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VOLUME XVIII
ONE TO TWO MILLION
MEN NEEDED IN ARMY.
WML scon
Chief of Staff Tells House Mil
itary Committee That Less
Than This Could Not Protect
United States from Attack
•By Associated Preu’
WASHINGTON. Jan. 10— Major Gen
eral Scott, chief of staff of the army,
told the bouse military committee at
the army bill hearing today that tn the
event o( war the country must have an
army of 1.000.000 to 2.000,000 men or
■'accept disaster."
The chief of staff reiterated Secretary
Garrison's view that if the continental
army plan failed there was no escape
from compulsory service. He said every
country at war in Europe now realizes
the fact, and he expressed the view that
England might have better realized it
sooner.
General Scott said that under a serv
ice system which laid the burden alike
upon all men between 18 and 21 as a
public duty, an adequate army could be
maintained for what now is paid for the
small standing army. He thought the
pay under such a system should be
merely normal Os the efficiency of the
regular army now. h e said.
"Our organizations, as far as they go,
compare favorably with the troops as
any foreign power."
School training was desirable bt not
practical because of lack of control by
the federal government, the general
thought. He believed it would not be
necessary to provide addition military
academies to train officers needed for
the proposed mobile army of 500.000
men. The plan of the administration as
a measure of self defense, he said, was
not proposed in anticipation of war. He
■elieved organization of the continental
army would not Interfere with recruiting
for the national guard because the tw>
forces would appeal to different classes
of men. He added that training in tne
contientals would produce better sol
diers than the national guard system.
Colonel House in
Conference With
Sir Edward Grey'
LONDON. Jan. 19. —Colonel E M
House saw Sir Edward Grey today,
spending some time with the foreign of
fice head.
No statement was given out regarding
the matters discussed and officials of
the government displayed anxiety that
nothing be said that would indicate
that Colonel Hoose's call should be
termed a conference.
New Commander
For British Army
In Mesopotamia
■'By A*»oc.a«e<i Press.)
LONDON, Jan. 10.—Percy Lake ha.~
been appointed to command the British
forces in Mesopotania in a succession
to General Sir John Eclies Nichols, who
has been compelled by ill-health, to re
turn home, it was announced in the
house of commons today by A. Vsten
• hamberiain, secretary for India
Big Sea Fighter
Ready for Tests
<By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK. Jan. 10.—The new 27,500
ton superdreadnaught Oklahoma, recent
ly completed at Camden. N. J., is at the
New York navy yard making ready for
her official trial trips off the Maine
coast. The giant fighting craft is still
in the hands of her builders and will
not be turned over to the government
until she has completed her speed and
standardization trials. It is expected
she will be placed in commission within
two months that she will develop a speed
ot at least twenty-one knots.
Bank Tipped Off
To Stolen Funds
(By Awociated Prats.)
VANCOUVER. B. C., Jan. 10.—Work
men employed by the Bank of Montreal
continued today the digging begun
yesterday in an effort to un
earth 145,000, of the 1271.000 stolen
from the bank's branch in New West
minster in 1911.
Information recently was received by
the bank that 120,000 in gold and $25,
900 in bills had been cached near this
city. The source of the information, ac
'ordng to the bank's officials, is such
they are confident the lost money will
be recovered.
butts"farmers favor .
RURAL CREDITS BILL
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
JACKSON. Ga.. Jan. 10.—The Butts
county division of the Farmers' union,
which has just held its annual election.
Is strongly in favor of the rural credits
bill and a system of bonded warehouses
Letters have been sent to the Georgia
•relegation tn congress asking their sup
pert of these measures.
The election of officers resulted as fol
lows: President. J. J. Mapp; vice presi
dent. J. M. McMichael: secretary. J. D.
Jones: chaplain. J. M. Gaston; conductor,
W. H. Singley: doorkeeper. W. 11.
Vames: business agent. J. M. Gaston.
Butts county is now the home office
of the Georgia division, J. H. Mills, of
lenkinsburg. being the state secretary
tnd treasurer. He reports the union to
be growing faster than at any time in
several years.
SOME HOSPITAL SUPPLIES
ALLOWED TO GO THROUGH
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. —Great Brit
ain and her allies, it was announced to
day, have given their consent to the
American Red Cross society to ship
present accumulation of hospital sup
plies meant for hospitals In Germany
and allied countries. The permit, how
ever, applies only to the present ac-
ONE KILLED, ONE HUHT IN
WRECK ON OEOBOIIOOIO
Posse. With Bloodhounds,
Seeks Persons Who Threw
Switch at Swords, Ua.
As a result of a turned switch, said
to be clearly the work of train wreckers.
Fireman Henry Sears, colored, was killed
and Engineer R. L. Palmer, of Augus
ta. was slightly injured when the
engine of Georgia railroad train
No. 3. Augusta to- Atlanta. left
the jails and turned over at Swords,
Ga, Monday morning at 3:30 o'clock.
No passengers were hurt, and none
others of the train crew were hurt, ac
cording to official reports. The
baggage and mail coaches left the rails,
but the Pullmans and passenger coach
es remained on the track, according to
official dispatches received in the Atlan
ta office of Joe Billups, general agent of
the Georgia road.
The Georgia road, upon being inform
ed that the wreck was the work of train
wreckers, immediately offered a reward
of 1500 for the person or persons who
turned the switch, and deputy sheriffs,
with* bloodhounds, started out at 4
o'clock Monday morning on the the trail
of the men.
C. A. Wickersham. general manager
of the Georgia road, left Atlanta at once
for the scene of the wreck to taka
charge personally.
The tain left Augusta at 12:55 o’clock;
it was due in Atlanta at 6 o’clock; it
reached Swords, Ga.. 79 miles from At
lanta, about 3:30. General Agent Bil
lups said that several other trains had
recently passed over the switch at this
point, and that everything was all right
with them. He said that the track there
was rock-ballasted and in extremely
fine condition.
"Whoever wrecked the train evidently
had it in for No. 3 or someone on No.
3." said Mr. Billups.
Train No. 11 was run from Atlanta
to the scene of the wreck and brought
the passengers to Atlanta, arriving at 8
o’clock Monday morning.
At 9:30 o’clock Monday morning of
ficials of the Georgia railroad announced
that the track at Swords was clear, and
that regular traffic had been resumed.
A formal report of the wreck was
made Wednesday morning to the state
railroad commission by officials of the
Georgia railroad, who stated that the
wreck had been caused by some one
tampering with a switch. Train wreck
ing under the Georgia law is classified
as a capital crime.
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DISPUTE ON LUSITANIA
PRACTICALLY SETTLED
WASHINGTON BELIEVES
Conference With Bernstorff
Brings Negotiations to Stage
Where Only One More Con
ference Is Necessary
(By Associated Press.) »
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Count von
Bernstorff, the German ambassador, and
Secretary Lansing had another confer
ence in the Lusitania negotiations today
which both agreed should be described
as confidential.
The ambassador expects to confer
with the secretary again within a w-eek
and not again on the subject. That fact
is taken by those conversant with the
status of the case to mean that Germany
and the United States have approached a
point in the negotiations where only one
more exchange between Washington and
Berli will be necessary before the long
controversy is ended.
American officials described the sit
uation as “very hopeful’’ and reflected
the view that a satisfactory settlement
is in sight which will include indemni
ties for the 115 American lives lost
and some expression of regret or disa
vowal which will be mutually satisfac
tory to Germany and the United States.
President Wilson, Secretary Lansing
and the German ambassador are prac
tically the only officials in the secret of
the negotiations, but it is known that
the principal point which has de
layed Anal setlement was the
phraselogy. Germany has contend
ed the bes disavowal she could oter was
her orders to submarine commanders not
to repeat such an Incident and that she
could not disavow the action, although
she regreted the loss of so many Ameri
cans.
The United States has been contend
ing that the disavowal should be ex
pressed In some way. It is believed that
a form of expression has been found
which will be satisfactory to both gov
ernments.
The results of the conference between
the secretary and the ambassador were
communicated to President ilson at
the White House and a felling of op
timism was evident. It was understood
that Mr. Lansing had presented to the
ambassador today the outline of an
agreement which would be satisfactory
to the United States and which he hoped
would also be satisfastory to Germany.
It was said that both officials realized
they were dealing with public opinion In
their own countries.
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DEFEND CHILD LIBOR IN
. SOUTHERN COTFDN MILLS
Delegation From North Caro
lina Appears Before House
Labor Committee
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Child labor
in southern cotton mills was defended
tod|ay before the house labor commit
tee by a delegation from the south
headed by former Governor Kitchin, of
North Carolina. David Clark, editor of
the Southern Textile, of Charlotte, also
was a witness before the committee.
The committee has under considera
tion the Keating-Owen bill which would
prevent the interstate shipment of goods
manufactured with the aid of child labor.
Mr. Kitchin attacked the bill from
an economic standpoint, declaring ,it
was "unconstitutional and unwise.’”
“We of the south oppose this meas
ure because we believe our people who
have to work should be permitted to do
so,” said the former governor. "We
have many of this class, and the cotton
mills afford them a good opportunity for
earning a good living. i think it is
crupl to drive a fifteen-year-old boy out
of a mill if he has any one to support.
"Conditions in the mills are improving
constantly. The people of North Car
olina, South Carolina and the south gen
erally are just as humane as any mem
ber of this committee. They are mak
ing rapid progress in their efforts to
Letter conditions in the mills. Let them
do it.” „
Representative # Keating asked Mr.
Kitchin if he did' not believe the poor
of the southern states could be aided by
lOther means, such as the mothers’ pen
sion, now operative in several northern
states.
“Our state is unable to take care of its
poor,” Mr. Kitchin replied. "Such con
ditions are not confined to the south,
either, I believe. I recall reading a dis
patch sent out from Boston on January
1, 1915, to the effect that the inves
tigation of a committee had shown that
125 persons in that city were gleaning
food from garbage piles. If the north
cannot support its poor, you should not
expect the south to do it. Nobdy eats
garbage in the south.”
Mr. Clark said the opponents of the
measure were watchful of the welfare
of both employes and employers.
Italian Paper Says
Germany Confesses
Submarine Crimes
(By Associated Press.)
ROME, Jan. 10. —Germany pleads
guilty,” says the Giornale d’ltalia, com
menting on Germany’s latest reply to
America. The newspaper adds that
Germany by promising to give orders to
insure the safety of passengers before
shops are slunk, tacitly admits that this
was done in the past and she thus con
fesses crime; the memory of which
and of the confession itself, will be re
corded in history.
Villa Men and
Indians Give Up
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Admiril
Winslow reported today to the navy de
partment the surrender near Esperanza,
Sonera, of 3,000 Mayo Inans and Vil
la troops to General Dieguez. The Villa
tfoops were commanded by General Juan
Banderas and the Indians by Chief
Bachamo.
Doctors Believe
The Kaiser W ill
Soon Be W ell
(By Associated Press.)
ROME, Jan. 9.—The latest reports re
ceived here regarding the illness of
the German emperor minimize the seri
ousness of his condition and contradict
wild rumors circulated not long ago.
These reports received from Germany
through Switzerland say that the em
peror is affected by a malignant growth
in the throat which required a small
operation. Although the operation was
slight, it is said, the greatest care was
indispensable owing to the delicate na
ture of the organs affected.
A high church official who undertook
to secure this report was assured that
the doctors believed that if complica
tions do not arise, a contingency they
think unlikely, the emperor will be able
to resume work this’ month or early in
February.
Light Is Soughton
History of Arizona
.Cliff Dwellers
(By Associated Press.)
TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 10.—Experiments
are being conducted at the University of
Arizona here it was learned today in an
effort to determine when the Arizona
cliff dwellers lived.
The theory of Dr. A. E. Douglass, pro
fessor of astronomy at the university,
that there is an exact relation between
the rainfall and other climatic condi
tions in various years with the size of
the rings shown in the cross section of
the trunk of a tree is being used in con
nection with the experiments.
Trunks of trees used by the cliff
dwellers, in constructing their dwellings,
many of which are still intact, will be
compared with the trunk of the largest
tree that can be found in Arizona.
If the rings are similar in their char
acters, the time at which the Aborigines
inhabited the southwest will be reck
oned from the known age of the tree,
Germans Order
Sister of Leading
Belgian to J ail
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, Jan. 19. —A Havas dispatch
from Havre says that Mlle. Juliette
Renkin, sister of the Belgian minister
of colonies, who was arrested in Novem
ber by the German authorities in Bel
gium, has been sentenced to six months
in jail and to pay a fine of 1,000 marks.
The charge is not specified.
Navy Man Loses
$26,000 Jewels
(By Associated Press.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.—lewels
valued at $26,000 belonging to Lieuten
ant Commander William P. Cronan, U.
S. N„ and said by him to have been
stolen from a trunk somewhere between
Overbrook, Pa., and San Francisco,
were being sought here today by detec
tives in the empley of the Wells-Fargo
Express company.
The trunk was shipped west when
Commander Cronan was ordered from
Pennsylvania to the Bremerton navy
yard. The trunk was sealed when ship
ped. and the seals. Commander Cronan
reported, were intact when he opened
the trunk here and found the jewelry
missing.
WAITRESS SHOOTS MIN,
THEN' ENDS HER LIFE
Note Pinned on Dress Says
Wealthy Manufacturer Had
Wronged Her
(By Associated Press.)
JOLIET, 111., Jan. 10. —John Hobart,
wealthy head of the Robart-Welding
works here, was shot today at his of
fice by Lillian Piper, a waitress, who
then shot herself through the head, dy
ing soon afterward.
Robart’s recovery Is doubtful. The
young woman claimed she had been
wronged by Robatt and that he had cast
her off.
A note pinned to her clothing read:
“The wages of sin is death,” and gave
her father’s name as William Ogden,
of Richmond, Va.
Fate Sends Man
To the Ropes, But
Head’s Still Up
SAN FRANCISO, Cal., Jan. 10.—E.
M. Walters, 45, of San Francisco, has
had enough troubles to down any man,
but he isn’t down yet.
Walters was stricken with paralysis
a few years ago and lost his power of
speech and writing. At that time he
owned a $50,000 mine in Mendocino
county.
His wife started suit for divorce and
Walters was haled before a lunacy com
mission. Unable to talk, he declares
he listened to physicians tell the court
that he was Insane. All the while he
was muttering unintelligible sounds in
a vain attempt to explain his condition.
He was committed to an Insane asylum
and his wife secured her divorce.
With the help of an attendant, Wal
ters slowly regained his speech and
ability t 6 write. He started an uphill
fight for liberty and his property.
Friends aided him to reach the ear of
the court once more. He was recently
declared sane and has started an action
to set aside his wife’s divorce decree,
alleging perjured testimony.
"I feel seven years younger,” said
Walters. ”1 am not through fighting
yet.” x
Pan-American
Delegates Tour
Eastern Cities
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. —Nearly 200
South and Central Anaerican delegates
to the Pan-American Scientific congress,
following their second annual conference
here, left today on a tour of the east,
the first stop being Baltimore. From
there they will go to -Philadelphia, New
Yprk and Boston. The delegates were
accompanied by a committee represent
ing the state department, headed by-
John Barrett, director general of the
Pan-American union. »
The activities of the congress will be
carried on by a sub-committee of the
executive committee lor the United
States, which will maintain a perma
nent organization. The other American
governments will be asked to name com
mittees.
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NUMBER 29.
ALLIES APPARENTLY
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French Positions Extending
Over Several Hundred Yards
in the Champagne Captured
by New German Drive
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(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The main
British army in Mesopotamia is ig re
treat, Berlin hears from Constantinople.
Ten thousand mqn are -said to have been
left in Kut-el-Amara, to cover the re
treat and the Constantinople advice ad
vance the claim that this force has been
entirely surrounded by the Turks.
The British several weeks ago fell
back more than 100 miles down the Ti
gris from the vicinity of Bagdad to tho
Kut-el-Amara position.
The British, however, claim the re
verse of this. J. Austen Chamberlain,
secretary for India, today announced In
the house of commons that the Turkish
army in Mesopotamia was in full r&s
treat with the British in hot pursuit.
Heavy fighting had place on both
banks of the Tigris, he said, and the
British had captured two Turkish guns
and 700 prisoners.
It was also announced today that Sir
Percy Lake had been named to succeed
General John Lelies Nichols as com
mander of the British forces in Meso
potamia.
A British force which apparently was
on the way to reinforce the British at
Kut-el-Amara on the Tigris nver, lost
3,000 men in an attack on Turkish posi
tions at Sheik Said, according to a semi
official statement received in Amster
dam today from Constantinople. The
attack is declared to have been repulsed.
The Champagne district in France is
again the scene of an offensive move
ment .this time the Gefmans being the
aggressors.
Northeast of Massiges, on ’ ground
which the -French gained in their Sep
tember drive, the Germans have taken
several hundred yards of trenches, cap
turing more than 400 prisoners, five ma
chine guns and several mine throwers,
according to the claim of Berlin, a
French counter attack i s declared to
have failed.
According to Paris, however, the Ger- .
mans were driven from all of the cap
tured positions except two advanced
trenches. The French war office state
ment today says that the German at- '
tacks in the Champagne broke down
with haevy losses.
Constantinople dispatches through
Berlin claim the sinking of an allied
transport filled with troops off the
Gallipoli peninsula as the entente forces
were evacuating their positions on the
tip. The Turks captured an enormous
amount of booty, including nine cannons
it is asserted.
Vienna claims that Russians on Satur
day last ceased their attacks on the
Galactan and Bessarabian fronts, after
having been repulsed all along the line.
The latest Petrograd statement claims
that the Austrians have been driven
from the east bank of the middle
Stripa In Galicia and foiled In their at
tempts to recapture Czerertorysk in
Volhynia.
Greece has protested vigorously
against the arrest by entente authorities
of the consuls of the Teutonic allies at
Mytllene in the Aegean sea, an Athens
dispatch states.
Berlin Tells of Victories
Scored by Central Powers
(By Associated Freis.)
BERLIN, Jan. 10.---(By Wireless to-
Sayville.)—An offensive movement has
been Inaugurated by the German forces
in the Champagne. Announcement was
made by the war office today that
French positions extending over several
hundred yards at a point northwest of
Massiges, had been captured by the Ger
mans.
The conquered positions are near
Maisons de Champagne. The Germans
captured 423 prisoners, inoluding seven
officers, five machine guns, and one
large and seven small mine throwers.
A French counter attack made to the
east of the positions taken by the Ger
mans, failed.
A German air craft division attacked
the rear guard establishments of the
allies at Furnes.
On the eastern front, an advancs at
tempted by strong Russian detachments
at Belestiany was repulsed.
The British army at Kut-el-Amara in
Mesopotamia has now been surrounded
completely by the Turks, according to
Constantinople advices given out today
by the Overseas News agency. It Is
said the Turks have advanced to the
main defenses of the British.
The main British army in Mesopota
mia, according to these advices, is in •
retreat, 10,000 men having been left in
Kut-el-Amara to cover the movement
Historic Elm Tree
In Philadelphia Is
Given to the Axe
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10.—The big
elm tree in Independence square said
to have been planted by King Edward
VII, of England, when he visited this
country as the Prince of Wales in 1861,
was cut down yesterday.
The tree had been dead for some
time. Under the ground surrounding
the tree when the stump was removed
were found several objects, including a
six-pound cannon ball, a variety of
coins, some of revolutionary date, And
the grave of a cat. A small tube was
found containing a note which re
quested that the bones of the cat be not
disturbed.
ITALY HAS ORDERED
CENSUS OF GRAIN
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ROME. Jan. 10.—The decree ordering
that a census be taken not later than
January 25 of all the gram in the king
dom is explained by officials to be for
the purpose principally of indicating
to the authorities the quantities that it
may be necessary to import. It is de
nied that the order implies any inten
tion of establishing bread rations for
tbe people.