Galveston Daily News (Newspaper) - April 21, 1917, Galveston, Texas She 11 SOUTH TEWS m mm LIFE DROUTH OF SEVERAL WEEKS IS BROKEN BY GOOD BAINS OF GENERAL NATURE STOCKMEN SLSO Water and Grass Is Provided for Cattle and Reports of Heavy Hail Received Splendid rains have fallen over South Texas and particularly Southwest Texas during the past forty-eight hours thus new life to waning crops and breaking a drouth of several weeks duration Cotton and vegetable crops have beon advanced and tle which were feeling the effects of the dryness are now provided with wa- ter and grass is given an impetus ports to The News last night indicate a heavy fall of hail and some wind in sections Galveston County farmers are happy now will get busy with truck and fruit Rain in the section wU In- sure a melon and cucumber crop and be of great benefit to corn cotton and rious vegetables Cape jasmines will be- gin to be sent out by growers in days and a large crop is ex- is said to be the largest shipper of the In the United States The heaviest hailstorm that the has seen in many years fell Thursday night and continued for about ten minutes The hall beat down crops and tore holes through of some structures broke and and peppered unprotected live stock The Lea section Luting was hard hit by the hail Some tin roofs Wuro lu liu The roof of the McKean Brothers Mercantile Company is to have been almost demolished Kain followed the hail throughout the Luting and Prairie Lea communities In Klo Grande Cattle range conditions and planted feed crops throughout lower count country and the lower Rio Grande Valley benefited by sumptuous rains yesterday a fall of one Inch being re- ported from ranches between and the coast whlie north of along the Brownsville way heavier rains with a maximum fall of two inches at vine Farmers in the immediate feared Thursday they to replant thousands of land Corn already ed me considerably enlarged Farmers of Brownsville will hold a mass meeting Saturday to discuss to Increase crops A vacant house owned by Charles at Laredo was struck by ning during a thunderstorm early morning and had the front lery torn off all wiring burned out and then set afire the flames were ex- before any from the flro resulted The bolt of lightning pre- ceded a heavy rain which fell at 1 o'clock yesterday morning breaking a drouth that hud prevailed for several months The rain was general in the en- tire Laredo section and will prove of inestimable value to cattle men as tho suit of the protracted dry spell The first genera rain over the Corpus suction uf Texas ot since nst September fell day ot Kenedy to the Kio Valley to luch at lo nearly three Inches at Sinton The rain covered the greater area of the counties of Karnes Bee San Patricio Refugio Nueces Webb and all counties south of River to the Rio Grande Ranches were suffering and farmers were pre- vented from planting by the iack of moisture but yesterday's place the country n shape tor least another five weeks and will give DIVIDED ON FIVE REPRESENTATIVES ARE FOR CONSCRIPTION EQUAL NUMBER ON OPPOSITION SOI Recruiting Records Show West and South Lead in Number of Men Joining All Services MARK L GOODWIN Staff Special to The Washington April members of the Texas delegation are outspoken in favor of tho selective draft policy of President Wilson in raising an army for the war against Germany Three others probably will vote for it but are not ready to burn their bridges at this time Two are against conscription probably In any form Three favor volunteers at the outset and conscription if necessary and five members could not be located during the day is the result of a poll of the delegation made for The News Some of the Texas members are in- to favor the house as reported the ground that It proposes to give oroper recognition to both and In the end allows the president to Ise his discretion In the manner of ing an army The chief difficulty found with this position Is that the presided already has spoken in favor of the draft rind Is tho Mon ing upon volunteers under terms of the the draft can be applied when in the judgment of the president it be- comes necessary Strictly construed the does not seek to limit the president's exorcise of discretion and it would be possible for him to give the draft diate effect and cite the lack of ciency in the volunteer system as shown by results since volunteers were called for by the regular army and al guard North and Bant In this situation the recruiting records since the government called for volunteers to bring the regular army and national guard to war strength nish an additional argument in favor of the president's plan to distribute the burden of army service equally ouf the country In the recruiting as well as for the marines and the navy what have been termed the peace at any price chiefly the West and South have exceeded the recruiting in New York and Massachusetts for in- of cent ers and Westerners are into the those niv particularly the sections that have been clamoring for war since the first gun was fired lu Europe tre not Thn draft would require ot tho fuH responsibility by all sections of the country Representative member At large from Texas announced today Umt ho against any character of draft as regards It undemocratic nnd un- American and does not believe it will ever be necessary I don't think I will vote for it said Representative was absent I from the city but he has repeatedly in favor of the teer system TEXAS SATURDAY APRIL 31 PACES ESTABLISHED 1843 Section of Stores Which Go to Supply the British Army on Front Somewhere in France HANG SOLDIERS TROOPS NEW KILLED AND WOUNDED FRENCH OFFENSIVE FRESHLY From Underwood Underwood Tork HOW ARMY RATIONS ARE STORED the men of an army is only one part of the maintenance problem and the maintenance one of the phases of modern m science but some idea of the great detail of the system of feeding an thls Tho food piled up here is part of the immense store of supplies tor tlon of the British army PRESS CENSORSHIP BY CLAUSE OP ESPIONAGE IS IN DEBATE Washington April senate re- corded today in favor of a press censorship PRESIDENT TO GROUP OP DISTINGUISHED MEN TO AID COUNTRY Washington April will u few the farmers a chance crops out of The actual farmer boy win lor Draft Plan Representative Gregg I think I am still for the selective draft but since the has been reported both T to look into It before finally committing ex- to Selective draft Representative Mansfield said his sonal views were in favor of volunteers but that ho was making a telegraphic poll of his district to ascertain with what the people thought about it Representative Buchanan I will support selective draft as being the most efficient manner of raising the necessary army and at ths same time conserving productive and industries by the ground Business men of Corpus completed ar survey Of Nueces County arid raised to purchase seed that be sold on at cost prices to tenant farmers unable to mako the Cattle Alno Benefited A drouth that has lasted for months was broken yesterday morning by a heavy rain in tho Victoria section Tho rain was general over the entire section and amounted to as much as three inches In places Austwell and Tivoli all In County reported the iest precipitation The rainfall in toria city amounted in 1.5 Inches The rain was accompanied by a thunderstorm which did some damage to service wires One of the switches at the electric ing plant at Victoria was burned out by and the service in some tions of the city was Interrupted for hours Tho rain is worth millions of and at a when the drouth threatening to cause an entire crop failure and a heavy cattle loss in ria County Owing to the lack of grass many ranchmen been moving their cattle nnd penning feeding them a number having suffered bs as a soldier o the soil to Ala Jn r the people This will be my unless otherwise Instructed by my espionage hill after decided modification was retained in the by a vote of 43 to 33 The vote came after three days of sharp debate and was re- as definitely forecasting finul re- tention of the censorship provisions Later the still far from ed was laid Indefinitely to permit consideration beginning tomorrow of tho measure The house committee has completed Its draft of the espionage also with a censorship clause and will report it The provision as finally by the senate Well Defined Whoever In time of war In violation of reasonable regulations to be pre- uy ins ne is hereby authorized to make and gate shall publish any information with respect to the movement numbers de- scription or position of the armed forces ships aircraft or war materials of the United States ur with respect to i the plans or conduct of any naval or military operations or with respect to any works or measures undertaken for or connected with or intended for the fortification or defense of any place or any other information relating to the public defense calculated to be useful to the enemy shall be punished by a of not more than or by ment of not more than ten years or by j both provided that nothing In this tion shall be construed to limit or re- I strict any discussion comment or confer with members of the new government there on ways In which the United States can assist to tho movement and aid Russia the war against Germany Klihu Root former secretary of 1 appeared tonight to be the probable lection for chairman of the commission although officials said that a final ulon had not boon reached und the names of several other men wero under con- i The commission will be en- i tirely nonpartisan The president to demonstrate I by the character of the men he chooses j the interest he feel.s in the success of the democratic movement in Russia i i The president first to have a member of his cabinet the sion and It is possible he may yot de- FREIGHT RATE AIRED BEFORE I C C SHIPPING REPRESENTATIVES ARE HEARD ON PROPOSED 15 PER CENT ADVANCE April tives of shippers from all over the try today gave commerce commission regarding the tentative order the to file freight rate creases of IB per cent effective June 1 Many of the an ad- vance of ratua provided the railroads could prove It some ed an Immediate increase In rates on the ground that it would be cheaper to pay the Increase than to suffer losses later through luck of transportation ment and others opposed any that for ex- BER TWO HUNDRED MORE IN BATTLE WITH MURGUIA HUGH AMMUNITION CAPPED Rebel Chieftain Reported Leading His Troops in Losing Fight in Western Chihuahua April hundred followers were hanged 200 others killed and wounded and a quantity of tion and horses captured yesterday when fighting between the Villa forces and the command of Francisco guia was resumed at dawn in a rugged canyon in the district of ern Chihuahua according to unofficial reports received here tonight from eral bases at Casas Granges The battle started at 6 o'clock and for two hours the Villa force numbering more than twelve hundred was forced to retire toward San Jose de Las Cuevas fifteen miles from San Miguel de where the fight occurred on Wednesday The government artillery did much of the execution the report shrapnel shells fired into the ranks of the ing Villa cavalry killing and wounding many The losses on General side included staff officers as many more wounded and a number of prisoners and executed by the Villa troops the Villa prisoners hanged to trees near the Carranza army camp were four Villa officers The report from Casas Grandes stated that Villa was in personal command of his troops VILLA IH IT 8 to Deliver to D to Advice No In Command El Paso Tex April di- rect from Villa's camp on the Conchas River a from the Mexican er Is said to have passed through here recently en route to the Interior of the United States to deliver documents to Miguel Diaz Lombardo who Is under- stood to be Villa's choice for provisional president of his proposed government The presence of the Villa courier vraa not known bore until after had left the border according to men who are close to Villa This courier told a Villa partisan here that he would deliver papers to bardl Instructing him to go sit onco to Washington and deny that any Germans FIGHT ON ARMY EFFORTS TO CHANGE URE CENTER ON ING OF VOLUNTEERS Spokesmen of the Houston Chamber of Commerce said that they expected the Shreveport rate oase to be eliminated If commission should decide to grant tne i 16 cent to the roads I as s tax upon try They also assurances be given that the manufacturers and mid- would not boost the prices of commodities from 30 to 40 per if rate increases were allowed Independent petroleum interests tested against the proposed increase on the ground that they would give the Standard and other big oil companies owning pipe lines an unfair advantage over concerns obliged to ship in tank cars are In Villa's command and to state that Villa would oppose by force any efforts of any Mexican faction to align his ple with the Germans FINANCE CALL TO BE MADE S LAUNCHED PENETRATED LINE IN FOREST MORE TAKEN Guns Captured in Past Five Days Exceed One Hundred Not Counting Machine Claw Steady progress s being made troops of General in the regions of Soissons and Rheims In a new of- fensive the French have entered German second line In the Argonne for- est German attacks on plateau south of Laon have been repulsed Since the beginning of the French of- fensive last Monday more than nineteen thousand Germans have been taken soners Guns captured In the five days exceeded one hundred not including machine guns Northeast of Soissons the French pied the village of Sancy a mile east of Fosse and con- their advance toward Des Dames a road paralleling the foar miles to the north of the river On the plateau in the region of and Germans are reported by Paris to have launched an fort was frustrated by artillery and chine gun fire The artillery in this region Is reported to be continuing very actively German Resistance Stubborn East of Rheims in the region of illers the French have taken several Important points The German here Is reported to have been stubborn In the Argonne forest French ments penetrated the Garman positions as far as the trenches A great number of German dead were found by the French The abandonment of the bank of the river between and Soupir Is admitted by Berlin which declared that the action completed the occupation of the Siegfried positions Berlin that the French follow hesitatingly Berlin says that a second French tempt to break through In the pagne was frustrated and adds that engagements have developed between and the Valley There has Uttle activity on the northern front in France and London reports no further progress for the Brit- ish forces anywhere No Bant From the eastern front there are no reports of fighting Both In Palestine and in Mesopotamia north of Bagdad the British forces have added to their recent success North of Wadl Gaza in Palestine the British have occupied Turkish along n front of six and a half miles General Maude continues successfully his advance on Samara forty miles north of Bagdad on the Tigris and his troops forced a passage of the river twelve miles southeast of Samara More than twelve hundred soners wero taken by the British In engagement Representatives of several commercial and shippers associations followed this testimony with a request for a complete investigation by the commission before action was taken Washington April fight over The was broken at Sinton br a heavy soaking rain which began about 4 a m lusted until about a m The rain came in time to make it possible to save the cotton crop to make rood crop around Sinton A carload of peanuts has just beon received and the for as soon as c round Is dry to got Into the in the Sinton community Two and inches nf foil 11 heavy downpour early ir the morning accompanied by nnd lightning My is to support the house but will keep my mind until the time for arrives In a letter to Secretary of War Baker Representative Wilson said he hoped Texas would be allowed to try getting Us quota by the volunteer plan but that he was not a military man and I believe this way I would tate very much in voting against your conscription plan in oase you and the president and others charged with tho responsibility of the conduct of the war finally to the thai con- scription is the wiser course to pursue Representative I am for the selective draft plan of the president's and all other features of that measure Representative member of tho house committee on military affairs will support the house to try volunteering first The is true of tive Representative Dies 1 haven't seen me or the one substituted the committee hut it Is my judgment that we should give the president the plan ho wants The con- makes him commander In chiof of tho army and navy The country is in a very serious war and It is a dangerous thing to have too many nt time like thU The Is a war measure nnd doesn't lish a permanent system Whilo we nro ai war it is my judgment that the dent should have the kind of war legis- lation he deems necessary for the safety of trip cism of acts or policies of the I program will be- f i tomorrow when ment or its representatives or the publl- he bm drawn cation of the same i K The Original Greatly Modified Before the vote the original committee draft greatly modified proposed to prohibit not only the publication of military Information ex- cept tinder presidential regulations but also its collection recording or attempts to elicit it Elimination of tional restrictions was agreed to by those in charge of the ind approved by the seriate Another change upon an amendment by Senator Hitchcock of braska provided that the presidential regulation shall be reasonable A sub- for tho whole submitted by Senator of Towa by a vote of 40 to 34 Senator Cummins then proposed that the president be to proscribe regulations would not abridge freedom of speech op the press and prohibit publication of ual military operations not condition of the armed forces other TRY TO BURN HALL and approved by President Wilson i goes to the senate with seven of the 1 seventeen members of the military com- in favor of a call for volunteers instead of the proposal of the to i raise the army by a selective There is certain to be days of debate No effort Is expected on the part of the opponents of the draft to delay a vote Friends of the were confident night It would be passed by a good Efforts to change the measure will SUMMARY OF THE NEWS For and Saturday fair Saturday and Sunday J p Saturday and warmer center on the amendment beaten In com- ni warmer Saturday and Sunday ing temperature Oklahoma anil East Sunday fair warmer Went Saturday fair and Sunday fair FIRE CHIEF asks double platoon system In nix report to EDUCATOR for vacation la advocate of conscription plan CAUSEWAY IS CLOSED to vehicles from sunset to sunrise WHEN FINANCIAL BE- COMES LAW SECRETARY SAYS WORK WILL BEGIN to add to the general staff plan a provision authorizing a call for teers offered by Senator McKellar A report prepared by the Tennessee senator supporting th amendment be sub- tomorrow s In tho ordinary course of senate i at elx a day the should I stage by the end of next week I- MILITARY officers win conduct MILITIA has been n of hotel Quarte In ASK? to submit ne I w school looks vory nr the cotton was doing well the drouth While corn fairly well conditions farmers arc optimistic tlu out- look now Some nf navo planting to do bu most oC wMI he cot r The in the th nan on a prosperous Representative Jones The selective draft the principle of liability to n to tho colors an is i shall support tho plan ns nn emergency unless the people I mo It Is n grirr and tho country should present n united front i Garner I and Voung could not be for obtaining an expression 7 Senator Sheppard Senator n Workers Riot aad Many Are Troops ni London April 21 Ten thousand ers munition workers tried to lie town hull at on Friday to a dispatch to tho from Holland Soldiers fired on the wounding many nnd to Bnchnn- an and Both I to Thi News j April I to n tost petition about 1 of the favor tho conscription law as by tho at Washington A petition was sent to A was to man J P and Senators berson and last by a of The people favor selective con- r p: rl bv We urge you to support the nnd propan nation for the impending conflict PATRIOTIC DEMONSTRATION Sun Day Houston MEN not making In In commerce commission hearing COUNTY bond Issue for submitted for approval CATTLE MARKET but con- TEXAS REPRESENTATIVES nre divided on draft plan HOUSTON trol to ADVANCE checked by federal of April call to the country for war finances will be made Secretary McAdoo announced day as soon as the cial becomes a law probably within three or four days The call be for subscriptions to a part of the issue of treasury certificates of Indebtedness de- signed to meet financial needs the issuance of the in bonds and the receipt by the government of Its war tayes and will be made upon the banks of the country and not upon in- The first portion of the bond issue probably will be offered to the public within sixty days hardly earlier lu its first call for finances the government will utilize the running machinery of the federal re- serve system the formal request the reserve board today instructed the twelve reserve banks to enlist the co-operation of 6.11 banks throughout the country state and tional as well as trust companies In the program of preparing the field This means that the banks of the country will be asked to subscribe aa liberally as they may to the Issue of certificates of indebtedness which will be put out la advance of the big bond issue MORE POSITIONS TAKEN NEAR THE AISNE AND THE MANS RETIRE How many millions of these cates will be issued has not yet been determined The first offer McAdoo announced probably will be Other offers by the hundreds of millions probably will follow as the funds aro needed The interest rate also has not been definitely decided on Un- law the secretary may pay up to per cent Sounding of sentiment nnd today n nesn of bunks tr take a substantial of- and Secretary McAdoo announced that I market be for presents food con- I the certificates If they were offered at j 3 per cent of I Certificates by tho banks 11 may be used in lieu of Mr McAdoo ON approved by Paving for the bonds dent to start In senate today Authority for receiving ct tions to the certificates has not been on Stock Ex- ns tho hill hns not boon finally disposed of amendments thereto on Tuesday would not be denied under surveillance I boing In conference between the houses nf ft No 2 to The Fort Worth April Tho of por paid or n f C w huai The grain was in tho near tho made by B D of the Union Company After Snn Juan Porto kioo April nfic-r Vie arrested In rate t I nn record as i Fl at rno of for war finances of to lie congress I Federal I tho j will probably bo to tho n may that BY G H FERRIS Special to The News On the French Front Friday April 1917 hv the New York Times more great bounds forward marked yesterday's fighting both in sectors which I visited nnd described this week The first of these has destroyed tho German salient of plateau tind finally pushed the battle line back fron this part of Aisne Valley on the high backbone of Laon Mountain At the beginning of the week I had not dared to anticipate so large and speedy success as this Ths French were attacking from two from about anfi Margival and northwestward from the Aisne between Missy and only four miles to cross In order to Join hands the two forces evidently got the enemy in a tight corner That the only of his Is it was a corner as soon as yie old warrior who directs this particular French army was allowed to drive a point up the valley around lage Otherwise with Its deep gullies the batteries were screened coppices and brushwood from the eyes of prying airmen its limestone caves in whole battalions onn he sheltered Its good roads and many observatories It was a rare ground Bitterly will the German soldiers when they nre driven out of the hills into tho open plain that extends from to the recall the relative immunity and comfort so long enjoyed lu fastnesses above the But the men I saw grimly at work about Their fellows were Rotting up to den Dames a little further onst It was not to he of that they with in fh'1 nr bs stopped even by bo no derangement of tho money When somo bastion belching the congress to suspend tho mn April Whit look i during the war the Cher's i to of Tho he paid out the government In business transactions tho will ho deposited n the banks nnd tho in tho position of having poth tho money nnd tho with to moot IIin by depositors to tho Tho fullest of the will be the i In of tho oates Lotters go instructing i rent ota by J the chine gun fire barred direct assault they edged their way Ny of over tlie fields it nnd tho enemy ross a prison When thi Hoche It Is to lo do so desperate lo ho his turn to hear tho doodly For he no working round our to in While the French left thus pro
