THE WILMINGTON DISPATCH. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 27, 191 8.
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Facts of
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PRESENTED AT THE
MAMLL TO SUCCEED
MARSHALL
REDPATH
"The C
heckerboard of Europe
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By the distinguished British Knight, Sir lohn
Foster Fraser, F. R. G. S. Sir John is England's
most famous official newspaper correspondent
and has been with the Allied armies in France,
.1 .1 T 1 T1 .11 T"
witn tne ornisn rieet, ana nas seen Russia un
der War conditions.
iusiness and the War"
By Frank Mulhollanc, past president of Toledo
Commerce Club and International . Association
of Rotary Clubs of the World. He has just re-
turned irom the Western rront.
rching the Home to Victory"
Bv Mrs. Christine Frederick, the well known
writer and founder of the "Applecroft" experi
ment station. Her talk is on winning the war in
the kitchen.
"Experiences on the Battle Fronts"
By Sergeant Herman who was three years in
the great war and lost his leg at Vimy Ridge..
Exhibit of the Famous Raemakers War Cartoons.
Remarkable Display of War Posters of the Allies.
11 OTHER BIG ATTRACTIONS 1 1
The 100 Per Cent Program
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Potato Growers Contesting
Railway Order Appeal
to McAdoo
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I SPORTS I
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
American League.
Chicago at St. Louis.
Boston at Philadelphia.
Cleveland at Detroit.
Washington at New York.
AH cloudy.
Special to The Dispatch.)
New Bern, April 27 The news
comes to New Bern that Mr. Allen J.
Maxwell, chief clerk to the Corpora
tion Commission, will in all probabil
ity be named to succeed Mr. W. T.
Dortch, United States marshal ana
who has entered the race for Con
gress in the Third district.
Those who are familiar with tne
situation sav that it will be neces-
sarv for Marshal Dortch to give up clouay
his Federal job now that he has en
tered the congressional race, and Mr.
Maxwell is said to be the man to laise
his place.
Mr. Dortch stated that ne wouia noi,
run if Congressman Hood remained in
the race for the office. However, it
is said that Mr. Hood will not be
among those present and this means
that Mr. Dortch will be Mr. Aberne
thy's opponent.
TTr tn tho nrpspnt. time Mr. Dortch
has not resigned as United States j Philadelphia
marshal, but it is expected that he Chicago
Pittsburg .
adjoining Cincinnati .
National League.
st T-onis at Chicago, cloudv.
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, clear.
New York at Brooklyn, cloudy.
Philadelphia at Boston, cloudy.
Southern League.
Mobile at Atlanta, cloudy.
Chattanooga at Little Rock, clean
Nashville at Memphis, clear.
New Orleans at Birmingham,
Wilmington, N. C.
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Announce me nt
In addition to our auction land sale business, we
have today organized a local real estate exchange,
which will be in charge of Mr. W. P. Fletcher, an ex
perienced real estate man, who needs no introduction
to most Wilmingtonians. We will confine our service
strictly to real estate sales, and hope thereby to be able
to put more intelligent effort into selling property list
ed with us.
W,
Telephone 1045.
Home Bank Building.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
Boston 0; Philadelphia 3
Pittsburgh 7; Cincinnati 1.
Brooklyn 5; New York, 11.
Chicago 3; St. Louis 2.
Standing of the Clubs.
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New York
will do this shortly
T?armprs in Craven and
counties are anxiously awaiting a re- St. Louis
n tVi -nmrminiORt inn sent tO Tinctnn
Director General McAdoo in regard Brooklyn 0
to the ruling made recenuy oy uie
Norfolk Southern Railway Company,
and which prohibits the use of veneer
barrels in shipping Irish potatoes and
nlsn rpfusine to accept shipments
weighing more than 100 pounds.
The potato growers say that if the
order is enforced that it will mean
a loss of hundreds of thousands or
dollars and that it will greatly cut
rlnwn thp. SUDDlvof food.
Mr. McAdoo has been asked to nave Cleveland
the order rescinaea. ne nas ueeu Detroit
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
New York 4; Washington 9.
Philadelphia 0; Boston 2.
Detroit-Cleveland, rain.
St. Louis 2; Chicago 6.
Standing of the Clubs.
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JOFFRE NO SEEKER
AFTER COMPLIMENTS
.uwvu-. rib.
t, Jt tiHII An Tpflt nam- -ii
suuvru nuciciu i - ..... .j o- v liluagU
age and it Is expected that action Washington
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win ue lanen m iu wmoo ui i-ew xorK
days. Philadelphia
Fp.ripral Court, which has been in a. T ..ia
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SeSplOn in 11115 City 1U1 scrciai uJui
has adjourned for the term and no
session will be held during tne com
ing week.
The session Thursday was con
sumed in hearing a few motions and
in straightening up the docket. Paris, April 2 . Marshal Joffre,
Up to the present time no appoint- the lat generalissimo of the French
i T moJ. rt fill fho VSl-
T B V nf CiPrk armies, and the hero of the Maine.
nr.ni, rffV . lis much courted in Paris and, like
Mr. W. F. Aberly, president of tne eo many great men, Is not always ap-
New Bern Chamber oi commerce, preciatlte or enusive compliments,
and the head of the Pine Lumber, a aiy recently sailed up to him
Company, has returned to the city th her album and asked for "just
after a visit to Washington as a one line." Joffre hesitated, but wnen
a rm rnlttoo qflnt to that .v. nla.ilsfl tVi a f avon nne lino would
lUCiliUCi 'L . i- w v Ci-'O JICCHacCl ... w
city bv the North Carolina Pine As- makP. her the happiest of women, he
sociation, to confer with officials ofSigne(i and accepted the prof erred
the United States Railway Adminis- anou
nfftf All TT7 V 1 T 1
LI 111 J u . i .VXiailUmS i&L . IliO VYIIOI yt atvu, t uu..
portation facilities being affordea had timed many an offensive, whilst
them by the railroads. the lady looked over his shoulder in
Mr Aherlv stated today that the na.faAt trmv of nrritftd exnecta-
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committee was granted an interview tion ne wrote
I . g- T-i 1 tVia Ai- 1
y Mr. V... rt. vjray, uncuwi -" vi
sion of railway transportation and
that they were assured that every
thing possible would be done to re
lieve the situation and to decrease tne
amount of trouble that they are ex
'Eleven-fifteen p. m.
Grant Day Celebrated.
Galena, 111., April 27. In accord
ance with a custom extending over
periencing in moving their manufac- many years the home town of Gen
tured material. o. uiaui ucm a
the nffirtais in honor of the birthday anniversary
of the Baltimore & Carolina Steam- of the famous soldier and Presiarr.
shiD Company, who several days ago Judge Kenesaw m. uanais, oi wii6u,
.ant a reDresentative to this city to.aeiivereo tne orauuu ui
look over the situation witn a view
nf mittinff on a line of steamers be
tween New Bern and Baltimore, have
Kid Twist, strutting among his syc
ophants at Coney Island was pistoU-
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maflfi no statement as to what action ch bv Louis the Lump.
tney mtena to tan-o m maivoi. leiapea out again, wueu uiuuuj
The represenative which was sentlig murdered Spanish Louie and
to New Bern by this company seemed agam when Julie Morrell died as he
to be v'ry favorably impressed with nad iived The passing of Big Jack
the existing conditions and the sup-.Zelig marked such a period, and
port which was assured the line if it: Herman Rosenthal, dead upon the
f .a iM AnAiMifinn and Tio iravp tTlP . , ... . a n tti ik r 4- n
is pub in uycicn-iwi. siflewaiK in iront ui mo xaiii men -
local business men to understand thatipole wag the wretched symbol of the
th boats would be put on. 'unrest that is followed by gang ac-
i r nan uecu uuudu 4.;,,h-
steamers in operation before the open-l Alwavg new Hfe comes with strik
ing of the potato snipping situation, f ,,f f anpman or gam-
. ij. J X AVlf ho (his irrill 3 .
anu Jt IB ycl yuooiuio imo nriii
be done.
bier who knew too much, yet not
enough to lock his tongue behind his
thin lips. Between the timorous and
loquacious Rosenthal and the vicious
i thief Harry Cohen, just killed, six
i of Tawti f van
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NEW YORK LETTER ryara have elapsed six yearsJree
"J -fr-nrvi tra-ntr wnr.5 and balanced assasi-
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. iTnations And now it has -come
fQrvamol n Thr nianntph Lfrtnnfl foala ho thrill of iTYiTVPndine:
UUVlUt vw.u.w-uuy. OJ-lfelCXlVA "
New York. April 27 The drums of I battle. The nolice grip their clubs
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t-no n n n o ttxt-tvt" i n a.rH iihh.i.i ii k . i iik t Try rna Trov
gangster Believes he is coming back
Horse Hair Braid by Yard
Hnrsp Hair Hats New White Flowers
Crepe de Chene Handherchiefs Middy Ties
HOSfc HOSE HOSE
MISS ALMA BROWN
into power. The dregs of the under
world, breasting up to the dirty bars
of the dark little ginmills of Chatham
Sauare. the marketplace for hired
murder, are stirred by thrills of ex
ultation.
The Anti-Hat League has been form
ed on Broadway. Members will not
wear hats this summer. Earl Car
roll, the song writer, started the fad
three years ago to make his coy and
rAinrtnnt locks erow again. ine
Thev whisner the eosslr. of their '.hair Klnsaonifid afresh- and several
clans as their rat eyes slant glance3 1 followed his lead. It will be also a
from their drinks to the bar mirror war savings and an aid to skimpy
which betravs strangers coming in. nates. Hat nirates are already wear-
With a. new swaeeer thev turn fromlinir prpne hands on their arms. It
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. m n nil. Tn TnA n J ( u i i w i iu r u i ri lu r a ay n i a n I nxv ill i 1 1 mi i i iin irin
1,1.1 C uai LU uuc w.-k. ' t,.... ('xo CI LCl llUlu t-r.v .. ww - .
ix-m-non thfiir srwes. TJia-vtmnsrs ann.Manv mnv rfl rorcea to struKeie aioiiK
breadwinners, sit hopeful. Old de- on one touring car and a simple town
tectives sense it and so do the news- roadster
paper reporters.
Since the Rosenthal murder it has
been rough picking for men who mur
der for as low as $25 a victim or who
will "gip" a man for $2. To "gip"
is to-beat up. The lone wolves and
Protasis have disappeared from all
New York bars. It will be several
seasons before the tangled food will
again find favor with snappy cater
ers. The high cost or varnisn, tne
the bands that bulwark the black necessity for conserving breadstuff
husinesa of gambling with their au
tomatics and their vain cunning be
lieve that the latest gambling murdei
has given them a new power.
They have thrown a new fear into
the heart of the "squealer the
What are You Going to do to Help Boys at the Front?
T... r.: 0 K Anrt hv OU. YOU Who Will
Btav at hoi2 an. enjoy being with your family should look at the gtool pigeon" who. betrays them to
croposltlott if helping ti Boys and the United States Government j the poHce. Dulness in gangland is
wholly as a business deal, think thi over, put ioric vbijt
. Stamps and Libert? Bond
PAYNE DRUG CO.
Everything in Drugs and Drug Store Goods,
one 520 Fifth and Red Cross Street?
Th
alwava followed by a flare of violence
risdnff lik an upleaping flame.
Such was the case years ago wnen
the Bowery giant; with the smile of
a boy and the eyes of a devil, Eat 'Km
Up Jack McManusi went strolling in
the shadow of the elevated and was
nftori at thp. end of his walk with the
Uack of his head crhshed like an egg
shell. There was such a nare wnen
and thfi inability to find expert preU
el builders, are given as tne reasons.
Most of the pretzel makers are now
working in barbed "wire plants. Soon
after America entered the war patri
ots began shunning the pretzel. To
many the pretzel symbolized; Ger
many's twisted reasoning and the
whole crooked course of the Hun.
oome bakers tried to fool the pub
lic by making a straight pretzel but
it wa8n t any ubb. .mc uuuuio iuc
pretzel was left alone It curled up.
The pretzel was invented one hun
dred years ago. The first one was
practirally a failure, slipping Into the
face with ease. It improved witn
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Increased
Revenue Necessary
For Telephone Company
This company has fjled a petition with the North Carolina
State Corporation Commission requesting authority to advance
its rates for telephone service in twelve exchanges; for permis
sion to enforce certain provisions of its subscribers contracts
which will prevent a waste of service and. remove an unneces
sary burden from the company throughout the State of North
Carolina.
The unprecedented increase in the cost of material, labor
and all other expenses necessary for the construction, mainten
ance and operation of our properties, and the imperative need
that telephone service be adequate and efficient, has created a
critical situation for us. . i f )
We have not earned in the past and are not now earning a
reasonable prpnt over and above the cost of furnishing service
throughout the State of North Carolina. The returns from our .
operations in this state were 3.81 per cent in 1916 and 3.58 per .
cent in 1917, upon our investment. 7 A iv
The twelve cities in which we ask for a slight increase in d
oiir rates for local exchange service are:
Charlotte
Davidson
Greensboro
Hamlet
Laurinburg
Mt. Olive
Raleigh
Reidsville
Salisbury
Wilmington
Winston-Salem t f
Wrightsville Beach
We are confronted with conditions entirely beyond our
control, the gravity of which cannot be estimated. The tele
ohone business is an essential industry, the proper operation and
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maintenance oi wnicn is an important iacior m inc iiauuu
plans and .activities for winning the war. We have recognized )
our obligations to the Government by furnishing all the service
it requires upon terms agreed upon with the Government, and
upon a basis which contemplates no profit to the company,- the. '
payment of new and greatly increased taxes, and subscribing lib-
11 4.U.. T ilaftT T Anne rA -f Vi or v7or m Hc
have recognized our obligations to the general publicrby furnish- 'i
We have recognized our ? VK
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obligations to our employes by large increases in the wages .paid, .
to enable them to meet the increased cost of living; and we -shall
continue to furnish the Government andhe general public d
the service needed, and the best service possible under the. .pres-j
ent abnormal conditions. k&s ? f ' f y
But to do this it is necessary for us to receive sufficient reve
nue to maintain and operate our telephone property and system
with a high degree of efficiency with such permanent net profit
as will maintain our credit and enable us to exchange our securi
ties, without discount, for the additional, new capital required to
supply the necessary additions to our plant and service, r
Out of every dollar of revenue received from our operations
in North Carolina in 1917 we paid out 50.4 cents in salaries , and
wages.
During the year 1917 our employes in North Carolina were
granted a total increase of $63,738.95 in salaries and wages,
which was at the rate of $119,836.44 per year.
During the year 1918, up to May.l, the increases in salaries
and wages in North Carolina already amount to $45,311.23 J
which is at the rate of $55,919.40 for the year.
These increases were made in an effort to aid our employes
in meeting the increased cost of living as well as to retain their
services in order to maintain a competent force.
All of these facts and many others of a pertinent nature will
be presented to the State Corporation Commission and will be
spread before our subscribers and the public in newspaper adver
tisements which are to follow.
We have been frank and open in the administration of our
affairs in this state as elsewhere, and reluctant as we are to in
crease the price of our service, the situation is so critical that we
carfhot do otherwise and remain true to our obligation to the
public and to ourselves.
Your needs and your interests and the needs and the inter
ests of this company are one and the same. Solvency of the
company spells adequate and efficient service, insolvency spells
inadequate and memcient service.
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