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t KING3 FOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. 0. A ' : 7 ScUl MMITTEE8 ARE MEETING AND (ORGANIZING FOR A BU8Y . 8E88I0N. HOLD DAILY SESSIONS nmlttee Assignments Are Being lUds and Other Work Prepare 1 ! : tory to the Opening. i Washington. Organization of the illxty-fourth Congress, which con- tenet next Monday, has begun. Sen- e,te Democrata hold their caucus Mon- (day and at the same hour the Ways and Meant Committee Democrats of the House undertook the task of par celling out committee recommeada lions. The Senate Democratic caucus were f called to order by Senator Kern, con ference chairman, it is expected that ere will be dally sessions through ut the weok, the question of revising the rules and providing Cor cloture of debate promising to enliven the pro ceedings. For several months a spe cial committee headed by Senator Owen of Oklahoma has bad rules re vision under consideration. Organization of the Senate majority ta not expected to precipitate any clashes. Although there have been rumors of change In leadership, no definite contests have developed. No change in chairmanship of Im- fcportant senate committees ts contem- I plated, the leaders say. Senator Tillman of South Carolina will retain chairmanship of naval affairs; Cham berlain of Oregon, military affairs; Stone of Missouri, foreign relations Simmons, North Carolina, finance; Overman, North Carolina, rules; Owen, Oklahoma, banking and cur rency; Myers, Montana, public lands f Hitchcock, .Nebraska, PhiUlplne Is lands; Culberson, Texas, judiciary; Rowlands, Nevada. Interstate com- Via. and Martin, Virginia, appro- ns. ' . the retirement of Senators Root i Burton, two important KepuDii ( vacancies occur in the foreign re- Jons committee, but there are no xnibcratic vacancies. Most of the iportant yacancios to be filled In 'taet-cammittees, also occur on the Republican aide. Committee places must be found by the Democrats for six new members, Underwood, Ala bama; Phelan, California; Beckham, Kentucky; Broussard, Louisiana Johnson, South Dakota, and Hustlng ot Wisconsin. ENDORSE NAVY PROGRAM. 'atlonat Security League Thinks 8tep : - la In Right Course. Chicago. The preparedness pro- gram of President Wilson was en ' V dorsed as a step In the right direc tion in committee reports on the ) army, the navy and the militia read I before a conference of the National Security League here. On each as- leet of the problem, howevftr, the committee findings were that the ad , mlnlilratfon bad not Indicated a de ; . aire to go far enoufM to make the country safe from attack. The proposed army Increases, It was pointed out, should be broadened to provide Tor extensive and continu- ' oas education of officers and for col lection of large reserve stocks of sup plies of all kinds. , The navy plan was criticised as ex. tending over too long a period for completion and as making no provl aloa (or adequate personnel on ships built, building and proposed. The project for a "continental p"iy" was endorsed merely as a "first j)" and a suggestion was made that i men between the ages of 18 and ' should be enrolled and have mill y education. . i : American Killed by Turks. itsel, Switzerland, via Paris Mr, le, an American citizen and sev- I other foreigners were killed by tea at Crfa Mesopotamia while g to defend Armenians from the s, according to a story printed in newspaper Nonvelles de Basle. urnmsnt Takea Canadian Wheat awa, Ont The Canadian govern l as commandeered all high-grade In' elevators from Fort William a Superior to the Atlantic The action was taken by the i grain commission under the ar act.. The wheat seised grades No. 1 hard and 1, 2, a.,. It was the property of are and millers. A revsied aces the amount at about ushelav a coeiderable part he property of Americans. Hold Only Fringe. he greater portion of : of the Serbian Nortbr Ileved to have crossed n tains of Albania . and vnere the Serbs are con he aid of King Nicholas - sterner resistance to an and Bulgarian ln ie Belgians, however, ild only a fringe of vhlch widens .as It -thwestern corner, of - ia'the center. '., THE MlisESt'HASE 1 A": S'lV J't' jttf . u!' ','. 'J .'J Tns Misses Suzanne (left) and Elis abeth (right) are the daughters of Capt. and Mrs. Volney O. Chase, U. 8 N., and ara among the prominent debu tantes In Washington society this winter. ri i , I TRAIL LEADS TO EMBASSY CAPTAIN BOY-ED CHARGED WITH HEADING CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE LAW. Mr. Wood 8aid Defendants "Rode Roughshod Over Laws and Treatlea of the U. 8." New York. Capt. K. Boy-Ed, Ger man naval attache with headquarters at the German embassy in Washington played a leading role, according to witnesses in Federal court here, in the alleged conspiracy of several Ham burg American Steamship Line offi cials to deceive and defraud the Uni ted States by sending neutral ships with supplies to German men-of-war at the beginning of the European war. One of these witnesses swore that Captain Boy-Ed personally directed the expenditure of approximately $750,000 wblcb, unsolicited and unex pected had been deposited to the witness' credit in a New York bank in September, 1914. The witness tes tified that $350,000 of this money was telegraphed to the Nevada National Bank at San Francisco; $213,000 was paid, in several amounts, to the North- German Lloyd Steamship Lines here, about $75,000 to the Hamburg-American Line here and by cable money or der in Hamburg and some of the re mainder was still on hand. All of these disbursements this witness as serted were made by order of Boy-Ed. This witness, Gustavo B. Kulen- kampff, a German Importer and ex porter with offices here, and others testified in the trial of Dr. Karl Buenz, Adolph Hachmelster, George Hotter, and Joseph Poppinghaus, all officials of the Hamburg-American Line, who are charged with conspiracy In having directed the loading and dispatching of 16 vesselB to the relief of the half dozen or more German warships In the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The testimony which virtually opened the government's case followed a short ddress to the jury by Roger B. Wood, assistant United States district attor ney, in which Mr. Wood said that the government would show that the de fendants "rode roughshod over the lawa and treaties of the United States ind contemptuously as ff these laws tnd treaties had been mere scraps of paper.". . NUMBER OF BANKS FIXED. attorney General Says Number Can't Be Reduced or Location Changed. - Washington. Attorney General Gregory has given an opinion to Pres- dent Wilson holding that the Federal Reserve Board has no authority to re- luce the number of reserve districts r to change location of reserve banka. The opinion was aent to the meet- ng of the board where the questions f changes were taken up. ; It was lot read, however, and It became mown later that a supplementary plnlon might be sought It was pointed out that If the board tcted In accordance with the Attorney eneral's decision the appeal of 'tttiburg to have the Cleveland bank ihlfted to It and that ot Baltimore to e given the Richmond bank would lave to be thrown out without con dderatlon-of their merits. It was said that several members if the board did not know that Mr. iregory had been asked for the opln- on until it was mentioned at the neetlng. "; Diversification Campaign. . New Orleans. Inauguration of a ieneral campaign In every cotton-pro-luclng state for crop diversification ind organization of a permanent coh erence of Southern bankers are unong the projects planned tor the conference of cotton states' bankers n New- Orleans, December ( and 7. rata Information la conveyed in a com nunlcatlon from Joseph Hlrsch of Cor his Christl, Texas, -chairman of the inference, received, here. Mr. Hard ng and Dr. Knapp will be leading .neakers. mmm i MME. 8CHWIMMER OF HUNGARY AND MRS. SNOW DEN SEEK SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT. FOR A PEACE CONFERENCE Urge President to Initiate Cnoferenee or at Least Appoint Delegate. Wilson Doesnt Promise. Washington. Efforts to win Presi dent Wilson's support for a conference of neutrals to Initiate peace proposals In Europe reached a climax when Mme. Rosika Bchwlmmer of Hungary, and Mrs. Ethel Snowden, wife of a member of the British Parliament, called at the White House with a per sonal appeal and word that they had definite Information tnat the majorty ot the belligerent nations would not turn deaf ears to suggestions from a neutral gathering. The ladies talked with the presdient for more than an hour and went away much pleased over their reception, though the Presi dent had made no promises. About 400 peace advocates fre:ih from a mass-meeting at a loca theater, ac companied the President' callers to the White House, applauding thfem as they entered and left the Exocutlve offices. The President was urged to Initiate a peace conference, or at least to sig nify that he would appoint a delegate from the United States If another neutral nation caled one. He was told that women peace advocates who have visited every beligerent and neutral nation in Europe believe from talks with officials abroad that prac tical results would follow. He also was Informed that Henry Ford, the Detroit manufacturer, here to co operate with the women, had In his possession statements, some ot them signed from officials in some of the principal countries on both sides of the European conflict, to the general effect that they would interpose no objection to the eating of a confer ence ot neutrals to make peace pro posals. Mme. Schwlmmer, who saw the President several months ago on the same subject and who was not opti mistic then, Bald that she believed the President was deeply impressed with the Information laid before him. "The President made no definite promise," she added, "but I think you will hear something from tue White House before long." Addresses were made at the meet ing by Mme. Schwlmmed, Mrs. Snow den, Mrs. Louis Post, wife of the As sistant Secretary of . Labor, Henry Ford, and other peace advocates. Henry Ford s address was very brief.. "Out of the trenches by Christ mas and never back again Is my mot to," he said, and sat down. THREE AMERICANS 8 HOT. Vllla Soldiers Kill One Tar Hell and Wound Another. Nogales, Ariz. Three United States soldiers were wounded, two of them probably fatally, and a score ot Mexi cans are reported to have been killed when Villa troopers evacuated Noga les, Sonora, across the border from here, before the advance of Carranza troops under Gen. Alvaro Obregon, ex changed shots with United States troops across the International boun dary line. . General Obregon was In Nogales and measures were beng taken to re store order after the looting and riot lng. All supplies of liquor were be ing destroyed by Obregon's order. Rumors that two American sol ders had been killed during the ex change of shots remained unverified. Carlos Randall, Villa governor of Sonora, and General Ocosta, a Villa subordinate, remain under guard at a local hotel. Randall and Acoata cross ed the nternational boundary line when It was decided to evacuate the Mexican town. Three American soldiers wounded, two probably fatally. Stephen Littles, 23, shot through head, and died later; home, Fairmont, N. C. Enlisted February, 1914. Herbert L. Cates, 25, shot twice In abdomen and hip, recovery doubtful. Home Swepsonvllle, N. C, second en listment. - ' - Arthur L. Saupe, 19, shot right foot. Home Vernon, Ind. - Five Mexicans, Including a woman also were wounded. Whether any were killed was undetermined. A Carranza courier, sent to apprise Col. W. H. Sage, commanding the Ameri can troops ot the routing of the Villa forces was shot off his horse. . - Bryce Tells of Armenian Horrors. London. Viscount Bryce made pub lic the details of further Armenian massacres, which,' In a letter accom panying them, he' says, "surpass in horror, If that were possible, what has been published already." "I feel," his letter continues, "that such crimes ought to be exposed to the utmost, and that the charity of other, nations will more than ever be drawn to the unhappy refugees when It is known, what their friends and fellowcountryroen have suffered." THOMAS i. PENCE Hlllwlj"ll'H ir" - " Thomas J. Penes, who managed the publicity campaign of Woodrow Wil son In the preeonventlon campaign of 1912, la probably the next aecretary of the Democratic national committee. Mr. Pence is at present the sctlng sec retary, Joseph E. Davlss having re signed th office when he became com missioner of corporations. ARABS PLAN A REVOLT TURKI8H GOVERNMENT EXE. CUTES 11 MEMBERS EGYPT IAN 8ECRET SOCIETY. New Independent State Would Have Asked Great Britain to Become 8ponsor. Washington. Execution at Beirut ot an Egyptian secret society which it is claimed, had tor Its object the diBmemberment ot Turkey and the creation of an Independent .Arabian state under protectorate of Great Brit ain was announced here by the Turk ish Embassy. The members of the society, the Embassy alleges, planned to assassinate high officials and many other prominent people. The announcement says: "The Ottoman Government having bee nlnformed ot the existence In Egypt, with branches In Syria and Irak of a secret society whose aim Is the creating of an Independent Ara bian state under Great Britain's pro tectorate, ordered a most thorough Inquiry be made. The purpose of this was to discover who were the promot ers of this society, the object ot which under the Instigation of a hostile pow er, was the dismemberment ot Turkey notwithstanding the strong ties which bind all Arabs to the mother country. "The inquiry conducted with the utmost care and earnest desire of finding out the truth, brought out the most undeniable proof ot the exist ence of this society. The aim ot the conspiracy was to create disturbances in the country by committing criminal acts such as the assassination of high dignitaries as well as a great number of prominent people. "The unearthing ot Important docu ments having been the means of dis covering the promoters of the con spiracy, several arrests took place and the matter was brought before the court martial In Beirut The case was tried with all due precaution. The culpability of the accused , having been established, some of the traitors, most of them by default, were sentenced to death in virtue of Article 54 of the Ottoman criminal code. ' "Out of 13 culprits sentenced, snd who were, actually arrested, 11 were executed In Beirut 8ERBS HOLD ENEMY AT BAY. Austrian Report 8aya Little Army Loses 5,000 Dally. Austrian Headquarters, via London. The troops of the Central Powers are encountering the bitterest opposi tion of the entire Serbian campaign, and every battle become a hand-to- hand conflict, The Serbians appar ently are planning a final stand on the Kossovo Plain. The Austrians and Germans esti mate the Serbian army now numbers between 130,000 and 150,000 bnt that It Is diminishing by 6,000 men dally. i The Bulgarian War Ministry pub lishes the names of 12 Bulgarian offi cers now serving with Russian army who are branded a deserters. The list Includes General Radko DImitrletf, former Ambassador to Russia, Major General Srafow, Captain Luzkanoo, and First Lieutenant Torkof, who challenged Pierre Lott, the French author, to a duel after the Balkan war because of Lotl's criticism of the Bul garian armyj ' . ' " 8lx Killed In Collision., Columbus. -The bodies of six per sons had been recovered, 18 others were missing and 80 Injured as a re sult of a head-on collision six miles west of here between Central ot Geor gia passenger train No. 2 and a special train of 28 cars, nurylng the Con T. Kennedy Carnival Company. Kennedy said he believed the list ot dead would reach 24. The known dead: Mr. and Mrs. Fred 8. Kempt of Kansas City, Mo.; A. Kennedy, showman; O. H. Hawkins, Peoria, 111.; George Chad 3rhnaoa. ,. , ' GREECE AND ALLIES REACH AGREEMENT ENTENTE POWERS PRESENT COL LECTIVE NOTE WHICH IM PROVES CONDITIONS. WAITING FOR A GUARANTEE Austro-Qsrman-Bulgarlan Forces Enter Kossovo Plain and Occupy Latest Serbian Capital. London. There has been a distinct Improvement in the diplomatic rela tions between Greece and the Entente Powers, following the presentation of a collective note by the representa tives of the Allies. The Greek pre mier Is reported to have stated that while Greece put forward theoretical objections to Allied troops entering Greece territory and using it as a vic tualling base she would not raise a finger against them. That the Entente Allies purpose to operate through Greece Indefinitely Is apparently indicated by the statenlont in a news agency dispatch that ma chinery for an electric power plant Is being landed at Salontki and that con tracts sre being awarded tor the con struction of extensive barracks. On the military side in the Balkans on the other hand, especially so tar as the Serbian northern army Is con cerned, the situation uaa grown grav er, Ausfro-Cerman and Bulgarian troops, operating In three separate col umns have entered Kossovo Plain, where the Serbians were expected to make their last stand, and have occu pied Mitrovitza, the latost Serbian cap ital, as well as Pristina and at one point at leaBt have driven the Serbian! across the Sitnica river, which drain) the valley. TWO KILLED, 22 INJURED. Southern No. 38 Strikes Football Spe cial In Rear at Salisbury. Salisbury Striking the rear sleeper of the Richmond-bound football special which had just stopped on the Sal isbury yards, Southern passenger train No. 38 plowed one-third the way through the wooden Pullman, killing Henry C. Severs and Charles Edwin Hall of Charlotte. Twenty-two were injured, those more seriously hurt being passengers on the special, but several ot No. 38's travelers were bad ly shaken up by the force of the colli sion. The Injured are: J. M. Smith, Char lotte, slightly hurt; O. Max Gardner, Shelby, broken ankle, bruised about the face, back badly wrenched; For rest Estridge, Shelby, ribs broken; S. B. McCall, Mrs. B. E. Smith, O. H. Holton, Mrs. F. T. Purse, W. R. How ell, C, S. Stone, Harry Tally all these passengers ot the special are hurt, Mr. Tally probably the most serious ly. He has an ear cut oft and ether slight Injuries. On No. 38 the Injured are: Mrs. H. D. Noble, Bridgeport, Conn., neck strained; Mrs. P. J. Nevins, West Or ange, N. J., neck sprained; B. S. Pas chal, Charlotte, neck sprained; A. L. Popley, Baltimore, elbow cut;, J. A. Brasman, Baltimore, right arm lace rated; C. E. Lacy, Charlotte, right hand cut; H. N. Furnold, Pensacola, Fla fractured arm; N. G. Tatum, New York, dining car waiter, scalp wound; D. H. Hollebroough, Charlotte, baggage master, leg sprained; L. H. Lewis, New Jersey, scalp wound; Mrs. R. P. Ireland, Cleveland, O.. shoulder sprained; Jesse Arnold, negro, scalp wound. . Thangsglvlng Football Results. At Philadelphia: Cornell 24; Penn sylvania 9. At Richmond: Virginia 14; North Carolina 0. . At Atlanta: Georgia Tech 7; Au burn 0. At ashvllle: Vanderbllt 28; Be wane'e 3. At Birmingham: Alabama 53; Mis sissippi 0. At Athens: Georgia 13; Clemson 0. At Norfolk: Washington 4b Lee 48; North Carolina A. M. 13. At Roanoke: V. P. I. 27; V. M. I. 9. At Lexington, Ky.: Kentucky 6; Tennessee 0. At St. Louis: St. Louis, 0; George town 90. . . ; At Austin, Texas: Norte Dame 35; Texas 7. -. At Missouri, Mont.: Syracuse 8; Montana 6. At Columbia: Citadel 8; South Carolina 0. At Bristol: King College 13: Emory and Henry 14. : , . . At Chattanooga: Chattanooga Uni versity 30; Kentucky .Central Q. '; ., At Greenville, 8. C: Furman 16; Wofford 0. ., .- . " McAdoo Plana For More Revenue. Washington. Increase in internal taxation rather than Issuance of bonds to meet the first year's expenses of the administration's defense program are advocated by Secretary McAdoo of the treasury in a statement giving an estimate ot the federal government's revenues and expenditures np to the end of the fiscal year beginning next July. : Assuming that . Congress - will continue In effect the tax and duty on sugar, the Secretary estimates that tU2.808.394 in additional revenue will be needed. . , . - THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK 1 flov. 29, 1914, -'- ' Allies captured Important posi tions near Ypres. Montenegrins defeated Austrians In Bosnls. Russlsns split German army and defeated relief eolumn at Gombln. German aviators bombarded Lodz. Princes Abbaa and Osman ban ished from Egypt for antl-Brltlsh I conspiracy. . -J Germany paid 137,600 Indemnity to Luxemburg. Nov. 30, 1914. Three big battles were fought In Polsnd. Russlnna captured ten miles of German trenches near Lowlox, but failed In attack on Darkehmen. Russlsns won successes In the Csrpathlans and Gallcla. British ships again bombarded Zeebrugge. - Germans were expelled from Pe trograd'for raising funds for war ships. ' Deo. 1, 1914. Germans prepared for new dash toward the sea In West. Battle on the Yser was renewed. Germans broke Russian wing near Lodz, capturing 12,000 prison ers. Russians seized German ammuni tion barges on the Vistuls. Serbians captured 1,500 Austrl ana on River DJId. Premier Rushdl Pasha of Egypt declared for Britain. Dec 2. 1914. British, re-enforced, took over command of the Yser region. Austrians took Belgrade. Russians won st Szczercow and entered Wlellczka. Montsnegrlna repulsed Austrians. Hungarian chamber of deputies voted war bills. Prince of Wsles fund reached 920,000,000. Dec 3, 1914. Germans took offensive In Flan ders but lost heavily trying to cross the Yser on rafts. ' French occupied Le Meanll. ' Tata de Faux In the Vosges and Burnhaupt In Alsace taken by the French. Germans sttempted to flank Rus sian right wing. Austrians repulsed assaults on Przemysl. Russlsns took Bsrtfeld. Riots In Belgian concentration camps. Italian parliament opened, Pre mier Salandra saying Italy would preserve armed neutrality; Bel glum was cheered. . ; Dec 4, 1914. .- Allies made repeated attacks on German line In Flanders. Russians won a victory at Lodz. Allies Isnded troops In Montene gro. '. i Frsnce called youtha, eighteen years old for military examination. Mohammedan soldiers from Tu nis sent to fight In army of allies, Turkey proclaimed holy war against Serbia and her allies; riot ing in many towna. : American students at Oxford took up relief work In Belgium, : Dec 6, 1914. aviators bombarded Allled Ba- den. . .. :.. Italian 1 chamber of deputies psssed vote of confidence In gov ernment, British steamer Batlscan aalled from America with food for Bel gians. ;-.'' - ... Fnntftt made gains In Alsace and attaoked Germane at St Mlhiel. . Germans In Poland, re-enforced, formed new battle Una and moved on Plotrkow. Dlckena Drew From Life. , Smike, Charles Sickens' character In Nicholas Nlckleby, seoma to have been drawn from the life. Said the author In a letter apropos ot that novel: "The rascality ot those York shire schoolmasters cannot be easily exaggerated. I have kept down strong truth and thrown as much comicality over It as I could rather than disgust the weary reador with Its fouler as pects." - Csse of Hating Oneself. ' Proprietor ot a Concert Party (en gaging a soprano) "Now, I want you to understand., Miss Dearly, that like my boys and airla to be one bli family no auarrellns:. no lealoustt Miss Deerly--"Oh, that's qultef all! right. I've never heard anything in the work of any other singer to give me the slightest cause for jealousy." ;.' Fool's Paradise. ' Originally, In Christian mythology, a region "near the abode ot the. blessed," but not a part of It, a sort of -borderland, "where dwelt the praise less and the blameless dead." Today used to denote the mental condition of those who, by their vain hopes, are "fooling" themselves. Stretching Steel. By the modern process ot spinning ' metal thread it Is possible to make a single pnnnd of steel stretch s die- -lance of 78 miles.
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