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EL PASO. TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 6, 1915.

TWELVE PAGES TODAY.

LATEST NEWS BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

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Quells

ree Rebel Attacks

ma

PASO

CLARK

IS

REELECTED

Th

-K

Rebels Desert Capl&red

Warship; Land Attack

Is Repulsed hyrTroops.

BOMB THROWERS

ARE DISPERSED

Many Bullets Fall in Shang

hai Foreign Colony, But

Damage Not Serious.

SHANGHAI, China, Dec. . Three

outbreaks by small bands' of reb

els -within the last 24 hours have

been put down by the government au

thorities who now apparently have the

situation well in hand.

The cruiser Chao-Ho, seized Sunday

afternoon by -40 men who boarded her

from a launch, was abandoned by the

rebels ealy today alter she fiad been

shelled and set on fire. It -was re

ported at first ttwj the crew of tie I

.... .v ov iuHumcu, uui it aevei

opec today that the bombardment by

the cruiser of other warships and the

arsenal was carried on under compul

sion from the rbels who surprised

and overpowered the crew. Three men

or the cruiser were killed and five

wounded

Lang AtfacL Repulsed.

n attack from land on the arsenal

at midnight was-repulsed" qUKEtyTTfter

some rifle firing. " ' -

The third a threat -occurred, at 4

oclock litis rflerolRg. A party oT30 or

40 rebels attacked at the Chapel sub

police, throwing- bombs -which killed

one policeman and injured three. The

outlaws -were dispersed by troops.

Although a number of shots fell in

the foreign settlement, no damage of

importance was done there.

CANNOT PAY DEFICIT WITH

NEW SCHOOL APPORTIONMENT

Austin, Tex, Dec 6. It was held to

day by the attorney general's depart

ment, in an opinion to state treasurer

I M. Edwards, that money apportioned

during the -warrant fiscal year 1915-16,

annot be used in payment of the def i-

it in last year's apportionment of the

available sehool funds.

It is expressly held that money and

collections forming the basis of this

j ear's apportionment cannot be used

'o liquidate the debt of the previous

ear. It is further pointed out, how-,

eer that delinquencies of previous

ears, collected daring 1315-16. but

having ben considered in making the

urrent apportionment, may be used

'n meeting-the deficit.

CHEMICALS MAY HAVE PUT

SHIP OUT OF COMMISSION J

San Francisco, Calif, Dec 6. Chem

icals put in the water ot the Hill line

Minnesota's boilers may have caused

the breakdown or the big freighter,

now on her way to this port, according

to information received by C W. Wiley,

marine superintendent of the Great

NortTiera Steamship company.

There is reported to have been some

signs of mutiny among the crew, and

several men r-ere put in the brig.

TTAH IRRIGATION LAW

IS UPHELD BV COUltT

Washington, D C. Dec 6.--The Utah

lr-igation law, authorizing any per

son desiring water for irrigation pur

poses to enlarge existing canals after

compensating the owners, was upheld

as constitutional today by the su

preme court

TH031PSON SETO.V. BOY

SCOUT LEADER RESIGNS

New York. Dec S. Ernest Thompson

Seton, naturalist, has resigned as chief

scout of the Boy Scouts of America

because the organization, he says, has

become militaristic rather than merely

in organization to foster woodcraft

and the love of outdoor life

In Week-End Herald---

"Somewhere In France" '

THE story of what befel! a beautiful, fascinating, violet-eed your

woman who was left behind in a wonderful chateau whra the Ger

mans retreated frcmi the Marue to the Aisne, in order that she, in

the role of chatelaine of the chateau and hostess to the French general and

his staff, might send her employers news of the movements of the French

b means of a secreted "knapsack" wireless, operated by her chauffeur, a

Mlow spy. There is a thrill and suspense in every line of the

chateau adventures of the "Countess d'Aurillac," and the incident of her 'un

doing is as dramatic as it is astonishing to both the beautiful, entrancing

creature and the reader. Entirely unexpected, too, Is the return "home"' of the

chauffeur, Briand, by no means a minor character of the plot. '- This story of

the clever and audacious operations of two 'of the great spy systems of Con

tinental Europe lias been called by competent critics the best short story

brought forth by the Great War.

This great story is by Richard Harding Davis, the first of six of his

new stories, for which the El Paso Herald-has secured the exclusive- right of

publication in this section. One will appear in each Week-End edition. Don't

miss any of them.

The Audit

GERMAN AGENTS '

KM IilGIED

Five More Indictments Are

Returned in New

York Court.

New York, Dec 6. Five additional

Indictments were returned today

against Robert Fay, Walter Schclz,

Max Breitunpr, Dr. Herbert Kienzle,

Englebert Bronkhorst and Paul Darehe

All were charged with conspiracy to

commit murder, to commit assault with

deadly weapons and to destroy ships.

The previous indictments against them

merely charged them with attempting

to destroy ships.

EMBASSY ASKS WHY U. S.

OBJECTS TO ATTACHES

Washington. D. C, Dec. 6. Count

von Bernstorff today presented to the

state department a communication

asking for the reasons for the request

for the withdrawal of Capt. Karl Boy

Ed and Capt. Franz von Papen, the

German naval and military attaches,

respectively.

It was stated authoritavely. though

not in the communication, that the

ambassador would under np condition

ask the United States to obtain safe

conduct for the attaches.

Should it develop from tbe state de-i

"partment's answer that other incidents

than the Archibald case ana the testi

mony at the trial of the conspirators

of the Hamburg-American line were

considered by the United States In

asking that the attaches be withdrawn,

Germany -will contest the -withdrawals.

Should the department reply that

those two incidents alone were respon

sible, the withdrawal will take place

without further Inquiry or protest.

This action is considered by of

ficials of the state department to be

contrary to precedents of diplomatic

procedure.

CROWLEY TO BE REARRESTED;

GERMAN BARON IS NOW HELD

r -. -. , t

San Francisco, CaL. Dec 6. A war

rant was Issued today for the rearrest

of Chas. C Crowley oh a charge of at

tempting to destroy commerce with the

allies. -Crawley is charged jointly with

baron George WIlblm von Brincken,

who was arrested Saturday night, but

no warrant was issued then for Crow

ley, who was out on $3000 bond on 3.

charge of conspiring to destroy vessels.

Lewis Boyle, -a pilot, and R. L. Har

ris, a stoker, are here from Seattle to

identify Crowley as the man who went

on board the steamer Snoqoalmie an

hour after the explosion of a barge

load of explosives in the Seattle har

bor last May. federal officials say.

RUMANIA TAKES ACTION

TO CHECKMATE AUSTRIA

Paris, France, Dec. 6. "Four Aus

trian monitors are prepared to leave

Rnstchuk, Bulgaria, on the Danube, to

bombard Renlt a Danube port In Bes

sarabia, where a Russian army has

assembled." sas the Bucharest cor

respondent of the Temps.

"In formation to tbis effect was re

ceive " here today and in consequence

the .jmanian government has decided

to close all foreign navigation on the

part of the Danube which flow through

Rumanian territory"

NORTH GERMAN LLOVD'

' LINE MAY BE PROBED.

New York. Dec 6. Federal Investiga

tion of the North German Lloyd Steam

ship line may result from developments

of the recent trial of officials of the

Hamburg-American line

Federal authorities said today they

are interested particularly in the activ

ities of the steamer Marina Quesada,

which was frequently named In the

trial of Dr. Karl Buenz and his asso

ciates. TURKS INVADING THRACE; I

SEEM ANXIOUS TO HOLD IT ,

London, Ens, Dec 6. Advices from

I Salonlki state Turks are pouring into

I Thrace which was a Turkish posses-

I slon before tbe late Balkan wars, and

they seem intent upon recovering pos

session of the land with V intention

of retaining it after the war.

This attitude is causing much anxiety

In Bulgarian military and political

circles.

' RUSSIA ORDERS EMlOUiEST

OF A1UIY CLASS OF 1017

Petrograd, Russia, Dec. 6. (via Lon-

don, Eng.) An Imperial ukase was 1

issued today oraering me enrolment oi

I the class of 1917 In 1910.

Bureau of

MUDDLE

SI

L UNSOLVED,

Attitude of Rumania Is Yet

Puzzling the Warring

Nations.

i London, Eng, Dec 6. No solution

has yet been reached for .affairs In

the Balkans. Russian troops, ' though

long poised for action near the fron

tier of Rumania, have not yet. so far

as is known. left their own territory

Rumania's policy still is one of waver

ing and the Greek situation, despite

diplomatic parleys and all sorts of re

ports of a successful settlement, re

mains undeveloped.

According to latest reports from

Athens, both the entente group of

powers ana the Greek government are

holding their ground tho entente

reiterating its demands and Greece re

fusing to make c ncessions inconsis

tent with her sovereign rights.

Since' most of the questions pending,

says neuter's correspondent at Athens,

are of a military nature, the impression

Is general that their solution depends

upon the decision of the war council

at Paris.

OTENBHITONS

EFFECT ESGAPE

Londori. Eng.. Dec 6 The British

army in Mesopotamia, which has been

in retreat 1-om Bagdad, has reached

Kut-el-Amara. on the Ttgr'a. 105 miles

below Bagdad, without further fighting

with the Turkish army.

TURKISH CROPS GATHERED;

YIELD IS SATISFACTORY ONE

Constantinople. Turkey, .Dec fc

The crops In Anatolia, have been suc

cessfully harvested, -notwithstanding

the shortage of farm help. The 'yield

is reported a good average aop every

where Anatolia is the granary of

Turkey, and the report that Its harvest

Is under cover assures the capital its

food supplv for the winter months.

The chief difficulties In the provision

ing of the city are connected with

transportation. The Anatolian Rail

way company had been compelled even

before the war to reduce its service

somewhat, and military demands have

still further reduced the available

ireignt capacity.

The city prefecture has, however,

succeeded in reaching an agreement

with the war department by which

regular grain shipments from Anato

lia will be made. It is also hoped

to secure some foreign grain In the

near future, and there are no fears

mat a suiriclent supply of grain will

not be available for the capital.

FRENCH OFFICIAL RELATES

POSSIBLE TERMS OF PEACE

Paris. France. Dec 6. Franco will

not make peace until Alsace and Lor

raine are won. Belgium and Servia re

stored, and "fiwmnn tmn.ri.llM. .,.,

Prussian militarism are put beyond the

possibility of resurrection." said Al

bert Thomas, under secretary of war.

, The declaration of M. Thomas is at

tractingjwidespread attention as it js

one of the first statements from a re

sponsible cabinet official concerning

the attitude nf thft nirammar In -a-

gard to peace

SAYS GERMANS PREPARING

AN OFFENSIVE IN WEST

, e,- .tv- V. UD UCIIIIUUJ

are preparing for a desperate offensive

action along the western front in Jan

narv. aenrrifnr- tn tfm t-,,, .....A c..-.

erland correspondent of the Times,

who states that the Krupps are work

ing desperately to prepare the neces

sary guns and equipment.

If the ofensive falls, the correspond

ent adds, the pope and president Wil

son will be invited by Germany to In

stitute peace negotiations.

TURKISH DESTROYER IS

SUNK BY A SUBMARINE

London, Eng Dec 6 The Turkish

torpedo boat destroyer Yar Hlssar has

been sunk in the Sea of Marmora by

a British submarine, it was announced

in a British official statement this

evening.

'A supply steamer and four sailing

vessels were destroyed by the sub

marine on December 3 and 4.

TWO SUBMARINES ATTACKED

ANCONA. SAS SURVIVOR

Washington, D. C, Dec. 6. The state

department received today a message

from consul Mason, at Tunis giving

the substance of an affidavit made by

Guiseppe Torrisso, an Ancona survivor,

to the effect that the Ancona was at

tacked simultaneously by two subma

rines, one on each side the one on

the port side shelling her.

DOCTORS AND NURSES TO

Bi: SENT TO MONTENEGRO

Halifax, N. S, Dec 6. Twelve phy

sicians and nurses are to be sent to

Montenegro to aid the suffering in

habitants by John W. Frotblngham of

New York, who has arrived here

More than 600,000 pounds of food,

supplies and medicine lias been col

lected, and sent to Montenegro for the

relief work.

SHIP ATTACKED- ESC VPES.

London, Eng., Dec 6. The British

steamship Japanese Prince recently wai

attacked by a submarine, but succeeded

In escaping, according to information

received here

UUI

Circulations Verifies

CRTCSE

HGNIT1 OE

CAHHANZABLOW

TD

Mgr. Kelley Replies to Sec

retary Tumulty's Letter

on Mexican Situation.

SAYS SECRETARY IS

IGNORING FACTS

Father Tierhey, , Editor of

Catholic Weekly, "Ameri

ca" Joins in Criticism. ,

CHICAGO, I1L, Dec 6. Statements

In reply to the recent letter in

which Joseph P.' Tumulty, secre

tary to president Wilson, explained

from an administration viewpoint the

situation in Mexico, as regards the Ro

rfian Catholic church, are made public

here One Is by Mgr. Francis C Kelley,

president of the Catholic Church Ex

tension society, and the other by the

Rev. R. H. Tierney, editor of the Cath

olic weekly "'America," and both renew

criticism of president Wilson In recog

nizing the Carranza government under

which, says Mgr. Kelley, religious lib

erty is bejng denied to the people of

Mexico.

The statement of Mr. Tumulty, re

cently published, was In the nature of

a defence of the Carranza government

It is said that no authentic cases of

outrages against nuns in Mexlcte had

been proVedi quoted the archbishop of

Mexicnas jtatinc- jy such casjs had

beerrjjrdusht to-Tilsattention;. asserted

that army officers. -at Veracruz 'CAmer

Icari) had Interviewed nuns' and priests

without finding any basis of authority

for reports of physical outrages rand it

conciuaea with a summary stating that

acts ot violence are common to all rev

olutions and that Carranra'js had pre

sumably been no worse than the aver

age revolution. '

Its the Record.

The statement by Mgr. eKlley fol

lows: "If the files of the department of

state are without official records to

prove the 'dastardly crime' of outrages

commuted upon nuns bvMex!can rev

olutionists, there are official records in

other places, copies of which have been

offered to the department of state 1

happen to have some of them myself.

given under oath. I have one In par

ticular, that has never seen the light

or aay. But is Mr. Tumulty perfectly

safe In trying to disprove all the out

rages against religion, through deny

ing one? Even If we grant all his con

tentions, there still remains a great

burden of crime absolutely unex

plained. One thing, however, he may

be certain of: the worst of the affida

vits will never be given out. or it

stands to reason that no names are go

ing to be mentioned: not for the revo

lutionists' sake, or for Mr. Tumulty's

sake, but rather for the sake of the

poor victims. The murders, the loot

ing, the stealing, the closing of

churches, have been admltted,over and

over again by the revolutionists them

selves. It Is most extraordinary that

Mr. Tumulty 'could make the statement

seriously that the officers or thi Amer

ican army 'never heard a single report

of outrage having been committed."

"The fact ot the matter is that the

story first came to my knowledge

through one who received it from the

officers of both the army and navy. I

afterwards conversed with one "of these

officers, and he not only corroborated

what I had heard, but gave, me addi

tional facts. However, his case is

about the same as that of the nuns.

While I have his name and his signa

ture, I do not propose to have him dis

missed from the army, or have his life

made a. burden by revealing it. Mr.

Tumulty may not perhaps have heard

that nuns were forcibly taken from

trains and sent irfto the revolutionist

army. The number of nuns who

reached Cuba or the United States

safely Is negligible. How, many of

Uem will never be heard from?

Quote Carrnuza Appointee.

"A rather strange .thins it 1s that

Mr. Tumult shodld use as an authfrlty

'the very Rev.' Antonio J. Paredes, Ro

man Catholic Icar general, the arch

bishopric of Mexico City." When Mr.

Bryan was secretary of state, he com

municated to me a copy oi the state

ment of canon Paredes, and informed

me that he was golnc to give It to the

press Through Dudley Field Malone,

or New York, 1 gave Mr. Bryan infor

mation as to who this Antonio J. Pare

des was. I told hirn that he was vicar

general of Mexico only because he had

been appointed by Carranza to that of

fice, despite the fact that the constitu

tion of Mexico proclaims that there is

"no union In that country between

church -and state. The venerable arch

bishop of Mexico City, however, as

father Tierney says, in order to avoid

further scandal, allowed Paredes to

act; but as a matter of fact, very few

of the elergy of Mexico City pay any

attention to him, but recognize the au

thority of another vicar general, whose

appointment was not 'made by Gen.

Carranzo. Antonio J. Paredes Is today

knocking around Mexico City with a

revolutionary uniform on. It was he

who, taken as a nominal prisoner to

Veracruz with a number of other

priests from Mexico City, nworked on

the poor prisoners to have them sign a

document favorable to Carranza., This

Is the sort of an 'authority Antonio J.

(Continued on pace 5. Col. 4.)

T

B GHIDES

EXPECTS VILLA

Reported Coming Back to

Chihuahua From Expe

dition Into Sonora.

Information to United States army

officials here is that Gen. Francisco

Villa is expected in Casas Grandes

Tuesday. Reports to North Western

railroad offices in Juarez and El Paso

are said to confirm this.

Confidential agents ot tha Villa gov

ernment in Juarez left Sunday, it is re

ported across the river, for Casas Gran

des. to meet the northern chieftain.

AdTices to reliable sources in both El

Paso and Juarez, although unofficial

and lacking confirmation from officials

of the Villa faction in the military or

commercial headquarters, state that

Gen. Villa's first body of men return

ing from upper Sonora, are expected

coming through the Sierra Madre

passes south of OJitos and Bavispa

passes, near Colonla Oaxaca. .

Concentration of Villlsta forces at

Casas Grandes is still reported in semi

official circles, and the transfer of the

government and practically the entire

military strength of Villa to that valley

section, is predicted confidently.

Arrivals of troops up from Chihuahua

City are said to have dropped off tem

porarily, and arms and ammunition re

ported taken from large bodies of the

soldiery In Juarez are declared to have

been shinned to Casas Grandes for the

equipment of forces to be concentrated

mere.

UDBALEl AND.

300SUDER;

Nogales. Anr, Dec S. Francisco

Urbaleio. Yaqul general, surrendered

with 'S&0 of his men today at Tonichl.

Son lira, southwest of HermosIUo. ac

cordlhir to repotts received by Carranza

officials at Nogales. ' ,

CoJ. TruJIllo with several .other Villa

officers and a number of men were

captured near HermosIUo, the messages

added.

No Raes Imported From

Mexico Unless Are Worn

T'nited Stat.s health and customs an

thorities have started a war against

rags.

Hereafter! according to the latest-e-port

from Washington, the importa

tion of rags of all kinds will be pro

hibited at this Iport from Juarez.

Kmallno-r and kindred diseases are

feared with the big entires offered for

importation into mis city.

AMERICAN'S WIT SAVES

" HIM FROM BEING HANGED

Douglas, Ariz, Dec. 6. Tom Lester,

foreman of the Cananea Cattle com

pany, has arrived here after havjns

been mistreated by a band of Villistas

at the Nogales ranch. 20 miles south

west of Cananea. He said the Mexi

cans, after demanding money, reviled

him and then, placing a rope about his

neck, dragged him away to be hanged.

After going some distance, Lester

stonned and declined to take another

step. The Mexicans threatened to hang

him, and Lester said: .

"But. senors, there are no trees here

to hang me 19."

It was true and the situation struck

the Mexicans as funn. They thereup

on liberated Lester

0BREG0N ANDbTEGUEZ

DISCUSS VILLA CAMPAIGN

Douglas. Arlz Dec 6. Gen. Alvaro

Obregon expected to.leave this evening

for Nogales, Son., tllence to proceed

southward and hold a conference some

where between the border and Hermo

sIUo with Gen. M. M. Dieguez concern

ing the Whereabouts of Gen. Villa and

the best way of attacking him. One

report Is that Villa and a part of his

army have vanished into tbe Yaqul

stronghold of the Bacatete mountains.

Three hundred Villa troops under

Gen. "Pablo Lopez are reported to have

looted El Tlgre, after driving out 90

Carranza troops.

LOWER -CALIFORNIA JUDGE

ARRESTED; ASSAULT .CHARGED

Tucson. Ariz- Dec 6. Jose -Guajardo,

a lieutenant of Gov. Esteban Cantu, and

a ludgk. at Mexican. Lower California,

was taken from a train here early to

day and arrested on a warrant sworn

out at El Centro, Cal. charging him

w ith having assaulted an American

customs official with a deadly weapon.

Guajardo denied the charge and de-'

clared his arrest was merely a mani

festation' of Mexican politics.

HERNANDEZ IN COMMAND

OF CARRANZA ARMY! REPORT

According to advices received In El 1

Paso Morda, Gen. Rosalie Hernandez,

formerly a Villa general, who was re

ported to hae abandoned the revolu

tion, has reentered the war area at the

head of a Carranza force. Hernandez,

with several thousand men, is reported

at Santa Rosalia.

FUNSTO.N HAS RETURNED

TO HIS HEADQUARTERS

San Antonio, Texas, Dec 6. Maj.

Gen. Frederick Funston. commanding

American army forces along the Inter

national border, has returned to" his

headquarters here from Douglas, Ariz.

He appeared optimistic concerning the

border situation.

All the Figures tf The Herald

IDENT

! CARRANZA MONEY

DROPPING DAILY

Bankers Unable to Explain

"Why Recognition Failed

to Cause a Raise.

Bankers along the border are begin

ning to complain of the rapid deprecia

tion of Carranza currency and old fed

eral issues In value sice the recognition

of the Constitutionalist government by

the United States and Pan-American

countries.

No formal protest will be made, that

is known of, and local bankers declare

that a protest would do no special

good. A tendency of many of the

paper issues declared valid by Carranza

drop 'is in order, it is istated. and it

Is a puzzle why these issues should

drop instead of rise tn value upon the

recognition of the government Is gen

eral.' Money Coins Down.

"Carranza and federal issues are de

preciating in value about as fast as

they can," said one banker Monday.

"Carranza paper is quoted about the

same-as it has been tor the past few

weeks.' but recognition found It worth

a littlemorc Carranza. paper is worth

about six to seven and one-half cepts.

"Old state issues have dropped from

about IS cents at recognition time to

a present quotation of eight to nine

cents. Banco Nacional issues are worth

now about H cents against a recogni

tion quotation of IJ: the same quota

tions are gooa lor ue bank oz itonaon

I and Mexico currency, down to 14 from

PHELPS-QQQEE

ENTER A DENIAL

Phelps Dodge & company, offices in

New York, made formal denial of the

"statements and Inferences" in the ar

ticle printed In The Herald of Decem

ber 1. in which Cleveland Dodge was

reported as aboUt to" make a trjp: from

New York to Washington on alleged

business in" connection with Aegotia

tlons looking to protection of American

mining property in northern Mexico.

In a telegram sent to The Herald

Monday by Walter Douglas, general

manager for the Phelps-Dodge corpora

tion In Arizona. Mr Douglas also de

clares that Dr. J. A. McCallum, reported

here on a commission from the Phelps

Dodge people, is unknown to the com

pany. Mr. Douglas's telegram to The Her

ald Monday reads as follows:

"You can state on my authority that

neither Phelps-Dodge and company nor

Mr. Dodge ever heard of Dr. J. A. Mc

Callum; that Phelps-Dodge and com

pany has never interfered in any man

ner direct or indirect In political con

ditions in Mexico, and that the article

in rour issue 01 uecemoer 1 is mis

leading and incorrect In the statements

made and the inferences Implied,

"(signed) Walter Douglas."

RAIDING" MAYOS BEATEN,

CARRANZA LEADERS SAY

Topolobampo, Slnaloa. Mex., Dec 5.

,by radio to San Francisco, CaliL. Dec

6s) Carranza leaders claimed today

that their forces had routed and pur

sued into the foothills bands of Mayo

Indians which recently twce raided

the - town of Los Mochis, destroying

much American property and killing

several forergners.

American settlers were warned to

day by admiral Cameron MeRae Wins

low not to permit women and children

to return to Los Mochis until quiet Is

restored.

EMBASSY DENIES GERMANY

FOMENTS WAR IN MEXICO

Washington. D. C. Dec 6. Count

von Bernstorff. the German ambassa

dor, today made' emphatic denial of re

ports that Germany or German official

agents had been concerned In recent

attempts to set up a counter revolution

in Mexico.

4S CORN CHAMPIONS

FROJI IOWA ARE COMING

More corn champions will be here

Wednesdav. The cbamnlon corn club

of Iowa will arrive her Wednesday

morning from San Francisco en route

to Ames. Iowa, after a trip to the

Pacific coast fairs.

The corn club Is composed of 4$

ooys ana iney are seiectea irom me t

entire state for the best corn rodueel I

auring me, year, xoe inp 10 ue jairs

rs

-nas at the expense 01 the state uni

verslty.

Record Breaking -Business

at Theater

SATURDAY night as tiie record breaking aufieC6 of tlie season at the

Texas', rami theater. A total of 1165 seats every seat in the house

v. as sold and many purchased standing room. Sunday matinee and

night big: audiences alto witnessed the performance. Friday niht and Sat

urday matinee audiences were also good. The management of the show was

so pleased wiui the result of tfie business done in El Paso that a special

effort was made to return here Thursday night for another perlormance.

The show, was advertised exclusively in The El Paso Herald Manager

Lynn R. AIeCIhtock uses no other El Paso paper for advertising the business

of the Texas Grand and the Crawford theaters.

The company was here for five performances three nights and two

mutinies and the business averaged greater thart-auy other five similar per

formances in Texas, according to managers Martin and Leemie, aad El Paso

is the first city of importance they have visited where ooly one newspaper

was used for advertising the show.

ON ARMY

'LANs

Many Varieties of National

Defence Measures Are In

troduced in House.

32 NEW SENATORS

ARE SWORfi IN

Houses Will Convene in Joinl

Session to Hear the Pres

ident's Message.

THE DAY IN CONGRESS.

Washington. D. G. Dec 6. The

day In congress:

Senate:

Met at noon and Z2 sew senators

were sworn in.

Senate recessed to notify president

of convening of congress, reas

sembled and recessed until 4 o'clock

because, of committee delays.

House:

Met at noon.

Speaker Clark was reelected.

National defence waman suffrage

and other Mils filed. Committee ap

pointed to notify president of con

vening of congress.

WASHINGTON, D. CL, Dec .

Congress reassembled at noon

today for what promises to ba

the most important and historic session

of a generation.

Proceedings In both house and sea

ate were brief, being confined entirely

to organization and formal introduc

tion of some bills I and resolutions. In

accordance with custom, both houses

soon adjourned and sent a committee

to formally notify president Wilson

tiat congress was In session.

Tomorrow the real work of the ses

sion begins, when president Wilson de

Uvers his annual address to a lolnt

session assembled in. the hall of the

house

Speaker Clark Is Reelected.

Speaker Clark was reelected and

sworn in amid cheers from the floor

and galleries. In the senate the organ

ization was perfected by the reelection

of senator Clarke of Arkansas, as pres

ident pro tempore Vice president Mar

shall was not In the chair for the open

ing. Clark Pays Tribute to Mann.

In his opening address to the house

speaker Clark paid tribute to Republi

can leader Mann and predicted a. prac

tically continuous session hereafter

"I am profoundly grateful to you tor

the high honor of the speakership,

thrice conferred by your friendship and

partiality," he said. ,

"I thank the Democrats for their

personal good will which has attended

me all my days here By reasoni of

the amazing growth of our beloved

eountry and the bewildering increase)

of business the time is in siait when

the congress will remain practically in.

perpetual session. I hope this congress,

will go into history as a working;

congress."

The senate floor and gallery pre

sented the usual scene James M.

Baker, the secretary, called the session

to order and the chaplain prayed for

divine guidance for the preservation of

peace at home -and its restoration

abroad. ,

, Senator Sworn 'In.

Thirty two newly elected senators

were sworn in. Each was escorted lv

his colleague After swearing in tha

new members the senate recessed until

40 o'clock.

Defence Measures Nnmeron1.

In tbe house, meanwhile, bills and

resolutions were pooling into the hop

per at the clerk's desk. National de

(Contlnued on PaKe 4. Column 3)