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PLYMOUTH, N. 6., FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1914.
VOL. XXV.
NO. 2.
iENATE CONFIRMS
3 BOARD MEfilBERS
gyjR. WARBURG MAY ASK PRESI
DENT TO WITHDRAW HIS
NAME.
-MR. JONES IS QUESTIONED
jHe Goes Before the Investigating Com
mittee and Tells About Relations
to Harvester Company.
Washington. The nominations by
President Wilson of three of the five
members of the Federal Reserve
Board Charles S. Hamlin, W. P. G.
Harding, and A. C. Miller were con
firmed by the senate.
The nominations of Paul M. War
burg of New York and Thomas D.
Jones of Chicago have not been acted
pon by the Banking and Currency
Committee and probably will not be
tor a few 'days. It was stated that Mr.
"Warburg would ask the President to
withdraw his nomination, but Acting
-Chairman Hitchcock of the Banking
Committee telegraphed ah Invitation
for him to appear and submit to the
committee's questions. It was sug
gested, however, that Mr. Warburg
probably would decline the invitation
and that this would be followed by
an announcement from the White
House that the nomination had been
"Withdrawn. .
Mr. Hamlin,-Mr. Miller and Mr.
Harding take the oath of office within
-a few days and the work of setting in
motion the new Federal banking sys
tem can begin at once. The Secre
tary or. the Treasury and the Comp
troller of the Currency are exofficio
members of the board, which consists
of seven members. The five will con
stitute a quorum to do practically all
preliminary business.
Mr. Jones was before the commit
tee for' nearly four hours to tell about
his relations with the International
Harvester Company and the New Jer
sey Zinc Company, both so-called
trusts. He was questioned at length
by the members. No proposal was
made to vote on a report to the Sen
ate oh his nomination, but it is re
garded as probable that if approval
Is given it wilj be by" a close vote.
Senator Hitchcock was authorized
to give, out Information secured from
Mr. Jones. His report in substanc
was: . v
"Mr. Jones was. asked about his
relations to two large business enter
prises, one of which was the Interna
tional Harvester Company. Mr. Jones
said . he became ; a director of that
company in April, 1909, purchasing
-one share to qualify, at the request of
Cyrus H. McCormick, an old friend.
He said lie fully approved all the
actions of the company since he be
came a director and believed that they
were proper and within the law. Mr.
Jones also announced he is in accord
with the company's policy and said he
liad nothing to lose or gain by the
decisions of the courts in the anti
trust suit in the Harvester case.
"Prior to 1897 Mr. Jones told the
committee he owned and was presi
dent of a zinc company at Mineral
Point, Wis.
. WILL BE 200 CADETSHIPS.
To Be Filled at Naual Academy
In 1915.
Washington. Upwards of 200 cadet
ships at the West Point Military
Academy are to be filled in 1915. In
response to numerous inquiries on
the subject from air over the country,
the War Deprtment announcd the list
of cadetships for which cadets are to
"be appointed to, the academy on the
nomination of senators and represen
tatives in Congress. Entrance exam
inations are to begin In March. .,
Appointments are to be made by
.Senators from 27 state and by rep
resentatives from 31 states. The sen
ators who are to make appointments
Include Overman of North Carolina.
The congressional "districts from
-which cadetships are to be filled on
the nominations of representatives
include North Carolina, first, fifth,
.ninth and tenth districts;. South
"Carolina, sixth and seventh districts,
-.and Virginia, fifth and tenth districts.
President Secures Release.
Trenton, N. J. Through the person
sal efforts of President Wilson, a
-woman who was employed in his
Princeton home as a domestic 10
years ago will be released from the
Mercer County jail to which she was
-committed on a charge of habitual
drunkenness. The woman's name Is
being withheld at the requesjt of the
President, who desires to give her a
new start In life. Her' predicament
-was found by a former Princeton
school teacher. Miss Katherlne Welsh,
who wrote to the President,
GENERAL, BLANQUET
fFA -A
General Bl'anquit, minister of war in
Huerta's cainet, is supposed to be the
only man in Mexico of whoc the dic
tator is afraid. As commander of the
army he was the main factor in rais
ing Huerta to his present position.
MEDIATORS THINK
PROGRESS IS MADE
TROUBLE BETWEEN UNITED
STATES AND MEXICO VIRTU
ALLY SETTLED.
AMBASSADOR DaGAMA TALKS
He Thinks More Favorable Atmos
phere Has Been Created in Ameri
can Politics and Policies.
. Niagara Falls, Ont. Ambassador
Da Gama of Brazil formally announced
the virtual settlement of the conflict
between the United States and Mexi
co. The Ambassador explained that
while mediation" would take an indefi
nite recess awaiting the outcome of
efforts by representatives of the two
Mexican factions to solve the Inter
nal problems of Mexico the task of
mediation was not yet concluded,
though an esesntial part of its work
had been accomplished.
The Ambassador spoke at a lunch
eon given by the three mediators to
newspaper correspondents. The Amer
ican and Huerta delegations were
present and the remarks of Mr. Da
Gama, after careful revision, were
made public later, constituting a for
mal statement of the mediation work
thus far.
CHARLOTTE FIREMEN KILLED.
,Chief Wallace and Captain Glenn Die
From Explosion at Fire, Others
Injured.
Charlotte. William B. Glenn, cap
tain of fire station No. 2, was instantly
killed, Chief J. H. Wallace, of the
Charlotte fire department, was so bad
ly Injured that he died in three hours;
Firemen Randolph Erwln and Clyde
F. Todd were seriously Injured; Fire
man Bob Barnes was slightly injured
and half a dozen others were slightly
bruised, by an explosion of dynamite
at 8:45 o'clock, when they answered
a call to extinguish flames in a barn
belonging to J. B. Hawkins, a railroad
and grading contractor, at No. 309
South Cedar street.
But for the fact that the chief,
when he arrived on the scene to direct
the fire-fighting .ordered several fire
men back some distance from the
barn to straighten out a kink in the
hose line several other firemen might
have been killed and injured.
Windows were broken and plaster
was knocked off the walls and ceil
ing in houses for several blocks sur
rounding the scene of the explosion.
A number of bystanders were struck
by flying pieces of timber that went
in every direction, but none were se
riously hurt. Canned goods and other
materials In two grocery stores near
the scene of explosion were knocked
into a heterogenous mass on the floors.
Villa and Carranza Converse.
El Paso, Texas. -The conference
designed to settle differences between
General Carranza and General Villa
will be composed entirely of military
men. Representatives of the Eastern,
Central and Western military zones
will meet soon, probably at Torreon
to discuss the situation that threatens
the well-being of the Constitutionalist
revolution. This was l-arnod from
persons coming from Monterey and
Saltillo. They said the proposed con
ference resulted from an exchange of
telegrams.
PRESIDENT TALKS
DF INDEPENDENCE
AMERICANS SHOULD MANAGE
THEIR OWN AFFAIRS IN WAY
, TO HONOR FOUNDERS.
CRITICIZES THE KNOCKERS
Facts, or Alleged Facts, Being Given
Out Do Not Always Tally, Says
; President Wilson.
Philadelphia, Pa. Advocating the
modernizing of the Declaration of
Independence by' applying Its princi
ples to the business the politics and
the foreign policies of America, Pres
ident Wilson thrilled a huge crowd
asembled in , Independence Square
within a few feet of where the origi
nal declaration was signed.
The president touched on Mexico,
the Panama tolls repeal controversy,
his anti-trust program, business con
ditions and his ideas , of modern pa
triotism. Pounding his fist on. the
table on which the Declaration of In
dependence was signed, he declared
Americans today must manage their
affairs In a way to do honor to the
founders of the nation. There are
men in Washington today, he de
clared, whose patriotism Is not showy
but who accomplish great patriotic
things. They are staying In Washing
ton, doing their duty, keeping a quo
rum in each house of Congress to do
business. "And I am mighty glad to
stay there and stick by them," he
added.
Touching on business conditions of
the country, President Wilson said a
great many allegations of facts were
being made, but. that a great many
of these facts do not tally with each
other.
"Are these men trying to serve their
country or' something smaller than
their country?" the president asked.
"If. they love America and there is
anything wrong It Is their business to
put their hands to the task and set it
right."'
Eighty-five per cent of the .Mexi
can people, the president said in
touching on Mexico, never have had a
right to have a "look-in" on , their
government while the other 15 per
cent were running It.
"Now, the American pople have a
heart that beats for them just as it
beats for other millions," Mr. Wilson
continued. "I hear a great deal about
the 'property loss in Mexico, and I re
gret that with all my heart, but back
of it all is a struggling people. Let
us not forget that struggle in watching
what is going on in front."
"I would be ashamed of the flag if
we did anything outside thiB country
which we would not do in it," the
president declared.
Speaking of Panama tolls, the
president said the treaty with England
migh be a mistake, but its meaning
cannot be mistaken and he believed
in keeping the nation's obligations.
He believed in keeping the name of
the United States unquestioned and
unsullied.
Before the president got his speech
well under way the crowd surged for
ward in such confusion that a panic
was threatened. Two companies of
marines and- sailors stood before the
speaker's stand and the president was
forced to stop several times but finally
got the crowtd under control.
TROOPS MOVE TO CAPITAL.
Federals Are Recruiting and Prepar
ing to Attack Mexico City.
Eagle Pass, Tex. Information
brought by messengers from Saltillo
was that troops from the division of
the East have been ordered by Gen
eral Pablo Gonzales to proceed im
demiately to Queretaro. This move is
regarded as significant of the part the
division of the East Intends to play
In the final assault on Mexico City as
the final stand of the Federals prob
ably will be made at Queretaro.
The movement to Queretaro, It is
thought here, also was precipitated
by the withdrawal of Federal troops
under General Pascual Orozco from
the Queretaro garrison to reinforce
the Mexico City garrison.
Want $10,000 to Fight Plague.
Atlanta, Ga. The State Board" of
Health, is was announced a few days
ago, has asked the General Assem
bly, through Governor Slaton, for an
appropriation of $10,000 with which to
fight possible entrance of bubonic
plague Into Georgia seaports. In re
questing the appropriation the health
officials announce they wish to make
an investigation, following the recom
mendation of Surgeon General Rupert
TJue, of the United States Public
Health and Marine Hospital Service
now at New Orleans.
MME. G0LEJEVESKI
.
Mmme. Golejeveski, wife of the
military, attache of the Russian em
bassy at Washingtos and one of the
handsomest women in the city's col
ony, sailed recenty, with her two chil
dren to spend the summer with her
mother, Lady Grove, in Wiltshire,
England.
MEDIATORS TAKE
INDEFINITE REGESS
DECIDE TO STOP PROCEEDINGS
ON HEARING FROM GENERAL
CARRANZA.
THEY MAY NOT MEET AGAIN
While Adjournment Was Not Taken
There Will Not Likely Be Another
Meeting as Mediators Leave.
Niagara Falls, Ont. An indefinite
recess of mediation was decided on
by Ambassador Gama of Brail, and
Ministers Suarez and Naon of Chile,
and Argentina,! respectively.
This action followed the receipt of
a note from General Carranza, ex
pressing an Inclination to participate
in informal conferences ,with Huerta
delegates for the solution of Mexico's
internal problems, but - asking for
more time in which to consult his sub
ordinate generals. The Constitution
alists chief declared he wished to get
full authority from the signers of the
plan of Guadaloupe, the platform of
the Constitutionalist movement, so
that delegates might be clothed with
plenary powers.
In the meantime Ambassador Da
Gama announced he would leave at
once for hi3 summer home in Long
Branch, N. J. Minister Naon depart
ed for Washington and Minister
Suarez said he would leave at once
for Washington. The Huerta dele
gates will decide soon whether they
will wait here for the Constitutional
ist delegates or go to some summer
resort. The American delegates will
be the last to leave. They are await
ing definite instructions from Wash
ington. The mediators explained that
mediation had not adjourned, but that
perhaps the last formal meeting had
been held. Communication hereafter
will be carried on by telegraph.
COLD COMFORT FOR WOMEN.
President Tells Women He Thinks
Suffrage is Matter For States.
Washington. Five hundred mem
bers of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs marched to the White
House and drew from President Wil
son a final refusal to accede to de
mands that he support the movement
for a woman suffrage amendment to
the Federal Constitution. The Pres
ident reiterated hi3 statement to pre
vious delegations that his party had
not embodied this question in Its plat
form and then for the first time an-,
nounced his personal conviction that
the suffrage issue .was one for settle
ment by the state and not by the Fed
eral Government. -
Senate Differs on Lever Bill.
Washington. The senate refused
to agree to the Lever cotton futures
bill, adopted by the house, as a sub
stitute for the senate bill by Senator
E, D. Smith and sent the measure to
conference. Th Smith bill, passed by
the senate several weeks ago, would
debar from use of the maUs all cotton
exchanges which failed to submit to
certain regulations designed to elim
inate gambling in futures. The Lever
substitute proposes a tax on future
sales which fall to meet these regulations.
WILSON CONFERS .
1HJ.P.IHGM
FIRST OF A SERIES OF CONFER
ENCES PLANNED WITH THE
BUSINESS MEN.
MEETING IS VERY CORDIAL
President Expects Business Men to
Learn That They Have Nothing to
Fear.
Washington. For nearly an hour
President Wilson discussed business
conditions with J. P. Morgan at the
first of a series of conferences which
will bring to the White House men
foremost in American industry and
finance. It was one of the very few
occasions during the 16 months of his
administration that the President has
Teceived one of the recognized lead
ers of ' big business."
OSlcials said that while the Admin
istration's greatest legislative projects
were underway the tariff act, the
currency bill, and while the trust pro
gram was being perfected the Pres
ident felt there should be no oppor
tunity for a charge that they were re
ceiving inspiration from business or
financial centers.
Now that two of the Administra
tion reforms have been completed
and a third is in a final stage the Pres
ident is said to feel that an exchange
of thought and information with cap
tains of industry will be conducive to
the business revival he expects to see
along lines which the administration
holds to be legal.
' Soon Henry Ford, Detroit manufac
turer, will confer with the President
and after that a delegation from the
Chicago Association of Commerce, in
cluding representatives of six corpor
ations with Nation-wide interest, will
come for a conference. - x '
Out. .of these exchanges the Pres
ident expects business men to learn
that- lawful . Enterprise ,.haa, nothing
to fear from the Democratic adminis
tration; that the trust program having
reached a point where he foresees its
successful completion, business shall
have the rest many of its leaders have
been' asking; and that under the "con
stitution of freedom," as the President
has christened the trust legislation
commerce and finance respecting th
laws will not be harassed by the Fed
eral government.
Whether Mr. Morgan came at his
own request or at the invitation of
the President was not established.
That point often is left in doubt as
to important White House confer
ences. Officials said Mr. Morgan ask
ed for the engagement. Another ver
sion was that mutual friend3 arrang
ed for Mr. Morgan to "talk things
over " The two men have been ac
quainted for some time and Mr. Mor
gan knew the President at Princeton
and the personal element in the call
was a large one.
LESS WHISKEY CONSUMED.
But More Beer Is Used5 and More
Cigarettes Smoked.
Washington. Americans drank less
whiskey during the past 12 months
tha'n they did the year before, but they
consumed more beer and smoked
more cigarettes.
Reports to the commissioner of in
ternal revenue made public showed
that receipts for the fiscal year just
closed totalled $846,069 less than for
the. previous year, and most of this
decline was due to the marked de
crease in taxes collected on distilled
spirits. Detailed statements for the
month of June are not yet available,
but in the first 11 months of the fiscal
year there was a decrease of $3,734,
8571 in the income from the manufac
ture and sale of distilled liquor, due
in part, to reduction in the number of
licenses. Estimates on the June re
ceipts indicated the total decline in
distilled liqaor tax for 12 months will
probably be $4,250,000.
Receipts from tobacco taxes show
ed an approximate increase of $2,800,-
000 over last year. This gain is due
almost entirely to a phenomenal in
crease in the cigarette trade. The gain
in receipts from fermented liquor,
beer, ale and the like was about $860,
000. Commercial Agnt of South.
Washington. W. A. Graham Clark
was appointed by Secretary Redfield
to be commercial agent of the depart
ment of commerce for the Southern
States. Mr. Clark, who has been con
nected with the department since its
organization and is regarded as an
expert on questions of the cotton tex
tile industry, will make his headquar
ters at Atlanta, Ga. He will be in
charge of the department's investiga
tion for promotion of commerce In
the territory from Virginia to Louisi
ana inclusive. .
WIS GQNFERS
WITH RAILROADS
LITTTLE TROUBLE IS EXPECTED
IN ADJUSTING INTERSTATE
RATE SCHEDULE.
WILL CONFER WITH C. & 0.
To Take Up Change of Rules Regard
ing Shipment of Grain and Grain
Products Into North Carolina.
Raleigh. Chairman E. L. Travis,
of the corporation commission, ia
Ashevllle in conference with the traf
fic managers of the railroad compa
nies that do interstate freight busines
in this state with a view ot adjusting
a number of discrepancies between
the details of the compromise inter
state rates that were agreed upon by
the railroad companies and the state
authorities and the published sched
ules of these railroad companies and
placed in effect June 20. These differ-,
ences are in some minor matters and
there is no anticipation of any serious
complications in bringing about the
adustment.
Also Chairman Travis will take up
wii- the C. & O. and possibly te
N. & W. the matter of a change in tire
rules governing freight on grain in
tran&. and grain products, whereby
it appeared to the North Carolina
commissioners tnat the railroad com
pany had changed the rule to the
detriment of the interests of the
North Carolina dealers since the
adoption of the reduced rates. , It waa
first announced that the Norfolk &
Western had changed the rule just as
the Chesapeake & Ohio had, but it
now appears that this was not the
case.
Chairman Travis expects to remain
in Asbeville to be at the hearings be
fore the Intrastate Freight Commis--Ion,
Judge M. H. Justice chairman,
that is to hold the final hearings as to
the reasonableness of the reduced
rates prescribed by the Justice act of
the legislature and to declare a just
and reasonable schedule of intrastate
freight rates.
CUSTOMS RECEIPTS INCREASE.
Wilmington Customs House Makes A
Good Showing For Year.
Wilmington. The report for the
fiscal year ending Mune 30 of the cus
toms iiouse in Wilmington makes a
good showing, In spite of the fact that
for eight months of the 12 the Demo
cratic tariff law was in effect. The
number of entries of merchandise for
1913 was 154 against 231 for 1914. The
receipts of the customs service at Wil
mington for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1913, were $24,934, while for
year just closed the receipts were
$29,214, an increase of a little over 17
per cent. The value of imports for
1913 was $3,460,419; for 1914, $4,194,
745, an increase of approximately
33 1-3 per cent. The value of the ex
ports for. 1913 was $19,510,925 as
against $25,870,S51 for 1914, an in
crease oi 32 per cent.
Storm Lifts Roof of Big Building.
Charlotte. The immense brick
building occupied by the Internation
al Harvester Company on South Cedar
and West Fourth streets was flooded
with water recently when the tin roof
covering the structure was lifted by
a terrific gust of wind and simply torn
from its fastenings. The four floors
were drenched and the big office, in
which .all of the administrative de
tails of this large agency were han
dled covering the greater part of the
Carolinas was deluged. The damage to
the machinery will not be great owing
to the nature of the stock but it will
be substantial. " The injury to the of
fice will be more substantial for cor
resondenoe files were soaked and the
delicate machines employed there
were drenched.
$3,000 For Schools.
Greensoro. The county board of
education appropriated $1,500 a year
for two years to the city of Greens
boro to assist in erecting school build
ings for the city. This is the first ap
propriation of the kind.
Warsaw Gets Union Station.
Warsaw. As a rsnlt of the confer
ence held here recently between the
officials of the Atlantic Coast Line and
Atlantic & Carolina Railways and &
committee appointed by the Board of
Trade plans and specifications have
been presented ty the railroads and
accep ed by the citizens for a new
union station to be erected here. Tha
passenger department will be of a
commodious size nad contain modern,
conveniences. A baggage department
of ample size will also be built.