THE PULTON COUNT? NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, A. STATE LAWMAKERS House Attaches Chosen By Committee. Harrlsburg The Slate Committee of the House reported the selection of the follow ing for the principal positions of tlie House: Chief Clerk Thomas II. Curvin, Delaware. Assistant Clerk J. E. Brockney, Allegheny. Resident Clerk W. S. Lolb, Schuyl kill. Assistant Resident Clerk Ira Dulo Meals, Dauphin. Journal Clerk F. C. Macdonald Chester. Assistant Journal Clerk S. Dl Tlerrlo, Luzerne. Reading Clerk O. J. F. Fulkcn teln, Allegheny. Assistant Roadlng Clerk Quay Hewitt, Jefferson. Dck Clerks J. E. Hlgglns. Schuyl kill, and Harry Hutchinson, Allegheny, Message Clerk J. Porter Wilson Sutler. Sergeant-at-Arms Daniel E. Hunnl ban, Allegheny. Chief Assistant Sergoantat-Arms Samuel Curran, rhlladelphia. Postmaster William Rltchey, Fay ette. Assistant Postmaster W. II. Heath, Allegheny. Messenger John J. Lynch, Phlludel phla. Superintendent Folding Room- James W. Wiggins, Warren. Chaplain Rev. S. G. Zerfoss, Lan caster. Chief Watchman Edward Brace- land, Philadelphia. Night Watchman William Ilarner, Dauphin. Elevator Operator A. II. Garner, Schuylkill. Chief Page Clarence E. Seller, Daupbln. Compromise Bill For Local Option. A proposal of a give-and-take policy In getting a local option bill through the Legislature at this session, pos sibly with the support of at least a part of the Representatives friendly to the liquor Interests, was made by Thomas Ross, of Allegheny county, lo cal option member of the Law and Order Committee of the House of Rep resentatives. This committee will handle the Vlckcrman local option bill which was introduced In the House with the support of the anti-saloon forces of the State. Mr. Ross proposes a bill which will give a State-wide vote by counties on the local option Issue and a clause In the bill repealing a lot of county Pro hibition legislation which was in ef fect before the present Stato Constitu tion was adopted. Mr. Ross explained bis give-and-take policy by saying the passage of such a bill would place all counties In the State on an equal basis .with re gard to a local option vote and would five the wets the same chanco to have a vote on the question in counties which are dry at the present time as would be given the drys to wipe out the sale of liquor In counties which re wet. V'.ckerman local option bill does not repeal the old Prohibition legisla tion and In effect keeps the dry coun ties closed to any possibility of a wet aggression. The bill holds absolutely what the antl-llquor forces have at the present time In the State, and would five them a chance to get more. Drastic Bill On Sale Of Weapons. A drastic enactment to regulate the carrying, use and sale of dancerous weapons was proposed In the House of Representatives by David W. Thomas, of Wllkes-Barre. The bill calls for a license to permit one to carry a weapon. The bill provides that any person who manufactures, sells, offers or gives weapons to a person under the age of sixteen, shall be guilty of misdemea nor and, upon conviction, shall be sen tenced to pay a fine not exceeding 500 and undergo Imprisonment for not more than a year either or both, at the discretion of the court. Anyone who uses such weapons for the injury of another or who carries or possesses any such weapon or a stabling Instrument for unlawful use shall be equally punished on the first offense and on the second shall be guilty of a felony. Possession or use of a bomb or other such explosive for unlawful purposes Is declared as a felony. Under sixteen the accused shall be a Juvenile delinquent Licenses shall be Issued by the county nherlff to proper police officers or prison and Institution oinployes, and In other cases as follows: If a householder, to have such a weapon In his dwelling. If a merchant or storekeeper, to have the weapon In his place of busi ness. If a messenger of a banking Institu tion or express company to have and carry such a weapon concealed while In the employ of the company. All sales of arms possible of con cealment about the person must be registered by dealers. Proposes Bill For Crossings Abolition. A bill which would compel the rail roads of Pennsylvania to remove 01 apply to remove every year at least one grade crossing for every thlrtj tulles of road operated by It In the Baldwin Urges No Duplication. Speaker Baldwin called upon mem bers of the House of Representative; to avoid duplicating legislation on the statute books and to use care In draft Ing bills and great care In considering them In committees. "The chair fecit that It Is no', the great volume of bills that passes through the House that Indicates that the House has been working and doing its duty," he de clared. Cure should be given to the bills because if the bills are considered carefully lu committee It relievos con (dltions on. the floor of the House." Stato was introduced In the House by Representative Rinn, of Lehigh county. The Act provides that when applica tion for removals of grade crossings Is made by the railroads, all the cost shall be defrayed by the rullronds. It application on a removal Is made by a city, borough, town, or township, the community's share ahull bo not more thnn 12 V4 per cent., providing the highway was In existence prior to the railroad, or was changed for the rail road's benefit. As much ns twenty-five per cent, of the coats Ih to be assessed In raso the highway was built across an exlnt Ing railroad. CAPITAL CHAT More State Buildings For Parkway, At a conference botween the Stale Board of Public Grounds and Build ings and Arnold W. Drumier and War ren H. Manuing, landscape experts employed to plan tho Capitol Park extension development, tentative plans for, a comprehensive treatment of zone were outlined. Additional State build' Ings will bo constructed within the parkway and boulevards through the park for tho use of automobiles and horses will bo included in the plans. Some fountain arrangement and a pool or wutor in tne midBi or a wide ex- pause of green likely will be one of the things to be Included In the treatment schemo as suggested by Governor Brumbaugh. Streets around the park will be widened In cooperation with the city government. State Cannot Exceed Contract Price. Deputy Attorney General Keller has given an opinion to officials of the Huntingdon Reformatory that they cannot allow a higher price to be paid for coal than specified la a contract. John Langdon, a Huntingdon coal operator, bad a contract to deliver coal at $2.30 and asked, becauso of the in creased cost of operation, including necessity of giving bonuses to the miners to retain them, whether the price could not be advanced to $2.55. Mr. Keller says that payment of the extra amount would be a gratuity of State moneys. He also gave an opin ion to State Treasurer Young that no specific appropriation need be made to pay the expenses of the commission ers to uike the soldier vote at tho border. Psrdons Decisions. The State Board of Pardons an nounced the following decisions In de ferred cases: Recommended George Ormsby, breaking and entering, Luzerne. Rehearings Granted Bruno PIzzl- mantl, second degree murder, Dauph in; A. A. Aggerback, fraud, Allegheny; Albert Moore, Philadelphia. Rehearings Refused Addison Ells worth, pandering, Philadelphia; Chas. Swartz, Joseph Bobes, assault and bat tery, Philadelphia. State College To Ask For $1,330,000. Trustees of State College decided to ask a legislative appropriation of $1,- 330,000 for maintenance of the college for two years; 1242,000 for extension work; $1,121,000 for buildings, equip- mcnt and land, and $350,000 for a new armory to take advantage of the Fed eral Government under the National Defense Act, Respite For Slayer. Governor Brumbaugh Issued a res pite staying the execution of John Nelson, of Wyoming, from the week of January 29 to the week of March 12 to permit of an appeal. Chal Port Names Deputies. State Fire Marshal G. Chal Port an nounced the appointment of M. Luther Mason, of Reading, as a deputy fire marshal, and James G. Hazlett, of Car negie, to be a special doputy in charge of construction. Mason is a printer. STATE NEWSJRIEFLY TOLD P. II. Seltzer was appointed Alder man of the Fourth Ward of the city of Lebanon to fill a vacancy. Fred Knock, thirty-nine years old, a contract miner, of Ashland, fell down a breaBt at Bast colliery and was killed. The South Bethlehem School Board has raised the salary of Superintend ent A. H. Buck from $1,800 to $2,100 a year. For blocking railroad crossings In South Bethlehem, by letting the safety gates hang down when no trains were passing, Peter Bango, a gatekeeper, was fined $5 and costs. J. B. Harris, teacher in the high school, has been appointed scoutmas ter of the Lansdale troop of Boy Scouts, and has Inaugurated a mem bership campaign. In South Bethlehem in 1916, accord ing to the registrar of births, S. B. Keener, there were 1,339 births and 192 deaths. There were 708 boys born and 631 girls. The announcement from Washing ton, that John J. Coughlln had been appointed postmaster at Shenandoah jnded a blttor political fight that has been waged by Democrats for this of Jce for four years. Tho Public Service Commission re ceived a resolution adopted by the State Board of Agriculture protesting against the proposed amendment to .-ailroad tariffs which would permit railroads to furnish coal cars only to jporators having tipples. The Farmers' Union, of Gcigertown, at Its seventeenth annual meeting elected E. M. Zerr, president; James McGowan and William II. Hohl, vice presidents; J. Garfield Eagleman, sec retary; William Gelger, assistant sec retary; D. Owen Brooke, correspond ing secretary, and II. G. McGogan, financial secretary and treasurer. The city of Dubois, with a popula tion of 12.0C0, will bocome dry tem porarily on March G as a result of the doclsion of Judge Bell to bold over until May 1 all applications for liquor licenses from that city. AMERICANS FIRED EXI Cowboys On Arizona Border In a Battle. U. S. CAVALRY TAKES HAND Further Reinforcements Arrive At Day's Close Villa Forces Occupy El Valle Mexicans Start Fight Tucson, Ariz, According to advices from Arivacas, Ariz., about 40 miles south of Tucson, thore has been light ing between Mexican troopers and American cowboys, ' When the cowboys attempted to drive their cattlo from the boundary line the Mexicans opened lire, and rc port said the Americans retreated and were reinforced by a part of Troop E, Utah Cavalry, who returned the fire. ah Americans have assembled at a house on the Arlvaca Land and Cattle Company's ranch, it was reported. Eighteen American troopers, with sev eral thousand rounds of ammunition, were dispatched to aid the troops al ready engaged. The scene of the fighting Is three miles from Ruby, Ariz. The fighting was started by the Mexicans, according to the American version of tho affair, and was precip itated by the rounding up of cattle on the American side, near the line, by six American cowboys. The cowboys, retreating, kept up a running fire as they returned northward and the Utah cavalrymen went to their aid. Reports said no further trouble was anticipated and that amplo troops were at hund to protect the border. The Mexican cavalrymen, numbering 20, attacked In open formation and to ward the end of the skirmish bad been pretty well scattered. Vlllistas Closing In, El Paso. Forces of Francisco Villa have occupied El Valle, Chihuahua, abandoned by General Pershing's out posts, according to apparently reliable Information received in army circles. It was said Villa had established bead quarters at Madera and was prepar ing to occupy Casas Grandes as soon as Pershlhg should abandon field bead- quarters at Colonla Dublan. Smugglers are planning to use the withdrawal of the American troops from Mexico as an excuse to smugglo quantities of goods across tho border, according to a Carranza official here. The plan is to use the troop move ments to veil the illicit exportation of cattle, hides and other goods upon which export duties are levied. No duty is levied on the property of the expeditionary forces. A military train arrived from Chi huahua City, bringing Gen. Pablo Gon zales, his staff and a troop escort General Gonzales Is expected to leave for Colonla Dublan to take command of the Carranza forces, which are be ing sent into the district boing evacu ated by General Pershing. He will take 800 troops from the Juarez gar rison, he said. GIRL SETS MAIZE RECORD. Her Acre Yields a Net Revenue Of $122.02. Fort Worth, Texas. A little girl Aas brought a world's record to Hall county, Texas. She Is Mary More head, 10 years old. An acre of land planted In niilo maize cultivated by ber produced more net revenue for mllo maize than ever before known. Miss Morehead'a acre yielded 9,620 pounds of dry heads. The cost of pro duction was $12.38, or $2.68 per ton, leaving a net revenue of $122.02. White milo was the variety used and made a much larger yield than yellow mllo planted on adjacent plots. MAKES HAWAII "BONE DRY." Bill With Drastic Provisions Favor. ably Reported In House. Washington. The Hawaiian Prohi bition bill, designed, like an Alaskan measure already agreed upon, to make the territory "bone dry," was favor ably reported to the House by the Territories Committee. Both meas ures go before the House with drastic provision against manufacture, sale, transportation, gift, possession or other use of Intoxicating liquors, with certain exceptions as to alcoholic liquor designed solely for medicinal or scientific use. 60 KILLED, 200 HURT BY QUAKE. More Than 1,000 Houses Destroyed On Island Of Ball. London. Fifty natives were killed and 200 others were Injured In an earthquake on the island of Ball, in the Malay archipelago, according to a dispatch from Amsterdam to the Central News. More than 1,000 bouses and factories and the native temples were destroyed. The Governor's palace was seriously damaged. FIRE DAMAGES U. OF VA. Blaze In Old Chemical Laboratory Does $25,000 Damage. University of Virginia. Fire that started about midnight In the old chemical laboratory of the University of Virginia today did $25,000 damage before it was extinguished. SAYS TWILL SAVE BOYS. Bishop Fallows Thinks Military Train ing Will Lessen Criminals. Washington. If more boys are put into military camps, fewer will go to reform Institutions, Bishop Samuel Fallows, of Chicago, a former member of the board of governors of the Illi nois Reform Institution, told the Sen ate Military Committee. Bishop Fal lows, who favors compulsory military training In" high schools, declared uni versal military training would not de Telop a spirit of militarism. UPON BY M CANS IT USUALLY HAPPENS ABOUT THE FIRST I'l'.liKM.I UNITED STATES Objects to Proposed Provisions of New Constitution. AIMED TO HIT FOREIGNERS Communication From Secretary Lan sing To Chief Carranza Points Out Injustice Of Property Restrictions. Mexico City. Secretary of State Lansing has sent to General Carranza, through Charles B. Parker, American Charge d'Affalres here, a communlca- tion in regard to certain provisions which it has been proposed to in' elude In the new Mexican Contitu tion. The communication calls alien' lion to the article vesting the Execu tlve with power to expropriate prop' erty without judicial recourse, and also to the article providing that civil commercial companies cannot own properties of a greater area than Is necessary to accomplish the purpose for which they are formed, and plac ing the power to determine what area Is necessary in the hands of the Executive. The communication says that if the latter provisions were made retro active, it might be confiscatory, as no provision is mado for compensation. Attention Is called to the article providing that there be no exemption from taxation. If this were given a retroactive effect, gays Secretary Lan sing's communication, it would impair contracts of many foreign corpora tions now operating under agreements providing periods of exemption by the Federal or State governments. Regarding article 33, dealing with the expulsion of obnoxious foreigners, objection is mado because tho pro posed article permits the Executive to expel anyone, without recourse to appeal, whose presence Is deemed In advisable by him. The letter states that his Is not in accord with the usual practice of nations that cause be clearly shown. Mr. Parker also has sent to Gen eral Carranza a statement from Sec retary Lansing protesting against the proposed article In the new constitu tion which stipulates that special con cessions must be obtained by exploit ers of oil lands, and allows companies now owning such lands one year in which to secure new concessions, in order to protect the rights they al ready have acquired. The statement says this article apparently means virtual nationalization of Mexican oil lands, and that It might prove con fiscatory of foreign-owned property. Americans Fear For Property. Washington. Future relations of Uie Mexican de facto government with the United States may be materially affected by the manner in which the suggestions of Secretary Lansing re garding the proposed radical changes In the constitution are received by General Carranza and the members of tho constituent congress now In ses sion at Queretaro. The protest delivered to the Foreign Office in Mexico City against Incor poration in the new constitution of provisions limiting property holdings of foreigners, and providing for other restrictions of the rights of foreigners, was made after the recoipt at the State Department of numerous com plaints from Americans with property In Mexico. Enactment of such con stitutional provisions may prove cause for diplomatic entanglements not only with the United States Gov ernment but with other governments whose nationals have Invested in Mex ico. WILSON WILL BE RE-ELECTED. House and Senate To Count Electoral Votes February 14. Washington. rroaldent Wilson will be officially re-elected Wednesday, February 14. On that day the House and Senate will hold a joint session In the House and count the electoral votes. BRITAIN'S WOMEN WORKING. Half Million Now In Munitions Plants and More Called For. London. Half a million women are engaged In the production of muni tions In Great Britain and their num knu la Increasing dally, said Dr. Christopher Addison, Minister of Muni tions, In an aaaress ai me Mansion House. Some 34,000 additional wom en are Deing enipiuyeu mummy ai me CAUTIONS BO war factories, but even this number tm nffiolnni 41 HEMS -II LONELY CELL Now Jesse Pomeroy Will Be Treated Like Other Prisoners. MURDERED 2 CHILDREN AT 15 Sentenced To Hang, But Gained Com mutation to Life Imprisonment Learned To Read In Seven Languages. Boston. Jesso Pomeroy, who has been for 41 years in solitary confine mcnt In the State prison at Charles Town, was granted equal privileges with other prisoners by the' State Executive Council. Convicted of murder at the age of 15 years, Pomeroy two years later was locked up In a cell lighted from a win' dow in the celllrj so that he might not gaze on his fellow-men. He was exer cised apart from other prisoners and barred, as far as possible, from human companionship. Two years ago tho sentence was enforced less rigorously to accord with modern Ideas of prison reform. Pomeroy was allowed more opportunities for exercise In the prison yard and was permitted to ' attend church services twice on Sundays, sit ting apart from the other men. Now, at the age of 67 years, Porno- roy will move Into a cell where be can see passers-by, will be allowed to exer cise with other prisoners, sit with them at the church services and at the prison entertainments and will be given such light work In the prison shops as his somewhat enfeebled health will permit. Governor McCall announced that he approved the com mutation. Pomeroy was convicted of the brutal murder of two children following a series of degenerate acts which had terrorized the South Boston and Dor chester districts of this city. He wns sentenced to be hanged, but because of his youth the sentence was commuted to life Imprisonment. On September 7, 1876, he was placed In his solitary cell nt the Charles Street Jail. But he did not drop out of the public eye. Reports of sensa tional attempts to escape, carried through with patient Ingenuity rarely found outside of fiction, became public at frequent Intervals. His mother, until her death two years ago, never relaxed her effort to secure his pardon and was allowed to visit him regulnrly. When Pomeroy began his sentence be was poorly educated. Now be can read In seven languages and Is study ing Arabic. His last known attempt to escape was four years ago. Since then he has been diligently studying law as It bears on his case. Beyond his attempt to break through toel and brick to freedom he has been, on the whole, his keepers say, a quiet and model prisoner. TO STORE BILLION IN GOLD. Vaults Of Philadelphia Mint Will Be Enlarged. Philadelphia. The vaults at the lo cal mint are being enlarged for the storing of more than a billion dollars in gold bullion. Upwards of $500,000, 000 in gold bricks Is already in the vaults and preparations are being made to relieve the New York sub- treasury of about $600,000,000. None of the bullion will be convorted into coins, according to Adam Joyce, su perintendent of the mint, as there al ready is a surplus of gold coins In cir culation. WOULD LICENSE JOURNALISTS. Connecticut Bill Calls For Examination and Experience. Hartford, Conn. A bill was Intro duced In the Legislature providing for the examination nd licensing of Jour nalists by a commission of five to be appointed by the Governor. Under the proposed measure a licensed news writer on daily and weekly papers In the State would have to have at least six months' experience. A license would cost $10 and would be subject to suspension. WILSON CALLS ON McADOO. Routine Business Discussed During 10-Minute Tai:. Washington. President WdUon broke another precedent when he walked to the Treasury Department from the White House to see Secre tary McAdoo In his private office. It was said that routine questions were discussed during the 10 minutes' call. There have been women sailors among the Finns and Norwegians for many years. VAL BATTLE in British FlotlllaScatters Enemy's Destroyers. BIG NEW OFFENSIVE PENDING The French Replaced By British Troops On the Somme Front, and Both Belligerent Forces Are Jockeying. London. In an engagement be tween British light naval forces and Genua n torpedo-boat destroyers, In the North Sea, a Gorman dostroyer was sunk and the other torpedo craft scattered, it was officially announced. The sinking of a British torpedo boat destroyer In another engagement with German torpedo-boat destroyers In the vicinity of Schouwen Bank, with the loss of 3 officers and 44 of the crew, also was announced. The official report says: "While our light forces were patrol. Ing the North Sea not far from the Dutch coast, they met a division of enemy torpedo-boat destroyers. A short engagement took place, during which one of the enemy torpedo-boat destroyers was sunk and the rest scat tered, having suffered considerable punishment. Darkness prevented tho full reUiU U liie aciion being ob served. "During the night there was also a short, sharp engagement between enemy torpedo-boat destroyers and our own destroyers in the vicinity of Schouwen Bank. During this engage ment one of our torpedo-boat destroy ers was struck by a torpedo, tho ex plosion killing 3 officers and 44 or the crew. She subsequently was sunk by our own ships. Relatives of the victims have been informed. Our ships suffered no other casualties." Reports from Ymulden received by Reuter's Company via Amsterdam 6ay that German torpedo boats attempted to leave Zeebrugge to avoid the Ice. They wero attacked by a large British squadron. The action opened at short range, and early in the fight the bridge of the German destroyed V-69 was swept away by a direct hit, the com mander and two other officers being killed. The V-69 fired one torpedo and was then hit by another British shell, which knocked the funnel flat on the deck. Still another shell put a hole In the forepart of the vessel. Her guns appear not to have been dam aged. The crew of the V-69 numbered about sixty. It would appear from the statements of the men that seven other German vessels were sunk. The V-69 belonged to the home fleet Big New Offensive Pending. Berlin. Heavy snowfalls, followed by bitlngly cold weather on all the battlefronts, have helped, rather than hindered, the fighting, the weather man seemingly has been entirely Im partial, for the cold snap, which In the northeast has enabled the Rus sians to cross the swamps between Riga and Dvinsk and to attack tho German positions; also has made It possible for the Germans In Roumanla to approach Galatz, which, ordinarily, is protected by swamps. In the west Intensely cold weather has been accompanied only partly by a clear atmosphere, enabling the fliers to resume their activity. Neither side, however, has boon specially favored. Artillery duels havo increased at fre quent Intervals all along the line from the coast to the Swiss border. Exceptionally active patroling by the Entento forces has not prevented the Germans from discovering that tbo French recently have withdrawn to a large extent from their old posi tions on the Somme front as far south as Peronne, and that they have been replaced by British troops, pre sumably in order to give the French divisions an opportunity to rest in preparation for a gigantic test of strength which ts expected by every one at the first favorable opportunity. The impression gained from a visit to any part of the front Is that both sides expect an unprecedented of fensive before long and that the pres ent artillery and patrol activity to which the fighting now Is limited is more or less a kind of Jockeying for the start, to enable one opponent to gain the advantage by being the first to assume the offensive. In the east, the cold weather Is holding up operations considerably, but is not preventing the Russians In the eastern Carpathians from making- desperate efforts to save them selves from being forced backward to such an extent that their positions on the upper Sereth river will be flanked and taken. WOULD HONOR COLONEL CODY, Name Of Highway May Be Changed To Buffalo Bill Trail. Lincoln, Neb. A movement Is under way io cuange the name of the auto mobile road known as the "Old" High way, running from Omaha to Denver, to the "Buffalo Bill Trail." President Roper of the Omaha, Lincoln and Den ver Highway Society announced that he will call a meeting of the society to take action on the matter. It Is proposed to extend the trail up to the monument on Lookout .Mountain. JAPAN CAUTIOUS ON PEACE. Troubles Of Her Own Dull Interest In Wilson's Plan. Tokyo. Absorbed In their own political crisis, Japanese officials and the Japanese press treated President Wilson's proposals in bis Senate speech with great caution. There were no editorial comments made hem and very little space was devoted to cabled dispatches telling; how Japan's allies and her enemies received the American plan. SE PERSHING ORDEflEQ OF Entire Command To Recross Into United States. ADVANCE UNITS STARTED Regulars Will Relieve State Troops At Border and Be Held In Readlnees To Pursue Bandits. Washington. Withdrawal of the American military expedition in Mex ico wa ordered by the War Depart ment, and by the end of tho week tho entire command, after 10 months on Mexican soil, probably will have rc crossed Into the United States. The order went to Genoral Funston, In command at the border, and left t his discretion tho exact time of start ing the northward movomont and tlm details of carrying It out. For several weeks he has known of the Adminis tration's determination to ordor tbo troops back to tho border and under his discretion the expedition has boon concentrated for the long march. At the border the regulars will re lieve a considerable portion, If not all, of the National Guardsmen remaining on duty there. Already about 25,000 of the State troops In the border patrol have been ordered home, and their movement probably will be under way by the time Pershing's men arrive on American soil. To Let Carranza Go Own Way. Although officials have been silent on the subject of Mexico since the fall ure of the Joint commission neeotia- tlons, developments outwardly have. coupiea the troop withdrawal with Car ranza's refusal to accent the Atlanta City protocol and have plainly fore cast an Intention to lot the First Chief settle for himself hereafter the many problems endangering the tenure of the de facto Government A patrol considered adcouate to oro- tect the border will be maintained rigidly, however, and notice has been served on Carranza that the United States will not hesitate to use Its armed force again, If necessary, to protect American territory and Ameri can rights. The Americans on tho Joint commission told their Mexican colleagues at Atlantic City that this Government never would relinquish the right of unlimited and unrestrained pursuit of bandits guilty of border depredations. That Pershing's command, sent Into Mexico last March to disperse the ban dits who raided Columbus, will be re grouped at the border and put Into a condition of preparedness for a re currence of raiding Is not doubted here, and in that connection army offi cers are observing with keen Interest the preparations being made by Villa and his followers and allies to debate the territory that Pershing will vacate. Next U. S. Move Kept Secret All the recent moves in the Mexican Situation, however, and all thoso In contemplation are kept undor cover by tho officials shaping the course of the Administration. After Carranza sent back the Atlantic City protocol without his signature it was mado known that when the time came for the next step it would be taken with, out announcement, and that the future policy of the Administration would bo revealed only as it was translated Into action. It is known, however, that President Wilson's determination to withdraw the troops followed closely upon tho failure of Carranza to ratify the agree ment 'entered into at Atlnntlc City, and that Mr. Wilson Indorsed the" American Commissioners' recommen dations that he act independently on the question of withdrawal, and adopt a policy of purely formal rather than altruistic treatment of Carranza, WAGES OF MILLION BOOSTED. Steel and Textile Industries Led In Increases. Washington. Wage raises ranging from 5 to 10 per cent, were given to 1,118,000 workers In the United States during November and December, Sec retary Wilson, of the Labor Depart ment, estimated In a compilation of figures covering 38 States and showing (hat 526 establishments Increase the Ize of the pay envelope. The Secre tary called attention to the fact that a large proportion of the increases were voluntary, 244 of them coming without solicitation. THE ALLIES' LOSSES. Britain Has Lost 825,000 Soldiers and France 3,574,000. Berlin (via Sayvllle wireless). The Society for the Investigation of Social Consequences of the War, which met In Copenhagen last August, has just completed figures showing the losses of England, France and Russia for the first two years of the war. They were given out by the Overseas Newt Agency as follows: England, 825,000; France, 8,574,000; Russia, 8,597,000. The statistics Include killed, wounded and missing. PICK OUT THE WORST BOY. Novel Assignment To Fifty-One Chl cago Policemen. Chicago. Fifty-one policemen as-. signed to the Chicago Juvonllo Court received their Instructions from Judge Victor P. Arnold to "pick out the worst boy In each neighborhood and hold him responsible for the rest of the kids." "The worst boy is usually tho loader," Judge Arnold said. "The other boys admire his courage and will follow him so we must get him to turn his courage to upholding the law." ou III)
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