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o 9 P % 2 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. DROPSY Treated 10 days free. Short breatbiDg re tier ed In few hours— swelling and uric acid remcTed in few davs—rege lates tieer, kidneys, bowels, stomach, digestion and heart. Wonderful success. 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