North Carolina Newspapers

- rt 11 '. 11 j I . - ' ' , I, i hi - w , . x x :yu . i . i 3- t"i t- 6- LQCMi HEWS III SlillMflSMWECTBD PROTECT - AUERICAIi RIGHTS ALLIED FORG BACK TEHSE SITUATION DEVELOPS EHTfcOTOMRtiiTED '''Si'" fATTERS OP INTEREST TO JEHB READERS OP THE PATRIOT FAR AND NEAR. i t CITY ORDINANCE TO APPLY TO AliL AXJKE IN THE : FUTURE r-MARKET ItfEN KICK. VIGOROUS RESOLUTIONS ON THE BRITISH AND FRENCH RETREAT f DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS - WITH 1 FLAMES WIPE OUT-' HOPEWELL v. 8UBJECT- ARE PRESENTED FROM SOUTHERN SERBIA AUSTRIA-HUNGARY MAY VA- NOT ;A SINGLE BUILD- j ING' left standixcl iV:-v- TO CONGRESS. TOWARD 3 AXON IKI. BE BROKEN OFF. -4 fit I ' v , , BRIEFim SaiuseT-Pope-Mr. J. F. Causey .ind Miss Evelyn Pope, both of this o rrioH vesttrdav ifter ritV. W'cik? i i iU Urvmo rtf T? PV T? M,' ATI' - I f noon at ie uumc 7- drews, who performed the ceremony in the presence of a few friends. v Vital Statistics -During the month of November 26 births were; reported to the city health department, of tv! tch 14 were white arid 12 colored. tAj same number of deaths were re ported, 11 being white and 15 col ored. Criminal Court. The December criminal term of Guilford Superior court convened this morning with judge J. L. Webb, of Shelby,: on th.e bench and every prospect foV a busy iprm. There are 100 or more cases ior trial. ' '-J- Season's First. The first snow of the season fell Saturday afternoon and night and yesterday ; morning iound the ground covered to" a depth of about six inches, The sun came out this morning and the chances -are that the snow will not remain long. Has Appendicitis Mfs. E. P Land is a patient at St. Leo's hospi tal, where she underwent an opera tion for appendicitis a few days ago She is recovering very satisfactorily Mrs. Land was in High Point on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Carter Dalton, when stricken. Only One Case. So far this sea son only one case of smallpox has developed in Greensboro and the pa tient has fully recovered. Practical ly everybody within a radius of two blocks of the case was -"vaccinated promptly, this doubtless preventing the disease from spreading. New CorporaUon.-rThe . secretary 01 state has granted, charterV;o jtbe White Manufacturing Company ,u4of Kimesville, to engage in the manufac ture of cotton goods. The authorized capital is $50,000 and the incorpora tors are Dr. G. A. Foster, of Liberty; H. A. White and H. L. Nance, of Winston-Salem. - - Grocers Fail. Jennings & Co., who have been conducting a grocery and fruit store in the McAdoo hotel building, Saturday filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States, court. The assets are scheduled at SI, 500 and the liabilities at $2,000. Messrs. P. M. Jennings and J. W. "Westbrook compose the Irm. Back on Duty. Dr. F. C. Hyatt, the city health officer, who spent practically all of Sunday night, De cember 5, pinned beneath his over turned automobile at Elon Colege, suffering much from exposure and several injuries, has resumed his work and apparently is no worse for his unpleasant and dangerous exper ience. Mrs. W. A. Greeson Dead. Mrs. W. A. Greeson died Friday afternoon at her home at Glenwood, following an illness of several weeks. The fu neral and interment took place Sat urday afternoon at Mt. Hope church, the services being conducted by Rev. Shuford Peeler. Mrs. Greeson was 41 years old and is survived by her husband and three children. D. M. Trollinger Dead. -Mr. D. M. Trollinger died Friday morning at his home at Revolution. He leaves four sons and four daughters. The funeral took place yesterday morning &t 11 o'clock at Palm Street Chris tian church, McAdoo heights, and was followed by interment in Greene Hill cemetery. The services were conduct" ed by Rev. W. C. Wicker, of Elqn Col lege, and Rev. A. Shelton Smith. Aged Woman Dead- Mrs, Adelaide Matilda Person died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. Mv Robinson, in the eighty-seventh year of her age. The body was carried to Franklinton, the old home of the family, for the funeral and interment. Mrs. Person leaves chree daugh ters Mrs. H. M. Robinson, -of Greensboro ; Mrs. W. B. Goodwin, of Emporia, Va., and Mrs. Mary Cooper, of Franklinton. Soaked For $5.30. Mr. Rl L. Fogleman, of Greensboro Route 2, was a defendant in Municipal court Friday and paid a fine and costs of $5.30 for selling a hog's head in the 1 city that had not been inspected. He was informed by the court that he might sell all the uninspected sau sage and spareribs be saw fit to dis of . but since then the city com- The city commissioners have ruled that hereafter the "ordinance requir ing the inspection of fresh meats of- TH fSi ealo in flMQTi r-vr al-ioli Va enforced, and must apply to all alike. Ko; distinction is to be made between the man: who conduct's a meat mar ket as a regular business and rthe farmer who sells a few pounds,, of sausage, spareribs or other products of his porkers at hog-killing time. Heretofore 'the farmer selling sau sage, spareribs, etc., from hogs of his own raising has hot been required to submit to the inspection law. The action of the commissioners was ' taken in response to a vigorous protest on the part of the meat mar ket men; of the city, who complained that .their v business was being seri ously interfered with by the sale of uninspected meat. It was pointed out that a number of men are engaged in the business of buying hogs and cat ue ana selling tne products in Greensboro in disregard of the law taxing meat dealers and requiring the inspection of meat offered for sale. The market men claim that they should be protected against this un fair competition on the part of men who pay no rents, license .taxes, in spection fees or other expenses of doing business, but wha peddle meat indiscriminately throughout the city. While the inspection law is to be enforced more rigidly in the future, the farmer . who wishes to sell fresh meat of his own raising will not be required to submit the whole carcass of the dead animal for inspection. It is stated that it will be sufficient for j him to bring the liver and lungs of the hog or other animal he has killed to the city inspector. It Is Plains thai? the ! city cominis- sioners-were not seeking the applause of the public when they listened to the protest of the market men and decided upon a strict enforcement of the inspection law. The farmers don't like the law, and the people of the city who enjoy pure pork sausage, spareribs, etc., do ,not regard with favor any regulation that will tend to lessen the supply of these products. The farmer is their sole source of supply when it comes to buying pork sausage, for that is a product that is a stranger to the market man. The market man may know how to make pork sausage, but if so, he keeps the formula to himself. He grinds up unsalable scraps of beef and hog meat and palms it off on his customers for pork sausage. Hence it is not strange that the sympathy of the consumer in Greens boro is with the farmer and against the market man in this affair. Rev. C. E. M. Raper Died Yesterday. Rev. C. E. M. Raper, a well-known minister of the Methodist Protestant church, died at a sanitarium in this city yesterday morning, ioiiowmg a long illness. He was 55 years old and a native of Davidson county. He is survived by his widow, -one son, George R. Raper, of Winston-Salem; two daughters, Mrs. J. B. York, of Ramseur, and Miss Treva Raper, of this city, and a sister, Mrs. W J. Os- born, of this city. The funeral and interment took place this afternoon at Hickory Grove church, the services being conducted by Rev. R. M. Andrews, of this city, and Rev; A. G. Dixon, of High Point Mr. Raper had been a member of the North Carolina Methodist Prot- estate Conference for 32 years and had served pastoral charges in vari ous parts of the state, his last work having been at Shelby. On account of the condition of his health, he was not given an appointment at the sqs sion of the conference held in this city a few weeks ago. Death of G. S. Bradsliawi Jr. Mr. G. S. Bradshaw, Jr:, the second son of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Bradshaw died early, this morning in a Rich mond. Va.. hosnitai, where he had been for -a few ,days for treatment Arrangements for the funeral have not been made, but it will probably be held tomorrow from the home of the bereaved parents, on - Church street. ; For some time Mr. Bradshaw had jnade his hpme in FayetfiBville, where Me was engaged in . ttiejiiotel business with his brother-in-law; Mr. Rosemond. Jt was not gener- The long-expected storm in Con gress over the administration's con duct of the defense of - American rights on the seas broke in Congress Friday, when Senator Hoke Smithy Democrat, demanded an investigation of 'Great Britain's interferences "with mitral trade and Senator Lodge, Re- wv 1 publican, replied with a demand that an investigation include vhe loss of American lives. v 4JThe body of an innocent child, floating dead on the water, the vic tim of , destruction of un unarmed vessel, is to me a more poignant and a more tragic spectacle than an un sold bale of cotton," declared the Massachusetts senator. To Senator Smith's resolution for an investigation of trade interferences Senator Lodge, who is the ranking minority member of the foreign re lations committee, offered an amend ment for investigation of the law and the facts.inthe submarine attacks on the Lusitania, Falaba, Hesperian, Arabic, Gulflight and Ancona and of the plots and conspiracies against the neutrality of k the United States to which President Wilson referred in vigorous terms in hi3 address to Congress Tuesday. Both resolutions were referred, to the foreign relations committee. Their introduction has served to brin out the first debate of the ses sion on a subject to which all minds had turned. Senators on both sides of - the chamber were drawn into the discus sion, which was precipitated by a vigorous speech by Senator Smith in support of his resolution. I wish to extend the scope of the resolution by my amendment," said Senator Lddge as the Georgia sena- tor ' concluded; ''because t if we v are J to take up this question of the vio ations of our rights, I want to put it not on the lowest ground alone but on the highest ground as well. I think it is of great importance that we should vindicate our rights as a neutral in trade if those rights have been violated, but I think it is far more important- that we should .ex tend protection and assure security to American citizens, for I don t be lieve that any government can long retain the respect of its own people if it does not give them the protec tion to which they are entitled. "Although I am as anxious as any one can be to care for our rights in trade if they are violated, to me American lives are more important tVion Amorioon Hnllnrs Tf thia in vestigation is to go on, and especially if Congress is to take action, I want it to take in all the volations of our rights that may have occurred. The most important is the violation which has affected American lives or the, security of an American citizen man, woman or child and the next most important ae those pointed out by the president of the United States in his message the other day wheh he referred to the destruction of property, accompanied by destruction of life in the United States, and stat ed that conspiracies in alien interests are going on within our own borders. "I am not willing to get into a passion over an infringement of our trade and then allow American citi zens to lose their lives and have it go by in frigid silence. I think the United States stands , for something high er in the world than mere trade and mere dollars. I don't want to see our citizens wronged in their properties. but I think we should also stand, and above all, for morality and humanity in the dealings of nations with each other," Senator Works, of California, ask ed Senator Lodge if his amendment was comprehensive enough to include investigation of parts played by citi zens of the United States in sending ammuniton on ships which had been! attacked or destroyed. He was as- snred tha it wsa meant to include inquiry into all angles of the general subject of the belligerent interfer- ence with American ships. Senator Hoke Smith, replying, to Senator Lodge, intimated that there, had been an effort made to bury all objections to interference with Amer- ican shipping by "sentimental prd- testations of horror at losses of life; and that some of this effort, at least had been influenced by profits from Tne Angio-Tencn rorces nave commenced a - general retirement from southern Serbia and it- is sug- gested thau their destination is the region of sklonlki. - This retirement was necessitated not only by the superior fqrees - of Bulgarians and (Termans. bht to "a threat of an out- I . . : , flanking noyement from Petrovo, where the Bulgarians have arrived, ahd also tor dinger to their line of t . - t -1 communication from Bulgarian ir- regulars wfio had crossed the Greek frontier, j ; ' " Both thj British and the French Sty . forces, whoare Well supplied with ar tillery and .machine guns, engaged in a four days battle in -which., they In- flicted heavy losses on the" Bulga- rians, who fought with desperation and the greatest courage. Attack af ter attack . Was repulsed j but the Bul garians stiG came on and each even ing the, allies fell back to new posi tions wher$ events of th? day before were repealed. " The question now rises whether the Bulgarians and Germans will" follow the allies across the Greek frontier1 1 and what attitude the Greek govern- I ment will -adopt. King Constantino j has promisedt tb use his army to pro- I tect the retiring force if they under take to re-embark and has shown his good faithi by preventing Bulgarian raiding bands from destroying the allies' communications, but it is doubtful whether the allies will agree to evacuate Saloniki, which under the guns of their ships wouid provide a good defensive position a'nd a base from which other operations could be undertaken. It is 01 this point that negotiations between Greece and the entente allies is now proceeding. While retiring: from southern Ser bia .the !Urceshayeeenglven effective assistance by the Montene- grins and Serbians who fled into Al bania. This is shown in the resist ance which both the Serbs and the Montenegrins are offering invaders. The Montenegrins have been fighting a series of rear guard actions and de livering counter-attacks which the Austrians admit seriously delayed their advance. The Austrians are now attempting a new advance from the region of Berani, west of Ipek. The Serbians, who are now receiv ing supplies from the Adriatic coast, are still showing activity. The Ital ians also have reinforced the garrison at Vlona (Avlona), from which place they are sending relief to the Ser- bians coming from Ochnda lake dis- iriCl. There is no further news from Mesopotamia, where, according to last accounts, the Turks were attacking Kut El Amara and had actually reached a point on the river below that town, but the success of the Rus sians in dispersing a band of Prussian rebels under German and Turkish of ficers at Sultan Bulak pass on the road to Hamadan, it is believed will ease the situation in that part of the world. " Much activity is reported on the Gallipoli peninsula, where it is re ported fresh German artillery' is ar riving, and on the Isonzo front, wht.re the Italians have gained more ground in the direction of Gorixia. Along other fronts no important changes have occurred. Condemned Men Carried to Raleigh. Ed. Walker and Jeff Dorsett, col ored, the condemned murderers of Mr. John Swaim, of Pleasant Garden, who are to be electrocuted in the state penitentiary on Friday, Janu ary 21, were carried to Raleigh Sat- urday by Sheriff Stafford and Deputy Sheriff Highfill and delivered to the authorities of the state ' prison. Neither Walker nor Dorsett appeared to be greatly concerned when inform ed that the date of their execution had been fixed, and they left Greens- boro stoutly maintaining their inno- cence. It is not probable that any further effort will be made to save l tneir lives. Britain for interfering, with neutral trade" said the Georgia senator, 4have been persons, who, to say the least, have not lost anything in their traded" Senator Walsh, of Montana, de- dared that seizures of American cop I per had ceaseel only because Ameri-: Diplomatic relations with Austria 1 are in grave danger of being broken off over the sinking of the" Italian liner Ancona with the loss of Ameri- canMives. All oftciala in Washington continue to preserve silence over the negotiations .with Austria, but thrniih th -voil which has Wn r drawn about the situation is seen a crisis just as grave as that which at- tended the submarine negotiations with Germany. ' The question of continuing dip lomatic relations ' may be said to depend upon a satisfactory reply to Secretary Lansing's note, which now probably is before the Vienna foreign office, demanding a disavowal of the sinking of the Ancona, reparation for the lives lost and assurances that pas- senger ships shall not be attacked without warning or an opportunity for non-combatants to take to places of safety. Officials of the state department will not discuss the American note even so far as to say if. they know wnetner u nas reacned Vienna or when they expect to permit pub It is lication of i in this country. taken for granted, however, that the communication cabled last Tuesday must have been delivered before this and a reply is anxiously awaited. A further complication developed when it was disclosed that' an Austrian submarine which shelled the' American Standard Oil tank ship Petrolite, in the Mediterranean last week, sent a boarding party and took part of the ship's provisions. This news came in a consular dispatch from Algiers. ; There probably will be no action by the state department until more . complete' reports are received', show- S the exact circumstances under f which nhe' vessel was attack If the tanker was shelled while trying! to escape in disregard of warning no complaint could be made. When she did stop and submit to search, how ever, the submarine commander, on finding her a neutral ship bound on legitimate business, had no. right to seize her property. Warships in need of food often have held up merchantmen without regard to nationaltiy and taken what they wanted, giving receipts to as sure ultimate payment for what was taken. Under such circumstances it is said, the governments ' concerned have not been inclined to regard the proceeding as a very serious breach of their rights, provided a merchant man was not left without sufficient supplies to make port. GUILFORD LEADS STATE IN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY. Areport just issued from the of fice of the secretary op state in Ral eigh shows that Guilford leads all the counties of North Carolina in the number ou automobiles owned, the amount of taxes paid on the machines and the number of automobile deal- era. The figures show that there are 1,280 automobiles in this county re- turned for taxation; that the license taxes paid to the state and county amount to $7,397, and that there are 15 automobile dealers in the county. Mecklenburg county comes second with 1,105 automobiles and $6,745.50 in, taxes. Guilford leads Mecklen- burg by $651.50 in the amount of taxes paid and 175 in the number of. machines. Last year Guilford was only $10 ahead of Mecklenburg in the amount of taxes paid. Guilford also leads in the number of motorcycles, there being 85 of these death-courting machines re- turned ror taxation in the county as against 74 in Mecklenburg. According to the figures, about one person out of every 500 inhabitants in Guilford county including men, women nad children, both white and J colered awns an automobile. Bryan Cited For Contempt of Court, wew xoric, uec. ix. wuuam jen- nings Bryan, in an order signed by Supreme Court -Justice Whitaker to day, was declared in default for fail ure to answer a summons to appear as a witness in the suit ; for alleged libel -brought'' by ,PetrosT. . Tatanis against D. J.' Vlasto. and, SJ; Vlastd. The court sJso Issued an order re quiring Mr. : Bryan to , showcause Honeweli. Vr tW q itm rr. re room town of 25.000 people,, grown . up since last summer with the great new guncotton plant of the Dupomt Potirder .Company', was' completely destroyed by a fire which started tii- day in a restaurant and did property Mmii,. t.. " .-JT ubiumq 'conuiaicu 01 t.ruu-i vine vu three .million,-dollars. y The Dupont. works, outside of the settlement, was undamaged. Villages A and B near Hopewell, built to house the , famiUea of married employes of the factory, also escaped. Scenes of v wild disorder accompan ied the fire and citizens lynched a negro for looting. There was no' loss of life otherwise and only a few mi-. nor injuries were reported. Martial law was proclaimed to night with; the arrival of six. militia companies, rushed . from Richmond by order of Governor Stuart: The thousands of. homeless men, women and children had .been sent to Peters burg and Richmond, but many men remained' to guard - what littlepfvp erty they had been able to save. - . . The 5 fire' was said to have been caused by the overturning of an oil' stove, though there were TOmors iL.i t. 1 3 1 2 J!. - inv.. rumors first were given credence in many quarters, because of "the arreit last night at the gun cotton factory of a man whom, factory officials said had attempted to putv a charge of' nitroglycerin in one of the beater houses and had been under surveil ance for several days. The fife-raged from 1.45 P. M:, un til nearly 9 P. M. Available fire lighting apparatus was utterly inade quate to cope with the situation, the flames eating their -way through the flimsy frame. ' structures. -quickly tthrawit upljduring tE.irJQaySf the town last summer,- lika .aomu.ch tinder. Several times sparks set ' .Ire to' .mule sheds of the explosive factory, but the flames which followel were? quickly extinquished. Hopewell policemen, assisted by a special force of the powder com pany, held the situation well in hand until the troops arrived. There was' the greatest . confusion and bewilder ment, but few attempts at looting. Many of those who hai personal belongings and household goods re moved them. to places of saretv.' Sur rounding the community which lay in w ashes early tonight could oe -"seen-men, women and children seated Up on such belongings a they had been able to save. It vas not unusual to see men standing near by with freely displayed revolvers to rotect them selves against robbery. -As soon as it was realized that the place was doomed, the police, assisted by experts from the powder plant, be gan dynamiting buildings. Fanned by a 20-mile-an-hour northeast wind, the flames swept over Hopewell at a rapid rate and burned themselves out: when they reached a lumber yard situated at the intersection of Woodland avenue, and the tracks of . the Norfolk Western Railway, Not a building n the town proper wa3 ieft standing, the two banks, the Hopewell State and the Farmers, and Mechanics, were destroyed. However, the officers managed t ail th Air cash and securities on hand and re moved them to, Petexsbiirg. . Meat and Milk Inspection. The renort of Dr. W. A. Hornadav. 1 tne citv.miUr and meat inspector, for the past month 8hows -. following items: BeeTes inspetedl34; hogs. 188; veal, 94; sheep 52;; dairy, per mits granted, 8; visits to dairies, 41; cows tested for rtubelrculosis; 1 3 8 ; . cows condemned for tuberculosis, 18; bacterial tests' for milk; made,: 16 ; samples of -. water collected ;ond sent for analysis. 11. The inspector condemned 320 pounds of meat as un- " :-; Cletrane-Farrington.: Mr. Kyle Coletrane and Miss Mae Frfihrtn'' ' I 'were married Thursday night at th.6 . J borne j o4& -'i'Jij I Greexisboro RoUte '1? the reaonjr I bein& W tnd ' I relatires of the young, couple. - Mr. 1 1 . -1 ,.4. , f - f - A v ..-. .- -"ooiuuerB-nave riea thai these proH aucts also must come under the in spection law.