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PL& TEXAS,
APRIL 9,1916.
GERMANS BODE
THEIR WHY INTO
DEFENSE LINES
OF THE FRENCH
CROWN PRINCE'S ARMY IS MAK
, INO FURTHER PROGRESS IN
VERDUN OPERATIONS.
MRS SIB Mi tlllS
Wlille Admitting Th*t the Teutonic
Forces Have Made Recent Progress
South of Hancoart, the Defenders
Claim to Have Offset This Advance
In Besting the Attackers Eleswbere.
Persistent attempts by the Germans
to reduce the salient in the French
lines northwest of Verdun are result-
ing in steady progress for the opera-
tion.
Attacks are being driven home on
both sides of the salient, at the north-
ern angle of which lies the village of
Bethlncourt but more particularly on
the western edge in the vicinity of
Haucourt.
Berlin reports the capture of two
strong points of support south of Hau-
court which passed recently Into Ger-
man hands, an entire French position
along a front of more than a mile and
a quarter coming into Teutonic pos-
session. Paris has admitted German
advances here but declares that on
the opposite side of the salient the
advantage In the recent fighting has
been with the French. The present
German activity in the Verdun region
Is confined almost entirely to this ope-
ration although the artillery in other
sectors around the fortress is being
intermittently employed.
Fighting on Other Fronts.
On the eastern front .there have
been no operations of major import-
ance, so far as the official reports
show. The Russians apparently are
IhnUiiur thalT.Activity M MMlCor
twr-
gtcm, south of Dvitisk, and Berlin
clares that such attacks as have been
made there were along a harrow front
and were easily repulsed.
Violent fighting is taking place on
the Austro-Italian front, the Austrlans
being on the aggressive In several sec-
tors and reporting considerable suc-
cess with the capture of numerous
prisoners.
Three Austrian aeroplanes which
were part of a Bquadron which raided
railway stations back of the hostile
lines, failed to return to their base and
apparently have fallen victims to the
Italians.
Several additional vessels have been
sunk in the course of the German sub-
marine campaign, and Paris officially
announces the sinking of an Austrian
transport in the Adriatic by a French
submarine.
A Berlin dispatch says that the Ger-
ms" n government is able to announce
it it no German submarine was re-
(Continued on Page Two.)
HE HUTS BETH! WES
Filucatlon of American Girls Sadly
Neglected, Says Senator, Urging
Domestic Economics Bill.
WASHINGTON, April 8. — "The
American garbage can is the fattest
in all the world," declared Senator
Smoot in the senate today, injecting
into the discussion on preparedness
a plea for preparedness for good
housekeeping and better homes. He
urged action on his bill for increased
appropriations for home economics
"to prepare the girls and mothers of
the country for their life duties."
"If I had a dozen daughters and
was able to give each of them a mil-
lion dollars the day of their mar-
riage, I would still want each to
know how to cook and make her own
clothes," said the senator. "Tens of
thousands of homes are ruined by
helpless and ignorant housekeepers."
In a short Investigation, the sen-
ator said he had found domestic
science was not taught in six nation-
ally known colleges which never-
theless required four years of prepar-
atory Latin.
Two Perish in Fire.
Detroit, Mich., April 8.—Mrs. Lil-
lian Diebler and her two young daugh-
ters were suffocated and two persons
were Injured today in a fire which
swept the Diebler home.
Your Question?
Who are you?
What have you?
Where can people get what you
want to sell?
Let the public know these things,
and they will buy your goods.
People are anxious to learn, but
they don't go to great trouble to
find you out They expect you to
tell them.
And the place they look for your
business message Is In the adver-
tising columns of the Telegram.
VEILED THREAT
MIRE AGAINST
UNITED STATES
WARNS AMERICANS THAT TROOPS
MUST BE WITHDRAWN TO
AVOID TROUBLE.
MEXICANS ME IRRITATED
Declares That the Punitive Expedition
Has Been Tolerated hug Enough
and That the limit of Forebear-
anoe la About to Be Reached—Nour
Is the Logical TUne to Quit, He Sajra.
Eli PASO, Tex., April 8.—The
American troops have accomp-
lished their object la destroying
Villa's military power and should,
therefore, be withdrawn Cram
Mexico without delay, was the
view expmmed today by a well
known member of the Carransu
government, speaking unofficially.
"The punitive expeditionary
force," he said, "baa done all it
could expect to do. It has shat-
tered the forces of Villa who is a
fugitive, robbed all of the
tlge and power he ever
among the people. The ^
may be ignorant, but they are not
fools. They will never again re-
spect a man who turned tan (
without making # stand.
"Meantime, it irihist be admitted
that the Mexican people have be-
haved well toward the American
troops.
"They have received them
courteously. But to allow them
to remain In Mexico Indefinitely,
20,000 men hunting for a single
bandit who may not be c
in months, is another matter. To
allow them to continue their
progresstojho south indefinitely
Hie intosence of a
tary force within
rics. Similarly, the presence of
Americans is beginning to Irritate
the Mexican people. It looks and
feels like a surrender of sov-
ereignty.
"With Villa crushed, now is
the logical time for the punitive
force to withdraw. No causes of
conflict have yet arisen and the
affair has so far turned out for-
tunately for both sides."
WEATHERISCOLOIN NORTH
Heavy Snowstorms Prevail Over Wide
Range of Territory—Six-Inch
Fall in Indiana.
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VOL. IX. No. 145
E EXPEDITION INTO DO
EL PASO, T«l, April 8.—The border »
KftlsMssy its breath in swHeipn^ip of MNM
officials
and fai JmtKy coupled with the
from Washington age accepted as
1B
ton with this
tration of
they have bean forwarded to Washington
aa credible.
For we than a week It has been reported
m that adtfftmud Cterisns* taoepe were on
their way to Juarez and that General Gavira,
the pnacnt commander In the Mexican town,
was to be supo«>dli<
rces tonight
declared positively that General Gavira had
received orders to proceed to Casas Grandes
to take a field eamamnd and that he would
be succeeded by General Petronillo Hernan-
dez. General Hernandez was said to be al-
ready on his way, having entrained at Villa
Ahumada with 3,000 men. Villa Ahumada
is half way between Juarez and Chihuahua
City.
A train which arrived here today from
Chihuahua City with several Americans in-
cluding two women brought a story of the
burning of the million dollar plant of the
an American
Durango Cityt The plant was
said to have been destroyed by Villistas un-
der the Arrieta brothers, a pair who are said
to be earnest rivals with Canuto Reyes for
the title ef premier bandits in the territory
about Torreon and north Durango.
Passengers on the train said they had
been told this story in Chihuahua City by
Americans arriving from the south. They
abo said that one of the American aviators
who had landed near Chihuahua City early
yesterday, was arrested by the Carranza au-
thorities but was later released on the repre-
sentations of Consul Letcher.
The fact that the war department's orders
to the punitive expedition as made public to-
day contain no reference to "kill or capture
of Villa** and state that the object of the pur-
suit will be accomplished, when Villa's band
or bonds are broken up, was received with
undisguised pleasure by the Mexican offi-
cials in Juarez and El Paso.
"This news comes at an opportune time,**
commented General Gavira at his Juarez
headquarters.
"Evidently the killing or capture of Villa
is considered merely incidental to the pur-
suit,** was the observation of Consul Garcia.
"This announcement puts a different aspect
on tile situation. It means that the United
States troops will not consider it necessary
to pursue Villa to the end of the earth or to
keep up the hunt indefinitely after their
object of smashing Villa as a military power
has been accomplished.'*
RUMORS THAT AMERICAN TROOPS ARE TO BE
WITHDRAWN FROM BANDIT HUNT IN SOUTH-
ERN REPUBLIC EMPHATICALLY DENIED.
CHICAGO, April 8.—News reports
received from points in the country
affected by the present snowstorm
show that virtually all Indiana is
covered, with more forecast; that six
inches fell in many parts of Penn-
sylvania and New Jersey; that one
inch fell In two hours today in New
York City, and that southern Ohio
experienced its heaviest April storm
in years last night and early today.
Missouri. Kansas and Iowa also are
in the storm belt. In Toledo, Ohio,
because of the street car strike thou-
sands of persons walked to work this
morning in a driving storm. Pitts-
burgh reported a three-inch fall over
all western Pennsylvania, eastern
Ohio and northern West Virginia.
T
Senator Kcnyon Thinks the Spirit of
National Defense Pervading the
Country Is Being Overdone.
I
WASHINGTON, April 8.—Legisla-
tors who seek to cloak al Borts of
proposals under a plea of prepared
ness were denounced In the senate to
day by Senator Kenyon. In a speech
opposing a proposal to provide in
the army bill for a government owned
fertiliser plant the Iowa senator read
a letter from a former constituent
urging support for a postoffice and
public building "round like a fort"
and with ornamental turrets and
peaks for lookouts so that when tho
men are at the front fighting an in
vader the women and children can
take refuge in the postoffice."
"Of course If you side against your
country and are untrue to the flag,1
said the letter, "you *111 oppose this
building." f *
"First we passed the Shields dam
bill," said Senator Kenyon, "because
it was a 'preparedness' bill. Then
came along another dam bill which
were urged to pass as a part of the
national defense. The child labor bill
and tha rural credits bffl certainly
are Included as means of Securing us
against foes, and I suppose when tho
rivers and harbors appropriation bill
comes along every supporter of every
bottom and mud creek will insist that
the safety of the nation requires an
up propria tiorHtorHts particular county
BERLIN PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN
SUSSEX CASE, PUTTING BUR-
BEN OF PROOF ON U. S.
WASHINGTON, April 8.—Ger-
many's disclaimer of responsibility
for the destruction of the chanel liner
Sussex surrounds the position of the
United States in the present subma-
rine situation with further difficul-
ties and may turn action, If any be
taken, from the Sussex case itself to
the accumulation of ships destroyed
without warning since Germany gave
assurances governing the submarine
campaign.
Before the next step is taken, the
collection of evidence intended to
prove legally that the Sussex was de-
stroyed by a German submarine, will
have to proceed further. Additional
evidence In the form of affidavits and
statements gathered by the American
embassy In Paris is arriving on the
steamer St. Paul, due in New Orleans
tomorrow, and will be In President
Wilson's hands Monday.
The situation will be thoroughly
discussed at Tuesday's cabinet meet-
ing and soon afterwards a decision
on the next step Is expected.
Next Step Problematical.
The apparent difficulties of proving
the Sussex case alone leads many of-
ficials close to the .president to be-
lieve the decision will hinge on con-
sideration of cumulative-evidence that
Germany's promises are being disre-
garded by her submarine command-
ers. Upon the ,strength of that evi-
dence as it finally Is judged by the
president and the cabinet will de-
pend what steps if any the United
States will take at this time.
The United States was described
officially tonight as being placed in
the position of a judge in a court of
law. Upon the evidence a decision
will be reached and the United States
will be absolutely sure that it stands
upon firm ground before rendering
one. Tbe final decision will be ren-
dered by President Wilson. It is
likely that if drastic action Is called
for congress will be consulted.
While it will be difficult for the
United States to question the good
faith of Germany, the administration
Is prepared to act upon circumstan-
tial evidence of sufficient strength,
should it be obtained.
f Further Evidence Awaited.
All the evidence thus far obtained
indicates that the Sussex was tor-
pedoed. There are two weaknesses
In the case of the United 8tates at
this time, however. One Is that no
American citizen saw the wake of a
torpedo before the bow of the chan-
nel steamer was torn off by an ex-
plosion. The other is that whlla
American naval officers declare that
the pieces of metal received from, tha
hullf are parts of a German torpedo,
there is as far as known no conclu-
sive evidence at this time that the
(Continued on Page Two.)
IN THE SENATE.
Debate on army reorganization bill
resumed.
Agreement reached to vote Tues-
day on free sugar repeal and April
18, on army bill.
Passed *38,000,000 annual legisla-
tive, executive and judicial apppro-
priation bill. •
Recessed at 4:35 p. m. to 11 a. m.
Monday.
IN THE HOUSE.
Rivers and harbors appropriation
bill discussion continued.
Secretary Baker of the war de-
partment appeared before military
sub-committee.
Adjourned at 5:36 p. m. to II a. m.
Monday.
Administration of
Justice in Alsaka
Is Quite Expensive
(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)
SEWARD, Alaska, March 21.—A
drunken brawl in which an Indian
killed a white man started United
States District Attorney Wm. M.
Spence from here today on a 1,200
mile trip by boat to Unga, near the
western tip of the Aleutian Islands.
He went to see whether Simon Ver-
skln, the Indian, should be brought
here for trial, with the necessary
witnesses, at large expense to the
government. Verskin claims he shot
In self-defense.
Administration of justice In west-
ern Alaska comes high because of the
great distance Involved in transpor-
tation of witnesses and prisoners. Re-
cently a government teacher was con-
victed at Seward for an alleged statu-
tory offense at Attu island, where
school was situated. Fees and
traveling expenses ran to $15,000 all
told. The coast guard cutter Ta-
homa was wrecked while en route
for additional witnesses and several
of her crew drowned. The boat car-
rying the prisoner to the revenue
cutter upset ,and the prisoner's leg
was broken. The total cost of the
trial was said to exceed $75,000 be-
sides loss of life. The prisoner re-
ceived a jail sentence of several
months.
TAKES THE US
BOB BURMAN, AUTO DRIVER, AND
TWO OTHERS ARE KILLED IN
CALIFORNIA ROAD RACE.
Prominent Prisoner of War.
Berlin, April 8.—(Via London)—
The Taegellche Rundschau publishes
a report that the son-in-law of Presi-
dent Polncare of France Is a prisoner
of war at Erdlng, near Munich.
AWVVMWWWWVWVVWVW/
THE WEATHER
I
Forcoaot.
East Texas: Sunday fair, rising
temperature; Monday fair, warmer.
West Texas: Sunday fair, warmer;
Monday fair.
CORONA, Cal., April S.—Bob Bur-
man of. Detroit, noted automobile
racer, his mechanician, Eric Schroeder
of Chicago and a track guard are dead
tonight as a result of the overturning
of Burman's car in the Corona road
race here today. Five spectators were
Injured, several seriously.
The race was won by Eddie O'Don-
nelly, who covered the S01 miles in
3:29:52. Joe Thomas was second with
a time of 3:36:01, and Eddie Pulleri
third with 3:38:36 2-5. Teddy Tetz-
laff and It. C. Durant finished fourth
and fifth respectively.
Burman died in the city hospital at
Riverside twelve miles away where
he was taken from a temporary race
track hospital. Mrs. Burman was with
her husband soon after the accident
and remained with him until he died.
As she stood beside him in the coun-
cil chamber of the Corona city hall,
where Burman was taken after the
accident, a woman came beside the cot.
When she left Mrs. Burman accused
her of taking from the clothing of
the injured driver, a diamond pin
valued at $800.
A. C. Ramsey, chief of police, or-
dered the woman searched, lie re-
ported that two nurses found con-
cealed urider her corset, the diamond
pin which Mrs. Burman alleged was
taken from her husband. The woman
was held.
The woman accused by Mrs. Bur-
man later was identified, according to
the police, as one who drove a car
across a temporary viaduct over the
race course, injuring two men. She
said she came to the hospital to-see
her vcltima when the police ques-
tioned her.
The race itself dwindled Into minor
importance In the swift happenings
that marked its close. O'Donnell led
constantly from the fiftieth lap. Be-
sides the Corona cup, he was awarded
a prize of $5,000.
The accident happened on the back
stretch of the ninety-seventh lap. A
wheel flew off Burman's car and the
machine crashed through the fence
Into the crowd. Schroeder was hurled
eighty feet. The guard, W. H. Speer,
was struck by the catapulting car and
killed almost instantly.
PROHIBITIONISTS WIN.
CHASE TO BE VIGOU PUSHED
Plans For Strengthening General Pershing's Line of Com-
munication Are Under Way and Additional Transpor-
tation Facilities by Auto Truck Trains Have Been
Completed — Secretary Baker's Statement.
Sunshine Special
in Two Accidents;
Third in Fortnight
HOUSTON, Tex., April 8.—The
"Sunshine Special," International &
Great Northern crack train, demol-
ished an automobile as it approached
the city limits today, injuring Geo. L,.
Charlton, attorney, and Adolph Al-
brecht. his brother in law. The
same train, after picking up the two
injured men, struck and demolished a
huckster's wagon, killing a horse, but
the huckster escaped.
.The automobile in which Mr. Charl-
ton and his relative were riding was
cut squarely in two, the pilot of the
locomotive carrying the rear seat fifty
feet down the track, while the in-
jured men. when relief reached them,
were found sitting upright together,
in the front seat, fifteen feet from the
track. Both will recover.
The same train, with the same en-
gineer, struck and killed two high
school girls two weeks ago.
Farmer in Runnels
County Is Fatally
Shot by an Officer
BALLINGER, Tex., April 8.—Wil-
liam Heckley, a farmer, was shot
and probably fatally wounded near
here today by Jim Flynt, a deputy
sheriff who had gone to arrest Heck-
ley on a charge of shooting at his
own son.
The wounded man had recently
been having trouble with his family,
it is said, which resulted in today's
shooting.
Prominent Rancher
of Llano County Is
Mysteriously Shot
SAN SABA, Tex., April 8.—Ernest
Odiorne, a prominent stockman of
Llano county, was found shot and in
an unconscious condition on his
ranch here this morning. The affair
is shrouded in mystery, there being
no clew as to how the shooting oc-
curred or who did it.
Mr. Odiorne is so seriously wound-
ed that his recovery is doubtful.
Danes In Military Service.
Copenhagen, Denmark, April 8.—•
Official announcement is made here!
that 2,300 Danes have lost their lives'
in the war while fighting on the side
of Germany. They were Scandina-
vian natives of the province of
Schleswig, which has been for fifty
years in possession of Germany.
Rebuilding Servian Capital.
Vienna, April 8.—The Austrians are
engaged In rebuilding and repairing
a large part of the city of Belgrade.
Besides restoring the public buildings,
100,000 panes of glass have been re-
placed and 12,000 new keys made.
SAN' ANTONIO, Tex.. April 8.—:
Gratification was manifested today
when it was learned at General Funs*
ton's headquarters that Secretary
Lansing and Secretary Baker had de-
nied the government was contem-
templating the withdrawal tf Ameri-
can troops from Mexico. General
Funston does not regarri the task set
him of breaking up "Villa's band or
bands," as accomplished. The only
question of doubt created under tho
terms of his orders rests in that part
of the orders that provides for the re-
moval of the troops whenever the
troops of the de facto government
are able to relieve them ot their
work." That is a phase of the situation
army officers here do not discuss.
Task Not Accomplished.
The net result of the three weeks
campaign against Villa is the killing
of a few more than 150 of Villa's men
and the extension of a line of Amer-
ican troops approximately 400 miles
into Mexico. Villa's organization re-
mains intact, so far as army officers
here know. He has divided it into
smaller units and one of these was at-
tacked and defeated at Guerrero but
there is evidence that the fugitive
chieftain, although perhaps wounded
and possibly traveling on a stretcher
as stated in some reports that have
reached here, is yet directing in a
general way their movements. Gen-
eral Pershing's reports, infrequent to
headquarters, continued throughout
(he week to indicate the optimism of
himself and his officers that they
soon would overtake Villa or his main
force, but none of his reports have in-
dicated that he regarded his task as
accomplished.
Cliaso to Be Pushed.
Instead of anticipating an early
withdrawal of the troops, General
Funston has planned to stimulate the
chase in every way possible and in
order to do this has daily watched for
advices from Washington that Car-
ranza at least had made It possible to
use without subterfuge at least one
of the railroads extending south from
Juarez. Failure to get this right,
however, and realization of the im-
practicability of maintaining the 400
miles line from Columbus to the ex-
treme front below Satevo, caused Gen-
eral Funston and his staff to consider
seriously the establishment of a ne<V
base at some point on the border near-
er the field of operations, perhaps
Ojinaga, and from there the running
south of a new line of communica-
tion. Unofficially, it was intimated
that such a change of base would be
suggested to the war department un-
less permission to use without restric-
tion at least one of the raiireals was
received soon.
Confident of Siufcss.
Little of what was transpiring south
of Chihuahua was known at General
Funston's headquarters today but no
uneasiness was displayed and in-
creased confidence was manifested.
This confidence was not due alto-
gether to the belief that the Ameri-
cans would bo able to overtake Villa
but to the co-operation of Carranza's
forces who were reported officially by
agents of the Mexican government to
have occupied strategic positions In
tho path Villa was reported to be fol-
lowing. If the thousands of men Car-
ranza claimed to have scattered
through the territory in front of Villa
can check him In his flight to the
Caldwell County Remains Dry By a
Lnrge Majority,
Lockhart, Tex., April 8.—By a ma-
jority of of 396 votes, and with but
one small box to hear from, Caldwell
county voted today to retain local op-
tion prohibition. The county voted
"dry" two years ago.
The total vote was for prohibition
1,337; against 991, or less than half
the county's voting strength.
"v. -
Hunt for Villa Definitely
Halted, Says Army Officer
EL PASO, Tew, April 8.—The pursuit of Villa has been
brought to a definite halt, according to a statement made here
tonight by an American army officer holding a position of re-
sponsibility.
"There is no use blinking at the facte," he said. 4,Even a
iayiuan should be able to understand that General Pershing
with the relatively small number of men in his command can-
not maintain lines of communication anywhere from 300 to
500 miles long and at the same time press the pursuit of a
bandit into a country where he is known to have 'thousands ot
sympathizers if not active supporters.
"With the free use of Mexican railroads we still could hope
to do something, but apparently there is no hope of such a con-
cession at least at present. I cannot see that the army can do
anything more unless the railroad problem is settled in our
favor or substantial reinforeements are sent to General Per-
shing.
'I know nothing about reports that the withdrawal of tho
troops is contemplated. That is a question for Washington to
decide. It is hardly necessary for me to say such a solution
would be a bitter pill for us."
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