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Evening star., 1915-11-27
TRAINS TO MEXICO CITY.
Through Service From Washington
to Be Established Soon.

SAN ANTONIO. Tex, November 21.-
Through passenger service from Wash
ington to Mexico City by way of
Piedras Negras, Saltillo and Torreon
will be established in few days, it
was announced after conference of
Southern Pacific and International and
Great Northern railroad officials with
Alberto Pani. director general of the
National Railways of Mexico.
The Southern Pacific system is to
supply at once 5000 freight cars, fifty
passenger cars and other equipment
un.;l such time as the Mexican rail-
roads can be supplied with their own
equipment Negotiations for new equip
ment are now under way with Ameri-
can builders.
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PITTSBURGH WILL AIM
TO TRAIN SUBNORMALS
Supt. w. M. Davidson Announces
That Three Cottage Schools Are
to Be Esta blished.

PITTSBURGH. November 27.-Wil-
liam NJ Davidson, superintendent of
the Pittsburgh public schools, an
nounced yesterday that three cottage
schools" will be established, where
special instructions will be given chill
dren whose mental development has
been retarded.
Through these schools we hope to
retrieve about 500 children who. if the
school system did not try to help
them, must, in the end, be sent to state
institutions" said Supt Davidson. He
also said that a clinic would be estab-
Iished for the study of these children.
The schools will be opened early next
year, and will be under the direction
of Dr. H. B. Burns, director of the de-
partment of hygiene.
Supt. Davidson in an announced plan
for the cottage schools" said that he
also favored special instruction for
"overnormal.' or especially bright
children, and would later urge the To-
cal board of education to take up this
question.
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MIR. w1THERsPooN BURIED.
Business Suspended at Meridian
Miss. During the Services,

MERIDIAN. Miss. November 27.-The
funeral of Samuel A. Witherspoon, rep
resentative from the fifth Mississippi
district. who died Wednesday night,
was held here late yesterday. Promi-
nent men from all parts of the state
attended and all business in Meridian
was suspended during the services at
the church and cemetery
Representatives Stephens. Gambler,
Harrison and Quin of the Mississippi
congressional delegation were present
as part of the guard of honor appoint
ed by the sergeant-at-arms of the ma
tlonal House. The other representa-
tives and senators who were unable TO
reach here in time for the funeral tele-
graphed their condolences and regrets.
Evening star., 1915-11-27
QUIET At N0GALES,
| FOLLOWING BATTLE
Carranza Forces Hold Mexican
Town; United States Troops
Reinforced.
ONE. DEAD, TWO WOUNDED
ON THE AMERICAN SIDE
More Than Forty Villa Snipers, Who
Began the Engagement,
Reported Killed.

NOGALES, Ariz., November 27.-With
the evacuation of Nogales. Sonora. by
Gen. Villas forces and the arrival here
today of an additional LOO United
States infantrymen to reinforce the
border troops at this point, residents of
this town expressed a feeling of Sc
curity such as had not been enjoyed
since Villa forces took possession of
Nogales, Sonora, following their defeat
at Aqua Prieta.
There was evidence of renewed con-
fidence in every quarter and the be-
lief was generally expressed that
should there be recurrence of the
exciting events of yesterday, when
Villa snipers fired into American ter
ritory from the Mexican side, killing
one United States soldier and wounding
two others, such an attack would meet
with prompt and vigorous response.
The troops scheduled to arrive today
compose a provisional brigade made up
from the eth and goth regiments or
United States Infantry, stationed at
Douglas, Ariz.
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alrymen trying to gain position on
hill opposite on the Mexican side.
Firing promptly began, and while
machine guns were being sent to thf
aid of the American riflemen brisk
fire was exchanged Early in this en-
gagement Littles fell. mortally wound
ed. Later it became known that the
Mexicans were Carranza cavalry under
Col. Lazaro Cardenas. forming the ad-
vance guard of the advancing Carranza
troops. Gen. Obregon and the American
officers later exchanged apologies and
regrets.
The Villa troops who participated in
yesterdays outbreak were ordered off
an overloaded troop train which start
ed southwark early yesterday. They re-
turned to Nogales and continued the
debauch started the night before. The
return of the soldiers was marked by
the flight from the Mexican town of
peaceful residents, many of whom
crossed the border into the United
States.
Evening star., 1915-11-27
$3.50
New Corner Homes.

Homes with a real living
room, a bright dining room
and a kitchen that is a de-
light; a home with sunny
b e droom S and clio sets
aplenty. A home with every
comfort, such as hot-water
heat, electricity, laundry,
servants closet, sleeping
porch, covered front porch.
gas water heater, hall cloak
closet, straight stairs. etc.
9th st. car to Illinois avenue
and upshur street NV,
"Petworth."
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ORDERS FOR REOPENING
NAVY YARD STEEL PLANT
Small Foundry in New York to Man
ufacture Castings for Govern
ment's Use.

Orders have been given for the re-
opening of the small steel foundry at
the navy yard. New York, which has
a capacity only for castings weigh
Ing less than four tons.
IN small way" said Secretary DAN
iels, in explaining his action. the steel
plant at the New York yard serves to
illustrate the advantages of equipping
the navy with facilities for the man.
ufacture of its own materials. AS
soon as business conditions make pri-
vate manufacturers anxious to secure
work there is automatically lowering
OF prices until point is reached
where it is generally more profita BILE
Tor the government to buy than to
manufacture. Under these conditions,
1t is simple matter to suspend gov
ernment manufacture and give the
private industries work at a time when
it is wanted.
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$4,350

Seventy Sold Before Completion
Every comfort and i'm
provement known to the
modern home; constructed
to give a lifetime of service;
finished to please the most
exacting; located in a re-
fined, high, he>,thy and rap
idly enhancing neighbor-
hood, convenient to all
night cars, schools, church
es, large park and amuse-
ments, and in our opinion
the best value in Washing
ton. Facing Illinois avenue
at Upshur ST. NV, pet
worth" 9th st. car Terms
less than rental value.
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$3.50
Facing Rock Creek Park.

Facing Rock Creek Park.
Homes that combine the
beatty and health giving
outdoor life of the country
with the comfort, conven-
fences, protection and social
life of the city. Two sleeping
porches, three toilets, mag
'nihcent living room, beamed
ceiling dining room, large,
sunny bedrooms, garage,
perfect urban colonial archi-
lecture, select residential
neighborhood. Take Con-
necticut avenue car to 2oII
Park road, SS,25o. No. 2o3o,
$3.50.
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Other Conditions Cited.

When, on the contrary, there is a
boom in certain lines of manufacture and
government work is not sought for ex-
cept at the higher prices that can be OBJ
tained commercially-and it is not even
then desired on account of the necessity
of delaying commercial work in order
to handle 1.-THE navy plants can be
again started up and the situation re-
leved.
1T is the belief of the department that
the same argument holds true in the mat
ter of. armor plates and projectiles for
which the Secretary intends to ask Con-
gress for an appropriation for their manu-
facture"
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$4,95O
New Detached Homes.

Homes with ground all
around. Very large rooms.
Hot-water heat. Sleeping
porch. SiS-foot air space.
Every improvement known
to modern home construc-
ton. One of the best values
we have ever offered. Ex-
cellent location. Facing IL
linois avenue, one hundred
and sixty feet wide. Take
9th street car to Illinois ave-
nue. and Upshur street NV,
"PetWorth."
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Harry Montgomery Ford. youngest
son of the late John T. Ford, founder
of Fords Grand Opera House at Bal
timore. died at his home in that city.
He was born October 19, 1S72, in the
house in which he died.
Evening star., 1915-11-27
Three Prizes Offered.

Three prizes are offered. They are
for the best electrically Illuminated We
hicle, best advertising display by truck
or fleet Of trucks, and most novel dis
play. E. c. Brandenburg, president of
the Board of Trade; P. T. Moran, presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce, and
one of the District Commissioners are
to act as judges.
Merchants are entering into the cleo
trical week plans with enthusiasm, and
Charles J. Columbus, secretary of the
Retail Merchants Association, said to-
day that his association was co-operat-
ing in every way with the electrical
week committee. The Md-City Citi-
zens Association, it was reported, is
anxious to take a part in the parade
AS the merchants association has COM
pleted arrangements for a dress up
and fix up week." commencing Monday
Mr.. Columbus said that the two cele-
brations might be held Jointly, making
next week a gala one
Heads CT government departments are
being asked to keep their buildings light
ed every night during the week, and
many business men have agreed to do
this.
Advertised in Theaters.
Special slides on Electrical Prosperity
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Promises to Be an Attractive
Feature of Electrical Pros
perity Week.
THREE PRIZES OFFERED
FOR THE BEST DISPLAYS
Automobiles of ALI Glasses. Provided
They Are Electrically Light
ed, May Compete.

With LOG entries already in and many
more expected, the automobile parade,
Tuesday night, one of the features of
"ashinstons Electrical Prosperity
week. promises to be a success. A num-
Der of tricks are going to be shown
during the parade, according to "one
who knows" ard surprises are in store
for spectators. The general committee
on arrangements. with John c. Nc
Laughlin presiding, met last night at
the Offices of the Potomac Electric
Power Company, 14th and B streets
northwest, when subcommittee re-
ported.
Vehicles of every description will be
allowed in the parade, the one condi-
ton being that they are electrically
lighted. Starting at 10Th and streets
northwest at 7:45 O'Clock, with the
Naval Gun Factory Band in the lead,
the procession will go down 18th street
to H, thence west to 18th street and
back of the White House to Pennsyl-
vania avenue and on to the Peace
monument.
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week are being used in several theaters.
Among those who have entered ma
chimes are Carroll Electric Company
Southern Building Supply Company,
Doubleday, Hill & Co, navy yard. bureau
of engraving and printing. Interior De-
partment, government printing Office
Dulin & Martin. Palais Royal, Holmes
bakery, Kells- Fargo Express Company
National Electrical Supply Company, o.
r. Evans & Bro, Bartram, Walker
Gordon, Kingan & Co, G. G. Cornwell &
Sons, Potomac Electric Power Company.
American Express Company, -Wiles,
Chaplin & Sacks, Sanitary Grocery Com
pany, Seabrdge and Berry & Whitmore.
Committees in Charge.
The following committees reported
last night: Executive committee-John
&c. Mclaughlin, chairman; E. c. Graham.
H. r. Carroll, o. r. Evans. A. stephan,
John r. Galloway, c. ?. Hill.
Electrical illumination and building
decorations-H. r. Carroll, chairman; !;
H. A. Brooks. NJ. F. Keating, Robert
Smith, J. ]. Odenwald, w. B. Watzel.
Window display-A. Stephan, chair
man; w. K. Handy, F. Chase, E. c.
Graham. Leo c. Brooks.
Advertising and publicity. r. Gal
loway. chairman; G. 2. Mangan, c. J.
Columbus, G. G. Webster.
Electrical Development Society print
ed supplies-E. c. Graham, chairman;
c. o. Reed, w. A. Rogers.
Finance. p. Hill, chairman; o. r.
Evans, H. P. Foley.
Electrical automobiles-O r. Evans,
chairman; c. NJ. Marsh, J. j. Bartram,
r. Bruce Emerson.
Sales campaigns-E. c. Graham,
chairman; c. p Hill, II. r. Carroll, c.
A. Muddiman.
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Dwight F. Mallory of Baltimore and
his boat, in which he left the Magothy
river for shooting. have been missing
since Friday. the Chesapeake bay hav-
ing been searched for trace of him in
vain by his friends.
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Failed to Get Notice.

II had arranged with the Carranza
consul to notify me when the Carranza
troops arrived" Col. Sage said. The
wires were down last night and the
consul failed to receive the expected
information"
Col Sage commented on the leisurely
retreat last night of the Villa forces,
saying that this was explained by the
fact that they did not look for the ar
rival of the Obregon forces until to-
morrow.
Col. Sage received an affidavit last
night by Josua Crbana. a fireman who
worked with Edgar Bean. the Ameri-
can locomotive engineer who was
killed in Sonora early this week. which
asserts that the Villa commander, Bel
tran, shot Bean with his own hand
According to the affidavit. the shooting
took place when the locomotive Bean
was driving jumped the track after
leaving Cananea, where the Villa men
had looted bank and the properties
OF the Cananea Consolidated Copper
Company
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Homes That Appeal

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These Quality Homes will meet
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Evening star., 1915-11-27

Florida, All East & West Coast Points
reached. 3 all-steel trains daily via
Atlantic Coast Line, 140G n. Y. ave. NV.
advertisement
Evening star., 1915-11-27
To Corner Villa Troops,

Gen Obregon is preparing today to
take the field in an effort to run down
the remaining Villa soldiers who fed
from Mexican Nogales.
Reports from across the border said
Gen. Bieguez, in command of the Car
rama forces defending Hermosillo,
capital of Sonora, had sent soldiers
northward from that city. Gen. Obre-
gon, 1t was said. hoped to corner the
Villa soldiers by sending column
south from Nogales.
Early today work train was dis
patched from Mexican Nogales toward
Hermosillo to repair the tracks dam
aged yesterday when the Villa garrison
evacuated. This was followed by a mil
itary train filled with soldiers.
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Forty Me1icans Reported Dead.

Latest reports of the casualties
among the Villa snipers. whose firing
into American territory precipitated the
battle of yesterday, placed the total
dead at more than forty.
Efforts to ascertain the exact loca-
tion of the Villa forces who evacuated
far have proved futile. 1t was generally
believed. however, that they had es-
capped toward Hermosillo, where for
several days Villa soldiers have been
endeavoring to take the town from the
Carranza troops.
At conference last night with a
representative of Gen. Obregon, Col. W.
H. Sage, commanding the United States
troops, explained that the firing ex-
changed between the American soldiers
and the Carranza cavalrymen was due
in a measure to the lack of informa-
tion by him that Gen. obregon's forces
under Col. Cardenas were approaching
so closely.
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Losses of Americans.

Herbert L. Gates, private in Company
L of the 18th Infantry, was the most
seriously hurt of the two wounded
American soldiers. He was shot in
the abdomen. An operation performed
last night was reported to have result
ed satisfactorily and that it is believed
that he had an even chance to recover.
Arthur L. Saupe, private in the same
company, was shot in the right foot.
The dead American soldier was Ste
phen Littles. twenty-five years old,
who also was member of Company L.
His home was at Fairmont, N. c.
Evidence that any attempt at loot;ng
in Nogales, Sonora, during the occu-
patton of that town on the Mexican
side of the border by Carranza forces
would be summarily dealt with was
conveyed to the American side last
night in reports that members of Gen.
Alvaro Obregon's forces, who entered
the town following the evacuation by
Villa forces, had executed eight alleged
1ooters.
Among the men executed were Car
rama captain and three CarranZa SOL
diers. Four others whose identity
could not be learned also were
executed.
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Snipers Opened Fire.

Yesterdays fighting began when
Villa snipers posted in Nogales. Sonora,
opened fire on soldiers of the 18th
United States Infantry. posted at the
border. The Americans. who had en-
dured taunts OF cowardice for week,
returned the fire.
The three American casualties were suf-
fered in a brush with Carranza cavalry,
who were mistaken for Villa troops as
they rushed over a hill to enter the town
In the exchange of shots that followed
three Carranza soldiers were shot.
One of them. courier sent to ap
prise Col W. II. Sage, the American
officer on the line, that the Carranza
forces had captured the Mexican town
just across the border. was slightly
wounded.
The firing across the border contin-
ued intermittently between IL o'clock
in the morning and ! o'clock this after
noon.
Col Sage, who gave the order to fire
across the border, WAS not first in COM
mand at the time. Col. w. @. Brown OF
the 10th Cavalry WAS his senior, but.
having arrived only short time before
the fighting. Col. Brown requested Col.
an intoxicated villa soldier. fighting with
a woman, wrested his rife from her and
fired at a party of American soldiers on
duty In the street that divided the Ameri-
can and Mexican towns.
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Richmond Park

Washingtons most delightful semi-suburban
section, adjoining Cleveland Park. Only z,
minutes from business center of city, on Wash
ington's finest car line.
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Americans Return Shots.

This seemed to be a signal Tor snipers.
Their bullets began to fall thickiy in the
American town. The American officer
promptly gave the order to fire. but in
structed the infantrymen not to harm any
Mexican not engaged in sniping
The snipers were silenced after the
firing had continued about ten minutes.
There followed a period Of quiet. last
ing an hour. Company l. Of the 18th In
fantry. stationed at Titcomb Hill, dis
covered what appeared to be Villa cav
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TO INSPECT-Take Chevy car o Porter
st. NV Gust blocks
short distance o Porter
Shannon & Luchs
I. NV.
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Advertised in Theaters.
Special slides on Electrical Prosperity
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

THE ANNUAL. MEETING OF THE STOCK.
holders Of the Mutual Purchasing Association will
pc held at the office of the association 3O7
Senffer building. Washington, D. c., December
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-29
SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST WILSON
Consular Clerk of American Embassy in Berlin May Be
 Tried for Treason

Washington, July es.--Harry L. wil- son of Portland, Ore, recently clerk h the American consulate at Berlin, and now under arrest there, faces charges state department officials con- slider extremely serious.
 Wilson ostensibly was detained for attempting to leave Germany without passport. The real complaint against him. however, according to investiga- ton forwarded to Washington, is that he aided q British subject to obtain a Passport, asserting that he knew the applicant to be an American citizen.
 Unlike diplomatic representatives, consular agents are extended no im- niunities or exemption from prosecution for offenses committed in another coun- try. If Wilson's offense should be proven as charged 1t would constitute treason. The German government 10 under no obligation to grant leniency in such cases. but could do so on . request from the United States.
 Wilson went to Germany carly in tho summer of 1914 and was added to the clerical force of the American consult ate at the outbreak of war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-29
IRON MARKET SHOWS MUCH IMPROVEMENT Sales of Past Week Show Southern Situation Is
 Much Stronger

Cleveland, July 2S.-(Special )-The Iron Trade Review tomorrow will say:
 The pig iron market shows decided Increase in strength. It has been slow to fall in line with improvement in hhlsheo materials. but at present buy ers are showing anxiety to contract for hrst half next year and sellers are very slow to quote for delivery after January l. Sales of past week have included o0,0O0 tons basic in Cincinnati district 10000 tons in eastern Penn sslvania and 5000 tons at Pittsburg foundries closely affiliated with Will ys Overland company have taken lv,ooo tons, mostly foundry grades southern situation is much stronger and throughout country tendency of pig iron prices is to advance.
 The Steel corporation has blown in hve more furnaces and Is now operat- Ing at ST per cent of blast furnace ca paclty. outlook for heavy foreign bus iness IS favorable and prices on prod . ucts exported are advancing. Opinion is expressed in well informed circles that contracts for rails to be offered American makers by Russia will be of larger tonnage than mills will be will Ing to accept. Domestic rail business Is rather light Orders placed in Chi caso and Pittsburg during the week amounting to from 10000 to 12,0oo tons.
 Some manufacturers of bolts have re- ouced discounts 5 per cent and some Manufacturers of nuts have advanced their quotations from S3 to S5 per ton. but these sigher quotations have not been established. There is no doubt, however. but if present activity of bolt and nut market continues higher prices will prevail Large awards of struc- tural contracts are not numerous, prin- oipal one being 5400 tons for new city county building at Pittsburg, taken by Jones & Laughlin Steel company. Fabricators having contracts made sometime ago at low prices are mak ing bids for erecting at very low prices in order to keep their shops employed In New ' ork territory principal reli- anee of structural shops Is upon sub way and elevated work. Sheet bar market continues very strong and in quiries for large tonnages of rounds for manufacture of sharpnel are pend ing. Cold rolled shafting is strong and specifications are heavy.