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THE WEATHER. Generally fair ;Thursday and Fri day. SAXTA CIAUS Is In hiding Jost around the corner. It' up 4 yn to tip the poopU off tattt be will max your store headquarter. You caa talk to 15,000 of them through Tbe Star. H 1 - OH X i J!!OXT-M.OEtK VOL. XCIlI-rNO. 63; wtlmjGtTo:n; n. c, Thursday mobkhstg, December 4, 1913. WHOLE NUMBER 13,498, 7 . - vjv. rrn II'ADOO d FIRST ANNUAL REPORT Was Largely Confined to Re view of Past Work.- ON CURRENCY LEGISLATION Estimates That Revenue for the Fis cal Year Will be $728,000,000 Only Eight Million Less4 , Than Last Year. Washington, Dec : 3. Secretary Mc Adoo's first report - to Congress, de livered today,; is largely confined to a review of the achievements ? of the Treasury Department in matters that have been of Nation-wide interest; to rnmmendations for :. increased? an- I propriations for bureaus under his aur a??5 circles there .is vigorous iv. ; vilw Ual Of-reports thac a military peace tbonty and for. legislation,, which, ie commission -has been sent from Chi declares, necessary to the iJjetter xon J hnahua to - Juarez to treat - with the duct of tne government and the pror tecuon oi me peopie. '.: ...! The Secretary discussed , at i some length the subject of currency legisla tion, reviewing the activities in his department .related to it. He speaks of an unrest - in - business circles fol lowing the beginning -of the special session of Congress in April, refers to a "propaganda of pessimism which de signedly or not, produced a condition of exertme nervousness and tension" and points to his announcement in June that the -Treasury was ready to issue $500,000,000 of emergency cur rency under the Aldrich-Vreeland act to prevent . restriction of credits and to ease any situation. Figure of Estimates. v.' - :.., Secretry McAdooestimates that the revenues for the fiscal year, exclusive of postoffice receipts, will be $728,000,' 000, only $8,000,000 less than the es timates for the fiscal . year 1914. -.: To make that total' he 'expects ; the cus toms to bring in $249,000,000; ordina ry internal revenue $315,000,000, and the income tax $105,000,000,. of which $40,000,000 is to come from corpora tions, the remainder; from individuals. From sales: of public lands he expects to conveyrinto"; the Treasury $3,000, 000, and from miscelleaneous 'source? sri nnn nna vto .. smrMuiii ih - h. lief thatlhe Tiralnary receipts forlSTcd will exceed the ; disbursements : sufli ciently to pay . out about $26,000)00 from the treasury's general fund- for the Panama canal. -.Sv. :"C"''v- ExpenditUres fOR.V-1915 ,wilf exceed the government's ' total - income, by $73,681,777, accordng to an . official statement today by . the appropriation committees of. the House, and Senate; based on - Secretary-. "McAddO's - esti mates. As -worked out by the Con gressional committees the 1915.: "ex jenditures Will amount to. $1;108,681, 777, including postal appropriations, while they estimate the revenues .at $1,035,000,000, including postal re ceipts. By excluding, however, a $60,- 1 17,000 sinking fund- appropriation to a. At i i j l. i. sn cr nor meet the public debt and $26326,985 for the Panama canai, the latter to be repaid from the sale of bonds,.;, the committees expect a surplus of reve nues over expenditures by $13,362,207. TO EXTEND "WHITE WAY." Goldsboro Aldermen Decide on More of the "Qood , Thing." ( Special Star ; Correspondence.) -Goldsboro, N.-Cii Dec. 3. In addi tion to formally accepting the "White Wa" recently constructed -- by the Carolina Power & Light Co., for the city, covering., about ten block s on' Walnut, Center , and John r streetspthe board of aldermen have ordered addi tional equipment for its extension. 6ASNIGHT IS STANDING PAT Newbern Postmaster, Ignores Instruc tions to Re-instate Night ; Clerk. ' ' :.: (Special Star Telegram.)"" Newbern, N. C. Dec . 3 .. Complete ly ignoring the instructions received from the Postoffice Department last night, J. S. Basnight, postmaster ;at this place, has refused to. re-instate Night Clerk R, :Er Smith, whom he discharged last Saturday night. '". ' Sentiment here is against the post master. Indications are that he 'dis charged the night clerk because he had preferred charges : against .Bas night and the" public is taking sides v. ith Smith. The instructions' wired the postmaster' last night, 'were, to re instate the . night clerk at, once. . Night Clerk Smith this afternoon wired Senator Simmons that j he bad received no notice to go back to 'work. In reply Senator SJmmons. stated that the order to re-instate him had been sent last nighC .This action on-v the' part of the postmaster leads all -who are familiar with the case to believe that he will be ousted during the next few days. .. . : . .-."r ' ' Removal Requested by Dr. Falson. (Special Star Telegram.) - Washington, D. C, Dec. 3 Repre sentative Faisdn has asked that . Post master Basnight, at Newbern, be ' re moved. Basnight and Clerk Smith, a Democrat, have been in a -row for some time, which finally resulted in Hasnight dismissing , Smith without waiting for the charges to be inves tigated. The Postoffice Department reinstated Smith -: pending an . investl- sanon Dy tne . inspector. P. R. A. Pierre, S. D.V Dec. 3. The Indians of this vicinity,; are predicting there will be 'no-Winter "this season." Freak December weather prevails; all over the Dakotas,r-.'wlth warm rains and the thermometers well above ireezing. HUERTSJOT ALARMED BY WILSON'S MESSAGE Declares He Has ;'No Intention ing the Constitutionalists as Long as He Lives Washington Confident of Early Downfall of His Government: Gen. Villa Going South. Mexico City, Dec. 3. The enuncia tion 'of . Washington's policy appears not to alarm President Huerta. He said today: "I have no .intention of yielding. Should this fighting in Mexico con tinue ..for years,, I shall continue to do my part . in it if I am still alive." -. .Gen. Huerta . declared that the coun try was 'self-supporting and that forc ed . .'loans, . if made necessary, . would enable him to resist indefinitely. So long as he was able to obtain Ameri can oil be did not regard the shutting Off of native oil for the railways as Vital. rebels. .-In view of Huerta's repeated Statements, tnar he never would, treat with the rebels it is not considered likely that the commission was sanc tioned by him. . An order transferred Gen. Diaz, the ex-Presidettt from the retired to the active .-list, was published by the war department today; It was dated Sep tember; 20th. The city of Tampico today was de clared the temporary Federal capital of the State of Tamalipas. Gen. An tonio Rabago, the military Governor, who was erroneously reported to have committed suicide when he was forc ed -to abandon Victoria, has gone to Tampico - to re-establish 'his Govern orship. . . . - Mobilizing1 Troops. ' It is announced that a vigorous ef; fort will be made to re-capture Vic toria, and that troops are already mo bilizing near Monterey for that pur pose. ; : ' . " ' - News ' of. miiitarv ooerations throughout the republic are meagre and favdrable to the Constitutionalists ;An outline of the message delivered by President Wilson to Congress at Washington .was prominently display ed by-the-newspapers todays vThe'In d enendente. ' which Ms control le d t ' by the "government;, said :t-L;:-r--- r . . . . fee maff at thevhlteHbuse has 4ared to affirm ( against the truth Tinl- versairy .-conceded J that - Provisional President Huerta is losing sympathy every day and that his fall is to be ex pected. . Rr"was hardly believable that President,-Wilson r-would have the te- f-merity to assert such a thing. He thereby .: gives testimony, of his bad iaitn. "towards tnmgs Mexican." -El Pais the most independent of the Mexican newspapers, says r t--.-.:z-z "President Wilson's words .are so injurious "and depressing . and at the same- time--- the charges he makes against the Mexican President as so unjust that it is preferable to pass them . by in silence in order not to awaken anti-American sentiment in Mexico." . Washington is Confident. . . Washington, Dec. 3. Government officials here were more than ever confident today that the patience the United States has shown in its treat ment of the Mexican problem is soon to be rewarded by a solution brought about by operation of the internal forces now engaged in a final struggle in Mexico. Among the facts which form, the basis rot belief that the closing . Chap ters' of the Huerta' regime are now be ing written, is a report to the" State Department that", the Federal, troops are;no longer in receipt of. their pay, without which experience has: shown their loyalty is; uncertain., '.: .' ' Other reports regarded " as . indicate ing the;speedy triumph" of the .consti--tutionalist' forces related to. the, pre cipitate flight of the heads of families which have controlled vast, estates in Northern Mexico. . The . abandonment of nheir properties deprives the Hu erta: government of a source' of. reve-. nue I which is very much needed : at present , , "-: investigate Shipment of Arms. . I. . : Unofficial 'inquiry into the reports that large shipments of arms and am muni fon has been ordered by the Huerta government and were now. on their way Ato Mexico, has developed the fact-that such orders as are being filled were placed many months ago in the early days of the present revo lution, when it seemed insignificant. There 'was no change recorded to day in the disposition of American military or naval forces in Mexican The Navy Department announced that the 700 marines which arrived at Pensacola,': Fla., yesterday on the Prairie had been kept aboard ship be caus6 -there - were not sufficient- quar ters ashore at present for all of them. The. plan-is? to . keep some'of the men permanently aboard shin;1. ; ; r, : .: t--Flight of Huerta's .. generals in Northern "Mexicd, Federal .evacuation of Chihuahua and ' GuaymaS and the ref usal - of - Mexican oil :companies to. furnish fuel for movement of .Federal troop, trains, w'ere alsp held as auspi cious I developments direactly - bearing out thea4ministration's.belief that the Huerta "regime was crumbling. . , , Villa; Coing South. r . 3Tuarez, ' Dec:. 3.-A ! new era began in Northern Mexico today. It marked the pea;cef ul occupation by the rebels of - the territory abandoned by Huer ta's Federals. : : . With 2,000 rebels, Gen. Francisco yilla, ; en route from - Juarez to the evacuated city of Chihuahua, tonight Camped at Montezuma, 110 miles soutb of the border. . Five thousand more rebels will join him x on the way to Chihuahua. . He will establish there what will be the temporary military headquarters of the Constitutionalist party. : . . ' - ' . -'. . . . A garrison of 1,700 was left at Jua rez. As he proceeds Villa is restoring the telegraph and railroads. Whether Gen. Carranza also will go to Chihuahua is in doubt, . although Villa said he expected Carranza's forc: es to cross from Sonora to concentrate the men Sox operations further south. - 'vtthen ithe rebels enter Chihuahua with the tattered Mexican flags which of Yielding and Will be Found they are carrying as symbolical of their demands for a restoration of constitutional government, Zacatecas will be the nearest Federal " strong hold. It is toward that city that Villa insists he will march. . Federals Were Faking. The fact that Gen. 'Salvador Merca-r do, the1 Federal Governor - and commander-in-chief of Chihuahua sent a peace : commission to Villa before, he fled was regarded: by the rebel leader as a mask to enable , Mercado to get away. . ; . - So tar the Federals and rebels . have had no parleys of: any character and Villa said he thought Huerta's officers would not .expect clemency from him. N word was received today from the fleeing Federal generals and the band of ; civilian . refugees. The rebels ex pressed the belief that after escorting the . civilians to . the border, the offi cers -mighty retreat to Nuevo Leon State as Gen.tOrozco and Salazar are under indictments , in the : - United States for violation of the neutrality laws. Monterey and the few - remaining Federal ' strongholds in , Nuevo Leon and other northern States, Villa said, would be left to local bands ot rebels. He intends to direct his main army toward Mexico City. - "I will have 20,000 men surround ing Mexico City about Christmas time," Villa said. "Our numbers will increase as we march southward and by the time we reach the capital the people in the city will be ready to join us."- ; A message received from Chihuahua by a courier said the city was jquiet and the residents, including the Amer icans were much relieved by the exo dus of the Federals. PROMINENT MERCHANT KILLED BY. NEGRO. Party of Negroes Fired on White Man on Way Home. JBarnwell, S. C, Dec. 3. E., Peyton Best; a prominent .merchant of . Barn well, -was shot to death by a negro on a dontov'Jft street here tonieh. Near ly a score of.- suspects- are under ar rest. s-v--- - m . Mr. Best was on his way home from his place of business, when -several negroes approached him. . One drew a revolver and attempted to fire, but the cartridge failed to explode. An othar fired a bullet Into Best's spine, killing him almost instantly. SMITHFIELD POSTOFFICE. To- be Filled Soon by Recommendation : "- of Mr. Pou. - (Special Star Telegram.) Washington, D. C, Dec. 3". Repre Rentative Pou has recommended S. E. Pearce to be postmaster at Youngs ville. . His appointment will be made in a short time. It is also expected that Mr. Pou will make a selection for the - Smithfield office within a very few days. Postmaster Stanciil has resigned and the Democrats desire a party man named as soon as possible. . 1 ; P. R. A. BAD RRE IN BOSTON Twenty-Seven Are Killed in , Tenement Fire. Many Others Are Missing Scores Are :l Badly Burned and Taken - to - Hospitals Start Rigid ; - v ; ); Investigation.' - ' Boston, Mass., Dec. 3. The fire which cost the lives of 28 homeless men in the Arcadia Hotel, a low pric ed lollging house in the ' South End district early today, had become the subject 'of eight separate " investiga tions by nightfall. .. Some 6f these were aimed at determining where lay the responsibility for the conditions which made the "loss of l16 so large, and others were directed toward de vising -measures to protect hundreds of other men forced by circumstances to seek, shelter in similar places. ; TMPst important :of the investigations was, that begun by the grand lury. Di rected by District Attorney Pelletier; the . jurymen - visited the hotel wnile the ruins were still smouldering. They saw . the remains of ,cots laid - side by side in a generalormitory onthe flfth floor and narrow, box-like rooms on floors below m .wnicn privacy was obtained by inmates for a few cents more , than was paid by the dormitory occupants.- - The cause of the fire was not determined, ? rv 5 1 - t . The iury :.went to the city "hospital morgue, where Medical Examiner Tim othy JLeary, pointed out that in near ly .every instance death had been caus ed byr suffocation. Other lodging hous es in tne vicinity were afterwards in spected by the jury: otner investigations were tne offi cial, inquest by Medical Examiner Lea ry. inquiries by the" fire commission er, the building commissioner and the board of health, the city police depart ment; the State police and personal research- by Mayor Fitzgerald. -None of . the -men found dead had been - identified tonight Two of the injured taken to the city hospital dur ing the day were William Sullivan and George F. Adams. r Nearly all the bodies are so mutilat ed as , to make identification - impos sible.'. The victims were men in poor circumstances. ' Caught in the crowd -ed, bunks on the top floor of the five- - (Continued on Page Eight.) : . K1EI! ADVOCATE EARLY AD Urge WiKoh Special Message to (Gngress. or- TO REVISE- UOIISTITIITION Mrs. Carrie ChapmaCatt Pleads for House Committee on Woman Suf frageWill Nt: Attend Antuffragelljlearlng. - Washington,?: Dec.$Adoption . of a resolution, calling fi ipon - President Wilson" to send to' Congress immedi ately a special- message . laavocaung immediate amendment to the eonstitu tion to give suffrage, owomen, fea tured today's sesgionst'of , the National American .Woman Suffrage Associa tion in convention. I ? : . . . Mrs.. Medill-McCormick, f . Chicago, author of the? resolution. , and ' Mrs Desha Breckinridge, ;?of JKentucky, were named : a committee to take the resolution to the White House. The suffragists began activities ear ly, today-with a hearing at the Capitol before tne House Kuies- committee, Urging the creation off a House woman suffrage committee. They closed the day with a niaht session at which Senators and Representatives in Con gress told wny women snouid be ac corded the right of suffrage. . Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, : president of the association, when she learned late today that some delegates were going to the Capitol tomorrow to hear the . anti-suffragists - when the latter appear before tne House-Rules com inittee to ' oppose the proposed crea tion of a woman storage -committee, announced from the platform that she hoped not one deiegate'.wouid go. "Your business; is here,? .she decfar ed. . "You can better attend, to your business, wnica is getting: woman suf frage, by staying here and letting' the anti-suffragists attend to r their busi ness, .-.t:: -- :, -i To Change Headquarters.-: Mrs. . O. H Pi Belmont, announced that she would, make -a motion tomor row to have headauartefs of the.asso- .ciatia-pKveTa trefttw orlc tnls city. "VrTY-i o r fr- Ckl cnt o -milt (Continued on Piage Eight. The More He Paid The Bigger the Debt OLD NEGRO'S EXPERIENCE WITH "LOAN SHARKS" LEADS TO ARREST OF TWO IN , DURHAM. (Special Star Telegram.) Durham, N. C, Dec. 3. Two war rants have been sworn out by City Attorney Charles Scarlett against Scott B. Appleby, of Norfolk, on- the charge of usuriously lending money. He is charged with running two loan Offices . in Durham which have been charging", exorbitant ratea-of" interest on money loaned to negroes and the more ignorant -class of whites. - Warrants were taken out against his agents hei'e. VW. E. Hamilton, one of his local managers, has - skipped the city; - Two others, Ed. O'Neal and H. B. Swain, have1 been arrested. 1 - Attention was -first drawn to the loan sharks by an old negro who had borrowed $25 from the Duke Company, how the Hill Company, alleged to be owned, by. Appleby. . After . making small payments on the loan regularity the old .negro found at. the end of a year's time he 'owed the company $40. He went to Mr. Scarlett, who imme diately got- busy with a determination to put .the ; loan sharks . out of busi ness in Durham O UT LI MES The suffragettes in. session at Wash ington - passed, a resolution " urging President Wilson to send - a special message to Congress in behalf of an immediate amendment to the. Consti tution, allowing them, to vote. The army volunteer bill was passed by the 7 House yesterday. - Republican leader Mann said that it was in antici pation of ta war with Mexico. Co-operation between state and Fed eral forces .for more and better water ways was the theme of yesterday's session of the Rivers and Harbors congress in Washington. :.: ' - The State's star witness-in tne trial of Dr. Craig for the murder of a lady doctor in Indianapolis failed to identify the defendant as the man he saw leaving the apartments occupied by the murdered woman on the night that the killing occurred. "v - Twenty-seven v men were-nurned 'xo death and hmny others seriously hurt in a tenement fire in Boston. "Before the fire" had ceased to burn. two offi cial investigations were started. Ministers in mcunnapoiis took a hand in the teamsters' strike and sub mitted plans for dthe reconciliation of teamsters and employers, to the union meeting yesterday. : The flood - conditions in Texas are erowine' worse. Only five deaths have been reported, so far, but it is feared heforft the waters subside that many more will be added to that number. New York markets: -Money on call, firm, at 4 3-45 1-2 per cent.; ruling rate, 5; closing bid 55 1-2. ' Time loans, firm. Spot cotton, quiet: mid dling uplands, 13 . 50 ;gulf, 13 .75.'- No-' sales.- wneat, steaay.. xmo. z, rea, l.uu OI.OI: No.l. Nortnern" Duiuttt. 7 1-4. Corn, firm..- Flour, quiet. Rosin, easy. Turpentine, ;easy. . '. -; ' INT ARMY VOLUNTEER BILL WAS PASSED Republican Leader Mann In jects Mexican Situation. REGRETS PASSAGE OF BILL Refers to the Placement of Large Sum 1 in President's Hands Before Spanish War Preparing for ' War With Mexico. . Washington, Dec 3. After a dis cussion into which Republican Leader Man injected the Mexican situation the House today passed the Hay army volunteer : bill that in varying forms has been talked of at the capital for many, years. f The bill which . now goes to the Senate, would put war volunteer forces on an equal footing wiih the regular army. . It would . provide that when ever in the President's judgment war is - imminent ;or f actually exists, the President may organize volunteer regi ments for.; war purposes. The men. in stead .of enlisting for a short period as In past wars, would enlist "for the war." The President would appoint all officers,- not more than four regu lar officers to be appointed to any one volunteer regiment. The volunteer force thus formed would supplement the existing National Guard or militia, with -which the bill would no tinter Representative Mann in speaking of the Mexican situation said that, of course, Chairman Hay,of the Military committee, tne administration and all others connected with, the bill would vigorously, deny that the measure 'was. presented - now because .the govern ment was. preparing tor a war witn Mexico. He recalled that just before tne panisn-American war ine appropriations- committee presented a bill to put $50,000,000 in President ' McKin- ley s . hands. ; . - - Like Former Situation! "I took a minute then, to Bay." add ed Mr. Mann, "that at last there -was xmiv.mH n in the - House wba xwas iaiot; attempungxovaecerve xumsere vrmia all tbe others bad said tnat tnis was not in expectation of war, hut to pre vent war.. I fear that the same sitiia tion arises now." . , ; "I should greatly regret war With Mexico" he continued. "I have no complaint to make of the President's attitude in nis dealings witn mexico; although I confess I can see -no end to the road .which he is now pursuing. He said yesterday that the Huerta government in Mexico would fall soon. Very likely. I think 12 ny government in Mexico which does not receive tne moral suDoort of our government will not last a great length of time, and I doubt whether any government m Mexico constituted by tne so-canea PrnRtit.iit.ionalists or the other revolu tionists will last. with or without the support of our government. . ; Mr Mann commented upon the fact that Chairman Hay had pressed the hill introduced three days ago, to passage immediately ioiiowmg President's message, on Mexico; the In Teamsters' Strike in Indian apolis Late Submit Plans to Meeting. of, Unions. Mayor Learn8ThaVRiotin8 was Being Planned in -Differ-ent Saloons.' Indianapolis. Des.v 3. rMinistersi of Indianapolis took a hand in the teamsters'- strike when they submitted; a proposition at the union meeting late today. The ministers proposed to ob tain a statement of facts rom the Un ion and also one from the employers. These statements, the ministers said, they would . have published so that the citizens would know the cause pf the trouble. The teamsters appointed a committee to confer with tne min isters. ' ' :' - r - '- ; The question of caning a general strike, has been nut over.'until. a meet ing, of the Central- Laopr Union strike committee tqmorrow nignt. : - -:- ; What few disorders there v were to day were of the hit-andVrun ?.varietyi A smau crowa : wouia couecc u.uioji, v tack 'a wagon -and , disappear as. soon as the police came in sight.- Only one person, Eugene Rutledge,il8, ras In jured seriously. He wasishot in ; the leg by strike.; breakers i on ; $ coal wagon. .. -Jitf' A report reached Mayor Wallace to day that rioters were organizing and arming ; at . meetings in saloons J A number of saloons were ; raided, but only a few men .were found. BRUN8WICK FARMERS STICK 1 ;. TO THE OPEN RANGE. Stock Law is Defeated by An Over- 1 whelming Voie.' ' - (Speciar Star Telegram.) ; .; ' Southport. N. C. Dec'.' 3. Unofficial returns from the county indicate that by an overwhelming vote the farmers of Brunswick elect to hold to the.open range and not to adopt the stbcklatw.: The vote at Southport was 105 against 42: Mosquito 6 for and 47 agaipst;. LiOCKWOOa s r ouy gave a uiajuniy: ui 247 against ;. Waccamaw gave a ma jority of 187 against;, Town Creek gave a majority of 156 against: North west gave a majority of 20 against. MINISTERS TAKE TRY Bishop McCoy Convenes Con ference at Oxford. SECRETARIES ARE ELECTED Roll Call Shows 152 Clerical and 16 Lay Delegates Present at Open-, ing Session Hours Are 9:30 to 1 O'clock. (By Mamie Bays.) ' ! U Rv. L. E. THOMPSON : Jt 4- PRESIDENT SOCIETY 4. 4. Oxford. N. C. Dec. 3. The 4 , 20th anniversary of the North Carolina Methodist Conference Historical Society, was held this afternoon, at which time the an- nuai address, which was written by Mrs. Epie Smith Plyler, of Elizabeth City, was read by Rev. Marvin Culbreth. The sub- 4. ject of the address was, "Three Jtm Notable Women of North Caro- lina Methodism.' ! The officers of the Historical Society for the coming yeaf JU were elected as follows: 4 Rev$ L. E. Thompson, presi- 4 . . A ITT C3Xn..lM A ... 4 S. Barnes and J, A. Hornaday, ! vice presidents: nev. w. ti. n Brown, secretary: Rev. T. A. Sikes, treasurer; Rev. L.. S. Massey, historian. The anniversary of the Con- ference Sunday Scnool Board, was held this evening and Rev. V. n Channel!. Sundav School editor of the church, was the . 4 speaker. Oxford, N. C.t Dec. 3. The Metho dist church of " Oxford is the church in. which, this North - Carolina C.ojif e ence the -M ethodist Episcopal Church, oath, convened this 'morning sion. The presiding officer is Bishop James H. McCoy, of Birmingham, Ala He conducted the opening devotional service and the sacrament of the Lord's" supper, which followed. Inhe1 latter service he was assisted by ; sev eral members of the Conference. The sacramental service is always obsery ed: on the Opening day. of -this. Con ference. Bishop McCoy called the Conference to order Immediately after the close of the sacramental service ana re auested the secretary of the last ses sion of the Conference, Rev. R. H- Wil lis, to call the roll of tne tJonrerence. The call of the roll showed that 152 clerical and 16 lay delegates answer ed to their names. Rev. R. H. Willis was nominated to succeed himself as secretary of the Conference, and he was elected unani mously. J. L. Cunningim was elect ed assistant secretary: ut. r. Sim mons, recording secretary; W. W. Peele, statistical secretary, ana l.: u. Hayman T.! M Giant, .Walter Patten, C. Jr Harreil, $. W. Rradley, Ruf us Bradlev and T. C Vickers were elect ed assistant statistical secretaries. ... - On motion: of Rev A. P. Tyer, pas tor of the Methodist Church at Oxford and host of the conference, the hours for meetihg and adjournment of the daily sessiotis were-.fixed at .9:30 A. Mv and 1 : P. M; . .On motion, of ,Mr, Tyer, ' the entire ; anditorium of the church, was inciuaea; in tne Dar or the Conference. ' .. Alfred McCullen. . for the presiding elders who constitute the committee on nominations for the standing com mittees of the Conference, submitted the following report, wnlch was adopt ed: : ' ' - - -v Standing Committees. Books and Periodicals Clerical, R. C. Craven, B. T. Hurley; H. E. Spence, I V ell, Ij. X . xxuiio; n. xa. o:jjcxxo, H. McWhorter. J. McCracken, E. 0. W. powd, L. P. Howard, J. T Stan ford, B. H. Black; Lay, W. P. Few, S. 1. Harrell, A. D. Muse, J. G. Brown, L. S. Covington, T. J. Jarvis, w. a. uji- ison, M. 'R. sabiston, v. Kicnara-( son. . Conference Relations (All clerical) B. C. Allred. J. T. Draper, W. R. Roy al, C. W. Robinson, N. E. Coltrain, J. w. Autry, w. u. xearoy, vj. m. uance, B. Hurley,. '. . :- Chiireh' : . Property Clerical. J. M. Ormond, R: F. Duvat K. M. Chaffih. L. H. JOyner, J. A. Dailey R. R. Grant, L, T. Singleton, W. A. Stanbury, W, A. Piland: Lay D. .B. Cameron. W. S. White: W. PBvrd: WL: W. Holmes. A. Cameron, J, F. ..Burton," M.. Balton, R. w. uavis, ju.. a. Stevens. , -District Conference Records-(AU clerical), W. ;P. -Constable, X A. Mar- tt ' i': tWrilf 'PnllwaOi -f" VOX' UnMnann 1,1x4, O.MIX... &J.U.XXTX V71XX, V. y T xw v&xxwwu, E.B. i Craven, H. is. Lance, is. n. iar risan R. A. Bruton, S. A. Cotton. . Temperance -Clerical C R. Ross, C,.1 A. Jones. T. H. Sutton. R, L. Davis. E. H. Davis, J. L. Rtimley, C. H. Cavi ness, W. C. Martin, J; J. Boone, J. C. Brutoh. P: A. Reaves, H. B. Gibsoiv J. C. Braswell. D. B. Zollicoffer, W. B. Cooper, A. G. Coward. , Sab batn uoservance Clerical: u. S. Bearden, B. B. Robinson, E. L. Stack. J. W. Martin, F. B. McCall, E. C. Glenn, M. Y. Self, J. P Pate, Wal ter Palters ; Lay, u. J . r AiKen, v. - u. Smith. J B. Atwater. W. S. Stevens. A. Cameron, T. B. Jones, W. E. Moss, E. Durham, C. s. Wallace. Memoirs (AH clerical), J. T. Gibbs, C. R. Moss, J. N. Cole, R. H.-Broom, B. H. Black. Memorials to General Conference - Clerical. G. F Smith, F. M.'tShambur- ger; H. A,- Humble; M. Bnadshaw, G. 1. ; Adams, tn. u. wiison,: vv u. North. W. .F. , Craven, H.-M. North; Lay, W. P.. Few, S. I. Harrell, W..H. Humphrey, T. J. Jarvis, W. B. Coop ' (Continued on Page Eight.) HON FOR unTrnim National Rivers and Harbors Congress in Session. NEED OF A BROAD POLICY Delegates from All States Took Part In Sessions of Yesterday Coastal Canal Beneficial to the Whole Nation. r Washington, Dec. 3. The need of a broad policy and of co-operation be tween the' Federal , government and the States to secure improved water- ' ways vas "the keynote of all the ' speeches today before the . National Rivers and Harbors - Congress assem bled here in its 10th annual session. Representatives from nearly all parts of the country took part in the day's programme. Senator Fifitohor nf tTlnirMo Auralf upon the value of a MisBissippi-to-the-Atlantic canal, not only to the adja- " cent territory but to the entire At- ltllt)ic COLSt Representative Small, of North Car- ?lina, said the' inter-coastal canal rom New England to Florida would be of mutual benefit to hundreds of cities in dozens of States, and Repre- . sentatiye Moore, of Pennsylvania, voiced the same sentiment. Repre sentative Burgess, of Texas, spoke of"' the importance of a MissiBsippi-to-the-Rio Grande canal. . Tonight's session- of the Congress was given over to the ladies, begin- nine with a reception at the hotel headquarters to the Vice President and Mrs. Marshall and the Speaker of ' the House and Mrs. Clark. Mrs. Sa rah WL Strout, of Portland, Me., presi dent of the Wbman's Rivers and Har bors Congress, later spoke on develop ed waterways - and their relation to the home maker. . .-.- A message from President Wilson, congratulating the Congress on what it , had accomplished and expressing ; hope that river and harbor improve- . ment could b5 Conducted ' on broad'" National lines,' waa- read at today's session bv Seoretarv 4tsthn Irttarlnv Senator, , Randfill,. ftf . , Lnutalona. president of .the . organiaation, -ex- , VliUflfiarl'' linn." iVtni 1 A ..1 J . Piboobu xxuyc ium VUUBiCBB- WOIUU Pass the srreatest. river nnH Tinrhnr bill that had ever gone through, but he added that unless local communi ties snowed . tnemseives willing to make use 4 of; rivers after . work was -done; he was not ready to appropriate ' money for. river improvement. LONE MASKED BANDIT ; ESCAPES WITH MONEY. Shot and Killed Manager and Got Away With $10,000. Plum Coulee, Man.. Dec. 3. A lone masked bandit this afternoon, held-,up the Bank of Montreal branch here, stole $10,000 in currency, ahot and 'kill-. ed the bank manager, H, M. Arnold, and escaped in a stolen- automobile. Mounted police and a posse of citizens are believed to have surrounded the outlaw on Wooded Bluffs near here. The masked man first appeared at a garage and forced the"proprietor to supply him with a powerful automo bile. - He ' drove the . machine to the rear door, of the bank. ;.The bank man? ger,. alone submitted while the rob ber took several: packages of money. but attempted to -follow us the latter entered the -' automobile. Then the ; bandit turned and - fired. - "School children who -witnessed the escape gave the alarm. : . DEFENSE " SCORED A POIIIT In the Trial of Dr. Craig State's Star Witness Could Not Identify Defendant.. ' Shelby vllle, Ind., Dec". 3. One of the supports of the State's case col lapsed today when Harry W. Haskett failed to identify positively Dr. Wil liam B. Craig as the man he sawcom- ng .from the Indianapolis apartment house which was the. home of Dr. Helene Knabe on the night of the tat ter's death. ; ' ' ' The best Haskett could say on the stand at the trial of Dr. Craig for the murder, of Dr. Knabe was that the de fendant "looked like the man. " Haskett testified: that as he Passed the apartment house shortly before ntfdnignt , of October- rard, mi, ne encountered a: man. walking briskly out of the areaway. adjoining. He said the man was tall,, weighing about 180 pounds and had a dark moustache and did not; wear glasses; Craig has a dark moustache, . but weighs more than 200 pounds -and ; wears glasses. The (State scored i - victory when the court admitted the testimony of Dr. Otto Wagner, former superinten dent" of the Indiana Veterinary Col lege.' Dr. Wagner .: testified . he had spoken to - Dr. Craig ; on - September 29th, 1911 about givmg.up his lecture hours at the school oh : that day to permit Dr. Knabe to address the stu dents. . . ; '"..':' - - "When I put the question to Dr. Craig," said the witness, "he arose from his seat witn . a snow or irrita tion, and said: .'O tell her to go to Vt.1I . - Dr. Wasaer testified that Dr. Craig and Dr. Knabe .previously had been good, friends and that the former fre quently had taken: the latter home in nis automobile. v . Rav Baumgardner. an Indiana news- paper man; told of an interview he had with Dr. Craig -after Dr. Knabe' death. - The 'friendship between us was ike' that, of two men." Baumerardner quoted Dr. Craig as saying. MORE 1 "? A 1 a
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