MRS. WINSTON CHURCHILL
CAPT. H. GIBSON
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OLD CONFERENCE
WITH VEILED THREAT
on
ON GGMMITTEE
CARffllZAAIISWS
DISREGARD FOR THE
GANAL ZONE LAWS
HGOHE TAX REPORT
- IS MADE PUBLIC
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jlEN FROM THE SOUTH DISCUSS
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
ion loan fund plan to finance the sur?
plus cotton crop, was approved unani
mous If 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
las final supervision of the fund.
Although no definite statements
ere made at the meeting as to hoW
much 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 thj&- cotton
loan committees :wi5Vcb1ttnScfehf hun
dreds of applications for loans would
be forthcoming before January 1.
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' tha about
$150,000,000 w6ul'd be- heeded ' to take
care of this cotton,J 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 evide.nc-thatiaiany , Of
the state committeemen agreed with
the idea advanced by officials here
that cotton producers.;nxe;mufi
cut meir cuuuii yrouHj;uou,n lue uui
IUU iuau Will 1 1 UHCC , rr txx U.OO J
means to convince growers of, the ne
cessity of curtailment. . . ' ;
'The representatives Irc.ilOtatCT
included: . ,
Moorhead Wr&TOtisa&V-Jt
Maddox, Georgia; Sol" Wexler, Louisi
ana: Z. D. Davis, Mississippi: Joseph
G. Brown, North Carolina; A. 'u
Trumbo, Oklahoma ; R. G. Rhett,
South Carolina; Henry DLindsley.
Texas; E. L. Rice, Tennessee fanAr
State Senator Milton, Florida.
The cotton loan . committee was
represented by W. P.. G. JHardingt-anC
Paul M. Warburg, of the Federal Re
serve Board; J. P. Forgan of Cblca
go, Festus J. Wade of St Lo'iila, Al
H. Wiggin, New York, and Levi Rue,
4 uiittupiiiat 0 0 . ,
DANIELS FAVORS NORFOLK.
.8 Place for Dry DockRecommenda.
tion to the Committee.
Washington. Formal, announce
ment of successful naval tests of coaLi
from government-owned fields : in
Alaska was made by Secretary' -Dan
iels before the naval committee of -the
house. Trials by the cruiser.. Mary
land about 10 days ago, Mr. Daniels
said, had demonstrated that the .Mat
anuska coal was as goods 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 thpse-
"who do not measure up to . require
ments after appointment may , be
dropped. - . v" ' ,v-.".
Graduated system in retired pay of
naval officers on the basis of their
length of naval service and the extent
of their disabilities, 'isXX XX
Authority for uslnsr nart of a $40,
,v" -wiiuugem lunu w, protect- uo
navy's rights and property oh its oil
land reserves. - ;
i he secretary said the navy was
trying to put its yards on a business
oasis with industrial managers, trying
we plan at New York, Norfolk and
Perhaps some other plants. ..T.v ":
"The Philadelphia navy yard is in
Excellent shape," he added, "and has5
at as many evils card systems and
otner paper work as "they have: , in
ome of the other yards. We are go-
to put a 'construction officer - in
cbarge at the Norfolk vard." -
Mr. Daniels has spent his last , day
werore the investigating committee.
French Gain New Advance.
Pari? The following official com
. Judication was issued by the war. of
: "in Belgium several attacks by
e French troops have "resulted in
Progress along the Ypres canal - and
est of Hollebecke. Several violent
counter-atacks have been repulsed by
ur troops. The railway station of
ommercy (Department of Meuse)'
as bombarded by batteries firing
daT a great distaace. Insignificant
fen?? Was done- In Alsace an of
no!!6 movement resumed by the
wwuny has been repulsed.
BAYS HE WILL CONSIDER ACTION
aTNACO UNFRIENDLY RE
GARLESS OF MOTIVE.
0ISPATCHES 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, - notwith
standing the friendly . motives cloak
ing th:actv H'-vf V;A '
r In this maimer ICarranza made an
swer, 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 nisi gov
ernment will regard Intervention at
Naco as , a hostile act. At no r time
since the receipt- of Secretary Bryan's
note calling attention to the re peat e a
wounding and killing or,' residents ol
teh American town has Gen. Carranza
appeared perturbed r.but he haa, had
long, conferencesVwith those close, to
bim, "and, ja f raming - his reply jt. Is
said he has- been careful not to let
himself sta,nd In any uncertain light,
v "Gen. Hill,;, constitutionalist coni
gander "cthe; iroopMt Jacols on
;'tne--iefendiv';;'c6ntinued- .Gen. Car
ranza, "and, since , his back was to
the line, it Is difficult to see how he
could be . responsible " for j,the ifiringi
rnect iBthat jxaytorens,'e jmn havo
been . attacking .and therefore ttap
p.eaTSf reasonablely clear that they, and
only they, could have been to blamo.
."As a maUero4 fact4"d-6"not know
i'herighf s of -American citizens
have been violated. It seems to. m
that it. would be well -ibT. the s
ta;
hiepdrtment to investigate the ques
tion in order to flex the responsibility.
"I remember similar instances - at
I fcl Paso, when the Madero forces were
attacking there. -' In that case those
shots 'were for the most part theim-i
prudent, and curious Individuals who
flocked, to -witness the" fighting as If
it had been a spectacular show staged
for their benefit. ,t ; -
SERVIAN ARMY VICTORIOUS.
FrenchCut German Line of CommunI
catforts Nears St. Mihiel.
London. Both the German and
official reports contain evidence : thtt
the . Allies offensive movement is be
ginning to eather . Impetus and " Is
meeting with stphborn -resistance.
The French have - 'been particularly
active m- the Woevre. region.
; At severar points the Germans have
made counter, attacks which the
French clal mhave been repulsed.
The GeVman report shows that Gen-
grat jonres men nave, rreacnea a
point . midway between St. Mihiel and;
Pomta-Moussoiv which would Indi
cate; that they- had crossed the tGer-
man line of communications. In, these
operations -the French, lost heavil3r:,v
The battles in Poland continue al
most without intermissibn and, while
both' Russians and Germans announce
success, apparently no decisive result
has been reached. . JThe Germans still
are delivering heavy blows aV the
Russian center, where they assert
they took 11,000 prisoners and 40 ma
chine guns. South of , Cracow the
Russians claim - the capture 4,000
prisoners, four guns andt s'ef en ma
chine guns. r ; -
Another -.Russian force , Is holding
the passes of the Carpathians "pre
venting ; the n Atistrlatns : 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
ariy 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
crulsersyyis shown, by the fact that she
took part in the' recent attack on
Datum, the Russian fBlack Sea; port.
According to a Russian statement the
bombardment ''; did little damage. '
Bulgaria, "according to a Paris re
port, has expressed to the Powes ol
the : Triple Entente her desire to re
main neutraL Tls is taken to mean
that Rouinanfa, if she so wished, couW
Join the Allies without fear jot being
attacked by Bulgaria. ., X-
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New photograph of Mrs Winston
Churchill, wife of the first lord of
the British admiralty,, who U herself
actively enaaged in aiding the Brit-"
Ish soldiers at the t front.;,; "'"X-
DANIELS TELLS HIS PLAN
IOWA REPRESENTATIVE SAYS
SQUIRREL SHOOTERS': CORPS; ;
COULD PROTECT COAST
Daniels Favors Four Fighting Ships
X An nual ly I listead of Twp jAuiary '? "
Predicts " World . Conference; ' s y
' ' Wasnington, Military preparedness
of the' nation was again: the, tiominant
subject of Congressional Htteatlon
secretary uanieis, oerore me ' nouse
'Naval ; Committee, defended? his ; two-b'attleship-a-year,
.construction rpro-
.'gram-iand.r aiijclaf ed -thrshtlmentf 6f
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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; ' -
2LMr. 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 twobattleship pro
gram adequate. Pressed -for-an opin
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 i 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. .X;"-X: 'XX'-.--
"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."
Representative 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-
tauve JJies oi iexas riiucuieu jiub
thought of impending (danger , of" at
tack. Representative Sisson of Mis
sisslppi - charged . the "war propagan
da to the manufacturers of war mater
ial." 1 Representative Pouty of Iowa
pleaded for international disarma
ment, arbitration and. an internation
al police; declared a force of trained
squirrel-shooters could prevent :.the
landings of a host!1 e force on Ameri
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FINAL COTTON ESTIMATE.
RecordCrop of All -Previous Time Is
; X: V ' : X: . '' ' Grown. V
Washington. The ; United States
this year, has produced the . f greatest
crop of cotton in ; its history. More
thkn sixteen million bales ,or "1566,-
000 bales of lint cotton and iinter cot
ton, unofficially "estimated: at from
600,000 to 6$0,0000 bales constitute the
crop. -, " . . - ' ' -
COLONEL GO ETHALS WANTS TOR
PEDO BO-AT DESTROYERS FOR;
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PATROL DUTY.
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COLLIERS AND OTHER CRAFT
Th.se - Vessels Leave Without Clear
ance Papers. Few Have Health " :
' : - v ' Certificates.
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 en trances v 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 f' 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 f 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 said coaled the Aus
tralian and English fleet which con
centrated recently in the vicinity: of
the iPeral Islands, which lie B0 miles
southeast of Panama .City. v.
X Th torpedo ; boat X destroyers re
quested?;by the governor are expected
ia. do patrol duty and overhaul bellig
eren craft attempting to disregard the
canal- regulations. -. ; -
Alleged violations of the ;! Canal
shipping laws are said to .have been
th subject ot cofnp.laint to Sir ClaudeJ
C, MaUett, British; -minister to Panama-
and also; having resulted In orders
th4 Zoztl fications prevent unneutral
colliers'" remaining . in ports, ; on v the
zone In disregard' of the orders ' of
caAal .authorities. . .:: ;
In 'the case of the - collier Mallina
it is stated that she arrived without
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caie una wun no coat or supplies, one.1
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attempted to buy $30,000 worth of sup-,
plies,'. consisting' 'largely '.-of articles in
tended for Christmas dinner for a
large force. She was refused the sup
plies 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-
L ed to as a similar case. " ' . .
It is stated that there has been
much wireless interference In panal
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 pi 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' nb 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 biUV at once . with
Secretary Daniels againvon the stand.
vl 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
tr nnma frnm tha "hnneo - Its enn. !
porters insist that ; it will be ; passed
although it was not included in the'
President's t outline of legislation. ;;;
Conservation measures the " water
power site and the 1 mineral " leasing
bills . probably will be reported frpm
the senate committee on public lands
early in January. . -
, Mines Were German. , ;V
"-''Stockholm,-'via London. The Swed
ish forign, minister: in' a' statement
regarding the sinking of . the ' three
Swedish steamers by mines . in r 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." Ts
ammtMt . 11 iiu VJUiiuuuMiiwMail . '
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Captain Gibson is the commander of
the submarine K-5, one of :he latest
additions to the United States navy.
WATERWAYS CONVENTION
ADVOCATES OF BIG APPROPRIA
TION MEASURE GATHERED
IN WASHINGTON.
Senator Ransdeil 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 x Congress. " Secretary
I Bryan f welcomed. -the delegates,, pre
Idicting? -?a-rl2aigel percentage: ofathe
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
I as a pork barrel measure. ; Senator
-r, . . . . ,
Ransdeil, 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
Qklawaha item in the bill.
, Senator Ransdeil said that attacks
on river and harbor legislation "were
unfounded practically without merit
and many of them devoid of even- a
vestige of truth." v 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 Ransdeil said that under
the present method of waterway legis
lation the nation's I waterways lhad
been greatly improved, commercof os
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 Ransdeil, "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 tr the. South. These attacks
are unworthy of their authors."
U. S. CAN MATCH NAVIES
Admial Fletcher Says Only Endland
Has a Better Navy
Washington. The ability oi
the
? American navy to successfully meet
the ' warfleet' of. any nation except
Great Britain was' asserted by Rear
Admiral Fletcher, commander-in-chief
of ihe Atlantic fleet, Before the house
naval affairs committee. : The possi
bility of conflict with Great - Britain
was so remote, the admiral said, that
he did riot believe In - & navl policy
designed to control the v oceans as
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, Gneisenau and Leipzig, and the
success of the Indian' troops on the
Gulf of Persia, where they compelled
f surrender of a Turkish army, have for
the moment, overshadowed so far as
England is concerned, . the larger
events which heve taken nlac.
FORTY-FOUR PEOPLE WITH NET
ANNUAL INCOMES OF MIL
LION OR MORE. "
THE BIG WEALTH CENTERS
New York, Philadelphia, Chfeago, Boa
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 357,591
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 250,000 145
150,000 to 200,000 311
. . 100,000 to V 150,000 " "785
75,000 to lOOjOOO" . 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 4J64
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 1 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
25,551 single women. The normal
tax of 1 per cent on all taxable4 in
comes produced $12,728,038. Incomes
of" more than: $20,000 a year and
subject ' to sur-tax , produced $15,525,-497.-,
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individuals with large net" Incomes
live in districts near, the cities of New
York ".Chicago, PhiladelphiaV 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 1 collection
district except in the Fifth North
Carolina. ' '
THAW ENTERS COURT AGAIN.
Attorneys Fight Extradition on the
Grounds That Insanity Was Proved.
Washingtoni. The request ot 1 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 quesitions 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 Matte wan
after-the killIng3of Sanford White was
constitutional. ' " " i
Germans ' Close to Warsaw. .
y' v . ' v 11..' a a mAa.
Xjonaon. ui iue uYeBBuy-uciiuau
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.
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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
forcei but according to the Russian
account were " repulsed with heavy
losses to the Invaders, ' ,
XX- Carnegie . Visits White House.
Washington.--Andrew Carnegie, a
White House caller expressed decid
ed opposition to. a Christmas truce in
the European war. It would be unchristian-like
and; Immoral he said to
stop fighting arid 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 timehostIll
tles broke out the Kaiser, was ill and
UUL'Bdf tu s49 n .