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V THE NEWS-RECORD, MARSHALL, NORTH CAROLINA MEXICAN AilLliES NEEDS OF SOUTH JULIUS KAHN INCREASE NISS DOROTHY DRAKE STILL Oil BORDER TOLD BY HOUSTOU J1ATES ARE GENERAL BLISS REPORT8 THE RESULT OF HI8 DIPLOMATIC " ' RELATIONS. - SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE 8PEAK8 TO SAND HILL FARM ER3 ON BETTER FARMING. "? dEPRESENTATlVES . HEFLtN AND MOON COME CLOSE TO ACTU AL BLOWS EASTERN, RAILROADS ARE AL LOWED INCREASE OF FIVE PER CENT. NO ULTIMATUM ISSUED YET GREAT CROWD AT ABERDEEN DISCUSSION OF POSTAL BILL THE PRESIDENT IS PLEASED D FREIGHT GRANTED -' - I ' -V'. -'',: r y V I Rule for Amendments Made Subject of Bitter Passages, Involving Several Members. Washington, After two days of hot rords which culminated In exchange of Invitations to personal combat be tween Representatives Heflln of Ala bama and Moon of Tennessee, the house adopted a special rule to con sider legislation for reforms demanded by the postoffice In connection with the annual appropriation bill. A de flection cf democrates defeated a sim ilar rule, which provided for a con sideration of an amendment decreas In postmasters' salaries, elimination of assistant postmasters, experiment al substitution of contract service for the rural delivery service. Increase of salaries for rural carriers, changes In the compensation paid railroads for carrying the mails and other reorgan ization plans of the department. The rule was passed late with pro visions for cutting postmasters sal aries, abolishing assistant postmasters and the rural service substitution scheme eliminated. A speech by Representative Moon after defeat of the original rule, In which he intimated that "some rail read influence" had operative to shift Democratic votes caused a bitter de hate here. Representative Hefiin de nounced Mr. Moon's statement as "false and untrue." Mr. Moon chal lenged him to make the same state ment off the floor of the house, and Mr Hefiin expressed his willingness to do so.-The two representatives were advancing threateningly towards each other when half a dozen mem bers stepped In between them. Republican Leader Mann, who had led the fight against the original rule, later renewed the controversy. "The charge has been made on this floor," he en'd, "that the Influence of railroad interests has been felt in this house. I believe It is the duty of the ,'4FWsrrtf"the -charge is not true, to re pudiate the charge and condemn the mai who made it. If it Is true, then the house owes it to itself to investi rtc. fho nharce and nunish those men whose votes have been changed by railroad influence." Representative Ragsdale of South Carolina said that "when the gentle men charge that there is railroad in fluence enough on the Democratic side of the house to defeat this legislation I do not believe It and repudiate it." "Well, the gentleman has his opln ' Ion," replied Representative Moon. "11 the hit dog yelps, let him yelp." Representative Webb of North Car olina said he "was not Influenced by Tailroads, but by my own colleagues, who I think are high-sainded, hones! and conscientious men." A little later Representative Moon In a brief speech disclaimed any In tention to "reflect on the honor or In tegrity of any member of the house." He said that his speech was made "in the heat of debate" and "may have been a little, too rough." He offered to withdraw any "offensive language" he might have passed. SMALL GAINS AND LOSSES. All Sides are Claiming Some Few , Successes. In the offensive operations of the allies in the western war arena, in teresting features are the loss in the neighborhood of JNuve Chapelle ol severalof the trenches recently cap tured by the British and an advance by the East ; Indians toward Riche bourg l'Avouve, as reported in the latest. French official communication. This Statement also Indicates that the Germans have not been lacking In the offensive. It recordes. in addition, the annihilation of a German column al LIhons.' In the east the situation Is still In doubt. According to the official-r state nient from Petrograd, the Germane have been repulsed In an attempt tc cross to the right bank of the Vistula river In Poland and fighting In the Bzura rhrer district U developing. Re garding the -victory which Germany was reported to have won in Poland, Berlin remains silent ;."' Austria claims important successes in h hattle of Limanowa in Gallieia. where 26,000 Russians are said to have foiinn into their hands; . 1 A Berlin dispatch suys that Em peror William has paid a visit to tn wounded soldiers at Fotsdam. -. 4 Armv eta All Asked For. ' Washington, The army approprt Rftflii bill, ageregating 1101,000,000 igreed upon by the, House military committee, carried a special iuna oi msnno for United States military ob servers In Europe. The bill closely follows the War Department's ' esti tiate. "We gave them practically 11 they esked for," said chairman Hay, rpfprrine to appropriations for ammu- n'"n and otter materials for defense. Increase cf 13 rcg!menfs la the regu- f-rY vss r,-.;,-,c.PJ fcy a t'-l IB- I - i h , 1 Representative Kahn of California Is president of 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. Casualty List Totals 110, Dead SI; Big Property Loss Unusual Excitement. London. For tho 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 Hartlepool at the mouth of the Tees, Whitby, noted as a pleasure resort, 15 miles beyond. Hartflepool suffer ed most. There two battle cruisers were engaged. The British war office fixes the number of dead at Hartle pool as seven soldiers and 22 civilians. At Scrabrough, shelled by a battle cruiser and an armored cruiser, 13 casualties are reported while at Whitby two were killed and two were wounded. Men, women and children of the civilian population were left dead or wounded struck without warning while at work In all the casualty list totals 110, according to the of ficial estimates, of whom 31 are known to be dead. At Hartlepool, churches were dam aged and the gas works and lumber yards were set afire, while the ab bey at Whitby was struck. The Bal moral Hotel at Scarborough received the full effect of a shell. A number of houses and shops were shattered and partly burned In each of the towns. ' The hostile squadron escaped In the mist after an encounter with coast guard vessels. CARRANZA AND VILLA CRASH. Armies in First Big Battle East of Torreon. ' El Paso. The first important battle between the ,Carranza and Villa arm ies is In progress near San Pedro de las Colonies, esst Of Torreon. Several columns of Carranza troops from Coa hulla Statet, aggregating about 5,000 men undjr Colonel Ilifonse Vasquez, are engaged by a slightly larger force under General Villa. i Both sides have ample artillery and the fighting Is described as desperate. The Carranza forces made a threat ening movement to take Torreon and to shut oft Villa's communication with the North. Villa garrison in Northern Mexico have been depleted by the movement into Mexico City and troops from the National Capital probably will be sent to the northern theater of war. , , . It appears that Carranza, from Vera Cruz, has ordered , a general movement into the North. Four hun dred men from General Hill's forces in the extreme; .east of Sonora are moving on Juarez, held by a small Villa garrison.": Five hundred Car ranza troops from Coahulla recently passed below Sierra Blanca, Texas, en their way toward Juarez. , " - -r Goethals Again Asks for Fleet.: ."' Panama.Governor . Goethals has a tra in An hied to Secretary Garrison setting forth need for destroyers in on nnrta in nrcMtnrve neutrality. w a- - . - Colonel Goethals "says he has '." no means of preventing the use or canal or Panaman ports as a ,- means I of communication and that these ports ..iunntl in hnlnr nned in that end. Colonel, Goethals expressed opinion that there was as much necessity for destroyers at canal ports as at any other American- ports : wnere iney were stationed to prevent oreacnes. yVvr-y i 11 . " .''V " Right Side of Balance. V Washington. - November foreign trade statistics show a balance in - fa vor of the United States of $79,299.- 417. " For October the balance was $56,630,650, lor September $16,341,722. while in August it was 119,400,406 against the United States.. Novem ber's exports announced by the De partment of Commerce totalled $205,- 7G6.424 and imports ilZb,4b7,uo. There as a decrease of $71,000,000 in cotton error's comp ire! with Novera- Wilson Expects Decision to Have Immediate Effect on business. Will Add $30,000,000. Washington. Further increases In freight rates were granted to the Eastern ra'lroads by the Interstate Commerce Commission in a decision from which Chairman Hallan and Commissioner Clements dissented vigorously. ' Except on lake and rail traffic, coal, coke, iron ore and certain other traf fic, upon which the commission here tofore has fixed rates adjudicated "reasonable," ell railroads operating in the territory between the Atlantic seaboard and the Misslsslippl, north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, were allowed the flat five per cent increase for which they have been asking for four years. , 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 $30,000,000. . - The roads east of a North and South line drawn 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 advances; so that now all the roads In what is describ ed as official classification territory will enjoy uniform advances in both class and commodity rates. - .The majority of the commission held that the roads had established in the latest hearings a greater need of ad ditional net income than ever before. This was due, the decision held, to ex igencies arising out of the war and to an already existing necessity for addi tional revenues to maintain the rail road properties. Chairman Harlan In his dissenting opinion, held that sufficient' aid had been given the roads by the August 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 making of rates other than their justice and reasonableness. UP AND AT 'EM NOW. England Rises . in ' Anger Would Avenge Scarborough. London. Although there seems -ho 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 missed, considerable .mystery sur rounds the reported decisive German victory .which Berlin celebrated, i 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 ZakMcyn 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, .Son ora, 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 8tilf 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 more progres was made than at any time previous. , Teach Farmers to Sell. . Atlanta, Ga. Establishment of a "marketing agent In " every state "who will instruct fanners in the scientific . marketing of their crops was advocated by Judge E. R. Kone, Texas commissioner of agriculture, in an address to the final session of the annual meeting of the Association of Agricultural Commissioners of the Southern States here. - Judga Kone said that "tbe most Importnat work cf a state department of agriculture lies in teaelilEg tamers how to rrt.'':-:.' Miss Dorothy Drake, one of the pretti est of the Washington debutantes of the holiday season, Is a sister-in-law of Commander Adelbert Alt house, U. 8. N. ADVANCE MADE BY ALLIES AUSTRO-GERMAN FORCES ADMIT FALLING BACK TO OLD POSI TION IN WEST. Replenished Supplies From the Aus trians Driven Back From Borders of the Little Country. London, The offensive movement of the French and the British has be come ceneral and is .being pushed with strong forceB, particularly in Flanders, the. Argonne, the Woevre, and Alsace. ' While the French claim success at all points except Stelnbach in Alsace, the general off lclal reports from Berlin say . the Allies' attacks have been unsuccessful at several places. : , ' ' On the whole, however, it would appear that the Allies, who now have a superiority in numbers as well as in artillery,' have made some progress and have withstood vigorous German couner-attacks. - - : A in "the Argonne region the French say: - vuv. ; ''" 'We have made Droeress and main tained our advance of the preceding days." - The force which has been checked at Stelnbach is the left-wing of the army which for some time has been flsrhtlner Itn wav toward Muelhausen and which has cleared a considerable part of Alsace of Germans. It is evi dent that while the Germans are pre pared to offer stubborn resistance to attempted advances In the regions mentioned in the official communica tions thev exoect the main attack of the Allies to be made in another di rection or themselves are preparing for an offensive, for they have gath ered considerable forces at Courtral, from where they could be transferred quickly either to Flanders or south ward across the French frontier. ThA Austrians aealn have crossed the Carpathians, and, according , to their own account, are driving the Russian left back toward, the River Run. This Austrian army assisted hv German reinforcements, has under taken to force the Kussians to wun- draw from in front of Cracow and also also to relieve Przemysl.. The Aus trians ftDnarentlv have met with at least partial success In the first pro Jeot , - ' - SEND WARSHIPS TO CANAL. To Enforce Regulations of Radio Sta tions of United States. Washington. President Wilson and his cabinet 'decided to send American warships to the Canal Zone to guard against neutrality, violations by bel ligerent ships. Just how many ships will be dispatched will be determined after a full report has been received from Governor Goethals, of the Canal Zone and Captain Rodman, naval offi cer at the canal. - ' . Both Secretary Garrison and Secre tary Daniels made it clear, that the delay in acting on Colonel Goethals request for destroyers was due to a lack of information, Mr. Garrison ex plained that the colonel had asked for destroyers without specifying the pur pose of their use. In reply to a xnes sage of inquiry, Colonel Goethals ex plained that wireless regulations were being violated in canal waters and re ferred to the misuse of the Canal Zone as abase of supplies. Moore Troops to Naco. . Washington. Further demonstra tion was made by .the United States government of its determination not to tolerate continued firing by the Mexican factions at Naco. President Wilson, after a brief discussion with his cabinet, instructed Secretary Gar rison to comply with the request of Brig .Gen. Tasker II. T'Ns at Naco, Ariz., for reinforcements to han...e possible emer"'-nry situs v '.: "fits cf i. ' n'.ry t ,.:-ti. Three 1 (' ree tr.t- Denies to Secretary Garrison That He Haa'Mad Definite, Final Demands on General Maytorena. . ( Washington. Secietary Garrison gave President Wilson the latest re ports from Brhj. Gen. Bliss on the sit uation at Naco, where the Mexican generals have not yet moved " their forces to avoid firing into American territory. 7 The reports showed that the situa tion : had undergone no 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. Tho general belief In -official quar ters was that, some satisfactory un derstanding would be reached. . Agents here of the Gutierrex Government- 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. Whllo reports from General Bliss to the War Daprtpnient 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. - ; RUSSIAN ARMY RETREATING. Falling Back From Poland to Get Better Bart of Operations. London. "The Russians are retir ing along the entire front in Galicia and Poland.". .., , " . , - ' - :.. This statement officially : Issued at Vienna la the outstanding feature of news from the battle fronts, i- While there is no confirmation . from other sources, such a move on the part of tho Rnsninns would be in line with the announcements in Petrrograd.- dls natohea that the Russians threatenea on both 'flanks had decided to take up new positions where they could better meet --the Austro-German .onsiaugnis from the Carpathians to the . East Prussian frontier. ; ; " , "v ThA Russian delay in. fulfilling ex- nectatlons that they would prove a serious menace to German territory is diappolnting 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. : , t ,.t Admiral Fisher Talks of Efficiency. . Woahlnctnn Five vears would be required to put the United States Navy , in tne mgnest , Biaie oi . em clency to meet a hostile fleet, accord-, in? to a statement by Rear Admiral Fiske before the House Naval. Com- mlttee. The Admiral, who is chief of the Bureau 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. - Members of the committee were particularly ; interested in s Admiral. Fiske's view as to the possibility of foreign aif craft: dropping bombs on American cities. He expressed the opinion that an attacking fleet might begin sending its airships on Domo inir flirhta nvar New York 'from -O C a range of 600 . to ' 600 miles off the coast. . - rtnn frkrniem Navv. which was nam ed, the Admiral said, was more effi cient than the American fleet In gun nery. This he declared however, was so onlv because the American marks men had not been given adequate op portunity for practice. Norwegian Is Ashore. ".- Colon. The Norwegian steamer FalK has been ashore on the San Bias coast near Diablo for . several days, according to advices received here. She has little cargo and her position Is regarded as dangerous. Sh car ries no passengers: :' V'S-'vfV . Lions Escape In New York. -- New York Six trained Hons escap ed from their cage on the stage of an East Eighty-sith - street theater and bounding into the audience, consist ing principally of women and ct'.M- ren, created a panic. One llont . s, Alice, largest of the pack, escaped into a crowded street. Foiicemea pursued her into the hallway cf en errtment and Shooting at lier, " ) ally fata'.!y wounded Serro'-'t T ' ' C'.A-n. Two other cheers v : a ly w; 1 1 ry t'.e c'.. rt f 1 i i a ".'-) rt c" 3 r Native Carolina Man From President' Cabinet Talks, -: Diversification, -i ' ,t Livestock, Eta .. ' Aberdeen. Diversified agriculture, the , curtailment of the cotton crop, the raising of beef cattle, hogs and poultry, dairying, and the co-operative work of the people Were emphasized as the need of the South by Secretary of Agriculture D. F. Houston, who made a forcible address here, full to the core of valuable-suggestions for farm and community life. - This was 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 Fanners' 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. Neatly fouT hundred people were in the auditorium of the Aberdeen school . HONORABLE DAVID F. HOUSTON. in the afternoon and the address of . Secretary Houston met wiin , attentlo nand frequent applause. It deserved both. ' 5 ., " 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 w - anit nnild advice given; Con- . gressman Page introduced Secretary -Houston, commending him for, the service he has rendered the country, " declaring" that 7 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 1 farm life.' The : Department Of - Agri- . . culture, he said, wanted to e oi ser via HAt forth the Dosslbilities in- agriculture and presented -as a great- . '.n '.vt lfl twin mnlr. need co-operawvo buu , lng and in marketing.; He commend ed the work of the Sand Hill Associa tion, and, foUowing nla declaration for cotton acreage reduction,;, he set out tnr nthr crons.' that there are vast poss'biUties for them In North m ' ' i-V m . ., tin , Carrolina. He urgea, ,iuu, ; 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. AsheviUe. City bonds . to the . amount of J75.000 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-yearr flve-per-cent -bonds were bid in at par, there being but two bidders. ., . -- - Amateur Journalists to Meet. DreDfitration f or ; Uhe twentieth annual session of the United Amateur. Press absoch, which Is to hold its national conven- : tion in this city in July, 1915, the f 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 States is representative of the great work by amateurs in Journalism throughout tue ir tlon, and there are enrolled rore thau a 1.C3 mexbers. C '" . v r i ' 1 1' n. iovt r i r V,T.:r.'. Enprd tf . " ct' ..ry i..t: i ' T 3 I l h:.s ' if ; i I t'l '3 li I ' 1 t -; v i . 1 I X I
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