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ocratIIE FULL TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS OF WORLD NEWS EVENTS FURNISHED BY THE. ASSOCIATED PRESS. DEM1 FORTY-FIFTH YEAR. LITTLE ROCK, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1916. Price CItr 2c Train mm to i xicdD to mmw E1(GA1T IFME 1 IF WW ME WW 11 IS PRESIDENT OF ROADS CONGRESS GERMAN ATTAG BOOSTERS TflE WEATHER HE CONFERS WITH CARRANZA LEADER SESSIONS RESULTS BANKERS OUTLINE -THEIR DEFENSE III STATEJP CASE Attorneys for Garanflo and Duncan Declare That Transactions of State Trust Com-pany Were Legal.

ASSERTS Vi Sunday Afternoon and Night Engagement, Desperately Contested, Leaves Both Forces Virtually Without Change. MASSED FORMATION IS AGAIN USED BY TEUTONS Open Ranks Advance, Super seded by Old-Style Offensive, but Artillery Fire of Verdun' Defenders Proves Too Much. Paris, April 10. 1:26 p. m.

The Germans continued' their attacks last night in the Verdun region east and west of the Meuse, over a front 18 miles long, from Hill No. 304 to Fort Douaumont. The war office announcement of this afternoon says that in the fighting west of the river for possession of Dead Han's Hill, the Germans were Tepulsed except on a front of BOO yards near Hill No. 295. Bast of the river the German assaults gained no appreciable results.

Abandoning the new open formation and the lately established practice of night attack, the Germans yesterday engaged two army corps in dense masses against the French positions north west of Verdun between Avocourt and Cumieres. Advanoed Through Storm. Forces numberinz at least a division and a half charged the line between Avocourt and Bethincourt. They ap proached to within a hundred yards of the French trenches, and seemed in sensible to the fact that hundreds of their men were falling. Notwithtsand-ing their courage and the weight of their masses, they were stopped.

There was a deadline beyond which they could not" pass. When the attacking columns' were thinned out by artillery and machine gun fire so that a re-f ormatiojj Jief ame necessary, the order to retire was given. Twice were thev abliired to fill tip 'the' gaps in-their yanks out-of re serves, but none of their three on- slaiights shook the French line, which had been strengthened considerably near Bethincourt by the withdrawal of forces from the dangerously exposed salient to new positions behind the divisions attacked Dead Han's Hill, while the onslaught was in (Continued eat Pace 11.) RIVER EXPERT TO MAKE TWO TALKS Sydney J. Roy to Address Board of Commerce, Good Roads Convention and Rotary Club While In This City. Sydney Roy, secretary of the Ns tlonal Rivers an4 Harbors Congress, has accepted the Invitation of the Board of Commerce to make addresses In Little Rock Wednesday and Thurs day on "Flood Prevention and Naviga tion." He will address the Board of Commerce and good roads delegates at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening at the Hotel Marion, and the Little Rock Ro tary Club at 12:30 o'clock Thursday.

Mr. Roy Is making a tour of the country and will go from here to Fine Bluff, where he will make an address on Thursday night. While In Little Rock and along the Arkansas river he will talk Improvement of inland rivers and navigation In America. He will also touch upon the Arkansas rlv er. This question at the time, since the appropriation for the Improvement of the local river, is of such Import ance, and large crowds are expected at the meetings here.

Moving Store. Newport, April 10. (Special.) The Winner Store, 8. A. Salman, proprietor, which has been doing a dry goods bus iness In this city for the past five years, is being moved to Judsonia by Mr.

Sal man, who will maxe that town nis home. TO STARTED TO REPEL AMERICANS Former Huerta Chieftian Be- f. lieved to Have Left El Paso, for Mexican Soil to Unite All Factions Against -Americans. EL PASO WORRIED BY CARRANZISTA MANEUVERS Continual Massing of Troops Along Border Cause of Grave Concern Mexicans Are Si. lent as to Their Purpose.

El Paso, April 10. In his flight from the American cavalry Francisco Villa Is believed today to have passed Parrai and is reported to be heading toward Du-rango- City. Detachments of the Thirteenth Cavalry are hard on the bandit's trail, but no official word has come from the front to indicate their position. Mexican reports stated today that Villa was a full day ahoad of his pursuers. If Villa succeeds in reaching Du-rango City, he probably will be joined by the forces of the Arrieta brothers, who command more than 1,000 men.

Local authorities had no additional information regarding the progress of the revolution reported to have been inaugurated, by Jose Tnez Salazar. Salazar recently had been living at Las Cruces, N. from which point he has made repeated night trips by motor to El Paso and vicinity. Officials hore he may attempt to foment disturb, ances among the Carranza troops now reported gathering In increasing numbers In Northern Chihuahua. El Paso, April in.

There was considerable excitement today over the report'ed crossing of the bonier of ('en-cral. Yncz Salajyir, former Huerta gen- eral. who has 'been living here and who Is said to have gone into Mexico with interhions avowedly hostile to the United States, he jtory' of Salazar 'g crossing was told to the police by a man who had; been associated closely with Salazar. An investigation was made and later the police announced they believed the story to be true. Mrs.

Salazar was ques- tioned, and said her husband was away from home, but she did not know where he is. She denied, however, that he had entered Mexico. discovered, purporting to be signed by Salazar, in which he called on all patriotic Mexicans to join him in the pro- tection of Mexican soil. Elfego who defended Salazar at his trial for guij-runniug, declared the signature to the proclamation was undeniably genuine. Salazar Proclamation.

The proclamation said, in part: "The attitude, of Carranza, always, hostile to every individual, corporation or party not subservient to him, which maintains in exile the most cultured, honest and well-to-do portion of the Mexican family; the anarchy created by the very party that sarcastical ly calls itseir 'Constitutionalist their inability to run down bandits who, like Villa, are the oppressers of the nation end a stain on history, at least, being the cause of an American invasion of our beloved soil, impels me again to spring to the armed struggle, determin ed to do all I can for the salvation of our country and our honor." After declaring that his first purpose is the union of all Mexicans for the national defense, he concludes with a statement that he is willing to turn the direction of the campaign over to any patriotic body of men who are worthy oif.it. General Hernandez, with force, variously estimated at from 1,000 to 3,000 (Continued, on Page Negro Amuch 9 Hurt Before He Takes to Woods Stuttgart, April 10. (Special.) Crossed in love and filled "with bad whiskey, Arthur Akers, one-armed today equipped himself With a shotgun, a 45-caliber revolver and a knife, end within 30 minutes had shot wB-. and stabbed a ninth negro victim. He, tlin aafannA mitaital Kir 1 ers.

THE DAY 11 CONGRESS. Senate. Debate begun on resolution to repeal free sugar' clause of the tariff. Investigation resumed Into alleged sisal monopoly before agricultural sub-committee. Judiciary Committee considered sub-committee report reoommend-Ind confirmation of Louis D.

Brandels to the Supreme Court. House. Discussion of rivers and harbors bill continued. United States Attorney Marshall appeared before a select committee to testify regarding his criticisms of a sub-committee investigating Impeachment charges against him. SALAZAR I (By U.

a Weather Bureaa.) For Ll "le Bock and Vlrlnl'y: tW ard warmer tents ht, with lowest temperature degree. Taeeday partly cloudy and warmer. For Arkansas: Tonight fair and warmer. Tuesday partly cloudy wanner In cut portion. 7 a.

44U 48112 a m. 68 p. 10 .67 p. Maxim am Minimum yesterday. i.

Maximum a year ago Minimum a year aco ..35 ..75 ..58 Weather Conditions. Light precipitation has occurred In New England and New York, also in the North Paciflo States. The nortr rf tern area of high pressure baa moved to the. East Gulf and South Atlantlo States, causing light to killing frost In those sections. It continues cold In the Mississippi Valley and from there eastward to the coast; but temperatures are rising In the western half of the country and ar normal or above In most places.

Fair and wanner weather la expected In Little Bock and vicinity with lowest temperature tonight 58 degrees. Tuesday will ba partly cloudy and warmer. LOSES ON WATER APPEAL 111 COURT District Held Illegal Because Legislative Act of 1915 Failed to Meet Constitutional Re- quirements, Says Tribunal. WHITE COUNTY ROAD i DIST. DECISION STANDS Citizens of Wynne, through a Supreme Court decision Monday morning, again failed in endeavors to form a light and water district.

The act passed by the 1915 legislature creatine; the proposed district did not meet the constitutional requirements providing ior a way to ascertain whether a majority of the ciitzens wanted the district, the Supreme Court held. In 1912 an effort was made- to create a similar district. Thn nrirjLmzfl.t:k)i jila dAftlarArl 4nVAli1 CTCy-ihe SupremeACtmrK A contention. oE persons favoring the district that, the 1915 act validated the original distriot was overruled by the Supreme- Court, which held that it could not have such powers when the original district had been declared not to exist. The suit was that of J.

B. Hamilton against the Board of Improvement of Light and Water District No. 2 of Wynne, The Supreme Court, reversed the lower court's decision, and remanded the case with instructions to the lower court to render a verdict in accord with the Supreme Court's opinion. Road Decision Stands. i The Supreme Court reaffirmed ita decision made in the Alexander road law test case appealed from Craighead County in a decision knocking out a White County road' district, again holding that in districts formed under the Alexander road law, the plans, specifications, surveys and estimates filed with the county court must have been made by engineers of the State highway department.

The case was appealed under the style of Harry Churchill pganist R. L. Vaughn. The Alexander road law test case' from Craighead County, in which a modified opinion is 'being asked from the court, was submitted on a petition for rehearing. Monday morning.

Eight separate briefs were filed with the petition. Must Pay Back Money. Because attorneys for J. W. Thomp-; son, former treasurer of 8harp County, did not file a motion for a rehearing In the lower court on alleged errors In the court's findings of amounts due Sharp County by the former official, Thompson must pay back to the county t2.B77.ia.

altered to be due sohool funds, and 178.05 alleged due road funds. Suit was brought after Thomp son went out of office In 1914 for money It was alleged he owed the two county funds. The court's decision con tained its findings of the amount due from Thompson. Although an appeal was taken, no motion for a new trial on alleged errors In the amounts due was made, and for that reason the Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's decision. SaloonIM Not Responsible.

Alfred Bolen. administrator of the estate of Louis Bolen. deceased, of Searcy County, cannot collect from Louis Still, former proprietor of a sa loon, because Louis Bolen, after buying (Continued oa Pnge to withdraw from concentrated action in the movement on Western roads for an eight-hour day and time and a half for overtime. Konold said their action does not affect the firemen, tenders and trainmen. CLAIM ISOLATED the southwest were isolated.

The Frond )rere cut off, losing 714 prisoners, two guns and 15 machine guns. The losses of the French in killed or wounded were considerable. sun HERE WEDNESDAY At Least 1,000 Delegates From All Parts of Arkansas Are Expected for Two-Day Meeting at Hotel Marion. PROGRAM COMPLETED; IN HANDS OF PRINTER Letter From President of Luf-kin-Livingston-Houston Highway Association to Be Read and Discussed. Bead boosters from every section of Arkansas have promised to attend the twenty-seventh annual convention of the Arkansas Good Roads and Drainage Association, which will be held in Lit-, tie Bock Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

Reduced rates on all roads have been granted, and at least 1,000 visitors are expected in this city. Sessions of the convention are to be held at the Hotel Marion in the convention hall, and some of the best speakers in the State and nation are on the program. One of the features of the convention is to be the meeting of charter members of the organization, five in number, who are: Gen. B. W.

Green, W. W. Dickinson, Col. F. B.

T. Hollen-berg and Geo. R. Brown, members of executive committee, and Fred W. All-sop, chairman of the publicity committee.

Letter From Highway President. One of the important matters to come before the convention will be the reading of a letter from C. U. Mc Dowell, president of the Lufkin-Liv- Ingston-Houston Highway Association, in regard to the holding of the first organization meeting of the St. Louis- Little Rock-Houston Highway Association.

He outlines the plans already named, and gives as the Arkansas cities through which the road will pass: Ful ton, Hope, Prescott, Curton. amithton, Arfcadelphia, Malvern, Benton, Alexander, Little Rock, Argents, Austin, Bald Knob, Newport, daa, iioxie, ftnooei and Moark. He asks the co-operation of the State Good Roads Association and for some action regarding the first meeting to be taken by the convention. Program or convention. The program for the two days' con vention, which has just been complet ed, is: Wednesday raoming.

9:30 a. m. Called to order by Presi dent J. P. Molitor of Helena.

9:40 a. m. Report of secretary on delegations. 9:45 Invocation by John Uw Morris, bishop Little 9:50 m. fWelcoiae-Jpr Arkansas, Gov.

Geo. W. Hays. 11 10 m. Annual report by -Presi dent E.

P. Molitor. 10:20 a. m. Appointment of commit tee on resolutions.

10:25 a. m. Address, "What it Means to Arkansas," Gen. J. R.

Gib- Continued on Page Plan to Combat Death Caused by Asphyxiation Baltimore, April 10. Experi ments are being made by specialists at Johns Hopkins University hospital which, if successful, will greatly aid in the resuscitation of persons apparently dead from drowning or asphyxiation. The new treatment is the injection of a serum to stimulate the blood to such an extent as will form a reaction on the heart. This will keep the person alive until the apparatus perfected some time ago to clear the lungs can be put in use. In one experiment on art animal the serum was injected four hours after the drowning and the animal brought back to life, but died later of a high blood pressure.

The physicians are now engaged in trying to overcome or prevent the ex cess or blood pressure. 'S SDN IS SHOT BY SHREW POLICE Shreveport. April 10. (Special.) George S. Dickson, son of Mayor Dickson of Shreveport, was shot and fatally wounded last night by, the po lice while the latter were attempting to arrest him.

It is claimed that young Dickson was terrorizing the inmates of a negro house in the restricted district when the police entered to stop the disturbance. Dickson, it was said, drew a pistol and began firing at the officers, the firing being returned, resulting in the fatal wounding of the mayor's son. He is now in a local infirmary, where there is little chance for his recovery. Dickson is aboufr 30 years old, married and hag one child. Hymen Gets Busy.

Camden, April 10. (Special.) The marriage license record shows that 94 couples secured licenses to wed during the first three months or this year, Last year only 61 were applied for in the same nerioa DIRECTORS, THEY SAY, KNEW OF ALL ACCOUNTS No Attempt at Secrecy or False Entry, Men Maintain England First Witness for Government in Suit. Trial of W. H. Garanflo, former president, and 'R.

D. Duncan, former cashier, of the defunct State National Bank, was begun before Judge Frank A. Youmans of Fort Smith, district judge of the division, in the criminal division of federal court Mon day' morning. A jury was selected after exhausting nearly the whole panel, and Lloyd England, receiver, and witness for the government, started giving his testimony. Attorney Wallace Townsend, who, with Judge M.

J. Manning and Colonel George W. Murphy, represents the defendants, in his opening statement outlining the defense of the two former bankers charged with conspiracy, declared that evidence will be introduced in an effort to show: Defense Outlined. That the transactions get out in the Indictments do not charge abstraction, but misappropriation of funds. That directors knew of the method of carrying the State Trust Company account and that it was discussed in board meetings and approved.

That the bank got 7 per cent interest on the drafts. That banks in the State holding accounts were banks in which the company was interested or controlled That in that connection there was no attempt at secrecy or no false entries made, and the account was car- rlpri uv nfliAr ajvnnne. wait ried. That the trust company ha-t nothing to da with the failure of the State National Bank, but, on the other hand, its failure caused the trust company to be closed, as the trust company held $150,000 of the bank stock. whatever the.

trust company owes is secured, and it is believed the sva ut uuv iudb uu BUW1 nVvUUttbBi Six Counts Against Men. The two defendants face six counts in the charge of conspiracy to violate national banking laws and are being tried jointly. United States District Attorney J. E. Martin and Assistant W.

H. Sector are conducting the case for the government. The indictments charge that the defendants executed drafts on the account of the State TruBt Company in the State National Bank, resulting in overdrafts which amounted to $75,000. It was charged that the drafts were made without knowledge or consent of the directors of the Staae National Bank. Bank Closed June 20, 1914.

Thn financial trouhlpn 'lw, fn fm closing of the State National Bank (Continued on Page 11.) Coffee Is Gold With U. S. Force Chasing Villa General Pershing's Camp at the Front In Mexico, April 8. (By aeroplane and motor truck to Columbus, N. April 10.) Is" the word adopted at the front to describe coffee.

A teaspoonful of coffee will. buy more thon a gold Its color and scarcity have fixed the nickname firmly. An officer, In dealing out rations to a soldier, advised him to save bis coffee grounds for second boiling in the case -of delay in the arrival of supply trains. "I save mine," said the officer. "I ustda cupful of grounds 11 times.

The last few times I was Just drinking suggestion, but It kept me happy." Another officer offered one dollar, gold, for a cup of well-boiled grounds, but his bid was refused. Tobacco is the only article which has approached coffee In exaggerated value. One soldier sold a teaspoonful of coffee for three cigaTette papers. Reports from the southern area of this front, where the swiftly moving point of the American expedition Is penetrating new territory faster than supplies can be forwarded for the men, today broughtnew high cost of living scales. At one town which two days ago was the advanced front but which Is now well to the rear, the men paid one dollar gold a pack for ordinary American cigarettes.

They obtained sugar for 60 cents a pound gold. Boap costs 11.75 a cake. PASSENGER TAX LEVIES ON CABS ARB LEGAL. Washington, April 10. The Supreme Court, today dismissed the appeal of the St.

Louis Street Railway lines from the decision of the Missouri courts, which upheld the ordinance by which the city of St. Louis collects a tax of one mill on each street railway passenger. The city will realize about $3,000,000 in back taxes. 4 4 Col. Frederick Sibley.

Among the few. names of army officers mentioned In dispatches from the Mexican border Is that of Col. Frederick W. Sibley, who was reported jn conference with General Rojas. one of -the Constitutionalist commanders.

Col. Sibley Is In command of the Fourteenth cavalry. LOF IN SIGHT; Warmer Weather Was Promise of Forecaster Monday Morning Frost Saturday Night Snow in Northwestern Section (Relief from the cold weather which has held the Southwest for several days, was promised by H. S. Cole, local section director of the United States Weather Bureau, for Monday night and Virtually' the entire week.

"Fair and 'warmer, with lowest temperteure JS8 was the forecast issued Monday 'morning; Tuesday was predicted as partly cloudy and warmer. 1,, The high pressure area which caused all' the i disturbance during the later half of last week was gradually passing toward the southeast, and caused heavy and killing frost through Geor Mississippi, South Carolina, Ten nessee and the northern part of ion da. Temperatures were lower morning through that entire section, but were gradually warming up the Northwest and the Western States. The warmer weather extended from the Mississippi Biver to the Pacific Coast. There was a heavy frost recorded Little Bock Saturday night, when the thermometer reached 35 degrees, with in one degree of the prediction of the local weatherman.

The heavy frost was not reported to have done great damage, as the majority of the fruit men were reported to have used smudge pots and other processes for saving the fruit. In the extreme northern part of the State there was freezing weather, and some snow in the northwest, according to reports. There was a low pressure area over Western Canada which was coming to ward Arkansas end was bringing the warmer weather, which wag expected to last a few days at least. There was no cold weather at any point in the United States. Monday morning, the coldest 'being at Parry Sound, where the minimum was 22 degrees above zero.

The cold areafextended throughout the lake region, but was not se? vere. LINERS GO TO BOTTOM London, April 10, Noon. The sinking of four more unarmed British steamships was reported today, Lloyd's announces the sinking of the Silksworth the Glen Almond and toe Zafra. The captain ana 30 men from the Silksworth Hall have been landed. Three men are missing.

The crew of the Glen Almond was saved. A Beuter dispatch from" Malta tells of the sinking of the Yonne, formerly the Kastalia, which was sunk without worning. The crew was rescued. The Zafra was of 3,587 tons gross and was-owned by- the English and American Shipping Company, of London. The Silksworth Hall was last reported on her departure from Gibraltar on March 6, while -on a voyage from Bombay for Hull.

She was 360 feet long. The Glen Almond arrived in Lisbon March 13 from Rangoon. Burma. She was 824 feet long. The Yonne 4039 tons gross, was built in isn at juiasgow, ner tome port.

White Elver at Stand. Newport, April 10. (Special.) White River, which has steadily rose for the past week, is now at a stand at a little over 21 feet, and no further apprehension is felt as to another overflow of this This section was visited by' a light frost Saturday night, which did some dau age to some garden plants, but the hardier plants are unhurt. Cvn, which is' just coming up, Is not tStught to be injured. RGURY Photo by Harris.

Judge E. P. SAYS R. IS Thomas McNamara Suffers Fractured Arm in Auto Crash Is Student in University of Michigan. Grand Rapids, April '10.

(Special.) Thomas McNamara, 19'years old, son of Holton McNamara, lumberman of Little Rock, suffered a fractured left arm and slight internal injuries in an automobile acci dent here Sunday afternoon. The acoident happened just off the main street. McNamara was driving a new touring car. As he turned off West Park avenue into Library street, an automobile driven by a Hungarian commission-merchant, whose" name is unknown and who is said to have been driving at a rapid rate of speed on the wrong side of the- sSreetj hit-'ilev Namara's machine head-on, the force, of the impact throwing McNamara from his seat to the pavement. Hie arm was caught in the door of the machine, the bone being fractured and ligaments lacerated.

He was removed to his room in the Morton House, where' examination by a physician proved his injuries not serious. McNamara, who is a student at the University of Michigan, is well known in Grand Rapids as a golfer, and has interests here in several business concerns. For the past year he has made it a practice frequently to spend week ends in Grand Rapids, and his inter-ertg here have developed to the extent that he Btates this will be his permanent residence. He declares that he will take no steps tp discover the identity of the man with whom he collided no bring any legal action' against him. Little Rock city directories for several years past do not give the name of Holton McNamara, end Little Rock lumbermen say they do not know him.

An effort to locate Mr. McNamara in lumlber towng of the State also was unsuccessful Monday morning. TO lOllESTir Reorganization of the Arkansas Merchants' Association will be completed at the first State meeting to be held at Fort Smith on April 20 21. Though the effort of the merchants' bureau of the Board of Commerce, a temporary reorganisation has been started In the western part of the State and that is given as the reason for the first meeting being held in that city. Little Rook will try and get the second meeting of the association, which will probably be next Besides Little Rock, delegates will be sent from Hot Springs, JOnesboro, Blythevtlle and other cities over the State.

The Fort Smith-Van Buren Merchants' Association has already held a meeting and made plans for the convention sessions, which will be held on Thursday morning and afternoon and Friday morning. There are also several aoolal sessions planned. In a desperate struggle for possession of Dead i Mail's Hill, the French lines were penetrated lanl night for a distance of about 6u0 yards near the height. Paris announced this today In reporting a battle which raged In the Verdun region along a 13-mlle front north of the stronghold. Elsewhere the French lines stood the test of the savage attacks of the Germans who are bringing notably heavy forces to bear In an effort to break the new French line west of the Meuse, lust straightened out by the abandonment of the Bethincourt salient.

Last night's battle front ranged from Hill No. S04 west of the Meuse and on across the river to Fort Douaumont, northeast of the fortress. The results on the eat bank of the river were favorable to the French, Paris asserts, the Germans winning no appreciable advantage. i. YOUNG IN HURT HOI War Summary U.

P. ENGINEERS OUT OF AGREEMENT Laramie, April 10. L. Konold, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of the Union Pacific Railroad, announced today that the engineers of that road have voted GERMANS FORTS Berlin, April 10. Via London, 4:28 p.

m. The war office announced today that in the fighting near Bethincourt, in the Verdun region, the town and two fortified points of the fort to.