THE EVENING TELEGRAM VOL. X, NO. 164. ROCKY MOUNT, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 8, 1917. PRICE: FIVE CENTS Today's Weather Forecast , lESTROYER WITH A LOSS OF LIFE WHICH MAY BE HEAVY B1 mm -COMMANDED BY WHOJS AMONG THE MISSING Thirty-Seven-Survivors - : Rafts VVhile the Ship "Complement of More Has Been Prominent in Work in War Zone Since United States Entered the War and Sav ed 305 Passengers from the Ill-Fated Orama, List of Those Who Were Saved is Announced. Washington, Dec. 8. The American destroyer Jacob Jones was ' torpedoechand srnk in the war zone on Thursday with the loss of a large part of her crew. Thirty-seven Survivors were taken off in life rafts. The names of ten survivors have been re ceived up to this time. ' " They are: Lieutenant (Jr. grade) John K. Richards, ensign; Nelson Gates, assistant surgeon; L. L. Adamkiewiez, Charles E. Pierce, firemen; Timothy Edward Towney, seaman; John C. John son, seaman; Henry R. Stutzke, chief machinist' mate; Edward F. Grady, fireman, second class; John J. Mulvaney; seaman and Myron Flood, seaman. - - : The sinking occurred December 6th, at 8 p. m., while the ship was on patrol duty. She was commanded by Lieutenant Com mander David Worth Bagley, of Raleigh, N. C, brother of Mrs. Josephus. .Daniels, wife of the Secretary of the Navy. Command er Bagley's brother was the first American naval officer MlLed in the Spanish American war, The Jacob Jones was the ship which saved 305 persons from the Ovama a P. and 0. liner converted into an auxiliary cruiser on October 19th. ' - - The Orama had been torpedoed by a submarine while she was acting as 'a part of a convoy of merchant vessels under escort of an American destroyer, me Jacob Jones was one ol tue con voy. The Jacob Jones and another destroyer were detailed to remain by the Orama after the submarine had been attacked and put out of action. When the Orama had begun to settle, it had .grown dark and her crew abandoned her. The Jacob Jones pick ed up 305 of the 478 persons on board. The other vessel standing by rescued the other survivors. The Jacob Jones', peace time complement was five petty officers and 87 men. She was one of the newest and largest American destroyers with a displacement of 150 tons and a length of 310 feet.over all. She was completed in 1916 at the plant of the NewY den, N. J. She burned oil, was driven by turbine engines and had a speed of 29.57 knots an hour. " . - - FIRST BIO LOSS AMERICAN NAVY Washington, Dec. 8. The disaster brings to the American peo ple the first naval loss of great consequence since the country en tered the war. Inasmuch as Admiral Simms mentioned other of ficers among the survivors and did not mention Lieutenant Bag- -j-leyr it is feared- that-he wen t-down From the first report it would be upward of sixty. Austrians Declare That 3Iore Than 16,000 Have Iken Made Prisoners. FIGHTING VERY HEAVY Strong Points East of Asia go Have Been Stormed, the Austrian Statement Adds. An Additional Pris- .,.,.,oners Have Been Taken. London, Dee. S. The number of Ital ians captured 1 y the Germans and Aus trians in t lit" new' offensive now exceeds .1(5,000, according to an official Austrian announcement. Strong points past ot Asiago have been stormed fhti- state nirni-snvs. America's declaration of war on Aus tria Ilnnday comes it a moment when the Italian northern front between As ian" an'l the. Hrenfa is being hard press Oil by an Austro -fiennnn army under Field Marshal Conrad Von lloetzen--darfE. : " CRUSHERS TO MEET ADMINISTRATORS Raleigh, X. 0., Dec 8. A con ference of the eotton seed crushers of Xorth Carolina and "South Carolina, J'ood Administrator Henry A. Page, of North Carolina, and Food Administra- tnr DnrU R. Cnkpr, tif South Cnrnlinp, lias been arranged for next Monday nftertoon at two o'clock in the offices of Mr. Page at Kcigh. There will be present also in all probability a repre sentative of the Crushers Division of ITALIAN LOSSES REPORTED HEAVY mm TOW SMK IW WAR-ZnW TIfOUilN ,vj;ivvi vvaiuv iai ii iui uvuu t -i - 4 -nt-iimiiin-nriiiinn nrnnniln nnii ' -:; - v j . . - -. , . . Officials Here State That RALEIGH BOY- Are Taken Off in Life in Peace Times Has, a Than Ninety Men. She c ;anp-r with his shrpr appearlhatJ;heJx)ss of life would- German Planes Hard Press ed Fly Over Basel In flak ing Their Escape Back to Alsace. Geneva, Switzerland, Friilay, Pee. 1st. The first air battle between allied and German airmen over the Swiss ter ritory occurred around Basel today. It appears that the Germans hard press ed by their opponents, intentionally, en tered Switzerland. The fight took pla-'e it a great height and the number of planes is not known. The encounter last pd .10 minutes. Seven bombs were drop ped on- Swiss territory Tjut 'only ma lerial damage resulted. Eventually the airmen sped toward Alsace, still fight ing while Swiss soldiers bombarded both parties with shell from rtnti. aii craft guns. The residents of Basel and neighboring territory are indifferent over the violation of Swiss neutrality. RALEIGH BOY IS IILfRT IN ACCIDENT Washington, Peetl S. Vice . Admiral Sims reported to the Navy Department yesterday a seaplane accident in the war zone In which one sailor was killed and a gunner's mate injured. Seaman Claude Albert Baker was kill ed and his body was not recovered. It is assumed the accident occurred at sea, though this was not definitely stated in the dispatch. Baker enlists at Nashville, Teun., last December. His father is William B. Baker, Sparrow's Point, Md. Eichard W. Thompson, firit class gunner mate, suffered a fracture of thr-hight thigh. ITe re-enlisted in ' r- TT T ON ITT t-. 1'-".; in n I- n nan in tii r n m i - rUW liAK Ig U. b. FUHIVIALLT Al SAID TO ESCAPED Guard Around Former Rul- erSatdTfo Have Been Dis- armed by Bolsheviki. WILL REPUDIATE LOAN It is Said The Socialist Gov ernment is Planning to Re- pudiate-AU Foreign Loans Including Land Banks and The Government Guaran" . tees. ..London,. . Dee. 8. Thei gnnrdi - euj rounding-. .Nicholas Uomauoff ' the foi nii'r Hussi.au. Knipcror, near Tobolsk, Si beria, hav been disarmed 1-y Bolshe vik! soldiers-and sailors,;' according to advices received in I'etrognid and for warded by the Exchange"" Telegraph Company. The" Bolsheviki lender in-' tend to remove Nicholas "to some other place for fear that he might be lynch ed, .v AMERICAN CONSUL AT TIFLIS REPORTS --''"'Washington, Pec. 8. The American Consul at 'Tiflis, today rejmrted a ru mor that the former Czar of Hussia has escaped. The message contained ri o de tails and made it clear '.that there was HO eonlliiiiutioii of I he iiiiinu. No other news has been received here today from Hussia. MAY REPUDIATE ALL OF HER LOANS '. London, Dec. 8. The Bolshevika gov eminent according to a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd, is preparing a decroo repudiating all Russian -f preign loans concluded by land banks and railway! im guveniiueut guarantees, Snares-of internal loans held abroad also will be repudiated. " TODAY'S SESSION OF MUNICIPAL COURT The following cases were disposed of at this morning's session of municipal rourt : ' Thomas Williams, a negro, was eharg- ed with larceny anil w?ls Sentenced to three months on the roads sentence no to issue, however, if "lefenilant pays costs in case and remains law-abiding hereafter. - , . M. M. White was charged with being drunk and was lined $.". Clarence Strickland was charged with-being-drunk and wasnned Sales to Date On Local To bacco Market Have Been 19,800,000 Pounds at Price Average of $29.61. The Rocky Mount 'tobacco market faeks only 200,000 pounds of reaching the 2,000,000 pound mark forlhe sea son, according to figures made public by the secretary of the Tobacco Board of Trade. The figures-show total sab' for the season Jo date as $10,800,000 pounds, at a price average of $2!U1. Both figures are unheard of records fax the local market. The sales for the week amounted to approximately 830,000 pounds which i rather heavy for this period considering the lateness of the rcseivt tobacco sea son. The price average" for the week was .12.60.' This show-px slight de crease in the price average which T chiefly accounted for by. the fact that the better grades are show ing a tenden cy to weakcu'in price. The offerings for the week were fair ly good, running largely to tlieb ette" grades of leaf and cutters, with but few wrappers. , Prices on all grades to thirty-five cents have held up well. The bettci grades have shown some decline, -but comparetl with former years are still very high and should be satisfactory to the farmers. The local market has only a few more thousand pounds to sell before the 20, 000,000 pound mark will be passed. It is safe to cay that when the season is over the total for the local market will be in the neighborhood of twenty-two or thTee million pounds. "The hofTil V MARKET HEARS 201010 POUNDS 1RITHAIT1 Congress, With One Dissent" mg v ote, Adopted," and r President Wilson Approv ed Resolution Declaring .'War.'--' Washington, Dec. 8. War bet wee i the Putted States and Austria-Hungary was formally.' ilerlnrcd...yesprday.y. Congress, wttji one' dissenting voit in the house, adop.'C'.Land Preslder.i Wil son approved a resolution, declaring existence of a state of war between the "imperial and' royal Austro Jhin gnrian government Mid the govniment .nil people of the United States," an th Tiding the President to employ th lr lion's armed forces and A rising ils resouiics to victory. The resolution, the Tesopnso of Con gross to the President's requests Tn his address Tuesday, is sinlilar, to that li-j-'scdiAprii t declaring war. with Ger frany; it became effective at S.O.'t p. ?. .today, when it was signed by.tlte own. utive without formality. An executive explanation will follow shortly. London Votes Against I.t ' After but one hour's debate the resn liiiiou was unanimously adopted by 1 lie senate with aii affirmative vote of 74. It was approved by the house, 'G'i to 1, Hcpresentutive London, theNew ork iSniialist, casting the or.ly disseuting vote. A few minutes later Vic.e-l'resi-di-nt. ATnrshnll and Speaker- Clark e h ad signed the document and sent it to the Wi.ito House, where President Wiison attached his signature with Secretary Tumulty and Assistant Secretary. For ter ns the only witnesses. '. The resolution follows: . "Joint resolution. "Declaring that a state of war exists between the imperial and royal Auslio Hungarian government and the govern iiu'iil and. people of IheiuTedraTcsJ and making provision to prosecute, the n"ie. " Whereas, the imperial and -royal Anstro Hungarian government has com mitted repeated acts -? war r.g.iinst the government qnd rlo people of the p-ii.ed States of 'A: r'ea Therefor, bo it - Country s Resou--c.cs ljpl6d8e!i " Iicsolvod by the s-.:.t'c amHmmo ci n-presentwtiveii- of the United States of America in Congress assembled tha; a state of war i hereby dared-to. x ist between the United States of Amer iia and the imperial and royal Ausrto Hungarian government; and the Presi dent be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the -entire naval a-id inilitury furcca jf Ibc L'jiited State and the resources of' the government to carry on Nvar against the imperial and royal Austro Hungarian government: and to bring the conflict to a success fill termination al the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States. Signed "Champ Clark. "Speaker of the house of Representa fives. "Thomas R. Marshall, "Vice-President of. the United Sr.tc ,and Pjesident of-the Senate. Approved .7, December, 1917, "Woodrow Wilson.' . ' GINNING REPORT MADE PUBLIC NOON TODAY Washington, Dofcw.8. Cotton of this year's growth ginned prior to December 1, amounted to 0, 70.",fil7 running bales, including 173,3:19 round bales and 7T, ti:! bales of Sea Island. . " PROPOSE REDUCE THE RATES ON LUMBER Washington, Dec. S. A slight reduc tion on lumber from North and South Carolina and Virginit to Central freight, association territory was proposed in an application lib'd with the Interstate Commerce commission by roads serving that territory. It is sought to establish pre-existing six-class rates recently dis turbed by a general rate revision dis lowed bv the commission. STOCK MARKET New York, Dec. S.--Prominent stocks were lower by fractions to a point at the dull opening of the week and session. Trans-Continental Rails, Industrfals nd metals lead the decline! American Tobacco featured the specialties with a break of 2,104 points.' United State? Steel reacted half a. point and other equipments eased slightly .with Shin pings. The bond market was a pathetic Inn I icn.' d'?r-' --n- fur:rr w-' Arrest of Sturm and Ed wards Girt Was Made Un assisted by Local Officers. ::3n an nrtirto appearing in" morning pa-1 pers several dayS ago, which had its source from Eayetteville, it was stated thut, t wri-ynmirf .nicnVjiniiM'il Osbnrii Alcl via and Kin Hall . were claiming the J50Ore w S r iUj i ff e rod ' for 1 1 1 ea rr esToT Leon Sturm and Rose EdwTIrd the iuan and woman who have, 1een adjuil ed responsible for the death nf Angeles Moutos, a (ireek restaurateur. It was understood that the arrest was made un assisted by the local officers.. Acting tin this supposition a representative of this publication made inquiry of the of (icials of the city regarding the mytter and they a.ssert that the two nbene young men had no claim whatever to the rcwani and that it was made entire ly without their assistance. ''.' ' Jt seenis that between (i nnd 7 o'clock on the afternoon of Tuesday last, Chief O. P. Hedgeneth received a tclenhone communication from (Sheriff McOcachy, of Cumberland county, giving a. deaerip. tion of the. man and woman and stated that there was a reward of $!00 offe-red for their arrest. At a meeting of the policemen of tlie local department Chief Hedgepeth described the .man and wo nian to his officers, and then B. (i. Rob ertson, a menilMT of the force, stated that ho had seen a man answering the deKcrijition entering the, Cambridge Ho tel, Chief Hedgepeth then instructed Officer Stephenson to meet the shoo-fly from Kayotteville, due there, at 10:10 p . m. and impure, of the conductor of the train if he had brought a couple answering the description of the man and woniaii to lior.ky Mount. Oflicer Steplieiison met. the . train and was in formed by the conductor that he had lrought a couplu answering the do- scrip4-ion of the murderers to this city on the night before, nnd that they got off on the side -opposite the' depot. Then Qjficor Stephenson, started,, to the Cam bridge Hotel to senreb, the building for the parties wanted. . It was about 10:15 p. in., when he reached the hotel. Of ficer StephenHoii'then found a man and woman rcgisli'ied iim L. Tiiompson anij .jvifo of Chicago. He called The clerk and described the couple to him, -and said that-t he- clerk stated tliat- Hie de scription tallied with a man and wohinu occupying ascertain room in the hotel.' -. -Officer Stephenson then called for Officer Sumner, to aid him in searching the hotel and they both went to room No. 7, where they found Sturm and the Kd wards "girl. NeiTher-offered any re sistnncc and immediately confessed that they were the parties waiited. Meanwhile two ynunng men, who w.tc said to have been Al -ivin and lla'l, came in on. the same train met by Of (i'cr Stephenson. 'They followed the of ficer to the hotel ami wie in the lohny until the officers went upstairs to the rooni.AfterJhe oflictrs had placed the man and woman under arrest, it was utated that the two men eamo up and said that they knew the two and they were the ones wanted for the murder of the Greek. The offiers state that Hail and Melvin did not participate in the arrest and did not furnish any, infor mation that would lead them to make the arrest. Police ofTiicials state that they made the arrest by their'owit work and from information furnished bv the AkerifT of Cumberland county. The officers state that Molvin and Hall then went back to Fayet.teville and claimed to the authorities that. they ar rested or were responsible .for . the ar rest bf Sturm and the Edwards girl, and that the $.")00 should be coming to them. The reward has not been paid and when it is paid the city -of-, Ro"oky Mount should get it. The Entire Northeastern Section of the Nation is Encountering a Heavy SnowStorm. Storm. Warn ings Up on Coast, Washington, Dec. H. Snow through out the entire northeastern section of the conntrv accompanied bv a cold Wave through the middle west and ex tending southward to the Gulf of Mexi co, was causing much discomfort today and delayed traffic already badly con gested. Continuation of the enow wag predict ed for tonight and tomorrow by the weather bureau. Cold wave warning were issn ed for Tennessee and the East Gulf and South Atlantic States. Storm warnings are being displayed on the At 'nnt'c dn-t f'nm Jacfcs.nu t.i a colons T INN T-WENTYTHDUSAND SS Estimate of .Number Dead Still Remains Around 2, 000, Some Say More. MANY UNIDENTIFIED The-Massachusetts Relief Train Reaches The Strick en City While Staff Man Says Absolutely-No Way Of Estimating The Dead. Amherst, Dee. 8. An estimate of t,- 000 persons dead in the Halifax disas ter is contained in a private telegram received from the stricken city by an undertaking firm here. . The message says.thut 4,000 coffincs be, sent to Hali fax at once.-. BOSTON SPECIAL REACHES HALIFAX Halifax, JS'. S., Dec. 8. (Pran a Staff Correspondent -of the Associated Press). The Massachusetts relief train that left Boston Thusjay night, . arrived here today.. There is absolutely no way of estimating with any degree of ac- uraey the number of dead as a result of the explosion on Thursday, Fifteen hundred dead is the generally accepted future bv the authorities. In the morgue there are 300 bodies. The latter were viewed by multitudes today but only a few were identified. There "nu,prol)ably 200 other bodies on view waiting identification. . The greater number of cases this was impossible. A citizens committee is sued a statement saying that between .1,000 and 4,000 dwellings occupied by the poorer classes had been destroyed affecting, approximately 25,000 persons. Investigation shows that almost 20,000 persons are destitute, L Said to Have Broken Out in Portugal and Oporto, Ac cording to Report From Spain Today. Madrid Spain, Dec. 8. A revolution has broken out in. Lisbon the capital of Portugal, aecordjnjrtQa dispalehurc ccived here by way of Operto and on Tuesday ont brca kit also are said-to have occurred at Oporto. BURGLARS VISIT NASHVILLE MONDAY Xashville, N. C, Dec. L 8,- When. Xanl'i vllle."citi.ens camo down town' early Tuesday morning they learned of two or three burglaries had been commit ted during Monday night, when somo unknown person or persons made mid- nigh tTntries to the store of Batchelor & Clark, the offices of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and the Nashville Fruit & Candy Store. At Batchelor & Clark's store the only things missed con sists of possibly a suit or two of clothes aiLOvemuat and the cnh drawerrifle4 Only a few small coins were left in the drawers and the loss was small. At the express office the culprits carried off a few C. O. D. packages, evidently thins: infl the contents of the package was liquor. Thei thieves carried off the cash register belonging )to t,he N'ashvilla Fruit & Candy store, but as only a few dollars had been left in the register the loss was small. The smashed register was fouml Tuesday morning near the grocery room, of the. Nash Supply Co., and had been badly damaged. The opin ion prevails that these burglaries were committed by novices infesting Nash villa and suspicions point to one or moreof these culprits. DEATH OF LITTLE GIRL YESTERDAY Little Hazel Margaret Flowers, sis weeks old daughter of Mr. and Mrs; . C. Flowers, who reside on Church street in this city, died yesterday morning, death being attributed to whooping cough. The funeral of the littleg irl will be held this afternoon and inter ment will be in the Boone burying ground near this city. The friends of the bereaved parents offer their sympa thy in their sad loss. FAIR WEATHER ATTEB MONDAY Washington, Dec. 8. Generally fair weather with rising temperature after Monday is forecast for the South Atlan tic and east Gall. States, is the an nouncement today. New York, Dec. 8. Cotton elnsH steady. December, Januarvfi t TU HAS A REVOLUTION TENSE FEELIUG IS YET IN EVIDENCE S CASE Dooling Continues Sharp Cross-Examination nd Sheriff Called With in Bar. JUDGE- CLIN ESSAYS HE IS IN -CHARGE OF CASE Means Continues on Stand Under The Sharp-Cross-QuestioningLByAttorney Dooling. Witness Tells of Loans to Mrs. King. Concord, Dec. 8. Following a period of tenseness attending the cross exam ination by John T. Dooling of Gaston B. Means, on trial here far the mnrder' of Mrs. King, Judge CJtne today order ed Sheriff Howard Caldwell to remain in the bar throughout the examination. Prior to this the fire and alleged harsh- ikrt n. t .Un t XT nor Vwlr assistant district attorney had been nioui-ien very percepuwy sjiuscqueni father sharp expressions of repri IN THE mm mand on the part of Judge Cline. Ha hnl .aid thn nrlir et ttitf Attv wnnl -t question," answer and ruling and that ' discussion would be eliminated. The jury had been, excused when Tudgo Cline ordered Sheriff Caldwell to remain in the bar. E. L. Cansler had made vigorous objections to the "sar- . ' J L 1 i . .t l TA . . 1 ? . cross examination. The cross examin ation brought out. little of special inter est during the first few .hours and the examination is felfvras, Overshadowed ' in interest by the; JeflMeness of Cn vr aation. Jndge CliM ated that i. s going to give hlf '':! ; ! tion -to the exn.mii Sheriff Caldwell was desired to re'i. duty of keeping1 in ters that might J The defendant told l. t i 000 and $3,000 made by h.m to Tu. King at difforont times about the same period during which he was receiving money f rora.the 5 Cferman. interest." SESSOMS SENTENCE REDUCED TO '4 YEARS '-' -'-."-.. ' T - "Information has been received in ih citytotheeffcc.t -that theaentenceof i icero essoms, the negro who wag round guilty of murder in the second degree growine out of the kilfinirnf Cary Weeks ad thwoundlng of others in a snooring anray near Wliitakers sev eral months ago, has been lowered from six to four years in the- State Pentiten. nary, lie was found .guilty in Nash Superior court last Week nnd was sen tenced to six years in the pentitentiary on luesoay last. It is understood that on last night his Sentence was changed to four years in the pentitenairy instead of sir. ' ARMY RECRUITING OFFICER TQ BE HERE An army recruiting officer will be here next week beginning Monday, De cember 10, and will remain until Bun day Dec. 16r The officer will be at the post office for the purpose of enlist ing anymnn from Rocky Mount who desires to join this branch of tin sor- ice. ... T .... All registrants are now awar? of the fact that they will have to be en listed before December 13, or they can not thereafter get into the army ex cept by the selective service route, so next week all registered men who pre fer volunteer enlistment will have their chance. It is expected that-there will be many men who had rather join with the recruiting officer than to wait for the next call under the new draft law, and t.hnt they will call on "the recruit ing officer next week at the post office. The officer will also explain to all. the different branches of the service in which enlistment, is desirable and will furnish any information, desired. It is expected that nianyyill join from this city. ' . ECUADOR HAS SEVERED RELATI0N3 Guayaquil, Ecuador, See. 8. Ecuador has severed diplomatic re lations with Germany, according to an official announcement made by the government today. COTTON IIA' - New York, Pec. 8. C: opened steady, DecerU.er nary, 2'.f0; Man-!-, ': .Tuly. -27.4 ' ' - " 1 .