WEATHER FORECAST. North and South Carollna-Fair toni5ht and Saturday; slightly. warmer. i ' - ' X FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE VOL. XXIII. NO. 71. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA; fftl DAY AFTERNOON, MAkCH 3p, 1917, PRICE FIVE CENTS, 1 1 ii t .... ... FLUWJJE ) W TME V- i liD TO SOON BE READY 1 . .riOXLi W.J-y J U. J J WW II Evideir Have Not Reached Atlantic I 9k : : Suddenly Make Appearance in The Path of Vessels Leaving British PortsA MINESWEEPERS f PUT TO WORK Trans-Atlantic Steamers Or dered Back to Ports One Hundred Mines Destroyed and Vessels Allowed to Pro ceed American Airplane-' men Returning. i.r.y Associated Press.) , March 30. The fact that the Cunard liner, Orduna, was stopped off the Irish coast fc a British torpedo boat destroyer and hurriedly ordered into the nearest port, while the North Channel was swept clear of a great flock of mines, suddenly discovered there, was r? vealed by the ship's officers as the reason the vessel was three days over due when she reached her American destination today. . Upon arrival in her Irish port of refuse, her officers said they found 27 other ships had already escaped the mint' peril by putting in there, includ ing one American ship. Two other vessels had fallen victims of the mines, they leaded, and had gone down. The mine sweepers worked two days clearing the sea of the menace, de stroying more than 100 mines. Then all the ships were ordered out at once. making their way through a' lane v of protecting torpedo boat destroyers and patrol boats until they reached sat waters. On-board thertttrjiarKITxe" erica!i airplane experts who have been eagaeed in construction and instruc tion uork for the French on the west ern front. It was learned they have been called back here to assist the development of this -country's aerial service. Democrats Give Him Big En dorsement Says He . Is Certain of Re-election. (By Associated Press.) Washington, March 30. Champ Uwk, of Missouri, was nominated for je-election today as Speaker of the Huse at a caucus of Democrats. He ffas chosen by acclamation. JIr. Clark is confident of re-election w-n the House meets Monday. There as no opposition to him today and ? lok V, minutes to make the nom ination. Representative Shackleford, J collrague, made the nominating eech and the formality of voting was fepenscTi with. -vfr. Clark has been in Congress Jore" than 20 years and has been weaker of the last three Congresses. took tion. UP questions of House organiza- iiyiililltVl.lUU, . tUV VC UkJ Plans f Hou: then or prompt organization of the se when it assembles Monday, so e May be no unnir.fiSKSH"ir-lp1av in faring President Wilson's address, , ay when Champ Clark was nomin- the v acclamatIon for Speaker, and , s aud Ieans committee was -iructed to report Democratic com ueo selections directly to the House. r provision will eliminate usual delay of submitting the se- tnari' 10 anotner caucus, and . was a" in the interest of saving time. c0AL DEALERS WARNED HT TO HOLD PRICES UP. (liy United Press.) bepn pton March 30. There have h, 1Tv-'hjspers that coal dealers -in "c IJll! States won't make their i' ductions of from 50 cents to loilar An.;i a Lun m coai on aates irom 1 May 15 Soothe Federal ('ft rn . , : i 3 . 4. nM as warning the dealers that there Wfnr ,y of coal in tne country and ' 01 facilities to distribute it, fee.,. u if they fail-to-make their pp r drductions they will be an Wt i t0 the commission. New lot n alers announced they would tion 1 k,J their annual 50-cent reduc- L, . "ginning Monday. That was 0rc ihe fvPr Commission, spoke, how- IS KM ED BY ACCLAMATION Hill . 1 - ELSE LOWERED Lowered by Germans Before They Sunk This American f Vessel.' i (By Associated Press.) Wa Sill Jn ctnn . lV.Tai.o1-. OA ti pB..u, ou crew of the j German submarine which j shelled and' sank the Am prion n steamship, Algonquin, without warn-! mg in British waters on March 23 re fused to let the freight ship" go down with the Stars and Stripes flying, Captain Nordberg, of the Algonquin, today. The captain and 25 of his men arrived this morning at an American port on the Cjinard liner, Orduna, from a British port. ' Before the Algonquin's men aban- donprt thtt vossoi oho woc K;n f-n i by the U-boat. Cantain Nordbere . i , . , , - . ...... uu u.am uuwn lue mg. "From the Somme to the Aisne American flag and hoped to see it the night was calm along our out nying when his ship disappeared, but nosts ' save tndnv'c rffirial rorvrvrt me uermans wno went anoara to place bombs, he said, lowered the em blem before they accomplished their work of destruction. Captain Nordberg's story, upon his arrival, added no other essential de tails to the cabled "accounts of the loss of the Algonquin. He' confirmed dispatches which have told how he r aniis-e:!! tlGnier aid-by itix&i TJ-boat's captamtaiidinaw to row 65 miles to land.- About three miles off , shore another submarine, was sight-( ed, he said. The, Algonquin was on her way from New York with grain and provisions when sunk. l HTn. "f-a i- : : i TO THE VETERANS OF Appeal From Their Com mander to Com to Aid of The Country. (By Associated Press.) Washington, March 30. Veterans of the Spanish war were called upon to day to show their patriotism and loy alty in the present crisis in an appeal by their commander-in-chief, D. V. Chisholm, announcing that he expects to raise troops in each State to be offered to the government for pro- tection against "any foreign foe," as i soon as Conerress "defines some pro-; gram." "It is the intention -of the nation al headauarters." said the appeal, "to recruit, if necessary, companies in every department, composed of exper ienced men, to be officrd from our or ganization, whose services will be ten dered to the government." Commander Chisholm announced he would furnish experienced officers, veterans to drill civilian organizations. He has sent personal letters to every department commander in the United States, the Philippines, Porto Rico, Panama and China, and said today he belieyed he could gather at least 150, 000 men able to pass the physical test, who would be' invaluable in a crisis. THAT WAR EXISTS Such is The Information Con veyed to The White House. (By Associated Press.) v Washington, March 30. President Wilson now has before , him recom- mendationsoi nis principal caDinei advisers and in a general way. has SPANISH 1 PUBLIC OPINION heard the sentiment of the country.fof the finest speakers of the South,,for granted, that the decision .will be The brenonderance of-opinion for-! and a man who is devoting much of for a "new independeat Poland, form- warded to the White House is for a declaration that a state of war exists between the United States and Ger- many. ' y " Telegrams advising the President are being received in large numbers, j 3 o'clock, on "The Habit and Power Many of them, couched in identical' of Secret Sin," and will speak at language favor the maintenance of Calvary Baptist church Sunday morn peace ' ' - ' Jing at 11 o'clock i : Poi'Where They Can Make a Stand. BERLIN ADMITS BIG RETIREMENT French Have Apparently Sus- pended Their Attaclcat the Southern End No Im portant Developments. German troops in Northern France are still falling back towards Cambrai, under the British pressure. Evidently they have not reached, in this sector at least, a line on which they feel in clined to make a stand against the entente armies. Today's announcement from Berlin of a German retirement on a 4 1-2 mile- front between Ruyal Court and Sorel. was forecast to some extent bv the British announcement last nieht'rnext visited the A. 3t, Harriss hard-f jthat the village of Neuville Bourjon- jvai, on this line, had been captured. 'Berlin.. reports that the Germans gave " . . . way on ine Iront inaicated. alter an engagement with stronger British forces. The French apparently have sus pended temporarily their attacks along the southern end of the line. Paris reports a quiet night along vir tually the whole southern front. North of the line of the retreat near Neuville-St. Vaast, Berlin reports four attacks by a Canadian regiment, all of which were fruitless. There have been no important events on any of the tronts. Heavy Fighting Suspended. Paris, March 30. The heavy fight- ins on the French front since the be nnir5 ! the German withdrawal nag cume to an ena ior me lime De-i "There were no important events else-' wherei on the front, with the excen-1 tion of patrol encounters and rather'" livelv exenane fihtine- in thft RPctnr nf Maisons de Champagne." Canadians Repulsed. Berlin. March 30. (Via Sayville).- I last of Neuville-St. Vaast, the war 6fflce announces. They were repulsed with heavy losses. A further withdrawal of German troops on the Peronne-Fins road is an nounced. The Berlin official statement reads: "Western Front: On the Artois front the artillery duel was lively. "East of Neuville-St. Vaast a Cana dian reghnent four times attacked our positions Muring the night. They were each time repulsed with heavy losses. Some prisoners remained in our hands. "Un ootn sides or tne road rrom after an engagement with stronger British forces, gave way on the line of Ruyalcourt-Sorel. "Northeast of Soissons, French bat talions, vainly tried to gain ground near Neuville and Margival. Our put post repulsed them, inflicting upon them heavy losses. "On the Aisne: Marne canal group ings between Sapigneul and Laneu ville indicated an attack in prepara tion which was held down by our bat teries. In the Champagne as well, French troops held in readiness for an attack were efficiently shelled. "In Parroy forest on the Lorraine front our raiding detachments brought back 16 prisoners irom hostile trenches. STEEL ROPE NETS Navy Department Places Or ders With Manufacturers For One Hundred. (By Associated Press ) Canadians troops .made four attacks ANTI SUBMARINE were placed by the Navy Department , Roberto Fernandez m Oriente Prov today with the American Steel and ince- Cula' between 500 and 600 m the immediate construction of 100 will 1 R8i Anr.ii will hp 1 fK0 fan irTnr sn foot wirlo wfth a 1 2-frint I mesh. Deliveries will begin within A, j as three week and continue at rate of ten nets a week thereafter. DIStlNGUISHED SPEAKER Will Be Heard Sunday", Com ing Under Auspices of The Y. M. C. A. Wilmington people twide Sunday will have onDortunity of hearing one his time to helping humanity. - The speaker willbe Dr Livius Lankford, TJtieiel of Norfolk, a noted surgeon. He will address a men's meeting at the Vic toria Theatre Sunday afternoon at and Numbed of Stores Broken Into HOUNDS PLACED THE TRAIL Marauders N6t Supposed to Be "Yeggs" Ml ere Only In Search dMoney- Got Little. (Special to The Dispatc'U Roseboro, N. C, March 30. Seme time between midnight and .-4 o'clock this morning robbera made a raid up on Roseboro, ljut obtained little booty, i as they were evidently only in search of money "and were baffled in their quest. They first" made a raid on the Atlantic coast Line station, smashing jothrSoneallr Spfy 6 Thy at. Harriss hard - ware establishment, the general mer-, chandise store of J. O. Culbreth and i the establishment o the Roseboro Drug Company. At the hardware es tablishment they succeeded in open ing the front door of the safe, the com bination not being on, bul, did not get through the inner door.- They pur loined several revolvers and then de parted. Only a small amount of change was obtained from any of the stores, each of which was entered from the rear. . An investigation this morAing indi cated that the crime was not perpe trated by professional cracksmen. Bloodhounds from Raeford were ob tained and followed tracks t6 the rail road crossing. There .-.the scene was lost, and it is supposed the robbers, at this point, boarded; a freight train, one passing here about 5 o'clock go ing to Wilmington and; another pass ing on the war to Fayetteville.. ' TELEGRAPH SPARKS. ! J4. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Ft f 9 : i i i t . J i v". oeyen nunarea stuaenis at me uar- negie. Institute-' of Technoloev - at' Pittsbutghr at a meeitg ; yesterday Moi;e than, -30,000 . children , in . the Pittsburgh public schools will assem ble in their "rooms next Monday at noon and sing patriotic songs as Con gress convenes in Washington. Five companies or the Massachu setts naval militia were mobilized at their armories today under orders to begin a tour of duty on Sunday. An instruction camp will be opened at the Uniontown Speedway, Union town, Pa., within the next two weeks for the training of automobile drivers and aviators who wish to prepare themselves for entrance into govern ment service in event of war. Investigation of financial and com mercial conditions in Russia and the Far East is to be made immediately by the American Department of Com merce, and A. W. Ferrin, editor of a financial magazine, will undertake the work. Operations St 29 bituminous oal mines' in the Monongahela valley of Pennsylvania have been suspended, and nearly 20,000 have been tempo rarily thrown ' out of employment owing to the low stage of the Monon gahela river, due . to a break in Dam No. 4. The daily output of the closed mines aggregates 100,000 tons. Batteries E and F of the Tenth Field Artillery, Connecticut National Guard, have been called into Federal service by the War Department. Orders are being prepared at the War Department, calling out addi tional guard forces in several East ern States. They contemplate an in crease of at least two regiments ' of infantry to the 50,000 guardsmen al- i ready adaea to tne reaerai rjervicts I for police protection work. Battery A, Georgia field artillery; the Twenty-third and Forty-seevnth regiments of infantry New York Guard and Squadron, A, New York Cavalry, are ordered mustered into Federal service for police duty. Virtnnllv nil thp snlrliers a.nrl r.ivil- . i fnao nf Varona at Guantanamo. Announcement is made by the lNasnvuie, unauanuuga ou uuuw J T . railway that all work on extensions 'nnd oon struct ion work eenerallv. ex cept a coal line extension on the Cum berland plateau, has ceased for the time being, Owing to the inability of the road to secure the needed funds to carry this work forward. The Russian government has issued a proclamation to all Poles, announc ing formally its wish that Poland de cide for itself the form of government it desires, says a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd. The government taKes it of all the three new separate parts." The figures for British shipping losses for submarines and mines in the first .18 days of December and of Jan uary, February and March are given as follows by Thomas J. McNamara, financial secretary to the admirality: December, 30; January, 26; February, 66; March, 55. JFTEfflU TO EXIST IN oeveral rersons, Including j Two British Subjects, Kill- 1 m 9 ed oy IVlarauders. T HFRM AN INPI I IFMPF HirLULliLL j IN THAT LOCALITY. j Money .Demanded by Bandits. f ine DOOies Mutilated Cruelty to Mexican Chil dren Oil Works Closed (By associated Press.) Gaiveston, Texas, March 30. W. H. T. Buckingham, general manager of the Aguila Oil Company, on the Isthmus , of Tehuantepec, and his cashier, named Bannerman, were killed by bandits at Nanchital on March 9, according to information brought here today by passengers ar riving from Mexico on a tank steam ship. Both men were British sub jects. After Buckingham had been killed his body was hacked to. pieces with machetes, the reports say. The passengers also report that a reign . of terror has prevailed for sev eral weeks in the oil fields near Mina titlan, and is said to be the result of German influence. The oil fields lie between territory occupied 'by Car ranza troops, on one side,; and the forces of Zapata on the other. Buckingham and Bannerfnari were killed following a demand by the bandits for $1,500, and their discov ery .that the safe contained only ?1,3-00. Buckjngham Had been in Mex ico ior zo years. : bandits; killed a Mexican farmer. Ills wife and. father, and cut off the hands of the farmer's two little girls. The operations in the oil camps have Ceased since M arch 9, and there is little prospect of resumption, it was said. SENERAL REVOLT L Alleged German Conspiracy to Accomplish This Under Investigation. New Orleans, March 30. Informa tion was obtained here today from sources considered reliable indicating that General Julian Irias, former persidential candidate of the Liberal party in Nicaragua, arrested late last night by city detectives and Federal agents on a nominal charge of being in the United States illegally, really is being held for investigation of his possible connection with an alleged conspiracy of magnitude said to . be backed by German influences in Latin-America. General Irias is hetd incommunicado at the parish prison, and Federal authorities - refused to discuss the charges against him, but from other sources intimations were given that Federal agents were inves tigating charges of violation of neu trality in connection with Irias deten tion. THE BEST LAWYERS FOR POOR UTIGANTS (By United Press.) New York, March 30. Because un scrupulous lawyers have caused poor people to get unfair treatment ,in New York courts, a corps of the best lawyers money can buy is .being pr ganized under the direction of the public defender to see that the poor get a square deal. ' . J John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and other wealthy men are backing the plan financially. The Public Defense Bu reau will open Monday.; Each case will be. prepared for trial by experts and a capable member of the staff assigne-i ro cfend it in court. ENLISTING GREWS TO SERVE ON YACHTS. (By Associated Press.) Chicago, March S-30L. Orders have been received by ijommandant W. A. Moffett, of the Great Lakes training station, to rush the enrollment, of a division of 3,000 men to serve on 500 yachts and power boats being collect ed for the navy. Arrangements nave been made for the distribution of the yachts on the Great Lakes, and a preparation for a cruise of .three weeks, was started today. - REIGN Si MEXICAN OIL ZONE CENTRA AIUEBCA 4 r FREIGHT RATES INCREASED. 4 (By Associated Press). i creaTTbWTSeV ptmtT in - 4; freight, rates on all classes and 4h commodities moving east and 4 west by way of rail and ship lines over the Great Lakes, went into effect today when the Interstate 4J 4 Commerce Commission declined 4i 4 to suspend tariffs proposing them., Badly Crippled by a Fall Smallpox Appears in Mag nolia, Started by Negro. (Special to The Dispatch.) Magnolia, N. C, March 30. Quite a SERIOUS T T N : i i :.i 4. i j JL ily sJ 1X11X1 LAJlJIa L J LVU.VV'Ol'l J J ltll J goes out to her in her great pain and trouble. We hope that it may be the Lord's will that she may soon be able to go, to hear the preacher at her church, as she is apt to be there, and feels at home in her old church in the country. There are several cases of small pox in Magnolia, and lots of people are being vaccinated in hopes of i keeping it off.. There, is quite.a.n,um- ber of cases jmong the colored peo- Die. SOins white people have it. too. soon be' here ana tne contagious disease will be broken up. It was spread through here by a loafing ne gro boy, who is no good to himself or anyone else, and we feel like we can get along without that kind ot loafer. A Two Men Kill Each Other With Same Pistol Each Shot Three Times. (By Associated Press.) Franklinton, N. C, March 30. J. O. Burnette, 33, and L. A. Woodlief 42 years of age, are dead as the result of a shooting affray here today in a barber shop owned , by Burnette. Six shots were fired, all from one pistol, and the authorities believe one man, the weapon from his assailant and shot him. Both were struck three times The pistol, it was said, was owned by Burnette. There were no witnesses, and both died without making a state ment. Woodjief had been employed by Burnette, but was leaving today, it was said. CANDIDATES ACTIVE Miss Mary Pickett Vacates Un lucky Position. Interest continues to grow in the seiiuuB emu sau. augment uayycucu . . east of Magnolia yesterday. Mrs. J., ships and crews of the coast .and geo V. Croom, who is now 81 years old, detic survey over to the Navy De. fell and broke her thigh. The doctor1 partment for war p "rposes. Pre lim was called, but said that he could noti inary Plans have also been made for do her any good. We feel very sorry .having the navy take aver, direction for her and her husband and daugh- of wireless Plants. , ter. Her case is monT pitiable be- Secretary Wilson said that Jtl to cause of the fact that, she is blind and esf. , has had to be led by her daughter, for mobilization of labor .resources. ,7. Members of the cabinet who aro REMARKABLE MURDER ti j y-i r-i r i j i. n A mil cauuiuaxes tviui ease m tiuiui.iii& tne unmcky position. Alter ner mar veleus climb of yesterday, Miss Janie Iredell Meares has, remained station ary since. Following is the official count today at noon, the candidates who continue in the race with but lxxlCCxt ua,m6 u u.vu. Their votes are reeisterea. nowever. 1 .eu vruss vjueu uuus&l aim iuuy 1103 Orange street and burned tne sees a new candidate breaking into roof of the adjacent house. No. 1105, the company of the leaders, this being occupied by Mrs. Judge. The alarms Miss Gladys McEachern, who took were gent in from boxes Nos. 54 and possession of twelfth place from the 61 when the fire apparatus arrived start."Miss Vera Furlong continues on the 8cene the building in which the at the head of the list, with Miss An-!fire originated was In a light blaze., nie Banks in second position. Miss Little could be done to save it and Mary Pickett caused a commotion in tne efforts of the firemen were to con the ranks of her jump from thir-ifine tne fire to that one building. How teenth to third place, gding over the ever, the roof of the house next door X JIJA Xl I 4-4.;. ' w ' i oi. uuuis, luaitu av. a icwiu. and when they start upward their J auction sale of furs will be held in names will be re-entered in the official gt- jouis, beginning April 16, when county I 2,750,000 furs, worth apjproximtaely , Misses Vera Furlong 1,295 votes, $3,500,000, will be sold to purchasers Annie Banks 873, Mary Pickett 654, fr0m nearly every country' in the; Dorothy Meier 630, Elizabeth Pqweil world. The sale is expected to last 544, Louise Nelson 479, Janie Meares eight days. v 475, Elizabeth Sweeney 400, Mary, The Japanese government will offer! Houston 392, Florence Morrison 340, 1,553 raw seal furs, and 'seevral large' Mary Bellamy 338, Gladys McEeachern shipments of skins Intended for this V 325, Lucile Solky 275, May Wright sale are en-route from Manchuria Taylor 213, Lucy Murchison . 210r Eliz- and Russia. This sale will make aP abeth Westbrook 157, Virginia. Farm- proximately .$12,000,000 ivorth of, furs er 152. to be auctioned here since January 1. Opinion Seem to Prevail That United States Was About ' to Actively Enter War. i DON'T THINK GERMANY 1, WILL STOP SUB. WAR Secretaries Report That All Is In Readiness For Whatever Emergency Comes Labor Resources to Be Mobilized. (By Associated Presa ) ' Washington, March 30. As tho cabinet met today with President Wil son for the last time before the tite sembling of Congress, Monday, the concensus of opinion was that the. United States was about to actively enter into war with Germany. - ' , -Taking for granted from the speech of the German chancellor that Ger many will not abandon her subma rine campaign of ruthlessness, offi-, cials generally have given up hope that an actual clash with Germany can be averted. Secretary Baker said that the early graduation of the upper class at West Point was under consideration, but ""Vr rr, Z"' necreiary neujiem iu i was in reaumebs iui iuiuuik mo also members of .the Council of Na-j tional Defense reported that every thing possible is being done to co ordinate all of the resources of tho Nation for the government in war. Changes on Perishable Good$ Made By Commerce Commission. ' (By Associated Press.) Washington, .March 30. General re vision of freight rates on fruits and veee tables from Southern States to- J Northern and Middle Western mar kets in order to bring rates to a parity with those from other producing sec tions, were approved today by the In terstate Commerce Commission. Carload and less than carload rates on about 48 kinds of fruits, melons and vegetables from every section of the South to Kansas City, St.PauI, St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louis ville, Pittsburgh, New York, Philadel phia and numerous other towns and . cities, are involved. In the case of tne cities mentioned - 447 rates are in creased, 332 rates are reduced and 37 rates left unchanged. The commission found that most of the railroads' proposals for a read iustment of rates were justified, but that in certain specific instances the proposals were disapproved. Disapproval Included proposals to increase rate3 on potatoes from points Arkansas, Oklahoma Missouri and Kansas:, to increase rates on fruit from Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mis souri, and to increase rates on can teloupes and muckmelons from Ar kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, where such rates are already as high as the commission believes are justified. FIRE DESTROYS HOUSE One Total Loss, Another Had ; Roof Burned. Fire this morning at 11:50 o'clock destroyed a one-story frame dwelling, nminied hv Mrs. Marv Williams. No. - . wag padly damaged. A RECORD AUCTION OF FURS TO BE HELD. (By Associated Press.) a t htv. o a -nnA an iiictmmt nr nuuuuimLiii ui , .if-