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THE NEWS-RECORD, MARSHALL, NORTH CAROLINA. UO GIVE!! FOR (ElSTRATIOtl . THIRTY-NINE COUNTIES APPRO PRIATE MONEY FOR FARM DEMONSTRATION WORK. Big Increase 8hown In Report. The annual summary by the depart ment of labor and printing ot miscel- laneoue manufacturing enterprise! In North Carolina will show 3,706 estab lishments compared with 755 for 1914, This big jump is accounted for by the fact that this year for the first time, the state department has co operated with the United States De- parment of Commerce, thereby mak ing It possible to obtain an almost complete census. Included in the mis cellaneous factories are all except cotton and woolen and knitting mills and furniture factories, which are re ported in separate classification. The aggregate capital of the 3,706 miscellaneous manufactories Is $137,- 684,107 and the estimated value ot raw material used 361,439,188; the estimated ralue of the output Is $136,- 066,168; wages $23,470,581; salaries, $5,117,478. ! The summary shows arerage work day to be nine hours and flftv-three Raleigh, I minuteB. The manufacturles use Thirty-nine counties in North Care- 252.576 "horsenower. 359 makinsr no Una have appropriated money for farm I report as to horsepower. Employes DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Delngs and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple Gathered Around the 8tate Capitol. demonstration for next year to the amount of $23,800, an average per county of a little more than $612. Other boards are expected to make ar rangements for financing the demon stration work at their meetings on the first Monday in January. : A few counties have made financial arrangements for more than one year. Beaufort has an arrangement by which it is to put in $3,000 to be used In three or four years, according to the salary paid the county agent. Edgecombe has Just appropriated $660 per year for two years. Macon has just completed its three-year ar rangement with $2,000 donated to be gin with. Guilford has about the same arrangement In 1913 Montgomery county passed an order to furnish $50 per month until further notice. As yet no notice of discontinuation has been given, so the work will proceed for at least one year more, making the fourth year. The counties named below have al ready appropriated amounts stated for farm demonstration work in ad- reported are 65,568 male and 6,691 fe male; also 4,625 classified as salaried employes. Commissioner of Labor and Print ing Shlpman expects . to complete within a few days the summary of cotton mills, which will show rery considerable increase. Crop Report Is Pleasing. MaJ. W. A. Graham, commissioner of agriculture, was much gratified to receive from the Crop Report Division of the Federal Department of Agricul ture figures on the 1915 North Caro lina crops that even exceed the fig ures Mr. Graham had worked out. The trouble in the past has been that the Federal figures were much lower than those issued by the state. The Federal reports show that the North Carolina corn crop for 1915 is 64,050,- 000 bushels, compared with 67,650,000 bushels for 1914; wheat crop is 10,- 355,000 bushelb compared with 7,332,. 000 bushels for 1914; oats 5,050,000 bushels, compared with 4,375,000; to- EAST VISITED BY A SEVERE SI0RL1 RAIN, HAIL, SNOW, SLEET THUND ER, LIGHTNING BO-MILE , GALE. ' SEVERAL DEATHS REPORTED bacco crop, 198,4000,000 pounds, com dltion to what they have appropriated pared with 172,250,00 pounds in 1914, for home demonstration work: the average being a little over $600 per county: Counties. Appropriations. Anson.'.. $ 600.00 Beaufort 750.00 Bladen 400.00 Burke 540.00 Brunswick 500.00 Buncombe 680.00 Catawba 600.00 Cherokee 600.00 Clay 400.00 Cleveland . . , 600.00 Craven 600.00 Davidson 600.00 Edgecombe 660.00 Forsyth 720.00 Franklin 640.00 Named Rural School Supervisor, Information comes to the state de partment of education that Miss Cher ry of Durham has been appointed rural school supervisor in Harnett county. Much gratification is expressed at the steady growth of this phase of school promtlon throughout the state, there being now rural school supervisors in Harnett, Northampton, Johnston, Ala mance Granville Vance, Orange, Avery, Lenoir. Gaston Guilford ... Greene Halifax .... Haywood ... Lenoir , , . . . Lincoln .... Macon ..... Madison . , Martin ..... Mecklenburg Montgomery Nash Pasquotank , Person Pitt ........ . Robeson Rowan Stanly Stokes ...... Union ...... Vance ...... Washington' , Wilson .. . . . 600.00 660.00 600.00 1,000.00 600.00 480.00 600.00 660.00 480.00 600.00 720.00 450.00 650.00 600.00 480.00 600.00 750.00 720.00 600.00 640.00 600.00 750.00 600.00 750.00 Committee For Teachers' Assembly. President R. H. Wright, of the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly, announces the appointment' of the committee on resolutions to report to the next annual session. The com' mittee follows: E. C. Brooks, F. P. Harding, H. B. Smith, D. F. Giles, P. G. Long, F. P, Hall, J. H. HIghsmith, I. C. Griffin, and Miss Hattie Perrott In directing Secretary E. E. Samsto announce these committee appoint ments President Wright wrote that he is anxious to make the next ses sion the very best ever held In this state. 8tanly Sheriff Settles Taxes. Sheriff J. D. Blalock of Stanly county is the first sheriff in the state to make settlement in full with the state treasurer for the 1915 taxes. He was here and made his settlement, Urges Safer School Buildings. Commissioner of Insurance James R. Young is issuing a supplementary pamphlet bearing on the better and safer school buildings propaganda, which he and Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction Joyner are. furthering throughout the state. This new pam phlet explains that, of course, the changes they are advocating are de pendent on local authorities in charge of the erection and control of school buildings. It points out that the dif ference in the cost of the safer build ings is overcome by the smaller de preciation. Two New Belk Stores Chartered. Two branch Belk store corporations the taxes for his county aggregating connected with the Belk department about $15,000. Sheriff Blaylock says Stanly is prospering nicely and that the people are in fine spirits. Supreme Court Takes Recess. The Supreme Court delivered opin ions in 23 appeals and took a recess to January 12 when it will reassemble for the delivery of a final batch of opinions that will termine the work for the term. . 1916 Session Bar Association. The 1916 seslon of the North Caro line Bar Association will be held at Old Point Comfort on June 27, 28 and 29. This agreement was reached by the executive committee in special session here. ; Members of the com mittee explained that for a number of years the association has been alter nating . Its meetings between the mountain and seashore resorts : of North Carolina and that they felt that a change to an entirely new place of meeting next year would be generally acceptable to the members. At the meeting agreement was reached as to the speakers who will be invited to take pari in the pro gram, but these will not be cnnounc ed until those invited have signified their acceptance. The members ',. of the executive committee here for the meeting today were President Harry Skinner. Greenville; Vice Presidents, J. W. Pless, Marion and R. H. Sykes, Durham; Secretary-Treasurer T. W. Davis, Wilmington; D. L. Ward, New hern; A. W. Cook, Greensboro; A. B ndrews, Raleigh; H. . L. Steven, Y.'arsaw; A. A. Hicks, Oxford. store corporation of Charlotte, were chartered, one for Wilmington and the other for Raleigh. The Wilming ton corporation is the Belk-Williams Company, capital $100,000 authorised and $36,000 subscribed for a general department store business. The incor porators are: W. H. Belk, Charlotte, and J. M. Belk, Monroe, 110 shares each; J. C. Williams, Wilmington, 20 shares; B. F, Matthews and G. H. Mo Donald, Charlotte, 10 shares each. Co-operate In Writing History. ' The Gettysburg committee appoint ed at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Division, United Con federate Veterans to co-operate with the North Carolina Gettysburg Com mission in preparing the history of North Carolina's part in the Battle of Gettysburg has just authorized a ppecial committee to prepare the matter now in hand for the press with the expectation, as the commit tee expresses it, "North Carolina's claims in this great battle will soon be proven to the world." V Wires Down, Traffic Delayed, Windows Broken and 8ome Buildings Are ', Demolished. V New York. One of the weirdest itorms the east has seen ,ln many years rain, hall and snow accompa nied by thunder and lightning and a gale that reached a maximum velocity of 90 miles an hour descended from the Northwest as the aftermath of a Christmas fog. It Indirectly caused seven deaths In this city, carried down telegraph wires, damaged ship ping, crippled railroad traffic and caused considerable property damage: The phenomenon of thunder and lightning in the midst of a driving snow awakened New Yorkers at 1 o'clock in the morning. The local weather bureau reported a total pre cipitation of 5.2 inches, of which 2.8 was snow. The wind shifted to the northwest and increased In violenece, reaching the 90-mlle Intensity at 9 o'clock and soon after carrying off the storm clouds. The gale contin ued, however, throughout the day. blowing in hundreds' of plate glass windows, hurling signs and coplnks to the streets and demolisnlng several partly built structures. The storm had Its center in Massachusetts, the DIFFERENCE OF A FEW DAYS iirrifANfifi ' gracious Child; , - rv (an r HElP Jbo wru C4t ' Copyright. i v , " ' "' . ' ." ' - DEMANDS PROMPT ACTION FULL TEXT OF SECOND NOTE TO AUSTRIA ON THE ANCONA CASE. United States Government Flatly Re fuses to Enter Into Discussion of Evidence. PLEADS FOR MORE MEN MOVES FOR AN ADDITIONAL MIL LION 80LDIERS FOR SERVICE . IN THE WAR. Ever-Wlaening Theatre of War Ke- qulres Enlisting of Every Man of Military Age. London. Premier Asqulth made his long-expected statement on the Allies military position In the house of com mons in connection with the introduc tion of a "supplementary estimate" Washington. The United : States contends ,ln Its second note to Aus tria on the Ancona case, Just made public here, that the official admis sion of the Austrian admiraltv that telegraph companies said their service the liner was torpedoed after she had Providing for the raising of the numer- weatner oureau reported, ana tne stonned and whoa n...,. tin ical strength of the armv from 8.000.. leiegrapn companies said their ser- were aboard, alone is AuffirUnt fnr 000 men to 4,000,000 men. vice in New England had been badly the American demand for dUavnwai The house was crowded and the nre- crlppel, although communication had reparation and punishment of the sub- mler,i speech was listened to earnest- dui oeen enureiy iosi wun me pnnci- marine commander. Vf ana silently. In the Peers' gallery, pal cities. Several land lines of the Tn t t f . . kmha Lord Fisher, the former first sea lord cable companies between New York 6 th n hlA.mbftB- and Earl Derby, director of recruit- and Nova Scotia were put out of busi- JU8irucM"- ? lng, occupied the most prominent po- ness. - . sition. , Shipping of all kinds scurried to ueparunenioi aiaie, Tne prime minister, as usual, got shelter and several ocean lines drop- m. nwoingion, to the heart of his subject in his open- rne government of the United in? BAntAfirAfl an1 - eaaiaA that a1 Twenty-five persons aboard 15 canal re?e,ved 016 note of Your though the British lighting forces In u.t. .shn.A t aA ua.1. Mceiiency relative to the sinking of th varinna theater were rescued by the coast guard and If. Ancona whlch was delivered at more than 1,250,000 men the war's the crew of the coast guard cutter VIenn 0I December 15, 1915, and demands were such as necessitated Seneca. James O'Neill, In command yvbmnBura, ana nas calling out the empire's "recruitable of one of the boats, was knocked into uu "umeaiaie ana careiui maximum." wumumuuu. ' Althnuirh Mia nrnmfar ilM nil mit On November 15, 1915, Baron Zwle- himself on record as either for or denek, the Charge d'Offalrs of the against' conscription, John Redmond, Imperial and Royal Government at I leader of the Irish Niionalists, at the wasmngton, transmitted to the Depart- ciose oi Mr. Aiquitn s speech, flung a ment of State a report of the Austro- bombshell by declaring that the Na- Hungarlan admiralty with regard to tlonallsts would oppose conscription the sinking of the steamship Ancona, bv every means In their power. And in which it was admitted that the yes- Jonn Dillon followed with a severe ar set was torpedoed after her engines ralgnment of the British war leader- had been stopped and when passengers BmP mquring: . were still on board. This admission wnai is tne use of sending out alone is, In the view of the govern-1 more troops to be led like men re ment of the United States, sufficient I snon8lble for the Suvla Bay and Ansae to fix upon the commander of the sub- "uref marine which fired the torpedo the 10 PUBLISH MI II URGE8 BUILDING PROGRAM FAR IN EXCESS OF ADMINISTRA TION PLAN. ' TO EQJML ANY IN THE WORLD the sea by a flying board and drowned. 8HELL8 FLY AT CHRISTMAS A Christmas Spirit Observed In Trenches After Shell Fire, Arras, on the French Front. Hun- Hundreds of big shells tore the air over Arras all Christmas evening. The echoes of these were the last compliments ot the season and they had no sooner died away than the life of Arras began to show itself through re-opened cellar doors and windows In preparation for usual Christmas eve festivities. The people ot the Artols region rise above their afflictions due to the war and the spirit of Arras survices among the heaps of ruins. It would be really a shame if we hadn't gotten used to it during all responsibility for having wilfully Tlo-1 VAST SUPPLIES for gerhinv. iaiea me recognized law of nations Turkey Holds Abundance of Food and Supplies. Berlin "Turkey has an abundance of foods and other material of all and entirely disregarded those hu mane principles which every belliger ent should observe in the conduct of war at sea. In view of these admitted circumstances the government of the I -kinds which she can supply to Ger- Unlted States feels justified In hold-lmany U Germany needs them," said these months," said a woman selling (lng that the details of the sinking of Dr- Nazlm Bey, secretary of the postal cards and stationery by a tbe Ancona, the weight and character I Young Turk's Committee, In a state- candle light on the first floor of a of the additional testimony corrobor-1 ment to the Associated Press on his building three parts open to the sky. atlng the admiralty's report, and -'the arrival in Berlin. "It is only a ques- "What we've got to do," the woman number of Americans killed or injured tlon of transportation, which seems to continued, "Is to hold out for final are m no way essential matters of dls-1 be in a fair way of solution. cussion. The culpability of the com-1 There Is no lack of anything In mander is In any case established, and I Turkey. For example, we have 30, the undisputed fact is that citizens of 000,000 kilograms of ' cotton -which the United States were killed, injured, I Germany can have the moment she or put in jeopardy by his lawless acL I solves the transportation problem. The rules ot international law and I not to speak of 10,000,000 kilograms the principles of humanity which were of reserve supply in the shape of ma- thus wilfully violated y the com- tresses and other articles in Turkish mander of the submarine have been so long and so universally recognized and are so manifest from the standpoint of right and justice that the govern ment of the United States does not feel called upon to debate -thehm and ilnaa tint imilai-.tDn that .V, n TmnA.il ine rauie or macnine guns struck and itovni uV 6a.u aim a uw,nu snow rang diBnutes them. victory nd lasting peace." After ther usual systematic shelling died down, rifle shots and the oc casional rattle of machine guns was all that broke the stillness of death that settled over the city. The cath edral, where midnight mass . was said last year under the thunder of cannon, stood out against the twilight in ragged ruins like a spectacle with crumbling walls of demolished build ings all around giving the aspect of gigantic cemetery with decaying neaastones. homes. "The same is true of copper. Of this we have at least 40,000,000 kilo grams which Germany can have at any time, Order Holiday For Convicts. ; Governor Craig directed the super intendent of the State's Prison, the sheriffs of all the counties and the officers in charge of the county and state convict camps the state over to extend Christmas leave of absence to all prisoners who have been "trus ties" during the 10 days prior, to De cember 22. The leaves of absence are to include Friday, Saturday and Sunday of Christmas, all those thus paroled to be back in their prison quarters by noon Monday, December 27. . - through the clear air. Toward ' 8 o clock the soft strains of an organ were heard from an invisible source. Going through heaps of stone and glass to a chapel entrance, one could see a candle light flickering through the darkness a short distance away. Staff officers, waltina for dinner,' led the correspondent of the Associated Press to an adjoining room, which re sembled an extinct volcano. "If It continues much longer you are likely to have your dining room also opened to the weather," said the correspondent to the officers. "That Is quite possible," replied The ;, government of the United I States therefore finds no other course i tfpen to It but to hold the Imperial and Royal government responsible for the act ot its naval commander and to , renew the definite but respectful de mands made in Its communication of the Bixth of December, 1916. It sin cerely hopes that the foregoing state ment of its position will enable the I Imperial and Royal government to per ceive the justice of those demands and to comply with them In the same spirit of frankness and with the same concern for the - good relations - now existing between the United States Moton Heads Tuskegee. ; New York. Robert R. Moton; of the Hampton Normal Agricultural In stitute, Hampton, Va., was selected to succeed Booker T. Washington, presi dent of Tuskegee Institute, Tuske gee -Alabama, at a meeting - of the special committee of the trus tees of . the Institute here. The choice was unanimous. The committee mak lng the selection was composed of Seth Low, chairman of the Tuskegee trustees; : Frank Trumbull of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad; Edgar A. Bancroft, W. W. Campbell Not Dangerously 111. London. The renort that Rnmh the captain, "but the destination of a and Austria-Hungary which prompted Bernhardt is dangerously 111 is char- the government, of the United States actenzea m a naves dispatch from to make them.- LANSING. I PaB as unfounded. shell is something over which we have not found any- control yet, Nummber American Ships Decrease. Washington. Although the number of merchant ships under the American flag decreased during the fiscal year ending with last June, the tonnage of the merchant marine showed a record- breaking increase, according to the annual report of the Commissioner of navigation just made public. On June. 30, 1914, 26,943 vessels having a total gross tonnage of 7,928,683 were under American registry. A year after ' the number had decreased to 26,701, but the aggregate tonnage was 8,389, 29 : . . England to Increase Army.' I Horse Meat For Food. London. After an all-night debate! ' New York. Sale of horse meat for the' house of commons granted an ln-tooi w111 De permitted in New York crease of 1,000,000 men In the British after January 1, the board of health army bringing up Its strength on paper I announced. Commenting upon the to 4,000,000. With the Increase comes revocation of the section of the sanft- changes in' higher commands, Lieu- tent General Robertson, chief of the general staff, having been recalled from France to become chief of the tary code which prohibited the use of horse flesh, Commissioner Emerson said that while the health department does not exactly' recommend it no imperial staff In London in place of harm can be seen In Its use. , Lieutenant General Murray, who Is "The horse never has tuberculosis about to receive an important com- and almost never communicates a mand. These changes are accrrtcd malignant disease to human belnffi." tSere as Indicating closer co-cper&jn. I he said. - . . Board Urges Building Program That Would Make Navy Equal to Any ' By 1925. ' I Washington. The full text of th report of the navy general board urg ing mat tne united States navy b- nlana,! .n ...llt. 111. est afloat by 1925 probably will be, made public by Secretary Daniels be fore congressional committee hearings. on the administration's naval plans. Mr. Daniels said he was giving the matter serious thought as a result of statements made by various mem- iu wiiini uiat uioy wuuia bsbk its Dllhllratlnn anA atan taauaa tlita report was mentioned In the letter of resignation received from Henry A. Wise Wood of New York, severing his connection with the recently or ganized civilian advisory board. Mr. Wood said he resigned to be free to advocate substituting the general board's policy for what he described as the wholly Inadequate : flve-year $500,000,000 new construction pro gram recommended to congress by th Jk I I A A, f. A . auuiiuiBirauon. secretary ' uanieis will acknowledge Mr. Wood's resigna tion and ask the American ' Socletr Aeronautical Engineers which selected him for membership on the advisory ooara to name his successor. The general board report referred1 to by Mr. Wood was made last July la response to an oral order of the sec retary that the board "express its- opinion at the earliest practical date as to a policy which should govern the development of a navy yard and a. building program. In a subsequent report, already made public prepared! In reply to a request that it formulate- continuing five-year building pro gram during which time J500.000.000 was to be expended for new ships, the board summarized the policy pre-' vlously presented as follows: "The navy of the United State should ultimately be equal to the most powerful ' maintained by any other nation of the. world. It should be gradually Increased to this point by such a rate of development year by year, as may be permitted by the fa cilities of the country but the limit above defined should be attained not ' later than 1925." ' - BIG JAPANE8E LINER 8UNK. Torpedoed Without Warning and" 8unk Crew 8aved. Cargo Lost London. The new Japanese liner Yasaka Mara, whloh was sunk In the eastern Mediterranean by a sub marine while the steamer was on her way from London to Japan with 120 passengers and a crew ot 160 aboard,, was sent to the bottom without warn ing, according to a report received from Port Said from the agents ot the owners. , '" All on board the ship Including one American passenger, W. J. Leigh, were saved. The nationality of the- submarine is not mentioned by the agents and previous reports referred to the sinking of the ship as done by either an Austrian or a German sub marine. '-,.": ..'--..." ' M ''". A' French ; gunboat picked up th passengers and crew at midnight and landed them at Port Said Wednesday morning, ;, The ' -company provided hotel accommodations for them and in arranging to forward them to their destinations. On the passenger list were 61 men, 64 women and 16 child " ren, most of whom were British sub jects. The agents In their report' fur ther say: ' ' (1 "The. passengers express great ad miration for the skill of the captain . and officers and for the dlclpllne of the crew. Perfect order was main tained during the embarkation which was carried out with the ; greatest promptitude." ' Paul Koenlg Indicted. New .York. Indictments were re turned charging .Paul Koneig, chief detective of the Hamburg-American line, and Richard Emll Leydendecker, an antique dealer, with- conspiring to dynamite the Welland canal. Edmund Justice, was also indicted f with Koenlg on charges of conspiring to secure military Information for the German government. The Indictments against Koneig and : Leydendecker charge them With conspiring to "set on foot In the United States a military enterprise against Canada." Foreign Affairs Engage Wilson. Hot Springs, Va. President Wilson received a communication from Secre tary Lansing relative to foreign af fairs. Tt is understood that the let ter told of recent conversations the Secretary of State had with Baron Swiedenek, the Charge d'Affalrs of the Austrian Embassy at Washington, re garding the demands of the United tates growing out of t'se s'nkir? rf the Ancona. t'o 1. ..' ' i is to t" datalls of Ltr. Lanal.-'s aJvices c.w.4 te obtained.
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