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BRIEF
RIGHT
REEZY
BITS OF NEWS
VON TIRPIT2 MEMOIRS
SUPPRESSED FOR TIME.
Berlin, Aug. 24. The of ficial , tele
graph agency is sending out a
statement to the effect that the
memoirs of former Grand Admiral
Von Tirpitz fpr the present time
will be withheld from sale.
Just what has happened to cause
suppression was a matter of active
speculation in Berlin today.
Itis believed that the govern
ment and the political and profes
sional friends of Von Tirpitr have
" succeeded in persuading him to
withdraw the volume. Meanwhile
the friends of Von Tirpitz are on
active hunt for ; copies which may
have escaped from the Leipsig pub
lishing plant -
SOUNDS ALMOST TOO
GOOD TO BE TRUE
Lincoln! Aug. 24. (Special.) Lin
coln has a curiosity. In tact the
capital city"" of Nebraska has many
curiosities but the latest is thaUof'a
landlord who got the profiteering
habit and raised the rent on his
property $10 a month.
Another curiosity is a democratic
editor who went to church, heard a
sermon about the "greed of man,"
went home and wrote a story which
' was read by the landlord that so
touched the latter's heart he re
turned the $10 and swore by all the
shades of profiteering that he would
never do it more.
And yet some people say that the
world is not growing any better.
DRIVE AGAINST H. C. L.
HAVING GOOD RESULTS.
New York, Aug. 24. The hoard
ing Of food has decreased, prices are
being lowered and housewives art
becoming more expert jn purchasing
supplies as a result of the two
weeks' campaign against the high
cost of living waged here by federal,
state and municipal officials, accord
ing to a statement made today by
Arthur Williams, federal- food di
rector. WHAT'S IN A NAME? V v
WELL LOTS OF LETTERS.
' Harrisburg, Pa., Augy 24. Police,
here couldn't understand his name,
so they asked him to write it The
prisoner filled three pages with
fancy hieroglyphics, but was inter
rupted by the judge; 30 days.
GETS $5,200 FOR
CATCH OF FISH.
New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 24.
One of the most profitable trips
ever made by fishermen here was
leported when Capt Robert Jacksdn
of the schooner Liberty arrived with
1UJ swordmn, aggregating, u.uuu
pounds. The catch was sold on the
dock at 26 cents a pound, totaling
$5,200 for the three weeks' trip.
The crew was made up of four
fishing masters in addition to Cap
tain Jackson, the owners of the other
boats having laid them up when the
strike of fishermen was called here a
month ago. . : . J ,
"WOMAN FIGHTS THIEVES;
TWO ARE CAPTURED.
Pittsburgh, Pa Aug. 24. Beating
off .four assailants with a club and
driving two of them into the hands
of an .angry crowd. Miss Gussie
Richbaum frustrated a robbery here.
Miss Richbaum and her brother
were in a room of her father's store
when four' men entered. Two of
them struck young Richbaum,
knoVking him to the floor.
Picking up a club, Miss Richbaum
rushed to her brother's assistance.
One of the robbers knocked her
down, but' she arose, beat the men
back and drove then outside, where
a crowd had gathered. Two of the
men were seized by members of the
crowd and were being handled
roughly when the police intervened.
The other two escaped.
STARTS FOR GREECE;
CUPID STOPS JOURNEY.
Froslburg, Md., Aug. 24. Mr. and
Mrs. JamesySheados and seven chil
dren left here recently to sail for
Greece. While in New York, their
daughter Mary fell in love with a
ma ii one siau ucv ci otvit uwiuiv auu
they were married at-once.
She remained in New York and
the rest of the family proceeded on
their Journey. ..
SAYS FIVE MINUTES TOO
SHORT TO MAKE WHISKY.
Philadelphia, Aug., 24. Certain ad
vertisements offering, whisky, wine
and beer recipes for sale appeared
recently in a theatrical .magazine.
One of theae ads' declared whisky
and beer could be macre in five min
utes without a still and offered to
reveal the secret for. a consideration.
, Prof. Charles H. Lawall, dean f
the Philadelphia College of Phar
macy and a prominent analytical
chemist, sajd such rapid brewing and
fermenting was impossible, and that
it was also impossible to nuke
whisky without a still.
"It takes a week or 10 days at
least to make, beer," he said, "and
by the time fermentation and distill
ing of the whisky is over it is more
like five days than five -minutes."
MAKES 1,500 PER CENT
PROFIT ON SANDWICH.
Paris, Aug. 24. A Parisian ac
tress has just won a lawsuit alter
refusing to pay 1 franc for a tiny
"sandwich in a so-called American
bar, when her lawyer proved that
the proprietor of the bar made 1,500
per cent profit upon sandwiches at
that price.
There are no free lunch bars in
Paris; instead, they sell tiny sand
wiches, two inches square, with
tissue paper-like ham inside. While
lipping a "soixantequinze" cocktail
the actress a.te a sandwich and re
fused to pay when told it cost 1
franc' . In court her lawyer proved
the sandwich could not cost more
than a sou and a half.
(However, little sandwiches are
Still marked a franc apiece, and
bard boiled eggs a franc and a half
each at the American bar.
WIFE THROWS CUPS;
NEEDS A DIVORCE.
Washington, Aug. 24. Declaring
his wife, threw a enp at him, and
that he is constantly in fear of
bejdily harm while with her, Ralph J.
Jones filed suit for divorce from his
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REFUSE TO
RECOGNIZE
HAPS BURG
Supreme Council Sends Note
to Hungarian 'Government
Decrying Any Dealings With
Archduke Joseph.
insist upon his
- resignation at once
Desire Government Jn Which
All Parties Are Represented,
Should Appeal to People
Clemenceau Signs Note. -
Paris, Aug. 24. (By The Asso
ciated Press.) The supreme coun
cil Saturday night sent the follow
ing .note to the Hungarian govern
ment in which announcement was
matte that the council would have
no dealings with a government
headed by Archduke Joseph or any
other member of the Hapsburg
family.
"The allied and associated pow
ers have been further considering
information derived from our re
ports and from pther sources, as
to recent events ii? Budapest The
conclusions are as follows:
"They are most anxious to con
clude a durable peace with the
Hungarian people but they feel that
this cannot be done while the pres
ent Hungarian government is in
oower. That novernment came into
existence not by the will of the
people but by a coup d'etat carried
out by a small body or police, un
der the protection of a foreign,
army, '
"It has at its head a member of
the house of Hapsburg whose poli
cies and actions were largely re
sponsible , for .the calamities under
which the world is suffering, and
wiy long suffer. A peace negotiated
by such a government is not likely
to be lasting; nor can. the. allies
and associated governments give
the economic support which Hun
gary needs.,
Bluff Doesn't Work.
"In its reply" that Archduke Jo
seph is prepared, before approach
ing the allied and associated gov
ernments, to submit his claim to the
test of pppular elections, we must
reply that this procedure cannot be
saitsfactory if the elections are to
be carried out under the auspices
of an administration which the
archduke himself controls.
. "The difficulties' in the way of ob
taining by election of a faithful re
flection of the popular will are,, in
the present unhappy state of Hun
gary,, most serious. They will be
overwhelming if an election were
carried out under Hapsburg influ
ences. Even if an assembly elected
under such circumstances were
really representative, no one would
think so.
Want Popular Government. ,
"In the interest, therefore, of Eu
ropean peace the allied and asso
ciated governments mean to insist
that the present claimant to the
leadership of the Hungarian state
should resign and that a govern
ment, in which all parties are repre
sented, should appeal to the Hun
garian people. , y 7
"The allied and associated pow
ers would be prepared to negotiate
with any government which pos
sessed the confidence of an assem
bly so elected." -
The note was signed by Premier
Clemenceau.
Strike Breakers on
Way to Los Angeles
Taken' From Train
Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 24.
Steam railroads failed to move
trains out of Los Angeles Sun
day because of the strike of switch
men and brakemen in sympathy with
the strike of trainmen of the Pacific
Electric Railway company, an in
terurban system. All Southern Pa
cific trains . for Los Angeles from
the north are being stopped at Santa
Barbara, San Luis Obispo suid
Bakersfield and trains for the. east
are being shopped at Yuma, Ariz.
Striking platform employes of the
Los Angeles Railway corporation,
who went out with the Pacific Elec
tric trainmenf rejected the com
pany's offer to reemploy them. They
declared they would return .o work
only as if they had not quit -and on
the runs they held before the strike
without having to apply for employ
ment '
Perishable freight, principally
foodstuffs, valued at $300,000. was
said to be spoHing in the rajlway
yards but commission men declared
fears of shortages of food and other
essentials were groundless. i -1"
Fifty strikebreakers on-their way
to Los Angeles to work in the rail
road yards and man street cars,
were taken tonight from an over
land train at lias Vegas, Nev., a
Salt Lake Route divisional termi
nal, marched through the town, and
then told to walk if they ever ex
pected to reach this city, according
to jreporU receive ha, v
Official and Diplomatic
Circles on Tenterhooks
As to Wilson and Treaty
.. ... 1
How Far President May Go in His Fight for Unquali
fied Peace Pact is the Question Neither Administra
tion Nor Republican Forces Seem Able to Answer;
, Senate May Get Treaty This Week.
Washington, Aug. 24. (By The
Associated Press.) How far Presi
dent Wilson may go in his fight for
unqualified senate acceptance of the
peace treaty is a subject of increas
ing speculation in official and diplo
matic circles.
With the group of reservation re
publicans apparently determined to
write their qualifications of the
league of nations covenant into the
ratification itself, and with repub
lican leaders predicting that the sen
ate will jamend outright the Shan
tung provision and perhaps other
sections of the treaty, an interesting
set of possibilities present them
selves. , "
There has been no authoritative
expression of the president's prob
able course should the treaty be re-
I turned to him with textual amend
ments or reservations written into
the ratification. He told the for
eign relations committee Tuesday,
however, that he would consider
either method of qualification as- tan
tamount to reopening the negotia
tions with Germany.
Next Move ,Up to Wilson.
Should such amendments or re
servations be inserted, therefore
an eventuality which democratic
senate leaders deny is likely, but
which the republicans say is cer
tain the next move would be up to
the president. What he would do
is a question on which those who
have talked with him disagree, but
a discussion of what he would be
authorized to do under the law and
precedents reveals a general agree
ment that several courses would be
open.
Summed up, these discussions
contemplate that he might take up
the question of changes in the
treaty by diplomatic correspon
dence; return to Paris and ask that
the peace conference be reassem
bled for negotiation of a new treaty;
send a new delegation to reopen
negotiations; or pocket the treaty
and refuse to proceed further un
less the senate receded from its
position. ,
The possibility of Mr. Wilson's
return to Paris to straighten out
the points, raised by any senate
qualifications is one which some
senators say would be entirely in
line with his course thus far in
the peace settlement,
Might Send New Delegates.
To send an entirely new set of
peace delegates also would be ad
mittedly within the president's
power and in that connection re
publican senators frequently have
mentioned Senator Hitchcock's
statement that the president laugh-
(Contlnned on Page Two, Column Five)
It's Up to the Matador
WILSON TO LIFT -BAN
ON LIQUOR
OCT. 1 , RUMOR
Banks With Money Tied Up in
Stored Goods Bring Pres
, sure to Bear.
Washington, Aug. 24. Washing
ton is alive with rumors that the
president plans to lift wartimfe pro
hibition, which went into effect
July 1, on October L
The report is' that pressure by
banks has been exerted and that the
president will permit, for business
reasons chiefly, the sale of liquors
for the thrte months remaining be
fore constitutional prohibition be
comes effective.
Since July. 1, it is said, government
receipts from internal revenue have
fallen greatly, with the result that
the ways and means commttee now
is seriously considering the neces
sity of enacting additional revenue
raisers to make up for, the loss
from whisky and beer taxes.
Banks' Money Tied7 Up.
' But the serious aspect which is
influencing the president to act,
aside from his known desire to play
fair with a semi-legalized industry,
is the great amount of money
loaned to distillers and brokers on
whisky in storage. In many sec
tions banks find themselves seri
iously hampered by the inability of
the whisky men to lift the loans.
By October 1, it was estimated
today by a War department official,
the army will be demobilized to all
intents and purposes. President
Wilson indicated in his statement is
sued "when he left. Brest, refusing to
lift the ban at that time, that he
could not act until demobilization
had ended) but intimated strongly
that he would act then.
Wet Bait for Solons.
In anticipation of 'such action,
dealers are now sending letters to
members of congress offering to
sell them wines and liquors at
greatly reduced prices on October
1. These letters say that the wet
stuff cannot be sent to them in
Washington, but will be delivered
to them in Baltimore or in out
lying districts.
Leaders in the Anti-Saloon league,
who believe the president will lift
the wartime prohibition, have
started a campaign to keep the lid
down until January 17, when na
tional prohibition becomes effect
tive. ,
Six Killed, Four Injured
! When Trains Hit Autos
Kankakeei 111., Aug. 24 Three
young men were killed when their
automobile was struck by a south
bound flyer on the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois railroad at St. Anne
Saturday night
Sedan, Minn., Aug. 24. Three per
sons were instantly killed and four
others seriously injured when the
Winnipeg flyer on ' the Soo line
struck an automobile stalled at a
crossing two miles east of Sedan
Sunday atternoon.'
Service Be-established.
Cherbourg, France,- Aug. 24.
Trans-Atlantic passenger service to
this port was reestablished Satur
day by the arrival of the steamship
Adriatie which left New York Au
gust 14. The Adriatic also carried
the first pouch of American mail
delivered to a steamer by a sea
plane in the . United States postal
ACTORS LAUNCH
"RESCUE SHIP"
IN NEW YORK
Is National Co-operative Thea
ter; Organized to Produce ,
, Road Tour, Shows.
' New York, Aug 24. The "rescue
-ship" which is courited.on by strik
ing members of' the Actors' Equity
association to bear them safely ovet
the stormy seas attendant upon
closed theaters and uncompromis
ing producing , managers was
launched tonight in the form of a
"national co-operative theater," or
ganized by the actors' association
to produce vaudeville and legiti
mate shows for road tours.
Play-reading and casting depart
ments and a booking office will be
established at once, it was an
nounced, and a profit-sharing' plan
worked out by which many idle
actors and actresses may go out on
the road and earn their keep until
the bright lights shine once more
for them on the "gay white way."
In the meantime, the new Actors'
Fidelity league, with George M.
Cohan as its president, started con
sideration of ways and meaws to
effect.a settlement of the strike.
Intervention of the American
Federation of Labor in -the strike
was confidently predicted tonight
and the arrival of Samuel Gompers;
president, from Europe is awaited
eagerly. Charles C. Shay, president
of the International Alliance of
Stage Hands and Motion Picture
Operators, "announced-' today that
1,100 members of his organization
had voted to "stand by the Actors'
Equity association to the finish."
Plan Benefit Production.
Chicago, Aug. 24.-Striking ac
tors, with all legitimate theaters
closed, planned tonight to begin re
hearsals for a benefit production to
open with an all-star cast hj Chi
cago probably at the end of the
week, with one night stands in vari
ous cities to follow. If produced as
planned, the play would include all
the stars of the productions stopped
by the strike ten days ago.
Morals Squad Arrests
Five aricTSeize Cocaine
iir. thm ?nfl worth of cocaine
and morphine were sized last night
by the morals squaa in annu uu
the home of Ely Davis, colored, 1506
Webster street. Two white men
and one white woman were taken in
the raid with Davis ana anotner
colored man.
Mr. and Mrs. George Kigoy, Ui
Parker street and Jack Collins,
r k..-,r Til arc the white Derf
sons arrested. Joe L. Evansv1503
Cuming street is the colored man
.o.. ,; Davis. AH five were
charged with vagrancy and violation
of the Harrison Drug act.
Lieut. Col. Roosevelt
Coming to Nebraska
New York, Aug. 24. In an effort
to stimulate the membership cam
naiirn nf the American Legion,
Lieut. Col. Theodore -Roosevelt, one
of the founders of the organization,
will leave Monday on a four weeks
throusrh the middle
and far-west, it is announced.
Colonel Roosevelt win cover tne
states of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois,
Minnesota. Nebraska,
Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Montana,
Idaho, California. Uregon ana wasn
ington, speaking in the larger cities
of each state.
Uncle Sam, "Now, Stick ItP Doii'f f ry To throw It!
OMAHA WOMAN IS
KILLED IN AUTO
WRECK JN PARK
Taxicab Turns Over in Attempt
to Avoid Collision With
Speeding Car -Three
Escape.
Mrs. Annie Markiewicz, Thirty
second and I street, South Omaha,
was killed in an automobile accident
at Lake Manawa at 4, o'clock Sun
day afternoon. The taxicab in which
she was riding was overturned, and
she was caught and crushed beneath
it. Miss Victoria Phillips 4224
South Twenty-second street, Omaha,
and a man whose name has not been
learned, were in the car with her and
escaped without injuries. The driver
of the car, Roy Deeds, Council
Bluffs, also escaped.
The accident happened in the
Shadv erove section of Maliawa. In
attempting to avoid a speeding car
Deeds-was forced to make a quick
turn around a tree. The rear fender
struck the tree, overturning the car.
Mrs. Markiewicz was thrown
through the plate glass and pin
ioned by the car. She was quickly
released and was not believed to be
seriously hurt. The police ambulance
was called and she was taken to the
Edmundson hospital where she died
within a few minutes from internal
injuries.
The car was a taxi belonging to
the Central Taxi company of Omaha
where Deeds is employed as a driv
ef. At Fourteenth and Farnam he
was engaged to drive the man and
two women. x
Mrs. Markiewicz is the wife of
Charles Markiewici. She was about
35 years old and the mother of four
children. Miss Phillips told Coroner
Cutler that she did not know the
name of the man who hired the
taxi. He disappeared after the ac
cident. "
British Trade Unionists
Issue Grave Warning
London, Auk. 24. The quarterly
report of the General Federation of
Trades Union contains a warning by
the management committee.
November, 1919, to May, 1920,
will be fateful months," says the re
port. Unless sanity returns and
production increases they will be
tragic months.
'Strikes have been precipitated
which might have been avoided and
union funds have been needlessly
dissipated. Some strikes had a dis
tinctly political origin. Political
strikes must either fail or end in
revolution. They are not against
the capitalist
It is r.ot the capitalist who suffers
but the people. Against such strikes
the government must protect the
people or surrender its function's.
The effect of such strikes is to de
crease production and increase the
price of all commodities." ' -
Traitor in N urse; GavelPs r:
Death is Ordered Shot by
Court Martial at Lille
Louis Richard, Young Frenchman, Confessed to Betray
ing 80 of His Countrymen Who Were Executed by
the Germans, Says Huns Beat Him With Whips
Until He Was Forced to Do Their Bidding.
Paris, Aug. 24. "Traitor, I would
advise you to make your peace with
the Saints; if that be possible for
such as you. The court orders that
you shall be shot."
, Those words were addressed by
the president of 3, court-martial at
Lille to Louis Richard, a young
Frenchman, who confessed to be
traying 80 of his countrymen, who
were shot by the Germans.
Monsieur Delaubier, director of
the French Red Cross society in
Roubaix, fcld how, in 1915, Richard
went to his office, how he asked for
particulars of -;the secret organiza-'l
tion for assisting fugitives to escape
from the occupied territory.
"He asked me to tell him of the
committee, organized by Monsieur
Jacquet, the schoolmaster, who was
shot by the -Germans. , He told me
he wanted to aid a fugitive, and I.
God forgive me, I believed him. I
told him certain things, and Mon
sieur Jacquet was arrested and
shot," testified Monsieur Delauber.
Richards could stand it no longer.
Rising from his seat in She dock,
he flung out his arms and, with dis
torted features,, almost screamed at
the judge-, "Monsieur le President,
it is true lf am guilty of .betraying
these neople. but I was forced to do
it. The Germans beat me with
whips until I agreed to do their
bidding. I confess my guilt."
"I deny you were forced to do
this" work. You volunteered for it."
The words rang ou cold and clear
in the little court, which was
crowded;
"Monsieur le President, I swear I
was forced."
"Once again, I deny the truth of
that. The court has before it your
own Iettervto the Germans, offering
to do this work for payment."
It was Major Schoeffer, the gov
ernment prosecutor, who spoke.
"You lie as you have ever lied," he
continued. "You volunteered to do
this foul work." '
V Betrayed Nurse Cavell.
Telling of how the prisoner be
trayed Mons. Jacquet, a witness said:
"Mons. Jacquet was the organizer
at Lille of the secret committee for
aiding fugitives. Mons. Jacquet
acted with Nurse Cavell, and Rich
ard was ordered by the Germans .to
attempt to discover the secret or
ganization and those connected with
it. His first step was to interview
Mons. Delaubier in Roubaix, to
whom he posed as a patriotic
Frenchman anxious' toaid his coun
try. "Mons. Delaubier gave Richard a
letter addressed to Mons. Jacquet
(Continued on Fare Two, Column Seven.)
Subscribe $31,000
for Two Morfuments
Destroyed in War
New York, Aug. 24. The Third
division of the American army," one
of the last divisions to leave French-
soil, has subscribed $31,000 for two
monuments, to be erected on the
flanks of the approach to the Mame
bridge, which its Seventh Machine
t, .... 1 : j " . 1 , . r j
uuu udiuiion uynainueu in ueienmj
mg tne crossing against tne great
German offensive in the spring of
1913, it was announced here by
Major Gen. Robert L. Howse, di
vision commander.
Frisco News Writers
Organize a Union
San Francisco, Aug. 24. One hun
dred and eighteen men and women
employed on editorial staffs of
newspapers 1 in San Francisco and
nearby cities organized ' at a mass
meeting today the ' Newspaper
Writers' Union of. Saiv Francisco
Bay counties. Application was sent
to the headquarters of the Interna
tional Typographical . union for "a
charter 1
Britain to Receive
$83,757,250 for Taking
Yanks Overseas
-
Washington, Aug. 24. For each
man transported overseas in Brit
ish vessels, the United States gov
ernment will pay Great Britain
$8r.75 , under an agreement reached
between Brig. Gen. Exank T. Hines.,
director of transportation in the
War department, and Lord Reading,
representing the British govern
ment. The total cost of the British ton
nage used in troop transportation
is estimated at $83,757,250, the num
ber of men carried havttig been
1,027,000. Similar negotiations are
in process with the French and other
governments.
Insane tourist Kills Self
by Jumping Off Train
Alliance, Neb., Aug. 24. C. J.
Setter of Anna. 111., on his way to
Portland, Ore., to visit relatives, be
lieved to be 'suffering from tem
porary insanity, jumped from a pas
senger train near here and was in
stantly killed. ,
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PURSUIT Of
OUTLAWS
IS STOPPED
American Punitive Expedition
Which Crossed Mexican Bor
der Last TuesdayOrdered to
Withdraw.
TWO LOST AVIATORS
LOCATED IN TEXAS
Contact With Carranzistas and
Losing of "Hot Trails," Due
to Heavy Rains, Determines
Abandonment of Chase. -
Marfa, Aug. 24. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Jesus Renteria, the
bandit leader, was shot and killed by
Lieut. R. H. Cooper when bandits
fired on Cooper's machine, accord
ing to Lieut. Harold G. Peterson,
who reached here tonight.
Peterson's report that Jesus Ren
teria had been killed failed to check
with reports at military headquar
ters. An official army report said
Jesus Renteria was believed to have
been located 60 miles south of Chi
huahua City, where he was said to
be hiding.
Peterson said he received his in
formation that Renteria had been
killed from souts.
"Two bandits we were pursuing
yesterday told ranchers along the
route that Jesus Renteria had been
killed when Lieutenant Cooper re
turned the rifle-fire of three horse
men," said ,he. "The ranchers, in
turn, informed our scouts."
Aviators Located. ; .
Aviators George K. Rice and L..L.
Boquet, missing since early today.
wnen they lett tor Mexico,, were JO'
sated tonight at Terjinqua. TX
They were lost in the storm
made a forced landing. They will
proceed to Presidio tomorrow. ,They
are uninjured. . '
Three hundred American cavalry
troops tonight made their . war
back to the Rio, Grande through
a driving rainstorm after an unsuc
cessful, campaign begun last Tues
day to overtake the bandits who cap
tured and helcLfor ransom Lieuts.
Harold C. Peterson and ; Paul . H.
Davis. t .- 4
The first of the expedition to cross
the border on the return to the
United States, the pack and supply ,
train, reached Ruidosa shortly after
8:30 o'clock tonight, according to
telephone advices. The remainder
of the expedition followed. ' t ,
Contact with Carranza soldiers
also on the trail of the bandits and
a heavy rain which wiped ont the
.fresh trails resulted in decision to
abandon the chase. The Mexican
federals were encountered last night ,
by a scout patrol and, after a con- r,
ference, army officers decided to'
abandon the pursuit until this morn
ing. In the meantime the rain had -j"
wiped 'out the trails of the bandits,
who were only a few hours ahead of
the Americans.
The punitive expedition is. makr
ing the return in single column
with three cavalry troops leading,
pack trains, machine gun troops and. ;
other units following. Two troops 1
are acting as rear guard. i''
Five Bandits Killed.,
The six days below. the border re
suited in the killing of four ban
dits by troops and death of one by . r
machine gun bullets from anair- V"
plane. Nine bandits, said to be '
part of the Renteria band; were,
captured at Coyame, in a dance hall,'
by Carranza soldiers. i
In addition to last night's expe-.
rience with a Carranza patrol, the "
United States troops were In con- -tact
with Mexican federals once
previous during the .week. -This
was last Tuesday, when a detach
ment of Americans under command
of Captain Thurman Boudinot was
forced to pass a Carranza column
opposite Indio, Texas.
When the Mexicans were sighted
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Austin Run Down by Auto
As He Alights From Car ,
Ira Austin, colored, was run down
last night by an automobile driven
by Stephen O'Hara, 3226 Myrtle
avenue, when he alighted from a "
street car at Twenty-fourth and
Hamilton streets. O'Hara brought
Austin to the police station, where
he was attended by a police surgeon .
and then taken to Lister . hospital. V
Austin's injuries have been unde
termined but it is thought he has
been injured internally. ' ' "
Start Investigation Into
"Wild Cat" Stock Sales;
Washington, Aug. 24. Investiga
tions of some 50 complaints of the
sale of "wild cat" oil stocks in the
Texas oil fields have been started
by the federal trade commission. ThV
commission announced, today that it
had sent two of its investigators into
the region with instructions to makt :
a- searching inquiry into cases, com- ,
plaints of which were lodged, with , .
the commission by concerns inter
ested in the legitimate development , ,
of the field.
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