North Carolina Newspapers

'it THE VVEAJHER t HOLIDAYS OVER. , fill h h V 4ZA 1 1 ra 1 iir?!r UJ pain Friday; Saturdaj' clearing and VOL. XCY-IstO. 69. The' live t bnslB man tarn his . t tentioW to cBtrnetlTe 'work for ' the New Ter. Adopt your. policy of a y tenurtie adTerttstnar enapatsft noWj WHOIiEl KtTMBER 13,8.60 CHRISTMAS SPIRIT IS DISPLAYED B&AmMeA Executive Clemency Extended Prisoners and Much Charity Work Done Blease and Hooper Lead in Pardoning Role in the South- Wilson Grants One Federal Prisoner His Liberty for Christmas Gift WHITE CHRISTMAS" WELCOMED BY CITIES IN THE NORTH FORlFIRST TIME IN YEARS ational Government Practically at a Standstill, While Offic ials Eat Turkey With Families at Home Community Christmas Tree. Celebrations Are Numerous . Throughout Breadth and Length of Land. Athmta. Ga., December 24. The advent of Christmas in the konih was marked by executive clemency to prisoners and tov the-poor, Una viinous PLiouc ceieDrations m eitv ana country. 1 'Amon.ir the Governors who issued pardons, commutations and pa - on to convicts, were Blease ot South "Carolina and Hnnnpr nf Tpititi. tc lany city, and county judges also showed leniency in court uciiyn. . : . ; Governor Hooper also made the occasion one for abolishing strip (hniiforms in the two state penal institutions. The new garb is a hrowuish gray. Heretofore, it lias been allowed only to prisoners I xhose good conduct ma;de them eligible for the first class. ' (.'ifts of food and clothing to the poor were especially extensive in :w chief Southern cities. Funds for the purpose we're collected by .1 I' ll ; , -w-k 11. - a - newspapers ana cnamaDie organizations. rnDiic dinners tor I'np ni'onv hiivp hAon Tij-mri r ori Tnr" rr nlioi-ito hln acrtmmao ' i I oytgomery, Memphis, Jackson, Miss., and other Southern cities!; iia mumeipaiArisjnias, jretqniJines, geperaMy. pl&anea mm celebratioipiitnesSsolQi ' After Brief Illness With Pneu ; monia, in Los Angeles- GIVEN MANY PEGREES f- xTURDAY OR MONDAY iiciliillii! PEJSMIIEO- ime Court Justice Says .4V Vait Until After Xmas. GOrJLlUIEE TO ADOPT FEASOR1 The Naval ' Appropriation Bill . Would Create Reserve. Visiting: HUl Daughter on Ranch In Cal 'ifornia1 and Taken Sick Last .Week Carried o' Los An- eles Where He Died. Los - Angeles, Cal., Dec. 24. John Muir, the naturalist, died in -a hospi tal here today of pneumonia. He was 75 years old. Mr. Muir was visiting his daughter, Mrs. Helen Muir Funk, at Daggett, iii San Bernardino county. He was stricken with "penumonla last week, and on Tuesday it was determrrfc. ed to brtg.fim to this city for treat ment. ' -. , When he arrived here last night, Mr. Muirvwas in a critical condition and sank r rapidly, r death coming at .10 o'clock today. His daughter was with hipr. John Muir belonged to that tradition of British naturalists whose work was so fused with the writer's personality and so penetrated by individual feeling that their output was as much litera ture as science. j History of His Life.; - Born in Dunbar,: Scotland, in 1838, ,.$ Continued on Page Bight Justice Lamar Hear Ar gum en 4 In Ap peal from Georgia r CourtM and -Announces He Will Give De cision After Chrlatma.. INCREASE EFFICIENCY :-v Secretary of -2Vavy Addreaaea .Letter to ' Congressional Committee on Xaval ' : Affairs I7rg;t!hjit'li . Be Adopted - Washington, ' Dec, 24. Justice Lamar of the Supreme Court today postponed until after Christmas action on an ap peal in the case of Leo M. Frank, un der death senten.ee for the murder of Mary Phagan, the factory girl of At lanta, Ga. . During the day Louis Marshall.' of New York, made application to the Jus tice for an appeal from the decision of Judge Newman of the Georgia Federal Court, dehying'JFrank's petition for re-t lease on a habeas corpus writ. The attorney argued for an hour that the trial court,; which , found -Frank guiltj", had lost- Jurisdiction over him by permitting a 'mob - atmosphere to prevail in the ourt room and by al lowing a verdict to -be returned during the prisoner's . absence .from court. Jus tice Lamar notfflecj Mr. Marshall that he would-wifhhofd"decision' on. the ap (Continued oh Page Bight.) ' Washington, Dec, -2A. Creation of a naval reserve of honorably discharged enlisted men. of the navy is proposed in an amendment to the forth-coming naval appropriation- - bill, which Secretary Daniels ttiday urged the con gressional naval committee to adopt. "If this amendment be enacted intd law", said ;Mr'. Daniels In a state ment tonight, two most important and necessary means for promoting the efficiency 6fthe navy will be provided Frsti it , will make available a re serve organization of trained men to Supplement the; regular establishment in time of war. Second, it will increase the efficiency of the regular navy by i offering a substantial inducement to i men to'continue in the serviee for per iods r of twelve, sixteen and twenty years." The principal features of the bill are as follows: . Men- who'--have had twenty years, of ' ' Continued 69 Page ' Eight EUROPEAN LINES SEE FIERCE FIGHTING mm Instead of the Proposed Christmas Truce, Two of the Greatest - - .. . . .. ... J..-..V-... . . . Battles in the History of ;the World Are Raging Be- ' tween the Austrians and Germans, and the Forces v of the Great Allied Powers of Europe. t GERMANS IN POLAND SD TO HAVE REACHED RUSSIAN MAIN LINE AND HLWE BEEN ROUTED Germans Apparently Turn the Tables in East Prussia and Are Again Advancing Into Russian Territory, While Russian ' Troops South of the Carpathian Mountains Claim to Have Won yictories Over Austrians. j. : " National Government at Standstill. ; Washington, Dee 24. The nation's government was virtually ;it a standstill tbniglit. On Christmas Eve everybody fromtthePresi- i-iit down to the. minor departmental employees,-had declared a holi- flit " 1 A hay. me nrst real snow, storm 01 tne winter out in its aDDearanee. to . .. . - ; v aid to the setting of the Christmas celebration. A community celebration was held on the plaza in front of the "apitol. thousands - of children braving the- snow storm to gather ibout a brilliantly decorated tree loaded down with presents. President Wilson;, with a group, of his close relatives, spent; Christmas Eve at the White House; preparing a tree for his small L'rand niece, Anna Cothran, and Sally McAdoo, daughter of the; See-- htarv of the Treasury. In the party were the President's thre! 'iausrhters. Mrs. F. B. Sayre Mrs. McAdoo, and Miss Margaret Wilson, Mr. Sayre. Secretary McAdoo, Sally McAdoo, Mrs. Edward Howe, the President's sister. Mrs. Anne Cothran. his niece. Anns Cothran. and uiss i elen Kones. ms cousin. - At 8:30 o'clock the President touched the button, which illumin ed h 'community'' Christmas tree; in Brooklyn. During the even i. lie sent greetings to many friends in. different parts of the cxSun- :rv. .; . - .- " ' ' . . CHRISTMAS IN BERLIN I'Mi-lii-nted Veir Much m Usual Hos pitals AH Have Christmas Tree Bej-Mii, Dec 24. via London Dec, 25. -'!: !.". 1 AT V Tlarlin in palahrgtine' 1 li:aas eve under leaden skies. Sev--a! inches of snow that fell during ',c. : i i 1 1 1 m orl . tn slusiVi rhristmns '"-" liffers little from former years. ':ome enjoyments are on a more 's.: nie scale and more public spirited !fs; is shown. Gifts for the poor have proportions never before Solfiifi-s are being remembered by the lioi. population and hundreds of car- oafis ,,f presents have been sent to ,!lp f".:ist and West fronts. School 'niKh(ii figure largely in the gifts for T'n- military aspect of this Christ- ,r'3t- has been increased by the lavish auction to the wounded in the hos Ptais fiprt pvprv Vinsnltnl vssterdav or this eveniner had a Christ- pss t,ee filled with arlfts. Thrcp celebrations were attended by !hool children who sang Christ--rirois. The Empress at Potsdam 3s' ''".-ning presented each wounded i.jifr with a woolen jacket, a note fruits, nuts and cakteqft A pjipoial celebration was held in R"i!in for French- -refugees. The " ii .1 . MM l.. vr. Q i " m w , ' organization gave a huge si;,s fets for about 7.000 Eist r:'si- -1; rpfinrftfts. while the Salva- 1 'my presented 500 poor families i'?kets. of ood. American wo- ' r at the kitchen of the Amerl- sociation of Commerce and More than 500, women and 'rn were remembered invthe dis- 'oi. Mrs. James W. Gerard, wife cy, on the eve of thecRlef holidays. Fewer prisoners w;ere" released today than on any previous occasion since the Governor was. first, inaugurated nearly fouryears ago. All prisoners released today were, serving short terms.. T Today's .action brings the total num ber of cases- in; which Governor Blease has exercised clemency up to 1,445. He will retire from office in January when his second term as the "state's chief executive expires. More than 100 '-convicts were grant ed clemency last Thanksgiving. WILSON EXERCISES POWER. tea 'h 'in ins,. r. ''an . 'hilr i''ii. of J 1 L I I 1 . . . . J U U U . - . -Mr 1,-'4 n lro us . ljay, wife of the Amer. 1 aui gerferal in Berlin, took: a '111 ,t J n U n i v I'UI U 1X1 CLil-Ciai. Kl-KASE GRANTS PARDONS. Many as Usual. lut Governor Follows Custom..: ;,. oluMhia, S. C.. Dec.' 24.; Governor "Sf today granted foar pardons and pio)es to State prisoners in con -iiis custojaa of granting Clemen- Pardon Granted Han Sent tip Last Year fop Five Year Prison Sentence. , Washington, Dec. 24. President Wil son today pardoned : Charles McMonies, of Lyons, Neb., serving a sentence in Leavenworth penitentiary so that Mc Monies will reach home for. Christmas where his wife is sick with pneumonia and one of his two children is said to be- dying i McMonies was sentenced last Janu ary to Ave years on a charge of making a false -entry in the ledger of a bank where he was employed. According to newspaper, reports the offense was technical and. the bank lost; no money. Attorney General Gregory recom-. mended , that McMonies' sentence be communted to expire January 2nd. "Rep reeienative Stephens, (.of Nebraska made ,representations to the President, considering the factthat Mrs. McMon-iest- despite her illness, was supporting her . children by giving music - lessons, signed a pardon to take effect 'imme diately.. , - ; .-.s" r WII.I.- TElili OF BELGIANS. Ministers Throughout County Will Fea : tare Crying Need of That ; Nation. . . New York, Dec. 24. In their Christ mas sermons tomorrow, more than 2,000 ministers Of all denominations through out the United States will dwell at length on the needs of starving 'Belt gians. - This , concerted, action " it was stated - tonight in an announcement- by the commission of relief in Belgium, will come as sa result of a request in country-wide form to them by; the com mission. - . -;V . Cnairman Lin.don W. Bates yirrote., o - ' (Contmued on-P&se Two)v One and All M M and & i Ml PROSPERjOtJS 1 V v .! ........ - UF V LAJ -. , " " - - "- - ; : London, December :M. Instead of the Christmas truce which .vJ Pope Benedict endeavored to arrange, Christmas TBve finds the armies. VfJ of the belligerent powers engaged in fierce battles on both the eastern : and western fronts, and all Europe celebrating the anniversary in a..tf'iut subdued manner. , ' . . In the West the Allies' hammer is pounding at the German er ;t; trenchments. trying to find a weak point, while in the East the Russ- ? y:S ians, who have been driven back from the Austrian and German f ron-; . i tiers seemingly have been brought to bay behind rivers which offer ;i f them natural defense, and, turning, have counter-attaeked the Austrb German forces. i The Germans in their great rush toward Warsaw, drove the Russ ians over the Bzura and Eawka rivers, and they themselves succeeded, in crossing, but according' to a Russian official report tonight the- Qer- ; mans there, reached the main Russian line and were routed. From this ; . report it is gathered that the -Germans directed! their main attacks u i iigainst;the Russian front, which lies along the banks of the Bzura andi-?;.M H tlren&son11rward to: the Bilica but tithoirt uw&(im ' Along the rest of the front south- to the Carpathian mountains; " ; the Russians claim similar victories ; but in'East Prussia the Germans ; apparently have turned the scales on their adversaries, and, after v.:,fe having retreated into their own territory, resumed the offensive and again are back in Mlawa. ' ' , . (J.lfx- Even now, it is possible that the Germans have resumed their out- f; flanking tactics, and while keeping the Russian center busy by making frontal attacks, are hoping to get, into. Warsaw by the back dor. All that is certain at present is that iJie two great armies are engaged, in one of the greatest battles of the world's history on a front which, ex tends from East Prussia to the Carpathians and in which the advant age sways first one side and thenfto the other. Military experts say that the Russians, by virtue of retaining the right bank of the Vistula as far west as Plock can prevent the Ger mans 'from using the river for transit of supplies, and that along the whole of the restf the front thy have rivers and streams to fall be hind when hard pressed. This, however., will all be changed, the ex perts say, when the rivers freezf, and the armies can easily be moved over them. ; Mining and sapping, artillery duels, attacks and counter attacks and, in fact, every means of warfare is being employed in Belgium and France-by the Allies, in their effort to force, the Germans to give iip their present lines of defense. Some advance lias been made, but only against stubborn opposition. - England this morning had her first experience of an aerial attack, when German aeroplane, coming from the Belgian coast, flew over Dover, and dropped bombs in the garden of St. James' rectory, in front of Dover Castle. No damage was done. Two British aeroplanes Immediately rose in pursuit, but the German escaped in the mist. , FIGHTING SOLDIERS NEED NEW OUTFIT jEACH MONTH Supplies of Clothing Must be Continu- ally Repeated (Correspondence of Associated Pres.) London, Dee! 24? So great is the wear and'tearof warfare that a so dier in the fighting ,line needs a new outfit every month. vWellVover , a mil lion ( rain- have already been "clothed, an 4 another million .will .have to be provided for immediately." The khaki industry, therefore, is flourishing. Millions and milliqns of yards ; of clotn are, needed, for uniforms and overcoats. Though - mills are working overtime, new nlills have been opened, and everything has been done to speed tipithe, supply has notkeep up with the demand. - : 'J '-."' y . .'-' ' . .. . ;Freiich, Belgian, and' fRussian orders havei also poured iiitii the .English mar ket. Some mills have, had, four different- army ...cloths on their s machines , at one time or another v." ' -The price of-khakihas risen consid erably since .the outbreak of the war. The government is buying a good' qual ity, which .'costs; about r.fpur .- shillings, nine jpentje jyirdCaa against f-three shUiings, eleven .bnce .in July. : Cotton Is Examined With Powerful X-ray LATEST -METHOD OF BRITISH GOV ERNMENT. TO SEARCH FOR. CONTRABAND IN COT- ; TON CARGOES. STEAMER PUTSrNTO . NEWPORT NEWS AFIRE. s-:J: Mi N MARKED ADVANTAGE. ,"Azerbajan. northeast Persia, and that l Julfa is' menaced." British Tramp With Cotton from Gal veston Anchored A stream. 'New York, Dee. 24.-Representatives of the British 'government 'examined with the X-ray today 10,000 bales ' of cotton consigned to Bremen,, to -determine whether, any of them contained contraband. . The cotton was being loaded, aboard.- the steamship v City Of Savannah,' which sails tomorrow. ' Th'e-X-ray machines, according, to the English ' oflCicials, ; had been especially - Newport News, Va., Dec. 24. With fire in her hold, the British steamer Hampstead, en route from Galveston to Genoa with a cargo of cotton, put Into port here tday. The fire was dis coverejd while the vesse was art sea yesterday and was said to be extin- tguished this, afternoon. The hold in which the flames were confined was flooded. - The:-Hampstead is in stream awaiting orders.; ' ! The extent of the damage is not known at this time. Capt. Tuplin said he did not know how the fire originat ed. . UNDERWOOD PREDICTS DEFEAT OF AMENDMENT. Suffrage Resolution to Come Before House In January Doomed. - Washington,- Dec. 24. Democratic L,eadfer , Underwood predicted tonight designed, and enabled them , to . inspect fethat the proposed constitutional amend the interior' of he bulky cotton- bales which could easily, conceal arms, am munition, or other contraband. , They had decided to - use, this method, they said, after it was -found that owing to the varying weight of the bales, . the Bcajes . could give -no certains guarantee that each bale washonesti. - V - ' ment for. woman suffrage would be. de- feated in the House, probably by a two thirds vote. y - "I -shall vote against'lt and so will most" of ' the -Democrats," 'said Mr. Un derwood. - "The . part3 by caucus ac tion,? ; has i gone on record holding., that woman ButFra gef'-likevprohibitil) is . a For Either 4rmy is Report the German Press Bnraau Gives Out. Berlin, Dec. 24.. (By Wireless) Among the items given out today by the official press bureau were the fol lowing: . "While there is general confidence that the Germans and their ally are mnWne nroerress in the East, there is i no indication in official reports of any marked advantage. "Indeed, it is noticeable that Vienna uses the adjective, favorable' in refer ring to the battles in the Carpathians and contents itself with saying that the severe battle along the lower Dunajec river and on the Krosno-Tuchow line continues. "Strikingly frank and Interesting is the official. Vienna report concerning the Austrian withdrawal from Servia, due to the terrible conditions of the country and the weather and also the fact that the Servians had been rein forced. The Austrians lost consider ably .in the retreat but tne spirit of their army is' unsurpassable'. The re port also brings the first news that Field Marshal Oskar Potierek has been relieved ot command of the Austrian army on account of -his health. ; "The situation In the west nas not materially changed despite desperate effort of the Allies. "The Austrian general staff refutes the allegation contained in a Russian bulletin that the, Austrians lost 3,000 prisoners ahd a number of guns and machine guns. ,The total Austrian loss in killed, wounded and missing during the fights alluded to was 307. No gun or machine gun was lost GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. state isue." General Headquarters Staff Issue Statement as to Conditions at Front.' Berlin, Dec. 24. (By wireless to Lon don) The. official , communication is sued today by the German general headquarters staff says: , "The enemy did not renew his - at tacks in the neighborhood of Nieurlort yesterday. At .Bixschoote we took 23") prisoners on December 22. - . "The enemy was again- active yester day in the neighborhood of Chalons. Infantry attacks followed a fierce ar tillery attack made by the enery in the. regions of Souain and Perthes. These were .repulsed. - . i' "A trench kept under continuous ar tillery fire by the enemy was' lost to us, but was recaptured in the evening. The position was abandoned after this suc cessful counter attack because parts of; the . trenches had been almost leveled by the enemy's fire. More than 100 pri. oners were left In. our hands. "In the East we have assumed the ; . . ' offensive and are 'advancing from Net- -. . der burg and Soldau (in Easf Prussia). . ;.' We have repulsed the Russians afte. ., several days flghtipg at Mla wa North- J V 'i I ern Poland ' aild the enemy's positions . - , ' at. Mlawa again are in our hftnds. -Mora ". ' than -1,000 prisoners . were, taken ' In :vi?lt these. battles. y;' . - f. ' y "At the confluence of the Bzura aht Bawka - rivers; fierce bayonet attacks -' , ; took place, at - many places. The artil- -. . . lery could do little on- account of the The RnMkv Slovo a Peiroerad i misty weatner. - ; . nawnnanAfl ronnrto that the Turks and I . "The Russians suffererl- lljftavv )or ' Kurdish troops , have ' occupied nearly on the right ban,K,Pf tho..PnicTiyer..ia";"i, v'Sr'?f i -.v. S Continued '.-oh Page Eleht s. - the whole of - the Persian., province of i ige Eight, 0 H' U. 1? If! u : II: It 's .1 Hi ,.- ,t l'f n id ft:U HI' .' ' :r.' .-.'1 ;-..,V' f. I'M '-" rfi,; i ;; . ,. ;,: i . :. 13 S -,