North Carolina Newspapers

''."V" s 1' ,r - V - V'.' M 1 . i ; ; jhlh'.'tv PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY S rgTABLISHED 1821 GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1916. VOL. 5 NO. 73 ''':- . i-V.-v "'. s..,,!.' . J i Patriot . - - THAT CONGRESS ACT v-irT INSISTS OX LEGISLA- -tox to prkvext impend. 1 .N(i HA1LWAY STRIKE. yav.in?:c:i. Aug. 2 9. President T a:-- ihe stril: ri'.'.n: the rail'.va strike sit- licore Congress today with -, vnr-nilrrtion's fcr legislation, ad-,-,c. crisis to a stage where ryelcrments depend upon iiioy arc. ta2 legislation he rpo- v-;il ir be effective to .;:.: already called for those Questions can be ; "in. Tiie brotherhood announcing their : certain portions of ': rrogr.Mii, are at log-:- v.etlier its enactment tr.? rtrlie. riv.'fiv rrssidents, favorable n president Wilson's plan in the would make it diffi- o tn hpsi"in ATp.nn- -v---ie aliliough negotiations be - --) 'ie enirlovers and men were brokea off today by the rejection of t railway presidents' latest pro p -.ill for arbitration, President Wil i:c is coniinuing his efforts to bring t f.o sides together on some form c: a'.:t?:i:cnt. Efforts which might v.tii be described as almost super i.uEa.1 are being exerted to that end V:.:r. the brotherhood Readers this aD:::i::g rejerteu the latest proposal cf railroads and definitely set the :r:ke for Labor Daj without fur ti.er notice. President Wilson decided to hy ti-c v-ho!e situation before Cor.?it-:i. Before a joint session of i:ou:r ar.d senate and with a sol b?L rec-Itn! ef the distress and dis aster a strike '.vould bring" to the ccur.iy lie proposed a plan of legis lator.. This is the president's pro in his ov.-n language: First: Immediate provision for tiie enlargement and administrative reorganization of the interstate commerce commission along the ihie c-mbodier: in the bill recently tlxe house and now await by the senate; in order jmmision may be enabled :h the rnny great and va- lutics vow devolving upon it pronptn'ss and a thorough ate with its present con :? ?l ' i.'.e tins of action prac- NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS CONSIDER HIOH PRICES. u;a. I .oil Jtl: 'Xt-; ,ii: t; de. e establishment of an the legal basis alike an.-, of wages in the employ 1 a-- railway employes who ally engaged in the work of trains iu interstate trans- The members of the executive committee of the North Carolina Press Association and several other newspaper men of the state held a meeting in Greensboro Tuesday af ternoon to consider the serious situa tionthat has arisen over the exorbitant-prices being charged for news print paper, the cost of which has reached a point that exceeds all bounds of reason. The meeting' was presided over by Mr. Edward E. Brit ton, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and president of the North Carolina Press Association. After a conference lasting several hours, the newspaper men adopted a resolution pledging their support to an amendment to the revenue bilj, now before the United States senate that would remove the tariff from all paper selling for less than five cents a pound. They also gave their en dorsement to a bill that has been in troduced in Congress to place an em bargo on the, exportation of news print paper and to admit to this country free of "duty all raw mate rials used in the manufacture of pa per. The enactment of this legislation? it is believed, would serve to check the rapacity of the trust that has placed an almost unbearable burden upon the newspaper publishers of the country. The meeting also adopted a reso lution pledging encouragement and support to the establishment of paper mills in North Carolina. Another resolution called on the newspapers of the state to economize in every way possible in the use of paper by cutting off all "deadhead" and de linquent subscribers, to place the business on a strictly cash basis, and to raise subscription and advertising rates wherever it is possible to do so. During the discussion it was free ly asserted that investigation has shown that the present unreasonably high cost of papef is not on actjount of an alleged shortage of raw mate rial that has been set up as an ex cuse, but is due solely to a conspir acy on the part of manufacturers, wholesale dealers and jobbers to hold up and rob the publishers. ROMANIA ENTERS THE WAR i FOURTEENTH NATION TO ENTER THE CONFLICT. CASTS HER LOT WITH ALLIES. v.l 1 . Ml? : t of authorization of the tiie president of a en to observe the ac- tu exnoripnrp nf tlio - :i ot the eight-hour day in y transportation alike for the r'-d for the railroads; its effects 5 :latter of operating costs, in Pl'cation of the existing prac 3M agreements to the new con u: ali ether practical as- e provision that -the in-'d- report their con e Congress at the ear - 'whcmt recommenda- U.l hjrs Canning Club Girls on Outing. A number of the Guilford county canning club girls, accompanied by several teachers and the director of home economics in the county, left yesterday for Mebane to spend sev eral day's at a house party on Mr. J. E. Latham's farm, near that place. Included in the merry party were: Miss Gertrude Bundy, Miss Rosa Johnson, Miss Frances Brown, Miss Edith Reynolds, Miss Ruth Hodgin, Miss' Pauline Hodgin, Miss Mary Alice May, Miss Margaret Hunter, Miss Bessie Hunter, Miss Zelian Hunter and their guest, Miss Nell Fulton, Miss Roggie Wall, Miss Ber nard Hawkins, Miss Grace Hawkins, Miss Jannie Hawkins, Miss Edith Hollowell, Miss Mazie Kirkpatrick, Miss Ida Millis, Miss Vera Millsapps, Miss Clara Johnson, Miss Ola Steph enson, the new agent of home eco nomics in the county, and Mrs. Pat ton. of this city. .1 -, state Cay v.,. tve action; in cr- ;i.e may learn from ource just what ac have ensued. "I'l" 'J v ai u.v LUC consideration of the commerce committor, "-i'tht rates to meet I'. expenditures by the ,a " iave been rendered o tlr latin Of ti-.P oirrli 1i t. .isui-i:jui -ave not been offset readjustments and usf'-V,3 :;ould the facts disclosed '' ill P i n r p:,Vi- '"-t-ase. ht;i';' An amendment of the ex t t,a " Ratine which provides srbhr,.; ai'up- conciliation and ... -"'i 01 'en; ;ch controversies as J-V addinir to it a pro- t.ie meuioas or provided for now "'MilO'l ''On-.- , ., t-onof'u.- a fun Public investiga! Pu-, merits; r.f , I e s all v c,er) sucn ais- VuJ :nstituted and com-1 !auiu-l a Strike or iockout may Sivi;. attemptec5. l. lae lodgment in the 'S Of . ln ca- ot -f- CUtlve of the Pwer' COntr of , ,!tary necessity to take ToIling ,t0 eh Portions and such C0Untry t the railwayS of the j ue required for mil- (Conti aed on page Two.) El Paso Mexican Executed. El Paso, Tex., Aug. 29. Jose Vic tor Castillo, 25 years old, for two years a resident of El Paso, was exe cuted by order of Gen. Francisco Gonzales in the graveyard of Juarez yesterday morning. Castillo was one of the rebels un der Gen. Manuel Ochoa, a former Villista chief, who crossed the river at Fabens, Tex., last week in the ef fort to start a revolution against the Carranzista government. Ochoa's band encountered a small force of Mexican customs officers, who captured four of the rebels. Two of them, including Ochoa, broke away from their captors and made their escape. - Another was shot on the spot. Castillo, the remaining prisoner, was brought to Juarez last night and sentenced to death. The young rebel contemptuously brushed " aside the handkerchief which the officer "of the execution squad attempted to tie over his eyes and faced the firing squad smoking a cigarette. "Castillo confessed to me that he and Ochoa Were aided by the leaders of the Legalista movement," said General Gonzales after the execution. "A number of papers were found in the saddle bag of one of Ochoa's men that further incriminates the former general and nis followers. ( " Rumania has thrown in her lot with the entente allies by declaring war on Austria-Hungary and almost simultaneously Germany has an nounced that she is at war with Ru mania. Already the troops of King Ferdi nand are seeking entry into the plains of Transylvania through the Eastern Carpathians toward Krons tadt, the chief city in Transylvania, and in the' direction of Hermann stadt, evidently in an endeavor to press northward through Transylva nia toward Bukowina and Galicia borders and to take in the rear the Austro-Germans trying' to-hold back the Russians from entering the plains of Hungary. Nothing has come through to in dicate what preparation has been made by the Bulgarians to offset a probable attack by the Rumanians along the Danube front or a possi ble attempt by the Russians at inva sion by means of the Danube and through Dobruja or by the Black sea. It is estimated that Rumania will be able to throw nearly a million men into the field. The entry of Rumania was hailed with expressions of satisfaction at the allied embassies where officials made predictions of important devel opments in the Balkans within the next six weeks, affecting Bulgaria continuance with the Teutonic allies. Rumania becomes the fourteenth nation to join in the war. Her in tervention either on the side of the entente allies or the central powers has been awaited with symptoms of concern by both since the beginning of the great conflict. This is due not entirely to Rumania's military strength but also to the strategic ad vantages of her geographical posi tion and the fact that her entry into the struggle opens to the Russian army" a gateway through to Rumania to attack the Bulgarians from the north while the allied army, having its base at Saloniki attacks them and their German allies from the south. On the other hand Austria has been accumulating military forces at Or sova prepared to attempt to force the "iron gates" where the Danube river touches the western Rumanian border. Bulgaria is said to have sta tioned 100,000 or more troops along the southern bank of the Danube to protect her northern frontier from a Rumanian invasion. Apprehension in Germany that Rumania intends to permit a Rus sian army to march through her ter ritory to attack the Bulgarians has been apparent for some time. Mili tary authorities in Budapest assert that the chief factor for the consider ation of the central powers is not the half a million or more men of the Rumanian army, but the oppor THOpSAp WIL BE IDLE RAIIiROAD STRIKE WOULD DE 3IORALIZE BUSINESS, AND SUFFERING RESULT. New York, Aug. 30. Representa tives ,'of New York city and its va rious industries were making fever ish efforts tonight to prevent a com plete jparalysis of traffic in the event of thsj threatened nation-wide rail road Btrike. Millions of persons, it was estimated, may be thrown' out of work almost immediately if ' the strike becomes a reality. With the tying up of the railroads, steamship service cut of 'New York and other American ports, particu larly freight traffic, virtually would be at a 'standstill, it was admitted!' representatives of steamship lines. It was regarded as doubtful whether European freight traffic would be able 'to continue any length of time. Coastwise shipping lines announced that as a result of the railroad freight embargo, they will be unable to accept freight except for terminals and points which can be reached by water. Official notices to this effect will be issued tomorrow. Embargoes declared by the various roads already are having ax serious effect 0n commerce, U was said. One of the 'most serious problems the steamship lines are facing is a pos sible shortage of bunker coal.- Ship j agents say that the reserve supply in New York and vicinity is no't suffi cient to carry the demand over any long period, the supply companies depending in the main on daily ship ments by rail from the mines. While there has been accumulated in many of the terminals here suf ficient cargo to load ships' how in port, vessels on their way here un doubtedly will face an immediate shortage of cargo. The loss to man ufacturers, shipowners, charterers and labor, it was said, would be tre-; mendous. v. ' - Thousands of manufacturing.coj cerns throughout the country, which have been supplying the warring na tions abroad, with foodstuffs, cloth ing, munitions and other articles, probably will be forced to suspend work, it was said. Shipments of grain which are now beginning and for which many ves sels have contracted cargo space, vir tually would be stopped. The loss to the farming communities in all parts or uie united States, it was said, j might bring about unprecedented ! conditions. LARGE CROWDS ATTEND FARMERS' CONVENTION. Southern" Roads Place Embargo on Freight. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 30. Movement of perishable freight will stop at midnight Saturday on virtually all railroads throughout the South in anticipation of the general strike called for Monday. Most of the Southern roads issued embargoes today directing that no tunity offered for a new Russian in- j shipments which would deteriorate if vasion of Hungary. Rumanian sym pathizers in Transylvania have been sent to other sections and the Ru manian priests and churches there have been kept under military super- delayed en route should be accepted for destinations that would not be reached before Sunday. In some cases the ban was extended . to in clude explosives, and some roads Teacher Resigns. Miss Janet Mc Kenzie, who has been supervisor of primary work in the' city schools for several years, has resigned to accept a similar position in the schools of Greenville, S. G. Shu will be suc ceeded by Miss Florence Pannill, who has been a member of the teach ing force of the Greensboro schools for some time. Messrs. Clifford and Robert Fra zier have returned from an automo bile trip to : the mountains; NEGRO STABS AND THEN ROBS WILSON COUNTY MAN. vision. The Transylvania-Rumania made the embargo immediately ef frontier defense have been strength- j fective. The several lines which had ened by Austria as a precaution i not issued embargo orders tonight against Rumanian invasion. j were preparing to do so tomorrow. Powerful influences on the part of I X ? . 1 J 1 . 1 ,1 most OI llie central powers ana rne entente allies have been exerted at Bucharest to influence her decision in the war for the last two years. Recently reports from the Rumanian capital have stated tnat Rumania awaited only the beginning of the Anglo-French offensive in Macedo nia before thrownig her fortunes with these of the entente allies. An other reascrn for delajr in her decision, it is said has been lack of ammuni tion, which now has been relieved by large supplies coming from Japan by the way of Vladivostok, according to recent reports. Raleigh, Aug.'29. Traveling by automobile and on trains, great num bers of farmers and their wives and ! daughters, representing every sec tion of the state arrived in Raleigh last night', and today for the four teenth annual state farmers' conven tion at the A. & 1,1. College, an an nual gathering designed especially for practical study and demonstra tion of farm and farm home methods and exchange of ideas as to farm management. Rainy conditions are making seme inroads on attendance, but it is the best on record in spite of the rains and the folks are still arriving, the convention, to continue until Friday. The convention opened this morn ing at 10.80 o'clock with President Roger A. Deijfry, presiding, and T. E. Browne as secretary. The farmers were-welcomed by President W. C. Ridick, of the college, and W. A. Graham, commissioner of agriculture, andthey quickly got down to. the actual work of the convention, hear ing first the annual address of Pres ident Derby. He commended the steady progress that is being made by the farmers of the state and indicated something of the advantages in lectures by experts and demonstrations on the college and experiment station farms that are in store for the -members of the convention, appealing that advantage be taken of every opportunity for improving methods of management by the individual farmers. He congratulated the wives and daughters of the farmers on the op portunities they will have in the daily sessions of the convention of farm women, , with the demonstra tions on household management by experts in the state and from a dis tance. ' V ' ' - r :J : - . - ' -' " ' f ' . : ' .: '- . . , The. convention heard with great profit addresses onfthe mqsi -'practical, subjects c-deen -yplowing, manage--tnent-ofcover crops; corn club -work; methods of fertilization, community seed production by such men as A. L. French, W. F. Pate", W. B. Kilgore,, O. F. Hudson, T. B. Jenkins, E. D. Weaver, Dr. R. Y. Winters, R. W. Collett and others, these being 10 minute talks. The farm women heard Mrs. Kate Brewer Vaughn, of Tennessee; Mrs. Mahle, of Richmond, and others on phases of household work. The daily programs abound in practical demonstrations. THE CRUISER MEMPHIS SINKS TWENTY LIVES LOST AND A NUMBER INJURED. VESSEL A COMPLETE LOSS. PRESIDENT WILSON SIGNS FOUR BIG MEASURES. Wilson, Aug. 2 9. Monday morn ing Bose Smith, after-selling a load of tobacco and cashing his check, hired a negro, Tobe Artis, to work on his farm. He started for his home j in Black Creek township and when j about six miles from Wilson found j that a bridge on his route had been j washed away by the heavy rain early in the morning. He detoured and while in a heavy wood Artis knocked him from his seat on the wagon and plunged a knife in several places in his body. He then robbed his victim and left with the team and up to this writing has not been seen. A posse, with dogs is on his trail. Mr. Smith's condition is critical. ' Washington, Aug. 29. President Wilson today signed the army, navy, Philippine and bill of ladings bills. The ceremony was featured by the presence of nearly a hundred people, including Secretary of War Baker, members of the committees who handled the different bills in the house and senate, prominent Fili pinos and others. "I think the whole country will feel," the president said after signing the army appropriation bill, "that this congress has done a great serv ice in the cause of national defense. This bill, which provides appropria tions for the army and does not deal with the reorganization plan, shows that the nation's finances are behind the defense movement. The navy bill is a remarkable ae. Never be fore has -so much been done to de velop this branch of the service. The Philippine bill excitt-s peculiar feeling in me because there have been times when the people of the islands have doubted our spirit towards them. This provides for a genuine and broader self-government, content ment and political capacity. It is high time this country admitted this act of justice." Washington, Aug. 30. One en listed man was killed, two officers and five men seriously injured and 67 other men slightly hurt aboard the armored cruiser Memphis in ad dition to those lost by drowning when the ship was wrecked in the storm yesterday at San Domingo city. Roar Admiral Pond's dispatch to day said that a steam main burst causing the additional casualties. Rear Admiaal Pond, at San Do mingo city, cabled the navy depart ment last night that the armored cruiser Memphis, swept upon tiie rocks by a heavy sea in the harbor there, would be a total loss, and al though it was expected all on board would be saved, 20 men returning to the ship from shore leave in a motor boat had been drowned. The admiral"s dispatch follows: "Memphis driven ashore by heavy sea, San Domingo city, west of light house, at 4:30 P. M. She is lying close under bluff, has lines ashore and is getting crew off. Heavy sea came up suddenly and ship was un able to get up steam in time to save herself. Twenty men of liberty par ty drowned on way back to ship. Castine (gunboat) dragged close ln but did not strike and got out to sea. No other casualties known. Memphis will be total loss. Expect to save everybody on board." The United States cruiser Memphis formerly was the armored cruiser Tennessee. Her name was changed May 25 last. Recently she has' been doing duty in San Domingo y,raters in connection with the revolution. The Memphis is of 14,500 tons and has a horsepower of 23,000. Her complement is 900 men. She is the flagship of the cruiser force of-the United Sta'Atlantic fleet. : r ..JThe Memphis v v'as V' launched - " in 1904 at" "Tire Cramp' SliipbuUding" Company plant in Philadelphia. She had a sped of over 2.2 knots an hour. She is armed with four 10 -inch guns and carried four torpedo tubes. She was 502 feet long on the water line, 75 feet beam and had a maximum draft of 2 6 1-2 feet. MOB SEEKS THE LIFE OF A YOUNG NEGRO. Married in Texas. Mr. J. A. High smith, formerly principal of the Po mona graded school, and who is to be prncipal of the practice school at the State Normal and industrial College during the coming year, was married a few days ago in Mexia, Tex., to Miss Ernestine Alderman. Mr. and Mrs. Hig&smitli are expected to ar riTe in Greensboro next week. : v V Eastern Star Meeting. Many members of the order are here to at tend a district meeting of the Order of the Eastern Star this afternoon and tonight. The district embraces the chapters in Greensboro, Winston Salem, Mt. Airy, Pilot Mountain, Lex ngton, Spencer, High Point and Bur lington. The sessions will be held in the Masonic hall at 3 o'clock this afternoon and 7.30 this evening. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Wright and children have returned from an auto mobile trip to Morehead City. Mrs. J. A. Gilmer, who accompanied them to the coast, remained tb visit her son, Lieut. Col. E. L. Gilmer, of the United. States army, who is stationed with the troops at Camp Glenn; . I ' Rocky Mount, Aug. 29. Prompt action by the authorities and a speedy removal of Larry Hooks, a young negro from Nashville jail , at an early hour Sunday afternoon to Louisburg and thence to Raleigh later, probably averted serious trou ble, for the negro was being sought by a mob and posse of several hun dred citizens for the serious crime of murderous assault on Clarence T. Short and for entering his home and making himself objectionable to Mr. Short's wife and mother. Mr. Short, who is a prosperous planter of the Nashville section, had trouble with Hooks at a tobacco barn about 2 o'clock Sunday morning and the ne gro went on off, but a short time later went to Mr. Short's house and demanded entrance on a plea that he wanted his account aroused Mrs. Short and her mother and he was talking very boisterously and disre spectful when Mr. Short arrived. A fight followed the negro's declining to leave the house when told to do so by Mr. Short and the negro brought a knife into play, giving Mr. Short a number of stabs about the body, two entering his lungs. The injured man was brought to the Rocky Mount sanatorium and a rep or: of his con dition today indicates that it is ex treme. Followng the altercation the negro fled and was making his way towards Wilson county when bloodhounds were placed on his trail and he wa3 found within a few miles of the city of Wilson. He was returned to Nash ville about the noon hour yesterday and by that time a great number of citizens from the vicinity in which the trouble . had occurred had gath ered about the jail and it was thought best to remove him to the Franklin county jail. This was done, but developments during the after noon, as the report of the injured man's condition was received, indi cated that it was advisable that the , prisoner be removed to Raleigh and this was done. Mr. Charles A. Hines spent, yes terday in Charlotte on legal busi ness. 1 ''''' '!: mi:. ''S'-ri :; 'Ml. 'f- -V s " t V .v V ' h' '-,:,! '.' 'L. . I h :V ,!'! .1 ''A. ' 1 . ' 'l - i y .:.-:r -, . : v. ,' ' ' ' , ',"'V,'-" . ' '( -r; ' 'I' it-