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LLA ESCAPES MEXICAN TROOPS NDIT LEADER HAD NO TROU BLE IN LICKING CARRANZA'S TROOPS. S. CAVALRY IN PURSUIT nericans are Handicapped-250 Miles From Base and Hunt in Moun. tains Is Difficult. San Antonio, Texas.-Francisco Vil has escaped from the 'Mexlcan )Ops that had checked hiM near Lmquipa and three columns of Amer. an cavalry are pursuing him. Already they are almost 250 mies uth of the border and unless Mepx an forces bring the elusive handit a stand, this distance will be great increased] by the close of the week. Vlla's success in extricating him If from the dangerous position into tich he had been driven by the -nerican punitive force was related a detailed report by General Per ing that reached General Funston. General Funston forwarded the re art to Washington without making iblic any but the essential features. Colonel Dodd is commanding the ad meed columns that are riding hard 'ter Villa and his men and General ershing has divided his forces so as > provide supporting columns along ie thinly stretched lines of commun. -at-ion from his most advanced base t El Valle. From El Valle another ne Is being maintained back to Casas randes from where communication Ith the border is maintained. Gen ral Pershing himself is somewhere outh of Casas Grandes directing the ork of holding together his forces and irecting so far as possible the opera ons of Colonel Dodd. Cavalry Is be ig used along the lines communi ating with El Valle where a detach lent of infantry is stationed. Three aeroplanes ar.e at El Valle nd will be used in scouting as soon s the high winds that have been weeping .that part of Mexico for al lost a week subside. These winds. ccording to General Pershing, have ande effective assistance by the aero -lanes impossible. Of the eight ma hines that went into Mexico two are tili out of commission. Details of the operations about Jamiquipa that concluded with the seape of Villa were not revealed, but here is little reason to believe that e was badly whipped or even weak. ned by the fighting directed against in by the de facto government troops. IMPATIENT WITH CARRANZA. lelay in Granting Use of RaIlroads Ia Not PleasIng.. San An tonio, Tex.-Carranza's delay ni permitting the movement -into Mex. co over the Mexican Northwestern tailway of supplies for the Americar roops has created impatience at army 'eadqurters that was hardly disguised The quartermaster dlepartment has 'nt to El Paso a quantity of stores foi immediate shipment and officers hern did not credit an unofficial report thal General Obregon had dec-lared that n< oermission for use of the line wouhi 'he given. Failure to send supplies over the 'raIlroad would not stop the cam paign, it was said, but it was admit ced that it would materially retarn '3eneral Pershing's activities. Al ready the change in the position o the United States forces,- observeri here pointed out, would make the lin4 of National Itailways of Mexico, whicl goes straight from Juarez to Chisua ~ y hua, the logical one to use. Whether General lFunston request! .~' the government to get permission tc use the National. however, will de pend upon the answer to the request already made, he said. Another Grand-Daughter For Wilson. 4 Philadelphia-A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Blowes Sayre here. She is the secondl grand-datught er of President Wilson and will be named Eleanor Axson Sayre, for Mrs. Sayre's mother. Mother and chil were reported to be doing well. Jeas Willard is Btili Champion. New York.-Jes Willard is sill the heavyweight pugilistic champion of the world. In 10 rounds of fast fight ~ ~ 4ng he defeatel Frank Moran of Pltts. ~. ~ burg here on points. A crowd oi ~ ,', 't. about 13,000 persons paid approximate * ~ ~,ly $150,000 to see the fight and weni 'j~. ~. away apparently satisfied with the re *~ 4' aUlt. It was the greatest gathering ~ r adison Square Garden had ever seen S.Wlaid ,proke his right hand in the g etkept Moran at a distance. Norfolk Has Big Pire, Norfolk, Va.-Two fires of unknowr ergin, caused damage estimated al 6#*2,900 in this city. The Progresi - building, In the heart of the whole - gle Alstrict in Water street was comi I ey destroyed, the loss being. plac -,,"~ 287,0007 Thie plant of- the Cole Cooa omlpany in Brapabieor Af N6 toyed, the toot 0~9O Th~ e at the e'real THREE AMERIOANS REPORTED KILLED Two WOMEN AND ONE MAN VIC TIMS OF MEXICAN RAIDERS IN NEW MEXICO. U. S. TROOPS GO IN PURSUIT Band of Mexican Bandits Cross Border to Gibson Ranch Where the Three Were Killed. Douglas, Ariz.-Three Americans, two women and one man, were killed ncar Gibson's Line ranch on the New NUxico-Mexico boundary, eight miles wevt of Columbus, N. M.. respumably by Mexicans, according to the story brought here by a party of five Doug las people, who said they arrived on the scene shortly after the bodies had been r(.aoved by soldiers. A command of United States sol diers stationed at the Gibson ranch was said to have crossed the line in pursuit of the slayers. Samuel Collins, automobile dealer; Mr. and Mrs. Russell T. Childers, Miss Lottie Milinowski and Edward Free man, all of Douglas, were the auto mobilists who told of the alleged kill ing. The names of the persons said to have been killed were not learned. According to the story told by the party, the four motorists had been to El Paso on a pleasure trip. They de cided to visit Columbus to view the ruins left by the raid of Villa's men, Instead of returning here through Deming and Lordsburg, N. M. After leaving Colunmbus they were stopped at Hermanas by the railroad section foreman, they said, who warn ed them tha something was wrong at the Gibson .-anch, a few miles farther or. He sa'd that he had been watching through a pair of binoculars and had seen a nicuadted band of 100 or more men, supposedly Mexican bandits, ercas the border near the ranch and ride to a water hole a mile and a half north. After watering their horses, they rode back across the line. He added that within a short time a number of troopers of the Twelfth Cavalry had come to the ranch house and moved about in an excIted manner. HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES. Germans and French Keep up Vigorous Bombardment. London-It is still in the French and Rlussian war theaters that the heav-iest battles are in progres, but fighting also is continuing in the Aus tro-Italian zone, in Serbia near the Greek frontier and in Asiatic Turkey. The French are keeping up their vigorous bombardment of the woods of Melancourt and Avocourt, north west of Verdun, which are held by the Germans, and also are hammering away with their guns at German lines of communication In the eastern fringes of the Argonne forest. To the north and east of Verdun -an intermittent bombardment by the Germans of French second line posi. tions is still going on with the French replying energetically. All along the Russian front fron the region of Friedrichstadt to the district around Vina the Russian! and Germans are hard at grips. Petro grad says that near Widey, betweer Dvinsk and Vilna, the Russian forceE all the German lines and barricadei and repulsed a vigorous German coun ter-attack. Berlin, however, says that here thi Russian attacks failed with heava losses before the German entangle ments. Tells of Navy's Needs. Washington.-Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske dleclared before the housi naval committee that regardless o1 how many ships were built, it would be impossible to carry out the general board's plan for making the Americari navy equal to any afloat by 1925, be cause it would take ten years longer to develop and train the personnel: necessary to man the navy in first rank, Agree- on Speed-Up Plan. Washington.--House Democrats ad opted a resolution outlining a plan for speeding up the administration legis lative program with a view to adjourn ment before the national political con. ventions in June as urged by Presi. dent Wilson. They pledged them selves to co-operation in earlier daily meetings and to -such ight sessions as may seem advisable. The plan is to handle at night sessions the business of all special days in the week except the so-called calendar Wednesday. All Powers Agree on Plan. Washington.-All of the Entente powers, through their embassies here, have handed to Secretary Lansing for mnal responses rejecting the proposal made by the state, department -in its circular lnemorand.m that they -enter into a modus vivendi and disarm all of their zlerchiant ships with tis derstanding that th' United og gSovernment would endeavor to ~ 0e fm th9 Cpuitral powete , SWAT SEA 6OT PA(GM YARo SWATrMG (Copyright.) GEN.HERRERA JOINS VILLA CARRANZA COMMANDER IN CHI HUAHUA WITH 2,000 MEN SIDES WITH BANDIT. Probable That He Will interupt Wire Service With Pershing and the Border. San Antonio, Tex.-Reports that Gen. Luis Herrera, commanding 2,000 men at Chihuahua, had aligned him self with Francisco Villa against the United States, were received with grave concern by General Funston and his staff. Officially and unofficially the opinion was that with Herrera joining forces with Villa the interna tional situation might easily be made so complex that by comparison the pursuit of Villa would be regarded as incidental. The long intervals between reports from the. field commander of the American ex dition already had key ed the tensi a bit, although General Funston and his chief-of-staff contin ued to profess the belief that all was well with the troops below CasaF Grandes, but the report from Chihau. hua made insignificant any anxiet) they might have felt concerning Gen eral Pershing's operations. T. R. Beltran, Mexican Consul here said that he had not received con firmation of the report and he was in clined to laugh at it as a "border ru mor." According to the version here Herrera was removed from comnmani and immediately took stops to alienatt his garrison. -That Carranza hat enough loyal troops in northern Mex iho to drive him from the city of Chi huahua, if he aims to hold the place was believed by military 'men here. Military observers here see a possi ble connection with Herrera's report ed action in the interruption of wir< service between Casas Grandes an< Juarez and the wire cutting betweel Torreon and Ojinaga, opposite Presi dio, Texas, CHINA CHANGES AGAIN. Monarchy Abandoned By Yuan Shi Ka Who Resumes PresIdency. Peking-A state department mar date issued announces the abandor ment of 'the monarchy and resumptioi of the Republic. The mandate says the revolutioi shows that the demand for 'a mon archial form of government is no uanimous and that therefore Yuan Sh Kai rejects the emperorship and re sumes the presidency. MANY BIG FIRES REPORTED. Augusta, Ga.-Fire which has causei dlamage estimated at from $5,000,000 tE $8,000,000 in the heart of Augusta' business disti'ict and the adjoining residelnce distrio't, still burned briskly but wvas under control. No lives were lost. in the twenty-five blocks whict1 were swept clean were the greater por tion of Broad street and 500 resi dences, including the most costly ir the city. Nashville, Tenn.-A small ball oi yarn, lighted and thrown by a boy int dry grass in a vacant lot, started a con fiagration in Nashville which was nol under control after 35 residence blocket had been swept by the fire. The losa . Spray, N. C-Fire which threatened the entire tusiness section of the town of Floyd H-ill was reported under con. trol. Several buildings were destroy. ed, the damage amounting to $20,000. is estimated at $1,600,000. Natchez, Miss.-Fire of undeterin ed origin partially destroyed the plant of the Natchez Dressed Beef Company causing damage estimated at from $30,000 to $50,000. Paris, Texas-Every incoming train wa's bringing provisions, clothing and tents to the approximately 8,000 home less persons in Paris, rendered practi cally destiute b~y fire, which. did prop erty damage estimated at between $8,000,000 and $10,000,000. Three por .eonslost their lives, 'Tulsa, Okla.-Revised estimates of te 4amage as a .result of the prairie fl bjeh swept over four sections of Ajdi lthe Cush-ing oil ld placq th jabp~roximet y * 0,000., -: Iham N,1 .,t& an bW SON OPENS tio tfr4 mor roPotAR. PPORr vtL 5WATTIN e#4 Powov 3ouTt ASKS FOR MOR TROOPS WANTS "ADEQUATE FORCE" TO PROTECT HIS LINE OF COM MUNICATIONS. Field Operations So Large Present Force is Insufficient.--Villa Troops Are Scattered. San Antonio, Tex.-General Funston asLed the war department for more troops to be sent into Mexico in pur suit of Francisco Villa. The request was made. at the sug gestion of General Pershing, com mander of the expedition, who urged that another regiment be sent to him. In his message to the war department General Funston asked for what he termed an "adequate force." It was announced at General Fun ston's headquarters that the Fifth Cavalry of which one squadron is at Fort Myer, Va., another at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and the third at Fert Sheridan, Wyo., would be brought to the border at once and sent for ward along General Pershing's line of communication to Casas Grandes. Whether he had asked for other troops General Funston would not say. The only reason given for strength ening General Perishing's force, known to be considerably more than 4,000, - was that his field of operations had become so extended that his main - line of communication and the sub sidiary lines were in need of strength I ening. "Mer-ely a precautionary move," was the way General Funston ans - wered all inquiries. He was asked if - the reported movement of troops of ,the de facto government from garri sons in the interior to posts on the . border and reported failure of the .Carranza troops in one or two in a stances to show active co-operation in the pursuit of Villa had anything i to do with his decision to ask for .more strength but he' declined to answer. Some uneasiness was displayed for a moment at department headquar ters when it was reported that the I telegraph wires between Casas Gran des and the border had been cut, but - an official report stating that the line -cut was a "buzzer" line General Persh ing had laid and that it had been broken accidentally by some of the American forces crossing it allayed - apprehension. tIt is not believed here that Gen I oral Funston is- worried by reports - of alleged growing antagonism among certain Carranza troops although he is carefully studying that phase of the situation. TILLMAN BILL PASSES, Provides For Government Armor Plate Factory-Cost $11,000,000. Washington.-The Tillman bill to provide for the erection or purchase by the government of an armor-plate factory at a cost of not to exceed $11, 000,000 was passed by the senate by a vote of 58 to 23. Democratic Senators supported the bill solidly, regarding it as one of the important measures included in the national preparedness program now being hastened to completion. Nine Progressive Republicans joined with the majority in voting for the bill. They were Senators Blorah, Clapp. Cummins, Gronna, Kenyon; Norris, Poindexter, Sterling and Works. Villa Captured Nothing. San Rntonio, Texas-General Fun sten requested newspaper correajpond ants to deny that Villa's men had cap tured machine guns at Columbus or anaything else at Columbus or on the march south of the border Kills Himself and Four Children. Grensboro, N. C.--D. G. Patterson, a Prominently .connected man of this eity, murdered his four children in their beds and committed suicidq. He used' the' full round of a five-shot' re volver in killing the children and re-. loaded the weapon to end his o~n life. The tragedy occurred shortly .1,fore da'ylight, The dead are j, th~ Louise, ~ed 16; Gor~oi er 1 Frances, ekd 9; CoW@e ~ ~ 7 Patteo00 bad eviden ,1A 4a Ali A~we (aslenn AA *if PA88D3tHos ONLY TWO ME".EO TED AGAINST NATIONAL. PREPAR EDNESS MEA46RE., PEACE STRENGTH OF 140,000 Britten of Illinois Opposed Bill Be. cause he Favored Greater Increase; London Favored No Increase. Washington.-The Hay army in crease bill providing for a regular army peace strength of 140,000 fighting men instead of the present 100,000 passed the house by a vote of 402 to 2. It goes to the senate for immediate con. sideration virtually as drafted by the house committee. The negative votes were cast by Representative Britten, Republican of Illinois, and London, Socialist of New York. Mr. Britten opposed the bill because he favored a still further increase in the army and London because he fa vored no increase. The bill is the first of President Wilson's great national preparedness measures to pass either house, al though various related measures have been approved. It was finally adopted only after Representative Kahn, rank ing Republican member of the mili tary committee again had met defeat -this time 213 to 191-in his effort to increase the authorized strength of the regulars to 220,000. During the debate Chairman Hay of the committee that drew the bill re ferred to it as "the President's own bill." It was explained at the White House, however, that while the presi dent approved the ground plan of the measure, he was not committed to its details. The conference on the senkte and house plans, to come after the senate acts, is expected by administra tion officials to produce a bill which will have the president's full support. HEAVY FIGHTING IN EAST. Masses of Russians Are Pressing Germans From Riga District. London.-Except on the front near Gomecourt and the Bethune-LaBassee road, where the British gained some advantages in fights against the Ger mans, no infantry engagements have taken place along the line in France and Belgium. Heavy fighting, how ever, continues between the Germans and Russians on the Eastern front from the region of Riga southward. The Germans northwest of Verdun are continuing their violent shelling of the Malancourt sector and again have trained their guns on the French front of Bethincourt, Le Mort Homme and* Cumieres probably preparatory to fresh infantry attacks in an effort to break through the line when the moment seems propitous. The French have not slackened their bombardment of the Malancourt wood from positions in the Argonne forest, and also are shelling heavily German positions and the roads and railways held by the Germans in the eastern part of the Argonne. The bombardment to the northeast of Verdun, as well as in the Woevre region, to the east of the fortress, has increased in intensity. Heavy masses of Russians are pressing the Germans from the Riga district southward for a distance of 70 miles. While they have gained some advantages, the Russian War Office admits that south of Lake Dreswaity the Germans recaptured trenches that the Russians liaad taken the previous night. 3,000 Homeless In Augusta. Augusta, Ga.-With six business blocks levelled by fire and more than 600 houses destroyed, Augusta was feeding and housing its 3,000 home less, without aid from the outside world. Estimates of the firee loss remained at $5,000,000 tonight, but citizens who discussed the disaster expressed the view that the loss of 130 businese houses 4.aa not felt more than was the destruction of many historical buildings. Perplexed by Border Dispatches. Washington.-Officials were perplex. ed by dispatches from the border say ing General Bell had notified General Funston that the report of Hen-era's revolt was condirmed. When the war department closed for the night at 11 o'clock Secretary Baker stated thst General Funston had not advised the department of General Bell's report and that all information reaching him indicated that Herrera was loyal to Carranza. Major General Scott, chief of staff, declared emphatically he did not believe the report. Douglas Uneasy. Douglas, Aris.-Reporte. that ap-. Droximately 2,000 de facto government I troops lead been .seen by United States soldier observers marching iuto Agua .Prieta fr'Oih the southeaet, con. pied with apparent veridecntion from s0ergses iri the Mexican towyti; aroused arehoesis here. 5en. P. EBlias (gies, llittary goy-. e or of Bonora, stapeq, hOWver, that MORD@W atris A r A t n tact G I ileell GROWERS. MEETING, STATE PRIZE WINNERS GATHER AT BIG BANQUET HELD IN COLUMBIA. GUESTS OF DIRECTOR BAKER Fifteen-Year -Old Cary McKenzie is Leader for Year-List of the State Prize Winners Given Columbia.-Ten boy champion corn growers of South Carolina, members of the boys' corn clubs were the guests of honor at a banquet given in Columbia at the Jefferson hotel by L. L. Baker of Bishopville, state agent. for the boys' club work. Gov. Man ning and other state officials attended the banquet. Each of* the young champions was presented with a prize. Last year 1,069 young. boys were' enlisted in the agricultural clubs of the state. These boys produced 22,125 bushels of corn, worth $12,662.23. The average cost per bushel was 42 1-2 cents. The average yield per acre was 49.6 bushels. Cary McKenzie of Hamer in Dillon county won the first prize for the state. He produced 164.2 bushels of corn on an acre at a cost of 9 cents per bushel. This is considered by the government experts to be the best rec ord for the South. James* W. Draffin of Lesslie in York county produced 106.42 bushels on one acre at a cost of 26 cents per bushel. He received the second prize at the banquet. Boy kin McCaskill of Camden won third. prize. He produced 121.4 bushels on one acre at an average cost of 17.2. cents per bushel. The congressionsl, district winners who attended the banquet were: First district-Neal Hodge, Man ning, Clarendon county, 64.04 bushels of corn at 28 cents per bushel.' Second district - James Frankie Fail, Govan, Bamberg county, 114.08 bushels of corn, at 35 1-2 cents per bushel. Third district--Ernest Brooks, Pros perity, Newberry county, 95.42 bush els of corn at 19 1-2 cents per bushel. Fourth district-Lewis Jackson, Wellford, Spartanburg county, 65.08 bushels of corn at 42 cents per bushel. Fifth district - Robert McCaskill, Camden, Kershaw county, 108 bush els of corn at 24.5 cents per bushel. Sixth district-Travis Godbold, Eu lonia, Marion county, 100.32 bushels of corn at 31.5 cents per bushel. Seventh district - -Jacob Monts, Blythewood, Richland county, 79.42 bushels of corn at 17.5 cents per bushel. Data on Farm Management. Orangeburg. - Government experts are in Orangeburg county securing farm management dasta. C. E. Hope, an expert in farm management, has been in the county at this work for the past , three weeks. A. GI. Smith, an agriculturist, who is in charge of the work in this county, has been at work here this week' andl will stay here until the work is comp~leted. About four more men will be brolight to the county right away to assist in this work. A bulletin will be Issued covering work on 250 Orangeburg county farms. This bulletin will show the cost of farming on efficiency basis. ThIs bulletin will be of great value, as what holds good with these 250 farms wIll likely hold good With all farms in the entire county, the onlty one in South Carolina that this work is going on in. South Carolina Will be Reprqsented Columbia-South Carolina will be well represented in the conferences an don the programme of the South ern Sociological congress, which will meet in New Orleans April 12-1Q. In portant subjects relating to the social and civic growth and progresstof the Scuthern States will be discussed and a verdtable council of war against direase, crIme and ignorance will be held, with 2,000 or more interested people present and participating. Among the speakers will be the cel ibrated W. A. Evans, M. D., of Chica 10. MissIng Aviator Spartanburg Soy. Spartanburg.--Robert H. Willis, one Sf the two lieutenants of -the First Aero squadron .of the United States forces who was lost in the desert foot bills .of the Sierra Madres in Mexico,4 .s a Spartanburg county boy anq rsId. xd for a number of years at Zinluml mnd Inman in this county, libere #1is ~ather, R. H. Willis, taught school. Het s a brother of Alfred Willis* of Spair- I anburg and Mrs. Roland Lee,. wife of [tepresontative Roland Leo, A fiemlier >f the South Carolina legisla.gre from his county, Is his sinter. ,4. To Make Cigars Ii0 Greenwood Greenwood-reewood's latest en- I erprise is a cigai' fac~pry which will >G opened here in. e fewdy' by Joe0 ~. Greene, of of thie t~sie wn trAy ding men ein tl6 st'at9 .g& roli as sectre. as 9 ~ lI the1 actory . Ga.,