VOL.; XX. NO. 40.
SALUDA, POLK COUNTY, N. O f FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1915:
ESTABLISHED MAY, 1894,
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Ll5SgER AVAILABLE
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EXISTANCE ENDED WITH AN-
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NOUCEMENT FROM THE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE, j
ONLY
A FEW APPLICATIONS
.However .Knowledge That Such
A Fund
Exisited Was Beneficial,
The Board Declares. !
Washington. Loans under j the
5135-000,000 fund plan has been closed
and thje plan virtually ended its!-existence!
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 $2S,000 and this was not' ob
tained from the fund, but elsewhere
on notes and collateral offered with
' the applications. . ' j
Subscribers, the Central Committee
point but, have not been released
from liability for their proportionate
share of the $2S,000 hut if. all the
loans a,re p-aid, subscriptions will; not
be- needed. I . ' i .
The announcement says that Sub
scriptions aggregated $101,035,100
from 4S7 banks, 1S5 firms and 17 in
dividuals.: ranging from "$100 to- $5,
. 000,000 and representing 64 cities In
19 states and the District of j Co
lumbia, I J
"The beneficial effects of the fund,"
says the anouncement, "are not to
be measured by the small amounts
actually loaned. Its benefits consisted
largely1 in the public knqwledgef that
there was a source of assistance
whcihj could be confidently looked to
and availed of. When the organiza
tion ojf the cotton loan fund was un
dertaken, the exchanges were closed
fixed notations for cotton -.were un-
jbtaiiia)e, demand for "staple was
light land sales were being made in
some instances at prices ' as low as
five cents a pound. The buying move
ment which set in followngj ithe ejstab-
. lishment of, this fund has carried
prices up to eight cents and exports
since December 1, have exceeded
- those jof same period of year ago.
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Twilight Sleep Association.
New!. York. The National Twjlight
Sleep ; Association, just organized
here, i the latest move to further the
easy - cjiild-birth propraganda. Its or
ganizers are women of Manhattan and
Brooklyn. They expect to found a
twilight sleep clinic in Brooklyn5 and
to send lecturers into all laTge (pities
to organize branches. Mrs. C. fTem
' pie Enjmett is the president of the
association. !
Record Cotton Exports, f
New j Orleans.1 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 j 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.
Was
hington. President Wlison told
caiers
fhe was making every effort to
avoid Jan extra session of congress.
Senator . Williams told the president
he favpred an extra session if the shipi
ping bill were deeated through a
filibuster, but some other senators
opposed an extra session for any pur-
rose.
British Casulties 104,
,000 Men.
ukh, peak-
London. Premier Asquf
ing in the house -of commons said that
British casulties in all ranks in the
(Western arena of war, from tike be
ginning of hostilities to February 4th,
amounted to 104,000 men. This In
cludes! killed wounded and missing.
Sympathy For Belgium.!
Madrid, via Paris. More than 100,
000 persoas of all classes called fat the
Belgian legation 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. ' i
German Aeroplane Brought Down.
PariS-A Havas despatch from
Dunkirk says a German aeroplane
whcihl flew over Dunkirk was brought
down I by cannon. f ...
Women Sell Votes.
Pikeville. Ky. Three women Indict
ed onj charge of selling votes In last
schooj election will be tried with the
1,100 ;men accused of having commit
ted fraud at the August primary. H
was alleged in indictments that the
women sold their votes for a S dollar
each. ' 1
EDWIN YATES WEBB
Edwin Yates Webb, Representative
from the Ninth North Carolina dis
Hrict, , and chairman of the house
Judiciary committee, is ounder of
the Webb liquor law which is caus
ing so much discussion and new
legislation in the state general as
semblies at present.
TURKS FA1L AT SUEZ CANAL
NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT AND
PROBABLY AUSTRALIANS
TOOK PART.
British Warships Again Bombarding
German Positions on Belgian, v
Coast South African Rebel lle.n. ;!
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 esti
mated at 12,000 and six batteries of
artillery and essayed to cross on
rafts. , The British force threw the
invaders back, taking about 300 pris
oners. A considerable number of the Turks
were ' killed and wounded. The Brit
ish lost 15 killed and .158 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 and 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 i part of the
Tiworld 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.,
was shot to death by a posse of citi
zens. Athat 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.ttnat 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 GeoTgia from Culberson,
N. ' C. He was married, but it is
said he and his wife have not been
living together for some time.
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L CONSIDER !
A WHITE HOIJRF rnMCFDPNr.P
TO BE HELD AND SITUATION )
K discussed.;
THAT SHIP - PURCHASE BILL;
Only Hop For Measure is to Pres$
Substitute SchemeRegular Ses-
sion Ends March 4. ,
Washington. Whether President
Wilson will call an extra session of
congress in case of defeat of the shi$
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 n4
definite conclusion had been reached!
All ap'prbpriation bills will be freed of
legislative, riders which might causf
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. f
Administration senators agreed tt
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 ttien press Senator Gore's
motion to discharge the commerce
committee from consideration of. a
substitute bill containing amendments
satisfactory to progressive Republi
can senators. ; f
Suggestions - that Republican Sena
tors eventually might yield their op
position In order to take up appro
priation bills and let "s the measure
eome 16 aVote' &xe;denled by minority
leaders, They insist the bill cannot
get a vote. -I.
Democratic Senators championing
the bill admit the situation Is desper
ate. They realize 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.
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Menaced by Submarines British Ship
Sails Under American Flag.
London The British steamer Lusi
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 lint
that two submarines had been sighted
from that vessel. The captain, in re
ply to a question of one of the pas
sengers declared he had 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 pislot, 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.
j For 'Textile Enquiry.
New York Chairman Walsh of the
federal industrial relations commis
sion announced that hearings would be
opened j in Atlanta late in March on
conditions in, the textile industry.
To Raise Bread Prices.
Pittsburg One hundered and fifty
master; bakers of Pittsburg district
decided to raise the price of bread.
More i Money For Ships.
Washington By the provisions of
the naval appropriation 'bilV whch
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 11914. Secretary Daniels
pointed out in aj statement that while
the house bill totaling $138,844,364 is.
Jess than the 1914 appropriation by
$1,892,171, the building "appropriation
is increased by $1,246,686. '
JCLAUD KITCHEN
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Claude Kitchin, : Representative from
the Second North Carolina district,
considered "North Carolina' 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. .
"VVashington.-o-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. He 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 elf-sacrifice as they engage In war
wars will disappear."
The President predicted that while
there is a shortage of food in the
world now,' the shortage will be much
greater later. I 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. i
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-operSve 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 tc bring about
laws to prevent business evils.
NAVIGATION BILLS PASSED.
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
laws established the policy of admit
ting foreign built ships t o registry
when owned by Americans, penalties
and discriminating duties imposed pn
Mich vessels remained on the statute
books. , The bills passed repealed the
section of the I 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 laughter 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 ty ear liis. donations
totalled $324,657,399; His "present
business, he said, was j'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
Osgood time in hisiife: 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 i 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 statei
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 iwith 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
saia me muraer naa Deen committed
three or four days.
WEATHER FORECAST.
Movements Due" and Their Lov
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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 ttie 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 buildingsat Bur- .
lington, -$1,000; Shelby, $1,000; Way- .
nesville, $1,000. v. ...
To complete buildings Gastonia, l'
$15,000; Kingston, $20,000; Rocky '
Mount, $30,000; Tarboro, $25,000;
Wilkesboro, $30,000; Wilmington,
$220,000, the cost limited $600,000 arid
appropriated', to, date $180,000, the
-rett;-a.Erd removal eensa ,1ng $2
500; Wilson, $15,000. '
Site for Rutherfordton, $15,000.
For repairs to roads leading to
cemetery at Newbern, $7,000; Sails
bury, $300.
The River sand Harbors bill aare
ported to the Senate by the commerce
committee retains every item -in - the .
bill as it passed the house and makes
some increases: The North .Carolina
appropriations are as follows: . ...
Inland waterway ,.K$orf oik to Beau
fort, continuing, improvement,, in
creased from $600,000 to $800,000 ;
Shallow Bag Bay, maintenance,V$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; v
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. I
As reported to the Division of Mar
kets, North Carolina Agricultural Ex
periment Station and Department of
Agriculture, Raleigh.
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Farmville
New Bern .
Washington .
Wllliamston.
Windsor . . .
Fayetteville.
Goldsboro ..
Jacksonville .
8 -84c
40-45c
36-45c
40c
40-41C
40-45C
35c
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2000 .
2000
1900
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1950
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27,00
28.00
30.00
28.00 ,
26.00
27.00
28.00
25.00
28.00
25.00
27.00
30.00
29.00
28.00
27.00
26.00
27.00
27.00
26.00
27.00
26.00
27.00
27.50
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Clayton . . . .
Louisburg-. . .
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Raleigh
Tarboro
Wilson ..
Woodland . .
Charlotte . .
Concord
Gastonia . . .
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Monroe
Mooresville. .
Newton
Norwood
Salisbury . .
Shelby
Statesville .
Wadesboro .
Norfolk, Va.
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RETAIL PRICES OF CORN FOR THE
PAST WEEK.
No. 2 No. 2
White Yellow or Mixed
79-92c 90c
Town
Charlotte ,
'rastonia . .
eensboro
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