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□ EVENING CAPITAL NEWS
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boise, Idaho, Thursday, march 30 , 1916 .
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No. 76
VIOLENT ATTACKS BY
BOTH THE TRENCH AND
GERMANS ARE FUTILE
Paris and Berlin Reports Tell of the
Failure of Attempts Made by Enemy
to Capture Positions on the Battle
Front
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Paris, March 30.—(Official)—Several German infan
itrv attacks upon Avocourt Wood in an endeavor to re
take lost positions, were made l?st night. The assaults
failed. The Germans attempted no,, further advances
[against Malancourt. East of the Meuse there has been
jheavy artillery fighting.
French Attacks Are Repulsed.
Berlin, March 30.—(Official)-—The repulse of repeat
ed French attacks in an effort to recapture the lost sec
tionsin the wood northwest of Avocourt is announced.
PLAN TO INVADE
CANADA FROM THE
UNITED STATES
orst Von der Goltz Makes
Startling Disclosures of
Plot to Violate American
Neutrality.
New York. March SO.—A military ex
jedltion to invade Canada, which was
îalted by the failure of a Buffalo, N.
?.. lawyer, to appear at a time agreed
Ipon with an "organized firing squad,"
t was said last night was part of an
Jleged conspiracy to violate the neu
rallty of the United States upon
vblch the agents of me department of
Mttce are working secretly ln connec
Vn with the return here from Eng
and of .Horst von der Goltz.
Von der Goltz, who, It Is said,
daims to have been a trusted agent
1 1 : Captain von Papen, former Ger
nan military attache ln this country,
vas questioned at length by United
States District Attorney H. Snowden
Marshall and his assistant, Roger B.
ood.
Impressive Tale It Told.
Von der Goltz, according to Captain
'illlam Offley, chief of the local bu
au of the department of justice, told
i impressive tale of plot and counter
lot.
The federal authorities let It be
nown that the publicity given to von
er Goltz's return here, accompanied by
detective sergeant from Scotland
tard, may Interfere with their plans to
Bid up suspects wanted in connection
RK the alleged proposed military ex
ecution to Canada, which it was said
on der Goltz has admitted, involved
le blowing up of railroads, bridges
nd public buildings, and the destruo
oii of the Welland canal.
Von der Goltz- went to England the
liter part of 1914 under the name of
sridgman Taylor and, according to
arsons closely identified with the de
artment of justice investigation, re
sntly arranged with the British au
loritlea to be returned here to give
»Umony.
Von der Goltz lz quoted as having
kid he was supplied by persons In
Dived ln the alleged plots here with
[ans and diagrams for the destruction
[ Canadian property. He is said to
Lve asserted that his assistants, while
*o-German, were not of German de
cent but were actuated by hatred uf
ngland.
Getting Ready For
House-Cleaning.
I House-cleaning time used to be
b. season, of dreariness, work ar.cj
' Now, labor-saving devices have
lessened its burdens.
To the woman equipped with
•U the modern household helps,
r range from pneumatic clean
down, home renovation Is
j merely an incident
, And the woman who Is not
equipped—who stiU relies on "el
bow grease" Is looking With long
ing eyes towards the stores.
A glance through the odvertie
! ing columns of The Evening
Capital News will give many
suggestions as to where things
needed In house-cleaning may be
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INVESTIGATE THE
AMHERST' WRECK
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Twenty-Seven Bodies Have
Been Recovered from the
Wreckage— Ten Not Yet
Identified.
1 commerce commission today began an
j investigation of the New York Central
wreck at Amherst.
bodies have been recovered from the
wreckage. The bodies of six men and
four women have not been Identified,
Cleveland, March 80.—The Interstate
Twenty-seven
A. R. Ernst, towerman at Amtierst,
I denied today he was asleep or had been
Incapacitated by loss of sleep. The
signal simply failed to work, he said.
"If the signal bad been working pro
perly, the block signal light two miles
away would have flashed a caution and
the blook one mile away would have
signalled Hess, engineer of the second
section of No. 86. to stop." said Ernst,
"Hess Is too good an engineer to run
past two signals set against him."
The interstate commerce commis
sion representatives, after conferring
with railroad officials and others, an
nounced they would go to Amherst at
noon to make a first hand Investigation
into the wreck. ,
Among the identified dead are. the
following;
ARPAD HELTAI, theatrical manag
er, New York.
RAISIN OBDAH, Indianapolis.
MALCINCA BXNNOE, Indiana Har
bor, Ind.
REV. GUSTAF WALYI. pastor First
Evangelical church. Detroit.
FRED WEAZER, Detroit.
J. RISEY. •
D. FRUICHTMAN, Toronto.
B. E. AISH, transfer mail man New
York Central, Olmstead Falls. N. Y.
R. THOMAS. Philadelphia
GYORGI OJINCI, Indianapolis.
EDWARD LEORY, St Louis.
JENNIE DREYMMER, Cleveland, O.
CHARLES NELSON, Chicago,
BRUCE BROMLEY, Hillsville, Pa
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LOSS or FOUR MORE
VESSELS REPORTED
London, March 30.—Four vessels arel
reported to have been sunk during the
past 24 hours—two British steamers,
the Kilbride and Lavinla Westoll, the
Dutch steamer Dulveland and the
small Russian schooner Ottomar.
Tlte total number of British ships
sunk since the beginning of the new
German submarine campaign is 20.
Suffragists Active In South.
Memphis, Term., March 30.—The first
of a series of Important state conven
tions to be held in the eouth this spring
met in Memphis today under the aue
plces of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage
association.
Catt, president of the national organ
ization, Is among those In attendance
List Pennsylvania Hanging.
Philadelphia, March 80.—The execu
tion of James Reilly, which takes place
at the Eastern penitentiary today, will
be the last legal hanging in PennsgLr
vania. Reilly's crime, killing hit w!|fk
was committed prior to the enactment
of the electrocution ant —
Mrs.
Carrie f Chapman
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The line* extending from Casas Grandes shpw the routes of General Pershing's three column's, their recent pro
gress, which is not positively known, being Indicated by dots. Namlqutpa and El Oso, five miles to the south,
the scones of reported battle between Villistas and C&rr&nzlstajk
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FINAL ACTION ON
THE BURNETT BILL
EXPECTED TODAY
Advocates of the Measure
Predict That It Will Be
Passed by an Overwhelm
ing Vote.
of the measure. Advocates of the bill
predict its passage by an overwhelming
vote. An amendment was adopted
modifying the effect of the Humphrey
amendment adopted Tuesday which
proposed retaliation on British Colum
b , la . f ° r its exclusion of skilled and un
skilled labor. It was discovered the
amendment as drawn would operate
against Russia, The new amendment
as adopted today would limit the ap
pllcaUon to British Columbia.
Washington, March 80.—With pros
pects of final action on the Burnett Im
migration bill with the literacy test and
oriental exclusion features by tonight.
the house today resumed consideration
REPORTED CABLE
BETWEENENGLAND
AND HOLLAND CUT
London, March 80.— Complets sus
pension of telegraphlo communication
between Holland and England is re
ported by the Rotterdam correspondent
of the Copenhagen Politiken, whose
dispatch was forwarded from Copen
hagen by the Exchange Telegraph
company. It la rumored the Germans
cut the cable.
No press dispatches
have been received from Holland since
Tuesday.
AEROPLANES BROUGHT
DOWN AND OFFICERS
ARE-MADE PRISONERS
Roma March SO.—Four Austrian
««'»Planes were brought down ft
air raid over the Venetian provinces
Monday and eight Austrian officers
were made prisoners. The raiders fail
ed to Inflict significant damage and
only a few persons were wounded.
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HUSBAND OE GADSKI
IS UNDER ARREST ON
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New York, March 80.—Captain
Hans Tauscher, husband of Johanna
G&dskt, thee opera singer, said to be
an officer in the German army, was
arrested here today on a warrant
charging that We was -concerned in
the alleged conspiracy to blow up tb#
Welland canal.
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COUNT» THE
TWO AMERICAS TO
HOLDCONFERENCC
United States Has Repre
sentative Delegation at
Buenos Aires for Meeting
to Open Monday.
Washington, March SO.—Further ef
fort to bring to reality some of the
suggestions as to methods for arrang
Ing a financial, commercial and Indus
trial rapprochement between all the
I republics in the two Americas is to
be made by the conference in Buenos
Aires, beginning next Monday.
An international high commission;
was authorized last May at the Pan
American Financial congress in this
.city, to consist of nine members from
each of the American republics. Mem
| bers representing the United States
i bave now arrived In the Argentine
j dptmj ln readiness for the confer
Unes. They are Secretary of the Treas
ury McAdoo. chairman; Senator Dun
can U. Fletcher, of Florida; Andrew J.
Peters, assistant secretary of the treas
ury; Samuel Untermyer, of New York;
Paul M. Warburg, of the federal reserve
board ; John H, Fahey of Boston, rep
resenting the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States; E. H. Gary of
New York, head of the United States
Steel corporation, and George M. Rey
nolds, president of the Continental
Trust company.
The Uniform Monetsry System.
A uniform monetary system for the
two Americas Is probably the most Im
portant subject scheduled for consid
eration by the conference. At pres
ent nearly all of the 19 American re
publics have different monetary sys
tems.. Aside from the United States,
scarcely any except Peru and Bolivia
live up to the gold standard of circu
lation as well as of exchange. To
bring them all to a uniform systeiwt
United States section will recomme
to the Central and South American sec
tions of the high commission serious
self examination of how these varying
systems in neighboring countries have
panned out, what attempts have been
made to maintain a fixed ratio of con.
version of foreign drafts into local
fiduciary money and vice versa. Also
how far will they go toward standard
izing their money, ln guarantees, or
towards establishing a common unit of
exchange?
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Variety of Subjects.
Other topics proposed by the Unlte<|
States section for discussion at the
conference are aa follows:
Necessity for better transportation
facilities between the American repub
lics. and means of securing them.
Improved bonking facilities; exten
sion of credits;,financing of enter
prises, public and private.
Arbitration of commercial disputes.
Negotiable instruments—bills of lad
ing, warehouse receipts.
Uniformity of customs regulations
and classification of merchandise.
Postage rates; parcel post and monsy
order facilities.
Cable rates; wireless telegraphy.
Commercial travelers and their sam
ples.
Patents, trade marks and copy
right
RATES ON LUMBER
ORDERED REDUCED
Washington, March, SO. — Carload
rates on lumber from Bonners JTferry,
Ida., to points ln Montana, North Da
kota and Minnesota, on ths Greet Nor
thern, were found unreasonable today
by the interstate commerce commteslon
and ordered reduced.
THEAWARDINGOE
WAR CONTRACTS
Canadian Government Will
Make an Investigation of
Charges Made by Member
of Parliament.
gi
Si B Hughes, mlnUt#r of
now 111 Eh«rl*nd, regarding charges of
favoritism reoently made In parlla
ment In connection with awarding mu
nitlon contracts. Middlemen's profits
aggregating over |1,800,«00 are alleged
to have been obtained through award
Ing the contracts by the Canadian shell
committee.
w - Kyte, In a parliament speech,
BaJ d the profits were divided between
Colonel L. Wealey Allison, who la oon
nected with the militia department; B.
F - Toakum, an American railway mag
nate > and Eugene Klgnantl, former
leader of a Montreal hotel orchestra.
Ottawa, Ont, March 80.—The gov
ernment la awaiting word from General
DEMANDS EOR AN
ARE PRESENTED
New York, March 80.—The demands
of nearly 400,000 locomotive engineers,
firemen and trainmen were today pre
sented to 180 railroads. Ths employes
ask an eight-hour day without reduc
tion ln pay and time and a half for
overtime.
April 28 to reply.
The railroads have until
COMPARATIVELY FEW
SERBIAN REFUGEES
REACHED SALONIKI
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Berna March 80.—Of the 30,000 Ser
bian refugees who, following the Inva
sion by the Teutonic allies headed
southward, only 8000 reached Saloniki.
All others perished of cold and hunger,
according to a report to the Swiss Red
Cross.
SECRETARY DANIELS
GIVES HIS VIEWS QN
NEEDS OF THE NAVY
to
Washington, March 80.—Secretary
Daniels' views regarding ths navy's
part in the national preparedness plans
were > given before the house naval
committee today. He said the total en
listed strength of the navy should be
J|i952, "In time of peace," he said,
"'i do^not believe we can add 20,000
men to the navy in one year. We now
have difficulty in keeping the present
quota full because of high wages
ashore." The annual lets from ter
mtnatlng enlistments Is 12,875, and
wastages from other causes 8250."
Owing to the Uncertainty In the Situation
the Motor Truck Line From Columbus
Will Also Be Maintained for the
Present
• San Anfionio, March 30.—Although military supplies
will be offered the management of the Mexican North
western railway at Juarez today for shipment to Ameri
can troops in Mexico, army headquarters officers here
consider the conditions for the use of the railroad so ex
perimental that the motor truck line from Columbus will
be maintained.
If the supplies shipped as commercial freight unguard
ed by American troops arrive at their destinations with
reasonable regularity, and without serious delay, the base
at Columbus will be moved to El Paso. Whether specific
orders have been sent to General Bell to begin shipping
supplies under the terms of Geneal Carranza's permission
is not settled at headquarters, where it is indicated the
war department has intimated to General Funston that
he must preserve greater silence on subjects connected
with operations in Mexico.
REPORTS ON THE
DIAZ REVOLUTION
ARE CONFLICTING
European Legations State
That Movement in Souths
era Mexico Has Assumed
Formidable Proportions.
Washington, March 80.—Advloee on
the nature and extent of the revolu
tionary movement said to be led by
Felix Dias in southern Mexico continue
to conflict as to facta. Diplomatic dis
patches from European legations in
the Mexican capital said the move
ment lead by Diaz himself was assum
ing formidable proportions and was
distinctly anti-American. On the other
hand government Investigators report
ed they had good reason to believe
Diaz was not ln Mexico at all but hid
ing ln the United States, probably in
New Orleans.
SUBMARINE BASE IS
LOCATED ON ISLAND;
MANY ARRESTS MADE
Paris, March 80.—The discovery In
the Greek island of Corfu of an elab
orate organization for providing infor
mation and supplies for submarines <s
reported from Rome. About 40 per
sona including the keeper of one of the
principal hotels, have been arrested
and will be removed to Francs.
SENATE DIRECTS
AN INQUIRY INTO
GASOLINE PRICES
"Consumers Being Robbed
by Thieves" Declares Sen
ator Stone—Senator Mar
tine's Resolution Adopted.
Washington, March 80.—Agitation
over the soaring price of gasoline came
ln the eenate today and ended in
adoption of a resolution by Senator
Martine directing the attorney general
Investigate whether the prices were
result at unlawful conspiracy. Sen.
ator Martins's resolution was prefaced
a preamble asserting that the
"Standard OU trust" controlled the
gasoline outpùt. "Every senator here
knows, he does not think," said Sena
consumers of
gasoline are being robbed by some
thieves,"
Stone, "that the
NO WORD RECEIVED
FROM GEN. PERSHING
Columbus, March SO,—Several hun
dred soldiers were put to work today
preparing a new aviation field for
eight aeroplanes to be purchased by the
war department, lieutenant Gorrell
left today to fly to the front. The aer
ial courier expected from General v>«»r
shirig's headquarters failed to arriva
No reiports have been receive^ ... aie
army base here from the American
army in Mexico. There is a vague re
port in Columbus that Carranza troops
and Villa's band clashed at Santa
Tomas, but Major Sample said he had
heard nothing.
MORE AEROPLANES
WILL BE PURCHASED
Washington, March 80.—The war de
partment today ordered the immédiat*
purchase of eight aeroplanes which
will be sent to General Pershing. A
portable machine shop to repair aero
planes in the field has been sent Into
Mexico.
Several hundred horses are
being sent from California to General
Pershing. Every cavalry horse ln the
army remount stations has been sent
To the border and an estimate for 2000
more has been sent to congress.
SUPPLIES FOR 30
DAYS ARE SHIPPED
El Paso, March 80.—Major Elliott
said today he had already shipped from
El Paso supplies sufficient to feed the
expedition 30 days. Part of these sup
plies sire already at Casas Grandes,
part are nearing the field base and the
remainder will be there before long.
El Paso merchants are beaelging the
army for contracts. They offer to ahlp
unlimited aupplies south, the govern
ment assuming the risk. Major El
liott told all they were free to trans
port goods to Casas Grandes at their
own risk and that probably the field
quartermaster would purchase auch
goods if they reach their destination.
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Villa Reported at Santa Tomaa
El Paso, March 30 .—A report that
Vjlla on Tuesday raided Santa Tomaa
south of N&mlquipa, is current here,
but Is not confirmed.
Using Mexico Northwestern,
Columbus. March JO. — American
troops have been using the Mexico
northwestern railway for a distance of
about 140 miles between Casas Grandes
and Madera daily for about 10 days to
transport troops and supplies, accord
ing to Walter Warren, a negro troper
of the Tenth cavalry, who has reached
here.
V illa and Carranza Troops Clash.
San Antonio, March 30.—Fighting
three days ago between the Villa
rtoope and Carraitza forces near Guerra
Is reported by General Pershing to
General Funston. ^General Pershing
said Villa's men were moving south. It
Is believed Villa Is with them.
AT TORT DE FRANCE
Fort De France, Martinique, Miareä»
3Q.—An earthquake occurred hare ko
|day. No damage is reported.
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