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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1916
Page
3
Physicals for mounted organizations begun weeks ago at Camp Ordway near completion. Battery tests show significant waivers possible and many recruits face discharge. Uniforms, pay delays, and sanitation drive fuel morale as guardsmen await orders and potential deployment.
Guards' relief efforts progress slowly as committees are being named, with entertainments and dances planned to raise funds for dependents. Donations arrive slowly at the Munsey building, while tobacco shortages at camp prompt calls for a cigarette drive similar to European models.
Troop 4 cavalry officers from Washington and Fort Myer attended a social at Camp Ordway in the Administration building hall. The event, informal and well received, featured uniformed guardsmen and a performance by the regimental band of the Third Infantry from Camp Ordway.
Report from Dutchess county indicates prosecutors investigate alleged mistreatment of women near Camp Whitman by National Guardsmen. Sheriff attaches say last night complaint originated in Auirville and no formal charges filed yet. planned Sunday services noted.
Unofficial reports say General Carranza has decreed the voiding of all paper money except the latest issue of the de facto government currency. Reports from Manzanillo state the gunboat Guerreros, the sole Mexican warship in the Pacific, has departed for Salina Cruz to be dismantled.
In Laredo Texas on July 8 Captain Pezzot and two alleged Mexican bandits Cuevas and Solis were found guilty of conspiring to burn the Webb Texas railroad bridge on June 11. They were sentenced to five years in the state prison. Peszolt claimed he was a Carranza officer acting under orders of the de facto government.
American cowboys crossed the border into Mexico west of Columbus and captured Mexican suspects said to have murdered William Parker and his bride on their ranch a week ago. The tip came to Columbus via Hachita today.
Three Caterpillar tractors made in Stockton for the American army are being rushed to the border by express. The express charges total 2600 dollars. The tractors were crated and shipped in a special car attached to a passenger train.
Francis B Sayre son in law of President Wilson and George W Perkins Jr son of the Progressive leader head a group of about 40 university and college men volunteering to serve as secretaries for the army and navy department of the Y M C A. Yale Harvard Princeton Columbia and other colleges are among the volunteers in a plan announced today.
Wilmington July reports the arrival of four coast artillery reserve and State national guard companies to join the local reserves. Ben Commons of the National Organization of Street Railway Employees joins the citizens committee to help settle the dispute. Traffic partial resumption and suburban schedules are noted as troops patrol water trestles and company property during the night.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis warned that if the United States goes to war with Mexico a portion of that country could be retained as payment for costs and as punishment. He said the government would be forced to permanent occupation of part of Mexico by U S residents, similar to the post Mexican War actions. He noted President Wilson and Congress would resist any territorial cession.
A vigorous campaign to mobilize Latin support for the Argentine centenary celebration was launched today. A circular cablegram was sent to leading newspapers in Cuba and throughout South and Central America outlining elaborate festivities and regional participation plans.
The Washington Post reports Victoriano Huerta in an interview decries Mexico as ruled by bandits under many leaders. He argues Madero failed, calls for a single strong ruler to restore order, and claims democracy is impossible amid widespread crime and lawlessness. He blames revolutions for chaos and promotes a dictatorial solution to quell violence and restore stability.
New York announces the Woman's American Supply League with Mrs John Hays Hammond as president and other prominent leaders including Mrs Charles E Hughes Mrs Thomas J Preston Mrs Champ Clark and Mrs George W Wickersham. The league aims to supply front line necessities mobilize hospital and Red Cross support and develop a patriotic militia of women trained to aid national needs.
Teekskill July 8 mutineers from the 47th regiment objected to army rations demanding meat. The men were marched to the guard house and, after refusing orders, were ordered out by Jannickey to fix bayonets and drive the rebellion to clean up the camp.
Rio Janeiro dispatch notes Opalz approving the terms of the American note to Mexico and hoping Mexico will spare the Continent war. The paper questions the likely regional balance if war becomes unavoidable and asks what would be the position of American chancelleries and Brazil’s role.
Camp notes describe Battery A and other units sprucing camp streets into boulevards with neat tent lettering by Daniel Bernhard and an emphasis on cleanliness. The piece profiles long-serving members, officers rising from the ranks, a farewell banquet for Vestenthal, and a resilient push to maintain gear and supply amid shortages. It notes high target practice, a well organized property system, and a musical touch from a donated graphophone for camp morale.
The body of Henry Adair killed at Carrizal was sent to his Portland Oregon home. DeWitt Rucker, the only trooper identified, was shipped to Hartwell Georgia. Other troopers are held for instruction. Twenty one retirees from Carrizal released June 28 will report to their commands. Wounded troops remain for treatment.
Sixty four refugees including many women and children arrived Sunday from Mexico aboard the oil steamer Ardmore. They told how Carranza soldiers lined them on deck and robbed them of money and valuables. A ranch owner reported loss of 13 961 after bandits stole his cattle. Among the passengers was a Pennsylvania Mexican Fuel Company employee. Officials met them at the wharf and housed them at a hotel. Notices of a state of war were posted near Tuxpam 16 days before departure. Four Mexican women married to Americans were among the refugees.
Kansas Supreme Court rules that guardsmen serving away from home may vote in the statewide August primary. The attorney general's suit sought to determine the power of absent guardsmen to vote in state elections.
In Dallas on July 8 a troop train carrying the Fourth Nebraska Infantry collided with a switch engine in the Missouri Kansas and Texas yards, injuring a score of militiamen slightly. The accident disrupted yard operations and prompted immediate medical evaluations.
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