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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-19
C. W. BRYAN DEFEATED
BY LIQUOR DEMOCRATS
Commoner's Brother Loses
Nomination-Republican With
Like Platform Wins

OMAHA, Neb., April t9-Nebraska
Republicans at the Statewide primary yes
terday probably nominated A. L. Sutton.
running on Prohibition platform, to be
the subernatorial candidate. The Demo-
Gratis appear TO have defeated Mayor c. w.
Bryan, OF Lincoln, brother of William j.
Bryan, who championed the antiliquor
issue. and to have chosen Keith Neville
to- head their ticket.
II is not determined who leads for the
Republican preference for President. but
returns so far on the Republican side re-
veal that Justice Hughes, for whom
campaign was made to have his name
written in on the ballot, ran well up with
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-19
Federal Civil Service Tests

Three examinations were held by the
United States. CIVIL Service today. The
positions open ranged from that of mo.
chancal and electrical inspector at the
Naval Proving Grounds. Indian Head.
Md, at Ss.T2 per day, TO that of apprentice
craftsman and photographer. at $500 pee
year. The third examination was for a
female domestic science teacher for po-
stion in the Indian service. at SEQ.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-19
FIND MANS BODY IN WOODS
Mystery in Death of Civil War Vet
eran-Companion Missing

MILLNtLLE, y. j.. April 19.-While
fighting a forest fire near Port Elizabeth
late yesterday, the body Of man. be-
lieved to he a Civil war veteran. was
found by fire warden In clump Of
bushes The man was last seen alive q
week ago in company with a young
stranger. who is missing.
The authorities think the old man was
attacked and robbed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-19
Northampton Company Raises Wages

ElASTON, Pa, April 10. - The North
ampton Traction Company has announced
an increase of a cent an hour in the
pay of motormen and conductors, to be-
come effective at once The company
operates lines between Easton and Ban
gor, Nazareth, Portland and Washington.
The employees will receive from 23 cents
an hour for ore-year men to 30 cents an
hour for ten-year men. =
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-19
New Egypt Wants Trolley Line

NEW EGYPT, n. j., April 19,-An eff
fort is being made to finance a trolley
line between New Egypt and Bordentown.
Business men OF both places are inter-
ested. The line would connect with the
Public Service Company at Bordentown.
which would give through service to New
York and Philadelphia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-19
woman Dies in Hundreth Yesf

,GETTYSBURG. Pa. Aptfi i9-In her
Tooth year Mrs. Mary Menchey. Gettyss
burg's oldest resident. Is dead here
For rs years she lived IN the mousse -
which Hhe died. shc related wildly inciL
dents Of the hattie. with her husband
she established the first pottery IN tst,s
part of the country and. after his death
continued to conduct itlfor many yeafs
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ration that a state of war existed or was to be contemplated.
 As introduced, the resolution merely au- thorized the President to draft guards men "whenever in his opinion an emer- gency exists which demands the use of troops in addition to the regular army The amendment making it declare. that in the opinion of Congress such an emer- gency now has arisen was offered by Rep resentative Hay himself and was adopted unanimously After consultation with MT. Mann, MT. Hay also changed the Ian guage of the resolution so that the period of service for which guardsmen could be drafted would be limited to three years.
 A provision for relief of guardsmen' $ families had been prepared by Chairman Hay as separate bill. After the reso- luton was under debate, he decided to incorporate a relief appropriation in it. anu when the amendment was offered it was adopted unanimously. A proposal by Representative Gardner to extend similar aid to families of the regular army men was ruled out of order.
 SENT TO SENATE
 As soon as the nnal vote on the reso- lution had been taken it was sent over to the Senate. where it arrived just as adjournment was being taken. It was referred to- the military committee with the announcement that unanimous con sent would be asked to consider 1t vo- morrow
 A proposal to authorize the President to draft members of the naval militia in in the House today. It was attached to naval militia pay bill submitted \
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Summary of the News
GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS 1-American detachment at Carrizal lsyvas almost annfhilated. House authorizes muster of guard into federal service. National Guard will be sent direct to border.
 French trenches taken by Germans Mexicans will not get guns from, Japs.
 Eight ships urged by subcommittee Wadsvvorth quits National Guard to stay in Congress. Underwood will call attention tp status of island.
 STATE NEWS 1-Madison county sheriff commits 7-Mobilization plans in state un~ changed. 9Judge Sayre stricken with sudden
 LOCAL NEWS IBoard will build two roads to War; rior at once.
 weatherIy grows fronicai about Mitchelrs words. Socialism Is not so bad after all. Local militia ready to entrain TOT mobilization camp. Delegates to attend, Ant1-saIoon league meeting. 2-General manager of chamber to DC considered at meeting. City officers chosen at primary. parade for prepnred- ness features meeting.
 FEATURES 2-FOotIights and Screen. c-HOlIand's letter. -EdftOrial comment. 6@Dolly Dalrymple and society. 
 SPORTING NEWS -Two Birmingham golfers in chan- pionship flight. Crisp comment on things baseball. Karl Black victor in hurifng duel. Harvard defeats Yale in annual regatta.
 Newman defeated by hard hitting. Johnson opposed to pinch hitting.
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Washington, June 23.-Legislative ap- National Guard in the Mexican crisis was voted almost unanimously by the House today in adopting a resolution declaring the existence of an emergency and giv- ing the President free hand to draft as federal soldiers all guardsmen willing 10 take the required cath. The Senate is expected to concur tomorrow.
 A million dollars would be appropriated b. the resolution to aid cepenoent Tamil lies of the guardsmen so-drafted. Dis tribution of the fund would be left to the war department with the restriction that no family should receive more than $50 month.
 Only two representatives. iiuddleston, democrat, of Alabama, and London. SO cialist. of New York. voted against the resolution. During the debate preceding it's adoption several republicans attacked the administration's Mexican policy and insisted that President Wilson should have informed Congress of the emergency instead of expecting it tu act on its own initiative, No one attempted to deny, however, that an emergency had arisen, and Republican Leader Mann. formei Speaker Cannon and others declared that in reality state of war existed. NOT DECLARATION OF WAR Chairman Hay, of the military commit. tee, author of the resolution, told the House that it was presented by the ad- ministration as a measure necessary in
 the present situation, and not as decla
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WADSW0RTH QUITS
 NATIONAL GUARD ID . STAY IN CONGRESS
Probable That Other Mem
 bers of Congress Will Do Likewise-DO Not Follow Wheeler's Precedent
By HUGH W. ROBERTS

Washington. June B. -(Special) With out awaiting the report of the subcom- mittee of the House judiciary committee. which is charged with the duty of determ- ming the status of members of Con- gress, who are also members of the Na- tional Guard, Senator James Wadsworth has acted:
 The senator, concluding in his own mind that his duty as legislator was paramount to his duty as an officer of the National Guard of New York. has re- signed his commission in that guard.
 It is probable that other members Of Congress will do likewise. The only pre- cedents which these gentlemen might have followed were set by Gen. Joe Wheeler. who served in the Spanish war on a leave of absence without pay froY. the government for his services as repre- sentative; and Gen. John A. Logan. who.
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MEXICAN BLOCKADE .|S URGED ON WILSON AT CABINET MEETING Militia Straining Every Nerve to Be Ready for
 Move to Border
WASHINGTON WILL
 BLAME CARRANZA
Punishment of Subordinate Mexican
 Commanders in Both Carrizal and MazatIan Fight Will Be De- manded by Washington
By HUGH W. ROBERTS


 Washington. June 23.-ts Specially While the official announcement foi- lowing the cabinet meeting todny was to the effect that nothing would he done until the full details of the Car rizaI incident were in the possession of the executive. It is said with cer- tain authority that President Wilson was urged tightly to blockade the ports of Mexico.
 It was explained that such action could be taken without formal dec- laration of war. It is reported that the President expressed an intention to hesitate in the hope that the de factO government would declare itself irre- sponsibIe for the attack on American troopers and thus obviate the necessity Of thrusting the nation into war. It is said further that the President will take action regarding the suggested blockade within another IS hours.
 REPORT CAUSES STIR
 The preliminary report from General
  jeans, through the manipulation of Gen. eral Gomez, were led into m nmbus- cade at GarrixaI. created profound sensation. but a sensation which was checked by the Presidents cntm de- termination to await the official re- port in detail. "watchfuI waitipg,v 1t Is made certain. will continue to be , the ruling order of the day until all facts, now hidden. unfold themselves. Congress today enacted legislation em- towering the President to draft the Ma 'tional Guard into the regular army. thus counteracting the former inhibition against the use of the National Guard United States. The republicans played politics while the measure pended, but did not oppose it on final passage. Rep resentative Huddleston of Alabama, in a speech, referred to the proposed bill as '.un baked legislation" and urged delay. His position, however, did not induce otfer pacifsts formally to state their opposition, or other democrats seriously to protest.
 Save for the fact that preparation for any possible emergency in Mexico was continued with unabating energy, the nu- merous developments of the day left the situation as whole unchanged. While the war department was tele- graphing orders over the country today bearing call for haste in the mobiliza- ton of the National Guard, Congress took vigorous and far-reaching action in the Mexican crisis. The Secretary of War cast aside red tape and authorized that all state soldiers be rushed to the border at the earliest possible moment. The House, by vote of SS2 to ?, au- thorzed the President to draft into the service of the United States all guards men who subscribe to the new oath for that service.
 APPROVES WILSON'S ACT The entire army of 100000 men sum- moned by President Wilson's call will be (Continued on Page Twelve)
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|ORPET'S LETTERS | READ ID THE JURY
Judge Overrules Motion by Defense to Strike Evi-
 dence From Records

Waukegan, H., June 23-The state having move that Judge Donnelly take the case of William H. Orpet, charged with the murder of Marion Lambert, from the jury and discharge the defendant on the routine grounds that the state has not established a case. The motion will bs overruled and the defense will proceed with its side of the case.
 Judge Donnelly today overruled series chief counsel for Orpet. to strike from the record vital portions of the testimony of states witnesses.
 Presentation of the testimony of wit nesses for the prosecution was concluded at the forenoon session It produced two items of importance. One was a letter written by Marion the day before her death to Miss E. E. Rumsey, her Sunday school teacher, in which Marion said that her giggles often concealed real unhappi- ness. The other was the testimony of Mayor Lewis of Lake Forest, the home of Orpet and Marion, as to the effect that Orpet told him after his arrest that Marion had threatened to commit suicide because of her alleged delicate condition and that this was the reason for his visit to Lake Forest from Madison, Wis The state rested it's case against Will H Orpet charged with the murder of his former sweetheart, Marion Lambert. to- day after several more letters the youth had written the girl had been read.
 Keep yourself for me alone," Orpet wrote on May 26. 1915.
 The next day he wrote:
 "Try to love me. for that means more to me than anything in the word.'
 On the twenty eighth he acknowledged receipt of a letter from Marion.
 T couldn't tell from your letter wheth- CT you are for me, or not Don't write that way. If you love me, loosen up."
 On June ? he expressed happiness at "a good" letter from Marion.
 ''I am glad you are still good. Keep
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PERSH|NG REPORTS . BUT 7SURVV0RSOF FIGHT AT CARR|ZAL Troops of Tenth Cavalry Were Practically Wiped
 Out, He Indicates
MEN ALL INSIST THE
 MEXICANS BEGAN IT
Nothing Heard From Detachment Sent to Reinforce Boyd's Force-Negroes Were Almost Entirely Surround
 ed Before Shot Was Fired

San Antonio. June 23.-The troops of the Tenth cavalry under Capt. Charles IT. Boyd practically were wiped out by the attack of Mexican forces under Gen. Felix Gomez at Carrixa1, June Fl. according to indications given in frag- mentary reports received by General Funston from General Pershing to- night.
 General Pershing's message stated that seven survivors in all. includ- ing those who arrived last night, have reached the main column. All were en- listed men.
 According to the stories of the sur- vivors. as outlined in General Per- shing's report, mounted force of Mex jeans made a charge from the flank of the American troops at the con- clusion of a barley between Captain time that machine gun opened fire from the front as General Gomez reached his lines.
 MEN WERE DISCOUNTED
 Captain Boyd had ordered his men to dismount as the machine gun opened fire and the combined effect of the Mexican charge. the machine gun fire and the rifle fire from the Mexican garrison of Carrixal. which had almost surrounded the little American fOxce under cover of the barley sought by General Gomez to discuss whether Cap- tain Boyd should be allowed to pass through the town. stampeded the horses.
 No details were made known to Gen. eraI PershinG as to whether the Mex ican charge was checked.
 With the irregular mounts gone, caught without means of escape, ringed about on three sides with the fire of an overwhelming force, the fate of the cers here to have been sealed. 1t is feared that only the most stupendous luck, backed by desperate valor, could have extricated Captain Boyds men from the trap.
 The reports from Mexican forces placed the number of killed. .nclud- ing two officers. at from IF to 10. 1t Is reported 17 were taken captive into Chihuahua City.
 The accepted percentage of wounded to those killed in modern warfare would place the wounded at from 35 to 40 at the lowest estimate. The strength of the two troops of G and K is not known here. but it is estimated that they could not exceed 1S0 men, allowing for those sick and on detached service. With only seven survivors reported as arriv- ing at the main column, the number of those accounted for at least specula- lively is painfully small.
 The report from General Perslng stated that the stories of the surviv- ors was confused and did not conform (ContInued on Page NineJ
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UNDERWOOD WILL
 CALL ATTENTION
 ID ISLE 0F PINES
International Status of the Island Is in the Air-Ceded by Spain to United States.
 Governed by Cuba
By HUGH ". ROBERTS

Washington, June 23.-(Special.) Were this other than presidential campaign year and were the administra- tion not in addition burdened with in numerable foreign problems of most distressing nature, Senator Underwood would call upon Congress to determine and define the international status of the Isle of Pines.
 The senator, as a matter of fact, has promised Americans living in the Isle of Pines to present this case to Con gress immediately after the conclusion of the pending campaign It is his opin- ion--and it was the opinion of the late Senator Morgan of Alabama-that the Isle of Pines is the property of the United States. At present, 1t is subject to the government of Cuba.
 NOT RATIFIED BY SENATE
 "when the war between Spain and the United States was concluded in a
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become unbearable. Further on the note said he had been accused of having some part in the conspiracy that re- suited in the murder of Judge Lawler and of not trying to catch the mur- Lerers.
 He denied any knowledge of the mur- der plot, and said he had been doing his best to arrest all parties involved. The fatal bullet entered the head back of the ear, and did nd come out.
 FOUND BY JAILER'S WIFE
 The sheriff fell to the concrete floor and was found weltering in a large pool Of blood by Mrs. Walter Craft wife of the jailer, who had heard the shot from her room on the second floor of the jail. She did not know who it was but called to her husband that a man was dead in Deputy Nance's room. The jailer and his wife went together into the room and
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Who Next? Is the Question
 HuntsUille Asks After
 Suicide of the Sheriff
Robert Phillips Found Floor of County Jail With Bullet Through His Head-Leaves Note Saying He Had Been Made Sick by Criticism of His Methods in Searching
 for Overton-Man of Unmpeachable Integrity
By ROY o,NEAL

Huntsville. June 23.-tSpecial.) The bloody record of the Lawler mur- der case which has developed new md greater sensation each day wns heightened today by the addition of the name of Sheriff Robert Phillips as q suicide. Life had been made burden to him by criticism of the manner In which he had conducted the search for alleged curderers of Judge LawIer.
 Sheriff Phillips killed himself in a sleeping room on the first floor of the jail by firing bullet through his brain. He had been there alone for half an hour or more and before com hitting the act of self-destruction wrote a note addressed to his wife. The note said he had been falsely accused of a great many things and life had
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PRESIDENT WILSON AUTHORIZED TO MUSTER
 NATIONAL GUARD INTO FEDERAL SERVICE

Chairman Padgett, of the naval commit rollment of naval militiamen as national naval volunteers whenever the Presi- dent should see fit to call on them.
 The refusal of more than 100 members of the National Guard of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico to enter the federal service in response to the Presidents call found an echo during the debate today. Representative Gardner, announcing he would offer resolution for congressional investigation and Chairman Hay declar. ing he would do everything possible to see that such a proposal. if introduced was promptly reported by the military committee. Later Mi Gardner Aid intro duce a resolution and it went U the committee.
 The text of the Hay resolution as adopt ed follows:
 SECTION ONE
 Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that in the opinion of the Congress of the United States an emergency now exists which demands the use of troops in ad- dtion to the regular army of the United States. and that the President bs and he hereby is authorized to draft into the military service of the United States under the provisions of section Ill of the national defense act approved June 3 1916 so far as the provisions of said section may be applicable and not incon sistent with the terms h ,reof, any ol all members of the National Guard and of the organized militia of the severa
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CAPITAL STIRRED BY REPORT ON CARR|zAL Grim Evidences of Increased
 Tension Are Plentiful
 WILSON IS NOTIFIED Mexican Act Can Lead Only
 to Gravest Consequences DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE
DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE
Scott Says Stories of Stragglers Ordi- narily Are Given Little Credence and Expresses Hope That Prin-
 cipal Part of Troops Might
 Have Escaped the Trap

Washington, June 23-General Per sings report indicating that the Ameri- can cavalry command engaged at Carrizal was the object of a treacherous attack by Carranza soldiers and virtually was wiped out stirred Washington tonight with a deeper apprehension than has been aroused by any other development in the series which have brought the two coun- tries to the brink of war.
 While no official would make state ment indicating the probable course of the United States should the report prove true, there were many grim evidences that tension had been greatly increased.
 President Wilson, who had retired be- fore the news reached Washington, was awakened and talked with Secretary Ba- ker over the telephone At the war de- partment officials apparently credited for the first time the story that the Mexican troops had been guilty of an act which could lead only to the most serious con sequences
 NO OFFICIAL REPORT
 Late tonight the Pershing report told of in news dispatches had not reached the war department officially. A report was received from the commander in Mexico however, saying that seven soldiers who had held the horses or the American cavalrymen at Carrizal, had struggled in to the field base at Colonia Dublan and repeated the version of the incident told of in the message from General Pershing received earlier in the day. The dispatch tonight, however, said that at the time it was written there had been no definite indication of the number of American casualties.
 General Scott chief of staff. in giving out the dispatch, emphasized that fail ure to get in touch with survivors of the fight could not in itself be accepted as indicating that the command had been annihilated. He pointed out that Carrizal was 60 miles from the American base and that three or four days would be only a reasonable time for a troop to travel that distance over the broken country of northern Mexico. The clash occurred only two days ago.
 STILL ENTERTAIN HOPE
 General Scott indicated that the war de- partment did not expect any further re- port from General Pershing until the re- lief troops sent out after the battle had returned to camp. It was suggested by several officials that General Pershing' s failure to forward promptly all reports brought to him by the stra gglers was due to the fact that ordinarily little credence is placed by army officers In stories from such sources. There still was hope that an official version of what happened would be obtainable soon from responsible officers of the engaged troops
 Secretary Baker did not return to the department tonight after the new official and unofficial dispa patches regarding the in- cident had come in Army officers, how
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 The villages near Radautz captured by the Russians are Gurahumora, Straizia and Saraech. The Russians also have taken Visnitz, near Kuty. Efforts of ths Germans to advance along the northern sector met with no success, the an- nouncement says. It follows:
 Tn several sectors south of Dvinsk the Germans after artillery separation, en- deavored to assume the offensive. They were unsuccessful everywhere
 Over all the front occupied by the army of General Brusioff and especially at Radzivolov, the enemy continues to receive endorsements from the French and Italian fronts.
 Our offensive in Bukowina continued We occupied the villages of Gurahumora Straizia and Saraech west of Radautz
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