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TI110 HROHniAN’S NEWS
BRIEFS
EXPERT WARNS U. S. OF - AVIATION WAR PERIL
FEOERALS CHASED
Panic-Stricken Troops Take Ref
uge in Ojinaga, Hoping for
U. S. Protection.
PRESIDIO, T FIX AS (By United
States Army Telephone to Marfa),
Dec. 30.—Three thousand Constitu
tionalists under Genera Ortegas were
massed south and east of Ojinaga
early to-day in battle array for the
linal assault upon the remaining bor
der city held by Huerta’s troops.
Following the defeat of the Federal
army under Generals Mercado, Cara-
vaeo and Orozco, near Alulato, 37
miles southeast of Ojinaga, thousands
of the Government troops fled, panic-
stricken, into Ojinaga, hopeful that
the rebels would not attack the city
because of the danger of bullets kill
ing persons on United States soil.
Despite warnings from the United j
States military authorities, the Con- j
stitutionalists pressed toward Ojina
ga in the belief that the Federals
would evacuate the city during the
flight. Desultory tiring could be heard
south of Ojinaga during the greater
part of the night. Deserters from
ihe Ojinaga garrison commanded by
General Salazar said that the Federal
army was badly demoralized.
TO PROTECT BORDER.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Antic.-
pating a battle near Juarez, Major
General Leonard Wood, Chief of
Staff of the army, to-day sent worl
to Brigadier General— Bliss, com
manding the American forces in El
Paso, Texas, to make every effort to
prevent firing across the border by
the Federals or the Constitutionalists.
General Bliss was instructed to or
der his men to take every precaution
to prevent casualties or damage to
tlie property on the American side of
the line and to warn the respective
commanders that they would be he’d
personally responsible for any dam
age to lives or property.
Reports from El Paso to-day indi
cated that the Federal forces will at
tack Juarez not later than Thursday, |
and that they will try to recapture 1
the customs port.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels to- |
clay ordered the gunboat Yorktown
from San Diego, Cal., to the west j
coast of Mexico to relieve the gun- ]
boat Annapolis. The Annapolis will ;
return to San Diego for repairs.
PRESIDENT HEARS SERMON.
GULFPORT, MISS., Dec. 28.—Pres- |
lv.*. * -Wilson sa t in a quaint little j
church of eri an worship here
to-day, an inconspicuous, humble j
worshiper in a congregation of less
than a hundred, and heard a remark
able sermon on the personal account
ability of the individual to his Maker.
The President and Mrs. Wilson, ac-
c ompanied by Dr. Cary T. Grayson,
t ame unexpectedly, avoiding a crowd
that had collected at the little church
at Pass Christian, eight miles away,
and though the Rev. Dr. Herbert Al
bert Jones evas as surprised as any
of his congregation, at the arrival of
the disinguished visitors, he varied
his prepared sermon only slightly.
Vet, by coincidence, he developed a
theme that has long been one of the
preachments of the President himself,
with an eloquence that was histrionic.
ASKED TO PROBE STRIKE.
CHICAGO, Doc. 28.—An appeal to [
Congress to investigate conditions in '
the copper country of Michigan was
made to-day by the Chicago Fedora - '
lion of Labor, in resolutions which !
directly charged owners of the mines j
and their agents with being responsi- !
ble for the tragedy of Christmas Eve,
in Calumet, Mich., when 72 children
and adults lost their lives.
The resolutions also charged that
Houghton County is under a govern
ment by gunmen, under orders of the
mine owners, and that Charles H.
Moyer, president of the Western Fed
eration of Miners, was assaulted, shot
and driven out of Hancock by thugs
and gunmen.
5,000 STUDENTS MEET.
KANSAS CITY, MO., Dec. 28.—Five
thousand college students, from 800 j
universities and colleges in the United
States and Canac , will be here Wed
nesday to attend the student volun
teer convention for foreign missions.
Students from fifteen foreign nations
also will be here. A delegation of
Chinese will be made up of 150 stu
dents, of which 20 will be women.
The convention opens Wednesday
alternoon for a five days' sessiun.
Besides William J. Bryan, Secreta
ry of State, there are many other
well-known speakers.
MISS LUCY HOKE SMITH WEDS.
As the fitting climax to two years
of romantic courtship, Mis? Lucy 1
Hoke Smith, a daughter of Senator j
Hoke Smith, was married at noon
Tuesday in Washington to Ensign Al- I
ston R. Simpson. U. S. N„ at the *
home of Senator and Mrs Smith, on
California avenue, that city.
A ten-day wedding trip will be
taken, and after their return to
Washington many entertainmentswill
be planned for them.
HAS SECOND BIG FIRE.
MONTREAL. Dec. 30.—The second
disastrous fire within 24 hours oc
curred in waterless Montreal to-day
when two blocks in St. Lawrence
boulevard were burned. The fire is
still burning and the damage esti
mated at $250,000.
S ERGEANT WALSH, who
just finished it walk from
Washington to San Francisco
to test shoes offered for army
use.
U. S. Shoe Tester
Ends 4,000-Mile Trip
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27—Hik
ers after records, professional walk
ers and seekers of fame through the
medium of their tireless legs have
come in for an unusual share of the
public's attention in recent years, but
here is a walker, unheralded and un
sung, who hikes for the United
States Government and gets paid for
it.
He is Sergeant John Walsh, United
States Army (retired), who has com
pleted a 4.000-mile hike from Wash
ington.
Walsh, who is 64. was retired from
the Second Cavalry two years ago to
become official shoe testeh for the
army.
When the War Department lets a
contract numerous tests are made of
types of shoes.
To Walsh is delegated the choice,
and he makes his recommendations
on actual wear and tear. On his
present trip, which started May 6, he
wore out six pairs of shoes. He put
on his seventh pair at Rugby, S. Dak.,
and they were polished for the first
time on his arrival here.
As soon as he made out his official
reports on footwear, he prepared for
another long tramp across the conti
nent.
CZAR’S HEIR NEARLY WELL.
ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 30?— It is
announced that the Czarevitch s
health has been benefited by his pro
longed stay in the Crimea.
From moving pictures showing the
imperial family’s doings there, it is
apparent that the Czarevitch is mov
ing about freely, with only a slight
limp
SERVIAN CABINET CRISIS.
BELGRADE. SERVTA, L>ee. 28 —
Another cabinet crisis is imminent.
The War Minister resigned to-day
owing to the refusal of the cabinet
to pass the war budget.
Declare That They Will Continue
Their Work in Spite of Busi
ness Men.
Although more than a score of busi
ness men, including Robert F. Mad
dox, of the American National Bank;
Ivan FI Allen, chairman of the Atlan
ta Convention Bureau and the man
who put the OglethorDe project
through, and John E. Murphy, vice
president of the Trust Company of
Georgia, have enlisted with Colonel
Fred J. Paxon and Forrest Adair m
their fight on the bulletins and the
present propaganda of the Men and
Religion Forward Movement, state
ments made by various members of
the Executive Committee Tuesday in
dicated that they are in full accord
with the policy outlined by John J.
Eagan, chairman of the movement, of
ignoring all criticisms directed
against the committee and continuing
its work along the same lines as here
tofore.
The fact that many of the mem
bers of the committee refused to be
quoted as making any comment cn
the controversy indicates that a pact
of silence has been made, and that
little will be said that does not come
as an official committee announce
ment This was intimated strongly
by one of the members of the com
mittee Tuesday.
Those members who consented to
make public statements* regarding
their attitude in the controversy
warmly indorsed the bulletins as
written by Marion Jackson, and de
clared that they have done and are
doing infinitely more good than harm.
By Harry Etheridge, one of the mem
bers, Mr. Jackson was called a “ge
nius.”
“He and John Eagan ard the great
est moral force that Atlanta has ever
had,” declared Etheridge.
The meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Men and Religion For-
j ward Movement at the Baptist Tab-
| ernacle is expected to spring a sur-
: prise within a f'w days, although vir
tually every member of the commit
tee insists that nothing official was
done regarding the criticisms, and
that no official recognition was made
of either Colonel Paxon’s or Mr.
Adair’s assertions that the bulletins
were harmful and destructive.
It is known, however, that the sub
ject was brought up by both Mr.
j Eagan and Mr. Jackson, and that sev-
j eral of the other members discussed
j the question thoroughly. It was ru
mored shortly after the meeting that
an indorsement of the bulletins and
of Mr. Jackson as their author was
voted unanimously, but this is denied
by various members of the commit
tee.
PLANS SOUTH POLAR TRIP.
LONDON, Dec. 28.—Sir Ernest H.
Shackleton, the explorer, in a letter
to The Times, announces his inten
tion to lead another expedition to
the South Pole in 1914. He will start
from a South American port "with
the object of crossing the South Polar
continent from sea to sea, returning
by way of New Zealand. He adds:
“I have been enable to undertake
this expedition through the generosi
ty of a friend, and I have taken the
liberty of calling the expedition ‘the
I Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedi
tion.’ ”
DOWAGER QUEEN DIES.
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 30.—Dowager
Queen Sophie of Sweden, widow of
King Oscar II, died to-day of in
flammation of the lungs. She was 78
years old.
Following the death of King Oscar,
in 1907, the Dowager Queen lived in
retirement. She was married to King
Oscar in 1857. Her charities endeared
her to the Swedish people.
POCKET WIRELESS.
PARIS, Dec. 30.—A pocket wireless
receiver, resembling a small tele
phone, was presented to the Astro
nomical Society by Engineer Justin
Landry.
The instrument needs no mast or
antennae, but if brought in contact
w ith a metallic surface it enables the
listener in Paris to hear the time
signal from the Eiffel Tower.
FLIES UPSIDE DOWN.
SAN F'RANCISCO, CAL., Dec. 28.—
Looping-the-loop six times at a
height of 2,500 feet over San FYanc’s-
eo Bay, Lincoln Beachey to-day es
tablished another world's aviation
record.
Christmas Day Beachey looped-the-
loop five times, a record in itseif.
I Previous to looping-the-loop to-day
j Beachey flew upside down. •
ECUADOR REBELS BEATEN.
GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR. Dec. 28.
Four hundred rebels, under Carlos
Andrade and Julio Thomas, crossed
the northern frontier Saturday and
Government troops, under General
Rafael Arellano, attacked them near
San Gabriel, in the province of Car-
chi. After two hours’ fighting the
rebels retired, having suffered con
siderable losses.
FOLK QUITS SMOKING.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 30.—Former Gov
ernor Folk, an inveterate smoker for
25 years, has quit smoking to test his
will power. Incidentally he will save
$2.50 a day.
SEES DANGER III
Weather -Official, in Atlanta for
Scientific Congress, Urges Ae
ronautic Practice in Army,
Should the United States become
involved in war with one of the great
world powers she would be at a terri
ble disadvantage in the use of that
most important adjunct of modern
warfare, the aeroplane, in the opinion
of W. J. Humphreys, head of the Me
teorological Department of the United
States Weather Bureau.
Mr. Humphreys is in Atlanta at
tending the sessions of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science and will read papers before
two of the sections.
Mr. Humphreys is not an alarmist!
He does not anticipate war with any
of the other powerful nations. He
does not even know that there is a
fairly remote possibility of trouble,
but he believes in being prepared in
every department.
U. S. Holds Lagging Record.
He would have the American sol
dier exactly as wel^ trained' in the
gentle art of dropping bombs and
other explosives on the heads of the
enemy and in reconnoitering from an
aeroplane in the clouds as the sol
diers of any other army in the world.
“It is regrettable,” he said Tuesday,
“but the United States has progressed
much more slowly in this respect
than many of the ether nations. Here
where the aeroplane was developed
into a practical machine for the con
quest of the air we have fallen be
hind in its perfection.
“I notice that another altitude rec
ord was broken in France the other
day, an aviator going up more than
20,000 feet. It has come to a pass
where this country holds only one
record, and that is the record for lag
ging behind.
Natural Explanation.
“There is a natural explanation for
it, 1 believe. War clouds constantly
are hovering over the European
countries. If there is no immediate »
prospect, there is at least the fear that
one may develop soon. F'or that rea
son they are taking aviation much
more seriously than we are here.
“It did not take them long to realize
that the aeroplane could be made a
most dangerous instrument of de
struction, and they set to work per
fecting it for that sort of work. They
got at the fundamental scientific
principles of aerial flight and the
navigators themselves were made
acquainted with all the vagaries of
the atmosphere, as well as with the
details of aeroplane construction and
operation.
“The United States, on the other
hand, has felt reasonably secure from
w ar. It has been difficult to keep our
fighting strength up to the point that
our military men want it.
Expenditure Seems Waste.
“To many the expenditure has
seemed useless when there appears so
little likelihood of an occasion for
getting our money’s worth out of the
battleships and other fighting mate
rial. This apathy has extended, to
some extent, to the study of aviation
as an adjunct to modern warfare.
“Army officers have taken it up, but
hardly in the serious way that it has
been taken up abroad. The authori
ties, however, I believe, are waking
up to the importance of aviation and
will see that it is given its rightful
attention in the next few years.”
Mr. Humphreys is on his way to
San Diego, Cal., under army orders,
having been “borrowed” from the
Weather Department.
BUYS BRAZIL’S WARSHIP.
F’RANKFORT-ON-MAIN, G FIR
MAN Y, Dec. 30.—A Constantinople
dispatch to The Frankfurter Zeitung
to-day states that Turkey has con
cluded negotiations for the purchase
of the battleship Rio De Janeiro from
the Brazilian Government for $15,-
000,000.
The warship is Brazil's newest. It
carries fourteen twelve-inch guns,
lesser armaments and torpedo tubes
and a complement of 1,100 men.
BUILDS PAPER PALACE.
PARIS, Dec. 30.—Baron Henri de
Rothschild has had built near the
Boise de Boulogne a full-sized model
in thick cardboard of a mansion he
plans to erect.
The cardboard mansion, which is
complete in every detail, cost $20,000.
It is adjacent to the site of the
Baron’s new home.
TO BORROW $10,000,000.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—The Gen
eral Assembly of Uruguay has au
thorized a loan of $10,000,000 from
the Etheiberga Syndicate of London
and Berlin, according to intelligences
to the State Department.
The loan is to be used to build up
Uruguay’s financial system.
MAYOR SPENT $3.50.
DENVER. Dec. 30.—-Mayor Per
kins’ expense account, submitted to
the Council, shows that he spent $3.50
to entertain the Secretary of War
and the Secretary of Navy.
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