r THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1 91 6 jir Two..' ' - . - 1 1 U te I i . ; Lr. EIITEHIE ALLIES REPLY 10 AMERICAN PROTEST Declares no Legitimate Letter Mail Has Been Seized pot Emphatically Asserts Intention to Continue Searching Parcel Post Packages for Contraband Concealed Therein. Washington, April 3. The govern ments of the Entente Allies, through , Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British ambas sador, presented to Secretary Lansing .a joint reply to the protest made by t the United States against the seizure, detention and censoring of neutral mails. It declared no legitimate letter mail had been confiscated nor any treaty rights violated, but emphatical- . ly asserted the Allies' intention to con tinue searching parcel post packages for contraband "concealed under pos tal folders." In regard to "true correspondence,' - the note says the Allied governments -will continue for the present to re frain from seizing and confiscating ,at sea these correspondence and dispatch es and that -they will insure the most rapid transmission of the mpossible, as soon as the genuineness or tnelr char acter is known, The vigorous protest of the United States against the treatment of neu tral mails was based largely on evi dence in possession of the State De partment that, while mails had not ' always been searched at sea, neutral ships upon being taken into British - ports for inspection, had their mails removed, detained and otherwise inter fered with. The reply does not men- - tion this phase of the controversy. The protest stated specifically that the American government was inclined to consider that parcel post shipments " were subject to the same treatment ac corded goods sent by freight or ex press. In regard to parcel post shipments the communication says "merchandise shipped under the shape of parcel post must not and shall not be treated dif ferently from the merchandise shipped in any other way." The allied governments assert their rights to search general mail in the following language: , "That the inviolability of postal cor respondence stipulated Toy convention ' No. 11 of The' Hague treaty of 1907, earries by no means any prejudices to the right of . the allied government to visit' and if need' be to stop and seize the goods which are falsely deposited in the covers, envelopes or letters con tained in the mail sacks." Among other numerous examples cited is one alleging that 1,302 parcel post packages containing 437,510 kilo grams of rubber for Hamburg and 69 parcels containing 400 revolvers for .Germany via Amsterdam were seized. MR. J. E. PRICE DEAD. Prominent Citisen of Robeson Passes at Home Near McDonald. Lumberton, N. C, April 3. After suf fering for more than two years with Bright's disease, Mr. J. E. Price passed away at his home near McDonald yes terday afternoon at 6 o'clock, says The Bobesonian today. Deceased, who- was 0 years of age, is survived by his wife, six children one daughter, Mrs. W. O. Singletary, of Burgaw, and five sons, .Messrs. Lacy, Colon, Furman, Julian and James, all of McDonalds and two brothers, Mr. Kirkland Price, of Cas- ' satt, S. C, and Mr. Wm. Price, of Luck now, S. C. The - funeral will ' be con ducted from Iona? Presbyterian church, of which deceased had been an elder for more than a quarter of a century, this afternoon at 4 o'clock by Rev. C C. Carson, pastor of the church. ' . Kinston, N. "C, April 3.--The local ' city ' council threatens today to put a stop to the skating craze that has held ' Bway over the juvenile population for ' 6ome-weeks. The hundreds of juveniles to be found roller skating any. after noon late and on Saturdays are help- ; ing to cut up new asphalt streets and endangering their lives and limbs,' au ' thorities assert. Several accidents, but ; none serious, have occurred within the past few hours. London, April 3. Lloyd's reports that the British bark Bengairn has been sunk by a submarine. Part of the crew were picked up. It is stated the vessel was not armed. , GERMANS SHELLING THE BOURRUS WOOD NEARER FORTRESS (Continued From Page One.) that violent explosions and numerous fires occurred both in Scotland and England. All the airships returned tfc their base. . , , LARGE RUSSIAN TRANSPORT SUNK BY TURKISH SUBMARINE Berlin, April 3 (by wireless to Say-Ville)-r A 12,000-ton Russian transport, with troops and war materials aboard, was sunk by a Turkish submarine on March, 80, the Turkish war office an nounced today. ; . The statement follows: "The enemy's endeavors to check the advance of Turkish forces in the Tcho ruk Valley failed. "Turkish submarines on March 30 Bank a Russian transport of about 12,- 000 tons, with troops and war material, and on March 31 sank another ship of 1,500 tons, and one sailing ship. Our submarines effectively shelled fortified positions on the coast north of Poti (a Russian seaport in Trans-Caucasia, on the Black Sea)." .' BRITISH STEAMSHIP PERTH "UNARMED" HAS BEEN SUNK London, April 3. The British steamship- Perth has been sunk. Six mem bers of the crew were lost and eight - were landed. Tho Perth was unarmed. - - There are three British steamship's Perth. The largest, 1,799 tons gross, was owned in Melbourne. Another of 1,693 tons was from Dundee, and the ' third, 65 tons, was owned in Glasgow. 1 -GERMANY HAS APOLOGIZED FOR BOMBING SWISS VILLAGE London April 3. Germany has apol ' ogized to Switzerland for the bombing of the Swiss village Porentruy by Ger man air men last week, says a Reuter dispatch from Berne. A promise to punish the aviators who supposed they were over Belfort, has been made. 1 DRINK BIS-MAC: YouU'Like It. JUDGE MANNING IN RAGE FDR ATTORNEY GENERAL " Loophole "y Which Carter May Probably Retire? Believed Also 'That Entrance of For mer Associate Justice May Mean Withdrawal of Some of the Other Candidates. (Special Star Telegram.) Raleigh, N. C, April 3. Judge J. S. Manning, formeTf associate justice of the Supreme Court, this afternoon defi nitely announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination ; for attorney general to succeed Hon. T. W. Bickett. Will Judge Carter Retire? With former Associate Justice J. S. Manning an avowed candidate for at torney general, there is much talk of the likelihood of Judge Frank Carter, of Asheville, withdrawing from the race and giving his strength to the Manning candidacy. In fact, there is a strong impression that-, having been leading counsel for Judge Carter in his defense at the last sesshm of the Legislature when his-personal and of ficial conduct were the subject of leg islative Investigation. Judge Carter will use the Manning candidacy as a good loop-hole through which he can creditably withdraw from the attor ney general candidacy and simply re tain his Superior court judgeship for the remainder of his six-year term and then seek his vindication from the leg islative committee findings through se curing the renomination to his place on the bench. Predictions are freely made that with Judge Manning in the race for attorney general, there will be withdrawal by "numbers of the other candidates for the primary nominations, those who have avowed candidacy including R.-N. Simms and T. H. Calvert, Raleigh; Ed mond Jones, Lenoir, W. A. Self, Hick ory, N. A. Sinclair Fayetteville. Governor Craig has referred to At torney General Bickett legal questions involved in a requisition that has been made by the Governor of Florida for the extradition to that state of Tom Horne who is wanted for immoral re lations with a child under 16 years old. A requisition has been issued by Gov ernor Craig on the governor of New Jersey for John Kale, who is wanted in Catawba county to answer the charge of larceny and forgery. He stole a bale of cotton and forged the name of the owner of the cotton in commit ting the theft. C. E. Mcintosh, of the State Depart ment of Education, is just back from Northampton county where he went to complete arrangements for the estab lishment of a State high school for the" county, the State . to provide as much money as the local authorities to the amount of $2,500. The establishment of the school is assured. DANIELS APPEALS IN BEHALF OF THE 5-YEAR PROGRAMME (Continued From Page' One.) j in the record. Mr. Daniels declined t do so, saying he had no intention of permitting such correspondence, to be made the subject 'of gossip. -Britten is Attacked. Representative -Oliver, ,; of Alabama, Democrat," sharply attacked.. Represen tative Britten. He said the Illinois member's attitude throughout the hear ings followed the single line of criticis ing the Secretary of the Navy. Ho call ed attention to the fact that Represen tative Britten had insisted upon calling Admiral Fiske and declared the ques tions propounded tothe admiral by Mr. Britten had been of purely personal na ture, not an effort to enlighten the committee on navy problems. Representative Britten and the sec retary clashed again when the former asked if a Democratic Congress had not cut down recommendations of a Repub lican secretary from three battleships to one. '"If you want to go into politics, Sec retary Daniels began. Several committee members inter rupted .to say politics should be exclud ed, but general debate on the subject followed. Representative Britten as serted that Secretary Meyer had rec ommended the construction of 11 battle ships during his administration. "That is more than you have done, Mr. Secretary," he said. Secretary Daniels replied that Secre tary Meyer had cut. down "his recom mendations until after the Republican defeat in the last general election, and then ' "recommended everything in sight. Chaiman Padgett said while Mr. Meyer had recommended three battle ships at one time his estimates in the same year had not shown a dollar for newspapers. . Then Mr. Padgett ruledout further political discussion. "Isn't t true," demanded Represen tative Britten, of Secretary Daniels, "that a copy of one or our war plans with Japan has been lost during our administration? I have never heard of it, Secre tary Daniels said. "You personally have notlost a set"? Representative Britten persisted. "No, sir." "J Present State of ReadlneM. "How long would it take to put th navy into condition to fight an efficient enemy?" asked Representative Britten "We could fight now with what we have," Mr. Daniels said. "I'm not talking about fleet, said Representative.; Britten, interrupting Secretary Daniels'' effort . to illustrate conditions in the navy by. showing what had been accomplished in 48 hours when the fleet was ordered to Vera Cruz. "I'm . not talking about putting the reserve ships, in fighting trim. How long would it take to get 15,000 men, tram them and put them on the re serve ships?" If we had to take raw men, a very long time," the Secretary said. He added that in any great emergency the navy could b. made ready in a very short time because there were 25,000 former enlisted men in civil life. .Reverting to Admiral Fiske s case. Chairman Padgett asked the. Secretary to explain hbw it was that Fiske was not appointed to the general board, al though the latter stated that Admiral Dewey, president of the board, had asked for his appointment. Mr. Daniels said it: was true Admiral Dewey had. made a request and he had promised to. consider It Later, he said, Adnjiral Dewey withdrew his request. . . . DjpweyliAsIi' Fiske. "He requested ma . then," : said the Secretary, referring. to Admiral Dewey, "not to put Fiske on the board because he wanted a practical, Tiot a theoretical man. I did ;not put him on." . : . In his testimony Secretary Daniels Official War Statements Berlin, April 3 (via London).. The German official statement today 101- lows: . "Western theatre: On the left bank of the Meuse, all the enemy's positions north of the Brook of Forges, between Haucourt and Bethineourt are in our hands. - "Southwest and south of Fort Dou- aumont our troops engaged in battle with troops holding the French trenches and points of support. "Eastern theatre: There is notmng to report." AUSTRIAN Berlin. April 3 (by Wireless to Say- ville). The Austrian office issued un der date of April 2, the following state ment on the progress of the campaign on the Italian front: "The situation in the Italian war the atre is unchanged. This morning ene my aviators threw bombs on Adelsberg (in Carniola) 23 miles nortneast or Triest, killing two men and wounding several." , ' , . BRITISH. London, April 3. The British official communication today says: "Yesterday one of our - aviators shot down a German" machine in the neigh borhood of Lens. Another aviator at tacked and drove off five, hostile ma chines after a close combat with two of them. "This morning early at St. Eloi we attacked a crater which had been held .by the Germans since March 30. The crater was captured and our line was established beyond it, We took 84 pris oners including four officers. The ar tillery on both sides has been active in this neighborhood today." FRENCH Paris, April ,3. The official commu nication issued by the war -office to night follows: "Between Soissons and Rheims we carried out concentrated fires against German organizations north of tle Butte wood and Mount Sapigneul. "In the Argonne, our batteries vio lently bombarded the west corner of the Avocourt wood. An enemy block house was destroyed and a raunitio-ivs depot blown up. "West of the Meuse the Germans launched yesterday at the end of the day a vigorous attack between Hau court and Bethineourt against our posi tions on the north bank of the Forges Brook, which we had evacuated in the night of March 31-Apnl 1 without the enemy perceiving it. Surprised by a violent fire directed from our new po sitions and a flanking fire from Bethin court, the enemy forces suffered heavy losses without having been able to fight. "Today the bombardment was quite violent in the region of Bois Bour- rus but there was no infantry action "East of the Meuse our counter at tacks developed success. In the course of the day we drove back the enemy as far as the Northern outskirts of the Caillette wood and to the north of the Vaux Pond. A last counter attache, particularly spirited, enabled us to re occupy the west part of the village of Vaux which we had exacuated. "In the Woevre there was intense ar tillery activity into the Moulalnville sector. "In retaliation for the bombardment of Duteirk,by a Zeppelin .last night. 31 allied aeroplanes dropped on the enemy, cantonments at Kelem, Essen, Terrest and Houthulst, shells of large calibr. Last night one of our squad rons bombarded the station at Con flans. . 'Today numerous aerial combats were fought with success in the re gion of Verdun. Our aviators brought down four German aeroplanes other enemy machines took to flight or were forced to land." The Belgian official communication reads: : - - v "There were slight artillery activity. In reprisal for the bombardment o? Dunkirk by a Zeppelin, our aeroplane in concert with ' French aeroplanes, bombardments enemy cantonments." recommended an appropriation for an investigation of the feasibility of gov ernment refining of oil for battleship use. He presented ngures preparea Dy a firm of oil engineers, whose name ho did not disclose. It showed that for the cost of the oil it now buys, the navy could refine its own oil, producing as by-product enough gasoline for its own use and enougn Kerosene ior xne entire lighthouse service. The appro priation asked, the Secretary said, was for the purpose of checking up these figures. Representative Callaway brought out statement that in the Secretary's, opinion the backbone of the navy should be eventually "at least" 48 dreadnaughts. "You cannot see any .reason ndw, can you?" demanded representative Callaway, "that you did not see last year, for increasing the navy?" v "Yes, we had had no diplomatic dif ferences then," said the Secretary. Conditions were not so strained." Washington. April 3. The House to day, by a-' vote of, 19? to 75, passed Rep resentative Aswell's bill to make good the title of settlers to land within the grant in Louisiana wliere it was plan ned years ago to build , the New Or leans, Baton Rouge & 'Pacific railroad. The road never was built, and pur chasers of land from the railroad com pany, including heirs of Jay Gould and Michigan lumber interests, have been contesting title with settlers. stand this test? The bright lights of an evening gathering show up mercilessly the defects qf a poor complexion. But the regular use of , . . ' makes it as easy to have a nature ally beautiful skin as to. cover-up a poor one with cosmetics. ; It lessens -the tendency ' to pimples, redness and roughness, and in a very short time the complexion usually be - comes clear, fresh and velvety. In severe or stubborn cases, Resinol Soap - should at first be aided by a little Resinol Oint- ! meat. All druggists sell them. Men with tender facet find that. Keintl . Stezrinc S tick frevtnis irritation. Resmol Soap E.L. lUPPMnF II:: vrr - -' - 1 MEMBER OF FAST liberty St. Boosters' Club Pro gressing Rapidly for Health Betterment. Another member has been added to the fast growing "Liberty Street Boost ers Club." He is E. L, Lapp, of 1004 Liberty street, and a popular attache of the big B. F. Huntley Furniture Co. The "Liberty Street Boosters' Club" Is . Winston -Salem's leading keep-well society.- Qualifications for membership 1 are the health, strength and cheer that Tanlao gives. Their password is "I feel fine." Membership is not restricted to any particular sex or age. Residence In Liberty street and good health, how ever, are essential. How Mr. Lapp became eligible for membership is explained herewith: 'Until neighbors recommended Tanlac to me. I was unable to era in relief through the various medicines I tried from an almost general rundown In health. "This medicine has made me feel like a new. man again, If there is such a be ing. My appetite is as good as ever; i feel "fresh In the mornings for I am able to sleen sound once more: the pains no longer bother me; and my head feels clear since the catarrhal conditions have been remedied. "Like others of the Liberty street res idents -who have gained from Tanlac, I am only willing to offer my endorse ment to its merits with the hope that others also will be aided by its use." People who suffer from sluggishness, nervousness, catarrh and4 stomach ills, will find Tanlac, especially at this sarins: season, the ideal tonic blood purifier, appetizer and Invlgorant. The Bellamy Drug Store sells Tan lac. Adv. VON PAPEN BACKER OP VON DER GOLTZ (Continued From Page One.) and soon will be made public by the British foreign office in London. Por tions of the correspondence, including the von Papen letters, were photo graphed and brought to the United States by Scotland Yard detectives who had von der Goltz in custody. Publication of the correspondence by the British foreign office, it was said tonight, was deferred to afford offi cials here a chance to act on its dis closures. There Is nothing, officials said, in the letters or in von der Goltz'B statement in New York to indicate upon whose instructions, if any, von Papen was acting when he endorsed von der Goltz's plans and. supplied htm with money to carry them out; Your moneyMl do" double duty all day today at Polvogt Co.'s Dollar Day Sale. (advertisement.) ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. Chapman-Alexander Meetings During the progress of the Chapman-Alexander meetings in this city six weeks, beginning in April, The Morning Star will give full and complete reports of this great series each day, and to those who are non-subscribers to the paper, copies may be had maiJed to aiiy address for the entire six weeks of the meeting for only 60 cents. This is lower than our regular rates, but the paper desires to assist in giving full scope to the influ ence of the meetings and at the same time in this way to answer many inquiries for special sub scription rates to the paper dur ing this period. If you wish the paper yourself or sent to a friend during this period, 60 cents' enclosed in an envelope or left at the office will ensure proper delivery of the paper to any address. A Free Lecture on CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is to be delivered tonight by wm. d. Mccracken, cv s. b of New York, a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at jsoston, Maes. 8 O'CLOCK. APRIL 4th. BOYS' BRIGADE ARMORY Public Cordially Invited GONG KEEPWELLS ; ' $1,250,000.00 DURHAM HOSIERY MILLS 7 Cumulative-Preferred Stock Tax Exempt in North Carolina Preferred as to Assets and Dividends ... . j Semi-annual dividend' dates first days of January and July. Redeem able as a whole or in part at the option of the Company on six months no- . tice at any dividend period at $110.00 and accrued dividend. - OTHER CAPITALIZATION: Common Capital Stock ". $l,250,00o'o0 Profit and Jjoss and Reserve, as of January 1st, 1916 '679,314.55 The DURHAM HOSIERY MILLS rank as the largest manuf acturers of Domestic Cotton Hosiery in the world with a daily production of 15,000 dozen pairs, or 180,000 pairs. This manufacturing includes everything necessary for hosiery, from the raw eotton through to the finished products-having in operation over 60,000 spindles, and a complete printing plant, and paper box shop. The line includes hosiery ranging in prices, i. e. retail price, from 5c to 25c per pair. Safes have increased' in round numbers from $754,000.00 in 1905 to $2,100,000.00 in 1915. . Total net assets, exclusive of good will, trade marks', etc., as of January 1st, 1916j were over $2,400,000.00 or over 3 12 times the par value of the outstanding Preferred Stock. The DURHAM HOSIERY MILLS cannot create any mortgage or issue any bonds with out the consent of at least two-thirds each of both the Common and Preferred Stockholders. The DURHAM HOSIERY MILLS has its own selling organization, with offices in New York and Chicago, and in this way saves at least one-half of commissions ordinarily paid com mission firms for selling dry goods. .. GOOD WILL The DURHAM HOSIERY MILLS has a very valuable asset in its registered trade mark brand of hosiery DURABLE DURHAM HOSIERY. The sales on this brand were 324,424 dozens for eleven months in 1914, and for the same time in 1915, 666,147 dozens. This Preferred stock is now offered at par ($100 per .share), and is ready for delivery on and after April 15th. We reserve the right to accept or reject any bids, as over One-half of this isue has. already been subscribed, and the full amount will not be sold at this lime.. - Very truly yours, J. S. CARR, JR., April 1st, 1916. ' ' President References---Any Bank in Durham Durham Hosiery Mills No.l, Durham, N. C. Durham Hosiery Mills No.""2, Durham, S. C. Durham Hosiery Mill3 "So. 8, High Point, N. C. Durham Hosiery Mills No. , Carrboro, N. c. (Chapel HiU) CREDIT DIRECTOR You receive THE CREDIT EXPERI ENCE GUIDE, con taining the Ledger experiences of jthe business and profes sional men of Wil mington and vicinity, ivhich is equivalent to the gathering of the Ledgers of all these firms, and placing a copy of each in the office of. every mem ber without divulg ing the owner of any. By concerted action, you get the best collecting medium ever established anywhere for col lecting delinquent accounts, and you do it yourselves. . - . 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