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WEATHER FORECAST For Wilmington and Vicinity; Over cast tonight and Wednesday showers. MING' E J LARGEST CIRCULATION IN- WffiT? VOL. XXII NO. 241; .WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER" 12, 1916 roe ITU 1 UP :iU 1 1 J , - 1 W W -i tLjimil M LllfIUL.I . Z.. I 7111 - ' , ...J. R I hH I mm ' P3 three states m mmMm Jmmm D " HUM UiaiOUIia r tODAV IN ilOST f fliltl CITY Tl SECURE OFTHENEW YORK i AFTER THE CUIUS WK TIF 1 11 ' ;" fiF P,IIIMillES BHlBES iillOii PLflflT ' STRIKE OCCURS OF PAST WEEK ur am urn U I Ua Lai I U U -jelp Up American Ship With in Territorial Waters and Examined Manifest COMPLAINT MADE TO WASHINGTON State Department Will Im mediately Lodge Vigorous Protest With Great Britain. Act Occurred Off the Philip pines. (By Associated Press.) Washington. Sept. 12. Violation of, American neutrality by a British tor- pedo boat, which held 'up and exam-! ine-cl the Philippine steamer, Cebu, nithin territorial waters of the Phil ippines, was reported to the War De partment today by Governor-General Harrison. The diSplitch immc.l'r.tcly wa? transmitted to the State Depart ment an'l vill be made the subject of a vigorous protest to Great Britain. The incident occurred yesterd?-. one mile and a half off Carabaj Island, aocorrjing to the report of . the master. Lieut Vailes, com mandei- ot H. M. S. destroyer. No. 2,1 bearded the Cebu, made inquiries I about her passengers and took both the ship's manifest and her passenger list. Apparently the officer was searching for a man named Dady, who Tvas not found. " On releasing the Cebu the lieuten ant wrote -this note on her log: "Boarded at 3:50 a. m., 9-11-1916, ex amined and passed." s REVIEWING THE ir; LA luml I ULI I lUU juiruinmit nm iTinn LT I f HI Itl -U 1 1 1 I Fl - Wxa 3 ? j ' j City and Washington, D. C, and make joint Commission Turns Its investigation there in regard to se Attention to That Phase. ce Peking facilities, etc., for the Visit President Today (By Associated Press.) j used on this line. One of these is to New London, Conn., Sept. 12. The be constructed here and the other Am.ican-Mexican joint cqoamjisslon j at Elizabeth City. Work on these turned today to reviewing the politi- is to start shortly, cal events in Mexico which resulted' New Berniaris this year did not wait in creation of the present de facto. for the first of October to begin mov government. At the request of tha! in&- They started early this year and American members the Mexican com-! already scores of them have sought missioners " outlined developments ne 11placesc f reJsdinCe from thP timp of thp Aca na1iiontPi Fall and Spring in New Bern always convention, in 1914, untH the present. I The object of the American com-, missioners in pursuing this line is not I disclosed. The Augas Calientes con- vent ion was held after the revolu- ,L aiuiica iiau ciitcicu wcAitu i City and before the break between! Carranza and Villa precipitated new complications. The failure of the revolutionists represented at the con rention to find a method acceptable to all under which civil government could :;upplant military rule lead to tflP fight between Carranza and Villa. 0 afternoon session will be held,- tbe commissioners going together to j hp Mayflower to pay their respects. DEATH LIST STILL STANDS AT ELEVEN (By Associated Press.) Quebec. Sept. 12. The St. v I Law-! reiv-p HHrtno fomnanv nnH tho Oup-! " - f- vviuuilj UU 1 Bri'le Commission are conduct inS a joint investigation today into tl!(- foli.apsc of the-central span of factory to me and if the Republicans the Qu i)fjc cantilever bridge over the can gain any solace from it they are -t. Lawrence river while being hoist-j most welcome," said Senator Sim eJ 'nto position. mons. "Maine is normally Republi- i death list remains at eleven, i can by from 25,000 to 30,000 and their kntfinwrs said . today that as soon aS ransp nf tho gpnMoni ta aeppf. tan f work of either reconstructing ( known as the most rock-ribbed Jtiigh a rifw span or of raising the col- protection State in the Union. They lapsfwj cne woujd be undertaken. It don't want a nickel's worth to come v " pHt.iuiated that the work would ' over from Canada. For them, with a ct $1,000,000. I united . party and a campaign based The opening of the bridge, sched'.on xigh tariff, tp win by just 8,000 u!tfJ tor next spring, has been indefi- looks very favorable for the election niu ' postponed. I of ., President Wilson in Noy ember, if . j this proportion is carried out all over . i GREEK PREMIER WANTS TO QUIT (By Associated Press.) ' London, Sept. 12-A Reuter's j rti:ipatch froa Athens says that , the report that Premier Zaimis has tendered his resignation is Officially confirmed and that ev- try offoTTis being made to per- suade him to withdraw it. .,.4..fc.fc I ID ITE s-x-s-,j.. Stock Growers Said to be Much Incensed Confer ring; on Boat Line. (Special to The Dispatch.) frNew Bern, Sept 12. Reports cop ing to New Bern from the Cove City secuon oi tne county are to the effect that some of the residents of that locality are so much opposed to the erection of dipping vats that they are planning to dynamite the first one erected , there and have even pur chased the dynamite to do this with. The Board of Commissioners a' few weeks ago appropriate four thousand dollars, at the request of about nine ty per cent of the stock growers of i the county, to be used in the erection and oneration of these riinniner vats and the work has been started. The only reports detrimental to the work that have been received here are from the section mentioned and broadcast there that the government will send to the Federal prison any man who attempts to destroy one of the vats. Mr. Vergil Walker, local agent for M. M. Tracy Company, of New York, N. Y., who are planning, to operate a line of boats between New Bern and Northern ports,-received a tele gram today, advising him to come to i New York on September 15th for a ! conference with the officials of the company.. This conference will probably be in regard to the beginning of the ope- tiod 'lotf the litie and tl$!Mitt4 zenS "iara Interestied in tts outcome. w Ti n v a urn tt nn w lt ww t mi n i vor wi i stop at Baltimore, Norfolk, Elizabeth j The M. H. Tracy Company are plan ; ning to build two steel steamers to be alw.s witnesses a general exodus of J another and this year this has been ..... mnro marVoH ihan aB. j the moving vans are kept constant ly in service. RESULT PROCLAIMS - Senator Simmons Sees This Clearly in the Outcome of the Maine Election (By George H. Manning.) i Washington, D. C, Sept. 12 Sen ! ator Simmons is very optimistic over the result of the Maine elections and believes.it forecasts the re-election of Prpsidenf WlTson in November bv a ' " safe majority. "The Maine election is very satis- majority of 8,000 yesterda is a vir- tnal Temnomtir. vir.t.orv. Maine is the country.' STORM WARNING Washington, D. C, Sept 12, 1916. Observer, Wilmington, N. C. Hoist northeast storm warning 9 a. m. Virginia Capes to Jupiter, Florida. Disturbance over Bahamas will prob- ably move north, northwest and be at- tended by east to north gales off South Atlantic coast during next thirty six hours. Caution advised W MM DIPPING TS WILSON VICTORY Hot Fights Over Governor in Georgia and South . Carolin BLEASE TRYING TO "COME BACK Prosecutor of Leo M. Frank Running for Governor. Louisiana Selecting v Congressmen (By Associated Press.) Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 12. Democrats of three Southern States Georgia, South Carolina and Louisiana today were balloting in a Statewide primary for nominees for the November elec tion. In South Carolina and Georgia interest centers on the gubernatorial places, while in Louisiana contests for congress and the court of appeals attracted the most attention. Nomi nations are considered equal to elec tion in all three States, with the pos sible exception of the Third Louisia na congressional district, where Whit Martin," Progressive, now holds the seat in congress and is a candidate for re-election. Georgia Democrats last night witness ed the wind-up of the hardest fought State campaign in many years and a record breaking vote is predicted. Governor Harris is opposed for re election by Hugh M. Dorsey, Joseph E. Pottle and Dr. L. G. Hardman. In terest in the contests for other State offices, all to be filled, was subordinat ed to the race for governor. Eleven of Georgia's twelve congressmen seek renomination. Three are unopposed. In South Carolina the voters are asked to choose between Governor Richard I Manning and former Gov ernor Cole L. Blease, in a run-off pri mary for goverpor. Mr. Blease lead in the first primary. The run-oft pri mary for congress ia the t Third dis- are also being contested besides many State offices. The Louisiana primary found only two congressional contests, those in the Sixth and Seventh. In Georgia, aside from the governor, the following offices and candidates are at stake': Congresmen: -First District, Peter W. Meldi-in, Savannah; J. W. Over street, 'Sylvania; Second district, Frank Park, Sylvester, incumbent; E. E. Cox, Albany; Third District, Chas. R. Crisp, Americus incumbent; T. G. Hudson. Americus: Fourth District, W. C. Adamson, Carrollton, unopposed. Fifth District, William Schley How ard, Decatur, incumbent; Robert B. Blackburn, Atlanta. Sixth District, J. W. Wise, Fayette ville, unopposed. Seventh District Gordon Lee, Chickamauga, incumbent; T. W. Har bin Calhoun. Eighth District, Samuel J. Tribble, Athens, incumbent; T. J. Brown, El berton. Ninth District: T. M. Bell, Gaines ville, incumbent; R. B. Russell, Win der. Tenth District: Carl Vinson, Mil ledgeviile, unopposed. Eleventh District: J. Randall Walk er, Valdosta, incumbent W. E. Thom as, Valdosta;, and J. E. T-Bowder, Waycross. Twelfth District: D. M. Hughes, Danville, amopposed. State Officers in Addition to the Gov- ' Governorship. Supreme Court (highest State court): William H. Fish and, Marcus W. Beck, unopposed for renomina tion. (Two to be elected). State Court of Appeals (second highest State court): To succeed themselves in the old division: Pey ton L. Wade and Robert Hodges, both unopposed. (Two to be elected.) For three new places on the State Court of Appeals, created by an act of the last legislature: Q. H. P. Blood worth, Forsyth; A. W. Cozart, Colum bus; H. J. Fullbright, Waynesboro; Walter F. George, Vienna; John M. Graham, Marietta; George C. Grogan, ElbertohT John C. Hutcheson, Ash burn; W. Frank Jenkins, Eatonton; Henry S. Jones, Augusta; John J. Klmsey, Cornelius; Roscoe ' Luke, Thomasville; L. P. Skeen, Tifton; Alex W. Stephens, Atlanta, and M. f. Yoemans, Dawson. State Insurance Com., which also includes the office of State bank com missioner: William A. Wright, Atlan ta, incumbent; E. P. Dobbs, Marietta. Attorney-General: Clifford Walker, ! unopposed. ' ' Secretary of State: Philip Cook, in cumbent, unopposed. Railroad Commissioners (two to be elected); Charles Murphey. Candler, Decatur, Incumbent, opposed for his term by 'James H. Peeples, Canon ; James A.? Perry, Lawrenceville, incum - Continued on page three.) Clearly Indicated that - Long -Expected Thrust in Balkans is: in Progress OVER HALF MILLION FIGHTING MEN Have Been arrayed on Mace - donian Front and Fighting in Progress Along the Struma and Vardar (By Associated Press.) Reports from the Macedonian front ;secUre the big armor plate plant to be today point more strongly than ever I erected at some point in the South by to the probability, that the present the government a committee was ap thrust of the entente forces may be j pointed by the Rotary Club inses the long-expected general, offensive j sion tnis afternoon at the Y. M. C. move from this base. Of the armies; A., Much discussion followed the of five nations assembled on this motion made by Rotarlan John A. Liv front report from several souses j ingston and it was not until many place the number at 6,000 men. The phases of the question had been dis British and French are known to be! cussed that it was finally left in the exerting heavy pressure; thp Brit- j hands of a committee or which Ro ish along the Struma, northeast of i traian G. P. Calvin was appointed Saloniki, and the French northward I chairman . along the Vardar, on the Serbian! Rotarian Galvin contended that the border. ' J question of the location of such a plant French troops are also cooperating i as to vital to the ational goyera with the British in more easterly op- j ment for the Rotary Club to endqrsei erations and, like their allies, have FayetteviUe's desire to have it in that crossed the Struma. . The British , city and he explained that one of the have seized additional trenches across i reasons that France was so badly the river to the southeast, and accord- j crippled at the outset of European ing to new3 dispatches from Athens ' wan was because that most of the the Bulgars are in retreat, after a 36-1 munition plants were in such places hour battle, in which . they suffered j that in the first drive by the Teutons heavy losses. . x j were able to secure practically all of West of the Vardar Paris reports ! the plants and mines in France. a vigorous offensive by the French and their allies, resulting in penetra tion of Bulgarian positions to a depth of nearly half mile pn a two-mile j that city was one of the staunchest of front. The artillery and infantry are -Wilmington's friends as had been also being vigorously, employed fur-1 proven many times in the past and as ther west along the" frwit'the entire 1 Wilmington was located so, geographl lehgth J&f which now - seems buzzing ! cally that the. .cty needed .all r the 2SttHv-. v, f riifedsttri osibleJrani hiftnState Glennan army ; headquarters " an-1 towns. . ; :T?-''V-Sk nounces heavy fighting along both thej An effort is to be made by the Ro Struma and the Vardar, declaring the;,tary Club to have the Hardware Asso operations in the latter region result-1 ciation of the Carolinas meet in Wil ed successfully for the Bulgarians. mington next July and to this end a In the Rumanian province of Dob-j convention committee was appointed rudja the advance of the Bulgarians ; to make a strong effort to get the next and Germans is continuing, Berlin de- convention of the hardwaremen here clares. an(j & other conventions as It was . pointed out that it was one pf the best DOCKET PUT CLEARED OF CASES , Tudffe Connor Will Prohahlv Arlirii r,if XV-AryAr MdJOUm OUrt Wednesday. Grady Cook to be Tried t Today. ( With the completion of several cases in the Superior Court Tuesday morn-! ing the criminal docket for this term of court was nearly cleared and it is expected that Judge G. W. Connor will adjourn court not later than to morrow. However, there is still an important case to Jbe tried, it being against Mr. Grady Cook, against whom a true bill was returned yesterday by the grand jury for the killing of Em manuel Pierce, a colored convict, in I August. It is expected that this case will come up for trial tomorrow morn ing. Trial of six negro youths charged with entering the home of a chinaman, in Love's Grove, was started. A true bill was returned against them this morning by the grand jury, The negro boys are Joe DeLoach, Willie John son, Weldon Graham, Pat Johnson, Jas. Garfield and Sam Brown. The Xanthos Bros., who conduct a confectionery store in the city, were found guilty of violating the Sunday .closing ordinance and were fined $1 and costs by Judge Connor. The de fendants were represented by Hon. John D. Bellamy and Emmett H. Bel lamy, Esq., while Solicitor H. L. Lyon was aided in the prosecution by County Solicitor George L. Peschau. Mr. ,T. P: Sykes, charged with being a nuisance, was granted a nol pros with leave, as was Belle Malone and Charles Malone, colored. The case against Mr. R. A. Wright, charging him with giving a worthless check to Mr.' G. W. Anderson, was dismissed. Sophia Martin, colored, was de clared not guilty of violating the pro hibition law. Nol contenderes were entered in the cases of Morgan Spen cer and ..Weldon Brown, the. colored boys charged1" with entering the home of Mr. W. H. Northrop, Jr., and on account ' of the boys' ages they were paroled with their parents. A true bill was brought into court by the grand jury yesterday after noon charging Mr. Grady Cook, a Rotary Club Appointed Committee to Look Into Avisability of Question TO MAKE EFFORT TO GET HARDWARE MEET ! Convention Committee.Nanv ; ed to Get More Annual Meeting for This City. Other Matters. i To investigate the advisability of anAnraintr Va vatfpv1llp'R Tnnvft'lTIP.Ilt ' t.O It was the idea of Rotarian . J N. Jacobi that Wilmington shpuld aid j Fayetteville in any possible way as I ways possible of advertising a city. ! ' Rotarian Edw. P. Bailey stated that ! new city charter provided that the City of Wilmington could spend $10,000 an nually for advertising and that he saw no better way of doing this than aiding financially, in getting as many con ventions as possible to come here or to Wrightsville Beach for their meet- In&s- lt w&s exPlained by Rotarian Jacobi, ed surfaCe cars and set upon the crews jtnat i the convention Of the hardware-lnf strikebreakers when thfi latter re. !men was landed in this city it would mean that from 350 to 450 delegates from North and South Carolina would be present and that also nearly as businesses would be represent ed. ! Rotarian Horace Springer presided at the meeting which was one of the most interesting held by the club in some time. Messrs. J. N. Jacobi and J. D. Williams and Rev. F. B. Clau sen, were introduced as new members Each . responded with the usual short address . In reporting for the highway com mittee. Rotarian McGirt stated the survey of the route of the Wilmington Fayetteville highway had been com pleted and paid for. He also spoke' of the good roads rally to . be held in Warsaw next Wednesday in interest o fthe proposed WilmingtonGoldsboro highway and urged as many Rotarians and others as possible make the trip in automobiles. NEBERN FEELING EFFECTS OF STORty (By Associated Press.) , New Bern, N. C, Sept. 12. New Bern was today feeling the effects of the storm now sweeping up the Atlan tic coast. The Neuse and Trent' rivers had risen several feet at noon, the water being well over the breakwater 'on East Front street. The wind ,was blowing strongly towards the north east. guard of one of the New Hanover county convict camps, with killing Emanuel Pierce, . a colored convict, and Mr. Cook will be placed on .trial. Solicitor Lyon announced to the court that he would not ask for a ver dict in the first degree. J . v;: Gladys .Davis and Lizzie Cole, , two young colored girls of bad character; were found guilty of entering the home of Walter Murray, colored, and carrying away articles of 'fdpd.- They were sentenced to ten years' each in the penitentiary. - "Green Motorinan Loses Control and Car Shoots - Down Steep prade TWO PERSONS WERE INSTANTLY KILLED Many Others Injured, Two of Whom May Die Rioting Continues Not Con sidering Tie-up. (By Associated Press.) New York, Sept.' 12. The first se rious accident of the street railway strike occurred early today when a trolley car -in jthe Bronx, operated by a "green" lnotorman, got beyond con trol on a steep grade , jumped the track at a curve and crashed into two jitney busses, killing two persons and seriously Injuring . 13 others. Four of the injured may die. The car crew was arrested. After a night of intermittent riot ing motormen on the Sixth and Ninth Avenue "L" roads reported to the po lice that they had been fired on by strikers from roof tops. Third Ave nue "L" trains were repeatedly bom barded with bricks and stones from buildings. One passenger, a woman, was struck on the head and seriously injured. Five arrests were made. The congestion of the subways and the "L" roads today was even more pronounced than yesterday, due to the fact that there is little or.no ser vice on the surface lines of Manhat tan and the Bronx; Not- a ' car wheel moved in the cities of Yonkers, Mt. y ernonu; and .J-BheUv vUaion leaders claim ' that" hundreds .' of ''sub way and , "L" employes have joined the union within the last 24 hours. Traction officials maintain that all employes who - signed the "master and servant'" contracts remain loyal. Hugh Frayne, State organizer of the American Federation of Labor, insisted today that a general walkout by all labor unions was not being con- , sidered. The plans of the leaders con template calling out the unions close ly allied to the street railway men. John T. Riley, the International Longshoremen's Union, declared that the members of his organization are voting on the advisability of declar ing a sympathetic, strike.. ' Violence continued as the day went on.- Strikers and sympathizers halt- of strikebreakers when the latter re fused to desert their posts. Nearly . 100 strikebreakers, most of them from Chicago and Boston, ap pealed to Mayor Mitchel and the Pub lic Service Commission today claiming that none of the promises made when they were engaged had been kept and they virtually are prisoners In car barns. They allege that armed guards prevent them leaving and that wages due them have not been forthcoming. The mayor promised them police pro tection in efforts to collect their wages. MAINE STICKS TO THE REPUBLICANS Democrats Lost "Every Office in Election- Republican Majority Reducec. (By Associated Press.) -Portland, Maine, Sept. 12. The ex tent of the Republican victory at the polls yestedar was shown as re turns from isolated towns and plan tations straggled In today. Revised figures placed the plurality of Governor-elect Carl E. Milliken, Republi can, over Governor Curtis, Democrat, at 13,355. , Pluralities for the Republicans, who will send a solid delegation to con gress, , were practically unchanged . from the figures of last night, as were the pluralities of Frederick' Hale and former Governor Fernald, who, were elected to the United States Senate. The Republicans, who have held a majorityjn the State Senate, will cqn trol both houses by a good working majority. The revised vote for gov ernor follows: ' - Former . Governor Milliken, Repub lican, 79,902; Governor Curtis, Demo crat, 66,547. Bulgarians Said to be suffering - Defeat in the Balkans. r, Turks Repulse Russians -'-'v f-x CZAR'S SOLDIERS v GAIN IN CARPATHIANS Greece Said to be Ready td : " Join The Entente- No i S v Territorial ; Guaranv "v. tees, However. r ! i " ; 1 'f . (By Associated Press.) ' The-heavy attacks made by the Anglo-French forces, which netted them V important gains along the Somme front, in Northern France, last week, I have been suspended, the Allies being apparently content to hold the ground won against German counter attacks. No important operations are chronicled - today. .'-.' In Macedonia the Bulgarians are re ported to have evacuated the forts . at Kavala, which they, occupied last month, when they pushed their left flanlc forward to the Aegean coast. Guns of the 'Allies' warships now, dominate Kavala, rendering the forts; useless to the Bulgarians. .. ' - ' London dispatches Indicate a grow ing belief that Greece may shortly be found active on the side of the Allies in the Balkan campaign. Should Greece enter the war, 'however, she will do it, it is said, x without the ; guaranteeing of territorial advantages offered her in the past. Russians Repulsed. , , Berlin, Sept. 12., (By wireless) Russian repulses in the Ognott sector1 of Turkish Armenia are announced by the Turkish war office in an official statement of September 10. Further advances for the Turks on the Perlsan, frontier also are reported. ; " v. . . Bulgarians Drive 'BtlC:y " sire ofiihefentente'allies::on th Mace donian.Iront resulted in -defeat of ttfel ,v Bulgarians, says an Exchange! Tele graph dispatch from Athens. The Bulgarians sustained enormou,' losses ' in aMbattle of 36 hours, the dispatch 'says, and are beating a re treaty pnrsued by the Allies. " r , New Successes in Carpathians. 'Petrograd, Sept. 12, (Via London) New successes for the Russians in the Carjathians are announced by . the war office today. Several heights in" the Bialy-Cheremosh regian, near the Bukowina border, were taken and held. The Kapel mountains, to the south, also were captured, together with near ly 1,000 prisoners. HEAVY GALES OFF SOUTH ATLANTIC COAST (By Associated Press.) Washington, Sept 12. Strong warn ing signals were displayed today along the Atlantic coast, from the'Vir ginia Capes to Jupiter, Florida. A' disturbance, which centered this morn-f ing over the Bahamas, Is probably moving northwest and will be attended by east to north gales over the South Atlantic coast during the next-36) hours. '' Not Ii ome In Wilmington but what has its quota of discarded furni ture, rugs, carpets; stoves and perhaps a wheel barrow or baby carriage. A few cents foia local ad in The Dispatch and some' one who needs the very ar ticle that lies rotting in your attic or out house will call and pay, you for it. You are bettej oS mew' owner is- pleased and the article- itself is contributing to the reduction of the high cost of living. Look about your house today, tomorrow or any day and see just what you can find that is salable then let us connect you with -a buyer through our local columns. One penny a word is the cost Pkone 176 . v v , '..J. .