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VOL. XXV,
COTTON COMMITTEE
HOLD CONFERENCE
MEN FROM THE SOUTH DI8CU38
ED PLANS FOR USE OF
LOAN FUND.
WILL REQUIRE REDUCTION
Estimated That $70,000,000 at Least
of the $135,000,000 Pool Will Be
Applied for by Growers.
. Washington. The $135,000,000 cot
ton loan fund plan to finance the sur
plus cotton crop, was approved unani
mously by representatives of commit
tee which will aid in handling the
fund in Southern States. The repres
entatives held an all-day conference
with the cotton loan committee, which
has final supervision of the fund.
Although no definite statements
were made at the meeting as to how
. snuch cash will be drawn from the
- fund to carry the surplus crop, esti
mates ranged from $10,000,000 to $70
000,000 and members of the cotton
Joan committees were confident hun
lreds of applications for loans would
. he forthcoming before January
Most of those present believed that
between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 bales
of cotton must be carried over until
next year. It as estimated that about
$150,000,000 would be needed to take
are of this cotton, and it was the
general opinion that unless there is
a natural expansion of credit through
out the South the loan fund will be
used to aid cotton producers.
There was evidence that many of
the state committeemen agreed with
the idea advanced by officials here
that cotton producers next year must
cut their cotton production. The cot
ton loan committee will use every
means to convince growers of the ne
cessity of curtailment.
The representatives from 10 states
included:
Moorhead Wright, Arkansas; R. F.
Maddox, Georgia; Sol Wexler, Louisi
ana; Z. D. Davis, Mississippi; Joseph
5. Brown, North Carolina ; A.
Trumbo, Oklahoma; R. G. Rhett
South Carolina; Henry D. Lindsley,
Texas; E. L. Rice, Tennessee; and
State Senator Milton, Florida.
The cotton loan committee was
represented by W. P. G. Harding ana
Paul M. Warburg, of the Federal Re
serve Board; J. P. Forgan of Chica
go, Festus J. :Wade of St. Louis, A,
H. Wiggin, New York, and Levi Rue
Philadelphia.
DANIELS FAVORS NORFOLK.
Js Place for Dry Dock Recommenda
tion to the Committee.
Washington. Formal announce
ment of successful naval tests of coal
from EOvernment-owned fields in
Alaska was made by Secretary Dan
iels before the naval committee of the
bouse. Trials by the cruiser Mary
Hand about 10 days ago, Mr. Daniels
aid, had demonstrated that the Mat-
anuska coal was as good as any to be
found.
Three recommendations were made
by Secretary Daniels. They were:
Appointment of all second lieuten
ants in the navy hereafter as "act
Ing second lieutenants" so that those
who do not measure up to require
ments after appointment may be
droDDed.
Graduated system in retired pay of
naval officers on the basis of their
length of naval service and the extent
of their disabilities.
Authority for using part of a $40,
000 contingent fund to protect the
navy's rights and property on its oil
land reserves. . . . '
"The secretary said the navy was
trying to put its yards on a business
basis with industrial managers, trying
the plan at New York, Norfolk and
perhaps some other plants.
"The Philadelphia navy yard is in
excellent shape," he added, "and has
not as many evils card systems and
other paper work as they have in
some of the other yards. We are go
ing to put a construction officer in
charge at the Norfolk yard."
Mr. Daniels has spent his last day
before the investigating committee.
French Gain New Advance.
Paris. The following official com
munication was issued by the war of
fice: ."In Belgium several attacks by
the French troops have resulted In
progress along the Ypres canal and
west of Hollebecke. Several violent
counter-atacks have been repulsed by
our troops. The railway station of
Commercy (Department of Meuse)
was bombarded by batteries firing
from a great distance. Insignificant
damage was done. In Alsace an of
fensive movement resumed by the
enemy has been repulsed. .
CARRANZA ANSWERS
WITH VEILED THREAT
SAYS HE WILL CONSIDER ACTION
AT NACO UNFRIENDLY RE
GARLESS OF MOTIVE.
DISPATCHES REPLY TO NOTE
Repudiates Blame For Firing Across
Border. Expresses Hope of "Good
Friendship."
Vara Cruz. "If the United State
employs force to stop the firing ty
Mexicans across the ! international
boundary line at Naco, it: will be con
sidered an unfriendly act, notwitb
standing the friendly motives cloak
in 4.1 -A ,
mo act,
In this manner Carranza made an
Bwer in a statement to the Associated
Press to the formal notice Served by
the United States on both Provisional
President Gutierrez and " Gen. Car
ranza that unless such firing ceased
force would be employed to protect
American territory. '
Carranza's reply to the American
note, repudiated responsibility for
shots that have crossed the line ana
clearly set forth that he and his gov-
eminent will regard Intervention at
Naco as a hostile act. At no time
since the receipt of Secretary Bryan's
note calling attention to the repeatea
wounding and killing or residents ol
teh American town has Gen. Carranza
appeared perturbed but he has had
long conferences with those close to
him, and, in framing his reply it Is
said he has been careful not to let
himself stand in any uncertain light.
Gen. Hill, constitutionalist com
mander of the troops at Naco, 13 on
the defensive," continued Gen. Car
ranza, "and, since his back was to
the line, it is difficult to see how he
could be responsible for the firing,
The fact is that Maytorena's men have
been attacking and therefore it ap
pears reasonablely clear that they, and
only they, could have been to blame.
, "As a matter of fact I do not know
hat the rights of American citizens
have' been violated. It seems to me
that it would be well for the state
department to investigate the ques
tion in order to flex the responsibility,
"I remember similar instances at
El Paso, when the Madero forces were
attacking there. In that case those
shots were for the most part the 1m
prudent and curious individuals who
(locked to witness the fighting as If
It had been a spectacular show staged
for their benefit.
SERVIAN ARMY VICTORIOUS.
French Cut German Line of Communl
cations Nears St. Mihiel.
London. Both the German and
official reports contain evidence that
the Allies offensive movement is be
ginning to gather Impetus and is
meeting with stobborn resistance,
The French have been particularly
active in the Woevre region.
At several points the Germans have
made counter attacks which the
French clai mhave been repulsed.
The German report shows that Gen
eral jonres men nave reacnea a
point midway between St. Mihiel and
Point-a-Mousson which would indi
cate that they had crossed the Ger
man line of communications. In these
operations the French lost heavily.
The battles in Poland continue al
most without intermission and, while
both Russians and Germans announce
success, apparently no decisive result
has been reached. The Germans still
are delivering heavy blows at the
Russian center, where they assert
they took 11,000 prisoners and 40 ma
chine guns. South of Cracow the
Russians claim the capture of 4,000
prisoners, four guns , and seven ma
chine guns.
Another Russian force is holding
the passes of the Carpathians pre
venting the Austrians from sending
relief to their Galician army. There
is no news of the German troops ad
vancing south of Mlawa, with the ob
ject of attempting to turn , the Rus
sian right. The rehabilitated Servian
arnjy continues, victorious in the Bal
kan area of the -war.
That the former German : cruiser
Goeben, now owned by Turkey, was
not so seriously damaged as was re
ported In her brush with Russian
cruisers, i3 shown by the fact that she
took part in the recent attack on
Datum, the Russian Black Sea port.
According to a Russian statement the
bombardment did little damage.
Bulgaria, according to a Paris re-
port, has expressed to the Powes ot
the Triple Entente her desire to re
main neutral. Th.d is taken to mean
that Roumania, if she so wished, coultf
join the Allies without fear of being
attacked by Bulgaria.
PLYMOUTH, N. 0.; FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1914
MRS. WINSTON CHURCHILL
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New; photograph of Mrs. Winston
Churchill, wife of the first lord of
; the British admiralty, who is herself
actively engaged in aiding the Brit
ish soldiers at the front.
DANIELS TELLS HIS PLAN
IOWA REPRESENTATIVE SAYS
SQUIRREL SHOOTERS' CORPS
COULD PROTECT COAST. ;
Daniels Favors Four Fighting Ships
Annually Instead of Two Auxiliary
Predicts World Conference.
Washington. Military preparedness
of the nation was again the dominant
subject of Congressional attentipn.
Secretary Daniels, before, the House
Naval Committee, defended his two
oattleship-a-year construction pro
gram and declared the sentiment of
the people of the United States oppos
ed turning the country into a great
military, power. . Meantime a free-for-
all national defense debate occupied
the house itself.
Mr. Daniels, during an all-day exam
ination, said this country already had
a powerful navy and that while "with
abundant revenues',' he might favor the
general board's four-battleship plan
he thought the two-battleship pro
gram adequate. Pressed for. an op in
ion as to the world military situation
at the close of the European war the
Secretary predicted an international
conference on armament.
"When the war is over,", he said,
"those countries will be so exhausted
in their resources and' burdened with
debt that there will be a: great revul
sion against war. I expect the revul
sion will be so great that we will
have an international conference on
armament more possible" now than
ever before and that we will get
some action by which ' the navies of
the World Powers will be used only
to carry Into execution the agreements
the countries reach."
Representative Gardner precipitated
the military discussion on the house
floor ..with a speech -, criticising the
administration for "laying , the cold
hand of death" on his proposal for
special investigation of military and
naval conditions. He assailed the
Rules Committee for refusal-to grant
him a hearing and the Naval and
Military Committee for failure to sum
mon before them former Cabinet offi
cials and other witnesses he wanted
examined. .
If war were to break out today,"
said Mr. Gardner, "it would be found
our coast defenses have not sufficient
ammunition for an hour's fighting."
Repjesentatlve Fitzgerald of New
York replied briefly and promised to
make a complete statement later
which would make "notoriety-seeking
ex-Secretaries" less anxious to dis
cuss the national defense. Represen
tative Dies of Texas ridiculed the
thought of impending danger of at
tack. ( Representative Sisson of Mis
sissippi charged the "war propagan
da to the manufacturers of war mater
ial." Representative Pouty of Iowa
pleaded for international disarma
ment, arbitration and an internation
al police, declared a force of trained
qulrrel-shooters could ' prevent the
landing of a hosti'e force on Ameri
can soil."
FINAL COTTON ESTIMATE.
Record Crop of All Previous Time Is
. : Grown. f :
Washington. The United States
this year has produced the greatest
crop of cotton in its history - More
than sixteen million bales ,or 15,966,-
000 bales of lint cotton' and. linter cot
ton, - unofficially estimated at from
600,000 to 650,0000 bales constitute the
crop. . ' ' '
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DISREGARD FDR THE
CANAL ZONE LAWS
COLONEL GOETHALS WANTS TOR
PEDO BOAT DESTROYERS FOR.
PATROL DUTY.
COLLIERS AND OTHER CRAFT
These Vessels Leave Without Clear
ance Papers. Few Have Health
" Certificates.
Mt '" -
....Panama. Col. George, W. Goethals,
governor of the Panama Canal zone,
announced that his request that two
swift American torpedo boat destroy
ers be stationed at the entrances of
the canal was prompted by recent ac
tivity of warships and colliers of the
belligerent European nations In the
vicinity of the waterway.
The action of the Australian collier
Mallina in leaving Balboa without
clearance papers and the fact . that
other colliers have shown a disposi
tion ot disregard canal, zone shipping
laws convinced Colonel Goethals that
decisive measures should be, taken to
preserve the neutrality of the canal.
Nearly all the colliers in canal wa
ters arrived without health certificates
and in several instances sailed with
out clearance papers. It is presumed
the steamers met and ooaled the Aus
tralian and English fleet which con
centrated recently in the vicinity of
the Peral Islands, which lie 60 miles
southeast of Panama City.
The torpedo boat destroyers re
quested by the governor are expected
to do patrol duty and overhaul bellig
erent craft attempting to disregard the
canal regulations.
Alleged violations of the Canal
shipping laws are said to have been
the subject of complaint to Sir Claude
C. Mallett, British minister to Pana
ma and also having resulted in orders
the fortifications prevent unneutral
colliers remaining in .ports on the
zone, in disregard of the orders of
canal authorities.
In the case of the collier Mallina
it is stated that she arrived without
clearance papers or a health certifi
cate and with no coal or supplies. She
attempted to buy 130,000 worth of sup
plies, consisting largely of articles in
tended for . Christmas dinner tor ; a
large force. She was refused the sup
-Hies and was ordered to depart be
cause she refused to state her desti
nation, as required by the Canal Zone
laws.' The collier Protesilau is point
ed to as a similar case.
It is stated that there has been
much wireless interference in canal
waters on the part of eight colliers
which were recently in the vicinity of
the canal and also by large warships
fleets, reported to be within 25 miles
of both ends of the canal. .
CONGRESS PUSHES WORK.
No
Extra Session for Next Summer
Is Spur.
Washington. Congress continues
work of the winter session determined
to complete its tasks March 4 so that
no extra session will be necessary
next summer. '-
. Democratic leaders of both houses
agree with President Wilson that the
country should. have a rest from na
tional legislation. Right of way will
be given appropriation bills with con
servation measures, the Philippine
bill and the government's purchase
bill following.
While no special investigation of
military preparedness seems in pros
pect, much attention will center
about investigations before reguar
house committees. The naval com
mittee will resume consideration of
the appropriation bill at once with
Secretary Daniels again on the stand.
The immigration bill, with its lit
eracy test for aliens will again be
under debate In the senate while that
body waits for the appropriation bills
to come from . the house. Its sup
porters insist that it will be passed
although it was not included in the
President's outline of legislation.
Conservation measures the jwater-
power site and the mineral leasing
bills probably will be reported from
the senate committee on public land3
early in January.
Mines Were German.
Stockholm, via London. The Swed
ish forign minister in a statement
regarding the sinking of the three
Swedish steamers by mines in the
Gulf of Bothnia said: "The Germans
declares the mines were Russian, as
no German mine-laying had been done
up to the time of the disaster. Offi
cial investigations by Finland disclose
that several groups of anchored mines
were German and not Russian and
that they had been laid during the
war in the Gulf of Bothnia. No float
ing mines had been found."
CAPT. H. GIBSON
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Captain Gibson is the commander of
the submarine K-5, one of the latest
' additions to the United States navy.
WATERWAYS CONVENTION
ADVOCATES OF BIG APPROPRIA
TION MEASURE GATHERED
IN WASHINGTON.
Senator Ransdell Says Charges Were
Made That South Was to Unduly
Profit by Bill.
Washington. Advocates of. wa
terway improvement from all parts of
the country met in the eleventh an
nual convention of the National Riv
ers and Harbor Congress. Secretary
Bryan welcomed the delegates, pre
dicting a large percentage of the
country's traffic would be drawn to
waterways soon because of cheap
ness of transportation.
"Vigorous replies were made to criti
cism of the last river and harbor bill
as a "pork barrel" measure. Senator
Ransdell, president of the congress,
made this attack the theme of his an
nual address. Albert Rettinger of
Cincinnati, defended the measure
against the same criticisms and Rep
resentative J. Hampton Moore com
pared the small appropriation of the
last 40 years for waterways" improve
ment with the large sums spent for the
army, the navy and for pensions. Sen
ator Fletcher of Florida expained the
claims of the Oklawaha River for at
tention in reply to criticism of the
Oklawaha item in the bill.
Senator Ransdell said that attacks
on river and harbor legislation "were
unfounded practically without merit
and many of them devoid of even a
vestige of truth." He vigorously de
nounced attacks on the bill in the last
session , of congress and the filibuster
that resulted in the practical defeat
of the measure's purposes.
Critics of the legislation, he added,
had been unable to suggest a better
system than the one they criticise.
Senator Ransdell said that under
the present method of waterway legis
lation the nation's waterways had
been greatly Improved, commerce fos
tered, freight movements facilitated,
and transportation rates cheapened In
competition with railways.
"Attacks were made on the last
river and harbor bill," declared Sena
tor Ransdell, "during the debates in
congress and particularly during the
recent campaigns on sectional and
political grounds and it was freely
charged that favoritism had been
shown to the South. These attacks
are. unworthy of their authors."
U. S. CAN MATCH NAVIES.
Admial Fletcher Says Only England
Has a Better Nav
Washington. The ability' of the
American navy to successfully meet
the war fleet of any nation except
Great Britain was asserted by Rear
Admiral Fletcher, commander-in-chief
of the Atlantic fleet, before the house
naval affairs committee. The dossI- ,
bility of conflict with Great Britain
was so remote, the admiral said, that
he did not believe in a navl policy
designed to control the oceans a3
against that country. -
German Cruisers Destroyed.
London. The victory off the Faulk
land Islands where the British squad
ron sank the German cruisers Scharn-
horst, Gnelsenau and Leipzig, and the
success of the Indian troops on the
Gulf of Persia, where they compelled j
surrender of a Turkish army, have for
the moment overshadowed so far as
England is concerned, the larger
events which hrve taken ulae.
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NO. 25.
HCOHX REPORT
S MADE PUBLIC
FORTY-FOUR PEOPLE WITH NET
ANNUAL INCOMES OF MIL
LION OR MORE.
THE 1G WEALTH CENTERS
New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Bo
ton, Detroit, Wealthiest Cities
of The Nation.
Washington. The first complete
compilation of returns under the in
come tax law was made public in the
annual report of commissioner of in
ternal revenue. It showed returns for
the collection year of 1913 by 357.59S
Individuals as follows:
Net Number
income returns.
$1,000,000 and over 44
500,000 to $1,000,000 91
400,000 to ' 500,000 44
. 300,000 to 400,000 84
250,000 to 300,000 94
200,000 to 250,000 - 14S
150,000 to 200,000 311
. 100,000 to 150,000 785
75,000 to 100,000 - 998
50,000 to 75,000 2,618
40,000 to 50,000 2,427
30,000 to 40,000 4,553
25,000 to 30,000 . 4,164
20,000 to. 25,000 6,817
15,000 to 20,000 11,977
10,000 to 15,000 26,818
5.000 to 10,000 101,718
3,333 to 5,000 114,484
2,500 to 3,333 " 79,426
Returns were made by 278,835 mar
ried persons, 55,212 single men and
25,651 single women. The normal
tax of 1 per cent on all taxable in
comes produced $12,728,038. Incomes
of more than $20,000 a year and
subject to sur-tax produced $15,525,
497. The figures show that most of the
individuals with large net. incomes
Jive in districts near the cities of New
York .Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston
and Detroit. More single women, as
well as more single men paying the
tax were found in New York than any
where else. Married "women made
separate returns in every colleotion,
district except in the Fifth North
Carolina.
THAW ENTERS COURT AGAIN.
Attorneys Fight Extradition on the
Grounds That Insanity Was Proved.
Washlngtoni. The request of the
state of New York for extradition of
Harry K. Thaw from New Hampshire
to answer an indictment charging
conspiracy to obstruct Justice by es
caping from Mattewan Asylum was
taken under consideration by the Uni
ted States Supreme Court after oral
arguments.
Members of the court asked Thaw's
attorneys many questions about va
rious points in their contentions. They
did not interrupt Williams Travers Je
rome, however, during his argument
that Thaw was a fugitive from justice
nor challenge the argument of Franklin
Kennedy. Deputy Attorney General of
New York that the law under which
Thaw was committed to Mattewan
after the killing of Sanford White was
constitutional. 1
Germans Close to Warsaw.
London. Of the five Austro-German
columns which for some days appear
ed to be making steady progress in
their invasion of Poland, three have
suffered checks, according to official
report from Russian headquarters.
The column making a downward
stroke from Mlawa on the East Prus
sian frontier, reported in one dispatch
from Petrograd to be within 15 miles
of Warsaw, was repulsed after an
energetic offensive and under counter-attacks
from the Russians was
compelled to retire at some points.
The attacks of the main German
column which had its front on the
line between Lodz and Lowicz and
which came down diagonally from
Thorn, were delivered with great
force, but according to the Russian
account were repulsed witn neavy
losses to the Invaders.
Carnegie Visits White House.
Washington. Andrew Carnegie,- a
White House caller expressed decid
ed opposition to a Christmas truce in
the European war. If. would be unchristian-like
and immoral he said to
stop fighting and then resume it He
added he did not believe any nation
which adopted such a suggestion was
doing it sincerely. Mr. Carnegie
gave it as his opinion that the military
caste in Germany was responsible for
the war and that at the time hostili
ties broke out the Kaiser was ill and1
c-BDosed to the war. '