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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-10-05
Russia Holds East Front.
(By the Associated Press),

(By the Associated Pressl.
London, Oct. Prussia. has been
relieved to some extent by the with
drawal of German troops to meet the
in the west and to supply
a contingent for the enterprise against
Serbia. Russia appears to be hold
ing her own along virtually all her
front. AT any rate the Germans make
no claim to advances except by Gen.
Won Linsingen. and he is moving for
ward very slowly. 1t may be that the
Germans are making preparations for
some new stroke, having failed to
capture Dvinsk by q direct attack and
having been countered in their effort
to reach Minsk.
In Galicia and at several other
points the Russians have now taken
the initiative and are delivering heavy
blows at the invaders, many of which,
according to the German accounts,
have been repulsed.
Germans Move ON Serbia.
1t is said that Germany has under
taken the offensive against Serbia in
dependently of Austria, and a
Bucharest report says that the Ger
mans have attempted, without sue
cess to cross the Danube near Semen
dria. 1t is at this point that the
main Serbian railway most nearly ap-
proaches the frontier.
While many writer's discredit the
statement that the Germans are send,
ing a large force against Serbia
others believe she is doing SO to in
fluence Bulgaria, which almost
everybody here is now satisfied has
decided to join the central powers ana
is awaiting an opportune moment.
The moment she does SO, the allied
forces will take a hand, in co-opera
ton, it is hoped in the allied coun
tries, with Greece, which is alread,
mobilizing, and Rumania, which,, i
is reported, has again been threatened
by Austria-Hungary with reprisal
unless she permits the passag,
through her territory Of munitions TO
Turkey.
Interest s~trategically in the Balkan
will be concerned mostly with tn
railway by which Serbia can be sup
piled with men and munitions. Thi
runs from Saloniki to Uskup, parable
with and west of the Vardar river
and thence to Mitrovitza. About sixt
miles from Saloniki it passes With
a few miles Of the Bulgarian borde
near Strumitsa, the scene Of the raj
by Bulgarian irregulars a few month
ago.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-10-05
SAYS 100000 GERMANS
BLANKETLESS IN SIBERIA
(Ry the Associated Pressl

San Francisco, Cal. Oct. "a
statement thai two hundred thousand
German prisoners of war are in ST
IBERIA without blankets or coats was
contained in a cablegram asking re-
lief, received here today by George
Volkmann, member of a grocery job
bling firm. The message was from
the relief committee of Tien Tsin. It
read:
publish widely German press two
hundred thousand a prisoners Slbe-
ria absolutely no blankets, no coats.
Urgent need. Shipment direct Ameri-
can Consul N~ladivOStOck for special
representative department state.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-10-05
MEXICAN REFUGEES
CROWD BORDER TOWN

Douglas, Ariz. Oct. 2-Agua Prieta
the Mexican town opposite here.
which ordinarily has a population Of
about 1900 civilians, was OVID to
night with approximately 1l.0Oo
refugees. who are said TO have fled
from Southern Sonora. II fear 81
Yaqui outbreaks and an invasion Of
the state by Villa troops from Chi
huahua.
Applications for admittance At the
United States immigration station
here number from 500 to 400 daily.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-10-05
20 Persons Rescued.

Mobile, Ala, Oct. 1.-THE rescue of
twenty persons marooned in a rail-
roa repair car at Rigolets, La, all
of Wednesday night while the tropical
hurricane demolished nearby houses
and the flood waters rose six inches
above the level of the car floor, was
described here today by w. r.. Cos
Sett, one of the marooned party.
Several of those who took refuge
with Gossett at the storms approach
in a small dwelling house were
drowned when the house collapsed.
The twenty survivors with difficulty
reached the repair car, which mad
been chained to the tracks. When
hope of rescue virtually had been
abandoned, the party attracted the at
tention of a motor barge and were
taken to safety.
Gossett estimated the number who
persisted at Rigolets at twenty-one
He said sixteen spans of n long rail-
road bridge there was swept away.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-10-05
RUSSIANS To Holm
BULGARS N CHECK
UltImatum To Be Presented
Soon Cars Foreign Minis
ter Declares
tBy the Associated Press}.

f~etfOgrad, Oct. 2.-Via London.
oct. S.-Sergius Sazonoff, Russian
minister of foreign affairs, declared
10 the Associated Press correspondent
today that if the Bulgarians persist
In their present traitOrous course they
must answer to Russia"
A ultimatum has not been pre-
scented yet" added the minister, ''but
l presume one will be within a short
time"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-10-05
M LOSE 63,468
DURING SEPTEMBER
by the Associated Press.

Amsterdam via London, Oct. 2
The Prussian casualty lists number
$50 to 339, covering the period from
September II to September %, give
the names Of 63,46S men killed
wounded and missing, according TO
the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant,
of Rotterdam. The Courant says that
these figures increase the total rus
sian casualties to 1,916,14S.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-10-05
DANIELS WILL FILL
ACADEMY VACANCIES
(By IT.. E. G. BRYANT)
Washington Staff Correspondent
Especial to The News and Observer

Especial to The News and Observer.
Washington. Oct. 2.-Secretary
Daniels will fill the vacancies at the
Naval Academy and run h number
of middies from 900 to 1900. That
means North Carolina will get her
share of the 800 new men.
The trouble in the past has been
that about half of the boys who stand
examinations for Annapolis fail.
Hereafter an effort will be made to
keep a full quota in the academy.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-10-05
MORE OREADNOUGHTS
MAY BE OUTCOME
AdmiraIty's Development Of
Means of Combating Sub
marines, However, win Not
Check Building of Some
U-Boats In Opinion Of Naval
Experts

80 1T 80 AA~
Washington. Oct. THE American
naval policy for the coming year. ten
tative plans for which recognized the
sudden development Of submarine
warfare with provision for d large
number of underseas boats. Will be
broadly affected by the British Adj
miralty's development Of successful
means for combating the submarine
peril.
Confidential reports to the United
States government disclosing that the
destruction of from fifty to seventy
German submarines by the use II
nets, ubmarine telephones, new types
of mines and by covering the sub
marine area with q fleet of thousands
of high speed motor boats armed with
rapid fire guns, have fulfilled the con
victions of American naval experts
tina means would be found to sue
cesSfully combat under sea warfare.
Likewise these reports have reaiiirm-
ed the faith Of American experts IN
the all big ship-the dreadnousht-
as the effective fighting force Of any
navy.
Need ~Drcadnoughts.
One Immediate development or ms
newest lesson drawn from the Euro
pean war probably will be provision
l Tx new IoNoi 't' ~
additions to the d~readnouGht fleet in
stead of building submarines on the
extensive scale desired by many.
1t is plain. however. that the de-
velopment of successful means OF
repelling submarine warfare Will not
mean the abandonment of substantial
additions to the submarine fleet The
new naval building progress probably
will include more than the usual num-
Der of submersibles and they will all
be of the new high speed sea gong
cruiser type carrying rapid fire guns
recently developed in the naYat gun
factory
Naval officers realize that the re-
markable success Of the German un-
dersea boats created a profound i'm
preston throughout the country and
was the cause of arousing a powerful
sentiment for the building OF large
numbers of submarines almost to the
total exclusion Of battleships on
theory that q submersible a proved
it's ability to destroy a fighting snip
costing ten times as much.
Big Gun Fleet.
Now that successful means Of COM
batting the submarine have been dtNel-
Oped, the s~trategiSts feel that the ma
val defense Of the coasts Of the United
States still rests where they always
have commended il has-on the big
gun fleet. They feel, too, that while
the navy should be adequately equip
ped with submersibles, the next deVel-
opment is to provide means OF TtpeI-
ling submarine invaders, as has peen
done in europe and to carry out 4
logical progressive building pollcE for
) the big fleet along the linesl aid down
bv the navy general board which
stands for forty-eight first line droae-
noughts by 1920.
Various means for developing de
fa,co acaipct submarines mr.. DeEEE
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-10-05
DEATH TOTAL EXPECTED
TO BE MORE THAN $50
With Exception of Few Isolated
Points Reports Hourly Are
Increasing Number of VIC
Tins of Hurricane In New Or
leans and Mississippi Dis
tricts
tBy the Associated Press).

New Orleans, La, Oct. 2.-Tonight's
reports from the storm-swept sections
Of Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf
coast brought the number Of known
lead to 1913 and the missing 70 $40.
Estimates Of the property damage
stood at approximately $12, 600, 900.
With the exception Of a few iso-
lated points reports have been re-
ceived from almost the entire district,
and Ii was estimated that the total
death toll would lot exceed $50. A
thorough checking up, however, can
not be done until the waters recede
A large section of the area now under
water was uninhabited. marsh land,
and it is believed that most Of the
people living on plantations along the
river needed the widely distributed
warnings and reached places of refuge
before the storm,
Island de La Croix, 20 miles south
Of New Orleans, reported seventeen
persons drowned. A number of ma
rooned persons at Plaquemine were
reported to be sorely in need Of food
and shelter. Rescue boats have been
dispatched.
Relief Boats Out.
Relief boats sent to various points
have not yet returned but a number
of refugees have arrived here on
small boats from the lower Mississippi
river and the Lakes and BayOuS.
The Wolvin liner City of Tampico
from Vera Cruz, arrived today with
all her Is passengers safe, after a ter
rifle battering in the gulf "Wednesday
and Wednesday night. Two Mexican
sailors were swept overheard an6
drowned.
"All the passengers put on life
preservers and it was feared we
might be drowned any instant"
said r. A. Agew, a passenger.
AT times the ship was spun
around like a top by the wind,
then the huge waves would roll
completely over us. There was
water in every state room, and all
aboard were d%renched. We eX-
pected the ship would go under
any minute and yet everyone
seemed calm
Five white women and their eleve
children persisted ct de la Croix Will
their husbands chung to the roof Of
house almost within reach of the
loved ones but unable to save them.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-10-05
65 FRENCH AEROPLANES
SHELL R STATION

Paris, oct. "A squadron OF sixty
five French aeroplanes today bonn
harded the railway station OF ouzlers
and the aviation grounds near chat
1eranoe according to the official
statement issued tonight hy the
French war office.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-10-05
American Agent Dead.
tBy the Associated Press.

FL Paso, Texas, Oct. 2.-American
COnsu Thomas D. Edwards, Of
JuareZ, vas notified today of the
death Of Edward A. Powers, Ameri-
can consular agent at Parral, Chi
huahua. No details We're given.
Powers was a native of New Haven,
Conn.
Evening star., 1915-09-24
cnI lOHN C.. GRESHAM
TOGO ON RETIRED LIST
Won Medal of Honor for Dlstln'
guished Gallantry in Indian
Campaign.

Col John c. Gresham OF the caNailS
an old Indian fighter, tomorrow Will De
transferred to the retired list OF the
q rn,v on account of age. He is Vir-
pinian and was graduated from the
United states Military Academy IN
June, 1876.
At the time Of the trouble at Wound
al Knee Creek, S. D., in 1880, Col
Gresham. then a first lieutenant, was
given a medal of honor for distinguish
ed zallantry in voluntarily leading a
n.rty into a ravine to dislodge mum
her of Indians. Col. Gresham was com
mended in a general order 1or COOL
ness and gallant-y while in charge OF
detachment of Troop B. eth Cavalry, IN
actions against hostile Sioux Indians in
the rayire at Wounded Knee Creek. De-
cember 90, and on the crest near the
Catholic Mission on White Clay Creek
December 80"
Before serving in South Dakota. Col
Gresham was in the NeZ Perce eXpedi-
ton from May to November, 1877, be-
ing in the action at Canon Creek, Mont.
September 13, in that year. During the
war with Spain he was on mastering
duty in South Carolina. and also on gar.
rison duty in Arizona, going to Cuba ir
the spring of 1899. He made his first
trip to the Philippines three years later
He became colonel of cavalry in 1911
and was assigned to the 10th Cavalry
year later. He is a graduate of the
Army War College of the class of 1907
Col. Gresham, who has been acting a.
adjutant of the Western Department
was recently admitted to the Letterma1
General Hospital for treatment.
Evening star., 1915-09-24

be introduced in Congress next Decem-
Der prohibiting the tipping of employees
of public service corporations doing an
interstate business. The commission 8
is largely based upon
it's investigation of the affairs of the
Pullman Car Company.
Other bills which it is expected will
be introduced in Congress, based upon
this same investigation by the commits
sion. will amend the hours of service
law so as to include employees engaged
in the Pullman service, and will eN-
tend the Newlands arbitration. act so
as to cover the Pullman company.
In a report recently made public
the commission declares that the Pull
man company lis tremendously over
capitalized"
Evening star., 1915-09-24
WILL OPEN OCTOBER 1.
Neighborhood House Winter Season
to Begin Next Friday.

Preparations are being made at the
Neighborhood House for the opening
of the winter season. which begins Oc-
tober 1. The carpenter shop is being
remodeled and other interior changes
and Improvements made. Appeals also
are being made for women to give
their time to sewing classes at the
house every Saturday morning during
the winter: women for the sewing
classes from $3.50 to > o'clock any day.
and men or women to lead the boys
social cluss. which meet from $3.50 to
5 o'clock or from 80 to 8 o'clock.
Last winter there were seventy-fve
volunteer teachers and club leaders.
Sixteen of these workers gave their
time to the Saturday morning sewing
classes for little girls: others devoted
their time to the cooking school. and
others, men and women, took part as
leaders in the boys clubs, the older
boys in the evening and the little boys
in the afternoon.
Evening star., 1915-09-24
CONTINUED PURCHASE
Of FORESTS IS URGED
United States Should Obtain Wooded
Tracts Along Streams, It
Is Held.

For the purpose of presenting facts
and arguments as to why the weeks
law appropriation for the purchase OF
federal forest reserves on naV1gaole
streams and cooperation with states III
protecting the forests from fires shouio
he renewed. a committee representing
forestry associations and commerclai
organizations visited Secretary Hous-
ton of the Department of Agriculture
Yesterday. DIR. Henry S. Drinker, presl-
dent of Lehigh University and presl-
dent of the American Forestry Associa-
tion. was the spokesman. DIR. Clarence
T Owens. managing director OF the
Southern Commercial Congress. with
headquarters here. was the only "ash-
;neton resident on the committee.
A vr;tten statement presented by the
committee expressed the hope tnat tne
Secretary of Agriculture would incluae
In his estimates to Congress Ior liz ono
fiscal wear of 1917, an item OF sL.ooo,Eoo
as first installment OF an appropit, 10
tion to continue the WORK ahe""'
gun. .,,r;afr set
with other things the "brle1 set
Congress has begun the policy ana
under these and the authority oota -, H.
a good start has been made III 'iie
work. or,n+ed now
world he a great loss to the work.
Program of Importance.
This program is of too great lmport
80. 20 he carried on intermittently.
IT Is of national importance that 'he
mountain watersheds be protected 50
that the streams may be capable OF the
bigbest development: SO that the SOILS
sb,l1 not be washed from the mountain
sides nor the property OF perso.S r
communities ruined or oarhaseu
foods which could in part pc res resi-, ni,s an
NAV not be destroyed as result OF .ne
aoods and debris from the mountains
E;nally. the continuation OF the pro
gram is urged as matteI VI 80 -
II is believed that 1t Will cosr w.. 60 ~
carry it on than not to 40 So h'' p''
of the brief says In part: a;
carried on it will mean an eXpenui
ture of s2,0O0,000 per year WIZ, SUI, so
three or four hundred Thousand aeies
of mountain timber LANDS passams pnn,ant @
70 he developed for timber production
and to be utilized in many usefui WAYS
hv ,he public In this case at any tiIle
in the future the property Will oe VI -, -,
more than the cost. II the proc, ,ahi
not carried on the result VIII De the
LIT .;n deterioration of these lands by
FIRE and by unwise timber cutting :; ana nd
IMAGE the loss of at least a portioI
of the soils and likewise a ioss III .ls
uavi@a y. abiIity. power possibilities and
nurity nurir Of the streams, increasing dam i
pu das h,. foods to cities, communities and
Versions along the rivers. and al also ,hio TO
river valley soils And af.er .nd an II viii viii
aos. iniy amount to more than the cost
ofrth OF these lands1. the necessity will still
VI or;.t for the federal government to
bandle the situation, and the cost OF
doing so then will be greater thah II Is
now"
Evening star., 1915-09-24
DELEGATES TEMPLE CENTER.
Mrs. Abram Simon to Deliver Ad-
dress in Buffalo.

Mrs. Ahram Simon. wife of Rabbi
Simon of the Eighth Street Temple. is
to deliver 4 dedication address at the
Temple Center. in Buffalo. September
q. Mrs. Simon is president of the Ma
tional Federation of Temple Sister
hoods. September IS Mrs. Simon is to
speak before the combined sisterhoods
of Buffalo. after which she Will go to
New York city to attend a meeting of
the American Jewish relief commission.
The Temple Center is building at
tached 80 the synagogue. and used for
recreation purposes, the idea being to
reach out and protect the morals of the
Evening star., 1915-09-24
Submarines as Coast Defense.

The meetings of the Washington
navy yard branch of the American So
ciety of Marine Craftsmen were re-
sumed last evening at Northeast Ma
sonic Temple. Following the routine
business, a debate was held on the
proposition that the United States
should depend principally upon large
submarine fleet for the defense of its
coasts" The speakers were: Affirma
tive. A. H. Chase, L. w. Taylor and F.
=. Peel; negative, w. c. Thorn, Charles
Walsh and T. S. OHolloran. The de-
cision was given to the negative side.
Evening star., 1915-09-24
U. S. Colleges in Turkey Reopen.

Two United States educational instl-
tutions in Constantinople, closed sew
eral months ago because of war condi-
tions, have been reopened under favor
able circumstances. according to Am
bassador Morgenthau. They are Rob-
erts College, with $50 students, and the
Girls College, with 1872.
Evening star., 1915-09-24
Studving School Conditions,

Supt Ernest L. Thurston of the pub
lie schools spent large part of today
visiting schools which are in over
crowded sections. Every effort is being
made to alleviate conditions as much
as possible. This afternoon the total
enrolment for the week will be COM
piled at the Franklin building, school
headquarters.
Evening star., 1915-09-24
Charge Made by Detective.
Small Fires Reported.

No engine company was summoned
to the saloon of Florence o'sullivan.
1929 p street northwest. about 2:45
o'clock this morning. Fire of unknown
origin occurred under the bar, causing
s1O0 damage.
A small fire occurred in the apartment
of C. V. Sponsler, 50 Quincy place
northwest, last night about 11:3O
o'clock No. II engine company extin-
guished the blaze after about $40 dam
age had been done.
Evening star., 1915-09-24
CONGRESS VACANCIES
TO Be FILLED THIS FALL
Five Representatives Called by
Death Since the Election
of 1914.

An election will be held this fall for five
representatives in Congress. who will be
chosen to fill vacancies occasioned by
death Three vacancies are to be filled
from New York, one from Pennsylvania
and one from South Carolina. or these
districts three are regarded as safely re-
publican. one democratic and one in
doubt.
In the twenty-fourth Pennsylvania dis
trict washington. Beaver and Lawrence
counties) Henry Wilson Temple was
nominated in Tuesdays primaries. Mr..
Temple was in the House from that dis
trict in the last Congress. having been
elected as progressive, but was defeated
for the Sixty-fourth Congress by w. NJ.
Brown, republican, now deceased. He
was nominated Tuesday by both republic
can and progressive votes and will be
classed as a republican if elected, which
is regarded as assured.
New York Primaries Tuesday.
Next Tuesday primaries will be held in
New York to nominate candidates for
representatives in Congress. The doubt
full district is the twenty third (the
terms by the late J. A. Goulden, democrat.
He was reelected in 1914 to the Sixty
fourth Congress, receiving 1S,S22 votes,
but the returns showed republican vote
of 1900 and a progressive vote of $500.
Fusion has been effected between the re-
publicans and progressives and candi-
date agreed upon in the person of William
S. Bennett. He is supported by a cam
palgn committee selected from the famous
republican club and strong effort will
be made to win this district from the
democrats.
The democratic nomination in this
district Is being contested for by Ellis
to Boss Murphy of Tammany, and by
George 3. Hays, Independent democrat. t.
Serene E. Payne's Successor.
The thirty-sixth New York district,
represented for SO many years by the
late Serene E. Payne, is considered be-
yond doubt republican and there is a
lively fight for the nomination. Nor
man j. Gould of Seneca Falls, a promi-
nent manufacturer, Is thought to be
leading in the primary fight. He is op-
posed by Hull Greenfield of Auburn,
formerly n clerk of the ways and
means committee, and by ]. A. Bash
ford Of Wayne county.
South Carolina, caused by the death of
]. F. johnson. A democrat will be
elected.
In the thirty first New York district,
which was carried by the late f. A.
Merritt, republican, by plurality Of
the republican nomination. They are
William II. Daniels of Ogdensburg, 3. H.
Smell of Potsdam and H. v. Stevens of
Malone.
Evening star., 1915-09-24
New Trial for High School Aspirants

Candidates for admission to the high
schools who failed in one subject dur
ing the examination last Monday. bur
who were found to be ready for en-
trance with this one exception. were
given examinations today AT the Frank
lin School in the respective subjects in
which they failed. These boys and girls
are from schools outside of Washing
ton which are not accredited.