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Wilmington
North and South Carolina Fair
Sunday and probably Monday.
VOL. XXIII. NO. 156.
With Only Two Dissenters
Measure Went Through at
Night Session.
MAJORITY CAME
AS BIG SURPRISE
Virtually Makes Harold Hoov
er Food Dictator Includes
the "Dry" Provision Bill!
Will Reach Senate Monday
i For Action. I
(By United Press.)
' Washington, June 23. The admin
istration's Food Control bill, which
makes Herbert C. Hoover virtually
food dictator for the Allies, is now
squarely up to the Senate.
Th- House tonight, by an over
whelming majority that surprised even
its must sanguine supporters, passed
the measure after less than two
reeks' debate.
The House passed the Lever Food
Control bill, establishing a food dic
tatorship and forbidding the use of
foodstuffs for the manufacture of in
toxicants during the war by a vote of
S65 to 5. - :- -y
The five members who voted
sgainst the bill were: McLemore, Slay
don and Young, of Texas, Democrats;
Meeker, of Missouri, and Ward, of
New York, Republicans.
The bill will go to the Senate Mon
day. Fuur members, all Democrats, voted
"present" Gallagher and Sabath, of
Illinois; Hulbert, of New York, and
Gordon, of Ohio.
The House defeated a motion by
'wets" to recommit the bill. It de
feated also an amendment by Repre
sentative Lenroot, of Wisconsin, in
creasing the $150,000,000 appropria
tion in th bill to $250,000,000. Len
root declared the extra $100,000,000
would necessary if the President
ii to commandeer and pay for intoxi
cants to be seized under the bill. He
could not commandeer, Lenroot said,
without an increased appropriation.
An amendment that persons em
Ployed under the act shall not be ex
empt from the draft was adopted. An
amendment to institute a farm risk
insurance bureau was stricken out on
a point uf order.
An amendment by Representative
Sherlev, 0f Kentucky, limiting the
expenditure of appropriations in the
bill 'o June 1, 1918, instead of the
during of the act, was adopted with
out opposition. It was purely techni
cal. An arjiendrnentby - Representative
unroot, of Wisconsin, to forbid the
use only of corn, wheat, rye and rice
for alcoholic beverages, was defeated.
Amendments were defeated also that
would Lave permitted specifically the
manufacture of beer and wine.
. Representative Webb, North Caro
toia, put through an amendment that
Permits the President to seize and re
distill for alcohol any intoxicants
necessary- for government use. This
ould i,. -imit the seizure of 300,000,
k)i of liuuor stored in the United
States.
Both - wets" and "drys" argued that
if w'ine and beer were not manufac
,U!d. people would be forced to drink
e huge quantity of liquor stored in
bond.
A M-ction of the bill that would
"aye permitted the President to ex
m the franking privilege to agen-
organized under the act was
ckeii out.
Amendment that would have ex-empn-d
working men specifically from
a Action of the bill punishing con
spiracy to retard or decrease the pro
duction of food was defeated after a
short, lively fight in which Represen
tee K,atirjg 0f Colorado, its spon
sor, ( Uf 1 i l ni.i'lrao nrrillll Tint
be
possible under this section in any
'uuustri
lion.
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that affected food produc-
An amendment by Representative
La Uuardiu, of New York, providing
t ail persons employed under the
' should be hired in accordance with
Je iil Service act, was forced
7uel) by Republicans.
f"ti, hour of his attack on the I
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'o summon and hold a quorum
'1 Monday neon.
111 the intprim cinforoTinoo will he
hel1 designed toj-each an agreement
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MEMBERS CROW
RED JWTHE FACE
Violent Epithets Used To
wards Each Other By Gen-
men o
ouse.
(By United Press.)
Washington, June 23. If members
of the House are to be believed there
is one liar and one barroom bully, ac
cording to members themselves, in
their legislative midst
At least, these were the terms ap
plied respectively tonight to Repre-!
sentative Kelly, Pennsylvania, by Rep-
resentative Miller, Missouri, and by
Representative Meeker, Missouri, tot
Representative Kelly, Pennsylvania.
In other words, Miller called Kelly a
liar, a charge . few Irishmen wlil
stand, and Kelly called Meeker a bar-
.room bully, which in turn, no doctor
oi aivmuy wm sianu.
4Kltj:w.3 conducting a rhetorical!
post morte.m over the war time tro-
hibition amendment to the Food Con-1
trol bill. He said the Speaker
had delivered canned opinions in rul
ing several prohibition amendments
out of order and then stated he had
always suspected the bill since Meek
er, wet, was for it. Then Meeker
passed the lie and Kelly the other
epithet, at which Meeker started for
Kelly and fellow-members intervened.
Then all remarks were carefully ex
punged from the record.
GERMAN PLOT IS
UNEARTHED IN ALA.
(By United Press.)
Birmingham, Ala., June 23. A Ger
man plot, the ramifications of which
are still being fretted out, is believed
here to have been unearthed by the
arrest late tonight by local Federal
officials of F. C. Rosenbaum, a guard
at the Birmingham waterworks.
At the same time a man named Do
lorme, who recently has been solicit
ing advertisements for a Birmingham
newspaper, and L. J. Hirsch, were ar
rested in New Orleans.
WIFE TURNS ON
Mrs. Cocchi Tells District At
torney of Her Husband's
Career.
(By United Press.)
New York, June 23. Heart broken
and half crazed over the news that
her husband at Bologna, Italy, had con
fessed murdering Ruth Cruger In his
motor cycle shop here February 13,
and burying her body in the cellar,
Mrs. Maria Cocchi late today turned
aeainst Cocchi and told the District
Attorney all she knew about him.
Mrs.' Cocchi's story, detailed under
the stress of great excitement and
lasting four hours in the telling, put
the missing private detective, iiiawara
Fish, in a less favorable light than he
has been at any time since his name
was mentioned in the case.
The little Italian- woman interrupt
ed a recitation of her husband's love
affairs and elaborately detailed a state
ment of his movements on the date of
the Cruger girl's disappearance to say
that Fish had begged her to let him
stay in the bicycle shop alone after
Cocchi ran away to Italy.
This request was denied Mrs. Cocchi
said. Once within 48 hours after her
husband's disappearance the shop was
forcibly entered at night, Mrs. Cocchi
told Assistant District Attorney -xjooi-ing.
Mra Cimce Humiston. the woman
belief that now Coocht has confessed,
nthcr nprRona will be Implicated in tne
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case
Efforts of Mrs. Humiston, the police
and the District Attorney were to
nitrh't rnn centra ted on the effort to
"have Cocchi returned here to be pun
ished for murder.'
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MAT LUIS ON WAY TO
A GLORIOUS CLIMAX
IN BIG CAMPAIGN
BIG FOUR WAR
BOARD WILL BE
To Act in Advisory Role to
Cabinet and Work Out All
Details
PRESIDENT TO
NAME THE MEMBERS
Co-ordination, Speed and Ef
ficiency are The Objects
To Combine All The
War Work.
(By United I rtss.)
Washington, June 23. A general
upheaval in the war government at
Washington is taking place. Co-ordination
has become the watchword.
speed the rule and efficiency the ob-
ject.
Th President has decided unon a
resident nas decided upon a
bl four war board." This will act
in an advisory capacity to his cabi-
net, and be in charge of the tremen-
jdous detail coming under the heads
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bilization - and" dissemination of raw
materials, distribution of finished pro-
ducts and general purchasing. It will
supplant the present advisory commis
sion of the council.
This big change, predicted some
time ago by the United Press, is only
the beginning of a general movement
all along the line to co-ordinate the
war work. The present commission
has done much in making this possi
ble by compiling masses of data bear
ing on all phases of war preparation.
Scores of committees probably will
be eliminated as the first step of the
"war board."
An outline of this board's work,
given the United Press today by a
member of President Wilson's cabinet,
indicates an intention to revolutionize
the government during the period of
the war. The "war board" will have
as one of its functions, it is declared,
the determination of a basis of cost
of all materials for every one in the
country soldier, sailor and civilian
alike. This naturally led to the belief
tonight that the laws permitting the
government to commandeer coal, oil,
steel and other necessaries will be
asked of Congress.
The United Press informant on
these spectacular government changes
defended them as follows:
"Concentration of these powers is
absolutely essential. There was no
more autocratic government in the
world than the United States govern
ment in 1864, yet there was no more
efficient or democratic government."
Secretary Daniels declared publicly
today that "it is a question oi a very
short time before the government will
be forced to commandeer the oil and;
coal supply of the country." 1
The further the government goesi
into the war the more and more evi
dent it becomes that powers are to be
vastly extended to centralized agents.
Fear of this trend in events is al-
ready manifest in Congress. Promi
nent Senators today, seeing "the writ
ing on the wall," began to cry "panic."
One statesman, a man of unusually
progressive and broad views, declared
that business would be absolutely col
lapsed unless something is done to
check the reports of possible govern
ment seizure of big business plants
j in the nation. i
But the government plans to use
all other efforts before resorting to
requisition.
ATLANTA TO HAVE
BIG RED CROSS WEEK
i
(Bv United Press.)
Atlanta, Ga., June 23. "Humanity's
call Help the Red Cross."
This Is the slogan adopted for At
lanta's Red Cross week, during which ;
the city will be asked to contribute
250,000 toward the nation wide fund of j
$100,000,000 which is being' raised.
The campaign will be started Sun-
day afternoon when a great mass meet
ing will be held at tae auditorium.
Major General Leonard Wood, com- J
,mander of the department of the
Southeast; Dr. John Witherspoon, of
Nashville, former President of the
American Medical Association; and
Mayor Asa G. Candler, will deliver ad
dresses and there will be a patriotic
organ recital. J
SOON
FORMED
LEASED WIRE SERVICE
Red Cross Drive For Hundred
Million Will Be Crowned
With Success.
HOME STRETCH HAS
NOW BEEN REACHED
But All Urged Not to Let Up
in the Work Many Cities
Have Passed Their Quota
and Still Gome Ahead
Monday Ends The Cam -
paign.
(By United Tress.)
Washington, June 23. America,
giving freely of her bounty for the
Red Cross $100,000,000 fund, was well
on its way tonight toward a glorious
finish.
Early this evening, incomplete to
tals were around $80,000,000 with
Sunday and Monday yet to hear from.
Tomorrow, the church-going folks
throughout the country will drop
money contributions into the collec
tion plates.
That the fund will be filled and
overflowing is now regarded certain,
though officials warned tonight that
the country must not cease its gen
erosity on the mere assumption of
success.
New England showed some slump,
but it is fighting her way ahead.
With the exception of New York
City, the North Central States are
giving the greatest support with close
to $20,000,000 subscribed.
Ohio, in turn, is the banner State ot
the North Ceutralgroup, and f the
country as well, except for New York
City.
The Middle Atlantic States regis
tered more than $11,000,000.
Late afternoon reports gave New
England third place, nosing out the
West from the position attained earl
ier in the day, though New England
had evidenced somewhat of a falling
off from expected totals.
Southern reports were lacking in
the early evening.
New York City, the banner contrib
utor to the Liberty Loan, wound up
its part of the campaign tonight with
$3,922.443. Of this, $16,418,109 is
corporation dividends and the balance
pledges and cash.
Lincoln, Neb., William Jennings
Bryan's home town, with a $60,000 al
lotment, had $82,000 tonight.
Kansas City had $884,890 against its
$400,000 allotment tonight.
Chicago has raised only $4,100,000
of its $8,000,000 and is not doing quite
so well as some other cities.
Denver has pledged its $480,000 con
tribution and raised its quota to $600,-
O00, leaving $10,000 to get in the next
48 hours.
St. Louis was $200,000 over its $1,
500,000 quota.
Dallas has gone its $150,000 allot
ment $50,000 better. The city hopes
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Head and Heart
The United States and Germany are at war, and war to the finish.
One or the other must win there is no other alternative.
The United States is a democracy, and the people rule. Germany is
an autocracy, and the Kaiser rules.
If the United States wins the war democracy will live, if Germany
wins the war autocracy will rule.
Democracy is in the balance, our liberties are at stake the choice is
to lose or live.
We have made aggression upon no other's rights, we have not proved
recreant to the obligations of liberty, we have not forfeited the rights of a
free people, and we will omit no sacrifice for their preservation.
Patriotism is the love of country for benefits bestowed, anu willingness
to suffer and sacrifice for them.
Patriotism is active, moving, doing it cannot reside in a negative
spirit.
In the hour of a country's peril there can be only two classes the
loyal and the disloyal. There is no middle ground.
Loyalty is the prompting of the heart, the love of service, the spirit of
self-denial, the willingness to die.
Disloyalty is not necessarily overt it can render its full measure of
disservice by inaction.
There is small merit in giving out of one's abundance. Sacrifice means
conscious self-denial.
The spirit of contribution is desire to aid in realizing an object. The
gift of a nominal amount is evasion.
A slacker is a man without a country. He ts a stranger to the concep
tion of the blessings of government, the obligations of citizenship, the
demands of patriotism, the privilege of service.
J. A. Tavlor,
Campaign Leader.
REV. T. P. NOE, 1
Chairman.
H. LACY HTTNT,
7 """" W. A. McGIRT,
j: w. h. fuchs,
w. h. sprunt,
REV. W. V. McRAJ,
H. C. McQUEEN,
J. B. HUNTINGTON,
, Secretary.
Executive Committee.
D
TWO MONARCHIES
ES
ARE TREMBLING
j AVLstri? And Spain About
reaay ro join tne thanks or
Republics.
PORTENTOUS SIGNS
OF REVOLUTION
In These Kingdoms Censor
ship Prevents Real Condi
tion in Former Being
Known.
(By United Press.)
London, June 23. Behind a heavy
veil of censorship there may be con
cealed tonight the first movements to
ward democratization. of two more Eu
ropean monarchies The two are
Spain and Austria.
Zurich dispatches told of reports
from Vienna that Emperor Carl had;
finally abandoned his attempt to ob
tain a new ministry under leadership
of the recently resigned " Premier,
Clam-Martinicl According to this in-
formation the youthful sovereign had
determined to entrust the task to "an
entiferynew personnty' : ,
Cables from Madrid detailed the
spread of a general strike movement,
particularly? among farming classes.
Miners at Bilboa were reported as
threatening to join.
Exactly what followed last week's
tumultuous scenes in the Vienna
Reichsrath when Polish members de
livered their ultimatum demanding as
surance of complete future independ
ence of Poland, has not been made
clear in dispatches permitted to pass
the Austrian censorship. The Clam
Martinic ministry was forced to re
sign, having lost support of Parlia
ment through the combination of the
Slavic and Polish party members.
There have been numerous recent
reports indicating that Russia's suc
cess in throwing off the yoke of abso
lute monarchy has profoundly affected
Austria, and particularly the Slavic
principalities. Failure of the separate
peace efforts made by Austria and
Germany; the prompt imprisonment
of Austrian soldier delegates going in
to Russia with suggestions for an arm
istice; discontinuance of fraternizing
all have served, it was reported, to
augment the dissatisfaction through
out the dual monarchy.
In Spain, apparently Premier Dato,
who succeeds Count Romanonos when
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SIX SUFFRAGISTS
For Picket Work in Washing
ton Determined to Con
tinue Fight.
(By United Press.)
Washington, June 23. With total
arrests of bannered militant suffra
gists numbering six tonight, indica
tions were that the women intend to
defy the police if it takes the last
woman in headquarters to do it.
Two pairs of banner-bearers were
herded in by police during the day
the first at the White House and the
second at the Capitol.
A preliminary hearing will be given
the Capitol group. Misses Mabel Ver
non and Elizabeth Arnold, of North
Carolina, at the Capitol police office
Monday morning. There will be no
counsel, though thev women intend to
f s'Hige" a spectacTrfafstrnggle for what
they term their rights of peaceful
picketing before the matter ends. As
for Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, of Philadel
phia, and Miss Gladys Greiner, of
Baltimore, arrested today, and Miss
Lucy Burns and Catherine Corey, held
yesterday, the suffragists announce
they will not now press for trial.
"The whole affair is up to the po
lice," suffrage headquarters said, and
at the same time indicating that it
intends to send pairs of standard
bearers forth daily next week.
Mrs. Lewis and Miss Greiner dodged
the police this forenoon and unfurled
their standards before the White
House gates. Two police women
rounded them up, after Mrs. Lewis
sought to save the banner, bearing
some of President Wilson's words, by
wrapping it around her body.
Thereafter the second pair started
for the Capitol, bearing a Russian
banner to wave before the visiting
Russian envoys there. Their mission
was short lived.
In each case violation of the po
lice regulations against collecting a
crowd is laid against the women and
they have all been released on their
personal bonds.
T
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GARS FOR ALLIES
America Will Fill a Big Gap
May Place Tractors on
Farms in United States.
(By United Press.)
Washington, June 23. America will
furnish the Allies tens of thousands
of motor cars to fill a big gap in the
auto transport service.
Resources of this country in the
auto industry are being drawn to
gether so that 35,000 to 70,000 trucks,
costing $2,100 to $2,300, can be pro
vided the first year, along with more
than 3,000 passenger cars for messen
gers officers and machine gun squads;
10,000 motorcycles, 5,000 ambulances
and specially constructed ammunition
trucks.
Perhaps armored "tanks" or armed
motor trucks may be furnished, too,
though there is some disposition here
to regard the armed trucks at least
as not filling a very big niche in mod
ern war.
While aiding the Allies in auto
service the government is considering
the feasibility of placing upwards of
50,000 tractors on American farms as
an aid to fQod production.
DECLINES TO PARDON
WOMAN MURDERER
(By TJnited Press.)
Atlanta, Ga., June 23. Governor
Harris has declined to pardon Mrs.
Edna Perkins Godbee, now serving
a life sentence at the State prison farm
at Milledgeville for the murder of her
former husband. Judge Walter S. God
bee, and his third wife, at Millen, Ga.,
in 1913 according to an official an
nouncement at the executive office tonight.
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PRICE FIVE CENT&
Being Made by All Depart
ments of the Government
Along All Lines.
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
RUNNING TOP SPEED
Manufacturing All Kinds of
War Material Big Con
tracts Let Rushing Work
on Cantenments Prepar
ing to Consummate the
Army Draft.
(By United Press.)
Washington, June 23. By giaijt
strides, the tremendous preparation
for America's army are going for
ward today. Without a hitch, the
foundations for the army are being
quickly laid. The big outstanding de
velopments of the day were:
Award of contracts for the last 3
cantonment camps. With this action
the 16 temporary homes for the first
Llevy while in training for the trenches
are 'under way. Already construc
tion has been started on some of ' the
huge camps.
Completion of the personnel of the
local exemption boards of 36 States.
Provost Marshal General Crowder to
day notified the Governors of these
States that the lists are ready. Others
will follow within a few days.
Announcement of the method of for
mation and the duties of the local ex
emption boards.
Arrangement by the Council of Na
tional Defense with the textile manu
facturers to furnish at once 50,000,000
yards of duck for tents, and truck
coverings.
Conferences of the Council of Nay
tional Defense with lumber magneU
to arrange for furnishing hundreds of
millions of feet of lumber ror con
struction of cantonments.
Meetings of War Department offi
cials with big plumbing and water and
light supply system men to facilitate
installation of these utilities In the
camps.
Conferences with scores of railway
officials to plan for quick transporta
tion of men for the camps after draft
and the National Guard to their train
ing camps.
Postponement of the call for the Na
tional Guard to August 5 to allow the
completion of the draft before th
Guard movement begins.
Offer of manufacturers to furnish
cloth for 1,000,000 uniforms.
Arrangement to import 45,000 bales
of wool from Australia for the use of
the army.
In scores of foundries and mills
throughout the nation equipment for
the army is being manufactured.
More than 3,000,000 pairs of shoes
are being turned out in the busy mills
along the eastern seaboard. The wool
en mills of New England are hum
ming with the manufacture of 6,000,
000 pairs of socks. From the rolling
steel foundries of the Middle West
rifles for 500,000 men are coming.
Other factories are turning out car
tridges by millions. Still others are
at work on the thousand ana one ar- .
tides of modern warfare.
At the capital, nerve center of all
this activity, last touches were put on
the draft exemption regulations for
issuance next week. With their publi
cation the machinery of drawing the
men to the colors has started.
After puzzling for weeks to find an
equitable method the system of sing'
ling the "honor men" is settled. Each,
registration card is numbered. On a
day to be fixed by President Wilson
the lottery in Washington will draw
out the numbers. Every man In each
precinct in the country holding this
number is drafted. Afterward he ad
vances his claim, if any, for exemp
tion. The method is called politics
proof. It cannot be tampered with.
The exemption boards completed by
General Crowder today include 20,000 m
men. In most cases they are the same
as the registration boards. This idea
was fixed upon to avoid political
fights over the appointments as the -registration
boards were chosen with
out political consideration. .'
Every energy of the War Depart
ment is straining to flnisli the prelimi
naries for the actual drawing hy the .
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