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All government regulations affecting raw cotton ended with the dissolution of the cotton distribution committee of the war industries board. The Southern" Commereial Congress, closing, its genera sessions, in Balti more, approved the! Bankhead meas ure for 1500,000,000 in five1 annual fed eral appropriations for highway and post road .facilities and a gigantic in crease of merchant marine, with equal distribution, terminal , betterment and general economical . trade conditions with the South as a meritorious - bene ficiary CU " ' Five to fiye and half billion dollars more of bonds will have to be raised to finance the government. Ttiis es timate is based ; on an estimate v of eighteen billion dollars In expendi tures, and members' of the ways and means committee of the house say the estimate is ndt too 'low4 It has not been decided what por tion of the , voluminous documents shed ding light on the activities of the Ger man propagandists in this country to make " public. ' '! Henry Youtsey, convicted in 1900 of being "a party to the murder of Governor Goebel, has been paroled af ter years. In. the pen. Director General of Railroads Mc Adoo, in -order to take the question out of politics, has asked that rail con trol be extended five years. : ! Silver chevrons will be given the soldiers kept at home by order of the commander-in-chief of the army and navy, Woodrow Wilson. Nearly eight thousand happy sol diers, sailors, marines and aviators landed in ' New York, the other day. Some of them are maimed for life, but are as happy as though they were boy scouts :on a hike'. Mrs. Wilbur J. Ham of Cartersville, Ga., and 4 Mrs. O, H. P. Wright oSel ma, Ala,, the. aged , mother ef Mrs. 1. G. Hames of Cartersville, and Cath erine Hames, 10 years old, were in stantly killed at a crossing two miles north of Cartersville, Ga. Little Wil bur Ham, a fouiyear-old child, whose mother was killed, was fatally injured and died a few hours later. Cotton ginned prior -to December 1 was 9,563,124 running bales, including 134,150 round bales; 10,170 bales of American Egyptian and '25,741 bales of sea island. .V Vice President Marshall presided "la formally and impersonally, not under taking v to eiercise any official duty or function? at the' cabinet (meeting on December 10. President Wilson asked the vice, president to presidcvf - . Legislation designed to carry into effect the recomifiendations of the federal trade commission to President Wilson that the government regulate the meat packing Industry, has been proposed in the house at Washington by the-interstate commerce commit- tee. European The German : finance minister -says that if . the war had ended in the fall the amount of money required from im perial taxationwould have reached fourteen bimpnVtnarks, These, calcu lations jhavei' been , irpset ;by recent events. "--l &-pg''-:-- Davloforgeays''at Great BritainniavjK: inUst ,rflniafn supreme, no mattexVhat ih4 aetton of the peace conferencte'.y.'$;r. ' i ' V;-,. A voicellnterrpted te 'Brjtlsh pre mier when -he was; Spewing; In Bristol the othday a&eii superiority of the fcavy m , watch Wil- son!" r"WeiCrho tomeet himr in a xoruugnii WHi U ihinv,what you say," injtaitly sitedth! premier. With::;tjie rrrval f theAmericans at the Hhinei a; cbrojpany. engineers prepared to throw ar tnip&rary bridge across .he . stream, there - were, hpw- . ever, already four badges spanning the stream,two' here and one In the north and anptfeer to .the: south, over which the AnreHcaii farmy-was ordered to corss Debrt;;l3 : in a thirty-mile arc. '-'y . When .te 'American forces reached Coblenz, rmany, a local committee was appo'inted'to assist the Americans in assunrlngcontrol ind officers of the ' Germati,; afaiy remaWed behind after te Ias,of theirmen had' marched out .5 order Ho deliver to the 'Americans great stores of supplies. t The German army moved out of Co blenz in .an orderly fashion, with the spirit of a holiday rather than that of a. defeated 'army. Almost every man bad a rosette or a sprig of green in nij cap. The spirt of Christmas was tn tie atmosphere, and the broad smile 2.PermJw. waacontagious. v ' ' -.'... - :- ftt is stated that Germany": is spend ing too much money on; irrelevant de tails of state administration; I The British government has decided upon.the.4ttitude'lCwillppt at the peace -conference regardlngV the free dfohi of the sea ; 1UU stated that the British; government, is ready to con cede ' to the United States th4. freest ot all vrree hands, m nayai aeveiop ment, and it welcomed the idea 'ut the extension of American sea power as one of the best guarantees of the peace of the world and of real freedom of the seas. v . Dr. W. S. Solf, German ministef of foreign affairs, because his ; relations with the Independent Socialists had reached the straining point, has quit his job and gone home. General Russki and Dimitrieff. of the Russian army, have been shot by order of ; the' local sov!etvat Prapra- gorsl M. Rukhloff, former minister of commerce and communications in the Russian cabinet, was shot at the same'time. General Russki, who was recently shot, by order of the Russian govern ment, commanded the Russian troops Ingloriously routed by the Germans in the, northern Polish campaign. During the war twelve spies were shot in the tower of London. Among the condemned were two women, but they were reprieved and sentenced to. long terms of imprisonment. Copenhagen hears that the intente governments intend to refuse to send foodstuffs to Germany until a demand they are said to have made for the dissolution of the sbldiers' and work men's council js carried out. The allies may reserve the right tO march into Germany. Washington Cablegrams announce that President Wilson reached the harbor of Brest on board the steamer George Washington and stepped on shore-j-the first time an American executive had ever trod den European soil. The arrival was the culmination of an imposing naval spectacle which began as the presi dential fleet rounded the outer capes, th&i passed the entrance forts and moved majestically into the harbor, whprA th nrtr Waahlnctnn ahrhnr- ed at the head of a long double column of American dreadnaughts and de stroyers and the units of a French crui ser squadron. . The "United States stands ready to tender alone, or in conjunction with other countries of their hemisphere, all possible assistance" to bring about an equitable solution of the difficul- ties presented in the Chile-Peru sit uation, says Acting Secretary of State Polk. Eighty or ninety thousand claims, principally from relatives of soldiers who were killed or who died in the war, are expected to be -filed in the next few months. All South American countries have been asked by the United States to join in the suggestion to Chile, and Peru that the interests of pan-Amer- can unity demand an amicable settle ment of their controversy over the provinces of Tacna and Arica. Acting Secretary Polk of the state depart ment announced this, explaining that t had been erroneously reported that Argentine alone had been approached on the subjeq v wniie the mam endeavor now is to end the present strained relations be tween Chile and Peru, it is said that the occasion may arise for a final set tlement of the dispute by the carrying out of the treaty of Ancon, signed in 1883 by the two republics and calling for a plebescite in the dispute in the provinces to determine their disposi tion. . - , Congress was asked by Secretary McAdoo. in a letter made public here to authorize the continuation of loans to the allies for one year aftei the termination of the war to finance the purchase of foodstuffs and reconstruc tion material in this country. . No additional appropriation fr loans to the allies is sought. by the treasury department, but it is suggested that the proposed peace-time provisions ap-, ply to the $1,500,000 of the $ 10,000, 000,000 appropriated for allied loans, which Secretary McAdoo estimates will remain unexpended when peace is declared. Under existing law the United States may lend to the allies only, for war purposes and during the war .... ' President' Wilson probably will not sit at. iibe'ace table, but will bo representedtivefe' by delegates while remaining -in close contact with the heads of "other nations and prepared to decide questions referred to him. Premier Clemenceau of France, it Js believed, will be president of the jeace conference. This is considered fitting because the conference will be heid in France. . ; The mayor of New York City an nounces that Marshal Foch may visit the United States shortly after the consummation of the peace confer ence. The senate committee investigating brewers and German propaganda in the United States is In full swing and many prominent characters, are being called daily. ..A battalion of the Thirty-ninth Unit, ed States infantry left Treves by train for Coblenz, a four-hours' run. The premature occupation : of -Xpblenz is due to the .request of - the German au- rthoritieswho are apprehensive of the conditions that might prevail there af ter , the withdrawal of the : ' German forces: 'rK ; ' it Is announced Hhat if President WU8on'8 Tiewr .ee concurred in the peace proceedings will be entire pub lic, and nothing of a secret nature will be permitted to enter into the deliberations. Mn iAAnnnr nnnilDICn DY Thh l-KrlMi;n lilMUrfi hlHliulli VUI-VII ILR illnlTt fi-iiiiiriinwiif iiiiiii ,ii ii i mi i "" """-1111" J Strnssburs, the capital of Alsace, Is shown in the insert. AUSTRIAN BASE DEMOLISHED Illinois Sailor Describes Feat of American, British and Ital j ian Fleet. ALLIES HAVE NO CASUALTIES Mighty Base at Durazzo Is Laid In Ruins, Several Warships and at Least Four Submarines Are ' Destroyed. Wnukepran, 111. How the American, Italian and British sailors destroyed the pnemv fleet and reduced Durazzo. Albania, the mlehtv Austrian naval base, to ruins, is graphically told In nn uncensored .letter by George Milti- more of Wnukesmn. stationed on a United States submarine chaser, in a letter to Thomas H. McCann, as fol- 1 nr "We are just returning from an at tack we made on nn Austrinn port. American submarine chasers cooper ated with allied marines In destroy ing a strong Austrian submarine reu dizlon and port of disembarkation. We left our base last week and put Into an Italian port. "A few days later we shoved off fdr Durazzo? an Albanian town captured early In the war by the Austrians and turned into an Austrian submarine base and port of disembarkation for Austrian troops on their way to the Macedonian front. . "We maneuvered over the fortifica tions for about an hour when the English light cruisers and destroyers and torpedo boats, with the Italian battleship, -destroyers and torpedo boats and English and French sub marines appeared on the horizon, bearing down on us at full speed. Our ship had the exceptional honor of being flagship of the squadron, which represented Uncle Sam In the scrap. "We were assigned to submarine and torpedo defense for, the other ships, and were the first ship In line HONORED BY FRENCH In being, awarded the Croix do Guerre and n commission as a lieuten ant in the French, army, Dr. Anna I. Soly has won a distinction , extend exi only to jtwo other wpmen, poth of them her associates. A " gradjurte-' of the medical department of Cornell onl veislty, Doctor Sholly volunteered for surgical work at the outbreak of tie war. i . v- 'i ' : . .nnAii niinrn 1IAIIPIM .' 1 nnPOinriliiTri .... . c 3w . I Cj mmmm " mmmm mrmmmmmmiH9.wni m(mmmmtimnm0mm&MtW&MM0wMmimti rim in hhi Mae6tmomamaw which was occupied by the French NAVAL and the first to draw fire from the lnnd batteries. We were from two to three thousand yards nearer the beach than the other 6hips. and the shells began dropping all around us and- whizzing Just over our aerial. "One broadside from a battleship si lenced the shore battery Just about the time they had our range. Our bombardment started at noon and lasted about an hour and a half. The Austrian submarines came out and were immediately attacked by our fast chasers. "In one attack, as a submarine came up for a sight, the second shot from a chaser cut his periscope clean off. "After a short run, dropping light depth charges on it we blew the sub marine clear out of the water. "Another chaser pounced on an other submarine as It was about to discharge a torpedo into the fleet of worships and 'a few more ash eans (depth charges) sent one more Hun pirate and its crew on Its final sub mergence. Still Another unit nf Mine- ers saved at least two first-class de stroyers from mines by cutting In across their bow ' and sinking mines by gunfire which lay dead ahead In the destroyer's course. At times during the bombardment, when we would be in n certain position as a broadside was being delivered, the concussion would be great enough to roll our light craft as though in a heavy sea. When the bombardment VETERAN ALTHOUGH BUT 18 Youth Who Fought at Chateau Thierry Will Enter Naval Academy. ENLISTED WHEN ONLY 16 Carried His Full Burden of Campaign and Actual Combat While He Was 17More Veterans Will Probably Be Named. Annapolis, Md. A youth who was in the very thick of the fighting around Chateau-Thierry and Belles u Wood and passed a full year abroad as a United States marine has obtained an appointment for the naval academy and is in Annapolis preparing for his j entrance examinations next spring. He is Arthur C. Heller, son of C. Arthur Heller, an attorney of New ark, N. J., and is now a student at a naval preparatory school here. Young Heller is a most modest youth, and declines to say anything about his exploits. He wishes only to pass his examinations for the acad emy and to enter as any other youth, working hard for advancement through the different "classes, and finally to win a commission in the navy. He was loath to accept the appointment, which was obtained without solicita tion on his part, as he wished to stay abroad until the end of the war. He was with the very first troops that went to France with Pershing. He was cited In the debates in con gress upon the question ' of lowering the draft age as an example of what a very young man could accomplish, for Heller enlisted in the marine corps when he was only sixteen and has just reached eighteen. Consequently he carried his full burden of campaign and 'actual combat while he was seventeen.-" It was argued from his case that the best kind of flghttnjr could be done' by American youths between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one. ' Heller will - try for the academy by virtue of a regular congressional ap pointment. There are quite a number of Giher service men In Annapolis also preparing for the entrance examlna- i tlons next spring,, youn? men .who have under General Mangin. That commander was " finished, the whole allied fleet steamed back to open sea, while the United States chasers remained and kept up the defense until it was ob vious no more submarines were forth coming. "We soon got Into formation and under full speed headed out to sea and picked up the main fleet. The town of Duraezo was bombed by planes from 5 a. m. every half hour until after we finished. The results were as follows: One1 big Austrian transport sunk and two large supply ships; one large Austrian destroyer and one torpedo boat; at least four submarines sunk and one Austrian plane brought down. Our whole fleet returned Intact, with no casualties, and Durazzo is no more. "We Intercepted an Austrian hos pital ship and sent a boarding party aboard and found 200 Austrinn sol diers aboard who were wounded dur ing the early bombardment. "It appears that some were just leaving the transport and others were stationed in the town when they met their fate. There were a number of nurses aboard and when they saw the United States chasers they rushed to. the rail to wave to the American gobs." "We turned the ship .free afterward and let it proceed back to the Aus trians, even though the crew and nurses seemed quite pleased at being made prisoners by the Americans. "This scheme was brought about mainly through the efforts of our cap tain and commander In charge of this fleet. He is a real American scrapper and has enough reserve American "pep" to supply the whole allied fleets here. He is an old United States navy man and hero of the Spanish-American war." MARINE been In army training camps and oth ers from various branches of the naval service. They have been given fur loughs In order to prepare for the naval academy. More Veterans to Be Named. So far as Is known none but Heller has had actual battle experience, but doubtless there will be a number of others before the next class Is formed. These will come from two sources. Members of congress will take this op portunity of rewarding worthy youths of their own district who have done creditable work in the service, and are still of the right age. Undoubtedly Secretary Daniels will be able to designate the full quota of a hundred youths from the enlisted personnel of the navy and marine coids. which tn 'law permits to enter each, new class at tne academy. This year, though the law has been in effect only a little over a year, more than fifty were designated by the secretary. It was said that one rea son why the quota was not full was that many of the young men in the service refused to leave active duty while there was a chance of meeting Germany either on land or sea. Many of these spirited fellows will be desig nated for the next class. Many well-educated youths entered the navy and marine corps for the pur pose of getting into the thick of it, and are still of the proper age, that is, be low twenty. Any of these can aspire to an appointment to the naval acad emy through designation by the sec retary of the navy. it i II A II t f f r" Aa. MHN VUltS IN UNt PRECINCT 64 YEARS it it i ir 5 Clarksvllle, la. Thomas Hunt ot this city claims the champion sbip long-distance xote-ln-one-preclnct race in . the United States, Mr. . Hunt cast hta first vote in 1854 and has voted nt j every election lnce in this pre- $ 5 clnct.. . . He has not mlfispd on it election in 64 .years, -state, na- J J tlonal, county or municipal. He's a Republican, and generally $ J votes her straight. LAFAYE HOLDS A BR1EF w WTH PREMIER CLEMJ. AND WITH COL. H0USE HE ALSO ATTENDS Rests in Evening n Pr Strenuous Week AftSP BriefT on President Poincar. Paris. President Viison first Sunday in Pari, k spenl his church, laying a wr "6.Wlcto of LaFayette and having 9 ference with Prpitii0, ei fon- another with Col. f mi . du aud . w v-ieinf evening he rested in preparation ' the coming strenuous week of TV inary conferences. llIn' During the afternoon the Presi(W made a short call on President Madame Poincare at the palace oil Elysee. iae In the morning, the President a, companied by Mrs. Wilson and a " miral Grayson and by secret service men, went to the American Presbyt?. rian church in the Rue De Berri. Hi coming' was known to only a few of the American colony who had guessed that the President, being a consistent churchgoer, would choose a church of his own denomination. The President visited tfe tomb of LaFayette in the Picpus cemetery, in the southeastern section of Paris while returning home after the morn ing church service. Ko ceremony had been arranged at the cemetery and the President was accompanied only by Brigadier General Harts, a secret service operative, and a French officer assigned to him as a personal aide. The President, removing his hat, en tered the tomb carrying a large floral wreath. As the President placed the wreath on the tomb, he bowed his head and stood silent before the resting .place of the famous Frenchman who helped America in her fight for liberty. He made no speech whatsoever. He then returned to the Murat residence. ARMISTICE TO GERMANY IS EXTENDED TO JANUARY 17 Copenhagen. The German armis tice has been extended until five 'o'clock on the morning of January 17, according to a dispatch from Treves. The messages state that the follow ing conditions have been added on the armistice agreement of November 11: "The supreme command of the al lies reserve the right should it con sider this advisable and in order to obtain fresh guarantees, to occupy the neutral zone on the right bank of the Rhine north of the Cologne bridge head and as far as the Dutch frontier. Notice of this occupation will be given six days previously." DOCTOR PAES, PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL, SHOT AND KILLED- London. Dr. Sidorio Paes, presi dent of Portugal, was shot and killed by an assassin shortly before midnight Saturday while he was in a railway station at Lisbon waiting for a tram to Porto Rico. Advices from Lisbon reporting the assassination say that he was struck by three bullets. Presi dent Paes died within a few minutes after he sras shot. The president's assailant, named Jeetne, was killed by the crowd. Dr. Sidorio Paes was formally pro claimed president of Portugal on last June 9. He headed a revolt in Portu gal in December, 1917. GERMAN PAPERS PLEADING THAT THEY WERE DECEIVED . Berlin. Dispatches reporting the arrival of President Wilson in Pans are displayed prominently by the Ber lin newspapers. The President s vu terances are being scanned careiuiy Newspapers which formerly wer foremost in attacking the Presidents policies now plead that they were de ceived. SOLDIERS TO RETAIN THEIR OVERCOATS AND UNIFORMS Washington. Secretary Baker formed Chairman Dent, of the military commtitee, that the war partment had decided discharged so diers may permanently retain tne form and overcoat they wear w mustered out. Mr. Dent prepared bill embodying the authority, yiously the department had pia to have the clothing returned w ernment three months after a &o discharge. CONSTRUCTION WORK AT TENT CAMPS IS ABAr,- ' ' f rrf all . Washington. Abandonment o construction work in progress or jected at so-called "tent camps, ordered -by -the war department. . The camps affected by leeler, abandonment orders are . Ga,; Hancock, Ga.; Wadswortn Sevier, S .C; Greene, N. . Ian, (Ala.; Sheridan, Ala.; Logn, Bowie, Texas Beaure;gard. L Vu N. M.; Doniphan, Okla.; exu CaL, and Kearney, Cal
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