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THE WEATHER FAIR. J. AmEmMJE CITIZEN CITIZEN WANT ADS : BRING EESTJLTS k VOL. XXXin,NO. 62. r ASHEVILLE, N. 0., SATXIRDAY. jMORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1916. FRICE FIVE CENTS BUOYANCY IRKS NEW YORK MARKET FOLLOWING SLUMP Demoralization of Thursday Gives Way To Recoveries of Chief Stocks. RECOVERY STARTS WITH OPENING GONG Setbacks Take Place During Day But Are Quickly Overcome. EARLY REPLY TO WILSON'S PERCE NOTE IS UNLIKELY ACCORDING TO DISPATCHES Taking No Chances Allies Must Discuss Question With Each Other Before Taking Any Action On Note Washington Watching Expres sions of Opinion in the Press. NEW TORK, Dec. 22. Buoyancy nmrked the stock market today. The clump of the last fortnight, which culminated in yesterday's demoraliza tion, gave way to recoveries of five to ten points in the better known stocks and considerably more in is sues of an ultra speculative class. On today's extreme recoveries num erous shares fully regained yester day's losses, while a few were at or above final quotations of Wednesday. The rebound was effected on a much smaller volume of operations about 1,750,000 shares against the tremen dous outpouring of more than 8,000, 000 shares Thursday. y Better understanding. ' Outstanding factors today were the better understanding of the Interna tional situation based upon reports from Washington and other centers of importance and the support given by investors who quickly availed themselves of the "bargains" offered at yesterday's decline. Today's recovery began et the opening, when stocks of all descrip tions showed gains of 3 to 8 points Setbacks of S io5 points, occasioned by" professional profit-taking, oc curred during the morning with dull ness and some hesitation at midday, when the speech by King George be came public. Best prices were recorded in -the last hour, when the market again be came active and trading was broader, than at any previous time of the day. idesing quotation were at or. near the day's maximums, greatest strength .being, shown by yesterday's weakest shares. Steel Gains. United' States Steel gained more than six points; American Woolen, 6; American Hide and Leather pre ferred. - 8:! .- Central Lether. 11 t8; American Xcoinot)ye f . 3-8; .Ameri can woojen, -aumiu , vrun n Tuecatrm3 Marine preierrea ana "- Qr forUnited Fruit: Baldwin' Loeomtf- tivef v Bethlehem- SteWlrCM no-Copper. 7 1-8, with 8 '1-4 for Ana conda -l-2 tor Oranby .and-3 -to 6 lor other metals! Lackawanna Steel, 7; Crucible Steel, 7; the Motors, 8 to 7; Petroleums from S to 10; New York Airbrake, 12 1-4: Republic Iron; 5 1-2, and Pittsburgh coal, 6. Rails mads more moderate, head way, but advances of 2 to 4 . points were general ' with 3 to 10 In issues of varied classifications Including Sears-Roebuck; Sugars, Tobaccos,- and 14 for Industrial Alcohol. - " Money ruled at easy rates, with in dlcations ' of another" cash gain- in; to morrow a bank statement. Addition a) increased dividends were an nounced. including the five per cent disbursements by the Corn Products company and the general situation was fortified by the -statements of Mercantile agencies reporting the largest general retail trade ever known. PUBLIC HEARINGS III THE WASHINGTON. Dee. 2. While nothing official came from Europe to day to show when the belligerents will reply to President Wilson's note urg ing discussion of peace, or what the nature of the responses might be, the London news dispatches Indicating that an early reply was unlakely be cause of the necessity of consultation between the'aftles agreed with' the view prevailing here. Watching- the Press. Apparently the administration, hav ing dispatched the 'not and, in the in terest of ' caution -having taken steps to see that no misconstruction abroad was placed on- the' president's pur poses, now is carefully watching the expressions of opinion, particularly in British press. As the attitude of tfhe Tentonlc alHcs had been clearly fore shadowed dn advance and the prest- I dent in the note specifically dis claimed any association with that at titude, the interest of American of ficials centered on the reception of the note in the i.itente countries an) discussion at today's cabinet meeting. Later it was said that the discussion was directed toward no particular end- but merely brought forth the views of cabinet .members. After the cabinet meeting Secretary Lansing said that full Information concerning ho sinking of the British liner 'Arabia' was n.t at hand. The American government Is anxiou-ily awaiting word from Berlin regarding the British horse ship Marina, which admittedly was sunk without warning by a German submarine and which, the state department has been con vinced was not' a transport. Np course of action will be decided on until Germany hea been heard from further. It was 'learned that after full dis cussion the cabinet took the view that the force of the note" to the belliger ents had not been materially affected by Secretary Lansing's statements. Press ...Pnt Bead. Press comment, in both England and Germany was read with the deep- among the European neutrals. i est interest by members of tithe cab Tt txraa ,u-illof1 lha T.nni'lnn ill, i patches, most of them hostile, arrived, that similar expressions greeted the original proposals of the central al lies, but that the views were mod erated in the British press and among the entente diplomats here after re flection and discission. Statements Cabled Abroad. To preclude any possibility of mis construction of the president's pur Roses from, the flurry of yesterday, caused by Secretary Lansing" two statements were cabled today to American diplomats abroad in neutral a well as belllrerent countries, so they might be prepared to aorreotly state the president's attitude to the governments to which they are ac credited. They are intended to offer official evidence, if it be needed, that me president's note is exactly what it purports to be on its face. " The';f5erman view here is tlnat whatever the reply of- the entente al lies, the relation, between Germany and the United States wt, have been immeasurably improved, probably to the point of assuring careful steps by the Berlin' government to avoid any such conditions, - as led: up to-a crisis which threatened a break In -diolo- . JkBtente -'diplomats. whila their ai president s attitude in good, faith had hot wholly; disposed of their fear that It might Redound to the advantage of their enemies. Perfect Understanding. - It was reiterated today In all- of ficial. quarters that-there was-perfect understanding between Secretary Lansing and the president, and what ever might haye appeared as discord in . interpretation of the note to the belligerents had- been disposed of' by the -Issue' of the secretary's second statement and Dhe s'-eps to inform the foreign governments of the facts. . The note to - the belligerents, Sec retary Lansing's explanatory state ments and reoent German submarine activities furnished the chief topic of Hoped To Find Some Meth od of Preventing Suspen sion of Publications. TO PROBE PROFIT i WASHINGTON. Dec. 22. Public hearings- in. the' Federal trade com mission's news print paper investiga tion will be resumed Friday, Decem ber 29. The commission announced today that phases of the situation not completed at the previous hearing would be taken up, including reason ableness of prices, cost of manufac ture and jobbers' profits.. "It is hoped," said the announce ment, "that a plan will be devised which will prevent the suspension of publications now dependent on-the open market for their paper supply. It Is also expected that Information be ing collected now will throw much light on the problem." Resumption of the hearings, it was explained, does not necessarily mean the failure of a news print distribu tion plan proposed last week by the manufacturers under which the larger publishers- would share paper they have bought on contract for 11T needs with small-publishers who buy In the opes market. . Committees of - the interests Con cerned are co-operating with the trade commission. In. accordance with an agreement reached - after last week's hearings to ascertain tie extent of next year's paper needs and the prob able butput of the mills. In the pre poeed distribution plan small publish ers would be supplied with paper at the average price sold all customers. Information collected by the trade commission's investigators concerning profits and costs ef paper manufac ture, presented at the last hearing, but not taken np at length after the distribution proposal was made, . will be gone into at the new hearings. . . . THE WEATHER. lessages congratulating the resi dent poured into the white house to day in Increasing volume. Almost without exception the senders In terpreted the action as a peace move. Republican Leader Mann referred to the note on the floor of the house, today and heartily praised President Wilson's actio.1. "Without regard to partisanship," he said, "I belie'e the whole people of the country warmly congratulate and . commend the president in every enort tie has made or may make to restore' peace in the world." It became known during the day that some members of the diplomatie corps are worried over their personal status wlnh theif home governments, wham they have been informing for weeks past that the United' States would take no action In the Euro pean situation. With the arrival of the German proposals and the an nounced decision of this government not to add any word of its own, most diplomats became finally convinced, and so reported to their governments that no step towards peace would be taken here-unless a. decided change occurred vr fv. BLACK MOUfJTAIfJ FE STf A LclVI L tr B E . HELD IftfTHEGOUflT 1 1 1 i Promoter Westbrook Reach es Durham To File Sen sational Suit: v v WANTS TO RECOVER ' THE SUM OF $30,000 NORTHERN D0BRUDJA, WHERE TEUTONS . . . i ....... ..i .. . ...... ... CONTINUE THEIR ADVANCE AGAINST THE 1 (4 '! - . , ,. .... ... : '.'.''. ROUMANIANS, IS CENTER OF INTEREST t'J 1 : IMTDOU INTERESTED.-1. . 1 hera. concsrnlng . JPreaident. Wilson's powers on the possibilities of tne bel ligerents making, known tnetr require ments concerning peace, ' now : centers upon the reception- of the document by the central powers. The first ad vices received here from Germany re garding the note evince enthusiasm and welcome it.' as. was the reverse in England. The discussion here over night was so absorbed in British emo tions and as to"' the type of what should be Great Britain's reply that the attitude of the central powers commanded little attention. The note continues to be the only subject of Interest here. It's only parallel in Anglo-American relations as regards the sensation it created was President Cleveland's Venesuelan message, and the two documents are (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) MEMBERS OF FEDERAL BY PRESIDENT WILSON Nominates Five Menx To Compose ( Organization With Wide Power. IS NON-PARTISAN WASHINGTON.- Dee.' f I. Forecast for- North -Carolina: Fair - Saturday; Sunday . fair; slightly . warmer . west siortioa. . . . . . ... . WASHINGTON. Dei' Si TrM.T,t Wilson today nominated the fnllriwln to. be members of the government snipping ppara: , w uiiam penman, of San Francisco; Bernard N. Baker, of Baltimore: John A. DonaM, of New Tork; John Barber wnjte, of Kansas City, Mo., and Theodore Brent, of New nrinmn The board Will tiave seneral aunar. Vision over .freight rates In American waters ana is empowered to organise a. $58,000,000 corporation to build or Duy merchant ships. The ships built or bouaht will be available to lease or charter by private interests, out may oe operated bv the government should private concerns fan to take them. The intent of the law aside from restoration of ships for American ' commerce removed by the war, is to open np trade routes which private capital does not yet consider prontaDie enough for it to enter. Mr. Denman who gets the longest Term or six -yea: s, is a democrat anl a lawyer with experience in admiralty cases, :. i . . ...... , Mr. Baker, nominated - for a five year term has had wide experience as a ship owner and for thirty years was president of the ' Atlantic - Transport line. He is a democrat, and Mr. Donald, the third democratic member was -nominated for your years. - He has had a life-long experience in the steam whip business. Mr. - White, a republican, was nominated for three years. He ie a lumberman and exporter.- . - Mr. Brent' the second republican, was nominated for two years. He is a raHroad- man and from ltOf to 11 was assistant to the vice preeideat of the Rock Island-Frieeo lines. At .ths white bouse it was said he was a re onbliean "wish progressive Ides.- Under the law the board elects Its W efficsra .- - CONGRESS ADJOURNS FOR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS TO House Has Passed Five Gov ernment Measures Dur ing Session. MORE ARE PENDING WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Congress adjourned today for the Christmas holidays to reconvene January t. - In the three weeks of the session the house passed five government supply measures, the urgent deficiency, legis lative, Indian, District of Columbia and diplomatic and consular appro- Utile Important Activity in Other Fields of War In Europe Petrograd Announces That Russians In Dohivdta Were Compelled to Retire Before Numerically Supetlor Forces -British : . Troops Make Progress In Far East. ' ' Except in northern Dobrudja,; where ers fled from . Bl arlsh on the the -troops of Ifce central powers con-1 'Proach of the Briflsh army. . ap. tinue to drive the Russians and; Rou manians towards Bessarabia there has been little important activity on the battle fronts Ur BVurops. ' The Russian'' troops In Dobrudja, Petrograd announces, were forced to retire northward under heavy attacks from numerically superior :, hostile forces-. Berlin states that the Teutonic army , in Dobrudja continues to. ad vane anecassfuily .! announjet" ttb eapt&re of ( Rustlin.jKldieia cXaet of Lake Babadagh a tf uasiatt regiment; Petrograd reeordav sove a force -of BulgariaeMMsito Lake I bo lata. A-great many Bulgarians were drowned and lie made pslsonr. The artillery bombardment continues at various points on the, eastern front. Berlin re ports increased activity, especially in the Somma sector and on the ' east bank of the Meuse In the Verdun re gion, the scene of the latest French advance. Spirited Engagement. Xn Gallcia near the Zlochoff-Tarno- pol railroad there has been . a spirited tne STRANGE PROCESSION. (From a Staff Correspondent of The ' Associated. Press.) WITH THE ARMIES IN FRANCE. Dec. tS. -(Via London.) In these last days before Christ maa it 'Is a strange procession, indeed,, that winds its way on the travel-scarred roads ,of northern France to where the greatest armies the world has ever known are locked In a life end death struggle.' f fc -Vtelna with tb,e seemingly landless f grdeis. gptng-ihome and eomin trato af Motoexjucks iwinlsntke'i4ee'' e-armiroal capacity weigntof powder, shells ana all the varied and sinister Jtiaterlal of war, are. numberless 6ther trucks fair- riy bulging with presents and greetings or tne xuieuae- uaaiy enougn, botlj types of trucks are decorated gaily with holly and mistletoe. It appear now that soldier, regardless of how humble his station, will not be forgot ten. . . Mail Offers Problem. . -The - handling of the vast amount of mail for the English, Canadian and Australian ' troops is fraught with STAAt -rilffirMlltljIA tn-riAuAa mlA -Vi!l ! assert their prerogative of preference -engagement. Berlin reports northwest of Zalostse, while Petrograd lessening of the gun pressure on any sod the holiday, season will bring no ays the Austro-Germans were com- Prt ' front. Despite the com pelled to retire after occupying some! J'ex Problems connected with the task trenches. Some fighting has taken place, in the Trotus valley on the Moldavian frontier ana aiong tne jays- tritsa rlvec in the Carpathians. El Arlsh, ninety miles east of the Sues canal in Egypt, has been cap tured by British troops. Tne town has been occupied for two years by the Turks, who had built strong en trenchments around It. The defend- Ktruotlone not to open the parcels un til Christmas. The mall- for the Aus tralian troops, necessarily, was posted six or seven weeks ago and naturally there were many - casualties in that period, so that the authorities were confronted with a number of parcels which never-will reach their intended owners. - . "H!vr't , - .Outgoing Mail Heavy. . A feature of the Christmas army mails, is that the. outgoing post la al most as heavy as the incoming, with a, strange cross current of money prdsr going, home and coming -em lems may be gained from the fact that 11.000 naresls rlntlv : This number la being 'doubled and trebled during the Christmas rush- Another interesting tact is mat a soiaier receives an aver, age of four letters a week and- writes one. ' ' - 4 ' ', '.','-' The packages being" sent' from' the front contain all manner of souvenirs from the battlefields and 'trenches. Letters and parcels - for the men oil the very front line are sent . to them with their rations. The favorite Christmas card - that -the 'Tommies" are sending home is one" en which loving mottoes are woven with Vari colored silk threads, .'jn -..- ; Makes Charges Against Men " Who Were Identified1 T , With Movement.. ''.:.v.'',V-l the organization behind the British front makes it possible for letters and parcels td reach the men In the front line .trenches forty-eight hours after their posting in London. " One reason for this is that the mall is being han dled and distributed by "Tommies" who formerly were postal employes. Canadians received the bulk of their mall last week, most of the soldiers The storm followed a week of snow obeying with-childish Impatience In-1 and unseasonably icold weather. VIOLENT; WINDSTORM. ,. HARRISONBURG.' Va.; Dee. 9T. Houses Were unroofed and cattle kill ed by-e- violent windstorm, accom panied by rain and electrical display. whioh ewspt over Rockingham county today. : so violent was the wind that it blew over vehicles on county roads. TOPER FOUND GUILTY SECOND UEMH Charged With Killing His Mother Last January Sentence Deferred. . BUFFALO. N. T Dec. 33.Wohn Edward Teiper, charged with having INTERSTATE COMMERCE Railroads Must Show Cause Why Cars Are, Not Re turned Promptly. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. An order was issued by the Interstate com- FLOOD CONTROL BILL F Humphreys Bill, Which Has Passed House Meets Favor In Senate Committee. WASHINGTON, ... . . .. , .iu.ivti wiiuiuiwva tuuw riiuinn( mi nuuiimrwi nooa control Dill ep-l"" ' Ulld ls mother last January, w .nlitMd1 to show cause at a hearing proprlating 150.600.000 for the lower: l1' found guilty of second 'degree mur- here December 28 why therf should M'sslsippl and Sacramento rivers, jT der late today by a Jury which had de- no return at once to their 'owners, which passed tfhe house at the last f'1 Dec. control 22 The bill According to a dispatch received fcy The Citizen from Durham early this morning, the National Music 'Festival of America hat struck .a discordant note, with F. E. Weetbrook, promoter and former assistant manager of the enterprise, ' wielding the , baton, or ' rather, the lub, - In other words, Mr. Westbrook, who filled the newspapers last summer with a 'wondrous story, about the fame that was to come to Black .Mountain by means of a great open-air festival,' whereat,' all the songsters and songstresses'' of ;! inter national note would "carol light aa early morn," has started;- civil action at Durham, this state, for the recovery of- $10,000. ' Promoter1-- Westbrook: makes various and sundry charges against some of the men who pushed the big festival movement.' The dl patch to The Cltisen from Durham fdllower ' ' ' . t -,' - ' i DURHAM N.-C.,:- Dee. ItT-i E Weetbrook, .former assistant - manager of the National Musio; FesUval of America,, the, one-half million dollar) musical enterprise of Black Mountain, started civil action, her today against - tne corporation lor recovery or 50, 000. He alleges that Q..W. HlnihaW ihd H. D. Shutt of Winston-Salem. and R. O. Alexander, .tk defendants. have diverted the original aim of the jompeny. end used the philanthropic movement to, "boom" their real estate holdings: at, Black Mountain. R. O. Everett, of the law firm of Manning. Everett and Kltchln, has been employi io to ngct tne musio festival DKteriy ' The' complaint ' eharaes that H. O. Alexander, a cotton speculator of Charlotte, and one of the principal di rectors, sold thirteen acres of bis land lor H?,00O, and another tract of . twenty-seven cre for $50,000 Bs is illegea to nave negotiated this con-' triei when ether; Sites Just as suitable ere offered free to the Phllantbropla movement. "-Westbrook 'charges ,R. .O; Alexander' with having placed on' the beard of directors "dummlas," .business , associates whom lie oeuld control. He furthermore alleges that Alexander selected a large list-of publlo-splrited men of America as an advisory board to offset the selfish mbUves which he had concerted." Governors of South Carolina and North" Carolina,' Editor Richard Edmunda of the Manufacture ' re Record, Dr. B." .T.-; Mulllns, of Louisville, and (Editor Henry Wetter on, of the Louisville Courier-Journal.' ire among the . distinguished cltisen -in me aemaory Doara. , .7.t GASPER : GIVEN PAROOn FOLLOWING TESTIMONY :JEiSTilS;C;Mm Winston-Salem Man Served . But Short Portion of - -; His Sentence. ' r, , "MOONSHINE" CASE- passed before In the brief period pre ceding a holiday recess. One of these bills, the urgent de ficiency, has passed the senate. Railroad legislation suggested b President Wilson, failed to get much attention in either branch. The house WINSTON-SALEM. N. - C..' Deo. JS. . John L. Casper, of Winston-Salem. convieteo about a year age in the federal court at Fort Smith.- Art. io numerous counts of defrauding- -the ap- government and sentenced to the wh.uiiu irivtt tur a unD.oi nine rs, received his pardon tonight at 'clock,, according to a telegram re- irheraixf tm-ntv-ntne hours. The iui -; ranun, woe oraerea ravuraojy report- i - "j ," " liberated ta-enty-nme nours. Tne . cja, nd refr)l,erator C,H ,mm4. ed t0(fay by tn Mnltte commlu on city. Casper states in the telegram sentence prescribed for second degree i dlately after unloading at their destl-; aommerce. An unsuccessful light was that will arrive bere Sunday, mdrder is a minimum of twenty years' nation. I made by Senator v Newlandb for a I Tb CM 'n hich Casper was con- Imorlsonment ' Sentence on Telper Th commission's ordsr follows an comprorolee measure to Include the lctl, hlcb attracted wide 1- A t a I announcement yesterday by the administration plan for the creation attention, the evidence, ahowlng that waa aelerrea. ! American Railway association's car of a river regulation commission, and nd dsfrauded the government eat The verdict broke the iron nerve of service commission that sight of the a comprehensive schema of witamri!0' thousands of dollars In revenue on the j leriee ( at rort smut,. Ark., and St. prteUon bills, more thsn ever werejth- loB. hj gjven no sign ofesst. had failed to comply with its the country. emotion. Ae the Jury foreman an nounced the verdict. Teiper's knees sagrged and be would have fallen had he not been caught by a deputy. - ,"Oh. my God!" shrieked Teiper as this Is not fair. instructions to deliver a designated excess of box cars to southern and commerce committee decided to await be struggled to rise. Initiative action in the senate, whero thie isn't human." beginning January 2 the senate com-' T , ,h. Kaiiotrn ud to the last re"teWi"h2rdh.!.on!voJr. l"w.: aaid levin JurorJ messure and the bill authorising the f1004 ?r.?Ifid!? 1 One present to take over the railroad.' Zri'Zt because the eVil CAGE8 INCREASED. leiepnone ana teiegrapn tines in case T" I u. r..,A at mllitarr nacoaaltv 1 oence was circuiiif - OI muiLary necessuy, I . , ,H .k. enmnramisa At the conclusion of the hearings nw,rT w"' "Z tha railroad maiiim in mnmm tnw-m 1 verwci was will be pressed as amendments to the pending bill to enlarge the interstate commerce commission. Senator New- lands, chairman of the committee, hopes to get action before the March adjournment. The senate passed the Immigration bill with Its literacy test provisions! T & t M 'a. L - Rejection of the compromise, whioh "1. .rf-.";,u western connections above the num- Zmtrrt: J tinVn and In addlUon-to the eea- ber of care received. . ' " lnSJ Jnn HVt he was lined M.0. - - The car eervlce commlsrion has es- SacramenPr? been in . Jacksonville, tsbllshed headquarters here and for fHVr t nf ,ru- or tw as a witness in weeks has been working In co.opera- IvLi"""',.'",?, "nl'7w'd ,the case against Thomas C. McCoy ef .i - .u. s.N-wtem, will result in determined op-'i.k.ii. o. commerce commission to relieve the , S"?i'on 1? '?J"m&I??' ",?'th.e federal court there a week ago. The w- - conviction or Mcuoy im thought to Kenyon and other western senators had some Influence in Casper almost nation-wide car shortage. OFI-'ER $500 REWARD. DUBLIN. Oa., Dec. iJ. The "WHghtsrUle and Tennille Railroad company today offered $500 reward for arrest and conviction of persons who stole large whiskey shipments frem the railroad stations at the towns of Brewton and Lovett .near here last night and burned the eta hosiery miil 'announced today that on Won at the latter place. Fifty xeaes each weekly pay day awer January t. "H" , " ?LZZV;' their "piecemeal" waterway legtela tien. ,f . Before the committee voted today. Secretary Baker' of the war depart ment appeared In behalf of the New lands compromise. - - - ADVAXCE COXTMCE8.. getting . the -pardon. Casper's sentences r amounted to over forty years, but - the sentence were made to -overlap; totaling about nine years." : . i - . VILLA ATTACKS TORREON. EL. PASO, Texas, Dee. $2. Francis co Villa's forces began an attack .on. Tj r o t i si iw, vi. o.uuiii. ' lorreon mis morning, accoraing to T..nni 'fnro.. mnftaii. . .m d unconfirmed reports received here to- ZTr" - ', c M ,. wUM The exact amount stolen at Lovett'ls rMhmnR it h.v. t.w.n sna day. The battle was. said te be. la " lls. , v h., vkm. nr. iaa wu osU. a . progrees at noon. ... . a louna in w .m.k--.-. -"'.T..;.. r a Mirt mmIi liar and saM . biU with Its literacy test Provisions ! Th company explains that mated at $l,0s to $2,000. "A " n?W I ta' not" S retarded . per- j ' - - senate also began consideration of the I lo(nu(, but rather aa an emergency measure to enaoie tne em olovea tn meet the high cost of living. Should mill conditions continue good. District of Columbia prohibition bill and fixed January for a vote. The national . prohlbltkMi constitu tional amendment was reported favor abty from the Judiciary committee in eech bouse and will be pressed by its champions - at 1 every opportunity, ' al though they have little bope of se curing the necessary two-thirds ma jority at 'this session. ' ; j - - - - - JVIflORS TO MELT. . -.1 NEWTON. Dec II. The Catawba Junior council next Wednesday night . im ...i.vl tttm the Increase will will rive its members and -friends, a econtlned Indefinitely; but If the i smoker at Catawba, and District Dep business of the mill should suffer dur- I uty Z. V. Long of . Statesville, ls ing the eoming months, ill be taken off. , the f per cent j scheduled for an address. It is a sort of J be council numbers more The Cataw- little activity. "A JJZZL bate'SlhuhuTciS-uT .1 .C" r. -u L.- '' iViUa and bis. forces were attacklnr X V WO .aeea. w aww WBM "S nsuiivc. This report wu said to GEN. KOOD DEAD. '; WASHINGTON. Dec. 13. Brigadier uenerat ueorge A. vvooo, u. 8. A., re- have been received by General Fran cisco Murguia, at Chihuahua City, by wireless from Torreon. ; Villa was reported to have oassed Bermejlllov twenty-Qve miiee north et than seventy tired, died bare today aged eighty-one. i Torreon. yesterday going soath wit Chfistinaa sift entirely voluntary on1 members and the council Is ttve and i He was a native of Wllkeebarra, Ss,,'hle command. The Bermejillo garri- --ae part of the management, " rowing. 'nd yu war veteran,, .... . ft eon fled to Torreon, tt added. Y
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