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VOLUME XXXVI.
No. 1
UNCLE SAM’S
1700 TROOPS
BRAKES ON
TEUTON DRIVE
TO GET PENSION.
MAY INJURE VOICE.
MAY LAND ELSEWHERE.
SEA-GIANTS
TO NOGALES
BOTH ENDS
GOING AHEAD
)
ESTIMATES LOAN
AT FOUR BILLIONS
NOTE TO GREECE
p
ALLIES IN BALKANS,
by the
recording instruments. An
eighteen-
TURN DOWN GIFT.
RIDICULOUS INVENTIONS.
sub-
BANKERS TO ATTEND.
KITCHENER’S VISIT.
DECLINED THE GIFT.
each
hun-
HOME FOR ORPHANS.
CHRISTMAS TRUCE.
GENERALS TRANSFERRED.
TEXAS TEACHERS.
)
EXPECT CARRANZA.
$
G
THE WEATHER
N
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
7
ACCIDENTS IN VALLEY.
KLAR SENT DOWN.
2ZHI
Financial Fluctuations
Must be Controlled.
knot
tank.
tacks, which, according' to Rome, have
failed to prevent them from consoli-
dating the positions recently occupied.
SIMMONS APPROVES
M’ADOO’S PROPOSAL
Italians
meeting
GOVERNOR FERGUSON
TO SEE PRESIDENT
the
of
The
are
women and the sculptor’s offer
mitted to the commission.
Superbattlecruisers Are
Proposed.
Serbs Pressed Still Far-
ther Back.
TESTS WITH MODELS
ARE BEING MADE
FORTY MEXICANS
SLAIN IN CLASH
Border Town Enjoys Feel-
ing of Security.
BANKER PRAISES
FEDERAL SYSTEM
AUTHORIZE BUSH
TO TAKE ACTION
Warns Against the Contraction
Which Will Follow Present
Expansion.
101,000 SERBIANS
HAVE BEEN TAKEN
Smoot, Republican, Attacks His
Statement—Says Estimates
Are Too High.
Vessels, 200 Feet Longer Than
Largest, to Make 35 Knots
Per Hour.
Texas Executive Will Discuss
• Border Troubles With
Wilson.
Teuton-Bulgar Invaders Have
Rescued 2,000 Austrians
From Their Foes.
One American Soldier Was
Killed and Two Were
Wounded.
Allied Powers Want Greeks to
Take Further Action As
Promised.
Important Reinforcements Have
Reached Saloniki—Winter
Sets in Early.
Half of French Victory Loan
Would be in Cash, Thinks
Economist.
TWO DEATHS
OF LOCKJAW
ARE RESULT
FREIGHT IS
STILL PILING
UP IN EAST
WANT A WARSHIP
TO CONVOY STEAMER
UNDER U. S. FLAG
May Sue George Gould For
Property Said to Be Held
in Trust.
“Violent contractions in money and
credit are always followed by periods
of expansion which, if unchecked, lead
1 Mr. Hulbert said that no one familiar
! with the facts could doubt that had the
> federal reserve banks been in operation
in August, 1914, as they are today, there
would have been no suspension of pay-
■ ment in this country.
Religious Subject Not Acceptable for
Public Park.
BRITISH FORCES
ARE VERY NEAR
CITY OF BAGDAD
&
each, while Louisiana will have a large
delegation. The presidents of nine state
banking associations have wired that
they will attend.
ence to be held in New Orleans Dec. 6
and 7, today wired Joe Hirsch, chair-
man of the conference, that fully 400
southern bankers will attend the con-
The FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF GALVESTON
Southeast Cor, Strand and 22d Sts.
UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY
Depositary of the State of Texas
pany, but has failed to do so.
Mr. Bush alleged in his petition that
Gould had been asked to turn the legal
title to the property over to the com-
TROOPS ARRIVING -___
IN LARGE NUMBERS ANOTHER JOINT
By Associated Press.
London, Nov. 27.—Allied troops con-
tinue to land at Saloniki in large num-
bers. A Reuter dispatch filed yester-
day at Saloniki says important British
reinforcements reached that port
Thursday and were landed immediate-
ly.
After the occupation of Pristina by
the Austrians and Germans, the mes-
sage says, the main body of Serbians
retreated in a southerly direction. The
Serbians were unable to maintain their
positions in the Katchanik region.
Official announcement has been made
to commanders of the allied troops at
Saloniki of the guarantees given by
the Greek government relative to free-
dom of action of their armies. Winter
has set in earlier than usual in the
Balkans. It is expected military
operations on both sides will be great-
ly hampered thereby.
Italian Censor Prohibits Transmisson
of News.
By Associated Press.
Rome, Nov. 27.—Via Paris.—The cen-
sor prohibits the transmission of news
regarding the results of the visit to
Rome of Field Marshal Earl Kitchener,
the British secretary of state for war.
- ---------- -----said
Mr. Hulbert. “We are now passing
through just such a period of expan-
sion. The function of the federal board
society by Edmund D. Hulbert, a Chi-
cago banker, who reviewed present
financial conditions.
GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
In the Gorizia district
with desperate counter at-
voiced today before the
to contract credits in a period of over-
expansion is just as important as is its
function to expand credits in a time of
excessive contractions.
“The farther the pendulum is allowed
to swing in orfe direction, the more dif-
ficult it will be to check when it starts
the other way, and as the present ten-
dency to expand is beyond the control
of the federal reserve board, it is quite
posible that a tendency to contract
may eventually follow which will also
be beyond control, although the ma-
chinery of the federal reserve banks is
much better designed to cope with con-
ditions of contraction than with condi-
tions of expansion.
“What we want is to get the country
accustomed to having the brakes put on
at • both ends,” continued Mr. Hulbert,,
“so that fluctuations of rates shall be
confined to narrower limits. The finan-
cial safety of the country depends on
this.”
23
More Shopping
Days Before
Christmas
Buy Now
nation was
conference
By Associated Press.
St. Louis, Nov. 27.—B. F. Bush, re-
ceiver for the Missouri Pacific railway,
today was authorized to file suit in the
federal district court here to recover
from George Gould property which the
latter is said to hold in trust, providing
Gould does not surrender the title to
the property in thirty days.
Receiver Bush asked U. S. Circuit
Judge Adams how to proceed in claim-
ing the property from Gould.
In a petition filed with the court,
Mr. Bush said that valuable real es-
tate in and around St. Louis and Pleas-
ant Hill; Mo., is held in Gould’s name
as trustee for the road, though the
state circuit court of St. Louis has de-
clared it to be the property of the
Missouri Pacific railroad.
ference.
Tennessee and Arkansas will
send fifty delegates, Texas one .u22-
dred, Mississippi, Georgia, North and
South Carolina twenty-five or more
By Associated Press.
San Francisco, Nov. 27.—“Christianity/
Emerging From Paganism,” Rafaello
Romanelli’s marble figure of the Christ,
now in the garden of the Italian build-,
ing at the Panama-Pacific exposition,
was refused, it was announced today,
by the park commissioners as a gift to
the city of San Francisco on the ground
that the subject,-being a religious one,
was not acceptable for display in a pub-
lic park.
Romanelli, who owns the statue, of-
fered it to the city, providing the cost
of transportation and material—said to
be about $4,000—was paid. The amount
was promptly raised by a committee of
oners taken up to the present time by
the German, Austro-Hungarian and
Bulgarian troops,” says the Overseas
News agency, “is 101,000 officers and
men. The invading forces also have
rescued 2,000 Austro-Hungarians who
had been made prisoner by the Serb-
ians, but later abandoned during the
hasty retreat of King Peter’s forces.
“With the capture of the Serbian
towns of Mitrovitza and Pristina,” the
news agency adds, the last section of -apunol nuKu^ 11 uneneckea
he railroad from Uskup to Mitrovitza almost certainly to another crisis ’
was wrested from the Serbians.” -.....—
To Conclude Work of Building Trades
Convention.
By Associated Press.
San Francisco, Nov. 27.—The election
of officers is expected to conclude to-
day the work of the ninth annual ses-
sion of the building trades depart-
ment of the American Federation of
Labor, which has been in session here
all this week.
By Associated Pres's.
Chicago, Nov. 27.—When baby
sucks its thumb it may be irrep-
arably injuring its speaking or
singing voice in later years, Dr.
Newton C. Thomas of Northwest-
ern university today told dele-
gates attending the National
Council of Teachers of America.
“This form of relaxation- is said
to cause malformation of the up-
per jaw,” Dr. Thomas said, “and
destroy some of the overtones
that are so vital a part of musical
speech.”
of the Western Economic
will be had relative to the quarantine
matter between the state and federal
governments at Galveston relative to'
the fumigation of vessels about which
there has been some friction.
The governor leaves Sunday night for
Chicago where he will address the Na-
tion Conference on Marketing and
Farm credits. He will also visit New
York, where he will confer with his
financial representatives, as he has
done for the past ten years annually.
He will be absent about two weeks and
Lieut.-Gov. Hobby is expected here
Sunday morning.
struction is instantly shown
By Associated Press.
Milan, Nov. 26.— (Via Paris,
Nov. 27.)—Earl Kitchener, British
secretary for wan, obtained per-
mission from the Greek govern-
ment for allied troops to land at
Greek ports other than Saloniki,
according to an Athens dispatch
to the Corriere della Sera.
so far as these relate to impending
military developments.
It may be said, however, that the
conference Earl Kitchener had here
yesterday and on his visit to the front
today have further strengthened and
perfected the close accord between Italy
and her allies and also has contributed
to shaping the active assistance which
Italy is. to give in the entente opera-
tions in the near east.
-----
Anglo-French Troops There Are Esti-
mated at 123,000.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Nov. 27.— Press dispatches
from Athens say that the French and
British forces landed at Saloniki have
now attained important proportions.
The Patris of Athens gives their num-
ber at 125,000. These forces are
abundantly supplied with arms and
ammunition.
Some 40,000 or 45,000 more men are
said to be on the way to Saloniki, a
which port 4,000 troops are debarking
each day.
Due to Arrive at Matamoros This Aft-
ernoon.^
Brownsville, Tex., Nov. 27.—Gen. Car-
ranza is due to reach Matamoros, op-
posite here at about four o’clock
this afternoon.
Senator Simmons also announced
I that he favored adequate national de-
। fense and merchant marine legislation
I and said that he was convinced that
I the income tax exemption was far toq
high, and that gasolise and automo-
biles should share the burden of the
war tax.
Senator Smooth, of Utah, Republican
member of the finance committee, also
was out with a statement in which
he attacked Secretary McAdoo’s general
financial statement. Senator Smooth
asserted belief that the secretary’s
revenue estimates were. too high and
those for expenditures too low and that
misleading bookkeeping changes had
been resorted to.
speed can be reached in the
By Associated Press. ’ '
Continued progress by the Austro-
German troops and their Bulgarian al-
lies is reported in the Berlin war re-
port today. The capture of 2,000 ad-
ditional Serbian prisoners is announced.
Southwest of Mitrovista, the terri-
tory as far as the Klina sector has
been cleared of Serbians by the Austro-
Hungarians. West of Pristina, German
troops have occupied the heights on
the left bank of the Sitnica river. South
of Drenica the Bulgarians have crossed
the line of Goles-Stimlia,-Jiseerce-Lju-
beten.
A dispatch from Athens tells of the
entente ministers presenting another
collective note to the Greek government
outlining certain measures which the
powers desire Greece to take in con-
formity to the preliminary agreement
reached recently.
A Saloniki dispatch to the London
Star asserts the Serbians have recap-
tured Krushevo, about 20 miles west
of Prilep.
While the Serbians continue to be
driven nearer the border of their coun-
try and at points have retreated over it,
the entente allies apparently are plac-
ing a formidable army in tiie Balkans.
Allied troops in large numbers con-
tinue to be landed at Saloniki, says a
news agency dispatch from that city.
Permission for landing of allied forces
at other Greek ports has been obtained
from the Greek government, according
to unofficial advices from Athens. Some
125,000 men are said already to have
debarked at Saloniki, while 40,000 or
45,000 more are on their way.
The semiofficial announcement in
Berlin gives the number of Serbians
taken prisoner by the Austro-German
and Bulgarian troops at 101,000.
‘THe British expedition in Mesopo-
tamia is back again in possession of
Ctesiphon, hear Bagdad, after its re-
cent temporary withdrawal a short dis-
tance because of lack of water, London
is advised.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Nov. 27.—By wireless to Say-
ville.—“The number of Serbian pris-
Pope Will Make Another Effort Again
This Year.
By Associated Press.
Rome, Nov. 27.—Although the efforts
of Pope Benedict last year to obtain a
truce among the warring powers over
the Christmas holiday did not succeed,
it is regarded on good authority that
the pope will make a similar attempt
this year. He is said to have brought
up this question during his conference
with Cardinal von Hartmann, arch-
bishop of Cologne.
The pope is represented as having ex-
pressed the opinion that it is his duty
to make the effort to obtain the truce,
although the prospect that his proposal
will be accepted is no more favorable
than last year.
By Associated Press.
Pittsburg, Nov. 27. — Enormous
shipments of freight for export
continue to go east from the Pitts-
burg district in spite of congested
terminals at Atlantic seaboard
points and, in yards between here
and New York. Railroad officials
said today that every possible ex-
pedient was being used to handle
the tremendous freight movement.
One said the lines were not suffer-
ing so much from lack of cars as
, in the past, but from lack of track
z room, many cars being held be-
cause it was impossible to secure
dock space for their contents
whila waiting for vessels.
Four Hundred Expect to Be at New Or-
leans Conference.
By Associated Press.
Corpus Christi, Tex., Nov. 27.—More-
head Wright of Little Rock, secretary
of the Cotton States Bankers’ confer-
a member of company L. Littles was
shot through the head. His home was
at Fairmount, N. C.
Evidence that any attempt at looting
in Nogales, Sonora, during the occupa-
tion of that town on the Mexican side
of the border by Carranza forces would1
- be summarily dealt with was conveyed
to the American side last night in re-
ports that, members of Gen. Alvaro
Obregon’s forces, who entered the town
following the , evacuation by Villa
forces, had executed ’eight alleged
looters.
Among the men executed was a Car-
ranza captain, it was said, and three
Carranza soldiers. Four others whose
identity could not be learned also were
executed. Latest reports of the casual- j
ties among the Villa snipers, whose I
firing into American territory precipi-
tated the battle of yesterday, placed
the total dead at more than forty.
Efforts to ascertain the exact loca- ■
tion of the Villa forces who evacuated J
the Mexican town opposite here, thus
far have proved futile. It was gener-
ally believed, however, that they had
escaped toward Hermosillo, where for
several days Villa soldiers have been
endeavoring to take the town from the
Carranza troops. ,
FIRING EXPLAINED.
At a conference last night with a rep-
resentative of Gen. Obregon, Col. W. H.
Sage, commanding United States troops,
explained that the firing exchanged be-
tween the American soldiers and the
Carranza cavalrymen was due in a
measure to the lack of information by
him that Gen. Obregon’s forces, under
Col. Cardenas, were approaching so
closely.
“I had arranged with the Carranza I
consul to notify me when the Carranza
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Nov. 27.—Two deaths
from lockjaw among school
children of West Hammond, a sub-
urb, who were vaccinated recently
as a result of smallpox epidemic,
have caused alarm among parents
whose children have received the
same treatment. Dr. C. E. Craw-
ford, chief medical inspector of the
state board of health, is investigat-
ing the situation. It was reported
today that five or six other cases
show symptoms of tetanus. Within,
the last five weeks nearly one
thousand children have been vac-
cinated,
Little activity is reported from
western front with the exception
mining and aerial operations.
Younger Officers Put in Command in
French'1 Army.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Nov. 27.—The constant, efforts
of Gen. Joffre to keep the higher com-
mands in.the charge of men of proved
vigor and initiative are exemplified
once more by an announcement in the
Official J ournal that seven division
generals and three brigade generals
have been transferred to the reserve.
Their places have been given to young-
er men who have distinguished them-
selves in recent operations.
Among the officers retired are Gen
A. M. D. Drude, 64, and Gen. Mas
Latrie.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Nov. 27.—Senator Sim-
meu .North Carolina, chairman or
the senate finance committee, who in
a formal announcement approved Sec-
retary McAdoo’s suggestion for rais- ■
ing by internal taxes , the additional
revenue required to meet the initial
expenses of the administration’s de-
fense program, was ready today to
begin consideration of revenue prob-
lems which his committee will help to :
solve.
By Associated Press.
New York, Nov. 27.—The Amer-
ican Trans-Atlantic company,
several of whose steamships
have been seized by British war-
ships under suspicion. of German
ownership, awaits today an an-
swer from Secretary of State
Lansing to its request that an
American warship be sent to
Buenos Aires to convoy its
steamer Winnebago to this port
and save her from capture by
British cruisers.
The vessels recently purchased
by this company have been
placed under American registry,
but have been listed as “suspect-
ed” by the British government.
The Winnebago is loaded with
dyewood for Stamford, Conn., but
the company does not dare to
order her to sea, fearing that ■
British warships are lying in
wait. Meanwhile the American
Trans-Atlantic company is col-
lecting affidavits from its stock-
holders to prove that only
American capital are interested
in the ownership of its fleet in
the expectation that this will
lead to diplomatic representa-
tions by Mr. Lansing to the Brit-
ish government.
Boy Shot in Leg—William Isaacs is
Killed.
By Associated Press.
Brownsville, Tex., Nov. 27.—Sam
Hamilton, 8 years old, was accidental-
ly shot in the leg at Pharr, Hidalgo
county, late yesterday by a six-year-
old playmate, Adam Evans. They were
playing “Mexican bandits.” He will lose
use of the leg.
Shortly after this accident, William
Isaacs of Bay City, Tex., brother-in-
law of Mrs. John B. Hamilton, mother
of the injured boy was run over by a
train near Pharr and killed.
By Associated Press:
Nogales, Ariz., Nov. 27.—With the ex-
pected arrival here today of an addi-
tional 1,700 United States infantrymen
to reinforce the border troops at this
Point, residents of this town experi-
enced a feeling oF security such as had
not been enjoyed since Villa forces took
possession of Nogales, Sonora, follow-
ing their defeat at Agua Prieta.
There was evidence of renewed con-
fidence in every quarter and the belief
was generally expressed that should
there be a recurrence of the exciting
events of yesterday, when Villa snipers
fired into American territory from the
Mexican side, killing one United States
soldier and wounding two others, such
an attack would be met with prompt
and vigorous response.
The troops scheduled to arrive to-
day composed a provisional brigade j
made up of the Seventh and Twentieth
i egiments of United States infantry
stationed at Douglas, Ariz.
INJURED TROOPERS.
Herbert L. Cales, private in company
L of the Twelfth infantry, was the more
seriously hurt of the two wounded I
American soldiers. He was shot in the
abdomen. An operation performed last
night was reported to have resulted
satisfactorily, and it is believed he has j
an even chance to recover. Arthur L.
Saupe, private in the same company, I
was shot in the right foot.
The dead American soldier was Ste-
phen Littles, 22 years old, who also was
Street Car Operation in San Angelo is
at Standstill.
By Associated Press.
San Angelo, Tex., Nov. 27.—Street car
service in San Angelo was at com-
plete standstill early today as a result
of a controversy between city com-
mission and J. D. Sugg, owner of the
local car lines. Mr. Sugg offered the
entire system which is understood to
be have been unprofitable for several
years to the city of San Angelo as a
Christmas gift. The city commission
declined the gift.
Operation of the system was dis-
continued today and Mr. Sugg threat-
enes to tear up the tarcks. Petitions
are being circulated ’ asking the city
commission to force reestablishment of
car service.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Nov.: 27.—Paul Leroy Beau-
lieu, the economist, estimated tday that
subscriptions to the new French war
loan may amount to ?4,000,000,000. Of
this amount perhaps one-half will be
cash subscriptions, the remainder rep-
resenting conversion into the new loan
of earlier issues of treasury notes and
national defense bonds. No official
figures are yet available,’ and other
estimates of the total are at wide vari-
ance with that of M. Leroy Beaulieu.
Officials of the treasury department
express great satisfaction with the re-
sults thus far. Lines of subscribers at
the Bank of France and many other
places today were as long as those
which waited yesterday.
Promptness with which all classes
have responded to the call of Finance
Minister Ribot has given rise to many
odd incidents. A man with the cap
and blue blouse of a peasant was
asked at the Bank of France what de-
nominations of bonds he desired. The
clerk judged from his appearance that
he would subscribe for 100 to 1000
francs.
“I don’t care,” the peasant responded.
“The less paper the better. But give
me 100,000 francs worth.”
He paid one-tenth of his sum in gold.
A significant detail of the loan sub-
scriptions is the increase in gold held
by the Bank of France, coming from
private hoards.
HUTCHINGS, SEALY & GO.
Estabzhed BANKERS Estnbszzhed
(Unincorporated)
For
Banks, Individuals, Corporations
American Rankers Association Trav-
elers’ Cheques for Sale.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Nov. 27.—Ella Flagg
Young, who next week will re-
linquish her position as superin-
tendent of Chicago’s public
schools at $10,000 a year, will re-
ceive a pension of $400 annually.
This sum will be paid out of the
teachers’ pension fund.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Nov. 27—Praise for the
federal reserve banks and the effect
they have had on the finances of the
Berlin So Terms Stories of Lusitania
Conspiracy.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Nov. 27.—(By wireless to
Sayville).—The Overseas News agency
says:
“According to cablegrams from
Washington as published in England,
it has now been proved that the sink-
ing of the Lusitania was planned by
Germans in the United States; that
Count von Bernstorf reported the pro-
posal to Berlin and that the German,
foreign foreign office expressly ap-
proved the plan.
“These stories are ridiculous inven-
tion’s, whose object is very easy to
perceive. Therefore, every sensible
person here expects the whole world
will have sufficient common sense to
value such reports at their true
merit.”
By Associated Press.
London, Nov. 27.—The battle
between British and Turkish
forces at Ctesiphon, near Bag-
dad, which for a time looked like
a check to the Mesopotamian ex-
pedition, is now reported to have
been a success of first impor-
tance.
The retirement of the British
after the capture of Ctesiphon,
occasioned by the lack of water,
was only temporary. After the
Turks withdrew toward Bagdad,
the British reoccupied their for-
mer position, encountering no
opposition as they, took posses-
sion of Ctesiphon for the second
time.
British troops at once began
to clear the Turkish trenches,
which were filled with dead or
wounded soldiers. The British
captured a large quantity of
arms and ammunition, in addi-
tion to the 1,300 prisoners pre-
viously reported.
Ctesiphon has been the scene
of many fateful battles. The
ancient city was besieged and
plundered a dozen times by
Greek and Roman invaders from
the east before the Arabs finally
sacked it.
Small Norwegian Steamer Has Been
Sunk.
By Associated Press.
London, Nov. 27.—The Norwegian
steamship Klar has been sunk. Her
crew of eight men was landed. ■
The Klar was owned in Christiania,
was of‘518 tons gross and was built
in 1884.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1915.—TWELVE PAGES
Closing Session Held at Corpus Christi
Today.
By Associated Press.
Corpus Christi, Tex., Nov, 27.—Texas
Teachers’ association in session here
today for the closing day of their thir-
ty-seventh annual convention heard ad-
dresses from P. W. Horn, city school
superintendent of Houston; Dr. W. A.
Davis of the state board of health and
others.
The afternoon session was devoted
exclusively to business with the elec-
tion of officers and the selection of a
next meeting place as the most inter-
esting matters. The official enroll-
ment for the convention is announced
as two thousand and ten.
ability to sustain high speed in rough
water. It consists of a motor-driven
fan under water which stirs the con-
tents of the tank into wave motions
of any desired frequency or size At
the opposite end of the tank is a beach,
over which the waves run to be trap-
ped in the space behind, preventing
their return up the tank to intetrfere
with experiments. More accurate
data on ship construction has been
given out from the navy plant than
from all other similar tanks in the
world combined. It has a capacity of
testing 150 or more models annually
as compared to 50 in the British ad-
miralty tank. Nearly 2000 models
have been tested at the navy yard
and the results carefurly tabulated. In
slack periods a regular series of test
models is produced and the results
noted in order that the whole sci-
entific field may be covered. The offi-
cer in charge presents the new data
gathered before a scientific society
each year and private designers can
now work out the hull of a merchant
ship on the formulas gathered by the
government. About a fifth of the work
now done in the basin is for private
shipbuilders who send plans of pro-
posed ships to the navy yard where
models are constructed and tested. The
plant soon will have a capacity of
producing and testing one model every 1
twenty-four hours.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Nov. 27.—Some idea of
the size and power of the superbattle-
cruisers Proposed as part of the new
naval program may be’ gained from
he fact that each one would be 800
feet long—more than twice as long
as any battleship which participated
in the Spanish-American war, more
than 200 feet longer than any battle-
ship now afloat and ten feet longer
- than was the Lusitania.
Tests of hull models for the giant
cruisers are proceedings at the model
basin in the Washington navy yard to
determine just how much horsepower
will be required to drive them 35 knots
an hour, the speed fixed by the navy
general board. It will take six sepa-
rate sets of steam turbines, it is un-
derstood, operating six propellers to
attain that pace and the hull designs
of the models show a huge, square
crosssection amidships -11 order to ac-
commodate the mass of machinery.
HORSEPOWER.
There is no longer any doubt about
the amount of horsepower required
to drive a ship of known design at
any desired speed. The model basin
has done away with speculation on
that point. It is a huge tank several
hundred feet long and thirty feet
wide, above which runs a traveling
bridge arrangement carrying the com-
plicated mechanism to measure the
resistance offered by a model hull
towed through the water. The aver-
age battleship model is twenty feet
long and is in exact proportion to the
ship it is planned to construct, it
has been, established as a law of phys-
ics that the power required to pull a
thodel through the water at six knots,
for instance, will show exactly the
force necessary to drive the ship "her-
self at a predetermined rate. The ef-
fect of any minor change in hull con-
meridian: To-
troops arrived,” Col. Sage said. “The
wires were down last night and the
consul failed to receive the expected
information.”
Col. Sage commented on the rather
leisurely retreat last night of the Villa
forces, saying that this was explained
by the fact that they did not look for
the arrival of the Obregon forces until
tomorrow.
Col. Sage received an affidavit last
night by Josua Urbana, a fireman, who
worked with Edgar Bean, the American
locomotive engineer who was killed
in Sonora early this week, which as-
serts that the Villa commander, Bel-
tran, shot Bean with his own hands.
According to the affidavit, the shooting
took place when the locomotive Bean
was driving jumped the track after
leaving Cananea, where the Villa men
had looted the bank and the properties
of the Cananea Consolidated Copper
company. .
Montclair, N. J., People Raise Fund fox
Americans.
By Associated Press.
Montclair, N. J., Nov. 27.—Residents
of this city began today to raise a
fund of $100,000 to endow a home for
Armenian children orphaned by the
war. D. M. Bedikian has given a farm
and three buildings at Dundee lakes
for the home. It will shelter about
100 children.
Indefinite information has reached
navy officials that England is building
a swift vessel as an experiment which
may reach 35-knots an hour and which
will carry heavy guns and no armor
whatever. She will be a new type of
scout cruiser rather than a battlecraft,
it is understood, and have less endur-
ance than battlecruisers.
MAKE OWN WAVES.
The navy model basin is now equip-
ped with a wave-maxmg device with
which the rolling qualities of a ship
design can be tested and also her
By Associated Press.
Austin, Tex., Nov. 27.—After leaving
Chicago, Gov. Ferguson announced here
today he will proceed to Washington
where he will have a conference with
President Wilson, during which several
matters affecting Texas are to be dis-
cussed. Probably the most important
proposition is realtive to the border
situation; now that there is a dei’acto
government in Mexico, Gov. Ferguson
wants to know what is to be the pro-
gram of the federal government so
that the state authorities may be guid-
ed thereby. •
Since Gov. ’Ferguson assumed the
reins of government there has been
harmony between the state and federal
government and now he wants this
good feeling to continue. He is desir-
ous of ascertaining the policy to be
pursued in the future in dealing with
Mexico. The governor will also confer
with the president and war department
relative to the alleged shortage in the
Texas National guard; a conference
night partly
cloudy, warm-
er except in
fiorthwest
•u-- portion; Sun-
day partly cloudy, colder except in
southeast portion.
For Texas, west of 100th merid-
ian: Tonight fair, colder except in
southeast portion, freezing except
in southeast portion; Sunday fair,
colder in southeast portion.
For Oklahoma: Tonight unsettled,
colder in west portion; Sunday fair.
Winds on Texas coast: Light
southerly to westerly.
I Am FORECAST.
Ready F or Galves-
For ton and vicin-
» Sunday ity: Tonight
• Sunday generally fair,
warmer; Sun-
day partly
cloudy; light
southerly
winds.
For Texas,
east of 100th
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