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Friends Believe MillionaireSexaquarian Will Persistin Marrying School Girl

FAMILY HASTENING-TO STOP WEDDING

Names of Miss E Rochelle

and South Carolinian Appear-

on Register of Hotel

While Brodle L Duke the million-aire sexagenarian of Durham N Cwhose marriase to Wylanta Rochelleaged twentytwo was prevented inthis city yesterday has successfullyvanished from all who seek himwhile his family and their agents aremaking every effort to locate him andthe girl

Washington and its suburbs andnearby points in Virginia and Maryland have scoured In vain allday by newspaper reporters undfriends of the Duke family neitherMr Duke nor the young woman hasbeen traced

This story of an old man bent onmarrying a young girl against thewishes of family the viewsof at least one clergyman the RevDonald C of the First Prosbyterlan Church to whom he appliedfor the marriage becamethe fascinating Interest tothe public it developed that fora time yesterday had ap

Miss Rochelle Thiscame out when she went to Dr MacLeods church and he failed to appearthere at 4 oclock yesterday afternoonafter he had that Dr MacLeod refused to perform the ceremony

Both Disappear-It was thought last night that the

budding romance had stoppedwhen it was said that Duke after abrief Interview with the girl at herboarding school at 1828 G street

had received his final dis-missal But with the arrivalof an employe of Dukes J B Walkerin the to look for the wouldbebridegroom it came out that bothand the girl had disappearedutterly

to the reports of theauthorities various thetwo have not been to AlexandriaAlexandria Court House HyattsvilleHockvllle or Baltimore for alicense

At the Ebbitt House where Dukeregistered yesterday It was saidt rnoon that he had not been

nee Yesterday afternoon-s a reort that he had beenmorning at the Riggs House

not be confirmed Hejd at the Burton Hotel on Northstreet yesterday with a dethat the marriage ceremony bemed in the prior of tht house

his permission ws refused himc hs not been seen there since then

Mrs Hosstley GoneMrs Mary Horstley of 1828 G street

northwest who was Miss Roschelleschaperone and teacher has also

and at the Horstley house acolored woman who answered the doorbell utter ignorance of thewhereabouts of her mistress or the oldman or the young woman

Members of Duke family are ontheir way here from Durham N C tojoin Mr Walker in the frantic searchfor this old man who apparently hascherished for a year or two the ideaof marrying Miss Roechelie Alreadymarried three times and twicehe brought the girl to this city fromNorth Carolina and asked th adviceof his friend Col William Haskeli ofthe Keeley Institute at 211 North Capitol street as to where he could puther to receive a education Helater put her in Mrs Horstleys charge

But he has been to the Hotelbefore The register of the houseshows that on March 4 1909 therewere registered there two couplesMiss w E Rochelle and Brodie L

Duke and Miss Ida Rochelle and aman whose name is illegible exceptfor the four letters P r y and k

Again at HotelAgain on January 14 1919 Duke

vas registered there with Miss WE Rochelle-

It will be noticed that on the registerthe girls name was spelled without

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On the last visit Duke stayed at thehotel two weeks

Persons who saw Duke at the BurtonContinued on Second Page

WEATHER REPORTT-

he Southern storm area has madelittle progress in its eastward movement

There will be unsettled weather withshowers tonight or Sunday in the middle Atlantic and south Atlantic Statesand tonight and Sunday in the AtlanticStates north of Maryland and In thelower Lake region There will be fairweather tonight and Sunday in the eastGulf States

FORECAST FOR THE DISTRICTPartly cloudy with showers tontej

or someewhat warmerlight to moderate variable winds

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Tomorrow High tide 1S a m antI964 p m Low tide SU4 a m and40 p m

CONDITION OF THE WATERHARPERS FERRY W Va June 11

Both rivers very cloudy this morn-ing

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Samuel M Felton to PresentRailroads Side to

Sunday Readers

TURNS SEARCHLIGHT-ON RATE SITUATION

Dominant Figure at White HouseConference Sets Forth Argu

ments Succinctly

With a railroad bill that may make-or unmake rates pending before Con-gress with a recently dissolved injunc-tion hamtimc as a big stick over theheads of those roads which would in-

crease their rates before the new lawgoes into effect and with the linesdrawn taut between the rallrcwds andthe Administration the situation today-as between the common carriers and thepublic is one of dramatic interestfraueht with grave possibilities

The side of the Administration hasbeen emphatically set forth in

issued from the White House andin the debate on the railroad

bill in both huses of Congress Theside of the railroads except as it hasbeen given to President Taft b

an unknown quantityThat there are two sides to the ques

tion Is tacitly admitted by the actionof the Administration in withdrawingits injunction suit against the Westernrailroads until Interstate CommerceCommission shall have had opportunityto pass upon their proposed rate In-creases

Read Times Tomorrow-The railroad side will be presented

in the Sunday Evening Edition of TheTimes tomorrow There Is probably noman better qualified to present the at-titude of the railroads than SamuelMorse Felton president of the ChicagoGreat Western Mr Felton was one ofthe dominant flsrures in the White Houseconferences of the past week by which-a true was effected betwen the rail-roads and the AdministrationHe is a man risen from therodcarrier of ashovel days of Mr Felton haveway to those of the luxurious

and the study of intricate schedulesHe has required to learn the business from the ground up Todaythere is probably no m tinSuit possessed of more detailed n-

matiaa concerning the real Operation fMr Felton

It was for this reason that The Timesfollowing the recent Important confer-ence in Washington between PresidentTaft and various railroad presidentssent one of its special staff correspond-ents Oliver P Newman the partyof Western presidents whenthey left Washington

The Kailroads SideThe Sunday Evening Times tomorrow

will contain a specific comprehensiveand authentic statement as to why therailroads consider It necessary for themto increase their rates at this time

The authorised Interview with Presi-dent Felton is a most Important contribution to one of the greatest questions-of the day Without indorsing the attitude of this great expert TheTimes presents his views as thoseof a man who knows whereof he speaksand one who portrays in style

the other side of a question in whichthe entire American public Is interestedtoday-It Is the of The Times ata subsequent date to present theviews of those who the contendon of the railroads as to the neces-sity for the attitude now assumed bythe common carriersMr Felton is one of the new schoolof railroad officials who withal hashad a strikingly spectacular careerand a not cometlikeand rapid due to the mastery of thesubject of railroads and to the wonderful physical and mental energy

which he has thrown Into workeversince he started It as a lad offifteen carrying a rod for aon the old Chester Creekrailroad In Pennsylvania-Has Prepared Himself

Within the Intervening fortytwoyears Mr Felton prepared himselffor Just such a task as that assignedto him last week Out on the ties andalong the rails themselves as a practical hardworking alert civil engineer he learned the things whichmade it possible for him the assistance of two other railroad presidents to reach a compromise withMr Taft In a struggle which threatened farreaching trouble for thecompromise which hasbeen applauded by every interest concerned the Government the railroads-the shippers and the general

One glance at Felton railroader showswhy he has succeeded He is as bigas a mountain and his bigness Is solid

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PARIS June number of themembers of the crew of the Illfatedsubmarine Pluviose died of suffoca-tion in the inner compartments ofthat craft at the bottom of the Channel They were slowly suffocatedwhile the divers were Searching themuddy waters for the sunkon torpedo boat which they had lost afterlocating it on the morning following-the disaster Had there been any wayof hoisting the Pluviose to the sur-face when it was discovered the after

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Conferees Meet Presidentand Agree on a Capitaliza-

tion Commission

COMPANIES FIGHTTHE ADMINISTRATIONC-

annon and Wickersham Participate in the Meeting at the

White House Today

By JOHN SNURE-

As the result of the insistence of Pres-ident Taft that the railroad bill mustcontain some provision with respect tothe issues of railroad stocks and bondsthere will be put into the measure inconference a feature which requires aninvestigation by a commission of thequestion of railroad capitalization andthe of H-

An understanding to this effect waspractically readied at the White Housetoday has the result ef a long conferenceparticipated in by the President Attor-ney General Wickersham Speaker Can

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Senators Aldrich and Elkins and Rep-

resentative Mann are the principalin the conference committee on the

railroad bill Interstate Commerce Com

missioner Lane was not actually at themeeting but was consulted by the Pres-

ident In the course of the morning

Railroads Fight TaftWhen it wes announced from the

White House the other day that thePresident wanted a capitalization con

trol provision put into the bill he hadscarcely made his position known whenpowerful opposition manifested Itself

the President had been toldwould be no capitalization control

The President however has felt itwould not do to drop the Question Inthe fashion proposed by the leaders Sohe called In the leaders on the confer-ence committee and the others alreadynamed and went over the mound Whilethe actual language of the President atthe meeting today Is not disclosed ItIs vif understood that he made it plain

he did not want th capitalization con-

trol question dropped without any actionand without the preliminaries that willlead to such legislation on if notat this session-

At the White House today It was notofficially admitted the President hadgiven up hope of getting capitalization

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Investigation Shows That Half of IllFated SubmarinePluviose Crew Could Have Been Saved After Col

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Navy doctors at Calais who exammod the bodies taken from thecompartments declared today thatthe men lived more than twentyfourhours after the submarine was sent tothe bottom

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IN A TRUNK BY FISHERMENMRS MARY SCOTT CASTLE CHARLTON AND A SCENE ON LAKE COMO WHERE HER BODY WAS FOUND

CONSTANTINOPLE June 11 It isfeared that scores of lives have beenlost in the wreck of an express trainon the Oriental railroad several earsof which were plunged into the waterthrough the collapse of a bridge nearLuleburg fifty miles east of here Aspecial train carrying physicians andhospital supplies was rushed fromhere

ELLAWHEELERWILCO-

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BeginningSunday Juneand every thereafter shewill contribute articles ofheartinterest articles thatwill captivate you from thevery start

Dont miss the first ofthese daily hearttoheartt-alksThey Will Appear on

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SEATTLE Wash June 11 Thoughbetween and seventyfive personsare missing following big areearly today which wiped out sixsquare blocks of buildings here andpaused property damage of more than31M0Me it was believed shortly be-

fore noon that few of them exceptthree firemen are dead

The tire started at midnight andraged through the early morning

Sweeping from water front theflames destroyed lodging bosses homesstores warehouses and hospitals

Only by heroic efforts was the waterfront saved Everp tug hi the harborreenforced by man from Tacoma and

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Best Detectives of Italy Spurred on by AmericanConsul Are Working Night and Qay

to Unravel Mystery

RUSSIAN SUSPECT UNDER ARREST SILENT

His Attitude Causes Authorities to Believe ThereOrganized Gang of Murderers Plotting Against

American Women of Supposed Wealth

MILAN June 11 Urged on by American ConsulCharles M Caughy who is acting under the direct order ofthe United States State Department the best detectives ofItaly are searching the country for Porter Charlton husband of Mary Scott Castle Charlton the American womanwho was beaten unconscious jammed into a trunk whilestill alive and thrown into Lake Como to die

POLICE THINK CHARLTON WAS MURDERED

While the authorities believe that if CharHon is still alive be cansolve the mystery concerning the death of his wife the strongesttheory is that be was killed by the same person or persons who mur-dered Mrs Charitoa

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BIG MURDER PLOT IS SUSPECTEDWbtie some of the nations best detectives were working today along

tie line of theory that insane jealousy om the part of one of the beautifulwomans former admirers was responsible for her death aad possiblythat of her husband others were delving deep into what titer believed tobe a plot to kill and rob Americas womn in Italy

CHARLTON KILLED

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By JAMES HAY JRSecretary of the Treasury MaeYeagfe

has made good his promise that noaged Government clerks should bedismissed front his department thissummer

It became known today that MIaleaving Washington for Chicago a fewdays ago be directed all subordi-nates to see toit that planes be foundfor the aged clerks who had beenserved notice that on Jtrly 1 theywould be dismissed owing to the

of itt positions fat his

These positions were abolished owlag to the economy reforms Institutedunder the campaign for a greatersaving In the handling of the

money It followed as a matter of coarse that some of the

were by old men andwomen 3r MaeVeaghs attentionhad not been called to this featureof the movement

When the complaints began to nowinto his office that aged clerks wereto be thrown out and left without themeans of support be put his footdown hard and said that every one ofthem should be provided for Hepointed out that he heartily favoredthe dismissal of clerks who had beeninefficient and lazy but he declaredthat he did not propose to inflicthardships on the men and womenwho after a life time of arduous andfaithful service might be a little lossefficient through old age

In all there were adout fiftyclerks to be looked after and todaythe subordinate officials of the depart-ment are ready to report to Mr MaeVeagh upon return to WashingtonMonday that all of them with one ex

will be provided with positionswhen their present places are abolish-ed July i The one still unprovidedfor be assured 2 place withinthe next few days It Is a matter of finding the and this wtttbe done in order to carry out the Secretarys orders to the letter

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hool Officers Are Asked to Indorse the Society to Prevent Indiscriminate Osculation Now

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dren partJeuiarly the girls te a question which to be gives consideration-by the Board of BducattOK at its nextmeeting

Because of poselbiUUes of breedingdisease through this timehonored custom an effort Is likely to be made bythe school officers not to place aban upon it in the schools but to dis-courage the habit in homes of thechildren and elsewhere

The older girls attending the schoolsare said to be the chief offenders inthe kissing habit of them kisseach in greeting and parting theykiss babies and small children bedsometimes their women teachers

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Kiss Not and the object of whichte to stop the kissing

The headquarters of this chub to teCincinnati and it hasto the Board of Education that It givesits indorsement to the movement iaWashington-

The proposition is for the school children to become members of the clubwhich costs them nothing and to pledgethemselves to an agreement not to kissanyone or permit to be kiss-ed and to wear buttons bearing the metto fibs Not

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eats wit throw souse light on the deathof EsteOe Reid the Amerfotn girl whowas found dead m the Bay of Naples

An doubt that Mrs Porter Charlton

that she was jammed the ironic whiciwas fnnnt in

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men that a man whom some say wasthe mtostna husband Porter Charltonand other say was ismolatog the Rus-sian inspector made inquiries as 10

lake TIM boatmen pointed oat shallow water whore the trunk was found

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covery of the body was today subjected-to the third degree After hours ofquestioning there was wrong from hiresa statement which further clouded thecue bet which was regarded a ssignifl

theory He declared that munlr i-

Russian Keeps SaKeThe main Questioning of the detecti g

was to brine forth tnformatija legardCharl

ton The Russian expostal officialmaintained a cool attitude throughout-the ordeal declaring that he knewNothing of the possibility of Cbarltons

In Como on Thursday as has beendeclared by tradespeople who

Mantras where the trunk wes foundwas dragged today In the authorities

At the same time the ransacking ofthe villa occupied sy the

the Rebel Sums soeause of their quarIrettMg was continued every nook and-i

evidence being gone intoIspolorotC who arranged for the occu-

pancy tHe villa by the Cartoons wastaken there but did nothing to aid thepone smiling calmly as he was

the nearest town of impor-tance to the scene of the erne te the

the investigation to really being con-

ducted by the XOnn authoritiesWhite it has been made almost certain

tbat the body was throws into thewater but a few hours before the grue-some trunk was caught in the sets of-iMaKraeto nehetjaaon the pollee todaydeclared that the crime bore every in-

dication of having bees committed witiithe utmost haste

That there was more titan one personinvolved in It to shown beyond doubtthey say by the tact thatatone eauJ nut have dragged the trunk

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