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Vnf'tt THE WEATHER ti ToniRht and Sunday TWIN FULL LEASE CITY S ENTINEX IRTV-KIFTII YEAR E SERVICE; OF T IT E A S3 OCIATED PRESS GETTING ANSWERS FROM WANT ADS. IS A CERTAINTY WHEN -THEY' ARE PLACED IN THE SENTINEL. : I : WINSTON-SALEM, nT.C. SATURDAY EVENING, SeViXMBER )1917 CITY EDITION. TWENTY PAGES TWO SECTIONS Skilled, 24 injured AS A RESULT OF BIG FRANKFORD BLAST Explosion at Arsenal Believed Due to Workman s Carelessness, As There Is Nothing to Indicate Outside Agency Two Young Women Among Hurt Official investigation of EXPLOSION IS BEING MADE Destruction of Nearby Buildings Pre vented by Quick Action of Arsenal Em ployes and City Firemen Maryland Troops Ordered to Scene of Blast GERMANY FACING SERIOUS PROBLEM OF FOOD ID FU EL Difficulties With the Winter Supply of Fuel Are Already Being Felt (Py Aaaor.la.tai1 Praaa) Philadelphia. Sopt. 8. Three persons are reported dead, one is p and 23 others are in hospitals, more or less seriously injured. he result of an explosion at the Frankford arsenal this morning. $Z.ouu nequesiea ror iwpairs Wa.-hinptm, Sept. p. o cause lor tne explosion at the r rank- arsenal today is assigned in otticial reports received by Gen Cto7ot. chief of ordnance. They merely state that a primer a detonator dry house blew up, resulting in four other scattered Moris. Twenty-live hundred dollars was requested lor mak- immediate repairs. t Thought ta B Acciami. :!d;ph!i. Sept. Tbre work rs non to have been killed wmiy thrne persons badly Injur- n n p!ilon at th Frankford al esrly today. cording to workers, the explosion accidental, there being nothing dicate that it was caused by an de agfacy- Two of the injurea nung womsn Jor Montgomery, commandant bit aldi are investigating th ex m and decline to make any state until they have completed their ry. C irelessneh of workmen It believed, was the cause of the ent. explosion occurred In one of the malj 'buildings known as do ing dry rooms, where the primer (or three and six-inch shells and arms cartridges are dried. The ng in question has its walls with ciiideis and every pre- n waa taken to prevent accl- Save Nearby Buildings. fellow ed the explosion and 1 to several other small build nown a the artillery assembly In these there were three and shells, but prompt work of al employe and city firemen the buildings and their con from destruction. eteen of the injured were treat nearby hospital. One is ex 1 to die. Later all hut flv nf jured were able to go to their one or those hurt was able a coherent account of what ned. tant troops are auardint the i ana no one was permitted to me government reservation. Second Fatal Blast. ''8 explosion was the second 'me to occur within the past five wo mm were killed bv the ng of a shrapnel fuse in the high uunaing last April. investigations were nrirlnr -.m aner today's explosion in imi onioiau, the police and yanicipatea. L DISPOS E OF A!Y BILL TODAY Re Expected to Pass Vir- in Form in Which Reported tBy Asoclat d ashington, Sept 8Admin Jon leaders today arcBHrt f Dds l0T tension of general n tne soldiers' .and Sail 'France bill and AcMA.a f 0 t"7 to pas, n before nevt ' ffte.8? 8-House debate "'I! continue ru r. , " touay wren f.B-. the NeiT nl- Tn measure I"6". t0 Pass in virtual th 8r'JolLNew Jerey. Ken- KOV m MOV El El POTATO PROBLEM NOW THE TOPIC OF THE DAY Constitutional Reform of Sub ordinate in Interest to Econ omic Questions Combine Protest to Reichstag Peace Resolution With Indig nation Over Wilson Reply to Pope Benedicts (By Associated Press) Copenhagen. Sept. 8 A well-de fined movement Is manifesting Itself In Germany combining a protest against the attitude of the reichstag majority in adopting the peace reso lution with expressions of Indignation at the references in President Wil son's reply to Pope Benedict to Inter nal conditions in that country. Bust ness organizations in various parts of Germany show signs of careful nur ture and acceleration of the move ment by some central force which per haps is not far removed from the in terests now controlling the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin, the Win protag onist of the movement. This situation should be considered In connection with the campaign now being made in the conservative press for the overthrow of the relchstag's edcision. How far these newspapers are in earnest in suggesting dissolu tion of the reichstag Is difficult to de termine. They certainly do not desire it until the government will use the election .connection with press prop- ..... aeanda in favor of annexationists conditions in the campaign. The Elbing is the latest commer cial organization to Join those or Hamburg. Luebeck, Bremen and Ber lin in protesting against peace with out annexations and the note of Presi dent Wilson. The municipal author ities of Halle have issued a flaming protest against Mr. Wilson declaring that he insulted the German people gravely and shamefully in his reply to the pope. Only a few newspapers thus far have printed the reports from Washington stating that the Ameri can note did not necessarily mean that tie elimination of the Honenzouerns was regarded as essential to peace. Those which have published them are scarcely pleased. PEORIA NO LONGER WORLD'S WHISKY-MAKING CENTER (By Associated Press) Penrla. 111.. Sept. 8 At eleven o'clock tonight Peoria will cease to be the whisky-making center of the world. Thousands of gallons of liquor will re main in the warehouses here, but its manufacture ends today unaer me food conservation law. Park Ohio 1a i-r, w J8ri,ey. K-en- aaers in th. " vypuBIUun. MAILS WILL BE CL08ED TO DISLOYAL CITIZENS. (By Associated Presa.) Washington, Sept 8. Clos ing the mails to disloyal citizens la under consideration by the poatoffice department and the department of Justice as anoth er step -iln- the government' campaign to wipe, out disloyalty and edltloiv (By Aasorlala 4 Pri) Copenhagen, Sept. . Difficulties with the winter supply of fuel In Ger many already are being felt. The era of voluntary or compulsory selection of the Anient establishments for survival In various branches of trade and Industry already has opened and business will be concentrated in these while others will shut down ex cept those supplying heat and light. Butchers favor keeping their places open late two afternoons a week. otherwUe to close with the sun. The Jewelers plan to keep open only on those days when artificial light Is unnecessary, which during the North German winter are very few. The I city of Stettin already has suspend ed street lighting entirely on account of lack of coal. Potato Problem Uppermost. The German press and public are for the moment more keenly interest ed in the problem of food and fuel than politics. Discussion ot questions of constitutional reform, except for angry orders to President Wilson to keep out of German affairs, has prac tically disappeared from Gorman newspapers since the relchstsg com mittee went home and the problem ot the potato Is now the topic ot the day. Farmers are proclaiming an aban donment of the compulsory adminis tration of the crop and of maximum prices and the return to the system of commercial supply and demand as a sole panacea to Insure, the neces sary supply of human consumption. Urbanites on the contrary, maintain that until the government persists in Its determination to seize all pota toes the profitable pig and steer will get most of them because In no year during tne war has there been such incentive to use potatoes for fodder as in this year of the very unfavor able fodder harvest and humans would get potatoes only at prices Impossible for the poor. Demands Bigger Ration. Vorwaerts demands an Immediate Increase in the potato ration to ten pounds weekly at a reduction In the price and declares that It Is impos sible to work and sustain life on the proposed ration of 5 1-2 pounds ot po tatoes 1,950 grams of bread, 250 grams of meat and eighty grams of fat. Vor waerts points out that this year scan ty harvest of oats and barley will not permit of a supplementary ration of oat meal and grits by which alone the people tided over last spring. ...TRIMS L Italy's Gains Northeast of Trlest Completely Negatived, Says Vienna Statement . TAKEN PRISONER Rome Reports Capture of 30,000 Prisoners Daring the Italian Offensive (Br Aiaarfata Praaa) London, Kept. 8. la the Hannada sector on the front northwest of Triest the Austrian hare captured ground gained by the, Italians th war. office announce. The statement say the Kalians are no longer boast ot having gained a yard of ground. I'p to the present time according to the announcement the Austrlans have taken more than (.000 prisoner In the Hermada region. According to the announrement.tbe Austrlans pushed back the Italians from Monte Sa.n Gabrlelo east of Go riila. The Italians are said to hare fled. 30,000 Mad Captive. Rome. Sept. S. Mora than 30.000 prisoners have been taken during the Italian offensive, the war office announces. Notables ,Cheer New York Troops -u-AMi v-sl I i T COTTON GI TOTALS 605,513 BALES Round Bales Numbered 22,724, And Sea Island Numbered 2,890 Bales - , (By Associated Press) Washington, Sept. 8. Cotton gin ned prior to September 1 amounted to 605,513 bales counting round as half bales, the census bureau today an nounced in Its first ginning report of the season. Round bales included numbered 22,724. Sea Island includ ed were 2.890 bales. This year's ginning compares with 850,668 bales ginned to September 1 last year and 463,883 bales in 1915. Round .bales last year numbered 31,- 335 and in 1915 they were 8,947. Sea Island Included last year was 4,631 bales and in 1915 there were 2,097. G-lnnings by states were; Alabama 18.605; Arkansas 134; Cali fornia 103; Florida 3,111; Louisiana 15,376; Mississippi 5.749; North Caro lina 72; Oklahoma 86; South Carolina 14.778; Tennessee none; Texas 397,- 976. Glnninga of Sea Island by states: Florida 1,708; Georgia 1,181 and South Carolina 1. KAISER VISITS THE RIGA FRONT; AWARDS MEDALS (By Associated Press.) Amsterdam, Sept. 8. Empse. or William ha arrived at Riga Berlin dispatch report. H rsvlewtd th troopa and dis tributed decoration on th battlefield. A troun nf national nntanUa knnwn Ihrnnul lh 1n-)H anil breaitth nf (ha land ravtewad Saw Virk great draft ar-inv parad frrwit a atand in from of lha aw Vorli Pul'ltr Library. l.ft o rth; I'ul. Thanrtnra ttnuaavalt at. ovarnor 'harl Kvana lluiKn, hai-inan ( Ilia diirli t hoar and Adju tant llanerat William U. Hnarrill. nVpyrtM t'ndrrwood I'ndrrwnnd) Coroner's Jury Which Returned Verdict of Self -caused Death To Be Recalled (By Aaaoriatad Traai) Salisbury, N. C. Sept. 6. Hayden Clement, of this city, solicitor for the Fifteenth Judicial district announced today that it was his intention to re open the investigation Into the death near Concord on the evening of Au gust 29 of Mra. Maude A. King, weal thy Chicago woman, and that hi first move probably would be to recall the coroner's Jury which returned a ver dict that Mr. King met death as the result of an accidental pistol wound, self inflicted. A post' mortem exam ination of the body of Mrs. King In Chicago Thursday night led Chicago authorities to believe that she was murdered. The position of the bul let wound In her skull, it was said. Indicated that she could not have fired the shot which ended her life. Mrs. King, accompanied by Gaston (Continued on page Thirteen) Fair Weather Forecast. (By Associated Press) Waahinton, Sept. 8.-JGenerally fair weather with seasonable temperatures preceded by showers Is forecast for the South Atlantic and East Gulf state; tor the week beginning , to FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF PANAMA CANAL TRAFFIC (By Aaaoc'.ated Praas) Panama, Sept 7. Today completes a year In which lfcnaJTic thru the Pan ama Canal waa not stopped by slides. The channel now is in fine shape. The inal was opened for traffic offlclnlly on August 15, 1814. Landslides, particu larly in tho Culebrsc Cut, stopped traf fic in the channel at various times for long or short periods up to Septem ber 7 of last year. On that date the canal was opened after a series of slides which either tied up or hamper ed spriously traffic thru the canal dur ing the preceding six months. PRESIDENT WILSON IS IS TAKING A SHORT REST (By Araoolated Press) New York. Sept. 8. The President and Mr. "Wilson arrived here from Washington early today and after breakfast in their private car motored to the Brooklyn navy yard where they boarded the presidential yacht May flower. -. They will spend the next few days cruising in New York water. The President desired to take a few days rest. He wilt keep in touch with affairs of state by. means of wireless. Commute Sentenc. (By Asaoci&ted PreaaV Amsterdam, Sept. 8. According to a Vienna press dispatch Emperor Charles has commutted to eighteen years penal servitude the death sent ence of Dr. Frlederich Adler for the assassination of Premier Stuergkh at Vienna last October. Swedish Officials Informed Berlin Of Sailing Of Vessels Sweden's Legation In Argentina Aided In Transmitting Information Of Sailings And Directions For Ships' De struction By Submarines i (By Ak ,a'i n l'r) Washington, Sept, 8. How Sweden's legation in Argentina, acting as a necret means of communication between the German charge in Buenos Ayrea and hte Bcriin foreign office, transmitted information of the Bailing of phips and directions for their destruc tion by submarines was revealed today in official dispatches made public by the state department. The following waa issued at the state department: "The secretary of state today made the following statement: "The department of state has secured certain Ktatements from Count Luxberg, German charge d'affairs.at Ruenos Ayres, to the foreign office at Berlin, which, I regret to say, were dispatched from Reunos Ayres by the Swedish legation as their own official messages addressed to the Stockholm foreign office. , - ADVISED OF SAILING "Th following are translations of the German text: "May 19. 1917. Number 32. This government has now released German and Austrian ships In which hitherto a guard had bean placed. In conse quence of the settlementf the Monte (Protegldo) case there has been a great change In public feeling. Government will In future only clear Argentine ships a far as Las Palms. I beg that the small steamers (Iran and (iuazo, Slit of January (meaning which sailed 31st) 300 tons whli h are (now) nearlng Bor deaux with a view to change the flag, may he spared, If possible, or els sunk without a trace being left ( spurlor versenkt). 'UIXBERO'." "'July 1, 1917. Numbr 69. Learn from a rellsble source that the acting minister for foreign affairs who is a notorious ass and Anglophile, declared in a secret session that Argmnlna would demand of Berlin a promise not to sink more Argentine ships. If not agreed to. relations would be broken off. I recommend refusal and if necessary, calling In the mediation of Spain. "LUXnURO"' "'July 9, 1917. Number 64. Without showing any tendency to make eon cessions, postpone reply to Argentine note unlil receipt of further reports. A change of ministry la probable. As regards Argentine steamers. I recommend either compelling them to turn back, sinking thein without leaving and traces, or letting them thru. They are all quite small. ( , " 'LUXBUBG' " . . , Russuirjs CHECKING RIGA DRIVE ' Military Authorities Believe Ger mans Will Not Risk Much Further Penetration DV1NSK IS HOLDING OUT Foe May Entrench Himself year. Tresent Position Pending R' . suit of Dvinsk Operations (Hy Aaaoolata. Fraaw) . retrntrail, Repl, I. (iemna rmr craft have again ,ann tight rd In Uie iulf of. Riga and hava born ahrUcd by th Ruaalan coaat ballrrtra, (h war offlcs aa ix itinera. ' Iluaaian torpedo boat dlaruvrrni a Oertnaa suhmarlnai , and rnriny ship, - apparently trawlers, wrre ohaenrrd In Or brush bound. They wrre forced by Uie Kuaalan baUrrlr. Berlin, Bept. I (via London.)- The Huaalana are hastily entrenching in (be Klga region to the west ot Vsn den. ay today's army headquarter statement. 0rmaa cavalry I la touch with them on this new line and advanced Russian detachment bar been pushed back. Pursuit Slackening. f'etrogrstl, Bept S Th encouraging feature of the Riga situation. I th seeming Russian tenur whlfh haa sclied Riga defender. The Ovrmaft imrkiili appeara to b (lowing vp and in military circle It la not anticipated the enemy will risk much further pen etration v hi 1 Uvinsk remain uuron- qi orad A mora likely course, it is argued, w.ll'be (or th Gcrro-an to ei.lrtMirh somewlier near Ui!r pra- I nut Mmition northeast of Riga and 'await die result of th Dvlnsk opera- jtluns According to Information her the spirit of the troops In the Dvinnk sec tor la niiidi more favorable tUan ,on other fronts.- Col. Podjoursky, a mem ber nf the Dvinsk army committee, tel egraphing to Col. Korupatkln, chair man of tn special council army com mittee l,re,ald the army was standing Arm, that there waa no Intention to surrender Dvlnsk and that the army committee were in full accord with the commander. Consider Operations Ended. i Copenhagen, Sept. g. Leading Ger man military circle consider with the capture of the Important naval' bases of Riga and Duensmuende operation on th Riga front have vir tually ben ended, say Berlin dis patch to the National Tldend. It I considered too late In the year to advance farther a thl would re quire the building ef new road, and the establishment of depot. On thl account the dispatch says it Is unlikely that Field Marshal von liindenhurg will permit the troop to continue the advance with Petro-i grad a the objective. COPIES HANDED TO SWEDISH AND ARGENTINE OFFICIALS Copies of official dispatches sent to the Berlin foreign office by Connt Luxburg, the German charge In Bue nos Ayres, in cipher thru the Swed ish legation there as its own com munication were made public by Sec retary Lansing without any comment as to how they fell Into the hands of this government or any indication of what is to come as the result of the disclosures. ' Copies of the state department's announcement were delivered, at the same time they were made puhllc, to the Argentine embassy and the Swed lab legation here. Besides revealing the means In which Germany used Sweden in her machinations In Argentina, the dis patch shows how the German charge at the time Argentina was having a critical diplomatic controversy with Germany over submarine destruction of her ships was sending thru the Swedish legation information of the sailings of certain vessels with rec ommendations that they be sunk "without leaving any trace" and In other dispatches was Informing his government how to regard Argen tina' protest against the destruc tion of her shipping. a a ENGLAND, ADVISES U 3. REPLY IS IDENTICAL (By Aaaoclated Press.) Washington, Sept. 8. Great Britain haa advised the United States that President Wilson's reply to the Pop Benedict' oaace nroooaals I. In effect. England' reply, which was In- dlcated In rtstement by Lord ' Ccll. ' ' - ; . . V SOUGHT TO PLACE BLAME ON RUSSIA to vote on tax bill by Monday Senate Now Disposing of Minor Disputed Features of the German Censor Suppressed Tes timony of Russian General . Showing Teuton Cupidity (Bv AHoclatai1 PrcxB) Copenhagen, Sept. 7, With the ar rival here of Russian newspapers some light Is thrown on the campaign which the GermBns have been conducting on the strength of testimony brought out 6t the trial of General Soukhonilinoff for high treason. Accounts of the trial published In tho Novoe Vremya, of Petrograd, show thatin the attempt to prove that Rus sia was responsible for beginning the war the Germans deliberately sup pressed Important ports ot testtmony given by General Januschkevitch, for mer chief of tho Russian general staff. In its rcporU of the trial the semi official German news agency omitted in its entirety a passage regarding an Interview between General Januschke vlthc and the German mltltary attache in Petrograd... , It appears from the Novoe vremya that General Januarhkevitch testified precise reports bad been received that German mobilization already secretly was In progress. .The Russian staff knew that this could be done under the German law without formal decla ration, whereas in ' Russia a .public manifesto .from the emperor was a necansary prerequisite. On Thureday a dispatch was receiv ed from the ' ambassador at Berlin confirming , the previous information (Continued on page Thirteen) Meas ure (By Associated Prass) Washington, Bept. 8. With tn hotly contested war profit and in come tax sections ot the war revenue i bill out ot the way, the senate today ( took up for final disposition minor point of the dispute in the measure. The final vott on the bill a a whole must be takej not later than Monday. ; High tax advocates lost their fight, again yesterday when the senate ten- tatively adopted the finance commit, tee's income tax provisions designed to raise $842,000,000 addltonal rve-; nue from individuals and corpora- ' tlons. ' The group of senators who opposed ; the rmy draft law made up of Sena-; otrs - Oronna, Hard wick, LaFollett. ; Reed and Vardamann received a set back When the senate rejected 75 to 6, a proposal by Mr. Hardwtck to In- -crease taxes on big Incomes to nav (50 monthly to all Americana serving in France. . . r - When the senate net this morning ', the new administrative. provisions re-' gardtng income, tax - collection first : were to be taken up Including an; amendment by Senator McOumber to ! mane parwersmps , - subject , to xne , same levy as corporations. An amend ment by Senator Jones for. a fifteen;" per pent assessment on undivided corporate surplus , was pending. The 1 : committee reduced the rate to .ten per cent. '- & a Among the other minor- contested ' of are the consumption taxes on su- . gar, coffee, tea and cocoa levying $88, 000,000; the ugar drawback repeal provision and the section increasing A-nnrf -rlaaa .mall rntfea - Tt 4a i.finj (ontlnued on Page Fourteen) f-
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