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4rlN J lUr VOL. XX. NO. 50. TRYON, POLK COUNTY, N. CL, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1915. ESTABLISHED MAY, 1894. PRESIDENT SPEAKS EED OF KINDNESS Ulf-possession is the sut PREME TEST OF A NATION'S MjETAL. OPENING SESSION OF D. A. R. Mr Wilson 'Urges The Congress of Daughters to Rally to tho Cause cf Righteousness. Washington. The need of self-pos- tension, lunuucss xnx a juviiiai icur &rainent by the United States in the 'resident ilson in a speech before Up1 opening session of the twenty- fourth Continental Congress of the au?hters of the American Revolu tion.! Tlk president said r, selifjpossession ,-as the supreme test of a nation's ettle, and "urged the Congress to ral- y to the cause of righteousness, as inktpred by those who hold their miids quiet and judge upon principle. Following the president's speech Ambassador Jusserand of France told the Congress that the United States imd behaved in -he European crisis s i LJ 1U A 4 : 4 ,3 83 10 COinmaiiu iiie giauiuuc . auu thankfulness,1 of the world. "TVe in France," he said, "have learned to know what the American heart is made of the pure American gold that is in it. I am glad that I may anirm me manics 01 r ranee iur the generosity of America the neu tral United States." The ambassador said the "chief question in the European struggle. -was the same i problem that con- fronted America in revolutionary limes. "We thought we had solved !th'e problem of ' human liberty,' he Jsaid. "But dt acain confronts us. It fwill be solved now just as it was solved in, former me'j&&& j? olved . in Ito touches at Yorktown." The president in. his speech, de clared that he could speak only In gen- n Ai tei ius aua max ix wa lumoci em. t. j ii.. i. ri. i jn.AA for him to speak even in that way. John Hays Hammond, R. C. B. "hurston. president-general of the Sons fof the Revolution and John Barrett, director-general of the Pan-American f Union also spoke. ROOSEVELT-BARNES TRIAL. !tory "For '$50,000 Libel Suit is Com pleted. Syracuse, X. Y. The jury which ill try William Barnes $50,000 suit for allejgijd libel, against Theodore Roosevelp was completed in Supreme court heije..' It comprises seven Repub licans, three Progressives and two Democrats. Twenty-two talesmen were examined before both sides announced that they were satisfied with the 12 roen in the box. The jurymen are: Henry Hoag, clerk, Republican foreman); Irving J. Mills, wood worker, Republican; Walter J. Zulll, manaeer,. Republican: Franklin S. Rhoades. farmer. Progressive; Leon ard K. Hungerford, painter. Progress- 5ve; F. W. Pierce, carpenter, Repub lican; Warren H. Somers, grocer; Re- Publican; Ray Tanner, farm hand, Democrat; John W. Brown, farmer, Republican ; George Boschert. manu- factu-pr Progressive; Edward Burns, motorman,jPenublican; Peter Bencke, coal dealer, Democrat. Immediately after the jury had been completed, counsel for Colonel Roose vlt made a motion to dismiss the complaint against their client on the ground that allegations made in the statement on which the suit is based Mr. Barnes and Charles F.,Murphy as ere privileged and that in naming the controllers of ''rotten government 1 n the state of New YOTk, he did not n'ean anything personal or to imply Hat either of the two men named had n any way profited by the alleged "rot. ness." - 1 Abarno and Carbane Sentenced. -New York. Frank Aharnn nnfl Car. me Carbone, the anarchists who set -iomb in St. Patrick's Cathedral March 2, were sentenced to not less than six years nor mnm than 19 in -ng Sing. Abarno and Carbone were ,uuuu guilty by a jury last week. Sharp Fighting Occurs. "'wn. Aciivitv alnrur ty,a me,at. em battle line seems toj partake of "i nature of isolated engagements . UdU a general offensive. Ar- uuery duels h .Pand-to-hand fighting, which has been a!nnlealUre,?f- the recent struggle -me Aieuse and near the Lor- 121 rdQV' tut the latter type of combat continues in the Vosges. I shnrn Ai!.! statements agree S'!0. French and Ger uuia claim success. WILLIAM. G. M'ADOO Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Comproller Williams are lead ers in the fight caused by their sensatioal attack on the methods of management of the Riggs National Bank of Washington. VIEW OF GENERAL HTERTA SIXTEEN MILLION WILL HAVE TO BE KILLED BEFORE MEXI CO COULD BE INVADED. He Declares the Heads of Washington Administration Have Not Been Fair to Mexico. Hew Yot fc Asseirtfrij: ' inat he had nothing to do with the death of Fran cisco Madero, General Victoriano Huerta, former Provisional President issued a lengthy signed statement re lating to the question. : General Huerta declared he knew who was responsible for Madero's death, but that he was keeping it as 'a professional secreL" General Huerta's statement review ed the history of the Madero revolu tion, his own accession to the Provi sional Presidency and concluded with the assertoin that my country can nox do conquerea. x . a.. 4 Sixteen millions of men, women and children would have to be killed be fore Mexico would submit. The heads of the Washington Ad ministration. Huerta declared, had not been fair to Mexico, 1 had been misled by false statements and if they had been in Mexico for thirty days 'they would have changed their the oretical, erroneous ideas." Had it not been for the embargo on the exporta tion of arms from this country Gen eral Huerta indicated that his army would have prevailed over those op posed to it. The former Provisional President reiterated the assertion made when he left Mexico last year that he had re signed from his position only because he hoped to bring peace to his coun- try. He pointed out that in tne eigni months elapsed since that date the sit uation in Mexico had become "too sad for me to analyze deeply." "Anarchy Is too soft a word to call it," he said. Mexico eventually wouia be saved, but by a Mexican, he said. Who that would be he did not know. Huerta declined to give an inkling as to his future movements. He de nied that he would go to San Antonio, Texas, or any other point t near the Mexican border. Discussing the aeatn of Madero, he said: "That is a professional secret. Law- m A f A i mm V A TTA years nave secrets, uuuluio ua,c secrets I am a soldier why should not a soldier have secrets? It is not thorough friendship for any one that I am withholding the information. The time will soon come when my name will be vindicated and, as Gen eral Lee said of General Jackson, the world will say of me, I stood like a stonewall submitting to the ignomity and the insults heaped upon me. NETHERLANDS STEAMER SUNK. Anchored Off Her Home Coasts She is Torpedoed. London. The Netherlands steamer m. . T"l J. A J Katwyk, Baltimore ior itoneiuam, was torpedoed while anchored seven miles west of the Hinder Lightship in the North Sea. . The crew of 23 , was saved and ; taken to Flushing, ; according to a Reuter dispatch. The dispatch quotes the men as saying that as they rowed away they saw the periscope of a submarine, which quickly disappeared. CERTAIN NO GO T y IS KEPT FROM GERMANY AND AUSTRIA SAYS ATTORNEY GENERAL. BLOCKADE JS UNNECESSARY Attorney General Simon Replies to the Conference of Chemist and Engineers. London. -That cotton is ' kept from Germany and Austria just as effect ively as if it were declared absolute contraband, is the tenor of a reply ad dressed by Attorney General Simon to a conference of chemists and engi neers who asked whether the Govern ment's action was sufficient to make it certain that no cotton reaches those countries. The Attorney General ventures to suggest that those for whom you write may be under some misappre hension either as to the law of con traband or as to the steps which in fact are being taken under the order in council of March 11. The steps being taken under authority of that order in council have been extremely effective in stopping cotton from reaching Germany and the declara tion of cotton as contraband would not alter the result in the very least so far as preventing cotton reaching Germany isi concerned. "If an article is declared absolute contraband, it can be stopped from going to a German port and can be stopped even from going to an adjoin ing neutral port, if it is in course of transit through that neutral port to an enemy country. These are exactly the circumstances in which, under the order in council any article can be stopped, whether it is contraband or not, and of course, this order in council Is being put into force in! al proper eases.- - - . - , - '"o Imagine that since March 11 anything can be gained so far as stopping the entrance of cotton into Germany Is concerned by calling It contraband is, in effect, to suppose that a blockade is rendered more ef fective if youadd that specified con traband articles will not be allowed to break that blockade. A blockade stops all articles whether they are contraband or not, therefore any ad ditional rulings would not fhave any practical consequences. What is true pi Germany of course, is equally true of Austria. "Your memorialists no doubt will readily believe that there may be good reasons of quite a different kind for not making cotton contraband in view of the precendent which would thereby be created, but as a practical matter in the present war any stop page of cotton secured by calling it contraband Is equally secured by the order in council.". GENERAL HERRERA KH.LED. Killed by Own Men Who Mistook Them For Villa Troops. Laredo, Tex. Gen. Maclovia Her rera, Carranza commander at Nuevo Laredo, opposite here, was killed by his own men, who mistook him and his for Villa troops, according to in formation received here by Gen. R. K. Evans, in command of United States troops here. General Herrera and members of his staff had taken a position on a hill near Neuvo Laredo when, it is said, they were fired upon from a Carranza military train, the soldiers mistaking the party for Villa troops. Besides Herrera his aida and several other members of his staff were killed. - SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENTS. Lake Hopatcongo, N. J An auto mobile plunged down an embankment near here, killing Mr. and Mrs. Albert Terhune, of Passaic, N. J. New York. Mme. Margarete Mat zenhaur, of the Metropolitan Opera Company was badly cut and bruised when she was thrown from an automo bile in collission with another ma chine in Long Island City. Her hus band, Edocardo Ferrari-Fontana, a tenor of the Boston Opera Company, also was cut and bruised. . v Kalamazoo, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pare j were killed here when an automobile collided with a street car. Two others in the automobile were in jured. Egg Harbor, N. J. Benjamin L. Stratt, a Philadelphia underwear man ufacturer, was killed and his business partner, Meyer Myerson, was injured when their automobile overturned. Tyrone, Pa. Dr.f C. E. Shaffer, of Windber, Pa., was killed and five per sons were injured in an automobile accident near here: All the injured will recover. REACHES El i 1 NELSON W. ALDRICH Nelson W Aldrich, great Republican ieaaer, was senator trom Khoae is ' land for 30 years has just died at his $ home at New York of heart disease. j i . . . . He was 74 years old. MAXWELL IS PRESIDENT NEW LEADER NAMED BY COTTON ; MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIA TION AT MEMPHIS. Protest Against Operation' of Bill. , Favors Merchant Marine. Want "Open Door." Memphis, Tenn. Endorsement was given proposals to establish an Amer ican merchant marine by Government subsidy and protest made against the operation of the Palmer child labor law and legislation pending in Con gress to require the branding of goods, In a resolution adopted by the Ameri can Cotton Manufacturers' Associa tion, which concluded its annual con vention here. Other resolutions ad apted asked that the United States Government require a new statement of the "right of equal opportunity" to tradeih the-ma'rkets of the worldar- ticularly in China and that the prin ciples of the "open door" be reassert ed. Scott Maxwell of Cordova, Ala., was elected president of the association, John A. Law, Spartanburg, S. C, vice president and Caeser Cone, Greens boro, N. C, chairman of the board of governors. Other members of the board of governors elected were J. J. Bradley. Hunts ville, Ala.; Eugene Holt, Burlington, N. C; George E. Spofford, Augusta, Ga.; Paul J. Marrs, Henderson, Ky., and Craig S. Mitchell, Philadelphia. FIFTEEN KILLED IN COLLISION. Street Car and Freight Train Collide in Detroit. Detroit, Mich. Fifteen persons were killed and about 20 injured in a collis ion between a Detroit city street car and a string of fright cars pushed by a switch engine on the Detroit, To ledo & Ironton Railroad. Most of the dead lived in Detroit's foreign quarter. Four are women. The street car, crowded with pas sengers, stopped as it approached the railroad crossing and the conductor ran ahead to see if the track was clear. He signalled the motorman to wait, but apparently the latter mis understood his meaning. He applied the power and the car ran rapidly down an incline and onto the railroad tracks. The freight cars , pushed by the engine struck the street car fairly in the middle. The wreckage was push ed along 100 feet, several of the dead and injured dropping along the street before the train was stopped. Others were crushed in the splintered mass of steel and wood and it was several hours before they could be extricated. Kaiser Visits in Italy. Geneva, via PaTis. Information reaching Geneva tends to confirm the reports that Emperor William visited Emperor Francis Joseph last month.' According to this information Em peror William determined to see Em peror Francis Joseph after receiving from Prince von Buelow, German am bassador to Italy, a message, that ne gotiations concerning territorial con cessions by Austria as the price of Italy's neutrality had failed. May Soon Get Dyestuff. Washington. Stte department offi cials were prepared to take up with the German government the last step necessary to supply American textile mills with . two cargoes of German dyestuffs bought before March 1. The way was cleared by the announce ment that Great Britain had agreed to permit these cargoes under certain conditions to come through from Rot terdam. The position previously taken by t;he German government has been that it would permit dye shipments in exchange for cotton or coocer. YS GERMANS MAKE THREE ZEPPE LIN RAIDS .WITHIN FORTY . EIGHT HOURS. NO LOSE OF LIFE OR DAMAGE At Least 50 Bombs are Sent Down Raiders Keep Away From All Large Cities. London. England experienced its third hostile air raid within 48 hours, but the last, like the others resulted in no loss of life and no serious dam age to property. Taking advantage of fine weather which; enabled Zeppelins to visit the vicinity of the Tyne and the coasts of Suffolk and Essex early, a German aeroplane flew over the county of Kent, dropping bombs. In all, four missiles were dropped in the vicinity of the towns of Faversham and Sit tingbourne, the latter Just across the Bugle from the Isle of Sheppey, which is the birthplace of the British Royal Naval Flying Corps. All the bombs fell In fields. From Sittingbourne the aeroplane flew over the Isle of Sheppey and it is thought probable the raider mis took the towns attacked for Sheer ness, the British naval base which is on the other side of the island. On his way the airman passed over Can terbury andfother towns in Kent but did not drop! any explosives upon near them. . or Zeppelins, for it is believed two visited East Anglia during the early hours dropped some 25 incendiary and explosive bombs on Lowestoft, South- wold, Maldon, Burnham-on-the-Crouch, Heybridge and Tillingham, but , like the raid of the previous night on the Tynemouth district, there was j only slight damage, although .many persons naa narrow escapes, in Liowestoft a bomb dropped in a garden, shattered a row of small houses and persons sleeping in them were cut by broken glass. During the three, raids at least 50 bombs were sent down by the Ger mans. The raiders kept away from the larger towns. There they might have been discovered by searchlights and conie under fire from the land. GOVERNMENT WILL ANSWER Date for Hearing in the Riggs Bank Case Set for May 12. Washington. With almost, a month in which to prepare for the next ap pearance in court, counsel for the gov ernment in the injunction proceedings against treasury officials brought by the Riggs National Bank laid plans to make full answer to all charges set forth in the complaint. Justice McCoy in the District of Co lumbia Supreme Court set May 12 as the date-when the government must answer charges that Secretary Mc Adoo and Comptroller of the Currency Williams have conspired to wreck the bank. Counsel for the government asked for a postponement and counsel for the bank said they were ready to proceed at any time. Gorgas Can't Go. f Washington. Secretary Garrison made it plain he woud oppose Major General Gorgas' going to - Serbia for the Rockefeller Foundation'to fight the typhus scourge unless the surgeon general resigns his commission in the army. Mr. Garrison takes the position that should General Gorgas go to Ser bia as a retired officer in which ca pacity he still "would be under the jurisdiction of the war department a situation would be created which easi ly might lead to trouble. Villa Troops Leave Matamoros. Brownsville, Texas. A report that the 5,000 Villa troops which have been besieging Matamoros for more than two weeks had started for Celaya to assist General Villa in his campaign against General Obregon was received by Major General Frederick Funston in command of the United States troops herei r Army Wants Prohibition. i Washington. A delegation from the anti-saloon league called on Secretary Garrison, causing comment which in creased when he declined to make public the reason for the call. The Secretary afterwards - explained how ever, that the delegation had not even in its own judgment sifficiently estab lished the facts it wished to present. Rumor had it that there was an effort to introduce in the 1 army regulations similar to those which Secretary Dan iels has applied to the Navy. ENGLAND iOMMENCEMENTS INCREASE Estimated That Over. 100,000 Children Will Have Participated at the End of All Sessions. Raleigh. Whem all the reports' are ;urned in to the state department of education between sixty and seventy counties of the state will have held county commencements this year. This s the estimate of Mr. C. L. Brogden, state agent for rural schools, who has been attending county commence ments all over the state. Last year county commencements were held in forty-one counties of the state, and practically 75,000 school children particpated in parades, con tests, - school exhibits and exercises. Already county after county has lined up this year for a county commence ment for the first time, and without an exception they have been held or will be held in all those counties which last year saw the good effects of the educational demonstration. Recently Mr. Brogden has attended county commencements in four coun ties, Granville, Forsyth, Surry, and McDowell and in these counties he gave certificates of graduation or di plomas to an aggregate of two hundred and ! ninety children. Charlotte Nominates Kirkpatrick. Charlotte After one 'of the most closely contested political campaigns In the history of Charlotte, Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick, who has been a member of the board of aldermen and mayor pro tern for some time, was nomi nated for mayor over his opponent, F. R. McNinch, by a majority of 58' .votes. Mr. McNinch entered the race only five days ago, after Captain Wil liam Anderson, who had been a can didate for some time, withdrew from the race. The primary also resulted in the change of many members of the board of aldermen and the board of school commissioners. The elec tion will be held on May 5, but the primary nomination is equal to elec tion. Only 27 Delinquent Taxpayers. KInston. There are but 27 names on the delinquent tax list of -ther" sher iff of Greene county. Lenoirsiynbrthv: efneighb1ir Renoir 286. All the figures are for delinquents owning salable property. 'Moseley Hall Township aloneT Lenoir 'county, has 54 delinquents, while rFarmville in Pitt,, also adjoining jGreene, has 58. The population ol Greene county is about 15,000 Jumps From , Buggy, Breaks Ankle. Cherry ville. Mrs. William Ford ol Waco met with a serious accident; while returning to her home from Cherryville. Meeting an automobile in a narrow road she attempted to turn her horse around to avoid it, then seeing that she ould not turn in the space she had, jumped from her buggy, breaking an ankle and sustaining several slight brufses. Land Reclaimation Lecture. Wilmington. F. H. Newell, chief of the land reclamation bureau of the Department of the Interior, who has been spending several days In the city and vicinity studying the colonization work that has been done In this sec tion, delivered a lecture at the . Hem enway schools. MARKET REPORTS. Cotton, Cotton Seed and Meal Prices in the Markets of North Carolina For the Past Week. As reported to the Division of Mar kets, North Carolina Agricultural , Ex periment Station and Department of Agriculture, Raleigh. I Erf O o d be 3 c O 3 T" Cm ao op A) M 'i c o North Eastern North Carolina Farmville ...8-9 35-40 30.00 Murfreesboro. 84-8 40-42 30.00 New Bern 33 Windsor ...8-8 South Eastern North Carolina Jacksonville. .7 -8 'Vf... Maxton .....SV4-8, . . . 29.00 Carolina North central North Airlie 8-8 3,1 32.00 Battleboro ..5-9 40 32.00 Louisburg 40 30.00 Pitts boro .... 36 30.00 Raleigh 9 39 30.00 Scotland Nk.. 814-8 33-35 32.00 Tarboro 8 -9 30-37 30.00 Wilson 9 South Central North Carolina Charlotte 9 27-33 29.00 Cleveland 30-37 2S.00 2O00 2000 2000 ieoo 2000 1800 1800 iioo 1800 1700 Ellerbe S-8 35-38 30.00 Monroe 9-94 25-28i 29.00 9-9 30-35 30.00 8-9 40 32.00 9 30-33 30.00 9 , Mooresville . Newton .... Statesville . . Norfolk, Va. PRICES PAID FOR GRAIN, BUTTER AND EGGS DURING PAST WEEK Asheville Corn. l-93Vc; oats. 70c; soy- beans. $2.25; cow peas, $2.25; Western creamery butter,. 33 c; N. C...Teamery Dutter; 32c; es, 18-20c. Charlotte Corn, 93-95c; oats, 68c; soy beans, $1.75; cow peas, $1:75; N. C. creamery butter, 25c; egga, 17-22c. ' ' Greensboro 97 c; cow peas, $2 00; Western creamery butter, ,32c; N. C creamer" butter, 16-17c. , Louisburg Corn, 96c; cow peas. $1.75; Western creamery butter, 33c; eggs, 15c; Maxton--Corn, $1.00; oats, 70c; cow peas, $2.25; Western creamery butter. 45c; C. creamerx butter, 35c; eras. 2Qa 1 . f