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STATION OPERATED I BY UNITED STATES: c ACTION TAKEN TO INSURE AGAINST VIOLATIONS OF ] NEUTRALITY. < Washington, July 8.?American j naval officers today took charge of the powerful wireless plant of the ? Atlantic tommunicauun v/umpa?j i at Sayville, Long Island, which will i be operated by the government until < the close of the European war to in- < sure against violations of neutrality. * This i^ one of the two stations in the 1 United States maintaining direct communication with Germany. The 1 other, at Tuckerton, N. J., has been 1 under control of the navy depart- ' ment since last fall. ( Captain William Bullard, superin- 1 tendent of the naval radio service, took over the Sayville station, pre- ' - - * senting a letter to tne owners irum Secretary Daniels. He is empowered 1 Ito /make all preliminary arrangements for the collection of tolls and management of the plant, and will use Jus discretion in deciding whether to retain part of the present force . or iman the station with all navy j operators. iPcot??t M?r?ly Formal. ^ Authority to assume control of ra- ^ dio stations and turn over the pro- } ceeds of the business to the private j owners was given the navy depart* * " J 2?...J 3 meat by an executive oraer issucu soon after the war began. It is un- . derstood here the protest filed by the SayvQle owners is merely a formal action for the protection of legal rights and will not be pressed in an effort to interfere with the government's policy. 1 Although there have been reports of unneutral cryptic messages sent from Sayville to be picked up by submarines or other vessels at sea, in spite of the presence of naval censors, no charges cf violations of neutrality have reached the navy department. Action Beconiei !Nece??arjr. Secretary Daniels, in announcing i|! i|| 1 1 BmLlirwv I uuiiuiug I III ij: ||i WiI1 !'!; ? '& I : | It will provide a c | | It is the most ren i| | It provides for sa if | It provides an eas if * ? It provides a func It is the best pOJ J for hard time Building I ft. A. Nftnfter. |!| i Preside <! *b <> <,' a ]|| i|| 1 ' ' iie taking over of the plant today, E lerely said the action had become ecessary on account of the refusal f Secretary Redfield, of the departnent of commerce, to issue a license c; o its owners. The station has been r >perating under a temporary ar- I angement. e In a leter to the navy department, * Mr. Redfield recited the fact that the P plant was German-owned, communicated with a plant in Germany con- 8 trolled by the imperial government, * was provided with its highpowered s lending apparatus after the war be- a ?an, and had in charge of its experi- v nental work Captain Sennick, of the * German marine service. Under such a circumstances, Secretary Redfield said, to grant the station a license v would be an unneutral act. t Regulations now in force at Tuckerton will be applied at Sayville. No r 2ode dispatches will be handled un- 1 [ess the officers in charge are provi- 1 ded with the cipher key, and there ^ will be liberal paraphrasing to pre- * yent the possibility of secret codes being used. * COTTON CROP OF 1914 LARGEST EVER PRODUCED * Washington, July 8.?The Ameri:an cotton crop of 1914 was the largest ever produced, having reached ^ 16.134,930 equivalent 500-pound j bales, which, if placed end to end, ^ would reach more than half round 2 the world at the equator. These fft/iov Kv flip OAfl. OtUIVUUVVW VVWWJ *..v W. 5us bureau, constitute the government's final report. They remove any doubht whether last year's crop sxceeded the former record crop of 1911 and show that 442,229 equivalent 500-pound bales more were ?rown last year than in 1911. Linter cotton, now being used extensively in manufacturing shells for , ' -l 1 WA1 An A Dig guns, amounted lu bales, making a total production of 1 16,926,394 equivalent 500-pound bales of cotton, including linters. Texas alone produced more than jne-fourth of the crop?4,592,112 bales?Georgia, one-sixth of the :rop, 2,718,037 bales. Those states with Alabama, South Carolina, Okla- ( homa and Mississippi, produced i more than four-fifths of the entire ^ crop. ' 11 ? WHAT THE and Loan Ass A? A LLA?:il^ WA rtUUtVIIIC I Do For 1 apital to start you in busine umerative depository for yo ying money usually wasted. ;y way to procue a home, i for the education of your c ssible medium for providinj s and old age. ; and Loan Ass Of Abbeville J. s. /lit s< ?wv>f/y>^^f^/vyyyyvW^'/fyyyw^ywvyy^yvy XIPECTS MR. BRYAN TO ENDORSE WILSON I Washington, July 9.?The fact ame to light today that former Secetary of State William Jennings Irvan is on record favoring the exmption of President Wilson from he one-term pledge of the Baltimore latform. Representative Carlin, of Verinia, for a time acting chairman of he House Judiciary committee, in a tatement today, made it clear that i letter from Mr. isryan is on nie irhicK will prevent the commoner rom raising the one-term issue gainst President Wilson. Mr. Carin has just returned from Annapolis irhere he has been appearing before he midshipmen court of inquiry. "President Wilson will be renomilated and re-elected," said Mr. Carin. "The Republicans have no man o match him, and I expect him to lave an easy return to the White louse." 2RUISER AMALFI IS SUNK BY SUBMARINE iociation | YOU ' ss- | f: ur surplus. | |: :hildren. | i|| g a reserve fund | | lociation I 1 Morse, jc. and Treas. | "iriit Serious Loss Sustained by the Italian Nary. London, July 8..?The Italian navy las suffered its first serious loss, an Austrian submarine having torpeloed the cruiser Amalfi in the Adriitic. Most of the crew were saved. This is the second allied warship o fall victim to an Austrian underwater craft. The French cruiser jeon Gambetta earlier in the war was caught in the Ionian Sea. The commander, who was the last o leave, slipped overboard shortly tefore the Amalfi sank. Nearly all he officers and crew were saved. All the belligerents are rapidly milling submarines and it is retorted that Austria has nine at Pola done. Thus the Italian ships will un serious risks in moving about he waters of the Adriatic, which ire well suited to the submersibles. ' Dalty Thought Mm Imagine that they communicate Jielr virtue or their vice only by overt ictlons, and do not see that virtue or rice emits a breath every moment.? fl. W. Emereon. I ?!' I ' /2 72 I i . ii! i I ! .11 1 Philson <! 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