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r THE WEATHER R,in Tuesday, colder in west por tion; Wednesday fair, much colder. REGISTRATION "WEEK FOR SERVICE OF WOltfEN AND FOOD CONSERVATION. r OCT. 27TH TO NOV. 3RD A.Di867 VOL. 01-20. 38. WIMflSTOTOIN, TUESDAY RNINGOCTOBER 30, 1917 WHOLE KTJMBKR 39,216 0STRO-GERMANS ARE STANDING BEFORE THE CITY 0F UDINE, THE FORMER ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS Teutonic T " 7 Swiftly and Strongly Along " a Broad Front EFFORT TO CRUSH CADORNA Town' of Connons Captured Ital ian Line to the Adriatic is 1 Reported in Retreat POPULACE BEING UNIFIED Enemy Drive May Bring Internal Strife to an End (Associated Press War Summary.)'- From the head of the Gulf of Triest northward along the Isonzo front to- beyond Tolmino and thence westward through the Car nie Alps region to the Ploecken Pass, forming the eastern and northeastern boundaries : of the Austro-Italian war front, the Germans and Austro-Hungarian troops are operating swiftly and strongly against the Italians m an endeavor to crush the forces of General Cadorna. Standing: Before Udine. Already the Teutons, according: to the German official communication, are standing before the town of Udine, the former grand headquarters of the Italian army, the Italians haying been driven on past Cividale. In the press westward from Gorizia, the Germans have captured the town of Cormons, ten miles to the southeast of Udine, and the entire Italian line southward to the head of the Adriatic is reported. to be in retreat. - Third Wede Started. , la addition to the wedges driven in to the Italian front on the east and northeast' the Teutonic allies have tarted a third wedge in the north through the Ploecken Pass, their hope evidently being to cut off the retreat of the greater portion of General Ca tena's armies moving west and south west The Italian commander-in-chief, however, reports that his men are checking the advance in this region. tvmently tne weakness among, the Italians has been entirely overcome, is Cadorna says that all movements raered W the eeneral staff now are being carried out in regular order and 'hat the Italians are fulnlline their iuty "by keeping in check the enemy's advance into the plains." Going to the Rescue. Meanwhile, in order to aid the. Ital ians in their hour of trouble .Great Britain and France are preparing to lend immediate aid, and the possibili ty is that already' troops are being hastened across the western Italian trontier and by way of Turin and mian to the battle front in the East. - Internal Conditions Unified. As a result nf tho Tnni. .nt.j ensive. internal conditions in Italy re declared to have been unified, the -yi.ueratmg idea of the entire pop ulation now being to abolish party imes m order to maat tv ,tnnn t iae Dm interests of the countrv. Kven we ' cabinet crisis is expected to be in nX "lth comParatively few changes 10 Portfolios. R , . , nunc in rrance ana gium ,Ittle fighting: &as taken place aiti,;,, ? tne nature of bombardments, "though on the Verdun front th nr- mans m an attaL- -.i, Later h portion o a French trench. from ' l"ejr wre anven out iro the most rf it AniPWcans Continue Active. On i ",:r,ciln!, ontlnu the .-7 01 1 he aZ- port,on f the line held by rtkn 1 6 flrst German prison-' in v. " "ds Of wounds sustained 'l All.ll n . o-Man's-Lan,, when he failed to ' a com mu r A l . 1 1 W1S riaiU- o . iu nan, The AmerU with tw n .tne uermanB, fire s'L !mans answering their her,. ,hp 4 8 fal,en in the region aie entrencnea. On the prman" withdrew. V theire:ria.n.front the Germans indrawn V evacuation have fcMninla i . ne entIro Werder in thp n:,5relectln8f into Moon Sound that their Hi8- ThC POiM"tjr 4ion to " f6t Week caused the Jn to withdraw the troops.. E0ADS Ativ. ThJ "'n WITH Berlin via LhA8 I3f TREAT tetro-derm ,ndon' ?t- 29. The n Itaiv..n troops invading north- fhere the to,f andlng before. Udine been locatJ headquarters have to C9 aLrd It-titaa The th7;w frs announement sigtan. . uanai army madn a Wri tvces from w!16 aancing- Teutonic Thisar.'PPh to the Adriat.n at coast W m retreat along the jC" captured and the lle frontie?a"ftrr.P8,"e approaching er of the Italian coast aiun. The re- r of prlsoneM jncrca(. :;bZ?6;rct yielding north Pas7 extendin I'1"- anacjc, the weak- S as far ae Dl - - ass. 4ne , - 1 ie Sir' ISnZO f"nt has iCoatln, "treating. to on Page Two.) . Wflftfi A'rnhprin rr if V " - - ITaJ DjL IT LJ. M KJKJLl Manufacturers and Wholesalers Under License Wilf Not be Permit ted to Sell to Distributors Who Seek Undue Profits rFood Administration Takes Sweeping Action. Washington, Oct. 29. Profiteering by retail dealers in foodstuffs will be made impossible after. November 1, the Food Administration announced to night, under a plan to cut off supplies to thosehot satisfied with reasonable margins. Manufacturers, wholesalers and other handlers of foods .whose bus iness will go under license, will not be permitted to sell to distributors who seek undue profits. 'This , is one of he most sweeping safeguards," the announcement said, "against high prices which will be in corporated in the licensing system, for which complete rules and regulations ! will be made known within a few days." This plan. Food Administration offi cials believe, will give the government entire control of retaU prices. Whole salers and others who continue to-sell to retailers after they are forbidden to do. so-by the Food Administration will be denied the right to sell goods under license. Authority for extending control of the retailer is cited In the announce ment as follows: "The small retailers of food, of whom OF KAISER Minister-Socialist-Pacifist Bigelow Taken to the Woods py Mob of Robed Men HE IS STRAPPED TO TREE In Prayer Sunday He Prayed For "The Repose of the Souls of Emperor William and the Proud Men Surrounding; Him." Cincinnati, Oct. 29. Herbert" S. Bigelow, head of the Peoples Church of this city, one of the leaders of the Peoples Council, Socialist and Paci- fist, was taken ' into a dense woods near Florence, Ky., shortly before mid night last night, tied to a tree end horsewhipped by men "who wore long robes and hoods, similar to those de scribed as worn by the renowned Ku Klux Klan,' " according to a re port from Florence this morning. One of the leaders of the party then read from a piece of paper he held in his hand: 'In the name of the poor women and children of Belgium, this man should be whipped." Black Snake Whip Used. At a given signal another man, clad from head to foot in white, stepped out of a huge circle that had been formed, drew a long whip of the "black snake", kind' and delivered twelve laches upon the back of Bigelow. The ropes were. . then cut, Bigelow was warned to-stay away; from Cincinnati and he was released, while the party made their way back to their wait ing' automobiles and disappeared. Bigelow was taken into custody ' by five men as he was entering a hall in the city of Newport, Ky., shortly be fore 8 o'clock last night. He was scheduled to addres a I meeting of So cialists. At the time of his apprehen sion' handctifts were put upon him and he' was hurriedly thrust into a wait ing automobile and spirited away. - Hl Offices Raided. r Recently Federal authorities con ducted a raid , on Bigelow's office in Cincinnati, where documents concern ing the activities of the local Peoples Council were seized. - Sunday after noon at his Peoples Church services, Bigelow prayed for "the repose of the souls of Emperor William and the proud men surounding him.' "Mr. Bigelow's own statement, writ ten last night at "Florence, Ky., bears out the earlier story of the adduction and whipping. He added, however, that previous to his being taken into the woods, he had -been blindfolded and when the. party alighted prepara tory to going into the woods, a bag was thrown over his head and he had no idea of the location or the direction in which he was being led. ' .1 ' .He also states sthat oil was poured over his head after the lashes were administered. '. ' . Couldn't Recognise Assailants. . In a statement issued thl3 morning Bigelow stated that owing to the.men "wearing long- white robes," he was unable to recognise any of hU abduc tors. He stated that he. did not know the men who seized him In front of the hall in Newport, but at the time he Asked where he was to b taken and received the answer, To head Quarters." He says that owing to the darkness he was unable to give an ;' accurate guess,'"- to. how -many made up the party," but ' residents along,' the Iiex-ington-pike state that they 'noticed H (Continued-on-Page xTwp. AGENT IS H - t ws umuu i ecu tie rs impossioie there are several hundred thousand in the country, while, exempt from the li censing provisions, are nevertheless subject to other provisions of the food control act. Every retailer, as well as every other handler of -food, is for bidden under the law to make any un reasonable charge ,to hoard, to monop olize Waste or destroy food or to con spire with anyone to restrict the pro duction, distribution or supply or ex act excessive prices on any necessities. Tliere are no penalties provided, but the Food Administration hopes,that the arrangement of restricting supplies to violators of the law will be of some effect, for the retailer will find himself unable to buy goods from any whole saler or manufacturer." State Federal food administrators will be directed to keep a watch for violators and senI to the Food Admin istration the names of retailers asking" excessive prices. ' STATE ADMIA'AtRATOR WILL KEEP CLOSE TACK ON DEALERS CSpecial Star Telegram.) Washington, Oct. 29. The most drastic steps yet undertaken by the (Continued from Page One.) WILL TAKE OVER ENEMY PROPERTY President and Mr. Palmer Arrange ior Enforcement of Trading, With-Enemy Law AN EXECUTIVE ORDER SOON Receipt of Property Has Already Be gun, the First, a Draft For 100,000, Being; Invested In Liberty BonSs. Washington, Oct 29. Arrangements were made today at a conference be tween President Wilson and A. Mitchell Palmer, Custodian of Enemy Property, to,put Into complete operation the pro visions of the trading-with-the-enemy law for custody of property in this country of German citizens and those of countries allied with Germany. Receipt of enemy property already has begun, the first receipt being a draft for $100,000 voluntarily tendered the custodian, who promptly invested it in Liberty bonds. Administrative details were arranged today and within a short time property worth millions of dollars will be in the custodian's hands. President Wil son soon will Issue an executive order formally, conferring the requisite .pow ers upon Mr. Palmer, who will furnish a fidelity bond in the sum of $100,000. The .order also will authorize expendi ture if appropriations, including en gagement of necessary assistants and opening of branch bureaus for receipt of enemy property. Mr. Palmer said after his conference with the President that he was pre paring to enforce the law as It stands for taking over property of citizens of nations allied with Germany as well as that of Germans. He explains that the rresident might suspend the law's operations as to property of" Turkish, Bulgarian, Austrian and other allied citizens, whose nations are not at war with the United States, although that question had not yet been discussed. The ullmate disposition of property taken over by his office, Mr. Palmer ex plained, rests with Congress which must decide whether it snail be con fiscated or merely held in trust during the -war by the custodian as a trus tee. U. S. MARIJfE DRAWS 41 MORE 'THAN RI75S COLONEL And $64 More Than a German Lieuten ant for the First Three Years. Washington. IX C, October 29. Ac cording to statistics in a war bulle tin, Issued recently by th National Geographic Society from its headquar ters hare, a first-olass private in the United States Marine Corps serving abroad, draws $41 a year more than a Russian cojonel; $64 a year more than a German lieutenant for the first 'three years; $31 a year more than a flrst lieutenant of; the Australian , army, and $19 a year 'more 'than a Junior lieuten ant in the service of Italy. - PALMER BEGINS TO TAKE OVER PROPERTY OF ENEMY - Washington, Oct, 29. A. Mtichell Palmer, enemy property custodian, ac tually began the . business , of - taking over the millions of dollars of enemy property I innthe ; United States. 'today, with; conference, witn .fresiaeni. wji son at which .was- discussed 4h fn l.amna of thk'work JfiVerv. leacner. m ;wi?Buuu.cmwi 01 f ;in etiL.,;y;SS..-i-;; WMeugnj '77 'WASHINGTON GETS OUT OF WordThat Lines Are Now Being Held Against Teutons Gives Relief to Officials CONFIDENCE IN CADORNA Belief Prevails That, Austro-Ger-man Drive is Nothing More Than PoliticalMove Washington, Oct. 29v Word from Rome, today that the Italian line was holding against the terrific assault of the Austro-German forces was receiv ed by official' Washington with eager interest and . frank relief. Military authorities here h,ave ';not disguised their "keen anxiety as press reports showed the "Italians falling back un der the crushing blow of the enemy. . Satisfaction was found also tonight in the announcement from - Liondon that steps already had. been taken by the French and British to support thes Italian front. There was no indication of "what operation that might fore shadow. "Confidence In Cadorna Even accepting, the German claims at face value, many officers here -believe General Cadorna will be able to check the drive if the morale of his army was not shattered. The an nouncement from Rome -that all ele ments of the Italian forces were obey ing orders of the general staff, was viewed as setting at rest,, for the time being a't least, the grayest fears for the final outcome of "the" struggle. The announcement was taken to mean that General Cadorna had suc ceeded in reuniting the forces scat tered by the first fierce rush of the Austro-German army and was steadily falling back, to the line selected lor a, stand. . , . : .In hiawfcekijr Vuromai'Vi-mada: pub lic today, Secretary. Baker said Italy was passing through a critical mo ment. TKe statement was prepared before the full extent of the attack had developed, but it indicated the opinion in military circles here that General Cadorna might find it neces sary to surrender much of the ground won so recently by .his forces when only the Austrians faced them. Probably a Political Move. The belief . prevails here that the underlying motive of the German high command,' which is directing the at tack and has furnished the men and guns for the drive, is a purely political one. - Army officers point out that it was launched with lavish stage erects; with the Austrian Emperor announced a3 in. supreme command and with the German General Von Mackensen the guilding genius of the movement. Al ready Von Mackensen has swept back the Russian lines, overrun Serbia and all but crushed the Rumanian forces in similar drives. He is regarded as the striking head of the German war machine, the man of the hour when a headlong assault is to be -delivered. With such an association, of- digni taries leading the heralded onslaught, some observers assert - that anything short of the annihilation of the Ital (Continued oh Page Two.) LIBERTY LOAN TOTAL Reports for the State Up to Last Night Aggregated $25,900,000 Tkis Is Little Over a Million Snort of , State's Allotment - Ounaberland County Went Well Beyond Her Quota. (Special Star Telegram.) Raleigh, Oct 29. With scattering reports still : coming in, the total sub scriptions, to second Liberty loan bonds in North Carolina tonight rounds out $25,900,000. The State's allotment is $27,000,000. Chairman Jo seph G. Brown, of the State Commit tee, is well pleased, with -the ' results and believes that the final report will show this State very ' little, if any, short of the government allotment. CUMBERLAND WENT $15,000 OVER THE ALLOTMENT Fayetteville, Oct. 29. The .final drive of the Liberty Loan : campaign carried Cumberland county's subscrip tion $15,000 over the mark. A total of $275,000 of the Libertj bonds were sold in this county, against an appor tionment of $260,000; The apportion ment was exceeded Friday.- ' These figures,' given out this morn ing by Chairman John R."- -Tolar of the Liberty Loan Committee, are prac tically complete, though a few last minute subscriptions may have to be added. . , . The Liberty loan cbmittee, co-operating with - the vcbttno'i) . def ence, made en . .energetic - campaign, for the loan-in . this: countr.v witk f gtitfif ying results", he subscriptions, come; from ail" classes of; both : town, and,- country. SATISFACTION TALI NEWS GRADUALLY CLUING - ' . t -' ..Um. '...U1l. - -S INFANTRY FIRST CHOICE OF THE DRAFTED IB Most of Them Express Desire for Service That WiffGet Them to France Quickest ARE THE NATION'S PRIDE i The Boys at the Front and Those Preparing to Go Are All Right," Says Baker Washington, Oct. 29. Most of the young men called for service in the Na tional. Army want to go to Fra,nce as fighting, men -and they want" to get there quickly. Reports from five or six of the big training carrjps, Secretary Baker an nounced tonight, show that when ask ed what they- want to do the great majority of. "the selectmen say they, don't care what; their jobs is to be, justj so they 'get -ta France among the first.! When given a choice between the com-! batant and non-combatant branches most of them elect to be fighters. "The Boy Are All Right." "The boys, at the front and those getting, ready ' to go there are all right," io tne verdict of the Secretary, who recently visited several raining camps in the East and South. "Our Na tion need have nothing but mounting pride -at the spectacle they present." "In these camps," said Mr. Baker's statement, "each man is asked: TVhat do -you want to do?' I have had report from five or six of the largest camps and they show that the majority an swered in enTect: 'I don't care what I do just so I get to France among the first.' The next Question asked them is: 'What branch of the service do you prefer? "Now, one who didn't know America would expect them to say: 'Well, I have been working in a store;' 'I have beeh a hand; on a farm'; 'I have been a me chanic"; 'I hae been a clerk'; 'I don't know much .about g,uns and cannon; perrhapV- isomer -"orrtiiNSr- non combatant places is the. place where I can re"nder the. best service But what is the fact? The Answer. v "These eons and brothers, drawn out of civil life by selection more than one-third have asked to go into then fantry service. The next choice-is the light artillery; the next is the heavy artillery service; the next is the avia tion service. "So that what they asked for in a tremendously predominating majority of instances is, not the non-combatant service for which their previous exper ience might well qualify them, but the fighting branch, so -that they can take the, risk of fighting for their country with the real weapons of war. The boys at the front and getting reardy to go are-all right. Our nation need have nothing but mounting pride at the spectacle they present."' , Part of Classification Work. The. gathering of information as to the men's preference for service is but a small part of the work of classify ing the National Army men that is be ing carried on under the direction of the Committee on Classification of Per sonnel In the Army. Virtually the life history of every man is set down by means of an elaborate card system! the original being sent to -the divisional (Continued on Page Two). STATE BANKS SHOW BIG GAINS IN YEAR Net Increase Enough to Take Care . of Liberty Loan Allotment Statement at Close of Business Sep tember 11 Reveals Marvelous CirowtH 'in Deposits, Resources and IT. S. Bonds Held. (Special Star Telegram) .Raleigh, Oct. 29. A statement of the condition of State banks of North Caro lina' at the close of. business Sept. 11, issued tpday by the Corporation Com mission shows a net increase In re- sources the' past year of $2S, 749,855, practically enough in net increase of resources for the State banks alone to take care of the second Liberty loan bonds assessed against North Carolina. There are 443 of these State banks, in cluding 25 branch bankV The . resources are $132,186,56$. as compared with $103,476,687 for September-one year ago.- The deposits aggregate close; around $100,000,000, a gain of $425,000 for year. The capital stock at this time is $12, 261,907, a gain of $781,257 for the year. The surplus fund is $4,111,907, a gain of $436,217, undivided pronts, 94,021,49, a gain of $607,782. i The ' loans and discounts aggregate $90,674,067, a gain of $18,098,310; over drafts 6U,131, a gain' of $131,628; Unit ed States bonds, $1,206,404- a gain of $l!,803,op4 for rthe year, there haying been only $3,400 in.trnitd States bonds one year as&- : All other stocks bonds anrnvprtgages v aggregated -'.$ 5,9 472 6 S, 564 .lor the year. -: FIRST GERMAN TAKEN BY AMERICANS DIES IN A FIELD HOSPITAL COMMANDER OF tiKBMAX RAIDER SEEADLER A D 5 ' OF HIS CREW CAPTURED A Pacific Port, Oct. 29. Count von Ijuckner, commander of the German raider Seeadler, was captured Sep tember 21 off the Fiji Islands by Fijian constabulary, according to word brought by a steamer arriving today from a trans-Pacific port. Five German members of the See adjer's crev were taken with their commander, officers of the arriving vessel said. The Germans were in an armed launch and were pursued by the constables, who were aboard the steamer Amra. This report of the capture of the Germans con firms a message to this effect receiv ed some time ago from Australia. Just what became of others of the Seeadler's crew Is not known. One report was that they were at sea in a commandeered vessel. . The Seeadler, wrecked on Mopeha Island in the South. Pacific some months ago, sank three American vessels during her cruise in the Pa cific". Previously in the Atlatnio she put an end to 16 vessels of various types. News of the destruction of the Seeadler was announced in Wash ington on Octaber 4th. ASKS INDICTMENT OF Solicitor Clement Presents Bill Be fore Grand Jury in Opening Trial at Concord N MANY WITNESSES PRESENT Nearly a Score Come From New York and Chlcasro Means Is' Charged v "With the Murder of" Mrs. Maude A. Rng. Concord, Oct. 29.-Solicitor, .Hayden Clement today presented to. the Cabar us county grand jury a bill of indict ment charging Gaston B. Means with the murder of Mrs. Maude A. King, of New York: and Chicago, who was shot near here August 29, last. Means, who was Mrs. . King's . business agent, has been held in jail here since September 25 when he was bound over to the grand jury- after " a preliminary hear ing. . Nearly a score of witnesses came here today from New York and Chi cago to aid the State as well asAJtor ney General Manning of North Caro lina, who took part in the prosecution at the preliminary hearing. C. D. Am brose, of the Federal Department of Justice, also returned to Concord. He was here at the preliminary hearing, but did not testify .and no mention was made at that time of Statements given out at District Attorney Swann's office in New York that an investiga tion was being made of reports that Means had been connected with Ger man agents. Chicago Cashier Present. Means and Mrs. King were believed to be preparing shortly before her death to file for probate a second will of her husband, the late J. A. King, of Chicago, which would give her about $2,000,000 at present held in trust for a home for. old men in Illinois and among the new witnesses who came here today was Joseph Cooper, cash ier of the Illinois Trust Company, " to which Mrs: King's first will had deeded the money In trust. . Others From Chicago. Other witnesses from Chicago, who had not appeared at the preliminary hearing but who arrived today, includ ed A. B. Melville ,of the Royal Insur ance Company; E. L. Roclfe, of King, Farnum & Company, brokers; John R. Todd, of the Minoforo; Company; Ed ward F. Mack, vice-president of the Central Trust Company; Leon H. Loher, the insurance department of the Mer chants' Loan & Trust Company; J. I. Ennis, a handwriting expert, and W. D. Rockefeller, managing director of a Chicago hotel. Dooling On the Scene. Assistant District Attorney Dooling of New, York; Dr. Otto Schultz, attach ed to District Attorney Swann's office, and William T. Jones; New York pis- j tol expert, and Dr. ...;am H. Bur- meister, coroners pnysician 01 look county, Illinois, who examined Mrs. King's body when it was taken to Chi cago for burial, also were here, hav ing conferred yesterday with Solicitor Clement. They were witnesses at the preliminary hearing. It was after Dr. Burmelster's report had been made that the case was reopened here. Mrs. King was shot1 while with Means, whose relatives here she was visiting, and a local coroner's jury re turned a verdict of accidental death. ; -0 Report Before Wednesday. Owing to the large number of wit nesses who probably will be examined by the grand Jury", it is not expected that a report will be field before Wed nesday. In the event that a true bill should be returned a special venire would be summoned from which to se lect a' jury for the trial. It is, pointed tint by court officials, and' this would consume: probably two days. There fore the general expectation tonight is that the trial in case of indict ment, would not be-started before the end of -the' week; possibly not before next Monday. . It Is predicted the trial will - consume the - larger part ' of next week.' r; - ' ' t ; AT MEANS Prisoner Was Shot When Encoun tered by a Patrol in Front of American Trenches HE WAS A MAIL CARRIER Letters of Some Value Taken From Him His Companion Es-7 caped Without Injury GERMANS KEPT IGNORANT Captured Man Didn't Know Amer icans Were Even in France With the American Army in France, Oct 29. (by the 'Associat ed Press) The first German pris oner of war taken by the Ameri can expeditionary forces died to day in an American field hospital, having been shot when he encoun tered an American patrol in No Man 's-Land in front of the Amer ican trenches. Ran When Told to Halt. He, with another German, was dis covered Saturday night by the patrol and was called upon to halt. The Ger mans ran; the patrol fired and one of the enemy was hit. The prisoner was treated at a dressing station and re moved to a field hospital where the combined efforts of several surgeons failed to save his, life. The prisoner was a mail carrier and letters of some value were found on him. He explained his presence near the American trenches by saying he had lost his way in the dark. He de clared that the German aoldiers did not know that Americans were on the front or -in JPranee,- the off jeers jtellins them nothing. ,- SNOW FALLS ON THE FRONT f HELD BY THE AMERICANS. With the American, Army in France, Octl 29, (by the Associated Press.); American batteries are continuing to shell the German lines at regular inter vals, the enemy following similar tac tics. . No further official communique has been issued, but there has been no spe cial infantry activity. Snow that fell last night interfered1 with all operations. WILL FACILITATE AMERICAN TRANSPORT SERVICE TO FRANCE 'Washington, Oct.'29j The statement of Capt. Andre Tardieu, head of the special French high commission, that the unloading facilities of French ports have been so improved as to enable discharge of the cargo of a 6,000-ton ship in eight days, Is regarded as of tremendous importance to the American army transport of supplies to the troops at the front and to the Red Cross and, other agencies sending vast quanTTtiea of material to the civil population.. ' Supplementing a general statement made by him a few days ago, that there is no longer the loss of 10 to .15 per cent in efficiency of shipping going to French ports on aocount of delay in Unloading, Captal Tardieu states that the French docks, among which the shipping is carefully distributed on a pre-arranged plan before, they sail from this side, are now able to handle 800,000 tons of goods per' month, more than the average importations at pres ont which do not exceed a total 0 46, -000,000 tons per annum. DOCTOR CHARGED WITH MURDERING HIS BROTHER Body of Prominent Attorney Found In lee House With Head Ont vOff By Large Knife. Richmond, Va.t Oct. 29. Charged with murdering Jtis brother, ; E. A. Chamberlain, an "attorney, after a money settlement, Dr A. W. Chamber lain, a prominent physician, was land ed in Henrico county jail today for safe keeping. He was brought here by Sheriff Massie and ' Deputy -'Sheriff Gathright, of Goochland, becausethey feared summary action Dy incensed farmers. The alleged murder occurred last Monday night in the home of Dr. Chamberlain, at Elk Hill. Dr. Chamber-, fain is alleged to have owed hls.broth er $1,400. He gave a note for $1,200 in settlement. It was announced that E. Jk. Chamberlain was leaving for the west the next day. His absence was noted and Thursday Dr. Chamberlain was arrested on suspicion. On Friday the mutilated body of the attorney was found in ah ice house with the head missing. A large knife was used in the decapitation. ' Cold Wave Warning. Washington, Oct. 29. With" a mini mum temperature of Jwelve degrees below sero in northern Wyoming and the lowest October temperature on re cord at Denver this . morning, thel Weather. Bureau issued a special cold wave warning4 indicating a decided fall in temperature over the Ohio valley,-western-Tennessee northern Mis-' sissippi , and northern Alabama - by night. Freezing or blow Is Indicated for the northern districts and close to freezing for the. south. Lower tem peratures will set; in Tuesday; after noon or night In Atlantic -coast -dis 7 tricts. - . 1 ' .1
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