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UY THE NEWS ECAUSE IT IS ETTER FULL TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS. VOL. I. NO. 133. AIITHRACITE MM THREATEN STRIKE Believed Strike Inevitable; Con ference Fails to Bring About An Agreement. DIFFERENCE NOT GIVEN Increase in Pay Believed to Be Chief Difference Final Ac tion May Be Determined at The Conference Tuesday. New York, April 29 An effort to reach an agreement with 125,000 min er and operative in the anthracite eoal ti.ltis today proved unavailing. In some quarter it la believed that the atrike is inevitable. A current rumor given belief if when the sub committee investigating the trouble will summon members of the court hack to New York fur a conference, which started this morning and last ed late into tonight, failed to brine about an agreement. Neither aide of the controversy will make known points of the dispute. Amount of increase of pay is said to be the principal point involved. Before final action is takes on the question of striking will be brought before the annual convention, which opens in Pottsville Tuesday. VIOLENT ARTILLERY DUEL IN BELGIUM AND ARGONNE Germans Continue to Bombard Hill 301 Frencft Replied Destroying Cars. Paris. Anril 29. The midnieht of- B flcial declared that today's action w..U'r prisoner, Bertha Schumacker, a marked only by artillery action, which waa particularly violent in Belgium and the Argonne. In the region of Verdun, the Ger mans bombarded our position on Hill 304, in the region to the south of ilaudrcmont and the sector at the foot of Meuse heights. The French everywhere replied to the fire of the German battery. One French long range gun shelled a station in Haud rocourt, destroying a number of cars. NEAR HEER FAREWELL PARTY IN GEORGI Atlanta, Ga,, April 29. Saloons in this State did a rushing business tt "'day, for at midnight Georgie goes dry. Approximately 300 saloons in Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah, and other large cities will close. Sunday, falling on the last day of the month makes the dry measure become oper ative on day earlier than intended by the lawmakers who voted to make the State dry May I. Preparations for the long arid spell that faces them were made ty hundreds of men who will no longer be able to obtain their straight rye and bottel beer from the founts that so long irrigated them under the guise of "near beer" saloons. Bulging hip pockets and little round packages were common sights on the streets and in the street cars. Advices received up to this after noon show that the police in various cities had prepared for the occasion and held the situation well in hand. Whenever a Vrunk" appeared he was promptly squelched or sent to the police station to sober up. The greatest loss occasioned by the passing of the saloon will fait upon owners of the property occupied by the "grog shops." hut real ests'e men say that this loss will be negligible, as nearly all the desirable locations have already been leased to business concerns. HEIR IN PRISON; WIFE WORKS TO BE NEAR HIM Atlanta, Ga., April 29. Heir to a fortune of S75.000, Emory Salyards, of St. Paul, Minn., is serving a six year sente'nre in te State prison farm at Milledgville. He wa. con victed of forgery. His young wife refuses to desert him and has sought wej k near the farm, so as to be able to visit him occasionally. The Mil ledgville farm U the place from which Leo M. Frank waa token by a mob and hanged. CAPE FEAR NEWS You Can SGQTT, FUNSTON AND DSillfEB Immediate Withdrawal of the American Troops Demand ed by Mexicans. ONLY COURSE TO PREVENT War Americans Insist Upon Reasonable Time to Capture Villa and for Use of Mexican Railroads for Supplies. El Paso, April 29. Mexican War Minister Obrezon in conference with Major-General Scott and Funston ov er the Mexican situation this after noon made demands for the imme diate withdrawal of the American punitive expedition. He said that no other course could prevent war be tween his people and the United States. The first of the demand was made without qualification. The American general, however, expected to get the Mexican official ultimately to an agre able and reasonable time limit. It is known the purpose or General Scott is to insist on sufficient time to cap ture Villa and restore order in Mex ico, In this connection he will de mand that the de facto government permit the use of the railroads for American troop movements and sup plies. The first session of the conference opened in Juarez at 6 o'clock and last ed for two hours. LONG PRISON TERM FOR GIRL WHO ASSISTED WAR CAPTIVE isernn, April z. Because sne nea lorwara a letter or rrencn factory girl f Noerfcst, has been sent to prison for two years and aix months. The girl made the acquaintance of the French soldier in a factory where she was employed. Friendship, if not love, sprang up between the two. When the Frenchman, who speaks some German, learned that the girl hail relatives in Switzerland, he im plored her to aid him in sending a letter to his parents. The girl con sented and mailed the letter to her Swiss relatives, with the request that it be forwarded to France. The letter fell into the hands of the censor and on examination it was found to contain many false state ments which were to be published in French newspapers. The prisoner said lie had been tortured to compel him to work in a German ammunition factory. He works in a calico fac tory and was given employment there at his own request with thirty other prisoners. The girl who forwarded the letter maintained; at her trial that she did not know the contents, but she was convicted under the law forbidding all intercourse with war prisoners. MINING OPERATIONS ARE SUCCESSFUL Berlin, April 29. A successful min ing operation by the Germans in. the district of Arlouia are reported in of ficial statement issued by war officials today. Further progress has been made in the sector near Ticenchy. Counter at tacks against the tierman position st of Dead Man's Hill, in the sec- r of Verdun, were repulsed. USE GEORGIA FELDSPAR IN PLACE OF POTASH Atlanta, Ga., April 29 With pot ttsh commanding from $500 to $i00 i ton and hard to get at any price. i search for the pr ious substance has been started in tin hills of north Geargio. So fi ' i a has not !H-en discovered but .;'. -lantities :f feldspar are tain u..-4 -t and crushed to be ved '. i' tilizer. Feldspar Contains fron '3 per "ent. of potash and be set! for year or two in the tii : .akes an excellent substitute f t commer cial fertilizer. Unless potash can be applied to the wil of a large area in the South I "rust" attacks cotton and small grain i med,ate "equence of which may be Bnt,8n ttnPlr 'no8e contro1 oI tn Last year very little' potash could be"!th,t in "voring to wreak ven- M nx '" ultimate an.ly.i. not up produced but there was enough left Keance on few outlaw, we find our. on a navy which any nation sufficient- n the Mil from the previous year to "fv?s forced to Wa wr on sixtees : ! make crop. 1 million, of innocent people. (Continued on Page Three.) Find It In The Cape Fear News 12 Hours Earlier FAYETTEYILLE, N. C SUNDAY B MAKE SURRENDER British Army Under Gen. Tovm shend, After Long Siege, Sur render to the Turks. BRITISH HOPES DAMPENED! Estimated That Ten Thousand Were the Number of the Brit Uh That Surrendered Brit ish Suffer Heavy Losses. ": ; London, April' 29. The British r juv garrison, under Genera! ToJn- ghend, which has been shut up in Ku pet Amara in Mesopotamia since ear ly December, has surrended to the Turks, according to official announce ment of the surrender. It is estimat ed that approximately 10,00 surrend ed. i . This is the second severe blow ad ministered to the British by the Turks. The first was the reverses suffered. at the Dardanelles. General Town&hend's surender dampens he hope of those who looked for an ear ly advance against the Turks. i The size of the garrison is not def initely known. General Townshextd originally had a brigade, but these troops were reinforced. The army suffered in killed 4,000 casualties at Tesithon, and subsequent losses to tal the list of casualties to nearly 7, 000, These do not include the casual ties suffered by" the army since it has been besieged in Mesopotamia, the richest prize in the present spar of operation. I SAYS PRESIDENT FORCED TO -SEND TROOPS INTO MEXICO Philadelphia, Pa., April 29 Presi dent Wilson feared Congress would force drastic action in Mexico and sent the punitive expedition ,t Francisco Villa to forestall this, Dr. I , . ', , I merely to preserve and widen a mar- L. S. Rowe, of tne University of ket for oi;r goods, but to keep intact Pennsylvania-, president of the Amer- jthe political independence and admin ican Academy of Political and Social f'strative integrity of that backward o . . .. .. , , -. (country with its swarming millions. Science, told the members of the .... : , . , ., . "It is obvious that if ever a new academy here this afternoon. Germany over the seas is to arise. " sa.d Dr. Rowe, "the President of the United States would never have sent "In ma I nm orv mnpl, ... i-.iLn,. " ..;. . - ,,i s fjuiiiuve tAf;etiii.ion into Alexico II ; ie had not feared that the Congress of the United States would force him j to measures more radical and more drastic. If he had been in a position to depend on the self-control, the pa tience and forbearance of Congress, I believe he would have said to- the American people: "'The sending of a punitive force into Mexico will endanger the cardi nal principle of our Mexican policy, namely the re-establishment of order within the Republic. Such an expe dition cannot help but undermine the de facto government by arousing aEnTlnd -weary of tne incessant : .i i m . . . 1 uro nirlinn" anil vtnf- MfaraA t rti-nr knv. : suspicion in the mind, of the Mexi can people that their government is a party to foreign invasion., It will make the re-establishment of order in Mexico more difficult because it will encourage revolutionary leaders to call upon the Mexican people to.dcf:nd terms, made m the open light; v., js authoritv on Heaven and Hei! " oust the invading foreigner. Byjuf the 1a 0"I, effectively secure Vm Mr Hol(.omb ct!mparei! H?aven sending our troops into Mexico wej!he fut,,re Peace of the vrari'1 an'1 ,,s'as a mountainnd Hell as a bottom become the mere plaything of events; dvelopment among progressively dem- :,egJ jt "ny ""towaril incident may precipi-j" irate a prolonged and bloody struggle,"' """ - y " ' "!'c.i:t by these timely meetings is vitn the Mexican nation.' !:,rt;' spiritual ana political ,oun- evj(1ence), by the fa.t that twonty- "The fact that -we are encounter-, ,'ati,ns- ' leiuht volunteereil to give their serv ing great difficulty in fimling the! "The f1 foreign policy of the'ices in heipin? hrirK their )oved ones leader of the brigands is an indica-; Bn?,,n Empire nJ that th t"'- to a realization of tht-ir present nosi ... .l c-t-. n... ,111 i;- n,- ' ' ion ti tne loruearance which we snould show in giving to the Mexican government ample time to brine the I outlaws to justice. It nnu .-il,r nf i a great nation such as ours to en- i gage in a mere man hunt on foreign soil. The de facto government of General Carranza is now in control, and we can well afford to leave with im the responsibility of hunting out the wrong doers. ;; He is in a far bet ter position to do this than we. Let 1 by all mean, hold the Carranza government responsible for the nun- ishment of the wrongdoers, but let " 001 emoarfc upon a policy, the im- MORNING, APRIL 30, 1916. UNIVERSAL MILITARY SERVICE ADVOCATED International Law Authority Argued That This is Most Democratic and Practical.' WHICH. SHALL IT BE "One Thine at Least is Certain, Manhood Service Must Ulti nately Come," Says Fredric R. Coudert. Philadelphia, Pa., April 29. Dr. Georjre L. Beer, of New York City, seconded Walter Linpmann in urging an alliance of the United States with Creat Britain, speaking before ' the American Academy of Political and Social Science here today. lie said; "It stems certain that the present general alignment of the powers will for some time after the close of the war be continued in the diplomatic and economic spheres and that if the United States is to have an effective voice and its interests are to be ade quately considered, we must join one or the other group. "Isolated, the United States would he defenceless and without influence. Our foreign policy is pre-eminently devoted to two objects, the enforce ment of the Monroe Doctrine and the maintenance of the open-door in Chi na, Both have idealistic as well as economic phases. Our aim is to pre serve South and Central American ree from foreign domination so that the twenty republics located there T?ay develop their characteristic in stitutions unhampered by outside dic tation. "The corollary to the Monroe Doe- J i : . T , : : .1. : ..I. tates, out an American international ; movement to xosier closer spiritual, political and economic" relations be-j tween all the Americas. . l . zr . .1 .-..1.. : ' l" '"" ,.,Ke,J'' " oul ,ne "'" '""- i bit place, .s Bra! m whose southern f Utes there is already a considerable ' German nucleus round which to j build a daughter nation. German (economist, ana pumices nave persis-, tently painted this dream .-VJ..IH SI its realization, however; stood as in- i"iperable not alone the Monroe Dor trine, but in the first line, the Brit ish fleet. ine grave oanger is mat alter tne . u..i...P..c. ".! tnougn not victorious, uermany may j seek to retrieve its fortunes by an- j nexing southern Brazil. A well I known English historian, J. Holland, I Rose, ha. already spoken sympathet- j ically of this plan and it may be that 1 r,.g.g .no no,, .verse irom "v-, ing uerman amDitions nenectea irom ; Africa and Asia, will no longer in terpose her fleet as barrier. "An alliance of the United States: with the British empire on closely ""- r"r ....... ""tion ,"'""' " atcs is se- curl,y Pul secucty not mean merely safety from invasion. In these days of rapid communication and of ever close economic interde pendence of the world, security im plies, in addition, the protection of a nation's interests in other countries. "For the United States, security both in the narrower and in the boarder sense, is obviously contin gent in the main upon, sea power. But this power is an economic fact that !cnnot improvised. It ma; be most "u..y .evureu u, an .....nee w.m tne SINN FINE LEADER fiEUND; SAID Schoolmaster Proclaimed Presi-.Mel dent and Rebels Declare Themselves Free. WIRELESS MESSAGES SENT General Connelly, Commander in Chief, Believed That End of Revolution is Fast Disappear ing. London, Ppril 29. Ireland has been proclaimed a republic by the Sinn Fein leaders. Teacher Pearce, a school master, has been proclaimed provincial pres ident. News of the action of the rebels in declaring themselves free and inde pendent of British government was , .ent out from ,ev0lutionarv head , quarters in the Dublin postoffice by wireless, The message said: "Teacher Pearce, headmaster of St. Tendas secondary school, has been nominated president if the republic of Ireland." General Connelly was nominated commander-in-chief of the Irish volunter corps. An exchange telegraph despatch stated that every indication was that the end of the revolution was fast approaching. Troops are arriving in Dublin con tinually. SEVERAL CONVERTED AT ' THE MEETING LAST NIGHT At the evangelistic services con ducted last night in Johnson's ware house by Rev. Walt Holcomb, much interest was shown by the Urge con- for this of meetinBB! very ira. Dres.iv.v n "Where is fv Rnv Tonight." Mr. Clotworthy putting his ! snill inm Vl i uintvs mnt, t Vl m annual. 1 jine-. and their results are manifest. 'uatiVns was contained in practically7 , Mr. Holcomb chobe for his subject,' very line of the speech. In scathin ."Personal Devil." and used as a text j sentences, the Colonel laid the iiu . i Matt. 2":4o: "And there shall go away into everlasting punishment, 1 but the righteous into life eternal.") The speaker said in part: "I be- !ieve in a personal devil, and he has ; more power next to God than any oth- AmJ he fcag more pow.er .- ,. r..- iver some people than God. Same say : hat evil is an influence, but an in-' uence must have personality to em- ,,at, fpom. And h&ck o . eooli Der. : ,-. ... - , J, riinsl ;,ack nf . lwVBnnilIi;v Srt 'nii nd the devil," Ex-Governor Patter- i n, of Tennessee had a personality! "t it was at first He'i'ntr.ff tt tho : .j, nd br ht ?ne whoIe StBte " disrepute, but when he was con- vert(fd he became one of the for ood tni. rount . ,j ., ! "And I believe." rnntinneH th ' .i., .,v,, j..:i .. u i "r-fc-nn, s,ai, lilt u-c It II4XU qaarten ju8t ai Washington is head- 1uorter!! for our government, just so ! , beIieve neil ig the devij headouar ts an(, ,t the snm? f:me heven j. -ve i,CBjquartrs cf '"-iiT. Heaven is st the opposite f HrH and Gd is the opposite of th fevil." "For these statement the BiWe is -nv siithnritv nn-t it i tti K.-..,!- That much good is being brought Among those converted six signified their inwnt to join the Methodist j Episcopal, two to join the Presbyte- ! rian, two to join the Baptist, one to ' Christ church and ohe to identify him-! elf with the Presby:erian Reformed ' Church. i In order that the various churches j may have their regular services to- j lay there will be no. evangelistic ' mass services at the warehouse. At. three o'clock a meeting for men only j will be held. But services will be held at the regular hours during the t week. Monday night is to be observed 3s Sunday school night, - and every Sabbath and Mission school i. expect- 3d to assemble in bodies. Thi. serv- ice will be one of the moat interesting a the course of the meetings. WEATHER REPORT Fair in interior, unsettled la east, v timer. j FULL TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS- PRICE $1 PER YEAH ROOSEVLET GUESTOF ; i i BAR ASSOCIATION' at Station by 5,000 reoplJ Who Shout, "We Want j Teddy." ESCORTED BY THE P0MCE Delivered an Address on Pnpafv edness Attacks Presi ieat'm I Mexican Policy C--1 ared U. S. To China With l i rail- Chicago, April 29. T- trior T Roosevelt breezed into Chics idif he guest of the Illinois Stat 1 Kar As sociatlun and was given a , .t wd- coTr.e, being greeted by a crowd e :, 3,000 at the railroad aiatior' bearing 1 banner with the inscription: "W" Want Teddy." From the railroad st tion he was escorted by a An. iil of po lice through the streets, !'-.ved by a long line of automo' - 'i. He wa driven to his hotel amid a rfemanstr tion which was declared ' even su--pass the reception rr :-.;. V.-eaUlent Wilson when he re-!;- vitrei Chl cago on his prepare .pfs nirpaign. Crowds lined the street waving small American flag while the Colonel rode hy. Among the crowd were -.rtisa citizens wearing disp'ayed button I printed on them "Rocsevcit flf t Safety." ' The climax of his visit came tonight 'j when the Colonel delivered an ad"- dress on "Preparedness" at ih - nmil banquet of the Ilinois Bar A- sociation. Fifteen hundred ff th State's prominent citizens, unlading Governor Dunne, heard bis a4dresV and stood on their feet and cheered him to the echo. This was a brilliant and serious prev y sentation on the platform on whicfc Roosevelt stand? "1wfort the Ametvtta? people. Today President Wilson wa not mentioned by name, but a severe7 judgment of the Administration pot i f' nn tlia f ovicun an(4 rr ri,'i f before his audience, amid intense ! i lence. I The striking feitare of the address1 . was the lesson he drew from China, I Making a special appeal to the Mid-! lie West, he said of the people of thi- f Uection: believe that they wl!, I tn f.,ii,,. ,u ,.,i.i t- f e to follow men that would make ? right helpless before might, who put pig tail on Uncle Sam and turn the.; Goddess of Liberty into a caeifie fer "nali. liiirLilur .Inf. k.n,, . 1 - nr.. whih h. h.. th. Mt t o hold against oppression." AH day long the rooms of the Col-1 onel in the hntol in u-hih l ctfrmnarf been strewn with his politicaJl followers r A nit A w w nrtrvrr-w rar- I National League, -S. ! At Brooklyn New York 4, Brook-t l"yn 5. Batteries: Smith and Scroud and 12 innings. At rhilaiieiphia Boston 2, Phi)1 ' jdelphia.3. Batttries: Alexander and : rrns: Hughes and Cvrdy. i At Cincinnati Pirt.'burgh 2, Cin .innati 1. Batteries: Coney anrf. : , Ma.-ma ur. ! . - At St. Louis Chicago!, Si. Loui 8. Batteries: Peak and Snyder J; McConnell and Fisher. J J Amt-riran League. At New York Phila le'phia 2. Ntiisr '; York 4. Batteries: Fischer and Nun- V maker; Myer and .Meyer. At Boston Wa;hir;t:?on 4 0, Batteries: Foster and Jifhnson and Hainsmith. Ei'ston Kady; At Cleveland Detroit 5, Cleveland I 1. Batteries: Klutfer, Coveleskjr t and O'Neal; Dubui and Schannie. f At Chicago- -St. Loui3 I, Chicago 3. ; Batteries: Russell and Schscik; Plank and Clemmons. ' HOARDING A CRAZE; SALT SAV- ED BY FOOLISH HOUSEWIVES c Berlin, April 29. One of the queer results of the war and the English ; blockade is that the thrifty German housewives not only try to hoard up , all kinds of foodstuffs and other nee- L essities, but also many things whkk will never become scarce. 1 is
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