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THE GAZETTE-NEWS HAS THE,, ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE. IT IS IN EVERT ! RESPECT COMPLETE. :: WEATLTEE FOEECASTj FREEZING. OLUMEXIX. NO. 261. ASHEVILLE, N. 0., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 11, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS 9mI m TEADY, SHORT ADVANCES CLAIMED FOR THE ALLIES LANK WIOUEWIENTS THE NUHNB IGlSTjllSSIlS IS ULSO :ain Activity of 'Germans in East Centered in Move ments of Macken sen's Army. TJBMARINE RAID REPORTED AT DOVER I ERG U.S. REJECTS German Cruiser Which Fled After British Victory Has Been Destroyed by Pur suing Warships. THE DRESDEN IS SAID TO BE BOTTLED UP Jurkish Troops Prevent Dis embarkation of the Russian . Troops Details of the Servian Victory. Battle in Which Three German Cruisers Were Sunk Last ed Five Hours at Inter vals, Is the Report. , Steady but short advances r the allies, including the tak hs of Roulers, 12 miles north- ast of Ypres are reported in fficial statements from the attle front in Belgium and Vance. In the east the Germans are. tempting outflanking move ments against the Russian line buth of Warsaw and engage lienta at various points are be jig fought, the result of which as not been determined. ) Excitement has been caused t Dover, .England, by an all eg i raid on the. admiralty har"; or by German submarines yhetlier the submarines ac iially were seen in the adja cnt waters is not known; but jie forts guarding this import jit harbor opened fire in the arly hours of Tuhrsday, both 'n an unidentified steamer at he entrance of the harbor and that was believed to be a sub marine, the supposed' advance (cont of the flotilla, and kept '.p the bombardment for half In hour. British torpedo boats lut to sea and remained out ,ide during the day. , J A Turkish gunboat has been junk by a Turkish mine at the Intrnnce of the Bosphorus, ac cording to newspaper dis jatchos. I The report that General jJiristian Beyers, the rebel fader in South Africa, had not daeth by the Union forces i confirmed by the finding of lis bodv in the Vaal river. TVtn.Hn of Servian Victory. London, Deo. 11. Reuter's Tele- Tm company has received from Nlsh, ty I a, additional details of the recent verwhelmlng victory claimed by the rvlnns In northwest Borvla. The dispatch says: "Our troops are " pursuit of the enemy whose line Is "''in hard pressed, especially on the ft and In the center." The statement reviews the activities rom December 3 to December 7, In Uislve, and estimates the total num r of prisoners taken as upyards of 2.000, and claims that an immense mount of war material was taken." London, Dec. 11. The German cruiser Numbers, which withdrew from the battle off the Falkland Is lands last Tuesday and attempted to escape In company with the cruiser Dresden while the British warships under Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Doveton Sturdee were sinking the cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Leipzig;, was hunted across the water by units of the British, fleet and sunk the same day. This information was contained In a statement of the official press bu reau. The statement added that search for the Dresden was still pro- rail nil tt; E CHARLOTTE IS IT E II BREAKS , M. JUDD GETS SECY REDFIE1D TWO SALARIES URGES ECONOMY Investigation by Government Health Service on Tuber culosis Serum Proves Unsatisfactory. Next State Baptist Convention Will Meet There, With Rev. T. W. O'Kelly the Con vention Preacher. , POWERFUL PLEA MADE FOR STATE MISSIONS REPORT IS SUBMITTED BY SURGEON GENERAL Louisville Training School Girl Donates Her Ring for the Work It Sells for $90.84. Report Says It Is Not Compe tent to Destroy Virulence of the Disease Not Unlike Others. ceedlng. Although the official press : the report." Gazette-News Bureau, Wyatt Building, Washington, Dec. 11, 1914. In turning his report of the Dr. von Ruck tuberculosis "cure" over to the treasury department, Surgeon General Rupert Blue, In brief, said: "The Investigation was undertaken and carried on with the hope that an important agent for prevention and cure of tuberculosis had been evolved. As the work progressed, however, it became evident that . the specific claims made for the agent could not be , substantiated. This opinion is based on scientific data set forth In fixed mm United States -WtL nal Ap- points Deputy Roussau Without Consulting Sen. Overman. Wake Grand Jury Complains School Superintendent Is Also Professor in University. THE ACTION CAUSES A GRAND JURY CALLS STIR IN WASHINGTON FOR INVESTIGATION Others Were Strongly Endors ed, It Is Said, While Ap pointee Had None at All Precedent Broken. (By Gerald W. Johnson). - Raleigh, Dec 11. Charlotte will be the meeting place of the next Baptist state convention- and Rev. T. W. O'Kelly will' be the preacher of the occasion, with Rev. Clyde Turner of Greensboro for alternate. . Little else of actual business was transacted by the body yesterday, but in spue ol wie jwuciiy oi uusm k w nnnolnted tn fill th vacancy is probable that this well be looked Y on as the climax of the convention; v"cu "6" v for not until yesterday did the fervor , Hampton, who resigned a Gazette-News Bureau, Wyatt Building . . Washington, Dec. 11. Marshal Charles A. Webb by ap pointing J. R. Roussau to a deputy- ship at Wilkesboro without consult ing Senator Overman has caused quite a stir in Washington. Roussau Wise Use of Funds in Public Service Keynote of Report 4 of the Secretary of Commerce. ATTENTION TO TOTALS ' ONLY IS NOT WISE Makes Another Point That Urges Importance of Putting Mr. Judd Was Paid by the United States in Forefront County While Study- in Domestic and For- : ing at Columbia. 1 eign Commerce. . bureau says the British men of war are still seeking for the last -one of Admiral Von Spee's vessels, unofficial reports received In Buenos Aires say the Dresden has been cornered in the tortuous Btraltj of Magellan; ' The battle in which the . Scharn horst, Genisenau and Leipzig were sent to the bottom, according to an admiralty report, lasted five hours with Intervals. The 6charnhorst scok in three hours and the Gneisenau two hours later. No loss of any British vessel has been reported by the admiralty. The destruction of a majority of the ships of the German squadron had an Immediate effect on insurance rates, -and the government rate for Insurance of cargoes against war risk was reduced Immediately from two guineas to one and one-half guineas per cent. One member of Lloyd's who recently has not been accepting any business resumed operation The Im pression prevails among naval men that Admiral Von Spee, realizing that he could no longer keep out of touch with the British and Japanese fleets patrolling tne Pacific decided to en ter the Atlantic and make a run for home, hoping that at least some of his ships would get past the British. Dr. A. M. Stlmson and Dr. J. F. An derson, experts of the public health service made the investigation and the report. In part their report says: 91, '.'We ' havebejen,. unable to. Jroiyiize guinea pigs against virxueni mnerouiar injections by the use of vaccine In doses recommended by Dr. Karl von Ruck and continued for the length of time and longer, which he reports as adequate for this purpose. On the contrary, most of our animals so treat ed exhibited increased susceptibility. "We have been unable to demon strate that the serum of persons or animals treated with the vaccine, and said by Dr. von Ruck to possess the necessary Immune anti-bodies, is com petent to destroy the virulence of the tubercle bacillus. Our evidence shows that such scrum Is not competent to do so. "The Indirect evidence offered by the Drs. von Ruck in proof of the success of the vaccine In producing immunity has been found to be inad equate and faulty. "Their (the von Rucks) methods, says the report, are modern and com prise those generally employed In the best sanitarium practice." TuTilMh Vessel Sunk. London, Deo. 11 An Athens dl lch to the Daily TelcsraDh aava a urklsh gunboat has been sunk by a urklsh mine at the entrancs of the "Phorus. Allies Kntrr Roullcr. Amsterdam. Dec 11. (Via Ion 'm Th allies havs entered Houl r (Romweiaere) In West Flanders. twelvt mile snrthwest of vraa, according to the Bluls .oorres- "naent of the Hsndelsblad. SI E AGAINST THE GERMANS German Admiralty Issues Statement About British Naval Victory. a ..Tmn Statement. H'rlln, Dpo. Wireless to ""Um) The following officio) "ment wan )r.U(,a yesterday at v hilqimrter: "U In officlniiy reported from VI ht the Amtrlin attacks In "rn Hull, ! continue. I'nlan.1 U U quiet alnng the J'hern tul front. The rn.n.)"l -1 Murk. BFIttnet l't,rrkow snln (ConUriur 1 on yuaa Berlin, Dec. 11. The German ad miralty today. In commenting on the British naval victory In the South At lantic, when three German cruisers were sunk, says: 'The British admiralty does not y that our squadron had been on the high seas for four months without communication by cable or otherwise, and without ports where oru vessels could put In for repairs and supplies. Despite these unfavoraoie conamons, however, they had always munaged to set coal." In a previous official statement 1hs dmlralty reproduced the Wrltlsn aa mlralty statement regarding the sink Ing of the German cruisers, and add ed: "Our losses were great Concerning the atrensth of the enemy, whose losses are reported to be very small Ihs English dispatches say .nothing.' U. S. VEATHER BUREAU FORECASTS C01D WAVE Washington, Deo. II. Cold Wather In ell rmrts of the country, at lewtt during the next it hours, is the pre dlrtlon of the United States Weal her huroau todsjr. llelow sero tmpera- t'lrrs were recorded In the nortwedl and tbs frerlng line extended as fr nuih tlis gulf stales- Washington, Dec. 11. A report by the public health service of an In vestigation . requested by the senate Into tuberculosis treatment by Dr. von Ruck of Ashevllle, N. C has been sub mitted by Secretary McAdoo. Surgeon General Blue stated that after full In vestigation at Aslieville and In gov ernment laboratories, the specific claims made for the curative agent 'could not be substantiated." JOSEPH SMITH DIES AND IS SUCCEEDED BY SDN Frederick M. Smith Head of Mormon Church Through Father's Revelation. Independence, Mo., Dec. - 11. A revelation announced eight years ag& by Joseph Smith. . president of the Recognised Church of Latter Day Rulnts, appointed as his sucrsssorhls oldest son, relieved the church from the necessity of choosing a new leader upon the death here yesterday of the patriarch who for fifty-four years had presided over the organi sation. The son, Frederick M, Smith, automatically becomes head of the church. The new president Is 17 years old. Ills designation to succeed his father was ratified by the general confer ence shortly after the father an nounced the revelation. of spirit that is the outstanding fea ture of such gatherings become nota bly manifest. The Wake Forest re port stirred the convention's pride; the state mission report stirred its fc.eart. " ' Last night Dr. A. C. Cree of At lanta had the floor for home mis sions. He made an earnest and pow erful plea for mission work in the southern states. Dr. Cree, correspond ing Hecretary of the home mission board, is a native North Carolinian, and therefore has peculiar influence with the North Carolina convention. Enlistment and woman's work fol-! lowed, and thpir discussion consumed the remainder of the evening. ' MiiUbters are Introduced. In th ilUtfiMMm tii folio-wing min isters were introduced to the . con vention, some of them as recently or dained clergymen and others as new comers to North Carolina: H. F. Lindsay, R. C. Hubbard, W. E. Warren, R. W. Thiot, H. G. Dor sat, L. B. Boney, G. V. Tllley, T. M. Green, G. F. Wright, D. W. White, O. L. Orr, T. A. Tatum, C. H. Yearby, A. W. McDanlel, A. W. Claxon, R. R. Lanier, H. A. Powell B. V. Ferguson and S. T. Hensley. ..ot the least Impressive figure of the gathering was Rev. C. S. Smith, of Fayetteville, oncet Uiylted States minister to Liberia, and now presi dent of the negro Baptist state con vention, who came to bring the greet ings of his race to their white breth ren. He is an eloquent speaker and made a rousing address some fifteen minutes long. The Baptist Young People's union was the main order of business for the afternoon, The report was road by Rev. T. B. Davis and spoken to by Rev, ;. A. Martin, of Thomas ville. Cluirlotte is Chosen. The committee on place of meet ing then reported that It had choen Charlotte for the gathering place, and recommended that the convention go there on the understanding that tne Harvard plan of entertainment was to be adopted, but oh motion of Rev. W. C. Barrett consideration of this recommendation was postponed. Charlotte offered entertainment re gardless of the Harvard plan. Dr. T. W. O'Kelly, pastor of the First Baptist church of Raleigh, was chosen to preach the convention ser mon, wun iiev. . lyue l urner, pastor of the First Baptist church of Greensboro, lor alternate. At 4:30 the convention adjourned to the chapel at Meredith . college, where the students furnished a recit al under the direction of the depart ment of music. It proved to bs one of the most delightful Incidents of the meeting. Pretty Incident. A letter from an unknown woman caused the Baptist state contention to shatter Its own precedent and take up a collection at this morning's session. The incident, one of the prettiest that has occurred during the meeting, took place during the dls- cusnlon on state missions, a depart ment of the denominational work that Is attracting peculiar attention this year because of the fact that there Is a debt hanging over It. The debt, by the way, has been reduced to $8,600. but It Is a debt stllL ' Dr. Livingston Johnson, corres ponding secretary of the state mis sion board, was speaking of the dif ficulties under which ths boui had ago., It is the usual custom for the mar shals and collectors of internal reve nue to consult the two senators be fore making appointments, It having been decided soon after the demo crats came into power that the depu ty positions wre senatorial patron age. In this case, however, Senator Overman's first knowledge of Rous sau's appointment or that he was be ing considered, wad conveyed to the Junior senator In a telegram from Marshal Webb which was later con firmed by letter. J. H. Johns, H. G. Mlnton and I V. Baugns had strong indorsement for the place. So far as is known In Washington, Roussau had no in dorsement at all. H$ is a young man and it is said only attained his ma jority a short time before the last election. Had Senator Overman been ad vised as to the proposed . appoint ment there is no doubt that he would have Consulted Congressmen Page and Doughton. There Is also no doubt had this been done Roussau would not have been given the appoint ment . S NO DIED UST IB Death Due to Heart Failure Prominent Political Ca reerAged 71. 'ot RorogntxWL Washington, Deo. 11. The minis ter from Haiti, Solon Menos, has con ferred with state department oftk-lnls In regard to affair In his country. The new government f Darllmar Theodore, the revolutionist, hna not tien reoomtxed and Secretary Bryan tie Indicated It will not be recognized until firm conditions have been stab-Mnhed. Washington, Dec. 11. Representa tive Sereno E. Payne, of New York, died suddenly of heart failure at his apartments here last night. Mr. Payne had retired to his room apparently In robust health. He tele phoned the apartment house clerk about 11 o'clock asking that a phyil- clon be sent for. When the clerk reached the room the congressman was dying, and life was extinct before the dortor arrived. Mr. Payne, who was 71 years old, lived alone, nnd at midnight his body iny waiting for the coroner without friends or relative near. His wife died three years ago and no one could be found lost night who knew the address of his only son Members of congress who had seen Mr. Pnyne on the floor of the house yesterday, active as usual, knew noth Ing of his death for more than an hour. A representative from New York In every congress except one, since 188 J Mr. Payne was chairman of the win and means committee and republican floor leader In 180-10, and directed the drafting of ths Payne-Aldrlch tariff bill. He was born at Hamilton N. T.. June 2, 1843. He practiced law and was district attorney of Cay uga county and In 1183 was elected a member of congress from the twenty-sixth district Later his district was the thirty-first and finally he rep resented ths thirty-sixth. In 18(8 hs was appointed a member of Joint labored for ths last few weeks of the ,hlh commission to negotiate a treaty fiscal year when every day mads the with Canada. He bad made his home outlook appesr gloomier. He spoke J at Auburn. N. Y., for years, though high praise of the loyalty and devo tion of the Baptist women of ths state, who contributed $10,609 to msJ mtsHlons this year, much of It th proceeds Of bitter sacrifices. "I want to read you something," he aid. "This Is a letter received by Hrother Walters Durham, treasurer of the convention. Just before the books cloeed." - Hs read: "Louisville, Ky. Ter Mr. Trham I am sending (Continued on pece I) most of his time was spent In Wash ington. As one of the foremost tnrlfT author ities In congress, Mr. Payne was a not able flKure among the republicans of the house long before he became chairman of the ways and means com-) mlttee and framed the republican tnr lfT doctrine which stood until repealed by the Underwood law. Four women In Babylon, have taken out licenses to (ulna. (By W. T. Bost). Raleigh, Dec. 11. The visit ot Superintendent Zebulon Judd, of the Wake county schools and professor of rural education at the university, to Raleigh today is expected to add a chapter to the action of the Wake county grand Jury in calling for an Investigation of the school affairs of the county. The Jury's report Wednesday brought to the surface feeling that iew weekBjhas been rampant in political clrcies and put the matter squarely up to the authorities. Throughout two years at least, efforts have been made to get a grand Jury report on the schools, but postponements have been talked down. .Like everything that happens in Wake politics, "they say" there is the Senegamblan in the woodpile. . The complaint of the grand Jury is that Mr. Judd draws a salary of "more than $2,000" as superintendent of the Wake schools and that he also draws a salary from the Btate univer sity. It is understood here that law yers have advised very generally that this is not a violation of the law as neither position comes within the meaning of the statute. The grand Joiry makes the point that " Mr. Judd received hlfl salary while studying at Columbia and there , qualified for the university professorship at county expense. Back of all this is another very In teresting story. Mr. Judd defeated Prof. W. G. Clements, former coun ty superintendent, and Mr. Clements has rarely left the young professors trail. It was one of the grand Juries upon which a son of Professor Clements served that insisted upon carrying this case Into the courts. It was not hard to get the point. The anti-Clements people, and they, are mighty numerous, held this up to show the political bias. The grand Jury that came in for perhaps the highest praise from a court was that one upon which L. B. Crow, cash ier of the Commercial National bank. served and that Jury did not take up the Judd inquisition. And the antl Judd men made use of the point that Mr. Crow Is a member of the board of education. Thus the thing went for months until Wednesday a grand Jury made recommendations 1 that carry cause for explanation. Board With Him. There has never been any question as to where the board of education stands. It Is pro-Judd with every foot up. It sanctioned his Columbian course and granted him full salary. Professor Judd has had a remarkable school career here and the board has sat In his corner. He is now holding down the two Jobs and the board seconds him. The county is stirred up. A statement Is expected today, with the trimmings, perhapa The funeral services over John W. Brown, well known business man and undertaker of the city who died Wednesday morning, were held yes terday afternoon at 3:30 from Eden- ton Street Methodist church, of which he was a member. Mrs. H. H. Crocker, wife ofchlef deputy in the office of Sheriff J. H. Heart, died Wednesday night after a long illness and was buried this af ternoon. Tobncro Sales Large. Ths great record ror November sales of tobacco during the 1918-14 season was beaten nearly 17,000,000 pounds In November of 114 and ths weed Is being marketed with almost unpredecented speed. Tobacco Is doing ths duty of both cotton and tobacco and the state de partment accounts for the rapidly Increasing sales by the absence of a cotton market. Whll ths pries of he weed la not quits so good as it was last year, It holds up well and there la no limit to ths demand. The department likewise gets bet ter reports than ever. The law requir ing return of sales every month Is being better obeyed and the amount sold Is actually approxlbsted each month. Th sales for October and November Indicate a larger crop by many millions of pounds than the 1(13 cutting showed. The November Record. The November record was 44.208, 824. The first hand sales wers 17, (94.4 72 pounds nnd dealers sold I, (57,(17, The re-ssles amounted to 2.252.418 and ths first hand sa'es best the entire sales last yeer. No. vember of 1913 ehowed 37.451. 889. It Is believed here that Notth Ortv Una will train surpnes Vlrtlnla and KsntucKy, hitherto ths tobhoco states L. I., ahoot Washington, Dec. 11. Economy In the public service is the keynote of the annual report of Secretary Red- field, of the department of commerce. In summarizing the work of the many bureaus of his departure he under takes to suggest a wise use of govern ment funds. ' "If attention were directed not to totals but to the wise use of funds," said Secretary Redfleld, "so that tho latter should be made to produce the utmost possible service, much would be accomplished that Is now hardly suggested or attempted. Every Indus trial manager knows that economy requires his plant to be kept up in the best productice condition. It is not economical, in order to save a total expenditure, to allow the plant to run down and then have to build It up again.' This does not save money, but lOBes It. Economy of this kind is not economy at all. It merely Involves & cycle of expensive changes, costly In themselves and more costly in their results. 1 "If, instead of arguing upon totals, h without regard to whether the money which comprises these totals has beer spent wisely or unwisely, care wer centered on the need for expenditure and for the wisdom with which ths need is met, money could be saved that will otherwise continue to be lost." Foreign Trade. Summarizing the work of the last year in promoting foreign trade, Mr. . Redfleld says: "The United States is one of th three foremost commercial nations. It Is essential to Its prosperity that It should be inferior to no other country In Its governmental system for the fos tering and protection of its trade, both domestic and foreign. Such a system is now firmly established. In foreign countries the admirable trade-develop ment work which the consular officers of the deparement of state carry on is now to be supplemented through thn service of a corps of commercial at taches, which will fill a gap hereto fore existing in our organization ns compared with that of other nations. These, with the group of special trav eling investigators or commercial agents who continue the valuable technical studies of markets abroad, constltuto for the first time in the for eign field a complete and well-balanced system of federal aid to trade in foreign lands. . . "The Bpecial fund for promoting commerce In CenUal and South Amer ica, of which 80 per cent Is allotted ti field investigation and the remainder in Washington, should be continued and supplemented, as a permanent oc cupation of Latin-American markets la the only wise policy for our gov ernment to support" Various phrases of the work of in vestigating commercial conditions In the United States are reviewed at length. "The Important work which con gress assisted In collecting costs of production of articles subject to Im port duty has been, actively carried on In two branches of Industry. A survey of the earthenware pottery In dustry In the United States and Eu rope has Just been completed, and most practical and Valuable results have been obtained. Over (0 per cent of the American potteries wers inves tigated, and no more complete study of an Industry, It is believed, was ever made. A similar study of the great clothing Industry Is now In progress. Several Investigations commenced by ths bureau of corporations In prior years remained uncompleted at ths beginning of the fiscal year covered by this report, namely, lumber, tobacco, agricultural Implements, state corpor ation taxation, fertiliser and petro leum. Work on all except ths last two was Initiated before the present administration. 'Substantial progress was made In all of these Investigations, and except for state taxation of corporations and the last two Investigations Just men tioned, they were nearly completed during ths fiscal year under considers, tton. A more definite statement of ths matters reported on by the btirfmt during ths fiscal year Is given beli.w; "Apart from a general Investigation of certain legal and economic proh. lema relating to proposed eg1lBtli.n. which Incluflrd a study of foreign 1-, (Continued on pegs () of the country. The Tar 1I1 wns wortfi 000,000 more t: was litnt year.
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