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. . ?, . r i- ... wEATHER .,.h caroiina- overcast probabfy ?howrr In 0 i rtrtion. wecMth Carolina Faif tonight,Frt- .i,,hiv showers. day Prw-"v , NORTH CAROLINA RSDAYAETfERNOON; APRttSl 9,t 1 9 17 , PRICE FIVE CENTS FORECAST," MI k" 'TT TT- 7- . -i-IVVH': . V ;r - iY r-;t- -ri-cv.i VT A Vc'l'' K : f-v. ' ' 1 : rr, " "II T.- v I; ' 1 f I I I r X N J I . .."t , II I XX'l . I l III V f ' S M -.v. II II ' . ' I k ,-."11 A I". - ------ , i 1 " c : :t:-r - - j c f'FUfL LEASEptwiiiE service:: - ; - - - ... . . , , I V W 'i;. . . - V.; i Spanish car';. Jr OlilTSJOB 1 id T'ress:) ; ' : April 19 . (Via banish i cabinet Ranking Republican of House Committee to Press Mili tary Bill. COMMITTEE BILL REPORTED TO HOUSE Hard Fight Looms Ahead For Advocates of Conscription. Government Prepared With Data. - f - UHITEOSIKS BE CONSULTED SPANISH CAB lUy AS80 Madrid- Sna Ht liondon) :-Th6 nasi, ' resigned. Th Spanish em- w Mitsy is wimoui omqiai mrorma- "tion of the resignation: of iihe -Sfr . was . at - a1 loss to ftstlmat. ; the -X- & cause of, the freaking: up of the i . uxe jast two weeks, the ambassa- ,6 Intimates Chancellor Bonar dor. said, indicated that the coun- i t U v c r try jwas quiet, following the Law m rlouse or Ujm- workingmen's disorder ' of some J mons TodaV 5C-time ago. , : , ' , ':: t3f I J nuu iivir viviAii i ' It I ri: H H ' ft Ulil ALL 11 Wlm HOUSE ADJOURNS . MONDAY. UNTIL (By Associated Press.) ! Washington, April 19. Debate l on the Administration Army bil? . irill begin in the House on Mon- day. An agreement was reached 4 today by House leaders and con- sideration of . the measure is ex- V pected to last from 2 to 3 days". Majority and minority reports will be filed with the clerk of the ' House Saturday. - The House adjourned this after; noon until Monday. : Washington, April 19. Preparing to lead the fight in the House for the Administration Army bill, Representa tive Kahn, ranking Republican of . the Military committee, conferred today withKepretarv Raker . - " 1 filOgyw.. ' - 5 lti RALLY FOB STATE An Address by The Governor on Subject Death of Ra leigh Official: (Special- to The DisDatcb.) i Raleigh, April 19. Governor Bick- ett today issued an address to North Carolina people urging enlistment in the naty, and calling upon mayors and governing bodies of all-towns of r.300 inhabitants and more : to inaugu rate campaigns for enlistment. Gov ernor Bickett suggests that, begin ning April 23rd, this campaign be car ried on until the 30th, when it should close with great mass meetings, "in which the paramount importance of the navy as our first line of defense should be set forth. At these meet ings the actual work of the men in the navy, -with the chances of ; pro motion, should be fully explained.' The; Governor calls attention of the State "tcv, the recruiting stations at Wilmington '. Raleigh, -Fayetteville, Goldsboro Charlotte, Greensboro and Winston-Salem. Richard-. BuHock SeftlcAP,wimis- fifiST mm OMFkCm F IE! II llhlllWIIU I lu W SECRET MEETING. ..- . f ..... . i. ' 'Entente Attitude1 Towards Greece Will be Taken ' Vpl America Will Likely ' ' Play Part. AMERICAN NAVYJTAKING , . OVER PATROU ,OUTY JtVi .-: : f By - Associated Press.) Washington, April ' 19. It be- ' ; came known -officially 'today, that I ; the American s navy - is , rapidly; s: taxing - over tne patrol; wnicn tno Britishi and JFrencb vessels "es- v tablished on the American coast." " . - s FREODi APPEALS Was That, of Edmond Genet, , of The American Aviation Corps in France. Over Sinking by Germany of Four- Belgian Relief Ships During Present Month. . Mil 111 yilLLiulivl : (By Associated Press.) ' Paris, April ?; J9.1- The v ' sinking German submarines early f in. April of iour shipsr$ ; the Belgian -relief ;conv 5. C. whose Representative Kahn received ad ditional information at the War De partment, to conduct the fight he has undertaken. To all intents -and Pur poses he will be administration spokes- (By Associated' Press.) -Paris, April 19. Edmond Genet, the American aviator death was officially announced today, was the first American to die In France fighting 'under the American r flag. Genet, who was a grand son of former governor Clinton of New York ; and great grandson .of Citizen Genet, French minister to the United States, in revolutionary times, was killed near Ham. while escorting Sergeant Raoul Luf berry. v . .; Genet was known as a daring and skilful, flyer and was very popular on account of his cheery and optimistic nature. His homV was in Ossining, N Y. :- . (By Associated Press.) London, April 19. Chancellor Bonar Law;infornied the.Hose of Commons ioday that the goveMiment had de- itar n' lirl? ft fiPnrAf- sosainn ; lif ilia bouse, the date of which would be an mission, carrying food for-the invaded nonnced next wefc.; v , distrClhasfciiused tbeljh:ench gov- Orie of the subject! of discussion, I ernment to appeal to the King of Mr.'- Bonar Law toldhe House, wiIlSpain to intervene at Benin and find be the situation in Greece, which is J out whether the German government now under consideration by the allied j intends to respect relief commission governments. - j ships or ' whether' it proposes to as- Laurence Ginnell asked whether the j SUme responsibility for hindering the United States was being consulted humanitarian "work : ; ' i TtrUed t0 Greec Th6 5halicel-j The ships;; which were laden with tT k Qe,o tt-i a ' wheat, were all sunk within four- days q w fJKnn v n!w f ' oth6r,6ff -the coast of Holland, SJSSLS w t o l nd aIone the route ' indicated by the ?1STJ Germans as being oufeide the danger jed they will be matter in which concerned." - consulted in every their interests are i zone. relief in - Belgium has already pro-" tested againBt t,be sinking of the steamers. - ' E1FIBEREP0RT X f . " : - sx ' " TELEGRAPH SPARKS. -X- - ' ; -X The discovery of. a ;new comet on! than .a- week. ' lie -jas a memfeer of a prominent Raleigh " family. He had been many years the city's engineer, and. on its change of governmental form he became head of the cpnstruc- tiva Henarfmerit TT Was 4fii- vears man before the House on the question old and unmarried. Oe month ago of Army preparation. toflav Mr. Sftawell burieh his mother. It is expected Mr. Kahn will pre-! who was perhaps, the city's most in teresting woman. i sent in his minority report, a letter from Secretary Baker, sent to Chair man Dent two days ago in a final effort to get the committee to approve the administration plans, which outlines clearly the purpose of the military ex perts to provide places for nearly 750, 000 individual volunteers 'in the ex panded regular army and National Guard, their reasons for distrusting any scheme for takine into the service complete volunteer units as proposed by the majority of the House commit tee. Representative TCahn will Vinva nvnil. aWe, also, a detailed study of England's struggle witn the volunteer system, made by AmeHrsm AfintoTO ovnarts jno personally -watched the process, t is understood these reports graph waiiy Picture the failure of the system under its greatest test in history and Point out the costly delay and experi ment cost, and the attendant military masters at tho frnnt i a WSCUSSinp' ViJc l t oi-ffid the Position taken by the --uuuee minority will be that the aymen of congress have no right to wt aside the view f to.v a avor of a plan which those experts Delieve is iiai,.,,,. x, , that oni; umw? ?i Honsa iT iuemoers oi ine rienn! Personal military , expe- trationabilia11 faVr thS adminis- The fiehr i al. I fin .. . - 11UL ueueve mat tne nouse citizens training : camps located WILMINGTON MAN TALKS WITH PRESIDENT ' (By George H. Manning.) : Washington, D. C, April 19. Con gressman Godwin returned, to Wash-1 died today at his home in Brooklyn, t . ... -k,aaa dialler iouk muvas. iio in uu about, ten days at hisfhbibe. iSenator : Simmons iT aMjiftugh Terence' "with President Wilson ye terday afternoon in. regard to stimu lating the country's food, supply, so as to meet the requirements of the United States and its allies and the devastated portions of Europe when peace is declared. The scope and im portance of the work were discussed and details of the plans left with the President for consideration at his con VIRGINIA LEGISLATOR ? GETS NAVAt POSITION (By Associated Press. ' . Richmond. Va., April 19. W. D. Tuesday morning ls.tv. reported in a Cardwell, former speaker of the Vir- Reuter dispatclr irom Melbourne, Aus-jginia House of Representatives, has tralia. . '. been appointed Lieutenant Commander , i in the Naval Volunteers. He left here William Berri, a leading American V today to report at the-Norfolk 'navy wi V1 cti anil WAnpAn rtf f ' 3 M ...A , flMLJM.lf ' Y n . man of the House Committee on Chesa peake bay . and its tributaries, and, a Veteran hunter and fisherman, knows iBVry nookjcfiaimel and shore jqi yix; newspaper publisher and regent of the University of the State of New York, 69tj ear. BiaAWhHibcfc the" Attertca&;xni r8igTutarietr iJertr-yesteTiiay for HaverOr where . the 'American lega tion will be established. He was ac companied by his family. 'tself will care to assume the responsi- (By Associated Press.) Washington, April 19. Establish ment of 14 citizen training camps where reserve officers anc applicants for commissions in the new war army will receive intensive military instruc tion, was authorized today by Secre tary Baker. - The camps will be opened May 1, and the courses of instruction under officers and non-commissioned offi cers of the regulars begin May 8. UK BOARD SAVE ONE LDST Scandinavian Steamer Torpe doed By German Subma rineNorwegian Press. NO SUBMARINES ON AMERICAN SIDE Is An Official Statement Sent Out By German Gov ernment. .I- - , (By United Press.) Berlin, April 19 (Via London). It is officially announced ' fiav.theje is no submarine as yet in the" Western part of the Atlantic. V , The statement follows : , "The Reuter Telegram, regarding an attack by;a German submarine on the American destroyer Smith ican be de scribed only as a frivolous means of attributing, to Germany the opening of hostilities. In fact, jio submarine is yet in the western half of the At lantic." 1 . ul nuDr -r-i ; , n iudettioni """-"wug ae unanimous home a X trained milir7 men at of v,hoh n s own Ior tne.rauure the fuiiVnsress would nave to bear 11 the nlano . .. , and en U1 uur exPerts are tiea t will n e' "IC "iame win De tneirs. ThJjS?? Congress. tee Wa, V' uo f-enaed by the commit- hy ChairnT uced in the Huse today "y kSESI nt lt was immediate ., crred bank tn v. Pects tn 1 ry report- Mr- Dent ex take it UD ,P0S the biu Monday and - - mc nouse luesaay. THOUSAND Kurrs YESTERDAY Washir,(.A88?a.ted Pre.) . gain of ' Apru 19- 'A total net Ported tl recruits for the army is recruitin k .fterday in the daily at the V ln made Public t(day again 1 ai department. Illinois centPH number of men ac-' ' By Associated Press.) H with on 7; Pennsylvania sec-' ' .Washington, April 19.-TheAd- 222: Mim ": New York tnird with j ministration bUl increasing the Teas fifth "ourth with 143, and enlisted strength of j . the -navy, (By Associated Press.) London, April 19. The torpedoing of an unnamed Scandinavian steamship w,ith the loss of all on board, except Captain Karstein Olsen, is reported in a Reuter dispatch from Christiania. The captain says the submarine rose to the surface after the tomedo had jbeen fired and watched 9 persons ; drown without offering assistance. The Norwegian press comments bit terly on this incident. Th3 Shipping Gazette says the pre sent situation of Norway is worse than if she were at xwar. It adds that the United States should have the most cordial . co-operation of all the Scan dinavian countries in the effort to shut off Germany from exports, even from neutral countries. ' "All neutrals ought voluntarily to "break off commercial relations with Germany." It says. . ONE DEAH AND MANY INJURED SO FAR SHOWN (By Associated Press.) Hobart, Okla., April 19. Meagre re ports today from the tornado which yesterday swept through three coun ties of Southwestern Oklahoma show the death of one woman, Mrs. Gris som, near Snyder, and the injury of at least nine other persons in that vicinity. The storm path included Altus, Tipton and Manitou, where a woman is reported killed, but appar ently drew its, heaviest toll among the rural communities. . r iofficiat announcement was issued ,&ter 3E ORATOR AT WARS AW Warsaw, N. C., April 19. Bishop ! reports Government Does Not Believe f ; Story of Engagement Off New England. ' (By Associated Press.) Boston, April 19 It was officially announced at the navy yard late yes terday that no credence was placed in reports from three coast guard stations on Cape Cod that neavy. gun fire had been heard off the. coast. The positive statement was made that there had been no naval engagement and that war ships had not exchanged salutes with foreign vessels. The previous announcement that heavy gun-firing had been heard during the morning was also issued officially at the navy yard. It was based on reports, from Cape Cod, received by Lieutenant E . G . Blakeslee, in charge of the naval radio district. Newspaper correspondents at points on the Cape reported that they had not heard any gun-flring and that they knew1 nothing of it except f ro,hi the bulletins issued by the naval author! The statement discrediting, the first Unable ibyCKeck The : Rapij Advance of Victorious French Forces. , VON hindenbUrg WALL' FAHING Germans Lose'' Position After : ' Position -Many Prisoneiia ' Taken and More Cannon Takeri-r-British .. Awaiting ,' Opportune Time For Make's . ing Another Strike. - .' . off tltcoast jN firing was. obtained from ships' at sea; the authorities daidi adding that 'coast guard stations had sent in no additional RUMANIAN TOWNS BURNED BY GERMANS (By Associatefd Press.) Petrograd (Via London), April 19. A report received from Jassy, the seat of the Rumanian government, says the Germans have burned the towns of Braila and Tokshani. The dispatch says ; Rumanian military cir cles considers that this foreshadows a German retirement. HELP THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS BY COMING TO THE RED CROSS WORK ROOM FRIDAY MORNING. WAR MAKES HOSPITAL SUPPLIES A NECESSITY. v Thomas C. Darst will preach the bac caulaureate sermon here on next Sun day morning, and Hon. Tasker. Polk will deliver the Literary address on Monday evening. There will be no services at the Methodist, church on Commencement Sunday. . - GUARDSMAN SNOT F M AMBUSH Javal officers who were asked to ex plain the probable origin of the morn ing" reports, Which, according to the official announcement, came independ ently from thfee coast guard stations, said tney were una pie to oner any suggestion as to what might have been neara at uuuse stations. ' Germany has thrown -nearly & Quar ter of a million fresh troops into the-' fray on the. 60-mile sector of the west ern front between Soissons and Am-; berrve-and still is unable to check th4 'French advance. . v ' Both north of the' Aisne and In theT Champagne, General Nlvelle'a forces are pressing forward." r . The last ' stronghold of the Germans , on, the ;. Aisne was taken with the . capture' of ;. the Vailly bridgehead; yesterday aiid their wdvering . lines continued last " night to be pushed ,rapidly' north4 ward. . . , .. '. '.. - ' Trom Chavonne on the Aisne ' the French have 'driven mora r,than; three mile nhhr bf the riveh' despite desperate (resistance by .T on 'Hinden'; the Champagne the .successes otf avje idriven a great wedge more1 than : V . And laftt nlsrht's'attackT'nittJCIen-. 1A' : ALLEGED SPY NABBED IN JACKSONVILLE. (Special to Tbe Dispatch.) Jacksonville, N. C, April 19. Charles i Forbes, joative of Bermuda, arrested here yesterday for beating his farA on a freight trnin and nn 7 . ''' j T1 1 suspicion of being a spy, was today While Guarding Railroad tried hefore Magistrate H. C. Can- auxjr. a iiui was ciiucuvc uiav uvi had made seditious remarks and un der the train-riding charge he was sent to jail for 30 days. Government authorities will be asked to investigate remarks he is alleged to have made at Hampstead. Bridge -Fatally Wounded. . Assailant Not Captured. (By Associated Press ) Trenton, N. J.. April 19. A shot from ambush mortally wounded 1 Rob ert Price, 18 years old, a private in Company B, Second Regiment, New Jersey National Guard, who was on duty guarding a railroad BHdge near Yardville,, N. J., early today. Price, with other members of his company, was on duty at the bridge. All heard a shot, and a bullet that apparently came from bushes near the little bridge struck Price and he fell unconscious. His companions brought him to a hospital in this city, where physicians said he could not live. . Search is being made for the person i who fired the shot. MORE FOOD CROPS (Conference in Savannah To day and Big Meeting In Macon Next Week. NAVAL Bl LL REPORTED. Hampshire. iTta eu Tin ' au.u. yen The rth..7. Delaware. New and Vermont report- ad the ::r.,ATe I0r the regular army i i tt .-m ii. I. "i , e quotas am 3,898 6 states be filled tjoned appor- is .from 87,000 to 150,000'men and. the Marine! Ctons:I)pitmylt,400i to 30,000, was favorably report- ed to the Senate today from the . Naval Committee. . ' Flow to Sell More Goods In the WilminoriTerritory - --r .... The Wilmington Dispatch, the paper with the largest circu- lation, will carry your advertising message ' into a majority of i i the homes of the better and buying class in Wilmington and adjacent territory ,every evening at minimum cost. t- For better business in Wilmington Concentrate in The Wilmington Dispatch K N The growth in f the advertising patronage of The Wilming- ZT'- o ' ton Dispatch both loal.and foreign, is evidence of the recog nized worth iof this iapeir as an advertising medium. ; No other paper here can show such gains in advertising in & ' u-.-;-thepast year. ' . ": ,. : . - ; If you want to reach the buying, public use the advertising ; ; . columns of this paper. . ' . . A (By Associated Press.) Savannah, Ga., April 19. Represen tatives of several Georgia cities met here todav to discuss how Georeia can lra(so mnro fnA1 irnn Th a ' vn f 0T0T ftfl was called by the Savannah chamber of commerce and the members were welcomed by Mayor Pierpont at the nrst session today . discussion was 'on the present emergency especially in the South, co-operation and how the demand for food may be met. ' . . BROKE . AT THE (Bv Associated Press.) INTO ROOM CAPITOL. Washington, April 19. Capitol police discovered today that the door of the room of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs had been - forced during the night. -5fr Clerks in the committee room. after a hurried examination, said there was no - confidential inf or- mation in the room. ? The door was badly splintered and the capitol police force was much surprised that no, sounds were heard when it was forced. The guards' at the capitol were. recenUy increased in number.- Entrance when ; the ' houses of Congress are not in session has been made " unusually difficult. An investigation was begun. : . : . ,K1e ; eral- Neville's1 men - Be vera! ihelghts Jia the Moron viers region. .j-v--' Two more German - batteries . wer4 r : captured In the Moronyijliers fighting Previously the. taking o( 75 German i. euna in the new French "offensive had ; ; been reported, so that .the number of cannon wrested from the 'Germans must now be nearing the 100 maricv "vV 5 The tone of the whole; French offi-. : cial communication today is notably ' confident. The complete repulse 'tof? every German attempt at a reaction - ' is unequivocally claimed and- the'v- . successes in the Champagne are men- '.: tioned as having been achieved, "on a great scale." . . J ' r While the French are thus driving ( forward the British are ' quiescent,: so far as the official accounts show, . aWaiting their turn to strike the others flank of the Vont Hindenburg line. That notable activities; are in pro- , crress behind the British front in prep aration for the renewal of the attack .7 on Lens, St. Quentln and otner threatened points, on,' the line, now . ever, is certain. ' The French so far .naye taxen more . . than 17.000 prisoners In their onen sive. ' ."v' ' -r- At last accounts theBritlsh had taken in excess of 14,000, so? Jtliat the . combined offensives tor the two-arm-V" J fes thus far has, resulted' in the cap- 4 1 ture of more than 31,000 men, on the . , greater part of two German divisions. V ' Hindenburg Line . 8hken Badly.' J '." Paris. . AnriL 19. That . section Of Von Hindenburgs granite wall which runs from Soissons to Rheims r, has , been shaken to its foundation by the y.. terrific blows of General" NiTelle.. The . French have thewhip hand now- and . the Germans are still staggering from , the great rebuff dealt' , to them on; Monday. The French soldiers who , won the first line have been' relieved by fresh formations ' and the second ; - -phase of the battle has begun with -renewed vigor. '! . Unaffected by counter-attacks in . some places and the sturdy resistance offered everywhere, the Frencn nave gained substantial advantages and "r have driven forward with such speed.! 'that the Germans have been obliged to ' . abandon many guns. . : The enemy made a desperate- efw ; -fort to stem the tide between' Javin - : court and Berry-jiu-BAC This the weakest point of his line, being . de- ' void of natural defenses; .. ' : , M: Thirty thousand" of the best' Ger-. man troops were hurled forwardhere ;' In a furious counter, attack, but1 the' r ; j move ww.. ueeu - iuicbccu uu w French guns . were ; ready. Artillery. ' and machine guns i;smasbed wave after wave of the . green-clad soldiers . until finally the attempt was given up after awful carnage. f Fighting 8tlll More intense. Berlin.' April 19 " (Via - London). The battle in the Champagne north west . of Anberive yesterday contin ued into the night, says today's! offl-J cial announcement. - This morning the fighting increased ; In - intensity as a' result of the introduction of ' fresh . forces.-. . . ; "Near, Ville-aux-Bois,1! .; the , official 'statement says, "the foremost position became - unsuitable t . us and we - es- . tablished ourselves in a ' rearward -line." ' yf i - ';'' "
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