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PRICE ? TWO CENTS
MAKES NINE SPEECHES
IN SIXTEEN HOURS!
Given Great Ovation at All 1
Points and Greeted by
Enormous Crowds.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3. ? Charles E. I
Hughes wound up his 2S.000 milt' pres
idential campaign tour with sixteen
strenuous hours of campaigning to
day, down tht* Hudson River valley
and in Brooklyn. The nominee deliv
ered nine speeches, starting at S:45
o'clock this morning, and di not reach,
his hotel until after midnight tonight.
Tomorrow, the last day of his cam
paign, was to have been a day of rest
witix a big rally at Madison SQuare
Garden, at New York. Instead, it will
be a whirlwind day of more speaknig
in New York City. When the nominee
arrived here tonight he found that the
National Committee had speeded up
the campaign so that he will spend
nearly tie entire afternoon touring
the city. Five speeches are on his
program.
In almost every speech today and >
tonight, the nominee told his audiences
he was confident of victory next Tues
day. He told them there was little
new he could say with regard to the
issues of the campaign. On his trip
down the Hudson River valley, he
made the tariff one of the chief themes
of his speeches: here tonight, he spoke ,
chiefly of Americanism.
"Let me say to you," he told an audi
ence in Brooklyn, the last he ad
dressed otnigtit, 'that if I am elected
president, as I expect to be ? " I
He got no further for the moment. :
A man In the gallery yelled:
"You'll be."
The entire audience rose and roared '
its approval of the interruption, wav
ing hundreds of American flags.
"If I am elected President," thenom- '
inee continued, "we shall have an
American administration with exclu
sively American policies, without any
deflection to serve any other interests.
Supreme must be America's interests
in the thoughts of the American peo
ple. and supreme will be America's
interests in an administration in my
charge."'
On Familiar Ground.
In his tour through Brooklyn tonight
Mr. Hughes campaigned over ground
familiar to him as a boy. The first
meeting he addressed, in the Green
Point section, was within three blocks
of the Union Avenue Baptist church
where his father once was pastor. The ,
streets through which he passed were
those on which he had played as a boy,
he told the audience, and familiar
faces were among those who heard t
him.
"I have had a generous welcome '
anr1 'jvtiy manifestation of enthus
iasm on my long trip." he declared. !
u?.i Liv?.- o; ail its the welcome home." '
The second meeting of the evening
was in the Brownsville section, a dis- ,
trict which his advisers told him was i
strongly Socialistic in politics. Here:
the streets were choked. Traffic was |
blocked and the services of more than |
f>0 po'iceuien were necessary to get |
(Continued cm Pag-fr fourteen.)
RESULT OF CUBAN I
ELECTION IN DOUBT
HAVANA. Nov. 3.? With the result
of the presidential election still un
decided and both sides claiming vic-j
tory, it was regarded as probable to
night that new elections tpay have to
be" held in some of the municipalities
of Oriente province before it definitely
can be determined whether President
Mario G. Menoeal, conservative candi
date, or Dr. Alfred Zeyas. the liberal
nominee, has triumphed.
Figures on the result of the con
gressional elections still were unavail
able tonight and the complexion of
the next Cuban tenures* continued to
be in doubt.
PITTSBURGH CELEBRATES.
PITTSBURGH. Pa.. Nov. Thirtv
thousand persons participated in the
parade held here today in connection i
wit hthe charter centennial celebra- j
lion of the city. The pageant was |
nearly three hour? in passing through ;
the downtown streets. More than 100
floats depicted the progress made by
the city since its founding. Hundreds
of thousands of persons lined the
streets and watched the marchers.
The parade was one of the largest
ever held here. '
GOVERNMENT UNCOVERS I
BIG ELECTION FRAUDS;
False Registrations, Coercion1
and Intimidation Brought J
to Light.
WASHINGTON. NovTs.? An official
estimate that GO, 000 negroes have
been transported recently from the
south into Ohio. Indiana. Illinois and
other states, was made by the depart
ment of justice tonight, in a statement
declaring that a number of the negroes
have fraudulently registered, and that
other election frauds disclosed include
padding of registration lists reaching
into thousands of false names in one
city alone.
The statement issued with the sanc
tion of Attorney General Gregory,
gives warning that conspiracies to in
timidate voters will be promptly pros
ecuted. It is the department's lirst I
official announcement that actual j
cases of fraud have been developed I
by its investigators.
"Information received by the depart- 1
ment of justice shows that within j
the last three months approximately !
60,000 negroes have been transported !
from certain southern states to north-'
ern and western states, mainly to j
middle western states, particularly to ;
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois." the state- .
ment says.
"Investigation has developed the |
fact that a number of these neeroes <
have registered in violation of the 1
laws of the states to which they have
gone and have expressed the intention
of voting in those states.
Plan to Violate Statutes.
"Some information has been devel
oped indicating plans in different
states to violate the federal statutes
with reference to election in other
ways, such as registration of non
naturalized citizens; false registra
tion by padding the registration lists
with fictitious names with the inten
of having persons falsely represent
themselves to be the persons whose
names appear on the list, and vote
under those names; what are com
monly known as "repeaters": false
counts and returns by election boards;
entering on the poll books as having
voted fictitious persons or persons
who have failed to vote; intimidation
in various forms, including that by
employers of- their employes through
threats which tend to coarce the will
of the employes.
"Facts in the possession of the de
barment show in one city the padding
of registration lists with fictitious
names to an extent which, in the light
of accurate information already ob
tained, indicates that the number of
such false names probably reaches
into the thousands."
LONG BRANCH, N. J.. Nov. 3.?
President Wilson will close his cam
paign for re-election tomorrow with a
speech at Shadow Lawn to people
from his home state of New Jersey.
For sentimental reasons he wishes to
make his last campaign address to the
people of the state in which he began
his political career.
Many in the president's audience to
morrow will be political and personal
friends of land standing. For this
reason he has promised to state his
views more completely than before
during the campaign. Democrats from
different parts of New Jersey have
arranged to come on special trains.
In his speech the president will ex
press confidence in the outcome of the
voting next Tuesday. Mr. Wilson has
no engagements before election. He
feels that the issues are made up and
that most of the people have deter
mined how they will vote.
After his return from New York to
day the president received a message
from Victor Oarlstrom, the aviator
who made a flight from Chicago to
New York bearing a letter to Mr.
Wilson from Mayor Thompson of Chi
cago.
RECORDS SHATTERED.
HUNTINGTON, W. Yrt? Nov. :}.?
All postoffice records of Huntington
were shattered during the month of
October just passed, according to the
official report issued todav. The total
receipts for October were ?lS.C5S-t.25,
a gain of $2,494.71 over the previous
high mark of December of 191n.
John J. Cornwell, Democratic candidate for Governor, in
his paper, the Hampshire Review, referred to Louis Brandeis,
now a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, as a
"muckraking: Jew." In giving his opinion of Brandeis and
Untermeyer, Cornwell wrote the following which appeared in
his paper of May 9, 1915:
"Who are these eminent special lawyers? Louis Brandeis,
of Boston, organized the United Shoe Machinery Company some
years ago. Later, on information furnished by him, it was
indicted for restraining trade. He was employed to prosecute
the case. The government spent $1,000,000 prosecuting this
alleged trust. A few days ago the Circuit Court of Appeals
the three judges concurring, decided the company was not a
trust and that it had been a great benefit to the manufacturers,
as well as to the public who wears them. It took four years,
however, to get that decision, and it cost the company nearly
half a million dollars. That is Mr. Brandeis ' style.
"Samuel Untermeyer is written down in the Supreme
Court Reports of New Jersey as a crook. Chancellor Pitney,
father of the present Associate Justice, having rendered the
opinion. Rich, smart and thirsting for notoriety, he rushed to
Washington with a corps of stenographers and clerks and
tendered his services, with or without pay. He is a 'beaut.'
"Be it said to the credit of Attorney General Gregory and
Solicitor General Davis, they are not responsible for the
employment of these two muckrakers. They doubtless resent
the employment of such 'special counsel.' Williams and
McAdoo employed them."
THE GLASS INDUSTRY AND THE TARIFF
The following is a copy of a letter addressed yesterday to stockholders and employes of the Hazel- ?
Atlas Glass Company by Mr. W. S. Brady, President of that Company. Mr. Brady, as is well known, has 1
never taken an active personal part in politics, and the grounds upon which he bases his letter have
relations only to the business conditions and the interests of the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company and its I
employes in particular. The letter speaks for itself:
^ Wheeling, W. Va., November I!, lDlij.
DEAR SIR: ? Thoso of you who know me. know that 1 am in no sense a politician nor a partisan,
but in the present political situation we are confronted with a business proposition whieli makes me
feel ii my duty to put the facts before you as I see them.
The new Tariff Law enacted by the Wilson administration puts about 70rr of the goods imported
f on the free list, and you know, if you will think back, what the effect of that Law was prior to the
outbreak of the European war. It is hardly necessary to remind you that in the winter and spring of
11)14 It was estimated that there were over a million men out of employment.
Tho war shut off all importation from Germany and Austria, and the other great power.-* ha\ o
been so busy making munitions and supplies for their armies and their own requirements, that we have
had in effect, and are working now, under what is equivalent to a high protect ive Tariff, and the country
is greatly prospering. You and we are sharing in that, prosperity, but it does not require any gift of
prophecy to foresee that as soon as the war ceases, the European factories now engaged in making
munitions and war supplies will return to their narural occupations with greater efficiency than ever
before, and this country will be flooded with cheap goods mado in Europe. The European nations
have dumped their gold into this country to pay fop goods they have had to buy from us, and their
first effort will bo to get that gold back by selling their products to us at such prices as will give
them the money they ueed.
The only way to prevent a tremendous inrre;lSlJ ij( importation of foreign made articles, is by
the enactoteut of a protective Tariff, which Mr. HUgiies atu] Republican party stands pledged for:
while Mr. Wilson and the Democratic party are Committed to a low Tariff: so that, it becomes a busi
ness proposition with me and as 1 see it. a vote for Hughes and the Republican candidates for United
States Senators and Congressmen is a vote to protect our business. We are all in the same ho:?.r. :
and should look at this matter without, regard to politics, but. simply as a business proposition.
All 1 ask Is that you will give this your serious consideration and try to look at ii from a purelj
business standpoint and then vote as your conscience may dictate, my duty being fulfilled by giving
you ray best, judgment. Whatever your decision. 1 want you to thoroughly understand that ii will not
influence, in any degree. I he pleasant relations now existing. Yours sincerely, W. S. BRADY.
AVERAGE COST LESS
THAN LAST 3 YEARS
Federal Trade Commission!
Makes Public Information j
of Startling Nature.
"WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 ? In a state
ment tonight announcing virtual com- >
pletion of its investigation of news
print paper prices, the federal trades j
commission declares that during the j
first half of this year, when prices ,
alreadv were soaring to unprecedent- 1
ed figures, the average cost of produc- |
ing news print paper in domestic mills j
was less than per hundred ;
pounds or below the average cost in j
the past three years. I
The commission announces that be
fore Issuing Its report public hearings
will be conducted and manufacturers,
I publishers and others interested given
an opportunity to appear. No date is
set for the hearings, but the reports :s ,
I said to be ready to send to the press ;
j in the near future.
| Certain facts developed by the in- 1
; quiry are made public now because
[most of the publishers contracts for,
! paper are about to expire. Contract I
i prices rose this year from less than !
; $2 per hundred to $" and $3.50 and on i
current market purchases the publish- j
ers have paid ?7 or more for paper
brought in the same way prior t.o Jan
j uary 1 for between $2 and
The statement follows:
! "The investigation of the advance
J in prices of news print paper which
' was undertaken by the federal trade i
i commission by direction of the senate,
has been practically completed and i
i the report will he ready to send to
{ press in the nea'- future.
! Considering the large mass of data j
involved the work has been done in an j
unusually short time.
Time For New Contracts
"This is about the time when nego
tiations for the renewal of a large j
(number of contracts between newspa
i per publishers and news print paper
jmanutacturers usually take place. The
! commission has. therefore, decided to
'make public immediately certain fun
| daniental facts which have been es
tablished by the investigation. Some
! of die facts stated hero have been as- '
! certained through computations which
j have just been made, lie fore the i*e
' port is issued the news print manu
facturers, newspaper publishers and
other parties interested will be given]
opportunity to appear before the com- J
, mission at a public hearing.
| The price advance in news print pa- :
, per which occasioned this investiga
tion began early in and has con-,
I tinued down to the present. Most!
| news print paper, probably about i)0
: per cent., is sold on contract for pe-j
riods of a year or more. Before the!
price advance began, contract prices
for news print paper were generally
less 'Jian $2.00 per hundred pounds-,
f. o. b. mill. During the first half of,
1916 contract prices for lar.ee quanti-;
ties in some instances went as high as!
(Continued on Pagre 3"oiu-teen.)
BUSH ADMITS HE !
IS THE MAN WANTED
1 YOUK, Nov. Ceorge l>usb,!
aa actor, araigned in I-'ederal Court
here today charged with blackmailing
a prominent Cincinnati business man. ?
admitted ii< ? was the person named in
the warrant which led to his arrest.
Resisting removal to tin* Ohio city
where the alleged crime was commit
ted, Bu. h was h'-ld in hail for'
a hearing on November 10.
Accorditir to the complaint sworn
to by an inve.si igator of the Depart-,
mc-nt of us! ice. Bn.-ii conspired with
other mem!" r- ol an alleged band of
blackmailers v. no victimized wealthy
men and women throughout the couu
try for "violations" of the Mann Act.;
to defraud the Cincinnati man of "a.
large sum of n:<?n? y." on October 7.
iast. The name ol tie- victim was
withheld by the ("??deral authorities for i
I *reMODs of public policy."
THE WEATHER. j
i WASHINGTON. D. C? Nov. 4.? j
Forecast:
t Ohio and Western Pennsylvania ? j
| Partly ovcrcast and warmer Saturday.!
| Sunday fair.
U-57 HAS BEEN GIVEN
DARING ASSIGNMENT
Cargo All Discharged Yester-j
day and Return Trip Will
Start in Ten Days.
NEW LONDON, Conn., Nov. 3.
The German armored submarine U-57, 1
sifter ship of the U-53, which recently 1
sank five vessels off the New England j
coast, is expected to act as a convoy I
for the undersea freighter Deutschlanil !
on her return trip to Germany, accord- j
ing to a statement to-night by Captain,
Paul Koenig.
The U-57, it was reported, left Bre-I
men on October in. three days after!
the Deutschland sailed .
(( ^ Deutschland s skipper added * !
"I would not be surprised if the ar- 1
mored submarine appeared off this
coast while I am in port. You can't 1
tell what the government will do." !
In answer to questions. Captain Koe- ?
nig said lie probably would make his
homeward dash within the next ten
days. He denied a report that he
would go through the Cape Cod canal
saying nothing was to be gained bv
this route. * '
Humors were in circulation here to-!
night of the presence of British and1
French cruisers off Block Island, No
Mans Land and Nantucket Shoals,
but there was no confirmation from re- 1
liable sources.
Commander Yates Stirling, of the!
united States submarine base in the
Thames -River, placed no credence In
the reports.
Cargo All Discharged.
Officials of the Eastern Forwarding
Company announced that, the Deiitsch
land's cargo was discharged at ^
o'clock this afternoon. Great care was
exercised to prevent outsiders from
seeing the work, oulv the crew of
the submersible and the North Ger- '
man Lloyd Liner Willehad. were al- >'
lowed in the hold. They passed the I
freight out to negro stevedores who i
sLored it in the warehouses.
Vice President llilk.ii, of the. for*
warding company, left today for New'
York. Nothing has been made public
concerning the Deut.-chland's mani
fest. .lames L. .McGovern, collector of
customs, is out of town. He sent a
special delivery letter today to Cap-!
tain Koenig. but the latter declined to |
comment on its contents.
The citizens committee, which was i
arranged for a complimentary banquet,'
to the Deutschland's crew next Wed- j
nesday, announced t hat a gold watch. '
suitably inscribed, will be presented'
to Captain Koenig.
BRIDGEPORT. Conn.. Nov. 3 ?
James L. McGovern, collector of cti.s- j
toms for Connecticut, acknowledges !
here tonight that the manifest of the'
Deutschland's cargo had been tiled j
with him, but declined io make public
any information regarding it.
"It is a private matter," he said.!
"and besides the government rules
don't allow me to make it public." i
IS EPILEPSY CONQUERED? j
New Jersey Physician Said To Havel
Many Cures To His Credit
KKI> HANK. N. .7.. Nov. -I ?Advices'
from every direction fully confirm
previous reports that the remarkable*
treatment for epilepsy being adminis-,
tered by the consulting physician of
the Kline Laboratories of this city is
achieving wonderful results. Old "ami
stubborn eases have been greatly ben-,
eliied and many patients claim to I
have hf?en entirely cured.
Persons suffering from epilepsy
should write ai once to Kline Labor.-i
mries. Branch Rod Hank. N. .1., for
a supply of i he remedy, which is be !
ing distributed gratuitously. I
I
WASHINGTON. Pa.. Nov. 3.? Dr.
James 1 V Moffat t. president, emeritus
of Washington X- Jefferson college, who
was stricken with paralysis last Wed
dii.v. sank rapidly and tonight, physi
cians declared tfiere was no hope for
his recovery, adding that his death
might occur at any time. Members of
Jbis family are at the bedside.
FORMAL HEARING HAS
NOW BEEN SUGGESTED
Cars of OneLine Are Held by
Another as a Matter
of Protection.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Nov. 3? The ap
parent shortage of car? upon (he rail
roads of the conn try was tlcrLired to i
be I he result of a lack of efficiency |
in their distribution by V\ . L. Barnes, j
superintendent of tranipoi'tation ol.
the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
Railroad here today. ^
the last witnesses to tesjfy a an m
fcimrrtT-Ti raring on the alleged fhon
age or ears being: held by C . t . Ale- j
Chord, member ot the Interstate tun.
meroe Commission. .
The declaration ramc as the re? tilt
of questions addressed 10 bim with J'!e
object of developing: the cause of ihoj
i) resent situation as well as methods ,
bv which it might be remedied.
1 11 was brought out that the rail- 1
roads of the United States now own
approximately -.000.000 cars and thai- ;
the apparent total shortage on all
lines is only about 00,000. Mr. Barnes
gave it as liis opinion that most of this
apparent shortage' resulted from ship
pers asking for more cars than they
need in order that their allotment
might approximate the number they j
reallv want. Any apparent shortages
resulting from other causes, he said,
I could be met by a more efficient dis
tribution of the car supply.
! Mr Barnes iu response to questions
as to wliv the Chicago. Burlington and
Ouincv had failed to return cars owned
bv other roads, declared that system
had been forced in self defence to hold
foreign cars and would continue to do
so until some assurance was provided
that their own equipment would be re-,
timed. More than thirty-seven I hous
3 cars of all classes, belonging to
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
were held on foreign lines, he said,
while that system hold approximately ;
X2.000 cars belonging to other lines. j
Placed Umder Oath.
When the hearing was opened this .
morning all witnesses were placed un- ,
der naih. as the result ot suggestions ;
front attorneys fur ',f?Vip.l,lu!,,l?imnnv '
ii, -rs. in order thai their testimony
might be available in the event of a (
general inquiry into the situation he- 1
Ham?. olhfr rail- i
road representatives today
I i?-i t- U vice president of the Illinois
Central.'. I. F. Borierfiehl. of ihe same ?
svstem and V. B. 1'helps suporln.cn- I
dent of transportation of the Louis- j
vll" hJ Na^viM,- Railroad . Short;
statements were also presniled ?
representatives of Ohio and Michigan
coal dealers and consumers.
Mr. Park was the first witness;
called when the hearing opened. Hr ,
submitted figures showing that or
fi7,r?00 cars of all classes owned by
(Continued on Pa^e rourteen.)
EPWOSTH LEAGUE I
NAMES OFFICERS
MO lit! ANTOWN. Nov. :C -The bi
ennial session of the West lrgima
Kpworth league state conference ad
journal today. The name of the ^ or
ganization was charged to the \Usi
Virginia Conference Lpworth League
institution, which will meet annually.
oiTict rs were elected as follows.
President. Rev. J. 0. Wells, oi King
wood; l'trst vice-presidenl, Roy ?>'<
Ou<kev. of Wheeling; second \ic.e
p resident. Miss Daisy Watkms. Hi t
mom: ihirtl vice-president. Lynn
Hohrli.uiKh. Buckhannon; fo'trih ucc
president. H. W. Huberts. McM"- -hen.
Superintendent or Junior W ork. Mrs.
S. .1. Hall, of Wheeling; Secretary. Br. j
IK M. Farnsworth. of nuckhannon,
I Assistant Secretary. Miss .leanelte
lohnson. of Buckhannon; rr-asurer,
I Rev. 11. 0. Moore, Tunnelion. ,
CANT GET MEN. |
i CHARLESTON. W. Va.. Nov. j
I Difficult v is being encountered at;
ni nv West Virginia coal mines m
?TPttinc men who will work, although
scores of i hem are helng brought into
the state from more populous centers.
One instance is pointed out that. onl>
twelve of IT "transportation" men
bron i:h t from New York, would go to
work.
MAKES TWO STRONG
ADDRESSES YESTERDAY]
Sistersville and Middlebournej
Go Wild Over Appearance
of the Candidate.
"twrial to 'lio lnie!liF''n<'tr- ,,
MIDDLKHOUHNl-- W. Va., , Nov. ? \
Onlv a small percentage u. 1 i -> ?;
crowd thai assembled here today to |
H
,hMr.PI. N. Underwood, one "f 'ue J"j j
?i-srs !Se t^rfcaS', n1.!
common With thej
nds of
l",rI"' Vetnerviiio for Tudgc Robinson;
hT.hus n rove hii resentment of tlm
Star 5 of l?e Democrats to organise
the Lilly supporters i"W ? bun?h
bolters Tile men who siipot.n
ed'ihe Lilly supporters wm Id I be ^ ,
^nncihie We are not going to maw .
*uch a surrender ... the J-"-*
in his sneech the .ludge. declared
t-bat ho" was against ^??en[U^j
Uossisrn <>r niMsinii. Binv>
any form he said.
i am making a MM a|amst the
dominance of one man l iarence^^ |
ft *h??iu?l as Vigorously the domi-j
rT^M'Sat'-i^K
ing .o personalities and indiudual
SJref In? "piJJy Policies back of
jsr u?ja
your sacred duty and ?o?
beaV'consclevicc and judgement for the
jSSffi for" the "general welfare if
all the people. i
At Sistersville.
1 in hit, sneech here tonight. Judge
I Chilton. ?nJl.^1ua^a-1Ps senate, and
Watson running by proxy tor Cover
""There is a deep laid scheme to take
away your sovereign rights .and t
.5? ffSn r j
which will eliminate all abuse* aim ,
i *a hv nanv local people to have
Kd,iS SJ&? pqih;-'
SSiJflJ from beginning u>" oml.
When Indue Robinson entered the
uV,V" ".eut crowd was waiting for,
Km and gave him a wonderful o\a-|
"?]n the course of his speech the!
iud"e said the campaign is neaimg
its end. The Democratic nominee
policy in behalf of the |.ublh- v.-e^
f-<re The promoting and ad\ance oi
,,ur state All of his talk to the peo- ,
rile ha'- been alonp the line of pe'f>
VnueaMo the small things of life..
To passions and to mere predudices.
I reaUv pit t v him for he has shown
t hat he is one who cannot live above
?he fog either inpublic duty oi pij
viite. In contrast to all this the poll- j
ries represented by my candulacj ar
not my individual policies but tn> |
? enmhined judgement of a gi?at pou
Teal partv seizing to promote human
betterment as it has done in West
Vifglnia for the past twenty years
living to the state a reputation arnon,. ,
J 1,0 Sisterhood or states tor efficien
.v through its governmental agen
eies in behalf of all the people who,
j dwell therein. I
j LONDON. Nov. o, 112:20 a. m.? Mrs. '
Anthony J. Drexel today, .was granted
an iterutu injunction for a fortnight by |
the liriiish courts on hor application;
to prevent hor husband from serving i
her with papers in an action in the
French courts to obtain money which
the Hritish courts recently decided j
belonged to her. It was stated mi
court that Mr. Drexel bad started an
action i n France to fight Mrs. Drexel's
claim.
Last June a London court awarded
.Mr.-. Drexel a yearly iallowance of
$48,500. in 1013 the Drexel's executed
a separation agreement and in 101")
Mrs. Drexel sued Iter husband to re
' cover money under the separation
? deed
SAN FKANC1SCO. Cal.. Nov. |
Part of the site of the I'anania-L'ai ific
Exposition on the edge of San Fran
cisco Bay. was sold today by Mrs. W
K. Vanderbilt. of New York, and Mrs. j
Herman Oelrichs to the Panama Pa
cific Exposition Company for Sls-Lfm". ]
as t.he first definite step in preserving]
and presenting the famous Kxposjt ion I
Marina and the Palace of Fine Arts to
the city of San Francisco. The ileal
was negotiated by Win. H. Crocker.
Sau Francisco banker, a director of
the exposition company. (
LATTER FALLING BACK \ '
UNDER HEAVY ATTACKS
Fort Vaux Evacuated by the
Germans in France ?
Russians Repulsed.
? . .
Violent fighting continues to mart, J
the Austro-German attempts to pen.- 1
el rate the plain of Rumania south. J
of Kronstaddt and I lermannstadt to- I
ward Bucharest. The stiff defense I
of the Rumanians in yielding slowly M
to the blows of Austro-German ar- ?
cillery and infantry about Predeal, j ?
and Berlin announces further pro- ?
gress south of the border for them. ?
East of Predeal the Rumanians ad---?
vancing In the Buzeu valley have ?
driven the invaders back over the I
frontier in the region of Table Butzi.
They also have taken Mount Siriul ;
and Tat.uruiuio, along the _ Transyl
vanian border .southeast of Rronstadt.
South of Hermannstadt. in the region
of Rothenthurm pass the the Austnx ^
Germans have extended their lines ^
and captured an additional 350 pris-/"
oners. West of Rothenthurm f*** I
the Prahova valley the Rum /
are holding their ground. f #
On the eastern front fighti; t
taken place east of Kovel, in-y f
and southeast of I^emberg in ?
Rerlin announces the repu?se g A
Russian attacks against the M M
German positions on the lef?^^?|^B
of the Narayuvka River nea?|
in Galicia while Petrograd saH
Russians have re-occupied
their trenches on the west 9H
the Siokhod in the region of
in Volhynia. Near Lipnicadolnal^BF^
Galiria. the Russians have pusnea
back the Austro-Germans in some
places.
There have been no heavy actions
on the Somme front. The French ;
have made slight gains at Sailly atfd
the British have takeu a German
trench east of Guedecourt.. Fort
Vaux in the Verdun region has been
occupied by the French following its '
evacuation by the Germans.
Although fighting continues at
various points along the Macedonian
front, from Lake Presba to Lake Ta
hinos, there has been little change in
the general situation. British troops
have taken Alitsa on the bank of the
Struma from the Bulgarians.
Expenses Regret
LONDON". Nov. 3, 2:30 p. m. ? The
German government has expressed re
gret for the action of a German air
ship in cruising over Dutch territory,
October 22. says a Reuier despatch
from The Hague. The note, accord
ing to the correspondent, said tbil ?
in g to a defect in the mclor^
?steering gear/ the commnnuer "wasTv'
I competed to throw out t wo benzine
[reservoirs when he thought he was
[over Belgium. ?
Sub Victims Honored
PIRAEUS, Greece, via Athens Wed
nesday, Nov. 1 ? To London, Nov. 3,
(Continued on Fag-? Tourteau.)
VILLA BANDITSARE
AGAIN GUTTING EARS
! FROM THEIR CAPTIVES
i ? ? -
EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 3. ? Villa ban
i dits again are cutting the ears from
captive Carranza soldiers and then
[sending them back to their commands
I as a warning to other Carranza sol
1 diers, said a Mexican civilian refugee
| who reached here tonight from Ji- '
minez, Chihuahua. He asserted ha
had seeu It! Carranza soldiers at
Jiminez with their ears severed from
the heads.
The refugee said he had been told
by one of the mutilated soldiers that
Villa bandits had cut off the ears ofi
! S3 Carranza soldiers at Santa Rosa
lia. These sixteen soldiers, he said,
i had reached Jiminez from Santa Ros
alia on their way to Torreon and had .
J reported that Villa handirs looted
! Snnta Rosalia, impressing many cit? ? '
izens of that town.
j Torreon is now isolated, according
I to a report received by government:
agents late today from semi-official
! sources in Juarez. The railroad is
reported to have been cut between
|.liniin?'z and Torreon. and also south
| and east of the Coahuila metropolis.
From the same source it was re?
I ported that Villa captured a large
I number of Carranza prisoners in San
I ta Rosalia when he occupied that
town last Friday. The entire Santa
j Rosalia parrison is said to have
joined the Villa bandits and also 20Q
men captured from General Fortunata
Maycotte's Carranza command which
had been sent south from Chihuahua
City.
GRADED SCALE OF
DEMURRAGE CHARGES
' WASHINGTON. Nov. 3.?' Virtually '
?ill the railroads in the country have
tiled tariffs settin inside the present
tin i rate 01 one dollar a day demurrage
charge on cars not loaded or not un*
; loaded within IS hours after they are
ready for the shipper or consignee, and
substituting a graduated scale of de
murrage.
This new demurrage scale, effective
December I. will permit the railroads,
after tin- IS hour period. to charge two
dollars ill" first day. three dollars the.
! second day. four dollars the third day,
land It v.- 'dollars for the fourth day
|and each Mih^equcnt day.
i, Such penalization is t-xpr ted to
'give more urompi release i equip
ment throughout the country, taterial
ly relieving tin- serious car ;hortagc
j problem. J
POPULATION INCREASED.
f'HAKLUSTON. tt Va., Nov. 3.?
Charleston now ha.- a nopulation of
! Sll.aOO and lluminsjon '<5.000, accord
ing to the estimate- of rhe Chesa
ipeake &? I'otomae Telephone company,
which has just completed Its di
rectories of these cities. Charleston
has gained about l.2">n persons within
the last four month- and at the rate
the cities are growing Charleston
should have 3S.000 and Hunttagtoc
i 50,000 by January 1, 1920.