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1111 jr. Michel Barmazel, on. parade dress. Snapshot taken recently on the Mexlean border. The trooper Is reported n some dlSDatchea to have died of h wounds. GIRL AIDS SEARCH OF SLAYERS Ora M. Slater, assistant state agent, Indiana Reformatory, while In the city today calling upon local paroled prisoners, was enlisted by Miss Ollle James, North Sixth street, a clerk at tho Tangeman plumbing shop, to assist In the apprehension of two men who murdered her brother, Clarence James, while In a skiff In the Ohio river, on the Kentucky side, opposite Aurora, Ind., on the night of Feb. 21. The state authorities at Aurora, where Miss James formerly resided and where her mother still lives, have taken no action because the crime was. committed on the Kentucky side of th river. The Kentucky authorities have done nothing more than make a perfunctory Investigation. They have stated that James body mu6t first be recovered before action is taken. Three men at Grant's Landing, Ky., opposite Aurora, were standing on the shore within a few feet of where the murder took place but so far have given no testimony to the Kentucky officials. Weather Forecast United States Report Unsettled tonight and Wednesday. Probably rain or snow south and snow north portion. Colder tonight south portion. TEMPERATURE Noon 36 Yesterday. Maximum 50 Minimum 32 Local Forecast Unsettled tonight and Wednesday. Sleet or snow, arriving this afternoon. General Conditions During the past 24 hours rains have fallen over the central states due to a storm central over the southern state.. This storm is moving eastward and a cold wave over the Great Lakes has caused lower temperatures north of the Ohio river.' It will continue unsettled tonight and probably Wednesday. Below . freezing tonight. " - W. E. MOORE, Weather Forecaster.

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Troop F, Thirteenth Cavalry, ready for a fight or a frolic. The arrow at Columbus, N. M., recently. All these men were .in battle with the Villa

GREECE SPURNS DEMANDS MADE ENTENTE POWER ' BERLIN, March 14 New demands made upon Greece by the entente powers have been rejected by the Athens government, the Oversea News agracy -announced today. The demands were presented ' by irepresentatives of the allies to Premier Skouloudis, who submitted them to the entente cabinet, which declined to accept them. Premier Skouloudis then transmitted to the allied ministers the following reply: "The Greek government Is not disPse" 10 sier 10 me ememe powprs n aamimsirauon 01 raiiroaas in I northern Greece and Macedonia FuriilIler - l" guvemiueui vun slder it convenient to withdraw Greek troups from Florena and Kavala. Further, the government must oppose- the military occupation by the entente troops of Corinth straits, advising the entente at the same time that such attempts would disturb the present relations between Greece and the entente. Likewise, Greece opposes the establishment of radio stations."

WATSON FIGHT AROUSES IRE OF TOHE G. 0. P.: REPUDIATED BY FRIENDS

Announcement made today that James E. Watson would carry his candidacy for the Republican nomination as United States senator to the state convention, next month, left a bad taste in the mouths of the big majority of Wayne county Republicans. No Republican in the county was more vigorous in expressing disapproval of the action Watson proposes to take than Linus P. Meredith of Richmond, who was the Watson manager during the primary campaign.

Meredith Sees Mistake. "I think Watson is making a mistake in appealing to the convention i for the senatorial nomination." Merei dith said today. "I think that Harry S. New is entitled to the nomination. He received a plurality over Watson in the state. Also I think Wayne county's fifteen delegates should support Continued on Page Two VILLA TRAPPED IN MOUNTAINS EL PASO, Tex., March H.-eneral Gabriel Gavira, military commander of Juarez and commander of the Carranza forces on the border, declared today, that Francisco Villa had been trapped in the bandit's mountain retreat in the Guerrero district. He asserted that the Carranza forces had the elusive "Pancho" hemmed in on every side. - In the first interview that the Carranza leader has granted since the Columbus raid, he professed confidence that Villa would soon be captured or killed.

RICHMOND, IND., TUESDAY EVENING,

CLUB PUTS SUBSIDY ISSUE SQUARELY BEFORE VOTERS FOR DECISION AT POLLS

The Commercial Club last evening voted in faypr of a $ 1 00,000 subsidy to the proposed traction line-north, promoted by Fred A. Dolph, as a link in a system of interurban properties he has acquired in northern Indiana and western Ohio. , : A ; Final disposition of the subsidy project now rests with the voters of Wayne township, who will be called upon to decide the issue at a special election, the expenses of which will be paid by the promoter. The subsidy will entail an

addition of 27 J2 cents to the Two Members Opposed Only two members opposed the subsidy Folger Wilson and Wilfred Jessup. The latter asserted all north and south traction lines in Indiana have been failures; argued that the population between here and Union Continued On Page Two. BILL'S DOG STAYS IN JAIL WITH HIM Bill Pipher, who pulled off the rough riding stunt in his Ford on Richmond avenue, yesterday, today plead "guilty "to a "charge of having operated an automobile while intoxicated and drew a fine of $35 and costs, w hich he stayed with a valuable diamond ring. Bill's faithful fox terrier, who spent the night with him in jail, was in court and appeared to be very much crestfallen over his master's behavior. Pipher will probably be the defendant in a civil action for he damaged a delivery wagon and badly crippled the horse hitched to it. When Pipher collided with the horse and rig, he stopped his machine, surveyed the damage he had wrought, then cranked up and started on his way again at a rate 'of 40 miles an hour, driving rigs onto side streets and pedestrians off the sidewalks onto lawns and into houses. His ex: hibition of rough riding was termin ated by a ditch and a telephone pole.

points to Michael , Barmazel. This photograph was made In the cavalry camp raiders, who sacked Columbus. '

tax rate for two years. INDIANA GUARDSMEN EXPECT TO BE CALLED INDIANAPOLIS, March 14. Officers and members of the Indiana National Guard are of the belief they will be called to the border and waiting anxiously' for 'some word to that effect. COL. SLOCUM COMES OF FIGHTING FAMILY Col. H. J. Slocum, commander of the American forces at Columbus, N. M., where the bandits under Villa raided the town and killed sixteen Americans, is about fifty years old. He is a nephew of Mrs. Russel Sage and brother of Major Stephen L'Hommedieu Slocum, U. S. A., who was military attache from the United States at the Court of St. James in 1911. Colonel Slocum, their father, is a veteran of the Civil War, and one of the trustees of the Russell Sage estate. TAFT OPPOSING NAMING BRANDEIS WASHINGTON, March 14 Former president, William "Howard Taft, Elihu Root, Simeon Baldwin and others equally prominent today registered protest against the confirmation of Louis D. Brandels as an associate justice of the " United States supreme court. : - A petition bearing their signatures saying Mr. Brandeis "is not a fit person" for the office was presented today to the senate sub committee which is Investigating hia fitness.

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'ML CARRANZA NOTE BRINGS ORDER ALONG BORDER WASHINGTON, March 14. President Wilson's acceptance of the Car ranza reciprocal agreement in Mexi can border arrangements, has had a most beneficial effect. .Tfcis was admitted by Acting Secretary of State Polk today, though he made it clear that so far he had received no directword from Carranza. However, consular agents throughout northern Mexico report that con ditions show material improvement and there was a general air of confi dence about the state department that the situation was getting better. Meanwhile the war department profess to be without any official information concerning events on the border. It' was stated by Secretary Baker that he had not yet been officially notified that General Pershing who is to be the acting field commander of the expedition "to get Villa" had left El Paso for Columbus, New Mexico, despite the general insistance of army officers that Pershing was "on the job." Inasmuch as it has been accepted that the punitive expedition will be given at least twenty-four hours lead on all . its movements it was hot expected that any announcement would be permitted until the troops were on the scent of the bandits. EDITOR TALKS BEFORE SESSION OF 12-6 CLUB . Ross F. Lockridge, secretary of the Citizens' League of Indiana, and managing editor of the Citizen, addressed the meeting of the Twelve-Six club this noon on the subject of "The Neeci of a New Constitution for Indiana." Constitutional home rule for Richmond was advocated by the speaker who said that the only practical and sure way this can be brought about was through a new constitution for the state. At the present time, he said, the only way Richmond could secure home rule would be to have a special statute passed which would be subject of the legislative politics. "What must be accomplished first of all." he said, "is the absolute dli vorce of city government from state and national politics and the substitution of business and efficiency principles. Mr. Lockridge opposed the suggestions that have been made by several leading politicians to amend the present constiution. He said that the only real remedy for the conditions in Indiana was through an entirely new constiution. "We need a constitutional convention to canvass the situation and determine whether or not we, have learned anything in the past two generations, through our own experience and through the experience of other states and countries which will be of benfit to us in pur government," he concluded. "We cannot celebrate a centennial anniversary better than by producing a new organic law. Let us usher in a new order with a new constitution suitable to a new era." JUDGMENT OBTAINED Default judgment was taken in the case of Joseph Bevls against Fred Boetticher in circuit court for 216.48.

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FUfJSTOfJ ESTABLISHES CENSOR AT COLUMBUS; ARMY MOVES SECRET

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 14. Maj. Gen. Funston today ordered a rigid censorship established at Columbus, N. M., and instructed Gen. John Pershing, in command at Columbus, to take charge of the telegraph office, guard all telephone lines and watch all automobile routes out of town. General Funston's action was taken to prevent knowledge of troop movements on the border becoming known through press dispatches. According to the latest report received here today, Villa is headed for Chihuahua City, to attack the Carranza garrison there.

Outlaws Raid Border. Villa's outlaws opened a campaign of guerilla warfare along the border of the El Paso district today. Texas rangers took the trail of the band of eight of Villa's followers and rounded them up on the border near Sabina, Texas, 26 miles from here. When they were taken, the eight Villistas were carrying food from a raided ranch on the American side. Only three rangers were required for the task of capturing the raiders and they were turned over to the state

0. S. TROOPERS AWAIT ORDER FOR INVASION OF MEXICAN SOIL

EL PASO, Tex., March 14. News of the advance of Amerian troops into Mexico was expected hourly today. Brigadier General John J. Pershing has left El Paso and taken command at a point on the border of the troops which he will lead In pursuit of Francisco Villa and his bandit raiders. The military authorities rfre notified today that Bre No. 268 on the Tpxas & Pacify rl'vl vbc ryrar ed last night. Mexicans are suspected of having fired the structure. A largo force of workmen are already at work replacing the bridge in order that the progress of seven troop trains to the border might not be interrupted. The bridge structure more than 2a0 feet long, is located near Weatherford, Tex.

WALTER BOSSERT NAMED CHAIRMAN TO SUCCEED LYNCH OF NEW CASTLE

CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., March 14. After Walter Bossert had been elected Sixth district chairman of the Republican party without opposition, P. J. Lynch, retiring chairman, handed over the reins and pledged his support in the ranks. County chairman endorsed Thomas B. Millikan of New Castle, and Richard Elliott of Connersville, as delegates to the national convention at Chicago. Delegates from the Sixth district are elected by the representatives at the state convention, which will be held in Indianapolis on April 4 and 5. County leaders in attendance today WAR BULLETINS BERLIN, March 14 Aerial activities took up the greater part of the official report issued by the German war office today. The only infantry fighting mentioned occurred in West Flanders, where it is said the British were driven back northeast of Ypres. Artillery duels were reported in Flanders. SWEDEN PREPARES. COPENHAGEN, March 14. WTar preparations are being made in Sweden) according to reliable reports that reached Copenhagen today. Private organizations believed to have government sanction are collecting a fund of $700,000 to be used for protecting Stockholm from air raids. CARRANZA TROOPS MARCH SOUTHWARD DOUGLAS, Ariz., March 14 Carranza troops are being withdrawn from the border. The garrison at Agua Pareta, across the line from Douglas, marched southward at dawn today. Similar retirements are reported from other border points. The first United States cavalry is due here from Monterey, Cal this afternoon. The troopers probably will be sent eastward to Culbertson ranch, whence they can strike southward along the western slope of the Sierra Madre range.

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authorities. Another report said that the eight died suddenly as such prisoners have a way of doing In this climate. From west of El Paso came reports that railroad trains had been fired. To a correspondent. General Guiterreza declared that Carranza troops will capture Villa before the United States troops cross the border. Before Gulterreza's arrival It was reported that Villa was headed toward Chihuahua It is estimated that there are today between El Paso and JCogales. Ariz., more than 15,000 American soldiers on the frontier. With them are heavy field artillery batteries, mountain guns and machine guns. With the time for action nearing, it was impossible to get from the military authorities any definite information to the size of the puntive ex pedition which will, enter Aexig lty

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Jmain body, which General Pershing will lead, there will be 3.500 cavalry alone. The first move probably will come suddenly and the dash opened at the cavalry's best speed to make aa much progress as possible before Villa's scouts and spies can carry any information to their chief. . were Fon Riggs, Rush; N. N. Moberly, Shelby; E. A. Robb, Hancock; E. H. Wolford, Henry; I. N. Bridg'eman, Franklin; L. S. Bowman, Wayne; Oliver LaFuse, Union. The only abContinued On Page Eight. CARRANZA TO RUN FOR PRESIDENCY MEXICO CITY, March 14. General Carranza will be a candidate for the presidency of Mexico at the next election. Following his appointment of Gen. Aguiliar as foreign minister and Gen. Obregon, as war minister, the first chief will resign his executive power and stand for election as president. REASONS ORGED FOR GRANTING LINE SUBSIDY

Arguments for granting subsidy advanced at the Commercial club last night were: Opens up new territory to the north. Richmond becomes terminus of important traction line system. Traction line is excellent business feeder. Tax rate will be increased 27i cents for only two years. Present tax rate not high In comparison with other Indiana cities. The tax on the interurban corporation will pay back a good portion of the subsidy. ; Bonded indebtedness of county will be paid off this year. Reduction o' 7 cents possible, if it were not necessary to build two bridges. Jobbing houses and retailers need quicker delivery service to the north. Man backing project is thoroughly reliable. No watered stock possible.Subsidy not to be paid until running schedule is announced. Subsidy to be used for steel on track between here and Union City. . h 7

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