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TH E MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, NC, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, ,1918.
NUMBER OF BASEBALL
DEALS ARE RUMORED
SECRETARY BRKER TO
BE HEARD TOMORROW
Senate Committee Will Then Sus
pend Its Army Inquiry -
RIGIDLY ENFORCE N
TVEAY NULLIFY DECISION
OF SECRETARY M'ADOO
DEMURRAGE CHARGES
JTnstlce Department' Reviewing Law
Regarding' Taxes on Merchandise
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National Commission in Annual
Session at Cincinnati
Captain " Herxogr. of the Giant, Is
Traded to the Braves in Exchange
for Second Baseman Doyle
and Pitcher Barnes.
Cincinnati O., Jan. 8. August Her
mann was re-elected chairman and
John E. Bruce secretary of the national
baseball commission at the annual
meeting here today.
Owing to the fact that only minor
matters were to be considered by the
commission interest centered in a num
ber of deals being attempted by vari
ous clubs. "
A rumor from a well-authenticated
source had Brooklyn giving Zack
Wheat and Cutshaw for Pitcher Al Ma
xnaux, of Pittsburg, and a cash consid
eration. Barney Dreyfuss of the Pitts
burg club, when questioned concern
ing the rumor, said:
"It sounds good, but it is untrue.
That's the only bad part of it."
The rumor gained credence, however,
owing to a number of private discus
sions between Ebbetts and Dreyfuss.
Another rumor that would not down,
but which likewise was given official
denial, was that Catcher Snyder, of the
St. Louis Nationals, had been sold to
Pittsburg. Jack Hendricks,, manager
of the Cardinals, said: "Snyder has not
been sold to anybody "and there are
good chances he will be with the Car
dinals when the Reason opens."
To all appearances the much talked
of deal wherby th Chicago Nationals
would gt Hornsby of St. Louis has
fallen through. I I
A committee from the National As
sociation of Professional i Baseball
Clubs, waited upon the commission and
discussed ways and means whereby the
minor leagues could be benefited by
active co-operation with the major
leagues.
Inquiqry Into Clothing Supplies Will
Be Completed Today Charles
Sisenmann Says "Red Tane"
Handicapped Purchases.
CAPTAIN HERZOG TRADED
TO THE BOSTON NATIONALS
New Tory, Jan. 8. The New York
Natronal league club announced tonight
it had traded Second Baseman Charles
L. Herzog, captain of lasUyears cham
pionship club, to the Boston National
club for Second -Baseman Laurence
Doyle and Pitcher Jess Barnes.
The transaction closed a big three
cornered deal Involving the .Chicago,
Ne wYork and Boston clubs. ' Chicago
recently sent Doyle and Catcher Wil
son to Boston in exchange for Pitcher
Tyler. !
Doyle returns to the club with which
he won his greatest fame, as he played
with the Giants from 1907 until he was
traded near the end of the 1916 season
with two young players Hunter and
Jacobson to Chicago, for Zimmerman.
Doyle captained the Giants champion
club of 1911, 1912 and 1913.
Herzog now has figured. In five dif
ferent deals made by the New or!t
club. Pitcher Barnes Is regarded by
Manager McGraw as the biggest figure
In the deal, because he is a younr-maii
with lots o fpromise. Both Doyle and
Herzog are veterans, the former being
31 years of age and the latter 32 years.
The New York club also announced
that Outfielder Benjamin Kauff has
signed his contract for 1918. '
MISSISSIPPI IS FIRST .
TO RATIFY AMENDMENT
Legislature Takes Action Within Fif
teen Minutes After Governor Had
Urged Adoption.
Jackson, Miss., Jan. 8. Missisippi
was the first state In the union to raU
ify the proposed prohibition amend
ment to the federal constitution. Fif
teen minutes after Governor Bilbo had
urged such. action in his message to
the 1918 legislature, which opened to
day, both houses had adopted resolu
tions ratifying the proposed amend
ment. In the lower house the vote was 93
to 3 and In the senate 32 to 5. Repre
sentatives from Warren county, in
which Vicksburg is located, cast the
only negative votes in the house. In
the senate the votes were from scat
tered districts.
Adjournment was taken after the
vote on the prohibition amendment.
Washington, Jan. 8. In order to
quickly press in the senate legis
lation which it regards as necessary
to improve the army purchasing sys
tem, the senate military committee to
day decided to suspend its war in
quiry after hearing Secretary Baker
the latter part of this week on war
ordnance and supplies.
Mr. Baker was invited tonight to
appear Thursday and when his exami
nation is completed the committee
plans to report to the senate on the
progress of its investigation and rec
ommend legislation which Chairman
Chamberlain is expected to outline in
the report.: A bill to create a depart
ment of munitions with a civilian head
already has been introduced by Sena
tor Chamberlain, but details of the
proposed . measures have not been dis
closed. Examination of Charles Eisenmann,
vice-chairman of the council of na
tional defense, was completed today
and the committee will wind up the
clothing branch of its inquiry tomor
row b y questioning A. L. Scott, of
the .supplies committee, 1 and David
ICirschbaum, a Philadelphia manufac
turer. After championing its bills in the
senate the committee will return to
the inquiry and take up cantonments,
aviation, the medical corps and other
subjects.
In his tetsimony today, Mr. Eisen
mann defended the work of the sup
plies committee and its policy and
personnel and criticised the war de
partment's purchasing system which,
he said, was "handicapped by red tape"
and lack of officers . trained in busi
ness. The committee, li6 said, had
saved he government not less than
$75,000,000 on purchases and he em
phatically denied that any members of
the committee had sought advantage
through their official positions for
companies in which they were finan
cially interested.
Centralization of authority in the
war-department in making purchases
for army cantonments, Mr.- Eisenmann
said, was a prime evil of the general
purchasing system. A , plan for de
centralization was submitted to Quar
termaster General Slfarpe, the wit
ness said, and was approved "in spir
it but not in practice."
Eisenmann presented new statis
tics of cloth secured for the army by
his committee to substantiate his as
sertion that an over-supply had been
furnished, which claim- was not in ac
cord with information previouly giv
en the, senate committee by General
Sharpe. '
Nathaniel Stevens, of North Andover,
Mass., president of ttfe national asso
ciation of wool manufacturers, anoth
er witness, told the committee of the
use of shoddy in army garments has
not made them inferior or less warm.
The shoddy recommenations of the
manufacturers committee which the
supplies committee approved were de
signed, Mr. Stevens said, both to pre
vent a shortage of raw wool and to
increase production to meet the army's
extraordinary needs.
CHAMBERLAIN CONVICTED;
GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE
Counsel For Aged Doctor, Charged
With Murdering Brother, Give No
tice of An Appeal.
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Goochland, "Va., Jan. 8. Dr. Asa W.
Chamberlain was today convicted of
the murder of his brother, Judge Al
bert P. Chamberlain, and sentenced to
life imprisonment in the state peni
tentiary. Motion for an appeal has
been entered by counsel for the con
victed man.
The verdict came this morning after
the jury, sitting in the case since last
Wednesday morning, had deliberated
only forty-eight minutes.
At 10:15 the jury entered and Fore
man Noah C. Lappy announced that a
verdict had been reached." A hush set
tled over the half-filled courtroom in
which cunsel for state and defense had
fought a thrilling six-day battle.
The tired little wife of the accused
man and his daughter who had come
across the continent to comfort him,
sat beside Dr. Chamberlain when the
Jury entered. Neither they nor the
doctor showed emotion when the ver
dict was read by Peter Miller, clerk
of. the court.
SOUTH CAROLINA ASSEMBLY
IN ITS FIRST WAR SESSION
Expected to be One of Most Important
in the State's History.
Columbia, S. C, Jan. 8. In what is
expected to be one of the most impor
tant sessions in Its history.r the South
Carolina legislature began here today
with much "war legislation" planned
in both houses. Governor Manning read
his annual message to the general as
sembly this afternoon in which he rec
ommended among other things a law
empowering the governor to compel all
able-bodied men to perform some kind
of work to aid the state in utilizing its
resources and aid in winning the war.
Resolutions re'f erring the proposed
prohibition constitutional amendment
were introduced in both houses. Im
mediate consideration was. not pressed
in the senate; in the house' the reso
lution went over.-
NET RAILWAY EARNINGS
CONTINUE TO SHOW LOSS
Washington, Jan. 8. Net railway
earnings in November continued far
below the earnings for the same month
in 12J.6, according to the interstate
commerce commission's compilations
today of reports from 98 roads. Re
turns are expected from 87 other roads.
Net revenue from railway opera
tions was $53,886,000, as compared
with 563,975,000 in November, 1916.
Eastern roads reported $16,715,000, as
compared with 521,974,000 a year be
fore; western " roads 524,000,000, as
compared . with 528.296,000; southern
roads 513,162,000, as compared with
513,704,000. :
For the eleven months ending with
November netirevenuo was 5618,178,
000, as compared with 5639,128,000 in
the first eleven months of 1916.
Today is wheatless day, order gra
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Order is Issued by State Corpora
tion Commission
The First Day's Penalty Will be $3 In
stead of $2; Second Day $4 and ',
910 for Each Additional
Day Thereafter.
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(Special Star Correspondence.)
Raleigh, Jan. At the urgent re
quest of Director General McAdoo, the
North Carolina :orporation commis
sion today issued an order especially
promulgating for enforcement in this
state the order just issued from Wash
ington by the director-general mater
ially advancing the penalties or de
murrage charges for failure to prompt
ly unload carload freight with a view
to relieving in this way much of the
car shortage that handicaps transporta
tion. '
The order of the commission calls
for the rigid enforcement of the new
demurrage' chwges when the order be
comes effective. The call on the state
commission for this supplementary or
der came today in a lengthy telegram
from Director-General JMcAdoo, in
which he reiterated that! the increase
of the penalties was imperative to ob
tain further rel'ef from freight conges
tion and lack of transportation facili
ties and commended the hearty spirit
of co-operation that he :said all the
state commissions are extending him in
his task of directing the railroad busi
ness of the country.
The new demurrage cnarges make
the first day penalty after 48 hours'
free time $3 instead of 52; advances
the second penalty day to $4 and then
adds $10 per day in addition for each
day thereafter.
It having become known that it is
the purpose of Director-General Mc
Adoo to appoint a director in each state
to have direct supervision of the rail
way lines in the states, under him,
there is interested speculation as to
who Will get the place in North Caro
lina with general impression that the
place may go to Chairman E. L.. Travis,
of the corporation commission if he
will accept the post. The view is that
Mr. Travis is especially flted for this
task through his experience as corpo
ration commissioner.
CAMP CHANCES OOD
FOR FAYETTEVILLE
Washington, Jan" 8. The treasury
decision that in making inventories for
excess profits ana income tax returns,
dealers in merchandise or securities
might use the cost price or market
value, whichever was lower, is being
reviewed by the department of justice
and may be revised. Millions of dollars
in taxes are dependent on the final rul
ing. Treasury legal advisers were under
stood to have challenged the legality
of the decision jvhich was Issued sev
eral weeks ago on recommendations of
the excess profits advisers, and Secre
tary .McAdoo referrea the question to
Attorney General Gregory. If the de
cision is overruiec, congress probably
will be asked to amend the revenue law
to permit the internal revenue bureau
to make such a ruling.
Determination o nthis poi-"c :s one ot
the factors which have prevented Is
suance o f forms for tax returns for in
comes of more'than 53,000 for ex
cess profits reports. Eoth fu.ese lorms
will be completed and ready for distri
bution probably by the middle of next
week, Internal Revenue Commissioner
Roper said today.
By that time, also, the excess profits
advisors expect to complete their wont
and recommend certain amendments tn
clarify the war tax act.
Commissioner Roper announced to
day that if the treasury decision is
upheld by the department of justice,
the revenue bureau will defiife "dealers
in securities' who wli be affected by
th eaction.
Revenue officials estimated today
that many millions of dollars would be
lost to the government as a result of
the . supreme court's recent decision
that stock dividends are not subject to
the- income tax. Some say the loss
might run as high as 550,000,000.
SENSITIVE OVER MEASURES.
Salisbury and Raleigh Want a Camp
But it N. C. Gets One, It Will
Go to Cumberland.
By P. R. ANDERSON.
Washington. Jan. 8. North Carolina
cities are again becoming agitated over
a cantonment camp for the state. Ra
leigh and Fayetteville have been in the
field for a camp for some time arfd to
day Salisbury entered the fight with all
the vigor she can command.
Senator Overman's clerks were kept
busy all day opening telegrams from
the state asking the, junior senator to
lend his aid to Salisbury in her efforts
to secure the camp.
While The Star correspondent does
not pretend to have any inside informa
tion of very great value oecaifse the
War Department changes its mind at
the slightest provocation, without
rhyme or reason but it! looks very
much like Fayetteville is going to get
the camp if one is located in North
Carolina. . i
At the present time the War Depart
ment certainly intends to have one in
the state. Therefore if I was going to
place a little easy- money on the town
which wins the camp I should lay a
few American dollars on Fayetteville
securing the plum.
SEVERAL MORE DEATHS
AT THE VARIOUS CAMPS
Wood Dealers and Others Shocked to
Find Out Shortages.
(Greensboro News)
The Statesville Landmark says:
"The News hears it rumored that some
of the Greensboro wood dealers were
shocked to discover that their wagon
beds don't hold a fifth of a cord. The
shock to Deoole who accidentallv ( ?
discover that they have been giving
snort weignt or measure, is distressing
indeed. They wouldn't have anybody
think they are not honest for the
world, but they were not disturbed un
til they were caught."
And some of these are the most sen
sitive folks in the world. They are
ready any time to -contend that they
are imposed upon, "a poor down-trodden"
lot of folks. The truth about
the matter is that there are honest
folks in almost every calling and pro
fession and there are also some of the
grandest rascals and liars doing the
same things for a living: It may be
added also, that it won't do to let any
one class get the advantage in a busi
ness deal,- for there is no more mercy
for his human brother in the heart of
the rural dweller than in those who
live in groups, sometimes referred to
as villages, towns and cities. The gen
eral average is about the same.
Wadesboro Ansonian.
Two Die at Camp Greene, Bringing the
Total .Since Establishment Up to
Forty-Two.
Charlotte, Jan. 8. Announcement of
two deaths among the soldiers at
Camp Greene today brought the total
number since the establishment of the
camp to 42. Twenty-six of the num
ber occurred within the last ten days.
Names of Dead Withheld.
Newport News, - Va., Jan. 8. Two
United States soldiers stationed near
this city have died during the past
two days. One was buried; in the na
tional cemetery at Hampton today. In
the absence of the commanding offi
cer other officers refused to give the
men's names or the cause of death.
Four At Beauregard.
Alexandria, La., Jan. I 8. Three
death3 from pneumonia,, and one from
meningitis have occurred at Camp
Beauregard during the past 24 hours.
There have been 141 deaths at e
camp since November 17.
One Death at Wheeler.
Macon, Ga., Jan. 8.-One death dur
ing the last 48 hours at Camp Wheeler
was reported tonight at base hospital.
Private George Hurt, of Thomasville,
Ala., died of pneumonia? today.
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weeks. and months at. a time because
of insufficient terminal facilities to
handle, would go through the port ol
Wilmington and relieve this congestion
In the northern cities.
Will Keep Railroads.
There is every indication that the
government will keep the railroads ana
operate them even after the war. This
is practically certain unless the present
efforts of the government at running
the railway systems of the country
proves a failure. With Secretary Mc
Adob at the throttle no one believes
the venture will fail. Congress will
appropriate sufficient money for the
improvement of such lines as the C. F.
& T. W when R can be shown that sucn
expenditures are worth while to the
country. It is believed that the director-general
can be shown beyond a
doubt that the above mentioned propo
sition is a meritorious one and that
great good can be, accomplished by
opening up the road and making a di
rect connection between Greensboro
and Wilmington;
M'ADOO APPEALS TO OFFI
CIALS AND EMPLOYES
Baltimore & Ohio, and Frank Trum-
ball, chairman of the railroad execu
tives' advisory committee, will be call
ed. Commissioner Anderson, who framed
the administration railroad bill now
before the interstate commerce com
mittees of both houses, will be heard
further before the house committee to
morrow. State Taxes Unmolested.
On the stand today Mr. Anderson
explained that it is not intended that
there shall be any interference with
state taxation of railroad property by
government operation. The govern
ment compensation to all railroads on
the basis of the standard return pro
posed, he said, would be. 5935,000,000 a
year, the average net railway operat
ing income for the three years ending
last June 30. Thi's compensation basis
Is permissive, not mandatory, and any
railroad may enter suit for a higher
rate if it chooses.
Mr. Kruttschnitt praised the work of
the railroad war board, now dissolved,
in eliminating much competition and
pooling railroad facilities to a great
extent under private control. He said
the results, and the necessity of gov
ernment control, showed emphatically
that anti-trust and anti-pooling laws
will have to be repealed. Indiscrimi
nate issuance of preferential and pri
ority orders he blamed largely for the
failure of railroads to prevent conges
tion under private management.
Labor Scarce.
Another difficiaty was. the shortage
of labor. In many cases,, he said, one
eighth of a railroad's employes were
taken by the draft or by industries
paying higher wages.
Grain men of the country, Mr. Krutt
schnitt said, were the slowest to com
ply "with the war board's recommen
dations providing for the. heavier load
ing of cars. It was only after Food
Administrator .noover, who had the
power and the railroads did not, issued
an order providing that no cars of
grain be handled unless fully loaded
he added that a change was brought
about.
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And the richer a shortening is, the more econom
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Try pure Cottolene in one of your "old-stand-'
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Be sure to use one-third less of Cottolene than you
usually do of butter or other shortening.
oottoiene is sola by grocers in tins of, con
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Recipe for
COCOANUT LAYER CAKE
Yz cup Cottolene j teaspoon salt
2 cups sugar 1 cup milk .
3 eggs y2 teaspoon each
3 cups flour lemon and
3 level teaspoons vanilla
baking powder
Cream Cottolene, add 1 cup sugar gradu
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j yolks. Combine mixtures. Sift together flour,
' baking powder and sait. Add to first mixture
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and stiffly beaten whites. Finish with jboiled.
frosting sprinkled with cocoanut.
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SEVENTY-FIVE STATE BAXKS
JOIN THE RESERVE SYSTEM
Washington, Jan. 8. Seventy-five
state banks or trust companies were
admitted to the federal reserve system
in December with aggreate capital of
528,918,000, surplus of 532,050,000 and
resources of 5488,728,000, the federal
reserve board announced todav THa
brought the number of state institu
tions now memoers of the federal sys
tem to 250, with total resources of 55,-000,000,000.
Fatal Explosion at Sea.
An Atlantic Port, Jan. 8. One fire
man was killed, another seriously in
jured, and several other members of
the crew of the Norwegian steamer
Fjell were hurt today by an explosion
in the fire room while the ship was sev
eral miles off . shore. Two physicians
were sent out to the steamer tonight
in a tug in response to distress signals
which were seen by a coast guard pa
trol, i .
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