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8 a THE WASHINGTON TIMES. WEDNESDAY. MAY 10. 1916. steps than those taken were recommended by Funaton.

Other further reports to concentration the of Government Carranza having show troops in the interior, troops being moved south from Juarez. sent inland is from Vera Cruz and A report: from General Scott A8 to his last night's conference with Obregon brightened little prospects as to the outcome on of the parleys. Scott said Ubregon had discussed counterpropositions and planned later. to subs mit them in writing. The nature of the proposals was not revealed.

Carranza'8 attitude is the most troublesome feature of the situation. This is the inner significance of orders to militia and infantry to, re-enforce the border patrol. supplemented by orders last night dispatching eleven coast artillery companies and five field artillery batteries to San Antonio, officials believe. While officials assume. Carrann acting in good faith, they admit his attitude is surprising in view of the fact that several ad days ago Oregon and Scott reached an agreement which President Wilson later informally npproved.

They cannot explain why, In these now deniands for a tine limit. on the American expedition have been made. Call for Militia Gives Scott the Upper Hand EL PASO, May: 10. -General Scott holds the whip hand today I in his negotintions with War Minister Obrekon. For the first time, the American forces, and available in Mexico are duty' numerically -the superior to the Mexican troops, and military officials believe Obregon's bluff has been called.

Another conference between the war heads is expected and authorities confidently expect. full agreement on the original plan. Scott obdurately refusing 'to listen to any plan involving a time limit on the expedition, American military preparations are progressing rapidly to throw men within striking dstance of Mexico. Neither Scott nor Generut Funston underestimates the danger of an plosion which no diplomatic action could repair. Obregon is understood to be directing military movements in and commanders are disorsed to avert.

1f possible, a sudden clash between Americans and Carranzistar. rObregon lost no time seeking a conterence. after President Wilson ordered the Texas. Arizona. and New Mex co militia to the border.

a Juan Amador, under secretary of foreign relations, motored El Paso Juarez. soon after the news was received in and asked a regumption of the conference on behalf of Obregon. The meeting lasted two hours. Obrecon submitted a proposition for the Americans to return to the border, and from their own soil co-operato with an equal number of Carranzistas in wiping out the bandits. Scott promptly turned the proposition down.

When the meeting ended. the ferees accepted Scott's invitation to lunch in his private car. and. parting. the men appeared entirely friendly, promising resumption of negotiations today.

Declamatory Contest. The Collegiate Club will hold 4 prize declamatory Sunday evening the vestry room of the Eighth Street Temple. There will be musical numbers. The public is vited THE WEATHER REPORT. Forecast for District of ColumbiaFair today.

Tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer: moderate, variable winds, becoming southeast and south. For -Fair today; warmer In west portion. Tomorrow partly cloudy and warmer; moderate variable winds, becoming southeast and south. For Virginia-Fair today. Tomorrow fair: warmer in the interior: moderate, variable winds, becoming southeast.

TEMPERATURES. (United States Bureau.) 08 11 a. 12 10 a. 1 p. a.

TIDE TABLE. Low High a. m. and and 8:49 1:50 1 p. m.

m. SUN TABLE. Sun Sun Light automobile lamps at 7:29 p. m. BOYS OF EIGHTEEN CALLED TO COLORS Great Britain's Single Men Eligible for Service Are Put in Training.

LONDON. May -Beginning today, the last of Great Britain's single men. eligible for army service, began to get into khaki. In all sections of the country young men eighteen vents of reported supply depots and changed civilian raiment for army duds. They will remain in training until reach the age of nineteen, when they will be subject to serrice in actual warfare.

With. frat. drafts, reporting today, it in expected that within a month every eilgible single man. whether attested under the Derby recruiting scheme or liable for service under the; conscription act, will have left civilian pursuits for Currying out pledges to married eligibles, made in the House, of Commons, the government is rapidly digging out single men from munition factories and other governmental positions. They are boing replaced by women.

The first groups of married men attested for service under the Derby plan are now beginning to assume the appearance of trained troops, They have been in service more than a month. Their ages range from nineteen to twenty-six. Mexico City Believes Troops Will Withdraw MEXICO CITY. May feeling here is most crilmistie cver. 'ne results of the Jaurex conference between War Minister Obregon and General Scott, despite a few early reports which indicated friction.

If negotiations -between. Obregon and Scott are halted. -it is not. because any deadlock has. been reached or mountable difficulties found.

Carranza informed the United Press. i Fending a 'horough examination of the terms or: the -agreeinent entered into by the two. generals and Anal by the Caranza government there can be no tufther exchanges. When this agreement is fully ratified by Carranza the negotiations will be resumed. It is understood here that the agreement finally made between the Mexican and American governments will provide for the withdrawal of American troops from Mexican territory.

Provision will be made for Joint patrol of the border to prevent further raids upon American towns and ranches. Carranza and American detachments will be stationed alternately along the international boundary, and by this means the entire, border will be effectively patrolled. The Carransa government will insist in the protocol now being framed that Mexican troops be accorded the same privileges given the Americans -that of crossing the border when necessary to pursue -bandits who may have raided Mexico from the American side. This provision 18 deemed essential northern Mexico is to be defended against attacks by Huerta sympathizers and other enemies of the Carranza government, organ zed in the United States. No Need for Congress To Act About Mexico There is no occasion for Congress to act on the Mexican situation, Chairman Stone of the.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee. said today. Because of this situation, he said. there nothing present to the committee, relative to international it met today. "There de no thought of war." Stone said.

"The only thing Congress could do would be to declare war. There 18 no intention or ino occasion for any such situation action of any kind on the Mexican. by Congress or by the committee. An long as these conferences are going on between General Scott General Obregon there is no issue. and committee met to consider nominations in the diplomatic arvice.

ATTENDANCE FALLS AT WINTHROP RANGE Order Barring. Women Rifle Club Members Causes Slump in Target Practice. Assignments at Range For Next Two Days THURSDAY. Dept: of Agriculture Clubs. 100 (10).

Army And Navy Union. 100 (10). State Department. 20 (2). FRIDAY.

Dept. of Agriculture Clubs: 100 (10). Military Service Legion, 10 (2). Navy Department, 40 (4). National Press Club: (2).

Postoffice Department, 100 (10). Department of Justice. 10 (2). Woodward Building, 10 (2). sixteen, and today but twenty-four.

Men Also Stay Away. This, however, does not mean that shrinkage in attendance at the Winthrop rifle range of more than 60 per cent has been apparent since operation, of. the order signed last week by General Barnett, commandant of the Marine Corps, prohibiting the landing or woman rifle. club members at the range. Although the new and fast steamer stratitude has been assigned to the men and is getting the crowds to the range and home again from one to two hours earlier than heretofore, the decrease has been very steady.

Up to last week the average attendance was between 100 and 150 daily. On Monday the steamer carried only thirteen marksmen to the range; on Tuesday, the decrease is entirely represented by absence of woman members of the clubs. It la pointed out by rifle club officials the is largely among the ranks of male members, who had been in the 'habit of taking their wives with for a day's outing whenever, they visited Winthrop. In much 88 each man visiting the range has had to take a day of his annual leave for every visit, the men, since the promulgation of the anti-woman order, have not been ing to sacrifice their time to rifle prac. tice unless their wives could pany them.

At the time the order went into effect, large parties of riflemen, who had anticipated taking their wives to the range, had been organized in the Department of Agriculture, the War Department, and the Home Club of the Interior Department, These have all been abandoned. Today's Shooting. Today the Internal Revenue, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Department. Winder Building, Florida, War Department, and Department of Labor Clubs are shooting at the range. Those qualifying as marksmen the Winthrop range yesterday included: Name Slow Magazine Total C.

McFarland 87 82 169 W. H. Bailey 81 165 8. C. J.

G. Gilbert. 72 161 152 Berrias 72 150 Chemists and Inspectors Needed by District An examination to establish a list of eligibles for appointment as sanitary and food inspectors in the District Health Department and 88 assistant chemist announced the United States Civil Service Commission for May. 81. Dr.

Morris A. Posen has been appointed chemist to succeed the late Dr. R. L. Lynch at $2,000 a year, leaving vacant the position of assistant chemwhich pays $1,200 a year.

The salaries of the sanitary and food inspectors range from $900 to $1.200. Fifty seven applicants for registration A8 nurses were examined by the amining board at the District building today. The examination was conducted by Miss S. F. Melhorn.

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901-909 Eighth Street Southeast 'AMNON BEHREND'S FUNERAL TOMORROW Aged Resident Cone to Capital in 1856 and Was Long in Business. Funeral services for Amnon one of Washington's oldest residents, whose death occurred yesterday at his residence, 1441 Rhode Island avenue I northwest. will be held at the house tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rabbia Abrani Simon and Louis Stern, of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, will officiate. Intermen: will be made in the cemetery of the Washington Hebrew Congregation.

Mr. Behrend survived by his wife and five children, Rudolph B. and Edgar A. Behrend. Mrs.

Levi David. Mrs. Charles Flesher, and Mrs. Richard Bonvit. Mr.

Behrend was -born In Hanover, Germany, Rodenbers, 1834. he came to the United States with parents in: .1848, and settled with I (them Sullivan county, N. Y. His mother" was 'a first cousin of Heinrich 1866 came to Ine, the celebrated German poet. In Washington and embarked in the business in which he continued a number of years.

In 1885 he retired from mercantile pursuits and confined his activities to real estate operations until comparatively, short time prior to his death. He was life bund, member of president the the Washington Arion Saengerand a member of Hope Lodge, No. 20, Society, A. A. M.

He was actively identified with charitable movements, being A member many of tion the and the Jewish Foster Inn organizaHome. Pallbearers for the funeral of Mr. Behrend will be six nephews of the Behrend, deceased: Dr. Edwin B. Behrend, Isaac Eugene Behrend, and Melvin Behrend, all of Washington, and Bernard Baar and Edgar Goodman, -of VOCATIONAL SCHOOL URGED IN SOUTHEAST Members of Board of Education and Superintendent Thurston Favor Plan.

Members of the Board of Education, E. La Thurston, superintendent of schools, and other speakers last evening advocated a vocational school for Southenst Washington. They spoke at a joint meeting of the Cranch-Tyler Home and School Association and the Southeast Washington Citizens' I clation. Henry P. Blair, president of the Board of Education, and Ernest H.

Daniel, member, said that hand work, as well as work, ought to be, provided for children of the southeast. Hosmer M. Johnson, supervising principal of the ninth division, also favored the plan. The meeting went on record As favoring more play space at the Tyler School, and Congress will be urged to appropriate money for such use. George H.

Russell, delegate of the Park View Citizens' Association, to the Federation of Citizens' Associations. told of the model Park View school I bullding recently erected. Chairman M. Clark, chairman of the school committee of the same association, told of the fight to get new school at Park View. D.

W. Culleen, of the school committee of the Southeast Washington Citizen' Association. said the District has A lot already purchased at Fourteenth street and Potomac avenue which would make an Ideal site for the proposed cational school. Mrs. Margaret Lohr, secretary, read letter from John B.

Larner, member of the Board of Edu- cation, stating his belief that vocational education will become more and more important, southeast needs a new and upto vocational school buliding with acequate facilities for class rooms, audItoriums, and gymnasium, wrote Mr. Larner. PARADE TO MARCH FOR PREPAREDNESS More Than 185.000 in Line for New York Demonstration. NEW YORK. May biggest parade New York has seen in decades will march Saturday for preparedness.

The citizens' committee today figured there would be more than 185,000 in line. The preparedness advocates hope the tread of this army will be heard in the halls of Congress and inspire the lawmakers to hurry through military and industrial preparedness measures. Probably the full membership of Secretary Daniels' naval consulting board will be in line- -certainly ThomA. Edison, the electrical wizard, chairman. The Menlo Park inventor.

even though he is feeble, wants publicly to demonstrate his views on "making ready." No automobiles or carriages will be permitted in the entire parade. New Charges Are Made Against Brumbaugh I PHILADELPHIA, May 10. charges that Governor Brumbaugh accepted $5,000 from Louis J. Kolh, millionaire baker for campaign pOseS and did not account for the money. has stirred up the wrangle between Penrose and Vare-Brumbaugh factional leaders.

Bitter statements come from the Penrose camp and denials from Brumbaugh followers. Isadore Stern threatens to start impeachment proceedings against the governor should Brumbaugh refuse to ask the legislature to investigate his record. U. S. Watchmen's Union Meets Next Wednesday The Federal.

Watchman's Union meet next Wednesday. At A recent meeting the union adopted resolution, a copy of whiel WAR sent to all Government organiza tions, concerning the low pay of Gov ernment clerks. The resolution invited the other or ganizatione to join in the appeal higher wages and to indorse the Nolas bill now before Congress. PIMPLES Eczema, Rashes, Redness should not be permitted to annoy. They may be driven away quickly.

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