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1,1 - f If The Weather Fair on the. coaBt and probably local thundershowers in Interior Thursday and Friday.. - WILMINGTON, N". C, THURSDAY MORIXa, JUNE -28, 1917 WHOLE NU3IBER 39,992 MARINES YA T A inirri i- Sftti a if5 ha pages today kco; - I ; " - " Hinm i i n iwmnwwi rrym?ir9Tmtorfr .t mt ' L ZiJr'K. . 1QQ - ' 1 ' ' l tiUU&AINDb OF SEASONED AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND SAFEL FRENCH PORT UI SUBRfillE ZOIE phqccti imiTuniiT iuiicuiid inuuLU uuiiiiuui mil J r American Enterprise Again Scores, Setting a New Record for the Speedy Transportation of Troops; Plans Worked Out by General Pershing and the War Department are Put Through With Clock-Like Precision SI ARRIVAL HAS THRILLED WASHINGTON ANEW Navy is Due Full Share of Credit for Precautionary Measrues That Swept Sea Lanes of Submarines and Mines; Americans Will Form an Independent Army With First Force Under Command of Major General Sibert. Washington, June 27. The advance guard of the mighty army the United States is preparing to send against Germany is on French soil tonight. - ' In, defiance of the German submarines, thousands of seasoned regulars and marines, trained fighting men with the tan of long ser vice on the Mexican border or in Haiti or Santo Domingo still on ihoT fnroc liavfl hppn hast.pnprl over spas tr fio-ht. hpsidp the TrprinTi. the British, the Belgian, the Russian, troops on the Western front. Arrival Thrills Washington. ? News of the safe arrival of, the troops sent a new thrill through Wash ington. No formal announcement came from the War Department. None will come, probably, - unt.it -" Major-; General Pershing's official-report has. been re ceived. Then there may be a statement as to the numbers and composition of the advance guard. Press dispatches from France, pre sumably sent forward with the approv al of General Pershing's staff, show that JIajor General Sibert, one of the new- major generals of the t army, has been given command of the first force sent abroad, under General Pershing as commander-in-chief of the expedition. Xew Transportation Record. One thing stands out sharply, despite the fact that the size of the task that has been accomplished is not fully re vealed as yet. This is that American enterprise has set a new record for the transportation of troops. Considering the distance to be cover ed and the fact that all preparations had to be made after the order came from the White House the night of Hay is, it is practically certain that never before has a military expedition of this size been assembled, conveyed and landed without mishap in so short a time by any nation. The only rival in magnitude is the movement of British troops to South Africa in the Boer war, and that was made over seas that were unhampered by submarines, mines or other obstacles. : . The American forces will be fed, clothed, armed and equipped by the t'nited States. Around them at the camp on French soil tonight are being stored supplies that will keep them go ing for months and more will follow. Plans Worked Like a Clock. General Pershing and his staff. have teen busy for days preparing for the arrival of the men. Despite the enor mous difficulties of unpreparedness and submarine,dangers that faced them, the Plans of the army general staff have Eone through with clock-like percision. When the order came to prepare im- tnpHifAi.. it.! -t x -umiciji an expea.iuona.ry luice lv gu France, virtually all of the men. now across the seas were on the Mexican bonier. General Pershing himself was a' his headquarters in San Antonio. There were no army transports available- in t ll AfUntin TVia traoaAld lof carried the troops were scatterd on their usua 1 routes. Army reserve stores were still depleted from the bor der mobilization. Regiments were be--aw war strength. That was the- condition when Presi d?nt Wilson decided that the plea of tne'French high commission should be answered and a force of regulars sent once to France. At his word the "ar Department began to move. Gen eral Pershing was summoned quietly to Washington. W ork W ithout End. . There was a thousand activities afoot 'n the department at the time. All the busii)ess of preparing for the registra tion of ten million men. of Droviding barters and instructors for nearly 50, J Prospective officers, for finding lrtIis and equipment for millions of ooiw yet to be organized, of expand mS the regular army to full war strength, of preparing and recruiting ie National Guard for war, was at land. A v'ftneral Pershing dropped quietly tn f the department, and set up the. first 'iudr cers oi toe American cii'cui- unary forces in a little office, hardly rSe enough to hold himself and his 3 general staff, of Secretary Baker -nt bureaus, the plans were worked ,An-nouncement 0f tne sending of ti- Cfc unrler neneral PftrahinET WiJS le ilav IS. There came' a "day1Vhen the Portuguese and the Italian General Pershing was no longer in the department. Officers of the general staff suddenly were missing from their desks. No word of this was reported by the press. Then came word from England tliat Pershing apd hl; officers were there. ' '' " ' ' Press Maintained Secrecy. Other matters relating to the expedi tion were carried out without a word of publicity. The regiments that were to go with General Pershing were all se lected before he left and moving to ward the seacoast from the border. Oth er regiments also were moving north, east and west to the points where they were to be expanded, and the move ments of the troops who were to lo first in France were obscured in all this hurrying of troop trains over the land. , ' Great shipments of war supplies be gan to assemble at the embarkation ports. Liners suddenly were taken off their regular runs with no announce ment. A great armada was made ready, supplied, equipped as transports, load ed with men and guns and sent to sea, and all with virtually no mention from the press. Much Credit to the Navy. The navy bears its full share in the achievement. From the time. the troop ships left their docks, responsibility for the lives of their thousands of men rested upon the officers ajhd crew of the fighting ships that moved beside thorn or swept free the sea lanes before them. As they pushed on toward the (Continued on Page Two). WIL flGTOII 10 LOSE FOUR A. C. L. I Order Issued by Corporation Com mission Yesterday Trains 90 and 91 South of Goldsboro and. Trains Between Here and Fay. ettevllle, Cfcadbourn, New Bern To Come Off. Raleigh, N. C, June 27. The Corpor ation Commission, in an order issued today, granted the petition of the At lantic Coast Line Railroad to discon tinue 10 trains operated in Eastern Carolina, but refused to permit the road to discontinue six others which it had asked to be allowed to. cancel. Trains to be discontinued follow: Nos. 64 and 65 between New Bern and Wilmington; Nos. 90 and 91 between Wilmington and Goldsboro; Nos. 59 and 60 between Wilmington and Fay etteville; Nps. 57 and 58 between Wil mington and Chadbourn; Nos. 66 and 67 between Fayetteville and the South Carolina State line. The last two trains are operated between Fayette ville and Bennettsville, S. C, and it will be necessary for the South Caro lina authorities to, order the discon tinuance of the train so far as it op erates in that State. Trains which the commission refused to permit the Coast Line to discontinue are Nos. 90 and 91 between Rocky Mount and Goldsboro; Nos. 72 and 73 between Weldon and Kinston; Nos. 56 and 57 between Plymouth and Tarboro. Discontinuance of trains was, asked in order that the railroad might conserve coal and release men and equipment for handling other business growing - (Continued on" page jtwo. FuUD BILL TAKES A MORE DRASTIC FORM IN SENATE Many of the Principal Provisions of the House Measure Vir tually Re-Drafted WILL BE CALLED UP TODAY Opposition is Fast Waning and Main Fight Will be Waged . Over "Dry" Provision Washngton, June 27. Food control legislation assumed new and more drastic form today when the Senate Agriculture Committee virtually re drafted many of the principal features of the House measure and reported 't with material extensions of govern ment power end a new "bone-dry" pro hibition provision to stop manufacture of intoxicating beverages during the war. The President would be author ized to permit wine making and to commandeer existing distilled spirits. The amended bill was presented to the Senate by Senator Chamberlain. He will move tomorrow to have it sub stituted for the draft the Seriate has been debating and proceed with all exT pedition toward final action. The new prohibition plan, all lead ers admitted tonight, greatly compli cates the situation and precludes en actment of the legislation by July 1. ' Control of Metal Products. In extending the seop.e of the . legis lation and the President's powers, the committee adopted amendments which would provide for government control, in addition to food, of feed and fuel, of iron, steel, copper, lead and their pro ducts, lumber and timber, petroleum and its products, farm implements and machinery, fertilisers and binding twine materials. Other important amendments approv ed would authorize the government to take over and operate factories, pack ing houses, oil wells and mines, regu lating wages of their employes, and to commandeer supplies of any and every kind when needed for the army and navy "or any other public use con nected with the public defense." Another would empower the govern ment to buy and sell, for general ci vilian purposes, food, feeds and fuel, with limitation upon the general legis lation making it apply to agencies and products only in interstate or foreign commerce. Principal Fight Over Prohibition. The amendments are declared by senators who have been opposing as well as those supporting the legisla tion to improve the bill and remove almost all opposition except on pro hibition. The prohibition section was written into the bill by a vote of 9 to 7. The (Continued on Page Three) EXEMPTION RULES 10 BE PUBLISHED SOON Question Probably to be Left Largely Up to Local Boards Regulations Expected to Man Out Only the General Procedure There Will be No Specific Class Exemptions Washington, June 27. Rigid adher ence to the policy laid down in the na tional army selective draft law, of plac ing the question of exemptions in the hands of local boards,' is expected to characterize the exemption regulations to be made public by the War Depart ment in a few days. It is understood that the regulations will map out only the general proce dure of the boards, the personnel of which already has been announced. It is regarded as certain that no specific class exemptions will be provided for, and that each man will be appraised on his individual occupation and physical capacity when his name is ealled and he is summoned before the local boards. Crippled or detective persons among those who were registered were noted at the time and"' it is possible, that al ready have been dropped from the rolls. The judgment of the civilian doctors who are attached to local exemption boards as to the ability of any individ ual to bear the hardships of a soldier's life will be a determining factor. Married men will not be exempted as a class. In each case the object of the board will be to determine whether the dependency of wife, children or other relatives upon any man is so complete as to warrant his rejection . as t a sol dier.'" ' - ' ' ; Probably the boards will be furnished Continued onfage'Two),- f 1 ; ' :' 7 :. -... ABOUT 55,000 MEN STILL ARE NEEDED TO FILL UP ARMY Hecruiting of Regulars Continues to Lag in Spite of Presi dent 'sProclamation 1,400 ENLISTER ON TUESDAY Plan to Stimulate Recruiting in Various States Submitted to War Department Washington, June 27. Regular army recruiting continues to lag in spite of President Wilson's call for war volun teers and with recruiting week more than half gone about 55,000 men still are needed. Only 1,400 additions were reported yesterday, the best showing being made by Illinois and Massachu setts, both of which have exceeded their quota. A plan for stimulating recruiting in' New York and possibly in other states was submitted to the War Department today by Captain George Garr Henry, director of New York's military census. A tabulation of the first 98,000 of the state's men between 21 and 31 shows that 8,893 of the number expressed a desire to enlist. At this rate it is estimated that nine per cent of New York's men eligible for the draft want to enlist and will do so if given the opportunity.. New York has been asked by the British government to furnish its re cruiting agents- the Mmea of British subjects between the .ages of 18 and 45 years registered. by the state. ARMY REGULATION OX SMALL ME. TO BE FLEXIBLY APPLIED Washington, June 27.-r-In reply to a number of requests of men of small stature who wish to form regiments like Britain's famous Yorkshire Ban-" tarns, the War Department announced that no men will be rejected from serv ice, if in the opinion of the recruiting officer, his deficiencies in height and weight will not materially impair his -usefulness as a soldier. The statement says the regulations requiring jnen to be at least 5 feet 4 inches in height and 120 pounds in weight will be flexibly applied. INCREASES PERSONNEL OF THE COMMERCE COMMISSION Washington, June 27. The bill al ready passed by the Senate to increase the Interstate Commerce Commission from seven to nine members and to provide an additional secretary was passed tonight by the House. An amendment to give shippers the right to appeal to the full commission on decisions rendered by a part " of the membership was added, prompt agre ment on the measure in the conference is expected. ii EPA S E $110,000 for Cape Fear, Northeast and Black Rivers Nearly $28,000,000 Appropriated Small Predicts Bill Will Pans Senate.. Has Approval of President Wilson and Baker. (Special Star Telegram). Washington, D. C, June 27. The House passed the Rivers and Harbors bill today with nearly $28,000,000 ap propriated. Chairman Small predicted that it would pass the Senate. The measure has the approval of President Wilson and" Secretary of War Baker. Provisions made in it for North Caro lina follow:' .Maintenance .of Blackwater rive?, Va. ; Meherrln arid Roanoke rivers, N. C, $2,500. Continuing improvement waterway from Norfolk to Beaufort Inlet, $100, 000. .. Maintenance of ' Manteo Bay; Scup pernong, Pamlico, Tar, Southbay, Neuse and Trent rivers,. Fish, Contentnea, Swift and Smith creeks, and "waterway connecting Swan Quarter Bay with Deep Bay, $15,500. Maintenance Beaufort Inlet, water way connecting Core Sound and? Beau fort Harbor, and inland waterway Beaufort to Jacksonville, $35,500. Un expected balances of appropriations heretofore made for New river are made available for improvement of the inland waterway, Beaufort to Jackson ville. V' - - Maintenance Northeast, Blaek and Cape Fear rivers, $85,000. .. .. ... 'Completing improvements, of Cape Fear river below Wilmington $35,000, . ' Continued "ozTFag Two). ' - US S RIVERS HARBOR MEASUR Enthusiastic Reception Is Given American Troops On Debarking At French Town Two Contingents Were Landed, All of the Men Being in Fine Fettle; Expected to Soon Proceed to Point Near Battle Front ; Only Little Infantry Activity on Western Front; Ital ians Are Forced Out of New Positions. American troop ships have success fully braved the terrors of Germany's submarine warfare and landed two con tingents of American fighting forces in France men of the regular United States army . ! The troops, the first to reach the war zone, were greeted enthusiastically on their unexpected arrival by the towns people of the port at which they de barked. The men, all in fine fettle, have been sent to a nearby training camp whejjee they are expected to pro ceed sooft?o a point near the battle front, there to remain until they aro sent against the enemy. Again the operations along the west ern front in France are being carried out mainly by the artillery wings of the belligerents. The infantry activity, what little there is of it, is by patrol parties in which only small bits of territory has been attacked. In One of these minor attacks the Canadians have occupied an additional trench astride the Lens-Arras road, but in another at tempt to bite further into the Lens sec tor they were' repulsed, according to the. German war office. SIX SUFFRAGETTES PUT BEHIND BARS Corivicte' dbf Blocking Sidewalk by Displaying Banners in Front oif White House IN JAIL FOR THREE DAYS Hold Song Service and Suffrage Meet ing For Other Women Prisoners. Asheville Woman Is One of the Six. Washington, June 27. Behind jail bars tonight, six women . suffragists, convicted in police court today of ob structing the sidewalk by displaying propaganda banners before the -White House, held a song service and suffrage meeting for the other forty women in mates of the prison.- The suffragists were given theii choice of $25 fines or three days in jail, and decided to go to Jail. They did not attempt a hunger strike, and will be released Friday morning, part of today and a few hours of Friday being count ed as full days. The district prison house women's section presented, an extraordinary scene tonight. At a little organ in the carpeted corridor sat Miss Mable Ver non, of Reno, Nevada, playing "God Be With You Till We Meet Again," and other hymns, while about her stood the little group of singers, Miss Katherine Morris, of Boston; Miss Virginia Ar nold, of Asheville, N. C; Miss Lavina Dock, of Philadelphia; Miss Maud Jami son, of Norfolk, Va.; and Mrs. Annie E. Arneil, of Wilmington, Del. Negresses In Same Prison. Huddled on a stairway beyond a bar red partition were thirty negro women and a few white women who joined in the refrain. The jail matron gave the suffragists permission to address their fellow prisoners and the meeting which followed developed fervent pleas for the cause of "votes for women." Each suffragist has been assigned to a i separate cell on the lowest tier of the cell block with individual berths, toilet facilities and towels. The berths 4tre clean, walls are white and in the corridors windows overlooking a green court. yard and the eastern branch of the Potomac, potted geraniums bloom. "Considering that it is a jail, we are very comfortably fixed," said Miss Ver non to a newspaper man who was per mitted to call. "We had shoulder; kale, bread and tea for supper, and now we are Just having a little singing bee be fpre bed time." The other young women smiled wan ly and nodded approval of the state merit. The Blacks Enjoy It. Bessie Jones, a negro woman charged with larceny, interrupted at this point, shouting through the bars: "And don't you forget that we've been here a long time and we're having a good time tonight for once.'? : The suffragists smilingly declined to discuss their imprisonment. Nor was any comment forthcoming. from head quarters of the National Woman's Par.j ". (Continued on page two.). Reciprocal bombardments of consid erable intensity continue to prevail along the Aisne front and in the Cham pagne and there Jias also been a re newal of the. big gun fire in the Avo court sector, northwest of Verdun. In the Asiago plateau zone of the Austro -Italian theatre Austrian artil lery has shattered positions taken re cently by the Italians and re-occupied them. The fighting was on Monte Or tigara and the Austrians assert thafc they captured more than 1.S00 prison ers. The Rome war office admitting the withdrawal of the Italians says that the destroyed p6sitions afforded no shelter to the Italians from the mur derous fire of the Austrian artillery. Lively fighting continues between the : Russians and Austro-Germans on tha eastern front, particularly in Galicia south of the Tarnopol railway and along the Narayuvka river. The operations on the Macedonian front continue of minor importance and there is nothing to be gleaned from the official reports of the belligerents to indicate that a general engagement is brewing. There have been several smart skirmishes and one attack by the enemy, preceded by. a violent bombard ment "against the French positions. It was repulsed. - PRESS FIRED WITH ANGER Revelation of German Bomb Plots Has Stirred Up. Discussion of War Possibility FIRM POSITION IS URGED The Slorgenbladet Points Ont That Nor wegian Coast Would. Make Strat egic Base For United States Warships. Christiana, Tuesday, June 26. Tha Norwegian newspapers continue to publish details of the Oerxnan plot to destroy Norwegian steamships by ex plosives brought into' the country by a courier of the German foreign office, i which resulted in the arrest of three : men last week. The Aftenposten in - J sists that the arrest of the courier mu3t be upheld even against Germany's pro tests. The Morgenbladet, which hitherto has been more or less friendly to Ger many, asks .whether Germany wishes to force Norway to join the ranks of her enemies, and remarks that a naval base on the Norwegian coast would be very important for the entente and would give the American navy a splen did strategic position for co-operation with the British. This newspaper says further that, of all the foolish acts of German diplomats and military leaders in the way of depriving the central powers of friends, this last attempt to blow up the remaining remnants of Norwegian friendship is surely one of the most formidable blunders. Plots Also In Sweden. Stockholm, June 27. The Dagens Nyhecter publishes under reserve, a story of a mysterious explosive affair in Sweden,, similar to the plot exposed in Christiania. The police, it adds, re fuse all information. EXCHANGE TO RE-OPEN Cotton Speculation In Liverpool to Be PJ-evented. London, June 27. The board of trade has agreed that the Liverpool cotton exchange may re -open Friday under conditions preventing speculation, ac cording to the official announcement to night. It was also decided to create a board of control representing the spin ners, manufacturers,, importers, distrib utors, the principal associations of cot ton spinners and representatives of the board of trade. .The details of this pro -posed action, together wtth the names of the appointees, will be published later. . Canadian Strike Ended. Calgary, Alb., June 27. The strike of 8,000 coal miners . in western Canada which has been in progress since April 1, ended today when Commissioner W. H. Armstrong, appointed by the gov ernment to investigate and take any action deemed necessary, ordered im mediate resumption of- operations in al mines affected. " ? NORWEGIAN SEASIDE ASSEMBLY WELLATTENDED AT OPENING SESSION Dr. R. F. Y. Pierce, of Brooklyn, Makes Chalk Talk to the De light of Large Audience SINGING A BIG FEATURE Initial Session Last Night Most Gratifying to Management and Baptist Leaders , REV. WALTER M. GILMORE. Recording Secretary Baptist State Con. ventlon. Wrightsville Beach, June 27. More than 200 representative men and wo men from the different sections of the State were present tonight at -the in itial session of the third annual North Carolina Baptist Seaside Assembly, which was held in the new magnificent 135,000 Harbor Island Auditorium, built a year ago by the" Tidewater Power Company specifically for this organi zation. This i3 considered a most gratifying beginning for the first night. The forces will certainly be greatly augmented tomorrow, and by the ar rival of each train till the, close of the session, July 4. Perhaps no meeting of Baptists has ever been more thor oughly advertised throughout the State, and no finer program has ever been arranged. Dr. Pierce Delivers Address. ..The address of the evening was de livered by Dr. Rcbt. F. Y. Pierce, pastor of the North Baptist church of Brooklyn, N. Y., who is a most charm ing personality and possesses the rare : and happy faculty of . making chalk talk. While answering the vitally in teresting question propounded in the book of James, "What is your lifer' he used his crayon frfcely, and with a few touches of color he would make his propositions stand out so vividly and beautifully that no one who heard and saw will ever forget it. - "The Amplified Life" was the theme of the speaker. How to make the life larger in aim, in hope. in achievement and in aspiration, those were the prob-. lems ha sought to' answer. "What Mai yo4ir life?" "In the classic language of the Bowery," the speaker exclaimed, " 'It is up to you.' Life is what you make it." SpcnkH Acutin Todny. . Dr. Pierce will deliver the two prin cipal addresses Thursday; at 11:45 m. on "Through the Eye to the Heartj" and at S:30, "The Wriggler or the. : Moral Evolution of the' Boy." . One of th?1 most attractive features.; of tho evening- wss the inspiring con gregational singing:, led by Mr. Earle L. "iYolslagel, of Asheville, who for sever- n.cntmueci on iJr.s Two). FMETIEILE GE Hit GlilD GIF Means Expenditure There of Some $300,000 a Month . Announcement by War Department Brings Rejoicing Among Citi tens Either of Two Sites Had Been Offered. Washington, June 7 Fayetteville, Jf. C, has been chosen as a National Guard camp site, the War Department today announced. ' Fayetteville. N. C, June 27. The first news of the final selectiori of Fayette ville as a training camp site was re ceived here this afternoon In a tele gram from Senator Simmons to Post master J. B. Undorwood, In which the senior Senator stated that the Secre tary of War had just informed-'hlm by phone that Fayetteville had been se lected. This was confirmed later by telegrams to The Observer from Con gressman Godwin and the Associated Press dispatch referring to the camp as a Nat.onal Guard cantonment. The news so long and so anxiously awaited was received with universal expressions of gratification and even joy, ; though there was no public dem onstration. The national cantonment will con tain "28,000 to 30,000 men and mean something like $300,000 a month to this city. Two sites have been guaranteed to the government, one northwest of town and the other between Fayette ville and Hope Mills on the south, but i is-not, known here which site has been selected. Between '15,000, and 20, (Continued on Page Two). Si f 5 I li f k 1 ft, 1. i ft :i'
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