North Carolina Newspapers

i , . - A'"'"" ' ?" ivKATHER FORECAST CIMfll v" North CarolinaFair tonight arid' Tuesday, little change in tempera-. tUSo'uth Carolina Fair tonight and Tuesday, little change in tempera- I lliiiL EDITION FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE .5 VOL. X XXIILN" 115. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TO TIME Oi i V-' A VITAL QUESTION DTn3 rv.'- CONGRESS ffi IF MUCH TTnTV9fSl MA Food Speculators Called "Rob bers" and "Pirates By Senators 4. 4- THOMAS WOULD THROTTLE THEM ALL Offers Drastic Amendment to 4 4 4 4 the Esponage Bill Many 4 i t i rv i. ' Members 1 ake a r ling at the Food bharks OUppos- ed to Have Country By the Throat 4 (Hv Associated Press.) Washington. May 14. The unre vtrained wrath of the Senate was poured down upon food gamblers and4. snecuiators iuuay m uuc remarkable scenes in the history o;4.,were shot by a posse which pur- 4 ihe chamber. Pirates" and "robbers" were terms frequently applied to those who profit by speculations in food in the hour of the Nation's need. The liker lihood of food speculators being hanged to lamp posts was hinted at. ( The storm broke when Senator Thomas, Democrat of Colorado, pro posed an amendment to the Adminis tration espionage bill, a provision to suspend for the duration of the war all boards of trade, stock exchanges or chamber.:, of commerce which per mit speculation in futures in food. Senators who opposed it did so on ihp ?rniinri that the obiect shouldstie ! accomplished in aotrorasfoiw grear majority of opinion favored some drastic action to stop food gam bling and speculation, which makes for artificial prices and threatens the Nation with the pinch of hunger. Senator Lewi., Democrat, said he thought legislation such as proposed J by Senator Thomas would work in-j jury to many and should not be passed without deliberation. "What is needed at this hour" said, he, "is a provision of law authorizing the President, on. evidence satisfac- lory to him. that food is being uh- necessarily held, to -seize such food and order its distribution under the proper branch of the government, with compensationrto the owner and a just market price assured the people." "I think," said Senator Reed, Demo crat of Missouri, "that means ought to be taken to stop speculation in foodstuffs within the "limits of the powers of Congress. "There never has been in the his tory of the world, an agitation that parallels the present one. We are practically told s that the United States is on the verge of starvation and that the world without is starv ing. When that information is put forward men are astonished that the prices for foodstuffs mount.' If a plan had been conceived to make them mount, the one adopted could not have been improved upon by the in genuity of man or the devil himself. "The thing to teach the American people now is that America will not be starved, that she can't be starved, and the consequence will be to lessen the conditions that confront us." Food speculators were denounced as "robbers," by Senator Kenypn, of lov.a, who recommended, however, that the food speculation measures be held over to be considered with the food bill. "If Congress can't stop this rob bory and that is a mild term for it the people will find some way if ihey Have to make use of the lamp J post.' Senator Kirby, of Arkansas, sup- Porting the Thomas amendment, de-j aounced food speculators as "para sites." Senator Smith of South Carolina, "'ged thataction be withheld until the food bill was taken up. He said 'he Thomas amendment would par ;i'yze fixed commercial channels and wight do more harm than good. "We should regulate these pirates," he said, "but not destroy the usual market places, which have a legiti mate use. Let us so after these men who are speculating in food, but not 'great .fire raged on the imperial 'troy established means of distri-i wharves at Wilhelmshaven, according but ion." ,to advices received here yesterday. A motion by Senator Harding to The submarine building department lav the Thomas amendment on the i was. seriously damaged. The entire table was carried 54 to 23. Then a district has been closed to the public, motion to re-consider carried without) 7"- , . a roll call and opened the debate I Wilhelmshaven is the chief German iigain. - Senator TC.n nt M,nCCnta of- lf'ied an amendment to the Thomas' naval base of the empire. It is situ ;mendmPTit v,,;; v.o orttoi ami ntpd in the nrovince of Hanover, on be prohibited when physical delivery f products traded in was accom- Mishrd in settlements. Immediate action in rVicnV snAP.ii - i v. t juiiic 'taL avtuu 'ation was urged by Senator Varda-,ln addition to eight enormous dry:tradmg in corn and oats for May de man. of Mississippi. docks and two 35,00Vton floating ; y ry wag orde'red discontinued. May I never understood ' 'he said- 'now , docks, there are five floating docks , . 7- oatl,ra (Continued on page eight.) mm 41'. THREE DEAD AND TH WOUNDED. 4,; Pittsburgh, May 14. Three per- 4 sons are dead and three others 4 wounded as the result of the' 4 robbing today of the First Nation- al Bank of Shannon Castle, a sub- fr urb, by three bandits. The dead ' are Frank Erbe, assistant cashier; 4 , Nlck Yost, a street railway dis- 1 patcher; Magistrate George Beltz- , hoover, and one of the bandits. : 4 Cashier D. L. McLean and two 44 banditjs wprfl wniinriprT - Erbe and McLean ere shot in 4 ment issued last evening by the Brit 4 the bank and Yost and Beltz- 4 ish Admiralty relative to the naval v fioover were snot aown as me 1 1. J XI. ml y uauuitt, wne i uumug nyui me v bank to an automobile with loot 4j irom ine uaiiK. rue Danaiis "r 4 sued and took them. 4 4.4.44.4.414.4. 4 4 fc 4 4" NO MORE BARBECUE IN NORTH CAROLINA (By Associated Press.) Raleigh, N. C, May 14. County and municipal officials in various parts of North Carolina have under considera tion plans to prohibit barbecues as a step forward the conservation of pork and an increase in hog production, ac- cording to reports received here. Bar becued pork is the favorite viand at, nlcnim and in addition la served in restaurants and cafes tbrbjefghout Qtofo vniino- animals dimnst invar-' iably ave selected for barbecue, it isltance," gays an official statement is- vui.v,. . w 1 said, and officials interested m food conservation believe if the slaughter ing of pigs for this purpose is prohib- ited a marked increase in production will result. The first boat of the navy's fleet 'of submarine chasers has just been launched at the New York Navy Yard, and the second will be launched at the New Orleans Navy Yard in a tew days. Keels of both were laid April 1. Many others of the liu-toot mo- tor craft are nearing completion. FAILED TO GET ORDERS III TIE All rtf Norrk and South lw A AAA . 1 Carolina Men Didn't Report At Ogletorpe Today (Special to The Dispatch.) Chattanooga, Tenn,, May 14. The faiiiiT-A nf annlic.ants accented from North and South Carolina for the Ke-,miue, ana 10 ueieuu attacks upon it serve Officers' Camp ' at Fort Ogle-1 on the ground that the government thorpe, to receive official orders to re- must have the revenue. port an Sunday and Monday, respec-, tively, was explained today to be due. -f tf- -Jf -X- -X-to delay in the mails. Of 752 accepted from North Carolina less than 300 THOMAS AMENDMENT WAS had reported this morning, South Carolina had still less repre-1 sentation. The tardiness of the sue-' cessful applicants because of non-receipt of orders will not affect their eligibility. - DISASTROUS FIRE AT AN PORT Government Wharves and Docks at Wilhelmshaven Burned Important Base (By Associated Press.) . "Amsterdam, (Via London) r- May 14. For seven hours on Wednesday a naval station and war haroor m tne . North Sea. and is the second largest . the north side of Jahde Bay. The harbor contains numerous docks and 'slips capable of accommodating war : vessels of every description 2nd size. iand four pontoons ior torpeao ooais. FOOD 1 I TO U-BOAT oritish tJombardment Ut German Submarine Base at Zeebrugge (Ry Associated Tress.) London, May 13. An official state- and aerial oomoarament ot z,ee- . . . . -. m brugge Saturday morning says: "A very heavy bombardment of the important area at Zeebrugge was suc-j , cessfully carried out Saturday morn ing by a portion of our forces under J A Amifai "The Royal Naval air service ren dered valuable cooperation and over 15 aerial combats occurred in which four enemy machines were destroyed and five others were driven down out of control. "Two of our machines failed to re turn. One of " these descended in Dutch territory and was interned." The German Account. TWJih. Mav 23 (Via London). RrSESh n i?mv mnnithrc - rlntino - ' .nv.A!hf ' Af:ki!iiit Th,,Ktfh44lft xR-ixtAt arly Saturday morning, o-o- fnm o rat ic. SUCI1CU irtTCUlUSoC " fciWHV uJ 1 sued today by the German Admiralty. "Our batteries replied. There was no loss of life. Slight material dam age was done. Two enemy airplanes were shot down." TH BILL UNDER DEBATE House Inclined to Stand By Bill As Reported By Committee (By Associated Press.) I Washington, May 14. Debate on the j war tax bill occupied the House again today with the prospect that the stage of considering amendments might be . . m , J reacilcu ueiuie aujuuiuuicui, auu a vote assured by Friday or Saturday. Support from both sides of the chamber continued to show the dispo sition of the House to stand in the main by the provisions of the bill as drawn by the Ways and Means com KILLED. -3f (By Associated Press.) 7C -X- Washington May .14. The - amendment- to the Administra- -X- -X- tion Espionage bill proposed by Senator . Thomas to suspend -x--X- stock exchanges and boards of -X-fr trade dealing in futures in -X- foodstuffs during the war, was -X- rejected today by the Senate, 49 -X- X- to 24. X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- Chicago Board of Irade bus - Two Days (By Associated Press.) Chicago, May 14. All trade in . wheat, except to ciose up exiting con- tracts, was ordered stopped for two , W CHECK KITING GRAN MARKET days br the directors of the Board of e iy tee men, all of whom made the Petrograd garrison, resigned yes Trade today. Saturday's closing fig- thefr e'cape None of the shots took.terday. The general explained to an ures were given as the maximum at effect. " The sentry returned the fire interviewer that his tion was which settlements may be made. All! and declared be saw one of his due ,to to 'JSJS. iwucai, o ,. ARMY EXPANSION QHDF.R IS ISSUED BY THE PRESIDENT Sixty-Five Thousand Men Al ready Recruited For the : Greater Army MANY OFFICERS TO BE PROMOTED ew Regiments of Dif-' : ferent Branches Are to Be Formed In Southern De partment mr AssrTMnted Press A Washington, May 14. Expansion of ; the regular army to the full strength . J . , x x. 1 contemplated in the Administration , Army bill has been authorized by Pvpsirlpnt Wilson. Oreanization at the regiments will begin tomorrow.) About 65,000 of the 1S3.000 men to be added to the army already have been recruited The immediate effect of the order will be to promote nearly two-tnirds of the present omeers of the regular army one or two grades. In the Southern Department the 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th, 55th and 56th regiments of infantry will be raised at unicKamauga ram, vxa., n um uuCC) regiments of infantry from the border , The existig 17th infantry regiment will j be one.of thoseto be expanded. The; 22nd and" 23rd cavalry regiments also will be raised it Chickamauga Park, r one . existing cn-V'Oxijr, icjmcm, brought hak from &eito oirlatlne- oavalrv rpriment beincJ field artillery regiments iU be raised' t o;n rb-i?i' i ?v7tii ' inYftnt.w ill I'Ull Ulll, Uia. " regiment, the 18th field artillery, the 64th infantry and the 21st field artil lery also will be- raised in the South em Department at places to be des ignated by the Department command er. ' SUBMARINE VICTIMS IN AMERICAN PORT ; j I (By Associated Press.) New York. May 14. Officers and members) of crews of vessels sunk: by German submarines were passeng ers on an American steamship which arrived here today from England. Twently men, including three United States naval gunners, were from the American steamship Vacuum; 84 from the American steamship Rockingham, and 24 from the Uruguayan steamer Gorizia. TWO STEAMSHIPS SUNK BY U-BOAT Torpedoed On Same Day and in About Same "Locality No Lives Lost (By Associated Press.) . New York, May 14. The British passenger steamship, Medina, of 12,350 tons, owned by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, was torpedoed and sunk by a Ger man submarine, April 28 off the coast of Plymouth, according to American passengers arriving here today from England. On the same day, in almost the same locality, the Omrah, of 8,130 tnns. nwned bv the Orient Steam Nav- 6,igation Company was also torpedoed and sunk, "the passengers saiu. 1 lives were lost on either ship. SENTRY EIRED ON F . niie Guarding Railroad One Assistant ixiv Associated Press.) Washington. N. J., May 14. Twenty or more snots "i ; bush Saturday .night j at a sentry i M.rarl YtfiAera at Tint 17- ROM SHUSH; the spot, however, the other two men.tions to control the garrison, and add had lifted I their 'companion into a ed: "Well, let them take the respon wagon and escaped. Jsibility." saiiants tail, rseiuie u uuwu ica. War Has Been On Thirty-Nine Days and Yet Little , Done ADMINISTRATION IS URGING MORE SPEED Needs of the Country Are Pressing and Important Measures Yet in the Talking Stage Busy Week Is Ahead (By Associated Press.) Washington,' May 14. The United States has been at war with Ger many 39 days and praetically all the measures through which this govern ment is to do its part in the world's battle for humanity and civilization still are in the talking stage in Con- grss. The actual accomplishments since President Wilson convened the spe cial war session on April 2 have been the passage of the resolution declar- U1K a State OI war Wlin utjiiuauy, iiiiu enactment of the $7,000,000,000 loan law. Those who predicted Congress would provide the Nation with the mMn for makins war successfully and adjourn by June now have ex tended their estimates to the middle oj; August. 1 Pressed for speed by the adminis tration on one side and on the other by constituencies at home, demand ing action, Congress faces many big things to do, and quickly, if the aid of the United States in the world war is to be of value. The immediate pressing need of the aid the United States can give the Allies is best known to the President and his closest advisors, who have &nd British missi0ns. Those to whom .t nas been communicated have been impresSed with the necessity of more aCc0aipiishments. "l , ,aT,t tt As Congress today went into its thirty-seventh worjwj q dwf. .the war pruBiaiii .o - , . . , - Waj the Senate finance coBpmw. ths. Dresent rate of progress it-prop - . . - IJrtllOfli nr auiy win ue up uciuio iivv, - the other for at least a month. Army bill In conference again to thresh over the action of the House in restoring the so-called Roosevelt amendment. It provides the army the Allies need in France. Food control bills Debated one day in -the House; an entirely different form of bill has been introduced in the Senate. Shinnine bills The bill to vest le gal title in the government to the seized German snips has passed both Houses, but is in conference for recon ciliation of differences. The bill to appropriate $400,000,000 for a start on the great merchant fleet to overcome the submarine menace has not yet been introduced, and may not be, while plans are being discussed for paying for .the ships out of the $7,000, 000.Q00 loan. The bill to authorize the taking over of ship-building facilities and ships building for foreign accounts has been introduced, but is not yet under consideration. Espionage bill The House in pass ing the bill retained the newspaper censorship section demanded by the administration, but did not enact an embargo section, by which the admin istration wants to keep supplies from going to Germany through neutrals. The Senate still has its bill under de bate, retaining such an embargo sec tion, but entirely, without a censor ship provision. The real enactment of this ill probably will be in con ference, where the administration will bring pressure to have both, cen sorship and embargo sections ,insert- For the present all the pushing in fluences of the administration are being concentrated to convince Con gress it ought to hurry with the army bill, the bills to provide ships as the first means of combating the subma rine menace, and to enact laws to guard the country against the pinch of hunger. ed in acceptable terms. Prohibition As an amendment to the Espionage bill the Senate has at tached a section prohibiting the man ufacture of intoxicating liqudrg from food grains. Various prohibition pro posals are pending in the House. The normal strength of the prohibition forces in Congress, coupled with the rising prices of food, present a like lihood of some action to prevent food stuffs from being manufactured into liquor, at least during the war. Federal reserve law amendments. These additions to the existing bank law were proposed by the administra tion to bring more banks into the Federal Reserve system, and, by lib eralizing the reserve requirements, in crease the gold holdings of the sys tem more than $300,000,000. Conaess was told their enactment woudgrd pare the Federal reserve systeSgrfor practically any shock it might Jbe called upon to sustain. General ; Korniloff, commander of " - a aa NEWSPAPER MEN CONTINUE FIGHT Against Proposed Increase In Postage on Their Publica tions Statement (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 14. Newspaper publishers were here today to protest to the Senate finance committee n o"tnct tVin innraQco in connH pIq ct: mail rates by application of the par-.. P'sum auu e"'""'c' ..... eel post zone system, proposed by s known to modern iwar, the British t are , the $1,800,000,000 war tax bill. y and stubbornly fighting their, v The committee also considered the wy to Drocourt-Queant line, th ... measure's provisions for stamp and sate to Doual and Cambrai and th? estate and inheritance taxes, to which I principal link in the fetters welded on there were many objections. The northern France by tne Gffn8' House resumed debate on the bill, General Haig is hammering :aU along ; , and leaders hoped for its passage the line, but it is around X?! ! t early in the week the southern extremity, that his sue ' V A statement prepared by a com- cess has been most marked tho , . ... mittee of the American Newspaper .corresponding menace to the Germans . Publishers' Association, headed by.sreatest. Don C Seitz, of the New York World, j Queant is virtually pocketed. To Baid the postal increase was a "cold-.ine blooded proposition to close the mails" to newspapers and would result in so much loss of circulation, especial' - ly among farmers, that postal income " a u t Aa4a system would entail an even greater loss than at prTsent.. , Ewing. New Orleans Daily States; C. t t Mnnpv lUomnhis Pommei-ciai- Appeal; James'R. Gray. Atlanta Jour-,"ne nal; and Frederick I. Thompson. Mo- bile Register Harry B. Varn'er, representing tn tvkik4nro Tomo fMrth rfarnitnfl consisting of 250 theatres, appeared next. "We object to paying 10 per cent, on gross receipts," he said. "We object to being put out of business, but we ask tf he permitted to con tivmn rmr thctri in oneration We are not tryftr? tv dodge taxes, he said. "If necessary, take 10, 20 or 50 per cent., but don't take all the prof its," he added. A. F. Sams, representing the same organization, said it is impossible to pass Ihe tax on to the public because It Is impossible to make the change. Baltimore and Ohio Will Re fuse All Freight Less Than Carload Lots (By Associated Pre8.) Baltimore. Md.. May 14. An em bargo against the shipment of freight in less than carload quantities from I FREIGHT ffllREjk any point in the United States will beHollweg to Vienna assumed consider- put into enect uy iu D J Ohio Railroad today, and until the congestion is relieved this city will be shut off from receiving a large share of its supply of staple groceries, shoes, millinery and general merchan dise -1 . The placing of the embargo closes every avenue of trade through which freight, in less than carload quantities may be received In Baltimore, as oth er roads have taken similar' action. T OFJEPPELINS To Make Raid Erid In Disaster -Another Shot Down By British (By Associated Press.) London," May 14. British naval forces destroyed Zeppelin L-22 in the North Sea tnis morning, according to an official statement issued by. the admiralty. -The destruction of the L-22 marks the fourth attempt at Zeppelin raids within the last year which has ended in disaster. Two of them, mammoth airships, were shot down during a raid on London on September 23, 1916, and two months later two more Zeppelins were destroyed off the English coast- On March 17 French artillerymen shot down a Zeppelin behind the French lines while it was endeavoring to reach Paris. FOURTH ATTEMP Continue Slowly and Stub? bornly to Push Back the German Forces MARINE REVERSES BY THE GERMANS Important Submarine Bases Damaged By Naval and Airplane Fire - Austria Anxious for Peace Gei man Chancellor Goes to Vienna In the face of blazing oil, liquid fire. easi, wcbi uiiu u iuC uu . , clear to the British, as far as natural - barriers are concerned, except for part of the village of Bulle -.Court. After ; some of-the grimmest figjting on the : ... , western front, the British have driv- . en their foes from one-halt -of, Bu lie , . iJSSS - ilt " ' 4fSL "J southern end of the Drocourt-Queant is inevitable. A ray of sunshine has also fallen on British arms at sea. The great German submarine base at Zeebrugge and the naval stronghold at Wilhelm- sbaven have been assaulted from tho sea and air, apparently with notable success. Zeebrugge is an absoultely . artificial harbor, called into existence oh the flat sandy coast of Belgium by the exigencies of submarine warfare and practically depending for Its ex istence on a great mole. This mole : is said to have been reached by the British guns and the Germans must quickly . repair the gap or the silting sands will complete the work of de- struction commenced by the British, . gunners. The only incident of moment In the other war theatres is a fresh Austrian report of a great artillery bombard ment by the Italians on the Isonzo front. This may . mean that the long inactivity of General Cadorna" is about r to be broken. The Italian situation has been wrapped in considerable ob scurity, and there have been uncom fortable rumors that' the chaos, in Russia was inspiring the central pow ers to mass forces for a great drive : against Italy. These rumors have been somewhat offset by the accumu lating evidence that Austria is seek- . ing in every direction a path to peace and is willing to make great conces ; sions toward that end. ' In this connection the announced , ,. . phonoiMr Von nethm&nn- able importance. The fury of the Ger- man junkers against the Austrian at- . tltude is obviously increased by their ; convection that the Chancellor haa . gone over to the moderate party .with ' ' ; its program of peace without annexa- f ' tion of indemnity. There Beems little doubt" that the demand for peace is j- steadily growing in volume in Ger-i.-many, and the hysteria of the Junkers. ':) as displayed, through their newspapers , and through the utterances . or , their . leaders, is significant in this respect, There is nothing yet to indicate . what the answer will be to the Rus-t sian riddle. The resignation of Gen-j eral Karniloff, military commander at; Petrograd, because of his rerasai to accent- orders from the council of, , workmen's and soldiers' ' delegates; ' heightens the impression of the grow-; ' ing power of the radicals and the de moralization of the army. Apparently; , the provisional government must. quickly assert Its ..authority or aban-i , don a pretense at power. While military interest continues; to center in the great battle on the,' French front where the British are. continuing slowly but steadily to press , the Germans back, the political situ- -atlon in Russia is demanding increas ing attention and causing added con-; cern among all the allied nations.: i i Under the continued harassing. ' , course of the radical elements in Pe- trograd. the provisional government .; , which has held Russia together since . the overflow of the old' regime now;5 shows signs of breaking np. ' ' - The first gap in the government ; ranks was created yesterday when,;; M. Guchkoff, the Minister of War and " Marine handed'- in hts" resignation' Goaded by interference with the army (Continued on page eight) . - v"ri V" i V.