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TERSE—CLEAR Saves your time and your eyes SIXTEENTH YEAR. NO. 231. Allies Inaugurate General Offensive MEDIATION OFFERED TO 11. S. T. 8. URGES BULL MOOSE TO LINE UP FOR HUGHES; DENOUNCES WILSON Praises Justice In Let ter to National Committeemen PARTY LEADERS ARE DIVIDED Hot Fight Expected to Precede Agreement On Course BY r SITED rlt ESS. CHICAGO. Jun** 28. —Col. Thf-o dor* Roowrvolt today definitely re fused the nomination of the Pro gre**|ve pariv for president. and In a letter to the Bull Monwe national committee urged the Progressive*' support of Charles Evans Hughes, the Repuhllean nominee In hla letter, a lengthy denuncia tion of the Democratic administra tlon. Col. Roosevelt declared he Mould actively support Hughes and gave detailed reasons, based largely on the necessity for "patriotic Ame 1 - 1< an lam.*' The Progressive movement has been given an tni'alcutahle impetus bv ehat the Progressive pnrtv has «ion» tier party «nt.«g••n l#ts have acceptrd and enacted Into law, or embodied in th»ir party plat forms. verv man' *.f ■ -ir meat irrv porfant principle* Much lias b«->n *ecompll»h*d In awakening tl\.- t>uh- Itr to s I'etter understanding nf the problem* of social and Industrial W elfare Yet It has become enflreU evident that the people uniler e,j«tlng condi tions are not prepared to a> < opt a new party. It Is Impossible for I|S Pr -aresslves to abandon our convictions, tint ere are faced with the fact that as tlnntlnneri ns Page Flight! Before the Battle New York’s Irish Troops at Maas in Mobilisation Camp. «• « • t * AT2|F % Y l^ißb < iy j r'ySpj/ * 13w! *"* 'F.. .yf^^tj j V ' j£'tl * | , » i ' 1 ~* 'l||k M AVflL# WuMI i&K' ftV**B VHr* r) Jb ■A,' 4j MARYLAND TROOPS READY TO MARCH WILSON TO ASK FOR WAR IS OUTLOOK | Hostilities Only An swer, Unless Car ranza Yields TROOP TRAINS READY TO START “First Chief” to Have Chance to Answer Ultimatum By CARL D. GROAT. {Staff iforrrnpondcnt fnifcd Prrun.) WASHINGTON. June 28. — A double responsibility for the Car rlral battle appeared partly estab lished today It did not, however, place such a burden on the Ameri can forres as to assure peace. On the contrary, developments so shaped themselves that 1f **em* I < on lln urd on N’age flight! Printing—the plain neat kind—<hn( la right—Time, .loh I>cpt.—Main 432 U. DETROIT TIMES r “ ' v KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN IN CONVENTION Opera House Is Packed For Opening Session. Monday NEARLY 6,000 ARE REGISTERED Parade This Afternoon Is Big: Feature of Meet Mayor Oscar B. Marx waxed "Kooeeveltian.” Monday morning, when In welcoming the Knights of St. John and ladles’ auxiliary, who are convening in Detroit, he invited them to have a "bully good time” while In the city. The opening meeting of the con vention was held in the Detroit op era house, Monday morning, at 11 o’clock. The uniformed knights marched through the streets from Ht.. Mary’s church, where memorial services for departed members had been held at a mass celebrated by J Bishop Kelly, of Ann Arbor, and j thronged into the theater with their | ladles and visitors, packing the I house. i Oen. J. J. Treppa. of the Detroit I commandery, Introduced the Rev. Frederick L. Heldenrlek. chaplain | of the Detroit regiment, who opened the meeting with prayer. Oen. J James B. Dugan, national president of the order, dellfered a short ad dress, following which the delegates went into a business session to pass on credentials. (’lose to 6,000 members and vlel I tors had registered up to 10 o’clock, ft nntlnneit ns Ps*n |-'.t ß h( I yon \kmxon s ixmomiox Tehr linr.tnfd'. \<-M I’hnaphNf* Relieve* th*' dl*tr***e*l stomach, restores appetite strength and vital- Itv Buy a bottle.—Adv. mci.ivrn r*« Kauri, nrmaomi, BTC.. hr Nlfi«e«i»r terete*. C«H Cadillac .ISO.—Ada. MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1916. DANGEROUS. DETROITERS TORE FIRST AT BORDER Thirty-first Leads List of Michiffan Reffi ments 15,000 MEN READY TO LEAVE IN EAST New York and New r Enffland Troops May Start Toniffht BY VSITED PKERR. SEA GIRT, N. J„ June 26 The First regiment of Newark, Batteries A of East Orange, and B of Camden, Troops A and C of the First squadron cavalry, the field hospital of Elizabeth, and ambulance company of Red Bank, will entrain at 2 o'clock for the Mexican border. BY MYRAN W. GILLETTE, Staff Correspondent Detroit Times. CAMP FBHRI3, Mich., June 26.-~ (Special.)—Brig. Oen. J. I*. Kirk says that the Thirty first Michigan regiment will be the first to leavo (Continued on I'aic* tC*«hn THE WEATHER Detroit nn«l rklnll? i SNonrri and (hfintleralorina Ihla afternoon or to night i Tuesday parti) rloadyt fresh westerly wind*. laser Mli-hlunn t thnner* and thiindemtnrma thin nftrrnoon or to nlichti Tweadny partly cloud v. t pper l.nheni Krrnh neat rtlnda on lake superior: frr.h noath alilft- In* to neat with nt|tialla on l.akea Michigan and llnrtmi partly eloady tonlaht and Ttie.da), r»rrpt prohnhly thnndemtormn Ihla afternoon or to nlaht <>n l.nhra Mlchlgnn nnd Huron. totter Ia ken ■ I'renh anil ponnlhl) nfrooa no nth to went wind* tilth ntiwallni proltnbl) akoneni and thun derntorm. tonlaht and Tnenday. If la henl teniperatnee thin date In the pant t.*l yeam, **7, In IHKI, I sjat nnd lIMt; i 100. nl, M, in |SM line year ntn today t lllahent tetn perntnre, 73i Innrit, ,*Ut| mean, «3i rlear weather, The nan netn at Mill p m., Monday, and rtnen Tnenday at liM a. m. The ntoon rlnen at 3il* a. m. Tnes day. MEN RUSH TO ENLIST IN GUARD Hundreds Are Turned Away At Armory, Monday Mominff BATTERY C TAKES MANY OF THEM Capt. Pay son Gets Or ders to Proceed to Camp at Once Dh, come on, slip mo in some way, cant you? ini dying to go!” This and similar pica.-, were made to Capt. I’aysou I>. Foster, of th? recruiting squad, at the armory, Monday morning. Th: biggest < row | of applicants that have yet applied for enlistment swarmed headquar ters st the armory. There was choice material among them, ion, yet ( apt. f’ayson nnd his staff were forced to disappoint them, ns the captain hed received order? to erase recruiting and proceed, with the few inen who did not go. away Sunday night, to the (iru>img camp Th* i* were 50 men In the party, that en Ditined Sunday evening. These orders, coining op abruptly. Is an indication that there will be an early movement of th* troop- to the .Mexican border, t’i.pt l'a>son directed the eleventh hour applicants to No. 46 1-2 Cl rand K;v* r-nv* west, where enlistment arc In progress for Battery ('. The enlisting officers already were quite busy at fiat pla* >. and with the siege of tin advancing horde, disappointed but -‘till f >peful. the small qu.irtei for a !'me looked like n l-eleagtu red fori. I’robably all enlist. neT ivn r ’ . in the mat ter of time, wcic binken. tin ay»r ago of 2>* men per hour » * *r*sr plan and on the rolls. They were still coni If* at noon. i ”\V> need about ion more men," said Lieut J. T Johnston, “but we (fontlnnrd on sage Bight.) SOUTH AMERICAH POWERS TENDER SERVICES; MOB WRECKS CONSULATE IN TORREON; MOREY SENDS REPORT NOT GUILTY IS PLEA OF CASEMENT Irish Leader Unshaken As Treason Trial Is Started JURY SECURED IN SHORT TIME Philadelphia Lawyer Is Rebel Chief’s Counsel BL WILBUR S. FORREST {Stu* CnrresDOttrirni ijr.itcd Prcst i LONDON', June 2*?.—Tn n firm voi« e. Sir Roger Casement today pleaded nnl guilty to the charge of high treason at the opening of his trial before Lord t hies Justice Read ing and .Associate Justices Avery and Harridge. A Jury was obtained from a special panel of IT>O talesmen in Irsf than an hour, i Casement today was scarcely the ! same man who apj oared at the pre i ltrninarv arraignment in Bow-st. po- I lice court.- Then his beard sadly ' needed trimming, his hair was [ frowsy and he wore an ill fitting sack suit. When he was brought, over this morning from Hrixton prison, to which he had been removed from , the Tower of I,nndon, he wore a ' carefully brushed morning coat and immaculate linen. His heard and hair were carefully trimmed. The prisoner smiled and nodded to several acquaintances as he en j terod. He listened calmly while the I clerk read Iho lengthy charge, reclt- I ing his activities in connection with I the Iri.-'i rebellion and his attempts • to induce Irish soldiers, prisoners in ! (»ermany, to desert from the British ! army. He displayed keen interest in the preliminary proceedings, watching his counsel, Michael Doyle, of Philadelphia, closely. Daniel Bailey, an Irish soldier, ar raigned with Casement at the pre limluary hearing, will he tried sepa rarely, it is believed he will receive lenient treatment because of the evi dence he furnished the crown. There was no cron and around the court today bet huso of the advance notice that admission would be I>\ jtvket only. Attorney (lenernl Smith made an e\ ha 1 1 Vi * «<;enlng statement, recit ing Casement's IP years In the con sular and other services, his thor ough familiarity with government methods and consequently his great p( rsor.nl r< spnnslldllties Case ment listened, apparently bored. He \owned several times while Smith was talking. | DROWNED MAN RELIEVED TO RE THOS. E HTTRLBERT The bodv o* i man supposed to be that of Thomas n. Hurlbert, f*.*» yea. - old. war ‘aken from St. Cln'r. Sunday morning, and brought to the coroner's rfTifVc for a post mortem examination. Several abra sions on the face caused Coroner Rr.thncht r to order tbe InvcsMgatlon. but P was so md that death was due to dtowning Identification card found in his pockets tend to show Hint he was a' one time an employe of Crowley, Milner k Cos fTn«vnltnn t’nterfn|ner« ni W(tn» D.nr.Pn* P.ir »"nl>nr<f Phnw. Dane inw —Adv Prlnflnß—the plain n*«* Mivt—(hnt ] Is rl«ht Times Juli Hen*.— Msln 4330. I LAST EDITION ENTENTE ATTACKS ON ALL FRONTS Russians Drive Through Carpathians Into Austria ITALIANS MAKE BIG ADVANCE British Heavily Bom bard German Positions BY VSITED FRESH. LONDON, June 26.—Russian troops have broken through the Carpathian mountains into Transylvania, according to a wireless dispatch from Rome to day. The dispatch quoted Pet rograd telegrams as authority for the statement. BERLIN, June 26.—1n most stubborn fighting west of Sokul, the Germans have Inflicted new defeats on the Russians, the war c.fice announced this afternoon. In the fighting since June 16, the Germans have taken 61 Rus sian officers, 11,097 men, two cannon, and 54 machine guns. By ED. L. KEEN (Stuff Correspondent united Press.) LONDON. June 26. —Every sur face Indication today pointed to the (rontlnnrit on Pace night.l American Victim at Carrizal, and Mexican f / « A CAPTAIN TREVINO LIEUT. HENRY R ADAIR I h*M» O VNDIRWOOt 41 I/NOSSWSO* Lieutenant Henry R. Adair of the Tenth Regiment was one of thu three American officers believed to have been killed in the treacherous Mexican attack on American troops at Carrlzal. Captain Trevino, shown Iwlth him. acted as an American interpreter. The photograph waa taken B some months ago when the American troops were on good terms with thn Mexicans. j ONE CENT. Officer, Thought Dead, Said to Have Writ ten Pershing BORDER THINKS WAR IMMINENT U. S. Force Retiring From Namiquipa to El Valle BY VS IT ED PRESS. BAN ANTONIO, Tex., June 26. —Capt. Lewis 8. Morey, com mander of Troop K, Tenth cav alry, who sent to Gen. Pershing the first official account of the battle at Carrizal, was found today w’ith four Negro troopers at San Louis ranch, according to a message from Pershing to Gsn. Funston. WASHINGTON. June 26. South and Central America ten ders their “good offices" to Sec retary of State Lansing at 2:45 this afternoon to avert .armed conflict between the United States and Mexico. The offer was tendered informally by Bo livian Minister Calderon. Al though it has not been decided whether other South and Cen tral American diplomats will bs at the Laneing-Calderon In terview, it is not unlikely, Min ister Calderon said this morn ing, that several may meet him at the state department. EAGLE PASS. Tex.. June 26. Destruction of the American con sulate In Torreon on June 18 by Carranza soldiers and civilians, led by the mayor, was described today by American refugees arriving here. ad DEAD—MEXICO l kink Members of the party say they saw Up* mayor of Torrcon, with (('nntlnurt! on Page CUM.)