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NEWBERRY'S WAR RECORD UNDER FIRE
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SED
FIDS BORDER
OPPOSING WAR
Church Emissary Says Atrocity
Reports Are Exaggerated -and
Invasion Needless.
MEXICANS ALSO KILLED
Believes As Many Mexicans Are
Murdered on This Side as
Americans on Other.
(By Frederick M. Kerby.)
New York, Dec. 20. War with Mex
ico is not wanted and the majority of
the people of the southwestern states
are opposed to : American intervention
In that country. So declared E. Fred
Eastman, director of the educational
department of the board of home
missions pt the Presbyterian church,
who has returned to New Tork from an
extensive trip- to t Texas, New Mexico
and southern California. A
Mr. Eastman was Intensively study-?
ing the people and conditions in these
and neighboring states for two months
He talked with leaders from El Paso,
Los Angeles and cities of the border
states, especially ministers and other
missionaries. "Without exception, -he
reiwts. these men are ; opposed to
American intervention in Mexico.
Those , southwesterners, says Mr.
Eastman, rankly state it as their con
viction that at least as many Mexicans
are killed on? this side of the border
as there are Americans on the other
side; but that when a, Mexican Is killed
on this side of the border the news
papers say little or nothing about it,
whereas every murder or holdup on the
Mexican side is "magnified in the
American press , - - '
"It is aiso the opinion of these men,'
said Mr. Eastman, "that intervention
would disrupt the social solidarity of
our own country in the southwest.They
state that out there one in every ten
is a Mexican f and that necessarily
trouble might arise in this country
itself were there war." ., . .
The Presbyterian educational direct
or expressed it aa his opinion that the
great majority of the - Mexicans were
decent and lawabiding citizens.
"While studying conditions in the
southwestern "states, Mr. Eastman at
tended an Americanization service in
which hundreds of both Mexicans and
Americans participated. The hymns
were sung partly in Spanish and partly
in English, one line by the Mexicans,
the next by the Americans. .,- The ser
vice impressed him very favorably.
Before seeing the Mexicans with his
Rn eyes, said Mr. Eastman, he thought
with many others that they were hope
less and incurably dishonest. But their
sincerity in religion and the testimony
f Christian preachers as to their lives
hewed him that the Mexican is fre
quently as straight and honest as his
American neighbor. . -
BRITISH ADMIRAL
SAYS SAVE FUEL
London. Dec. 20. Real Admiral
Ph:hp Dumas expresses the belief that
the world is not through with war.
'Save the oil, take care of it and
i- serve it." he advised the Insti
'on of Petroleum Technologists thelments of Chile -and Mexico are dis-
" :.ier iiay. if for nothing else we shall : cussing plans for the establishment of
fiuire it for the wars of the future, I a wireless service between the two
which, believe me, will come despite countries. This results from discov
efforts of the late army of ery that messages sent by wireless
stiluses in Paris to make future wars
possible. . . , - : . "
'T'n;j; las been a. war waered lareelv
on -,-;
W'anll
The next ; one will be nearly
so and Bismarck's dictum of
''t and iron" broueht un to date
res
xl and oil. " .
MEXICAN ASTRONOMER
SEES SASAKKY COMET
wpx!Co City, Dec-. 20. The director
the- central observatory here states
at he has seen the new comet re
ent'.v discovered: by the -Japanese
trnomer Sasakky and - -hat, it is
L;e f.rth new comet reported during
,! Pis year. - - -
i ase of hostilities with Mexic co
are superio to any in the wold.
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The Tampico oil fields large tr
notes between the United States an
DISCUSS TREND
OF FOOD COSTS
Morris Says Time Alone Will
Tell Whether Packers' Ac
tivities Were for Good
PEOPLE ARE IN CONTROL
Attorney General Palmer Says
Public Can Determine Price
' to Be Paid for Meat. .
Chicago, Dec,, 21. Probable trend of
prices : f or - food products formerly
handled by the packers during the two
year period in which the Swift, Ar
mour, Norris, Wilson and Cudahy
companies must disassociate , them
selves from all other than ' the meat
and provision business is the subject
of general speculation.
Following announcement of the
compromise agreement resulting from
Institution of anti-trust .actions
against the 87 corporations and 49 in
dividuals making up the "five . big"
packers, varying opinions as to the
probable effect on the cost of living
are expressed.
V'The price 'of meat is within - the
control of the people themselves." said
Attorney General Palmer in announc
ing the agreement between the pack
ers and the department of justice.
"Time alone will tell whether our
activities in the lines to. be dropped
were in the interest of the public,"
said Edward Morris, of Morris & Co.
A step with public opinion, an ; ef
fort to aid in allaying unrest and an
intention to .remove cause for friction
with the government rather than an
admission of any guilt was the way
statements of representatives of the
packers referred "to the companies.
The grand jury injuiry into the
operations of the packers, begun at
President "Wilson's direction as part
of the fight on the high cost of living,
recently was halted by . adjournment
after a month's investigation.
CHILE AND MEXICO
;v PLAN WIRELESS
Mexico City, Dec. 30. The govern
from Tucajan to Mexico
being read in Santiago. .
City were
"SALTING" WELLS
WORRY OIL MEN
Tampico, Mexjco, Dec. 20. Repre
sentatives of the principal : oil com
panies operating in this district at a
recent meeting discussed the failure
of several of the largest producing
wells which are now spouting salt wa
ter instead of petroleum. It was con
cluded that there , is no need to fear
a shortage because other wells in the
vicinity are being brought In, among
which is one producing 30,000 bar
rels daily. . r
AMERICAN INFANTRY IN ACTION
much of the f ightir.g would be g
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acts of which are owned by Americans has been the center of much of the
d Mexico. , -
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These five men are leaders of Ameri
can forces by land and -sea.
They are, above, left to right. General
John J.'" Pershing commanding the
American forces; Maj. Gen. J. T. Dick
man commanding the southern depart
ment; Maj. Gn. R. JLu Hpwze, com-
manding a section of the border; below.
Admiral Henry B. Wilson commanding
the Atlantic fleet; Admiral Hugh Rod
man commanding the Pacific fleet.
BRITISH PUN
EGYPTIAN RULE
Earl Curzon Says Sultan's Peo
ple Are to Have Highest Pos- '
sible Measure Home Rule
Washington, Dec. 20. Great Britain's
plans for establishing a constitutional
form of government in Egypt are set
forth in an official statement made by
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"T'T . v v v I
eign Affairs which has been received j
here. Objects of, the Milner Mission
which goes to Egypt to arrange the
proposed, new ; government are de
scribed in the statement.
The British foreign secretary an
nounces that it is" the intention of the
British government to establish the
largest measure of self-government for
which Egypt is believed capable at
this time. - He states that "the Milner
mission is not authorized to "impose
a constitution on Egypt but rather to
study and' situation and confer with
the, native leaders.
.In par, Earl Curzon's statement fol-
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uerrilla warfare. " In the open American
TAMPICO THE TROUBLE CENTER
FIVE AMERICAN COMMANDERS
IRISH DEMAND
MOTOR PERMITS
Motorists Are Incensed Because
Law Requires Them to Have
. Police License to Drive.
Dublin, Dec. 20. Much resentment
has been aroused among Irish motor-
ists by the government's new order ,
under wnicn nobody is allowed ,to army recruiting station, Thiesen build
own or drive an automobile in Ire-:iner. as assistant to Sersreant J. O
land unless he has obtained a permit!
from the Po"ce
.;
It is intended to-prevent the use of i
automobiles as aids to crime. Permits ;
will be given only to persons con
cerning whose character and dispo-
sitions the police Are satisfied,
Permits' have already been refused
on the ground that the applicants are
not, loyal. Before a permit is Issued
the applicant must furnish two photo
graphs, and descriptions of himself
and his car.. The , regulation applies
to chauffeurs as ; strictly as to own
ers, and the Drivers and Mechanics'
Union has threatened to go on strike
if it is enforced.
' Many Sinn Feiners and others re
fuse to apply for motor permits. Their
cars will be liable ' to seizure. ? The
police have power to enter any garage
and the owner can be sentenced to
imprisonment for possessing it.
The order was provoked by the fact
that Sinn Fein raiders for arms
and men who had . attacked police
barracks, have escaped capture by
using . fast cars , and motorcycles.
Traders In cars, and taxi cab owners
say that the regulation will kill their
business.
GENERAL MAGUIA IS -
TO COMMAND SONORA
Mexico City, Dec. 20. G e n e r a 1
Francisco .Murguia, . for some time
commander of military , forces In the
northern part of the republic.- has
been named head of the forces in the
state of Sonora.
outrages committed by Mexican s.
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SERGEANT DAY
S RECRUITING
Field Signal Non-Com Will As
sist Sergeant Thompson at
Pensacola Station.
Sergeant A'ern Day, company "C
9th field signal battalion.. Camp Gor-
don, Georgia has -reported at the local
Thompson, general recruiting service,
this place. While here Sergeant j
Day will recruit . mainly for the 5th
division at Camp Gordon, , though men
will be accepted for various . places.
Vacancies now exist - in the United
States.. infantry, tank corps, chemical
warfare . service, cavalry, field artil
lery, coast artillery, engineers, signal
corps, ordnance corps, . quartermaster
corps, medical corps, dental and veter
inary corps.
The iiwwouiu palace here shown is
It has been the cause of many
GERtlAN TillES
REMAIN MENACE
American Barrage Is Swept as
Completely as Is Humanly
Possible, Says Knapp.
MANY HUN MINES ADRIFT
Will Continue a Deadly Menace
to Navigation Until Area
Is Thoroughly Combed.
London, Dec. 21. tTnjtil the Germans
complete the sweeping of mine fields
they laid in the North Sea, there, will
be considerable danger. to shipping in
waters adjacent to the Tiritixh TkIm
says British and American naval au-
thorities. Even after that work has
ended, which will not be earlier than
next summer, there will be som; dan -
ger which, they predict, will gradually
diminish.
"The American barrage is swept as
completely as is humanly possible,"
Admiral Harry S. Knapp, of the
American navy, said to the Associated
Press correspondent. "After our area
had been pronounced 100 per cent
clear we re-swept 860 square miles of
it (about 15 per cent) and found only
four more mines. These were at a
buoyed spot where the sweepji's be
lieved they had missed' some."
"The greatest menace now," said
Lieutenant Commander Benson, of the
international mine destroying commit
tee, "is the unswept German area.
Until that field has been cleared there
will be a good many drifting mines
about. Afterward there will be some
danger, but it will rapidly diminish as
the elements destroy the . effective
ness of the mines."
He said the committee accounted
for mines" as follows: five per cent
explode when laid, five per cent are
defective, 10 .per cent soon become
useless through leakage and 60 per
cent of the total number laid are de
stroyed by the different systems of
sweeping employed by the British and
Americans.. .
Committee members believe that a
great many of- the other 30 per cent
will " be carried by the natural north
ward currents of the North Sea into
Arctic iee packs and destroyed, others
will go ashore on . the : Norwegian
coast, as have many already, a great
many will become harmless through
long presence in the water.' ind a cer-
tain number wilj be dtsuoyed by
patrols which the British navy still is
maintaining,
Also the - British navy has just
armed .all merchantmen except those
calling .at" Jrish ports, with high-velocity
rifles that they may destroy
any mine sighted. So many ships
calling at Irish, ports have been raided
for arms that the admiralty believed it
inadvisable to add to this danger.
MEXICO CITY THE ANCIENT AZTEC CAPITAL.
in the heart of Mexico City
NEWBERRY WAR
RECORD BARED.
Campaign Advertising Said to
Have Stated He Was "Dis
trict Commander"
ACTORS JOKEU OF "SNAPS")
While Senator Was Personnel )
Officer' at N. Y. Station In
vestigation Was Made.
(By Harry B. Hunt)
Not oqly will the campaign methods j '
of Senator Truman H. Newberry of? .
Michigan, be scrutinized in detail dur- I
ing his trial and the trials of 134 of his '
political workers -
Those who Insist that the senate
should at once Investigate the charges
against the senator are also prepared
to go deep into Newberry's war record.
Letters in the navy files contain the
evidence on which such an investl
gation would be based. The confes
sion of a subordinate that bomb-proof
berths" were obtained by bribes has
given the senator's opponents much
material.
In speeches, posters and newspaper
advertisements, Newberry was referred i
to as "Commander of the Third Naval
district," with headquarters in New
Tork.
His opponents-Bt vgO( n
His supporters compared Newberry's .
services with those of Henry Ford and
son, Edsel. Ford was Newberry's rival
for office and Edsel had been granted
exemption in the draft. Ford declined
to spend a dollar for his campaign;
Newberry is charged in 4 federal in
dictment with spending between $500,
000 and $1,000,000.
Actually, Newberry was not com
mander of the Third district, but was .
chief personnel officer, in charge of -.
enlistments and assignments.
He was
; ever at sea.
Major John C. Muir of the Marine
'corps, who was detailed to investigate
I the rumors, tht rich men's sons were
I purchasing safe and easy posts during
the war at 280 Broadway, reported that
'. several young men were brought into
vew Tork. and "subseauentlv enrolled
headquarters by Frederick Cody of
under peculiar and suspicious clrcum-
stances.
Cody is one of the men now under
indictment with Newberry in the Mich
igan election scandal.
Repeatedly Major Mulr drew at-,
tention of Senator Newberry to the
grave charges made against his sub
ordinates during his services as Lieutenant-commander
in the Third Naval
district, but never was able to obtain
the co-operation of Newberry in the in
vestigation, according to Muir.
Lieutenant B. J. Ellert, an Immediate
subordinate of Newberry, confessed
that he received bribes ranging from
$100 to $3,000 for placing timid young
men where they would be safe from the
terrors of the draft and German pro
jectiles. Conditions in Newberry's department
became so flagrant that vaudeville
comedians jested -about the traffic in
soft snaps at 280 Broadway.
In Major Muirs report he states that
because Senator Newberry was un-'
available for an interview, "it is im- '
practical, for me to go further into this
phase of the case." (
It is said that Newberry was warned
of Ellert's practices.
The Muir report also states: "Insofar
as those holding positions of responsi
bility are concerned, Rear Admiral
Nathaniel Rf Usher and Lieut.-Com.
Truman H. Newberry are more or less
directly involved, the former as
commandant and responsible for all
that transpires with reference to his
command, and the latter as the im
mediate superior of the; officer most
implicated and having direct supervis
ion over his duties and work."
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