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VOL. XXII. NO. 73.
Mexican Rebels and Federate Clash at Otumba
AMERICANS FIND IT
DIFFICULT TO MOVE
AND FINDQUHRTEBS
Fever Raging in Some Coun
tries and Food Hard to Get. j
France and England in
Best Shape
BY DAVID DA WHENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON, May 7.—Disquiet
ing reports have reached the United
States government concerning con
ditions in Europe that should dis
courage American citizens from go
ing to the continent. These reports
have not been made public because
the government here has already been
pressed from every side to lift the
restrictions on passports and there is
no reason why the American govern
ment should court-the displeasure of
those European countries which are
eager to have American tourists come
abroad to spend their money.
The writer has obtained a survey
of conditions in Europe as revealed
in official reports and while France
and England are much better off than
other countries, nevertheless trans
portation facilities everywhere are
crowded to the limit and American
tourists are finding ft- uncomfortable
to move around.
Fortunately France and England
are not in as bad shape as eastern
and southern Poland and parts of
Germany. Typhoid fever and spotted
fever have come over the borders of
soviet Russia into Poland and while
the Poles are striving hard to care
for these patients, there are difficul
ties galore in handling the situation.
Food in Germany is hardly of the
best and anyone who needs care and
nourishment ought not to risk his
or in the central empires.
Discrimination Charged
The department of state is not is
suing passports to any of the central
European countries, but at the same
time there is no restriction upon
Americans going into Germany when
once they are in France or England
or Belgium.
Perhaps the most embarrassing
phase df the whole situation is the
way the Europeans are increasing
their prices and discriminating
against Americans.
This is most noticeable in Ger
many, where the supposition that all
Americans *are wealthy is the basis
for higher prices for meals Or rooms
or goods wanted by the American
traveler than the Englishman or
Frenchman. It is not an uncommon
occurrence to find an American pac
ing 50 ,toarks for something which
the Englishman is asked 40 marks
and the Frenchman 40 and possibly
everybody else only 30.
Much of the same sort of discrim
ination prevails in England and
Frapce, though in both countries the'
governments are doing their utmost
to keep it under control.
Law of Supply and Demand
They realize that American tour
ists will not long'submit to such
discrimination and Europe is too
.’.nxioiis to have Americans come
abroad to spend their money to carry
the game too far. On the other
hand, accommodations are difficult
to get and the law of supply and
demand is to some extent responsi
ble for the high rates being charged.
Then, too, there is a common im
pression that every American who
comes abroad gets a lot of money
when he changes his into
marks or francs or English pounds
For many months Europe has suf
fered from the effects of the unfa
vorable rate of foreign exchange in
endeavoring to buy commodities in
the United States, and the American
tourist is now paying some of that
deficit.
Aside, however, from physical con
ditions of travel with hotels crowd
ed, trains taxed to the very doors
and aisles, and good food scarce in
many parts of Europe, there are cer
tain dangers of a blow-up tfiat may
any day cause American tourists in
convenience. Nobody can foretell
the future but the number oT strikes
and industrial disturbances is in
creasing. In one case Americans
who went from Paris to a seaport
town to get their ship for America
found a dock strike and inasmuch
as the sailing of the vessel was
postponed they pleaded with the
steamship officials to let them board
the ship. y
War-Time Inconveniences
There were absolutely no accom
modations in the hotels of she little
town. Many Americans are said to
have walked the streets all night in
a vain effort to find lodging. The
usual red tape prevented relief from
Paris. Somebody -with discretion
enough to permit the Americans to
live on'board the ship while it wait
ed for the strike to end would have
saved the prospective passengers—
who had already paid for their pas
sage—no end of trouble.
Industrial conditions in England
are the most baffling of all. Sfcme
reports indicate that England is ap
parently sitting on a powder keg
and that almost any day it would
not be surprising to find £hat radi
cal labor had gotten out off hand and
decided to run the country. On the
other hand, England’s success thus
far in handling the railway strike is
the basis of widespread optimism
and confidence on the part of an
other set of observers.
European countries probably do
not like to have the American pub
lie told that travel over there is dif
ficult and at times distressing, but
the truth is conditions are far from
normal and that Americans who go
abroad can hardly expect to see much
change frem' war-time inconvenience.
Hoover Honored
By Scientists
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Here are both sides of the medal
presented to Herbert Hoover by the
National Academy of Sciences “for
eminence in the application of sci
ence to the public welfare.” The
academy specified that the medal
was conferred in recognition of
Hoover’s achievements in food con
servation and distribution.
DRASTIC MOVES
URGED AGAINST
SINN FEINERS
LONDON, May 7. —More drastic
measures to suppress disloyalty in
Ireland were urged by speakers m
the house of lords last night.
During debate on the Irish ques
tion Lord Asquth suggested that the
government invite tile “leading in
tellectual” Sinn Feiners to a confer
ence over conditions on ,the island.
If the Sinn Fein refuses, he said, i
Great Britain will know that a state. I
of war exists, enabling her to sup- I
press Sinn Feinism with the whole
power of the government.
Horatio Bottomley, editor of the
weekly, John Bull, and known for
his anti-American writings, ques
tioned the government in the house
of commons regarding the activities
of President De Valera, of the “Sinn
Fein republic,” in the United States, i
demanding that Great Britain ren
der an official protest.
Andrew Bonar Law, government
spokesman, said he was satisfied the
real feeling of the United States was
not represented by demonstrations
accorded De Valera.
Fourteen more of the hunger strik
ing Sinn Fein prisoners in Worm
wood Scrubbs prison have been re
leased, leaving 16 still in jail. Many
of those still confined have gone
without food seventeen days, it was
reported. >
A Dublin dispatch said the coro
ner’s jury investigating the shooting
affray of April 17. in which three
civilians were killed, has returned a
verdict of wilflul murder against
three members of the constabulary
and seven soldiers. Warrants for
their arrest were issued.
641,900 Veterans of
World War Dependent
On the U. S. for Living
NEW YORK, May 7.—There are
641,900 veterans of the world war
dependent »on the bounty of the
United States for further existence,
at annual ’cost of $325,000,000, ac
cording to Dr. W. C. Rucker, chief
medical adviser of the bureau of war
risk insurance, who reports this
number discharged from the army
and navy with disabilities. These
figures, said to represent the first
authentic tabulation, were made pub
lic here today by the committee for
aid to disabled veterans and refer
endum on the bonus.
Dr. Rucker’s report shows there
are at least 76,588 cases of neuro
psychiatric disease among the dis
abled discharged men, divided as fol
lows:
Endrocrino-pathics, 4,823; epilepsy,
6.985; psycho-neurosis, 13,944, in
ebriates, 1,858; insane, 12,544; feeble
minded, 22,538; constitutional psycho
interiors, 6,609. In addition there
are 46,310 cases of tuberculosis; 75,-
000 surgical cases; 62,869 eye ear
nose and throat, and 22,847 miscel
laneous.
“To the above figures,” said Dr.
Rucker, “should be added enough
men to make 641,900, which is be
to , be A, 11 ® maximum number
discharged with disability.”
French Retreat
From Cilicia
NEW YORK, May 7.—The French
?ntir P K etreated + from Cicilia and may
entirely evacuate .northern Syria, ac
cording to a dispatch received here
today by the near east relief from
Dr. James L. Barton, its representa
tive in Constantinople.
Hadjin, which has been besieged
by Turkish forces for more than a
month, now is defended oy Ar
menian troops, the dispatch add<4l
The Armenians are defending Aintab
against assaults which began May 1,
and all the French have retreated
cit Y excepting a small force
left to guard college buildings. Many
residents are leaving the city.
Germany, Under Treaty,
Disbands Air Service
BERLIN, May 7.—Germany’s mili
tary air service has been disbanded
under the terms of the Versailles
treaty, according to a semi-oftic..;
announcement made here today.
The entente commission here in
tends, according to the Tagebische
Rundschau, to destroy all airdromes
and flying establishments which were
built at a cost of G 0,000,000 marks.
The newspaper says the commission
will leave standing one hangar and
one airplane factory, which will he
used for international air service.
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LABOR PUTS DUNE
FOR HIGH PRICES ON
PROFITSMWffiES
Relation Exists “Between
High Prices, Profiteering
and Addition to Quota of
Millionaires,’’ Lauck Says
WASHINGTON, May 7. —A/study
of profiteering in American industry,
made under the auspices of the rail
way brotherhoods, was presented to
the railroad labor board today in
support of the railway workers’ de
mands for higher pay and to refute
the charge that increased labor costs
are responsible for the high cost of
living.
Prepared by W. J. Lauck, former
secretary of the war labor board,
the study seeks to shory that profit
eering in industry is the fundamen
tal cause for high prices in practi
cally all commodities. It gives many
statistics to support that contention.
Calling attention to the many
War-made millionaires, the study
contends that a three-fold relation
ship exists “between high prices,
profiteering and the addition to the
quota of millionaires,” and that the
increase in the wealth of the wealthy
is an “unanswerable” refutation
to all attempts to charge labor with
profiteering, and to all attempts to
hold labor responsible- for the high
cost of living.
“For, if invested wealth gets a
larger return,” said tire study, “a
larger proportion of the national in
come than formerly, the man who
gives personal service of labor is
bound to get a smaller proportion.
The menace of the future lies in
the probability that the vast profits
which are still held in reserve wifi
be capitalized in order, that, under
the pretext of a fair return on cap
ital, those who own them may con
tinue to take the larger proportion
of national income, even at the ex
pense of very great suffering on the
part of workers, when the over-stim
ulation of war has passed away.” •
Sugar, Meat, Shoe Figures
Os the extraordinary increase in
the price of sugar now amounting to
300 per cent, the study says the in
crease, to labor cost paid by the con
sumer was less than 15 per cent.
The result of advaced prices, ac
cording to the quoted reports of
twelve companies producing over
half of the sugar consumed in the
United States, was pictured in the
net profits of these concerns which,
it was said, rose from an average of
$11,000,000 during the years 1912-
1914 to $34,000,000 for the years
1916-1918,
In the meat packing industry,
where profits were said to have in
creased between 300 and 400 per
cent, the labor item was shown so
small that a wage iucrease of one
hundred per cent would add less I
than 5 per cent to the total cost of
the meat. The increase in price be
ttveen 1914 and 1918 was shown as
eight times the total labor cost and
the 1918 price represented 25 times
the total. labor item.
Profits absorb approximately one
half the retail price of certain kinds
of cloth, the report declared, while
the labor item amounts to from one
fourteenth to one twentieth of the
price. Similar relations were pic
tured in the manufacure of men’s
garments.
Other Figures
Shoes, according to the study,
“furnished a splendid opportunity
for the profiteer.” The profit items
in 1914, it was charged, absorbed
nearly one-half the price paid by the
consumer, or nearly three times the
total labor cost, while in 1917 the
prpfit items amounted to approxi
mately three-fifths of the total price
and over five times the total labor
cost.
Increases in the retail price of
bituminous coal were snown at four
times the increase "in labor costs,
while the proportion of the proceeds
of the industry received by the coal
operators was shown as increased
from 75 to 400 per eent.
Profiteering did not stop wit! the
armistice, the report declared, pre
senting figures to show that corpor
ation profits in 1919 were 110 per
cent over the pre-war average,
which means, the study added, that
1919 profits were more than double
the average for the years 1912-
1914.
An average of $1,200 per family
of five during the years 1916-1918
was declared to be probably a high
ly conservative estimate of the act
ual cost of corporate profiteering to
the consumer.
Mr. Lauck called, the board’s at
tention to public statements of 205
representative corporations which
showed average net earnings pf 8.7
per cent on capital stock in 1912-
14 and per cent in 1916-18.
These corporations include 57-* con
cerns dealing in the basic raw ma
terial steel, copper, and manufactur
ed metal products; 29 dealing in
food products including meat pack
> ing; 19 in clothing; 64 in fuel, light
and housing; and 36 dealing in mer
catile goods and agricultural sup
plies.
Corporation Figures
“The outstanding fact,” said Mr.
Lauck, “is that during J,he years
1916-18 these corporations earned
$1,250,000,000 a year, or nearly 24
per cent of their capital stock. This
appears to be nearly three times the
average for the pre-war year ot
1912-14 apd the figures for produc
tion show conclusively that these in
creased profits were not due to in
creased production. They were due
in large measure to the fact that
these corporations took a large pro
portion of every dollar spent by a
purchaser.”
If all corporations did as well
as the 205 cited, corporate profits
were $4,800,000,000 greater during
>the three war years than in the pre
war period, Mr. Lauck said.
“A total of $4,800,000,000 a year,”
he said, “means $240 per family of
five throughout the nation. Consider
that each family paid as a toll not
■ so-called legitimate profits, but to
excess war profits over pre-war
profits, $240 a year, and one gains
an idv . of the total burden which
profiteering meant to the country.
“During the three years, 1916-18,
(Continued on Fage 6, Column 6)
ATLANAT, GA., SATURDAY, MY 8, 1920.
BORAH WILL SEEK
PROBE OF PARTY IN
SQHMSTITES
Senator to Ask Investigation
xof Pre-Convention Activi
ties for Republican Presi
dential Candidates
WASHINGTON, May 7. —Announc-
ing a determination to “clean up
the Republican party,” Senator
Borah has set out to compel the
serious attention of leaders to his
charges of undue and improper pre
convention campaign expenditures
and activities.
If Senatoi - Borah’s plans work out
the way he hopes, the Republican
nomination for president may hinge
upon the question of expenditures
of money and promises, it seemed
evident today.
Mr. Borah will first concentrate
his energy on getting his resolution
fcr a senatorial investigation adopt
ed. The senate elections committee
is expected to take it up this week.
Senator Borah hopes that Senator
Kenyon, lowa, will be named chair
man of a subcommittee to investi
gate. The next move probably will
be to gather information concern
ing a large number of contests in
southern states.
Mysterious Money
These contests which 'are being
made in practically every southern
state, are being paid for from mys
terious sources, according to Sena
tor Borah’s alleged information. In
vestigation will show, he asserts,
that the contests in many cases have
been “engineered” by northern poli
ticians fo.r purposes of their own.
The situation in the south is “in
tolerable, Senator Borah said today.
He declared he had received pleas
from Republicans in that section to
help them rid the party there of the
influence of “carpet bag politicians
from the north.” This, Senator
Borah says, he intends to try /to
do with a view to making the Re
publican party in the sobth an ef
fective minority organization, stand
ing on its own feet and not swayed
by the money or influence of north
erners.
Mr. Borah Intends, he said, to
have this phase .of the investigation
conducted in Chicago while the Re
publican national committee is hear
ing the contests there, in order to
bring directly to the attention of the
party leaders the charges concern
ing the. contests.
May Frobe Georgia Contest
Among the southern contests
which are expected to engage the at
tention of investigating committee
are those in Florida, where there is
a possibility of a three-cornered con
test; Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana,
South Carolina, where there is a con
test in every district; Alabama,
Texas, Oklahoma and Virginia. In all
more than 100 contests are now n
sight |n the south, which must be
passed on by the national commit
tee when it meets in Chicago late
this month or early in June. The
aggregate number of delegates in
volved is large enough to be an im
portant, perhaps a decisive factor’ in
the nomination. ,
In addition to looking into the con
tests, Mr. Borah said he wants the
alleged use of money thoroughly
gone into. Out of th© inquiry he
hopes for a corrupt practices law
that will apply to pre-convention ac
tivities as well as to the regular
elections, he said.
National Bank Call
Issued as of May 4
WASHINGTON, May 6. The
comptroller of the currency today
issued a call for the condition of all
national banks at the close of busi
ness on May 4.
THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS WILL EE BIG
NEWS MONTHS
The national conventions of both the
Democratic and Republican parties will
soon be staged —
And then will come the campaign with all of its excitement
ind enthusiasm —
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[PRIZE BULL PUP IS SAVED FROM KNIFE
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SAN FRANCISCO. —Rival Goldstone, champion English bull pup,
didn’t mako-any objection when physicians decided an operation was
necessary to save his left eye. But his master did and took the dog
to a veterinarian who discovered the eye had become infected
through having been struck by some object. Proper treatment saved
the eye and $1,2&0 has now been offered for the canine.
Moultrie, Ga., Gains
102.7 Per Cent With
Population of 6,789
WASHINGTON, May 7. —The cen
sus bureau today announced the fol
lowing population figures;
Moultrie, Ga., 6,789, increase
3,440, or 102.7 per cent.
Louisville, Ga., 1,040, increase one,
or .1 per cent.
Avera, Ga., 248, increase 30, or
13.2 pep cent.
Stapleton, Ga., 410, icrease 40, or
10 8 per cent.
Wrens, Ga., 1,074, increase 458, or
74.4 per cent.
Bartow, Ga., 582, increase 198, or
51.6 per cent.!
Spokane, Wash., 104,204, decrease
198, or .2 per cent.
Spokane is the only big city so
far announced which suffered a pop
ulation decrease in the decade just
ended. The de'erease was 198 persons
or .2 per cent. Other big cities show
ed increases ranging up to 25 per
cent.
MOULTRIE IS PLEASED
WITH CENSUS FIGURES
MOULTRIE, Ga., May 7.—Moul
trie was gratified by the figures is
sued by the census bureau this morn
ing, showing that it had made a gain
of more than 100 per cent in popu
lation in the past decade despite the
fact that the people in two new
suburbs could not be counted.' Had
those suburbs been incorporated, the
figures would easily have gone to
8.000, according to an estimate made
by Judge W. A. Covington, district
census supervisor, who lives here.
Not only has Moultrie shown re
markable growth since 1910, but all
Colquitt county has, and it is confi
dently believed that the count will
show’ at least 30,000 people in tbe
county against 19,789 ten years ago.
Edwards Formally in '
Presidential Race on
Anti - Dry Platform
WASHINGTON, May 7.—With the
legalizing of- 7 beer and light wines
as his main plank, Governor Fidward
I. Edwards, of New Jersey, today is
definitely in the race for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination.
The announcement of his candi
dacy came last night from friends
of Governor Edwards in New York,
with the assurance that he will ac
tively participate in the campaign
for the nomination.
An organization to back Governor
Edwards’ candidacy has been in the
process of formation during the last
few weks.
Since his stand for beer and light
wines in New Jersey and his fight
on constitutional prohibition in gen
eral through the filing of a suit in
the supreme court in behalf of the
state, he has received many appeals
from members of both parties all
over the -eountry to make the race,
his friends said.
Two-Platoon System
For Firemen Causes
Lively Row in Macon
MAC<XN, Ga., May 7.—There is a
lively roV here over the two plot
toon system for firemen. It has re
sulted in the announcement of Rep
resentative Robert Barnes that he
will, at the next session of the legis
lature, introduce a bill abolishing the
civil service commission which is
in direct charge of the police and fire
departments. City council has adopt
ed a resolution informing the com
mission that unless the number of
men required by the Southeastern
Underwriters’ association to be on
duty are provided council will em
ploy additional men and reduce the
salaries of the • firemen sufficiently _
to pay the Additional men. The Un
derwriters’ association has virtually
declared that the number of men on
duty under the platoon system is not
sufficient, and" that insurance rates
will be increased unless at least
thirty-one are on - duty during- the
day and forty-eight at night.
With vacations beginning, this is
impossible under the platoon system,
Fire Chief Jones told the commis
sioners.
Replying to the resolution of coun
cil, AV. B. Chapman, chairman of the
civil service commission, said a spe
cial meeting would be held Satur
day and the requirements of the Un
derwriters’ association would be com
plied with. He did/not go into de
tails regarding his ■ Alan.
Automobles and equipment valued
at more than $250,000 are on display
at the Macon automotive show whi<?h
opened Thursday afternoon to con«
tinue through Saturday night.
Pleasure cars, trucks and tractors
are on display in the H. J. Lamar
building. In the Grant-Waters build
ing, next door, are accessories of
every description.
The buildings have been converted
.into a huge Japanese garden. To
night will be society night and a
bevy of pretty Macon girls, spon
sors of different exhibitors, will
wear Japanese costumes. \
Tax on Bachelors Is
Suggested as Means
Os Paying War Bonus
WASHINGTON, May A tax on
bachelors by states in need of cash
was suggested by Actuary McCoy of
the treasury department. Mr. Mc-
Coy is an expert at devising new
ways of raising money for the fed
eral government.
France now is ready to tax bache
lors, he pointed out.
From $40,000,000 to $100,000,000
a year could be raised in the United
States by a bachelor’s tax, according
to Mr. McCoy.
Approximately 10,000,000 men be
tween 44 and 20 now are holding
fast to a state of single blessedness
in the United States, census bureau
reports indicate. The number is
growing constantly. An annual tax
of $5 could be paid by most single
men without much sacrifice, it is
believed.
“The federal government might
have difficulty in laying a bachelor’s
tax,” said Mr. McCoy, “although
whatever could be raised, in this way
now would be welcome. The federal
government is searching for new
and more fair methods of taxation.”
It is pointed out that a bachelor’s
tax capable of raising $40,000,000
would go far in assisting the federal
government to raise money to pay
the proposed bonus to ex-service
men.
Says Southern Roads
Make Only I Per Cent
WASHINGTON, May 7.—Southern
railroads are operating on a basis of
a net annual income of less than 1
per cent on their property invest
ment, according to President C. H.
Markham, of the Illinois Central
railroad, who late yesterday filed
proposals for freight rate increases
with the interstate commerce com
mission. x
To enable southern roads to earn
a. net income of 6 per cent as pro
vided in the new transportation act,
they must be allowed to increase
freight rates 30.9 per cent, Mr. Mark
ham said.
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FLIGHT OF CARRANZA
FROM MEXICO CITY
STILL UNCONFIRMED
Revolutionary Troops Re
ported Massing for Attack
on Capital—Movement Is .
Spreading •
WASHINGTON, May 7.—General
Nurguia has been sent into the state
of Buehl! to attack the forces of
General Pablo Gonzales and an en
gagement already has occurred be
tween the vanguard of the Carranza
troops and the rebels at Otumba,
between Mexico City and the city of
Puebla.
Authoritative advices reaching
Washington today said Gonzales had
declared that he was not in league
with the Obregonistas and would re
sist them by force of arms. This
was regarded as complicating the
situation in Mexico. Gonzales has
declared martial law in Puebla city,
according to these advices, and has
exacted a loan of 200,000 pesos from
the population.
Passenger traffic between Mexico
City and Guadalajara has been sus
pended A passenger train on this
line was attacked by rebels at Pen
jamo on May 5 and robbed of a
considerable sum of government
funds intended to be used in paying
the soldiers at Gudalajara, where;at
last advices General Dieguez had
B,OOP men in his command.
Carranza’s Flight Unconfirmed
Increased rebel activity is report
ed in the vicinity of Vera Cruz,
where President Carranza’s son-in
law, General Candido Aguilar, Is in
command of the federal troops.
The state department today had no
confirmation of a private message re
ceived here after last midnight from
Mexico City, via Laredo, that Car
ranza «had left Mexican capital
for Vera Cruz. The", private advices
said the president left Mexico City
last night accompanied by. a gutod
of trobps under General Aguilar.
Analysis of reports yesterday on
the Mexican situation had caused
the revolutionary agents'-here- «to
predict that President Carranza
would abandon the capital soon,
either in flight from the country or
to some point from where he would
attempt to carry on government bus
iness and direct military operations
against the rebels. Their view of
the situation found some support in
official quarters, where the greater
part of the reports received had In
dicated a steady growth of the re
bellion.
Sxpect Announcement
I Rebel agents declared Carranza’s
manifesto in which he insisted he
would not surrender the presidency
was not inconsistent with their be
lief that he would abandon the capi
tal, pointing out that he might cling
to the title of presidency from any
office in Vera Cruz or from any con
venient refuge.
A message to rebel headquarters
here saying the president of the
municipality of Mexico City was or
ganizing a civilian guard for the
protection of the city “in the event
of its evacuation,” was regarded by
the revolutionary agents as signif
icant arid had prepared them for
the announcement that Carranza had
quit the capital.
Official advices from the American
embassy at Mexico City said E. 'F.
Greenshaw, the American, and his
son, who were killed last Saturday
near Mexico City, were robbed at
the same time of a part of the com
pany payroll, amounting to 4,500
pesos. Greenlaw was sixty-three
years old • and his son thirty-two.
Mrs. Greenlaw and a minor child are
in Mexico City.
CUSTOMS EMPLOYES TO
ATTACK NUEVO LOREDO
LAREDO, Texas, May 7.—Sixty
employes of the Mexican customs and
immigration service in Nuevo Laredo,
opposite this city, today declared
themselves to be “Obregonistas,” and
notified military authorities they
would attack the federal garrison un
less the town surrendered by 2 o’clock
this afternoon.
The Mexican consul in Laredo de
clared the rebels are not of sufficient
*force to make a successful attack
against the Nuevo Laredo garrison. It
was reported, but not confirmed, that
Carlos Ozuma, with a force of former
federal cavalry, also was approaching
Nuevo Laredo to demand its sur
render.
Telephone messages from Nuevo
Laredo shortly after noon saidlittle
alarm was being displayed by the in
habitants. Armed guards had been
stationed on the roof of the municipal
building, it was said.
American authorities closed the in
ternational bridge at noon.
LAMPASAS TAKEN'EY
RREBELS, REPORT SAYS
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 7. —A
report, considered reliable reached
here dt noon that Mexican revolu
tionary forces had captured Lampa
sas, just south of Nuevo Laredo, had
cut wire communication to the south
and were holding up a train en route
from the border to Mexico City.
Uncle Sam in Need
„ Os 100 Stenographers
Uncle Sam needs 100 stenogra
phers and typists at Washington, ac
cording to a telegram received
Thursday at Atlanta civil service
headquarters, and the local office
is asked to secure as many appli
cants as possiole for the regular
examinations conducted every Tues
day at the postoffice building.
The positions pay from $l,lOO to
$1,200 per year, with a bonus of
S2O per month to employes who make
good. Blanks may be obtained at.
514 Postoffice building. Both sexeS
are eligible for the jobs. _