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VOL. XXV. PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1914. NO. 26. DIRECT FEDERAL WATERWAY CONTROL SENATOR NEWLAND'S PL. AN, SUB. MITT ED TO INTER-DEPART. MENTAL CONSIDERATION. TO SUBMIT AN AMENDMENT To the, Rivers and Harbors Arppro priatlon Bill Providing Commssion. For the : Washington. - Senator Newland'ft plan, generally approved by ..the Pres ident and the inter-departmental com-, mittee of the Cabinet, for a commis sion to direct Federal waterway con trol and improvements, was the sub ject of an extended conference at the White House recently. - Whether the plan should be pressed at this, session of Congress was considered but left undecided. The question will -be tak en up again at a date not fixed. Cab inet officials reported on their inves tigation of the subject and Secretary Lane announced their approval of the general plan. Conferring-with the President were J'' Secretaries jGarrlson, Redfield, Lane , '"and Jkwefej f ktor JSTewlands and '' ; " Georger!. Maxwell of -Chicago, ex . 1 ' ecyttAfe ;ehairmah of the National frri-" r .. gallon Association. ' . ' - Y The - proposed c commission;; would have authority over questions -relating '"r to ' development, improvement and . " , iuit'r.cj sbf -navigation as a part of in V tersfate and foreign commerce ; and f ; "related quesSSs of irrigation, " fores-' ' try, fisheries, swamp land reclama tion clarification streams, flood regu- V lation and water power utilization It' has "been su amdxqent be suhmyed .'in the SGa te'to the riverg-att'd haters appro priation bilfproyiftrfor the organi st ttrscommission to invest!- gate the broad "waterway "scheme out-' lined. Such as amendment was de feated" when 'ihe big rivers ,aha liar bors appropriation was blocked at the last session by a filibuster. Appropria tions for the scheme, according to the Newlands bill, would amount to $60, 000,000 a year for 10 years or a total ' of $600,000,000. PUCHESS OF WESTMINISTER i .v-i-'.-:v.y.-.- : New photograph of the Duchess of Westminster, who, at her own exi ; pense, equipped and took to the war zone a corps of trained Red Cross f nurses. ARMIES NEAR THE BORDER GENERAL BLISS REPORTS THE RESULT .OF . HiS DIPLOMATIC "RELATIONS. Denies to Secretary Garrisoij That He Has Made Definite, Final Demands on General Maytorena. Honors For Americans. Vienna, via London. Emperor Francis Joseph has conferred on the American Ambassador Frederic Court land Penfield, Rear Admiral Aaron Ward, U. S. N., retired, commander of American Red Cross ship Red Cross and the American minister td the Netherlands, Dr. Henry Vandyke, the Red Cross medal of merit for their services in connection with the Amer ican Red Cross mission to the dual empire. Recently the emperor deco rated Mrs. Penfield with the grand cross of the Order of Elizabeth for es tablishing a hospital at Vienna. The Red Cross order was founded by the emperor in commemoration of the semi-centennial of the Red" Cross So ciety, organized in 1864. , Is Subject to Inquiry. Washington. -Great Britain has ad dressed a note of inquiry to the state department in regard to charges which that government alleges Colonel Goethals had admitted were baseless against the conduct of certain British colliers in the waters of the Canal Zone. The communication implied that the British ship captains were harshly treated. So far Secretary Daniels has not learned just what led to the recent dismantling of the radio apparatus of a British collier at Pana ma .even the name of the ship being unknown. Washington. Secietary Garrison featePresident Wilson the latest re vested that"' anJWs from Brig. Geri. Bliss on the sit- uautni at , in a uo, wuere tut weiiiau generals have noi. yet moved' thefry forces to avoid firing into American territory. ; tt - ,: v ' ' . ". : ; Thpf eports showed fciwjt tlie ;sjtjjia Most Ixad- undergone apparent change, although-little firing was in evidence. While the United States is determined, if necessary, to open fire on the two Mexican forces to com pel them to stop shooting into the State of Arizona, it was feared that no decisive action was planned, pend ing efforts to Naco to influence the two factions to adjust the situation. The general belief in official quar ters was that some satisfactory un derstanding would be reached. Agents here of the Gutierrez Gov ernment to which General Maytorena is loyal, claims that he is preparing to move his force down the railroad south of Naco, so that he can con tinue to besiege the Carranza force under General Hill with the Ameri can border out of the range of fire. While reports from General Bliss the War Daprtpment were not made public it is believed they indi cated that he thought he had persuad ed General Maytorena to stop firing across the line. Until there is a defi nite understanding on the whole situ ation, it is thought General Bliss has warned General Hill not to take the offensive, which would draw the fire of the Maytorena troops. '$ Money For Withheld Salute. Wit Washington. The house passed an '"i-Vjergent deficiency bill carrying $4,730, "'11905, Including $554,371 to cover unr expectei expenses incurred by the Army in the occupation of Vera Cruz. Duting the debate Republican Leader Mann attacked the Administration's Mexican policy. "This bill," he said, "carries half a million dollars to pay the expenses of our troops at Vera Cruz, sent there to obtain a salute of 21 guns, which has not yet been given." ' " Thaw Back to New York. , Washington Harry K.' Thaw lost his fight in the supreme court of the United States aga'nst being extradi ted from Hampshire to New York. The court held that the celebrated prisoner should be turned over to the New York authorities to anfwer an in dictment for conspiring to escape from Matteawan asylum. Whether his .escape, while, as. his counsel contend td, he was insane, constituted a crime, the court dismissed with the comment that they could not enter in a habeas corpus proceeding. ALMOST A SCRAP II LOWER HOUS! JULIUS KAHN REPRESENTATIVES HEFLIN AN MOON COME CLOSE TO ACTU AL BLOWS.. ' DISCUSSION OF POSTAL Rule for Amendments Made Si of Bitter Passages, Involvii Several Members.', WaslTigton, After two days ohot wor 1b "Which culminated in exclnge . .u .ii. .... . . . or njvrf'xxons to personal comDsue tween tepftsentativeij Heflin Ala bama and Mooh of Tennessefthe house adopted a special rule tjcon- sider legislation for reforms denided by .'the postoffice In connectionpith the annual appropriation bill. de flection of democrates defeated sim ilar "rule, which provided for con sideration of an amendment diseas ing, pogtmasters' salaries, elimktlon of .assistant postmasters, expefrent al' substitution of contract senP for the rural delivery service, incise of r, Maries for rural carriers, ches in the compensation paid railrcf for carrying the mails and other iyS11 ization plans of the department , " Tlie rule was passed late wi pro visions for cutting postmasta sal aries, abolishing assistant postmers and the rural service subsition scheme eliminated. A speech by : RepresentativJMoon after defeat of the original ie, in rail-shift r de-" i de- as ftid d his -.villiMji3 RUSSIAN ARMY RETREATING. Falling Back From Poland to Get Better Base of Operations. London. "The Russians are retir ing along the entire front in Galicia and Poland." - This statement officially issued at Vienna is the outstanding feature of news from the battle fronts. While there is no confirmation from other sources, such a move on the part of the Russians would be In line with the announcements in Petrrograd dis patches that the Russians threatened on both flanks had decided to take up new positions where they could better meet the Austro-German onslaughts from the Carpathians to the East Prussian frontier. The Russian delay in fulfilling ex pectations that they would prove a serious menace to German territory is diappointing the peoples of the Al lied countries, but military men ex press the view that it is better for Russia to fight in her own territory, where means of communcation would be more on an equality. Admiral Fisher Talks of Efficiency. Washington. Five years would be required to put the United States Navy in the highest state of effi ciency to meet a hostile fleet, accord ing to a statement by Rear Admiral Fiske before the House Naval Com mittee The Admiral, who is chief of the Buieau of Operations, member of the general board' and a former president of the Naval Institute, said the Navy was deficient in air craft, mines, scout cruisers, torpedo-boat de stroyers, submarines and in number of trained officers and men and had no mine sweepers. which he intimated that "sol road influence" had operative Democratic votes caused a b bate heje. Representative Hi ftounced Mr. Moon's statenk "fatee and untrue." Mr. Mdchal 'lejige him to make the sam.e ment off tl - the bouid Mr, Heflin'' to Go 3g were a&vai each othei bers steppi Republic led the figj later renej "The ch: floor," he railroad i . house. I t house, if f pudiate tl man who the hous gate the (, whose vq railroad 1 Repres Carolina men cha: fluence e! of the h( I do not "Well,! ion," rep the hit Repres olina sa railroads who I t and con A litt in a br tention , tegrity j He said the hes been a to with he mig) SMA All S In t allies -teresti neight severs tured by tlj bourg latest This i Germ offeni annit Li hoi In doub ACcuiuiiio .-. - - ment from Petrograd, have been repulsed in ai cross to the right bank oj river in Poland and figl Bzura river district is d "X ' 1 :r v JJ f . ir1 Representative Kahn of California '19 fjrcsiaeni or the National Defense, league and holds that preparedness for war is the only Insurance against war. . . : . GERMANS MAKE BIG. RAID WHITBY, SCARBOROUGH AND HARTLEPOOL ATTRACTED BY SWIFT CRUISERS. NGREASED FREIGHT RATES ARE GRANTED EASTERN RAILROADS ARE AL LOWED INCREASE OF FIVE PER CENT. THE PRESIDENT IS PLEASED Casualty List Totals 110, Dead 31; Big Property Loss Unusual Excitement. London. For tht, first time in centuries England, has been struck by a foreign foe. A squadron of swift German .cruisers crept through the fog to the eastern coast and turned their guns against the Britons. When day broke they began bom bardment of three important towns Hartlepopi at the mouth of the Tees Whitby, noted as a pleasure resort 15 miles"ieyond-. Hartlepool suffer ed ' most There vtwa -battle cruisers ensured. The British war office v er of dead at Hartle .diers and 22 civilians. i ' shelled by a battle -.rmored cruiser, 13 eported while at 4:e killed and two c hiildren of the .e left .dead or without warning .n all ' the casualty . according to the of or wnom 31 are ead. churches were dam- ,as works and lumber afire, while the ab was struck. The Bal- t Scarborough received of a shell. A number hops were shattered in each of the on escaped in encounter with I LLA CRASH. Battle East of jortant battle id Villa arm ;an Pedro de reon. Several ps from Coa- about 5,000 nse Vasquez, larger force artillery and as desperate, ade a threat- Torreon and jmmunication garrison in ,een depleted j Mexico City tlonal Capita' :the northern 1 ranza, from a general h. Four hun Htll's forces uf Sonora are eld by a small j hundred Car Coahulla recently Blanca, Texas, on larez. Wilson Expects Decision to 'Have Immediate Effect on business. Will . Add $30,000,000. t ' Washington. Further increases la freight rates were granted to the' Jtprn raUroada by. the IntenBtete Comtnerce CommiHAihn in m Awiaian lroin,;Vhich Chairman Hallan and Commissioner dements' dissented vigorously. . : -4, Except on lake and rail traffic, coal. cokelon; ore and certain other traf fic fij which the commission here- f ofdifft- has fixed rates adjudicated Reasonable:;, ail railroads operating in the tferHtoiy between the Atlantic seaboard ''-and (tlie Missiasiippi, north, of the Pbtomle 'and Ohio rivers, were allowed the fMt' flue per cent increase for which they "have been asking for four years. -f'- V The railroads hoped to get increases which, would add ,to the annual rev enues some $50,000,000. The commis sion's , decision is expected to give them additional revenue approximat ing 530,000,000. The roads east of a North and South 1 1 irae arawn through Buffalo, Pitts burg and Charleston, W. Va., won by today's decision from the increases other than' upon the traffic excepted which were denied them in the com missioner's decision last August The roads west of this line, which got par tial advances in, the August decision, received further - advaiec r so that now all the roads Jt-whla1 describ ed as official classification territory will enjoy uniform advances in' both cl'ss and fommodtt raesv--v..- majoit of the commission held that the roads hhi established in-.t1- latest hearings a greater ne'fd'.cf ad uiuonai net income than ever before. This was due, the decision held, to, ind igencies arising but of the war and"tb an already existing necessity for addi tional revenues to maintain the rail road properties. Chairman Harlan in- his dissentinjr opinion, held that sufficient aid had been given the roads by the Aujtus decision and that the findings of the majority was "morally wrong." Com missioner Clements based his dissent upon what he regarded as the inabil ity in law, of the commission to take cognizance of anything in the makine or rates other than their justice and reasonableness. HEEDS OF SOUTH TOLD BT HOOSTOIT SECRETARY Or" AGRIULf URE SPffAKk TdSAND HILLTAR ERS ON BETTER FARMING. GREABCROWPtW? ABERDEEN NativeiCaro Una, hfan Fro m P rest tf nt' . CabtfiH - TalRs.rDiversiflcationv the curtatlmeatof -he cctfton crop, . the raising : oi bfeef? cattle-r,hof s aad ' poultry, dairyingand the pcopemtiv worx or tile people 'were em'psasized , as the need of the South by Secretary of Agriculture D, F., Houston,' who made a forcible address bere, fuU , to the core of valuable' suggestions for farm and community life. - This wa3 his first address in the South on agri- culture since he became a member of President Wilson's cabinet. The occasion was one planned by the Sand Hill Farmers' Association; an aggressive organization with a membership from fifteen towns and surrounding territory in this section ' Secretary Houston, a native of North Carolina, was secured to make the address at the rally and was accom panied here by Congressman Page. Nearly four hundred people were in the auditorium of the Aberdeen school UP AND AT 'EM NOW. iKSrmans mpi to Vistula in the ng. Re garding the victory whaermany wa3 reported to have woj Poland, Berlin remains silent. I Austria claims iniportl-iuceesses in the battle of Limar 1 GaJlicia, where 26,000 Russians k 4 4 to have fallen into ' their hand y A Berlin dispatch f that Em peror William has pairfjsit to the wounded soldiers at Tot. Goethals Again Asks for Fleet. Panama. Governor Goethals has again cabled to Secretary Garrison setting forth need for destroyers in canal ports to preserve neutrality. Colonel Goethals says he has no means of preventing the use of canal or Tanaman ports as a means of communication and that these ports apparently are being used to that end. Colonel Goethals expressed opinion that there was as much necessity for destroyers at canal ports as at any other American ports where they were stationed to prevent breaches. England Rises in Anger Would Avenge Scarborough. London. Although there seems no doubt the Russians are retreating, and that for the present any expectation the Allies may have held of an early invasion of Germany must be dis Ttn-J SJ t 1 niiooeu, uuusiueraDie mystery sur rounds the reported decisive German victory which Berlin celebrated. Vienna gives a few details of fight ing in the East. The claim is made that the Russians have been driven from their positions north of the Car pathian mountains from Krosno to Zaklicyn which would Indicate that part of the Southern line of railway in Galicia again is in the hands of the Austrians and that Piotrkow and another Central Poland town have been stormed, but silence is main tained as to North Poland where the German vicotry is said to have been achieved. "Avenge Scarborough! Up and at 'em now." Mexican Bullets Still Flying. Naco. Five Bullets from the Mexi can fighting around Naco, Sonora, struck near shelters built by United States troops on the border. Many other shots fell on United States ter ritory. Intermittent firing on the Mexican side continued all day. Hill's Carran za troops, defending Naco, seemed to by doing most of the shooting. Methods StkJI Asunder. Atlanta. No definite action on the proposed amalgamation of the North ern and Southern branches of the Methodist Church was taken by the Church Commission on Federation, which adjourned here after three days of deliberation. Three bishops from the Southern Church, four bishops of the Northern Church, six ministers and six laymen comprised the com mission. All sessions were strictly executive, but it was stater that niorl progres was made than at any time previous.' "r--- fa.- f. '. .... 1 - j HONORABLE DAVID F. HOUSTON. in the afternoon and the address of Secretary Houston met with -close attentio nand frequent applause. It deserved both. Congressman Page was happily in troduced by Roger A. Derby, chair man of the executive committee of the association, and in a brief speech, in which the work of the association was praised and solid advice given, Con gressman Page introduced Secretary Houston, commending him for the service he has rendered the country, declaring that wisdom had guided President Wilson in calling Mr. Hous ton into the cabinet. Secretary Houston made no set ad dress, but directed the attention of his hearers to the urgent needs of farm life. The Department of Agri culture, he said, wanted to be of ser ies. He set forth the possibilities in1 agriculture and presented as a great need co-operative effort in crop mak ing and in marketing. He commend ed the work of the Sand Hill Associa tion, and, following his declaration for cotton acreage reduction, he set out the need for other crops, that there are va9t poss'bilities for them in North Carrolina. He urged, too, the up building of the citizen, of schools and of roads. Marketing the crops, he de clared, could well be done by co operation. Sells $75,000 Bonds at Par. Asheville. City bonds to the amount of $75,000 take care of Bun combe's floating indebtedness and to enable the beginning of much good, roads work in the county were sold recently. The 35-year, five-per-cent bonds were bid in at par, there being but two bidders. Amateur Journalists to Meet. Rocky Mount. In preparation for the twentieth annual session of the United Amateur Press Association, which is to hold its national conven tion in this city in "July, 1915, the local organization, The Blarneys, in session inaugurated the preliminaries for a royal entertainment and inciden tally started a .fund for this purpose. The United Amateurs of the United State3 is representative of the great work by amateurs in journalism throughout the .'nation, and there are tnrollod mere ti. :n a 1,0 0 ru vS.t-s. j " i
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