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VOL. XXI. YADKINVILLE, YADKIN 00., N. 0., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1915. 3= NO. 1. KMMMmtms SMWBtMMMW —"IT f!Mt of Koisor'! Aretphnos MoAo Awid Aftoctt On fhoeh Sooport Boing Much Bomago EWUHMS WERE WRECKER R'tftMn Citizens Killed in Biege—Ai) Asrta) Aeeetiante Made Eecape from French Qune ivondon—Four German aeropianes ^hay Haem severa) times over the city of Dunkirk *ecent)y, dropping bomb* a* they went. Boidiers in the streets tired on the machi^ and one Taube aeetned to be hit, butaik.got aafeiy away. . / The official return* of jnr casualties ahow that fifteen personk were kiiied and thirty-two wounded. The bomb* were fitted with sbraptte). For haif an hour the whote city crackied with rifie aliota and iu.mbs, which threw up denae cioud* of biack amoke. No aooner did one aeropiane aeem to depart than another arrived. Building* in aii part* of the city were wrecked. The firat bomb feM on the fortifica ttona, two more near the raiiway sta tion and many other* In different part* of the town and in the auburb of Roaendael) and the diatricta of Coude kerque and Fume*. One chiid had an arm itlown off and an oid woman waa kiiied outright. The fifth aeropiane remained a* sen try outside the town ready to attack any of the aiiiea' aeropiane* that ifnght seek to repel the air assaiiants. BEkQiANS FtLE PROTEST SeiQtan Minister At^ Waehlngton Fite* Protest With United States Against Germany Washington-—The Belgian minister hied with the state department a pro test against the requisitioning by Ger man mliltary authorities in Boigium of merchandise worth about 67,000. 000 francs. He asserted that the Ger man poiicy means "the ruin of in dustry in Beigium." The protest set forth that the goods were not taken for use of Germany, and that consequentiy the seizure was in vioiation of the fourth Hague con vention. The Beigian minister issued this statement: "The German authori ties have put into requisition against a single receipt and without mention ing the vaiue of the same, the foiiow ing merchandise, to be awarded to Germany, and which beiongs to pri vate parties: in Antwerp, cotton for the vaiue of 13,000.000 francs; rubber. 2,500,000; woolen, 6,000.000. and ieath. er 10,000,000 francs. In Ghent, cotton nets, Sax and other raw materiais. 8, 600.00 francs. In Charleroi. copper. 1.600.000; too] machine, 12.000.000 (francs. In Duffe), nlckei. 1.000,000 francs. In Maiines, canned goods. 62, 600.000. "These measuers are in opposition with the articies 46 and 62 of the fourth convention of The Hague, in ac cordance with whtch private property must be respected and requisition can not be claimed otherwise than for the needs of the army of occupation. These measures invoive the ruin of the industry in Beigium. SHiPPtNG BILL REPORT Secretary Redfleld Recommends Mer chant Shipping BUI Be Pushed Through Washington.—Initiating the aggres sive fight to he waged in congress for passage of the government ship purchase hii), to free American com merce from European war iimitations, majority membera of the senate com merce committee fiied a report rec ommendtng the measure in vigorous terms and transmitting a commenda tory letter from Secretary of Com merce Reddeid. The committee report, died by Act ing Chairman Fietcher, quoted the re port submitted by Secretaries McAdoo and Redfieid, showing enormous in creases in ocean transportation rates since the war bemm and *ttcn<innt "tiling off of ocean tonnage faculties. Tii* commt'tee predicted that enact ment oBkthe ship purchase biii wouid go far to relieve that situation. France') New Aeriai Fteet New York.—France in bunding two great Heels of aircraft, armed with cannon, darts and bombs, with which to invade Germany in the spring, ac cording to Pedro Chapa, a Mexican aviator, who arrived here from Eu rope on the Cunard iiner Carpathia. Hundreds of armored bipianes, each carrying a sntaii cannon and bombs, and numerous monoptanes. equipped with bombs and steei darts, wiii be ready to sweep across the German frontier when winter is past, Chap# said. Grants Fifty.Five Pardons Coiumbia, 8. C.—Governor Biease granted ciemenoy to Hfty-Hve state prisoners. Twenty-eight were serving terms for homicide, seventeen havj] been sentenced originaiiy to iif prisonment. Sixteen tu!) pa twenty-four paroies and Hftee mutations are included in the f reiease of the forty men parJ paroted ^educes the nt oners in the st^tf - ** WARNS GREAT SRtTAtN - WOODROW WtLSON. President Wiieon has warned Great Britain and the Aiiies in a vigorous note to the Brtttah natton that the rights of American shipping on the high eeae muet not be moieated. The preeident'a meaeage hae cauaed the greateat aenaatton )n Engtand atnce the receipt of President Claveiand'a famoua Veneaueian meaeage twenty yeara ago. BRiTISH RAM CM ZEPPEUM8 SEVEN BRiTiSH NAVAL SEA PLANES MAKE ATTACK ON GERMAN NAVAL BASE Britona Loae One Man And Three Planea in An Attempt To Dig Out German Fieet London.—Atrmen of warring conn trios spent a busy Christmas holiday. White a soiitary German Hew over the Thames estuary and dropped a singie bomb, which feii in a roadway and did no damage, a convoy of seven British navy seapianes visited the German nava! base at Cuxhaven and dropped bombs on ships and the gas works. Aii but one of the British air men returned safety to the ships which convoyed them. Simitar activ ity was displayed ainng the bnttie front, German airmen paying a sur prise visit to Nancy; French aviators to Metz; British to Brusseis and oth er Beigian towns occupied by the Ger mans and German airmen to Poiish cities. Assisted by tight cruisers, destroy ers and submarines, seven British no vaiairmen, piloting seapianes. made a daring attack Christmas Day on the German navai base at Cuxhaven, at the mouth of the Bibe. Six of the airmen returned safety, but the sev enth, Commander Hewtett, it is feared, has been lost. The enterprise of the British navy in thus attempting to "dig out" the German Beet brought about a battie between the most modern of war ma chines. The British squadron, inctud ing the tight cruisers Arethusa and Undaunted, which have been engaged in previous exptoits on the German coast, were attacked by Zeppetins, seapianes and submarines. By raid maneuvering the ships were abte to avoid the submarines, white the Zeppetins found the Bre of the cruisers too dangerous for them to keep up the Bght. The German seaptanes dropped bombs, which, ac cording to the British account, felt harmiessty into the Mm The Ger mans. however, claim to have hit two destroyers and their convoy WiLSON MAKE8 APPEAL President Urges Honest Shipments, So Contraband Probiem Witi Not Be Comptleated Washington.—President Witson has appeaied to American shippers of non contraband not to permit contraband articies to be mixed with their car goes. He said the United States coutd deat conBdentty with the probtem of British detention of American ships only if supported by honest manifests The president's statement fottowed a discussion with his cabinet of the gen era! shipping situation and of the pr& test sent to Great Britain against pro tonged detention of American cargoes and other interference with American trade. President Wiison Ceiebratea Birthday Washington —President Wi'ison cel ebrated his Bfty eighth bidMtday De cember 38. CongratutatotsAif-ssaf^ poured in front nil <-<l,Stall.Mtitnifrnmi'nAH) fio upeoa) ooaervj aary waa plann apent the day Preatdent Wth m-rvatM A pMUtHtomaKi return exposition , expert hiq Mexican o nmka TipJ Ion ^ lil^ H AMERKAN NOTE ALARMS BR!T!SH E<n)i:h Puoptu am! Pruuu Gruutty !!g) tatud Ovar OMicia! Mota 0! Unttad Stataa, TH!HK fMCDCN MAY ENSUE President Witeon'e Message Of Warn ing Causes Oreateet Sensation in Bngtand in Years London—The American note pro testing against the British treatment of American commerce and insisting of an eariy improvement came as a compiete suprise to the British pub tic; as there had been virtuaiiy no intimation that any friction had aris en between the two governments. Piacards posted by the evening pa pers were given over exciusiveiy to the American note and the papers gave it e iargest tieadtines they have given any news during the past month. Consequentiy the British peo pie regard this as one of the most im portant occurrences of the whote war. British Public Aiarmed The first impression of the pubiic is that the note may create friction and perhaps some unfriendty feeiing. aithough the newspapers point out that it specificaiiy states that the representations were made in a frtendiy spirit. The situation is comparabie to that which arose at the time of the South African war. when neutrai shippers began to send car goes intended for the Transvaai re pubiio t the neutrai port of Detagoa Bay. Even the war news was aiiotted a secondary piace to the note in the news coiumns of the papers, aithough that coming from the Russian front was highiy gratifying to the aiiies. The Washington note couid not have been deatt with had it arrived eariy, as Sir Edward Grey, secretary for for eign affairs, who has been away for the Christmas hoiidays, was not yet home when it came. The foreign office, however, has con. stantiy reiterated its regret at the de iay to American ships, and high offi ciate have expressed a desire to expe dite examination of American cargoes as ntuch as possibie under the existing trying conditions. Biggest Sensatton in Years Nothing of the kind since President Cieveiand's Venezuelan message has produced such a sensation. . SLAV8 CHECK AU8TR)AN8 Russians Again Win Victories in Aus tria-French And British ^AMake Gains London.^^itere has been a siacken ing of the ..Ring in northern Poland between the iower Vistula and Piiica rivers, where the Russians itave cap tured some German trenches, prison ers and guns—an indication, it is be ileved here, that the German frontat attack on the army guarding Warsaw has been definiteiy checked. in southern Poiand the Russians aiso record some successes, white in Qaitcia they apparently have indicated a defeat on the Austrians aimost as serious as that which Emperor Fran cis Joseph's troops suffered in Her via. Of the fighting in the west the Ger man and French reports are in direct confiict. The French ciaim to have occupied the viiiage of St. Georges, which is on the main road between Nteuport and Bruges and two thiies from the former town. On the other hand the German report says: "We have gained some ground near Nieu port." Heavy fighting is taking piace in tiie Argonne and on the heights of the Meuse. The French reports apparentiy refers to iater events than those re corded in Beritn, for Paris teiis of the recapture of a trench which thg man communication mentions ing been captured by the The French are investing in upper Aisace. News from Germany ii eiis of the t thgGer a tween KnKtnnd and MotjJH <-ate(i)<y])i<. Htormnndh^) Between no«ana end been wrecked In ma With the recruiting boog England. La Wttson "Waishtngtj pacts hts tjj SENATOR j. W. STONE tt )a rumored )n Waehlngton that Benator/Stone of Mtaeour) )a eoon to aueeeed WtHtam J. Bryan ae aecretary of atate. M'ABQB SUMMONS BANKERS SECRETARY OF TREASURY CALLS CONFERENCE OF PAN-AMER tCAN FtNANCIEHS President Wltaen And Secretary Bryan Backing The Plan Which Will Bring Americas Closer Washington.—The United States has tnvtted alt Centra) and South Ameri can nations to send their ministers of finance and leading bankers to Wash ington for a conference with treasury department officials and financiers of this country on financiai and commer ciai probiems confronting the two Americas as a resuit of the European war. Severn] of the countries aiready have accepted and the conference probabiy wiii be held next spring. invitations were sent formaily through the embassies and iegations here. The pian originated with Secre tary McAdoo. but Secretary Bryan and President Wiison have taken an active interest in It. it has been suggested that congress be asked for an appro priation to defray expenses, but wheth er or not this is done the visitors wiii come as the guests of the United States. The state department has a contingent fund avaitabie for such a purpose. Ofliciais of the state, treasury and commerce departments expect the con ference to prove an important step toward bringing the two American con tinents into cioser commerciai reia tionship. They believe that in the i'an-American movement ties the hope of South America for financiai inde pendence of Europe, and suggest the possibtiity of New York becoming at ieast a serious competitor with Lon don for supremacy as a worid's finan ciai center. FRANK GAiNS POiNT Justice Lamar Haa Certified To Writ Of Leo Frank Piacing Caae On Calendar Atlanta.—!f Me Supreme court grants the appeai of Leo M. Prank front the deniai of the writ of habeas corpus submitted to Judge Newman, which was certified by Justice Lamg of the Supreme bench, a tong and [iii again be iauncheti doomed man—th ENGLAND MOURNS LOSE OP LtVES OP CREW MORE THAN 8H)P, WHICH WA8 15 VAARS OLO. WAS WORTH F!VE-M!LL!ON Part of Crow Picked Up and Brouhpt Ashore.—Statement in Theatre of War. London^—The destruction of the British battleship Formidable In -tbs* British Channel by a mine or a sub marine boat, although one of those events Engiiahmen now realize meat be expected ao long aa the British Navy is compelled to keep the aeaa, has caused widespread grief. This is due not so much to the ioas of the ship, which was IE years old and coat about $5,000,000, as it is fop the men—about 600 in nnmber—who went down with her. So far aa known only 141 of the Formidable's crew of 160 were rescued. The British ad miralty has not given the locality where the disaster occurred and de clares it la unable to say whether the ahip atruck a mine or was torpedoed but as the British fleet again has been active in shelling German positions on the Beigian coast and as German submarines have been more and more using Zeebrugge as a base, the Incli nation here is to believe that a sub marine again has been successful in an attack. Fighting in Flanders and Northern France has been confined largely to artillery engagements, except Be thune, where the Germans claim they have taken a Britsh trench. They ad mit, however, the loss of St. Georges, near the Belgian coast, which the Ber lin ofhclal report says It was decided not to attempt to retake owing to high water. In the Argonne region where the battle has been almost continuous for weeks past, the Germans have made a little progress as an offset to which, however, the French declare they have continued their advance in Upper Alsace. Newepaoer's View of Note. T.ondon.-—The Saturday Review de scribes President Wiison's note pro testing against the British attitude to ward American shipping as "a docu ment from a candid friend who just because he is a ftiend, can say things which between strangers would be re garded as having too rough an edge." The Review does not think it should be impossible for two governments who have no wish to find causes for faking the offensive, to reconcile their points of view. The position of a bel ligerent with respect to command of the sea. savs this paper is different even when neutral governments are friends. But this position is deter mined absoiute'y by the fact that Eng land has that command of the sea and "cannot surrender her right to use it for defect of the enemy by any law." Works In Orders President Qutierrex. Washington.—General Vilia. in a telegram dated in Mexico City to his agency here, denied he has question ed the amnesty, proclamations of Gen eral Gutierrez, "f obey and respect the orders of Prestdnnt Ouitierrez." Villa telegraphed. "I am his subordi nate." Further details of fighting be tween l^mys of Genera' Carranza and Villa m.sr*Tahipieo were received in official disnatches to the Carranza agency "General Gonzales adminis taca^t^^Secistve defeat to the Villais BU!LD Bte BRANCH HOUSE Morrta A Company, Chtoago Maat Paekara, Wtt) Eraet Buttdtna for Work at Wtnaton-Satam. winatonmuem.—Morrta & co., um cago packers, are arranging to erect and equip an up-to-date branch house in this city. White the pians have not yet been perfected, it is stated that the building wiii be erected near the union station, wiii have a frontage of SI feet on Fourth street, wi!) extend along the Southern raiiway 100 feet and in the rear wiii have a width of 80 feet. The buiiding wiii be three stories high with a basement and wiii be con structed of red pressed brick, giving it a modern and handsome appear ance. The pians are to be prepared with consideration for the character of the business of Morris & Co. pm vidtng ampie coid storage capacity to take care, of the bustness of the city. F. S. Vernay, during his 11 years in this city has buiit up a business for Morris & Co., that has warranted the erection of a home for the iiocai branch with an equipment that is not exceeded in point of size and modern equipment by any piant of similar character between Norfolk and At ianta. Adopt Unknown Chiid. ^Asheviiie.—Mr and Mrs. A. L. Ford recently were presented with the lit tie giri who was found on their door steps during the eariy part of iast summer, snugly wrapped in warm clothing and tucked in a large basket. They made application to adopt the child to Cierk of the Superior Court lohn H. Cathey and the iatter grant ed them the permanent custody of the chiid. who has been christened Virginia May. The adoption of the iittie giri is probabiy the Bnai devel nment in an interesting case, which started with the Bnding of the chiid. A systematic search has been made in the hope of teaming the identity of the mother. But the search has been futiie. Mr. and Mrs. Ford have no chiidren. 1,000,000 More Pounds of Tobacco. Kinston.—Probabiy another miiiion pounds of tobacco wiii be soid in Kin ston in January, according to esti mates of tobacconists The season's sales to date have been 17,554.300 pounds, nearly as much as has been soid in any previous entire season. The sales have exceeded by three million pounds any estimate made be fore the opening of the market on September 1. The chamber of com merce had figured on oniy 14,000.000 pounds, which would have been weli in excess of iast year's totai. in De cember 3,472,791 pounds have been soid in oniy 15 saies days. Practicaliy ali of the weed handled here has been grown in the territory rightfui tribu tary to the market. Two Fire Departments Winston-Salem..—Effective January 1, Winston-Salem has two paid fire departments. This was the announce ment made recently by Fire Chief H. E. Nissan. Company No. 1, which has heretofore been a voluntary depart ment wiii be converted into a paid company, with eight men stationed at the quarters ai! the time. The con version of this company into a paid department with fuii compiement of men wiii make it possibie to have a complete company of fire fighters to answer aii caiis. Two Stores Burn. Concord.—The feed store of Char iie Foii and the grocery store of A. M. Freeze at Midway, the new vii iage between Giass and Kannapoiis on the Kannapoiis road, were destroy ed by (ire recently. The Bre is sup posed to have originated in Mr. Foii's feed store from a iamp explosion. Mr. Foii was in the store to get some feed for a horse a short time before the Bre started and i there. p burn UtNE [MBS M B! MUXS CHARLOTTE BANKS OtSTRtBUTE $10S,500 tN THE WAY OR D)VtDENOa. A GOOD SHOW!NG )S MADE nstitutions Hava Had Ramarkabi) Bucceasfut Ywr OMpUt Mu< Rsatricted Trading. Charlotte—Whatever feeling of re striced operations there is or has been experienced in the reaitn of fi nance, it wlil not be manifest early in January when the hundreds of shareholders in the banks of Char lotte will receive their usual dividend checks, the disbursement from this source from the eight banking insti tutions of Chariotte amounting to 1 "8,600. Checks are sent out from each of the banks January 1. That the banks of the city are aMe to make this showing Is considered remarkabie. The financial houses of Charlotte have, of course, suffered some aiong with all other lines of business as a result of the war in Eu rope. hut they have not fallen under such times as to force a retrenchment in dividends. The sbarehoiders wil! get just as much profit from their hoidings in Charlotte banks this Jan uary as they did last year when there was no dream of distant trouble nor indication of forthcoming depression. Adked about conditions that have made possible such a showing with their institutions during the past year, local bankers express the conviction that the situation is sound and that there is nothing organically wrong. !t ht of course true that the banks here have suffered or shared in the loss sustained on account of the low price of cotton and this has effected in some measure the deposits, as the withdrawal of $1,000,000 which rep resents the loss sustained by Meckien burg farmers would undoubtedly make, business has remained good, Aanaiyxa Dairy Products. Asheville.—In order that purchasers of cream and ice cream^ from cities other than Asheviile may see in what respects Asheville products of this kind are superior and where they are excelled, the health officer has order ed that analyses of the butterfat of the product received from out-of town points be made daly. The results of the investigations will be published each month in the buiietin issued by the health department. Heretofore only the analyses of the cream and Ice cream made in Buncombe county have been given out from the health department's office-. Such a system. Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, the health offi cer. believes is unfair to the local dealers in that it makes them furn ish a product which wili stand the light of publicity and allows their out of-town competitors to sell cream and ice cream here concerning whose but terfat the public is not adised. The announcement has been received with jubilation among the dairymen o^ Buncombe county. Burns With Loss of $15,000. Asheville.—The handsome country home of Dr. T. P. Cheesborough, two miles from this city, on th^s Bwanna noa river, was destroyed by Cre at an eariy hour one morning recently, with a loss of $15,000, one-half of which Is covered by insurance. Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Matthews, who were the house at the time that the was discovered, being able to ^fhe building their narrow their
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