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©E©ltt€AM©L» F MR IS ON UN FULL BLAST
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy tonight and
Wednesday.
VOLUME XIX, No. 293.
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN ARE ENJOYING THE DAY
AT THE CHEAT 6EORCII - CAROLINA FAIR TUESDAY
Are Having a Great Time on the Midway and Giving Them
selves Over to Unrestrained Enjoyment. The Schools
Closed at One P. M.
HIGH CLASS RACING ON BOTH TUESDAY
AND WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS AT THE FAIR
The Georgia-Carolina Fair is a Complete Success and Every
Department is a Mecca For the Visitors. Be Sure to
Come to the Fair.
ADMISSION HALF PRICE AT
NIGHT.
The admission price to the Fair
Grounds after 6 o’clock p. m. is 25
cents, one-half of the admission dur
ing the day time. It is expected
that a big crowd will be at the Fair
Grounds Tuesday night and have a
great time on the midway.
This is “Children's Day” at the
Georgia-Carolina Fair. There are
thousands of the kiddies at the fair
grounds and they are having the times
of their young lives. All‘of the schools
closed at i o'clock Tuesday so that the
children might go home and get their
dinners and go to the fair.
The weather forecaster stated Mon
day that the weather would he unset
tled Tuesday with probable showers,
but the showers are arriving late, if
at all. and will not interfere with the
children.
On the midway the hundreds of chil
dren are having a great time. Leon W.
Washburn's Mighty Miday shows are
running in full blast and not a show
from one end of the midway to the
other is to be neglected by the chil
dren. They take in the animal show,
the trip to the moon and everything in
sight and every child is going the
limit.
Tuesday afternoon races are being
pulled off and hundreds of people are
on the race track where they are wit
nessing thoroughbred animals clip off
miles in tlazzlingly short spaces of
time.
Racing Program.
Tile following is the program for the
Taces Tuesday and Wednesday:
2:50 Class—Purse $75 —No Entrance
Fee.
Lady Elmore, Frank Rouse.
Durida, Wm. English.
Pat W., W. H. Tabb.
Blossom, J. Hudson, owner.
Homer T.. AV. H. Tabb, owner.
Altruist, Capt. Mallard, owner.
T. M. Deer. .T. H. Armstrong, owner.
Half-mile race for horses owned in
Richmond and adjoining counties, 90
days previous to race.
Purse $75 —No Entrance Fee.
Mollte Summers, AV. H. Tabb.
Lady Elmore, Frank Rouse.
Belle of Darlington, AV. H. Tabb.
Radium 8., T. J. Daly
Richard Prince, D. J. Bowles.
Running Race —Purse $75 —No En
trance Fee.
Bad News 2nd, W. H. Tabb.
Rags, J. H. Armstrong.
The Rant, \\ r . D. Wright.
2:25 Class, s7s—No Entrance Fee.
Mollie Summers. AV. H. Tabb.
Victor, Capt. Ballard.
School Boy, J. H. Armstrong.
Radium 8., T. J. Daly.
Durida. Wm. English.
Botin if a Girl, O. .T. Bowles.
r ree-for-All, $lO0 —No Entrance Fee.
Silver J.. J. 11. Armstrong.
Victor, Capt. Ballard.
Mollie Summers, AV. 11. Tabb.
Radium 8., T. .1. Daly.
Belle of Darlington, AV. H. Tabb.
Homer T.. AV. H. Tabb.
Richard Prince, D. J. Bowles.
Running Race —Purse $25 —No F.n
trance Fee.
• Mask and Faces. Tim I)avjs.
Bad News 2nd, W. H. Tabb.
Rags, .1. H. Armstrong.
The Kam. \V. D. Wright.
Mule race for Georgia mules, purse
$25. No entrance fee.
Half-mile mule race for South Car
olina mules, purse $25. No entrance
fee.
AVinners of the above mule raees to
race for additional $25 (donated by the
Augusta S.ock A'urd).
Colored drivers barred in harness
horse races.
Fair to Be Largely Attended.
The fair is expected to be a magnifi
cent success and, If the weather con-
BODIES OF GERMANS FLOAT DOWN
SAN TO JOIN VISTULA’S CORPSES
Petrograd. (via London, 3:50 a. m.) - A newspaper correspondent at Le»>-
l.ctg referring to the German losses In the atteinptx to rroxa the upper 8m
River, telegraph* till* stream I* filled with the bodies of Gorman aoldPTs
flouting down to augment similar flotsam on the Vistula, where other Ger
man troops have mat th# same fate. The correspondent sa\s that none of
tlie repeated attempts to cross tha Ban yet luts been successful
Several of the outer forts at I’rxemsy; are reported to have been cap
tured, but these are not considered Important, Insomuch s* Przemysl already
been Isolated and surrounded.
680 CARLOADS OF GERMAN
WOUNDED BACK TO BRUGES
London, 1:25 p. m.—" Burning bout** indicate the lino of fighting In north
western Belgium, telegraph* tho Flushing < orreapundent of the Kvenlng
News under dite of Monday.
•On Sunday. 17 train* of 40 niri eadi brought German wounded bark to
Finises.‘ tFie < mrespondent continues. "The northern column* of the German*
Piv. been Increased with reitifr»c< eme nt* brought at night by train fror*
where thcr or«* now hue few German* left. .
"Oattnd waa t|uiti Monda> morning.“ y
- - THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
tinues good, will be one of the most
largely attended fairs ever in Augusta.
The big days will be Tuesday, Wednes
day. Thursday and Friday. There are
cheap rates on all of the railroads and
every in-earning train Tuesday brought
hundreds of people to the fair.
The agricultural exhibits and the
"made in Augusta” exhibits, as well as
exhibits by Augusta merchants, the
art exhibits, and various other exhibits
in the main fair building are attract
ing much attention.
The livestock building is, of course,
one of the most attractive features of
the entire fair. Some of the finest
breeds of hogs, cattle, sheep, goats and
horses are to be seen in this building
and it is believed that the farmers of
this section of Georgia and South
Carolina will find an inspiration in
what they see at the fair and go home
determined to raise less cotton and
more livestock.
The joultry building, as usual is a
scene of a great interest because there
are hundreds of thoroughbred chickens
on exhibition that are attracting a
great deal of attention.
WHITLOCK SITS
FAMINE NEAR
Population of Brussels, De
clares U. S. Minister, Will
Soon be on Verge of Star
vation.
Washington, D. C.—Brand Whitlock.
American minister to Belgium, cabled
the state department today from Brus
sels under date of yesterday urging that
food shipments for the destitute popula
tion of Belgium be expepited. He had
just been advised that the German gov
ernment''had consented to the shipment
of food supplies from England to the
civil population of Belgium.
In normal times, Mr. Whitlock de
clared, Belgium produced food for only
one-sixth of Its poulation. He pointed
out that outside aid was absolutely Im
perative, for, within another fortnight,
the people would be starving.
With the approach of winter he feared
conditions would be unendurabde.
Fifteen hundred tons of food supplies
purchased in London «y the American
Relief Committee are ready for shipment
and Ambassador Page was In communi
cation with the State Department today
concerning details of the shipment.
Contributions to the Belgium fund it
w:i» stated at the Belgian legation here
today, would he distributed not only to
the needy in Belgium proper hut to all
points in other countries where Belgians
had taken refuge.
Minister Havenith anticipated no dif
ficulty In the transfer of supplies to Am
erican Minister Whitlock.
destrotgeuan
TORPEDO BOAT
Tokio. —lt wan announced officially
in Tokio today that the German tor
pedo boat 8 90 which escaped from
Tsing-Tan under cover of darkness,
ban been found aground and dentroy
ed by the Japanese, at a point 60
miles south of Kla-Chow Bay.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 20, 1914.
Two Special
Rules Cotton
Relief
House Rules Committee Pre
sents Them to Bring Out the
Lever Warehouse Measure
and Glass Bill for Increased
Note Circulation.
Wasi^ngton —Two special rules, one
to out the Lever measure to
license cotton warehouses, which pass
ed the senate and the other to con
sider the Glass bill to increase the
amount of circulating notes of a na
tional banking association’s capital
and surplus, were brought into the
house today by the committee on rules.
By Hardwick.
The committee added to the fflass
bill an amendment proposed by rep
resentatives Pou, of North Carolina,
and Hardwick of Georgia, to author
ize the issue of either $240,000,000 of
two per cent treasury notes, redeem
able in three years, or of the same
amount of Panama canal bonds, with
the interest increased to 4 per cent,
the proceeds to be deposited in hanks
of the cotton states for loans to the
cotom farmers.
The Warehouse Bill.
Senator Simmons urged that the cot
ton warehouse bill he passed with eli
mination of senate amendments, which
would include the licensing of grain,
tohaco, naval stores and salmon
warehouses. The senate, he belived,
woul accept the measure as originally
framed.
He also urged passage of the bank
bill, which, as originally framed, would
permit banks of national hanking as
sociations to issue circulating notes
based on commercial paper up to 7!>
per cent of unimpaired capital and
surplus.
Would Greatly Help.
The house bill would fix the limit
at 100 per cent, but would eliminate
an amendment which would have In
cluded state banks with the associ
ation.
"If these bills can be passed," said
Senator Simmons, 'and i belive they
can without trouble, they will do much
to relieve the south in the embarrass
ing cotton situation.”
ALONG MEUSE
TRE FIGHTING
IS INCESSANT
French Artilleryman Who Hid
For Two Days With Portable
Fired Telephone, Contributed
Much to Success at St. Mihiel.
On the Battle Front, via Paris, 12:06
a. m. On the eastern wing, along the
Meuse, heavy fighting is Incessant,
the French artillery playing a most
important part. Several French bat
teries of St. Mihiel Monday destroyed
a complete battery of heavy German
artillery.
This was accomplished by the clev
er work of a French artilleryman.
Carrying a portable field telephone ho
hid himself for two days near tim
German position and informed his
comrades of the positions of the Ger
man guns.
Sing on Return.
Scenes behind the battle lines de
note the characteristics of the various
nations engaged. The French soldiers
ate very gay, singing when they re
turn from the trenches.
The, Belgians are somewhat the
same in character, but the recent
damage to many cities of Belgium
has rendered them rather gloomy.
The British appear to he ready to
seize the slightest oportunlty to play
some game when off actual duty.
Th, "Goumiera.”
Indian troops maintain a calm sil
ence except when In action. Then
they utter wild cries In their Eastern
languages ss they enter the fight.
TTie Moroccan auxiliaries, known as
"goumlers," apparently are Always
ready to rest anywhere they can find
themselves but sleep with the bridle
over their arm and spring Into action
at the slightest movement or noise.
HEAWFiRINGIN
THE BLACK SEA
London, 10:10 a. m.—A despatch from
Copenhagen to the Central News nays.
"The Berliner Tageblatt publishes a
telegram from Bucharest saying that
evidently a big Russian-Turkfsh naval
battle has taken place In the Black
sea Exceedingly heavy firing, lasting
a considerable time, la reported.”
Springs Surprise at Mexican Convention
-.Sfci- A-.-. .sTifiWßt 4 \ JHFJBnL •. Ri
LATEST PHOTO OF GEN’L FRANCISCO VILLA
PANIC AS VILLA MOVES
UP 18,000 TROOPS; CAN
. IMPRISON CONVENTION
TRE FAULT BF
CARRANZA OFF
Eagle Pass, Texas. The family of
Venustiano Carranza, constitutionalist,
first chief, reached the Mexican bor
der today. It was announced that
they would make their residence
temporarily at I’ledras Ncgras, op
posite here on the Mexican side of the
Rio Grande. The move was reported
to he for the safety of Cnrannzu's
family in case of developments un
favorable to him.
Don't Fear for Himself.
Eagle Paaa, Texas —Piedras Ncgras
was Carranza's provisional capital
when his revolution was started. It |
is In the state of Coartlila over which
he was governor when he raised his i
revolt against Huerta.
It Is said on good authority here |
Hint Carranza remarked he might have j
difficulty In getting his family out of
the country hut that as for himself I
I with the family In xarety he could j
j fight his way out.
There was an unconfirmed report ■
I here today that Villa arrested some
of the pease delegates at Asuan Cal- |
DISCUSSING TAX
ON BEER, SPIRITS
Washington—l icnmrrutic member*
of the conference committee began |
confederation of the a trended war rev- |
**nue measure noon after the house j
conferee* were appointed. Principal j
points of contention were the aenatc I
amendments Increasing the tax on beer
i from $1.60 to $1.76 a. barrel, the tax of i
| five cents a gallon on rectified spirits, I
| and'elimination of the tax on gasoline. ■
RE3ERVE BANKS, NOV. 15th.
Washington B*< rotary McAduo, j
1 Hpeaklng today to representatlves of j
i the direction boards of the 12 federal j
i reserve banks, expressed the opinion!
that the banks can be opened by Nov j
I 10. More than 76 representatives of j
I the banks were present.
Rebel General in Position to
Envelop City of Aguas Cali
entes and Take All of the
Delegates.
San Antonio, Texas. The Mexican
consulate here today received a re
port from Mexico City stating that
General Francisco Villa created a
panic among the delegates to the con
vention of military chiefs In Aguas
Calientex today by moving an army
of 19,000 men into position where lie
can envelop the city and Imprison the
entire conference. Villa's army Is
reported to be.within an hour’s march
of Aguus Calientex. To oppose him
there are Carranza’s troops at Mon
terey and Saltillo, hut It would take
from four to 12 hours to get them to
Aguas Calientex.
Appeal to Carranza.
According to tin- message from
Mexico City to the consulate here, the
delegates at Aguas Calientex who In
clude many chiefs of the eonsUtution
allst army, have made an appeal to
Carranza, to guarantee their freedom
.during the convention, which was re
sumed today.
Antonio I. Villareal, president of the
convention, today ordered that a train
carrying E. G. Llorente, Carlos Do
minguez. Manuel Hmiill and Andreas
Guzman" to the border, he stopped.
Released Last Night.
These men were released from pris
on in Mexico City last night by order
of (lie Aguas Calientes convention and
were to he permitted to go to Villa's
territory. They were arrested on
Charges of attempting to Incite rebel
lion against Carranzs.
It Is expected they are to be held
as hostages pending further action by
Villa. ,
TILL TRE TEXAS
ACREAGE RIEL
Austin, Texas. Proposed legislation to
reduce notion • cringe In T>vhh next
year was killed in the legislature last
night when th** hong* defeated thin
measure, Hi to 12. Tin- Mil would have
Snail* it a lelon* to raise cotton In ex
cess of ft fixed percentage of tide year’s
crop by acreage. Thin percentage, Re
cording to amendments offend at viri
on* times, ranged from 26 to 50 per
cent.
The house at HI ha's before It n pro*
I»ossl to recommend voluntary acreage
cotton reduction.
$6.00 PER YEAR—FIVE CENTS PER COPY.
Belgians Hold in
Fierce Attacks
Japs Seize
Morelslands
In thePacifie
Occupy Certain of the Ladrones
Which Lie 1,700 Miles From
Manila. Include Guam Ac
quired by U. S. in 1908.
Tokio, 6:00 p. nv.—The navy depart
ment has announced the occupation
for military purposes, of strategically
important Islands In the Marianne (or
iaidrone) Marshall, ICast Caroline and
West Caroline Archlpclagoss.
Juliet, in the Marshall Group, was
occupied October 14 by a division of
the Japanese fleet. Julilt it is explain
ed. was the base of the enemy's ma
rine operations In the Marianne, Mar
shall and Eastern and Western Caro
line Archipelagoes. The Japanese
found two German vessels there. One
sent hersolf to the bottom and the
other was captured witii her crew. No
damage was suffered by the Japanese
fleet.
The German ships at Julutt were
survey ships,
Previous announcement has been
made of the occupation by Japan of
Islands in the Marshall and Caroline
groups. The occupation of an island
In the Marianne, or l.adrone group,
has not heretofore been reported.
The Marianne Islands lie directly
east of Luzon and about. 1,700 miles
from Mallna. They Include Guam ac
quired t,y the United States in IKBB.
where a small military force is main
tained. There Is a cable station, on
the line between Manila, Honolulu and
San Francisco, on the Island.
In General Plan.
A despatch from Washington. Oct.
7, quoted the Japanese embassy as
saving that the seizure of the island
of Yap was only one development in
the general plan agreed upon by the
British and Japanese to seize all of
tlie German naval stations In the Pa
cific. Tills was regarded as neces
sary, it was explained, to terminate
the activities of the German cruisers
which have inflicted serious damage
upon Biitisli commerce.
Yap Is of great military importance
because It Is a relay stHtion of the
German cable lines in the Far Hast,
one line running north to .Shanghai
and the other southeast to Borneo,
and Java. A few months ago a power
ful German wireless station was open
ed on the Island
U. 5. FOODSTUFFS
FOR BRUSSELS
London, 2:30 p. m.—The* flrut con
signment of food nupplU** for the* re
lief of the* people of Hfuhmolh Ih on Lie
London docks ready for shipment to
Hot ter dam.
VV. |{. I*aice, the American ambaHHa
dor lihh roriHigned thin food direct to
Brand Whitlock, the American minis
ter in the Belgian capital.
FOR DISSOLUTION
OF BIG STEEL CO.
Philadelphia —Until argument In the
government suit to dissolve the Called
Staten Steel Corporation, the greatest
combination of crtpitul in the world, on
the ground that It was created in vio
lation of the Mhermari anti-trust Jaw,
was begun here today before four
United Htates circuit judges, sitting as
the United Htates court for the district
of New Jersey, In which Jurisdiction
th% proceedings were Instituted,
BIONB ALASKA BILL.
Washington. D. C.—President WHuoti
today signed the Aiiisknn coal land lean
Ing hill, opening thy coal fields of
Alaska.
NO NEW GERMAN ARMY OF MILLION
MEN COMING UPTO AID IN FRANCE
Bordeaux, 3:10 p. m.—‘'I'll*- Hermans huve Inin bringing u|> recently
such areal number* of troop* to repair their heavy losses In the recent
fighting that persistent report* hu\> heen in circulation that a new Her*
man army of one million men wax advancing against France.
According to advice* received In official quarter* thlx lx not the caae.
The troopx In question belong to the reserve foreex and are conxtantly
being aunt up from regimental depot* to fill the gap* In Die troopx on Um
fighting line.
HOME
EDITION
French Progress Also Claimed
Between Arras and Royo.
Stubborn Fifhting Near Lille
and St. Mihiel.
REPORT ALLIES RETAKING
OSTEND NOT CONFIRMED
Torrential Rains Make Flat
Country Sea of Mud, Mak
ing Movement of Heavy Ger
man Guns Difficult.
London, 10:16 a. m.— The German at
tacks on the allied lino near the Bel
gian coast between Nleuport and Dlx
mude. similar tactics by the allies in
Franca between Arras and Royo, where
progress is claimed, a continued allied
assault on Lille, still held by Germans,
ami stubborn fighting In the vicinity of
bt. Mihiel where for days the alliea
lui,ve been trying to drive the Germans
from their southernmost lodgment,
were tile acute points today in tbs
sprawling battle array of France and
Belgium.
Following Ostand'a Taking.
The communications issued in be
half of the allies last night enabled
Britons to visualize for the first time
in tea days the approximate hatUe
line after croseing the Belgian fron
tier and showed how the allies, during
•he days of censorship, were throwing
their forces westward to meet the in
evitable German advance which fol
lowed the taking of Ostend.
In Thick of It.
The fighting Is centering only a few
utiles southwest of tjstend and the
Belgian army heretofore reported as
having repulsed the Germans on the
banks of the River Yser, ts again in
the thlek of the flfjht, being credited
with bending back the German line as
fur as Routers, Belgium, 13 miles
northwest of Courtral, which point
they aer said to be holding.
Not Confirmed.
A despatch dated merely “north of
France” says that the allies have re
taken ttstend, but tilts is not confirm
ed and is at variance with the Ger
man contention, that they liave reach
ed the neighborhood of Dunkirk, whose
inhabitants, as well as those of Bou
logne, are In a state of panic. If thu
HUMUS II H.M|no‘,| Hutpioq OJR sui:|g|.)H
incredible that the Germans have ad
vanced so far as that would mean a
complete bending back of the allied
left which rests on the < oast west of
Ostend.
Sea of Mud.
Torcntlal rains have made the fiat
country a sea of mud and this, with
file network of canals, makes a move
ment of German guns extremely diffi
cult. The Germans are still bringing
up reinforcements, a message from
Amsterdam saving that troops of all
anils are steadily moving westward be
lt* Weetcren and Termonde, to
wards the French frontier.
As Failure.
The London press |* unanimously
hailing the German attempt to sweep
through Belgium to the north Franco
coast towns as a failure. It may he
true that the progress from Ostcn.l
lias been slower than the usual Im
petuous German rush, but It seems
premature to say that they have failed.
News from the east slews no no
table change In the battle lines. Tha
Russians contend that the Germans
are still neld on the Vistula and daw
rivers.
NEW sum
OF BRITAIN SUNN
Berlin, by wirelesi to Sayville.—lt
wax officially stated here today that
the Itrltlxh new xuhmarlne E 3 was
sunk on Monday, Oct. IS, by Herman
warxhlpx in the North Hea.
PROVISIONING
GERMAN SHIPS
London, 5:22 p. m.— In a dlxpatch
lron> Rotterdam the correxpondent of
the Evening New* declares that tha
Herman marlnex are leaving Antwerp
to rejoin the Hern an fleet and the
Herman xhlpx at Kiel are being ex
tensively provisioned.