Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (Newspaper) - April 30, 1916, Fort Wayne, Indiana of I WAYN E WITS MIGHT AND MALM it Js Prints It and Promptly out Bias or Distortion IMS Journal News of the World SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 30 1916 -64 PAGES By Associated PRICE FIVE CENTS MEXICAN SITUATION IS AGAIN GRAV IF THF OF IWILL UNITED STATES DROP CHASE OF CONFERENCE MAY DECIDE EL PASO Tex April conflicting propositions I developed immediately after the beginning in the Mexican j toms house in Juarez late to-day of the conference to decide the future disposition of the American expeditionary forces in Mexico They are understood temporarily to have increased the gravity of the negotiations In addition another factor is believed to have been in- into the situation by the receipt of fresh reports that Villa is dead Mexican Consul Andreas Garcia said Colonel Carranza I had telegraphed him from that he had been unable to find Villa's body but that he had established beyond the bandit leader was dead and he hoped to cover the body in a few days The telegram said all the dence tended to confirm the j death of Villa This is understood to have been laid j before the conferees but none i would confirm or deny it i The initial meeting lasted two hours was held closed doors in the bi GIVES OF AN AGREEMENT WASHINGTON April behind j The only dispatch to the tU department made public room which villa used as his council n One from Major chamber he dominated northern i one from Mexico eral Hugh L Scott chief of ters conference will be held staff reporting his call Oil to-morrow this time in El Paso i General Alvaro Obregon the crais Hugh L Scott Carranza war minister last ton represented the States The i at conferees were General I at Obregon Mexican minister of war and I tilat the Visit had been a General Jacinto military com- j ant One mander of the northeast district of j Officials Construed it to -i that General Scott was self Impressed with the Idea that a j satisfactory understanding could be reached with General Obregon as to future American troops in pursuit of Villa again declined to the scope of tile mission signed to General the conferences with General Obregon Since the whole question of American u state department matter and never HOW TO GET IN The committee in charge of the great industrial exposition desires to state that any merchant facturer jobber or person or con- cern which desires to have a part in the big event may make their wants known by telephoning the centennial headquarters and curing information from H B Garmire the office secretary A few more can be accommodated if applications are made at once LONDON April phase of the ill-fated Brit- j ish campaign in Mesopotamia has closed with the surrender of I General Townshend and the garrison at on the Tigris river about 130 miles below Bagdad Some j in all laid down their arms to the Turks after having destroyed j all their guns and munitions The British Mesopotamia waged along the Tigris from the Persian gulf ward almost to the gates of Bagdad had as its chief aim the capture of that ancient city To divert Turkish forces from was another object When almost at the point of j achieving its main object late last year the effort broke down at eighteen miles from Bagdad when the Turks alarmed for the safety of the i town of fabled memory rushed iup reinforcements inflicted a defeat upon the British and compelled their retreat 110 miles down the Tigris to where the Turks soon securely bottled up General Townshend held i for 143 days his steadily growing lower as he awaited the relief army which first under General and then un- der General Gorringe battled its way j up the Tigris toward him This army i i encountered strong positions of the BULLETIN LONDON April these were carried it has not Continued on Page 12 Column 3 r immediate caie of them Was has I larse brick in a j the situation is the outcome amounted Us of the main street of of the conference by Generals Scott in Mexico until V and United i dead or alive that the United States army forces be withdrawn minister of war in the government General I Obregon wants the United jo the border can formally be considered by the conferees Whatever General Scott may indicate as to the nation to retain the troops in Mexico until all danger of border raids has passed it is believed here that his chief purpose throughout the ences will be to secure co-operation in the way of use of Mexican railroads to supply the troops a definite under- standing as to what course shall be pursued where the Americans proach a town and to what extent they may enabled to purchase plies and also possibly some ment for interchange of information that would aid in down the t bandits either by American or can forces ence probably ilia is taken It was said the would be held in the pointed out General fell minister ILL nu a to either the privileg and that Mexico is capable of I Mexican soil The for- thi government the privilege of remaining Juarez only a short distance from the international bridge where General i Scott held famous conference vith In El the consulate Co i be de- -J No elded it on the American side t Scott Xo i General No 3 General custom house is a 4 custom house in Juarez WASHINGTON April definite word forecasting a Marshal count French commander of been the home forces reports that general postoffice at Un which has 6 cipal stronghold has been Buoys ot one of i the rebels is been killed Many of the rebels taken prisoners and in Dublin is on the collapse In the land the situation generex PRAISES IRISH LOYALTY Monday morning Contractor Louis C and a force of men will begin the big task of trans- forming the baseball park and the surrounding territory Into a suitable place for the holding of the great in- exposition Mr work will consist of the removal of stretches of present high board and the rebuilding of others to enclose the enlarged the construction of the exhibition booths platforms band stands and other necessary equipment to care for Fail to Reach LOUISVILLE Ky April joint wage scale committee of tucky coal miners and operators after a session here to-day adjourned until next week when a fresh effort wili be made agree upon a scale STAGE ALL SET POLITICAL BATTLE HAVING ALL 1 BEST OF ARMY 1916 The to the WASHINGTON 9 INDIANAPOLIS April tomcats with their of the bouse ana senate after m i tails linked across the fruitless barrier of a nice thin clothes-Ithree deliberation on the army Wage Agreement active full-fed in the zenith of their usefulness have nothing on the republican and democratic j ties as they faced each other to-day for the test of strength in j important features it was strongly Indiana that will end temporarily next November intimated to-night that they would re- For the barrier has dropped the bugle has sounded the moorings have been cast off Without fear of contradiction instructions i Germany's decision in the sub- marine controversy had reached pressed to the Associated Press at the I Washington and of- vice lodge to-day the assurance i apparently were almost thc seditious movement would be I as much in the dark regarding ln the course of a few 6 days The viceroy was full of praise i the outcome as they were when for the by the great i the American dispatched to i days ago It was apparent i that decisive was expected i I without much more delay I dor Gerard's visit to Emperor William at army headquarters was believed to presage an early decision since it was j expected that the ambassador would clear up any possible obscurities of i demands were Berlin eleven April borne lord lieutenant of Ireland ex- majority of the Irish people and con- the momentary success gained and the damage done by the rebels as small when viewed in connection with Continued Page 12 4 THE WEATHER WASHINGTON April Lansing indicated to-day that j Monday showers tne situation remained unchanged in showers and the absence of n from Ber and remained unchanged in j and sence of informative dispatches i cooler Monday cloudy and con- Berlin rt was said however I cool report from Ambassador I clouds Sunday Monday his I showers and cooler eniperor was momentarily expected Continued on Page 31 Column 4 Monday with cooler in north portion Sunday and south portion day aade in reaching an agreement in a series of meetings since March a on Page 2 Column 1 break might come to day I mav here be said the 1916 campaign in with candidates placed as they such little oratorical 8 SJUS prior to the letting nitrate plant re- Wimborne Tells Story of Dublin Outbreak in Detail April which the Curragh camp headquarters This one of their mistakes They did not with North Ireland of the contracts Tower of Babel backed right off the ort ot member of the conference planks It actually is feared that the 1916 crop of literature from Hoosierdom will be of such a highly inflammable that the first big snow flakes of the winter will assume the texture of crisped tortillas ere j the fires of this campaign diej which we have at all times been I OUt in Indiana At the head j to converse s I of both state tickets sit the two most criticised men state has had within her ders for Eart and James K Watson Cloae side them sit John W Kern and Harry S New respectively Trailing along in the state tickets of each of the H JIM LARKIN'S CITIZEN SOLDIERY INVOLVED IN THE IRISH REVOLT Kentuck Moose Indorse T R home when requested to give an count of what had happened since the Irish rebels had proclaimed an Irish republic last afternoon said to the Associated The outbreak began Monday intr about o'clock About that time information was received that Dublin castle had been attacked St Stephens green occupied and the office seized obtained by the tner j to Dublin that and advantageous positions the following morning i Tlle cannot Ul IJUI Meanwhile the situation at the the rebels from other citizens J tie which had never been captured by i times they leave their houses was not protected On Tuesday morning all the re- we had called from had reached Dublin and since iat moment the rebels have not at- anything except sniping from 1 bv the rebels Telephonic tempted anything except sniping t ion with the Curragh camp j Continued on Page 10 Column 1 LOUISVILLE Ky April The progressive state convention in session here to-night delegates at large to the tional convention at Chicago and adopted resolutions reaffirming adherence to the progressive tional platform of 1912 and in- the Kentucky delegation to vote for Theodore Roosevelt for the presidential nomination The members of the at large delegation each with vole Aubrey Adkins M J Holt George W Jolly G M loway Leslie Combs E S ens Wood F Axton and Brutus J Clay The few forces had been assembled in the which however was never in real The rebels had rut telegraphic communications with the country dis- and but had not in discovering a telephone wire after j their rifles and cartridges and mingle with the ordinary The rebels was strengthened only casualty there was the shooting of a policeman at the gate A very After taking observations of the the outbreak large j Hers positions they return to com- mence again Mosi of the houses they occupy they have entered by force and not because the holders sympathize with their ment As a matter of fact the general run of people do not sympathize with them Since the number of troops has in- creased the position of the rebels has remained the same When their at any point become too lively the throw a few shells Into the houses they occupy and such sions have caused fires while other tires have been started hy the rebels themselves Favorably Reported Prepare PAGEANT REHEARSALS Monday night May 1 at Shrine hall building West Main street and Maiden mass meeting of all persons have signified a willingness to participate in the pageant gether wtih all others who are now ready to offer their services WASHINGTON April A j year improvement and flood control j program for the Mississippi and rivers is provided for in a favorably reported to the to-day by the flood control commit- I Fort Wayne Rotarians are all set for their monthly banquet which will be held Monday evening at the An- thony hotel with Robert K tee It appropriated for us and Prof the and for the D- Henderson of the to cover work during the t sity of present to deliver hid five-year period famous lecture Dollars and Sense in The measure maUes no provision I Tom Corwine of j IT for a federal waterways council 1 polyphonic imitator and Mr broad legal nrf which a special cabinet Hughes th recommended should be organized to distribute appropriations and super- j vise improvement work It was said that proposal might be considered Orpheum tenor will add to-night and he declared congress would be asked in the near future to I pass again on these features of the measure The senate conferees are insisting determinedly upon the provision in the senate hill for a regular army of men and Representative Kahn the republican house conferee is ing with them Representatives Hay and Dent however are insistant upon the house provision for men j Some administration leaders think j the house might now he brought accept the senate proposal 1 should the conferees fail to agree It was said to-night that should a disagreement be reported the senate might agree tn sive up its volunteer plan and instead the tional guard reserve provision which it It- conceded generally never be accepted by the house The Duty of the U S April sity for United Stales to pion and uphold now nnd the j European war ends the fundamental principles of international law was the j theme of addresses it n IM- night closing iho tenth ing of the American of Inter- national Lansing the secretary of state made the address tt the i a business when Hoot was re-elected its president Secretary admitting thit new the law of nations must be mot the war thai their un- changeable standard is ji rock of i assorted that the j immutable i founded and j that international law is I OH SHOULDERS They Mackville I dependently by the committee and street ami are in possession of all the some more comprehensive scheme of control be worked out Continued on 12 Column i later the evening's entertainment Three humanity new E Greist Declaring master mechanics G A I Ims representing merchant Gray uf Delaware expressed belief and J F Keenan representing rather than armed force will be introduced during the i will evolve a concert of international The dinner will promptly ut authority sifter the war for o'clock I Uon of lust lim the and nnd Irish labor leader and his hall in also hv the in- lowera arc in Irish is j IKIS heen Hie headquarters of not known it is not to j In ISM it Was thai the man who preached fiery i ihitt had stored arms and to government in will It The phon nf in j graph shows on the In ml n is triers of some ol hit itin's soldiery the Dublin i
