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GITIZE M THE WEATHER: FAIR. CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS. VOL. XXXI, NO. 50 ASHEVILLE,N. C. FRIDAY MOILING, DECEMBER 11, 1914. PRICE FIVE CENTS THE ASEE1 W1 e m ' N SHOOTING ACROSS mem T IIUJI Such is Warning Sent to Gu , tierrex and Carrarm From Washington. OPPOSING CHIEFS - ARE WARNED ALIKE American Shells, Aimed By ' American Gunners, to Talk in Future. v WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. The United State hag served formal no-, tic on both Provisional President Gutlerees and General Carrania that vnleas they . prevent their troops fir ing cro8a the American boundary, uch force will be employed by this country as la" necessary to protect 'American territory. - In the moat threatening expression from the Washington government sine diplomatic correspondence with General Huerta before the occupation of Vera Crus, the chiefs of the two factions opposing each other t Naco, across the Arisona town of the same name, were warned that firing across the line must ' cease. 4 Mewtgee Heat. The messages were to be conveyed by American Consul Canada to Gen eral Carranza at Vera Crux, and by American Consul Billlman to General Gutierrez at Mexico City. They lett here late last night and answers are not -expected oeiore tomorrow. The peremptory tone of the com munications did not become general ly known unf.il tonight, although' the sending of field artillery to' Naco was explained previously as meaning that the Mexican forces would be shelled out of their positions and driven sev eral miles from the line of .firing , into the United States continued. The messages pointed out that sev eral Americans have died of wounds received from bullet tired from Mexi can territory and that the United vrmiH jnayiuiwna tag ni. wmuuu- ln'plwlhlr i-forces at Naco. . , ' i ; Torn to Chiefs. ' The Washington government statsd that it now turned to the respective chiefs to whom the contending gen erals are supposed to owe allegiance asking that tttey be warned immedi ately against further violations of American rights. Tt the Chiefs cannot end the reckless firing the United States government pointed out un equivocally that !ts duty will be to protect American lives by force. Ths American rovernment made It clear, Incidentally, that 11 had no Idea of invading Mexican territory or In terfering with the right of the Mexi can People to settle their own dis putes. Brigadier General. Tosker H. Bliss, lately named assistant chief-of -staff f the army, Is in personal charge at Taco with three batteries of field ar tillery and eleven troops of cavalry. The general belief here is' that it will not be necersary to use force, as' it Is understood proposals are be ing exchanged between Maytoren and Hill whereby the contending col umns are to retire a fixed .distance from the border, creating virtually s neutral cone. The Naco affair will constitute a girecedent for the United States gov rnment In future. No. further firing across the line will be tolemted, ac cording to the decision of PreMdent Wilson and bis cabinet. I Was Charged With Reveal ing Contents of Tele graphic Message. ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEW YtRK, Dec. 10 The bond f $1,000 furnished b; H. L. Under was declared forfeited today by the court of general sessions wlten Under failed to appear to plead formally to sn Indictment charging him with hav ing violated Section 65J' of the penal law In revealing the contents -of r telegraphic messace sent out by The Associated Press. Under was a Pos-l tal telegraph operator In the efftne of the New York Oiobe. After Under had testified before the grand Jury, indictments . were found against James Rio, telegraph manager of the New York News bu reau. end WliHam H. Patlon, who inducts a spirting noes service, cliarging them with n'r,7rfin.v b tainlng possi-sslon of ar.d w-"tfu!iy revealing tin content." ft t:'.enuios sent out by The Associated Vrn. Patun is still at the Tcmbs. having been unabU la furnish the tl 003 ho .eA in ii's lase Rise ts at Ueeity under f C.eOO bend. Both ploaird not guilty 111 El IE BE STOPPED N URN BERG SAME FATE AS HER SISTER WARSHIPS Run Down by British Fleet arid Sunk Dresden Cornered in Magellan StraitsBattle Still Raging in Po land, is Report. ' '. LONDON, Dec. 10. (8:50 p. in.) The ' German cruiser Nurnberg, which withdrew from the battle off the Falkland Islands last Tuesday and attempted to escape in company with the cruiser warships under Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Doveton btur dee were sinking the cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Leipzig, was hunted across the water by units of the British fleet and sunk the same day. Dresden Cornered. This information was contained in a. statement of the British official press bureau made public today. The statement added that search for the Dresden was still proceeding. Although the official press bureau says the British men of war are still seeking for the last one' of Ad miral von Spee's vessels, unofficial reports received in Buenos Aires say theiMsden has been cornered in the tortuous Straits of Magellan. Whether these reports are true or not is believed in admiralty circles here that the Dresden, even though she is a somewhat faster boat than those sunk in Tuesday's battle, eventually will be brought into action. . The battle in which the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Leipzig were sent to the bottom, according to an admir alty report, lasted five hours with intervals. The Scharn horst sank in three hours and the Gneisenau two hours later. No loss of any British vessel has been reported by the admiralty. Insurance Rates Drop. The destruction of a majority of the ships of the Ger man squadron had an immediate effect on insurance rates, and the government rate for insurance of cargoes against ' i "1 t . i ' ... a . i .... ' VL . ... A. . war riSK was reaucea. lmmeoiaieiy irom two guineas w one and one-half guineas Lloyds who recently has not resumed operations. The naval men that Admiral von Spee, realizing that he could no longer keep Mit of touch with the British and Japanese fleets patrolling the Pacific, decided to enter the Atlantic and make a run for home, hoping that at least some of his ships would get past the British. This move, it is said was anticipated by the admiralty and Vice Admiral Sturdee was sent south to head off the Germans before they could get well into the Atlantic and scatter, which would have made their capture more difficult. Daring .LONDON, December 11. (OOMTIHUKP ATTEMPTED TO DIRECT ACTS OF STATE TROOPS Such is Testimony of Adju tant General Before In dustrial Commission.' HEARING DELAYED. DENVER. Col.. Dec. 10. Former Judge Jesse C. Northcut, attorney for the Colorado coal operators, attempt ed to direct the acts of the state troops while they were In charge of the southern strike district, accord ing to Adjutant iener.il John Chase, commander of the state troops, who appeared ; a witness today before fhf ,f.nim;siiion on industrial rela tions. :hc only civilian wo toatilled to Uy .van M. I.. Uvi. keeper of ths Colo-ado ncT Southern railroad pump hoii.c adjo'.ntaj thi liidlow , colony. Lev f'c J ("roni tHe pump l-.ouse acrosj, the L.ii0iow hattier'clc, he said, cann ing little dangrster, after more th.;n '.wo hundred bullets had gone thrench l"'-s hoa. TJie hearing wj d.'syed for a short timn by Captafn Phillip 8. Van Clse'e r.rtunal to divulge prooedings of the inquiry by the mllltarj' commission, tvhich took plu'e under an oatn of errcy.: Raleased from his oath by Adjourn General Chase, Van Clue de mndd also to be released by Gov ernor .mmons. who told him te "use Ms Judgment.". - Van Clse thereupon refml to testify. Captain Harold J.- Garwood, com manding a military cavalry troop, ,tet!fte.t that lieutenant Carry lw ine. wf the state Infantry, recruited Sttee.w er1 twenty 1 mlno geards-Hnte the Infantry, although he had no In tructlens to do so. OPERATORS' COUNSEL MEETS Dresden, while the British entW" been accepting any business, impression prevails among Raid. (12:32 a. m.) Half a ON PAGE FIGHT.) S Rosseau Appointed Deputy Marshal to Succeed Hampton. NO CONSULTATION. (By George H. Manning.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. Embar rassment and annoyance was plainly written on the faces of several mem bers of the North Carolina delega tion here 'today when Word m. r. celved from Charles A. Webb of Ashe vllle, marshal for the wentern dis trict, that he had appointed J. R. ItoMieau, of Wilkes county, to be deputy marshal to succrnd no,itv Hampton of Ashe county. h signed. It Is usual for marshals, col lectors and diMrtct attorneys to con sult the Honntors and ciiurrMmn before making appol.itmenu on their start, but Webb did aot do this. The removal of Hampton from Ashe county to Wilkeeboro and hi fatinr te recelre increased salary caursd him to neglect ms outy, resulting In bis resignation. Congressman Page wanted have J. It. Jones of Wilkes oantv n. pointed. Congressman Doughton wanted another Aehe county man ap pointed, a h elalmed his district had no patrontae, while Page had plenty. Berstor Overman and other congress men Visa bad candidates. Cor Jtresman Doughton hae recom mended the appointment of Robert V. Rrawley a postmaster at States vllle. "Cotiertor Watts, w?ia irmij todsr: said be has np business, but U Just "raoafloBlag. ' mMmm MILITARY PREPAREDNESS AGAIN DOMINANT SUBJECT; SECRETARY 1 i ) i Head of the Navy Department Expreese the Belief That the Two Battleship Pro gram is A4equateSaya When War, ia Over European Countries Will Be WASHINGTON, beo. lXltHar prepared oras of the nalloB was again the dominant subject of coorression al attention today,. Secratary -Dan tela, before tho house naval ooromittea, defended his two btUtlsehlpa year construction program and declared tht sert;lmant of tha people of the Uni ted State opposed turning the coun try into a great m'tary power. Mean Urn . a : fret-f ora 1 J national dafones debate occupied tt,hMttly:'& Mr. Daniels dm ln aa all day eg. amlnatton said tWs ooarttry .alreadj naa powerful fn that -while !wWt afctmatkwt t ,ei.WmlM tavw tha gcnardl . board' ' four bat taleahlp plan vi thought thatwo bat. tleshlp plan, hethought the two baL aa opinion as to the word military sit uation at the close of the European war the secretary predicted an inter, national conference on armament, "When the wax i over,'' he Mid. 'Ithoae countries will be so exhausted In their resources and burdened with debt that there will be a great revul. skm against war. I expect - the re vulsion will be so great that we will have an International conference on armament more possible now Khan ever beforeand that we will get eoms action by which the navies of the world powers will be used only to car ry Into execution the agreements th countries reach." Oardncr Heart, , Representative Gardner precipitat ed the military discussion on the house floor with a speech criticising the ad ministration for "laying the cold hand of death" on Ma proposal for special Investigation of military and naval conditions. He assailed the rules com mittee for refusal to grant him a hearing, and the naval and military committees for failure to summon be fore them former cabinot official! and other witnesses he wanted exam ined. "If war were to break out today," aald Mr. Gardner, "It would be found our coast defenses have not sufficient ammunition for an hour's fighting." - Representative Fitzgerald of New York, replied briefly, and promised to make a complete statement later which would make "Notoriety seek. BANK CASHIER LEAVES . STATEPENITENTIABY R. H. Alford Returns to Kenly to Begin Life Anew. RALEIGH, Dec. 10 .It. 11. Alford, former cashier of a bunk at Kenly, re ceived a cordial farewell from author ities at the state's prltton this morning and , passed out of the prison and stockade a free man, determined to start life over again with his wife and children at Xenly, where towns people Jtave mprwwd confidence In him and urged upon "iovemor Craig that he be vardoned. Alford's sentence wa five years and he has Jus finished two years ser vice With a model record. Recently a big delegation of Cltl- ens pi Ken'.y and friends In this cltl were given a hearing In the interest of pardon. ; Secretary of the Navy Joacphtis Dartels was emong those who put In special pleas for the par don to be granted. Governor Craig says Alford turned over to the bonk all bis property and tt wv evident that he did not !ntnd to defraud the bank, but was gradually Involved.' '' lEJREATi1 GIL WASHINGTON. .Dec.. 1. Poreooet for North Carolina: Pair Friday A Hot Shot DANIELS EXPLAINS HIS VIEWS cxnawteaExaminea at lAngttu .1 ; Ing ex -secretaries" teat anxious to die cuss me nauenai aerense. ' uepresen. tatlve Dies, x Texas, ridiculed the thought of Impending danger of at tack. Representative Bisson of Mis sissippi, charged tse "war propagan da" to the manufacturers of war ma terlaL, Representative . Prouty, of Iowa, pleaded for international dis armament, arbitration, and an Inter. ' national police, declared a; force ol trained squirrel shooters could v; pre vent the landing of a; hosxllt fonts on AJnerinert tolL'l'; J-Yi"' S r1 Todar Tdiscusslan ... awmed tot threaten a prolonged general debate on ! both sides of the oapltol. In the senake tomorrow the military situation will be discussed by Senator Weeks of Massachusetts. , fiecretary Daniels will continue his statement before the house committee.,. ;..'...,, :' Mr. Daniels was cross questioned sharply by the oommlttee members to day regarding 'the difference between his views and those of the general board, whose four battleshdp plan con templates completion of a fleet of forty-eight battleships by 1111, The' secretary said the board had recommended an annual Increase ot two bsittleehtye unUl congress, ap propriated for only one, and then the board changed to a four battleship progrnm. There are now forty bat. tleshlps built, building and authorised, he said, adding that with autthorlra tlon of two ships a year in lilt, ltU and 117 "we would be only two ship behind the original program.' Chairman Padgett said (he gea oral board In HOt recommended four battleships when "we were only tw battleships behind the program and they have kept up the four program since. The board says It has con sistently adhered to the urogram they inaugurated in 1903. They have not done so." ' - "Their Idea of four battleships was to catch up so as to get forty-eight by 1919," explained the secretary, "You have confidence in the gen eral board ?' asked Mr. Roberts. "I have great confidence la the board." "Have we all the 'mother ships' GENII BUSS TIKES I Prepares to Prevent Mexi cans From Firing Across American Border. NACO, Arif.. Dec. 10 BiiKadlH General Tasker H. B1U, who arrl'.'e here today to take charge of Ameri can troops guarding the border, mau his first exAmlnutlon of the sltuiuinn under fire. Two buileis fired In tbo battle on tli .Mexican side . of thu boundary paused perilously .near ths general and his staff as he was exam ining a bonA proof near the Immi gration station, uibout 100 feet north of the international line.'- , Soldiers etiardln? the immigration stMlon are protected by three- bomb proofs and by a line of loaded- coal cars drawn up between the American town and the border," but a break in the line of cars hod been left to permM accese to the border.1 General 011m wai near the brek when the bullctj whistled through.' ' . .-. ) ' Scores of bo'.lots fell ou American territory' today, i The American -town is less than s quarter of a mile wide end scarcely a building has escaped being struck, .v' ' ' ' ' 1 'Mesas gee rcelTl tonight indicate! nnriheT"three7T5aflerles "of 'rpltiJ States artillery wotfld arrive from U ?aso tomorrow. (tenders) on hand or authorised, nec eeaary for the fifty-nine submarines, built, building or authorised T" The secretary said no, but that enough could be Improvised. , "In the need el other, things," ; said, 'W can get along without putting stny, more money in 'mother shlpa' It U not expected or contemplated to us all of the submarines at one time." Thirty submarines are completed. With three ell tank- ships altogether, the navy, he thought; would get along very well When the Atlantic fleot went to Mexloetifr.'JXuilels said, fee found if easy to buy and improvise a hospital ship In three weeks, ; ; "' Flghtiiig Ships, v" " Myheory" h said,' 'Ms ,that we Should put all the money available for construction lio our fighting shps, and not auxllarles," v -; Secretary Daniels said submarines presented a great problem, there had been much trouble over engines and batteries. .He asked the oommlttee to authorise $100,000, for a battery from Thomas A. Edison, which he said. If tt did the work Mr. Edison thought It would do, would solve the whole sub marine problem, i , Mr. Daniels declared the building of submarines was most difficult, and that whsn they were built they sel dom fulfilled promises made for them. "Now," he said, "we have bought ma terial and are beginning to build submarine ourselves at ; the Ports mouth navy yard. I believe we have got to come to building them ; our selves." He said that at one time he had contemplated purchase of sub marines In Germany and France with a view to finding out their methods. ; Three Heard From. Referring to the disappointments- in submarine efficiency, the tertiary reminded the committee that "out ot 200 submarines that Germany . and England together have, the vorll has heard of tha achievements of only niree." '..'"',; Representative llobson v.luA the newspaper reports that England was building fifteen capital ships for de flvery In 1116, more than three times her average program; Germany nine. (Continued on Page Elcht) TS Would Also Ask Warring Nation to Declare Truce Over Christmas. WASH1XGTOV, Dec. 10. Kood, clothing or any commodity which would serve to prolong Uho Euroen war, as well as contraband woujd be barred from export through a bill In trodueed today by Senator Works. Direct prohibition of export would exclude "food, clothing, supplies, arms ammunition, horses, or war Supplies of any kind, whether the same be contraband of war or not." ' ' , v Senator Kenyon introduced a reso lution to request the warrlnir nations In the ; name of the American Con gress to declare a twenty lay truce over' the holidays, hajthr v Chris tian people of the world may fltttnsly observe the ChrUitmas seiisnn,'1; and with "the hope Ibat such Jeiw.ticA oi hoetllKlcs ,msy stltmilate reflection upon the part of jjch nations as to the meaning and spirit of the Christ mai'tlme "and' liattiere""inay"' come again on earth peace and good will to ,ward men." PROHIBIT ALL EXPOH HEALTH SERVICE MAKESHEPORTTO SENATE 0 SERU Dr. Stimson Closes Inquiry Into Merits of Von Ruck' ' Vaccine on Senate Order SATS CLAIMS TO DATE NOT CONPHUin) Dr. Karl von Ruck Makes Strong Reply Charglirj Prejudice, (By Oeurg II Manning.) WASHINGTON. D. C. Dec. le-Ths clahns of pre; Karl and Silvio Von Ruck of Ashevllle,, that they hare discovered a serum. Which When In. Jeoted into people and animals y a Process similar to vaccination to pre vent smailpo, will make them Im mune from tuberculosis are not en dorsed by the United States publle health service in report made to the senate today, oe the result of a rexo-' lutlon calling for the Investigation In troduced about eighteen months age by Senator': Overman, ;ipt'Sr J ' The report fully reviews the investl. tatton carried on by Dr. a. M. stim son, from August , lti, to October II, 1114, at Ashevllle and WaeMna ton, i Surgeon Stimson, the report says, worked with the Von Rucks el their sanitarium In Ashevllls for two months. a They then disagreed as tt the right of the government exneit to eonduct experiments of his n, separate and distinct from those car-, rled on Jointly with the Von T udi In the Ashevllle laboratory, Tl is re sulted in Stimson leaving A-Lev r.' i end removing his animals to tlie I v genlo laiboratory at Washington, whe, i he completed his Investigation. .The Wlnyah sanltaiinm,' eonductf 1 by the Von Rucks, the report . !, 4 well managed Institution. and Investigations showed tht t methods of Von Ruck la the lahcui. tory were such as to cause hbn tt conduct his own experiment l ' ' -pettdsntly. The rtnults s" " 1 i Von Rack, ee plwM rn t' r books, ere nut cuni.iu. Kj, t j0 - m.w .' ; .. Limited Inquiry. . ' The flndlnge of the public . health service are summed up briefly In the "conclusions" which read in part V follows! fThls report concerns Itst lf with the-methods and practices of Doctors Karl and tWvIo Von Ruck at applied to the prevention and cure of tuberculosis during the time of the Investigation and not as to what they may have been at some previous time' or what the prospects as to their u ture may be,' - . . ' "At the time of the' Investigation the Doctors Von Ruck were unable te furnish evidence of a satisfactory na ture In support' of their contentions regarding certain fundamental phe nomena upon which .their system of specific therapy 4s based, nor were the investigators svbls by "individual eo (ContlrmHl from Pere Trtrem. :e IIIUl i WITH C0E11 GPilS State Farm is Reported Bvt Chairman Varner to Be in Good Condition, -i . CONVICT SYSTElt RALEIOH, Dee. 16, The biennial report of directors of the stats's .pris on, filed this afternoon with Governor1 Craig by Chairman Varner, for tha general assembly, shows 110,100 bal ance in the treasury, with II t,7l cur rent bills against ths prison outstand ing. -; , - ; ';H'. u-j-.v; ';'lr The report shows OS convicts' ea gaged on contract work distributed as follows: Elkln and Allerhanr rail road, 221; Watauga and Yadkin' 56; Sratesflllfl Air Line, 4; Hickory Nut Gap highway, tf ; Madison county highway, ti, ' , . It is set out that the prison W re ceiving credit , on the books of. the state treasurer of $350 Per day for the convicts at work on Elklri and AI leghaney; $t per day tor those on Watauga- and Yadkin. Convicts on other contract, work, bring ho revenue and the .prison has had to expend $60,111 tor mainten ance of these convicts which added to the loss through no revenue from the work on etateevlUe 1 AH Une' makes $117,573 total losses to the prison the past two' years through this system. The report sets out that the state farm Is in excellent condition and in sists that a thorough study: of condi tions would tompletoly . i eliminate whatever sentiment there may ba In ithls state for scillne the state farm. The prison-gets $87,500 for its state farm -cotton toward . maintaining its convict; sjWem. Jncreasinjc tenjencv to retain able bnrtled crn i-i f..r I' county chalngang an.l i physically unfit to t' geporteu, t
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