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1917.
Weather Forecast
The News First
AUSTIN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1917.
ESTABLISHED 1871—Vol. 46; No. 77.
GERMANS
ARREST
U. S. TO PROBE
AUSTIN TO GREET
OFFER TO
ACTS OF SEVERAL
GUARDSMEN WITH
TURNING
OF CZAR
ROYALRECEPTION MEDIATE
RY
ON FOES
ORDERED
LIKELY
Goveror.
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GREATEST BATTLE
walking over the United States in the
WILL NOT ACCEPT
car
a '
nce.
>20.
TEMPLE STIRRED
mum.
BY FINDING OF
YOUNG GIRL’S BODY
BIG BATTLE IN PROSPECT.
hey
4
W. E.
L J. Snyder,
AMERICANS SAVED
Edgar Perry, F. L. Griffith. E. L Vann
GUARD COAL SUPPLY.
the
meeting.
STARVING FRENCH
A
Iattimore and Bailey of De
rsty.
3.
or five days.
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forces.
Wherever one went in the territory
recently evacuated by the Germans the
DENIES RUMORS OF DISCORD.
appeared to have their spirits broken.
Cinto.
from
BERLIN REPORTS FIGHTING.
an oncoming automobile.
T
id
he accident
occurred between here an<
Beaumont
SINK OWN DESTROYERS.
only
Thousands Cheer
Returning Troops Kaiser's Cousin
Missing at Front
DALLAS, Texas, March it— Thou-
an airplane piloted by Prince
separate peace."
Answering a
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lanta and to pay a fine of 12500 each.
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With Treason by Mus-
covite Newspaper.
Young Man Is Arrested
Following Discovery
of Body in Leon River.
Two Youths Are Now
Being Held in Atlanta
On Suspicion.
Accept 78-Year-Old-
Man for Naval Reserve
A royal welcome awaits the Texas
Guardsmen, members of Companies E
and F. Second Texas Infantry, who
will return to Austin Saturday, ac-
cording to plans laid this morning in
FIVE CENTS THE COPY
Bulk of Wo
Consider;
AIDS REVOLUTION;
MILUKOFF NAMED
FOREIGN MINISTER
PORT ARTHUR, Texas, March 22.--
Company A. Texas Engineers, which
has been stationed at Fort Ram Hous-
bited
laws
» 440
d in,
erri-
REGULARS WILL
ATTEND CAMP
Russian Provisional
Government to Hold
Empress Also.
Germany Must First
Abandon Her Ruth-
less War.
PORT ARTHUR, Texas, March 22.-
G. A. Bloxam stood on the street for
■w than two houraUaM nigbt.and
TWO BILLS GO
THROUGH SENATE
Several Regiments tp
Receive Such Orders
Is Report.
Retreat to New Posi-
tions Now Seems
Completed.
near the Staley home.
Indications were that the bod;
Miss Staley had been in the water
People in North of
France Express Their
Thanks.
Washington Hears That
European Nation Con-
siders Offer.
Employers of Spies
Sentenced to Prison
French in Contact With
the Main German
Army.
Texas Guardsmen
to Leave for Homes
R.
iky
Last Fight Is Over Yan-
tis County “Bone
Dry” Bill.
Kids to See Movie
for Price of Potato
Bulgars Bombard
Monaster With Gas
Crowd at Station
to See Slain Man
Dying, Walks About
and Greets Friends
Tells What Spreads
Infantile Paralysis
Navy’s Shortage
Is Now 13,000 Men
Predicts War Will
Democratize Europe
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copy-
rentor’e
Kress
riding with him, escaped with
minor flesh wound*.
dying from a crushed heart and lungs.
B.xam was pinned under an antomo-
bile in which he and L. F. Luff were
N EW8 of the city, the nation and the
" world, handled fairly and givh
to the public while it I© really news,
makes The Statesman the most popular
A
of expiring. but It was about 6:30 by
calendar time. Mr Bagby was n mem-
ber of the committee to notify the
Governor that the House was ready to
1 den and Coutandin in "hiking” co8-
; turn®. Coutandin there described him-
self as a wire operator. Officers say
stand on n line running north L.u
south of La Fere, from St. Simon to the
forest of Coucy, a distance roughly es-
timated at about twenty miles.
H. A. Wroe, chairman;
secretary; Dave Harrell.
BERLIN, March 22, via wireless to
Bayville.-"A French destroyer at Mar-
seilles last month sank a French sub-
marine, believing it to be a German
boat,” says the Overseas News Agency.
After the tnjured men were brought to
town Bloxam went to his room and
took a bath At 9:30 be coliapsed and
was carrled to the hospital. x
“The most phenomenal demonstration
of physical endurance that I have ever
witnessed," stated the attending physi-
Luff, who was driving.
“i----'fMs
Arrive at 9 A. M. Tomor- f
row—Breakfast Will
Be Served.
for
GERMAN “HIKERS”
on their honeymoon. Another photo-
graph taken at Tampa, Fla., shows En-
heavy losses. The present situationois
different because neither aide is pro-
tected by trenches.
May Be Greatest Battle.
French troops are in contact with
the main German army and what may
prove to be the initial stage of the
greatest bottle of history has opened
before the gates of In Fere, For the
first time since the great German re- l
and Morrie Hirschfield, was appoint-
ed. About 1100 was raised at "ht
speech-making, especially was tnis th
case in the Senate. Among those who
•poke were Senators Huas]
NICHOLAS COURT
NEST OF SPIES
Some of the peamnlx encountered notify the Gove
in the evacuatea terntory were ptm-—---
•y Joyous at their liberation,. Other,
Paul N. Milukoff.
Professor Paul N. Milukoff, one of
the most powerful figures in the Rgs-
elan duma, is foreign minister under
the new government.
Ina of
Lona.
TEHPLI, lexna March, 22
body of Mi«» Emma Staey, a popular
not a single element Mand, out for a land from thle country to ptlln in-
' । formation for the German military Au-
quention rognrding the thoritten, today were sensenced to trrve
1 five yeara in the Federal prieon at At-
CORFU* QIRISTI, Texas, March 22.
Dates for she departure of Tex a,
guardsmen fax (heir home Mation,, an-
nounced today, are a, follows:
Second Infantrv March Jl. for La-
redo, Austin, Han Antonio, Taylor,
Waco, Brenham and Hillaboro; bat-
Very A. Artillery, March 24, for Dal-
las. and th, Held Hompitai for Fort
Worth; Third Infantry, March 26, for
BAy City. Houston, Fort Arthur, Beau-
mont, Teakue, Tympson, Athena Mar-
lin and Oranga _■ *
Pleads Guilty to
CUMBERLAND GAP, Tenn,, March
22.—To protect the coal supply in the
event of whr, dayrand ngh guarda
have been placed at both ends of the
Iri-State and Poor Valley ridge rai-
road tunnels, near here, to prevent
their destruetion by derman spien,,
suspected of being in the vicinity,
was announced today.
The guarda are armed with shot-
guns.
WASHINGTON, D. d., March 22.--
The navy is short 13,514 men of its
present authorised enlisted strength of
74,500, and efforts to speed up recruit-
ing are being redoubled*
The present month has sen the
largest recruitment on record with a
net increase of 1947.
Since Congress authorised the 74,506
total in September, 5454 men have
bee nadded to the navy's personnel. 9i
was stated at the depart mu nt today
that the authorised strength is su-
ficient to put all ships immediately
available In commission.
To induce recruiting, Congress pro-
vided that 100 enlisted men a yeat
should be selected for appointment by
the Naval Academy.
WASHINGTON, March 22—Offers
of mediation, to prevent aotuai war
between the United States and Ger-
many, are expected among the next
developments.
Administration officials heard today
that an European neutral was con-
templating such a plan and they frank-
lv regarded it as another effort, back-
ed by Germany, to divide sentiment in
Congress and embarrass the Presi.
dent
It wae declared authoritatively today
that no proposals of mediation or for
discussion would be considered unless
German first abandons the campaign
of ruthlesaness.
Germany, it was recalled, never ac-
cepted Former Secretary Bryan’s pro-
posal to sign ons of his “peace fivesti-
gation" treaties, which would have
bound the United States to inactibn
for a year, while a commission in-
vestigated the situution.
Meanwhile, every preparation* for an
eventuality is being carried forward
by the army and navy.
of the Associated Press.)—“We would
have starved if it had not been for the
American relief commission," declared
a French woman in the city hall of
chatted with friends while he was
the correspondent.
BERLIN. March 22. via wireslesa to
Rayville.—Announcement to made that
THE STATESMAN
0 . — -s ■ ;•
ONLY DAILY PAPER PUBLISHED IN AUSTIN CARRYING THE COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
issued by the Russlon provisional gov.
ernment. General Alexieft has been
PASSfWlTO
HI?'
today to
ator Hudspeth practically announced
his intention to make the race tor Con-
gress from his district, while Senator
Lattimore feelingly outlined his retire-
ment to private life.
Senator Lattimure, during the course
of his remarks, announced positively
that he was not in the race for Con-
gross or for the United States Senate,
it having been reported that he would
probably be in the race for that high
office. He said positively that he had
no such aspirations; that after the ex-
piration of the special session of the
Thirty-fifth Legislature he will retire
to th© shades of private life. He re-
gretted that the submission issue had
not been settled, and hoped that it
would be soon so that this question
and Issue would be left behind, and
the Democratic Party united. and that
it will not be necessary to make this
matter an issue in every campaign.
There was quite a flurry in both
branches, of the Legislature just five
mihutes before final adjournment,
when protests were made against th®
signing by the Speaker of the House
and the Lieutenant Governor in the
the drunken minister.
"We know from the letter of Gen-
eral Guchkoff, minister of war, to Gen-
eral Alexief that Sturmer and Belaieff
refused England’s offer to give half a [ •ese
million rifles to the Russian army.
Similar fats have been collected by | .
the.defense committee of the imperial , cheek.bones 8
Duma. We know the consequence of I PriyationS. ___
General Soukomlinoff’s doings, when 1
he was only governor of Kiev and when
he surrounded himself with spies. His 1 8ame Eti
nearest friend was commander of the
peth young gir of a farming community
5 - near emple, was found in a badly
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., March 22—Be-
tween 8000 and 400 persons were at
the railroad etation last night when
the train bearing the body of David
D Overton, shot and killed by a sher-
iffs posse at Birmingham after his
escape from the county jail Tuesday
evening, arrived here. Overton’s wid-
ow. his son and daughter, and two
brothers accompanied the body. ,
The funeral will be conducted late
today from the residence of his sister,
Mrs, R. J. Lloyd.
A previous gas bombardment of .. _ _____ ----—
Monastir occurred on March 17. when ed through the streets, led by a band Karl, a cousin of Emperor Wt!
__________ _________ eighty civilians were killed, according and mounted police. They are in ex- not returned from a raid over
ton, San Antonio. arrived home today- to Serbian accounts. cellent comdition between Arrae and Peronne.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 22.--
Th® intimation has reached Southern
Depa ft men t headquarters from the
sands cheered Company B. Texas En-
gineers, today on their arrival home
from border duty. The hundred, un-
der command of Captain Joor. march-
LEAVENWORTH. Kan, March 11
The army’s newest group of second
lieutenants, 346 In number, after hav-
ine received confirmation of their comn-
missions and taken the oath of alleg-
lance aj the military post here yes-
terday, have been assigned to regi-
ments on duty in Texts, New Mexico.
Arizona and California. It is planned
to take them to the border in special
trains next week.
DALLAS, 1 exa- March 11—W. S.
Rcrivner, of Fort Worth, one of three
men arrested in connection with the
robbery of Banger Brothers’ overall
factory payroll. Saturday afternoon,
when 91500 was taken, today pleaded
guilty before a jury in criminal court
and was sentenced to fifteen years in
the penitentiary.
The cases of Leo Hill and Claud
Hill, also implicated in the robbery,
are to, be tried at once.
BERLIN, Tuesday, March 10, via
wireloss to the Associated Press via
Sayville, March 22.—German cavalry
is now in touch with the French and
British mounted troops, which have
been in action for several days la the
territery evacuated by the Germs ne, t
go that for the fl rat time since the
fall of 1014 cavalry is being employed
on the western front. Thia is regarded
here as an indication that great events
are taking place and that a real battle
is in prospect.
The French and British attempted to
War Department that several regi-
. . . , ments of the regular Army on the bor.
treat began, patrol and renr guard | der are to be ordered back to other
fighting has glven way to the thun- departments for duty in connection
der of artillery and the dash of major with civilian training camps. Under
- nhe Gormans are moking a | the plan to have on© regiment of in-
a a_ line running north andfantry, one regiment of cavalry and
one battalion of field artillery in each
of the depurtments for this work, it
would be necessary to send infantry
East law Tonighe cloud:
day cloudy . In mi generalty
north, fair in south portion. co
north portion; Friday
better demonstration .than one could
get in Petrograd of th© new unity of.
the nation. There are, of course, ele- I NEW YORK, March 22.—Albert
ments throughout the world Which are | Sander and Charles N. Wunnenberg,
against the war, but the majority in! who pleaded guilty yesterey to e
Russia is determined to finish it and ’ charge of having sent spies to Eng-
last two years and a half.
The police say they told them they
were walking around the world on a
bet. Newspaper clippings with photo-
graphs show that they have been suP-
posed to be doing the same thing with
I 1 I_e1., rpl.I az least seven other companions, one of
Royal Family Charged whom » a woman.
One photograph shows Pieczynski
Senate of the Yantis county •“bone
dry” bill. In the House of Represen-
tatives Bagby raised the point of order
thatthe bill could not be legally signed
by the speaker because the time for
final adjournment had automatically
expired. According to legislative time.
It lacked a little over five minutes
IS IN PROSPECT
lives, friends and sweethearts of the,
ndcurs plans for inem arrivasptbu 1a UNITED STATES
only a few people attended the meet-
Or
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ATLANTA, Ga., March 12—Exxml-
| nation of the effects of Valerian Jo-
। hannes Pieczynski and Hugo Coutan-
! din, German youths arrested here last
I night, today led Government officers
) to investigate whether or not there has
been anything sinister in the move-
ments of several German “hikers”
decomposed condition in the Leon
River near Belton yesterday evening.
The body was not identified until early
this morning and an hour later offi-
cers arrested Will Porter, 25, W no lives
1 speaking for herself and her two little
i children, the pallid faces and high
chenk honee giving evidence of their
Jory was repeated. Many other
stories of hardships were told, al-
though most of the inhabitants said
in this he was joined by Senators
Caldwell and Bee. while Senator Laatt-
more, pointing to the clock in the Sen-
ate chamber, said there lacked ten
minutes yet of adjournment, the hands
of the clock having been turned back
Lieutenant Governor Hobby overruled
the point of order. Another point was
then immediately made that no bust-
ness could be transacted without a
quorum and in a chorus, Senators
Huspeth, Bee and Caldwell demand-
ed a roll call. The chair held a roll
call was not necessary as a quorum
was present when the Senate con-
vened.
“Then I appeal from the decision of
the chair,” declared Senator Hudspeth.
Ieutenant Governor Hobby retired
and President Pro Tem Henderson
took the chair, who immediately put
the question: "Shall the chair be sus-
famed? All who favor sustaining the
choir say all against say no"
There was a chorus of ayes and noes
while there were clamors for the roll
call, but ignoring these appeals, with
a vicious rap of the gavel, the chair
declared: "The chair is qustaned."
The bill was signed
There were the usual resolutions
adopted thanking the newspaper men
for their reporta, thanking the clubs
of Austin and in fact extending thanks
to everybody.
Senator Westbrook of Hunt County
was unanimously elected president pro
tem of the Senate ad interim. He wan
placed in nomination by Senator Clark
and seconding speeches weer made by
Senators Bee, Hudspeth. Lattimore,
Gibson, Page, Harley, Dean, King and
(Continued on Paze Six.)
they also have photographs showing
one or the other of the two held her©
in communicado on “suspicion,” paired
with at least five other men.
The officers say that papers taken
from Pieczynski’s knapsack show that
he had been a sailor on at least three
American coast wise vessels in the last
two years and a half and that Coutan-
din acted as assistant chef in an Illi-
nois club, the name of which they did
not make public. Other papers, the
officers said, show that Pieczynski took
out first naturalization papers in New
York July 8, 1915, and that on Sep-
tember 8, 1915, Coutandin applied for
citizenship at Chicago.
Both men carried cameras when ar-
rested in their room at the Y. M. C. A.
where they arrived yesterday.
CORFU, March 22. via London.- A
semi-official Serbian statement from
Saloniki today declares that the Bul-
garians,* in order to avenge themselves
because they were being forced by the
pressure of the allied army to retire
gradually from Monastir, renewed on
March 18 and 19, their bombardment
with asphyxiating gas shells, of the
open town of Monastir.
The victims, it is stated, were again
only old men, women and children. Tha
death list numbers twenty-five, while
twenty-three persons were reported
dying.
BERLIN, March 22, via wireless to
Hey vlll®.—Spirited fighting in the nee-
tor over which the Germpans have been
retiring is reported in today’s orfiical
communication, which mentions, no
further evacuntion of territory. French
batteries attacking on the north bak
p the Aisne were repulnel
were bound lightly together with bail-
ing wire and a veil wound tightly
about her face and head also was
bound with wire. A letter found among
the remains gave ths first clue to
identification and, while officers would
not make public ths contents of ihe
letter, it is said that statements there-
in led to Porter’s arrest.
Miss Staley had been away from
home for about a week, but her par-
ents were under the impression that
sho was visiting relatives in another
community and were not alarmed at
her absence.
The young man arrested is now
bald in the county jail at Belton.
The streets in that city were crowd-
ed this morning with indignant citizens
from the young girl’s community.
Boys who were fishing discovered
the body. The girl was about 20 years
old.
Austrian spy organization. Our mili-
tary secret service knew but could do
nothing. The result of his treason was
a Russian defeat costing millions of
lives. What are we to do now? Allow
Nicholas to live in beautiful Livadia,
among the flowers he was so fond of.
and among the conditions of freedom
he always denied to others? Allow
him to do this so that he may organize
other dark forces for the re-establish-
ment of the Romanoffs?”
with a young woman, and the accom-
panying story tells that they were
walking from Chicago to San Francisco
on their honeymoon. Another shows
the same woman with a German giving
the German soldiers had been well dis-
ciplined and keut strictly under con-
trol.
It was repeatedly asserted, however,
that within th® past few weeks, the
Germans had appropriated some of th®
American relief stores to their own
use. even to the extent of three-fourths
of the supplies. It was also said that
the Germans took possession of the
white flour, issuing black flour in-
stead to the inhabitants.
WAR CORRESPONDENT HEAD-
QUARTERS, WITH THE BRITISH
ARMIES IN FRANCE, Wednesday,
March 21.—(From staff correspondent
reception. 0
A finance committee consisth
LONDON, March 22.—The Bexlin
Var waerts anys that the Russian revo-
lution indicates that one of the con-
sequeuces of the war will be lbs far-
reaching democratization of Europe,
according to a Berlin dispatch to Reu-
tert by way of Amsterdam. Th© pa-
per scores the Pan-Germano for bold-
ing that after the war will be time
enough to settle the quention of direct
suffrage in Prussia and adds:
"It will be a great and dangerous
mistake if equal suffrage is not intro-
duced while the war is actually going
on."
PARIS, March 21—The Germans
made energetic resistance to the
French last night between the Somme
and the A tone, but after spirited
fighting north of Tergnier, the French
forced them out of several strong po-
sitions The French occupied a num-
ber of villages.
The German retreat to th® rras-St.
Quentine-La Fere line is now practical-
ly committee since the French are now
within artillery range of St. Quentin
and La Fers. The movement has been
carried out by echelons, according to
approved principles, one section hold-
ing firm while the next fell back. Th©
allied operations are now concerned
with driving the last of these sections,
which are still resisting. They are
situated respectively south of Arras,
southeast and east of Peronne, east of
Ham and the Valley of the Alllette
and north of Soissons.
As the result of Wednesday’s oper-
ations the British line is now level with
th© French which runs along the Cro-
zat Canal from St. Simon to Tergnier.
With the passing into history of the
regular session of the Thirty-fifth
Legislature, Austin has again resumed
its normal condition. Many of the
members left last night for their homes
while the remainder left today. At-
tention is now centralised upon the
executive department where a great
bulk of the work of both bodies now
reposes for the approval or dizapproval
ot tne Governor. The Governor left
today for his ranch to spend a day or
two, and upon his return he will take
up the matter of approving the meas-
ures that were passed during the lat-
ter part of the session. There is con-
siderable speculation as to what he will
do with the Yantis county "bone dry"
bill and also with the multipilicity of
new educational institutions that have
been created during the regular ses-
sion. There are nearly a dozen of
these new normals, junior agricultural
and mechanical colleges and other edu-
cational measures, carrying appro-
priations of about $5,000,000,
According to legislative time, the
Legislature adjourned at 6 o’clock last
evening, but according to calendar
time it was 6:45 p. m. This is a rec-
ord for the Texas Legislaiure as it is
usually from four to five hours after
the scheduled time, when final ad-
journment is announced. Both
branches of the Legislature were at
ease most of the afternoon waiting
for the late bills to be enrolled and
signed. The time was consumed in
charged with the duty of guarding the
prisoners until members of the Duma
arrive with an escort to take them
to Tsarswoe-Selo.
LONDON, March 22.—All the mem-
bers of the former Russian dynasty
have placed themselves at th® disposi-
tion of the provisional government, ac-
cording to a Reuter dispatch from
Petrograd. Grand Duke Cyril has re-
signed his command of the naval
guards.
PETROGRAD, March 21, via Lon-
don, March 22.—The Russkia Volia, in
■ long unsigned article, exposes what
it terms the treason of the court clique
and elleges that Tsarskoe-Selo was *
“nest of German spies.” The paper
says that a special committee has been •
appointed to investigate the crimes of;
former ministrs, the last bacchanalian |
nightmare years of the dysnasty on
which Rasputin put the final touches.
The article says in part:
"The first crime was treason, and
espionage had its nest in the palace.
The court was partly and chiefly Ger-
man and the pitiful role of Sturmer, in ’
his efforts to drag Russia toward a
separate peace, was known everywhere.
The pres© of our allies accused Russia
of giving Germany Russian military
secrets.
"Alexei Khvostoff, who was dis-
missed as minister of interior because
he aided to divorce Nichola© and Alex-
andra and kill Rasputin, declared to
friends that h© had documents showing
th© connection between court and Ber-
lin and that Rasputin was surrounded
by German spies who were sending out j
military secrets easily learned from
.. ’ ..... "Om- VV ncenpury w nenu miuniry
The position selected by th* German® and artillery units to ths Hastern De-
is protected by the Crozat Canal and J partmnent, cavalry ©tut artillery to the
A^";„ Eeim ; Worcrrtrrppepagimnenn ahreeto
driven —Kreat wedge directly in front required force. The Second Cavalry
of 1^ Fer® and reaching to within ! is niready on duty in the Eastern De-
two wines of that important (own. On i partment and the Twenty-first Infan-
"nenedsitary bomeic."har"ogenerar :R wie
Neville has out-manedvered Field Mar- lar troops at the present time.
shut von Hindenburg and that La Fer® ; Order© designating certain regiments
Im doomed ahd with it the whole of I for the training camp service are ex-
the famous Hindenburg Une. Paris be- [ pec ted from th© War Department In*
-the xtraordinary speed with the near futureunleastheintornatena
which the French have advanced has situation leads to a change in plane ac.
disconcerted the German plans and cording to Southern Department ofr.
renders probable a continuation of tha --l-
retreat to the Belgian frontier.
He declined to
act on the. committee on the grounds
that the Legislature had automatically
adjourned. The chair, however, over-
ruled the point of order and signed tbe
bill. ...
In the Senate the same thing was inerian* I, Ie ,Aei
progress only ’more vehemently. Sen- biinded b the Elaro.he“mlig
ator Hudspeth raised the point that the
time for adjournment had passed
consequently the bill could not be
signed according to the constitution.
Th® children of .the city are being
admitted at_the Majestic Theater this
afternoon to see the photoplay "Slater
Against Sister,” for the admission
price of one potato. It was reported
that they would be admitted Friday
also, but thl© is a mistake. All chil-
dren who desire to see this play and
contribute a bit of food to the poor'
of the city should be on hand Thurs-
day afternoon.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 22 —Cap-
tain Robert J. Iawson. 7R yeurs old,
master of a coasting steamer, has been
accepted, It was announced today, by -
th© naval cast etensive renerve, and
if called upon for service he will be
given the grad© of junior Heu Ie nan t
in spite of hi© years, Captain Law-
son passed the physical examination
- • - the name of A. T. Enden, and that
,u, ,, story also was to the effect that the
PETROGRAD, March 22— Order tor. couple was covering Ihe Pacific Coast
the arrest of Nicholas Romanoff and — .---------- .—•----....
Alexandria Feodorovna, former Em-
perorand Empress of Russia, has been
, PETROGRAD, March 21, via Loon-
don. March 22.—Speaking In the en-
ergetic and forceful manner which
characterizes all his utterances, the
new minister of justice. A. F. Keren-
sky, in an interview with the corre-
. spondent of the Associated Press, de-
cried all rumors of friction or < Q ord
between the working men, soldiers and
the new government. M Kerensky,
who is a mmber of the radral work-
ingmen's party, emphatically denied
that there was any latent dissatisfac-
tion in his or any other party, which
might durst forth Into a fresh revolt
He said:
"In my appointment to this fast yon
have the best pdelge that the radical
elements of the nation are in harmony
with the government . If any serious
disagreement existed at the beginning
between .the working men and the dual
committees f. was only a passing
svmptm of fever attending the birth
of a new nation. I can assure you that
every difference has disappeared and
every element of the country stands
behind the government now. Natural-
ly differences of opinions exist'between
me and other members of the cabinet,
but each conflict has resulted in a
firm agreement on all the main is
sues."
The minister said that ©II supposi-
tions that the soldiers and the work-
ingmen were opposed to carrying on
the war were without basis.
"My visit to Moscow, fromn where I
returned this morning,” he continued,
’satisfied me that th© whole army,
from the commander down to the last
soldier, are eagerly devoted to a con-
tinuanee of the war. I found there a
Ing resolved itself into a round-table
discussion. I. A. Wroe, president of
th© Chamber of Commerce, presided.
The train carrying the 200 soldiers
is scheduled to arrive in Austin «t 3
o’clock Saturday morning, but on the
suggestion of Adjutant General Henry
Hutchins it was decided to defer the
arrival of th© train until a more fav-
orable hour. .
A. C. Goeth said that he believed
that the arrival of the train should by
all means be posponed until a later
hour. “The climax of the whole af-
fair.” he said. “will be when the boys
step off the train. That will be the
happiest moment of their lives and we
should be down there to meet them."
His motion that the arrival of the
train be postponed until 9 o'clock was
pass©*!.
Mr. Goeth also suggested that break-
fast be served the soldiers. A motion
to this effect was passed.
Mrs. W. B. McClelland, th© only
woman present, ©aid she believed that
all of the mother© would want to do
their part in serving the toys their
first meal on their arrival In Austin.
She said that she was of the opinion
that the mothers would be willing to
prepare the food. It was ecided, how-
ever, that everything connected with
th© breakfast should he in charge of
th© local Red Cross Society.
W. E. Long announced that the serv-
ices of the Besserer Band had been
offered. It was decided to invite other
bands of th© city to participate in the
with excellent
Robbery Charge Newest Lieutenants
to Go to Border
use cavalry on the Somme lust year,
as well as the time of the Champagne
. or Offensive, but the employment of these
foCTr forces in the ace of entrenched troops
The young girl’s Leelwith machine guns resulted in very
RUTLAND. Vt.. March 22—Ah-
nounoemient that Dr. Edward Taylor,
professor of tropical medicine at th®
University of Vermont, had mad® an
important discovery as -to th© manner
in which infant 11© paralysis is spread,
was made today by Dr. Charles 8.
Caverly, presdent of th© state beard
of health.
"Dr. Taylor has apparently shown.”
Dr. Cavelry said, "that diseased noses
and throats allow the passage of the
virus into th© central nervous system
while normal noses and throats seem
to neutralize this poison. The simple
progess of cleansing the note and
throat with warm water in which table
salt has been dissolved is perhaps as
good a preventlv® as w© have."
ENGINEERS REACH HOME.
SESSION
cian a® Bloxam died between 1 and 2
o'clock thl© morning.
The body will be shipped to Pelican,
La., Boxam's former home, for burial
He was 32 years old. Luff, who was
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