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GOO RELATIONS ""EXISTS WITH u.3S GERMANY IMPRESSES CORDIAL ITY OF RELATIONS BETWEEN U. S. AND GERMANY. GERARD GUEST AT DINNER American Ambassador Is Entertained at Dinner In Berlin and Likened to the Dove of Peace That Was Sest Out From Noah's Ask. Berlin, via Cayville.-A large iinm ber of the leading personages of (er many, says the Overseas News Agen y were present at tihe l inner given in hon1or of James W. Gerard. tihe Ameri ('Aln AmNassador to Germainy. by the American Associationf Trade a IId Cominlerce of Berlin. The dinlers we're addre ssed by Ambassador Gerard. by Vice Chancellor Selfferich, by ioreign Secretary Zinimmrnaii and by Arthui Von Gswinner, the director of the Deutsche Hlank. and in all tihe peeclies tle cordial relation ships e'x isting bet ween Ithe goveriiments of the United States andl (.'er'many were emphasized. Aibassador Gerard, who was liken. id by Diroclor van Gwinner to the "peace dove of Noah's Ark," is quot. ed by the Overseas News Agency as saying that "never s'nee the begin. ning of the war have relation' be. . tween Germany and the United States beeni so cordial" and that lie hail "brought back an olive branch from President Wilson. Vice Chtancellor 11llfevrich said hef wias pleased to know that Ambassador Gerard had visited the Uniti State.; "where lie had an opportiity of de scribing the real state of affairs in Germany," and Foreign Minister Zim mnermnan declareil he "felt sure the friendly and Iruest future relations between both countries its enunciated by Mr. Gerard will contilne." A telegram expressing the "sinl. cerest wishes" of the association "itn this crucial time" was sent to Pres Ident Wilson, and another message wias forwarded to 'mperor William. Doctor lIlifferich. ill his speech as quoted by the Overseas News Agency. called attentioni to the increase in comiielle betweei .Germany and the United States. CARRANZISTA SAYS EARLY ADJUSTMENT WILL BE HAD Personal Representative of Mexico's First Chief is Confident of Ecarly Settlement. New Y'ork.- -Nicifero Zambrane. trea sur t'eir of the do facto governminllit of Miexico rieeitly seit to Washing ton by General Carranza as his iwrson al representative, and who caime her issued a statement in which he pre didted an a rly settlei ent of tle hor dleri difficulties. Ilo based his belief. lie declared, on the fact that thle Amiier iian governimenit Is considlerinag scri ously liftinog at an early date, for t hi benetit of the ('arran'za governmen. the embargo on the shipment of arms into Aliexico. the treenll of Gien. Per shing's expedition and the sendiny to Alecxi co of Amiibassador l-'let chert. * M~~Ar. ZLamibrano i d lie had calb-di on Secretar iy L anue and J ud ge George * ('Gray of tho Aineirican commission. withI whom he discussed thie A merican situnation, ie let it lie understood also that he was received by President ( Wilson and Seciretary of State Lans. ing. As the result of his visit to WVashinigton, Mr. Zambrano saidl he - had reported to Genieral Carranza that prospects for an early adjustment of the existing difficulties are v'ery bright. TAUSSIG ACCEPTS PLACE ON TARIFF COMMISSION Washington.-Prof. Fratnk W. Taus sig of Harvard accepted a place on the tariff commission and probably will be made chairman. The other four mem bers will be announced later. Professor Taussig is a teacher of political economy and has written ex tensively on the tariff. It is under stood the administration had difficulty in persuading him to accept. HONOLULU EXEMPTED FROM COAL EMBARGO Honolulu.-That the British admir alty has exempted Honolulu from the recent coal shipment embargo was in dicated when notification was given that the motorship City of Portland was on Its way here from Australia wIth 2000 tons of coal. Rtepresenta tions to he British government that British trans-Pacific shipping would suffer if the supply of buinker coal here failed, were believed to be r'esponsible for its modification. WANTS TO ENLARGE PROJECTILE PLANTS Washington-Because of high prices quoted by American shell makers, Secretary Daniels intends to ask Con gress to increase the capacity of pro v jectile plants for which it already had appropriated. Hadfields , [Atd., an English concern, has underbid Ameri can manufacturers whose prices the government considers .xorbitapt. The -navy projectile plant will be placed with the armor plant will be placed IDpolited some time ago will locate. MISS FLORENCE ETHERIDGE Miss Florence Etheridge, a graduate cf the Washington Law college, a member of the bar of the District of Columbia, as well as of that of the Su preme court of the United States, is employed by the Bureau of Indian Af fairs to see that the wills of Indians are carried out with justice to their heirs. ELD FOR SHIPPING ARMS TO CARRANZA IN VIOLATION OF PRESIDENT'S EMBARGO PROCLAMATION. U. S. Sleuths Allege Conspiracy Head-, ed by Juan T. Burns, Consul General at New York, Forwarded Arms Into Mexico. New 'ork.- -The arrest here by F-ed iral officers of Juan T. Itrns, consul peneral at New York for the de facto L'Overrnment of Mexico, disclosed an tileged conspiracy in which five Nex cans, incliding Burns, are charged in hree indict ments with shipping arms to Mexico in violation of President Wilson's (mbhargo proclamation of )ctober, 1915, and with evasion of ust( ms regulations. According to Assistant. United States Attorney John C. Knox, Fed cral agents firs. became acquainted with the alleged plat last November when a packing case shipped from New York and manifested as con aining "hullding material" fell on tle dock at Vera Cruz and broke open reve'aling cartridges as its coni tents. Investigation by Federal agents disclosuld that the box had been for warded from tIhis port, by a firm kroawi as the Adic Company, comlpos rd of Louis Gotting and Wet. eslao Mont. The manifest was signeit by John Gelpi. Who proved to he Jose de la Paz. aIt etmploye of the lirm. Frther investigation revealed ve uordlng; to Mr-. Knox, ltat other shi pmentts of ea(rtridges had been ritndil from New Yorkl utador- t he J-nie (of various indsi:' of m-etchtan.i FTi'e wee-ks ago Gottinig. Mont andl dte la P a z w ere il-acied u nilr a r-est r ei byv VeileralI agetts andi Mier .lentilied as iteubent Mlier was arrest id at Iliouston. Texas. The i micat ion of (Consul G en-eral lurnis 'anme, Mr-. Knox said. when in veCS ti gat ionts revealedl that thiie mon cv to pay for ammuntlitioni hadi ((ime f-rom him. One of lthe countts int the indict mtents in this conntection Is the ad vanieing by Butrns of $5.200. A con sider-able quanttity of thte ammutnit ion found here and at Galveston Is hol as ev'idenet. futrns wvas ar-rested as he wvas leav ing htis apar-tment to go to Ihis offb-ie. Hie p)rotestedl his innocence anil w-hen arraigned( before Federal Judge 1 land entered a plea of niot guilty, lie was placed uinder- a bOnd of $10.000, whichl he furntishedl and was r-eleased. ENTENTE REPLY TO WILSON UNDERGOING CHANGES London-Reutor's Telegram Com. pany publishes the following concern lng the reply of the Entenite Allies to President Wilson's recent note sug gesting that the belligerents state their terms of peace: "The document is still undergoing slight modifleation of the diraft and will not be published until a day or two after It Is in the hands of the president. The note will be more positive titan the reply to Ger many and is expected to indicate 'in more precise fashion the only prelimi naries upon which the Allies are pre pared to negotiate. On again going over the grounid of tihe responsIbIlIty for the war it is likely that the Allies will emphasize the only possible terms for peace, thus contrasting sharply the German note, which purposely was of a negative character." RAIL LEGISLATION SOUGHT BY WILSON TO BE RUSHED. Washington. - Railroad legislation desired by President Wilson to sup plement -the Adamson law is to be0 pressed in the House. After a con ference Representative Adamson an nounced that he would introduce the bills designed to prevent railroad em ployes from striking without giving 60 days notivye, and to empower the President to place tied-up roads in the hands of military authorities in case pnecessity.. 'SENATE APPROVES REQUEST FOR PEACE INDORSE PRESIDENT WILSON'1 REQUEST FOR A STATEMENT OF PEACE TERMS. THREE DAYS' DEBATE ENDS Senator Jones Resolution Indorsea Only a Portion of the President'a Peace Note Sent Recently to the Foreign Warring Powers. WN'asinltgton.----Appr1oval of President Wilsoll's request for a statement of peaCe terIns f'on the European bellig erelits was voted by the senate at the colusi ionl of three days' of stirring debate. Action caie.- with draiatic suddn(ilness when )enocratic Ieadelrs decided to accept at form of resolution that would not commit the senate to (.1n(orselmient of the whole of the Pres idenlt's note. and 10 Republicans of ithe Il'rogressive' group joined the ma pority in making the vote 48 to 17. Senator Martine of New York was thi only Democrat to vote in th letogative. I iscussion of the subject had reach el a elimax during the day with it a setsational declaration by Senator Lewis, chief spokesman for the Deno erats replying to Republican (riticismtt of the President's course. Wit hout referring directly to tie subitatrint! controversy the Senator said the Unit od States could not keep out of the war if it continued and that America would not agalin aecept niiscontceltiont >if orders or zeal of an officer as all Pxeuse for alt injury to a citizen or property. The chief objection urged against ho original resolution offered by Sen ltor -itchecolk was that it would en lorse the President's offer to join iln i movement to guarantee world peace and his declaration of the interest of lie United States in small Nations. The resolution adopted was pro )osed by Senator Jontes, Republican )f N1Wshi ngton, and was accepted by seinator II it cIcock as a substitute for lis own. It resolves: "That the senate approves and strotngly endorses the request by the President in the diploniatic notes of December 18 to the nations now en gage( in war, that these nations state the terms upon which peace might be discussed." OFFICIALS OF PROMINENCE MENTIONED IN LEAKE PROBE. Wood Tells information Implicating Secretary Tumulty as Benefactor in Stock Mart. Vashington. -Sensatioial rumors of a "loak" to Wall Street in advance of r'esident Wilson's peace note werc related to ite Ilouse llules Conmmittec by itepresentative \ood of Indiana it support of his resolution for anl in juir Iy. lie prt-efaced his tei ion with IthIe stateomenit that lhe had ntoth intg huIthearsay~ evidIcece to o ffetr a ii va ily pirotested against ain opent ses siiin of' the commtittec. Namites antd ritumored (let ailis of thi alsn!"leak"' canme thtiek and fas w h - M-. Wo'cod begana his story. IlI mre::i ml I Josepht P. Tu muit y. Secre tin. a brtther-ini-law of the I'iesident Iri rdL liruch of New York,. varlion| Ib: ko t houses. c-red it ing most o hi infor()mat ion to a letter r-ecei vet fronm ".\. ('urt]is" of New~ York. 'Thi: letter, pirodcl-ed later, wvas wvrittetn 01 pila inP ppr, withlou t thle writer's ad dEl15ss. KenntethI Romntey, deputy set riant,-at -arms of the house, is in Nev Yo'rk searchting for A. Cutrt is, hut ha: Ibe n iiable to i ndl aniiy trace of himn 5:at (men~tts were issued after the ('olmmnittee meet intg by Secretary Tumn ult y anjd Mr. hiollinig flatly dlenyini I th reports regardling them. anid Mr Tumult y demanided that Rlepresenta tiv~e Wood publicly apologize for men tioninig hIs name. Mi'. Wood folloe w i a statemnent pointing out tha1 he ha-.d desired to testify in private but thtat those whtose names were th< subject of rumor' should court thu futllest investigation. The conmitte< probaubly will hear Representativo Gardnter, who declared on the floor o: the house recently that be know there was a 'leak." BANDIT CHIEF LOSES 1,500 IN BATTLE WITH FEDERALISTS C'hihuahiua City, Mexico.--Villa wa' defeated at Jimenez by Gen. FrancIs Co Murgula wIth a loss of 1,600 rebe dead, wounded and earttbred. Martir Lopez, a r'ebel leader, and anothei Villa genetral wvere among the slalit ac cor'dintg to an official report from thn Carraniza commantder. Villa As ea'.c to be fleeinig toward El Ville. Onera Mutrgula stated that ils commrad pushedi back Villa's tr'o.-p's five miler after coming into conitact-. 11 NAVAL CAPTAINS PROMOTED TO RANK OF REAR ADMIRALS Washiington.--The first Navy promo tiotns undioer the new'selecting stysteur of advancemenit were announced wher President Wilson appro'.ed t'ecotm mendations of the selec+lon board thai 11 captains be made rear admirals a: follows: Captains Heonry iS Knappi William L. Rogers, H-ar''y McL. P Huso, George W. McElroj, Robert S IGriffin, George E. Burd, James H Oliver, John Hood, William .3. Sims IHugh Rodman and Henry it. Wln. RALPH A HAYES 4,4 . . N.L.. . .. . Ralph A. Haynes of Cleveland, 0., has assemed his duties as secretary to Newton D. Baker, secretary of war. He is only twenty-two years old, being the youngest man to hold such a po sition.. He was graduated from West ern Reserve university In Cleveland in 1915, and since that time has been secretary of the Cleveland City club. FIRST CI[F WONT SIGN FAILURE TO GET SIGNATURE OF FIRST CHIEF LIKELY TO END NEGOTIATIONS. Terms of Signed Plan Made Public For First Time. - Likely That Troops Will Be Withdrawn With a Final Agreement. Washington.--W-Vhen the American members of the Mexican-American Joint Commission had finished consid oration of G-mneral Carraiza's reply failing to comply with their demand that the protocol providing for with drawal of the American troops fron Mexico be ratified, tI ere were indica tions that efforts to enter into ai agretmnent with the de facto govern ment through the commission wouli he abandoned. For the first time ai official admission was made that Car ranza had refused to sign the protc col. The commissioncrs said they e> peeted to draft their response to Cal ranha at once. The failure of the commission t give to Mexican-American relation a brighter aspect was offset som< what by1 off icial intimnatioms the Iilienry P. Fletcher, confirmed as An bassadlor to MexiWo almost a year agi was about to star. for his post, wher A merican interests are now represen edi by a clerk. The report that Gct eral Pershing's expedition soon woul be withdrawn regardless of (Carranza attitu de also gaired( fremsh impletus an it w-a. understood the Adlninistratic had this mov-e under very ser-ions co: 5ideration. Mr. Fletcher ecn fet-re 'ith Pr-esidlent Wilson after the Cal net meeting and later referrzed I q .ics at; to whether he would go I Mexico to President Wilson and Se retary L ansing. No statement wt forthI'coming from t he Wh ite lioum or the State Department. Secretary Baker said no plans f< immediate withdrawal of the troo! hmad been considered. It is knowv however, that Ar-my officers are 1)res ing strongly for their recall, conten ing that in their present position thu cannot be effective toward protectir the border; that they are in a be strategic position and should 1 brought out and distributed along t.1 border with plans perfected for sen ing a force across the line at son more desirable point if the occasic should arise in the future. Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican Amba sador designate, announced during tI day that tie had been summonedi Mexico to confer with General Ca ranza regarding the relations of tI two nations. GERMANY'S IMPRE88l0N OF ENTENTE'S REPLY GIVEI Berlin.-The German impression the Eintente's reply to the peace pr posals of the Central Powers was r flected in a statement made to ti semi-official Overseas News Agent by Doctor Hamman, until recentl director of the intelligence departmem of the foreign office. PLAN INCREASE IN TARIFF RATES TO MEET DEFIC) Washington.--The problem of ral ing additional revenue for the Govert ment to avoid the threatened defie at the end of the next fiscal year he assumedl such proportions that Admit istration leaders in Congress are rI viewing the entir-e free list to cot sider the advisability of pracing tari dluties on other commodities than co fee, rubber and wool and increasin the preilent tariff on sugar. U. S. TO DETERMINE HIGH PAPER COSTS ATTORNEY GENERAY GREGORY WILL BEGIN INQUIRY AS TO WHETHER THERE IS TRUST. CIVIL AND CRIMINAL ACTION For Several Weeks Department of Jus. tice Has Been In Frequent Consulta tion With the Trade Commission. A Mass of Complaints. Washington. - Attorney General Gregory took over the yield of the Federal Trade Commission's inquiry into the print paper market with a view to determining whether there Is a paper trust, and to institute civil and criminal proceedings against manufacturers or others who - may have violated the anti-trust. laws. President Wilson is actively inter ested in recent disclosures of prac tices pursued in the production and distribution of print paper and is un. derstood to be following the inquiry closely. A mass of complaints and testimony and a large number of sec ret ieports from the commission's in vestigators have been placed in the Attorney General's hands. For several weeks department of justice officials have been in frequent consultation with the trade commis sion and are understood to have un der serious consideration the early in stitution of grand jury proceedings at which indictments charging violation of the criminal section of the law will be asked. The formal taking over of the in quiry by the department was in re sponse to the following leter sent the Attorney General by Secretary Brack en, of the commission. "As you know the Federal Trade Commission pursuant to resolutions of the Senate have been conducting an inquiry into conditions of the print paper market. "The commission is of the opinion that the inquiry has now reached a stage where the further co-operation of the Department of Justice would be advantageous." The Attorney General replied: "The department will at once take up the matter, and to that -end I wil have attorneys -of the department me.et with the commission or with attorneys of the commission, as may he desired, and go over the data al ready collected as a basis for deter. - mining what further steps to take. "I know, of course, from what has already been brought out, that a se. rious condition exists in this trade, and that any remedy which the law may afford should be applied at once." DOBRUDJA TAKEN BY TEUTONS AFTER A BITTER STRUGGLE. 5 -Except for a narrow strip of land t projecting into the Oanube marshes .toward the Moldavian town of Gialatz, , all of Dobrudja has been cleared by e the Teutonic Allies of Russian and L. Rumanian troops. After the fall of 1. Matchin and Jijla. the defenders he d gan a retreat acron- the Danube to a ward liraila, and accor-ding to Berlin, d a force of Russian rear guardls on the n peninsula projecting toward G1alatz 1- comprises the only Entente troops d nowv in Rnmania bet ween the Danube i. River andl the Black Sea. lIn Moldiavia 1. the Teutonic Allies, notwithstanding o the heav'y snows, are continuing their e- invasion of the country from the south .s and west. e --- ELEVEN DEAD AS TORNADO rWRECKS SCHOOL BULlDING is 2, Muskogee, Okla.-Eleven school s- children were killed, four probably fa I- tally injured and eight seriously injur y ed when a tornado wrecked the Vire g ton rural school house, known as the d Lee-Baldwin school, near Blocker, Ala. e The sch'ool building, a Baptist In e dian Mission a quarter of a mile away 1. and four farm houses are in ruins and .e a half dozen other farm houses were n lifted from their foundations by the storm, which swept a narrow path for s- a distance of six miles. e The storm struck first at Rich 0 ville, seven miles southwest of Vire '- ville, but did not further damage until 0within a quarter of a mile of the school building. Tearing up the valley for nearly a -* mile the storm then ripped the school f building from its foundation and hurl .ed the children down the hillside and a- across the ravine, some of them being e picked up a hundred yards from the y site of the building, y Only two children of the 28 in the t building escaped uninjured. VILLA IN BATTLE SOUTH OF CHIHUAHUA, SAYS REPORT El Paso, Tex.-Fighting between .Villa forces and Gen. Francisco Mur guia's commands south of Chihuahua City was reported by government Lt agents. No details were given, al 5 though the engagement was character. I- ized as "severe." It was also reported -from same source that two of Mur I- gula's advance guard troop trains had fbeen captured by Villa troops and two -others attacked at some point south of E nachmba Pas. FOR STATE WIDE COMPULSION ACT SUPERINTENDENT SWEARINGEN REPORTS ON SCHOOL ATTLN. DANCE IN STATE. COVERING MANY MATTERS Would Wipe Out Adult liliteracy in Three Years.-Finances and Ap propriatIons. Columbia.--One-fourth of the pr.pu. lation of South Carolina, 451,766, arn enrolled in the public schools, accord' Ing to the annual report of John o. Swearingen. state superintendent of education. Of this number 196.067 were white and 219,699 negroes. This was an increase of 42.925 over the enroil. nient of the Preceling year, 15,751 he ing whites and 27.174 negroes. This was the largest enrollment in the his tory of the state. Addiug the number attending private, denominational and parochial schools would bring the total enrollment for the year to 450,. 000. The local option compulsory Achool attendance law is responsible, says the report, for part of the increase in the attendance. This law is in opera tion in 187 districts, barely one-tenth of the school districts of the state. "but its moral effects are state wide." says Mr. Swearingen. The white schools reported an average attend. ance of 68 per cent and the negroes 57. He recommends the strengthen ing of the compulsory attendance law and making it state wide. There was a total income of money for the public schools of $4,261,101.18 from all sources, one-fifth of it arising from the three mill constitutional tax. There is a large variation in the amounts of money spent in the various counties, but the average for the whites was $17.02 and for the negroes $1.90 per capita. The report urger that some minimums should be fixed by the state, because some districts are unable to spend as much as oth ers, and certainly a minimum ought to be guaranteed by the state, which would require funds from the state treasury. The state appropriation for public schools at the last session of the leg islature aggregated $303,500 for ten items, equal to a one-mill tax on all property. Mention is made of the growth of the rural graded schools. there being 562 last year, an increase of 40 per cent. The state superin tendent tells of the beneficial results of the state aid for needy schools. le suggests that either the requirements of the rural graded school law must be raised or the appropriait ion be madf adequate; lie says that $175,000 will be needed for this work. In speaking of the high schod3. the state superintendent recommends that Iall I nit ion fees, matriculation fees and ot hers be0 ah~olished. Of the state aid the report suggests hat aid he refused to (list ricts refnis, ing to v'ote a loual tax. The average Ischoo0l last year was 137 day's and the state superintendent is pleading for a minimum of seven months and says it should he nine. Dunring the last year 180 new school buildings were ercetedh and continuation of the building ap propriation from the state is strongly recommendled. An illiteracy table is appended showing that in 27 counties, out of a total enrollment of 102,256 for the primaries, 19,115 made their mark op posite their names on the enrollment books, an illiterate Percentage of 18.7 Chesterfield wvith 23.2 led the illi' eracy column with Bleaufort the ieae illiterate, 4.6. Greenville reported an illiteracy of 21.8, and Spartanburg of 24.9. No reports were reecived from Charleston, Anderson and Richland counties. There were 2,483 white schools in the state last year and 5,281 white teachers were employed. The on. teacher school is on the decline and is giving place to the two teacher and three teacher schools. 'During the year 72 districts expended $29,092.36 for the transportation of 1,615 pupils to and from school, using 119 vehicles. Big Hespital For Greenville. Greenville.--The city of Greenyille will purchase the hospital owned by the Greenville Hospital association for approximately $40,000, according to the provisions of an ordinance which was adopted at a special meeting of the city council. The city will realize -an additional $60,000 from a recent bend issue which will he expended in the erection of a new and larger building The election of a board of directors by the city council also brings a close to the threatened strike among the physicians LIberal Support For State Guard. W. W. Moore, adjutant general, will ask the general assembly for an ap propriation of $40,000 to meet the needs of the National Guard of South Carolina. In addition $16,000 will be asked for the support of the Third regiment to be formed this year under the terms of the national defense act. The adjutant general estimates that $15,000 additional will be necessary for improvements -at the state c'amp ground, including warehouse, mess kitchens and a upurtrack from Styx.