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7 ? WEATHER:' North and South Carolina-Snow or rain; warmer tonight; Tues day rain; warmer. Read Dispell J Business Sptitcl FULL LEASEE WRE SERVICE VOL. XXIV, NO. 5. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MDAY AFTERNOON; JANUA&Y 14j ;118 PRICE FIVE CENT1 - tta t . A NEW SERVICE EMBLEM BRITISH CASUALTIES. ' Si THE NEGOTIATIONS EE f. FACTIONS .t ; irTTnirnTi;':Tl!3 l mm 'Ei- j . m -., m i . . "" a a '.. mmmmm mm . i . x. u ; , r y l my?-, m A MEN TAMONG AT BREST-UTOVSK GERMAN wwmm HA However, he Eastern Armis tice Has Been Extended to February 18. HURRIED CONFERENCE OF GERMAN LEADERS Emperor Summons Chief Mil itary and Political Advisors Hertling's Reply to Al lies Expected Wednesday Russo-German negotiations at Brest Litovsk apparently again have been broken off temporarily, and the pos sibility of a final breach is not an looked for in Petrograd. The armis tice on the Eastern front has been extended until February 18, while it is expected the conferences will be resumed at Warsaw. Nikolai kenine, the Bolsheviki Premier is again back in Petrograd and is reported to be taking a more important part in the negotiations. There is some dissatisfaction in Pet rograd about the way the Foreign Minister Trotzky has conducted nego tiations. Trotzky's program of propa ganda among the German soldiers is said to be growing in effect and the German military authorities are doing all in their power to check it. Meanwhile German political and military leaders have been having hurried conferences in Berlin. The Crown Prince has returned to the German capital, and he, with Field Marshal von Hindenburg, General von Ludendorff and Chancellor von' Hert llng, has conferred with the Emperor. The recall by the Emperor of the as sistant to the German Foreign Secre tary kBr-sfttm dicates that the conferences may have had to do with the peace negotiations, the conduct i of which has caused much political furore-in-Germany dur ing the past two weeks. Chancellor von Hertlihg is expected to address the main committee of the Reichstag on Wednesday and proD ably will answer the recent war aims statements of President Wilson and Premier Lloyd-George. The basin on the Don river has been cleared of Cossack troops by Bolshev iki soldiers, according to an official announcement. The Bolsheviki are also said to have taken Ekatineroslav, a stronghold of the Ukraine. Russian sailors in Sebastopol are reported to have killed and lynched n;ore than 62 of their officers, includ ing four admirals. The town of Kil Ha has been looted by Russian sol diers, who set fire to buildings after robbing houses and shops, causing -;he population to flee 'in terror. David R. Francis, the American am bassador to Russia, in a new year's message to the Russian people re minds them that a separate peace "with Germany would rob them of the results of their revolution. Presi dent Wilson's message is greeted with divided opinion by the leading Bol shevik newspapers. Ambassador Fran cis says the message is the best greet ing he can give Russia from America. Patrol encounters at several points and artillery activity in the Ypres Arras area are reported from Brit ish front. North of-the-Aisne, on the French front, the artillery fire ims been Violent. Engagements between patrols in the mountain zone and '.r tillery fire along the Piave mark the situation on the Italian front. REQUISITIONING OF SWUHSJSJIECAST American Sailing Vessels Will Soon Be Taken Over By Government , Washington, Jan. 14. Requisition lnK of all American sailing vessels 'as forecast today when the shipping board requested the Department of Commerce to report the location of such vessels. Secretary Redfield re lied that 175 sailing vessels with a cargo carrying capacity of 425,000 tons sre now within or adjacent to Anier 'can territorial waters. There are nearly 506 sailing vessels r 1,000 tons or larger flying the Amer 'can flag and it is being urged that j&ey should be put into the public Of the 175 vessels which could be aae immediately available, 76 are i!L ast' 90 are loaded and nine are undergoing repairs which will be fln- "ea soon yhQ other vesseig catteror? are Conferences Now in Progress in Berlin Are Seeking Com mon Ground MILITARISTS APPEAR TO BE WINNING OUT Reichstag is Fighting Hard, However, in Defense of Its Peace Resolution Polish Deputy Creates a Row London, Jan. 14. Reading between the lines in the German newspapers, it becomes apparent the conferences of military and political leaders no taking place at Berlin are regarded as an effort to obtain some sort of an agreement among the German parties as to war aims. At present all signs point to the triumph of the militarists, although it is .evident the opposing forces are making a strong fight. The Munich Post says: A death struggle is now proceeding between the Reichstag peace majority md the military annexationist party. We do not know which side the gov ernment will support. Egyptian dars ness enshrouds the nation's peace aims." The Minister of Finance, of Baden, Dr. Von Bodman said in the lower house Saturday: "The Reichstag resolution is no long er valid because it was based upon the supposition that the desire for peace would be shared by our oppon ents. That is- disproved by the speech? es of Premier LloydGeorge and, Presi dent Wilson. Peace now must be guid ed strictly by Germany's interests." : . The Tageblatt of Berlin reports .that violent scenes were enacted at ; a sitting of the Reichstag main commit tee, when a Palish Deputy,. warned, the TtaiT regime is "deeply""hated by the Poles for ft as been the most repul sive type of rule that any people have ever had to bear. I warn you that the people will at length come to their senses and this war will prove the graveyard of German militarism." Speaking at a Socialist meeting at Lielsfeld, Herr Severing, a former member of the Reichstag, said: "A majority of the German people would not shed a single tear over the resignation of Hindenburg, Ludendorff or any general who opposes peace by understanding. The German people will pay most homage to the man who does most in the cause of peace." A. P. OPERATORS TO AID GOVERNMENT Washington, Jan. 14. Nearly 200 telegraph operators in the Associated Press service, responding to appeals by the chief signal officer of the army and Federal Board for Vocational Ed ucation to supply instructors for Na tional Army men, have volunteered to give a part of their own time to the work. They will train thousands of .drafted men in schools to be open ed in about 25 States, and at each school at least one "A. P." man will assist in the instruction. These schools have been establish ed by the Federal Board for vocation al education and provided with com plete buzzer equipment. Last Octo ber the board and the signal corps asked for instructors for 15,000 men of the second and succeeding drafts, and Kent Cooper, chief of the Traffic Department, appealed directly to As sociated Press men in cities where classes were to be formed. Although unfamiliar with the Continental wire less code, the men were urged to fa miliarize themselves with it and ev ery man whose, worsting hours per mitted him to devote any time to the instruction work turned in his name. They will teach both afternoon and evening classes. ' CAPITOL PAYS HONOR TO SENATOR BRADY Washington, -Jan. 14. Adjournment of the Senate and' half masting of the capitol's flags were honors paid today to Senator Brady, of 'Idaho, who died of heart trouble last night. Funeral arrangements will be made on the ar rival of the Senator's two sons wno have been storm bound in the Middle west while hurrying to Washington. x Senator Brady's body will be cre mated here, probably after services Wednesday, and the ashes taken later to his former home at Pocatelio, Idaho. , - J SMITH CHAIRMAN OF IMMIGRATION Washington, Jan. 14. Appoint ment of Senator Smith, of South Carolina, as chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, and of Senator Hardwick of Georgia, to succeed him as chairman-of the Im migration Committee, recommended London, Jan. 14. British casu- t alties reported uring the week ending today totalled 24,979 offl- cers and men, divided as follows"- Killed or died of wounds : Of- ficers 117; men 5,149. Wounded or missing: Officers 1 304; men 19,409. " ' Casualties in the British army, ' reported for the week ending to- -fr day, exceed by almost 6,000 the l3J total reported in the previous week when the figures took an upward jump, virtually doubling the casualties of the preceding week. A week ago the total was' 18,998 including 3,945 officers and men killed, while the total for the preceding week was 9,951. FATAL lECK TODAY ON TEXAS RAILROAD A Passenger Train Wrecked Killing More Than a Dozen Persons Houston, Texas, Jan. 14. Twelve to 17 persons were killed and nine,, in jured early today as the result?of the derailment of the northbound Hous ton and Texas Central passenger train at Hammonds switch, six miles south of Bremond at 3:2S a. m. Two steel coaches directly behind the mail car, were crumpled into shapelesaHcnassea of wreckage and it was th'e passen- gers aboard these who make up the toll of casualties. Rescuers worked in the dark with torches placing the nine reported injured aboard an ex press car which was immediately started for Waco. , Of 12 bodies taken from the, wreck age, one was a woman, two 'babies; two boys and seven men, two of whom were soldiers. Five additional bodies were badly scalded by live steam escaping from broken heatinf pipes of the shatter- es llid.Bot leaVel the rails, relfef par ties reported. The accident was caused by the splitting of a switch at the Hammond blind siding, it is said. The engine tender, baggage an mail cars passed over switch safely, but Leither a broken brake beam or other fault caused the trucks of the first steel coach to leave the main track over the switch point, ditching it and the next coach, both being crushed by the impact of the heavy Pullman.?, which were but slightly damaged. In His New Year's Greetings He Tells Them Beware Prussianism Petrograd, Sunday, Jan. 13. David R. Francis, the American ambassa dor, in greeting the Russian people on trie occasion or tne Kussan n.-w year, wbicti is tomorrow, Jan;ary 14 has issued a statement to the Rus sians in which he .say.: , "The best greetings I can give the Russian people from the American people is President Wilson's message to Congress on Janaury 8 (December 26 ,old style), which has been given in full to the Russian press." The Ambassador says that the message expresses clearly the friendship of America for Russia, adding "The Russian people, however, cannot be too often reminded or too deeply impressed by the fact that j their hard-earned freedom is Jeopar-j dized by negotiations for a separate peace, nor that if Germany domi- j nates Russia, their highly-prized lib erty and fruits of the revolution will be sacrificed." Ambassador Francis calls atten tion to President Wilson's message to the American Senate in January, 1917, saying that the peop?e out lined is "the same Prussia cham pioned after the revolution in March, the same kind of peace that tne Bol shevik government of Russia and the wearied but gallant soldiers or this afflicted country feel is now jeopar dized by German trickery." The full text of President Wilson's address to Congress which reached Petrograd only Fiiday already has been telegraphed by Premier Lenine to Foreign Minister Trotzky and other members of the Russian dele gation at Brest-Litovsk. by the Democratic Steering Commit tee, was confined today by the Sen ate. Senator James was elected to fill the Interstate Commerce Conx mittee vacaney caused by the death of Senator Newlands of Nevada, Thfe Ealtroan. .ooac H H RUSSIA WARNED BY AMBASSADOR FRANCIS L,, -'trw -'wn-'f i niumi imii Miiwiiiliiliiliiii)Mi wiiiim iwfiTTTi MI, I -J - Wear a star in your belt i for the-' & ear one gone to war. Here?s four stars showing a society belle who seems to be well provided. FIRE IN WASHINGTON . ; .. . . Fire Originating From Care less Smoking Did $50,000 Damage Today Washington, Jan. 14. A quantity of army supplies, including food, was de stroyed,, the quartermaster warehouse ruined and several other buildings dapiaged by a fire today at the Wash ington barracks occupied by engineer troops. A large part of the city's fire apparatus was called upon to fight the flames which were given impetus by the explosion of a quantity, of gasoline. After: a hard fight tor an hour and a half the fire was . extinguished. An ordnance building containing a quan tity of small arms ammunition was en dangered but soldiers removed what wag stored there. The origin ;of the fire had not been disclosed by officials at the post. A limited quantity of clothing and shoes was destroyed. Later Colonel J. H. Earle, com manding the barracks, stated thatin vestigation convinced him ' that the fire was not started by a spy or en- emy sympathizer. He said it was caused by forbidden smoking by sol diers of a fatigue detail. An estimate of the damage by Col onel Earle placed the loss at about $50,000. . FORMER PREMIER CAILLAUX ARRESTED Paris, Jan. 14. Former Premier Joseph Caillaux, who has been under investigation by the authorities in con nection with the German propaganda Wtt0 "w'cu ai1' s morn ns' -ijffi SENTENCES OF DRAFT Supreme Court Holds Against Emma Goldman and Others Convicted i t 7 , , 1 Emma Goldman and Alexander Berk- man on charges of conspiring to pre vent the operation of the selective service act by urging men of draft age faot to register, was today sustained by the Supreme Court Conviction of Louis. Kramer and Morris Becker, on charges, of conspir acy to prevent persons of draft age from registering in New York were also affirmed. Kramer was sentenced to two years Imprisonment and a $10, 000 fine and BVcker to 20 months' im prisonment. - The Supreme Court also sustained Ohio decrees sentencing, Charles E. Ruthenberg, Alfred Wagenknecht and Charles Baker, to one year Imprison ment for v'iolatfii'o the draft law SUPPLiLf-EtEVEN HUN uu VIOLATORS SUSTAINED THE NAVY HAS nnrfc.Aiiirtft unoi oniro - - -c Ordnance Bureau Has Proved Efficient, Says the Commit tee Report Washington, Jan. 14. Eleven hun dred ships have been armed by the Navy against . submarine attack since last March, it was revealed today in a report of the . House naval investi gation sub-committee published here. The statement which summarizes the results of the committees inquiry in the work of the Ordnance Bureau of the Navy, was issued by its chair man, Representative Oliver, of Ala bama. The . committee, says the report, is impressed with the war time efficiency of the bureau which not only has re sponded promptly' to all demands for ordnance of standard types, but ha3 found time . to develop . new material such : as improved - depth charges, smoke screen apparatus and heavier gun equipment for aircraft. HAS SHORT DAY RULE Business Houses Open at 9, Close ;, at 5 Others Close . . . Early in Evening Boston,- Mass., Jan. 14. Massachu setts started today on its regime cf beginning its day at 9 a. m., and ceas ing its evening activities at 10 o'clock. Under the rules promulgated by the State fuel administration, stores may be open only from 9 a. m., to 5 p. m., except that food may be sold1 as early as 7 a. m., and oil Saturday evenings, and certain stores which have been in the habit of keeping' open - evenings will be permitted to continue the prac tice. Heating and elevator service in of fice buildings , is to be cut off at night and on Saturdaay afternoons, . Sun-1 days and holidays. Saloons must close at 10 p. m., and hotel bars at 11 pi m. The fuel administration has granted theatres the privilege of remaining open until ' 10:15 p. m., but motion picture houses, dance hall3 arid other places of entertainment must" .close their doors at 10 o'clock. Banks will have regular night hours, restaurants and lunch rooms and newspaper offices are exempted from the 'regulations, asare coal dealers and wholesalers in' perishable -food stuffs MASSACHUSETTS NOW Coal of Certain Industries to Be Requisitioned for the Householder GENERAL PLAN TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON Little Additional Coal is Ex pected for the Next 1 0 Days May Close Plants a Week Washington, Jan. 14. Requisition Ing of coal supplies of certain indus tries fpr distribution to householders Is One of the plans under consider ation by the Fuel Administration for relieving the coal shortage in the East. A general plan of curtailing the use of coal by the less essential In dustties will be announced Dy Ad ministrator Garfield probably tonight or tomorrow. . Homes must be kept warm, Dr, Garfield declared today, at all costs. Fuel Administration officials look tor little increase in coal shipments dur ing the net .10 days and declare that most communities must get along with what fuel supplies they have and what little the railroads can move tp them over snow-bound lines. State Fuel Administrators have power now to curtail supplies of any industry and to requisition any coal they hold m store, but shortage con ditions are so widespread) In the States east of the Mississippi that a general policy of curtailment is con sidered necessary. It is likely certain industrtes will be closed down for a week and longer II it appears necessary to siiuuQih wui cBup-ye me oruer as yfJU In large measure Industries produc- ing war supplies. DISCARD TOP HATS DURING WAR TIMES London, Dec. 10 (By Mall). In pre-war, days no respectable London er wohid have thought of going, out without his equally respectable ..'top hat. Now, however, 4t is ; be&; rap idly discarded, e vets' by;s inerixners of the House of Comn&V irho? were among its most ardent supporters. AN ARMY OF BATTLES WH SP Railroads Resume, a Limited Service Into the Citybf Chicago" ; Chicago, Jan. 14. An army of woik ers estimated at more than, 100,000, in cluding "ifiO.OOO school, boys, today re sumed the attack on the great snow drifts which for 48 hours tied up rail road traific in this.;city, and vicinity and cauted what the' health authorities termed an alarming shortage of fuel and milk. As an emergency measure the public schools, of the city did not open to-day. The board of education decided -that the boys could render valuable service Jn -clearing away he snow. All steam railroads entering Chi cago resumed limited service tcday, but officials said it would be at least two days before anything like normal passenger schedulescould be estao lished and perhaps a week would elapse before movement of freight trains could be put back on the sam basis as before the storm. Thousands of suburbanites were compelled to spend another night in hotels because of the abandonment of suburban train service. '-'' - 4 MORE BRITISH TROOPS. London, Jan. 14. Between 420.- 000 and 450,000 troops must be raised at once in this country, 4' fr Sir Auckland Geddes, minister of & national service, told the House of Commons today. 4 The minister said this was the 5 absolute minimum and that it n' might be necessary during the"- fr year to take more men from civil ! life for the army. 4 4 Sir Aukland said the govern- 4' 4 ment Had decided not to " Intro- 4 4 duce conscription in Ireland for "-fr 4 the present nor to change 4 4- military age limit. Great Brit- 4 4 ain and her colonies, he added, 4 4 had raised, 7,000,000. 4 ' ' 44 4 4 100.000 m The Vessel is Reooiied: A v. 7 Have Been Rammed by; Another Ship id ft!"! HI -j "-.Li SOME MYSTERY -mm AROUND ACCtDW, mm n Some Quarters Thougr:: That Vessel Was Struck; i Icebere Crew Took, to" Its Boats An Atlantic Port, Jan. 14.-eaft o fthe American steamship Texaxv! )' vessel of 14,000 tons, today :recetve ijj advices from naval autaoriUesvthf i sbo was sir king at sea.. Theibc; tiou of the ship was not gittiif.;tP.. The naval authorUies did notstaQ the cause of the Taxan ' distre? but reports reaching sh.3pln; cjsi cles. here from other sources tfer.' lb a I the vessel had bes.i r3u2nHl auiidships in collision wii aoothe ship. - ;'' It was said a strimer whtcavtoa? i picked up the Texan S. O. S. was Lu-rying to .her p.ss!staace ? air J thai the crew of 43 .ud lakon tat tufj boats. ' ' . . -i In the absence of definite word w' garding the accident, shipping .-mel expressed the opinion that the -Texa may have encountered an Iceberjci Efforts were made by governnio1 radio stations to communicateKwitl 1 snips with which the Texan miiShi j In 5 XT r Kaon 4rt Allfavi Ta Vnn4( ki.t 1 ..u. - - - r-ji. 'it- ioon after being rammed,. withenr id -as .to assistance by annthf ebsel in .saving - the Vv.mAd ikil Indirect inf ormatiba , reaching Itffi? Navy Depajtoent fftQ; Ti2 i ; had been IiN collision withnaths . t ship which had ""gone tav the rescue of the Texan's crew. Afe far, ar-J;' known no lives were lost in the doi lision. An. official report : on. tne cident is expected at the -If dvy. Dt J partment. Messages reaching bere.Vfrptn jaa A other port said that a steamer ai i riving there today reported that 4 a. m. she rpickediP an,;Qvrt froc the .VTexto-r j 1 had;:been stoick Lamidshl-adwaif j I ! sinking. The last messavei from iaiJ Texan said, "(iood-bye no more.:,.? J . The messages did not give loca pon of the ship nor did' toay tsaj, she was damaged There were i4t men aboard. The- Texan's . wlrelGSil operator reported that the starboard ' boats had been lowered, that1 the afi boat was lost and that ari attei'''.: was being made to lower 'thet; f c - ward boat. Oil from the swphti was poured on the starboard slde.2rj an efEort to make sea conditionavbe't j ter for launching the lifeboats.. e The ship which brought word tols j the Texan's plight reported that,sij-, had endeavored to get in touch. wiV the latter direct, but had not - been able to do so. The vessel picked cpi a message to or from the tseaux!;ij Williamette. saying: "Go to asslftl ance of Texan." .,"; fl!., A government radio station picked . up a message later from thcsteain er Williamette, sent to an unidenti-: I fied ship, saying: "Will you .-jescort i me Dack to." 'iiM, The answer was not intelligible. Naval authorities who got -the ,meV! sage said they were Unable to dettr ! m in a xrn GtY ar tho Wll Ho matt a, Via? '? uaauv aavuia 1 f ' M 'n II i 1 1 r- Hill . , ; been in collision with the Textof . or S i had been damaged by the'?4ame'';' agency that sent the Texan ibri th bottom. Nothing more had ' '" been t heard from the Texan at noonl 'r';i Fragmentary wireless messages ( ' suggest that the damaged .steamer belonged to a fleet passing: nprth."? That none of the messages indlcjited ( what had struck them aroused !6t?e:; concern as to the actual cau&e yi; . ; their trouble. r- "0$' SENATOR BRADY 1 DlfD LAST NlGHtf ! . - yPf Washington, Jan. 14. Senator Jantef',-) H. Brady, of Idaho, died at hishme here last night from heart dlseaseHe.tj suffered an acute attack a week . ago i Saturday while on his way "to Wash i ington from Idaho, and had been in i critical state since - i: m AMERICAN TOAWLERSf: IS REPORTED LOST Washington, Jan. 14. An American ; trawler operating In a European; f-at-irS' 4 has been lost. Admiral Sims report-: ed the sinking of the little .vessel to ; the Navy Department today. V-All I members of the crew were saved. f i The trawler was lost, Admiral Sii&f : reported, by striking a roclu ' '1- i f.i Si,