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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIX. ho. 34.
PRESIDENT DECIDES TD
LIFT THE EMBARGO ON
ALL ARMS INTO MEXICO
Proclamation to This Ef
fect Expected From the
White House at 5 P. M.
Today. Decision Arrived
at After Months of Study
BELIEF CHANGED THAT
DENIAL OF AMMUNITION
WAS ACT OF HUMANITY
Conviction Has Grown That
Policy Has Acted Unequally
Upon Warring Forces. Par
tiality Instead of Neutrality
Has Been Result.
Washington. —Every administrative
official who was lot into the confi
dence of the few who knew of the
impending: step, took pains to empha
size that the Washington government
was not raising the embargo to aid
the constitutionalists nor as any evi
dence of sympathy with their cause,
but merely to correct an inequality in
the warfare which has been brought
about by the operation of the proc
lamation of 1912.
After Careful Study.
Washington—President Wilson has
decided to lift the embargo on ex
portation of arms to Mexico.
A proclamation under the authority
of the congressional resolution of
1812 which will restore the status of
ihe arms question to where both
Huerta forces and constitutionalists
may export arms from the United
States soon will he issued from the
White House.
Issued by Taft.
President Taft issued the procla
mation which barred exportation of
arnr.4 to all sides on March 14, 1912.
He did that under authority of a
congressional resolution authorizing
the Fre sldent to take such act,on
whenever he should find “that in an
American country conditions of do
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Villa to Shoot All
Captured Spaniards
Juarez, Mexico. —A warning was is
sued by Gen. Francisco Villa today
that all Spaniards captured in the Tor
reon campaign will be sumarily dealt
with. Gen. Villa said he had positive
proof that many Spaniards in Torreon
had taken up arms against the rebels
and that all such -would be shot. Oth
ers, he said, would be banished from
: the country.
One of Last Resorts
in Mexican Policy
Washington. —For many weeks sen
ators of the foreign relations commit
tee have been urging President Wil-
I son to permit free importation of arms
to the battlefields in the hope that the
| war soon might be ended and peace
restored. Those close to the presi
dent said he would take such action
| as only one of the last resorts in his
| Mexican policy, preferring to depend
! for the time being on the “moral pres
sure" and the “financial blockade”
which /las so far estopped the Huerta
government from obtaining credit
abroad.
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Rev. Josiah Sibley Has
Accepted Call to Frisco
Knoxville, Tenn. —The Rev. Josiah
, Sibley, for five years pastor at the
' First Presbyterian church of this city,
today announced his acceptance of a
call to the pastorate of the Calvary
Presbyterian church of San Francis
co. He is a native of Augusta, Ga.
CORPSE CREMATED; ASHES ON
WA Y TO OLD HOME BY PARCEL
POST; $1.42 POSTAGE
Pittsburgh.—A unique use of th e parc;l post wfs nude today by the
friends of the late Frederick Heist, of McKeesport. His body was cre
mated and the ashes, packed In a w ooden box, were started on their way
to Reichelsheim, Germany, Heist's f ormer home, by parcel post. The par
cel. believed to be the first of its kin d sent In this country, carried *1.42
postage.
LEST YOU FORGET-
GASSIDY WITH
TIEEDJ'ME
Former Democratic Leader is
Guilty of Conspiracy in Sell
ing Nomination to N. Y. Su
preme Court.
New York. —Sentencing of Wm. Wil
lett, Jr., former congressman, convict
ed of paying a bride for a supreme
court nomination to Jos. CaHsldy, erst
while democratic leader of Queens,
was deferred today until tomorrow.
Then he probably will be sentenced
along with Cassidy, convicted last
night of receiving the bribe, and Louis
T. Walter, Jr., the go-between, also
found guilty. All face a maximum
penalty of two years in prison and a
$3,000 fine.
The Third One.
New York. —Joseph Cassidy, former
Democratic leader of Queens county
and Louis T. Walter, Jr., his lieuten
ant who were found guilty late last
night of conspiracy in selling a nomi
nation to the state supreme court
bench to Wm. Willett, a former con
gressman, are in jail today awaiting
sentence. The maximum jwnalty is
two years in prison and a fine of $3,-
000.
Willett who was convicted ten days
ago of buying the nomination for a
(Continued on Market Page).
Fire Threatened Whole
Square in Philadelphia
Extinguished After 5 Hours of
Hard Work. $285,000 is
the Damage.
Philadelphia—Fire which threaten
ed a whole square of wholesale busi
ness houses at Second and Arch
streets early today was extinguished
after five hours hard work with
losses estimated at $285,000.
The fire started in the five-story
factory of Edward Darby & Sons
Company, manufacturers of metal
wire and iron goods, 233 Arch street.
The place was practically destroyed
and the flames spread to the build
ings occupied by C. n. Porter & Co.,
tinware manufacturers; Borden Stove
Company, A. Colburn & Co., spice
warehouse, and Haslet, Flanagan &
Co., tinware dealers, all of which
were damaged by both fire and water.
Mrs. Wright, of Georgia,
Decorated by Diaz, Dead
New York—Mrs. Marie Robinson
Wright of Georgia, author and his
torian, who traveled 2,000 miles on
mule back in Mexico and Bolivia and
three times across the South Ameri
can continent, making the record trip
across the Andes, dded Sunday at
Liberty, N. Y., according to announce
ment published here today.
Mrs. Wright was born at Newnan,
Ga., and was married to Hinton P.
Wright, who was the youngest su
preme court justice in Georgia. When
he died in 1886, she became special
correspondent for a New York news
paper. While in Mexico President
Diaz decorated her and made her an
honorary citizen of Mexico.
$1,000,000 Damage to
Cotton in Texas Fire
Houston, Texas—Property damage
estimated at nearly one million dol
lars was done at Clinton, Texas to.
day when between ftfteen and twen
ty thousand bales of cotton were
either consumed or badly damaged by
fire.
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 3. 1914.
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THE O’SHAUGH NESSY FAMILY.
Washington,—lt was understood today in official drclea that an
nouncement of the president’s determination to lift the embargo had gone
forward to Charge O’Shaughnessy In Mexico City, probably with instruc
tions to advise the Huerta government.
Nelson O'Shaughnessy, American charge d' affaires, his wife and son.
photographed recently In Mexico City. O’Khaughnessy, as the American
envoy, will be handed his passports if President Wilson decides to aid
the rebels in the present turmoil.
Plan For Raising Revenue Be
Reported by Special Committee
From Council and City at Large
Chairman Martin, of Finance, Names Mayor Hayne
and Messrs. E. E. Allen, H. H. Jones and T. W. Pilcher
From Council, and Messrs. H. H. Alexander, R. Roy Good
win, E. H. Callaway, C. Henry Cohen, Bowdre Phinizy,
T. W. Loyless and Jacob Phinizy From the City at Large.
Chairman William Martin, of the fi
nance committee of city council, has
named a special committee composed
of Mayor Hayne, a Bub-committee of
the finance committee and three citi
zens from the city at large to discuss
plans for raising more revenue for
the city of Augusta in 1914.
The finance committee met yester
day afternoon and decided upon this
course. It Is not known what plan
will be adopted and it will be up to
the new committee to report the most
feasible plan.
The question of raising the basis or
raising the rate will be discussed and
It is entirely possible that neither of
these plans will be adopted. Among
the plans to bo considered will be a
bond Issue or levying a special tax.
In Atlanta and Fulton county, ac
cording to Chairman Martin, the city
assesses on a basis of 60 per cent of
the actual value of property and the
county assesses at 4a per cent of the
actual value, which Is three-fourths
as much as the city. In Richmond
*IOO,OOO WINSTON-SALEM FIRE
Charlotte. N. C.—A special to the
Kvenlng Chronicle tells of destruction
by fire of the stores of the O’Hanlon
Drug Company, clothing store of
SATURDAY’S AND WEDNESDAY’S are the two Big Bargain Days of the week in Augusta. The Herald of Tuesday and Friday alawys carries the
’“VERY SPECIAL” offerings of Augusta’s leading and most progressive merchants. From a dollar and cents motive it will pay you to read the ad
vertisements in today’s Herald. It’s the advertising merchant always who CAN and DOES sell the cheapest.
county the city of Augusta has as
sessed for the past year on 66 2-11 per
cent of tho actual value and people
are supposed to give In their property
for state and county taxation at Its
full value. Even though they do not
return It for the full value, as they
take an oath to do, It Is returned In
a large majority of eases, at about
the same figure that the city assesses
It which would have made It 66 2-3
In 1913 and, If the basis is raised to
80 or 85, the great majority of people
would return their property to the
county on an 80 to 85 per cent basis.
The following are the members of
tho committee named by Chairman
man Martin: From council, Mayor T*
C. Hayne and Messrs. R. K. Allen, H.
H. Jones, and T. ,W. Pilcher; from the
city at large, Messrs. 11. H. Alexan
der, R. Roy Goodwin, K. H. Callaway,
Henry Cohen, Dowdre Phlnizy, T.
W. IjoylcuH, and Jacob Phlnizy.
The first meeting of the committee
will be held tomorrow afternoon In
the directors' room of the Plantetu
I. and Savings Hank.
Frank C. Brown Hons Company and
serious damage to stock and stores of
Fred N. Day, Jeweler, and Meyer
Westbrooks Company, department
store, In Wlnston-Balem this morn
ing. Loss estimated at *IOO,OOO.
ANTI JAP S. C.
HOUSE MEASURE
IS INTRODUCED
Stuckey Bill Would Also Bar
Chinese From Owninq Any
Farm Lands in the State.
Is Identical With Senate
Bill.
Blcase Floor Leader Wycho
Declares That They Are Both
Undesirable Peoples. Says Se
rious Menace Overhangs the
Southern States in Proposed
Immigration.
Columbia, 8. C. —While state-wide
discussion Is still being indulged in
relative to the Fortner bill barring
white women from teaehlng in negro
schools, the general assembly will be
called upon to wrestle with anti-
Japanese legislation. Senator Starkey
lias already Introduced a bill In the
upper house liarring Japanese and Chi
nese from owning farm lands in this
stale, while Representative C. (1
Wyehc, Blease floor leader, will in
trodueed an Identteal measure in the
house (ate tills afternoon.
The Stuckey Dili was reported by
the senate judiciary committee with
out recommendations and its provis
ions are not generally known. The
hill relates to the rights, powers and
disabilities of aliens with respect to
holding property in South Carolina,
provides for eseheatH in certain eases
and prescribes the procedure therein.
Same as United States Citizens.
All aliens eligible to citizenship un
der laws of the United States may ac
quire real property in the same man
ner and to the same extent as citizens
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GEORGIAN FLEES
MEXICAN RANGH
Dr. Thomas C. Jones, Wife and
Child Make Perilous 200 Mile
Trip Up Coast.
San Francisco —Forced to leave
their ranch at Ijos Pinos, state of
Jalisco, Mex., after rebels had loot
ed and burned their homo, I)r. Thos.
C. Jones, a Georgia, Mrs. Jones and
their three-year-old son made a peril
ous trip In a small open launch along
200 miles of seacoast and were taken
aboard the United fe”tatOß collier
Nanshan which arrived here yester*
day from Mazatlan.
A detachment of 75 of the revolu
tionists that captured lg)s Pinos on
January 10, surrounded Dr. Jones’
tobacco ranch, stole $4,000 In cash
and Mrs. Jones' Jewelry and then set
fire to the house and outbuildings
After many hardships Jones and his
family reached the coast, sixty mlTes
away, and chartered a launch.
They will return to their former
home In Georgia.
300 Were Killed in the
Battle at Haitian City
Port Au Prince, Haiti —Three hun
dred men of the rival revolutionary
armies were killed In the battle of
Gonalves according to advices recelv
ed here today. The adherents of
Senator Davilmar Theodore were
signally defeated by the followers of
General Oreste Zamor, who today
proclaimed himself chief executive of
the republic. Fire broke out In the
city of Gonalves during the battle
but. no foreign property was damaged
4,000 CANNERS ATTEND.
Baltimore—Four thousand dele
gatesand visitors attended the open
ing session of the National Canners
Association convention here today.
A large exhibit of all kinds of ma
chinery used In the canning Industry
Is a feature of the meeting.
TWO-YEAR-OLD ARRIVES BY
PARCEL POBT IN GOOD
SHAPE.
Wellington, Ku.—Mrs. E. H
Staley of Wellington , received
her two-year-old nephew by par
cel post today from his grand
mother In Stratford, Okla. The
hoy wore a tag about his neck
showing it had cost 18 cents <o
send him through the mails. He
was transported 25 miles by rural
route before reaching the rail
road. He rode with the mall
clerks, shared his luneb with
them and arrived here In good
condition.
DAILY AND SUNDAY. $6.00 PER YEAR.
BY OVERWHELMING
VOTE LET THEM IN
“Let Us Alone: Save Others”
Said Captain of Lost Vessel
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CAPTAIN EDWARD E. JOHNSON
One of the bravest actors In the aos
tragedy that occurred when the Old
Dominion Liner Monroe went down
was the commander of the lost ship.
Captain Edward E. Johnson. Captain
Johnson was on the bridge of his ves
sel when it crumbled beneath the bow
of the Nantucket and he held his post
instructing his crew and passengers
how best to take care of themselves
until the boat sank.
200.000 CHICAGO
WOMEN READY
"Baby Stations” at Registry
Booths All Over City for
Mothers Who Bring Offspring
Along.
Chicago, —Women registered today
for the first time In Chicago to vote
In the spring alderinanlc primaries.
Upwards of 200,000 women, accord
ing to conservetlve estimates, will
have become registered voters by the
time the books dose at 9 o’clock to
night.
Acting ns Judges and clerks of elec
tion for the first time In Chicago's
history, approximately seven hundred
women assisted In registering the new
voters.
Scores of business women on their
way to work were among those reg
istered early. Many accompanied their
husbands to the places of registration.
In the hope of getting a big registra
tion of their sex as an argument for
the further extension of the franchise,
women suffrage leudera liavo polled
(Continued oa market pnge)
Think Bryan Has Agreed to
Pay Them $25,000,000
Washington.—After (mother confer
ence today with Honor Betancourt, the
Colombian minister, Hecrctary Bryan
was encouraged to bellev that a new
treaty between the United Htates and
Colombia could be agreed upon In the
near future.
in its present session the convention
was understood to provide for the
ucquielton by the United Htates of
coaling privileges on the Colombian
coast; the exclusive right to construct
a canal through Colombian territory
connecting the Atlnntlc and Pacific
oceans, and the payment to Colombia
of « lump sum believed to be $25,-
900.000.
Americus National gank
Didn't Open Doors Today
Americus, Ga. —The Americus Na
tional Hank did not open Its doors for
business today. Officials of the In
stitution would make no statement
pending an investigation by a national
bank examiner. The Institution has
a capital stock of *IOO,OOO and was or
ganized eight years ago.
PUBLISHER IS DEAD.
Bloux City, la.—Oeorge I) Perkins,
editor and publisher, of the Sioux
City Journal, died here today.
House Rejects Asiatic Exclu*
sion Amendments to Pendinc
Immigration Bill After Stir*
rinq Appeals to Avoid Japa*
nese Complications.
MANN PLEADS WITH HIS
REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES
Allegiance to Country Above
Pnrty Allegiance, He De
dares. Both the Baker and
Hayes Bills Are Lost.
Washington.—Thn bill It now
stands la merely an Immigration meas
ure without testiietions aa to racs of
color.
Amandmsnta Lost.
Washington.—After a stirring debat*
In which leaders of both parties plead
ed with the house to avoid Japanese
complications, the Asiatic exclusion
amendments to tho pending immigra
tion bill were overwhelmingly reject
ed today.
Both Amendments.
By a vote of 182 to * the house re
jected tho proposal of Representative
Baker to bar ail “Asiatic laborers,”
and hy a vote of 203 to $4 the amend
ment of Repreeentatlva liayea barring
al| Mongolians, negroes and Malay i'..
not protected hy treaty and passport
agreements.
Representative Msnn evoked ap
plause when ho gravely pleaded, with
his republican colleagues to put aside
all conat Jeration of raxty advantage
and vote against the amendments.
Appeal \o Democrats.
"We owe an allegiance to the coun
try,” he auld, "above our party alle
giance. Foreign affairs should tie han
dled In a delicate way. We owe It to
t'alifornlu to protect her against her
self.”
Representative Hherley of Kentucky
made a similar plea to the democrats
and despite the fact that the test votes
yesterday showed a strong sentiment
for th amendments they were rejected.
Sutf Felt‘Utter Contempt’
For the Archbishop
London—The only feeling experi
enced by Mrs. Dacre Fox, militant
suffragette leader, while she was In
terviewing the archbishop of Can
terbury on January 29, waa “titter
contempt” she told her militant sis
ters today. “The archbishop listen
ed coldly and calmly to my -plea on
behalf of the suffragette prlsoMra’’
aald Mrs. Dacre-Fox.
Meanwhile the archbishops chap
lain stood by—a pitiable object,
trembling and with chattering teeth.
“Even while the archbishop waa
listening to my account of what was
being done In Holloway Jail, I knew,
that he haJ already been In com
munication with the Right Rev.
Arthur Foley Wlnnlngton Ingram,
bishop of I-ondon and that the fata
of our efforts had already been fixed.
“That was why I experienced that
awful feeling of contempt.”
Referring to Bishop Ingram’s visit
to Holloway as a result of which ha
said that the suffragette prisoner*
did not suffer any tortures. Mrs.
Dacre-Fox declared: “It Is deplor
able that the bishop spent most of hid
time In tempting Miss Rachel Peace
to betray her principles.”
1.0u.1 ahouts of "traitor" and "rots
ten," greeted this charge.
A Pointed Preachment
on Finding a Position.
Helng without employment
Is an experience that almost
every man has been through
at some time or another. It’s
part of the i*st history of
many of today's most suc
cessful men.
If you're anxious for a Job
here’s an antidote for Idle
ness. Briefly It's this: Hcan
closely the "Help Wanted"
ads In The Augusta Herald.
I,ose not a moment In an
swering those which appeal
to you. Put your whole
heart and energy Into the
effort.
To moke assurance doubly
sure, suplement your effort
with a "Want Ad" of your
own. Htate your qualifica
tions clearly, positively and
sincerely. When the ad Is
written leave it with
Your Druggist or
The Augusta Herald.