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: * v / 4 * '[MlThe Lancaster Newsi 3 VOL. 11, NO. 11, SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C. Kill DAY, NOVEM HK!\ V2, 101"). <h1 r,n a vmab i PELLAGRA S CAUSE AND REMEDY FOUND Public Health Service Makes1 Formal Announcement of i Goldberger'a Discovery. BALANCED DIET THE CURE. ^ Says Demonstrations Prove DIsoase is t'nused by Wrong System of Diet ng. Washington, Nov. 11.?Diacoverv of the cause aiul cure of pellagra was announced formally tonight by j the public health service. The announcement follows the recent publication of a report by Surgeon General Joseph Goldberger on a year of Experiments In co-operation with j sotitnern states nealth olllrcri?, dem* r-"-0nstt?ttn? the correctness of the lb??ry that a one-sided diet lacking lh prot-eids would causo the dlease and that a well balanced diet would it ^ "The spread of this dread malady, ^ ^rhich has been increasing in the United States at o terrific rate during the past few years, may now be checked, and eventually eradicated," says the service statement. "It is estimated that 7 5,000 cases of the disease will have occurred in the United States in 1015, and of this number at least 7,500 will have died before the . end of the year. In many sections only tuberculosis and pneumonia exceed it as a cause of death." Tho final dietary test made by Surgeon Goldberger and Assistant Surgeon t?. A. Wheeler at the farm of the Mississippi penitentiary. wh"ro half a dozen of eleven convicts were given pellagra by feeding them for five months on bountiful meals, consisting chiefly of cereals and sweets and lacking in meats, milk, eggs, beans and peas. The victims recently were pardoned by the Governor and being restored to health through a corrected diet. SKIM SYMPTOMS SHOW. ^ ~ "Although tiie occurence of nor vous syinptons and gantro-intestinal disturbance was noted early, says the service statement., "it was not until September 12, or about five month-' after the beginning of the restricted diet, that the skin symptoms so characteristic of pellagra began to develop. The convicts upon whom the experiment was made were kept under continuous medical survellance. Mo cases of pellagra developed in camp excepting among those men who were on the restricted diet. The experimenters have therefore drawn the conclusion that pellagra has been caused in at least six of eleven volunteers as a result of the one-sided diet on which they subsisted. ? "On the basis of this discovery the States of Mississippi, Ixiuisiana and Florida have laid their proaganda through their respective boards of health for the eradication of the disease." In earlier experiments about two hundred patients had been cured by balanced rations, and at the end of a year there had been & slight recurrence of the disease in only one instance. mi u/vv a.x % rvi 1 >?. ? i nr..iin i n i hi l/i.in. Charleston Man Fleeted President of Southern Medical Association. Dallas, Texas, Nov. 11.?Atlanta was today selected for the 191 fi meeting of the Southern Medical Association. ? Dr. Hubert Wilson, Jr., of Charles r ton. S. C., was elected president of r the association. Dri, Hilman Taylor of Fort Worth, was eleot^d first vice president of the nsaociatUJlft. and Ouy Hunter of Italtimore, second vice president. I)r. Seale Harris of DlDulAghain hold.* over as secretary and treasurer. The resolutions suggested that the number of medical officers in the reg ular military establishment should equal at least seventy-flve-hundredths of one per cent of the enlisted .strength, "or such number as the surgeon general deems necessary." They recommended also provision for calling Into service in war a re serve medical corps of physicians. s Woman Philanthropist Dies. ?N?W Orleans. Nov. 10. Mrs. De " >"^ora A. F. MHllken, reputed to he one of the wealthiest women in Louisiana and widely known in the South for her philanthropy, died here today, aged 84 years. ItWk C ASH I l ilt l-'Ol'M) DIOAD. .\. >1. Iluddnn funic From llock Mill, S. < Cornelia, (la., Nov. 10.?A. M. TTaddon, cashier of the First National Hank of Cornelia, was found dead in i his bed room here today. Friends indicated their belief thai he had shot himself, but assigned no motive for such an act. T. H. Little, president of tire bank, stated that an investigation showed that there was no connection between Haddon's death and the institution's business affairs. Haddon, who was about 30 years old, came here several years ago from Hock Mi,11 S. C. It was not known whether an inquest would be held. V A TTTLWhl 1X7TT.T T? A PI? v AA w VI fT " " X' AVJU JURY IN JANUARY Tlie (irocnvilUi Court Adjourned Without Taking l'l> the Case WednoNtlay. Columbia Special to Charleston News and Courier, Nov. 11.?T. U. Vaughn, who was sentenced to be electrocuted for criminal assault alleged to have been committed while he was superintendent of the Odd Fellows' Orphan Home, near Qreenville, will be tried for his sanity before a Greenville county'Jury in January. The sanity trial of Vaughn was set for yesterday, but the court ' of general sessions for Greenville j county adjourned yesterday without j taking up the Vaughn case and lu will face a jury next January. Vaughn is confined in the state penitenl'ary, where he has been constantly ever since his conviction it 1 !> 1 :l. lie fought his case througl tlie state courts and up through tie 'cited States supremo court, but ul 1' confirmed the sentence of electrocution. When he was taken back t< 1 Greenville some weeks ago to be re sentenced to death the judge, on tin showing made, ordered that the ques tion of Vaughn's sanity should he re ferred to a jury and no further st?q>: in his case will he taken until a jun | returns a verdict as to whether he i: j sane or insane. Vaughn lias been apparently insain { for some months, and it is said tlia ! lie sits in tlie state penitentiary with i uui rh;iiik noru n) any one am with a vacant look on his face. II< is said to lie nearly a physical wreck I and many strong men incline to tin belief that lie has become insam i since his conviction. Otlu rs think li ' is simply feigning insanity in tin I hope of escaping the electric chaii and Tieing sent to the State Hospita for the Insane. That Vaughn is sum was held by a noted alienist of Mary l land, who examined him while hen i last spring. IUUTISH STKAMKItS SI NK. I | <'iiliforniaii < Inn Mnealistcr am Mooriiwi ToriifiliM'd. l.ondoii, Nov. 10.?The Hritisl ' steamers Californian, a vessel o j 0.223 tons; the Clan Macalister am j the Moorina have been sunk, j The Californian was a Leylam , Line steamer of 6,223 tons gross reg j ister, 447 feet long, 53 feet beam am i 30 i'eet depth, built at Dundee it 1902. Many months ago she wa taken over by the British for govern ment service. The Californian figured in the Ti tanic inquiry, having been near th scene of the wreck, but not havini gone to the rescue. Lord Mersey, ii presenting the judgment of the Brit ish board of trade court uf inouir Into the; disaster, mentioned the Call fornian as having seen the Titanic' signals at a distance of eight or tei miles, and declared she could hav reached the liner without serious rial ! and have saved many lives. The Cal I iforuian master, in a subsequen i statement, declared that the signal ] from the Titanic had not been recog ntzed by the officers as distress sig iiuUs. The Moorina was in the service o the British government, and ther are no records of her recent move ments. Ilcr net tonnage was 3.15S J The MacalUter, 4,835 tons grost was owned in Glasgow. She wa built in 1903 and was last reporte at I,ondon on September 13. VILLA'H MKN FALLING A WAV. Dcwrtfr"! t'ontlnue to Join Genera Carranin's Army. Douglas, Ariz., Nov. 11.?Genera Alvaro Obregon left here today fo Nogales. Villa destrters continue t i arrive both in T>o"g'as pihi in Agu I'rieta, just across the border. Ger fallen is granting ainnes?v to prison era. The deserters usually join th Carranza ranks AN AMERICAN SNIP I SEARCHED IN PORT British Landing Party Search Zcalandia at Prog re so, Mexico. MAY SEIZE THE VESSEL. I /ealiiiidia Has Been Behaving Bather P??"uUarly of l.ntc and May Have Trans({n'ssc(l Uws. Washington, Nov. 10.?Great Britain was formally asked today by the United Stntes for information concerning the recent search of the American ship Zealandia in the Mexican port of I'rogreso by a landing party from a British cruiser. Ambassador Page was inatruced to make the inquiry through the UonAon foreign office. A report from American Consul John W. Gannon at Progreso seated 1 that the Zealandia was forcibly searched last week by men from a British cruiser now lying outside the harbor, presumably waiting to seize the vessel. In the absence of complete data stato department officials were not inclined to comment on the case lint it was indicated that it might develop new points in the neutrality situation prompting Mexico as well as I the United States to enter protest to I Great Britain. i i i The Zealandia figured much of late J in reports of the investigations of j Britisli agents who were on the trail . of ships supposed to be fitting out in , he United States for attacking oil . carrying ships from Mexican fields , where the British navy draws a great proportion of its supply of fuel oil. The Zealandia lias no change of s registry involved as has been the ens'1 , of many other American ships sinc? i the beginning of .'lie war, but originally was a Hr aiian ship whicli a came under the American tlag at tin t time of the annexation. On October 7 the Zealandia mys 1 teriously left I'ensacola, Fla., ai 2 night, clearing for Tampico. Mexico .: ?nrrving a large stock of provision? ' and manned principally by a crew <>; ? Germans. An American tiag painted on her hull had been painted over and I was reported that while at son sin r Mew ihe Oerman colors, although thn 1 was flatly denied by her owners. The ship moved from Tampico t< t'ampeche where British agents re aorted she bore a large quantity ol | rosin.for which there was no osten . slide use in Mexico although it is used largely for making shrapnel. Thej j also reported their suspicious thai she bore a large quantity of coppei and the British view was that tin 1 ship was waiting for an opportunitj f to slip out with the cargo for somi 1 port where it would find its way tc Great Britain's enemies. i Nothing further of her movement) ^ was reported until today. The for t cible searching of an American shij s In a neutral port probably wouh constitute one of the most serioui issues to arise between the UMtei States and Great Britain it! the con p troversy now in the channels of dip lomacy over the British navy's con ^ duct toward American shipping While awaiting further details ofTi cials wore silent. A thorough investi gation will be made. s In the event that it should de u velop that the Mexican port authori (> ties had no means of resisting th< ^ entry of the British seamen, the goo< . ofllces of the United States to preven t a recurrence of such incidents migh s lie enlisted by Mexico. It was suggested here today that i the Zealandia was armed for rnidin; purposes, her sojourn beyond the 24 f hour limft in a neutral port, especial e ly where the authorities were power >- less to intern her. might be advance, i. as a justification for entering the ter i, ritorial waters to seize the vessel s Mere suspicion that a merchant ahi| d is armed, however, is not regarded bj officials here as sufficient ground fo such action. MORK TALK ON KITtTIHKKK. >1 Asquitlt Again Declares lie Did No i! design. ii* London, Nov. 11.?To make th< o matter quite clear Premier Asquitl 0 stated in the house of commons to 1 night K!eld Marshal Karl Kitchener i- secretary of state for war. had neve e tendered his resignation either t< King George or to the premier. ANNUAL MEETING OF A. R. P. SYNOD i ? One Hundred and Twelfth Session Opens With Rev. (i. (J. Parkinson as Moderator. WELCOME TO DUE WEST, i Opening Sermon Preached l>y the Itev. It. II. tJrlor ol' Camden, Alabama. Due West Special to The State, Nov. 11.?The Synod ot' the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church began its 112th session Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. The oncninu sermon was preached by the Rev. II. H. Clrier of Camden. Ala. His text was John 2:24. Ho discussed faith and what it is. After the sermon the Rev. (J. f*. Parkinson. L>. D., the moderator, came forward and took up the organization of the Synod. After this he thanked the Synod for the honor it had conferred on his in making him moderator and introduced the moderator-elect, the Rev. W. M. Hunter. I). D., Little Rock, Ark. After the making of announcements the Svnod adjourned until 3 o'clock. At the evening session the reports i of the various committees were made land topics relating to business were I discussed. At the close of the meeting J. ?K. McDonald of Winnshoro made a motion to the effect that the students of the Woman's College '.to given a holiday during the Synod, i It was passed, and Dr. Robinson, 1 president of the college, was notified Iof this action of the Synod. Dr. Robinson gave a reception at 1 the Woman's College to the members J I of the Synod, the visitors and the poo ! pie of Due West. The students of Krskine also gave a reception. !| The Synod met Wednesday even ! ing. The subject under discussion i | was "Home Missions and Church Ex | tension." The Rev. K. P. Lindsay presided and made the introductory -| address, in the absence of the Rev. t T. H. McDill. The Rev. It. (1. Miller. , D. I).. Sardis, X. made an address ? on "The Needs of Homo Missions and *, Church extension." The Rev. W. M I Hunter. D. I).. Little Rock, Ark., 1 made ail address on "Tim Iiniurnto of the vy?rk of Homo Missions and Church Extension." Alter these addrosses there was a general discussion , | of the subject. Short talks on the .1 subject were made by the Kev. I. S i Caldwell, the Rev. \V. \V. Orr. 1). I)., . i Charlotte, N. ('., and K. C. Stuart, I ( Harlow, Pla. i About 200 delegates and visitors Lj have arrived and more are expected. r Places for all the delegates and visi, tors were furnished in the homes of r the people of Due West. Some of , them are being entertained at the , Woman's College and the college home. 5 WANTS CHANGE IN METHODS. 1 County KiiKinecr of Spartanburg 1 Makes Some Suggestions, * Spartanburg, Nov. 10,?A radical 1 change in the methods of maintain" ing the highways of Spartanburg * county is suggested by Hickman " Stribling, the county engineer, in a * letter to the. members of the county * j legislative delegation, for their con"jsideration in connection with their plans for the coming session of the -1 general assembly. Mr. Stribling suggests thai the , maintenance of the county roads be i taken out of the hands of the county I ehaingang, since these bodies are I not mobile enough, instead, the entire ehaingang organization, he sugf goats, should be placed on permanent r1 grading and top-soiling of roads, and _ j II mnni!V flind h?? eillmf if III ? /! tr\r !?,. . | rhaingang work in road malnten. I nnoe. 1 lte< all Petition l'|? to Governor. Columbia, Nov. 10. -A petition 5'asking a recall election for Mayor . John F. Floyd and ('otinrilmon C. It. r Waller and John II. Fielder of Hpari tanhurg has been filed with Governor Manning by citizens of Spartanburg ' The petition Is signed by 392 persons, ; of whom 312 are said to be qualified t electors. Mayor Floyd called at the gover0 nor's office yesterday and made a 1 copy of the petition and the signa tores. He declared that he was not worried. Councilman Waller is head r, of the chemistry department at Wof?' ford College. Mr. Fielder Is a merj chant. I I KM XT IlKTIILKIIKM. Machine Shop Destroyed Willi an l'',s finiiit?mI l.oss ol' Millions. South Ik'lhelehein, I'a.. Nov. in. Fire virtually destroyed the No. machine shop of the llethelehen Steel Company here today with an es timatcd loss of from $1,000,000 t? $4,000,000. The building destroyed was recent ly reconstructed and equipped will machinery at a cost of about $:i,000, t?00. Fight hundred guns amoni oilier war material were in proeesi of manufaeture in the shop. The company issued a statemen that the fire was due to a crossei eleetrie light wire circuit. FINANCIAL LOAD OF GREAT BRIT Alls War is Now Costing KnKlaml $21, 750,(MK) I tally?Cause of tl?e Increase. Loudon, Nov. 10.?Premier As quith was to have asked the hous of commons today for a vote o credit of $2,000,000,000, but som unexpected development preventer him from taking this action, whicl was pcstnoned until tomorrow. Th Premier, however, made his expectei statement in regard to the tinaneia situation and impressed upon the na ti mi the net. s.cty of a careful inn; banding of its resources. Including the new vote of credi to be asked tomorrow the Premie pointed out the total amount al'ote for war purposes will be $8,111 0,000, 000. lie presented figures showing tlta the government had a sufficient su.i hit over from the previous %?.i> t finance the war to the third .veek .) November. | i lie approximate daily cost of tli | war between September 12 and Nc j vember was given by Mr As<;i:ith a ' $21.7G0.000. It rose to this tiger ' from $13,400,000 in the earlier pai I of the financial year. Loans advanced by (Ireat l'ritai i to her allies and dominions bet wee ! April 1 and November ?i. Mr. A; , quith said, amounted to 08,000,00 pounds. In (he same period 23,eon 000 pounds was expended for l'oo supplies and miscellaneous items The main caiisos of increase in iti cost of the war Mr. As<|Uith contii u< il. were the great expenditures f< munitions and the advances to (1 re; Britain's allies and dominions. II could hold out no hope that there wa any immediate likelihood of a d? crease in those two items. On the contrary they were like! to increase. | MlhlTVin IMtKI'AltKDNKSS. I Is u Commercial NwrstiUy, Say s K< ward F. Mf8?wnpy. j Savannah, Ga., Nov. 10.?Militai preparedness, urged as a commercli necessity and for national surety I Senator Willard Saulsbury of Del; ware and an attack on the LaFo lette seamen's act as a means whit would "enable Great Britain and J pan to monopolize the seas" by Ei ward F. McSweeney, chairman of tl directors of the port of Boston, fe ! tured the sessions of the conventic | of the Atlantic Deeper Waterwa: | Association here today. Delegations began bidding for tl next convention today, and Bosto Trenton and Baltimore were favo I ably mentioned. Mr. McSweeney also declared ; iiis address that while Germany at j England at present were maroont j commercially and industrially tl j end of the war would bring them t gotlier again, "with the United Stati as the common foe the easy mat of the seven seas." Senator Saulsbury in diseussit the American situation, said. "\\ cannot count on our conscious rect tinle of action or intention to prote us from the hatred of the bellige ents." He declared that America's asse ! lions of its rights as a neutral pro ably would incur the enmity of nisi of the righting powers. I "There will come a time," he sai I "when we must stand prepared i 1 isist aggression." Number Saved 1147. Washington, Nov. 11.?The sta j department received a eabiegra | from American Consul White, at "N i pies today saying that the "Socle Italia" ia.vs 347 passengers and < r> of the Ancona are reoorted as savi i?t of 406 and that the steamship ? liciais believe that more will he r | ported *aved. _ V -a*. A .A J A % I 1 SOME AMERICANS i AMONG THE LOST i About 27 Relieved to Have Perished on the Italian Steamer Ancona. . i HUT VERY LITTLE TENSION l Si Washington Inclined to < rod it Story of I.inn's Attempt to Hscnpe l I Pursuer. 1' Washington, Nov. 10.?About 27 Americans are believed to have been lost with the torpedoed Italian liner Ancona, according to a cablegram toT 1 night front Ambassador Page at I Home. Tlte ambassador said the - probable victims of the tragedy were Alexander Patattivo, his wife and four children of New York, and Mru. Frances Mascolo I .am u m ami ohmit e 20 unnamed third class passengers, f Mrs. Cecil L. Griel (first reported 0 Grey) was named as the one know* American survivor among the pasli sengers. e No further word came from Abv d bassador Puge during the night. 1 Secretary Lansing kept in touch with the telegraph office of the state department until nearly midnight, hoping that additional dispatches t' would tell definitely of the fate of r | the missing Americans and throw I 1 some light on the manner in which .! the Ancona was attacked. Such inj formation as lias been received has I caused officials to regard it as pracI tfoully certain that the liner was at| tempting to escape when she was sent to the bottom. For tiiis reason in spite of the evident feeling over the I loss of American lives, so far there ' I has been an absence of the tension I !n olficial circles which was apparent S| after the destruction of the Lusitania | and the Arable. News dispatches ; which referred to the shelling of tho Ancona by the Austrian submarine II led to the belief generally among 11 'iltlrials that the Italian vessel ig* nored warnings and attempted to " escape. This, in the view of this " government, would justify a sulimarine commander in the use of force. Should it develop that no warning . was given a note demanding disul" .owal. reparation and assurances that " he incident would not bo repeat- I would ho sent to Austria Otlicials ? made it clear they did not consider IS that Austria was legally hound by " exchanges between her aliv (erniaiiy. and the United States. If the Austrian commander gave warning and torpedoed the Ancona j only iifter she endeavored to escape, it is unlikely that the question of I. j submarine operations will become a , subject of diplomatic correspondence with Austria. It was pointed out today that tho )y usual assumption was that a nation ft-J would comply with international law ,1- i and that in the absence of a specific h ' violation there would be no ground ft.! for inquiry as to a government's tail : tentions. ie; Ambassador Page and American a- | consuls throughout Italy were in)D I structed today by Secretary I^anslng ys i to cable immediately all information J they could gather concerning the torlolpedoing of the Ancona and to ascern, | tain particularly whether any AmeTir i cans were lost. in I VU OIOI IIKAI/TII KFdil'LATIONH id Physicians Declare That Eventually Malaria Will l??* Stainp<Ml flut. 0. Dallas, Texas, Nov. 10.?Means of Ps eradicating malaria, the tonsils as a j- source oiy infectitm for tuberculosis and other diseases, and the need of m aniform health laws in the Smith were discussed at today's sessions of i-'the Southern Medical Association, ^ ft meeting here in annual convention. r. Several physicians declared that malaria eventually would be stamped r- out, but none would predict when tho b- task would be accomplished. Tho iy discussion centered principally in tho etllcacy of the injection of quinine di <1,, reeled m the veins as a means ?or to | Quickly curing persons aflerted and preventing them from becoming car! riers of the disease. t? | M? . Whitloek to lieturii. in! Washington, Nov. 11.?Secretary a-! l.ans'iiR announced today that he e\ta peeted American Minis-e- Whitloek wj would return to HrimseU after his ed I vacation in the Untied states, thus ) -1 setting at rest reports that Mr. Whit e lock would go to Ha\re scat of tho | R-Marian government