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FOR RESULTS ADVERTISE IN THE INDEX. DOUBLE THE CHICULATION OF ANT OTHER PAPER IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Yolume 7; K umber 24.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 1917
SB
Price $2.00 Per Year
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WOULD HAVE TIJE
CHURCHES REPENT
FOR AMERICA'S
"SHARE" IN
WAR
Will Call Upon God to Endow
Our Government and Our
President With Wisdom and
Firm Determination.
U. S. RESPONSIBLE
PROLONGING WAR
Call Was Issue By Executive
Committee of German-American
Pastors
CHICAGO, Feb. 00. A call on all
(lurches of - all denominations to
make Sunday, February 25, day of
repentance and prayer, to supplicate
GvJ to avert war by the United
Suites, was issued today by the er
etj'jve committee of the Association
-i German-American pastors.
The call sets forth that the Unit
ed States is responsible for the pro
l'Tfution of the war through hav
ing furnished weapons to belliger
ent. .
The prayer programme suggested
by the rail is:
'"Firstly, to repent for America's
thare in the blood-guiltiness of .war,
and, second, to call upon God in ear
nest supplication to hinder the basa
machinations, which are at work to
plurge our nation into the European
war; and that He graciously
.,'.-jur our government and our Fres
wer.t with wisdom and a firm deter
ioration to lead our nutii through
these perilous days and to preserve
to our people the blessings of peace."
Alabama Prohibition
Causes Drop In Crime
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Feb, 00,
That prohibition causes crime to de
crease is shown in the records of this
city. Jn 1913, under open saloons,
there was a totaj of 21,247 arrests
and convictions. In 1916 under -pro
bibition, the arrests and convictions
dropped to 16,758. Many of the
esses on the docket in 1916 were for
violating the prohibition law. The
turcew of prohibition in pimiBlni
1 shown in dollars' arid' cenU 'also.'
In 1913 bank deposits were slightly In
cess of $28.00,000. In 1916 de
bits clrmed to 30,786,OOO,
EAST PRUSSIA
ERECTS 11,000
NEW BUILDINGS
Haid That It WH TaM four
Yea 10 Remove AH Traces
f the HuHHian In
asion Br RLl'. VtU 1, The reconstrwe
tit f the hundreds of towns and cit
' iee and vilJari n Kst rsa,' d
aasted by- the lutns in their inva-
! ii is ffBr ;.!t K'iJ!y An f-
i A !-"lt .i' )-t 11 "tt M-w cvt(
ll.OtV,! iisaWir's '-ut n-thU-l
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j!1 f the VN-r ,' fjidineti i-P
M Ji'T I U.t- turnisketl b- W'E
fiktn n v'niet vl ,.. iy $2,(o,0.
Hit t'i V'-ft kie entiitl.y tek--Cjratt
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p..vHia utfcrrt, d tkf
I'mwiwi ta('is.
PLANNING EXPO
SITION FOR BOS
TON. MASS. IN 1920
Mayor Intends to Have the State
Jake Up the Project and
Ask For An Appro
priation BOSTON, Feb. Mayor Curley is
giving consideration to Pilgrim
Tercentenary Exposition, to cost $2,
000,000. He already has forwarded t
preliminary sketch of his plans to
Governor McCall for inspection.
The Mayor's intention is to have
the State take up the project, point
ing out that Boston contributes near
ly 40 per cent of all State expendi
tures and that such an expenditure
would be a reasonable one in view of
the national interest in Boston jand
Eastern Massachusetts, which would
be aroused if such an exposition were
held in 1920,
The project involves extensive re
clamation of land off the Calf Pas
ture thereby enabling the 1800,000
Old Harbor and Strandway improve
ment in South Boston to be incor
porated as part of the exposition and
also furnish . what the Mayor
characterized as the most beautiful
approacn to an exposition imagin
able.
GETS DIVORCED
FROM TWO WIVES
IN A SINGLE YEAR
Married To Second Wife Imme
diately After Securing A
Divorce From First
Last Fafl
DURHAM, Feb. 26 Dr. Geo. A.
Crr, a native of Wilmington and a
prominent dental surgeon of Durham,
has obtained a divorce from his sec-
tone wife within a year. The marriage
of the last wife has been cancelled
by the speedy methods that obtain in
Reno, and he "writes his father, Dr.
1. N, Carr, he is bow returning to
Durham. He will resume the practice
of his profession.
The matrimonial ventures of Carr
read more like romance than facts put
dowiHn a life book. He wedded Miss
Bettie Hunt of Oxford, a member of a
socially prominent family. Their
wedding' vows were broken twelve
years afterward, when Mrs. Richard
Kendall, of Richmond, brought suit
for 120,000 against Mrs. Carr for the
alienation of her husband's affection.
The ease was compromised by Mrs.
Carr paying the Richmond woman
simetbing over f 1,000,
Dr. Carr instantly aeked fir sep
aration frirn Mr. Carr, alleging ira
priper conduct with Richard Kendall,
a traveling man from iebmond. This
war granted in the early fall of 1916
t a sitting of the Durham Superior
Court. Wthin few days thereater
Dr. Carr met, wooed and wed Miss!
Ethel Harwood, a purse in the Hygeia
Hospital of Richmond. The trained
nurse had cared for him in a case of
illness during the pending divorce
suit from Mrs, Crr.
The secernl marriagf was short liv
ed, as within a coapie ef weeks the
two pufU'it. Dr, Carr unannounced,
c..!i;ti wnin for ft- He i i ::i M :
1
a tk'i.rt direct to VtiM 'itHint! etui ircm
tkere vber-t m iht far ttertfTn iil.y.
The. -r-f rwatMir lf Ihf 'ftis-iri- f
iis div.wct w tontaimd in letti
. kiy inthcr.
Sufi ra$re BUI Tas
The Indiana House
lXimNAI .'H IS. IX IV, b. to. j
The wei's ruffi-att -bill pat Mid '"i
th- tower eram-h tit te laiiin lrg
ihMure tfete t-way .vii nw t.oe o
t;Wriu'i t;oh. The bill j.ivs
sv.-mea the l iht t. vute- U ' e.--p
-Untiiil ekvU.r l pvavticallj JU
a4 f
vi r n.ry vt sttte.
THESE GUNS SUPERI
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f 1 : ' ; l' 4 ' i ' 777 v i
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These mighty 14-inch rifles of thejjtnan navy. No single battleship of
battleship Pennsylvania, flagship of
Admiral Mayo of the Atlantic fleet,,
are superior to anything in the Ger-.
AMERICANS SOUGHT
AS AIDES IN PLOTS
OF GERMAN SPIES
Prominent Pacifists Said To
Have Obtained Passports for
German Agents Others
Involved
NEW YORK, Feb. 25 Revelations
of the part Americans, pro-German
in their utterances and sympathies,
and prominent men' known as paci
fists, took in the plot to send Ameri
cans to England as German spies will
be made known when the 'Federal
Grand Jury takes up the case of Al
bert Sander and Charles W. Wun
nenberg. An American prominent in the
pacifist movement disappeared from
his office twenty-four h9"r before
Sander and Wunnenberg were ar
rested. He is bting soukht by hun-
! dredg of agents of the Department of
Justice and he United Staes Secret
service today.
This man furnished the credentials
on which George Vaux Bacon was
enabled to travel to England' as an
American newspaper correspondent
and gain access to souriea of informa
tion closed to the ordinary traveler.
He is wanted as one of the moat im
portant witness. He represented . a
former high official to the United
States Government in distributing
for publication peace propoganda ar
ticles which favored the German gov
ernment. wunrn.av.on i.as reea inc ne-
1 1 1 .1.
partmeat of Justice that the plans of
Sander. and others who sent Amen-
cans abroad as spies were kno-n
uk) re inun niiy jmeneun ciiiseng
who have been prominent in certain
yeace soc.et.es fathered by Amen-
societies fathered by Ameri-
cans ef pronounced pro-German senti-
we,lt' ' !
It is pweratooa the Americaae whop
wet abroad as sTies did so at a! rta; ,. , , .. ..
titar whto fft -ling .btitweun this tc
trj and Germany was nt irut i'.f:.
Despite a agi- i.t thi
(hint agenta huW net b- tt
juired to foroh infciinnt'fi,
dftr'un;M U Ihe i;ait'S:tr
oii?ils ff ihe DefUuHit-tn il
Jvtie hve lea reud tfrtt- a few
flajs fcefere 4coa;lf this roua
trj he vhtitd tbf ftl at (bt n--tisnce
t New arl Harhar ih.'
the, tK af a laattea aViure
rmn, entertained fc r
j v utatior.ed at b Iftrls.
and a a tn?td to mke pktiu'
4 certain 'parts of the ioct. '
t'Epiuiirt v( Bi-on 4i the .:v
to the fovts have it'o-wed ihv l'e-
partneot t tat gU tbi'.t W
tiptej'fd a t ri f-ai irtres in fct,
OR TO ANYTHING IN
the kaiser could cope, with this vessel.
Jn fact only the five great warships
those of the Queen Elizabeth type
he saw and that within three days he
suddenly announced to them that he
was goins abroad to write magazine
articles, '
Bacon had been receiving a salary.
of $30 a week from the moving pic-
ture firm, and a few days after his
Visit to the harbor forts and his an
nouncement that he was going to
England tie appeared in the offices of
'the company with a large roll of bills
and paid off certain debts.
He explained that a wealthy Amer
ican was sending him abroad and
that he had not only received a guar
antee of $ 50 a week, but had been
given a large cash bonus in advance.
He also stated that he had received
an order on a tailor in this city for
an outfit of clothes and that the
persons sending him abroad had also
insured his life .for a large amount
to be paid to certain relatives depend
ent on mm. He is not married, but
his mother lives in a small town in
Massachusetts. He sailed last Sep
tember. .
Bacon was well received jn England
and was given much valuable infor
mation before the British Secret Ser
vice learned that be was in reality
an agent of Sander. ' He waa thea
shadowed and certain other American
newspaper men who were really in
the service of the Department of Jus-
tice, and the British Secret Serriee
- I '.1 ' n
acceped service with Sander and
went ateead, where they met .Bacon.
These men readily gained Bacon's
confidpca, and m a result of the massi
of information they placed before the
Pritiall officials and the Department!
of Tnstice th. eonnection , mav
An,erican citiMns wjlh ot be-
came kf)own . .
mesta mi th(f tomeaim pf
,ege
Americans ' with the . plot
agains the neutrality of the Unied
Staleg w,.-. . t
appearJlnee of severa, roen who M
lfn Wder surveilance made actien
! rcrtaiii of these rn.ni re . licw
."iHc! as wiintuse lei'n the Kef!
;ir:.) G;nn;i Jiiry. One if f nutti
' ir rt -t.-i,i of thi m ieft Y..k isntf
i rt tc t'!evfijn(), where ' he vat
t-;i(d, bi;t he t,ivp)t-itd 4 hm:
' I e'. t hr si . .f ;ht ;.!-1 yf'
f i JV;i-ittiPt Mf Jitit-e. ':
I is .!aiiinaie)..that lie is-ti ihut.i
'(d e?cfcn J.ivnrj .-eit to the sy
h e''.t t he. e !e:l to tbe uiti wverjr .f
j tje fr.ntn ii with the tieiTtmu s'av
t,Htei vf the. mtn
; f.SciftStS.
who pust.f .i
Maine Will Vote On
Hull'rafN filiet inn
.11.Hi M.i, int. .
Hiikaa) .M-ffraaVi wiyixmte? in thn
Sftr. cdajj ; $vV ;o( ncsr'jf
GERMAN NAVY
J finished since the beginning o fthe
war by Great Britain, are equal .to
the Pennsylvania.
SHORT SKIRTS
MEAN RIGGER
MEAT BILLS?
Also Says that Doctor's Bills
Are Morer-Calico Is Better
Than Imitation Silk
Dress
PHILADELPHIA, PA., Feb. jOO,
Short skirts mean bigger butcher's
(not t9 speak of doctor") bills, aaye
Miss Jane Newcomb, a State College
extension lecturer. She told this dis
covery to a gathering of Quakers
here. Miss Newcomb also finds;
Short skirts and silk stockings
make a girl eat so much she becomes
bad tempered.
An men irom tne skirt means a
pound of beefsteak inside.
A calico dress is better than imita
tion silk.
A woman's first duty is to make
herself as beautiful as she can.
Teutons Shortening
Line In the Ancre
London, Feb. 25.Reuter's corespond
eBt Eritj8, headquarters in France
8end8 discription pf bow the Ger-
ns are shortening their lines in the
A rSTa Vsllair Ha biu-b tha tonialAn
Ancre Valley, He says the decision
do evidently was arrived a
8ome time a0' 8nd that the recent
Gc1 activity during the long
'J1' of ,ard rost mwt that tht
Germans wer stealthily withdrawing
their guns and breaking- up their am-r
munition dumps near the front line;
Holland Buys RigrcreFt
Order of Fertilizer
ATLANTA, y GA., Feb. 00 -The
argest single order of acid phos
ipnate is beieg shipped from
! 1,1 H.i?iani csnhinod t ill
phate is beiog shipped from Atlantis
t;no(! in uie i'iK' I
rt-h .limiimoi-e, ,liiek.iivilJ,
ve;iii and GtiiffHtrt. Th tmai urth's
i ii'.iMit! M!t nut! repi-eyetit'un
iti.v .if iJ.;-i'ii,'io '' I
't 1 1 is e.Mvtei! ly ,i
'!.u h 1. Tl.. i.t...--.
u.-e I frrtiiiser. ,'
i t. f-
, toi'iy .ye;'
ibiii.M;i
)f tin
i Mili't'itbe . v,4etitii !
i The Sei t.te. fc tiff
P'jJ'UiiU- viti.
it' i;H.li l till'
ui.ai!;ri!iiij:y
:a le-ohitiou ! ..jit.r u 4iKt;il eiee
'tioa Septeior 10 U svt o tha aiop.
-v:sl''rili "aniendmont
i4nii;.( svnmr iv 'ii.f u. tiitv-
nai - Mitl.kin noin tVm be ':pn
the meagre, t iTBt-r,o.
FEARS JAPANESE
PEOPLE WILL GET
PAST CONTROL
OF COMING
RULERS
Dr. Toyokhchi Jyenaga Declare
People May Kot Stand For
Anti-Japanese Legislation.
Pow er of People Increasing.
LEGISLATION SAID
TO BE THE CAUSE
Says Uncle Sam Should Not
Find It a Hard Job to Handle
The Situation
NEW YORK, Feb. 00 Dr. Toy
okhchi Iyenage, one of the most wide
ly known Japanese in the United
States, in an address on the relations
between Japan and a this country at
a dinner .of the World s Court Lea
gue tonight, asserted that the peo
ple of Japan may get 3;onj the re
straint of their government should
further . anti-Japanese legislation be
enacted here.
"It is reported," he E-xUf that one
of the States of the UasHii it contem
plating enacting the' sur.'e kind of
law which once strained the Japaif-ese-Americcn
relations. If this kind
of pin-pricking is often repeated, f.
fear the time may eonie vrfsen Jap
anese rulers cannot restrain the peo-
pie and Japan, you know, is becuming
more and more democratic and trie
power of the people is daily in,-reaa
ing.
"The Japanese residing in thia
country number about 80,000, of
which a good percentage is made up
of transient travelers and business
men. This forms but an insignificant'
part of Uie population of 11,000,000,
To find the way of Handling thi
small portion of population ought net
to be a hard job to Uncle Sam."
CONGRESS IS ASKED v
BY PRES. WILSON
FOR POWER TO
PROTECT OUR .
RIGHTS
Armed Neutrality Asked -And
digress Is Expected To Fur
nish Men and Means to En
Force It Neutral Ship Sunk
and American Mail host.
, WASHINGTON, p. C, Fh, 26.-
... ...
President W'laon went before Con-
gresa this afternoon and asked for
authority to place the United States
n 'A state of armed Neutrality.'
The I'resident aked to be empow
ered tp lake such steps as are neces
sary which includes the arming of
ships, the convoying of merchantmen
by war t'eseels and such other steps
as may be necessary for the protec
tion of the interest, citizen and prop
erty of the country. t
The President made it known that'
htt w anted peae but not at the price
ef American lives ad rights and the
driving of the Anerkiaa lag frea
'!! hifih
mi si '"" tisierf tht rt.Usnitnt! '. of ''
Uie S'rtxident with cre .S))prehen---'mi
Init ioined' the Ksllertes in cheer-.
e ine 1 ri i ni riiii.nt-a nis p
! . l i.iti,' r nun !,..
I the iimitiril) nld.li jive the
I I'n icint ilit iicffusary power at, ',
ell men and money lo enforrc -.
meriran rithtx.
JuM as tht ('resident k on his ,
t Hiidn -', mi j;r ( onsid
1'rot.l'ti rilbleKram announced that thf. "
l-aconia with eter 4merit'sna on
;tid had been tin t dord without -
arhjiiK Mild hr thiwand kacks ot "
't.4 titles mail were lost, , '
le l n'iihed ntid si vr.nl j -einht t
tW re landed hut delaiU are laek.-
fTnn a vine f Jhe pHseeners are
MitWac and oe. k to be dead.