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iB ?l)f JEtjenitvg pfcf. 'SM \ i l.osiNf; \kn lohk stocks is. J#l?. Dally Average. ?U50l Bnaday. 5T.?R?. \... ju.jii.-,. 7 WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22. 191 <>. - TWENTY-TWO PAGES. * , ONE CENtT" HEAVILY BOMBARD FRENCH POSITIONS Germans Turn Big Guns on Malancourt. Esncs and Hill 304. INFANTRY FIGHTING HAS COME TO HALT fletn Trtffro'e P.onnnn "R.Pfllv ViLTOT V? C JI. uvrjiu J vujiiivn - - 0 ously to Concentrated Fire of Foe. PARIS. Mil roll 22 No i n f:i 111: - at-' tark? wrf marie on the Vcidun front las: night. the y\ a r otlire announced j t i-s afternoon. The Hermans born- < harded Malanrourt heavily and there : 1 v : artillery exchanges of loss in- I t ? ?:?=. r \ east of the Meuse. .v heavy "ierman bombardment whs: earned out late yesterday against the viHi'.c of Ksties and Hill yvhich lie from one to two miles east of the Avoeourt -Malarn-ourt line. Frenc h guns replied vigorously to the shelling, and i.n attempt to assault with infantry] v. .< n marie. French Statement. The F.-cmh statement of today follows: West r.f the Meuse the artillery duel j w \er\ lively in the region of Malanc-o'-rt. Ks:tes and Hill 001. A partieu- j ! i iy violent fire was direetcd against ' 1 u?ourt Hill. "K;.st of the Meuse the 1 .oj111>ardment j y s intense iti the region of Vaux and! ] udoup. There were no infantry actions. The ? ht was calm on the remainder of the' fiord." j, Last Night's Review. The text of last night's statement follows "i : the Argonne there has been grenarle f'uittMig at Haute Fhevauchee. < *jr nrt.'lerc -lulled the Herman works in the neighborhood of the road between Vienne1 *'hateau atirl Binary tile. the kft bank of the M use Ho-' 1 :larilment oontinued violently in tie region of Malancourt. <?ri the vil- j iag" of Fsnes and bill No 4. Counter-j sh' ibrl with great energy by out ar- ! 1:1i-> . th?- enemy mad'- no a?tempi to snack during th?? cou!?*' of the day. Intermittent Bombardment. "Theie was an intermittent born1 ii. r: t ;it several points of the front #. - of ; Mr-use and in tb?- Woevre. 1 Lorraine our artillery was active j -t the German organizations xc'iii and east of Kmbermenil. in upper Alsace our artillery took its ft?e enemy troops which had b'-i?ou? hed from Niederlarg. southeast <.! StopoiH. ?>?' of our pilots today brought j down ; German aeroplane, which fell! : in riuim-y in the region of fiouaunoni. | J.a : night our aeroplanes bombarded tin- rations at I >uni-Sur-Mcuse and'1 A udun - I.e. Konian and bivouacs in the r>-aion of Yigneulb s." '11-.' Belgian communi* ation reads: 'I'l-er- nas boon some little artiller\ i. ii\it> in the region of In.\mude and l'er. otherwise ?alni prevails." British Official Report. The following British official om- 1 n . : matron was issued last evening: "l..tct night we made a small raid on 1- le trenches near Mau'juissart. accounting for about twenty enemy. y this morning lh?- enemy a(t -d and entered a small po-? on the II:vcr Somine. but were drive:: oir . l-r?v i t one officer prisoner end two men 1 i ra?i. "There ha.- been considerable artil-j' 1?-1 v a< f i \ 11 v on hot h :.idi" a bo u r ; i e I lohenzollern redoubt. Neuve t'bapcdk: ^ and Maurjuissarl tod a: ; German Statement. Tli* '.erir.un offi'daf staten;?>i ' <>r to < ^ day Bayc. "I ?uring thr won. of Ira ring up the battlefields aftrr the attacks of Man h 20 northeast of Avocourt and owing to the ? r.sioi .'.l rapture *<f additional trenches ' * outbid* thr wooded >e. tor v ' k" t no.her of unwonnned pr.soo* rs i ? p:'jr?<) lias Item i 11< d t<> v " ri . r;d M men. .\r-d!f*- battles continued both r ?.f the Meuse w ith great \ioIerne, ; '.'hough a? times the*- became less int rs* Primary Election in Milwaukee. II1.V..MKKK Wis. .Miir.-h 2J.- ' ' jrns ' <>* I ?aniel A Moan, social j nocrat and Mayor O A. Hading, nontisar. f. bo P riding as nominees for i .or at yesterday's primary. Moan's ; > - re a> far as beard from is approximate- j : i 12,000; Hading, 9,^', arid Joseph A j< : i.'j'.t - pari isan. f.UOO. | H E. Bundy Dies in California > WIKI.KS, fal. March 22.? j "5 - ! .' 1". : '!>. v.??;iitliy ii'ii.Mjfaf- ' ' i irer of EiMNtott. N v. lias dlod ai hi* I i ? :t-ifa ,\fr I'.uri'Jy came Jo . .i \ <\ *- 11 !>?-r v?. it ii li;.- fam- j . " ! . : :t ; : a t ? > ! <1<-1. ? at ! 'asa .t f I?- v. a a '!:f?rnb??r of the I'na?>ri f. - i t DAY IN CONGRESS mitr : > ' ;? f*ij . on ; i: t . I *i - A III. ? ,, v> s , ' ! - r!.(' ' !t.ii!ilif-rl;u!i < .< 1 1 ? < I up . t 'It . Of ' I .. t . i 1? . i ' ' 'n *?>. ra ; 1 w a \ mail I '? r 1 <. II. ( ; M lah'? : r oii'l i 11 on > .. 1 I! to ... 1 u<i' <"'i" i?'' In l?o: 1 : roin -n -tale .omII ?Mi?e : i . . i?ii: m 11!? f )?e i?i a j . ., r .,?.?! pl.t . . 1.11 i. H MP.. I??11 . < j ! t i u ' i - ? 1 ; k PISTRICT IN CONGRESS Itoumr : | Melius! "ii il"- Nolan *:t-n : ?J." y ; I!I ? on- i?in ??I , DIGGER OF GRAVES WEEPS AT HEARING Relates Struggles in Keeping Family on $40 a Month Government Pays Him. BEANS AND HOMINY. NEVER MEAT. IS FARE Appears Before Congressmen in CiayStained. Tattered and Faded Clothes and Raggedy Shoes. \ gin \edigger. with fresh lay upon 111 < > \ j . which w a > so tattered and :< : and discolored that the original o I or had long since faded into a nondescript j r: i :*: ?!* . appeared before the Maiier subccnimit tee of the House labor coiii tn it;today and started to tell how lie had tried to bring; up his two children on the a month whieh Arlington cometeri pays him. His lestimonv never was really finished, for although lie was a strapping bigfellow. 1.? broke down in the middle of iiis story, the tears glistening on his eyelids and Ids ehin quivering. P.epres? ?11 a * i \ Nolan of "'alifornia. author of i In- -a-day bill for government employes. led the laborer out of his difficulties . "V'-h grt your wife t-? make out a statement of what it cost to keep house when you two were first married." lie said, "and then have her mark down the prices of some of the things you need now." Beans and Hominy Cheapest. "The cheapest thing we ran get to eat to bring tip the children." said the gravedigger, "is navy beans and hominy. I remember when beans were v rents a quart, and now they are rents a quart." Krorn bis forty a month the gravedigger pays $* a . for a "house" near Falls t'hurrh: because it is a long dista ore to ins w ork of digging graves he pays a month for carfare. < >ut of the remainder. SL'T a month, he has to get the beans and loon in y - never meat?and the cloth'*:- and the education a.jid the fun for his wife and his two children, a boy and a girl. "Ho you have a carden?" asked one of the members of the committee. "Yes." said the big gravedigger. "f have, but there is little time left for gardening after I have gone to work at a quarter to 7 and corne home after "> o'clock. And a fellow hasn't much strength left, digging in that hard clay." He looked down, unconsciously, at his shoes, which were in reality no shops a? all just leakine- leather i.oln from vvhi'h The seams had gone long ago. Eight Years Without Raise. 'Those Arlington graves are hard craves." he said, "and in winter the;. * re awful hard. We have five graves there today to dig: look at it raining r?ut there. I have been up to m> knees in mud and water mai*y and many a time, digging graves, for the sake of my Two ?.-hildren and the wife. What 1-hame.is there for gardening? Jod knows if it were not for tip* w ife taking m a bit of sewing we would not liave lived. Eight years I ha\e been there, and when I would ask them for a raise they would say to mm 'Well, you ktiow what you ran do f you don't like it." '* He said a "rich lady" had helped "the wife" for the past two years. He spoke for all the employes of the Arlington cemetery, although a committee had already appeared and made brief statement, and had left a petition. Somehow this big. raw boned <.oung man. w;th the strength of a giant, it appeared, got beneath the surface of the committee. "It would seem pretty had." mused Representative Nolan in t'a corridor after the hearing. "That this great lug ourifry ' an increase it^- yearly spendings until they are over a billion, and yet strong men like that work for the government for so very little." Other Witnesses Appear. Several other witnesses appeared he. 'ore the subcommittee, of which Rep-eseptativc Maher of New Tork is hair-roan ? ' W. Haw son. a Treasury ' man. gave his fai.niy e\pen<- ? aeon fm a - ear. it totaled ?1.and i e differenee between that and his ( f ?71r> had been received from eo pi' West Virginia. Out of the more that. thousand dollars he had $10.32 pet't for "pU-iisuif " in a ; ea Stantot \V. Al^atf-. u laborer from he u ' \ ? i i men t priritins? office. said ha t I: is e \ perience with $720 a year as been a most disastrous oik*, and hat he couId not possibly make ends ,ff-i without help. Martin \V. <lans>er^. a watchman from the Smithso. i m r i Institution, hat! a similar story to r-lh Kenw i?-k Hush, from tlie fcovernnf-iit y?ri tint? office, said that laborers here have . liard time to get along:, irid no '-ha in'*' for an increase. He told the committee in answer to questions that there are no more loan shar'-.s op. '..tmt* in the government printing office as far as he knows, hut ?hat f.v.iriK ;< the small waires of laborers the installment house business thrive? among the ranks of those lalior< r s. "I'ik- place !?- flooded with complaints at the met; won't pay their hills," he sa id The ? o'nri: tfee ptohahly will call Oti " 1 < : ef i'Iiti s of the various depart : s soo: to tiv^iiem accurate data to how men will be affected o-. ' \olan hii! to make* a minimum \\Mv?- of a da' Want Adequate Army and Navy. Ma \ or M i t < 11e{ ,,f S'ew York told nlei." Wh ' i today that the sent i ii C'Mt of : he mayors" conference j ri St l.oui ie e 111 i \ was overwhelmingly in favor of a i adequate army and navy. Mexico City Free Kitchens Closed. Mexico CITV. Man-Is I? Tli?- last t.f tl-< public dii'inj? rooms and relief post established some time ago by the a ithnrinr- for u? coring the poor of Me . i y were closed yesterday. This ac* on was taken on a< count of official information r'-Kiiuiiiii; tlie betterment of cconomn arid hygienic conditions in King Ferdinand in Sofia 5>N I m i V Mun-i V Kinu ; d i na nd i i i ir'if'il to S'ifia, ;i.-i onliiiK I" nri < I f?\ f I; .Mot n I UK I'OSt l?> i i fj '-Mt Mml.'t pest. II'- passed i.ffi :_-!i Maria |>' > ! sun:' days Hti" a. : ! ..<> vi-it 1 r, Vienna King >::na?i?l \i a s ill v. i f ti ;i n afar k "f ^'loncl'Ui . The last a<lvirr? from Vienna. 6arl> in .Man'.'v said that lie u as improving DEATH IN THE WAKE! OF STORM IN WEST Three Killed and Number Injured. Result of a Terrific Gale. DAMAGE TO PROPERTY REPORTED TO BE HEAVY - - - I Eastern Indiana. Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin sunerers From the Visitation. ! March 22. -Northeast hearing: rain, sleet and snow ; i su epi liter eastern Indiana, northern lllnois and southern Wisconsin today. The storm cost several lives, caused : injuries and heavy property lamaue. In Logansport buildings were i unroofed, the flying wreckage causing ;b?* onl\ fatality reported, j Several Illinois cities. among them Kankakee and Beaversville. suffered j severely, while in ''hicago train serv| iee was crippled. windows were broken | a ml t rees uprooted. 1 Seven steamships operating out of. this port rrnle safely through the storm, according to wireless messages from their captains. List of Dead and Injured. Silas Williams, seventy-one. was kill- j ed when his home, near Jalapa. Jnd.. j collapsed, crushing him to death in his i bed. | James Itector of Monon. I ml., was I killed w hen his home was destroyed : diy the storm. His body was found j fifty yards away frAm where his home ; i had been. W. J. Kieketts was killed at Logans- j i port when the roof from a factory j | building was blown off and crashed : I against his home. Mrs. Jerry Carter of St. Louis. Mo.: ; Ian Italian woman named Pasquale of j I Trinidad. ?'ol. William 'Hutchins. j Frankfort, Ind.. and F. H. Moore, Van j' ; Muren. Ind.. were severely injured | I v. hen three coaches of the <*!overleaf ' passenger train No. a were lifter! from ; the rails and turned over in a ditch j near Marion. Ind. These four were taken to the hospital in Marion. Moore land Hutchins were brakernen on the : t rain. Wire Service Prostrated. The storm prostrated wire service' throughout the northern part of the j state. The property damage in the j rutal districts was said to he heavy, but few definite details could be learned. in Loga import the storm, it was said, confined itself to a narrow stretch, hut wrecked practically everything in its path as it swept across the city. LOGANSPORT IS ISOLATED. Wires Are Down and Railway Traffic Practically Suspended. l.tniANSf'UKT. i March ?This cit> is practically isolated today following the tornado which struck here last night, leaving in its wake one lead. se\?ral injured and thousands of dollars' worth of property damage. Telephone and telegraph lines are down and traction and railway traffic is practically suspended. ? There was no school at the Central School building toda;-. as a part of it i was wrecked. The tornado caine with- J. out warning, and pedestrians unaware i of u were tossed about like chaff and j the ? it - was plunged into darkness. ? nit buildings at the Northern Hospital '; for tli#* tnsaii" werr Idowri down and I, orrudera blc damage 'lone towar.l and adniinistration buildings < GIRL KILLED BY TORNADO. Four Other Members of Family In-; jured Near Montpelier. Ind. HARTFOUI) < 1TV, Iml . .Ma r-rh i Gertrude Alapacb, the four-year-old i laughter of a farme: living near! .Montpelier. north of here, wa: killed Ji b\ tlie to'mado whicii swept tlie north- j? ! 'tii section of this (Blackford) ourityl' j ,;olv lo,b> |; 1 ,. t 11 .. f il,. f.. ... . 1 . i {were severely injured, according to the I I 'meager reports received here. The j ' j property damage was estimated at J j j $100,000 in the county. Blinding Blizzard in Michigan. \< DKTKOIT. Mich., March 22. A blind-; { jing blizzard of soggy snow swept over : i [Michigan today Shortly after day- d ; break the storm increased in energy, j land more than six inches of snow cov-p iered the Detroit streets. Railroad M j traffic was affected and local street | ^ {ear lines m various cities experienced1 gr< at difficulty operating cars. Nop {casualties or serious damage has been jj ireported. | \ AUSTRIANSRETIRE I | FROM CZERNOWITZ i L?>ND?'.\. March 22 - A bandoninerit oft; 'KAMI/., eapital of Rukowiiia, by the' , Austri.ins, is reported in an unofficial j, , wireless dispateh recei'.ed here today ' i froin 1 Come. | The Russians have gained no success hi their great extended offensive against j the Ccrman lines, the Berlin war office ; announced today. I'etrograd, however, ' claims several successes in the battles J which are raging in Galieia and along the northern front. The latest Russian j statement says: "Dively artillery fighting continues | southward of the Dvinsk region. We I , i . puis'd an enemy counter attack at i Velikoi<-sf:lo. in tlio region eastward of I Tve retch. I out troops rapt ured a line of eneni\ ^ advance trenches near Butzit isrzki, in j the district east of Godutzisezki. f "(Miring the rapture of the bridge- ^ head near the village of Mikhaltche c iCalniat we took two cannon Most of t he defenders of the bridgehead were t killed in a hand-to-hand encounter." t J Ml if w , iRk. I 1! Calls for 50,000 Volui To Be Used in Hunt Senator Sherman Introduces Reso, He Fears Fate of Gordon at Kh Befall Gen. Pershing and His E Sa\ in? lhat lie feared the late of < ionlon at Isl take I'er-biuiy and the American eavalrvmcn in tfoverumcut acted <|uicklv. Senator Sherman of I duced a resolution in the Senate anthori/in^ the I call lor 50.000 volunteer- to he used in the -err ili- resolution provides that the American sol drawn from Mexico as soon a- the service reijuir At the re<|uc-t of Senator Sherman, the rc-olutioi table, ready to he called up later. Lack of Military Strength. '> th? r<., ,-f.. ? ! tor op within a f< In I statement Senator sum man : th, . oJ- | said: I domlo. the Mexic "The lack of mililarx strength 1111 - J 4,;,f'Iav" virtu , , , terms of i he pro mediately available apparo.nt. I hp | rli;-patch of a portion of the regular) army into Mexico in pursuit of Villa Tri I 0 MP Ml lias demonstrated the totally insufti- I I" I I V I If" I I cif-nt military fore at th. command of I I LLLO Ul lj! the President. "I am apprehensive that Congress j III M||Ij|| iocs not fully appreciate conditions on j Mr j Mjl I I the Mexican border and 111 ??Jexico. We j have a few thousand American sol-j . r|i<rs with their officers in Mexico. rhey will soon he some hundreds of . SaillUCl GompCl'l miles from our boundary. The railways of Mexico are demoralized in j Testifies B< -ervic.e and equipment. Tracks and' bridges are easily destroyed. The j ommunicat ions of tin forces in pursuit >f Villa ma;, be cut at any hour. The I press reports arc not. assuring: this J morning. hi case of an emergen. ;. | .Samuel Gnmpe ivhat military strength can be tnohi- | ,\merican Fedora ized promptly and massed for tin- sup- | ,j,j->0<j ,hfi |>( ~?_: protection of our far-distant j ' line advancing" into unknown terri-! laborer in Porto ;ory V | came under A me "Shall we wait until another Khar- ilis one uf t,Je < um has done for us in the annals of >ur history what it did for Fngland in ' ier neglect of Gordon'.' What will avail I Testifying hofc o Wipe out the stain if we permit " 'j Rican committee A'ill nothing but a massacre waken the J ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ lull routine or governmemai ttcnuii. "I wish now to warn those in author- for Porto Rico. ; ty in tim executive department tliat Ba,lized ]!tbor , .ve are trifling with the lives ot men, vith the safet\ of our border states and l,,e t-auae ? ' the .vith our national honor more than would he active : tome seem to appreciate. tion 0f a KOVerni "The men to he called under this resoution will respond, I believe. They will approved. >e read> for actual service, if called! iow, within a short time. If it he neg-;! AO Suppo ted the delav then in a crisis will , Z a blunder, and the kind of a blunder M"> committee hat is worse than a crime. The best make the Jones net hod of redeeming ourselves from j |tew government lisaster is to he prepared before the lisaster arrives. That is tlu- purpose >f this resolution.- baulabury. and i passes the Hons Thinks Position Is Dangerous. obtain its passag Later in an interview Senator Slier- Rights given tl man said he knew the country through J old Spanish code which the American cavalrymen are j under tlie Amer now traveling, that he feared from j (jumpers asserter the dispatches which have been pub- | American repres lished that the force under (Jen. j gone there have Pershing occupies a very dangerous ; most rabid aiui-l position. cut oil from communication "The laborers ha with its base. - . ploited, the deveh Latest official advices from the! control was so co American expeditionarv forces in Mex- vvorkers hail ahs ico say that (leu Pershing and his men expression until ,,-e close to Villi! ami his outlnus. All Federation of l.al lispatches told <?r the co-operation of wrongs iii?? ('arranza soldiers in the bandit L-hase. Says Report Despite utioihna 1 reports of unset i ,\ conditions in Hie interior of Mex- "After I had fir i.o and alo'i!^ the border. Secretary j,orteeI the misery Ka'ser said that, although the situa- , ,* "f,., vas frauslH Bill- many possl- "" 1 f" luljtn.s. to date 11. < re had been no tut- of the Depart met ra?ora'rde d< < tlopin i.t s In response there t<? investig; l? re jiiest Don. Den Kunstun addi- , . troops are boo. sent to the TOX1 an> ? I,,nor to learn air The fith Fa\airy squadrons at Fort rule ni\ descrij Va ro> < ?horidan. III., ami Fnrl w| .eavenworth, Kan., and the 24th In-, ant:} at Fort D. A. liusscll. Wyoming. w'io was then vere under orders to start south to- was never made i la>. The witness uri In official circles it. was said today remove the cduc; hat the protocol proposed by On. qualifications fron /arranza to govern the pursuit of Villa the Jones bill. ^ "^V,v .jlj^^DDEMLY HAVE BECOME I/ )/ ijjlz/^ni^NDS OF WOODRow / I ^^f^j^VILSON CAM SfRVE: / / iteers STORY OF PEACE MOVE for Villa BY GERMANY IS DENIED lift ion Saying American Government Not Requested. Officially or Otherwise. artum Will to Act. xpedition. j Provident Wilson whs represented at ! the White House today as being" re, . . jsent Jul of the publication of stories 11 d 1111 111 (,vcr"jjhat Ambassador Oerard had reported Mexico unless the lerniany was about t?? make a move for llinois todav illtro- j "rl- l".b.i?he.l reports were characterized as being based mi infer!'resident 1 < > IssUC ?t emcs. This statement was issued: icc in Mexico i "President Wilson, through Secretary I Tumulty, today authorized a denial of dier> slldll l)C W illl- j Stories appearing in papers in the efC<1 of theill is over I fc,'( ,,,H, ,,K' purpose of Ambassador , . . Oerard's remaiiiing in Berlin was to . wa< placed on tlie,;iuail Germaiivs pro,)osals for peace. j There is no justification for that inferj enee being drawn." ill u ndou bt edl \ be in) k^s"!8 \rn - : State Department Denial. an ambassador dosig-f Yesterday the State Department took posod^onvonUon" 'h"!"0,K'*" <! 11>- put,It,;,Hons t,y deliyiPR tli.it iOerinany had intimated to the l.'nited * J States thai the time was ripe for the rmniTirUIP ' rnited states as t! largest neutral to Inll II I II !l\l\ ienew its friendly officer for p? ace or J| 1 III I liJI lil (that the ("nited States had been informed t that Mr. ' Jerard had been requester! to % .ma. .. , . i l*oslP?nf his vacation because of pending i mrmi i innn;^ negotiation:. I Kll IIl\l I 11 Kill/ Inofficial reports reaching: here today I fllllH 1 I HUllll^l ambassador actually had pnstJ iii \Jl ii l lj iuvii } rKjnPfj jps vacation, hut pave no reason. ! The State Department to?ia\ again j took cognizance of the reports anil the . . following statement was issued: }. A. F. L. President, | -Any Statement that the (Jerman govI ernnient hail intimated that it desired ifore Committee I this government to act as mediator in ' i? ace negotiations, or had in an\ way Senate. -iUggested. formally or informnlD. that ' < tiits government should take the mat Iter up with other powers is absolutely Without foundation, and the State Dors. presnlent of the ! partnient litis no information that (Jorition of Labor, todavlnianv is preparing to make a detinite ndit ion of the native I movo in ,hc Action of peace. Rico since the island j Rebentful of Publication, rican control as mak-I _ ... , . . | Mate Department officials declared | " ,li I they were resentful at the publication ! of the reports, because, they said, if re the Senate I'orto I there were any prospect of mediation he urged the adoption 1 |( wouM ,(p damaged if not destroycd de a 1',v11 government : ? js known the Anieri<.alt am_ tnd deelared that or- j 1)assadol.s jn ajl the belligerent . ounAmerna had espoused trjeK tlavf. eonstantly been reporting ' island workers and I on eontidential conferences for the inin obtaining: the crea- ' formation ot President Wilson and it rient there which thev!is understood that the burden of their inere wh,,h the> reports has been that there were no i more prospects for peace now than 'there have been at any time in the last l't Jones Bill. I ?j.\ months. , , . . i All the belligerents are understood to has determined to j>e ready for peace on their own terms, bill the basis of the ; , rather than bills inlators Shafroth and CONFER AS TO EMBARGO. is soon as the bill \ e urn undertake to: German Ambassador Has Talk With ? in the senate. Acting Secretary of State. lie laborers umler the ? * had l.een denied them , nul" v"" He,"at,"'rr' ",e ,;' an lean domination. Mr. ""'baasador. today eonferred with Act. ,, nig Secretary J oik on various subI. By some process . . .. jects in connection with the export ementatives w ho have i . . , , bargoes Germany has placet! on cerat once become the ] .... tain commodities. 01 to Itkans, be said. 'j j,e subject of armed merchant ships id been so much e.\ j ,vas not, it was said authoritativel\ ai.ii.ent or corporation 1Iientioned lhe eonferen.-e. niplele there that the. olutelv no avenue of ; Mrs. Alice Bailey. 92. Dies now the American i J jor has taken up their WASHING TON. Ind., March 2 2. Mrs. Alice Bailey, ninety-two. who is said 10 have pieced 2.500 quilts during the Was Withheld. past fiftv years, is dead here at the st gone there and re- home of her daughter. Mrs. Hubert . the degradation and Schotteld. Mrs. ^ehofield says her ; unit a representative mother averaged one quilt each week it of Commerce went during the fifty years, and that tliev i ate and made no ef- bare been, distributed anionic her1 mothers friends in all parts of the; f the working people rnitrd states Mrs. Bailey was horn In j rthing except to re- Manchester. England Uion of conditions. ? . ?i to Mr. corteiyou. | Portugal Under War Law. Secretary, his report usBON. March -I. via Paris. March >ubli<\" o >?Parliament has passed the governIM'inJT'V.Kr.Srt1? hi" wh?ch 'h' ii the suffrage code of tional guarantee** are partially suspended during the war. WIRELESS RE ! BETWEEN EX AND COLUM MAY SEND ANOTHER ! FORCE INTO MEXICO / Military Authorities Contem- Hej plate Dispatching a Third S Column From Fabens. ! NEWS OF THE FIGHTING ME HAS CEASED ENTIRELY Bandits Are Now Believed to Have Lacl Cut the Lines Which Gen. Gavira Used. I'Axt. Tr\.. Unrrli \meri- ( :m military authorities :in> cont cm plat inj? sending; ? tM-n <*??lumn j into >lr\lro from Knlirnii, a village , tll(* | thirty miles east of here, it iv?n re- O'lll I ported today, ft uiin stated this j | plan was under consideration as iin ' 'Tit i alternative should Carranxa refuse ( ( j the rcfflicst of the Washington cotornnicrit for the use of l lie Me\ieo M''ll \ort hvvestern railroad over which j Jolll to transport supplies to \ ntcricuii <cei t roops. I-.L Tex.. March ? {Las, I he wires between Juarez and Casas < irandes --till were cut to- '1''1} jday. so that for more than turn- ' j tv-fotir hours < ieo. < iavira hasi'^"'J ! been witlnmt news of what isl"1^ j transpiring at "the scene 01 ine "v" jreportetl lighting between tiie ?''ri jLarranza an<! Villa forces near ^ I Namaquipa. '' ! < )n tile American siile c<ininiuni- lnt" j cation w ith < ien. Pcr>hin<i re ^'< v 1 mains very limited, nothing defi-; Wlt' jnite about operations of the expe- ;uH' I ditionary forces having been re- \ eac' ; ccived. Travelers stated that the j ^ [wireless between Columbus and 1 t'"" I < ien. IVrshiiift'T headquarters w as ! ('('cl 4 work in i; fit full v. It has been es-j0*01 ] tablished that the trouble with u'' j the wireless was due to weather!1""1 I conditions and fatillv mechanical w'" | e<|itipment. |-'i r.-t reports assert-'"1" j : od ilio bandits. 1>\ ;? low luck\ :?ra Ulo:l<. had disabled tlie apparatus I at (ion. Pershing's ha^o. _ s.\ 1 T f*s Await News From Casas Grandes. i on It j The in y st e y\ over what > s 11 : ppe n i n g ; | ' Krai I hot worn Juarez and I'asa. "mandes is lieu j !deeper ill.mi (A>r toda; The d h f.i nre ; : tip' ! hot we.-ti these two towns is ;ili(illt '-"If* ' I Villa miles, traversed h\ the Mexican North-; . , Ucia western railroad. hen. i.avna declared earlv yesterdav that li was1 I belt* send ins out a repair tram under hoavv ' | Noi guard to restore the wires and report ! on what caused their i ntorrupt ion. j wit h Karly toda> no report has hecn ?? - <?1111 ceived. and the Mexican oflieials pro- i ' 'M : hiis, fess to he rompletelv ignorant of what ; in cr; occurred. I ' ng store News thai i oinuiuuica: in;: had heeii .. |,j,. I re-esi a hi ished with the American and! j t 'a rra nza forces operating a a a 111 st. i ?1 v; Fi a n ciscu Villa was awaited with i' - ' tense interest t?>da>. as is also infor-_.ni, mation regarding Hie fate of Lieut s. ' t'??i Itoheri 11. Willis and Fdgar S. ?lorrel! j 1' of the 1st Aero Squadron, who disap- 1 pea red while attempting flight from i ^ jn Columbus. N M.. to Gen. Pershing s field base at Casas Grandes j l.rot It Work of a Villa Band. V l tii';' Mexican officials have conceded tliat j wire, i the severing ??f telegraph ic service be-h'iiy j tween Juarez ami <'asas (Iratides prob-|i0 tli j ably was accomplished by a bandit 'insti' j raid on the Mexican N'ort h west ern rail- jsani; j road. In some quart; rs lu-rc there Int.- soldi. I been a disposition ! believe that \*iiia . . j sympathizers may have out the ground ' ' ; wire laid bv (leu. Pershing in liisinan-h : Jaisse j southward trotn t'oluiiilms. Santa j Farlv today it was believed bv the ' *i'he (Mexican authorities that communion- " j lion between the t'arranza headqunr- t;ni:t'' | ters at Juarez and ?'asas (Irandes soon rjfi- a I would be re-established. 1 ' ? " j For the first time in its history the ''h>v e ! Fnited States .Army now has a motor;140''" ! tru'-k line operating regularly between l,ie 11 a field force and its base of supplies. ! Trucks recently purchased by the W ar I ; department are now in eornniissioii. I according; to dispatches froin the base i Arc I of supplies at t'oluiniius. X. SI. 'men. j The operation of the line is similai j.)eire, to that of a lailroad. both express and local trains being run. the first of the i ^ !Sro' i express trains leaving Columbus today j that 1 j carrying supplies to fieri. Pershing. * placed Bun on Regular Schedules. Vfierv 1t "ari a: j The trains leave daily, carry supplies, ! Me.xie, forage, ammunition and arms, and run' Thn hi regular schedule:-, Hub; pi ogi-ess | and v j being watched by dispatchers at tliej', radio station here and in the field Tliej express trains carry only supplies fori,l,e 'which there is an imperative deniand 'carryi J direct I y 'o (Jen. Pershing's force, while from a th" locals convev staple supplies io the field base. Two divisions are being * i - was I maintained. "" *? num , ,.s i horr I" 'he field base ami the second rarrvii frotii till'!.' I" the ?;mi|img place of ,ia||e,. the field for?.r<?. Kor slower freight. wagon trains are being run. but the larger part of the Sell supplies is being transported i?motor. At present onlv two motor companies Item ure operating the trains, but it is said lions < that i be organization of two addi- j,1B tl tional companies will follow the ar- ^ rival late this week ?-f more trucks. 'r ' Civilians have been employed to drive Seven the cars, each car in the train hoin^ |{ wal separated from the other while en ator rout' i'. srv?i;lv.fi\c valil.^ cllOaCl STORED PEDITION IBUS BASE IP flf THF MKIIIIC ILUI IIIL miUUIMU 1VIAT0RS IS FOUND idquarters Hears of One outh of Casas Grandes, Name Unmentioned. SSAGES RECEIVED FROM GEN. PERSHING i of News of Any Fighting With Villa Leads to Belief He Has Escaped. < >1.1 Mlll'S. X M. March \\ irelcss c<iiiifiiunicatii<11 w ith advanced hase i>t" the Ameriexpeditionarv h nee at Casas tides \va- restored today, tie ?>f the aviators missing 11 the s?|iiadr<m that went to lieu. 1 'ershing's column denied somewhere south of a- (irandes. it was learned at hum-ton's head<|iiarters tollis name was not given, iouts. I'dward I. < iorrell and iert II. Willis hate hern misssinee Sunday night. I hey e due to reach the expedition v Monday . Way Have Been Attacked. i- feared the oilier has lallen the hands of unfriendly* icaiis. I tie aiiators took 1 them hut three days' rations two small canteens of water i. - the time lengthens, lear- for safetv of ilic missing officer icii. It i- pointed out, how tli:it in the tyreat waste over eli lie was living a man on might wander many days lout serious liarm. Inn withbeing able 1" reaeli a iiaeieinla n\ iit 11or habitatnhi. Fear Villa Has Escaped. \ ANTONIO. Tr\. Mi I'ell la.?Oen hints fnitnre In r'JM I rt an entor ?,f his troop- with those of mi.-i ti \ ilia :<iid th** absence of ' r:???i; sour -os relative to ?_ 111 ??!>! of t ho tiuhtin^ between s and ?t ra i.z.i': t mops in th? i t > ?>f \:t 11 j u 11 ?.i t.i'isrii arm> of ; ! l-ort III Houston tOiiMN tO \ ? the oiusi\< Villr had escaped, i ;i sinpb- ? its. of 111 ii#s:' has been rti-il anions 11?o \iorr1? ;ui troops <ir ii. F'oi hii i:'. -xpeditionary nrt in Mexii o. I-i' .it. ? ol Kriek, in ire of tlo Ii;iso lio.-pitm 1 at t'olumassertcd toda.\. Vim. medical ofconsider this .? remarkable show in \ iru of tin- hi .it, t|i'- sand 11 s of tin ?l. ort a oil disease. Ii ha. follow, il in thr wake of four s of < i v iI ?;n in .\|o\ioo. to all of i?j. | Ho ...Mors h.i \. ii r Apoecd <ir ii ,i it l< was asset toil that iiiueh credit i? lit. i'v vnitiM' in asurrs adopted t lie star t of Ho* . \peditionar> Action on Italian's Murder. roili V isi-oiiti of this eity, after vim, ib tails of tb? murder of liia ler. III! ri'i tie Vtsronti. wealth > hi, at his ram-h i < the state of miliUH, .Mexico, March 14. today 1 the Italian mini-tor at Mexico to present a claim for indemnity e t'arran/.a Kovenirii'-ut. lie also noted tin* widow. ;i resident of i looalia. to ask that t'iirranxa rs l?< sent t?? .u.H'i the ranch she and her two si u? ran take ssioti. The r;?n< h is distant from , Kosa i eiuhl y mile slot > o" tin muni- was t oni! in letter from \\ n slao tiar< ai; hmaa of l'i* d'lio. T? \ tiatbtained the details from an en Kill;:a inli' ?. *.i na s. <., who had to tin \'i:-eomi r.'i no it the day of turder to buy cattle for Garcia. Villistas Are Suspected. onling to the letter, forty or fifty supposed to he \ ; 11 it. handus. ap! at the ranch and demanded that iti pay them When he said te could not raise the money they him against a t ail and shot him card the l?..milts looted the house seo was not molested, lie being u in. e trains bearing automobile trucks .atef supply wagons today are on way to Kl I'aso, for service aton# xit .mii front The first of the trains. iig L'ti motor trucks and men I ivfiiwiici, ?* i -.. ii 111^111^11 ir mviui it hic-ago last night and supposediv followed l?> another ?arr>inR L'ti from a Itetroit factory. A thi>??i uK 1 ? water wagons in he used as s for the trucks left earlv toda> ator? Seek Committee Place. n.Tiiis of the Senate foreign rela ftmroi* tee conferred today regard). ; .? et ion o/ a successor to tiie ii.ito! Sltivcl\ on t lie committee, senators aspire to the place, but t regarded as probable that Senritlnian of Nevada would oe * %s