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WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA . TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1916,
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Several Killed and Others Fa
tally Injured in Cleveland
Incendiary Blaze.
FOLICE SEARCHING FOR
ALLEGED FIRE BUG
Second Blaze In Twenty-Four
Hours In Apartment House
Proved a Tragedy-Several
Occupants Dead and Fire
men Badly Injured.
n.vdaml. Ohio, March 28. Two
tinldt -ntiiied men and one woman were
In;: neci to death and nearly a score
oi p-ople injured this morning at 2
oYi.H'k when flames swept through
th,- itliird floor of an apartment house
luir. The police are searching for
a masked man. who, according to the
story told hy a waitress, entered her
room, on the third floor, bound and
gauged her and set fire to the build-in?-
' '
Most of the injured were h"!rt by
jumping from the third-floor win-Irvrs.
0m' woman and two men were fatal
h injured. Two firemen were also
injured so badly, in attempting to res
cue the occupants of the building, that
:h v mav die. Both fell from third-.
floor windows.
Fire started in the building on Mon
day morning in a closet in the wait
ress" room and she was rescued by
tironiHi and taken to a hospital. The
fire was easily extinguished, but the
siri was nearly suffocated. She "re
vived in the hospital last night and re
turned to her room
According to the story she told the
ml-: a maskedaian entered her
' - after 1:30 o'clock, gag
uc i Her and bound her hands and
leet: atter which he started the fire
in the room with paper.
The (ire c waslae4iH ler control
I;, fore the entire building was de
stroyed!. , '
II LUMBERTON TEAMS
fl ENTEBjTHE DEBATE
Coroner's Jury Finds Death of
Negro Accidental Min
ister Resigns Charge.
(Ey R. M. Norment.)
Luiulmio:;. March 28 Two teams
lio::i the Lumberton High School will
participate in a triangular debate Fri
day night, .March 31 with teams 'from!
the Santord and Laurinburg schools.
'I li c ivirm pi's w ill $rn in Chanel Hill
a;!fi take part in the State high school
(iei)pting contest. The question to be
.debated is resolved "That the United
S'ai.es Should Adopt the Policy of En
larging its Navy."
John Blount McLeod and Robert
';.IdiV.el! will debate representatives
ot the Sanford High School here Fri
day night and will take the affirmative
jJde of the question. Robert Proctor
and V. Ertyl Carlyle will meet repre
sentatives of the Laurinburg High
School at Laurinburg and will speak
'in the negative side. A Lumberton
teMn has been sent to Chapel Hill
' very year since these high school de-
Utes were established and The Laurin-1.
' "rg school has been defeated for the,
past three years.
The coroner's jury named to investi
gate the death of George McQueen, a
y-iing negro who was found in a dying
condition by the S. A. L. railroad Sat
urday night, decided Monday that he
v-'os killed by the Seaboard passenger
u'lun which passed Through Lumber-1
toil Saturday night about 11:30 o'clock.
'lev. j. p. Gorrell, p-ef the Pres
byterian church, announced to his con
gaticn Sunday morning his resigna-v-
to take effect April 1. Rev. Mr.
r"i:re!l has been pastor of this church
several yeais and has made many1
fi':eiids here who will regret tofsee
,!fM leave.
The Areade theatre, a movie house
"Pr,ned here two weeks ago by Worth
k ('o., did not open Monday. The-les-f,s
decided to close it on account of
P;orj patronage and have- moved to
Clinton.'
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MANY DIE IN COAL MINEi
EXPLOSION
,
Dlucfield, West Va., March 28
n explosion occurred this morn
"IS ill thp Past Pntrv nf thp Kiner
-oal mine at Kimball, near here.
lrour dead have already been tak-
out of the mine and it is fear-
e(l that a number of others have
bn killed.
A hasty canvass of the town 4
. ''closed that one hundred men 4
v are
hissing.
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INDICTMENTS AGAINST
S
Judge Anderson Granted Mo
tion to Quash a Number of
Xfiem. ,
Youngstown, Ohio, March 28 Judge
W. S. Anderson today granted a mo
tion to quash the indictments against
five steel companies charging them
with conspiracy in fixing the price of
i labor and steel products.
; The indictment against the United
I Steel Corporation and' 12 . H. Gary, the
head of the corporation, still stand, as
: the motion U quash, uiu not include
.these two defendants.
The steel companies' attorneys at
tacked the indictments as being too
indefinite and uncertain, depriving
them of their constitutional rights.
MUST LEAVE COUNTY
Convicted of Violating Law
Regarding Laborers.
D. N. Cranshaw and R. Jacobs,
v..ie men, against whom a warrant
was sworn out yesterday by Mr. Thos .
R. Ames, of the Degado Cotton Mills,
alleging that they were conspiring to
persuade employes under coutrrct to
! quit their positions and accept jobs
in the Albermale" Cotton Mills, near
Salisbury, were ordered to leave' the
county before tomorrow at noon, by
Recorder B. G. Empie this morning.
On charges of vagrancy nol Tjroses
were granted, but Granshaw was fined
$10 and costs for carrying a concealed
weapon.
Chas. Inmann. colored, wuo is
chargd with tbe larceny of tobacco
from, the Ahrens Brothers, wholesale
'drug comp'nyf&
j capias was issued for him. Buddy.
I Howe, colored, was taxed with the
i costs for giving George Lowery, col-
I i f .i -
orea, a pipeiui oi gunpowuer, wxiicn
he lighted and was painfully burred.
CHAMBER IS INYITED ;
i
Wilmington Men May Attend
Navy League Convention
, The "immediate action" convection
of the Navy League which is to bs
held April 10-13 at the New Willard
Hotel in Washington, has, extended j
the Wilmington Chamber of Com
merce an invitation to send a delega
tion of , three local men to take part:
in the deliberations. It is not unlike-1
ly that 3t delegation will attend from
this city,, though no definite arrange-!
ments have yet been made to this end.!
Three matters will be considered at
the convention- that of a National De
fense Commission, a Navy General
Staff, and a means of awakening the
nation to its defense needs. The visi
tors will take a trip to the Naval
Academy at Annapolis upon the close
of the convention.
STEAM EF: SOLD?
Ship to Be Here Today Reported Sold
to Allies. ,
Considerable interest is manifested
by local marine men in the arrival
of the steamer Constitucion at the
quarantine station this morning from
the west coast of South America with
a cargo of nitrate of soda, as the ves
sel is reported to have been ' sold by
its owners in Mobile, Ala., to the Eu
ropean Allies for $700,000. The steam
er's cargo is for Grace & Co., and will
be discharged at the Atlantic Coast
Line terminals. I ' !
Mr. J. W. Schuct, who represents
the . Carribean & Southern Steamship
Co., of Mobile, the owners, who is in
the city,, has stated tnatj he could not
confirm the report. He said that he
would take charge of the Constitucion
as soon as the cargo t was. discharged
and send the steamer 'to.New York.
The vessel will leave the Quarantine
station this afternoon and arrive in
Wilmington abou 6 " o'clock, The
steamer sailed, from Callao Peru, on
January 4, and touched at Valparaiso
and Iquique, Chile, it sailed around
Cape Horn and stopped at Bahlaf Bra
zil, for coal. The steamer is in com
mand of Captain Scott and is consign
ed to Heide & Co.
WILSON URGES THAT ')
KITCHIN SPEED THEM UP
Vashington, March 28. President
Wilson wrote Democratic Leader Kit
chin, of the House, today urging con
sideration of the shipping bill and the
resolutions for investigation of con
ditions of railway transportation and
legislation. The railway resolution
was not included in the legislative
program laid v before the Democratic
caucus last week. ,
STEEL CONCERN
DUSTED
Thursday They Will Demand
I
I
Basis of an Eight-Hour
Day.
ROADS SAY CANNOT
POSSIBLY MEET IT
i Claim Lack'- of Revenue Will
Bar Them. From It
Coast Line In
cluded. Washington. March 28 Commit
tees representing the engineers, fire-
erhoods expect to present a demand
. . , , x .f .-. ?,me ueriuaiis guns nave resum- wnicn nave Deen 5 received it now ap-5 . , , , .
.for increased wages to railways British steamer, Susse: , ed their heavy fire west of the river, ! pears as if the f entire commune
throughout the United States next Secretary Lansing announced after however, shelling, the French line.1 when the time ! comes, will join hands J do with the punitive expedition in ;
Thursday. The men will ask, it is the cabinet meeting toay that it had i soutn cf Malancourt, in the sector and efforts, in the endeavor to make Mexico . Information from Washing
sa.id, that the eight-hour basis be been clecided to mak such inauiry and i where the recent German drive took khe two weeks' period of much bene- ton that the railways will not-be made
adopted for computing the pay for a f. . - ' - j the Crown Prince's troops south-to' fit to Wilmington from both a health Tavailable in the immediate future came
' day's work and time and a half be..1; was jater learned the inquiry had,the edge of Avocourt woods. and a beautifying viewpoint. ' jas unwelcome news to , departmental
fpaid for overtime.. The demand will . been matf&; and probably5 already was Bitter fighting again Is taking place The. fortnight from April 3 to 16 has ' headquarters today.
i apply to all men in the roads', freight in Berlin . R along the Austro-Italian front. The been chosen as! the period for the ! Because of the imperative need of-
yard and hostling service. The pay, The precise status, of the com
'of the passenger employes is already . municationj is that of an inquiry. It
based on a day of, less than eight ' has not advanced to ' the' stage of a
: nours- protest or demand. While cabinet
; Although the railways have thirty members - describe the situation as
days in which to reply to the demands -grave, it isf net thought a break with
officials here state -that they cannot ; Germany is an immediate prospect.
possibly, meet them with the present It is saidl howeverithat if Germany
j revenue. Presentation of the demands admits torpedoing the Sussex the sit-
to tne railways ot tne bout-eastern ,
territory will be made to the South-
em at its headquarters here, to the
. Seaboard at Norfolk to the Atlantic
Coast Line at Wilmington, to the
Louisville & Nashville at Louisville,
to the Central of Georgia at Savan-
ua, iu iuc r iui iua uaat v. uuol l ol. ;
Augustine, and to the Mobile & Ohio'
at -Mobile. n
CONSIDErtED GRAVE
BUT NO DECISION YET
Washington. March 28. As Presi-
dent Wilson and cabinet met todav
members reflected the view that the !
submarine situation was crave, but in
dicated no decided action would be
ItairPii lw thP AmpHn .nvpmmpnt
until it was shown -onclusivelv that
me steamers
me steamers, bussex ana englishman,
were sunk by a submarine.
MORE DETAILS OF FIGHT
Ml THE NORTH SEA
i
British Converted Cruiser
Was One Sounded Knell
; ..,.
j For German Raider.
!
London, March 28. The British
converted cruiser, Andes, gets credit
for sinking the German raider, Greif,
in the North Sea February 29, in ad-i
j ditional details of the battle publish-!
ed today
1 After the British armed merchant
. man, the Alcantara, had engaged the ; railed at Lemon Springs, N. C, early
I Greif and had been rendered helpless , today.
by a shell, which shattered her rud-' Edgar Barbee, of Raleigh, the engi
!der, one of her consorts, the Andes, neer, was slightly injured, but was
j appeared and maae it impossible for .. able to continue the, run after the-en-
the German raider to escape. Shells '. gine had been plated back on the
, swept the deck, of the German raider, , track. None of the passengers was
' driving the men from some of the ; injured.
' guns. The raider fired several tWpe- :
(does, which the Andes escaped i POSTPONE-? ACTION ON
through skilled handling. :
While thus engaged a third British ;,
vessel, of the light cruiser type, at-
j. .,' c ii.. !
Liacuu uy uib suuuu ui tne
, peared on tne scene
the scene. Although at
i great distance the cruiser had already'
joined in the action, her gunners find- sideration ot an suirrage and proni
ing the range and hitting the target tution proposals now before it.
with remarkable precision. But the i
' Andes already had the German boat !
, on. fire and the raider blew-up with a j reporting.
! terrific explosion, the theory being 1 -i ... . .
.that she carried a cargo of mines, !44; . 4r i.4.4,
: which ignited when the fire reached ; .
j them- ' ' 4 BIG FIRE IN BALTIMORE.
DECLARE SHIP STRUCK Baltimore, Md., March 28.
! : Fire, which endangered a whole 4
WITHOUT WARNING j block of business houses, broke
I - J 4 out on the third floor of 4
i LOndoh, March 28. Two American: Henry -Keidel ana Company's 4
'citizens who were on board the British
steamer, Manchester Engineer, have! ment, 405 and 407 West German
made affidavit before the American ! 4 street, this afternoon. Half of 4
consul that the steamer was torpe-j4the fire department was called 4
I doed without notice, according to a .
(Central News dispatch from Queens-'
town today.
URGES EQUIPMENT OF
NORFOLK NAVY YARD
Washineton. March 28. Secretary
Daniels has written. Chairman Pad
gett, of the House naval committee,
strongly urging that the current naval
bill make, provision for equipping the
Norfolk navy yard for building bat
tleships. 7 ' t .
Wants to
Know Whether Sub-
marine
Sunk Two English
Steamers.
NO BREAK DEEMED
'lAlATROSraCT
Inquiry
Has Not Reached
Stag
of Protest ore
mand Situation Grave,
However. -
Washington, March 28: The United
States has, inquired of Germany,
any of its submarines torpedoed the
uatIon brought about would be most
serious
.
'
L HELD THIS
II
Ail Mortal of The Lajte Thomas
J. Pence LaicL Tenderly
Ate:-.
i
Raleigh, N. C, March 28. The fu
neral ot Thomas J. Pence, secretary
of the Democratic National commit-
tee' who died yesterday in Washing-
was . conducted here today, the.
43rd -nniyersary of his birth, from!
First Baptist church, with inter-
nw ,omoterv I
ivv - vt. ii v v v- . . v. v t
Members of the Raleigh lodge of
Elks, of wjhich Mr. Pence was one of
the founders, attended the funeral in
a body. Wake Forest College, of
which Mri. Pence was an alumnus,!
also was 'represented. .
At the (hurch the altar and casket
were hidden under a profusion o? flo
ral tributes sent t Raleigh by per
sons and I organizations of National
prominence. Cards bore the names of
President Wilson, Attorney general
.Gregory. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Tu-
multy, Senators Sinrfnons, Overman,
Hughes and others.,'
i r
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; SEABOARD PASSENGER
, TRAIN II IrUfrP? TR A.CK
a a f r T -- mA m
! -.
RaleighJ N. C, March 28. Seaboard
Air Line passenger train No. 9, the
Florida Limited,, southbound, was de-
. . -w T- -
Wntshine'tnn. ATarr-h 28 Thp. HnilRp !
. ' . ..7 .
judiciary committee toaay voted, ten
to nine, to postpone indefinitely con
Representative Webb, ot North Car-
olina, was among those voting againstj
4" wholesale hardware, establish- 4
4 out .
4M
4 Shortly after 2 o'clock the fire 4j
4 fseemed to have spread rapidly. 4
4 Ay the girl employes of Greif 4
4 Bros, clothing factory, and Brig- 4
ham-Hopkins Company's- straw 4
nat manufactory, adjourning the
! Keidel building, on opposite sides, 4
marcneu quieuy mto tne. street.
4" At 2:4o o clock tne fire was 4
4 thought to be under control and .4
4 had been confined to the top 4
4floor of the Keidel building.
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FUN A
MORNING
RALEIGH
Fighting Along Their Line Re.
ported to Be of Fierce
Type. ;
INFANTRY IS STILL
j INACTIVE IN WEST
Germajj Big Guns Keep Busy.
Vienna' Reports Russians
Slacken Their On-
slaught. , l
The infantry continues inactive he is necessary to accomplish the desir
fore Verdun and even the notable ar-'ed purpose is to; gafn the sympathy
tillery fire to the Vaux-Douamount l and co-operation W the general pub-
!rgionstof the Meuse; has slacken-;iic.r
Austrians launched an attack at Val
Piccolo, taking a trench but a counter-1
attack or the Italian torces not only
reconquered the position, but took ad-
ditional Austrian trenches elsewhere
on the front, according to the current
Rome headquarters' report. ,
Vienna declares that the Russian
activity in Galicia has slackened, . the
Russians hnvinsr attpmntprt nn nttnlr
aainst the main armv of Gen Pflane -
er during the past week.-
British airmen nave made a success
ful raid on the Turkish advance base
at Bir-El-Hassanah, 100 miles east of ;
the Suez Canal, according to reports
from Suez. The aviators dropped for-
t bomb. doi PxtPnsiv uL
L , , ,
v iLondoji s figures on the damage
done shipping since the German sub-
-"! - - . yy
that in less than a fortnight, .begin -
jning March 15, vessels.with an aggre-
vroi rupDisn ana causea-aaiuage wuiuu
one-third of this tonnage belonging to j amounted to millions of dollars, se
neutrals. . riously crippling the business, eco-
Today sinking of the British steam--j nomic and civicj life of that flourish
ef, Empress of Midland; of 2,224 tons, ! ing city Suca a blow as Augusta re
is reported. The crew was saved. J ceived could come to Wilmineton just
"
damaged the steamer Sussex-are now
expected -to succeed fifty, the steam-
.
er's agent has announced.
WAR COSTING HOLLAND
So Far Has Cost $1 40,000,000
and is Estimated at
: $8,000,000 Monthly,
!
The Hague, Netherlands, March 23.
--The war has so far cost Holland a
clear $140,000,000. Further, recokon-
liner the demands of thp interveniner I
! period at $8,000,000 a month, the new
van Gyn, estimates that by August :
ENORMOUS
AMOUNTS
1 next a sum of $180,000,000 will have j - (
been spent on the mobilized land and j Special to The Dispatch , ;
sea forces and in meeting the various i Wallace,- N.( jC, March 28. Sun
other extraordinary demands1 made (day was missionary and temperance
on the Treasury by the war crisis, j day in the Wallace Baptist church . A
Of the amount mentioned $110,000,- j special prepared program was -effect.
000 was raised by a five per cent loan -ay carried out in the Sunday school.
lssued atter the first three or tour
months of war, and the problem now
facing this country is how to provide
thp haian of 7n nnn nnn -hrp hills
1'have just been 'presented to the
(Dutch Parliament embodying
straihtfnrward and fairlv hold snln-
- ' ,T.
ister of Finance therein proposes to
ra1s as nmrh as $S2 Ohd.dfVO hv a sne-iU
cial.levy, termed a "defense tax" in Mrs. John Wj. Camp is visiting her
the financial year beginning May. 1 : mother, Mrs . Vebb, in Fort Smith,
next, to obtain another $18,000,000 by Ark. j, -
a tax on war profits, and to have re-! Mr. J. I. Jjanes and family have'
course to a loan for the balance of ; moved to Disputauta, Va.
$20,0-00,000. The actual loan, however, Several Wallace citizens are inter
is to amount to $50,000,000 out of j ested in Chapman-Alexander meet
which, assuring the war. is over, thejings and. expect to attend.
extra $3,000,000 will be utilized to : -4 --
consolidate the, floating debt accuring I HER BROTHER DIES,
from the ordinary budgets of '1914,: I r J
1915, and 1916.
j. Seeing that the floating debt of the
Netherlands East Indies . will also'
, 'have to be consilidated shortly, it Is
evident that heavy; demands will be
made on the money market here be-
! fore long. , As, however, it is largely
a matter of replacing floating by a
fixed debt, it is not expected that the
market will be greatly influenced; !
, and the powerful position of the Nethj
'lief lands. Bank whose 'gold stocks now j
! amount . to 196,000,000 and the gen-.
eral plentif ulness of . money here, ren-
ders the prospects of the . cbming
iuxi miguv. . :-v
Mr. J. A. Gawthrop, of Richmond,
Va ., division . superintendent oi Brad
4 ! Street Mercantile Agency, is making
4!a visitto the local office in charge of
Mr. Paul B. Bell:
CLEAN-DP MOVEMENT
ciiilNT
j Rotariari lVceto Have Citi J
zens Clean Up and Paint. Up
Develops Interest.
, The Rotary Club has gone to work
i with a vim to make the approaching
i "Clean-up, Paint-Up" campaign a suc
x j cess from every Mewpoint. All that
From the I many assurances j
campaign. . The first week will be de-
voted particularly, to the "clean-up"
ieaiure. in mis lime property nom-1
ers and tenants will be asked tq use
every effort to have their yards andranza: With thf railways closed to
lots placed in as clean condition as , him General Funston faces a problem
! possible. A general effort toward this 0f supplying General Pershing's force
nd will mean much toward tne , bet-
' terment of health conditions now that
Spring has opened, to be followed
! shortly with thej heated summer pe
; i iod. Thoroughly clean and sanitary
! premises will aid the health depart
; ment in keeping the health of the
community on a satisfactory basis
flnrl will a 1 n servA Vr nrnmntp th fitv
; beautiful idea, which, has occupied
- . ' V. . A .
or? or le?8. Pc at ention during
tne past tew years, ine removal oi
;trash ftnd also .. eliminates a
j fruitful and often destructive cause
jof fis. The donflagratidn in Au-
: MS;a. a .-severkl-davs ago. resulted
j-o- a .gmi .biaze started in a. pile
as easily, trom a similar cause, ana
; tUe ciean-un dea will serve as a
nroverbial stitch in time, which should
1 - -,
be joined in heartily by all citizens
, both wmte and jcoioreo. i .The American forces are more than.
! "Paint-up" week, will follow the ! twQ nndrei miles beiow the border.
! "clean-up;' campaign, although it Every mile the Mexican bandit ad
ishould be a natural accompaniment. vances into tne interior increases the
A little touch ofi paint here and there difficulties of maintainingv the line of
j f "1 in 1 ' .. ..
about the house!) will serve to beautify
and make the home more attractive,
and if the proper attention Is paid to
the idea, it will mean that ; many a
householder will turn painter for a
short time to the mutual amusement
and benefit of .himself and family.
Campaigns such as the . one planned
for Wilmington will be held i this
spring in many cities throughout the
: country and the! Rotary Club is hope-
I fui that the local movement will be
j among the most successful of all.
I riRQPRVF lWIQQiriN ARY
AND TEMPERANCE DAY
, ' TyT aTa ' '
6.,
eloquent address on temperance and
i civic righteousness.
The audience) was appreciative The
a! offerings amounted to something more
than a hundred! dollars
Mrs. C,. . V. Brooks represented the !
1 local W. Mj S. in the annual W
in Winston-Salem .
M
Tom Williams,! Brother of Mrs Lucy
Kelley, Died in Sumter.
Friends of. Mrs. Lucy Kelly, mother
of , Mr . A. j L i Kelly, deputy sheriff,
j will learn with sympathy for her of
f the death of her brother, Mr. Tom
Williams, of Samterj S i C ., a forrner
Wilmingtonian who died suddenly at
his home at 5 ' a, m. I today. Mrs.
Kelly and her son will leave this af-
ternoon to attend the funeral in Sum
ter tomorrow morning, j Mr. Williams
was a prominent merchant in Sumten.
He .was aboutt 45 years old. Surviv
ing him are his wife, who formerly
j was Miss Frankie Costln, or this city ;
j and three sisters Mrs J Kelly, of this
city; Mrs: jj. A, Thompson, of Chad
bourn and j Mrs. J.Kj Hammond, of
Cerro Gordo. J All these will have the
tenderest sympathy of friends jn their
sorrow. '
Officers Hail With Disappoint
ment News That Railroads v
. , Can't, Be Used.
HAVE TO SEND MOTOR
TOUCKSJFAlt DII7NCE
Funston Has Hard Time Send
ing Supplies to Pershing's
Forces Over Hundred
- Such Vehicles Already In
, Operation.
San Antonio, Texas, March 28. -
supply problem continues to over
rail lines it had been hoped by the.
, officers that the officials in Washing-
ton would and a way or securing a
favorable answer irom General
Car-
j for a considerable period by means of
I motor transport and wagon trains
This,- means he must- send great
t quantities of supplies a distance of
230 miles south of the border in trucks
and wagons through' a country that is
a barren waste of sand.
In order to meet the situation he
had asked for additional motor trucks.
T7 ! . Al' IMAqi.AUM
rour-cwiuyaiues,- .iuti ul iu. uucks,
are already in operation and two- ad-
ditional' companies will Jbe added as j- .
quickly as cars can be purchased and i",
sent to the border. , f 1
Pesimism About Capturing Villa. I
El Paso, Texas, March 28 .The i
delard'lf- not actually i-Ued-QlessH
the Mexican railways are made avail-' .
able for the main line of communica i '
ticn for the American army In Mex
ico.
Military men expressed that view
today, after studying the dispatches
from the front that Villa was still .in
full flight southward1 and meetiner
with little, if any, opposition.
American communication.
Motor trucks are being rushed to
the army base at Columbus, N. , M.,
to help keep-up the 'necessary move
ment of supplies to .the field head
quarters at a point near Casas
Grandes., i -
Every' effort is being made to s con
tinue the line of transports In lull op
eration over the rocky and sandy
trail from Columbus until the, de facto
government gives permission to use
the, railways. I
There is much pessimism! in army
circles over prospect of capturing
Villa and it is felt that unless he Is
cornered within a ; week the band.it
will have outrun his pursuers ; and
many months will pass before he and
his band are driven out of their hiding
places. . j . .
Asks Carranza to Hurry Up.
Washington, March 28. A message
to General Carranza pressing for an
immediate reply. to the request for use
of Mexican railways . in supplying
American troops in i pursuit of Villa
has gone forward. -
GRAND JURY DELAYS
ACTION IN THE CASE
New Evidence Keeps Piling Up
Against Dentist Arthur ,
Waite;
!
New York, March 28. Findings byj
the grand jury investigating the case:
of Dr. Arthur Warren Wait,e jhave
been delayed by continuous discovery?
of new evidence. It tnay be the end
of the week or even later, the District
rAttorney. said today , before the grand
jury reaches a decision. ' i
The prosecutor has declared that he
is satisfied with the! evidence connect
ing Waite with the 'alleged murder of
his millionaire father-in-law, "John !l
Peck, of Grand Rapid. Efforts are
being made now to prove that the
young dentist planted ' and, perhaps ' ',
executed a more extensive- criminal -
ramnafp-n - v
Toniaht's Boxina Bouts. I
Jeff Smith vs. Zulu Sid, 10 rounds,
t Albany, N. Y.. . j
at Albany, jn. ... . - i
Soldier Bartfield- vs. Art Jilagirl, 10
rounds, at Milwaukee.
- PaJ Moore vs. Jabez - White, v 10
irounas, at Syracuse, is. .i
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