A Want Ad In THE DAILY NEWS Bring* Sure Results. , # ^ i ; WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS THE WEATHER Partly cloudy today and day. Warmer Thursday. TtfK DAILY NEWS PRINTS MORS LOQAL NEWS THAN ANT OTHER PAPER EN THE STATE. .VOLUME 8. WASHINGTON. N. C., WEDXESD AY AFTERNOON, MARCH 29. 1918. NUMBER T2. THREE TRAINS CRASH: MANY KILLED AT LEAST 27 MET DEATH TODAY ON NEW Y"S CENTRAL ENTER THE RACE NOW ANDWIN THOSE WHO ENTER DAILY NEWS BIG OOKTEST NOW CAN SE CURE ONE OP THE PRIZES. GOOD TRAINING Contest Offers Invaluable Training to Tbteo Who Take Part. Thoae Who So Detiire May Work in Any of the Diiitricta. Contest enters into all affairs of! U(e. The man or woman who starts' with nothing and beats a way through obstacles, natural and arti ficial. to a competency will find a , contest at every turn of the way. [ Measuring one's power with that of, others will bring out the best things I in one. Many never know their power un-' til they, meet others in the affairs of life, and are made to measure their capacity with that of somo other in dividual who has his mind set on a certain goal.- . Shakespeare put the whole philos ophy of men and their accomplish ment in a few words when he said, "In the reproof of chance lies the ' true proof of men." The man or! woman who gets out in the affairs of life and wins, meets reproof of ' chanee and shows that merit and industry are capable of making their way. Clianw to Match Power. In this great contest many have the chance to mutch capacity agalnet that of others ? measure their popu larity with that of other*, test the real depth of friendship of others. In this effort many will learn what they can do under pressure and will learn capacity as they could in no other manner. This 19 a training course In which strength and con tinuity are vested. Get to Know Self. Many candidates in each one of the five districts are learning thing* about themselves that they never knew before, learning, too, how to do things which count fn this con tent, and which will count in other affairs of Ife. learning to harness their powera and make them actlro, learning how to approach people, learning to maasure the depths and bounds of friendship and the real value of acquaintance with people and conditions. The CMfkfi Opportunity. 1 There Is and can. be, no question about It ? this is the best time of the contest to pet votes. As at no other time of the race will subscriptions prove as variable. This la positively the beat offer that will be made dur ing the campaign. Candidates are not confined to their own llatrlcts in working, but may work anywhere. It Is advlnable for each candidate to toMelt nil of her friends, not only for their subscription, hut for their aervlcea as wall. Enlist every friend In a campaign for building up your tote. Thoee yofi cannot see In per-, aon can be reached over the telephone * or by a personal letter. Vote Table. ? Months..! MR *.000 Votes 1 Tear . . . . f 8.00 ... . 12,000 Votes 3 Years....! 6.00. .. 28.000 Votes 8 Year?...?$ 8.00 .... 46.000 Votes 4 Year*. . j *818.00 80,000 Votes 8 Years ... .818.80. ... 80,000 Votes DOCK Hl.VD*. STRIKE. London. March 89.? Ten thousand Mersey dock handn strnck" 'ol lowlng a dispute ov*r overtime. Tna strike threatens to lnUrfere iariona it ly with trans-Atlantic shipping. USE BEAUFORT WAREHOUSE FOR EXERCISES COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF COMMENCEMENT UNABLE TO I SECURE THE CENTRAL. SPECIAL SCHEDULE Norfolk Sou the m Gives Out An nouncement of Special Train Ser vice Along the Belhaven Division to Washington on Friday. Due to the fact that the Central warehouse is being used at present as a skating rink and the managers refusing to allow the committee. In charge of arranging for the county commencement, the use of it for Fri day afternoon, it was announced thie I morning that the "Beaufort ware house will be used for carrying out the program of the school children. It is believed that the Beaufort house will answer very satisfactorily, al I though it is n Utile further from the heart of the business district. Special Trnln Service. T. H. Myers, loral passenger agent | for the Norfolk Southern, today re-1, celved notice of spectn! train service J that would be in effect Friday on the Belhaven line. The special train j will leave rtelhav?n at R a. m. and | will arrive at Washington at 9:45 a. m. ,nt opping at Intermediate sta tions. The train will consist of a baggage car and soven coaches, fit .will leave Washington for Belhaven [at 5 p. 'in. ThU will in no way ef fect the schedule of the regular Bel- 1 | haven train, which will be operated J I the same n?t heretofore. Tickets at j reduced fares will be sold from ne'r.ts. ion the Belhaven divilson to Wash-] lingtnn.. These tickets will be good only for Friday. ? MANY MOURN DEATH I OF CAPT. LITTLER Wn* Formerly Conductor of Wh.hIi lnffton-lamcNvllIc ItiiilroaO. Funeral Today. Captain W. II. Littler, who died yesterday at his home, was born :n London, England. in 1835. He was for some time purser on the Bed Star Line ships and came to Washington about 28 yearB ago. He acted as conductor on the old Washington an.] Jamesvllle Bailroad. During his stay here he has always been a de voted and consistent member of the Episcopal church. He was a man 'of unusual intelligence and leaves many friends to mourn his death. He 's survived by his wife. The funeral services were held j this afternoon from the Episcopal' j church, Rev. N. Harding officiating. | NEW TENNIS CLUB HAS BEEN FORMED C'My Now Han Thrrp Active Clubs. Mhm> Matrhn Will Ito n?yre city and ono in Washington Park. The newest organization to formed In the WestjKnd 0>ub. A good court has been Wit on West Main street and will be ready for playing within a few days. The River Shore club has Its court on Market and Bonner streets. The members expect to start playing ?bortiy. The Washington Park ag gregation are also evincing consider able Interest In their club. A num ber of matches will be played be tween the three clubs during the ? season and probably also with OrdsnvIUe. New Bern and other neighboring cities. . V ; W FINAL SUTEMEIT . OF II SUM1E ISSUE By ROBERT J. RENDER, ] I nlled I*?f ?n Stuff Corresiximlent. J Washington. March 29.? More' than the mere settlement of the Eng lishman and Sussex cases Is the pres ent object of the administration m taking steps -egarding the rccent at tacks. A complete settlement of the whole submarine issue. Including the disposal of the Lusitanla case, is in ' the president's mind. ^ WILL DELIVER DIRECTORIES New Book* for WMhiDgton Are Iloady and Will Be Given Out on Tomorrow. The new c!ty directories will be reedy for distribution in Washing ton by tomorrow. A representative of the Piedmont Directory Qompany arrived in the city today and will distribute the books tomorrow. . They are complete in every way. containing a complete street and personal directory of the city as well an much additional valuable infor mation. W. S. FALLIS READY TO START WORK Api ointment of Iloml Issue Commit trion Ih All Tliat Now Prevent* j Work on the 1 toads. W. S. FalJis, State highway engi neer, h&3 communicated with the good roads committee here, stating that he 5s only awaiting their in r.:?,uc:iOL5 lc:u *c coming to Wasli ir.j.on and supervising the start of *c!iv% operations on the roads of the township. Mr. Fallis, however, will probably have 10 wait until the bond i.ssue committee is appointed by the coun * ty commissioner?. Whether the board will do*thls at the next meeting :b not certain as yet. Sliou'd they postpone the appointment or be un able to And men who will consent *o act. It w!ll mean that the work will be delayed for another month. RAISE FUNDS FOR BALL TEAM Committee Id CaflTualnK LocaI Mcr- 1 chant* With Fair Decree of Sdcccm. A committee has been at work during the last two days securing subscriptions for the support of tho local baneball team. The merchants sre respov liiijT with roma degree of '?'..era!! *" . 1 1 ; fs honor! that suf ficient funds will be secured ho ilut arrangements can be made for a good team to represent Washington" In the league. All of the business men In tho city will bo visited within the next few days. Reports from Grecnvll'.e and Au for'a state that the same work Is be Intf done there and that sufficient funds have already been raised to fi nance their teams. LIEUT. BUTLER LEAVES PAMLICO j New Bern, Maroh 29. ?Lieutenant H. N. Butler. who for some t!me has been located on the tfnlted States coast ' guard cutter Pamlico, which is stationed at this port, has been transferred to the cutter Gutherle at Philadelphia. Pa., and In company with Mrs. Butler left^New Bern last night for that city to assume h!s now duties. Lieutenant Butler Is to be suc ceeded on the Pamlico by Lieutenant /. H'Dtrry who comes from Detroit. Kick., ?nd who It now la tk* clly. .1 All officials believe that the dis posal of the present situation means the disposal of the whole submarine question. The fa'Jure of one wti: mean the complete failure of the other All of this, of course, is on the assumption that a German sub marine attacked both ships. If !t Is conclusively proved that such was not the case, the submarine Issue will remain settled. Survivors Make Affidavit* to That Effect. Ship Waa First Shelled Hy Submarine. (By United Press) Washington. March 29. ? TUe Ward line.-. Englishman; sunk a few days ago. was shelled and then tor pedoed after attempting to escap?, accord. ng to the affidavits of the sur vivors. cabled to the State depart ment from Liverpool. The captain, it Is reported, said that he was tryirg to escape when he wm fhelled. He tUen hove to und the ship was torpedoed. s nic FOI CUSS BO! Raleigh, March 29.? Prom Eliza beth City. Wake Fore** and Peters burg. Governor I.urke Craig ye.Mer iay received Information that James Onug'.ai Glass, who disappeared from his parents In Pennsylvania nearly 1 year ago. was not toJ?e found with '. Kypsy bands encamped there. Ha 1 notified thT parents of ihe lost child" to this efTect. The search for lh . . j tlken the latent type of German sub marines are so large that they can take aboard the cr^w* of ordinary merchant ships which they slrh. Politlken states that the stibmn ines which recent y snnk the Nor wegian steamship I/ndfleid carried n crew of eighty ami wis capable of very great speed. This submarine, says teh newspa per, took the LlndAeld's crew of thirty on board and carried them for four days, finally trans-shipping them to Norway. BULLETINS (By United Pross) D1KT) IN It. It. WltKCK. Washington, March 29. ? Saddler Goorge A. Hudnell of Troop B, 10th Cavalry, died Fr!day from Injurlea ? RiiRtalnpd In a railroad wrock below | the border, according t*> an an nouncement today by the war de partment. When anked If thla meant that the troopa hare taken over the ral^roada, Secretary Baker aald: "I have given oat the entire contents of the te'ogram and have no farther comment to make." 0U BSC BIBB TO TH? DAI^T N*W8 ALLIES PLAN A BIG FINAL OFFENSIVE MEASURES DISCUSSED AT WAR COUNCIL FOR BRINGING THE KAISER TO HIS KNEES. START IN JUNE Will Strike a Simultaneous Blow on All Fronts. End of War In Be lieved Certain by ClirUtinaa a s a Reculc. { By United Press) Lundon. March 29. ? Before the -?nd of June the allied armies will 'triko a simultaneous blow along all 1 roots la the effort to bring the Ka:.-er to his knees. The war coun cil, In session at Paris believes thut he end or the war will come before Christmas as a result of the com Jlned offensive movement. INTtRVENTiDN puis rug Mtxiran Situation Become* Clearer, t. S. Soldiers Arc Welcomed Everywhere. By K. T. COXKLE. Press Staff Correspondent. El Paso. March 29. ? Continued peaceful relations between the Tnl: od States and Mexico seem more cer tain today than at any time since Villa's men raided Columbus. The failure of organized attempts on both sides of the border to trans form the punitive expedition into in tervention pleading to Carranza land American officials here. Army. I officers are emphasizing the friendly reception acrorded to American sol-' dierg everywhere. VERDUN FIGHT STILL RAGES French Take- flrmmn Tranche*. ! Tculc v, !!;; ? 5'.?- I; 11 the Frenen Front, fPy United Press) Berlin. March 29. ? German troops have broken the French front for iver 2.000 y?rds ar.d have captured several lino of trenches in the fishi ng ten miles northwest of Verdun, he war office today announced. 'Many prisoners and five Kims were captured. Fretirh Take Trenrhf*. Paris ? Three hundred yards of German trcn'-hi s In lb** Avonrourl woods were captured In a violent early morn!ng attack. The Oermans lost heav!!y !n the counter attark northwest of Verdun. "DIXIE KID" ARRKSTED. Durham, N. C.. Marrh 29. ? "The Dlx!e Kid," a negro puglllat, wan arrested today on the charge of as naulting a negro boy at Plttaboro. AGAIN BOMBARD VRMCR. Vienna, March 29. ? Austrian avi ators bombarded Venice today for the seventh time since the beginning of the war. Where Qtaaa Mat V?k. People Id Tibet valee highly th? tpecUclea of amoked or color *4 that are eold to them by the China#* ^oaoae e< t>r blladlnc t AlfkU** ? Ik* w ? tM mot. THREE TRAINS WERE PILED UP IN FOG NEAR AMHERST TODAY Ghastly Signts Witnessed in WrecK age. Screams of Dead and Dying Could be Heard Mile Away Parts of Bodies Strewn lu ihe DebrU. Mother Escapes Unharmed. Baby Born Soon Afierward. Many Bodies Ilavc Been Gathered Together and Piled Ud I By United Press) Cleveland, March 29. ? At least twenty-seven persona were killed an J forty-three injured, some fatally, when three New York Central trains, one of them being the Twentieth Century Limited, crashed In a fog jtear Amherst early today. All of the dead and Injured pas pengers were on the castbound train. Steel coaches saved an appaling lois of. Mfe. Passengers said that the first east bound Bect'.on of the train had slow ed up when the second sectlor crashed clear through the bufTet and day coac-be*. A minute later the Twentieth Century struck the wreck-* age while going at the rate of sixty miles an hour. She was derailed. ; The screams of the dying and Injur- j ed were beard a mile away. Mrs. Mary, Maiston. of lnd'anapolis. escaped unharmed, giving birth to a child in' one of the day coaches later. Gruesome Bights were to be seen along the trucks. Some of the de-xd have been so muil'.ated that they c*a never be recognized. Many bodies have been gathered up In sheets. Hands, legs and foe: were found strewn about ia the debris. "It was the most hideous wrecX Imaginable," stated \V. C. Bradley, of P.lt^burg, one of the passengers :?n the train, "Up above the engine >f the second section. mixed in wltli ?he wreckage, were strewn bodies of the d>?ad and injured, most of them -jr clothed " G. W. Kershaw, of Summerr'.llo. X. J , was In the ?*cond coach from ihe or.c ho brji; smashed. "It was absolutely ihe glias'l.efct sight 1 ever raw," he ?a!rl. "As I was leaving ihe car 1 saw *i man pick up a leg. Another approached with a bundle wrapped in a sheet. It contained arras and legs." EXPECT MUCH COTTON WILL BE CARRIED OVER Bulk of Last Year's Surplus is Again Left to be Carried Over in This Country I (Special to the Daily News) ? New York. March 29. ? The sus taining factors In the cotton market daring tho greater part of the week have been the rumors of better pros pects for an early peace, and the con tinued dry weather In Texas: the buying power was lacking, however, to prevent a nlowly sagging tendency, which was accelerated yesterday on reports of good rairs In Texas, while as to peace, thf various rumors se?m to have been entirely unwarranted, and the end of the war 1b as much a matter of Individual guessing an It ever wan. The final Cenmia Report of cotton , '.?rr-.j r?f.? ni about in line with general expecta tions. tho figure being 11.9S4.704 hales Including linter* (incidentally we may mention that our estimate published on November 12th was for a final census report Includlrg '.In ters of 11.9SO.OOO bales). With thej usual allowance for errors, city crop. I M Ml IK DORO TON1CJHT. I I Marie Doro. one of the tno^t -hirj/'u*: Jf. *"nr?-- rf ihc ^on ?cuipo.ar> ib|i' ?i.f V . icreen appearance, In "The Moral* of Marcus" acquired a degree of pop ularity beyond calculation*, returns lo the acrecn In hor second film triumph under the management of the Famous Players Film Company. In an elaborate plcturiat!on, "The White eParl," by F.dith Rarnard Delano, author of the recent Hereon success. "Racs," the current Para mount Picture at New Theatre to night. "The White Pearl" la a fanciful ro mance of the Orient, with which mystery and drama aro absorb'nR'.y Interwoven. In thla unusual story, the strong attachment between two young American lovers, survives and triumphs over the machlnat'ons of a band of Japanese geisha traders, the Influence of a Hindu legend ol death which for a tlm^ threatens th* llfa of tha g!rl, and tfe* caprtca# ol daatiny Itaflf. etc.. this report would In ordinary yarn po-n? in a commercial crop af mound 12.20ft.000 bales, which fig ure will hard y be exceeded to any Croat ex;oni by American consump tion and exports eombired, leaving the bulk of ]a*t year's surplus to ficain be carr.ed over In America. It Is a- ye; too soon to declda whe'her the rain? ;n Texas and Okla homa havn been sufficient, and what bearing ihcy may havo on the divis ion of cultivated lard between cotton and grain. On this subject we sub* m!t extracts from a letter receive^ yesterday, wh'ch Is typical of mo* of our advices: I" n ciTnVte turned ovrr .ml p i* In . o*fi or cotton Oats are very |ste In be In* plsnted and !f tho woatber Is rot favoraMo thst land too will he plnn'e.1 In corn or cot ton. As Tranv farmer* have a good supp y of corn on hand y.ni miy look fnr a larre In crease In cotton acreage." With a largo surplus to carry over, and the probability, with arerag* growing woaihcr. of a large crop n?*t year, wo rirnot chsngo our view . ii-wrr prjfes are llk?ly to h* ????en.