North Carolina Newspapers

She illonnt 3Uri) fOL. XXXIX MOUJfl AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. APRIL 10 1917. MO. 40 AMERICAN NAVY TO CO OPERATE WITH ENTENTE Port* on th« British and French Const* Will Im Placed nt Dis posal of American Naval Vnsanls. Wuhlnitim, April 12.- With high British ami French nsvsl officers in conference hsrs with Amerirsn nsvsl official*, definite *tep* havs heen takrn toward participation of the Amsriran navy in the war agsinst Germany. Patrol of the entire Atlantic *ea boar<l, reaching southward to the Pan ams rsnal zone sml pon*ihly • orth ward to include Csnada, will the first duty of Amerirsn warnhip*. With that goes the necenaity of guarding againit the probable exten*ion of the Cerman aubmarine campaign to in clude approaches to major Americas* ports. Rritinh and French *tup* now on this patrol duty, will lie withdrawn as soon an the American forces have their linen c*tahli»hed. The Americsn squadrons win operate from Hriti h and French l>a*e* in the Houth Atlantic wherever necesnary. This wan learned today in connec tion with the announcement that Vice Admiral M. K. Browning, <>f the Brit ish navy, and Item- Admiral R. A. Gra*»et, of the French navy, are in Washington conferring with Secretary Daniel*, Admiral Benson, chief of naval operation* umi other officer* of the American nuvy. The conferences have to do with the part the American fleet will play in the war either im mcdial-ly or later when it* Htrength in light patrol craft and trained men ha* been increaxed. Commander* of the British and ] Frenc.i force* off the American roost*, it is known, have expected that <!er many would extend her submarine op eration* to these water*. Arrange ment* to patrol viiforoi ly the ap proaches to the chief American har-l bora h: ve been made and will be car ried out by American ship*. Tt has been expected that Germany i would formally announce a submarine, blockade of Boston, New York, the' mouth of the Delaware, the mouth of J the Chesapeake, Charleston arid Sav-| anah. These are the arterie* through which flows the mam traffic in food ctuff* and war supplies for Europe. | Unless a blockade *4 declared Ger-1 may would be under the necessity of t (riving warning before attacking mer-! chant craft under neutral flag*. Many navy officers doubt that any I considerable number of German rub-1 marines can be spared from the tank | of blockading the British Isles for work on this side of the Atlantic. Sporadic operation* within *uch pre scribed area* are looked for and no precaution to guard against them will! be overlooked by the navy. The navy department has a consider able supply of submarine trap nets al-j ready availuble and more will be de livered within a few days. It is as-1 sumed that the approaches to Ameri ran harbors will be fully protected in! this way and the. fleet of submarine chasers now being assembled, equipped and manned, distributed to comb the seas, night and day. The conferences with the visiting of ficers have di~lt with many subjects. I It is understood that not only will the naval bases ajiil other British and French p<*ts on this side of the Atlan-' tic be opened to American riaval ves- j sols, but that whenever need arises I ports on the French and British coasts 1 will he placed at their disposal. An' American naval port probably will be' established at some future time on the' Irish coast, when the measures of co operation have been extended. Accompanying Admiral Browning: are the following British naval offi-. cers: Capt. A. Lownes; G. A. Miller. I flag secretary to the commander; Flag Lieut. Com. A. R. Southby and Capt. E. G. Cheesman, royal marine light in fantry. Accompanying Admiral Grasset if Flag Lieut. James Hennesey, of the French navy, who also is a member of the French chamber of deputies. No Heiruy Evidence. (Boston Transcript.) "Now, madam," said the crotchety jm1. e who had been annoyed by the digressions of previous witnesses, "we want no hearsay evidence. Tell us only what you positively know. Your nnme, please?" Margaret Jones," replied the wit ness. "Your age?" "Veil- er—I have only hearsay evi dence on that point, so I wont answer. BRITISH WIDEN ATTACK IN SNOW AND RAIN STORM. It Wm A Wonderful Sight to Watch tho Fighting and to Retliu that it wu tho Focal Point of tho War. Kuxn a Htaff Correapomlent of the AixituImI I'rena in Prance, April 12. —The amazing April atonn, which be gan almoai al th* exact hour »»t for the Hriliah attack against the Girmani Monday morning, continue* anil the, fighting condition* huva been mull extremel] difficult. The atorm la ac companied by »now, rain and aleet ■nil a vale that ha* wlilom fallen be low a velocity at 40 mile* an hour. There have been ocraaiortal hit* of sunshine, but these laateil le»* than half an hour. The niirht temperature* are well below freezing. / Notwithstanding theae circumxtan ce«, the British attack widened today by a bU>w north of Vimy ridge, the latter having been firmly held and consolidated by the Canadian* against n hitter German fire. The troop* which struck north of Vimy today penetrated to a p tint a few hundred yard* northwest of Glvenchy, having carried nut their dawn attack with U)e same precision an ha.i characterized their other operation*. On the remainder of the new front, the work con*i*t«d largely of atriight ening certain element* in the line by annihilating several "pocket*" where the German* bad held out. The Brit ish also .smashed to bit* a strong Ger man counter-ui lack against Monchy K-Freux, the (itrman losses being among the heaviest tlwy have kuffeied during the new offensive. The fight ing Htumt Mouthy ha* been very heavy' since Tuesday, the German* having heen ordered to prevent the, British advance reaching that point at; all ha/-ards. It was not until large numbers of British field batteries hail been brought into play that the CJer-, man* were definitely beaten off. The British attack and the German j defence converged at Monchy, and it wan > wonderful nigh* to watch thin fighting from a nearby hill yeste.rday, and realize that for the moment this was the focal point of the entire world war. The artillery duel over the pretty little town wan a study in black ami white, the Briti-h shellsJbreaking white on the German positions just eaitt of the town while the German shells explo<led over .the town with Kmoke that resembled great ball* of; lampblack wool Occasronally, a Ger man shell striking a brick building would send up a sweeping cloud of pinkish dust. During the fighting, British air plane hovered above Monchy, seerping' to sit absolutely stationary astride the howlinp cale. One was thus "idling] on the wind" when out of an overhang ing cloud swooped three Geiman ma-' chines. The German* darted for the tail of the British mnchine, firing as they came. The khaki-clad airman, despite this unexpected attack from nmbush, splendidly out-maneuvered his foe-;. He deliberately side slipped out of control, which literally mean* turn- j inp side ways and letting the machine fall virtually Jjerpendiiiilai 1}. more u'« not mud) height for a lone fall in thin manner, so after thus ficaping the first hurst of fire from the Germans, the Britisher flattened out and staited for his own lines, to bring the pursuers within range of the anti-aircraft >'uni, for there is no time to. turn and face a foe once he is on your tail. The plan succeeded, and the Germans had suddenly started to turn and climli for their lives, as sharpnel shells immediately leaped for them through the whistling wind. In the fighting today the British captured a number of add tional guns. The Canadians have made a great haul in guns in their attack on Vimy ridge, thus far having brought in four 8-inch howitzer*, nine of th« famous German f>.9's, and 23 field pieces. In many of the captured gun portions the British found tier upon tier of ammunition. Brother of Rockefeller Died Sunday in Cleveland. Cleveland, O., April 16.—Frank Rockefeller, 72, yoi.ngest brother of John P. Rockefeller, died today in his apartments in a local hotel from a stroke of paralysis and a 1 !ood clo<. on the brain as a result of a i elapse he sustained following an intestinal oper ation a month ago. He became seri ously ill on monday last and had hern unconscious sinco Friday. He is sur vived by a widow and three daughters. Frank Rockefeller was not on speak-' ing terms with his hrothcr John P., as a result of a quarrel they had years ago. PRESIDENTS APPEAL. From the Farmer to ik« Houaa wife Each i» Called upon to do Hi* or Hor Share in Mak ing Available Vaat Roaourccs Waahington, April lfi.—The whole nation wan railed upon for war »ervice In a formal proclamation iaaued to niifht by Pre*ldent WiUon. Peclaimg that "mere fighting will he fruitleaa," the President demanded the active »np. port ami cooperation of men and wom en in every walk of life—"a grua. in ternational aervice army." From the farmer to the houaewife, each indi /idu al *m railed upon to do hi* or her duty In ronnerving and making avail able for war une the va»t reitourrea. of the nation. "The nupreme tent of the nation lia» rome", *aid the Prexident'* prorluma tion; "we mu«t all »peukt act and >>er o together." The Preaident declared thai while the navy ia rapidly t>ein(f placed en an effertive war footing, and a gr.-nt army U uU>ut to l>e created and equip ped, "thene are the nimplcut paita of the great tank to which w« have sui dreHxed ouraelve*." Supply Abundant Food Kirot. fie de< dared thar the. firal great thing to.be done wax to nupply <ibund and food, not only for the United State* and IU fighting forreii, but for a xrcat part of the nation* with *vhom we have now made common cuure " The imperative need for American snips was emphasized l,y the Pitsi dent, a ho declared ti nt they !»■ built i>y the hundreds to carry vast quantities oI suppli") across the submarines or no submarine*. They mp.«t, he t eclarc d carry t« the people of Englarid and France anil Itaily arid RuHHia, the things with which "they have uHually supplies themselves, but cannot now afford the men, the ma terial or the machinory to make." "It w evident to every thinking man said the proclamation, "that our indus tries, on th« farms, In the shipyard*,1 in the factories muct Ui made more prolific and more efficient than aver and that they must lie more economi cally managed and better adapted to (he particular requirements of our task than they have been; and what I want to say is that the men and wom en who devote their thought and their energy to these thins:< will be serving the country and conducting the fight lor peace and freedom just as trul> and just an effectively as the men on the battlefield or in the trenches. The industrial forres of the country, men and women alike, will be a great na tional, a great international service army—a notable and honored host en gaged in the service of the nation and the world. No Manipulation of Fond Prices. The President called on 'he farmers of the nation for an immediate in crease in the production of food stuffs, asserting that "upon the farmers of this country in large measure rests the fate of the war and the fate of the nations." He urged young and old alike to turn to the farms. He ap pealed particularly to the farmer* of the south to plant abundant food crops as well as cotton. rnc proclamation pledged the co operation of the government of the Uniteil States and the several ^ tate governments in the campaign for ser vice. It declared that they would as sist the farmers to (jet adequate need supplies and fertilizers. The Presi dent declared that the government would see to it that there was no manipulation of the nation's food sup plies, and that the trade would con tinue as "unhampered as possible". The middlemen of the nation were warned to forego unusual profits, nril to render patriotic nH efficient ser vice. The railroads of tho . luntry, managers and men, were urged to pre vent any o'vtructlon of the transpor tation facilities of »he ration The motto "Small Profit* and Quirk Service' was prescribed by the pro -'a mation for the merchant, and it called upon the shipbuilder and the miner and the manufacturer to give the bsst service in their powers. The cultivation of food gardens, was outlined by the President as one way to help. 1I« called upon the house wives of the country to practice strict economy and to prevent waste. Truthful. • "What is bread worth today ?" she asked, pointing to a loaf about the size of a biscuit. • "Worth about two rents, lady," re sponded the truthful grocer, "but we're charging ten."—Puck. SEVEN BILLION DOLLAR WAR BILL Graat War Fund Proridad to Pu»h War Against Germany. Waihlnftofl, April 14*— Without a dlaaanting voir* th<- houae, amid plaudit* of member* and *poetatori in the gallariaa, today paaaad tha 17,000, 000,000, war ravanua authorization mManure. One memTier, London, of New York, tha only aorialut repre sentative in Congre.ta voted "present" on pa**aga of the nAanure. Owing to gereral pair* and atwanteea only .'IXU vote* were recorded for the bill, hat both Democratic leader Kitchin and Republican Laailer Mann announced that ail of their me<oher* would havj voted affirmatively if thay had lieen preaant. Miaa Kankin Votea for It. Among thoaa voting for the measure wax Miaa Jannette Rankin, the woman reprenentatlve from Montana. In marked contract to her recent rota on the war resolution. when "he almo-.t roilapited after bursting into tear* and declaring that while *he wanted to ntand behind her country, she mull not vote for war, today *he voted '"aye" in an firm voice a* any other m»n'lier. Pnxnaga of thr measure never was in douht during the two day* :t wax un tie i' conaideration in the houxc ur.d it* since** in the xenata by an alinoxt ei|iiiilly overwhelming.vote apfiear* ax *ured. Uixcuxaion in the housu wax confined chiefly to propoxed amend ment*, but only five of ary importance were added, four of whk*h were,agreed to by the ways ar.il meanx committee which drafted the men 'lira Two Amendments Accepted. The two most important amend-; #nents druftwl by Representativt I.un root, of Wisconsin, and accepted by the committee, would confirm the pro poned $3,1)00,000,000 allied loan to countries at war with Germany and permit loan only during th" duration of the war. Proponent* of the first | amendment feared that without thir ItfiitoUwn !«*"• tm*U M. countries now neutral to draw them into war or for other purpose*. Sup porter» of the xecond amendmer.t fear ed that without it loan* might ct ntinue to be made after the close of the war for the rehabilitation of warring1 na tion*. Other amendment* would prohibit the *ale of United State* bond* at le<* than pur. permit the purchase of for ilfn bond* "at par", and limit the <*o*t of disposing of the $5,000,000,000 worth of bond* at one-tenth of one per cent of their total. Louisburg Mother Give* Four Sons tu the Service. Louisburg, April 15.—Mrs. George T. Iiodtiie, of thin city, ha* the honor of 'urnishing four soli*, all she has, for thi.- service of her country. W. Vi. Boddie, who recently moved from thi* city to Odessa Texts, is a member of the federal reserves; Capt. 'Sam P. Boddie, of this city who made a bril liant record on the l>order in command of comjiany D: S. G. Boddie of Oxford, is a lieutenant in company >anoe nuurds; while her youngest sun, T. G. UiMulie, 22 year* old, is wireless oper ator on the United States battleship, A pi win, now on the coast of Cuba. In an interview Mrs. Boddie said: "Many mothers would consider it a ifre .t sacrifice to (five up one son, but when the call comes, I will (five up four, all 1 have." While Mrs. lioddie is not at ail bellicose in spirit, and her son, one by one, have entered the ser vice of Uncle Sam without her urging them to do so, yet she says: "I am not willing for anyone of them to resign now. They enjoyed the pleasures and benefits of being members of the guards in peace, and now, when the country is in danger, I want them to help.' Government Save* Large Sum on Cartridge Cams. Washington, April 18.—The govern ment has saved already $850,000 on cartridge cases bought for the navy under the recent agreement made with copper producers by Bernard Baruch of the advisory commission of the council of national defenae. The gov ernment is supplying the manufactur ers with copper required to fill the order* instead of purchasing It throu the manufacturers at market prices. J The copper men have agreed to aupply the government with several million tons of copper at the average price of the last 10 years. Mr. Baruch Is now working on sim ilar agreements with lead, zinc and oil producers. HOT FLAME OF WAR RAC ING ON FRONT. Entente Allic* Are Prepared u Never Before end the Whole Struggle Promiiet to be Titanic. From • St iff Carre*|><indent of The Associated I'reM, British Headquar ters In Franca, April IK.— With the hot flames of war raging alone the entire western front. British ami French alike, it ran he stated that each detail of the offensive plank ha* lieen Worked out at prolonged confer ences lietwern General Nuielle and Field Marshall Haig and the war roun I'll* of France and England. The part to l>e played l>y each bel ligerent ha* been definitely agreed up on, and a M-hedule hu» been arranged as for one great cohesive force. Various ta*k* have lieen precisely al lotted along the wide reaching battle lines, and the supreme military test of war is near at band. It was planned that the Rrilish should strike from Arras while the French gun* were still roaring their preparation far infantry hostilities along a wide front'furiner to the south The success gained, in the first t.ige of the III itish auvance have given the French great confidence in the inau guration of their own enterpri -ei. The whole ntruggie in the weitern theater promisei to be a titanic one. The allies nr<- prepared a* never be fore both in material and personnel and are cooperating with a fmoothness which come* from a complete under standing and through appreciation of the wo.k in hand. The Get man i have more divisions on the western front than would have l>een thought possible a year ago and however much of an "easterner," Field Marshal van liindenburg may have lieen in the past he will have to devote his entire time and attention to wstern events for weeks to come. ; siircituy u imii icurv ui uvniwny .1 be»t division* have been >nta. h»:d to pwces by the British ounlaught and tMr nrn uiwwm»W uWHM'BHaW Bavarian divisions were* sacrificed first hut the Prussian gunrd divisions, thrown in to stem the British floodtide. have been suffering such casualties in the last few days that they will have to lie relieved. The Canadians accounted for a large contingent of grenadiers in the fight ing about the Pimple, while yester day'* affair at Lagnicourt took it heaviest toll both in dead and prison er* from five German gunid regi ment*. Jt will ever l>e one of the most striking pictures of this war, the front of the Germans at I-arrnicourt after what they l>elie\ed to have been a suc cessful attack. Running for their own trenches, which were part of the famed Hindenburg line, they were trapped by the bartied wire entangle ments which had been built with such great strength and thickness in front of them. The bonst of the Hinden burg line has been its belts of pro tective wire. Caught within the mefhes of this wire, the German guardsmen .screamed madly for help at.d guidance. Some, like trapped rabbits, scurried up and down the outer barrie-, searching in vain for openings. The BritL.li troops meanwhile, hud the greatest oppor tunity for open field rifle shooting «ince the battle of the Marne. Lying flat upon the ground , ihey poured bullets into the panie-stricken fray coated Germans until each man h.;d fired a full one hundred rounds. While this was going on the British field guns came into play with a shrapnel barrage, which completed the demolition of the entraped enemy. It was little wonder that later 1, 500 German dead could be counted or that 400 gunrdsmen surrendered whh upheld hands and emotional cries of "Kamerad." Everywhere they have been pushed back from the British front, and espe cially north of the "rolled up" portion of the Hindenburg line, the Germans are endeavoring by every means to gain time in order to complete defen ces upon which to fall back. Their efforts to dig in everywhere and seek the shelter of strongly fortified lines do not tend to corroberate the oft stated German hopes that the warfare might become open again. In fight-* ing these retarding actions, the Ger mans are sacrificing their picked troops, as they did during the rear guard engagements in the recent re tirement on the Somme. The charac ter of the troop* selected for these en gagements is considered the best evi dence of the lm|>ortance the Germans attach to what plainly appears to be their desire to avoid daruuva hattlaa Just at this time. l.en» m virtually invastad today, although the (itraaiii art making a dasparata effort to hold lhair poei tlons about it, aa Lena W«II< to ha tha pivot of 'ha new larlc-iwin( of tita fir man tinea, nccaaaltata<l by tha bat tle of Arraa. Against thaaa <»erman Klr'inif points many raptured Herman guns wara turned today. for with tha heavy piecea taken by 'ha Hritiak wara thousands of rnund* of nmmiuii lion. Kxplo«tor, ■ runtime within laiu and I ha outlying mina districts, and thara '.ram i littla iiouht that tha minaa will certaihly ba destroyed aa far aa poa aibla. About St. CJuentin, at tha -wmthern point of Hritiah activity, thara ha* t>een hard fighting, much of it being hand to hand. A* one officer express ed it: "Our men gut in wall with the hayon -t, causing heavy losses to tha enemy." The prisoner* taken in the southecn parts of the line had heard nothing of the Arras fight, except thut a British attack was somewhere cru-.hed, and that the Hermans had taken hundred* of prinoner*. A certain Iri«h regiment fighting in the vicinity of t.ens has, during a hreathite 'pell, taken pains to inform the an^ny of the re ilts at Arras. Sume the adventurous spirits plantea board* in No-Man's land a few nights ago saying: "We took 9,000 Huns yeste'-rday." The Herman* endeavored all next •lay to shoot the hoard d iwn, but they did not uccead. That night, the Irish planned a second hoard Trailing: "Sor ry we made a mistake. Should have heen 11,000 I'uns instead of nine." The Irishmen fought with great bravery just iimler the brow of Pimple f.ri Vimy ridsje and were up "against a steady str»-am of machine gun fire from the Pimple until the Canadian* wiped it off the face of the earth. "We knew the Canadians would clear th'-rn out; so we didn't worry." aid a smiling Irishman today. President May Fix Death Pen alty on Enenmy Alien* Plot ting Bomb Crimes. Wash;: gton, April 1U.- The secret ervice n:renl* of the government are nn the trail of the "master spy." Convinced that a ?py organization, of high efficiency, under the control "f a master executive is -esponaiLle for the continued munition* explosions and fii en, which reached their climax in the Eddy atone disaster, Uncle Sam'* army of spy catcher* were tonight seeking the center of the network of ' plot*. Evidence discovered in con nection with the Kdystone explosion, while closely guarded, i* known to | have jdiown that the disaster was engineered from a distance, by a well , organized conspiracy. The agent* of the department of justice refuse to 1 discuss tbeir discoveries, but tonight | it was stated that they have found the trail that they hope will lead to the urreRt of. the highly efficient head of the ■ pv organization. !n this connection it was stated to. nitfht that the continued bomb ploti s'rvd incendiary fires, with their conse quent loss of life will prohably lead to the fixing of a death penalty for uch crimes. Undei the President'* war-time authority, he would be able to impose the death penalty on enemy aliens plotting or con«umating such crimes. A simple proclamation would inaugurate capital punishment. The heads of thv government's spy catchers declare that a few judicious hangings or shootings would be of great value as an example to plotters. Talked Too Much. New Bern, April 12.—As a result of having made alleged traitorous and seditious remarks against the govern ment, A. H. Cutler, a well know.. ■■esi dent of the Bath section, is now out on bond awaiting trial at the term of federal court to be held at Washing tor, N. C., next week and indications are that he will be severely dealt with. Cutler several days ago had quite a lot to say about what he thought of President Wilson and the United States in particular and his remarks were not in th eleast complimentary. The matter was reported to United States Deputy Marsall George B. Wa ters, of this city, who yesterday went to Cutler's home, placed him under ar rest and carried him before the United States commissioner at Washington where he was given a preliminary hearing, probaUe causa found and hia bond fixed at J3W0.