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" -". , , , M , ir THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL 87 TWENTY-EIFTH YEAR 10 PAGES ENIX, ARIZONA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEARCH 39, 1915 10 PAGES VOL. XXV. NO. 293 REORGANIZED BELGIAN ARMY READY TO BA TTLE GERMANS NEAR YSER Xoxt Important Battle on Western Front, It is Pre dicted, Will Take Place lictwecn the Germans . Belgians and ALLIES' WARSHIPS SET PORT P.KLG1ANS Along the Ysor Floods Have Subsided and Belgians Push Lines Forward De spite Threatened Counter Attack's from Other Side f ASSOCIATED PRESS OISPATCHl LONDON. March IS. The next im portant buttle on the western frost, il is believed, will take place along the River Vser, held on one side by the recently reorganized Belgian army and on the other by the Germans. Tin re is no change of note elsewhere in the west, and at many points tin- fighting seems to have slackened. There is little news from the eastern rmnt and beyond the fact that the Russians have again crossed the East Prussian frontier in the far irorllifist near Tilsit and that they are coat inn ins the offensive against the Austrian in Bnkowina, the situation is unchang ed. Athens reports a temporary lull in the bombardment of the Darda nelles and Smyrna. Along the Yser as the floods nave subsided the Belgians, supported by warships of the allies, have already pushed their line forward slightly. This is almost certain to lead to counter attacks by the Germans and a general engagement as has been the case when similar movements were initiated elsewhere along the front. An ar tillery duel which was in way of preparation, has commenced. There may be a slight delay while the Germans are awaiting reinforcements from Germany for they have been using most of their reserves to coun ter attack the British troops at St. Kloi, Neueve Chapelle and the French at north Arras, but that the big clash will soon come nobody doubts. The contest for the spur of Notre Dame Dp Loreite is still in progress, ac cording to Berlin and further at tempts of the French to advance in (Continued on page Seven) 11 SHORT IS Youth Who in Phoenix Forced Endorsement on Pension Che.4 1S Apprc- bended bv Federal Offi cers in Los Angeles (Special to The Republican) LOS A NG ELLS, March Ix. After a year's search for a man who, in Phoenix, Ariz., forged an endorsement on an old soldier's pension check for ST-.ra? and cashed it, federal officers today arrested William Short, '4 years old, as the guiltv person. According to the federal officers, young Short, calling at the Phoenix postoffice one day for his mail, was handed, the officers say, a letter ad dressed to illiam Short. The letter contained the soldier's pension check. Il is charged that Short endorsed the check with his own name and cashed it. This is in violation of section U(s of the federal code, which n akes it n crime for anyone to cash a pension check t tint does not belong to him. Since coming to Los Angeles, young Short his been married. His first thought on reaching the I'niteil States marshal's office, in company with Dolph Hassett, deputy Fnited States marshal, was to telephone his wife that he was under nrrest. CAUGHT AFTER YEAR'S SEARCH Last Day Of Registration For April City Election The principal action about the city hall yesterday was the rush of eleventh-hour registrations, over two hundred citizens placing their name on the city register in order to qualify for voting at the coming city general election on April 8, and also V en iible them to feel assured that in sign ing the recall petitions against George ir. Young, mayor, and Joseph 5f. Cope and Peter C'orpstein, com missioners, their effort will not lie in vain. Tod.iy is the last day for registra tion. The office of the city clerk will close at 5 o'clock. Ordinarily, the cli rk would keep his office open until midnight to accommodate all who desired to register. However, the time for closing of this registration was fixed by resolution of the commis MANY CHICAGO WOMEN ARE CIGARETTE SMOKERS t CHICAGO, March IS. One wo- m;in in ever twenty in this city in a cigarette smoker, according to i the estimate alter investigation by ' Alice Clement and Mary liiloy, po- licewonien. "We covered all parts of the city," said Miss Clements. ! "Wry few working girls nr girls of ! middle class smoke. The habit 1 does not seem to he growing." T HEAVY TOLL III III Appalling tions in St try Serbia of Condi is Jielated ' , , - . 0V War Keller ( . OlUinit - reciijcu on Their Return j . to liOntlOl! associated press dispatchI LONDON, March is. An appallin; story if conditions in Serbia was re lated today by I'rnest Bicknell and Henry James, Jr., of the War Relief lonimittee of the Rockefeller found;.-1 lion, on their return to London after i tour of inspection through thai j country. TypKus already has caused the ' death of fid out of 4uu native doctors ! of the country. The foreign lied ! Cross units have suffered great ! losses. Nine American nurses and ; two physicians have contracted the ' disease. j The Serbians assert that typhus , v.as introduced by Austrian prison. tis or war who "were permitted to wander over the country and spread vermin which causes the disease. The commissioners went first to Nish. linn proceeded to Belgrade and left the country by way of Uskoh, thus .'isiting the three most popu- ions tow ns. During: their tour they j learned typhus, typhoid fever, cholera, j smallpox, diptheria, scarlet fever and i recurrent fever all existing in more or less epidemic form. The largest i number of cases is i-i recurrent fe- ; vi-r, but this disease is seldom fatal, i Typhus is particularly deadly. Small- j pcx and diptheria are diminishing. No figures are available as to j the number of cases but the commis- j sinners believe the mortality Is so heavv as to bring the situation with- in their purview. I Sanitary expeits are needed badly, but unless they are fully equipped with medicine and also with furnish- j ings f ir their living quarters it , would be unwise for them to go to Serbia, since they probably would fall victims to the disease. Mr. James said that the situation (Continued on Page Three) Railroads Have Been Driven To The Last Ditch ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH ST. PAFL, .March 1 S. Railroads in this country have been driven to "the last ditch" and are no longer able to compete with each other or any one else," James J. Hill, railroad builder, told the railroads' committee of the Minnesota house and senate at the joint hearing on the bill before the legislature to increase the railroad passenger rate of this state from two cents a mile to two and a half cents. He predicted even more stringent conditions will follow the conclusion of the European war. Next year he believed would see a fall in prices of all farm products, with wheat down to seventy cents a bushel. sion at 3 o'clock, and beyond that hour Judge Thomas could not receive registrations. Calm prevailed in all . the depart ments of the city government yes terday. The city vault was still locked, except at such times as Man ager Parish perndtted It to oe opened to secure books or papers required for the conduct of routine affairs. At torneys for the commission endeavored, to secure an earlier hearing of the certiorari proceedings than March 24, but could not arrange with counsel for Manager Parish for an earlier date. Robert A. Craig, the commis sion's manager, made no 'effort yes terday to possess himself of the rec ords of the manager's office, although he visited the .city hall during the day. ". . TAKES HUNTREPRIEVES ' GOIIDEHl! HUTU HIV gn! uiiiil nini lu ! Governor. Ifules That tin; Thi rty-day K x t e n s i o n Recommended by Pardon Hoard Would Not lie Time Ivion-ih MA'I 'PEIMIIXGES ! ON LAIRD CANUj OJ 'i t itli n taii 'i jjvioia- ture Will Take Time of Officials Who Must Pass on Casts After Supreme Court Decides Conceding that the pardon board made a timely suggestion when it i recommended a thirty-day reprieve for the men who were sentenced to ihang at Florence today. Governor ) Hunt yosternay went the hoard one I belter and --rantcii the condemned ",on ;l -'fl""'1'"' "-tit May The - pi ociailli- UOU OL reioie-c, uiucu itjii ihe forwarded to the state prison to- ,,','- wus fJisne(1 hi ,ne f,,v,'rn"'- M yesterday afternoon, I The ground that thirty o;.ys would (not afford sufficient time foi the su- i prcme court to render a decision in tth.e Knox Laird case, and for members of the new parole hoa:d or the gov Kinor to review the transcripts of I testimony and to take definite action in the fie cases, is taken by tae gov ernor for extendiniT the stay of ex ecution for somewhat more than two mouths. In the near future, the proclamation says, there will be a sptcial session of the legislature, which will impose n great amount of other important work upon the ex ecutive officers who, under any de cision of the Laird case, Woidd have io pasK on the cases of the londenined men and which would pieoiv, them from giving such important matters the attention they deserve. After reviewing the cases of Perez. Cliavex, Pernlta, Rodriguez and Villa - lobo, and the action taken in the I case of Knox Laird, together w ith his I applicition for a writ of habeas cor-J pus and the action taken by the board at its last meeting, the yoverr-or's proclamation says: " Whereas, the hoard of pardons and paroles, in so recommending the re prieving of the condemned prisoners confined in the Arizona state prison, made the time necessary for the ren dering of a comprehensive ami con clusive opinion 1j the siiprejue court oil the application of Knox laird, the basis of its recommendation for the suspension of judgment in favor of tiie condemned prisoners enumerated hereinbefore. "Whereas, the governor of Ari zona, while recognizing that the board of pardons ami paroles, acting in a merely advisory capacity, has ex pressed an opinion which is Umely, and apparently worthy of consideration. iilfecting the cases of N. 1!. Chavez, F.duardo Perez, .Miguel Peraita. Fran cisco Rodriguez and Ramon ViUnlobo, (Continued on Page Two) In Three Hours Thirteen and One-half Minutes the Heady Little Rider Nego tiates Distance With Time to Spare By Lyle Abbott riCSON, March IS. Joe O'Connell heat the early birds to the fair giounds. winning the Phoenix-Tucson road race In the record time of three hours, thirteen and one-half minutes. Lorenzo Boido, the favor ite, in spite of a dramatic spill in the outskirts of the city, finished sec ond in 3:2r. P.ill Gerig, The Repub lican's fast mail clerk, closely fol lowed l'oiilo into the grounds, fin ishing in 3:J1-i. This is .o'Connell's first road rao victory. After leading all the way to within fifteen miles of the finish line, Roido ran out of gas and sac rificed his lead to O'Connell, who had. been conserving his speed for th" filial dash. -At the "steam pump," twelve miles below Tucson, Roido's Indian refused to' shoot, and in a moment the San Diego race winner was cussing the desert distances. As he pushed his motorcycle to the side of the road and ioked about for a gas supply station, O'Connell, who had been trailing him, shot by and Into the lea l. Retween the time he took the lead (Continued on Page Two) O'COIELL SPEEUG'S RECORD IN CLASSIC PHOEI-TUCSON MOTORCYCLE CRIIID SAY WOMEN WOULD INVADE MEN'S SPHERE LONDON', March J 8. The novel and -ather revolutionary plan of the government to mobilize the wo mn to replace the men needed for war -service, although only tenta i tively outlined by the board of trade, has aroused a wide discus sion In Lngland, especially In or ganized labor circles which are dis turbed with the prospect o' an n llux of thousands of untrained non union women into the sphere of various activity s. Government Loses Trust Suit Makes Ready To Appeal f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH liOSTOX. March IS. Immediately following the decision of the federal district court that the government's suit to dissolve the Fnited Shoe Ma chinery Company as an unlawful monopoly under the Sherman act was not sustained, Fnited States District i Attorney Anderson started prepara tions for an appeal in case the de partment of justice decided to take ! the stop. The decision sustains the legality of the original combination from which the Fnited Shoe Ma chinery company was organized in 1S!iK. of the acquisition of the busi ness of more than ." companies and individuals together with the validity of the company's leases and its pat tent monopoly. District Attorney Anderson has been requested by Attorney General Greg ory to make a report on the case to the department at Washington with a view of a possible appeal. Although there is a criminal suit pending here against the company on a charge simi lar to that decided today, no proceed ings on it will be attempted pending the final disposition of the civil suit. For some time a decision favorable to the company has been expected in financial circles, and stock has been raising steadily for tie- last weeks. two TREATY RICHTS Two ( bnndaiiits Arc .Made Fnder bv Dr.' .Mueller, Technical Arrest on State Warrant Charinnir Con spiracy to ( Vrnipt f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATC.Hl SKAi'TLK. March 18. T.no com plaints that the treaty rights of Ger many are being violated by American officers has been made by Dr. Wilhelm Mueller, imperial German consul here, who was technically arrested yesterday on a state warrant charging conspiracy to bribe an employe of s corporation. .Mueller, through the German embassy at Washington, first complained to state officers of violated treaty rights in invading his office. The second vl- (Cor.tinued on Page Three) CONSUL CLAIMS BOIDO AND CERIG BEAT State Band Is i Greeted Royally By FairVisitors (Special to The Republican.) TUCSON, March 18. The state band arrived this morning at ten thirty o'clock after having serenaded Casa Grande and stretches of the de sert all the way from Maricopa, af fording entertainment both to the populace and the itinerant public in the train. The band was met at the station by Secretary J. F. Myers of the Southern Arizona fair, and led to a sumptuous luncheon. The. parade, in which Jack Elliott appeared as drum major and "Doc" Redewill brought op in the rear. (Continued on Page Two) DR. BOIDO'S TEAM BEATS ALL ARIZONA TUCSON. March 18. Dr. Roi do's Phoenix rifle team today everlastingly btat all the Ari- zona teams on the first day of the I state association's rifle match. Sergeant Jacksotf McRae of the 1 Phoenix team, won the individual i high state record today for the I fourth straight time, a fact which creates a new world record, no man evAr having won it more than twie in a row. E AII 5 IS HOT CAUSE Tom Pagitt, the Owner of 12,(KM) Acres of Texas Land, Describes Tenant Problems to Industrial Relations Committee SAYS WOAIKN WORK IN FIKLDS Tenant Must, llaxe Lame Family as There is Difli cultv in Hh'in.u Help Without Wa-es Cntil the ( 'rop is Sold f ASSOCIATED rV.I'SS PISrATCHl DALLAS. .March is. Tom Pagitt, owner of l.,("'i acres of Texas land described some tonant problems on his estate from a land owners point of vie-.v before the federal committee on induntri.il relations at its American land question hearing. The Pagjtt place in Coleman county, it is said, has uvtnty-two tenant families on about .liiii) acres and the remainder is leased to cattle men. They say an agent prefers to get ten ants with large families because the country is so sparsely settled that wo men and children form almost the only available source of an extra labor sup ply in the cotton picking season. Wo men, h" said, usually chop, hoe and help with tucking the cotton. The children begin work in the fields at about tight years of age. The tenant, Pagitt said, would have difficulty in hiring farm hands because he is not as a rule able to pay wages until after the crop is sold. Describing the housing conditions Pagitt said the cheapest tenament houses in his place has two rooms and cost while the largest has four rooms, costing $1"". None are screened, he said. Would you object 1o a tenant who believed in certain principles of govern ment or lel'orm. advocating them while living in your place?" asked Chairman Walsh. "No." replied Pagitt. "but 1 did not like a tenant who stirred up trouble by talking at the store and try ing to make other men dislike the land lord." In reply to the question con cerning the working hours of the ten ants, Pagitt said in crop season noinf of them go to work at four in the morning and some at six and they generally woik until dark. Two witnesses testified they believed the landlords are not responsible for hardships in the present land tenant s stem. These witnesses were K. J. Giddings, an attorney of Oklahoma City and Prof. Charles Auston of the Fniversity of Texas. Mr. Giddings suggested the federal action as an effective remedy to reduce usury. In describing conditions in the former Indian Territory section of Ok lahoma as extremely bad. for tenant farmers, he said: "This is not due primarily to tyran ny by the landlords, or lack of thrift in the tenants, but to the inane, in sipid and senselt ss policy of the federal (Continued on Page Four) Arizona Mote Pikers Make Successful Start in First Piioenix-T u c s o n R o a d Race Mishaps Ft w- and, None Serious Amidst much smoke and noise, to say nothing of the enormous crowds that gathered around to see the nervy riders hurl their machines into space, the first Phoenix-Tucson road race- started yesterday morning from Norlh t irst avenue at 10 o'clock. The riders had drawn for their no- sitions the nUlii before, and cheeked out at one-minute intervals, in the fol- HARDSHIPS lowing order: No. Machine Rider 1 Merkel Crandall 2 Merkel Doheney ' Hurley Fogle 4 Merkel Sellner Merkel Ilighfill 1 Merkel Butler " Indian Wilson ? Indian O'Connell !i Kxcelsior Rhodes ID Indian Gerig 11 Indian Doirto 12 Merkel Thompkins It Merkel Albright At the starters word to "no the machines were headed for Van Ruren sureet and thence to Temiie. The side street crossings along the course vithin the city Units were crowded with people, all anxious to see tho (Continued on Page Two) PROTEST MADE VILLA AGAINST COLLECTION OF MILLION PESOS TAX EXPLOSION OF DUST CAUSE OF DISASTER HINTOX. W. Va.. March IS An ' explosion oi dus( following a ; ! "blowout" shot, was responsible for ! Uie disaster on March 2. which cost ! the lives of 11 men in the Lnyland j mine of the New River and Poca- ' ' honias Consolidated Coal company, j ; according- to ihe verdict of the cor- oner's jury rendered today. The j ; jury did not attach the blame on j i any one. j NOT FULL REPLY Neither Britain Nor France Has Answered Ouestions as to Their Wan-ant Un der International Law for Their Embargo ASSOCIATED PP.ESS DISPATCH WASHINGTON. .March IS. The United States considers Great Britain and Fiance, in the British order-in-council, have ma answered the ques tions propounded them as to what is their warrant under international law for the establishment of an embargo on all commercial intercourse, directly an., indirectly between i"ermany and neutral countries. it is stated otficially at the state de partment that this government still does not know whether the action of the allies is intended as a legal block ade or whether the ordinary rules of contraband and non-contraband are to be a legal basis for future detentions, on the determination of this question prooablv will depend not only the na ture of any steps that may be taken by the United States at this time, but also .u a basis for many claims for dam ages arising out of interruptions to American commerce tinder the nf w pol icy of the allies. If the action of the allies is to blockade, all commerce di rectly, Germany can be halted by mak ing the blockade effective, a certain "radius of activity" being allowed for the blockading warships off the Ger man coast because of the newly devel oped activities of the submarines. P.ut there can oe no legal blockade of the (oast of the neutral countries of Ku rope. it is the contention of the United States, under any circumstances. If the action is not to blockade then there exists no legal right to detain cotton or other non-contraband car goes even when consigned directly to German ports, nor can foodstuffs' or conditional contraband be justly inter rupted unless proved, though consigned to Germany, to be destined for the use (Continued on Page Seven) o Girls Carried Weapons For Boy Burglars associated press dispatch CHICAGO, March IS Three girls and four boys, the youngest sixteen years old. the eldest aged twenty, con teused tonight, according to the police, lo a number of burglaries and several hold-ups. Revolvers were found on two girls and in the flat where the ar rests were made, many bolts of cloth, cigars, razors and a quantity of w hisky were found which the police believe were stolen. Mrs. Ruth Allensport. aged twenty, the police say, told them the girls car ried the weapons and tools so if arrest ed, nothing would be found on the boys. "You know a copper couldn't search a perfect lady." she said, according to the on icers. I ORDER TO UESTIOIIS Don't Fail To Register Supplemental registration for the approaching city election will end at 5 p.m. today. No person not then registered will be qualified to vote on April 6. Many persons were prohibited from voting at the primary election because, while they were registered in the county, their names did not appear upon tho city registration books. The only place of registra tion is at the city hall. Unless an otherwise qualified elector of the city of Phoenix knows his or her name to be upon the city registration books they will rot be privileged to vote on April 6. Nor will a person not registered in the city lie recognized as a qualified elector and should they sign one or more of the recall petitions to be cir culated today their signature would carry no weight. Register today before 5 o'clock. i United States Acts on Re quest of British Embassy, and Urges Non-Enforcement of Decree Upon Monterey Foreigners LIVING CONDITIONS ARK IMPROVING In Mexico City Affairs Are Becoming Nearer Normal and Railway Communica tion to El Paso AVill Re sume Soon associated pkess dispatch WASHINGTON, March IS. A protest was sent by the United States to Villa against the collection from Americans and other foreigners of part of the special tax of a million pesos levied at Monterey. The Bri tish embassy had brought to the at tention of the state department a re port Just received from Monterey say ing ihe British owned light and pow er company there had been called upon to pay thirty five thousand as its share of the tax. Other advices to the department said the living con ditions in Mexico City are improved and railway communications to Kl Paso Willi probably be opened In four or five days and the fighting between Carranza and Villa forces had be gun at Tampico. Just how Villa's general assess ment was to be apportioned, the statu department is not informed, but the understanding was that Villa, had laid an omnibus tax on the city, leaving It to the authorities to raise the money in whatever way they saw fit. The order is dated March Ifi. it is said, fifteen days' time is given to raise, the money. A brief statement by tho department in regard to the matter said: "The department is informed in' advices emanating from Monterey that Villa imposed a contribution of a. million pesos on certain persons, in cluding foreigners and church au thorities. No details of the matter have yet been recetved." The department had protested pre viously, notably in the case of the tax obregon tried to collect in Mex ico City recently, against anv Mexi- (Contlnued on Page Four) o Governor Asks Attorney General What Can Be Done to Provide Money for Administration of the State Lauds Asking him to determine the status of appropriations for the state land commission, and outlining the situa tion which has arisen since the legjr lature failed to make any appropria tions for that body, Gov. Hunt yes terday addressed a letter to Attorney General Wiley K. Jones, requesting an opinion as to what emergency measures could be invoked to provide funds for carrying on the work of the commission. "This failure creates an emergency of the greatest magnitude, imperiling as it does the interest and rights of tho state in and to some eleven and a half million acres of land, in va rious stages of title, and endangering the equities of a large number of lessees and owners of improvement on approximately 500,000 acres. "The appropriations heretofore pro vided for the support of other de partments of state are available un til Juno 30, the end of the current fiscal year, and in some cases long er, hut the ambiguity of the law (Continued on Paga Three) FUNDS FOR LAND COMMISSION ARE lillllUS QUANTITY