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f VOLUME 1, NUMBER 212 Weaklr, ErtaUIikei 1M0| DmDy, Jaa.lt, Itu, ANDERSON, S. C., SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1914 PRICE FIVE CENTS 85.00 PER ANNUM DECISIVE BATTLE IS NOW ONLY A MATTER OF DAYS J i I I II I ?? I ITT No Victory is Yet Reported On Land or Sea ALL CLAIM GAINS i Large Masses of German Cavalry N^ar Lille Hardly ten Minutes Froom the Belgian Fr?ntier That the battle between the allies and the. Germans to the north of the river Oise is growing more and more violent is the only state ment that has been permitted to dinnow through the sieve of official secrecy concerning the conditions prevailing on that part of the long battle line in France upon which, the eyes of the world are focused. The report of the French war office makes no mention. whether progress is being made, by either side in this zone where for days the armies have been battling desperately. The statement is made that the allies have gained a little ground oh the northern heights of the Meuse. On the center of the battle line comparative calm prevails. No mention was made in the statement concerning the strong forces of Granan cavalry previously reported operating in the de partment of Nord, nor was anything said of the situation at Antwerp, against which the Gtririans ?re operating. A news agency dispatch said, "however, that the militry movement of Antwerp had reported to the burgomaster of Antwerp that a bombardment of the city was 'jTiminent. Both Germany and Russia continue to report successes in East Prussia and Galicia, thus leaving the situation in these spheres of Warfare in doubt. The French, a$ an off-set to previous similar action on the part of the Austrians, hav? p???^i^kic^ ii? thc Adriatic ir? ? rope which comprises "all Austrian' water and' the channels between the island and tfte-tt?tsA?? Dalm?tl?." 1 '." ..?.'.""; ? A Berlrri -dispatch says.; , - < "The1 increased Turkish navy, it is ^pe^'sopp yto\\U *flmg in the Blafiki sea." No?*planat??nof the statement was vouchsafed. A rwrws-agency-dfcpatetf fr?rti E?rcl??u ' announces fh?f1 hum ber of imnorjanf.tfuu^ffi^feei .made, in;.:p^)c|n?ny army com mands. \0^,,hi?, ,r,;v fo-MM H---t\*l"V\:V-: : . ,. ??J .-H'MIH" .). jf.'.-'i I . . . An-epidemlo of .dysentery has br?k'?n outnamong the Austrian troops in<.Bohcrtiifl[,iand M/?'fSv??. "Great1 Britain has prohibited the exportation of raw wnnl. Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the British admiralty, is said to be at Antwerp consulting with the Belgian chief of staff. The Washington government is still without officia! advices concerning the l?riding of Japanese bluejackets on the Islandrof Ja^ luit in the Marshall archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. LONDON, Oct. 6.-The sixty-third day of the great ?uropean v/ar was a repetition of what the peoples of all the countries, con cerned have forced themselves to expect, perhaps for months to come -no decisive conflict on land or sea. ' From Berlin to London came nothing in the way of German claims to_ progress, or reverses. "From Petrograd came what has tlowed wnTl?V?t ?rit?ir?p'MoV? w.e*ks^r-con$istent claims of.progress lor Russian axrnsw (WM^ oair. *-J ?..-..... -.r. : \ From Paris, at" the usual mld-gfternooB hour, was issued the usual commbh?tat^ along the battle lin??$f \{]& y^?m^fi?tre flfwarJn the light of those opposing the German,invsasian;i ?tfeer?'-wereTh the closely worded statement, cryptic to aw catenas'alway*, hints''of "a gre&jer diversity of opera tions than it ordinai%Tamtatns. ^ . Above all.^^e^he^Seoifcitf^hat was described as large masses of German cavalry near Lille, hardly ten minutes ftom the Belgian frontiei, as the crow flies, and behind them German forces k moving on a line between Tourcoing and Armentieres? the latter point right at the Belgian border. At the same ?me the official eo.nrnunica*i'm makes it plain that the allies have not been Idt? and have been extending their lins on Sie left wing more anri more widely. Blow for blow evidently is* tyeing ealt around Arras, the scencn of sanguinary fighting recently. At Soissons, where the alHes recently cleared the German trenches, according to the announcement they have pressed their advantage by making a slight advance. Noyon forms the elbow from which the allied line sweeps eastward. Some advance by the allies also is re Antwerp adylces say that in an official communicator, the mil ported at B>rry-Au-3ac. itary govefftrneftthas?ijtformed the burgomaster that a bombardment of Ant%?? fe imminent ;;> The British press t?kes occasion to emphasise that while thc battle of tfle;-#sne holds first claim in the matfer of a sentimental Interest, the *igau tte operations of the Russian, "German and Aus trian armiosin the east may bring the solution of the war first, Petr^fad bfnc??l'?U^ments continue to repeat In a general wav what has b&h ?^fcW?ere as a fact ioT d*ys that the German army along the* Hast Prussian frontier, has be?n ; outed more Or less and cut to pieces, but as this is onfy a small portion of the front it Is ex ceedingly hard to get anything like a clear cut perspective of the con flict. % What purports to be an official dispatch from Vienna insists in broad terms that the condition of the German and Austrian annies both In Poland and Galicia is favorable and that in attempting to breast the Carpathians at Uzsok pass the* Russians htve been beaten .'Breasting the Carpathians ?nd pouring on to the plains of.Hun gary" by the Muscovites has been so often referred to that it U be coming trite/ and the fact Tcmains that, generally speaking, aside from the defeat u? Renmfnkampff's army in the early ?ages of t^e wa?* & {Conilfsuod os Paaa 2.) \ ijF^ST FKOTOGR?PH SHOWSS RHEirV?s CATHEDRAL DAMAGED, NOT DESTROYED. . Here ?s the first photograph to reach this country of the cathedral at Rheims after it had been r*n < shelled by the Germans, thr e*e weeks ago. The Germans took as their provocation for making the cathedral their target, the alleged f?ct that the French were using the cathedral towers as obser vat ion posts. The historic edifice was boirtbarded despite the fact that two Red Cross flags were dis played, one front each of the towers. Many wounded Germans being treated by French surgeons in side the cathedral were killed by the shells of. their countrymen. This picture shows daylight show H1& through the towers where the roof of the cathedral was carried away by the enemy's fire. 1 lUlliMU?E I Attendanco.ror A?rst Day of Ap- |W Fflt ?lMi^ RiSlflOvP patachian Association m **? VvJwUlflllir ? ; Broke Record*. -fyA McADOO NOW IS AFTER __ t ^^?L ^ Saki SOME mm maim ?* s.-T ^^AS^^S? PEOPLE. 'eit'f?l de? attendance In its history. GENERAL ASpEMB?X QJlci _ the .Southern Appalachian Good Reads . WHO ARE HOARDING A?!6Qfiatlon TTened h*T this even LENGTHY MESSAGfc ? >"*^*- " ? w^T**~*^** IT.S ?OF iw mun annum maning, in ?. " calling the hedy to order President - Secretary Says There Is No Rea- j08opy Hyde Pratt, of Chapel Hill. Of 15 Bills Introduced in Hon son Why Conditio?* Should N*. c.'read a telegram of greeting for First Day, Only Six Touch? Not Be Normal from President Wilson, in which he ed On Cotton Question. Washington O t ?-'"rh s cvl ?xPr**?*ed jhe h?P? thal nieeting * -- lenee la m?e qu'artora th"! ?nd??l- <would *? * successful one in lu of- Columbia, Oct. 6.-Beyond orgw Inala and 'corporations are hoarding forts to got not only better roads in atlon, receiving two messages fro; noneyr lt ls Juet as reprehenslve the Southern Appalachian section but the Governor and referring 16 ne '0rJLM?5. to do so as ft hr l?r the, ^tter med management and better ""?TO ^HT1",^ ?anka," declared Secretary McAdoo of ? ^t^^^ZT Vi,? " positive natbre ?cctimpliah?d nothli he tteaaary'department, id i state- TO*a ^wtooanee. The t?asoclatlon on rat day of the extra ?rdihai sent issued tonight. w'1< ?ive .epecial Attention to tho session- Of the bills Introduced todi "There 1? nb reason/' he, continued, problem of eonaeciiog up high way? e!? r? -not bear in ito r^r?oie??. ? .why Peopleohoald not.deposit money ?"a building them throaah moon, ???" of the emerge la the bants lb the nattai 'way and , , ^ .< * , "T cy which confronta the cotton gT irtth ^S ^naenc^ counties ,-nade so sparcely set- er8f ^pvo?0gtr the'only excuse U ls no reason why business .-?boula' not M**1 *ba* outelde aid is needed. preent session hes for being In exl to conducted in a norma} wav." | Ex-Governor John I. Cox. of Ten- J tence. The other , nine bille treat ya Th- *t*icm?K says the'following nes*#s, aa? that after tho war in "Sa-iious P"?**? "f >?S situation fnciu rates have been charged ^by banka ^M hliW?b-?,. n. ,?,""."f lD? a-croage reduction, a warehou bteeptitajegceptteuat cases- * hundreds of tbouaand* of peo-L^tca *nd the extension of time f In New York, 6 per ?st chics- f** would caroo tc th's country to cs- r-syinr. tasca for .314. P>, 7 per cent; fet. Louis, fi and 7 ?P* i??? staggering burden of pay- The House r?celvtd a volumlno |i?r cent; Bosloh, s per cent Phil- lug for the war and that the Southern message from tho Governor in a pai lelphia, 6 per. cent. Appalachian r?gion sbo-ild build good hhlet, containing 104 pages, an ea The statement, announces that no road? t oatt raft these people. Delega- mated total of over 41,000 words. T more lists of banks earning rxeca- tJotm are herc from Alabama, Geer- last two or throe pages ot the mi il?e reserves will be mid? public for gta. Sooth Carolina, North Carolina, sage contained suggestions simili the preent because there is evidence Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and to those embodied in the pmclan that a more liberal di?r?altL>u is be- Weat Virginia lion catling the special session. T lng manifested. -other hundred pages of the mesas "I have * joug ltet,** it '<r?Jt?9 on, tereet rate baa been put up. arbitrar- were a ramollng re-htwh of So? 'which are holding errMBfiSresen- <ly by the concerted action of the Carolina poMtlcs, newspaper eib ?a and I abell not hesMate to publish banks. There ls po iutincation for and Uko matters, vienfed from t /. high interest rates. There '.a nc real well known angle of the Governor. "In a number of ^ic^M^^Hh have -?Mpn for tight money lr* this coun- was not laid on the desks of ? Men brought to sly notice' : the in- try." (Continues on Page Tnreo.) ' j-'.-? " -"'ri ? ' ' ' '...'';. .': . I NORTHERN FIRNIS ARE LENDING THEIR AID WILL BUY COTTON IN AN DERSON COUNTY. - TWO FIRMS HELP Victor Talking Machine Company Has Authorized Anderson Man to "Buy-a-Bale" Here. Two well known Northern busings houses li ii vi? agreed to lend U;6:r ni i in the "Buy-A-Balo" movement which lias been launched for the purpose ot helping the cotton farmers of the South. C" F. Spearman of the firm of Wil lis & Spearman, Anderson repr?sen tatives of tho Victor Talking Machin? Company, yesterday received a letter from that company In which the big linn instructed him to buy a balo af Anderson cotton for them at 10 cents per pound. The letter which Ur. Spearman ?received, similar to that sent to the other several thousand Victor dealers in the cotton bait; ?ays: "You may buy from a producer In your locally, for our account, a bale af compressed cotton of approximate ly 509 pounds la weight, to grada "mid lllng" or. better, at 10 cents per pound. "You are to ship the bala?' kia freight, to the Victor Talking Ma chine Company, ca. e of is'oKuwestern Warehouse, North Penn Junction, Philadelphia, Pa," When tin? ract is considered that .this welt knqwn company' has h?hdr?d? of Southern agencies; tt will be * ben that thia Inbolv?a a^trenvendous expenditure on -the part of Ihe' Vl?tpr company. ; Fpr every 50,0001 shells purchased trora the' E. Du Pont de Nemours Pow der, company the hem wi ll.'purchase ?ne'bale of cotton in the section where the powder is sold, according to a Storv raoentlV rnrrlo.l tn ?Ko Ch?T???tC Dally Observer. This will mean of course that thia 'Arm wiU purchase several bales in Anderson for the dove snnirrol. rabbit ?nil iiiinM. hunters Will burn much good powder during the coming season. The story as carried by the Obser er follows: "Mr. William C. C. Vanneman, the North Carolina agent for the E. du Pont de Nemours Powder comnany. with headquarters' in Cb .rio'*., has received offlclal notice tror. his com pany that it has been instrumental In taking about 6,009 halos, of cotton off tba maJfket from customers ut' ip, cents a pdU?Q, tho amount of money being Insetted on properly bandied waro onee certificates. Mr. .Vanneman has ht? received word .from the jobbers; in ho trade that beginning October l, he firm will buy a bale of cotton at 10 cents for every 60,000 shel h of powder, either smokeless or black that ls beUfht in the cotton, growing States This la merely an Instance of the Interest that continues to be manifest In the buy a' bale movement which la ?till being rapidly pushed throughout the South, Southern newspaper* con tlan elaborate accounts of large cor yurutiuiia co?iibg into the movement I ??U SO ia? M tuv 1?V?I r>i! mii i-.Jii IB ' concerned, Mr. C. C. Hook, president of the Greater Charlotte club, states that he proposes to continue identification of the club with the proposition for the reason that Interest In .the buy and hold proposition seems to bo at lu height. HOKE* SWEET HOVE i ? .'' - No Men Will V. 8. A. Hear ef W. Bas test Bey ii* (By Associated Press.) Ne?? York, Cat 3.-A. Rusten? Bey, Turkish ambassador to the United States who announced recently- he would return to his country because rf .abactions raised by the adminis tration at Washington to certain of pasease oboard the ?teamer Stam ps! la, sailing tomorrow for Naples, i, ; i ,.i,. ? t OOOOOOOOOOOOOOJOOj I RETURN TO PARIS. o o LONDON. Oct. 7.-3r45 o o a. ssw -Ahe French govern-.o o.ment w?l? ratons ia Paris.o o Wednesday or Thursday, ac- o o cording to the Paris corre- o o spondeat ol the Express who o o makes this anno<mcement osa o a high authority. o 0 . , ? o O o o O O O O O ? o o o o o o o o DOLLARS COLLECTED tEVENUE ?AX GOVERNMENT PREPARING TO MAKE UP DEFICIENCY TO TAX LIQUORS Caucus Has Struck Out Automo bile Sales Tax, Which Would Have Yielded $10,000,000. .Washington, Oct. G.-UqudrB would boar the heaviest burden ot the $100, 000,000 war revenue tax as lt I?'be ing revised by the caucus of Ssnato Democrats which began work today on the fljnance committec'a dra't Ot the bill. ? The first action ot the caucus , waa to rote an increase la tho pro poped rrira tax on beer from 50. cents to 75 cents a barrel, to make the to talit?r $1.75 a barrel, with a draw back of 5 per cent for parchase of 'revenue stamps In advance The amendment urged by Senator WSUlams, of Mississippi, was.' car ried by a large majority after Sen ator Stone had made s vigorous speech against lt. A special revenue tax on rectifiers ot distilled spirits of five cents a gallon also was adopted. Together the proposed taxes on li quors would yield sn annual revenue V of more than $60,000,000. Democrats of the finance committee bad agreed to the Honse tax ot 91.50 a barrel on beer, which would yield at 50 cents over the normal tax, an added revenue of $32,5O0jPO0 annu. ally, tfhe further addition ea ?5 cents a barrel by the Senate ifemoarats would yield another $16,000,000, With the five per cent discount for ?*ompt . payment loured, the least to Tx? de rived from neer. would be approxi mately $46.000.000. The proposed l,jfclMJ?IJVa???llllS ? gallon on ?-eetified ?atfw^wfer . experts estimate, would yield $0,000, 000. Thus'-thefitdtaJ to be derived from liquors woujd he more than half the anticipated treasury deficit caused by . th? European war.. . ? , ? . When tue caucas con venad th? first amendment ocered was by Senator Williams to Increase the levy on beer (? $1-76 a barre!. Senator Hollis ot New Hiunpshire. ioc-ved, P.? 1 S?lb?tl l?t. 4h.? ?i.? ?~- ---?- - ? rei. This waa voted down after pro longed debate. ' Before any voices were taken, how* ever, there was general dfectisslscs of tho proponed tax of one cent a gallon.on gasoline, the 50 cent norse- > power tax'on automobile ?a?c?, ??d the House bill tax of $2 a tbettSSnd on bank capital and surplus. Numerous amendments were offered which were diseased In detail at the night sea-' sion. After discussion the caucus struck out the, automobile sale? tax which, 4_ lt ls estimated, .would hays ,t??*eg . ^ about tlO.OOO.OOO.- ' The caucas also revised the tax on1 :1,1 1 banking capital. : ! > , '. As trained by the Senate, committee the Wli nould have levied $2 for every, . ..,. .. thousand ot banking capital and. sur plus. . This rate j was reduced! tb '$1 per thousand by a-vote of 26'to ll. RESERVE BOARD MAY CREATE FUND oanxers oe mtacue west iwea to Outline Plas For Raising Big Som. Washington, Oct. 6- The federal reserve board took steps today to give tts approval to the plan proposed by bankers of the middle wert to ie lleve conditions In the cotton t .atfcj* through s $160.000,000 loan fondvWeV tus J. Wade of St Louis, end other bankers who helped form the fUff were asked, to como to Was ingron. for a conference, a? ?czr. s ^nven-r tent, and lt ls possWn ti la -wilt eel ve the approval of the hoard. Tho board appointed Garetear amltn, Paul M. Warburg and W. P. Gi. Harding members ot a coro mitttee to talk with the banker?. Al though board members have no knowledge of the details ot the plan, it was beloved to&irfti Ut&t ut itfiu clple it was agreeable as? that ?alees there are unlooked for pbalaese lt wi be endorsed Domestic Sefeaee et Aaaereea Colloq Several ladles ot the etty have In dicated their intention et attending the class In Domestic Safaos provided for them at Anderea* College. . fha oleas will meet once a week, probably on Monday or Tuesday afternoon Tao cost for attending this coarse for * half year la $12.60, the students to SC? &? the material used.