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1.V i? V'-J Witt -:--, '-v.'; i-is 'OVA.YyV' r:: .V--:;, 'pf ; '-V Vf mpm mil 'H- THE WEATHER; BAI2VO RESULTS. Bain Saturday,, .warm east portion colder west portion. -Sunday clourdy and colder. '.S.-f."; EverrtlUov for " Everybody Port tloiM, Hom t Teaiaiitfc" Store. Bar . Bain, Leuoaa, 'Jpet, .' Invetmemt . Wltatercr It U tke Want Ad. seta it. VOL. XCVU NO.'65 WnMINGTON, 25". S A-TURD AY MORKIK!B,.KQYEMJJi:K 27, 1915 WHQIiE KtJMBBB 39.395 STEPHEN W 5J - t raESIDENTEDWN INTIMATE VIEW OF LIFE OF R. C OGDEN if in BAimM Mm fMcps ' x :'A;.".v.? BELIEVBIQUESADA ALSDiSlEOF; I'lRIi HATIOHS i ; Herbert L. Cates, of Swepsbn ville, N. C, is Believed Also Fatally Shot. SCORE MEXICANS DEAD Opened Fire on United States Soldiers Across Border from Nogales, Sonora. Carranza Forces Secured Con trol of Town Last Night. Nogales, Ariz. Nov. 26, Three United States soldiers were mounded, one fatally, while an other is not expected to live, and a score of Mexicans are reported to have been killed, today when Villa troopers, evacuating Noga les. Sonora, across 1 the border from here before the advance of Carranza troops under General Alvaro Obregon, exchanged shots with United State troops across the International boundary line. A quarrel between a woman and a Villa soldier started the trouble. Measures to Restore Order Tonight, General Obregon was in No gales and measures were being taken to restore order after last night's lopt ing and rioting. All supplies of, liqnof' v.ere being destroyed by Obregon's or der. Rumors that two American sol diers had been . killed during the. ex- mnge- o. ow-xwu-jxraTOeither be Seat up the Xnube. oa allow- verified. Carlos Randall, "governor of Sonora, and Gen. Acosta, a Villa subordinate to night remain under guard at a local ho tel. Randall and Acosta . crossed the International boundary line last night when it was decided to evacuate the Mexican town. - Major General Funston, command ing the United States forces on the border ,is expected to arrive here to tomorrow to take charge of the situa tion. . - Xogales, Sonora, the Mexican town across the border from here, was cap tured today by General Obregon's Car ranza forces after snipers, left by Gen eral Villa, exchanged shots across the boundary with American troops. Three Americana Wounded. . Three American soldiers were wound ed. - Stephen Littles, aged 22, of Fair mont, N. C, who enlisted February 1, 1914, was shot thrpugh the head and died tonight. . , " Herbert L. Cates, aged 25, shot twice in abdomen and hips, recovery doubt ful. Home Swepsonville, N. C, seo ond enlistment. . - Arthur L. Saupe, aged 19, shot right foot. Home Vernon, Ind. Five Mexicans, including a woman, also were wounded. A Carranza .cour ier sent to apprise Col. W. H. Sage, commanding the American troops, of routing the Villa forces, was shot off his horse. He was brought to the American side of the line. - The firing across the border began shortly before noon when Villa troops, who with the chieftain, had evacuated the town early today, were hotly, en gaged by the Obregon forces some 12 miles south of Nogales, Sonora. . The Mexican town had been looted and in the shooting which began early in the day a shower of bullets fel Ion the American side. Throngs which had gathered on the street leading to, No gales, Sonora, and the thoroughfare marking the International boundary were hurried back by United States soldiers. Snipers Opened Fire Then a party of snipers opened fire on the American town. Colonel Sage had given orders that the American troops should return any fire that en dangered American lives. Infantry men stationed near the line opened on the snipers and a number of the Mexi cans were seen to fall. A detachments Of Villa cavalry then was seen dashing over the hills south west of Nogales, Sonora. They, were hooting and dodging and seeking cov er The American soldiers replied 'to their Are, shooting deliberate and ap parently with sufficient effect to halt the Mexicans. The snipers posted in the looted town gradually stopped fir ing. Tonight Carranza troops were in control of the town. General Obregon, set a squad to work destroying what liquor the Villa forces left behind and announced that order would" be main tained. ' . ' Quarel With Woman Started ; Fight ' Inquiry by army officers tonijfht de veloped that the shooting across . the herder began when a Villa soldjer pick e.fl a. quarrel with a woman on the main: street of the Mexican town. The wonv a tried to take the . soldier's rifile iway from him, but, eluding her, . he turned and fired into a crowd of Am erican soldiers station on the boun 6"ry line fifty yards away. A moment later bullets from the weapons of snipers began to fly over the line. The American infantrymen replied They wrre ordered, however, to endanger no Wexican who was ot actually. firing Bt them. The population of :the Am encan town watched the exchange from hills to the north of the town. V Nogales, Ariz., Nov. 26. General Oregon, Carranza commander, com plained to Colonel Sage . tonight that and?jii was responsible for the death . (Continued on Page EUrht), Apparently Abandon Advance on City of Monastir. FOR THE TIME BEING Allies Have Hope In the Big Russian Army Now' Preparing to Invade Bulgaria Teutons Reported V to be Reinforcing London, Nov. 2$. The Serbian main army haying been driven back to the borders of Albania and Montenegro, where they are being attacked by the Austro-Germans, the Bulgarians, with the assistance of General von Gallwltz's forces, axe now giving their attention to the Anglo-French troops. Important military . developments may, therefore, be' looked for 'on the Vardar river. The Bulgars appear to have aban doned indefinitely their advance on Monastir, ,in order to attack the French positions on the Cerna where fighting has already been reported. So far - the French have held their posi tions, .but dispatches from Sdloniki hint that ; it may be necessary to withdraw from Krivolak to the southwest where British-French reinforcements are be ing concentrated. While the results of these movements are being watched with orae anxiety, better news from the Allies' points of view comes from the northern frontier of -Rumania. where; a feg Russian .army is massing Other Russian. Forces -J reported that General Alexel It is Ifurppatkjn', is to command this , Rus sian - n.rmv nf : nvas an., vhrk mill ea - passage v tnrougn Kumania' to, at tack' Varna ,from the land side.". Other Russian forees vare being organised at Ddesa and .Zebaatopol and doubtless will be sent either to the Bulgarian or Turkish coast. It is reported from Switzerland that the Austro-Germans are sending re inforcements' into the Balkans to meet this new Russian offensive, but other sources state that these reinforcements are en route to the western front be cause of the fact that the Balkan campaign is having a direct effect on all fronts. In Galicia the Austro-Germans are attacking in the hope of com pelling the Russians to divert a part of the Bessabarian army thence. While 1 the Austrians, opposing the Italian of- inesive on tne unozo, are unable to get- assistance they are counter-attacking with terrific fury and -have thus far prevented the Italians from capturing Gorlzia, which has been hard pressed for nearly a , week. ' British Hold Cteslnhon Late reports from Mesopotamia show that the British hold the battlefield of Ctesiphon and that the Turks are re tiring to Dialah, within ten miles of Bagdad. Prisoners taken by the Brit ish have been increased to 1,300, while the British wounded alone number 2, 500. Troops engaged in this region are undergoing hardships unknown in other" campaigns, there being shortage of both food and water. The Turks are showing more activ (Continued on Page Eighty- JURY IS SELECTED TO E. For Sending Obscene Litera ture Through the Mails. Watson Made the Plea That His Object to Publishing the Magazine Ar ticles Should Be Taken Into Consideration. Augusta, Ga., Nov. 26. Selection - of a jury to try Thomas Watson, editor and publisher, of Thompson, Ga., on the charge of sending obscene , matter through the - mails was completed in Federal court here today and the first witness, was on the stand when' court adjourned. ' until tomorrow. The case went to, trial shortly before noon. , Watson, who, as a member of the Georgia " bar acted as his own chief counsel, previopsly had demurred to the indictment but had been overruled. In. outlining the ; government's case. United States District Attorney Don aldson asserted that it only was ne cessary to prove that Watson was re sponsible for mailing the matter ob jected to and that it was obscene as charged ' in . the indictment. The ..mat ter 4 referred' to, he said, "was so ob scene, vile and improper" that he was glad it did not devolve upon him to read it toethe jury. Witnesses,v he said, would have that "unpleasant task." Watson, outlining the defense, took the view that his purpose in publishing the articles should be 'taken into con sideration. He declared his purpose of the highest, and that he was flchtintrf-as he had been for , seven vears. "the fight that Luther, John Knox and ' others made against the Ro- Continued on -rag awu , TRYT HOMAS WATSON - v rr i TELLS pCrURTHER ARTflE jAN HORRORS Which Surpass, if Possible, Those Already Known DETAILS ARE RECEIVED Made Publie by Viscount Bryce Wo men and' Children Burned to Death, While Men Also are Subjected to Torture. London, Nov. 26. Viscount Bryce made public tonight the details. of fur ther Armenian massacres which, in a letter accompanying " them, he says: "Surpass in horror, if that were pos sible, what has been published al ready. 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 fel low countrymen have "suffered." Viscotmf Bryce says the details con firm and amplify the ghastly history of deportations by which Armenians in Northern iand Eastern Anatolia were driven to a death of fiendish cruelty. The first part of the evidence, he says, was received by the committee of in quiry in the United States and the sec ond part comes from an Armenian gen tleman at Tiflis who received it from r-fugees, who escaped from ..regions where the events happened. The sufferings of the peasants and the mountaineers in . the -regions of Van, Mush and Sanun.'V Viscount Bryce says, "seem to ,have beeheven niOre terrible HhaoayereUtteans , of , ttpoeful tewrtjig; folk described in Part I of the. report. Every successive piece of evidence in creases the horror of the story and confirms the dreadful certainty of its truth. . "These atrocities were not produced by Iman. Many of them are vouched for fby several coincident testimonies. They all are in keeping, and the evi dence is most complete, and some of it most terrible. At this present phase of events, the civilized world is power less to intervene but we must bear these unspeakable crimes in constant memory against the day of reckoning." After giving the parts of the .evidence received from the United Slates, Vis count Bryce says that the' following extracts were taken from" his corre spondent at Tiflis: "Toward the end of May Djevdet Bey, the military governor, was expelled from .Van. Djevet fled southward and entered Sairt with some 8,000 soldiers whom he called "Butcher "Battalions. He massacred most of the Christians of Sairt, the details of which nothing' is known. On the best of authority, it is reported that he ordered his soldiers-to burn in the public squares the Armen ian bishop, Eglise Vartayed, and the Chaldean bishop, Addai Sher. "On June. 25, 'the' Turks "surrounded the town of Bitlis and cut its commun ications with neighboring Armenian villages. '? Then-most of, the able bod ied men were taken away from-their (Continued- on --'Page .Eight). NAVY STEEL FOUNDRY Because Delays are Hamper ing Navy Construction. ; Secretary Daniels . Says , New York Plantt Illustrates Advantages of Equipment for Making Ma-' terlals Used by Navy. Washington, Nov. 26. Re-opening of the steel - foundry at the New York navy yard was ordered today by Sec retary Daniels because delays in de livery of castings by steel companies are - hampering construction work for the navy , under way. at this and. othrf yards. The plant, which has a capacity only for castings up to four tons in weight, has not been in" operation for some . years. . "In a small way," says a Navy De partment statement, "the steel plant at the New York yard serves to illustrate the advantages of equipping the navy with facilities for manufacturing its own materials.- As- soon as business conditions make private manufactur ers anxious to secure work there is au tomatically a lowering of prices until a point is reached where it is general ly more profitable for the government to buy than, to manufacture. Under these . conditions ' it is a simple matter to suspend government manufacture and to give the private industries work at a time when it is wanted. It is the belief of the . department that the same argument holds true in the ; matter, of armor plates and pro jectiles for which; the Secretary intends to 1 ask Congress ifpt an appropriation for" meir; manufacture. - ORDERS RE-OPED OF Government Counsel Con tenb'ShS Sailed With Sup pliescfbr Germans. ONE OF CREW ON STAND Tells of Bijgging Up Wireless and of German Code Book Carried : by Captain. New York, Nov. 26 At the trial to day jof Dr. Carl Buenz and his asso ciates In' the j'HI.rabu'rg-American line for alleged, conspiracy, the" government attempted, to. show that at least, one more vessel sailed from American wa ters to aid German cruisers with sup-, piles than ' the defendants are willing to admit.' This -vessel, the government contends .was the Marina Quesada, which left Newport News. Va., Decem ber 16, 1914;"for (Valparaiso with coal and other .'supplies aboard. ': To support the contention, a squad Of witnesses testified in quick succes sion. . Of course, one of the chief ones was John Olsen, ship's engineer, who professed .to .have had frequent conver sations with : her captain, "Hans - Suh ren, during the voyage. Olsen testified that the . Marina Quesada sailed with dyfiamos, ; (not declared -on" the man ifest the; government alleges), - which were made rpart of a wireless appa ratus rigged up on the steamer twenty-four hours out of port. This, he said, was ; so that they might 'pick up code messages from the Germans. A wireless 'operator boarded the ship be fore she sailed and Captain Suhren also took aboard a German code book and some, papers about which he seem-, ed solicitous, the 'nature of which Ol Beii did nQt Kftpw, -" ' " - , ri ri"''-anans." --'si.' ' . Ms part? i riarerinerr the ' wire; less, Olsen testified.' Suhren promised to see that he was paid a "million dollars" and made "the next -man to me jvaiser in uermany. This was conditional , upon their reaching the German naval vessels with suDolies. They headed for Port Limon. The wire less advices for which they waited did not come and they made Port Limon without incident. t .' . v , .. Once, however, when another vessel was. sighted, Olsen said, Captain Suh ren became ; excited and thinking the vessel was a man-of-war, rushed down to the engine room, -the -code book and papers in his hand and a White hand kerchief over them. " ""Hide these quick." Olsen . quoted him as saylngi 'A British cruiserhas, been' sighted. If they find these things .on our ship, I'll be hung right away." i Olsen hid them, he said, 'at the bot tom of a barrel, filled with lime , an4 put " it: in r the hold. ' Later, when the approaching steamer -was found to be only a Royal Mail, line ship he "gave them back to Captain Suhren. .- . The Marina Quesada under .the Costa Rican flag, Olsen said, steamed out of port Limon againeeklhg nayar ves sels. ! Not finding! them 'she made for Pernambucoi taking the - precaution while, en route' to paint 'out-her -name and ,' substitute I therefjor.i-he.r) former name, thevGladitone... . The Norwegian flag was-raised. -They.. made, Pernam buc'o and 'the' Norwegian ' consul called ior tneir papers. , Threw Papers'; Overboard. "Captain 'Suhren'-put the papers in a bag," Olsen" said; M"and' dropped the bag overboard." '- ' "Did-you see the trick ?' "I did ' when he told me the Norwegian had, un fortunately lost hispapers. ' There was some doubt about v this and Suhren, who was anxious -to-', get "away, left ,at night' during a heavy fain." . "Any lights showing?"" asked Roger B. Wood, of-the government counsel." "No; we didn't even light 'a match." . The Marina .Quesada," it was brought out, .failed;: in her errand because She neither sighted nor -heard from Ger-r man vessels.' ; The defense' strenuously objected to this testimony , on , the ground that they were not concerned with the vessel. Mr. Wood then, caused a telegram sent by Suhren to Adolph Hachmeister, one of the defendants, to -be placed: in evi dence. The message was', sent - from Newport News, December 16," J.914. ;and addressed to Hachmeister' here. It said: "Sailing today. Drafting - r on - you from Reyner. $1,000. Wire B,eyner you will accept. Communicate with . 11 Broadway, Room- 801., .Letter to fol low." v; -. . . . , The room, mentioned was the New York headquarters -of ' Captain K.! Boy Ed, the German naval attache. Sailings ' Wire Blocked.. i The . steamers. Fram , and Sommer stidt. Ralph J. . M. 'Bullowa testified, id not sail " from Philadelphia, as it was intended, they..' should, largely be cause the ; caijtains demanded indem nity and guarantees! Bullowa," their lawyer, represented them in conferences with Hachmeister here and In Phttadei phia. A paemorandum - was drafted S:tember ; 23,; 1914, under which , the tb pay the f ull value of each ' steam er in casei,it .snouia oe seised,-and sold. Dr.. .Buenz . signed, this .agree ment," which' was placed in evidence', but still hew .'exigencies "-"prevented, their ; sailings and finally plans were abandoned, The steamers, however, had previously taken out clearance pa pers for Brazilian ports. Hachmeister told me,'!, Mr..' Bulowa testified, "that' the steamers Were to meet German vessels oft the coast of Brazil and-transfer their , cargoes to the German-vessels." John ' JZ Turney, of - Philadelphia, through whom the defendants char tered six of the vessels they sent out was withdrawn -from the stand - today, so that the government, might' scan : ' (Cwtianedr oa Page'Two'. " 2 (1 5 5 ' 1 -VI s y iiiP PRESIDENT ALDERMAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO Speaks Before Meeting in Richmond on His Organization of the Southern lioucation Board and the Work He Did in Behalf of Educational Uplift in the South. Richmond. Va., Nov. 26. Tribute to the memory of the late Robert C. Og- den' was ' paid by the Virginia Educa4 tional Conference at, the final meet ing held here to'nightr v Br. .-Ed--fin A. Alderman, president of the' University of . Virginia, was the memorial , orator and :R. C. Stearnes.statefsuperintend ent 'of 'public instruction presided. j More than 1,000 Virginia "school ' su perintendents, principals, . ., teachers and trustees listened to the glowing eu- logy pronounced- by"Dr.; Alderman on the late New York '. philaiitliiropist and patron of education. "He . review;ed the great ; work accompirshed by 'Mr. Og den in the cause of education in the Southern States, telling , of , his arly association with the. Inspirational lead er - to whose individual efforts . was largely due the formation of the South ern Educational board in 1901, I ." '' Among ' th,e mother speakers who paid eloquent, tribute to. the memory ; of Mr. Ogden were.Dr. Villlam Adams .Browh, of Union Theological " Seminary,? New Vork and Dr., S., C. Mitchell, ; of the University, of- Delaware. .' . The memorial hieeting; was held un der the special, auspices : of the'Co-op- eratlve' Educations Association" of. Vir ginia and an appropriate musical.' pro- g.5amme...by. the ..Hampton quartette; from the Hampton Institute', the" coi-j ored " normal. , and agricultural school to which, Mr. Ogden, contributed lib erally from his large means for many years. The - quartette was associated with the exhibits of the Hampton In4 statute at the Panama-Pacific Interna-; tl'on Exposition and was brought from gan Francisco for this special occasion; .jMany little . incidents of Robert C 0gden's constriictural educational work in the South, hitherto unrecorded his tory, were related by different pane gyrists in the course of their remarks JMr.. Ogden died on August b, I9is, after devoting nearly fOrty- years of his life to constructive educational work in the South, as president of the! trustees of the Hampton Institute, dur ing which time his Inspirational lead ership led to-the formation of the Southern Educational Boara in liJUi. Hio work has been so widely appre ciated that a committee headed by Wil-: Ham Howard Taf t and composed of a large number of prominent education al authorities have proposed the erec tion of a memorial-to Mr. Ogden in the form .of an auditorium building at Hampton Institute. Dr. Alderman Speaks. At tonight's meeting President E. A.' Alderman, of the University of Virginia, who was one of Mr. Ogden's early associates, told, among other things, how Mr. Ogden's plans for the Southern; Education Board were di vulged to him during a canoe trip on the Kennebunk river in Maine. - "In the summer of 1901," "said Dr. Alderman, "I received a telegrom from Robert C. Ogden asking me to come to him for a conference at his summer home, Kennebunkport, Maine. I( ac-cepted-the invitation and found await ing we there riot only Mr. Ogden but myxoid friend and colleague, Charles D. Mclver, of North Carolina. This meeting was my first acquaintance with Mr Ogden and my first reunion for a long period, with, my old co-worker, Mclver. Mr. Ogden was then well pas: the' meridian of life, but abound ing' in physical vigor and as -eager an idealist as ever dreamed of a better world. . "The 1 impression he made ; upon me. then is the same I have of him tor night, ' save that It, is deepened and heightened by experience of him and affection for him. -Here . was a man vi tal' In body, pure in spirit, keen in mind, happy of heart and utterly giv- enover - to 'thought-of . unselfish' help fulness to individuals and masses. He mm- X. ' ROBT. C. OGDEN bundled us both into' a canoe and car riea us, witn. s.wit.t sure strokes, up the deep, quiet river. Under the pines, on a hillside . by the river, we spfent the day discussing the organization, the purpose and the personnel of the Southern Education Board expansion of the old Capon Springs Conference made . remarkable . by the . participation of "men like "Bishop Dudley, J. L. M CUrry, William L. Wilson, ' Barnas Sears, . Mr . Ogden himself, and many other great names. ' ' Usefulness Was Remarkable In the autumn of that year the board was formally, organized and its great spiritualizing adjunct, the Conference for . Education in the South, was set in action. Mr. Ogden became. the .presi dent of the board and: the supervis ing director of the conference and un der the guidance of his insight and en thusiasm the board entered upon a re markable career of national useful ness." - ; . . .; -. Continuing, President Alderman said: "The Southern. Education Board was a natural offspring, of ; the activities of the Peobody Foundation. The great need. of the time in Southern life was the .formation;. of . a, . powerful public opinion for popular , education.. Pub lic opinion under any form of govern ment, in. such great: social, movements, must u be continually strengthened; and enlightened. ..This, board took up . that task ; and may vb said to have, accom plished in its short life a greater total of good with the smallest expenditure of money than any agency of-our day. So untechnical and inspirational were its influences, that it. is difficult to describe them in any brief space. It had no funds. to distribute to education al institutions. It sought to ally itself with State and "local agencies. Its pur pose was steadily not toobtrude, but to efface itself in the interests of the people. Its first principle; was a pro found belief that ignorant masses, white, or black, - could not be safely left in the . body - of a democracy. Its working theory was a perfect confi dence in the self-reliance and creative powers of the people of the South. Its supreme desire was to help a great overburdened people struggling with a terribly difficult group, of problems, but proud, and rightly determined to mould their institutions after their own way and with . their , own means. Its high method was faith in the solvent power of sympathy and friendship and ac curate and common understanding be tween good men and women of all sec tions of a united country. Extended Rural Taxation "Perhaps the chief practical function of the board was the winning of rural communities to a larger (policy of loc al taxation for school purposes. In the states where the unit of taxation had been the county, assistance was given to the "county campaign," the representatives of the board helping in the organization of public meetings, defraying the actual expenses of ef fective speakers, creating and circulat ing the literature on the subject, and co-operating with the local education al leaders in an effort to secure an affirmative popular vote on the ques tion of a larger local tax for. the bene fit of the schools. "Where the unit of taxation was the school district,, the same methods were employed; the board worked here, as always, solely through ,the authorized accepted agencies of the locality con cerned.' These local campaigns pow erfully affected the general school leg islation of the state. State, funds heretofore the chief resource of the Southern school system rapidly in ceased, in a number of states, from 50 to , 360 per cent. Local organiza tions of,' women . for the improvement of rural school houses were establish ed: or, in. cases where sttch- activities (Continued on Page Two.) mi X - ' Wilson is Told Majority are Ready for Suggestions of Neutral Gathering. HIS EFFORTS SOUGHT A Hungarian and a British WoL man Make Personal Ap- , peal at White House. Washington, Nov. 26. Efforts to win President Wilson's support for -a con ference of neutrals to initiate peace proposals in Europe reached a climax today when Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, of Hungary, and . Mrs. Ethel Snowden, wife of a member of the British par liament, called at the White House with a. personal appeal and word that they had definite information that the majority of , the', belligerent : nations would not turn deaf ears to suggestions from a neutral gathering. - The ladies talked with the President for more than half a dour and went away much pleased over their recep tion, though the President -had made no promises. -.About 400 peace advo cates, fresh from a mass meeting, at a local theatre", accompanied the Presi dent's eallers to the White House, ap plauded them as they entered and left the executive offices. , s. 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 neu tral nation called one. He " was tolil that peace advocates who have visited every belligerent and neutral nation in Europe - believe . from talks with offi cials .. abroad . that y practical results would follow. He also waa informed rrthat Henry-FoTd,' the -Detroit: nianufac- turer, who was here to co-operate with the women, had in his possession state ments, some of them signed, from offi cials of the principal countries on both sides of the' European conflict, to the general effect that they would inter pose "no objection to the calling of a conference of neutrals to make peace proposals. Mme. Schwlmnjer, who saw the Pres ident several months ago on the same subject and who - was not optimistic then, said tonight that she believed the President;., wasv deeply impressed with the Information laid before mm. ; Tne President made no definite promise; she added, Vbu.V.1 think you will hear something, from, the White House be fore :ong.. . . . No White . House Statement. At the -White. House, it was said that there would be no -statement regard ing the call.--Up to this .time, the po sition of the President has been that he has heard-nothing - from - Europe which leads him1 to -believe that tho time is opportune for him-to take any step. . i At the mass meeting today resolu tion's were adopted urging the Presi dent' to call ' upon " neutral nations to appoint representatives to attend u conference,- "for -constant mediation without armistice and . dedicated to finding a- just settlement of this con flict." . The resolutions recited that envoys sent by the International Congress of Women, .at -The. Hague, "ascertained from the governments of the belliger ent nations of Europe that they would have no objections to the calling of a.j conference of the neutral nations of the world looking to the possible ter mination of the war." It was added that the belligerent nations seemed unable themselves, to take the initia tive for peace. ; Common People Want Peace. Mme. Schwimmer presented these resolutions to the President and told him that the common people of all the nations at war wanted peace. . Mme. Schwimmer waa - one of the women who visited officials of belligerent and neutral nations , several months ago with Miss Jane' Addaros, of Chicago, and other representatives of the Inter national Congress of Women. Addres ses were -made-at the meeting by plme. Schwimmer,, Mrs. Snowden, Mrs. Louis Post, wife of the Assistant Secretary pf Labor; -Henry Ford, and other peace advocates. Henry Ford's address was very brief. 'Out of the trenches by Christmas, and never back ' again.1 is my motto," he said, and sat. down. In the campaign which has been car ried on for a - week to . influence the President, about 6,000 telegrams have been received at- the White House. They, continued- to arrive, today and tonight. One of today's messages was from Mrs. Carrie 'Chapman Catt, presi dent of the Internitjonal Suffrage Al liance. . ' : C03VDITIOJT OF-SENATOR O. MAX GARDNER "DESPERATE" Result: of Injuries Received in Salis bury .Wfeek, Wednesday. Salisbury, N. . C., , Nov. 26. The con dition" of ' O.; Max, Gardner, of Shelby, N. C, who wis injured here Wednes day -.night" rwh"en Southern Railway train No. 3$ atruek the rear coach Of ; a special standing : in the yard, is re garded as 'critical. Mr. Gardner is at a local ' hospital - and at midnight - It was stated that his condition was "des perate." v : i . It is said that, in addition to a broken leg, , he suffered internal inju ries., There are rumors that Mr. Gard ner's, physicians , hold out little hope for. his., recovery,-, though no statement to this .effect ..haa.. been made public bar: them, ; 'r . m. i P i r : .hi "MM '.i:'--iK'iAt: s--: j --' - .t; 7 -- --- - ' -.- - '' ': , " ' "-.;.:. , ," : , i ; fjf -,r- - ' ; ' ' " Ji ' ' ' ' . f . i . ' . . . ' ;;j;-"-- ; -' '- ' ' - :
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