Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 31, 1916, Page 1

Call Tyler 1000 It You Want to Talk to The Bee or to Anyone Connected With The Bee. VOL. XTN-NO. RDER HEARS A [FUNSTON IS TOLD T0 UMOR VILLA HAS | DO LESS TALKING BEEN SHOT IN LEG 246, Commander at Border He Is Too Communicative aw Wounded, While Another of His Narrow Escape Reaches Columbus. RTU RED MAN TURNS ON HIM Bandit Kills Five Mexicans After Putting Them to Torment as Gringo Lovers. EL PASO, Tex., March 30.—Gen eral Bell, General Gavira and Mexi can Consul Garia held a conference relative to the movement of supplies over the Mexican Northwestern rail- way. Afterward General Bell fused to discuss the conference, saying he was under orders to main- tain secrecy. re- Major Elliott said today he has RIS KIDD“ ‘fiAY R already shipped from El Paso sup- EL PASO, Tex., March 30— |plies sufficient to eed the expedl General Gabriel Gavira, Carranza |tionary forces in Mexico for thirty commander at Juarez, said tonight days. Part of these supplies already that he had recelved a message I8 at Casas Grandes, part is nearing from Madera, Mexico, which stated |the field base and the remainder that Villa had been shot in the leg. |Would be there before long, the General Gavira said the message major said SERAS YeGE! WERS /WS vonfidered & rec | Senhitsy Of NI Pam aid t) yioinis liable source, but that he had wired | qiv. "hyre"5 i MY for contracia. General Bertani at Madera for con- gouth, the government to assume the firmation. risk. To all of them Major Elliott re Narrow Eseape for Bandit. HELTE €5 Chnny. GraRAd) W Tovity U Ho FIELD HEADQUARTERS OF |q¢ their own risk. They are told, how AMERICAN EXPEDITION AR Y ever, that the field quartermaster will FORCES, COLONIA = DUBLAN, |Probably purchase such goods it they Chihuahua, March 26.—(By Motor 4" their destination Truck to Columbus, N. M., March Wili Keep Motor Line Open, 30.)—It has been learned here that | SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. March a.—Al though military supplies will offered Francisco Villa nearly lost his life a few days ago on the Corralitos ranch, a short distance from this place, where he tortured and put to death five Mexicans, One of his vie- timg leaped upon him and was strangling him when the Villista officers beat him senseless with the the management of the Northwestern rail way at Juarez today for shipment to the American troops in Mexico, officers at army headquarters here regard the con. ditional use of the rallroad as 8o ex mental that the motor truck line from imbus, N. M., will be maintained supplies shipped as It frelght and unguarded en route by Amer commercial ¢ ican_ troops arriva at destination with butts of their guns. reas8nable regularity and without serious Mucio Polanco was the name of the de lay, the base at Columbus will bhe Mexjcan who almost succeeded in ending moved to Il Paso and the line of com Villa's career. munication from the New Mexican bor Meant ns Warning. der to Casas Grandes will be shifted east The murder of five members of the “ATd . = s tinlly Wan sEit 6 Have besh i It was Indicated at General Funston's headquarters that the use of the Juarez- tended as a warning 1o other Mexicans - - Chihuahua line of the National raflways against having dealings with Americans. of a shorter and supplies, It more direct route for as suggested that if Car- ranza did not object to the use of the were born and reared. When Villa, retreating from Columbus, arrived at Corralitos ranch, he had a | b : ke list of all the Polancos, six men, the :‘i’:‘:‘::::c'\::""’f’:;';"“O‘l‘:“(‘r“]‘;:"d not ob mother and two daughters. He wseized |° - i 1f demonstrated that supplies are being held up or interfered with on their way [Io the_front, General Funston, it is ex- PeCTEHRRET will urR ite. permission two sops, and Mucio and his one son, }‘e‘:"*"‘l""”"“:": place escorts on trains Villa sald: “I am going to kill yvou be- L v cause you are too Americanized. You are | Gringo lovers, Has Them Tortured. But Instead of killihg them outright, | Villa had them partly stripped and then beaten with the flats of heavy swords. the men and hunted for the daughters, women had been hidden never faund them, To five of the men, Gregorio and his Tells Funston to Talk Less. | Whether specific orders had been sent to General, Bell to begin shipping sup- plies under the terma of Carranza’s per- mission was not stated at headquarters, | Where It was indleated that the War de- partment had Intimated to General Fun- (Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) |ston that he preserve’ greater silence N s T YR |on subjects connec with the opera- Munltlons Graft | tions in Mexico | No veport from General Pershing indi- | cating any change in the situation ‘south of Casas Grandes was received Miguel R. Davila, an agent of the de partment of the interfor in Mexico, who arrived here today from Queretaro, sald May Cause Cabinet Crisis in Canada Ont., March 20.—~The gov- OTTAW 1he saw General Luis Herrera there three ernment was walting today to hear from days ago. Gencral Herrera, who re- General Sir Sam Hughes, minister of |cently was reported to have rebelled against Carranza, went from Chihuahua to Queretaro on a special train to talk to Jarranza abdut securing more sup- militta, now in England, regarding charges of favoritism recently made in Parliament in connection with the award- | ing of mtnitlons contracts. A message plies for his forces in Chihuahua advising him of the charges has been | The only dispatches received at head- nt General Huges, it was declared auarters from General Pershing today today. deal with routine matters and contain Members of Parliament stated today no mention of a fight with Villa or in- that an outcome of the allegations,*an |timation that he has been trapped fnsurgent element has been created in | the ranks of the conservatives, the gov- ;Husba’nd Of Gfl:dski ernment party, and something resembling War Department Hints to AmmunE WREGK ARE BE onfirmed Report Tells of Out-lGENERAL BELL SEES GAVIRA | Investigation showed that the Polanco | WOuld be asked for if the bad condition family was involved with mo political |°f the Northwestern made it impossible faction In Mexico, ‘but.that they had a |'© handle supplies properly or if the record of uniform honesty and relia- | 4tered poeitions of the cavalry and sup bility in dealing with the American man- ' POTUnE line engaged in the pursuit of agers of the Corralitos ranch. where they FTANCIECo Villa made advisable the use THE OMAHA DAILY BEE OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1916 FOURTEEN PAC 5 Wews Stan: y { { THE WEATHER. Cloudy; Colder On Trains, at Hotel oto, Bo SINGLIS OPY TWO CEN 'MANY INQUIRIES 'INTO TRIPLE TRAIN T | | i poked when daylight came. | Towerman Says He Wa and that Signal Sg8 Second Train Work. RAILROAD OFFICIALS DIVIDED They Do Not Agree as to Whether Blame Should Be Put on Tower Men or Engineer. “DEATH COACH" WILL BE ISSUE CLEVELAND, twenty-seven vesterday Central tention eral under March 30 With | bodies recovered from s wreck of three New York trains at Amherst, 0., at was focused the that were put federal, state and authorities to determine re sponsibility for the Repre- sentatives of the Com merce commission, upon sev- investigations way by railway wreck. Interstate the utilities ccmmittee of Ohio and various de- partment heads of the New York Central were conducting investigs tions in Cleveland and at other points in the vicinity of the wreck Coroner Charles Garver of Lorain county planned to begin an inquest at Elyria into the death of the wreck victims and the causes lead ing thereto. o The question of whether the so-calied “death coach’” on train No. § was of modern steel construction, as claimed by New York tral officials, or was mainly of wood construction, promises to be an important feature of the investi gation Railroad officials divided in opinion blame should be placed upon the tower man, who, it is alleged by some officials was asleep and falled to give the proper signal, the engineer, who, the say it shown, efther failed the exceeded his orders Of the more than forty persons injured in the wreck, several sald be in a precarious condition early today and | more fatalities wero feared. Railroad of ficials say that only twenty-seven hodies have been recovered and that they regard It as impossible that more bodies are in the ruins today still as to the were whether House Votes for Alien with Literacy Test Clause Attached. or upon to sec signal or ASIATIC WASHINGTON, | Burnett March 30.—The immigration bill with its literacy test and Asiatic eu'llmlunt provisions unchanged, passed the Unofficial, but what was regarded as te: e - te of 308 | reliable reports, placed the number of [ROUSC late today, by a vote of 3 [ dead at thirty, {to 87. It now goes to the senate, Ensinemen mna Towerman. | Where favorable action is regarded The two men at whom most of the |48 assured questions were to be directed at today's| The literacy test was finally re- | tained in the bill, when the house, by a vote'of 284 to 17, rejected the | motion of Representative Sabath {of Tlinois to recommit the bill with |instructions to eliminate the test ion (Continued on Page Two, Column Twe.) Russia Given Permit to Build Road in»Manchuria | prov Nebraska voted as follows: Lobeck and Sloan vgted to recomm while Reavis, Stephens, Shallenberger PEKIN, Cht government ha permitting Russia March 0, signed to The Chinese | ang Kinkaid voted against recommitment. AN agreement | o the passage of the bill every mem construgt a ruil- | hop of the Nebraska delegation .with the road which will g Russla control In | gugie oxception of Lobeck, voted In its, northern Mhnchuria, in compensation | rayor for the raliway rights granted to Japan| Green of lowa voted againgt the mo- in southern Manchuria. Japan has con- |{jon to recommit with insteuetfons, as aid curred in this arrangement The new line will run on the Siberian raflroad, in a direction across Manchuria to Aigu near the Russian frontier. A branch line will be built from Mergen southward to | Mondell of Wyoming, and both for the bill on its final passage As in former yeara it is belleved that if | the president the bill, he will { be sustained. voted Harbin, northerly from vetoes Thahe 1t il fort b "‘l'\l:'f}'f.'.:."““ i e Villa and Carranza : LR 2.0 s ok s o ond, | T R ted in | j‘:f that formerly negotiated "(|| by roops epor c ln | Americans. Russia will raise funds for construction of the road by floating a loan of £5.0,000, Clyde Shops Strike Declared Irregular Fight Near Guerrero! SAN ANTONIO, Tex,, March 30.—Fight- | ing, three days ago, between Villa troops and a detachment of Carranza's force was teported today by General Ing to General Funston, No details of a political crisls has arisen : l Pl t " | the engagement was given, but G Middlemen’s profits, aggregating mnm} arge with 0 LONDON, March %.—After an Investi- | Pershing said Villa's men were than SLUNN, are aliesed to have been | gatlon of the grievances of the men |south. It wus believed Villa was with obtained through the awarding of con- T Bl W Up C l who have quit work in the Glasgow dis- | them tracts by the Canadian shell committee, | 0 0 ana triet, the ecouncil of the Amalgamated | COLUMBUS, N. M., March 30.—Ameri- G. W. Kyte, member of Richmond | " Society of Kngineers decided toduy that | can troops have been using the Mexico county, Nova Scotla, declared in a speech | yypw yoRK, March 30.—Captain Hans [the strike in six Clyde shops was un. | Nort m railway for a distance of in Parilament. He said that the profits |,y oper hushand of Johanna Gadski, {stitutional and called on the men to re- |about 140 miles bhetween Casas Grandes were divided between Cblonel J. Wasley |0 o orn singer, and said to be an offi- | turn to work and Ma daily for about ten days Alllson, who was connected with the | .. 1)\ ¢pe rman navy, was arrested| The council points out that strike |to transy troops and supp ac- militia department; B. F. Yogkum, Amer- | 00, !\ 1 OO0 0 the Depart- |1 in contravention of the munitions of | cording to Warren, a negro ican rallway magnate, and Eugene Lig- |nonY ¥ TR SO O e narging | war act trooper in nantl, formerly leader of a hotel orches- | in with Leing concerned In alleged con-1 Two socialist speakers were arresteq | reached here today : tra in Montreal. apiracy to blow up the Welland canal in [this morning for Inciting munitions work Warren, who has been invalided at Fort P——— e T E Canada ers on the Clyde to strike. Bliss, asserted thaj twelve men were in Th w h | Tauscher, the federal authorities said, | - {jured in the wreck on the road near ea,t er {is head of the Tauscher Arms company N 0 ‘d B C '1 Musicn station, March 21, which resulted 0 B e s o oW Orflarsin Dounoll | e e e s s e Yesterdny V]H““”. Gun works in this count His % suf ed v hed hips and Internal g ®%: | through disclosures made by Horst . L L T )er Goltz, allas Bridgman Tayl he Fags-h . was brought to this country a day or g ’ Ll i e d gyt Mt 5 was issued tonight “‘where neither n | #ald that t her ten injured men two ago to be examined as to what he . ro .l E A\“ “K‘.nn‘.rn\nk alle d German plots scel nor its » shall be immune from | being od £ 84: the, fleld haspital u.‘ ¢ Tauscher was arraigned before a United | €apture for a breach of blockade upon [('asas Grandes g T States commissioner, denled the charge | the sole ground that it at the moment ‘a| DOUGLAS, Ariz, March 30.-A new L and was held in $25 b ball m its way to a nonblockade port " tribution of Mexican troops was an |ican consul in Douglas, eGneral Calles ~ erman towaway oldas P DTUWON |tccively cut oft by the American troops = A i atia on the north and the de facto traops on the east and south, In Chihuahua. That | Comparative Steamship Loaded with Munitions|:- - i« ciiman Highest yesterday... 2 . refuge {owest yesterday - £ According to the new orders 1200 of yla." ‘mnvemlur» 4;, 2 J'r | LEWES, Del, March #.—Ernest chu-)placed bombs in different parts of the <cre AR ORIy LhaNe Sonoon PrECiPItAtIOn ..vveiviiess ] o hip, g o |rer, Ge the captain of the | shis d in Colonia Morelos, sixty-five mi'es ‘Temperature and precipitation depar- 1. German, held up s The crew of the Matoppo feared the on e h 8 |\ ,” oo tures from the normal: itish steamer Matoppo shortly after itheast of Agua Prieta, From th | It s f and when the steamer h. e 2 Norm: temeer- ture ~ s < v - g N vy e IN lthey can move rapidly either north r Excess for the day ; 5 | the vessel passed Sandy Hook last night. sight of the Delaware capes its cours o et Onlbighiia l',"'rl"lm-in;;:{’;‘ll'vlufx "!""rh 1 2 ‘\“ bound from New York for Viadivestok was changed and it ser p a mgnal for | o Olitass Ral - Clktoatas Defici n y for the as 0i i with a cargo of munitions and war ma- ' /mmediat cswn i g oAl B el Total rainfall since Mareh i Einh | leriat. Sculer, who was a stowaway, put | Ume & boatload of ita crew went over S efi: foncy since Marc ® fneh . e side to « ashore and summon 4 Excess for ccr. period, 191 fiin h [the wireless out of commission, locked [ |0 #id7 10 come ashore and summor V 1 B 1 Defl fency for cor. period, 1914 . 0. inch, |the captain in his room all night and lm"l o ]"‘]:“‘_"I‘ “‘I: .Imn e ‘“‘“' 10 ellt att e on | Heporin trom Statio @t 7 P, M. |gsearched his papers and the ship's safe . 1. L- | as did aiso the cos ward crew sta Statonand 8tate Temp. High- Rain- [The man Is under arrest here, having | ©0 00 U0 < s - Alull},{ Italian Line| " of Weather Tpm et fal. |, on landed this afternoon . | | Cheyenne part cloudy o | pilot boat picked i »'s erew, who Davenport, cloudy ®| The Matoppo passed out of Sandy Hook | yo14 the story of 1 | sErLI ia 0.—(F Wi Ao Denver, cioudy 2 1 clock last night and t 8ok 00 | The ‘men wes b 2w 1 : | Des Molnes. rain. .. ) A captain was made two hours later. now in frons at the « B }‘ - LSt S e b & Omaha. clear huler, it is said, had been & SLOWAWAY | Lewes, Tie has In his poss n money |the Italian front, lu forces being en-| Rapid City, snow |on the Matoppo five days. When well and papers belonging to the eapta st . i Santa Ve, snow | ) sea he made his appearance urmed | (he mate of the Matoppo T laaa P gyl ty, eloidy 0 T | with two revolvers, it is alleged, and dernl authorities In Lewes Italians clo dy 4 g V[ forced the captain inte his cabin communicated with the 1nited 1 r pir e e Procipitatlon, e, | The man told the captuln that he had | district attorney at Wilmington, Del Jartine shting Measure Daniels Says Wages Ashore Higher and Physical Standard is Exceedingly Rigid WASHINGTON, retary nay y's part edness plans were given |fere the house naval committee, i Daniels’ n the March 30 national today EXCiUéION CARRIES ONLY SIXTH OF MEN ACCEPTED Sec views regarding the prepar- be- Secretary Daniels began his state- ment loss was wastage 8,250, fro m to the committee with a (cussion of personnel. The annual terminating enlistments men, 12,876 from other To add a gingle man to the | foll quota, he added, meant that the he said, causes and was 5,250 must be first restored by new enlistments. listed strength different ideas Requirements are so an were how many men should constitute reserve crews. own recommendations, perience of the department and advice of many officers, looked to a total en listed atrength of 67,92 men “In time of peac,”” he waid, “T do base bLased | rigid that only one in six applicants | is accepted. Conflicting views as to the proper en he sald, to ships should be kept in reserve and how many His on tho ex- tellove we ean add 20,000 mon to the navy on How the cars IMMIGRATION BILL GOOD MEN FOR NAVY ARMY PREPARES PASSES UNCHANGED ARE HARD 70 GET. FOR LONG CAMPAIG Are General Pershing is Convinced that SUPPLIES ARE READY TO SHIP| Chase for Villa Will Several Weeks. EL PARO, Tex., March 30, dier General John J. Last Briga- Pershing has projected a long and relentless cam- paign in the hunt for Francisco Villa | may last for many a chase that e | FIRST PHOTO SHOWING WRECK OF THREE FAST NEW YORK CENTRAL TRAINS {SINKING OF MANY 1 at Amherst, Ohio, where thirty people were killed on Wednesday morning. SHIPS STIRS IRE OF UNITED STATES Some Officials Credit Report Gere man Subseas Ordered to At- l tack All Ships Bound | for Great Britain. |HUNT FOR CONCLUSIVE PROOP Several Unnrméd fierclunt Ships Carrying Americans Attacked Without Warning, VIOLATES RECENT PLEDGE WASHINGTON, March 30.—The United States government today is using every means at {ts command tn secure conclusive proof regarding the disasters which have overtakem | tbe Sussex and othe- unarmed mer« chant ships, all carrying American | citizens, All circumstantial evidence Indi- cotes that these ships were tor- pedoed without warning and that German submarines have begun an underwater campaign in violation of Germany’s recent assurances to the United States. Some officials eredit the sugges- tion that rman submarine com- nanders are acting under secret in- atructions such as were advocated by Admiral Von Tirpits, to torpedo | 'every vessel approaching the British Isles. Although officlal confirma« tlon is lacking, some offictals belleve that the commanders of German sub- niersibles have orders other than those of which this country is ad- viged, The Next Step. The noxt step of the United States is sald authoritatively to have been deter- mined upon. Unless Germany, in reply fo the Inquiries made by the United States through Ambassador Gerard, makes some statement to cause the State department to change its present Inten- tions, it is understood that all the recently agrravating incidents will be combined dn one general formidable {ndictment Which will bring the entire subject to a cloar cut fssue, Bhould Germany admit responsibility for weeks before the fleeing bandit is run | 80¥ of the attacks and attempt to satisfy to earth, This information was gieaned here today from military | men who made no secret of their be- lief that Villa has slipped through the | ccrdon of Carranzista and American | tioops. | eame known that there was a price upon | Mexiean officials said today they had were no news as to the whereabouts of Villa, but that the troops of the de facto gov- ernment alding the American sol- lers in trying to round up the brigand. tec "he | vila Maria | friends, troops misleading Information re his whereabouts, Viira on for last was of the moving through valley, OUnee among who would give the the a long time information was his Amerfean that Santa peon arding might escape de- Ranchers from the reglon west of the | Chihuahua dlstrict sald that when it be- | Villa's | would be in constant danger of betrayal head, dead or alive, the bandit In one ydar as has been suggested, \Wo|\Whether the American troops have made now have difficulty In keeping the pres- [ (¢ known that there is a reward for ent quots full because of high wages | Villa has not been learned here, but it ashore is assumed that the word has been e S i AL spread about among the peon population as the American soldiers from Omaha Preacher Declines Call from Omaha I8 good enough for Rev Persh- | Maxwell, pastor of the Calvary Baptist church He has declined the call which was re- | ded him by the First Baptist chureh at Roxbury At the local chureh cently ex adelphin the 3 a suburb of st of Mr clded to remain in Omaha Sinee t WASHINGTON, March 2. - Proposed | lumbus inere of 10 cer 0 pound v from California point points in Jowa, | bus Missourl, Kansas, Nebra Oklahoma, | base f Texas, Wyoming and New Mexico, whidy | They would have been effective tomorrow, wers | ©4n he pended today by the Interstate Com- | (C merce commission until July 2 pending vestigati M r Maxwell 1 one-half years ag Ivary heen ndded tlon of the « B to the aptist church renth cwvalry, who | ppOPOSED RAISE IN RATE ON RICE IS SUSPENDED Four U-Boat Bases Among Greek Tsles LONDON entente sha i 18 announ Marh lied patrol 1 in a wirele afternoon. The discovery hip I, A Phil ibers of Maxwell de- came to Omaha 200 new men B by four hostile among the Greek 1 lands s dispatch from piace to place. Roving move bands of Villistas are reported | everywhere in the reglon of the Santa slsting of gasoline, and flour orders are received Meanwhile quartermaster, Is moving supplies in great bulk to Columbus, N. M., where | they are ecarried In truck trains over the Mexicun desert to the army base below Casas Grandes Ten carloads were shipped to Columbus early today. while | motor trucks were also sent to the b | ean Eastgrn Church | | contac | Maria valley, but apparently flylng columns t there Supplies Ready to Sh Brigadier mander | mwaited official supplies Northwestern have not with them. General the Gieorge Bell base at Fort orders today the army over railroad of to will ge Major Twenty-seven rucks will go forward late today Army officers ntinued on e r the ontinued as an American army in great at out ne placed on the Page Two, Co more the Ameri- come In com- Bliss, to ship the Mexico Bupplies, forage, canned goods | forward as soon as the | con- Ellfott, department motor to Co- e belleve that Colum auxiliary Mexico rellance Mexico Northwest umn One.) | situation Taggart Will Not Be Candidate for Senate Ts | senator ad interim fr eed the sued an WASHINGTON ert March M.—Thomas recently appointed United States late Senator announcement saying he Indiana to sue- Shively, today ! we not be a candidate for the senatorial nom- | ination to succeed himself. }Conscriptibn of Wealth Adz,;ocatea by the London Daily Chronicle LONDON, March tcle gives promin article rging the wealth. The writer a well ki ecor the chancellor ' kingdom and thir ould be ra | ta a ea o1 graduated g per £3,000, 1 g to .0 cn property v The Daily (‘hron t position to an nseription of ho 18 sald to Iy ' gKests that x e ould " th in hat a vast & » show | 1 levy cof ed £100, €0, He says Wenith can be taken in any form ush, stocks or real estat Unless something like this is done our peace L ts will become crushing in their weight. With a debt £10,000,000,000, terest and siuking fund payments will er £130,00 pensions and other ges, £40,00,000, making the able annual of the budgets as [ the United States/by saying that a mis- | take had been made, offer to make repara- tion and to punish the submarine com- mander, the issue would not by any means be disposed of. It is regarded as certain that ihe United States will not me- | eept such an explunation as satisfactory, at loast until time had shown what pum- fshment actually was meted out to the offending submarine commanders and whether any value longer could be abe tached to Germany's promises. Wil Proceed with Probe, Tn the event of Germany disclaiming | responsrbllity for the disasters, the United States will proceed with its in- | vestigation to determine to its own satis- faction whether the evidence which now strongly indicates that the Sussex and other wships were torpedoed without warning can be regarded as conclusive |proof. With such proof before it the government probably would act promptiy, Officials refrain from discussing what the nature of the action would be. | The very number of apparently unwar« ranted attacks which have occurred re- | cently in regarded by the administration | articularly significant. The number l‘ Is sald by officials to have disposed of | the theory that the explosions might have been caused by mines. Some of the | cases, It was pointed out, have oceurred in localities where there is no possibility of mine fields having been laid because of the depth of the water and the dis tanco from shore, It became known during the day that the State department had heard umotfi- clally the suggestion that German submas rine commanders were acting under se- cret instructions such as were advocated | by Grand Admiral von Tirpits to torpedo overy neutral vessel as well as belligere ent-owned approaching the British Isles. The Secret Ord The United States was advised the new orders to submarine commanders, which went into effect March 1, provided for the attack without warning of all armed merchantmen of the entente allies. Thers had been mo official confirmation what- | ever of the secret order report. However, | the number of disasters which have over- {taken unarmed merchantmen recently, in- | cluding those under neutral flags, caused | some officlals to credit the suggestion that orders of some kind other than thoss of which the United States is advised, are in effect What is described In high administra- tlon circles as the extreme gravity of the makes It necessary for the United States to proceed with the utmost are in preparing for the next step. Es- peclal effort Is being made to have all the essential facts in each case developed from the best testimony and evidence avallable, Wil Collect Data. Information is being, or will be, col- lected through American embassies and meulates, naval experts, officers, crews and passengers of ships reported to ha (Continued on Page Two, Column Four) They Get Full Value Thrifty people don’t throw things away. They sell or ex- change them by the timely use of a Bee Want-Ad.