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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-08-14
A LITTLE SERMON
ON NEWSPAPERS
n POLITICS

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Tor men Il has often ana honestly
ana 90 apparently god purpose
branded AZ uascrupulous politicians
can expect but little chaotic result.
such a paper could build character
and stability By continuing 10 cham
plon the right. and II u must stand
for individuals should select those
standing for lis proposed reforms OF
its ayerred progressive trend. ever
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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-08-14

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
FIRING AROUND
 WACO IS HEARD

Nazo. Ariz., December 25.--Rifles cracked intermittently almost all Christ mas day in. the Mexican trenches around Naco. Sonora. Bullets fell on American soil but no one was reported hit. Hope was expressed today that the plan Of Brig. Gen. Hugh L. Scott for keeping the Mexican fighting at a safe distance may find approval at Washington and may be adhered to by the belligerents. General Scott expects to hold further conferences with. General Hill and Gov ernor Maytorena. the rival Mexican lead CTS. after he receives reply from Wash ington.
 Children here today were deprived of their Christmas trees and greenery, as the Mexican trenches stretch between this town and the San Jose mountains. in Sonora. the source of supply of such decorations. The United States soldiers celebrated a cheerful holiday with feast- ing and games at the camps
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
RUSSIA LIKES
 TEETOTAL MOVE

Manchester, December 5.-tCorrespon- dence of the Associated Press.) .)-Writins os the popularity of the teetotal move- n,ent in Russia, an Englshman in Moscow says in a letter to a Manchester firm which he represents there:
 "At the present moment it is impossible for anybody in Russia, whether rich or poor. to obtain in any place whatever anything in the form of alcohol, unless at a druggists with doctors prescrip- ton. All the government vodka shops have been closed since the beginning of the war, and now all manner of wine shops are closed. Even restaurants and hotels are forbidden to sell alcoholic drinks. The strange thing about it all is that nobody is grumblng and every body does not know what to do with his money.
 ''The change that teetotalism has pro duced in the Russian village. often so re- mote from the outside world, is wonder ful. Children, for instance. are being clothed in a way never dreampt of be- fore, warmly and generously.
 "Government vodka shops, at least, are closed forever in Russia. That much has been decided on now. owing to the pres sure of public opinion. Their business is dissolved. As substitute. it is pro- posed to establish a government monopoly of sugar. in order that the poor may have cheap supply. Heretofore it has been out of their reach -+.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
TRUANT SCHOOLBOYS WIN V.C. IN THE FIELD
Men Who Were Terrors in School Distinguish Them
 selves in France

London December 25-tSpecial) ]
 Two truant schoolboys have won the
 V. c. They are Driver Drain. R. fl. A.
 of Barking, and Lance Corporal Fuller
 of Swansea.
 Driver Drain of the Fifty seventh
 battery R. H. A., as a boy attended the
 Back-lane school, Barking, and the
 master there described him as being
 "one of the worst boys in the school" ]"
 An interview with his parents dis
 closes why he earned such a character.
 It was because he hated school much
 preferrlng to mind cows"
 This weakness of young Drain led him to his being sent to the Waltham stow truant school in 1910 Drain joined the army two years ago. The official account of the act for which he was awarded the V c. is very brief:
 At Le Cateau, on August 26, as a volunteer helping to save guns under
 fire from hostile infantry, who were
 100 yards away"
 Little dreaming of his sons courag-
 eous action, the father, although he
 carried about with him all day a news- paper with the announcement in it. knew nothing about it until he had his attraction drawn to it by a fellow workman in the evening. On behalf of the town, the chairman or the Barking council, MT. A Blake, has sent the V. c. hero the following wire:
 Heartiest congratulations The town of Barking is proud of you. at IAr-ftr r,
 school there Is great enthusiasm and
 the art master is engaged in painting the hero's portrait to be hung in the school.
 Lance-Corporal Fuller " C., the first We1shman to receive the coveted distinction, was, when a boy, a truant at school, and as result was sent | to the Swansea Truant (now the in- dustriaD school. The fact has leak ed out in the following home office letter addressed to the secretary of the Swan sea education committed: Reformatories department Home of flee. Whitehall, November 2S 1914. Dear Sir--I learn today that Lance Corporal William Fuller of the Second battalion. Welsh regiment who has been award : ed Victoria cross for conspicuous gall lantry, is an old inmate of your school at Bonymaen May I say how much I congratulate the school on having turned out a boy who has proved him self so brave soldier, and who, I hear Is also helping locally now to further recruiting in the Swansea dis trict
 Fuller's conduct speaks much for the general training which he received when member of the school, and I should like to suggest that some spe- cial permanent tablet should be placed in the school dining room, recording the circumstances under which Fuller has been awarded the cross in tho words used in the London Gazette of Monday last Yours faithfully, Charles E. N. Russell
 The local education authority is to be asked to place a brass tablet in | the school recording how Fuller car ried Captain Haggard to a place of safety when under very heavy fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
BAFF KILLING
 CASE UNSOLVED

New York. December 25.-After A hurried conference today at police head quarters over the case of Barnet Baff, the slain poultry dealer, two detectives left the city, and although the police refused to divulge their destination, It was learned that they expected to go to- Buffalo to make an arrest in an inn portant homicide case. It also was learned that the police and the district attorneys staff believe one of the ring leaders in the Baff plot has been To- cated in Buffalo.
 Members of District Attorney Whit mans staff were busy today prepar- Ing for resumption of the grand jury Investigation tomorrow when Carl Rettich, a HobolSen bartender. is ex- pected to conclude his testimony by telling all he knows of the story that the alleged plot to kill Baff was matched in the saloon where Rettch is employed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
HOW TOMMY ATKINS
 PLAYED PEEK ABOO

London, December 25.-(Correspond- ence of the Associated Press. )--How Tommy Atkins and a German soldier played peekaboo around a strawstack and ended by each peaceably leaving for his own trench with an armful of straw is related in letter to his fam fly by a member of a Lancaster regi- ment.
 "At Armentieres we stopped and dug trenches so close to the German lines, he writes. "that one of their patrols shouted in English to a party of our transport bringing up rations, Here, you fools, you are going right into the German trenches
 "When you are fighting you go rear ly wild with rage. But during the lulls you cool down and think about other things. So I thought I would go out into the field and get some straw to make myself comfortable.
 q was pulling out the straw on one side of the stack when I saw Ger man soldier peeping around. I had leIt ny gun behind. What if he would shoot n or take me prisoner. To see which way he was coming l peeped around again He peeped and then We both jumped back. Then I began to won der whether he also was unarmed. The next time we saw each other we both felt the chances were safe. So there we were, he on one side and on the other, each pulling at the stack. Thea we turned our backs on each other ana each went to his trench with arms clasping a big bunch of straw. He said nothing and I said nothing. If we had brought our guns it would have been a question of the best man. But as II was it never occurred to us to settle it with our fists"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
HOSPITAL SHIPS
 FOR INDIAN TROOPS

Boulogne December 25-(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)-Four English hospital ships. anchored off Bouiogne, arc devoted exclusively to the Indian con- tingent, and two more are being fitted out in India. gifts of Indian princes.
 A visit to one of the ships off Boulogne recently disclosed beds for 300, with every where the latest surgical equipment and separate wards for native officers and for British officers in the Indian army.
 The wounded are swung on deck by a smooth running crane, and to tighten the ordeal provision has been made for a stretcher wide enough to carry two. The Indian loves company, and it is quite customary to hoist up two comrades in arms at once.
 On the ship caste observances are re- spected scrupulously. Fore and aft are two kitchens. one Hindu, one Mohamme- dan, the Hindu on the port side, the Moha mmedan on the starboard. Here the food is prepared according to all the fas7 tidious requirement. of their religion. The wash house and lavatory are de- signed with the same care, the Moham- medan on the port side, the Hindu on the starboard. Each must wash in his own way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
MENTALLY AFFECTED
 BY BURSTING SHELLS

London, December 25.-tCorrespohd- : ence of the Associated Press )-Con- firmation of stories that bursting shells have upset men mentally by exploding near them, sometimes without inflict- ing bodily injury. may be found in the case of Lieut.. Denys Cooke of the Blacis Watch, who was attached to the Gordon Highlanders.
 Cooke has just returned home to re cuperate. The last thing he remembers was sitting at lunch in a~supportinS trench. This presumably was on No- vember II. He recollects nothing rom that time until November IS, when ne found himself in a hospital train on the way to Havre. During the interval his mind was a blank, though. as 1t now appears, he wrote several postcards and letters while in this state. They werc clear and lucid and were duly received by his relatives: but of writing them lyoung Cooke has not the slightest recoi ! lection He does not even know what happened to him in the trench, but the assumption Is that a shell burst very near his head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
THE HUMAN SIDE OF THE WAR

wood he says, T stopped in terror.
 From the distance there came the bowling
 of wolf. It sounded unutterably melan-
 choly and dreadful in the still autumn
 right. Another wolf answered, in the
 same long-drawn, dismal note. The howl
 ing drew nearer; presently I heard it all
 around me, without pause, growing louder
 and more exultant every moment.
 'I am no coward. I am sportsman
 and have killed many wolves in hunts,
 but what I heard that night I can never forget. The chaotic bowling which en- closed me like chain kept coming closer
 and closer, drawing to the center of the circle where I was standing.
 'I saw clearly there was no chance of saving myself when the circle had
 closed finally upon me. I went running how I managed it I don't know-to- wards some bushes hundred yards away. I reached them and dropped to the ground. I was resolved to fight as long as I could. I had my loaded re- volver and my sword.
 "The wolves came nearer. and their bowling filled the night. Now ;hey were at the border of the wood. Tn the darkness I could see dim shadows nov ing slowly between the trees.
 "As they came out of the wood from different directions they drew together into one great dark herd and .,tood thus TOT SOInS minutes. Inen another wolf howled-from somewhere out on
 the battlefield, and all at once tue pack began to move. Without haste, in a lit- tie deliberate trot. they went past me. past the very clump of bushes where l was sitting with al lwn revolver. Not che turned toward me. I watched each one as he went by, expecting that he would spring at me. I don't know how many there were, but there were very many-all trotting so quietly to the field where the dead bodies were ly- l ing. q was mercifully allowed to lapse | into unconsciousness soon after. Al sunrise I was picked up. still uneon- scious, by Cossack patrol"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
THE WAR AT A GLANCE

This step was taken to restore order and afford protection to Europeans and peaceful inhabitants, but inter- vention by Italy in Albania carries with it the possibility of the partici- patton of that country in the present conflict
 The Japanese Emperor has dissolved the imperial Diet owing to the rejec- tion of the measure for an increase in the army. By this action the Emperor upholds the programme of the minis try for the military development. A rescript suspends the House of Peers pending the election. which probably will be held in March.
 A German aviator on Christmas day drove his machine across the English channel evident with the intention of attacking Sheerness. However, like his compatriot who recently made an attempt against Dover, he was unsuc- cessful, being driven away by British air craft.
 The Austro- Hungarian ambassador at Washington has issued statement denying as unfounded reports that Aus tria-Hungary has made unofficial over lures to the allies for peace, or that the dual monarchy is tired of the war. Similarly the Russian ambassador at Washington, MT. Bakhmeteff, denies that overtures for peace between Rus sia and Germany are under way.
 A dispatch from Petrograd to Lon don says the number of German pris- oners registered In the Russian capi- tai is 1140 officers and 131.700 men, the number of Austrians registered is 3166 officers and 221,400 men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
ITALIAN SAILORS
 OCCUPY AVLONA
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has been brought about through the
 isolation of Albania by war on the Ad- riatic Albania is bounded by two bel liserent countries. Servia and Monte negro, which. together with Austria, have absorbed all available provisions which Albania had stored. The price
 of food has increased 210 per cent and the poor quality of cereals is causing epidemics.
 Especially in the interior discontent
 reached such proportions that Essad Pasha lost all power.
 In South Albania those in sympathy with Austria, Turkey and Greece. re- senting the Italian influence at Av-
 Iona through the occupation of Sazeno. the Greek island north of the Bay of Avlona, combined and, it is stated be- gun an agitation in preparation Cor dis orders when the Italian consul asked for protection of Italian sailors. The | marines landed today from the battle ship Sardegna and were received by the population with great enthusiasm. The force occupied strategical points in the town.
 Recent dispatches from Athens said anarchy reigned at Avlona and that the region around the Albanian seaport was | a prey to civil war. Partisans of Renal
 Bey last month forced the government to haul down the Turkish flag and hoist the Albanian coIors. Essad Pasha, commander in chief of the Turkish forces in Albania, then sent 300 sol diers to Avlona and they disarmed the l inhabitants and restored the Turkish 1 flag.
 Italian naval forces occupied Ay- 1 Iona October 26, but the expedition was 1 in the nature of a relief and sanitary | organization to aid the large popula-
 tion which had taken refuge in tha city from the persecution of the insur- gents. Everything was done by the 1 Italian government to remove from the l expedition anything savoring Of polit- ! ical or territorial occupation Pains | were taken to show that the steps l taken by Italy were merely for the purpose of seeing that the decision of 1 the London conference creating an au- | tonomous Albania was carried out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
Germans Will No Longer
 Recognise Consul to Belgium

American commission. composed Of Secretary Bryan and eight other mem- bers of the governing board of the Pan-Ameriean union, recently named to study questions relating to main tenanee of neutrality in this hemis- phere. Diplomats say the subject is oni of exceeding delicacy and one on which the American countries would desire to act in unity.
 It became known tonight that all members of the Pan-American commis- sion already have been apprized of the German notification. A special com mission of three members, 1t was said. might be selected to give preliminary study to the matter and report 0 the full commission.
 In the meantime, constant cable com munication between the ambassadors and the ministers here and the govern ments will be maintained and the form CT will be guided largely by the opin- ions and desires of their governments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
ADJUSTMENTS
"Seveu Keys to Bald Pate"

It would be hard to imagine a play more genuinely entertaining and more clever in it's conception than Seven Keys to Bald Pate a comedy by George M. Conan, founded on story by Earl Derr Biggers. This play. presented by the capable Cyril Scott and good company at the Jefferson theatre yester- day afternoon and last night, proved to be mirth provoking and full of surprises tDne is kept constantly surmising what is &oing to happen next and not until the last scene is the bewildered spectator Rpermitted to get his bearings and regain his lost sense of. direction" Most of ihe time he realizes that he is on his way but does not know just where The is going until the end is reached Then he sees that the playwright has been i playing tricks With him and he has fol- lowed with breathess interest, interrupt ed by frequent laughter, a "story with in a story"
 To those who have not seen Seven Keys to Bald Pate but intend doing so. it would be most unlSind to reveal the plot. Theatregoers who attended either the matinee yesterday afternoon or the performance last night were vastly en- tertained all during the action of the piece and at times considerably mystified The skill of George NJ. Conan is con spicuous in this play. while the efforts of Mir. Scott and his excellent company result in 8 quite convincing atmosphere of reality.
 Some idea of the novelty of the play may be gained from the statement that it is based on experiences supposed to befan a writer of best sellers' who makes a wager of 5000 with a friend that he can go to a summer hotel or Bald Pate mountain, owned by this friend, in midwinter when the hotel i, deserted, and there, safe from all inter. ruption. turn out novel of 1000 words n "A hours.
 How the contemplating author wins tho bet easily. but apparently after under going the most nerve-racking adven lures, forms the theme of comedy tha' for sustained interest and mirthful sit nations could hardly be surpassed
 '.seven Keys to Bald Pate" must bt seen to be appreciated and enjoyed. Any, one not familiar with the story need not feel that 1t is any reflection on his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26

Washington. December 25.-Germany has notified some of the neutral coun- tries that have consuls in Belgian ter ritory now under German military au- thority that exequators crediting the consuls 10 Belgium will not be recog- nized further, though provisional rec ognition will be granted to those whose countries so desire.
 Representatives of South American republics have informed Secretary Tsry- an of the receipt of such notice from Germany. but the state department of ficials tonight said they knew e no communication on the subject being received here. It is believed in diplo- matic circles, however. that the notice Is on it's way to all powers whose con suls would be affected.
 The attitude the American republics will assume toward the action is eN- pected to be considered by the Pan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
BRITISHER TELLS
 REM ARK ABLE STORY

Boulogne, December &-(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)-A British sol dier relates remarkable story of how the English and Germans hobnobbed in the same trench a few miles south of Tyres.
 There were a handful of Germans and smaller handful of allied forces. Trenches were but a few yards apart. and in these for more than week the men of both sides had been bored and inactive. They amused themselves as best they could-exchanging messages, swapping newspapers and tobacco, hurl- ing back and forth greetings and cpl thets.
 More days passed and still neither side received orders either to attack or to withdraw. Some Sort of cooperation seemed necessary. Accordingly, the Germans hoisted white flag, and, ad- vancing under this, entered the allied trench for conference. The result was an agreement was reached that it would be more comfortable for all to live in one trench until one side or the other received orders.
 The Germans moved over bag and baggage. and for number of days all went well. Many of the Germans spoke English or French. Under the strange circumstances friendships sprung up. Both factions dreaded the arrival of a messenger.
 One day a messenger came, and plans for the rewenal of hostilities were hast fly made. But the messenger proved to be only a bearer of mail and newspapers for the Germans. All gathered round while a German began to translate the
 latest dispatch from Berlin. Unhappily for the harmony of the gathering it re- ferred to Ostend by its German nick name. 'Kales; spoke of bomb droppings on various French towns, of contemplat- ed air raids on Great Britain. I The English drowned, growied the | French grew excited. Both sides had 1 by agreement laid aside their rifles; but both sides still had their fists. Botf used them free-for-all fight followed and the unique compact came to an end
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
BOSTON FULL OF
 CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

Boston, December 25.-The yuletide spirit held full sway in this city. Many poor families were fed. At the Saliva tion Army barracks, toys were deliv- cred to 5000 little ones Twelve hun dred children were given presents from Christmas tree in the Elks' home.
 On interned Austrian and German steamships in the harbor, seamen drank toasts to relatives in Europe and en- joyed special Christmas dinners pro- vided by the crafts owners. All the American ships in port were decorated with international signal code flags and several Christmas trees were hoist ed to the mastheads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-26
Majestic-"C -"Cabiria"

"Cabiria, worlds greatest motion pie ture drama, will be the attraction at the Majestic theatre all next week. commence ing with the performance on Monday aft ernoon. There will be matinees daily at 230 o'clock and a performance nightly at s:3o o'clock. The pictures are in F. reels, and will be produced exactly as they appeared in New York for one year and in other large cities for season runs. The pictures are admitted to be as great, ie not greater. than quo Vadis,' Ben Hur'' and similar great films The per formances run for more than two hours. and more than 1000 scenes are shown in which 5000 actors take part. The film cost S250.000 to make, and the leading &C., tors of Europe are included in the cast. The Majestic has been completely reno- vated and put in first-class shape for the event