THE WASHINGTON TIMES SUNDAY MAY 20 190t 9

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CRIPPLES SER1E

Department Startled ByStatement of Admiral

AMMUNITION IS SCARCE

Paring by Congress of Twelve Millions j

in Appropriation Measure IsSadly Deplored

The Navy Department was startled bythe official declaration of the chief ofordnance Rear Admiral N E Masonthat Congress has so crippled the navy

priations that should war break outwithin the next few years the condi-tion of the navy will be such as tolead to disaster

The situation for the fiscal year is de-scribed as being little of desperate nnd Admiral Mason recom-mends that the department immediatelyadvise the Senate that unless it restorescertain important stricken out ofthe naval bill the warships will berendered Ineffective

Twelve Millions GoneThe paring by Congress is reported to

aggregate 12000000 The admiral declares there Is now and will be no resorve ammunition available for any ofthe Important guns that It may be

to stop target practice that newships will have to be sent Into servicewithout ammunition or ordnance storesthat there will be no reserve guns torpedoes or reserve mines on andthat there are no rangefinders and nomoney to buy them

Although Congress is providing newwarships the admiral reports that itmakes no allowances for the acquisi-tion of ordnance and ordnance storesfor thom

On the face of Admiral Masons storywhich Is accepted as an accurate description of the real It readilyappears to navy officials that It is In-

deed a critical one Acting SecretaryNewberry made no comment on thestatement preferring first to carefullylook into all the conditions that hamperthe bureau to such a startling extentSecretary Bonaparte Is expected to beat his desk Tuesday so It Is nut likelythat Mr Newberry will take any definiteaction before his return Itthat Admiral Masons statement wilt besent to the President with a letter ofIndorsement by the Secretary for trans-mittal to Congress

It was loained last night that similarstatements of affairs will be made bythe of theJ3ureaus of Yards andDocks and Construction and Repair

Hard on Ordnance BureauThe Ordnance Bureau Is hardest hit

by the lack of appropriation but theother two bureaus mentioned are

hampered both at the Wash-Ington Navy Yard and the navy andshipbuilding yards In different parts ofthe country

Several weeks ago tvhen amountof to be had for theof the fiscal year was figured up sev-eral thousand men were dropped fromthe pay rolls by the Bureau of Ord-nance in the different navy yards of thecountry the local yard being

hard hit In this respect

Josephine Terranova RatherGo to Convent

T If Freed

NEW YORK May 19 Josephine Terranova on trial in the criminal courtfor the murder of her aunt and uncledeclared today that If the Jury freesher she will devote her life to religiouseffort

If I am freed said the girl mylife will belong to God His hand willhave resutled in my liberation and Iwill give myself up to His work Iwould like to go Into a convent butthe good people here tell me I cannotbecome a nun because of what 1 havesuffered Then I shall become a servant-In a convent 1 shall do anything toprove that I am worthy

Will you go back to your husbandshe was asked

My husband turned me fromwas the He did not know allBut he fcmcd me from him and thatleft me alone I do not blame him nowbut my first duty is to God and if Iam set free I shall devote myself toHis work

I am not crazy she went on Iwas not crazy at any time Why dothey say I am

What I did I had to do voicessaid kill and after I had crossed my-self three times to maxo sure that itwas not tile voice of the devil I didas I was bid

MGRAW GOES FREEIN ASSAULT CASE

PITTSBURG Pa May By payIng the ccri which amounted to 23John J McGraw manager of the NewYork Giants this mrning escaped beJag prosecuted by Edward Brady ofthis city who charged McGraw withcommitting an assault on his thlrteenyearold son Nell

McGraw with his players was rid-ing in a bus from the ball field lastThursday Several boys were Jeeringthe New Yorkers and McGraw struckat the boys Young Brady received theblow on the eye

The doctor who attended youngBrady reported the boys Injury wasnot serious whereupon the lads fatheragreed to settle the case

McGraw It Is said slipped a gener-ous amount of money the hand ofMr Brady

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Hundred Members andGuests Attend Function-

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A series of optimistic speeches markedthe annual dinner of the Washington

of the American Institute ofBank Clerks that took place last night

the Arlington The sp eche8 woremade by Charles H Treat Treasurer ofthe United States Representative JSlout Fassett of New York and President Charles W Needham of GeorgeWashington University

Over a hundred members and guostsof the chapter attended the dinner Themenu was a delightful one and in addition to the formal responses to toaststhore were that contributed gay-ety and to what wouldotherwise hays been a serious andformal function Among the songs theope offered hy George H OConnor

The Preacher and the Bear made thegreatest hit

John Poole the recently reelectedpresldent of the chapter welcomed themembers and guests of the evening MrPoole expressed his gratification at thehonor that had been shown him andpromised his most zealous efforts tomaintain the prestige of the chapterand advance Its efforts toward useful-ness and continued prosperity Col-PJdwJn B Hay acted as toastmaster andIntroduced the speakes o the evening

SENATES BILL

Chairman Hepburn Has PoorOpinion of Some of Rate

Amendments

What Is the House going to do withall the radical Senate amendments tothe rate bill was naked of a gentkman who maythe conference committees

Those amendments replied thestatesman with a twinkle In his eyeare in the nature of rues on a pece

of sticky flypaper The House looksthe rate bill as a piece of tanglefoot Khas sent over t the Senate The Senatorial tiles couldnt refrain from fool-Ing with It a little Just to see If itwould hold If theyve left their carcasses or parts tt them In It the Housecant help It Those amendments arelikely to stay stuck

And that Is said to bo substantiallythe opinion of the gentlemen who willdetermine the policy of the Housetoward the bill They are not makingany hasty announcement of policy how-ever they propose to know Just whatthey are doing take a posi-tion J

The bill will get to the House thefirst of the week sold Chairman Hjpburn When it gets there It will prob-ably lie on the Speakers desk until after-a conference of the members of theCommittee on Interstate and ForcljnCommerce not a formal meeting of TIiecommittee but a conference to discussthis question of policy

Is It your expectation that the Sen-ate amendments will be accepted by thoHouse or that they will be rejected andthe bill sent to conference-

I cant toll anything about that Itwill be considered when the members ofthe committee get together so far a3they have to do with the decision

Colonel Hepburn expressed rather apoor opinion of some of the amendments-and said the House tried to pass a billas mild as could be made effective inorder to give It a chance of passing theSenate The Senate took it talked twomonths without contributing any realenlightenment to It and then proceeded-in an apparent panic of fear of publicopinion to add all kinds of amendmentsto It

Senator Dolliver expressed rather apoor opinion of some of the Senateamendments Indicating that he didntbelieve they were efficacious But heguessed whatever they were worththey would stay In the bill when It be-came a law

EMBEZZLER A SUICIDE

TO PREVENT

NEWS Va Maywas announced tonight that IrwinTucker president of the Newport NewsSavings Bank who committed suicide inhis home here while the chief of policewas entering the door to place him

arrest for confessed embezzlementcarried a life Insurance of 30000 ormore than the amount of tho defalcation and that this money will be turnedover to the bank to make up the shortage the policies being of Incontestablenature

The mount of tho shortage Is estimated at from 510000 to 20000 Tuckeradmitted that he was short In Ills accounts and said if any attempt wasmade to arrest him he would commitsuicide The directors were called together and i hurried examination

in the Irpuance of the warrantPresident Tu ker was about forty

years old He was the son of formerMayor John S Tucker of Norfolk nowa retired of Washington MrTucker was formerly city editor of theold Norfolk Virginian and was post-master of Newport News under theCleveland administration

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MONUMENT TO FOUNDER-OF WOODMEN OF THE WORLD

Next Monday In Olivet Cemetery amonument in memory of H P Mc

formerly district deputy ando f the Woodmen the World

will be unveiled Representative MorSheppard of Texas sovereign bank-

er of the Woodmen of the World willbe the orator of the occasion The cere-monies will be Impressive and will beunder the auspices of the four campsof the order In this city

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MATRIMONIAL AGENT STOPSWEDDING WITH HIS BILL

NAPLES May wedding ofPrince GrImaldi and SIgnorlta My awealthy heiress was rudely Interrupted-by a writ server at the Town Haftwhere the ceremony was to take place

Letters promising a large sum ofmoney to a matrimonial bureau were at-

tached to the writ and the embarrassedprince ound his secret published to theworld He was unable to meet the billThe bride fainted and the marriage wascalled oft

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CRUEL

BERLIN May Kaisers attention having been called to the cruelcheck reins In use in the royal stableshe at once ordered that these be abolished and more humane reins adopted

Berlin society has followed theKaisers example and abolished thecheck rein

THE PILERockefellers pile is said by one of

his associates to be too big to countBut there are signs that It counts Justthe same Unidentified

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PARIS May horse belonging toa M Longuet escaped from his stalland made his way up a stairand through a trap door to the garretwhere the fodder is stored

A groom found the horse lying on thefloor in a state of collapse from over-feeding An attempt was to getthe animal down the way It had comebut It had eaten so much oats that Itcould not the opening andthe fire brigade had to be to lowerthe horse through a window to theground

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DONT GO TO LONDONWITHOUT UMBRELLAS

LONDON May 13 American shouldbring their umbrellas to London thissummer A wet time Is predicted by anoted seismologist as a result of thecent volcanic disootbancoe and earth-quakes

He recalls that the summer of IJXK

following the Mont Pelee eruption wascold and gloomy and that in the summer of 19 the rain hardly ceased fall-ing

Accordingly be warns the Englishto boipreared for disappointing summer

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