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VOL. XCV KO. 68. WILMESTaTOK, K. C TH CTRSDA Y MOBNING, DECEMBER 24, 1914 WHOIiE KT7MBEB 13,859; FIERCE FIGHTING BUT NO PROGRESS IS MADE The Allies in the West, the Germans in Pbland, and thv Russ ians in East Prussia and Galieia, Continue Offensive, and Report Slight Gains, Seriously Pierce the GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS HAS RETIRED FROM BEFORE CRACOW, TO Allies Meeting With Stubborn- Some Successes ; Have Been Scored Renewal of Ac-, tivities on. the Coast of Belgium and Allies Report They Have Gained .a Slight -Advantage. London. December 23. The QUnt sun thp RiissiflTisi' in RRst Pnissm ann fSftliAifl ftnrit.iniiA'-'niTAna- i : l - 1 J T nnprai uuh. uui mc auvauccs uavc vfeptible. l the long-run, however, the ground gained may prove rital and the various armies are flighting th.an intensity not ex- leedeu since me war ueaxi. hi Poland the center of interest finding the direet road to Warsaw blocked by Russian reintorce ments. the Germans made an attack from the southwest and have rPHi'iieti oKieriuewicey sjouic tviiiucH Arum me i uuou vnunui. iucty ihiis far have failed to pierce the Russian lines, but have forced Grand Duke Nicholas to withdraw from ihiei" aims of their offensive against successful. In Galieia, the Russians have .lustro-German forces which have poured in from the West and across the Carpathians. J According to the '. i - A T " . j. -vr. iaDs have inflicted heavy losses on tnese iorces, wmie in ine. ivorin man arm v. wmcn maae a ieinx at Warsaw; irom me urmwesu - , '.. Although the Allies have scored some successes in the West, they re meeting with stubborn resistance, and military men warn the pub ic that vry heavy casualty lists must be expected before any serious impression can he made on the German entrenchments. s Activity seems to have been resumed along the Belgian coast, for lis announced that the Allies have made slight progress between the sea, and the road from Nieuport to Westende. At other points similar fighting is proceeding with here success and there reverse or iaihire of attack. Airmen on both sides have been busy, and aeroplanes have been swarming over Belgium, the fliers reconnoitering movements of the opposing troops and occasionally dropping bombs. Bruges and Bms- have been visited by aviators from the ranks of the Allies, while B-ihime and other "towns in Northern France have received atten tion from the German- IXIED ATTACKS REPULSED. - mH Brrlln Reports Say Charges of Aliiea Troops Easily Turned. Berlin. Dec. 23. That the attacks Isinu-hPri vpstprdar by the Allies in eeiRium were easuy repuiacu j , Germans: that the French troops are . i . ..1.,1 hi- tna 1 Moving greater activity ia J-"?. V uralized members or clerks will be ad i'v of Camp De-Chalons and that the exchange. French forward movement m the Mr fmity of Sillarie, Rkeims, souain ana Irtiies. have been . partly repelled. Tere the features of the announcement ; issue.! today by the German headquar- j tprs. The text of the statement follows: j Attacks in the region of JUomoaert ijrte and to the south of Bixschoote ha vp been easilv repulsed by us. At Rirhebourg IAvoue the English again '?rp driven from their positions yes- trdav. 'Notwithstanding desperate counter attacks we have retained all the posi t'ons which we captured from the Eng ''sh on the Richebourg canal from Airp to LaBasse. Since December 20th 150 Kriti.sh and colored soldiers have Wn raptured by us and five machine K'ms and four mine throwers taken "in the neighborhood of Camp Cha- oris tVio (.nornu 1 a nhnnrln? srrenre.r nr.- tirit v Aitar-k? to the north of Sillerie, soyti;Pf!St of Rheims at Souain and. at p?rir. and have been partly repelled by Js -vith heavy losses to the French. The situation in East and West f'rwss'H is unchanged. Kettles for posaession of the branch of the Bzura river (west of Warsaw) Unghvar in the Carparthians. No news ''W'TisniP. has come for several days from the T',. situation on the right bank bt operations around Czernowitz, nor from n'' "vr Pilica remains unchanged." Servia. "According to a Constantinople dis- ' M EXCHANGE TO REOPEN, j p&tch to the Frankfurter Zeitung, the , larmy under Minister of Marine Djemal lanunrr, the Fourth, Date Set for R- ) Pasha is marching from Damascus to "PenlaK On a Limited Scale. j ward the . Suez canal. A brother of r... - no ' i. (the Kheik of the Senussi is a member ""'niii. uecemoer io. n "ivi- "i!iu ., j .i: thof tvi I '"mJon ptock exchange will reopen J"'0 conduct of business, however, ,e restricted by stringent regula !I(,ns imposed by the treasury in the of the nation. The exchange 8R "en closed since the outbreak of fCMi;.tions under which the ex 'hitiia,. will operate include the follow- .... 1 liiiffs. except for cash, will be pro- -'I'ite.-i: tlso i-aon f minlmntn nrice . . ,J . .1 w . ...... .... . . llst' ;i re to be maintained and extended ' transactions recorded: a broker U e time of selling securities must that he possesses or controls no dealings In new issues will be .',ev'tt, unless approved by the treas- present But Not Enough to Opposing Line. 3? ; AID IN POLAND F if Resistance iniWest, Although Allies in the West, the Germans in v 1 : l. x A T 1 i. . utseii so uiil fis ti oe axmusb iui- has shifted slightly to the south. bexore Uracow. In this, one ox the Russia, the Germans have been resumed the offensive against the latest Petrograd report, the Russ- L--J'J 11. . XT Al ' ury; nQ member will be allowed to bid1, for or offer stock openly in the market; j , nQ member win be permitted to negoti- ..,. n,irh.se or sale of shares dealt in on the American market at a j Qf the New York closing price of the; soth of juiy only British born or nat- i " . i GERMAN PRESS ITEMS Official News Given Out In Berlin B Bureau and Received by Wireless Berlin, Dec 23. (By wireless to Say ville) Items given out today by the official press bureau includes: So far as can be determined from available reports the situation has not altered materially on either front in the last 24 hours. Heavy fighting is proceeding along the Bzura river, where one may as sume the Russian position is extremely strong. The Russian right apparently rests on the Vistula, affording it pro- ! tection from flank attacks; in the rear are Now on GeorgiewsK ana tne war- aavir fortresses. The fact tnat tne ber- mans crossed the Bzura ana krwks rivers should render their task easier. "Vienna's repotr shows that compara tive quite prevails in Middle and fimithfm Poland, but that the Rus- 1 slans have assumed the aggressive in ! Galieia at the cost of heavy losses, i Along the lower ward and Eastward of - of Djemal s stair. SLIGHT PROGRESS MADE. Report Given Out by the French War Office Says Hard Fighting. Paris, Dec. 23. The announcement given put by the French war office this afternoon reports slight progress . on the Northern end of the Allied line, in France and Belgium. Fog has caused a slackening of the fighting near- Arras. Advances are claimed near Perthes-Les-Hurles, where German machine guns were cap tured and progress or the driving back of counter attacks is reported near Beausejour and in the forest of La Grurie. , Near Boureuilles, "however, the French apparently lost to the Germans, HT ALBERT OF CONFIDENT Living Constantly Under the and in Actual Command of His Little Army, Fighting King Tells Associated Press Correspondent of the Campaign- Expresses Gratitude of People. Grand Headquarters of the King of j the .Belgians, In West Flanders, Bel gium, Sunday, Dec, 20, (via London j Dec, 2s.) . In the council chamber ! of an ancient Flemish town hall from which be is directing, under German shell, fire, the resistance of his war worn little army blocking the road to Dunkirkand Calais, King Albert of the Belgians today told The Associated Press of the stand his soldiers are mak ing against the German invaders. The ivinK a neuquaners is loca-tea on one i of the remaining' dry areas of that! rr i . . . . . . small, corner of Belgium still under j his rule. : King Albert also requested The As sociated Press to convey to the people of the Tnited States his deep gratitude ; for ' their efforts to feed his aubieots f under German military rule. -it,-i, , 1 correspondent was admitted to the coun eil ,chamber. He wore the simple un dress uniform of a general of artillery without insignia beyond braided shoulder straps to distinguish him from his staff officer. Physically King- Albert looks har dened but lines of care show in his otherwise youthful face. In manner he in decidedly shy and he apologized for his English which, however, was fluent.. The light from a smoky oil lamp barely penetrated the recesses of the great hall where from the walls empty picture frames stared down. When the King saw the eyes of the correspondent fixed on the blank spaces, where a few months ago invaluable Flemish canvass hung, he smiled and said he no longer expected the Germans to--, even- be in - a position to take the! frames . . . ! .S' Praise for His Soldiers - 'JftjfoftlMft'fcm0! -. --fsfce-.',-v'"-vfst)ilS:-wffe-a Kort."t'une. ;t M" "I believe", he said, "my army-- is.!-.; fh n.rtv was tifien, .to courageous. " My people, however, re j sccond line of trenches a big Ger too democratic for the same discipline shell" fell nearby and it did not tnai Drevaus in conscnoi aniues. t ou will see something of the bravery of my people when tomorrow you shall have the chance to witness the peasants working in their fields under shell Are, concerned only for the losses of their homes, the destruction of which causes them great grief". When Edgar Senger, Belgian attache to the American commission for the relief of Belgium, entered and pre sented King Albert with a report from the commission showing that enough food was in sight to feed his people until Feburary 12th, the King turned, quickly to the correspondent saying: SUPREME COURT GOULD 1 NOT FINISH CALENDAR Eighteen Cases on Appeal Left Over Until January. Opinions in 38 Cases Delivered Yester day Before Recess is Tnkeo l;u til January 13 First Time In Several Years. '(Special Star Telegram.) Raleigh. N. C, Dec. 23. The Supreme Court delivered opinions in- 36 appeals today and took recess to January 13th, When 18 remaining appeals will be dis posed of, this being the first time in many terms that the court has been unable to clear the calendar for the term by regular adjournment time. The opinions, follow : State vs. Knott, Mecklenburg, no er ror; Pruett vs. Power Co., Mecklen burg, new trial; Norman vs. Electric Co., Mecklenburg, no error; Bagwell vs. Southern Railway, Mecklenburg, no error; Flower vs. Hartwick,: Cabarrus, new trial in plaintiff's appeal, judgment affirmed in defense appeal; Barrett vs. Cliff side Mills, Cleveland, no error; Gray vs. Southern Railway Co., Randolph,-no error; Watts vs. Vanderbilt, Transylvania, reversed; Williams vs. PearsonB, Wilkes, new trial; Lipinsky vs. Revell, Buncombe, no errtir; Chiles vs Manufacturing Co., Buncombe, re versed; Zagier vs. Zagier, Buncombe, reversed; MacDowell vs. Justice, Bun combe, affirmed; Bernard vs. Carr, Bun combe, affirmed; Sufford vs. Insurance Co., Buncombe, no error; ' Patton vs. Sluder, Buncombe, affirmed; Smathers vs. Toxaway Hotel Co., Buncombe, -no error; Harris vs. Guaranty Co"; Bun combe, no error;. State vs. Ford, Cher okee, appeal . dismissed; Phillips &' Crew .vs, Hyatt, Cherokee, affirmed; Hoke vs. Glenn, Haywood, affirmed; Lumber? Co., vs. Furniture Co., Hay wood, affirmed; Higdon vs. Howell, Jackson, reversed Bumgarner vs. Rice, Macon, no error; Smith vs. Holmes Jackson, no error; Pilkinton vs.' Welch, Graham, no. error; State vs. Ne.wsome, Greene, judgment affirmed; Wilson vs. Southern Railway, Randolph, ' per cur iam, affirmed; Little vs. Insurance Co., Catawba, per. curiam, affirmed; Lackey vs. Lackey,. Cleveland, affirmed; Patton vs. Olmstead, Graham, court being evenly divided (J. Hoke not sitting) the judgment stands affirmed; 'Hardj' v. Insurance Co., Pitt, motion to re-tax allowed; C & T. Railroad vs. Aim field, Davidson, no error . . .. ; v BELGIUM IS 3f.-- 6F Shell Fire From German Guns, "Will yau be ..kind enough to convey to. the American people my deep grat- .',,,,.:,, tll' lowing message : "The magnrficenJk, generosity of the American neonlein forwardinsr ira- I VICTORY mense quantities ar gifts and focd- i states rank third, while Western States j suiting from a week of practically un stuffs to my suffering people afford j . . ori ovn,.a,t ,iiD.v,ti.v Bi,n tv.o broken rainfall hav, inflicted severe me intense satisfaction and touches me very deeply. . ' v "In this, my ooiffltry's hour of trial, nothing has supported me more than the sympathy and-ijthe superb gerteros- ity of these who" have assisted in ma- terially lessening -the same and I de-! sire to offer myosfSeepest thanks and at the Came tfm' Ur'nnvn' a mossa ?p ! Df good '.will for thrMew year. (Signed) iX4" " "ALBEKT, I King f the Belgians . i i :? Anxious Tor i. 5. to 14. now 4m,n n.nnl tiow. as he m,t it h fonts of theV storv : of how his ! troops, demoraiiaea and demoralised and disorganized 'by their disheartening retreat almost across the limits' of their .own coun try, turned at nkj: along the Yser and held back the German there at fright ful cost in killed-and wounded to their army and of the almost incalcuablo loss suffered in . the; deliberate inunda tion by Its owners ' of the most val uable agriculturist part of the coun try. . , "In one of those" terrible nine days in the. trencheIong;the Yser," the King said, "I kn6jv vthat 700 . of our brave Belgian sol diers-vere .killed outright". King AlberV eohtinued: "I believe I um'nOt claiming too much to' say that our- army vsaved Dun kirk and Calais at thebattle of the Yser." The King praise, the good spirits of his soldiersmw, in. the trenches. .When I the correspondent expressed a desire to see the Belg-ian .eadiers actually in the trenches. lve said: , "You may, but Xc"caiiiot promise that , t this will be without risk. Mrs. As- shell" fell nearby and make our, guests feel comfortable. - Live Under Shell Fire "When the correspondent inquired as to the King's own safety, King Al bert smilingly replied: "We must live under shell fire here". Later inspection showed this remark literally true, as scarcely a square mile of Belgyim left under .the rule of her King is free from the dagger of shell fire. King Albert repeated .his expressions of appreciation of' American relief for his people as the correspondent was (Continued on Page Two) FEDERAL OFFICERS TO PROBE THE CONSPIRACY Supposed to Have Been Ex posed at New Orleans Men Charged With Preparing Bomb to Blow Up Ocenn Liner Arraigned in Court and Remanded to Jail o Bond Made. ! New Orleans, Dec. 23. H,ans Halle; George Summers and George Brink man, arrested last night in connection i with an alleged conspiracy to blow up a trans-Atlantic British or French steamer by means of a dynamite bomb to be concealed in her cargo were ar raigned here today in the criminal dis trict court. They were charged with violating a. state statute relating to preparing bombs to be used ''destroy ing ships. Halle announced that he wished to enter a plea of guilty, but Judge Ba ker refused to accept the plea and the prisoner was remanded to pail in de fault of $1,000 bond. Summers also was unable to furnish bond. The, case of Brinkman, who was held as ah ac cessory, was dismissed. The statute under which Halle and Summers will be tried was enacted by the state assembly immediately after the Boer war and resulted from the ar rest here of the person who was .ac cused of placing a bomb on board a ves sel at Chalmette. The -vessel was load ing mules for the use of the British forces in South Africa. The maximum punishment for violation of the law is 20 years" imprisonment. . The bomb, which nad been timed to explode .six and one'halt, days from yesterday, .was to have been, sent to New York last night by express ana consigned to a' French steamer, accord ing to the' authorities. Dr. P.- Rorh, Gefrman consul general here, today is sued a statement saying tne men had no. official connection with the German government. . - . Local steamship agents' said Halle attempted to ship the box containing the bomb from this port, but they - re fused as they are accepting practically no miscellaneous freight for ports- in the belligerent countries. ; . '' F. C. Pendleton, special agent of the Department of Justice, with headquar ters here, today began an in vestigation into the alleged plot. : . THREE MILLBH TO STATES part of General Education Board's Big Donation, EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES North Carolina's Part of Money Given ; to Southern State, Antpunts to v Nearly $400,000 Trinity, Db vidson. Wake Forest. New York, December 23. Southern Eastern and Middle Atlantic croup in! damage on nearly the entire area be the General Education Board's donation I tween oenlx and the Mexican bor- I of $10,582,591 to the cause of education, j I . a; a. jy I ln 4- . 4-1, 8 Mm board's report, made public today. To Western States, the report sets 967,781, and partial contributions, the svMt. amount of which is not ataterl. have been made to a supplemental sum 'o UMOb.Hl. To Eastern and Middle Atlantic States the sum given out right was $3,562,185, the suplemental sum to. which the board subscribed an amount not designated was $15,247,939; Southern- States received outright $3, 052,625, and the supplemental sum to which the board contributed in this case was $9,147,152. I Ion fit in nM to South. Following are the donations made to t educational institutions in the South bythe- board since its. inception: Maryland, $250,000; Virginia, $490, 000; North Carolina, $379,416; South Carolina, $154,176; Georgia, $232,233; Alabama, $21,700; Mississippi, $150,000; Arkansas, $175,000; Tennessee, $625,000; Kentucky, $125,000; Texas, $40.00; Florida, $50,000. Total, $3,052,625. Donations in deail include: Maryland Johns Hopkins Univers ity, $250,000. Virginia Emory and Henry r lege, j$5O,000; Randolph-Macon College,' (two appropriations) $60,000; Randolph- juacon woman souee, ,.ovvv', mono: college, iuu,uuu; .university or Virginia $5,000 Washington and Lee Uni VQi'sity .4.tw4ka.vpMpaMdjteil'; 000; K . . TK 7 ' .'"";'" - North Carolina Davidson College, $75000; Meredith College, $50,000; Sa lem Academy and College,-$75,000; Trin ity College, $150,000; Kake Forest Col lege, $29,416. .. . ENGLISH SPEAKING TO OBSERVE CENTENARY OF PEACE THIS CHRISTMAS EVE Signing of the Treaty of Ghent One Hundred Years Ago This Day Between Representatives of United States and Eng landFormal Celebration of. the Occasion Post poned Because'of European War Ghent -in the Hands of German Forces. New. York, Dec 23. The people of the United States and Great Britain to morrow will observe the 100th anniver sary of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent by reminding themselves that the day marks a century of peace among English speaking nations. The original plans called for a series of contributions in this country and across the water. It was to have be gun in Ghent on Christmas eve, with a banquet tendered by the Burgomaster to 50 representatives of the United States, 50 Englishmen and 50 Cana dians in the hall where the treaty was signed. This plan is upset by the fact that the ancient Jielgian city now is occupied by the Germans, with whom England is at war. To . mark the day, the American and British committees," which had been ar ranged for the peace centenary, issued communications for simultaneous pub lication Thursday morning in the news papers in England and the United States. ThP British statement expresses the hope that "the disarmed frontier be- tween the United States ana wnaaa rimy-long" continue as an example to the world of the safe defense of mutual respect and trust in, the affairs of na tions," and prays that "the peace be tween. the. British and American democ racies which has so long endured may never be broken." - w . A Present o America.- , The British committee has purchas ed, Sulgrav Manor, jthe ancestral home of George Washington, in England, with a view to presenting it to the American people, but this feature of the celebration also has been postpon ed until after the war. .CThe American committee, notwith standing the war, purposes to carry' out in part its original intention of Vsele- hbrating the peace centenary and in ts communication ; issued oyer the signa ture of a number of -widely. known citi zens,, urges suitable comraemosation of ratification of the treaty by the United States which followed immediately up on the arrival of its draft in February, 1814. : . The dates specified are February 17th and 18th foi formal addresses at SWEEPING ARIZONA Three Lives and Millions of of Property Lost. TRAINS ARE MAROONED Practically Continual Fall of Rain for Over Week Makes Great Rivers of Formerly Dry Canons. Towns and Cities Swept. Tucson, Ariz., Dec. 23. Floods re- "c " K ; lost ineir lives. nuuureus vi ncauu. ui livestock have been drowned; ranch houses and city residences have been wrecked or washed away by torrents roaring through what usually are dry canons; and traffic by rail, highway and wire' either has been badly crip pled or- completely suspended. The most serious damage seems to have resulted in that part of the Santa Cruz valley 30 miles south of here. The Santa Cruz river attained a width of more than a mile and a half today and the crest of the flood, after sweeping through Am'ado and the surrounding farming region, .reached Tucson to night, sweeping out bridges and houses and threatening to work further de- st-ruction.-V Two Mexican Drowned. Dozens of ranch, dwellings were de- stroyed in the vicinity of Amado. Two Mexicans were drowned there, after they" had hung in the branches of trees for hours awaiting rescue. A United States soldier was reported to have been drowned in a" big wash at Naco. Machinery costing $500,000 .belonging tp the Tucson . Farms . Company pro ject, went under -water today. At Bisbee floods, poured through the deep canon and inundated portions of me Aousmess secuufis. v. uncc-iuui layer -.at- sand was deposited . upon the main streets by the flood, which reced- , ed - almoat-as .rapidly, as it came .., A.Routlmrw- Pacific train on- the line j between Tucson and Nogales was m&-: trponed -by- hoaW. .of ..taerae on ' both '-sides.4 of it. . A' reliel train; "wits sent out late today to rescue the pas sengers... f. , ; ' Detachments of national guardsmen were dispatched tonight to aid flood sufferers and- guard," threatened .points. 1 state capitals, and February 22nd for . exercises m tne. schools. The American communication is as follows: "One hundred years ago today there was signed at Ghent: in Flanders, the treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States, which marked j the close of what has happily proved to be tne last war Detween ii.ngnsn- speaking peoples of the earth. Today the city of Ghent is at the very center of the terrible conflict that rages in Europe. . "The American Peace Centenary Committee cannot permit this anniver sary to pass without inviting the thoughtful attention of their fellow citizens to the contrast presented by the century-long period of peace which English-speaking peoples have enjoyed among themselves on the one hand, and the appalling destruction of life, prop erty and great monuments of civiliza tion which the European war involves on the other. It had been our confident hope that the example which the English-speaking peoples have set in their relatipns with each other would be fol lowed by the other great nations of the earth in their several international relations. Jt had. been our earnest de sire that the spirit of peaceful and friendly co-operation which each of j these peoples manifests toward the people of the United States would also mark their dealings .with one another. Unfortunately" this was not to be, and we . are sorrowfully . called upon to mark our centenary celebration in the midst, of the most terrible and destruc tive war that history records. "Even at such a time, we must avow once more our emphatic faith in the supremacy of justice over force, of law over might. .We rejoice in the peace ful relations of a hundred years among all English-speaking peoples, and par ticularly in the undefended and un fortified line nearly four thousand miles in length, which divides the ter ritory of the United States from that of the Dominion of . Canada. The mu tual trust, forbearance and helpfulness which make that undefended boundary a link and not a barrier between two peoples, we offer as an example to our warring brothers across the. sea. Planned Great Celebration. "It had been our purpose, when our committee- was organized in 1910, to plan for a great celebration of the cen- . (Continued on Page Two) ABA ENTERS PERIOD OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY Charles M. . Schwab Predicts Great Business Revival, . as Result of War. ORDERS FOR SUPPLIES ARE DAILY INCREASING Over Three Hundred Million Spent Here, So Far. President of Bethlehem Steel Compuf Jmt Returning from Europe De-. elares , A m erica on Threshold of (Greatest Period In History New York, Dec, 28. European nai ; tions have placed contracts in th United States for more than $500,000,- : ' 000 worth of supplies since the he- . .' ginning of the war, according t Charles M. Schwab, president of th -Bethlehem Steel Corporation, who re-.' turned from England today on the Lusitania. ' Mr. Schwab declared that as a result of this buying tlie United -States now was at the threshold of the "greatest period of prosperity It hak seen, in many years". Mr. Schwab went to England to can r eel provisional contracts he had madi with, the British government for thjs . building of submarines. He did thls he said today, after having been ad-, vised by Secretary Bryan that for an American concern to supply submar ines to any of the belHg-rent nations would be a violation of neutrality, ' The contracts given up, he said were worth more than $15.u00.000 but he was able to secure others while abroad for 'the supply of various munition' of war.' He declined to say with wbo-t"-natfon they had been negotiated".' ' "The next big problem the United States will have to face", said Mr. Schwab, "will, be developments " Of trahsporatibn facilities to handle the tremendous increase in manufacturing and cominercial enterprises.' "The- period of prosperity that I predicted on my last return from Eu rope is about on us. The contracts placed with- American manufacturing concerns by Europe call for delivery within the year,' and I look tosee a big revival 6f business in every line". Mr. Schwab, on his previous trip, was. a passenger on the . steamship Olympic, when that ship went to the rescue of the dreadnought Audacious. fHe declined then to confirm or deny the incident, pleading that he was honor-bound not to speak of it. Asked today if the Audacious did g down, his reply was: "It certainly did". MILLIONS WORTH OF HORSES Purchased by Belligerents in Kansas City Alone iShows Kansas City, Mo., Dec, 23. Figures announced today by the commercial club show that five million dollars worth of horses .and mules have been marketed through Kansas City to the British government. One manufac turer alone has supplied to the same market half a million pairs of. shoes for soldiers. The exports of 52 flour mills in this district have been 000 barrels this year, compared 75,000 barels last year. 217, witlk Nation's Chief To Play Santa Claus WILSON WILL DON WHISKER A WD RED ROBE FOR HIS LITTLE NIECE AT .WHITE HOUSE. Washington, Dee. 23. President Wil son today presented each of the Whites House employes with a 15-pound tur key as a Christmas present. He dis tributed 125. turkeys, remembering the policemen as well as all the clerks and domestics. - . . The President plans to commerhorats his wife's memory by emulating her action of last year in distributing use ful presents to some of the city's poor. Mr. Wilson is a regular contributor ,to the Washington Associated Charities and through that agency will assist in making many needy families comforta ble. - With the approach of Christinas, the White House mail has grown to huge , proportions because of the many greetings- sent to the President from all parts of the world. ' , Many presents also have been re ceived by? members of the af mtly.. ' President Wilson will play ''Santa Claus" Christmas Day for his" small grand niece, Anne Cothran. A large. Christmas tree. was delivered today at the White House. - The Predent and his three daugh ters, Mrs. F. B. Sayre, Mrs. W. G. Me Adoo and Miss Margaret Wilson, and other relatives, plan .to go to church Christmas morning. He will attend only to absolutely necessary, business during the day. 5. 25 uncalled-for - Suits, for sale at greatly reduced prices. U. S.' Woolen Mills Co., 119 Princess street. CadvertisemenU y I ! "H ft i ; H ; hi: iir 1.1 11 '''!'i".i 4 ,i. 1 - ;w-i;vr. f.-4 i ;"t 1 . .'i '-.- "f ';'