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TENANT Need not be hard if you muko uso FINDING THE TIMES-DISPATCH GET YOUR C'nll to-day for ?. ?- replies to your ANSWERS Sum,ay Wftnt A<ls. THE TIMES-DISPATCH 64th YEAR NUMBER 19,943. RICHMOND, VA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1914. ?TEN PAGES \VK V' TODAY ?FAIR PRICE 2 CENTS. MEXICAN FACTIONS FIX NEUTRAL ZONE J Agree on Plan to Prevent Fur ther Firing Into Ameri can Territory. PROPOSED BY GENERAL SCOTT Hill Will Abandon Naco, and Maytorena Promises Not to Occupy Town. WASHINGTON, December 27.?Sec retary Bryan received word unof ficially to-night that all Mexican fac tions had agreed to ihe plan proposed by General Scott. United States chief of staff, to prevent further firing Into American territory along the border. Knrlque C. Llorente, Washington ngent of the Gutierrez government, of which General Maytorona, at Naco, Is a supporter, was advised that the lat ter had accepted General Scott's plan. Tt pr.ovldes that General Hill, of the Oarranza farces, abandon N'aco and be permitted to i?o unmolested to Agua Prleta; already held by a portion of his troops. General Maytorena, who has withdrawn his forces, would asree not to occupy Naco, which would be come neutral. As Maytorena already holds Nogale*. a port of entry, he is said to believe the arrangement was neither to his advantage nor detriment. From Hill's viewpoint, the continued possession of Naco was said to be of little value bo cause the Maytorena forces besieging it prevented further transportation of supplies southward Fighting at Agua Prleta or at No gales would not be close enough to the American towns to produce the same situation as had existed for several months' at Naco, where stray bullets constantly fell on American soil. HARMO.W I1KTWEK.V <;i Tii:nnK/, and chirks The State Department had no ad vices to-day from Mexico City, but Mr. Morente said Villa had wired him that harmony prevailed between Gutierrez, and all his chiefs. Llorente thought the statement issued by Gutierrez's sec retary last night, charging Villa with disobedience, was due to a mlsunder Htanditig which could have hnd no se rious results. Villa agents here announce'] to-night that the green book, the latest diplo matic paper dealing with the Mexican revolution, would be issued this week. Jt was said Villa would explain in the publication why he is opposing Car ranza, and would make public certain hitherto secret documents designed to prove that had Carranza been made President he would have repudiated his pledges to the people and ruled the country as a dictator. VIL.I.A WANTS ITURBIDE y ... v. UKTi n.XKD TO CAPITAIj MEXICO CITY, December 2-4 (via El Paso. December 27; delayed).?General Villa to-night telegraphed ofllclals ut Chlhuuhua to remove Eduardo Iturblde from a northbound train and return him a prisoner to Mexico City. Iturblde acted as governor o i the Federal district for a short time after the Carranza forces evacuated. Upon the entrance of Zapata he went Into | hiding- H wan said he was concealed in a foreign legation until two days ago. when he was amuKKled into a sleeping car and started for 121 Paso. AVhen this became known. Villu Is said to have declared: j "A foreigner, an American named I.eon Conovn, who claims to be a rep resentative of Secretary Bryan, smuggled Iturblde into a car and at tempted to get h!tn across tiie Ameri can border. Conova had no "right to do this, and haH meddled unwarranted ly in Mexican affairs. Iturblde must be brought back to Mexico City ami starui trial for the offenses with which lie Is charged." Zapata officials claim to have evi dence that Iturblde forceil employes of lifj plantation to join lluerta's army during the recent revolution, and have asked for his execution as a traitor. Villa and Gutierrez, In a conference by wire to-day with Zapata, who was at Cuernavaca, decided to dismiss all former Federal otlleers Irom the pres ent armies. A dispatch from Mexico City, under date of December 2fi, said that Gutier rez, as a result of the order to arrest Iturblde. had Issued a circular ordering all generals to cease summary execu tions for whatever offense. In an In terview, Gutierrez's secretary said. "Only yesterday an order of the Presi dent concerning the safe conduct of Iturblde was ignored by a commanding general, who Insisted upon the rearrest of Iturblde. and who severely criti cized Leon Coj>ova. a representative of the American State Department, who waB accompanying Iturblde to the American border." Conova, who has been in Mexico as j a special agent of the ,State Depart ment for several months, arrived at K1 Paso last night. He said, so far as he knew, Iturblde wns still in Mexico City. Urgent representations were made to Gutierrez In behalf of Iturblde by Secretary Bryan, and it had been sup posed at Washington that he would he permitted to leave Mexico unmolested. 8KCIIKT SMHVICK MEN" THAII< I,EO.\ COXOVA Klv PASO, TEXAS, December 26.? Mexican secret service men trailed Leon Conova, representative of the American Slate Department, on a northbound train from the Mexican capital, It was asserted from authorita tive sources hero to-day, in the belief that Eduardo Iturblde was concealed In Conova's stateroom. At Aguascallentes. Conovn refused to permit search of his compartment. At Torreon, a company of troops boarded the train with a second request for Admission. Conova called upon the ^?inductor to telegraph a protest to fPllla, the troops meanwhile deferring action. At Chihuahua City, the train was delayed overnight by what was said' to be a wrecked car. Conova was asked to remove his luggage to a day coach. As he removed the last bag a number o'f State oiiicials and secret service men arc said to havo pounced into his stateroom. It was empty. I'HIIMAMCNT ARRANGEMENTS FOR SAFETY MOT MADK NACO, ARIZ., December 27.?Briga dier-General Hugh li. Scott, chief of staff of the United States Army, ar ranged to-day for safe conduct through the lines of General Benjamin Hill, de fending Naco, to the new camp of Gov ernor Maytorena, ten miles to the south. Hill's troops command the roads leading to t|ie camp of the former be sltigers of Naco. BRINGS RELICS FROM EUROPE 7 Mine. Thomson Will IMace Hocbamhrnu nnd Lnfa)'ct(t Collection In Snfflj-. I Special to The Tlmes-Dlspatch.] I NBW YORK, December 27.?The! i French liner Chicago arrived to-day I from Havre three days overdue/, after | having encountered heavy southwest i and northwesterly gales, snow and hall squalls. ?Among her ninety-three passengers whs Mine. L. 13. Thomson, who Is bring- j Ing over a collection of relics of Koch ambeau and Lafayetto to deposit In the Congressional Library at Wash ington until the termination of the war. Mine. Thomson said she had been col lecting the relics for twenty years, and that recently they had been on exhibi tion In l'arls. In the steerage were nineteen French reservists who had been discharged from tho army as a result of thelf wounds. They, one and all, declared j that the life In the trenches was too I horrible to describe. Lieutenant F. W. Hunnycutt, of the i Third Artillery, and Lieutenant F. A. Donlat, United States Army, two mili tary attaches to the American embassy ; In Farls, were also on board. j ARCHBISHOP UlORDAN DEAD ' lleod of Iloman Catholic See of X*n Frnurlncn Passe* Away. SAN FRANCISCO, December 27.? Most Reverend 1'atrlck Wllllafn Rlor dan. Archbishop of the Uiocese of San Francisco, Catholic Church, died at 4 ; o'clock this morning. Archbishop Klor I dan contracted a severe cold live days ; ago. which developed into pneumonia. 1 Archbishop Klordan was the seconfl Archbishop of San Francisco. He was born in August, 1841, at Chatham. New Brunswick, and Spent his boyhood at ; Chicago. He wns educated at the Uni versity of Notre Dame, Ind., and the : University of Louvain, Belgium. He j mine to Chicago In 1S6C to till the chulr of theology in the Seminary of St. : Mary's of the Lake, and later he held I pastorates in several Illinois cities. In ! 1S83 he was consecrated titular Bishop of Cabesa and coadjutor with the right of succession to the See of San Fran i cIbco, to which he was elevatod on De i cernber 28, 1884. ! COL. ARTHUR M'ARTHUR DEAD W'fiM (irnDiI Maatrr of (irand Encamp- < inrnt, KnlKhtN Templar of I'. S. THOY, N. V., December 27.?Colonel | 1 Arthur McArlhur. grand maBter of the | grand encampment. Knights Templar of , the United Ktates. died suddenly of J apoplexy to-day at his home here. He , was sixty-four years old Colonel McArthur was editor and , proprietor of the Troy Northern Hud- | got, and was widely known as a news- i ! paper man. He was a prominent Re publican. Governor Morton appointed | him to this military staff, and he was retained In that capacity by Governor | Black. Colonel McArthur had been promi nently IdcntlUcd with Masonry for I many years. He was elected grand 1 maptcr of the grand encampment at | Denver, Col., In 1913. He had been a Mason since lb72. GREAT CHANGE AT SING SING SfiT "Welfare Syatem Shorn Remark able Itenalta. NEW, YORK. December 27.?The new welfare system introduced In Sing King Prison already Is showing: remarkable results, Warden Thomas Mott Osborne told members of the West Hide Y. M. 1 O. A. to-day. Given better accommo I datlons and more liberty In the con duct of prison affairs, the convicts. Mr. Osborne said, have shown their ap- j preclatlon by better conduct and evl- \ dences of a keen desire to lead better ? i lives. "There has been such a wave of i righteousness that it is sweeping me j and others off our fee t/" said the speaker, who added, "that instead ??f crowds lockvd up in cells awaiting punishment in the limited number of dark cells, there has not been one case <?f punishment since December 1." COLD WAVE IS BROKEN (irnrrally Ittnlapc 'IVmprraturrit Pre dicted for Next Ffw Day*. WASHINGTON. December 27.?Win ter's record-breaking cold wave, which bad covered most of the country from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Coast, was broken to-night, and gen erally rising temperatures were pre dicted for the next few days. Forecasters at the Weather Bureau said the temperatures already wore moderating everywhere east of the Rockies and north of the Mason and Dixon line. In the Southern States, it was said, temperatures would be raised to normal seasonal averages by to morrow. ] Northfleld, Vt.. was the coldest city in the Eastern United States to-day. ! The temperature there was 26 degrees j below zero. ACTOR MEETS DEATH FoIIm From Chair In Ilia Home and ! Fractures Skull. [Special to The Times-Dispatch.] : NEW YORK, December 27.?Richard- | sen Dickinson, an actor in the cast of j "Watch Your Step," playing at the New Amsterdam Theatre, mot a tragic death at an early hour this morning, follow ing a ?iulet after-thentre party. Seated In a chair at his homo, conversing with Mrs. Dickinson and Charles Kelly, an other actor in the same company, who had been his companions at supper, Mr. Dickinson suddenly was attacked with a fainting spell. He fell forward out of his chair and struck on his head with such violence as to fracture his skull, i He died two hours later without hav ing regained consciousness. LET THE BACHELORS PAY AMrinblymnn Would Tax Them for Blesslnga of Freedom. [Speclnl to The Times-Dispatch.] JERSEY CITY', N. J., December 27.? Two will bo able to live cheaper than one In New Jersey, if Assemblyman elect Charles W. Ostron, of Jersey City, gets his wish. Mr. Ostron has an nounced that at the coming session of the legislature he will Introduce a bill for the taxation of bachelors. He thinks men who dodge the.responsibilities of matrimony should be forced to pay from $50 a head up, as an annual tax. TWO STEAMERS HIT MINES One Foundera nnd Two Member* of Crew Are Drowned. SCARBOROUGH, ENG. (via l.ondpn). December 27 (11:40 P. M.).?The Dutch steamer Leorsum. from Amsterdam, and the British steamer Galller, from Lon don, struck mlnos In the North Sea to day. The T^eersum foundered and two | members of her crew were drowned. The Galllor succeeded In reaching port. BECK DISCUSSES I SALE OE CURRENT Says Careful Study Should Be Given Plan to Enter Com mercial Field. WATER RIGHTS ARE LIMITED Engineer Member of Administra j tive Board Points Out Some Difficulties. "Sellinn electric light and power for genernl commercial purposes) from the municipal plant is much more compli cated than it sounds." Raid Henry P. Heck, of the Administrative Hoard, lasst night. "It means, a? a preliminary, an exhaustive study of local conditions, with a view of ascertaining the prob able demand and the location of that demand, complete estimates on the cost | of bringing the current to tls?* consum er's meter, ami a farefui Inquiry into [ the benefits and liabilities that would | accrue to the city ait the result of en gaging in this business. "There is nothinjr impracticable about the plan. Although I know of no city ?at least, r.i> prominent city?that operates a municipal eb-ctric plant and supplies current for commercial pur | poses, I s<*e no good reason why the I city couldn't operntc such a plant pro fitably Just as it does the <Jas \V'?rka and Water Works, which, In cities | without number, are owned by private I corporations. SIlOt M) 1II-: (ilVBN l,OMi AM) C'AIt KKl.'I, STl'DY i "Nevertheless, the proposition is fai too important for settlement without ; long and careful inquiry. To begin with. the city will for some time to j come have its hands full extending th>; street lighting service to the new ter ritory. In most of the suburbs the streets are lighted by contract. I be lieve that the city can. at two or three months' notice, abrogate these con tracts and take over the lighting func tion itself, although 1 am not certain about that. At any rate, these suburbs will eventually be served from the municipal electric plant. Hefore this is accomplished there will have to be con siderable extension and rearrangement. "There is another consideration. There Is not a sufficient amount of dependable water pov.-er available at the electric plant's present site to | permit of any material extensions with out the use of steam. I take It that the city cannot go into the general ! business of selling light and power to consumers without erecting a steam j plant to supplement the water power. The water power cannot be materially | Increased without a raising of the darn. I A raising of the dam would be an ex pensive thing, to begin with, and would involve the rights now.enjoyed by Helle j Isle." V;. POWER COMPANY, offers CFRRENT RBLOW CITY'S PKICI:: "Could the city, using- steam and water power, produce current as cheap ly as the Virginia Railway and Power Company?" Mr. Deck was asked. "That Is a question which is very hard to answer." he replied. "The power company. I believe, claims even now that It can sell the city current for street lighting purposes for less than it costs the city to produce it. They produce figures to back up their statements. This is true, how ever: it costs relatively less to operate j a large plant than a small one. The i municipal plant, with its limited out- I let, has a fixed overhead charge which 1 has to be met, no matter how small the amount of current that Is supplied. The same overhead expense or at least an overhead expense that would be only slightly increased, would take care of a greatly increased uulput. "The water power rights and electric plant site owned by the city have been valued at more than $200,000. The | plant and equipment, of course, add to this amount considerably. It would be the part of economy, therefore, with an Investment as valuable as this, to make as large a use of it as possible, since ? the greater the output of the plant the ! less will be the per kilowatt cost of production. "These and other considerations need the fullest investigation. I don't think it will be possible for Mr. Traf ford to go Into the matter fully and submit a report that will be at all adequate under several months. The matter cannot be too fully Investigated. WOII.I) MUNICIPAL PLANT SKRVE ENTIRE CITYf "One problem that occurs to me in this connection is the extent to which the city would be obliged to furnish electricity to citizens as a matter of right. In undertaking the business of a. public service corporation, the city, I take it, would have to assume also Its liabilities. "Suppose the city actually goes into the competitive light anil pow^ busi ness. Will It have a free field to take the cream of the business in the con gested and manufacturing districts without any obligation to extend the service to outlying portions of the city, j where the return on the Investment is much smaller? Would it not have to follow a regular policy of laying its conduits as faHt as new territory Is opened up in the same manner as gas and water pipes? "There is also the big question of adjusting conduit and street rights as between the present light and power company and the city. It is nat urally to he supposed that the city would use mnny of the conduits laid by the company, since it would be im practicable to reopen paved streets In the business section for the purpose of laying an entirely Independent system of conduits. The basts of settlement for such joint use of conduits and streets would be one of the important problems." THIS IS WILSON'S BIRTHDAY Rnnghters Plan SnrprlMe for Illm in Shnpe of Family (iift. (Special to The Tlmes-l)lspatoh.] WASHINGTON, December 27.?Presi dent Wilson will celebrate his fifty eighth birthday to-morrow in the White House by taking a holiday off frpm work. His daughters havo planned a surprise for him In the shape of a family gift. This Is the first birth day the President hns passed In the White House, the preceding one having been spent en route to Pass? Christian, Miss., whore he spent the Christmas holidays with his family. ? v The President was born at Staunton, Vn* on December 28, 1SB6. The house in which this event occurred 1b still standing. Shortly after he was elected he paid a visit there, and was received with great acclaim by the townspeople. FORGING PLAN! DAMAGED BY FIRE Hammer Shop, Where Automo bile Frames Were Made, Burned to Ground. I 100 THROWN OUT OF WORK i Loss Fully Covered by Insur ance?Will Rebuild at Once, Says President Bryan. Kire early last nirlit ilMtroyeil the hammer shop of the Richmond Korg- I lug Corporation, at Area, doing dam-I nge estimated at at>out $10,000. and ! temporarily throwing more than 100 ' men out of employment. It In thoughtj j that tho conflagration was started by ! the explosion of a compressed air tank in the engine room, which a<l- j Joins the hammer shop; but repre- ' ?sentatlves of the corporation said last I night that they had been unable to con j firm this. The entire building burnt 1 practically to the ground, leaving the large steel hammers rising like a herd ol prehistoric monsters from the de j bris. It Is said that tho loss is fully ; covered by Insurance, and that the work of rebuilding witll be begun at j once. j iii.akk is niM ovi:in;i> IIY MfillT WATCHMAN 1 The blaze was discovered shortly be- j i fore 7 o'clock by Night Watchman Ar brnugh, and just before the last of a gang of repair men, who had been j i working at the plant during the day. i had left the premises. Arbraugh. with i the assistance of several of these men. | succeeded in connecting the plant's lire! | apparatus and in getting two streams j mi the blaze. However, it was learned i that the fire had spread from the en jglno room to the rafters and frame , work of the hammer shop before the j tire was discovered, and these burst ] j into a sheet of flame almost slmul 1 taneously with the turning on of the ? water. The workmen realized that they had 1 to deal with a conflagration of no ] small proportions, and at once tele- j phoned the Richmond Fire Department, I and the engine house at Ginter Park, : asking for assistance. Jonathan Bryan, ' president of the corporation; \V. It.! Williams, vlce-iiresidcnt, and O. I*. Red- J ford, secretary, were also notified, and! each hurried to the plant. Both the Ginter I'ark apparatus and j So. 10 engine company, from Ijom- J bardy and Broad Streets, were dis- j patched to the fire, but the heavy ; roads made rapid progress Impossible. j The Ginter Park motor engine stalled 1 in the road and was unable to pro ceed, but the horse-drawn Richmond ; engine, after more than an hour's toil I through the snow, managed to arrive with its horses and men in a state of collapse. By thut time the .worst of the Are was over. " .. / . .... . . ?The "heavy rafters and frame. work of the building was all that could j burn, and th??lr destruction was steady, but not spectacular. The flames crept along them and from one to the other with a persistency that made the ef forts of the two water streams of little ; avail. As they weakened, the heavy sheet steel used as walls for the build ing made its pressure felt, and grad- ; ually the roof sagged until it caved i in. Soon after the wall frames gave j way. and th<? walls, except in a few places, fell Into the building. With the collapse of the frames and the ' rafters, the heavy shafts and belts I as well as the steam pipes which car ried power to several of the mammoth i hammers .fell also. The wood within j the mass then smoldered for several . hours before it finally died out. MAKICS PARTS FOR MAW AL'TOMOltlMC FACTO It IKS | The Richmond Forging Corporation j Is one of the largest plants of Its kind | near Richmond. This corporation I makes a business of forging machinery j of various kinds, but especially parts ! of automobiles for large manufactur- : Ing concerns located in different sec- I tions of the country. The plant Is a I large one. Besides the hammer shop ] and power plant, which adjoins it, and j which was destroyed last night, the I plant consists of the shipping room, I ofhee, the machine shops, the "shear ing" shop, trimming room, laboratory and oil rooms, where 30,000 gallons of fuel oil are kept. The plant is located on the Boulevard, between Westwood Avenue and the tracks of the Rich mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad. The hammer shop was a building ' 200 feet long by eighty feet wide. It was about twenty-two feet to the eaves and probably forty feet to the ridge of the roof, according to officials of the corporation. In It were seventeen hammers, some operated by steam and others by belts, nulleys and shafting. This shop is regarded as the most im portant of the plant, and it will be impossible to continue the business until it is rebuilt. As the greater por tion of the machinery Is made Of heavy steel, ofllcials of the corporation do not ; think that either of the hammers has been seriously injured. The concrete bases, upon which they rest, and which are said to be an in?portant item, were also uninjured, it Is thought. AHSICNCIC OF HIM) SAVES ADJOINING UiriliDIN'GS Neither the ofllce, with Is records of great value, nor the "shearing" shop,! regarded as one of the most valuable adjuncts of the plant, was injured by the nre of last night. There was no! wind, and the few flames which es-v raped from the burning building were not blown far enough to cause any of the other buildings to Ignite. Most of the (ire in the hammer shop was on the inside, the steel walls preventing a spread to other buildings. Jonathan Bryan, president of the Richmond Forging Corporation, last night told a reporter for The Times Dispatch that the hammer shop would be rebuilt. He said that, with other ofllcials of the corporation, he would go to .the plant early to-day and plan for immediate reconstruction. Mr. Bryan estimated that about 100 men had been temporarily thrown out of employment by the fire, but said that they would he re-employed as soon as the shop and engine-house .could be put Into operation again. Georgo W. Warren, of the Insurnnco firm of Davenport & Co., through which the Richmond Forging Corporation Is insured, said after the fire that ho was of the opinion that the plant was insured through his company for either $40,000 or $45,000. A separate oplicy, called by the name of "use and oc cupancy" policy, provides for the pay ment of an adequate sum to the cor poration for each day It Is forced to remain Idle as a result of a fire. Mr. Warren was of the opinion that any damage done by the fire last night would bo fully covered by Insurance. BELLIGERENT AIRMEN BUSY ON CHRISTMAS SPEAKER CLARK ANNOUNCES ENGAGEMENT OF DAUGHTER MISS GIJXIOV IKVR ( I,AUK. HINDU TEMPLE KIRECKEB ! S? DELICIOUS FJINATIC | . * * . | He Carries Dynamite Itomh Into Uulldiug and llurls It at Feet of flie'Swnml. i RESU1/T8 IX HiS OWN I)KATIT Body Blown, Almost in Two, While I | Swami Is Terribly Injured?Four ! | Members * of Congregation Are ? Hurt?No Cause for Act Known, j [Special to The Times-Dispatch.] ; RAX }? RAXCtRCO, OAT..., December 27?The Hindu temple at Filbert and Webster Streets, was wrecked this af ternoon when a religious fanatic named Vnvara exploded a dynamite bomb at the feet of the swami, Trigunatlta. j during services. Vnvara was instantly ' j killed, the bomb blowing him almost in two. The swami was horribly in- ! J Jurt-d about the legs ami feet. Of the j congregation, about thirtv-flvo person?* I j four were injured. They are: Mrs. Clara French; seriously. | Mrs. F. Peterson: seriously. | Walter Morris: eye blown out. | Mrs. Tsabelle C. Stevens; slightly. } Vavara was known to all of the,! I members of the congregation. He was! j an inmate of the monastery, which is 1 maintained on the. third floor of the i te^nple, up to two years ago. when, for some reason, he was dropped. He kept! away until Christmas, and was greeted) by his former associates on that day. This afternoon he strode quickly by ; the doorkeeper, K. C. Brown, and walk | (d down the centre nisle. He is b>? i lleved to have carried the bomb under ! I his coat, until getting inside, and then 1 to have transferred it to his hat. No i j one interfered with him as he ay pronchc-d the platform from which the swami was preaching. I Taking the bomb from his hat. he i moved it up and down throe times and ' brought it down with a crash on the 1 platform. j There was a deafening report, and i all of the windows of the temple were 1 blown Into the streets. Glass was j thrown to a distance of about 100 feet Within the temple there was a panic, ! and the injured rr.n screaming Into the ? streets. The platform on which the swami ' stood was smashed into kindling wood. The door was blown up. pictures be hind the altar were torn from their frames, and a piano and organ were torn apart. Immediately after the explosion re lief was given to the victims. Those of the congregation who might have j known any ennse-for Vavara's act im-j mediately began to tell conflicting sto- j rles. and the investigation has so far been fruitless in uncovering the cause. Vavara was a machinist, and was em ployed at his trade in Oakland. RUSSIA DENIES IT )ln? Not Traded Ilnlf of Island for fimiN Front Jnpnn. I'ETROGRAD, December 27.?The Russian government has authorized the ofllcial news agency to denv cate gorically the statement that Russia has ceded to Japan half the Island of Sak halin in exchange for heavy artillery It is asserted the report is absolutely unfounded. An Item given out by the German press bureau at Berlin, December 25 said reportu hud been received front Copenhagen that Russia had traded her half of Sakhalin to Japan for heavy guns. Sakhalin lies oft the cast coast of Asia. The southern half was coded to Tapan by Russia under tho treaty of Poi tsmouth. KntPffor Nicholas nt Front. I'KTROGRAD, December 27. Em j peror Nicholas, who left Momcow Christ- i 1 mas evening, has arrived at the buttle ' front. J MISS GENEVIEVE CLARK ! [ TO WEB NEWSPAPER Mi Daughter of Speaker of House Will He Bride of James X. Thomson, [ of New Orleans. ENGAGEMENT IS ANNOUNCED V Ceremony to Take IMace in Spring or Early Summer?Young People First Met at Baltimore Convention. Hrhlc-Elcct Popular in Society. r Special to The Tlmes-Dl?patch.l WAS HI.NT. TON. December 27.? Speaker and Mrs. Champ Clark an nounced the engagement to-night ot their daughter, Genevieve, to James M. Thomson, owner and publisher of the New Orleans Item, New Orleans, La. The wedding will take place at "lloneyshuek," the Clark home in Howling Green, Mo., In the spring of early summer. The details of the wed ding or the attendants have not been arranged as yet. The picturesque feature of the romance Is that Miss ? Clark and Mr. Thomson met at the Baltimore con vention, where Speaker Clark led on so many ballots for the presidency. Mr. Thomson was an original Clark man In Louisiana, and his powerful paper had been a consistent Clark organ In the Southwest. A mutual friend introduced him to the Speaker's daughter, with the pleasing result an nounced to-day. They met again in Washington at the time of President Wilson's Inauguration, and the ac quuaintancc riped into friendship. Mr. Thomson is a member of an old Virginia family, and is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Augustus Pembroke Thom son, of Summit Point, \V. Va. lie is re garded as one of the leading puftlle men In the South, and is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, of the class of 1897. Mis first newspaper service was In Washington, where he was on the Post and served as a correspondent fur several out-of-town papers. In 1000 he purchased the Norfolk Ledger Dlspateli. Seven years later he entered the New Orleans newspaper field as owner and publisher of the Item. Be sides his newspaper Interest, Thomson has been active in political reforms in Louisiana, and Is Identified with promi nent business and civic interests there. POPUI.AItl.V KNOWN \S "DAl.'tJUTIOll OK IIOL'SK" The bride-elect is one of the most popular girls of Washington society. She made her debut on New V car's Day last year, and fully f>,000 persons attended the reception. Last Thanks- j giving Day she passed her twentieth birthday. She is a graduate of the, Friends School of Washington. Miss ] Clark has boon foremost In the worth- j while activities of the capital. She is i known as the "Daughter of the House," I and Is a favorite with the statesmen j there, who have known her since, she I was a small child and used to accom- I pany her father on the floor. When the war situation demoralized ] the cotton industry this fall. Miss ; Clark sprang into national prominence | hy her timely suggestion of "use more ' cotton," an appeal heartily answered ] by American women in all sections of the country. Great aid was given the cotton industry by the movement started by the Speaker's daughter, and had a pronounced psychological effect upon the situation. Another note worthy work was the organization of the Junior Auxiliary among the young society belles of Washington, which practically supports a kindergarten for poor children. Miss Genevieve Clark Is a tall, hand some girl, with vivacity and much nat ural charm. She resembles her dis tinguished father closely, and Is his chum and confidant. Like her mother, site has pronounced literary .tastes, and has written for magazines and news papers. ItUKtiEK'S?NEW YEAR'S EVE?RUEOER'S Mpoilal entertainment. Grill floom und Orange Koont Service-A In 'Carte. rt^wcrvfi your table now. a table; rodcemublo In Irailu. AVIATORS VISIT VARIOUS POINTS ON BATTLE LINES British Met at Cuxhaven by Zeppelins and Sub marines. MOST MODERN OF WAR MACHINES IN COMBAT All But One of Raiding Squad ron Escape Without Injury. METZ liOMHARDKI) ltY FRENCH English Also Attack lielgian Towns Occupied by Gorman Forces. Comparative Quiet in Western Theatre p OMI'AIIATIVK quiet prevail* In ** ? (hr wrtttern theatre of ??r. in l-'lumlers the cnnnoiiiiclhiK lias heel) Intermittent, i>?it in the Arj.;onne region 11 ml AI mice (hcrr Iiiiw liven attacks and counterattacks, with no material iiroicrtNx on either nlilr. I l'"rcncli aviators, in tho wij- (if a | reply to (In- dropping of honih.x on j \nncy by the iacrmnnM, Hew over the aviator Imiif.nm of l''roHi'nr, unr of the ruilronil stations of | throwing down bombs in their | iliKht. | Notwithstanding tho fact thnt n recent oflicial .\tii(cincnt announced 1 that the ticrmnii* liad ceased ihcir | attacks on tlie tl/.nru It Ivor, in iltis slan Poland, latest nih Ici'.i from ) Ilerlln Indicate that ilu-v still are j advancing In that reffion. I'ctro i Krad nsst rts, however, that 11I0111; ; tho It/.tira and itawka Itlvers tho IlKhtln*; of late lias Iiccii von lined to artillery. The AiiNtriaiiN In (.'aiioia. the Kun ! rilnn neiiera! staff aiixcrtu, have been I driven hack In the iielu'hhorhnod of I Tnrnow, where.innHy lirlnoiietH Avert ? ! taken. The Auxlriun* nr? reported i to have retreated In disorder. They j ?\re njmi said to have heen forced ,haek from the line run Hint; troni '/mlKrod to llakla, in the Ciirpn tlilnus, with enormouN losses, in cluding 10,000 prisoners. The Itrltlsh raid on tho t.crmnn const with Ncnplaiie.s apparently notted small results. l-'our of the seven seaplanes were lost, aud one Itrltish olllccr Is thought to have been drowued. The nitiick brought about a iiultiiio eiit.iiKi'mcnl, in wliioli submarines, cruisers, ncii planes, destroyer*, aeroplanes and Zeppelins took part. Willi tlie return to t'nrls on Jan uary 7 of the Ministry of War from Itordcnux, all branches of the Kreneli jto vornmeiit ii^aln will have their liead<|unrterN in Paris. Italy hns ordered the crulaer Cala bria, at Ilelrut, Sjrla, to render any noei'NKnry aid to the American crtil ser North f'arolina should there he further deinonst rat ions against the departure of KuropeuuM from Turk ish territory. liiiNNla linn officially denied the re port thnt she has ceded half of the Island of Sakhalin to .Ixtpnu. Kmperor Nloliolns iiK.nln Is with the ItiiNslun army ut the front. j A reKlinrut of Italian sharpshoot er* are on their wily to Avlonn, Al ! hnuln, to relieve the sailors Iniided ; last week to put down dlKoriler. ! N one of tho powers has protested ncnlnut Italy's occupation of Av | lona. I London*. December 27 <io:r>0 P. M.j, !?The airmen of the belligerent conn 1 tries spent a busy Christmas holiday, i While a solitary Gorman (lew over the Thames estuary, and dropped a single bomb, which fell in a roadway ' and did no damage, a convoy of seven ; British naval seaplanes visited the Gor man naval base at t'lixliavoii and , dropped bombs on ships and the gas works. All hut one of the British alr i men returned safely to the ships which ' convoyed them. Similar activity was , displayed along the battle front, Ocr I man airmen paying' a surprise visit to jNancy; French aviators to .Met*/.; Brit ; Ish to Brussels and orher Belgian towns I occupied by the Germans, and German ' airmen to Polish cities. j As usual, accounts of the damage ! done differ. While bombs were j dropped during those flights, most of j the flights were for reconnoitring, i lOxcept in the Argonne and Alsace. 1 where the French have made some progress, and outside of artillery pra'c 1 tlce. the battles In the west for the last two days largely consisted of Gor 1 man attacks to counteract those of I the allies and to prevent the allies | from organizing the ground they had i gained. In Poland, where the Russian Km ' peror lias Joined Grand Duke Nicholas I at Russian headquarters, the German attacks on the ltzura and Rawka Rivers l are being made almost exclusively with artillery, while an offensive In force | has been assumed further south along the River Pilica, where hard fighting I continues, and both sides claim to have inflicted hcuvy losses. The Russians apparently have UKain gained ascendancy over the Austrlans In South Poland nnd Galicla. The Aus trlans admit the loss of the towns of Jaslo and Krosno, on the South Galtclan Railway, which their army from across the Carpathians recaptured a week or more ago. The Russian report to night Is the record of a series of vic tories from Middle Poland to the foot hills of the Carpathians. R records tho capture of 13,500 prisoners and a num ber of guiiH, and, unless some prisoners have been counted more than once, the Russians, according to their own ac counts, have taken .10,000 Austrian prisoners since they resumed the of fensive. ?AHIN<; ATTACK. ON (iKII.MAN NAVAL II ASK AT C'l'X ffAVR.V LONDON, December 27 (10:3(5 P. M >. ?Assisted by light cruisers destroyer*, and submarines, seven British naval