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La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-08-20
Los oradores elogiaron
al regimen de Don
Porfirio g increparon
a Caranza = q la re-
ueluci6n : : :
No obstonte que triunfaroa
algunos oposisionistas,
eStos no iran q la
CGmaro
zslssrerro ssp-cie. pare "A PRENSA.

yelssra.ra ssy-cic. pc-a "A PRENSA.
NUEVA YORK. agosto 19.-Siguen
recibiendose de Mexico noticias rela-
conadas con Ia Ultima campana elec-
toral efectuaGa ALI para Ia formation
del nuevo Congreso que debe iniciar
81 periodo de sesiones e. pr6Ximo sep
tiembre.
Las nuevas noticiaS confirnan que
el gobierno carrancista Sc esforzo~ po-
controIar la election. para anlastar
Ia oposicion. que Sc mostr6 grande-
mente activa pesar de las ameaazas
de la preston que Sc ejerci6 contra
los candidates de eSta.
Mas no cbscante las amenazas Y
Ia preston de las autoridadeS carran-
cistas, Ia campana electoral Sc hizo,
en- gran nlmero de poblaciones de los
Estados combatiendose al regimen ac-
tual por aQuellos ele,nentos que, ha-
biendo pertenecido Ia revolucion. Sc
han lido alejando del carTancismo, bien
por su vofunIad porque este los ha
arrojado de sd seno.
Eicgiaron a Diaz.
Sc sabe que en- muchas partes, du-
rante los nitines politicos celebrates
por los candidates oposicionistas, Sc
lanzaron duras criticas Ia revolu-
cion Caranza. habiendo, infinidad
de oradores, elogiado francamente al
General Diaz Y 81 regimen, expire
sando cue en- dicho regimen hubo mas
libertad que en- el actual Los mis-
mos oradores conpararon el carran-
cismo con eli gobierno de Diaz V tuvie-
ron frases hirienteS para los hon.
breS que actualmente Sc halian en- 81
poder.
La cdrcel para los oradores.
Como reSultado de estaS criticaS,
-nuchos de los oradoreS fueron apre-
hendidos Y suspenGidoS los mitines
politicos per Ia pohcia. obrando de
acuerdo con las instruccioneS emana-
das aparentemenre de las autorirades
locales. pero realnente del gobierno
del centro. Tambisn varios candida
toS fUeron pueStoS en- prision Y no
pudieron hacer una campana mas
efectiva cR 81 favor, en- el momento
de las elecciones.
Pero el publico mostro interes.
Sin embargo. el publico-una parte
de el, por supuesto-mostro interes
en- el resultadc de las elecciones, es-
pecialmente e. de aQuellos iugares
donde ei poder estaba coDtrolado por
los jefes ulilitareS que Sc han vuelto
oposicioniStas Al carrancismo. Y de-
bido I este interes. gran nunero de
candidates oposicionistas al regimen
carrancista fueron electoS, saliendo
derortadoS los candidates oficiales, no
obstante todas las med!daS puestas en-
vigor para que el triunfo 10 obtuvie-
ran Ebre de dif!cultaGes, q fin de que
no Sc elevaran protestaS-
Esto no obstante. los candidates Off
ciales seran los que vayan al con-
greso pr6ximo. La Ley electoral ha
sido hecha por Carranza de tal modo,
Que les Sera ea extreme facil los
computadores el cambiar Ia election a
gusto del gobierno. declarando victo-
riosos los candidates oficiales = pc
sa- de cue los paquetes electoraleS
presenter las pruebas de que Ia ma
yoria Ge votos estuvo = favor de los
candidates oposicionistas.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-08-20
PERDIO LA RAZON Ell SR. BARNETCHE
QUE FUE ASALTADO POR Los REBELDES
Nuevos detaIIes de la hazaIa monstruosa Ievada
a acabo por una partida en- Tamaukpas

Hace pocos dias, con los datos que
entonces pudimos adquirir, dimos Ia
noticia de que en- un lugar cercano al
Puerto de Matamoros, una partlda re-
volucionaria, no sc saDe 81 felicista 0
caballerista, habia cometido IN grave
atentado Ell la persona de uno de los
propietarios comercanos, Saqueado al
gunas haciendas, y puesto en- asarma
a la mencionada ciudad de Matamo
ros.
va en- possession G.e mayores datos,
completamos nuestra anterior lnforma
cion sobre este suceso que pone paten-
te la inseguridad que reina en- las
cercanias de la importante ciudad Ia
maulipeca.
En- ell rancho de las Tenacitas
Uno de los ranches de regular i'm
portancia de Ia comarca, es el de Las
Tenacitas, propiedad de tres caballe-
ros franceses, que Sc turnan en- 81
situaci6n Y cuidado, pasando cada uno
de ellos temporadas mas menos lar
gas Ell su propiedad.
En- esta vez, le TOGO estar al frente
de los negocios del rancho, al Sr. Pc
dro Barnetche.
A fines de la semana Ultima, como
a las dos tres de Ia madrugada, una
partida revolucionaria compuesta de
cerca de cincuenta hombres, lego al
rancho, 10 saque6, Y aprehendio a!
Sr. Earnetche y al administrator.
A Ia madrugada, ambos senores fue-
ron sacados del Rancho Y llevados a
Ia orilIa del Rio, donde los rebeldes
los hicieron detenerse. para comuni-
carles que 81 no entregaban Ia suma
de diez mil pesos, inmediatamente, Sc
Tian colgados.
La ejecucion.
Ambos sehores dijeron que estaban
en- un todo dispuestos a dar aquella
aun una mayor 81 les fuese pedida,
pero que clio les era impossible por
carecer de recursos en- 10 absolute.
Los rebeldes no dieron oidos a aque
las razones, siguieron insistiendo
en- que les fuera entregada ia suma
que habian menester para gastos de
Ia campafia. A cada solicitation,
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(Pasa a la "A. Col. 4a.)
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LIBROS EN- ESPANOL

Compre usted sus hbros en- espa-
mol a la Casa Editorial Lozano, 11S
n. Santa Rosa Ave. San Antonio,
Tex. Es Ia mas barata.
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TO ADVERTISERS

We guarantee LA PRENSA has
larger circulation than any other
mexican newspaper in the United
States.
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tPasa 4 "a pas. . Col +aD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30
BANKER IS HELD
]. L. Richert of Lehigh, Placed
Under Arrest.
Shortage Of $4,000 Lost in Oil
Stock CANDLES.

Announcement is made by State
Bank Commissioner Wilson that j. l..
Richert, cashier of the defunct Memo
State bank of Lehigh, Marion county,
had been arrested. Richert is held by
the state under charges of embezzle-
ment and forgery. His shortages now
total $4,000.
Late reports received in the bank
commissioners office state that Rich
ert has practically looted the assets
Of the Mennonite institution. New
evidences of embezzlement and forg-
cry have been uncovered by investiga-
tors from Wilson's office.
The money, Richert told state Off
cia1c, had been invested in oil stocks
and other securities which failed to
pay dividends and resulted in the
closing OF the bank. Funds of the
bank were appropriated personally by
Richert in an effort to get rich quick
in the oil game. Now the bank has
only a seemingly worthless assortment
of autographed oil stock to represent
the $4,000 carried in deposits. The
capital and surplus of the bank total
$22,500.
No information has been received
concerning the amount of Richert's
bond, nor the date of his preliminary.
State officials assumed Richert had
been able to provide bond. His faith
er, a wealthy farmer, lives near Le-
high, and brother is engaged in the
banking business in Rocky Fork, Colo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30
POLITICS IN drive
Assault on Aisne Front To Keep
Up Spirit.
Hindenburg Shows Weakness
of Home Situation.
BY ]. w. T. MASON.

New York, May 3O.-Von linden
burg's persistent sacrifice of his man
power along the subordinate Aisne
front is the best evidence the Germans
have given that they consider an ad-
vance to the channel ports too diff
cult an enterprise to be undertaken
at this time.
The Aisne operations have gone
too far to be considered solely as
feint. The death toll that has had to
has been too heavy to justify the
theory that Won Hindenburg has de-
sired simply to create a diversion. The
Aisne drive must be regarded as a
major operation, undertaken in obedi-
ence to the clamor of the German
people for more victories.
The real victory, entailing the cap
ture of Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk,
apparently has been judged by the
kaisers advisers as too difficult to
attempt.
So the German general staff SEEM
ingly was ordered to win snowy sue
cess that might be dished up in a
threatening murmurs of the people of
the central empires.
Aisne Front Was Weak.
There is no doubt that the allied
front along the Aisne has been weakly
held. General Foch was perfectly
sound in his Judgment in weakening it.
He has had to do this in order to in
sure the safety of the channel ports.
which is the paramount consideration.
The Germans chose the Aisne for
their camouflage victory undoubtedly
because it was the least strongly held
part of the front within range of the
Teutonic reserves in western France.
The success of the Germans along
the Aisne must be regarded as the
price the allies are paying for the Sc
curity of the channel coast.
1t is also an acknowledgment by
Won Hindenburg that he cannot disre-
gard the clamorous cries of the Ger
mans to be fed with more tales of vic
tory, altho sound military policy is
against the sacrifices such futile sue
cesses require. The strategic situation,
in fact, seems to be getting out of Won
Hindenburg's reach and is becoming
political in its purpose.
Is an Ill Omen.
This is always a bad sign and not
infrequently is the forerunner of dis
indignation.
The Germans have succeeded by the
present operations in cutting the rail-
way between Scissors and Rheims.
This is an important line of commun-
ication, serving the southern front of
the allies in France. It has been cut,
however, at only one point, FiSmeS.
The sectors to the east and west are
still well within the safety zone.
The capture of the environs of Fis-
mes is far from representing major
success. 1t may set the Berlin crowds
the more dangerous when Berlin has
had time to realize in sober silence
how meaningless has been the new
sacrifice of German manhood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30
CONE MUSTACHE!
l AM BID $24.65!
LAST CALL!-SOLDi"

Kensington. Kan, May 30.-One of
those alert Red Cross auctioneers did
it! He was going thru the third and
fourth line trenches with reckless
abandon, picking articles off men in
the crowd and selling them at auction
here.
I'll bid $40 for that mustache,"
shouted a man in the crowd indicat-
ing the facial adornment of a hard
ware merchant in a town nearby.
TT isn't worth it, but I'll make it
SIS and keep it," came back the mer-
chant, who, by the way, had cherished
and cultivated the hirsute decoration
for forty years
Then the crowd began pooling bids
against the merchant. He gave up
when the total opposition reached
$24.65 and called for the clippers
They were produced and off came the
mustache. The auctioneer got both
the mustache and the money. He de-
clared he would have it mounted
and duly displayed as a town relic
The merchants only Proviso in the
surrender was that he be guaranteed
company home to be identified to his
wife.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30
WILL MEET SATURDAY
k. O., Aggies and M. o. To Play for
Tennis Title in X. c..

Lawrence, Kan, May 30.-Unless a
late change is made. Missouri, Kan
sas and the Kansas Agsies will meet
in tennis in the annual Missouri val
ley tournament on the Rockhill courts,
Kansas City. Mo-, Saturday. K. U.
and the Tigers are counted as the
two teams to fight it out for the title,
since the Aggies have not been prac-
ticing much this season.
The Jayhawkers defeated Missouri
here with ease, losing only the doubles
match. But the Missourians have a
fast team and are expected to make
the tourney interesting at least. War
ner is the only man back on the Mis-
souri, team. Shirlky, the other player,
being new to the Varsity game this
season Kansas is in much the same
situation, with only Kenneth Uhls as
a veteran. Skaer and Mathews, with
a possibility of Butcher getting in, are
the men who will assist Uhls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30
ALLIED RESERVES
Continued from Page One,

Continued from Page One.)
ress of the fighting south of the Aisne.
The Germans are fighting against time
and are throwing every ounce of
weight of manpower into the struggle.
Cannot Broaden Salient.
On the center the enemy has again
pushed forward, but his efforts to
broaden his advancing front have
met with less success. The allied
wings have been obliged to give some
ground. This action was carried out
slowly and the full price was exacted
from the enemy. scissors has gone
and the British have fallen back
toward Rheims but in either case the
enemy has only won a couple of miles
of territory.
In competent circles there is quiet
confidence in the outcome and signs
are not lacking that the advancing
waves soon will be checked
I Unity of command puts the allies in
a better position than they were in
the March offensive. On that occa-
sion French reinforcements came into
action on the third day, and on the
eighth the Germans were stopped def
initely. Today things will go more
quickly.
The Germans have been obliged to
leave their guns on the northern side
of the original line which can be
crossed only at a certain number of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30
vETOES FIVE GENERALS
General Pershing Keeps Out Wood,
Bell, Scott Morrison and Barry.

Washington. May 30.-That General
Pershing vetoed other than Maj. Gen.
Leonard Woods overseas assignment
was learned here today.
Four other prominent generals
understood to be ]. Franklin Bell,
Hugh Scott, John F. Morrison, Thomas
HI. Barry-were said to have been
slashed from his list of desirables for
important commands overseas.
AS result Bell was first assigned
to the Western Department command,
tho physically fit for overseas work.
Later he was shifted to Camp Upton,
N. Y. Scott was shunted to command
Camp Dix and the others will not get
overseas duty, it is understood. Wood
is slated for active service and will
not have to take up the San Francisco
post He may not see foreign duty,
however
Three of these men formerly were
chiefs of staff of the army. and as
such ranking officers of the army.
They are Scott, Wood and Bell. Barry
was once assistant chief of staff.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30
FAIR MEMORIAL DAY!

CONTINUED from Page One.)
the state Wednesday night, the heavi-
est precipitation being at Phillipsburg.
which received LIS inches. Rainfall
at other points was recorded as fol-
lows: Wichita, .56; Clyde. SO; Beloit,
2S; Lindsborg, .O4 and Concordia, .04.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy
skies tonight and Friday. with not
much change in temperature. The
mercury at 9 o'clock this morning
stood at 81 degrees and it was ex-
pected to go to 80 degrees this after
noon, which would make the day
average about IL degrees above nor
NAL. The lowest temperature We'd
nesday night was 10 degrees at 6
o'clock. The highest ever recorded for
today was 80 in 1913 and the lowest
40 in 1889. The wind this morning
was blowing Is miles an hour from
the south.
All rivers in the state are slowly
falling, with the exception of the Solo,
mon, which was rising this morning
but no trouble is anticipated. The
Kaw this morning stood at 1928 feet,
which is a slight fall since 8 o'clock
Wednesday night, and it will continue
to fall slowly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30
new WAR SPIRIT


memorial services were held in nearly
all of the Topeka churches this morn
ing-or were to be held tonight at
O'Clock. Some of the churches even
went so far as to demand that their
congregations forego the usual holiday
late geting-up and put in an appear
ance at sunrise services.
All during the morning steady
stream of people poured into the vari-
GUS cemeteries in the env1rons OF To-
neka. Many persons who for years
have not visited the graves OF their de-
parted, this year were among tho most
enthusiastic in doing honor to the SOL
diers of another age. Perhaps the
present war has reached home to them
and they now feel what 1t is to have
a father, brother or sweetheart in the
ranks of an embattled nation and not
know Just where nor how that loved
one is faring.
Children Gathered Flowers.
Early this morning every school
child in the city was out collecting
flowers to be taken to the school
houses, where hey could be collected
by autos and used to decorate the
graves of the veterans gone from the
turmoil of life.
At 10 o'clock the usual impressive
ceremonies for the hero~ of the sea
were held on Melan bridge. Perhaps
the ceremonies this year were a little
more heartfelt and impressive than
before because of the guarding line of
blue clad forms that watches the
reaches of the seas to protect the boys
in olive drab from the forays of the
U-boats. At any rate it seemed that
the occasion WAS just little more SOL
emn today than it has been heretofore
Luncheon i, served at Lincoln Post
hall for the comrades and the COM
mittees by the ladies of the G. A. r.
The Afternoon Program
At $3.50 o'clock a special Memorial
ditorium. The program includes sew
era1 band selections. an instrumental
solo or two, a special community sing
of patriotic songs, and an address by
ex-senator Elmer J. Burkett, of Lin
coin, Neb.
The complete program of the after
noon Memorial day celebration at the
auditorium follows:
Auditorium Program.
Call to order, J. G. Wood, chairman
memorial committee Lincoln post No. l.
mander of Kansas G. A. r.
Order of Gen. John a, Logan appointing
'' invocation. Rev, <. f. Embree. DID,,
comrade of Lincoln post.
Patriotic airs (medley), Marshall's Mill
America" audience. led by NJ. C. Hol-
man; organist Florence P. Campbell
Address, Hon. Elmer J. Burkett, Lincoln
"Star Spangled Banner" unstrumentaI),
organist. Miss Florence P. Campbell.
| Flag pledge and Salute, audience, led by
America. Beautiful America" audience,
led by M; c. Holman; organist, Miss Flor
| Benediction, Comrade J. K. Miller, chap
| lain. Topeka post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30
TO HAVE LABOR ARMY
Mobile Force of Harvesters Will Move
From South to North.

Washington, May 30.-Shortage of
farm labor to harvest the western
wheat crop will be met by as mobile
force of. workers recruited for this
purpose, the federal employment serv-
ice today announced.
These workers will start early next
month harvesting the winter wheat
crop in Oklahoma, then going into
Kansas and afterwards moving into
the spring wheat section of the north
west and finally crossing the border
and assisting Canadian farmers later
in the summer.
The army of workers will return in
time to assist in harvesting the corn
crop in the early fall. Recruiting and
direction of these workers is in charge
of A. L. Barkman. former chief of
the farm service division of the en-
ployment service, who is now en-
ployment director for the district
comprising the grain belt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30
NOnpartisans Condemned by
Kansas Grain Dealers.
Nebraskan Tells of Ill Repute
in His State.
new OFFICERS ARE NAMED
Smiley Is Again Secretary of
the X. G.. ID. Association.
Resolutions Asking Soldier
Farm Labor Are Passed.

In the closing hours of it's twenty
first annual convention Wednesday.
the Kansas Grain Dealers association
passed resolutions condemning all
kinds of pro-German propaganda and
propagandists and disseminators, CIV
ing special mention to the Nonpartisan
League.
One Nebraska grain dealer who was
in attendance at the convention spoke
feelingly of the activities of the Nom
partisan League in that state and re-
curtailed by the condemnation of
nearly every county chapter of the
state council of defense
1t was told how many people in
North Dakota, the home of the
league, were calling the league the
Hun-Partisan League and withdraw
ing from membership in it. The
resolution declared that the Kansas
Grain Dealers association was firmly
and in a body behind the government
in its efforts to squelch the pro-peace
and pro-dissension agitators. The
resolutions conveyed congratulations
TO the Farmers Union and the recog
nized. time-proven equity associations
for their loyalty in the war crisis.
New Officers Elected.
sOfficers elected at the convention to
head the association for another year
were: ]. B. Mcclure, of Hutchinson,
Reelected president; E. ]. Smiley, of
Topeka, reelected for his twenty-sec-
ond term as secretary; E. Bossmeyer,
of Superior. Neb., vice president; and
W. S. Washer. Atchison; J. D. Mead,
Fort Scott; and E. L. Brown, Chester,
Neb., directors.
/ Another resolution passed at the
meeting called upon the government
to release soldiers in the environments
not going overseas Immediately for
work in the harvest fields. The SOL
der resolution follows:
The Resolution.
Whereas. The present growing wheat
crop in the state Of Kansas promises a
bushels this year. which will be ready TO
harvest between the 10th and Both of June,
and
1Whereas. Owing to the draft of q large
number of our able bodied men to the
army and the various army environments,
be it
rResolved, BY the Kansas Grain Dealers
association of the state of Kansas, now in
session in Topeka. Kan. May 1920 that
we appeal to the United States government
for help to harvest this bountiful crop of
wheat, of which we are such urgent need
Client number of men at Fort Riley and
Camp Funston to enable the farmers to
secure this wheat crop promptly and in
first class condition, or aid the Kansas
farmer by furnishing help from some other
source.
gathered very quickly to be secured in
good condition and without waste, hence
we respectfully urge that the United States
government give us help from some source.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30
MUST HAVE COLONIES
Germany Is Urged to Begin Active
Campaign for Expansion.

London, May 30.-The Westphalia
Gazette, according to the Amsterdam
correspondent of the Exchange Tele-
graph company, urges that Germany
begin a campaign in favor of colonial
expansion in which Austria Hungary
will benefit, especially by acquisitions
of territory in northern Africa. The
newspaper is quoted as saying:
Unless Germany and Austria ac-
quire large colonies as the result of
this war their future will depend sole
ly on the good pleasure of England
and America"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30
WANT MORE MONEY
Rock Island Employees Urged to Stay
Stay on Job.

Washington, May 29.-Upon receiv-
ing word here that mechanics and
shopmen of the Rock Island and
other railroads were threatening
strike next Monday for higher wages
than Director General McAdoo's re-
cent order authorized, the railroad
administration asked the men by
telegraph to remain at work and an
nounced that the new board on rail-
road wages and working conditions
would take up the machinists appli-
cation next week and give a decision
as soon as possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-30
INTO BATTLE SINGING
Premier Clemenceau Tells of Fighting
of French Soldiers.

Paris, May 30.-Premier Clemen-
ceau has returned from the front,
where he visited the forward lines near
Fereen-Tardenois. He passed cross
roads where three minutes later a
French general was killed by burst
ing shell.
"Our men are even more m2gniff-
cent than 1 had hoped" Clemenceau
said, on his return.
They are equal to the most criti-
cal situations. They go into battle
singing. Their chief likewise is
worthy of the greatest praise"