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VOL. XX. NO. 45. SALUDA, POLK COUNTY, N. 6 , FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1915. ESTABLISHED MAY, 1894. -1 1 -' " - t ... ... llWil I Ull LUUIIU III V ..... . ZZZS&Z3&&. IEIIIIII '111 IIPII III III IT ! mmm : mm , : in appropriations (Wmm . Sin i s I Umbers of great. .govern- W mSp- I - ' : 1C iOl : " - , ..r-nc nC ftRPAT . ftrtUCDW. glVIBtn w 1 . tall II- MENTAL AGENCY TAKE OATH OF OFFICE. GREAT CONTROLLING POWER ill Exercise Supervision ' Over American Enterprises. Davit Is First Chairman. - :', Washington-The second great gov ernmental agency created by Con fess in President Wilson's Adminis tration canie into being -when Joseph E. Da vies of Wisconsin, Edward N. Harris of Illinois, William J. Harris of Georgia. William H. Parry of Wash ington and George Rubles of New Hampsiiire were sworn .in as mem bers of the Federal Trade Commis sion with far-reaching, powers of su pervision over American enterprises. There were only 1 the simplest cere monies. Chief Justice J. Harry Cov iagton of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, administered the oath, completing the work he began as a member of Congress, when he introduced' the bill creating the com mission. Later in the week the com missioners will be received by Presi dent Wilson. All, of the commissioners were in Washington' engaged in preliminary conferences. Mr. Davies, who is the first chairman of the commission, called the first formal meeting im demiately following the induction of the members into office. From that time on the commission will be in daily session. ' ' ! No announcement as to the first v 1 problem to be attacked has been made. Through the absorption of the Bu reau of Corporations in the Commerce Department by the new commission, tta Trotk ot organization will be great ly simplified. The office staff and records of that bureau are transferred to the commission and furnish a work ing force already organized and equip ped with much information as to the- corporations with which the commis sion will deal. The declared '. purpose of the trade commission is to estab lish regulated competition among con cerns engaged in interstate' trans actions. ENGLAND EXPLAINS BLOCKADE, Great Britain Tells How She Will Place Blockade on Germany. London. Great Britain made known to the w orld in a formal proclamation signed in council by the king. and is sued from Buckingham Palace how she proposes to sever the arteries of sea commerce to and Jromermany during the period ef the war. Theterm "blockade" is not used and no prohibited area is defined. Nevertheless , the text of the order "lakes plain England's purpose to pre vent commodities of any kind from reaching or leaving Germany during the war. The last clause of the proclamation contains tte proposal most interesting to neutrals. This is a flat agreement to lift the "blockade" in case any na tion will certify that the ships flying 'ts flag shall not carry - goods to Ger many or goods originating therein or soods belonging to the subjects of the German empire. t It -is notable that the order declares 11 3 intention to capture ships proceed ing to and from the countries of Ger many's allies Austria and Turkey the reason being no doubt that the meas ure is avowedly a reprisal against Ger many's submarine warfare. However, a cordon of ships will be' maintained to shut off the commerce of German ports and regulate trade in the war zone, although ships voyaging east ward across the Atlantic, will, it is expected, be seized before they reach the North Sea. - 27,000 Japs. Embark For China. London. The Daily Telegraph's Pe khi correspondent says he is able to a-'nt on reliable information that -".000 Japanese troops have embarked Jfor China and that China is about to pppeal to Great Britain. Detained German Vessel. Newport News. Va. According to testimony given the Washington Gov ernment, Charles Frank, . on of the members of the 'crew of the American fc'itp William IP. Fryej which was sunk y the German converted cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich is being held aboard the German warship in Ger man uniform against his will. The t ircumstances of the case as . com municated to Washington were reveal ed here by other members of the crew of the Frye who remain in New port News. .-. r , .a IS 1 .fiki El I I v.! :- i . :4 y.; ' I TTllll 1 -.-.- JAMES A. BARR , Jamea A. Barr is director of con ventions for the Panama-Pacific expo sition. He Is a Kentuckian by birth and for many years has been an edu cator: in California, resigning the su perintendency of the Stockton City schools to undertake his exposition work. TELLS WHY HE SANK SHIP REPLY NOT MADE , PUBLIC BUT WILL CLAIM CARGO WAS CONTRABAND. It Is His Intention Says Commander to Return as Soon as He Thinks v- Repairs Are Completed. ; Newport News Thierichsen of the converted cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, which went Into drydock for repairs, submitted two statements in German to Collector of Customs Hamilton of this port. One stated his reason for sinking in South Atlantic waters January 28 last the American sailing ship William P. Frye and with her cargo of 5,200 tons of wheat consigned to Queenstown. The other related to he length of time that will be required to repair his ship. Collector Hamilton announced that he regarded the answers of the Ger man commander as state papers and that he would forward them to Wash ington.! It was learned, however, that the commander of the German ship frankly has stated to American Gov ernment officials that he sunk the American ship Frye because he re garded lief cargo as contraband of war. In the communication relating to the repairs necessary on the Eitel Fried rich, it was believed that the German commander stated that the vessel could be made seaworthy within a few days or a week at most. 'Whether he made the statement thaf he wished to depart as soon as American naval offi cers could pass on repairs that are to be. made was not disclosed. The Ger man commander previously made it clear, however, that it was not his in tention to intern his ship.. As to the conditions of ' Eitel Fred rich it was reported that whereas she had been making 18 knots an hour at the beginning of her historic wreck ing cereer of merchant belligerents in two oceans, she scarcely dared make 12 w"hen she reached American waters. After the German cruiser went into drydock she discharged the crews of British and Russian ships she had sunk; having released the American crew. The French crews left on the Old Dominion Line for New York. A few , Russians went with them. The British crews plan to return to Eng land on British ships laden with horses from this port. Commander -Thierichsen assured of ficers here that neither he, officers nor men of the Eitel Friedrich would set foot on American soil except on offi cial business. He made this statement to Collector Hamilton after stating that it was his intention not to Intern his ship. British Victorious' in France. London. The arrival of the. Ger man auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel FriedriQh at Newport News, removing for a jtime at least another menace to British shipping and the success of British troops in the region" of La Bas see claim attention in the V British Isles. Whether the Prinz Eitel will be interned or again, will set out for the high I seas, It is considered that her career as an armed cruiser must come to an end, for should she be allowed to sail it is , believed . Allied cruisers on the watch will account for her. MR. GILLETT CRITICISES DEMO- CRATlC CONGRESS FOR SPEND-. 'j , ..-,..- ING SO MUCH MONEY. ANOTHER PLAN IS NEEDED Mr. Fitzgerald Says Tariff is Not to Blame For Shirking Income But i Economy is Needed. Washington. Statements Issued by Chairman Fitzgerald of the house ap propriations committee ,and Representative- Gillett, ' ranking Republican member, agreed that appropriations of the last session of congress totalled $1,115,121,409; that contracts involving additional appropriations of $37,400,000 were . authorized and that a treasury deficit is probable. 1 ' ' Chairman Fitzgerald's staement did not give the'5 total appropriations for for toe enUre,Sgre1 ?lllv" vltLu " ai? .vw.wy4 Kieaier man iflai'.oi iner fsixcy-secona congress andA l77,000,pu0more V than the last Republican congress appropri ated. ' ' -: : Mr. Fitzgerald estimated that,shpUxd the condition of the treasury continue as at present untilvJune : 30,' the" total deficit would , be. ; $133,000,000: . offset, however, by income tax collections es timated at $80,000,000. . I , Mr. Gillett asserted, that the treas- f ury has not been so .empty since the Cleveland administratiop. V Chairman Fitzgerald-declared . the tariff in no way was responsible and that until the outbreak of jwar the new law had proved an effective rev enue producer. Mr. Gillett did' not agree with that. , Jk&Hl- Mr. Fitzgerald said tlie effect of tiie" war was world-wide and that as1 lt'goes on, reduction of customs Imports and" their revenue will continue. At some length he discussed the need of economy. "The finances of the Federal gov ernment must be readjusted," said he. "No more important problem will c,on front Congress when it reassembles " NEW DANGER SITUATIONS ARISE Anarchy Reigns at Manzillo But Lit tle Food. Washington. While conditions in Mexico City have improved with the food and water supply replenished and the Capital placed in order by the Villa-Zapata government, situations fraught with difficulties for the United States government have arisen at Pro greso, the East coast port, and at Manzillo, on the Pacific. The Ameri can consul at Manzillo reports a con dition of anarchy there. Foreigners are apprehensive, he declares and the food supply is decreasing, while Villa Zapata troops are investing the town's approaches. Admiral Howard, com manding the Pacific fleet, is reportejd ready to take foreigners away if con ditions do not improve. Progresso, the port from which vir tually all the sisal hemp used for American binding twine j is shipped, has been ordered closed to foreign commerce by General Carranza. Coal Steamer Torpedoed. Bordeaux, via Paris. The steamer Auguste Conseil from Cardiff for Rou en with a coal cargo, was torpedoed by a submarine off the Start Point near the southern extremity of Devon England. The crew of 28 men is re ported to have been saved by a Danish steamer and taked to Falmouth. Big Fire at Norfolk. Norfolki.Va. A mammoth lumber shed, the machinery building and about 2,000,000 feet , of lumber were destroyed by fire at the plant of the Atlantic Cc-ast Lumber Corporation at Money Point, three miles outside the city limits. j ' Reward for Sinking Transport. Leipzig, via. London. A ' Leipzig citizen has offered a second reward of $750; to the crew of the German sub marine which sinks a British troop transport. The first gift iof a similar nature already has been distributed. No Reply From Commander. Newport News, Va. Port" authori ties are awaiting instructions from Washington regarding representations to be made to Commander Thierichens of the German conVerte4 cruiser Prinz Eif el, concerning the detention of Charles Frank and Robert Rogge, members of the crew of the American sailing ship William P. Frye . sunk January 28. Sworn statements ' that one" of these men is being detained against his will have been made to the Collector of the Customs by other members of the Frye's crew. , - ( Jr. wm' W J JUDGE ED B. ALM0N Judoe Ed- B.. Almon succeeds th late j William Richardson as represen tative from the , Eighth Alabama dis trict. His nobbles are rural credits ain't! national aid to good roads. GERMAN CRUISER IN PORT PRINZ EITEL, FRIEDRICH, AFTER : SCOURING OCEANS ENTERS PORT. Cruiser Carried, 300 Prisoners: Ameri- ;. cans, British, French and Russians 'VC A Problem. Newport News, Va. The German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, after a marine wrecking scouring of Pacific and Atlantic Oceans which cul minted, in the sinking of an American sailing ship in the South Atlantic Ocean January 28 last limped into this port and anchored for supplies . and repairs. She brought with her rescued crews and passengers of American, British, French and Russian ships and lies at anchor in Hampton Roads proud of her trophies of war that crunch the bottom of the sea but in a state of mechanical exhausting from the strain of a 5,200-mile journey. The German cruiser began her scouting for the ships of the enemies of the Fatherland at Tsing Tsau, China, la3t November under master ship of Commander Thierichens and put into this historic port with the admitted sinking! of eight merchant ships, three British, three French, one Russian and one American. The sink ing of the American ship, the William P. Frye, a sailing vessel bound from Seattle to Queenstown with 55,000 tons of wheat, most concerned American port officials here and the Washing' ton Government. H. H. Kiehne of Baltimore is the master of the American ship and af ter leaving the Eitel Friedrich with Customs Collector Hamilton he-told a dramatic story of his experience. With him were his wife and two chil dren. "Despite my protestations that I was the American master of an Amer ican ship, the German cruiser Eitel Friedrich sank the William P. Frye on the morning of January 28, blowing a gaping hole, through, her vitals with a charge of dynamite," said Captain Kiehne. When the German cruiser entered this port all souls oa board were in good humor and admitted that they had been well cared for. . The cruiser might well have been flying many flags because she' had on board Ger mans Frenchmen, Russians, English men, Irishment, r North Americans, South Americans, Portuguese, China men, and others, all except the ship's officers and crewxbeing captives of vessels which the cruiser had captur ed and sunk in the waters of the Pa cific and the Atlantic . There were men, women, children and a litter of puppies, bora while the ship was en voyage. The captives had been allow ed to bring their belongings on board and these were piled on the decks here and there while emigrant women squatted around, some with y infant chidren in their arms. ! Collector Hamilton has requested the commander of the German vessel not to use his wireless apparatus while in port. Collector Hamilton will, per mit to be landed and delivered to the port authorities to be forwarded to New York some hundred and fifty sacks of mail taken from the steamer Floride, when it was bound from Havre tc South American ports. GERMANS MAKING DESPERATE DRIVE AGAfNST RUSSIANS IN NORTH POLAND. MORE THAN A MILLION MEN Half a Million Men. Engaged on Each Side in Big Battle. British At tacking in West. London. Just as the French attack ed the Germans in the West when Field Marshal von Hindenburg made his drive from East Prussia last month, so the British Army operating in Flanders has undertaken the task of relieving pressure on its Russian ally, now that the Russians again are jbeingL attacked in North Poland. This is part of the general plan of the Allied generals. When one is attack ed the other attacks to compel the Germans and Austrians to keep strong forces at every point and endeavor to prevent them from sending new troops where they could do the most good. The Germans now are attempting to crush the. Russians. For this purpose they are reported to have an army estimated at nearly ;a half million men marching along the roads toward Przasnysz. To prevent this army from being strengthened further the British are thrusting at the German line north of La Bassee and besides re porting the capture of the, village of Neuve Chappells it is asserted that they have advanced beyond that town. The battle taking place In the East, experts say, is the biggest pitched bat tle of the war, no less than a million men being engaged.! The Germans in their official report claim an advance, while Petrograd considers it likely that the Russians will have , to fall back beyond Przasnyz as they did last month, before making a stand. It probably will be days before a definite result is attained in this battle. Meanwhile another German army has appeared 1 on the Pilica River front, south of the . Vistula, probably, military observers say, with theidea of inducing Grand Duke Nicholas to withdraw men from the North, where the real blow is. being struck. Farther south, along the foothills of the Carpathians, fighting between the Austrians and Russians continues in wintry weather. Each side claims the other is doing the attacking but it. is believed here, that as the Austrians in itiated this battle, they probably are still the aggressors. MURDER PROMINENT AMERICAN : . i Stars And Stripes Float Over Man Zapata Forces Kill Washington John B. McManus, a prominent American in Mexico, was shot and killed in his home by Zapata troopers as they were occupying the Mexican capital after avacuation by Gen. Obregon's Carranza forces. Official dispatches from the Brazil- ian minister in Mexico City reporting the affair to the state department, say. the American flag was floating over McManus' house and that his doors had been closed and sealed by the Brazilian consul. The Brazilian minis ter's dispatch indicated that the kill ing may have been one of revenge, for it was charged that when Zapata troops recently occupied the capital McManus had killed three of their number. The fact that the American flag had been hoisted over the house and the doors hlad been sealed by the con sul of a neutral power was taken by the officials here to indicate that ei ther McManus felt that he was in dan ger or that all foreigners were ear ful of their safety with the entry of the Zapata troops and took steps for protection. Thep killing' of the Amer ican is described in the official dis patches as having caused' great emo tion in the foreign colony. McManus originally was from Chicago. Japan Modifies Demand Pekin Japan has definitely modi fied her attitude Jeward China in con nection with her, demands presented after occupation by Japan of the. Ger man concession of Kiao-Chow.. Make Gasoline and Dyestuffs Washington Secretary 'Lane an nounced after the Cabinet . meeting that he had entered into a contract with .private interests to build a $250,-. 000 plant to house the invention of Dr. Walter G: Rittman of the Bureau of Mines, a process for the manufacture of gasoline, dyestuffs and explosives. Propose Prohibition In Alaska . Juneau. Alaska A bill providing for prohibition throughout Alaska was introduced in the lower house of the territorial legislature. s WEATHER FORECAST. Movements Due and Their Local Effects For Cotton States ' March 21-28, 1915. National Weather Journal. Sunday, March 21 The week will open with moderately warm temperatures in the South and with increasing cloudiness, es pecially in Western and Middle Belt. j Monday, March 22; Tuesday, March . 23 ; Wednesday, March 24. Cool wave is due to. over spread the Western Cotton Belt Monday, accompanied by snow well into Texas and by rain in the remainder of Western and Middle Belt, bringing light freez ing temperatures over the North ern half of Texas, with frosty temperatures nearly to the Tex as Coast, but only moderate falls of temperature elsewhere in the South. It is not expected to clear In Texas, so that actual frosts should be generally avoid ed. "I' Thursday March 25 to Sunday, March 28. General rains in the South Wednesday and Thursday will precede cool, wave, which will clear the weather in West ern Cotton Belt! by Friday and in the remainder of the South by Saturday. Frosts are indi cated for this movement as far South as Houston, Texas and in - the Northern halves of the other Gulf .States, except Florida, where no frosts are probable from it. i i i MRS. B0YLIN SALES AGENT Wadesboro Woman Will Self Products of Girl's Canning Clubs To Visit Clubs. Wadesboro. Mrs. Jane C. McKim mori, state demonstration agent, has appointed Mrs. J. G. Boylin of Wades boro sales agent for the products can ned by the girls of North Carolina. It U her-planto visit '-all ; of . the schools . of the state and the public Institu tions to get contracts for next year's supply. Meredith. College, " Raleigh ; the State Normal, Greensboro ; Albe marle Normal, Albemarle; Horner's School, Charlotte, A. & M. College, Fassifern, Hendersonville, have given satisfactory answers to request -to hold off contracts until Mrs. Boylin can visit them; also the Deaf and Dumb school at Morganton, the Insane Hospital, of Raleigh; the School for. Feeble-Minded, at Kinston, and the Insane Hospital at Morganton, are ready to give contracts for the 4 H brand. 1 The state will pay the actual trav eling expenses of the sales agent, but each county is expected to make an appropriation to cover the expense account of ' selling these products. The counties that make appropria tions will receive a larger pro rata share of sales. In some Instances tuition and board will be given for products. Al ready Rev. Geo. Atkinson has given through Mrs. Boylin to a woman be longing to the Tomato Club, a barrel of sugar to be made into preserves, the sale of which will go for, the ex pense of her son at Rocky River Mili tary School. . Turn Cows on Cotton. Kinston. At Marltown, in Pitt couri ty, where the price for picking cotton1, much of which recains in the fields, is a dollar the '100 pounds, the planters are beginning to turn their cows into the fields rather than pay that high price for labor. MARKET REPORTS. Cotton, Cotton . Seed and Meal . Prices in the Markets of North Carolina For the Past Week. . As Teported to the Division of Mar kets, North Carolina Agricultural Ex periment Station and Department oi Agriculture, Raleigh. 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