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WEATHER FORECASTi w t FAT Morth Carolina FalrSunday and Monday- Warmer Monday," y Hi THREE v SECTIONS ;n. no. 26a. iy !lNGTON;jNQRffl 1 1916: PRICE 5 CENTS Pi Fl V E- D A V BATTLE ii "Vs.'; IP-Si.- -j- i . ;' -v .: . Mi Greatestfimpaijgn EfllitSet Made ffemGerat inee Sfage at bhadow Lawn THEiRmBisrallilR Wall Street Wants' to Get Possession of the Government, Wilson Charges. Pays Big Tribute to Progressive Par- ty Takes Fling at the Crowd Back ing the Republican Nominee; Shadow Lawn, N. J.,- Sept.. 30. . Fresident Wilson, in a speech before I the Young Men's League of Demo cratic Clubs here ; today, flayed the Republican party v with wit, humor and abuse, as an organizaUon seeking to j return to power only that -it might "possess" rhcr government. , Every Tammany district from New York City Was represented . in the gathering, which ; numbered ' probabl y ItWO nersons?When iMr. Wilson charge tha greeted Avith a Tammany yell was heard a mile away. that j gam when he demanded to know Tl. how Mr. Hughes proposed to change j the ft orcign policy and asserted "there I tc hut nnp rhrtirn as atraittat noa ro and that -is war," thero were still more cuer ! The address was cjjnsidered one of f the greatest campaign efforts yet i made by .Mr. Wilson, . The President said,i in part: "I am obliged to you for giving me an opportunity to say some very plain things about the present campaign and abo'.it the future policy of this rn.inlv,. I 1 c I men are very much more interested m the future than they are in the present. "I do not know whether from Re publican quarters you have got any suggestions as to what is going to happen in the years to come. This is a most singular campaign. I will not say an unprecedented campaign be cause I happen to remember that , other parties have tried to get into power by saying nothing whatever, j and I also remember with interest! that they never succeeded, because the people of the United States are an inquisitive people and if you ask them to entrust you with the great. power of their government they real ly want to know what you are going to do with that government if they entrust you with it. "For a little while I myself expect ed that this campaign; would be an ( interesting, intellectual contest, that on both sides men would draw uponj some of the essential questions of I politics inXorder to determine; the! prominence 6f parties, but I am sorry to say that lhave found nothing to interest menUndVam little bit ashamed of niybelf thajt. I should have expected it, forI should have known better. h .11 or-p,'Trw7;! ought to have reminded myself. The Democratic narty., mv fellow-citizens. 1 is the only party whose life has per: sisted and whose, vigor has continued .throughout all the history of this na tion. It is because it. is the onlv Party, I venture to .say, all of whose (the American aviator, was Kineti' Dy life has been governed by a definitan explosive bullet, which entered the principle and absolute' belief inUhe'cfieet and passed put v through the ;otrol of the people; their right to! back. The surgedn who attended Control, their cabacitv to control.! their own affairs, and shape them in the common interests The Demo-j which proves conclusively that an ex cratic party has committed many er- j plosive bullet was used, rors but the reason it has lived "isj The surgeon said that if an ordi that it is the only party that has con-' nary bullet had been used one com uiatontiar v...j i is in tr within the laws of civilized war- -r-r-V things and the convictions that un- derlie all American history, the be-; lief in the government of the people by themselves and their own repre- sentatives. I " "The Republican party as now trmetitntci ij .ju., n .,r. rM. ,u "w I era mem Dy the attorneys or special i i ESliI iirmn rmiiTinri nruilf ftf . b I 111.111 i I IWTj I IIIU ii i il l niipixirmrn i i ii- i inn in iiiiiii .11 II I ImlU I llullr .1 UULL UUII I IIIULU Desperate Battling Along thejcars int he bams, alleging inade- Somme But. Little New 'J ? A 1 J - London, sept. 30. South of the Ancre on the Somme front heavy . . b., 7 , A " " resulted m further shsrht advances bv the British in the vicinity of Stuff Re- doubt and repulse of German at-1 fmPts' by counter attacks in force, reclaim the ground previously.won by the British atthis point. German counter attacks against the Hessian redoubt, recentlv conauerert bv the British, also failed. Further to the south, near the Somme, new French attacks have widened the swath cut in the German lines' near Rancourt. North of Ran- ouv.,aao " -" French were with the aid, almost ex clusively, of hand grenades. The Berlin statement records the repulse of British attacks between Courcellette and the Ancre. Official statements from all headquarters re- nort. renewed efforts bv the artillerv . er.h ast jrenerallv are follower! bv strong infantry actions on one side j r tho other The official report from British headquarters tonight says : "On' the battleiield south of the Ancre there has been no change in; the general situation. "There was heavy shelling . during the day, especially near Destremont j and around the Stuff and Zollern re doubts. Our line was slightly ad-, vanced south of Eaucourt LAbbaye. "In the Thiepval area we made ' j to a I prisoners three officers and 164 1 Qhers "On Thursday aeroplanes were brought down in addition to the one mentioned in last night's report." Only Artillery Action. Paris, Sept. 30'. Midnight official: There was no infantry action today on the Somme front. The artillery fighting was lively during the day in the sectors of Rancourt and Bouch- avesnes. There is nothing to report ; rema.nder of tha front. ral,;v7n'T f wACH T cn ROCK. WfcX-L WAb rvlLLtLlJ BY EXPLOSIVE BULLET Paris, Septi 30. Kiffen Rockwell, him has given a .signed certincate re garding the nature of the ' wound, Z pnlwpii m-nbahlv would have 1 fare Rockwell probably wouia nave lived, judging frpm the position of the wound. Rockwell will be buried on the spot where he fell. The funeral which was held last Monday was attended by aoveral hundred. French and British " "". . .Mi-..-ii.-w- nf, th aviaiuis, ucsup , vw.k , 1 T 1 STREET GAR STRIKE Traction Company ' Declined Allow Men to Form Union and They Walked Out. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 30. Atlanta pre sented the appearance of an armed camp tonight as the result , of the walk out of street car motormen and conductors at 6 o'clock. Witihn fif teen .minutes six mounted and three traffic policemen were on duty at every down town corner. The first few hours of the strike passed with out serious disorder, although noisy crowds assembled on every corner, jeering the strike breakers and cheer ing passengers who left the cars. Union leaders stated that 9ofter cent of .the men would be out Sunday hut the company officials declared "they were fully prepared to maintain ser vice with new men. The strike was caused by the refusal of the Georgia Railway and Electric Company to per mit the men to organize. By 10 o'clock only about 50 per cent of normal service was being maintain ed and jitneys were doing a rushing business. Shoppers went home early. The crowds -of strike sympathizers, '.-while noisy, maintained their good na ture and there was nothing for the innumerable policemen-to do. At 10:30 the company ordered all quaf )rotetjon; men scoffed the idea and declared they had in effecting Szb'inplete tie- 4 up; While the crowds gathered in the center of the city and kept up a con - Itinuous round of jeers and cheers, the real dangers to the car service were on the outskirts of the city and on the suburban lines. It was reported that two cars were derailed on the North Decatur line. Poles were thrown across the tracks on the south Pryor street car line at Ridge Avenue. Company officials said that cars had been rocked on the j Federal prison and Luckie street lines. Trafcrowdiest place of all was at the corneX of Alabama and Forsyth streets, the terminus of both the East point and College Park lines. Early in the night cars on these lines were ordered turned back at Fort McPherson. As time passed on, men in the crowd around Alabama and Forsyth streets started cutting the trolley ropes in view of policemen. who weZ? On guard there When the uegun, me ponce attempted arrest, but most of the men escaped through the opening under the Forsyth street viaduct. Mild disorders were continuous in all the down-town sections until late tonight. I The men who stuck to their cars and the strike-breakers who took the places of those who left their posts were jeared as they passed through r . , ,. ... , . These activities resulted in a number - Mayor Woodard tonight said: I don't thitik there is goings to be any violence or serious disorder. I feel J that the police, are fully able to handle teh situation. I ahve nonobjection to, the carmen j joining, a union, i am interested in keeping order and protecting the lives and property of the people, of the town." . HEARS THAT GREECE . HAS DECLARED WAR Berlin, Sept. 30. via London. The Budapest Azest learns from a unu sually well informed source of , a suc cessful coup d'etat in Athens; that the King with his family left . the capital and a new National government at once declared war op the Central Pow ers. While official confirmation Is not available here, the Germans have for several weeks discounted the coming in of Grece on the. Allies' side and all recent news confirmed the feeling that nothing short of a miracle could save Greece from being dragged into the war. The Germans, however, harbor no hard feeling toward Greece or the Greeks, being convinced it was being "dragooned" Jby the entente and is powerless to maintain its neutrality against the pressure of the British Rumanians iffiitlfo Flight and i IVlany Kiu$3o! Jpthers Made Prisoners. BERLIN SENDSREFORT OF GREAlTRIUMPH Both Russians aind Rumanians Defeafed CutOfFFrom Retreat By Thrust at The Rear. London, sept, su j. ne battle ati Herman8tadtTransyiVania, which has teen in progress ' for .five days, has ended in a victory for General von Falkehhayn. commanding the Austro Hungarian troops." Tonight the Rumanians are fleeing in disorder into tjte recesses of th impassable mountius, according to todays German war office report. Those .who attempted to retreat into Rumania trough ;the Rothanthorm Pact, ;were met bya devastating fire. They loun' that the- pass had been cccupted i$: the-- rear, while the bat tic of Hermanstadt was under way. A large number 6f prisoners au-1 a c.uaniity of war stores fell into rue hands the victors. The German official report of the victory! says: , 'The encircling battle, which began on September 26, N has been won by General Falkenhayhe German and Au-stro-Hungarian troops destructively ief eating sections of? the first Ruman ian army. The rest ofhe Rumanian troops fled iii disorder into the im passable ountaih JBoth sides of the 'Ronn-Wer-occupi by us by a forced tHai'eli, oiv the "moi'ii ing of September 26. lhe Russians were recived there 'by a devastating fire from Bavarian trops under Generals Krafft'and von Felmensingen. A thrust made for their relief by the second Rumanian army came too late. A number of prisoners and a considerable amount of fcqoty. not yet estimated, have been taken.' The fighting in the Stockhod riyer district is also resulting in favor of i the Teutons. The war office "at Pet- rograd says: "On the Stockhod front we made a successful advance near Sitowieze. southwest of Wytonicze. The Rus sians attacked vainly in the region of Rukalcwee. North of Striklauzura. in the Ludowa sector and in the Co man our counter attacks were completely successful. Near Strilauzura four bf- i fleers and 523 men were captured. In tne Kirababa sector Russian attacks were repulsed. OLD SUB. TACTICS United States Assured That Germany Does Not Intend Such A Step. Washington, Sept. 30.- Confiden tial advices received in Washington, coincident with Ambassador Gerard's departure for this country, give as- Kiirnnne that there is nn hnsic fnfr the pejon that the 0eman government is contemplating a renewal of subma rine warfare in violation of the pledges given in the Sussex case. Some of the more responsible offi cials of the State Department, who have been studying Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg's speech, have de cided that the' construction placed up on it by certain other officials was unjustified and incorrect. The sen tence in the Chancellor's speech which seemed to bear out the theory that Germany was about to enter upon a new and relentless submarine warfare was: "A German statesman who would hesitate to use against this enemy every available instrument of battle that would shorten this war should be hanged." , This sentence was explained -today as follows: "The Chancellor meana that Germany must do everything possible to win, but Germany realizes thaty a renewal . of, submarine opera tions against - ships carrying pasen-! gers would bring on war with the United States. Therefore, subma rine warfare on the old lines does not come within the category of things possible." DOES NOT MEAN German Merchant Subriiarine Said to Have Been Netted By British. IS LATEST STORY ANOTHER HOAX? Official Circles Get Report That Submersible Was Trapped Off Coast of Scotland Washington, Sept. SO A report has been received in official quarters in vasliington that the German subma rine, Bremen, has been captured by the British naval forces off the , east coast of Scotland. The Bremen, according to this re port, now is held at the British naval base, Fosyth, at the south of the river North. Informs. Mon contained in the report reaching here indie: ::" l1". ? . the Brit ish naval forces empicvod mammoth steel nets to trap the ilromen. These nets, officials said they were inform ed, were 150 feet long and 165 feet deep, and were equipped with attach ed contact bombs, calculated, to ex plode and burst the plates of a sub mrine that fell into the trap.- Nj word has been received as to the fate of the Bremen's crew, but it the circumstances of the capture are as stated in the report, the crew in all probability perished when the boat was trapped. Officials giving out the information would not state the sources of the re port and would not vouch for its au thenticity. Naval pfficers, however, were inclined to credit the report, as they believe, the Bremen. , which is long overdue, wouhr Jyave been ftara from long before this if it had not been captured. Just why the British government has not announced the capture of the Bremen, if it has really been accom plished, the officials were unable to say It -was pointed out, however, that the British admiralty has main tained silence as to its campaign to trap submarines, believing tne psy chological effect of compelling P.Drmgnc in wrt-r-rv nvor nvorrina linnta ... ... . ' , aided British plans better than prompt announcement of submarine captures. One fact that led some officials to await direct word from the British government before accepting today'sJ report on the .Bremen as authorita tive was that two other reports con cerning the missing submarine cir culated in the last few days have proven hoaxes. One of these reports, sent to Ger man papers, was that the Bremen had landed at New London. Responsibil ity for siyreadlfcng this informfation, designated to rouse false hopes in .Berlin, has since been charged to British sources. The other report, which said a life belt from the Brem ;en had been found off the -Maine coast, was declared a hoax after in vestigation today. The Bremen was a sister ship of the Deutschland, which made an epochal trip to Baltimore and back to Germany, eluding British and French patrols on the American and British coasts. REPORT OF SOUTHERN ROAD'S OPERATIONS Washington, D. C, Sept. 30. Re sults of operation of the Southern Railway Company for the month of August, 1916, and for the two months of 1916, ended August 31, compared with the same month and period of 1915 and 1914, exclusive of interest, rentals and other income charges, were announced today by Comptroller A. H. Plant, as follows:' Gross revenue, August, 1916, $6,496. 711, an increase as compared with 1913 of $1,099,001, or 20.3a per cent, and as compared with 1914 of $641, 892, or 10.96 per cent. Operating expenses, taxes and un collectable railway revenue, August, 1916, $4,551,508, an increase as com pared with 1915 of $585,304 or 1476 per cent and a decrease' as compared with 1914 of $149,650, or 3.18 per cent. Corresponding results for the two months' period are as follows: Gross revenues.'this year $11,978,186, an increase as compared with 1915 ; of $1,280,920 or 11.97 per cent, and as compared with 1914 of $258,935 or 2.21 per cent. " - Operating expenses, taxes and un- r.VHorthl rnilwav revenues this year $8,751,155, an increase as compared I with I'fliR of $850,251 or 10.76 per cent, ! j j ,;h iqu U1U it UCCJcasc ao iViuy w nivu ! of $595,569 or 6,37 per cent. ' O'LEARY TURNS AT Sends Abusive Telegram to President and Threatens to Sue Chicago Papers. Chicago. Sept . 30. Jeremiah A. Truth Society, sent a telegram to President Wilson, at Shadow Lawn, tonight, making a reply to the Presi- i dent's telegram made public yester day: Mr. O'Leary was on hisway to Chi cago from New York, his home, when he read President Wilson's public tel egram, saying he would be deeply mortified to have Mr. O'Leary, or any body like him, vote for him. Mr. O'Leary ''prepared the following reply, which he made public tonight at the Hotel Sherman after the original had been dispatched to the President: "Chicago, Sept. 30. "Hon. Woodrow Wilson, Shadow Lawn. Lorta Branch, N. J. T, im tolacfrom rf voctovda v von - -.. T; have evaded every question that I; raised. In acting thus, you have folv lowed your usual method ot carrying J ... x on a controversy wun an opponeui. SNARLS WILSON Now you seek, by an indirect charge jut ftm , 1A ,...) "lou ask me what T would dared not directly make-to escape Jone. tell you what I would have the questions which you cannot an- done- I would have seized every Ger man ship interned in an American , it . port and then I would have said to "I challenge comparison, both by'Germany. heredity and environment, of my life ! . teU me what yQU wM and antecedents with yours. While, pay , uu-ee-piy uaci VV 2:- lense or ine umun tuuS Jho dared to fight were struggling to destioy it. After two vituperative paragraphs O'Leary says: i"The word 'hypenate' was not heard in American public life until you coined it. "I charge again that your foreign J policies, your Mexican entanglements, theJyour action on the Panama CanaV OUl iaillll e tu &uaiiiii nmcu.au I nVhta v-nnr trtir.lrline' to England. your approval of war loans and of the munitions traffic, are all subversive of the interests of America. "You have made your record, v and no cleverness in the use of words can now change your acts. You may take advantage of your exalted posi tion, to which you were chosen only by a minority of the American people to abuse the great masses of your countrymen, who adhere to the prin- cipies upon wmcu ums &iy. WuUM, has. always rested, .but I warn you .that you are being weighed in the balance and that adherence to your policies will carry you down to de served defeat on election day. (Signed) "Jeremiah A. O'Leary, ('President American Truth Society." Mr. O'Leary appeared greatly wrought up over the President's tele gram and newspaper comment and threatened libel suits against two af ternoon papers in Chicago and pre dicted war with England. Mr. O'Leary is a lawyer in New York and has practiced there for . fif- teen vears. When a reporter stariea A to question him about his professional career Mr. O'Leary became uncommu nicative. MINISTER TRIES TO END HIS LIFE Despondent Memphis Pastor Sends Bullet Into 'Own Breast. Memphis. Tenn., Sept. 30. Despond ent because he was unable to pay his debts and could not give his wife and four, small children the attention they should have, Rev. John W. Dickens, pastor of the newly organized Baptist church at the West Tennessee Nor mal School, where he was -to preach , his first sermon tomorrow, sent a bul let crashing through his breast to night while locked in his rooms at the Y. M. C. A. He was taken to the Baptist hospital shortly after 7 p. m., where it was said late that he has small chances of -recovery. Rev. Dick- ens is a brother of Oscar Dickens, of Nashville, Tenn., and has a brother in law v. TV Rowe. a brotther of his - ' wife, lives at Winona, miss. So Shouted Roosevelt as He Bitterly Denounced Presir dent Wilson. DELIVERED HEAVY BROADSIDE AT NOMINEE Before Immense Crowd, Roosevelt Attacked Demo cratic Candidate Audience Friendly But Not Enthusias- tic Leaders Had Whoop-ed-Up Event. (By I. C. Hollowell.) Battle Creek, Mich., Sept. 30. Theo dore Roosevelt sprang to the front to day and assumed the job of Republi can gladiator-in-chief in the party's effort to crush Woodrow Wilson .With little attempt at oratory, the Colonel pointed the way to Charles E. Hughes, himself and all subordinate, campaign ers, by assailing the President in blunt language and with specific charges. He denounced the President as cow-r. ardly and declared he was not a man of his word.- He - ridiculed him throughout his speech and held him & up as a chaser of expedients. , , 1, T dress, when sDeakiue: of the Lusitania. -t - - - have States will take.'". Agatll ignoring manuscript, th , Colo5nel "From what the German chancellor j said in the Reichsyg yesterday, there j js reason to believe that a resumption. j 0jtbe submarine attacks is contem- pitted." Another interpretation was to the effect that while he abd not coin- ; ed Mr. Wilson's phrase, "Pitiless pub- . iicity," he had at least practiced Jt while in the White House. All Repub- , Ucans ana politicians mOSt OI tllO , Progressives and a large portion of , tne population of Southern Michigan, were here to greet the Colonel. He spoke - in a circus tent holding ten thousand persons, but there were 30, 000 or 40,000 visitors in town who wanted to hear him. It was a Republican-Progressive round-up and there' were more outsido people here than the town has popu lation. The crowd that heard the speech was t wildly demonstrative, but it was with the Colonel. This Its Pro gressive territory and the Colonel's auditors indicated, by their chuckles and occasional handclapplng, that his views were as acceptable to them as' ia 1912, when Michigan gave him its' electoral vote. Former Senator, LaFayette Young, of Iowa, and Ralph Cole, of Ohio, tried to entertain the crowd before the ar rival of Colonel Roosevelt, but with little success against the demands for the" Colonel The streets were choked with a cheering throng when the Col onel arrived from the East at 11 i , " " .t" : V7 T-" --V in passing was put on for' his benefit He started back to New York at 9:15 tonight. Michigan politicians are predicting tonight that today's attack will have the effect of bringing President Wil son out openly on the stump in his own defense. Besides the copies- of the speech that were spread broad-. Jcast to the press, Senator CharlesJ.- Townsend said 12,000 had been struck off for distribution among American spell binders, which-means that a very bitter line of personal attacks will be the order of the day from now until' the November election. MASS MEETING TO ANSWER WILSON New York, Sept. 30. At, a mass meeting in the Garden Theatre to morrow answer will be given Presi dent Wilson's slur on Jeremiah A. O'Leary. Among those who will -' speak at the rally are Supreme Court Justices alan and Hendricks; E. T. O'Lbughlin, register' of Kings county; Peter Golden, Irish 'poet, and Miss Agnes Behan, famous as a plat-; ' form orator. Supreme Court Justice i Goff may also speak. ; Daughters, sisters and. other ;rela- " tives of the men who gave their lives in the recent Irish rebellion will be"; conspicuous on the platform. r V 9 ' M i: : .....''" i ! 'V ill -!'; - (Continued on Page Two.) i American squadron. ,; . V -