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Washington feallg $Iflfl&
All tMNaities jft(3an Think
of ana
This Government Resenb First Chiefs Discourteous Lan
guage, Accuses Him of Bad Faith and Tells Him That If
American Troops Are packed His Life Will Be Made
MTslffahle 'Bandits' flat Pershing Is After Block
ade !Wi!l Be One of MFirst Acts of War-In 'Blood
Thicker Than Water' Fajhion England Will Take Care
of American Interests la
itable Break Occurs (frranza Government Tottering
(By the
Washington, June 20.
ters entirely replaced optioysm today in omcial quar
ttThere is a strong feeng that the militia will see
Mexican service. It is considered possible that the gov
- tQxpent Is planning to bottlejbp the Mexican ports.
iris now said the Carralza government is disinte
gratingt and that the first cffief is in desperate straits,
'lie prices of food have been rtiised 300 per cent, in Mex
ico Citv in three weeks. 1
Mobilization of the militia
the States. Orders to move
any lime. While no arrangements have been made to
placethe American diplomatic .and cpnsuls'.business . Jn
othTHThands in Mexico, America can avail herself of the
services of several .nations. In case of war, England
would have charge Vgely of American affairs.
Pershing Throws Gauntlet; Dares Trevno to Face.
El Paso, June 30.-4Defiance by American troops of
Carranza's threat to attack Pershing's ren if they movve
south, east or west, was the most important development
of the last 24 hours. Pushing has sent twp columns south
to Namaquipa after lejrning of bandits activity.
Washington Tells Carrlnza He's Little Short of Dog;.
Washington, June 2D. This government, has threat
ened Oarranza with "gravest consequences" if he at
tacks the American trolps in Mexico. 1
The threnc is contained
tarranza'p last withdrawal
arm diplomatic jabs. Tr
the American forces ouj
of
ranza for his failure to cl
ness, ar d intimates bad f J
ith
za has ignored his obligation
and punish bandits, and that the execution fcf his threat
to attack the troops will rlead to gravest dgisequences."
The.United States blufctly told Carranzathat it can
not "recede from its sett ed determination $o maintain
National rights," and, pre rent further raidslon the bor
der; that it resents Carr; nza's "discourteous tone and
temper" in his last note, j nd charges bandit! have gone
unhampered and unpunished,
ens. .
I he note recites scores
It charges that Carranza ftroops have been
and atrocities even encouraged and aided by
ers. It charges that. Carr zfrza has failed to t,
steps to apprehend Villa aid others.
Mexicans Marching Against Texas Town.
San Antonio, June 20. iReinf orcements we
sent to Del Rio, Texas, f ollolving persistent ru
Mexicans and Yaquis were
Col. Sibley is commanding
Mexico City Wildly Excited,
v Mexico City, June 20.T1
verishly awaited the arrival
rangements were made to flalh its contents to all the re-
puoiic s cities as soon as it isltranslated.i Arrangements
are being made to take 600 ol 700 Americans remaining
nere py a special train to Veri Cruz. I
No Trouble Equipping Army.
- Washington, June 20. Thaiiks to the European war,
America is prepared to equip afid munition its array, the
.war Department officials said tfeday. The only disadvan
tage is the shortage due to the war. The munitions
plants are ready to supply the 'government
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Dares Him
Southern Republic When Inev
Uifited Press)
ssimism over Mexican mat
is proceeding rapidly in all
to the border are expected at
in the long note replying to
demand. It is full of short-
note positively declines to take
Mexico. It exconates Car-
derate, and resents his brusk-
on his part. If says Carran-
to protect Anfei-jcan rights
in attacking American citi
of instances of ba
idit raids.
idifferent,
)me lead
ce proper
e tociay
rs mat
A 1 1
marching to attack
e town.
e garrison.
e Mexican capital tbday fe-
f the American note. Ar
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Do Worst
THE "MIKADO" WHLL
CLOSE THE
CH'TAUQ
Dr. Cadman'd
Lecture Mon
day Night
One of the
Most Enjoj
Week Junl
ible of Entire
Chautau
qua Today
The Bijou Trio
d Dr. S. Parkes
Cadman, the noted
rooklyn preach
er ami lecturer, fu
sned the pro-
gram for Cbautauq
Monday to
lecture of Dr.
gether with the seri
Downey.
The concerts of t.
Bijou troupe
were up to the stand
sical attractions that
lid of the mu-
e preceded
nn the program.
Dr. iCadman's addn
s was one of
the "high" points of
e "seven joy
was "Makers
ous days." His subjei
of America." He developed a most
interesting "genealogy'' of.,the Ameri-
fan republic, tracing the principles
and policies that have been crysta
lized in its making to the earliest
days of man. He pointed out the con
tributions of Egypt, Creece, Rome,
France, Germany and England and
emphasized the Indebtedness of Amer
ica to those countries for these things
that have contributed to make it
great. Dr. Cadman paid his respects
to the historians! and said that only
within the past fefty years had his
torians begun to (vrite facts and con
tribute to literature records that were
worth while. Th true story of re
construction dayji had only been
printed of late years, he said. A
story which fifty years ago could not
have been printed "because it gave of-
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IS MEXICO, THE FOE
WASHINGTON MAKES
SUCH TO-A ABOUT?
Wilson Urges More
Dread-
I;
naughts Daniels
With
Him Tillmai
and Swan-
son Confer X
ith Presi-
dent and Seci
tary
iBy the (Jnit
Press.)
Washington, June
.The Presi-
dent today urged Sei
tors Tillman
and Swanson of the
val Commit
tee to include one. an
if possible,
e navy bill.
two, dreadnaughts in
The President and Sen;
;irs Swanson
and Tillman and Secre
ry Daniels
, ships. The
conferred one hour.
Daniels also wante thi
navy may need more m
he said.
RED MEN MEET WEST
.i
CAROLINA CUT TODAY
Ashevill. . June 19.-Reverting
back to pioneer days, Aslevrlle will
be invaded Tuesday night vy a band
of redskins in full regalia and war
paint, and some interesting! times are
promised. The occasion vlll be the
annual convention of the lorth Car
olina Independent Order of feed Men.
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Subacrib to The Tit Fresa.
as
SLAVS
ARMY AUS
MANS IN
Must Retreat Through the
Mountains oi Intern or
Be Taken Prisoners
HARD FIGHTING IN WEST
Germans Made
?hree Night
Assaults on
ill 321 But
Gained Nai
Reports The
?ht, Paris
Big Guns
Shelled With!
'igor
i-aris, June zu. re uermans re
newed the Verdun attack last night,
thrice attacking the Trench on Kill
321, east of the Meule. They were
repulsed, it is said ofllpially. On the
west bank of the Meise, the Ger
mans bombarded the French at Chat-
tancourt violently.
Big Austrian Army in (Critical Fix!
Petrograd, June 20.4Eighty thou
sand Austrians, retrdltLng in the
Czernowitz region, haveleen corner
ed in Bukowina by the tussians left
wing, fney ere facing capture or re
treat through the Carpathians or
abandoning their arms find entering
Roumania. , .j
hMjtl ft- ! !- iif..'?
DOCTOR 1 PROTECT
EMBERS SOLDIERS
FAMILIES IN CITY
Dr. I. M. Han& Offers Men
Services Fr
Grateful
Boys In
Hive Drab
Thank Well
known rny-
sician Noth
ig hunted
(Daily Free Pre
, June 20)
this afternoon
to address the
Br. Ira M. Hard
was given permissio
non-commissioner ol
ers and pri-
vates of the local m
an agreeable surpri
tia and sprung
by 'informing
them that he would t
e it upon him-
self to care for the f;
ilies of every
man who has an incoi
e of less 'than
$30 a month. Ab:
utely without
or every pcr-
charge would he care
son dependent upon a
oldior during
the latter's absence,
asked that they !be
him immediately.
Dr. Hardy was wa
stated, and
'istered with
thanked by
Only three
the appreciative fellow
of them will get mon
than $30 a
month. Several will
a month.
iw even S3U
It is estimated that
dred persons will be t
Several hun-
js protected.
Obstetrical and all otl
cases will
be given full attention
ous physician.
ly the gener-
Mr. Roland Haynes
of Raleigh
came last night to joil
the Second
Infantry band.
SHREWD, SHREWD, YOU!
"I hope if Uiey do iiftade Mexi
co they will retain a lew thous
and square miles of Itt aad cot it
up into several little fitates." '
Alderman L. P. Tap-everybo-dy
knows him to be a politician
exprcsstd that sentiment this
morning. ' , . ' .
''rVliy. down there. Bext to Tex
as, they'd be Democratic States,"
he said. i
"We-need the Senators r 5 4
WORLD! CITIZEN TO
SPEAK AT
ENDEAVOR MEETING
Dr. Franks E. Clark, the
Most-Taveled Man, Will
Speak at Big Convention
in All
inta He
Knows
Every
fation
(Specialao The Free Press)
Atlanta, GL, June 20. Ptaacis K.
(lark, n.D.,jLL.n., president of the
World's Clititian . Endeavor Union
and founderW the Christian Endea
bor Society.ftvill speak at the great
All-South Christ ian Endeavor Con
vention in tilanta, July 13-1(5.
,Dr. Clark ras just returned from a
six-months' Murney Hawaii, Kor
ea, Japan aM China and the only
convention hHwill address in Ameri-
ica this summer is tho All-south C".
E. ConventiH
Since the first Society of Christian
Endeavor wafc organized 35 years
ago the movdincnt has spread and
grown until today there are 80,000
societies with!tnore than 4,000,000
members, fouiftj in churches of 87 do-
nominations and in every country in
the world.
Dr. Clark is known as "the world's
most traveled man." He has traveled
nearly 1,000,000 miles for Christian
Endeavor and has spoken in every
wuntrfrthi to
the iConvention in Atlanta offers an
otner opportunity to the young peo
ple of the south to hear this wonder
ful man and his treat imessage.
Two other ofncejrs of the United
Society of Chris thin Endeavor .will
be among the spankers at this great
convention. They Daniel A. Pol
ing, Associate Prasidont, and Kurl
Lehmann, Southerr States Secreta
ry; E. T. Gates o ' Chicago, Field
Secretary of the llinois Christian
Endeavor Union ho is considered
the greafest State C. E. Field Sec
retary in America, Iwill also address
this meeting. i
The program forfthis convention is
now ready and cafj be had by ad
dressing L. E. rubaker, Ens.ey
Ala. I
PATRIOTIC DURHAM
CONCERN WILL GIVE
ENLISTED
Private In lis Employ
Drawing $15to Get $45
From Compart Thous
and Soldiers Work for
company in ijeace
(By the Unitci
Press)
Durham, June 20.-
Tho Durham
Hosicry Mills iCompai
one of the
largest hose manufacl
ring concerns
in the country, has
ered ax bonus
to employes respondin
to the mobi
e of its one
ligation order. Everv-
thousand employes be!
nging to the
mnnia wno is presses
into service
will be paid the diffe
nee over his
salary as a soldier.
A soldier will , get
; irom the
company if his salary ij
?G0 a month.
BULLET!
- By the United
PRESIDENTIAL ;
NOMINATIONS, r
Washington, Juno 20. Presi
dent Wilson today nominated R.
W. Whitehad of Virginia to be
Firsts Aaaiatant - Commissioner
of Patents, and S. E. Fouta of
North Carolina to be Examiner-"
GREGORY pKELY TO
GET HUGHES' PLACE
ON BENCHlTIIOUGHT
If Attorney General Is Ap-
pointed HeWill Probab
ly Be Succeeded by Solid
tor-Ccneral il)avis, It Is
Reported
ity n. j. Render,
(United Press Staf CorrcHpondent)
Washington, Juna 20 The work of
selecting the canjftaign committee
was today begun jr the President.
Secretary McAdoori Secretary Burle
son, Senator Taglart of Indiana,
Henry MorgenthaiK former Ambassa
dor to Turkey, Sopitor-General Da
vis and Charles Ri frane of Illinois
are mentioned for membership. It is
possible that Daviap, cannot serve.
Attorney (JeneralMJregory may be
appointed to theijSupreme Court
bench, and in that case Davis would
probably succeed Gregory.
RABBI SOLOM0J TO
LECTURE AT ML'
Chapel Hill, June 19. -Rabbi
George Solomon of Savannah, Ga.,
delivers tomorrow the first of a se
rios of six, lectures, horo on "Repre
arnWrjelwVmerlsilartra
POSTOF
CE DEPT'NT
111!) lil!!
ATENED TO
DECLARE! WAR, ALSO
4.
i
Does Postmaster-General
Believe Norfolk Southern
Will Carr Out Alleged
Promise to Quit Mail Bus
In a liffs
iness
(Daily Free P
ss, June zU)
It is believed e
ry second-class
postmaster in the
owns along the
Norfolk Southern R
road's lines has
been instructed to
bids from u-
to owners for carryi
,g the mails. It
is known that the
ston and New
liern postmasters
structed.
been so in-
The Norfolk Southlrn is reported
o have threatened o summarily
throw up the mail coatract on July
1 if the government &d not comply
with certain demands.
High officials of the Sorfolk South
ern declare that no thR-at has been
made. The action of he Postoflice
Department is in directontradiction
to their statements. L
Should the break ootor Kinston
will provide autos for approximately
half the dislai.ee from mis city to
Goldsboro and half the gistance to
New Bern, as well as to fcoints north
and south. 1
Automobile mail-carryfibg service
would not be nearly so satisfactory,
but would answer in a pfflich, and it
is slated that the government is tak
ing no risk in the negoti&ions with
the Norfolk Southern.
BETTER BABIES Wi
BEGINS IN CLE
Cleveland, June 20."
bies" week began in chu:
throughout Cleveland today.
ing that 80 per cent, of
deaths of infants under one!
r.
1
1
I
haffc
a.
mum
1
Bitter ba-
fftes - and
5 Believ-
Ihe U0G
jjear old
last year could have been prevented,
the Welfare Council began f a cam
paign of education of mothers in the
foreign quarter today. jjjj.'
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MAY BE SOME DAYS
BEFORE THE TROOPS
LEAVE FOR STATION
Unless
Changed
Standing
Orders Wi
Be Carried
Out, Imported
EXTRA MOPY FOR BOYS
They Pocket,75 Cents a Day '
Uncle Sail Gives Them
flit . .
for Rations, and Feed On
Good o
Dad The
Work's aiCinch
Now
(Daily Fref Press. June 20)
The armory i&n Gordon street near
Queen is virtually an army post. It
is tho present' homo of nearly 100
men. lOapt J I. Drown is the "post
commander." i,
When the "soldier lads will leave
for mobilization camp is not known.
'Standing" general orders (provide7
five days at thejbame station after
being called into the service. Should j
here be no change in the general -
orders the troops will accordingly
move Friday or Saturday. ' The ex-
item ent of Monday this morning had
abated aomewhat, iFjinston does not
militia yet. They will be forwarded
the border aa needed. Unless an
emergency arises there is a lot of
A-ork to be done at the mobilization
;amps. 'For instance, medical exami
nation of every officer and man is to
be conducted. Since only one re-
ruit out of five- or more is passed
generally, there pay be a lot of mi-
itiamen thrown lout. However, in
his State the examination generally ,
has been up to the regular standard,
wd the regimenfs in North Carolina
re not expected o lose so many men.
The men now! are drawing from
0 cents per d&m to $1.50. First
sergeants get Hie latter pay. The
hief Musician 'is the highest paid
nlisted man infa regiment, drawing
2.50 a day. fleers draw from al
most $5 to $25 fr $30 a day. Enlist-
d men while Ithey remain at tiie
ome stations pre being allowed 75 -
cnts a day foi rations, which they
must furnish hcmselvea. Needless
0 say, most .them are eating at
.heir homes au pocketing the 75.
The troops n home stations are
required to wjjrk four hours a day.
Captain Brown is allowing his men
to sleep at horn. He is a hard-working
officer, with consideration for the
men under himj
Colored Vet. Gives Advice.
Clay Mettsjipolored, who professes
to have beenftin the famous Tenth
avalry in theWOs, professes to know .
1 lot about Mexicans. Clay most of
Monday evenijfe could be picked out
on Cordon and Queen corner, the
center of a knot of attentive dough
boys. "It's jLipan' that Clay is
afraid of. M
Tough BuRgaft.
Tin soldiersdoes not apply to the
local militia. It is frequently ap
plied to the fancy-dress organizations
in cities. Everywhere they have been
tho Tarheel troops have been singled
out for briskness,, neatness, mark
manship andllhe , Ability to "stay
there" with anybody. A couple of
years ago a cdbipany of the 29th in
fantry, regula had thi misfortune
to be put in front of the Second N. .
C. infantry ona practice march. The
regulars had more than enough of it, '
they professed Theirs was the Job
of keeping the-Tarheels from tread
ing on their hls. .
How It Affects. Industries
Some employers have been hit hard
by the mobilization. Tho city elec
tric plant lost two-thirds of , its
force. . The cHton mills contributed
largely to the force turned out here.
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