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squeezing Guatemala between Mexico
and the newly formed state and ulti-
mately absorbing the Guatemslan nation.
President Carranza Of Mexico In under
stood to be giving every encourag cement
to the project, which has been under
quiet consideration for some time.
According TO the general plan. Senior
Melendez is to be President of the new
republic for tho initial period. to be fol-
lowed by Dr.. Bertrand for the ensuing
term.
1t appears that the outline OF the plan
has become known and that the people
OF Honduras are aroused. The belief
there is that DR.. Bertrand is filling all
the offices throughout the country with
his relatives and close friends to exercise
more complete military control Of the sit
uation.
Diplomatic dispatches state that DR..
Bertrand has named as Government
candidate for the Presidency to sue
coed himself Senior Nazario Soriano, his
brother-in-law. Senior Soriano, although
born in Honduras. went to Salvador as
a child. was educated there and lived
there until recently. Another brother
in-law. Col. Andres Sorlano. an officer
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the East and cached II near the border
at socorro.
Charge Of violating the neutrality
laws by setting on foot a military expe-
dition against q friendly country were
hled against sixteen Of the eighteen Mex
leans In the United States District Court
to-day.
Rsnsomed Prisoner Freed.
A telegram was received here to-day
from Hachita, N. NJ, stating that one Of
the nine cowboys from the Ojitos ranch
In northwestern Chihuahua had reached
the Alamo Hueco ranch on the border
late yesterday and reported that Bunk"
Spencer. the American negro foreman Of
the Ojitos ranch, has been released by
Martin Lopez and was returning to
Ojitos. together with the eight other
Mexican cowboys held by Villas COM
mander. They attempted to induce
Spencer and the cowboys to Join the Villa
forces, according to the messenger.
The release Of Spencer and the cow
boys was obtained by the payment OF
$4,000 ransom by the Warren Cattle
Company OF Three Oaks, Mich.
JUAREz, Mex. March 19.-Francisco
Villas main column was seen at Bustil-
los. chihuahua, fifty miles southwest of
Chihuahua City. this week by Mexican
refugees. They reported Villa had about
500 men, with fourteen wagons to carry
his sick ard wounded.
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Of the salvsdoresn army. has been called
to Honduras and made Minister Of War.
There Is said to be keen resentment
among the people over the appointment
OF Mexican, Gen. Teofilio Castillo
Corzo. as Director-General of Police.
There 10 suspicion among some OF
the people, according to informs ton here.
that DR.. Bertrand Is making plans for
his campaign by removing military oonn-
mandants throughout the republic and
placing his own fsvorites in their places.
Among those removed are Gen. Andres
Letva, for many years commandant Of
the important port of Amapala, on the
west coast. He has been succeeded by
Jacob Jalindo, n pro- Mexican and saliva
dorean. Gen. J. Pablo Urutia, command
ant of the port OF La Ceiba, one Of the
great commercial centres on the At
lantic coast and the base OF operations
OF the United Fruit Company. likewise
has been removed on the ground that no
Is opposed TO Salvadorean domination.
He has been succeeded by Joaquin Alva-
RADIO. cousin OF the President Ava
RADIO already has conducted a campaign
In favor OF the union with Salvador and
the cultivation of more intimate rela-
lions with Mexico.
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POMERENE ASSAILS
U. 5. RAIL POLICY
Democratic Senator Opposes
Five Year Extension Of
Federal Control.
EARLY RETURN rs URGED
Condemns Administration for
Issuing Orders Upsetting
Statutes.

CHICAGO, March 1e.--Senator Pome-
reno of Ohio, a Democratic member Of
the Senate Interstate Commerce Commit
tee. speaking hero tonight before the
American Railway Engineers Society.
opposed extending the period Of Govern
ment control over railroads beyond the
twenty-one months provided by Con-
gress. He asserted that the proposed
five year extension was urged only for
the purpose Of experimentation.
Senator Pomerene also urged early
restoration OF the functions OF the In
terstate Commerce Commission with In
creased powers and the fixing by Con-
gress OF fair standard return upon the
capital invested for the railroads.
Government control" he asserted,
was intended for war purposes and 1t
ought not to be continued for peace pur-
poses, unless some assured, not specula-
tive or conJectural. advantage can be
gained thereby.
IT submit that the principles OF COM
mon honesty suggest that this property
which does not belong to the Govern
ment and which does not belong to Mr..
Hines (Director-G eneral) should be
sonable time. and then II the people OF
the country have sufficient confidence In
Government ownership to try 1t let US
pass the necessary legislation confiscat-
ing this property and pay for 1t as an
honest Government ought to pay for 1t.
But We cannot afford TO take five years
to evolve plans and while we are evolv-
ing the plans TO keep in the Govern
ment's possession property which was
turned over to 1t as a war measure for
the purpose Of experimentation"
Senator Pomerene criticised the Rail-
road Administration for ignoring the
Interstate Commerce Commission in rate
making and for what he called repre-
hensible" orders setting aside laws.
mot ono of Them" declared the Sem
ator, in referring to the administra-
tons orders. was issued out of re-
gard for the convenience Of the public
Not one of them helped to win tho war
All OF them aided In arousing a spirit of
discomfort among the people. deny
that the Director General had the power
to issue these orders repeating statutes.
but IL he had the power right policy
should have forbidden it,
Without doubling that the money was
needed Senator Pomerene said that in
ordering the rs per cent freight rate in
crease moro time should have been
given to permit shippers to adjust their
business to meet the advance. This in
crease. he said, was a good thing for the
railroads, but it resulted in the bank
ruptcy OF many people.
Senator Pomerene expressed belief
that the public recognized the need for
the general advance in wages for rail-
road employees. joint use of terminals.
of equipment and greater
control over routing Of freight, but said
that these changes in operating have
proved nothing new.
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JAPANESE INTRIGUE
FEARED IN SIBERIA
Anfi-American Feeling Laid
to Nippon Agents.

WASHINGTON. March 1s.-Reports OF
growing anti-American feeling in east.
ern Siberia have been for some time in
the hands Of the State Department. The
reports, 1t was learned, came from botf
american diplomatic and military rep
resentatives In Siberia. and Instances OF
thts FEELING were cited Ohicials Of the
state Department, 1t was said, however.
have thoroughly approved the conduct Of
tne American forces under Major-Gen.
William g. Graves.
Instructions were issued TO Gen.
Graves before he went to Siberia, Il was
learned, to avoid carefully any act which
would commit the United States Govern
ment to either side in any fractional
troubles.
Much Of the hostility in vladivostok
toward Americans is attributed in well
informed circles here to the activity of
Japanese agents. II has been reported
That about three weeks ago a Japanese
publicity agent arrived in vladivostok.
Within few days, these reports say,
articles began appearing in the news
papers of Vladivostok which are said to
be under Japanese influence, rejecting
upon the United States and its Siberian
policy. or as the articles described, its
lack of policy.
state Department officials said today
that the situation as regards Japanese
influence was clearing.
Other reports attributing the hostile
feeling toward Americans to Japanese
influence asserted that while at the out
set OF the Siberian operations, japan
and the United States each agreed to
send 1000 troops to vladivostok, japan
sent 72,0Q0. The willingness of the
Peace Party In Japan to cooperate has
hAnn
by the decision of the party when IL
went into power recently to withdraw
some of these troops.
Unceasing disputes and warfare be-
tween the various Siberian factions.
each with its appeal for allied support
also has been the cause of the i'll feel
ing. It was said to-day
Deserters and mutineers OF the Seme-
nom and Horvath forces have appealed
to Gen. Graves for protection, 1t was
said. While those remaining loyal to
these two Generals they also had asked
for assistance in handling the situation.
Gen. Graves has interviewed only to save
men from slaughter without
1t is fully understood by officials here
that Gen. Semenoff and Gen. Horvath
are imperialists at heart and, II has
been pointed out. II the American troops
gave aid to them. the United States
could fairly be charged with favoring
the restoration of the imperial form of
for Russia.
In well informed circles It also has
been said that Gen. Knox, commander
OF the British forces in vladivostok, has
not been at all times in full accord with
the attitude Of the United States and
had urged upon Gen. Graves the ad-
visibility Of taking a definite stand for
one political faction in order to aid in
the firm establishment OF one govern
ment in Siberia
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Trinity TO Open service Club.

All members OF Trinity Parish have
been invited to n formal opening this
afternoon of its Service Club for SOL
diers and sailors In the Parish House,
80 Trinity place. DR.. William T. Man
ming will make the principal address.
The guests will include Major-Gen. Leon
ard Wood. Rear-Admiral Nathaniel r.
Usher, Col. George NJ. Burleigh and
Capt. Yates Sterling of the local naval
district. This unit Of the War Camp
Community Service has sleeping accom-
modations for about 200 men and feeds
about the same number daily in the can
teen run by women of the National
League for Woman's Service.
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CALDER HAMMERS LEAGUE.
Special Session Needed to Assist
Business, He Says.
Special Despdtc. 10 THE sus.


ROCHESTER, March 19.-Assert,ng that
Congress should have been called in
special session to enact legislation to
protect capital, industry and labor in
the period Of transition from war to
peace, Senator Calder spoke before, the
Rochester Chamber of Commerce to-
day. He attacked the present League
of Nations covenant and, as he did in
Troy yesterday, expressed the belief that
the league has no place as part of the
peace treaty.
Senator Calder said there was not
the slightest doubt that the business
revival upon which New York and the
rest of the country was depending to
pay the cost of the war would be the
greatest in the history OF the nation.
But, he SAID, legislation is yitaily needed
He said the President should have re-
manned in this country to look after
the situation at home.
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JAPANESE ATTACKS
UNDER u. S. INQUIRY
Beating of American Women
in Corea Reported.
speciol DespdtcA to TIE suS.


WASHINGTON, March 19.-The State
Department has made inquiries concern
Ing press reports from Pekin that two
American women missionaries in Corea
had been beaten by Japanese soldiers
and that otker American missionaries
had been subjected to indignities.
A report concerning the trouble be-
tween American troops at flemish,
China, and the japanese police has now
reached the State Department. More
details are awaited before making public
the information received.
1t appears that the incident was more
In the nature of a local brawl than a
serious clash. The Japanese Consul was
not assaulted, but a friend of the Consul
in the consulate was struck by one OF
four American soldiers who went there,
1t is said.
WASHINGTON, March Ie.-Advices TO
the State Department to-day from Via
divostok state that the Corean National
Council at Nikolskoe, on the Ussuri
River. Siberia, has transmitted to all
ccnsulates the declaration of indepen-
dence of Corca- The Coreans paraded
through the city under Corean banners.
distributing translations of the declara-
ton In Russian. No disturbance was
created.
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WEST VIRGINIA TO PAY DEBT.
Senate Passes Bill for Settlement
of Separation Claim.

CHARLESTON, w. Va. March 1s.-The
Senate passed today the virEi2Sr 1eht
settlement BILL by which provision is
made for paying the judgment OF the
Supreme Court OF the United States
against West Virginia in favor of Vir-
glnia. the basis of settlement proposed
by Virginia and accepted by the IIegis-
luture OF this State at the regular ses-
sion.
The bill provides that a direct tax
shall be laid each year by the Board of
Public Works sufficient to create a sink
Ing fund to retire one-twentieth of the
bonds and pay the interest on them.
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new PLOT FORMS TO
BOTTLE GUATEMALA
Honduras and Salvador Make
Secret Treaty With Mex
leo in Approval.

WASHINGTON, March 1s.-Trouble is
again brewing in Central America, ac-
cording to advices received In Latin
American diplomatic circles. News from
Puerto Cortex, Honduras. is to the effect
that Francisco Bertrand. President Of
Honduras. and Jorge Melendez. Presi-
dent Of Salvador. have made a secret
treaty to merge the two republics into
the Republic of Merriam" thereby
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NEW YORKER TAKEN
In MEXICAN PLOT.
Dash Across Border by Band
to Join Villa Thwarted
by u. s. Forces.
YANKEE CAPTIVE FREED
Ransomed Foreman Released
With Cowboys Under Bandit
Chiefs Order.

Ell PAso. Tex, March 10. - Federico
servantes. chief Of stan to Gen. Felipe
Angeles when he was with Francisco
villa N 1914, was arrested near Socorro,
TEX, thirty-five miles southeast Of here,
to-day with eighteen men, who were at
tempting to cross to Mexico to Join An
geles and Villa. One Mexican was
wounded and another escaped. All were
armed and mounted.
Manuel 1turbide. who came here from
Detroit to Join the Angeles expedition,
was wounded when he attempted to es-
cape. Fernando Licaga. former aid to
Gen. Angeles, and Manuel Lcaza of New
York. Captain on Angeles's stan, were
also captured. All are prominent in the
revolutionary movement against the Car
rama Government, military officials
stated.
border Plot Frustrated.
Manuel Icaza, whose address was SIS
West 13Sth street. New York, arrived
here three weeks ago and has been
closely watched by the Army Intelligence
Department and the Department of Jus
tice agents. Iturbide, who came from
Detroit, was also Swallowed and their
plans were discovered in advance.
1turbide was shot by Alfonso Newton,
a member Of the intelligence staff under
Capt. Carroll Counts. who made the ar
rests.
The men had arms. saddles, ammuni-
ton. good horses and other military sup
plies. No United States Government
arms or supplies were found. indicating
they had purchased their equipment in
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STATE STARTS CONGRESS CALL.
New Hampshire Resolution Ur9es
Session for April 4.

CONCORD, ". H, March ia resolu-
ton calling on members Of Congress to
assemble at Washington April 4 and
proceed with the business of the coun-
try" was presented in the House to-day
by Representative E. w. Hodsdon Of Os-
sipee. Republican. 1t affirms that the
absence from Washington OF the Presi-
dent and Vice-President empowers the
States to reassume the authority dele
gated to the President to summon Con-
gress.
The resolution was tabled for printing.
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Sidney Goldsteln. one of two bandits
who on February II robbed the jewelry
store Of Clapp & Graham at 420 Madison
avenue. and while trying to escape shot
and killed John McGovern. a clerk, was
sentenced to life Imprisonment by Judge
Thomas c. 7. Grain in General Sessions
after he had pleaded guilty to second
degree murder. Simon, the other bandit,
escaped. He was arrested in Florida
recently but was discharged before de-
tectives from this city arrived there.
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8 CHILDREN FOUND DROWNED,
Mother Is said TO Have Been
Craxed by Ill Health.

CoNNEAuT, Ohio. March l9.-Three
small children OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Henderson were drowned this morning
In pond near their home at West
Springfield. Pa, five miles east of here
! Mrs. Henderson,. mother OF tho three
children. is said to have been crazed by
Ill health. Her actions have directed in
yestigation along this line. The chill
dren were aged 2, and years.
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Doubt overt Act.

General Graves enteytains strong
doubt whether all Russians who have
taken up arms in eastern Siberia can
properly be termed Bolsheviki. The
peasants for months have been subject
ed TO brutality at the hands Of troops,
chiefly Cossacks, most OF whom repre-
sent the Omsk Government.
On the pretext OF searching for Boil
sheviki the troops have raided villages
In the countryside, numbering and I'M
prlsoning men and beating and maltreat-
ing women. There have been reports of
such occurrences in many districts, and
individual cases which have been inves-
tisated have established the truth Of,
some OF these reports and the Japanese
apparently have adopted the course Of
supporting the troops who are commit
ting the outrages.
Out OF all this has grown th6 charge
That General Graves has not shown a
proper spirit of cooperation and has
displayed tendency to -Bolshevisn
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did you know it was I who visited
you"
"It is hard to fool the king" said
Tinker Bob
"Indeed it must be. l didn't sup
pose you would understand what
Pat, pat, pat, meant. We do that to
frighten our enemies, and to signal
our friends" said Mr. Wood Rat.
"Well, come when you like, but
remember the law of the great for
est: Don't steal from a friend, Tell
the king all your troubles.
Jack the Wood Rat was good
friend of the King of the Forest,
bringing him many chestnuts, pota-
toes and other good things to eat.
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IANDIT CARLISLE.
CHARACTER
4 Desperate Who Knits
For Soldiers and Buys
Liberty Bonds

PAWLINS, Wyo., Dec. 13.-The
r,ion Pacific train robber, William
Carlisle, who held up the passen-
.,s If the Los Angeles limited on
!, wav through Wyoming on Tues
" November 18, and was captured
y 'sberiff's posses after two weeks at
woe betrays a rare contradiction in
.baracter.
armed with a revolver and facing
c.r full of passengers or twisting
ID turning to elude the sheriff's
',sso he became a daring criminal.
nerson. he knitted sweaters for
.,ldprs and bought Liberty Bonds
~4b the money he earned from man
Lscturing small articles for sale.
His boldness has startled and
.srmed not only the passengers he
shbpd but the authorities who have
rdeavored to apprehend him. Even
mile troops were hunting for him
/. entered a telegraph Office to send
message to the Union Pacific Off
AL thanking them for the "con-
Tbntions" he had collected from the
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passengers on the last train he rob.
ed' 1t is said that he even entered
a newspaper office, asked for news
ABOUT the search for himself, read
Che dispatches and vanished
One of his peculiarities is to an.
nounee when engaged in holdur
| that i am not robbing women, chill.
oreh, old men, soldiers or sailors -
put he went through the pockets Of
all other passengers without com.
junction.
carlisle was sentenced to prison
mere on May II, 1916, after a spec-
tacular career in the previous winter
IN which he robbed several Union
Pacific trains.
de was taken prisoner in April,
1916, the day after he had held up a
Union Pacific train near Hanna. Two
days later he was convicted
He told his capitors, 81 am not a
Killer 1t is said that from his hid
ing place IN the brush he might have
slain many of the posse to which he
surrendered.
So model was his conduct in prison
that his sentence was committed from
life imprisonment to 25 to so wears.
He is less than 80 years old and his
happy, smiling, boyish face, is in
sharp contradiction with his record
as bandit.
He worked in prison as a book
keeper and often boasted that he
could escape whenever he wished. He
disappeared from that institution in
a box of shirts which was being ship
ped by train from railroad station
nearby.
While posses were searching for
him, he apparently boarded Los An
geles limited at Rock River and when
the train had again moved on enter
ed the tourist sleeper through a win
dow ana robbed the passengers IN his
usual spectacular fashion.
This completed he pulled the cord
and as the train slowed down, leaped
from the platform, rolled down an
embankment and escaped although
the train guard and passengers shot
at him several times.
The following night Carlisle enter
ed a newspaper Office at Casper and
asked for news of the robbery Hav-
ing read the dispatches, he smiled and
walked away. The next day he is re-
ported to have entered a telegraph
office and sent the message of thanks
to Union Pacific officials. Since then
he has eluded all efforts to recapture
him.
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y" Tinker Bob ~
IEAI I4Ssa@9stories - 4aCa5ses
8saaE1gg&~. byCarlvsle H. Holconb eS4 ls2sSJ lls2zs2ySJ
,vCarlysle H. Holconb

Der floor. He decided to pretend
that he knew all about Mr.. Wood
Rats actions.
"I heard you come into my cham
Der last night" said he. "But why
did you hide when l arose to light
the candle?"
Jack the Wood Rat was astonish-
ed at this statement; for he thought
he was wise enough to fool even the
King of the Forest. "What did you
hear last night?" he asked.
81 head "Pat, pat, pat" on my
chamber floor" replied Tinker Bob.
"You are surely a wise king. How
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4 heard Pat, pat, pat ON my cham
Der floor" replied Tinker Bob.
Hello, there!" said Tinker Bob,
where have you been all this time?
haven't seen thing of you"
"Oh," said Mr.. Wood Rat, "you
know l sleep all day long and come
out at night to work while others
sleep. If should work in the day
time that saucy Red Fox might come
along and catch me-
"But tell me why are you here,
and how you came"
'We always build our homes near
cottages or dwellings in the forest,
and sometimes if there are no OBJ
jections we go in and live under the
floor or in a vacant room"
Suppose the people didn't want
you to live in their house?" said
Tinker Bob.
"Oh, if they don't want us to live
with them, we keep quiet and live
there anyway because we only use
the house at night. Some folks call
US the Trade Rats because we take
some of the things and leave them in
the house and take some of their
things out"
Tinker Bob began to understand
something that happened the night
before. But he was yet in the dark
about that "Pat, pat, pat" which
sounded each evening on his cham
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THE MYSTERY SOLVED.

TINKER BOB was becoming more
and more interested in the
whereabout of Jack the Rat. He
thought it wise, however, not to show
any undue interest in the matter, lest
Mr. Wood Rat might be watching
from some hiding place. Early in
the morning he went to visit O'Pos-
sum and Lady Duck, instead of
watching the entrance of the pile of
sticks.
In the evening when the king re-
turned, ne spied Jack the Wood Rat
coming out of his house.
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Americus times-recorder., 1919-12-14

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fruit; Tanegrines; Bananas; Grapes;
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NUTS-Fresh, of all kinds.
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