I have ever seen, and I want to pay tribute to the press for the way In Which It handled the meet ings and the convention as a whole. We have boon especially pleased with ] the hotel arrangements, and I must say that I think the .loiYorson Motel to; be the finest convention hotel I nave ever seen, and your other hotels were1 just as good in the courtesies they I paid to their doctor guests. And In j speaking of the press again,' I can say I that nowhere that I have ever been have, the papcts given such accurate] accounts of our meetings." < <M., AM) MUSS. <;<)H<MN l,(l( I) I.N I'HAISK 4)1" HH'II.MOM) Colonel W. tJorgas. mirg^oh-sfeti oral of the United Stales Army, also (Continued on Ninth 1'ago.) . I GOVERNOR NAMES i COMMISSION ON ! BELGIAN RELIEF Col, Henry M. Boykin Ap pointed Commissioner and Chairman. NOT TO SUPPLANT WORK ALREADY UNDERTAKEN State Commission Will Provide Agency for Free Transporta tion of Donations. ?SHIP TO SAIL. KKO.H VIRGINIA ' * i Governor invites Cu-Operation of I're.ss of State That All May Part icipate. ; Governor llenry C. Stuart announced last night ill'- appointment of the fol lowing Itelgian Heller Committee for the SlMe of Virginia: Colonel llenry M. lli'jrMn, Richmond. coniinlnNloncr nml chulrmun. Homer It. t-Vrstinon. \fwport \en.i. v. llrrlli Tyler, Norfolk. .folio Stewart llrynn, Richmond. t'hnrlPN T. I.asnlter, I'rtcrNburR. Ilci. .1. Cleveland Hall. l>nn%1lle. \\ llllnm S. Rattle. Ronnoke. Harry 1". Ryrd. Wlnehontcr. J. I'rnnli H'ymir, PiitnHkl. Alexunder ltobertMon. Slauuton. Thi- movement, the Governor states, '.h not intended either to supplant or : to interfere with relief work of local organizations, but is in aid of such efforts throughout the State to the ex , tent of providing an agency for as sembling at a central point and pro , vidlng free transportation to lielglum ! of ail donations and subscriptions, j whether from organizations co-oper ating with this central board or in i dividuals. . Realizing that no country has a I deeper conception of the ruin and dc i vastation of war than Virginia,- nor a deeper sympathy for those whose homes have been laid waste and who ; are now facing immediate starvation. ! the Governor issued last night the fol j lowing statement: j l*IKOCI.AMATto\ r.SSCKD I to pkoi'i.k or viu<;i\i\ i ? thp r?i opl<- of Virginia j Ah Governor or Virginia I i,-,,,, rc-ocntly received a cable message from ! p"?rHl chairman of tlio Belgian I Woulei*"vn l'?h re;,(Js a3 follow*: ir.#?r? ^ ? ? pood fnuUBh t<) ! 1p*,?t VOMrte'f in the critical situa H0lSum,^oBl!?a,n0ngSt tUr P?OP>? & ! a matter ?r or.ham? It would be matter of great satisfaction if th,. people of your State could furnish one wirk <? > cr> influence wo can hrinr- t?; 1 ~ j f u11 ^*ub h eH bed?iv Ithin yOMrai!a0te for j ! o? ^,,K,fihoe4KVs.n.sfd , Act ,1" on0tJ'Btr,butIon In Belgium.'" this n!c^e;haVXeon ?hn,alned ,n lions ol ;i numW ? SUKSM | men and womenof creating a central board' headed by '" fetatc commissioner. which is organ iz jdlTn"- of n?ll,,1i?mi,t. "nd ofnclcnl han t.?s for 11^: ar -rsiscs &Ch,E throughout the State to the nv?<>n* ? I ?.ira ro^r,C"'?re?' i S;ln-^tlon-s co-operating with this I central board, or Individuals I .No words from me can emnh iciy^ n,? 1 claims which these unfortunate d o! * ssvii'v'jsrs}" i As state commissioner. i have an Pointed Colonel Henry M. Bovkfn of soZTTk \a" U;,th W ho,n ^Me'as ! board composed of rcpre- I various j a;.N 9'rS' is^cordla^rVnva^/Th^ dentitj of all donations, whether of pzt; sr^si:hsn^m"ssn! :fe-? "> ?"? "Her. ; sSP-Ws Colonel UH<Mrry?,M/lViVioI/tdd(^ep lu | LJroad ?,rect. UlchmondVa ' ,iaSt '' G ?TUAHT. Governor. 1 I.OAD OK KOOI> TO SAII. pHov vilttJI.MA ,onthuslastlcally die- j >~l f! the people of >-{rrg.'n,aW'la8tS,:,TihtrS b>' I omrm* H^ricutn Belgium." he said "it i* i' hopo of aov<.r?.,r Sli.nrl mnkovVi :$t vje,' u;i~:v i r, ?isiz:zfF?, -unw.tlch with pork, flour. cornmcHl bacon ccreals and other subs a?Ub i "ThlV?' nn" ,,m"r n?l' ?<?IX 3LSS& r Su.lhX5.U,.0H* 1". W!"Ch Vni unci r ?r ti* to take a par:, win fv' ' roaHr,M the Ship, which ? v. n be chartered to ?a|, from a vir ; o: the 'state. '' *?? "> ?'<> .>4, "Of course, there is a vast niiioui.t - work to be done, and work ? r I *h'Liivf?r must ne done propmllv.i I Hb.Ol open he.'Kbjuartcrs at 110 1 Kast I (Continued oii Third "iVs^) j FLOWER OF GERMAN ARMY BROUGHT TO YPRES REGION FOR ATTACKS ON ALLIES State Commissioner of Belgian Relief COLONEL HKNRY M. BOYK1X. IF J. 8. HI Will KILLED I IN TRAGEDY UN HIGH SEAS i . "sr *'? ?? '??u'ir fo.' " ! Florida .Newspaper .Man Fatally Shot While Passenger on Steamer Mohawk. TWO OTHKRS ?.AL>I;V WOUNDKU . George Batrheler Perkins, of Uostoii, j Charged With Crime, Is Placed in Irons and Will Mo Tried on Charge of Murder. CHARLESTON*. S. C.. November 12.? The arrival here to-day of the Amer ? lean steamship Mohawk revealed a | tragedy on the high seas off the North ? Carolina coast, resulting in one death. ! and the serious wounding of two other I persons. V. \\ . It. Hlnnian, business manager of the Florida Times-Union at Joek j sonville, and president of the South jerii Newspaper Publishers' Association, i who was a Mohawk passenger, received j l>w 11 oI wounds which resulted in his I death. It. H. Wright, of Utica, .V. Y., another passenger, ami Captain A. D. Ingram, of the ship, aro in a hospital here to-night suffering from similar wounds. Physicians believe both of the latter will recover. , The shooting is alleged to have been , done by a passenger registered as , Cleorge Hateheler Perkins, architect, of | Boston. He was placed in irons im : mediately after the tragedy last night, , and shortly after the Mohawlt was docked he was given a preliminary ! hearing before United States Commis* I sloner Arthur linger. It was decided to hold him for trial on the charge ofi killing Mr. Hlnnian. Evidence tending to show that Per-1 kins was not mentally responsible at! the time of the shooting was Intro-! duced at the hearing. N. K. AVent worth. of Connecticut, who oucupicd' a stateroom with Perkins on the Mo hawk, testified that the prisoner had been taking a narcotic which the lat ter snld was 'or the relief of head ache. Soverui ?.thor passengers testi fied that Perkina acted quecrlv prior to the tragedy. BKC.'OMHS a\<;i:iii:d AT CAPTAIN'S ItKMAItUS Mr. and Mrs. Illnmun. George, Wright and Captain Ingram were sil ting in the conipanionway of the Mo hawk last night when Perkins, clad in I a jamas and a rain coat, approached them. He spoke t? > tin- captain, who : replied that hi- must wear more suit-1 abl?- appar<-l if he ulahed to mingle with the other passengers. I Perkins apparently became angered i at th>- captain's remarks, and drawing j a revolver, began ilring Mr. Hlnnian i was struck twice In the abdomen, Cap tain Ingram once and Mr. Wright on re. i A tlfth bullet went wild. Perkins then ' In said to have turned the weapon on j himself, hut the cartridge chamber was empty. The wireless sent forth a message ! for further medical aid in addition to the ship's facilities, and the hospital steward from the torpedo-boat de stroyer Klusser.-en route from Charles ton lo Hampton I toads, hurried to meet Hie incoming ship. Mr. I Unman, how - i ever, died early to-day on board the Mohawk. i The Federal warrant charging Per kins with murder was read to the' prlsi/ner to-night. Ho did not attend ' the preliminary hearliiR late to-day, > and the authorities say ho manifests I an attitude of not knowing what has happened. The Mohawk was bound from New ' S ork for Charleston. Perkins is re- 1 ported to have boarded the ship at ? New York. | fiiNiilt* to N'cgro Knee. UOSTuN, November 12. --The old' pinntatlon songs. "M> Old Kehtucky Home," "Oh. Susannah," "Mas.va's in lie, Cold, ' 'old Ground," are Insults to the' negro nu:c, according to speakers, negro and white; who appeared to-day at a hearing before the l.oston school i committor. | in BlliS PRESIDENT IN PRESENTING PROTEST Wilson Declare* Me Has Not lleon ! Addressed in Such Manner Since He Entered White Hoiise. SHOWS MAHlvED DISP&EASURB Delegation Takes Up With Chtef Executive Segregation of Hates in | Government Departments, but Ad mits TnlU Is Disappointing. j WASHINGTON*. November 12.?Presi dent Wilson, wlillc re covins a delega tion of negroes to-day. who came to the White House to protest against segregating the races In government departments, objected to lhc,,.lo'JTc adopted by their spokesman. W. Ai. Trotter, of Hoston. and told the com mittee thai if il called on hhn again It would have to get a new chairman. i The President added he had not been I addressed In such a manner since ho i entered the White House i The delegation charged that Seen. : tary McAdoo and Comptroller Williams, i in the Treasury, and Postmaster-uen i oral Burleson had enforced segregation ! rules In their offices. President W U ! eon replied that ho had Investigated i the question, and had been assured that ? there had been no discrimination In the ! comforts and surroundings given to the ?negroes. lie added he had been in i formed by officials that tho soKroga , Hon had been started to avoid fric tion between the races, and not with the object of Injuring tho negroes. ! M3GHO SPOKESMAN TANKS | issuio with runsiniAT 1 The President said that he was deep llv interested In the negro race and kreally admired its progress. He Ue elarcd the thing to be sought by the negro people was complete indepen dence of white, people, and that lie felt the white race was willing to do evervthing possible to assist them. Trotter and other members at once look Issue with the President, declar ing the negro people did not seek ehurltv or assistance, but that they took the position that the negroes had count rights with the whites, and that ; these rights should be respected. They 1 denied there had been any friction be- ) twee.I the two races before segrega tion was begun. , President Wilson listened to what thev lu:d to say, and then told the delegation that Trotter was losing con trol ?>f it's temper, and that he itnoj President > would not dlscusa the mat- j tor further with him. , After leaving the President's private, office. TroHter. Maurice V. Spencer and others of the delegation declared then talk had been ?'thoroughly disappoint- | lug" Thev declared they would hold a mass-meeting In Washington on Sun day to discuss the question. Mr. Wilson is understood to have , toid the committee the question was not n political one. and that ho would not take it up on political grounds. Trotter came to the White House ? with a pr -pared speech, to which the i President listened. It was after de livering tills address, however, that Trotter made remarks In a tone which displeased President Wilson. men.A It I'.s SKtilll'ltiATION ,S PI Ill.fC lit MIMATIOX In the address Trotter reminded tho ; PrcsldunPt that the delegation called on Mr. Wilson a yea:- ago. at which time I he had promised to investigate the j quest'lon. . i ??We stated," said Trotter, "that there could be no freedom, no respect from J others and no equality of citizenship i under segregation for race. -Kor such , placement of employes means a charge j l?y the government of physical in- j decenev or Infection, or of being a . lower "order of beings, or a suhjec- | tInn to the prejudice of other citizens, which constitutes Inferiority of status. ?We stated that such segregation was a public humiliation and degra dation. entirely unmerited, and far reaching In Its Injurious effects. Now. after the lapse of a year, we have come (Continued on Fifth Pago.) CRITICAL STAGE REACHED IN BATTLE OF WEST FLANDERS Some Decisive Result Ex pected Within Next Few Days, if Not Hours.. NO MATERIAL ADVANCE MADE BY KAISER'S MEN British and French Still Hold Line Between Dixmude and Ypres. RUSSIANS TAKE JOH AN N IS BERG Gives Thom Control of Important Railway Wne Which Skirts Frontier. Losses Admitted to Have Been Heavy THIC Ufrmiu artillery lire ''wai prncticnlly a continual bom bardment, Intended to pulverise the defense preparatory to the advance of the Infantry." Thin announcement by the Ilrltlwh official press bareau regarding | IlKhtlDK around Dlxmudc nnd In Went Flanders, kIv?? some Idea of the nature of the fighting that ha? been going on In that part of Ilel glum the lant few day*. litiNxei are admitted to have been i heavy, nnd, nayh the Ntntemcnt, | "The allies' strength ha* been con : atantly innlntalued by reluforce ! meats." j It In Uuoivii the (irrmniiN also have been receiving? heavy support*, tv11h the determination of puithlng their ndvnuce through to French ports on the Engllith Chnuufl. Nevertheless, both' K'nelUh nad French declare that, beyond t|ic taking of Dixmude by the Invnderm their - progress ban amounted to little. For wore than three , week* the llrltlnli have held Yprc*. which ha* been subjected to n rain of shell* day and night, followed nt j Intermit* by tnfautry uttavki of the most desperate nature, all of which have been repulsed. The Tlrltinh admiralty admit* the deatructlou of the cruiser* C.ootl Hope nnd Moumouth by the Cermou uiiundron off the coaMt of Chile. The nnmeM of ninety-four ofllccra nnd wnrrnnt officer* on the vessels, including; tlint of ltenr-Adinlral Sir Christopher Craduck, are published. Incidentally, the Iwo hospital ships sent out hy the Chilean kuv crument to Meitrcb the wnterM In I which the cntfOKcment took place luivc returned to port, having found uo trace of any of the inlsslug ! Vessels. Am interesting feature of the new* Is that Field Marshal T.ord Robert* I* about to proceed to France. Ill* ostensible purpose, a* nnuotinccd, I* "to ace the Indian troops." I ?? I'remlcr Asriulth, according to rc | port tvill ask I'arllumeut at an early dntc to give Its sanction to the rain ing of additional troops to the nuni i her of 1,000,000 for xrnr servlec, thus lirlDglng the total up to 2,000, 000 men. It In understood iiIho that the government Intends to Issue a ivar loan of 1?1.000,000,000. In the flritlsh House of Commons, Arthur Henderson, (lie l.uhor party lender, litis nnuouured that organ Ized labor felt Hint the only I'ontue notv open ?as to go straight through irith the war. until success crowned the allien' effort*. While the latest Freneli otllelnt wtntement >nvs that no attempt by the Hermans to dehoueh from' Dlv tmnle I> y a night nttnek linn been repulsed, llerlln reports that the Herman nttaek across tlio \ *rr Canal, south of Hl.xuiilde, Is pro \ gresslng, and that In the region east of Vprcs they have made n fur ther ndvanrr, eapturliig TOO Freue.il soldiers and some guns. / In tlir eastern arena, the Ittinsliius have occupied JohuuulNherg, Mast I'riiNMln. onil In tialicin the sieicc of l'p?emysl has lieeu resumed. Itus uln also reports favorable progress against the Turks In the Caucasus. LONDON, November 12 (0:10 P. M.V. ??A critical stago In the battle In West Flanders lias been readied, and the next few days, if not hours, should pro duce .sonicthing decisive. The Germans, with all the forces at their command, have continued to ut ttie.k the- British and French who hold the lino between Dlxmudc and Yprcs. lint except for the capture of Dlx mudo, which was occupied on Tuesday, and some little progress around Yprcs. they have not made .material advance. The French ofllc.lal report Hays all tiio attacks have been repulsed. Tlie Germans no longer are utilising given troops In this region, but have brought up the pick of their wrmy, Including some Prussian Guards, who attempted an offensive movement against tho> British, but without success Moth sides express satisfaction with tho progress of the battle, Berlin says, the, allies' attacks have. been repulsed,; and that their- own attack Is ma'klng'. headway: while. In l<ondon and In Paris . It is foil that so long as the allien" can hold the line of the canal, fronv Xlehport to Vpros, their poailloi) l.v strong. MAXV 1-3XtiAHK.>1 K>T8 ?, " OF I.liSSF.R IMPORT.iSfK In France, front th<j nortliwo#t to the noutheast, there have bo?n engagements ' of lesser importance, In which, accord*, ?