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fIXt a Year, In Advance
"FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
VOL. XXV.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1915.
NO. 33.
LOAN FUND PLAN NO
LONGER AVAILABLE
EXISTANCE ENDED WITH AN
NOUNCEMENT FROM THE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
ONLY A FEW APPLICATIONS
However Knowledge That Such
Fund Exisited Was Beneficial,
The Board Declares.
Washington. Loans under tlio
$135-000,000 fund plan has been closed
and the plan virtually ended its ex
istence with an anouncement from the
Central Committee that Federal Re
serve Board acting as individuals
that subscriptions probably would not
be called for. Applications amounted
to only $28,000 and this was not ob
tained from the fund, but elsewhere
on notes and collateral offered with
the applications.
Subscribers, the Central Committee
point out, have not been released
from liability for their proportionate
share of the $28,000 but if all the
loans are paid, subscriptions will not
be needed.
The announcement says that sub
scriptions aggregated $101,036,100
from 487 banks, 185 firms and 17 in
dividuals, ranging from $100 to $5,-
000,000 and representing 64 cities in
19 states and the District of Co
lumbia.
"The beneficial effects of the fund,
says the anouncement, "are not to
,be measured by the small amounts
actually loaned. Its benefits consisted
largely in the public knowledge that
there was a source of assistance
whcih could be confidently looked to
and "availed of. When the organiza
tion of the cotton loan fund was un
dertaken, the exchanges were closed
fixed quotations for cotton were un
obtainable, demand for staple was
light and sales were being made in
some instances at prices as low as
five cents a pound. The buying move
ment which set in followng ithe estab
lishment of this fund has carried
prices up to eight cents and exports
since . December 1, have exceeded
those of same period of year ago.
Twilight Sleep Association.
New York. The National Twilight
Sleep Association, just organized
here, is the iatest move to further the
easy child-birth propraganda. Its or
ganizers are women of Manhattan and
Brooklyn. They expect to found a
twilight sleep clinic in Brooklyn and
to send lecturers into all large cities
to organize branches. Mrs. C. Tem
ple Emmett is the president of the
association.
Record Cotton Exports.
New Orleans. Shipments of cotton
last week from United States portb
were the largest on record. They to
taled 585,032 bales, of which 483,476
went to foreign countries and 101,556
moved coastwise.: While it was
known throughout the week that the
movement would be large it was not
expected that it would go so far over
the half million mark.
Would Avoid Extra Session.
Washington. President Wlison told
calers he was making every effort to
jivoid an extra session of congress.
Senator Williams told the president
he favored an extra session if the ship
ping bill were deeated through a
fiilibuster, but some other senators
opposed an extra session for any pur
pose. British Casulties 104,000 Men.
London. Premier Asquith, speak
ing in the house of commons said that
British casulties in all ranks in the
western arena of war, from the be
ginning of hostilities to February 4th.
amounted to 104,000 men. This In
cludes killed wounded and missing.
Sympathy For Belgiun.
Madrid, via Paris. More than 100,
000 persoas of all classes called at the
Belgian lsgation here to express sym
pathy for the people of that country.
All who took part in the manifesta
tion left cards or signed their names
to the register.
German Aeroplane Brought Down.
Parls A Ilavas despatch from
Dunkirk says a German aeroplane
whcih flew over Dunkirk was brought
down by cannon.
Women Sell Votes.
Pikeville, Ky. Three women indict
ed on charge of selling votes in last
school election will be tried with the
1,100 men accused of having commit
ted fraud at the August primary. It
was alleged in indictments that the
women sold their votes for a "dollar
each.
EDWIN YATES WEBB
Si.
Edwin Yates Webb, Representative
from the Ninth North Carol irra dis
trict, and chairman of the jhouse
judiciary committee, jis founder of
me weDD liquor law wnicn is caus
mg so much discussi0, ' and new
legislation in the
le stat?k-jen
general as
semblies at present.
TURKS FAIL AT SUEZ CANAL
NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT AND
PROBABLY AUSTRALIANS
TOOK PART.
British Warships Again Bombarding
German Positions on Belgian
Coast South African Rebellion.
London. The Turks at last have
made a definite attack on, the Suez
Canal, but after a sharp fight they
were driven off with heavy losses.
After a fruitless attempt to bridge
the canal near Toussoum, they re
turned the attack with a force est!
mated at 12,000 and six batteries of
artillery and essayed to cross on
rafts. The British force threw the
invaders back, taking abo'ut 300 pris
oners. A considerable number of the Turks
were killed and wounded. The Brit
ish lost 15 killed and 58 wounded.
The attack was renewed by the
Turks at El Kantara, but this met
with no greater, success than the oth
er attempt, the Turkish losses in kill
ed, wounded and prisoners number
ing upwards of 100.
The New Zealand contigent and
presumably the Australians took part
in the batt'es. Compared with the
battles in Poland and the Carpathians
this was a mere flash but "as British
territorials, Australians an,d New Zea
landers are receiving their baptism
of fire in Egypt and there is much in
terest in the attempts of the Turks to
move a big army across the desert,
the operations in that part of the
world are attracting a good deal of
attention in' England.
PHYSICIAN SHOT BY POSSE.
Dr. Culberson, Evans, Ga., Lynched
For Assaulting Young Woman.
Augusta, Ga. Dr. A. N. Culberson,
a practicing physician of Evans, Ga.f
was shot to death by a. posse of citi
zens that had been searching for him
according to reports received here.
Culberson was charged with assault
ing a young married woman, daughter
of a prominent citizen of Martinez.
The killing of Dr. Culberson occurr
ed at a farm house near Evans, in Co
lumbia county, 12 miles, from Augus
ta. The assault with which he was
charged was committed early the day
before.
About midnight Sheriff Plunkett, of
Richmond county, in which this city
is located, and three deputies,, start
ed for Martinez to arrest the physi
cian who was reported to be hiding
near that town.
A posse of citizens, however, con
tinued their search and shortly be
fore 4 o'clock in the morning locat
ed Culbertson in a farm house. The
physician was ordered to come out.
Reports of the affair state that Cul
berson drew a revolver and tried to
escape, and that the posse fired upon
him and he fell with his body riddled
with bullets. ,
Culberson went to Evans about
two years ago to practice medicine.
He came to Georgia from Culberson,
N. C. He was married, but it is
said he and hig wife have not been
living together for some time.
WILL CONSIDER
AN EXTRA SESSION
V
A WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
TO BE HELD AND SITUATION
: DISCUSSED.
THAT SHIP - PURCHASE BILL
Only Hop For Measure is to Press
Substitute Scheme Regular Ses
. sion Vnds March 4.
Washington. Whether President
Wilson will call ; an extra session of
congress in case of defeat of the ship
bill at this session probaly will be de
cided at conferences this week be
tween the president and Democratic
leaders in congress.
At the White House it was said
present sentiment among officials was
against an extra session, but that no
definite conclusion had been reached,
All appropriation bills will be freed of
legislative riders which might cause
prolonged discussion in the senate
and leaders think they can be passed
in a week or ten days if the shipping
bill is disposed of.
Administration senators agreed it
would be impossible to recommend
the ship purchase bill with instruc
tions for its modification and deter
mined their only course to get an
amended bill before the senate was to
yield to Senator Clarke's motion,
which threw the Democratic ranks
into confusion.
They will then press Senator Gore's
motion to discharge the commerce
committee from consideration of a
substitute bill containing amendments
satisfactory to progressive Republi
can senators.
Suggestions that Republican Sena
tors eventually might yield their op
position in order to take up appro
priation bills and let the measure
come to a vote are denied by minority
leaders. They Insist the bill cannot
get a vote.
Democratic Senators championing
the bill admit the situation is desper
ate. They Tealize their insistence on
keeping the bill before the Senate will
mean failure of the great appropria
tion bills. This would make an extra
session Inevitable.
FLIES STARS AND STRIPES.
Menaced by Submarines British Ship
Sails Under American Flag.
London The British steamer Lusl-
tania of the Cunard line which sailed
from New York January 30 and ar
rived at Liverpool flew the American
flag from the time she passed Queens-
town until she entered Mersey. This
is vouched for by American passen
gers who crossed on her.
The - Lusitania received a wireless
from the Baltic of the White Star line
that two submarines had been sighted
from that vessel. The captain, in re
ply to a question of one of the pas
sengers, 4eclarel ne bad a right to
fly the flag of a neutral country foi
protection of unetral. passengers and
mails which his ship was carrying.
After being delayed by heavy storms
which raised seas deck high and in
jured 11 passengers, the Lusitania
arrived off Queenstown. She cruisea
Off the Irish port two hours and, with
out picking up a pilot, as is usually
dence, proceeded to Liverpool at full
speed, arriving at the Mersey chan
nel at daybreak, with the Stars and
Stripes still flying.
Mine Explosion Kills 20 Men.
Fayetteville, W. Va. Twenty min
ers were killed-by an explosion in the
Carlisle mine of the New River Coal
company. One hundred and sixty oth
ers were entombed but escaped.
For Textile Enquiry.
New York Chairman Walsh of the
federal industrial relations commis
sion announced that hearings would be
opened in Atlanta late in March on
conditions in the textile industry.
To Raise Bread Prices.
Pi'tsburg One hunrlered and fifty
master bakers of Pittsburg district
decided to raise the price of bread.
- , More Money For Ships.
' Washington By the provisions of
the naval appropriation bill, wheh
passed the house and use of the mon
ey from the sale of the old battleships
Idaho and Mississippi to Greece, the
United States will have $7,005,000
more available for new warships than
was authorized by the building pro
gramme in 1914. Secretary Danielh
pointed out in a statement that while
the house bill totaling $138,844,364 Is,
less than the 1914 appropriation by
$1,892,171, the building appropriation
is increased by $1,246,686.
CLAUD KITCHEN
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Claude Kitchin, Representative from
the Second North Carolina district,
considered "North Carolina's Great
est Congressman," is unanimously
honored by democrats of the lower
house of Congress by being chosen
chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, and majority floor leader
when Representative Underwood
goes to the Senate.
TALKS TO BUSINESS MEN
PRESIDENT WILSON, SECRETARY
BRYAN, AND OTHERS SPEAK
TO BUSINESS MEN.
Co-Operation Between Business and
the Government in Framing the
Laws For Benefit of Peopis.
Washington. Co-operation between
business and the Government in fram
ing laws for the benefit of all the peo
ple was urged by President Wilson in
an address before several hundred rep
resentative business men here attend
ing the annual convention of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States. lie declared that "we must
all pool our interests" to discover the
best means for handling public prob
lems. The President urged the creation in
the United States in time of peace of
the same kind of united spirit which
moves Nations during wars. He
declared that "when peace is as hand
some as war there will be no wars"
and that "when men engage in the
pursuits of peace in the same spirit
of self-sacrifice as they engage in war
wars will disappear."
The President predicted that while
there Is a shotage of food in the
world now, the shortage will be much
greater later. He pointed out that
under the guidance of the Department
of Agriculture efforts must be made
by American farmers to grow more
and more grain that the world may be
fed. '
Speaking of the foreign trade of the
United States the President asked that
business men devise some way of al
lowing American exporters to com
bine to form common selling agencies
and to give long-time credits in such
a way that these co-operative agen
cies may be open to the use of all. He
declared that apparently the anti
trust laws prohibited such combina
tions now but that he would favor a
change, if a method fair to all could
be found. He spoke of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce's
work in "surveying the world," for
the benefit of all business men.
Business men themselves are to
blame if intelligent laws affecting
them are not framed, the President
asserted. He added that they should
come out into the open and use their
knowledge of conditions to bring about
laws to prevent business evils.
NAVIGATION BILLS PASSLD.
Measure Designed to Facilitate Oper-
tion of Foreign-Built Ships.
Washington. Several bills clear
ing up discrepancies in the navigation
laws were passed by the house. The
measures were designed especially to
facilitate operation under American
register of foreign-biult ships owned
by American citizens or corporations.
When the Panama Canal act and
recent amendments to the navigation
aws established the policy of admit-
ing foreign built ships t o registry
when owned by Americans, penalties
nd discriminating duties imposed on
uch vessels remained on the statute
books. The bills passed repealed the
ection of the Underwood tariff law
imposing an additional duty of 10 per
cent ad valorem on goods imported
in such ships, and the old penalty sec
tion of the navigation laws imposing
a tax of $1 a ton on such ships when
they touched at an American port.
TWO CAPITALISTS
EXPLAIN MOTIVES
ROCKEFELLER AND CARNEGIE
APPEARS BEFORE FEDERAL
COMMISSION BOARD.
FOR GOOD INTENTIONS ONLY
Mr. Rockefeller Never Attends Board
Meeting of Foundation Has No
' More Rights Than Others.
New York. John D. Rockefeller,
Sr., and Andrew Carnegie apeared be
fore the Federal Commission on In
dustrial Relation and defended the
foundations which they have endow
ed with their wealth.
Neither would say he believed the
Institutions constituted a menace to
the religious, political or educational
liberty of the people of the United
States. A desire to promote the wel
fare of mankind and that alone, they
said, prompted them to establish the
foundations which bear their names.
Widely different was the manner in
which these two men faced the com
mission and the audience, composed
largely of representatives of labor,
Socialists, individuals and members of
the Industrial Workers of the World.
Mr. Carnegie went to the witness
stand from a seat in the audience.
He was in a jovial mood and his ans
wers to questions caused the audi
ence and the commissioners to roar
with daughter more than once.
Mr. Carnegie enjoyed that. When
he left the stand he said he had not
spent such a pleasant afternoon in
many years.
Mr. Carnegie revealed that up to
the close of last year his donations
totalled $324,657,399. His present
business, he said, was to do all the
good he could do In this world. He
sketched the growth of his steel busi
ness and said he "never had such
a good time in his life" as when he
was talking to his employes. The
men liked him, too. "When they call
you Andy instead of Andrew or Mr.
Carnegie you know the boys are your
friends," said he.
GERMAN YNAMES NEW WAR EREA
Declares Waters Around England and
Ireland in War Zone.
Washington Germany's declara
tion of a naval war zone around Eng
land and Ireland, including the English
channel and the northen passage by
the Shetland Islands, is regarded here
as one of the most serious develop
ments of the war.
It was regarded as highly possible,
for one thing, that it would hasten the
movement begun by the Latin-American
countries for a speedy conference
of neutral states to devise means to
reduce losses to a minimum.
At first there were some intimations
in administration circles that it might
be the subject of a protest by the Unit
ed States but the official view devel
oped that there was little or no ground
for that. "
Arkansas To Join Dry States.
Little Rock, Ark., The bill which
would declare Arkansas a dry state
after January 1, 1916, was passed by
senate 33 to 2. It was passed by the
house to take affect June 1, and as
amended by the senate,. would be sent
back to the house immediately. The
governor has expressed himself ih
favor of it.
Immigration Bill Fails In House.
Washington The attempt to pass
the immigration bill, with its litera
cy test provision, over the veto of
the President failed in the House. The
was 261 in favor of overriding the
veto and 136 against it. Two members
voted present, and with this attend
ance, 266 ayes would have been ne
cessary to give the necessary two
thirds. Two Dreadnaughts Provided For.
Washington. Over a strenuous pro
test from Majority Leader Under
wood the house voted to retain in the
naval appropriation bill the provision
for construction of two new dread
naughts and then passed the bill with
out roll call.
Three Killed With Hammer.
Buffalo.N. Y. The bodies of Mrs.
Lizzie Drake, 65; Mrs. Irene Spencer,
35, and her daughter Gertrude Spen
cer, 12, were found in their beds at
their home at Salamanca. Their heads
had been crushed in with a sledge
hammer. Boys passing the Drake
homestead, observing the rear door
open, found the bodies in separate
rooms. There was no evidence of a
struggle. Apparently the victims had
been slain as they slept. Physicians
said the murder had been committed
three or four days.
WEATHER FORECAST,
Movements Due and Their Lo
cal Effects For The Cotton
States, Feb. 14 to 21,
Carothers Observatory Forecast
Sunday, February 14. The
week will open with moderately
warm temperatures and with
rain in the Western Cotton
Belt spreading to the remainder
of the South.
Monday, Feb. 15, to Friday,
Fabruary 19. A Cool Wave
will overspread Western Cotton
Belt Monday, accompanied by
rain or snow and cover the
South by Tuesday. It will be
generally clear by Wednesday
and there will be hard freezing
temperatures in Western Belt,
probably freezing to the Coast
Tuesday and Wednesday, with
heavy frosts Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday. In the remain
der of the South it will be gen
erally freezing from Tuesday to
Friday, freezing to the Gulf and
Atlantic Coasts in Eastern Cot
ton Belt Wednesday and Thurs
day, with heavy frosts Thurs
day and Friday.
Saturday, Feb. 20; Sunday,
Feb. 21. The week will close
with warmer and unsettled
weather setting in in Western
Cotton Belt and this will reach
the Eastern Belt as the next
week opens.
MUCH AID FOR THIS STATE
Civil Sundry Bill Carries Many Items
For Buildings, etc., in -the Old
North State.
Washington. The sundry civil bill,
reported to the house carries the fol
lowing North Carolina items: To
commence public buildings at Bur
lington, $1,000; Shelby, $1,000; Way
nesville, $1,000.
To complete buildings Gastonia,
$15,000; Kingston, $20,000; Rocky
Mount, $30,000; Tarboro, $25,000;
Wilkesboro, $30,000; Wilmington,
$220,000, the cost limited $600,000 and
appropriated to date $180,000, the
rent and removal expenses being $2,
500; Wilson, $15,000.
Site for Rutherfordton, $15,000.
For repairs to roads leading to
cemetery at Newbern, $7,000; Salis
bury, $300.
The River sand Harbors bill as re
ported to the Senate by the commerce
committee retains every item in the
bill as it passed the house and makes
some increases. The North Carolina
appropriations are as follows:
Inland waterway, Norfolk to Beau
fort, continuing improvement, in
creased from $600,000 to $800,000;
Shallow Bag Bay, maintenance, $36,
000; Beaufort and Morehead City har
bors, maintenance $25,800; Beaufort
Inlet, maintenance $5,000; completing
improvement Scuppernong Bay, Pam
lico and Tar Rivers and Fishing Creek.
$45,600; continuing improvement and
maintenace Contentnea and Smith's
Creeks, Neuse and Trent Rivers, $35,
900; waterway from Pamlico Sound to
Beaufort Inlet, maintenance, $8,000;
waterway connecting Core Sound and
Beaufort harbor, $2,000; New River
and waterways to Beaufort, continu
ance, $37,300; northeast, Black and
Cape Fear Rivers above Wilmington,
$13,000; Cape Fear River above Wil
mington, $13,000; Shallotte River,
maintenace $1,800.
MARKET REPORTS.
Cotton, Cotton Seed and Meal Prices
in the Markets of North Carolina
For the Past Week.
As reported to the Division of Mar
kets, North Carolina Agricultural Ex
periment Station and Department of
Agriculture, Raleigh.
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