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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 342. rTeeUy, E.tabUshed i860; D?fljr, Janis, ?1?. ANDERSON, S. C, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1914. $5.00 PER ANNUM PRICE FIVE CENTS
WAR DECLARED BETWEEN TURKEY AND RUSSIA
ENGLAND IS \
BY THE Ul
Message of Protest it Int
Of the Triple Entenl
Must Not Be Mo? , st
Modification of Engl;
dared Contraband, If
tral Nations Will Ac1
America.
WASHINGTON'. Dec. 28.-The Unit
ed States government today dispatch
ed a long note to Groot Britain insist
ing on an early Improvement in the
treatment of American commerce hy
British fleets. It wnnyal England that
much feeling had been aroused in
this country and that public criticism
was general over unwarranted Inter
ference With the legitimate foreign
trade of the United States.
The document, constituting fte
strongest representation on the sub
ject made hy the United States to any
of the belligerents, was cabled to Am
bassador Page to be formally present
ed to Slr Edward Grey, the British
Foreign secretary. Its preparation was
begun a monti) ago by Solicitor Cone
Johnson, Counsellor Robert Lansing
and Secretary Bryan, and during the
last two weeks had the personal at
tention of President Wilson, who re
vised its phraseology with minutocare.
Relations Objectionable.
As the detailed point ot view of the
i nited states in the numerous speci
fic cases of detentions and seizures
of cargoes had been set forth In a
series of emphatic protests, most of
which have gone unheeded, today's
communication was couched In gen
eral terms covering the entire sub
ject of the relations between the Unit
ed States and great Britain as affect
ed by the latter's naval ' policy, con
sidered highly objectionable to this
government.
The note declares it thc outset that
the rcprcsenations are made in a
friendly-spirit-,; but thst the United
States considers it best to speak in
terms of frankness lest silence he con
strued ah an acquiescence to a policy
of Great Britain which infringes the
rights of American cltfren? under the
laws of the nntions.
Applies to AIL
Since France has adopted virtually
tho samq decrees on contraband as
has Great Briatatn, today's. note is a
statement intended for all members of
the Triple Entente.
Thc document points out that com
plaintn on every Side and public crit
icisms in the United States hold the
British policy as directly responsible
for the depression In many American
industries. Reimbursement alone for
cargoes unlawfully detained or seised,
it states, does not remedy the evil, as
tho chief difficulty is the moral effect
on American exporters 'Who are re
strained from taking risks or hasards
which in no case ought to surround
legitimate trade between the United
States and other neutral countries.
Will Protect fltisens.
Feeling has been aroused on tl;o
subject to sucli an extent, the com
munication adds, vthat the American
government feels compelled to ask for
definite information as to Great Brit
ain's attitude in order that lt may take
such mlisurea aa would protect
American citizens In their rights.
Put leuce ls Abased.
^Th^!g.^erL^ItB'JLPgmtg-out? y as
Nothing Ak
Mexic
(By A Moeia ted Pro??.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-Dispatch
es trout the Brazilian minister in Mex
ico City dated there early today and
received here tonight described the
political situation os full of uncer
tainties. Tho minister referred to the
luck of harmony between the several
chiefs, hut indicated that nothing
Alarming had developed and that
good order was being preserved.
From its own agents also the sitOe
department was advised Goat friction
?listed between thc Zapata and Gu
tierret-Villa factions, chiefly over Za
pata's desire to execute many former
federal officer*. At present a decree
issued by General Gutierres suspend
ing all e-tecutlons pending a fa?r trfnl
ia ii effect. The GuUerres-ViHn ele
ment holds the officers should be given
" trial and be represented by counsel,
but the Zapatistas are understood to
desire their summary extermination. <
The United States government ls
endeavoring tb obtain a general am
nesty and whllo no promises have
been modo that recognition will fol
low, the Mexican factions understand
that unless a humanitarian couran to
ward their opponents is pur?ood rec
ognition will be withheld. The United
states its? indicated clearly that it
will look with disfavor on continued
, ^ i-utlona and its remonstrance ts
,.' believed to have been largely respon
sible for the Gutierres deevee.
The following summary of dispatch
YARNED \
MED STATES^
ended For AU Members
:e; American Commerce
ed as in the Past, And
Mid's List of Articles De
i Asked For-Other Neu
lopt Measure Taken by
I
patient at first, realizing that hostil
ities lind heaped a mass of burdens on
tho British government and thinking
an early adjustment of thc situation
would come. Five months have elaps
ed, it asserts, with no improvement in
the situation. In thc meantime, Ameri
can ehlppers have availed themselves
of various suggestions from the Brit
ish government, such as shipping car
jgoes to definitely named consignees
in neutral countries and the taking
out of certificates from consuls in this
country which followed promises of
the British foreign office that the al
lied fleets consequently would cease
detentions of these caroges. The situ
ation, however, is described as hav
ing hardly Improved after these con
cessions.
Reference is made in the note to the
high principles of equity which have
actuated Great Britain in her cham
pionship in the past of Ute freedom of
the seas to neutral commerce, and thc
hope !B expressed that even though a
belligerent herself, Bhc will realise
the seriousness to the neutral ot con
tinued interference.
Concerning fontrahnud.
Reserving until Home other date the
discussion of those aUicles which
Great Britain has taken from the gen
erally accepted lists of non-contra
band and placed on the lists of abso
lute and conditional contraband, the
American government declares that
the British fleets have been regard
ing absolute and conditional contra
band as in the same cass, whereas
.international law definer absolute con
traband as consisting of those articles
int ended directly for the use of any
army, and conditional contraband
those articles susceptible of use by
armed forces, but whose destination
must be the determiuing facto? In de
Itentions.
Foodstuffs Not Contraband.
The American .note, mentioning
here that foodstuffs are conditional
contraband since they may be des
tined for the use ot a civil population,
as well as an army, says the United
States ls ia entire agreement with
the doctrine expressed by Lord Salis
bury, British foreign secretary, in his
correspondense with the . Washington
government concerning the shipment
of foodstuffs t otho Transvaal durlug
the Boer war in South Africa. Lord
Salisbury wrote* then:
"Foodstuffs, with a hostile destina
tion, can be considered contraband of
war only If they are supplies for an
onemy's forces. It Is not sufficient
that they ure capable of being so used;
lt ?must he shown that this was . in
fact their destination at the time of
sclsure."
(This is perbsps the most fsrreach
ing declaration of the American note,
since if lt were accepted by Great
Britain. American trade with Oer
maro and Austria, virtually at a
standstill now, would be resumed, at
fettng the prices of wheat, flour, llye
? . ? ? ... i ? i
(CONTINUED OM PAGE FOUR.)
triming in
an Situation
cs from Mexico was issued by the
state department:
. "Latest information received Indi
cates that quiet prevails along the en-?
tire west coast ot Mexico.
"A mall dispatch frau Vera Crus
under dal? of December 13 reports
that roving bauds haye been pillaging
in varinn? nari >f -the state of Vera
"ru/..
"A m?i| dltpatr.l? from Guadalajara,
dated December, 75, states that the
Carranxlsta authorities have made
Ciudad Guzman the capital of the
state of Jaleco. Another dispatch, un
der date or December 17, reports thst
the city cf Guadalajara is quiet and
Iin thc hands of Villa forces.
"The department has been Informed
officially that May lorena has with
drawn hbv forces from tho trenches
heretofore occupied (at'Karo,, burning
bis-shelters. He ls reported to have
gone eight kilometres south.
"Consul . Simpicb reports from No
gales. Arts., that telegraph communi
cation with Hermosillo and Cananea
is interrupted. He also reports heavy
losses in Ute sitae of Sonora to rail
? ways and other property by floods.
I "Consul Canada at Vera Cms tele
graphs under dato of December 26
that Carranza*? foreign office claims
to ha\?e no knowledge of the reported
arrest at Vera Cms of Doctor Villa
j real, of the Mexican Red Cross. Tbs
j consul adds that Dr. Villa real's pres*
f-ant whereabouts ere unknown."
COLDER WEATHER
IS PREDICTED
Another Blizzard k Scheduled to
Hit the Sooth
Shortly.
fBv Amoctnl?^l PrraO
WASHINGTON. Doc. U8.-A flare
bock from tho cold wavf.< that passed
today was sweelng southward tonight
through Illinois, tho Great Lakes
temperature? down along the coast by
States and the Ohio Valley to the At
lantic coast- lt IR expected to drive
Wednesday.
Forecasters at ibo weather bureau
said the latest disturbance was at
tended by Increased cloudiness af
fecting tho middle western States
from the border to the South Atlantic
and Gulf States and was causing ma
terial reductions in temperatures
throughtout those sections.
Preceding the arrival of the cold
weather was predicted that tempera
tures would rlBe tomorrow throughout
the Atlantic States."
Storm warnings were ordered dis
played on the Oulf coast from Galves
ton to Pensacola.
THAW WILL STAY
LONG AS POSSIBLE
Harry Seems to Like the Climate
or Something in New
Hampshire.
MANCHESTER, N. H..'Dec. 28.
'Harry K. Thaw Intends to-remain in
New Hampshire, as long aa possible,
his secretary said tonight. The state
ment answered a question as to what
steps Thaw was contemplating in view
of the recent supreme court decision
that he auould be turned over to thc
, New York authorities to answer an
indictment charging conspiracy to
escape from Mat tea wan.
How much longer the fugitive's
stay here might be, the secretary de
clined to estimate. There have been
.. o developments, ho added, and none
of Thaw's leading counsel is expect
ed to visit him for the present.
Thaw's motlier, who has been spend
lng the Christmas holidays with him
left today for Pittsburgh.
LONDON EXPECTS
GERMAN ZEPPELINS
Populace ls Warned to Stay
Under Shelter For
Safety.
(By Aworiatwl Preta.)
LONDON, Dec. 28.-(7T65: p. m.)
The British official press bureau this
evening made the f?llowing announce
ment :
"The unirai and military authorities
call the attention of persons using the
streets-to, the danger from fragments
of shelis and from bullets used in the
guns against hostile aircraft attempt
ing a raid on London.
"The civil population are warned to
?keep under cover, preferably iii base
ments, upo h hearing the sound of fir
j lng by guns or of explosives."
^RESIDENT WILSON
IS CONGRATULATED
?
Head -f Nat??; Quietly
His Fifty-Eighth
Birthday.
' (Br AmoclaUd rnsii.)
WASHINGTON. Dec. 28.-Presiden
Wilson tonight began receiving mes
sages from foreign rulers congratu
atllDg him on his 58th birthday anni
versary. The first to arrive were
i rom King George, of Great Britain,
and President Estrada Cabrera, ot
Guatemala.
Led by Secretary Bryan, the presi
dent's cabinet called at the White
House during the evening. Because
of the cancellation of all state din
ners and receptions after Mr.*. Wil
son's death, this gathering was the
nearest approach .to a soc'ni affair
held in the White House for many
months.
?Among the message? received were
several from parents of children cam
ed for the president because their
birth anniversaries were the same as
his. Mr. Wilson usually answers such
messages personally.
DECISION PF FE REED
Plan to Organise Cotton .Exchange
Clearing Hesse Net Definitely
DecMed ea.
_ (HT AsaustatooV PTMH.)
NEW YORK. Dec 23.-Final decis
ion on the plan to organise a cotton
exchange clearing house in this city
wr-0 deferred at a meeting today of
members of the New York cotton ex
change, although most of the members
present favored the proposal.
Acctor- mil not be taken until all
members are given an opportunity to
express their rftws cn the Question.
CONSULS MUST BE ACCEPTA
BLE TO GERMANY
IS IMPERSONAL
Similar Request* Have Been Sent
to Other Neutral Na
tions.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-Germany
lias notiflcd thc American stato de
partment that American consuls in
Belgium must be acceptable to the
German military authorities, it was
learned today. The notification also
said lt was desirable that some of the
American consuls in Belgium be with
drawn for the present, at least.
Secretary Bryan declined to make
public the text of the German com
munication or to comment upon it un
til he had full opportunity to consul- I
er lt. The understanding in official ?
circles, however, ia that the notice 1B
similar to the one sent Argentina and
other neutral countries, and that,
while the German .., vernment does
not insist that co. als in ' Belgium
take out new- exequntors from Ger
man officials, it announces that auch
c?nsul? must exercise their 1 unction.--'
only hy permission from the military j
authorities in control of the territory ;
In which the consulate is situated.
The United States haa consular rep
resentatives only in Brussels. Ant-1
werp, Liege and Ghent, end since thc
war began they have had little work
of the ordinary character to do. Their
activities have been devoted largely to
looking after retugees and aiding in
relief work.
* Military Laws.
The request for the withdrawal of
certain consuls is said to be entirely
Impersonal, and to be based upon Gie
law of military necessity which rec
ognizes Gie right of a military officer
in command of occupied territory to
dictate absolutely the amount and ex
tent ot civil business jsnd the manner
In which it shall be conducVd In that
territory.
The disposition of Ute d?partaient
apparently ls to recognize the right
of Gie authorities of a captured terri
tory to prescribe st least temporary
conditions under which consuls shall
discharge their duties, and it is con
tended this can be done without In
any way committing the United States
to a political recognition of the right
of the military occupant of a territory
to Its possession.
Regarding Ute withdrawal of con
suls from certain points, under color
of military necessity, it is said that
there need he no actual interruption
of commerce in consequence, because
under American consular regulations
- 1 nthe absence ot a consul two repu
table merchants may render an accep
table certificate to an invoice of goods.
Jap's FoUew Hutt.
The Japanese government already
baa intimated Ita objection to the
presence of foreign consuls In the
territory of Kiao-Chow. recently cap
tured from the Germans Several ap
plications have come to the atate de
partment from mercantile interests
urging the return of American Consul
Peck to Tstcg-Tau, but ir the .facirof
Japanese opposition and in the knowl
edge of Gio tau that Ute order of ex
clusion runs against consuls of all na
tions alike, the state department haa
not felt called upon to force an Issue
by ordering the return of Mr Peck.to
hui post.
M. Havenlth, the Belgian minister,
-ailed at the atate department today
..ter the German notice had been re
ceived. Later hd issued this rtate
men t:
"The Belgian minister has been in
"(CONTINUED ON PAGE MX.)
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o MORE PARDONS o
o - o
o (By Associated Press.) o
o COLUMBIA, Dec. 28.-Fort;.-- o
o four state prteooers, including ttai o
o serving ???c sentences for murder, o
o were granted clemency today, by o
o Governor Bisase, making the t.Msl o
o number liberated by bun in .o?* o
o last four years, 1,488. One the o
o life-terra prisoners wea pardoned o
o and the other nine paroled, Twen- o
o ty-tkree ot the prisoners in all o
o .were serving sentences for h omi- o
o cides. o
o One of the paroled men, Charles o
o O'Day, alias Charley Cross, waa o
o released on condition that he be o
o rearrested by federal officers on o
o the charge of robbing tbe Gordon- o
o ville, Va. postoffice several yeera.o
o sgo. O'Day waa arraigned before o
o a United States commissioner late o
o today aad held for a preliminary o
o hearing, o
o O'Day waa serving a sentence o
o for 15 years gor robbery. He waa o
o convicted in 1908, together with o
o John Fisher, who escaped from o
o the State penitentiary here a year o
o ago. o
O
OFFICIAL ACCUSED
OF SERIOUS CRIME
Hide* IMiind Authority of Omeo
He Holds ."ts Foreifh Repre
sentative.
(By Araoriated Pres?.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 28.-Forn
nndo Somoza Vi vu?, consul Reneral
here of Honduras, was arrested today
ou a charge of arson. He lind boen
under police surveillance since last,
night when firemen aro ?aid fo havo
lound thnt his burning bouse bad been
liberally sprinkled with oil and fur- <
pentlne. . |
Sureau drawers in tho bed room
were found filled with paper saturated
in oil; carpets had been sprinkled
with inflammables; holes had Peen
cut (brough tho ceilings of closets for
flues, and streamers tied from the
rafters to guide the Humes, R is al
leged.
Vivas was found partially clad on
the sidewalk shortly after the firemen
arrived. At police headquarters ho
asserted his consular position as tho
j representative, of a foreign nation
made him immune from prosecution.
EVERYTHING QUIET
I IN PHILLIPINES
Officials Take the View, That
"No News" Is "Good
News."
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-With no
additional advices from thc Phillip
ines, war department officiais tonigLi.
expressed the opinion that the recent
disturbances there, which they decline
to call an uprising, was a closed In
cident, fully explatned In the report
cabled yesterday by Governor-General
Harrison.
One official said the report did not
I disclose more serious disorders than
mlgfrt ?re found iu any city the sise
?of Manila In this country.
Emphasis also was laid t. thc fact
[that propaganda leading to the trouble
1 was fathered by the exiled Rieur te end
j equally irresponsible leaders in the
islands.
ENTIRE FAMILY IS
BURNED IN HO
Husband, Wife and Three
ron of Retired Capitalist
Meet Awful Death.
WINTERHAVEN, Fis.. Dec. 28.
Harry Alvey. a retired capitalist of
Baltimore, Md., his wife, and three
children lost their lives when their
winter home near here was burned
early today. The charred bodies ot the
victims were found together la tbs
ruins of what had been the child?
ren's room. The origin of the Aro baa
not been determined!
I FREDERICK, Md.. Dec. 28.-Airey
was the son of former Chief Judge
Richard H. Alvey. of the Maryland
court of appeals. Mrs. Alvey. before
her msrrlage, was Miss Bertha Key
ser, well known in-Baltimore society.
The Aireys went to Florida to live
about three years ago.
METROPOLITON CO.
CHANGES METHODS
i By Vote of Policy Holder* ; COCK
trol of Company Chantes
(By Amooialcd Pratt.)
NEW YORK. Dec, 28.-Mutual!ca
tion of the Metropolitan Ufe Insur
ance Company was endorsed by pol
ey hoi de TB here today. Only about ti
600 voted against the plan, while C."..
000 gave their approval. Most of the
votes were by proxy.
Mutualizntlon already had been ap
provll by stockholders and directors.
If the State superintendent of Insur
ance approves the proposal, control
of the company will pass Into the
hsnds of the policyholders, who will
1 elect a board of directors.
COMMITTED SI'ICIDE.
I nnjp's Captain Smmv? O Vr?b??ru Ai
Is Lest.
I KEY WEST, Fla., Dec. 28-The
I British steamship Cragoswald, bound
from Hull, England, for New Orleans,
reported to Ssndy Key this afternoon
that the ship's captain jumped over
i board early today and was drowned.
I The captain's name waa not given.
The British vice cousu! here bas been
i notified of the Incident.
Shaw-Kay,
.'?is* Leola Shaw and Mr. Ernest
Cleveland Kay were married Su?.Jay
b? the P.av. H. C. Msrtin at the minis
te:'? residence. Th?* groom is an em
ployee ef th? Sullivan Hardware Com
pany's branch store st BcUon. The
bride waa a resident ot the Union
vjrove section, and well known and
popular tn the community ,
LEO M. FRAN!
CHANCEE
Justice Lamar of the Sur.
peal in the Case of I
With the Murder pf 1
teen Year Old Factor
For Which He Is Uni
Technicalities May M<
The Condemned Man
WASHINGTON, Dec.. 28.- Justice
llamar, of tho United Stale? supr?me
court, today granted an appeal for the
refusal of the federal district court
for northern Georgia to release on
I -ibeas corpus proceedings Leo M.
Frank under death sentence for thu
murder of Many Phagan, at Atlanta.
Frank has been sentenced to be
hanged January 22, but Justice La
mar's action causes a stay of execu
tion. Thirty days are given for the
record of the proceedings in the lower
court to bo filed in the supreme court
here. The State of Georgia then may
usk that the hearing ot the case be
advanced. Some suggestions general
ly are granted.
' AB a result of Justice Lantara ac
tion today the entire court will pass
upon Frank's right to seek release
from custody ou a writ of habeas cor
pus on thc ground that the trial court
in Fulton county, Georgia, loot Juris
diction over him by its failure to have
him present when the Jury returned
Its verdict. fl
Should the supreme court decide
Frank waa not entitled to the benefit
of the habeas corpus writ, the State
of Georgia would no longer be 'jarred
from carrying out the death sentence, j
If the court decides he whs entitled
to ask tor the writ, the case probably '
would be remanded to the district
court for the taking ot evidence on
the petition praying for the writ.
May Mega Freeness.
Should Gie supreme court eventu
ally decide that Frank must be releas
ed from custody, lt was said, a further
question, about which there is uncer
tainty, would arise aa to the power ot
the State to indict and try him a
second Ume. It ts said authorities dif
fer as to whether the first trial would
be regarded as havlug placed Frank
in "jeopardy."
This was Gie second time Frank'a
fate bas rested in Justice Lamar's
hands. After the Georgia supreme
court had decided to set aside the ver
dict of conviction, Justice Lamar waa
asked to issue a writ of error for the
supreme court to review Gie case. Ho
declined on the ground that no feder
al question waa presented, inasmuch
as questions of procedure were for the
8tates to decide. Justice Holmes, and
eventually the entire court, pursued
ino same "course.
Reason for Refusal.
Application was then made In the.
Georgia federal court for Frank'a re
lease on a writ of habeas corpus.
Judge Newman held Frank was not
entitled to the writ and refused to
grant an appeal to the supreme court
because be was unwilling to Issue a
certificate of ''probable cause" as re
quired tn such appeals by a federal
statute of 1008.
Justice Lamar, waa Chen asked td
grant the appeal and isi'ue the certi
ficate. He found that several questions
of federal law, unsettled by the su
8reme court, exlBlted in fie case, and
euee gave It the "prenable cause"
for the appeal. These were whether
On the Firi
I In Bati
J (By Awocteted Proa.)
1 LONDON, Dec. 28.-(Il p. m.)-The
hattie lines in the cast and west have
undergone few changes In the past
day. French and German reports
agree that the Germans have captur
ed a section of tranches near Holle
beke, South of Ypres. The French as
sart that the Germans gave up trench
es on the first line, te thc extent of 1
shout SOC or SOO yu rd H in the Lens re
gion, farther cast, while unsuccessful
d?monstrations have been made from
both'aides at various points along the
extended lines.
The reports, of Gie numbers of
1 wounded both armies are sending
back from Ute line? In Belgium appear
to show that the fighting on Christmas
In that country waa tue fiercest of the
past month. Correspondent? in the
rear say the Belgians, as a result of
five days sapping, captured nearly
3,000 Germans with only small loases
te themselves. -
According to Russian repc/te, Ger
man attempts to captare Warsaw have
failed, while the Berlin official state
ment saya there is general confidence
that th? German and Auatro-Hungar
l&n forcea are making progress along
Ute greet front
{French newspapers are enthusiastic
ever the raid by British cruisers and
seaplanes on Cuxhaven. They eba sid
[ IS GIVEN
OR FREEDOM
treme Bench Grants Ap
-eo M. Frank, Charged
vi ar y Phagan the Four?
y Girl in April of 1913.
1er Sentence of Death,
san Ultimate Freedom of
the '.Moral conniitutlon requires aa
accused to be present when a verdict
lu returned against bim In a State
court; the effect of the accused not
ralBing the point of hts absence on
a motion for a n?ik trial, and the ef
fect of the suprme court's own action
in refusing to grant the writ of ar* ,
ror In a case.where an alleged Juris
dictional question was presented in a
motion filed at a tune not authorised
by the practice ot the State where the ?
trial took place.
Why Writ rta? Denied.
Justice La niara complete statement
in explanation of bia course -in grant
ing the appeal follows:
"Leo Frank's recent application for
a writ of error was denied by ma on
the ground that no federal question
was involved in the ruling of the su
preme court of Georgia that his mo
tion to set aside the verdict flndink
him guilty of mudrer had been flied
too late. This petition presents a whol
ly different question since it ia an ap
plication of an appeal from the Judg
ment of a federal court on a record
which presents a purely federal ques
tion, irrespective of regulations gov
erning State practice.
Many Allegations Made.
"Frank's petition for the writ of
haheau corpus, addressed to the Judge ,
of Gie United States district court for
the northern district of Georgia, al
leges that on his trial for murder ta
the superior court of Fulton county,
Georgk-, public feeling against him
was BO great that the presiding Judge
advised his counsel not to have hun
present in the court room when the
verdict was retuned, and that his
involuntary absence, under such ctr
cumstancea, when the verdict waa re
turned, deprived him of a hearing to
which he waa entitled under Ute con
stitution and rendered his convlcGon
void. He avers that bia motion for a
new trial waa overruled are he Utan
moved to set aside the veixVt aa be
ing void for want ot jurisdiction; that
in passing on* that motion the State
supreme court held that while he had
the constitutional-right to be present
when Gie verdict against him eras re
turned into the court, *yot such ver
dict could not be Attacked, by f mo
tion to set aside, after Gie expiration
of tho trial term and after his motion
for a new trial had been finally re*
fused. He alleges that his attempt to
have that judgment reviewed ta tba
supreme court of the United States
failed because, though a federal ques
tion waa raiaed In the record, the de
cision of the supreme court ot Geor
gia was based on s matter of State
practice.
"He therefore flied this petition for
a writ of habeas corpus in which ha
dalma that Ute right tb bs present
at the rendition ft the verdict was
jurisdictional and that on habeas cor
pus he is enUtled to a hearing oe tito
question aa to whether hs had waived
or could waive bia constitutional right
_(ConUnued on Pago Fonr^^
ng Line
liing Europe
i ......ii .
I ar Improbable the German statement
? that, although ships at Cuxhaven ajad
! the gas works were hit by bombs, no
i damage was done.
Some writers argea that lt Cux
1 haven cap thus be attacked, war not
! Helgoland, Wilhelmshaven and even
theKlel Canal?
- Tu? uii??" ???J9S?rt th$ l?T?i?m*
ditton sustained waa Gie toes of sev
eral hydroplanes, while Pissuasilflel
Hewlett waa the only person who lost
his life.
The British people are losing what
ever fear of the zeppelins v?J5T held,
perhaps prematurely, but the exploita
of the airmen on the continent and the
i scouting trip of th? German fleer over
Kent on Christmas show there le a
strong possibility that Gie tenbee may
repeat over London the vtett with
bomba which they paid otter Parte ansi
Warsaw. *>
The intboriUes taned a warning to
night ot the danger te people Ul the
streets from gass which may be need
In London against hostile aircraft and
adviacd the people to take refuge tn
basements If they heard tho sound ot
explosives or guns.
i V A heavy windstorm with rath and
snow swept over parts of, England
and adjacent waters t-?night, and there
probably is suffering for the sailors
on doty on Ute smaller craft off Ute
coasts.
