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GINGER ALE SODA WATER MADE IN WACO. MADE IN WACO COMPLETE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WALSH REPLIES TO SAYS LETTERS HE MADE PUBLIC HAD TO DO WITH BREAKING DOWN THE CIVIC ORGANISM OF STATE AND WERE THEREFORE NOT PRIVATE. EDO BOAT ENGLISH RETALIATE IN NORTH SEA BY OVERTAKING AND SINKING VESSELS THAT HAD ACCOMPANIED SUBMARINE ON ITS DESTRUCTION TRIP. SUS CONFIDENCE VIOLATED HO ICIIVillES ill DONKIRX Pity for Rockefeller, Who Takes ders From Points Way to a Solution of the Industrial Unrest Prevalent in the Country at This Time. Cincinnati, May Walsh, chairman of the United States commission on industrial relations, in answering the charge of John Rockefeller.

that he had made public private correspondence stated today that matter which has to do with breaking down the civic organism of the state or county can be called private. these letters that Mr. Rockefeller has sent to this commission are true, and believe they arc, then 1 have violated no confidence inasmuch as the facta In these letters show conditions which have not heretofore been given to this commission. "But I have nothing but pity for John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

He is representing the greatest fort line in the world aJid I want to say in doing this he not do anything without first orders from John D. Rockefeller, senior, who is still managing all the mines in Colorado. I believe the fortune of Rockefeller and the Rockefeller industries point the way to the solution of industrial unrest In the country Mr. Walsh then sketched briefly the situation in Colorado and continued: Rockefeller in his letter to me stated that it appeared singular to him that I was one to disturb the industrial peace. If the trial of Lawson and the Ludlow massacre is industrial peace, then God forbid that we have peace, I fully agree with Mr.

Hocke- feller that the women and children at Ludlow were not shot, but were smothered to death and I lay this at the door of the Rockefeller Mr. Walsh then touched upon the Texas land situation. He said in part: Texas conditions are the worst of any, but the hopes and the hearts of the people are brighter than any We received sworn testimony of numerous witnesses that men, some of them with families, worked for SO cents a day and had to pay their own board At the same time we ascertained that on one ranch alone -the Taft about 300,000 acres, only 12,000 men were being worked. found In Texns conditions bordering upon serfdom. We found in numerous localities the women and children of Texas are in the same condition that confronts the women and children in the cruel, crowded and congested districts of some of our factory towns, plus loneliness and lack of educational Former Congressman Dead.

New York, Maj 2 Charles Rdgnr Littlefield. former republican representative in congress from Maine, died here today. Seems Attack Was Made by but One Gun Trained in Position and It Was Made Uncomfortable by French on Metz. London, May German submarine on Saturday sank the Old British destroyer Recruit off the Galloper lightship in the North Sea, but the score was more than equalized by other British torpedo boats which, after a chase, overtook and sank the two German torpedo boats that had accompanied the submarine on her cruise. Some of the crew of the Recruit were rescued by the trawler Daisy, but as the submarine fired on the fishermen they were compelled to leave the others to their fate.

The British destroyers recovered most of the crews of the German torpedo boats and two officers were picked up by a passing steamer and taken to Holland. Besides these incidents In the North Sea, the German submarines continued their operations off the Sellly' Islands and in addition to torpedoing the American tank steamer Gulflight, the captain of which died of shock, and two men were drowned, sank the French steamer Europe and the British steamer Fulgent, the captain of the latter vessel being shot and killed. Beyond this there is little war news tonight. The Germans claim to have made an advance in their raid into the Russian Baltic provinces and they should prove a serious menace to the Russian It Is believed here, however, that the movement is nothing more than a raid. There has been no further bombardment of Dunkirk, which would seem to indicate that the Germans had only one big gun In position and that the French airmen have made it so uncomfortable for the gun crew that it has been withdrawn.

As a reply to this bombardment, the French have trained a big gun on one of the forts south of Metz. Along the rest of the western front attacks and counter attacks continue, but no battle of importance has developed. It appears that the Turkish report that Asiatic shore of the Dardanelles is free of invaders was correct, the French having simply ashore there to make the landing of the British on the other de easier. News of operations there is awaited with the greatest interest. Marlin Schools Clase May 22.

Marlin, May The Marlin public schools will close May 22 for the summer vacations. The baccalaureate sermon will be preached Sunday, Maj 24. and the commencement exercises will he held Monday, May 25. The negro schools here will close at the same time as the white Description Obstinate Fight in the Vosges Mountains Hartmanns-Weller, Alsace, Friday, April 30, via Paris, May 2, 5 m. Shells, great and small, fell upon this spur of the Vosges mountains at the rate of from 60 to a minute for hours last Monday after the French mountaineers had carried the crest by assault.

Twice before had the Alpine troops won the summit of the mountain and had been forced from it by obstinate German attacks. time they clung to the craters made by mines and shells and to the shelter of abandoned trenches. When the shell fire suddenly ceased and the Germans from their trenches below swept upward again, the Alpine riflemen, supported and reinforced, were just able to throw back attack after attack. The Germans persisted and the fighting after the first rushes was with the bayonet. Dead and wounded fell so thickly that the bodies touched each other.

Presently the assaults down and the Germans sank into their trenches on the slopes. They have remained there since. This is the culmination of three months of violent efforts by side to hold and by the other to take an eminence dominating the plain of Alsace, correspondent of the Associated Was with the French troops for hour and a half this morning on A Pre: one the ps of Hartmanns-Weller, now reoccupied by French soldiers. It is a harsh scene Sharpshooters on both sides snipe! through loopholes at any show of aj hostile helmet, peak or cap. Observe Through Observers watch through crevices; between stones or bags of sand i cealed by pine branches.

Machine guns have been closely placed to swoep the approaches with crossfire The German trenches in which no) doubt the same deadly alertness pre- vails, are at one place within 25 or, 30 feet and at no place are they fur-J ther than 150 yards. The colonel command took the I Associated Press correspondent to one1 of the forward observatories and in whispers explained the position. The men. standing by their pieces, were taking morning bread and coffee The instant readiness suggested a well defed fire engine house in an Amerl- row of women washing clothes In a creek, children playing about and farmers working with oxen in the field as if this part of the 400-mile battle line was not at their front doors. The men in the trenches, watching or iounging, digging or building, were rjuiet, weather seasoned men, of the men cut open a loaf from a batch of German a rrny brown bread left behind and compared it with the white French bread of his ration Beef, preserved and cooked in gelatin is served to part troops, and they seemingly like it better than the American canned meats.

Official reports have been made to the American war department on the subject. Forests Astir With Men. The forests to the hack of the fighting point are astir with men, cutting and sawing trees for roofing trenches others are widening the mountain into roads, along which wind strings of mules with supplies. They also carry packages from home for the soldiers. Passing down the other way are mule flies with wounded soldiers, swung In a sort of basket chair, one on each aide of a led mule, Those more seriously wounded are carried by stretcher men.

Near here, in another part of the Vosges, Harvard ambulance men are working, Paris papers two days old are delivered reKularly and the men and ft duty in this rugged region gossip which circulates on levards and the same pleasure repeated officers read tin the bou ant Pre ti correspondent vho had visited it tie front in talked a long war ther winter in the can iity. rink led far the 11 houses, one can now in full try where Kirs ten is made. Through beyond be village see cherry m. This is the ser (chert German which is and farm rchard The Associate was the first ci this part of months. very and even of a trenches.

they' said. mans must take a lot of beating The only solution of the war from the soldiers' way of looking at It is to kill many hundreds of thousands of their and to keep on killing and pushing them back. They feel Jn the Vosges that they are making positive gains if are than the ones they Inflict. The correspondent made an ascent to Hartmanns- Weller with a staff of. J' thi in )tin- a Olle COUld fleer.

Lieut, grandson of who fought tlon The Irregularly, digging and be rest. Near dier was putti flowers on the in Uochambeau, great Marsimi Rochamheau the American of Lai in the trenches ting went downward ig bui of on without trail a ch of wild a comrade. WACO. TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 191 S. Thousands Answering War Call in London VOLUME 4, NUMBER 291 'i Vessel Belonging to Gulf Refining ompany Is Attacked Captain Dies of the Shock Two Seamen Drown Other Members of Crew Taken Off hv Patrol Boats.

TO HOLD TB STRICT ACCOUNTABILITY lrnitcd States Has Already Made Clear Its Stand in Regard to of Life on Take Several Days, However, to Decide on Course of Action in the Present Case. American hi. Apr pedoed at May 2, ft 20 The oil tank steamer Gulflight, from Port Arthur, Texan, 10 for Fouen. France, w.i tor iturdav off the Dut recent In the accompanying lllustratlrn is recnitinsc scene on Tower hill, in the henrt of London In biMt call for recruits in Great Britain there was a great rush and no difficulty wan experienced in gaO ering a new army. Kecent air raids on Kngland have given a great impetus to the recruiting movement.

Visitations of Zeppelins have inflamed the people, and old and young have a willingness to bear ills according tod; by the Centra captain of name jump agency. The cording to th heart failure i Two seamen drow ned The f.t her members of Were taken off by a patrol landed. The vessel waft Crow Round and bene tied. The Gulf light a 3202 tonn net and was lien, In litH, Hlle the Gulf defining compari eel wax lorn ft and 3a with wireless telegraphy New night. pressed damages The phi has never her torpedoed could be re- lost.

In the exit sed to pay destroyed by high of- died of 1 Port Arthur Comi my Notified. rd and I Port Arthur, Tex 2 A cablegram from Fsr-t 1 1 Smith of the steamer Gulfllgli says tho tor- and to ScilSy ed into 1 islands. The toe was received vesst It at Tht ti urge Gulf Bei dr. fu Father Gives Life in Vain Attempt to Save His Son Pallas, May 2. -Z.

Dommingo, Italian, 37 years old and the father of five children, gave life here this afternoon in a vain attempt to save the life of his eldest son, Joe, ten, who was overcome by gas at the bottom of an abandoned well at Griffith and Collins Pulmotom wrere used In an effort to revive the father and son after they had been rescude from the well by city firemen wearing helmets to protect them from the gnu An unknown Mexican who volunteered for rescue work before the firemen reached the scene, narrowly escaped death, but his life was saved by the pulmotor. Joe dropped a spade into the old well and lowered a ladder and went down to get the spade. As the boy stepped from the bottom rung of the ladder the father saw him topple over and lay almost face downward at the bottom of the shaft. The father went to the rescue and started back up the ladder with the body of his son when he, too, was overcome by the noxious fumes and fell back. Two physicians used Ed C.

Hmith A pulmotor for nearly an hour in an effort to revive the father and son, but to no avail. II BIN TO 0EA1H III ATHENS HOTEL Hailstones as Large as Hasehalls Fall in Show-Me State BUILDING WAS ENVELOPED IN FLAMES WHEN FIRE IS DISCOVERED. Rt. Louis, May as as were hurled upon seofions of Missouri today In a hi eh was referred to as worst. in a generation In repofts froin damaged The to and iivestoCk wlll run into thousands of dollars.

At ge on, Leo llanley, 18 years old, was killed hy llghtnlng. Athens. May 2 The Mitcham hotel In St Street were flood ed burned at 3 o'eHick thls morii ing and! placca by several feet of water, Guests Who Escape Do So by Leaping From Injured. hiona ble two were burned in thelr heds I and others lnjured iti leapinn from pleased by th building The Mitcham hotel cfcnoe The lud Instltuted a pussenger building ls on North Pratileville Street between church door ami between Cotton Helt and A car door and cleared boy i fortune nefore water aubstded N. O.

rullroads. It was rrected a ho ut California, Mo. reported that 1890 and w'na two stories in height. tore In roofs and sides of The flre was I housea and demelished wlt Creates Stir st Washington. Washington, May 2 press report of the torpedoing of the Amerlcar steamer Gulflight and the loss of captain and some of the crew created a stir tonight In official! circles here, where the seriousness of) the occurrence was everywhere ad-! mitted.

In the absence of President officials made no comment as to the probable action of the V. s. beyond! s.ivinii that a thorough Inquiry would he made. If first reports are borne i the attack on the Gulflight stltutea the first case of an American ship struck by a torpedo with quent loss of lives, Two Americani vessels hav been sunk by mines and i one American. Thrasher, drowned wiien the Hritlsh ship FUabsj torpeflowi The Putted States mment I just completed its investigation of the I Thrasher case, but In view of tho dl- reef attack on an Vmerlcan noe reported, it is probable that both incidents will be dealt with within er diplomatic action is taken To Hold' to Strict Accountability.

it was recalled tonight that In note sent hv the Pnlted States to Ger hurch- many In answ er to Germany's i (t.irtled and then of a sea war it tut I' ght of a boy in ajed that the Pnlted wotdd hold German government siro-tj for the of rnericat, lives or vessels. i.ils at the time the purpose of the! setiment was to Insi on the Americans to voyage on the high i- t.tin Gun party for President Wilson Notd Neu Conn, the torpedoing --f the America er Guinigh! was eta 1 Mm W1 en $75,000 ire at Oklahoma itv Otela troy ed building Stock Va loss is in he it the am Th prncti at Id the llv ill not ti German Troops Pursue Russians. Berlin, via London, May 2 German troops in pursuit of retreating Russian forces have penetrated into the region lying to the southwest of Mi- tau the capital of Onurtland, according to the German official statement today. Mitau Is miles southwest of the Russian seaport of Higa, which is the seat of governm of the Baltic provinces. The statement follows in part Flanders the enemy, after heavy artillery preparation, again attempted to storm our new positions northeast of Ypres The French attacked strongly between the canal and road from Ypres to Ht Julien.

The British attacked feebly east of road. The efforts of the enemy were unsuccessful. the Argonne our atatcks north on buildinif of Four de Paris pmgressed in spite of a strong defense. The French lost several trenches. the and Moselle, the onlv heavy fighting was in the forest of Lepretre, where the French In great numbers but were repulsed wnth heavy losses for the enemy, operations in northwestern Russia are progressing" ered by the night clerk at the Athrns Inn, just across cltv Al hailstones were the Potton Belt track on the oppo-j found wiilch rneruoired inches in site side of the street When dis db.meter and weighed ilf a pound A At Pent ral la and Sturgeon smalt build- covered the building was en- wen, Wown ve loped In Menacer Fltzger were broken and uprooted aid and hin family rushed from were, strewn iltout the streets building clad und guests on the second floor who escaped did by leaping from the windows.

Ton. Bird, the ta, has Torpedoed and Sinks French Steamer Is The course of the Pnit the case of the (iulflight 1 be determined for diplomatic the if Gulflight recalled similar of other neutral a Ilk da- Coal Company President Shot. Birmingham, Ala, Mav 2 I Ph llfton Ferrell, president of the rat I Poal company, was lied early today by a burglar attempting force an ance into the cotnn iry at Praco Two nfgn.es detained. br Ferrei! f.rntf th broken and bis arms are burned to some exteti, 1. I J.ewis Ath ens, and Davis of Atbens, were burned in and It le not nt I known whether any otte else SUMMARY OF WAR May 2, Frei steamer fur Na adre, wat torpedoed by 11 Th( a dispatch to by a steam dead.

Manager Fltasgerald says tturd itn-u I Root and sank, thinks the fire w-a-s caused by a lamp i from given the quests, who was leav crew was ing on an early train. Me stated that driftet the lights were cut off at 12 o'clock 8unk. night by the light comparo i May II p. tn The Hrit- and that he used a few lamps Hteainer Fuirent "was sunk by a Saturday submarine northwest of the The Insurance on the building was Hkelilg lloi ks In abe t.f Satur- Naval seti vit forefront aia ln ln American oft tanl bound for a pedoed tiff the Pren I the bottoni near British steamer wh re au. itf id ti i droits Delgardo st El Paso, San Antonio, May 2 -After several hours' conference with former Mexican federal officers and Cientif- tci.

representatives here, Jesus gardo. private secretary to Huerta, departed this morning for the went, presumably HI Paso. JTcearn. who quit Villa's service, said night: no secret to say that Senor Inigardo is making a close tlon of conditions In Mexico from uonal interviews and reports received directly the scenes of action in Mexico. Members the peace ferenee on.

here il iae the hopelessness of the contest power especially in the establishment of pence in our country. There is no disputing the that General Huerta has thousands Of friends who believe that he can bring about peace with lees; bloodshed and less suffering and uniting of Mexicans than any other mar Me mav i to Mexico and then he may not, but certainly no effort! Is being made to organise a -1 tlon in After the Generals If-1 tiacio Bravo and Eduardo de parted for New York tonight to confer with Huerta, Bravo wai commander of Mcifltto 1 it Huerta's regime. as govsrnor at Vera and on total and fixtures was Iron Mountain Stops Traffic Account of Arkansas Floods fell day morning, says disi Lloyd's from Kdrush, Ireland A boat containing nine survivors sud hotly of the captain of the ho had uhot and wan rescued by a trawler and landed at Kilrush The trawler was unable to fimi the second boat of the containing the remainder of the crew. rial war Texarkana. Ark, May 2 The Iron Mountain railroad between Teitarkana and Fulton, because of high tn the the Red rtver the Potton Belt rail- road suspended service on its line be- Officisi Statsment.

May 2 The following off! dcation as Issued by on! ght; to the north of pres mi a1 ut ted were nek nr diateli GermaI of the re A b( narine li t. it destro sun ruit i IV province of the do Nort oats sunk traw er tor- i pea. ni ir Liba iportant port ltic Sea, and 1, and Bri were lsh fisi In tu 1 fi' lerrnen be rn purstie er Tv I and that Gulf of Itici. do boati and Au have visited claim fleers ed b) ami the fori dest -four nye were rea- Pols the fighiing Ians while in is now in The Mrltish trawler Hnrb irrlved at Yarmouth ai ueiit with a German raft hit which wth rin Bri twen de if th British Ti I Trama are a I ill during formerly 11 IK WKATUKR Voluntary Forscatt, I etthnl. proba 1 elea ri for today volunteer obaert weather I 1 I and opti Local Temperatures for the four ending at 1 Is-t night Maximum at p.

minimum at 4 a. humidity 72, wind passage IS! miles, highest 10 miles an hour at 10 45 a. m. Government Forecast. Washing May 2 Government forecast: Louisiana Generally fair day and Tuesday.

Texas and Oklahoma: alr daj and Tuesday ted In of the trawler hl ti were and fttt nail guns the torpedo at when I wounded in oih it 11er at tempted his eaptur against the Uni ft April Therehas i.f«n little fighting 1 Pel- 25 and Apr il 10 kn unofftc vil um a empiete quiet aloi the 1 patch nays rliish front The 1 Yench luo bom- Frem landfj on irded he camp ol Met r. ntIc side, hi it to ant mount ed that their have ports after purpfor they ed ef agslnst one inf ti mpp orcu rts, tl bi irrai ks the rn al The Hart occupation of A whttt 1 1 Hrltinh by iris fr ai visit to Fremi ff rii i tsi In hahlt in ha un ml of yk mm m.m% th The hill ha rtpdin to it pu und tr vaata est ft result of the i 1 if of eth gonne hie ting a the lil ing ft man ere holdln pr ft th iW ff it ti en libe tld ed mi finally g. enemy with I of Le Pein er- bu Tillotson Believes He Can Get the Road Law Revised is of th, 11 camp eff fori sum or mt a few i i the appn the omini mm les This with tkl i rovecnent sui of the deituaniuu i ill appear ht will I IvgndutB.