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GINGER ALE WATER MADE IN WACO. MADE IN WCS Complete Service of the Associated Press. WACO, TEXAS. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, PAGES VOLUME 5, NUMBER 65 PROSPECTS FOB BIG "0 GLUES TO DOUBLE LOAN TO ALLIES ARE borrowers and lenders are ABOUT AGREED ON ALL POINTS EXCEPT TWO WHICH ARE NOT SUBJECT TO REVISION IS $700,000,000.

Tentative Plan Is to Continue to Pay for Actual War Material With Shipments of Banking Houses of New York Are to Participate. very of what was was read houses so-called will help New York, Sept. and lenders of the vast sum sought 14 America in behalf of Great Britain and France were said tonight to he in virtual accord on all save two details of the proposed loan. These, it was said, were not of importance. Formal proclamation of the success of the negotiations is expected within three or four days and possibly within forty-i eight hours.

Reports were current during the day that the entire matter would he settled tomorrow and that a formal announee- ment might he expected within twenty-four hours. This was said to premature. But there was unanimous confirmation of the report that both parties it. the proceedings were nearly together in their plans. More progress was said to have made today than on any other preceding days.

A rough inventory cotnplished, it was about as Members of New pro-Gorman banking final the loan. Munitions of war no longer entet into 1 discussed While it cannot be guaranteed that they will be excluded from the loan's operation, it is the present tentative plan to continue paying for them by shipments of gold and American securities from London and Paris to New York. The size of the loan haw been definitely agreed to, subject to eleventh- hour revision It will probably be about $700,000,000. The notes issued for the loan will run five years. These notes will carry a conversion prb: entitling the holders to surrender them at maturity, if desired, for Joint Anglo-French government bonds bearing per cent Interest and cov ring a period of probably twenty years, redeemable, however, at the option of Great Britain and before maturity and at the conclusion of a term not as yet disclosed.

Members of at least two big financial institutions regarded as pro-German in their sympathies were said to have pledged their support to the project and others were expected to fall in line. One of the two was lvuhn, Loch Go, TRAGEDY TAKES PLACE IN A FASHIONABLE APARTMENT BUILDING. Woman Dancer and Manager Mill Are Not Known. of is Oil Memphis, Sept Police and detectives tonight declared they were without a tangible clue as to the identity of the person who early today killed a woman known here as Mrs. Marguerite Favar, an actress, and J.

G. Crowell, manager of a Greenwood, oil mill, in a fashionable apartment here and set fire to the room in which the bodies were found, in an apparent effort to destroy evidence of the crime. Firemen summoned by a janitor, who discovered the apartment occupied by Mrs. Favar on fire, found the body of the woman lying on a bed, her skull crushed by a blow of a blunt instrument and her feet charred by the lire which was enveloping the bed. body was found in a hallway just outside the room, His head was badly battered and his throat was ut.

The room was in disorder and the drawers to a dresser were ransacked, which the police at first believed tended to confirm the theory that a burglar had committed the crime. This, however was partially discredited when jewpli valued at several thousand dollars was found in place. Other residents of the apartment building reported that they heard a slight disturbance shortly before day light, but the commotion ceased within a few minutes and they knew nothing of the killing until they were aroused by the janitor when he discovered the fire. Mrs. Favar was widely known as a dancer and several years ago toured vaudeville in the south and west.

She came to the Fnited States from Australia about eighteen years ago, and was said to have married Creatore, the band leader, some seats ago, from whom she later was divorced. ntly she toured tin- south at the head of a company of young women and located at Greenwood, several months ago. when the company disbanded there. She came to Memphis last month to direct a musical performance for a fraternal organizatiem and since has conducted private dancing classes. The apartment which jne occupied was leased under the name of Mrs, F.

D. Tompkins. Crowell, who was married, wras about 40 years old and was prominently identified with the business affairs of Greenwood. His body was sent to his home in Mississippi tonight, Mrs. body will be held awaiting instructions from relatives.

in San Francisco. CONDITIONS IN REPUBLIC ARE RAPIDLY BECOMING NORMAL, ACCORDING TO A STATEMENT FROM AMERICAN CONSUL BLOCKER AT PIEDRAS NEGRAS. 3 Trust Company Officials Acquitted IO FI All Soldiers Under Carranza Warned That Any Molestation of Peaceable People Wilf Result in Severe States Troops Sent to El Paso to Prevent Villa Raids. Kansas City. Sept 21.

W. h. Mover George and John W. Beery, former officials oi the defunct Ameri-j can Fnion Trust company, charged with using the mails to defraud by the issuance of a financial statement, were acquitted in the federal court here late today. The verdict of not guilty was returned after jury had i-n out half an hour.

Arguments began with the convening of court this morning. VYm G. Lynch, assistant United States district attorney made the 1 rt argu merit for the government. In reviewing the iai operations of the company, he said: defendants must have had guilty knowledge of the fraudulent acts committed." It was on this point that the government's case rested. It was admitted by attorneys for the defense that had been practiced in the handling of the finances, but the attorneys disclaimed any for their clients, they the victims of the duplicity of Hrnry W.

Richardson, organizer of the company, now believed to be in FOngiand. A demurrer ha 1 been filed by thf defense which was not allowed by Judge Booth. Cyrus an attorney for the defense, created a surprise when in arguing for his client he declared indignation at the allowing the case to go to the jury "in the face of the evidence of a government witness who had testified favorably as to the reputation of one of the IS IN THE RETREAT GERMAN ENCIRCLING MOVEMENT AGAINST ARMY WHICH BUT RECENTLY LEFT THE CITY OF VILNA CARRIES GREAT UNEASINESS IN ENGLAND. LEAVES NEGROES; SAIS HE IS WHITE FRANK S. KENNEDY DECLARES RACE HE WAS REARED WITH IS OBNOXIOUS, GREATEST BUDGET Report From Paris and Conceded to Be True by Berlin Gives Only Offset to the German Successes in the Front Is Very Quiet at Present.

Lawyer Declares He Will Prove That the Youth Is Not a Negro. Special to th( Dallas, Sept sociates, afte among them unti: he was age. Frank Kennedy, rning News. I negro as- having been reared 'A years of believes Washington, Sept. in Mexican territory controlled by General Carranza are rapidly becoming normal, according to advices to the state department from American Consul Blocker at Piedras Negros.

Telegraphic communication, which for many months has been paralyzed, now is open to Mexio City as well as Saltillo, Monterey, Zacatecas, San Lids Potosi, Guanajuato, Aguas Calientes and Intervening stations. Railroad communication is being rapidly restored, according to official advices The dispatch of mails to Mexico City has been resumed, according to an announcement from the postoffice de- a partment here today, and mail for Kefinln capital and outlying districts which Hearing of Sugar Injunction October 1 New Orleans, Sept, 21 Attorney General Pleasant today filed an answer in federd court to the tion! er Rockefeller Sleeps in oal Camp; Day Spent Inspecting Primero, Sept. 21 Rockefeller, slept in a tonight. After a busy day tion, in the course of which D. coal camp of inspcc- he swung Death from Cancer Increasing.

Philadelphia, Sejit. 21. Figures computed by the cancer commission of the Medical society of Pennsylvania and i submitted to the annual convention of! th.it body here today show that the death rate from cancer in this state is increasing out of all proportion withj the Increase in population and that action by health officials and the tried ical profession has become Since 190fi, the report shows the! death rate from cancer in Fennsylva- iiia has increased per cent Laet year the number of deaths from this! cause totalled and the prediction! is made that this year the number will reach 6,000. The report states that a majority of deaths were unnecessary and could have been avoided if health officials and physicians had been alert In recognising early symptoms. It was pointed out in the report that the hope for reducing the number of deaths lies not In radical operations in advanced cases, but in early treat-) ment.

Monthly Service to Hong Kong. San Franc isco, Sept, 21 A new monthly steamer service from Java, Manila, P. and Hong Kong, China, tit San Francisco may be established beginning in December by the Java- Ghina-Japan line. It was announced today by the Sat. Francl of Commerce.

ANTHONV COMSTOCK DIES AT NEW YORK New York, Sept. Comstock, secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, at his home in Summtt, tonight, after a brief illness Mr. Comstock while on his vacation ten days ago contracted a cold, a hich later developed into pneumonia. a pick in the Frederick mine and ate luncheon on the porch of a rustic mountain cabin under towering pines at Stonewall, the Standard Oil magnate in the- rfternoon reached the Priinero camp. Tired out.

Roc kefeiier announced he would not return to Trinidad but would spend the night wit it the men in the camp Mr. Rockefeller ate dinner in the boarding house and spent the evening talking with the men who had just eome from the underground workings. Mr. Roekefe'leFs day of inspection began at the Frederick mine at Valdez. There he donned overalls and jumper and trudged through two or three miies of narrow tunnels, a thousand feet below the crest of the hill into which the mine is driven.

In one of the "rooms borrowed a pick and chopped away lustily until hunks of coal came rattling down the1 floor, greatly to his delight. From Valdez the party motored to Stonewall, a summer resort in the shadow of the Hang re de Cristo mountains, and almost fifty miles west of Trinidad. There Mr Rockefeller guest of honor at a luncheon given by Radford, of the state committee which expended $100,000 of Rockefeller Foundation money for the relief of unemployment after the recent coal strike was called off. After the luncheon Mr. Rockefeller addressed the party, included a number of business from Trinidad.

Re ferring to the relief work, he said: "You gentlemen have expended this money in a way that may well be taken as an example by charitable ganizations aK over the world." Probe Death. Special to Morning News. Dallas, Sept. county jury today began an investigation of the facts concerning the killing of! Waller Gillum laut week. Gillum was shot four times by hie mother-in-law.

Mrs. Benson. It is generally believe'! in court circles that the woman Will be exonerated on her plea that she shot to protect her lift against the assault of a man armed with an open knife. had been accumulating at the is being forwarded via Laredo. Consul Blocker describing conditions nt Piedras Negraa, stated that the Carranza administration was extending guarantees to all foreigners and had distributed circulars to soldiers warning them that any of peaceable people and their property would result in severe measures of punishment.

There was no political development in tht Mexican situation here today except for the arrival of General Manuel Ghao. recently in the field with Jener il Villa, who joined Roque Gonzalez Garza and others who are anxious to lay their viewpoints before Secretary Lansing and the Pan-American conferees. They will not be received at the state department until the return of the secretary next week. Watch Operations, In the meantime the activity of General Villa's forces holng watched with considerable Interest. According to official information he has ordered a general withdrawal of his forces toward Juarez, the purpose apparently being to transfer them to Sonora.

The Villa agency here emphatically contradicted reports that the mobilization of Villa troops at Juarez had any sinister aspect with respect to relations with the Fnited States. As a precaution. however, Acting Secretary Breckenridge of the war department, after a conference with President Wilson, ordered the Seventh infantry and the Fourth field artillery regiments from Galveston to strengthen the garrison at FI Paso, bringing its full strength to three regiments of infantry, a regiment of cavalry and twenty-eight pieces of artillery, a total of about 4,000 men. in the district east and west of FI Paso, Major General Funston has in all about 14,000 men, while In the vicinity of Brownsville he has 5,000 men. officials here do not anticipate any lawlessness or outbreaks in or near HI Paso, but in view of the fact that forces were reported to leaking up into small bands, border raids were considered not unlikely to occur.

General tends to nora and against company for an injunction to restrain stale officials from enforcing recentIv enacted anti-trust laws which, it was asserted, vv intended as a means oust the sugar company from Louisiana. The state's answer alleges that the company "comes into court with unclean hands" and dismissal of the1 suit is asked. attorney general charges tht err Is monopoly in restraint of trade. In support of the charge he quotes from letters between Henry O. Haveimyer, head of the coj poratlon.

and the local manager, which were produced at the trial about two years ago in New York of the suit against the company under the Sherman anti-trust law. Hearing of the injunction had been set for October 1 o- 651 Men Already Enrolled at A. M. Special to Morning News College Station, Sept. 21 With more than a hundred more men registered than on the opening date last year, the first day of registration at the A.

M. college closed with 6r'i men enrolled in office, as compared to last year. There are mere than a hundred men on the grounds who have not registered yet, and there are two more In which to leglster An at ten of one thousand is predicted by Registrar Frielev. President Bizzell is pleased with prospects, especially in view of the raising of the entrance requirements and hard times. -------o- London, Sept.

21, 10 p. in The German encircling movement against Russian army which evacuated Vilna has intensified and tightened and with the retreating forces virtually without rail communication, their retreat seems to have reached the most critical juncture. There is increasing misgiving in Km land with regard to the outcome of the maneuvers. The latest Berlin official communication shows important by Field Marshal von right as well as progress by Prince Bavaria on the ily development view of the iiHies a tie continued rush of the east is the news received ms that French troops have I the Aisne-Marne canal, a which Berlin concedes. The tront which has been so quiet fks has been hammered by the German artillery, British official rep tion by the Hi.tish that he I a white man and that he is related to a wealthy North Texas family.

Attorneys ate now securing evidence to establish that Kennedy is i white man. Se ine interesting developments are expected in the case Kennedy was reared by an old ne- woman. The story of the hidden tragedy of this boy life that has been enacted in Fort Worth and for the past twenty-four years, according to Attorney Starling, came to light a short time ago when Frank Kennedv is salti to torn himself awa.v from the' company of legroes and began a struggle against odds to justify that inner conscio isnos.s of Anglo Saxon superiority that glowed and within Ills briast enk Kennedy graduate REGINALD LOR OF ENGLAND. WHICH IS CHANCEL- THE EXCHEQUER OF PRESENTS BILL, ANOTHER STEP IN FINANCING GREAT STRUGGLE. KM $25,000,000 A DII England Pays Out Tremendous Sum Every Twenty-four Hours to Keep Up the Drastic and Far Reaching faxes Are Mads Necessary.

p. the the bouse Reginald he I nclng the ing Great dollars Says Texas Will Suffer if Carranza Is Recognized Spei ial to the Morning News. i Austin, Sept. 21 the ed Sfates give recognition to the Gar-j ranza faction, all that long stretch of! Texas border west of Kagle Pass dl i be overrun by raiding Mexicans now affiliated with tie Villa forces," suidj Mcl'at land of Alpine counts, member of the house ofj the Thirty-fourth legislature People out in my section of the state are certain that a recognition of the Car- rancistas by Washington will engender the bitterest feeling among the Villa and an attempted invasion of ihis country by Villa's rpen may result," Mr Mr i busi ni tin ci de to nment ruin his arland wa with the -vent our Austin today department, should for jejoHh Big I many head drive th lise ti Cm gov Me xico, Villa, Wilt now i 11 be una de to Ov and they will rush 1er, spedii the un a nd pr obably kill nd si sal th usaids of before ourtroops can 'ondi tion critical If the wrong tion of the i ak tile ng the b. Fnited St he people i will suffer Mr order Villa, it is understood, in- 'onc ntrate his men in So- wage vigorous warfare neral Callen, Carransa commander.

The latest the state department, concerning the situatlc as follows: Summary of Situation. The department Is informed vices dated Sept. lfl from the rrand.