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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-15

lives at the Brown home on Tularosa,
and bv three sisters. The sisters are:
Mrs. W. Pinkston. Of Oakland. Calf;
Mrs. W. s Carson, of 1924 Elmwood
avenue Evanston. Ill; and Miss Clara
n. Brown. of Oakland.
The remains Of the deceased officer
will he escorted by a military escort
to the union station Monday afternoon
for shipment to Oakland where the
funeral viii be held Thursday after
noon at the home Of Mrs. Pinkston at
2932 East 18th street. The widow and
Mrs. Pinkston will accompany the re-
mains. The burial viii be in the fam
iIy plot in Oakland.
In the current issue OF Golfers week
" a picture Of the third ambulance
company, with Capt. Brown leading the
command, was shown as an Illustration
in an article on Columbus by James
Hopper.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-15
MEXICAN RATES
ARE INCREASED
Freight Rates Also Raised;
Tax on Legacies; Cot
ton Crops Good.

Notice has come out of Mexico City
that the fares and freight rate on the
National Railway lines have been adj
vanced in keeping with the gold value
Of currency. Heretofore the rates re-
NAMED the same as when the cur
rcnc1- was worth two to one gold. The
NV rates are four times the old for
first class passenger fares and three
times for second class
Freight Rates Raised.
The freight rates have been in.
ceased but even so the rates ara
coTnnaratfveIy low compared with nor
nal times. it is said. For the week
ending April z, the income on the ma
fionai railway lines amounted to over
five million pesos.
According to a recent decree in the
southern republic, the inheritance tax
has been adopted on all heritaRes
leEacies or gifts. whether real or per
sonaI property. payable in gold
Cotton Crops Good.
REPORTS from the cotton crops of
IaEuna district indicate that the Weld
Will be large and that the supply will
be enough to keep all Of the milh
of the Mexican republic operating.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-15
PEACE COMMISSION GOES
OUT TO SEE GEN. RFYF

Torreon, Mex, April 14-Cvia FL Paso
Junction, April 15.)-The peace com
mission. directed by Gen. Maycotte,
which is seeking to bring about the
surrender OF Gen. CanutO Reyes and his
command under a general amnesty
proposition, is reported today to be at
Nazas but news Of any definite re-
suits OF its deliberations is not ex-
pected for several days. TorreOn is
quiet today.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-15

tinues without further notice for an
other year.
Csigned) "Aguilar."
Reply From L. s.
In reply to this note the United
States made the following counter
proposition;
Article l. It is agreed thah the reg
ular force OF the two republics may
cross the boundary line in pursuit Of
parties Of bandits or armed parties
that may have entered one country or
the other after having committed out
RACES on foreign soil and having es-
capped by way of the boundary line.
Article .. The reciprocal passage as
agreed upon in article 1 will only take
place in comparatively uninhabited or
poorly protected territory and at no
time at less distance than ~ ldlOm-
eters from any camp or town in the
territory in which pursuit takes place.
except in mountainous places difficult
OF access.
Notification Of Commanders.
Article 8. The commander Of troops
that crossed the frontier in accordance
with the terms Of this agreement will
on the moment Of starting the march.
or before. II possible. advise the nearest
military or civil officer OF the country
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-15

The TraveIOEues make you intimate
" acquainted with the manners and
customs Of all people the world over.
ADV
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-15

Mexican rent collections. Lee Newman.
ADV.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-15

-" Article 10. This agreement will re-
main in force for one year, counting
from the date Of it's signing by the
representatives Of both countries. but
II may be terminated at the will OF
either party by two months advance
notice. II no notice has been given at
the end OF the year mentioned. II is
tacitly agreed that the agreement con-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-15

- GEXICO CITY, Mex. April IS
MI The Mexican government, In Its
4 = negotiations with the United
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-15
AK speciaI COnsiderntiOn.

on April the Washington goVeIH-
ment sent another note agreeing TO
the proposition that only so kilometers
of the border line be considered IN tne
agreement and that the pursuing force
would not remain in foreign territory
agreement. The new note also agreed
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
TEUTONS TAKE BUCHAREST
TEUTONS CAPTURE CAPITAL OF
RUMANIA AS CLIMAX OF BIG
DRIVE.
End Of Conquest Comes Just 100 Days
After Rumania Enters Into Euro
pean Confiict.-Important Railway
Junction Also SurrenderS.

Bucharest the Capital of Rumania,
is in the hands of the forces Of the
Central Powers.
Exactly 100 days after the DECLARE
ton of war by Rumania against them
finds the Teutonic Allies in control of
about $4,000 square miles OF Ruman-
ian extraordinarily ne-half OF the
Kingdom-running from the Transyl-
vanian Alps northwest of the Capital
to the Danube south Of it, and large
part of Dobrudja, and probably still
on the heels of the retreating Russian
and Rumanian armies which have
been endeavoring to hold them back.
simultaneously with the announce
ment of the fall of Bucharest came
the news of the capture of the i'm
portant railroad junction Of Ploechti,
north of the Capital, the conquest Of
which places in the hands of the in
vaders the last railroad in the west
and gives to them the head of the
line running northward to Jassy,
where the Capital of Rumania Is now
situated.
No details have as yet come
through concerning the climax to the
great drive of the armies Of General
Won Falkenhayn and Field Marshal
Won Mackensen, or whether the Ru-
manians or Russians succeeded en-
tirely in making their escape behind
the Bucharest line. Previous to the
announcement of the capture of
Bucharest and of Pioechti unofficial
advices had indicated that four d1vis-
ions of the defenders were in haZ-
ardous position in the region due
west of Bucharest and in danger of
being enveloped.
The taking of Bucharest virtually
completes the conquest by the Teu-
tonic forces of the southern section of
the Rumanian kingdom, embracing
territory of more than $4,000 square
miles and marks the elimination of
an operation accounted by military
commentators one of the most sound
ly conceived and brilliantly executed
feats of the great war.
From the hour when Field Marshal
Won Mackensen forced a crossing of
the Danube and on November "a set
foot on Rumanian soil, effecting a
junction shortly afterward with Cen
eral Won Falkenhaven's armies, driv-
ing through Wallachia from the west,
there seemed little doubt of the ulti-
mate fate of the Rumanian Capital.
The relentless pressure of the Teu-
tonic invading armies, with their pre-
ponderance of heavy artillery proved
too much for King Ferdinand's forces
once the Rumaniah front was broken
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
AGITATION FOR DRASTIC MEAS
lures FOR NATIONAL DE-
! TENSE is DEVELOPING.
DANIELS BEFORE COMMITTEE
Secretary Will Ask for Appropriation
to Hasten, BattIeship Construction.
Would Compel Steel Companies to
Give Government Preference.

>wshington-The attention of Con-
gress. was directed sharply to mat
ters relating to both the army and
navy which are expected to be produc-
tive of agitation for even more drastic
measures of national defense than
have yet been seriously considered.
Secretary Daniels, before the House
naval committee advocated legislation
which would compel steel companies
and other private concerns to give
preference to government orders for
military supplies. He will submit a
new section for the pending naval ap-
preparation bill for this purpose in
order to hasten battleship construc-
ton, which he declared was being de-
layed by commercial work in the yards
of private builders and in the steel
plants
Secretary Baker wrote Speaker
Clark in response to a House resolu-
ton, that 1854 out of the grand to-
tai of 163,80O national .guardsmen TAX
en- into the Federal service up to Aug
ust 81 were without previous military
training. Reflections OF enrolled
ed later to increase the number OF
raw recruits to approximately so per
cent of the force.
In this connection also, army officers
charged with the duty of studying
events of the European war, both polit-
ical and military, made preparations
to contend before the congressional
military committee that the funda-
mental reason for the cabinet crisis in
England was the volunteer military
policy there prior to the passage OF
the CONSUMPTION act. The experience
Of Great Britain is viewed by these Of
ficers as the strongest of arguments
for the establishment of universal
training in the United States, as urg
ed in the report of Major General
Scott, chief of staff, and to which the
entire American staff is committed.
Another aspect of the National
Guard situation came from Quarter
master General Sharpe who told of
$25, 100000 deficiency incurred by the
war department to equip and pay state
troops now in the Federal service. If
an average of $4,000 men are retained
on the border until June 80, he said,
the deficiency will be $50 100000. The
universal training advocates are ex-
pected to use these figures in contend
ing that prOhibitive cost would be the
result of the present system If the
nation needed great army.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
DEPORTATION OF BELGIANS
BY GERMANS Is PROTESTED.

United States Declares Germany's
Policy to Be "contravention of Hu-
name Principles of international
Practive."
Washington.-The American Gov.
ernment's formal protest to Germany
against the deportation of Belgians
for forced labor, as a violation of the
principles of humanity, was made pub
lie. by the State Department It was
in the form Of note, cabled to
Charge Grew at Berlin with instruc-
lions that he seek an interview with
the German Chancellor and read it
to him and was given out by the De-
partment with the terse comment:
"The interview has taken place."
Officials refused to add to this
statement, and so far as could be
learned there has been no reply from
Germany. All information available,
however, indicates that the deporta-
tons are continuing, and it is known
that through earlier informal repres-
entatioEs Charge Grew learned that
the German position was that the
policy was a military necessity and
not in violation of international law.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR
SINKING BRITISH LINER
WITHOUT WARNING.
GERMANY SENDS NOTE TOU.S
Note Over Incident Received by U. s.
Officials Places Submarine Warfare
Issue on a Clear-Cut Serious Basis.
NO Quick Action.

washin acceptance
of responsibility for the sinking With
out warning of the British liner Arabia,
with the explanation that her subma-
rine commander took the vessel for
an auxiliary warship, has brought the
issue over submarine warfare to a
more serious and clear-cut basis than
anything that has happened since the
threat of the United States to break
diplomatic relations after the torpedo
ing of the channel liner near Sussex
last April.
The German note, which was made
public by the state department, says
if official data is furnished showing
that the vessel was an ordinary pas
senger steamer, this then would be a
case of regrettable mistake from which
the German government would prompt
ly draw the appropriate consequences"
It is assumed here that the conse-
quences would be an expression of re-
gret and offer oi reparation for any in
jury or danger suffered by the Amer
leans on board.
The note has reen referred to
Pr0S1Q6nL wilson, WnO IS considering
personally a review of recent German
submarine activities to which the
Arabia case comes as climax. There
probably will be no immediate action,
as the state department first must
clear up beyond question the exact
status of the liner at the time Of the
attack. Then it will be for the presi-
dent to decide the course to be fol-
lowed.
., In official quarters the German ex-
PLANTATION is regarded as weak and
unsatisfactory, no weight being at
tached to the statements that the
Arabia was painted like a transport
and was following a route usually TAX
en- by transports, and that the subma-
rine commander saw many Cinnamon
but no women and children aboard her.
It is realized, however, that if official
data finally establishes the innocent
character of the vessel, in view of the
Sussex case, virtually only one action
remains open to the United States, and
that would not be taken until every
possible consideration had been given
Germany's position.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
Deny Jurisdiction of Judge Bond

Raleigh-In taking recess to Decen
Der 10 in compliance with the ordef
Of Judge Bond in the Britt-Weaca
contest for the certificate as cOngres"
man from the Tenth congressional uF
trict, Governor Craig and the SLS'
board of elections stated that tnV
deny the Jurisdiction of Judge Bona y
interfere with their discharge OF 'nsl
statutory duty in the matter OF 'n'
award of the certificate in accorOaa.'
with the official returns from the w
trict now in their hands. Ana u''
when they meet on the 18th, tne l'I'
day under the provisions OF tne o1.
ute within which they can acI u"
propose to discharge their duty W"
respect thereto. This means ln"t
the supreme court has not hearG o..
decided the appeal from Bunconuo
the proceeding before Judge AuaDs
they will ignore any further S'uY.
by Judge Bond and award tne wv
tificater to Weaver as the re'u'D
require.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION WILL
AWAIT RESULT OF LEADERS
EFFORTS.
ALLIANCE IS BEARING FRUIT
Effort Being Made to Draft Substitute
For All Forms of Compulsory Arbi-
tration Which Will Be Agreeable to
All,

Washington.-Cong action
on President Wilson's railway legisla-
ton program probably will await the
result of determined efforts of labor
leaders to draft a substitute for all
forms of compulsory arbitration which
will be agreeable to their followers,
employers and the administration.
The determination of the president
to undertake making impossible by
such law a situation as he faced last
September in the railroad dispute has
aroused labor to the greatest activity.
The unofficial alliance between the
American Federation Of Labor and the
four railway brotherhoods arranged
recently at Baltimore is bearing its
first fruit in conference between rep
resentatives of both organizations to
draft plan that will shelve all compul-
sorry arbitration bills. Congressional
leaders are inclined to go slowly on
the presidents program pending an
nouncement of labor's proposals, pro-
vided they are revealed during the
present session of Congress-:
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, said
that conferences already have taken
place between brotherhood and Fed
Grafton leaders, but that no concrete
plan had been worked out. Hope exists,
he said, that some plan can be drawn
that will make congressional action
unnecessary.
"Organized labor" he said, always
will oppose any form of compulsory
arbitration"
If a scheme satisfactory to the
workers is drafted, 1t is understood,
it will be submitted to representatives
OF the railroads and other employers
and to the president. Approval of it
probably would mean that Congress
would eliminate the compulsory arbi-
tration feature from any legislation
enacted.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
ZONE SYSTEM FOR PAPERS
PROPOSED IN POSTAL BILL

Rates Of Second Glass Matter to be
Greatly Increased Under New Ter
ritoriaI Division-One Cent Postage
on Local Letters.
Washington.-One cent postage for
local first class mail deliveries, and
a zone system of rates for second class
matter which is expected to greatly In
crease the charges for magazines and
other periodicals having nationwide
circulation, is provided for in the an
nual postoffice appropriation bill as
virtually completed in committee. The
measure, carrying appropriations to-
falling about 327,O0O,O0O, probably
will be reported to the house next
week.
Under the one cent postage provis-
ion the rate on letters and other mail
matters of the first class, when depos-
tied in any postoffice or branch post
office or letter box or postoffice in the
delivery district, for delivery within
the limits of the postoffice, city or ru-
raj delivery district, would be cut
in half
The zone proposal for handling
newspapers and magazines, which
now pay a fiat rate of one cent a
pound. is regarded as one Of the
most radical changes in postage rates
in years. 1t divides the country into
eight zones, with rates chargeable
ranging from one cent for 800 miles
to six cents for 1900 miles or more.
The bulk of daily newspapers, the
committee believes, will not be affect
ed, because they do not circulate be-
Yond a 3OO-mile radius.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
OFFICIAL WAR CABINET COM
PRlSES MANY STRONG LEAD
Frs OF ENGLAND.
BALFOUR FOREIGN MINISTER
Earl Of Derby Is War Secretary.-A.
Bonar Law Asked to Act as House
Leader and Member Of War Cabinet
Not Expected to Attend Regularly.

LOndon-Officia1 announcement has
been made that the Government had
been constituted, with war cabinet
comprising the following:
Premier, David Lloyd-George; Lord
President of the Council, Earl Cur
zon, who also will be Government
leader in the House of Lords; Arthur
Henderson, Minister without port
folio, and Andrew Bonar Law, Chan
cellor of the the Exchequer, who has
been asked by the Premier to act as
leader in the House of Commons and
also as member of the war Cabinet
without being expected to attend reg
ularly.
The other members Of the Min
istry, who are not in the war Cab
met, are:
Lord High Chancellor, Sir Robert
Bannathyne Finlay.
Secretary of State for the Home
Department., Sir George Cave.
Secretary of State for Foreign Al
fairs, DR.. Arthur J. Balfour.
Secretary of State for the Colonies,
Walter Hume Long.
Secretary Of State for War. the Earl
of Derby.
Secretary Of State for India, Aus
ten Chamberlain.
President of the Local Government
Board, Baron Rhondda.
President of the Board of Trade,
Sir Albert Stanley.
First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir
Edward Carson.
Minister of Munitions, DR.. Chris
TOPPER Addison.
Minister of Blockade, Lord Robert
Cecil.
Shipping Controller, Sir Joseph Pa
ton Maclay.
President of the Board Of Agricul-
ture, Rowland E. ProePero.
President of the Board OF Educa-
ton, Herbert A. L. Fisher.
First Commissioner Of Works, Sir
Alfred M. Mond.
Chancellor F. Duchy Of Lancaster,
Sir Frederick Cawley.
Postmaster General, Albert Hing
worth.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
GRAHAM MAKES
ANNUAL REPORT
STATES CORN CROP VIII,
NEARLY MILLION eusHr,, g
5. SHORT.
FIGHT AGAINST CATTLE Tin,
+ ' IIIh
Twelve Creameries In rh.
Work of Canning Clubs and E.
Women-Oats Short

Raleigh.-In his report for III.
to the state board of agriculture ~ VA
missioner of Agriculture w Vv@
ham estimated that the corn o-. Us
this state the past year was 5enS Sp .
bushels, nearly a million bushels ' ~
of the previous crop. The oot 'u0N
was the poorest ever harvested. t HOp
and sweet potatoes were very Nno my ny
state is for the seventh year s,,4 '
the production of cotton per acro
in the amount of sweet potatoo. aug
nuts and sofa beans. The wheat 20 20
is sufficient to feed the population IVY .v9
have several thousands barrels ;. '
port. The corn is sufficient for ~ ~
needs Of the state and the prodr.'a
of animals for beef and pork il wv
siderable. WI
There are twelve creameries l.,
nine cheese factories in the ~.
North Carolina apples are becomi'.
known in the markets of the co,v,,'
with prospect for advantageous ma
kets for all the yield in the nea, :.
ture. The commissioner recorded ~,
slant and most beneficial progres. !,
the work among the farm women :,
the state.
The commissioner in his trestms,.
Of progress and conditions In S,t,
test farm work recommended ah.,
donment Of commercial farming m
these farms so long as they are MAN.
tanned and more attention at nm
Der OF them. He sa'd results of exDed
ments showed that maintaining N.
chards in the mountain sides of west.
ern Carolina were not practical and
that these lands were best ADAPTED b,
pasture, according to the experiments
at the Blantire farm.
In hog cholera serum work the
sales have increased from 56,4sS IN
1911 to 6,236,498 in 1915. The cost
Of the serum is 1.02 per cent.
In cattle tick eradication the work
has advanced until there are only p
counties in the extreme east that are
not entirely cleared and work o.
eradication is under way in nearly
half of them. If the Legislature would
give the department an appropriation
of 100000 the whole state, through
cooperation with the federal authOri
ties, could be cleared of the tick evil
In the work among farm women
especially the canning club work
there were 1871 girls enrolled in can
ming work and 1854 women. The out
put was 470,614 tin cans and 1S4,Ss
glass jars and All bottles of ketchup
and grape juice, the whole valued at
SILT, 816, a net profit Of $SS,SSS. Fine
progress is shown in extension work
and in the development of the effort
for supplying agricultural lime to farm
ers at cost and in the growth and
utilization of the sofa bean in eastern
Carolina.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
Sweet Potato Crop Short.

Hickory.-With not over no.- count
of sweet potatoes in CatawoS al srss
and the rest of the sweet pot tno phH
according to local producers NV aIoa
of this delicacy will 80 soaIln0 .ere
towards spring. Enloe iout potsto
tary of the Catawba sweet tnat b'
Growers Association, said :. tn . crop
production here was not NJ, nan CONDITION
and he had learned that Inlo 'countrg,
obtained in the rest OF tne uUotstOss
Catawba growers, with their ut qpos
housed snugly for winter ar0
ing prices.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS
II. FOLLOW WAR CONSIDERED

Norfolk, Va.-Problems which the
United States faces in it's relations TO
the warning nations and which will
come with international reconstruc-
ton after peace, were the dominant
notes OF the discussion at the opening
session of the eighth annual conven-
tion of the Southern Commercial Con-
gress. The speakers included Senator
Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, presi-
dent of the congress-; John Shelton
Williams and others.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
FRENCH SHIP WITH CREW
OF 718 LOST SAYS PARIS.

Paris.-The French battleship Suf-
fern which left November "a for
L'Orient. a French naval station in
Brittany, has not been heard from
since the Minister of Marine consid-
ers the vessel lost with all on board.
The Suffern was reported to have
been damaged by shell fire when the
Allies tried to force the Dardanelles
and she was sent to Toulon for re-
pairs. She was of 1880 tons and
had staff of Is officers and 700 men.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
Bio Growth at AIbemarle'

Albemarle.-Bui ACTIVITY ~ a
bemarle is more pronounced lnSu -
has been since the European W." .oi
gan, and 1t is conservatively esIlm@ Al
that there is around half-mllllon n.
lars worth of buildings now under ~. vSj
struction in the town. The new u u.
cry mill being constructed by 'n' .h,A
cassett Mills Company will cover "bo1t
5000 feet of land and furnish NM
10000 square feet of floor space ,rs;s-
Southern Railway Company na0 - me
construction a spur track OUT ii'
main line to this new plant
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
OVER $4,000 FARMERS HAVE
APPLIED FOR FARM LOANS

Neutrality-suspicious. of the farm
loan board announced that more than
$4,000 farmers have applied for mort
gage loans aggregating approximately
$3.50, 100000 or more than II times the
amount of money which will be imme-
diately available for loans upon the
organization of the IL farm loan
banks. Most of the applications have
come from the south and west. They
still continue to come in by hundreds
every day. t.>'s q. -. - ~ . = -.