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VltEA MUST FIGHT B
FT3?' CARRANZI5TAS; CLASH INEVIFBLf
More United States Troops
Keep Open Lines of jCpjnmunicatin--Mexican Govern
ment Forces Panning to ncircle Jianit Army and
Thrge Cftluinns Under Pershing Rapidly Approaching
gce$ejftWjjjf of Enenient Eagerly Awaited Along
BorderIf Outlaw Chief Has Gotten way It WjU
Take Many Weeks to Capture Him, However 2,700
More Cavalry Hastening
(By the United Press)
Washington, March 22. Twenty-seven hundred caval
rymen are speeding to the border to reinforce Pershing
in resjponse to funson's appeal. Trams are today speed
ing to the border from all sections. There may be need
for still more troops, it is thought.
Unless He's Escaped, Iust fgh Today.
San Antonio, March 22. Pershing is at Lake Babri
corp, and Dodd is between Elvalle and Namiquipa, while
the third American column is at Carmen. Contact with
Vifla is inevitable today unless he has escaped through
the territory between the Americans and Carranzistas to
thg South. ' If Villa has succeeded in getting away weeks
or months will be added to the chase.- Reinforcements
are needed to strengthen the line of communication. The
Carranzistas are in a complete ring, planning to surround
Villa., . - . "
No,Comm'unication Witfc Pershing. . r
El rasp, March 22. A great silence has fallen over the
operations of Pershing in Mdxicol -Cut off from the hor
de, his field wireless has failed. The VilUstas have cut
the Juarez telesrraoh. The troops have not been heard
frm since they wWe reported Hearing the bandits yes
terday. A party is searching for two aviators lost in
the desert or mountains ami
AND TOWNS
GoldsboWrPhilatheas and Baraca-s
are preparing for the joint State con
vention of the societies in that town
on Aptfl 27r30. f
Tuesday was -the anniversary of the
famous Federal entry into Goldsfaoro,
in 1865. Grant visited the .place soon
afterwards to confer with Sherman.
The funeral of the late Dr. W. E.
Ileaden of Morehead City was held
there late Tuesday. Dr. Headen, who
was well-known to the medical pro
fession throughout the State, died at
forganton, N. C, Sunday afternoon.
'Construction of an annex to the
Craven county courthouse at New
Bern is about, to ibeghu -
STATE PRESIDENTIAL
i PRIMARIES THICK AND .
FAST FOR FEW WEEKS
(Washington, iMarch' 22. With pri
maries in Indiana. Minnesota, New
Hampshire, and North Dakota out of
the way, candidates on both sides of
the political fence are awaiting the
voice of people from sixteen primary
state. OProm now until June 6 the
primaries will be frequent! "
Here as the latest list at political
ieadquarbers in Washington, with the
jjbujiiber of delegate to ibe named:
Wisconsin, April 4,4 26; New York,
April 4, 88; Illinois, April 4, 68; Iowa,
Aril, 10, 26; Nebraska, April 18,16;
Oregon, April 18, 10; Massachusetts,
April 25. 36; Maryland, May 1, 16:
California, May 9, 26; Ohio, May
48; Pennsylvania May 16 76 ' ' New
Jersey, May 23, 28; South Dakota,
June 6, 10; West Virginia Jun 16.
pjUHOSIAG. O.P.N0T
TO INSTRUCT DELEGATES
, Oklahoma City, Okla, March 22
Even the most astuto politicians In
- fehe.State admitted that the result of
the Republican . State convention,
jich opened here today, could bes4
M expressed present brt big
question, mark.'. Roosevelt, Hughes
and Borah are the favorites. An un
instructed delegation appeared to be
the im& probable outcome. -
EFflRE END THIS DAY
Being pushed to Border to
to the Line
xacixig suu-vauuiju.
PUTINS
(By the United Press)
NORWAY CALLS UPON GERMANY
TO EXPLAIN.
Copenhagen, Mar. 22. The
Norwegian government has asked
Germany for an explanation of
the sinking of the bark Silius,
carrying seven Americans in
crew, and the steamer Langeli,
say dispatches.
EARTHQUAKE IN AUSTRIA.
Amsterdam, Mar. 22. Hun
dreds of houses in the Austrian
towns of Bribar and Grizane
have been destroyed by an earth
quake, say Vienna dispatches. . ;
PROTESTS RATES TO
CAROLINAS ETC.
Washington, March 22. Scott
Paper, Co.' has complained to the
Interstate Commerce : Commis-
. sion ; of ' alleged . unreasonable
rates from Philadelphia to North
Carolina, 'South Carolina, Geor
gia and Alabama.
RUN FOR OFFICE TO BE
f (
VACATED BY BICKETT?
The name of Judge George ConnoT
of Wilson is befog imentioned in con
nection with the alttorney-generalship,
it is said in Raleigh. The News and
Observer of that city said today that
Judge Connor is presiding over court
there and that mention' of him as a
possible candidate "came close upon
:the talk about tha. possible entry of
former Solicitor N. A- Sinclair of
Fayetteville. .
Ever since it became , known that
Bickett, ithe incumbent, would make
the run for Governor there has been
a great deal of interest centered in
the attorney generalship, because of
the large number of aspirants and
possible candidates..
COAST GUARD CUTTER IS
TO REMAIN AT WILMINGTON
' Washington, March 21 The Treas
ory' Department has notified Repre
sentative ' Godwin that Sthe coast
guard cutter will be permitted to re
main at WSlmSngton. 'Mr. Gowin said
Secretary JJaniels made this, action
possible by sending a destroyer to
San Juan to relieve Xhe Itasca.
GERMANY DID NOT STIR
MEXICANS UP, DECLARED
Officials at Berlin Deny Rumor Thai
Empire Sought to Make Trouble
for United States South of the Kiq
Grande Kaiser Wanta Peace anti
Order, "Same .as Other Nations"!
By CARL W. ACKERMAN,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
, Berlin, March 22. I have been
authorized to deny emphatically a ru
mor that Germany was responsible
for American troubles in Mexico,
Germany followed dn America's steps
in recognizing Carranza. She wants
the same as other countries, peace
and order, I am told.
GERARD WONT COME
HOME THIS SUMMER
Ambassador at Berlin Gives Up Idea
of Returning for Summer Vaca
tjon International Complications
Might Come Up Which Subordin
ate Could Not Handle, Believed
Gave No Reason
(By Carl W. Ackerman)
Berlin, Mar. 22. Ambassador Ge
rard today announced that he had can
celled his arrangements for a vaca
tion and will not return Ito America
in the summer. No explanation was
made. It is 'believed he feels that im
portant matters are possible of aris.
war incapable of being iiandled by a
subordinate. .
No Peace Overtures, Says
Washington.
Washington. March 22. The Pres
ident and Department of State un
equivocably denied a etory that Am
bassador Gerard had postponed his
vacation at the request of the Ger
man chancellor, owing to prosipecits
for peace. There has been no intim
ation that Germany wants America
to act as mediator, it is said, nor no
suggestion that America is1 xpeeted4fflcjany. Eapeteially heavy was the
to lead the way. The Ackerman sto-
Ithat Gerard postponed his vaca
tion 'because of important matters
that might come up is expected to
be held true.
1P4PSWSMP
TO SERVE p A JURY,
SAYS KINSTON JUDGE
An Elizabeth City dispatch to 'a'
Norfolk paper quotes Judge Oliver H.
Allen of Kinston, who is holding court
at pizabeth City, as saying:
"To serve on a jury is a good thing
for any man. It not only broadens a
man's mind, but it brings him in
closer touch with legal matters that
will some day be of Merest to him.
The man that keeps at one thing all
the time ia only fit for that one thing.
He knows nothing more. But the man
that mixes or the man Ithat serves on
a jury has his mind broadened to such
an extent that he is more capaMe of
doing things than ever before."
fAypjIT f LA GRANGE
The LaGrange police detained Jan
automobile ,. containing Samuel and
Vernon Mooring, 'Bill Ulter and Carl
Fields and nearly 35 pints of whis
ky alt that place early this morning.
The occupants of Ithe machine were
arrested, all giving bond for trial. The
machine was held. The police are
said to have been informed from
Goldsboro that the whisky was be
ing carried to LaGrange from Nor
folk. , .
WORRY OYER GERMAN
REVERSES SENT HIM
f 0 jtEIGH ASYLUP
(By the United Press) f
Durham, March 22. Brooding
over the German losses at Ver
dun caused the mental breakdowa
of Robert H. Cowan, a Spanish
War veteran . and prominent
North Carolina newspaperman
and German sympathizer, who
was committed to State Asylum
at Raleigh today.
The Wilson Times is suggesting a
union passenger station for that town.
V
IIAVE10ST HOPE OF
' i
tT
French War Office Believes
. Offensive Is Practically
Abandoned
THREE COSTLY ATTEMPTS
Resulted In No Material
Gams "Greatest Disas
ter Since Marne," Is Ver
dict of Military Critics of
Allies Drive Ended
(By William Phillip Simms)
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Paris, Mar. 22. The ithird and proiv
ably last phase of the Verdun offen
sive has ended, say dispatches. Ger
man successes at the Avaneourt wood
were only minor, it is declared The
war olfices gay;i the German failel
elsewhere. It is not believe ' they will
tvnew their assaults on the North
ern front soon. The great drive end
ed in what the French believe to be
the greatest German disaster since
Maroei
Russian Gains Over AuHtrians.
London, March' 22. The Austrian
fron't near Dneister has been broken
at several points by the Russian of
fensive, say Petrograd dispatches.
The Austrians suffered losses in the
retreat, several hundred having been
drowned.
Fighting In We8t a Night.
Paris, March 22. Violent artillery
fighting occurred last night on the
northwest front at Verdun, it is said
cannonading at Malancourt, on Hau-
court Hill,,and at the village of Es-
nes. The Germans failed to renew
their infantry attacks.
Turks Evacuate Another City.
Amsterdam, March 22. The Turks
have evacuated the Armenian city of
Erzingan, their headquarters, fol
lowing the Erzerum defeat, mxyl Bu
charest dispatches. They hlew up
the munitions depot there before
leaving.
Russian Offensive Near Riga.
Berlin, March 22. The Russians
are violently assaulting Von Hinden-
burg's front on the ,south and south
east of Riga, jt is said officially. The
attacks have all been repulsed.
TEXAS TOWN WIPED
OUT BY FIRE WITH
DAMAGE IN MILLIONS
Twenty Thousand of Popu
lation of Paris Homeless.
Two-thirds of City In
Ruins Most Stores Ob
literated ReUef Work
(By the United Press)
Paris, Tex., March 22. Two-thirds
of the business and residential sec
tions of Paris were destroyed by fire
with a loss of between two and three
and a half millions. Twenty thousand I
of the population are homeless.
The relief work has already stajU
ed. Not a hotel, dry goods store, or
wholesale grocery or drug . store is
left, and but a few retail stores.
FARTHEST JjORTH R. R.
READY IN COMING YEAR
(By the United Press) . I
Winnipeg, Man., March 22. Hud
son Bay Railway, running from Win
nipeg north as near to he North
Pole as railways go, will be complet
by the fall of 1917, an announce
ment ,today said. , It is planned ta
put the railway lthrough Jo KeWJe
Rapids, 90 miles from Hudson Bay,
by the fall of this year... The plan of
the road is to run as far north as
the seasons permit. . -
REPORTED BREACH OF
NEUTRALITY BY SLAVS
Bucharest Dispatch Says Russian
Man-oMYar Torpedoed German
Ship In Roumanian Harbor Took
Crew Prixoncrs Prey Flew Fh
Colors and Double Seta of litem
(By the United Press)
Bucharest, March 22. The German
steamer Ezperanza, of 7,000 tons
carrying food from Constantinople,
was torpedoed and sunk by n Russian
warship in the Roumanian port of
Kiliakra Sunday, say dispatches. The
crew was taken prisoners. The ship
was flying the Spanish and Roumani
an flags.
CYCLONE HURLS A
TRAIN FROM TRACK
Three Trainmen Injured at Marion,
I nd. Passengers Escaped Lost
Their Clothes As They Abandoned
Cars in Night Terrific Wind Blew
Roofs Off and Started Fires, Re
ported. ,
(By the United Press)
Marion, Ind., Mar. 22. Three
trainmen were injured, but a score
of passengers escaped when a cyclone
threw three cars of a train down an
embankment near here early today
The nightclothes of escaping passen
gers were Mown on. The storm un
rooted a number of buildings and
caused fires.
One Person Reported Dead.
M-unoie, Ind., Mar. 22. Hartford
City and Monbpelier advices tolls of
thousands of dollars' damage done by
last night's storm. A girl is reported
to huve been killed at Monbpelier
and three factories wrecked, business
blocks unroofed and a church damag
ed.
USED FIRE ALARM TO
DRILL; PUBLIC SORE
(By the Eastern Press)
Washington, N. C, March 22 Thi
town
Vhated. like , thunder," in the
words of a prominent Citizen, to part
it
with tts fireball. It took a lotl of
nerve on the part of the aldermen to
nstall an automatic alarm system
n the lace ot sentimental opposi
tion. The hell could be heard for ten
m'iles, was the gift of women Ito the
municipality, and was almost a hun
dred yea'rs old.
N,ow another prominent citizen
has come forward with tho declara
tion ithat the alarm system "is a nuis
ance." Frequent false alarms wor
ried Ithe firemen and citizens; but the
sounding of the riot call to turn the
naval militia out for drill "was the
limit." The .Ire chief denies that he
gave the zealous commanding office
of tho sailors permission to use the
alarm equipment for any such "idio
'iw" purpose.
TRENCH TELEPHONE
PLAYS FUNNY TRICK
ON ENGLISH TOMMY
(By the United Press.)
London, March 22. Even the tel
ephones in the trenches play tricks
once in a while, according to an offi
cer just back front the front This
officer was in charge of a telephone at
an advanced posit. He was talking to
another officer at anotiher post when
the line went wrong. After many mo
ments of silence the instrument buz
zed loudly and he heard a sweet ten
male voice demand: 'Number please.'
Exasperated at what appeared to be
a bad joke, he asked for his home
number in London. Andther short
pause and another female voice was
heard. It was his wife in London.
Joyous greetings were soon inter
rupted by other voices which explain
ed that the trench lina had been
crossed with the main headquarters
line connected with London.
NEW nANOVER ROADS TO '
BE SHADED BY PECANS
Wilmington, March 21. -New Han
over commissioners will, introduce a
novelty in Ithis section , iy planting
1,000 pecan trees by the side of the
county roads.
TO START WORK ON
STANTONSB'IIG LINK
VERY SOON, STATED
t .
Norfolk Southern Reported
to Be Strengthening Tres-
ties on K.-j. II. Line Pre
paratory ,to Hanging
Heavy Trains
Rumors emanating from author!
tative sources say work on tho Snow
Hill-iStantonsburg shortcut of the
Kinston-Snow Hill Railroad will be
commenced within (sixty days. Ma
terials are now going over the Kins
sHon-Snow Hill road -from hero for
culverts and the strengthening of
trestles, preparatory to passage of
heavy trains of materials for con
struction of the additional sixteen
miles over the lino.
The extension ito the Raleigh divi
sion of the Norfolk Southern at Stan-
tonsiiurg will give ureene county a
more direct rail outlet to tho North.
Kinston is expected to be considera
bly benefited, .'too. Trains will bo op
erated from Hew Bern to the Raleigh
division and the distance to Raleigh
and Wilson from Kinston and all
points east of here will be shortened
by many miles. At least two trains
a day will ibe run, it is believed,
whereas, there is now but one train
a day from Kinston to Snow Hill, re
turning the morning after.
This is the second important short
cut to be built by the Norfolk South
ern and its subsidiaries within a few
years, 'yne Bishop's uross-JJelhaven
shorit lino has proved of great value
and a great deal of traffic tis handled
over if 1 '' . t
?now Hill people traveling to tho
North or , West now have to come to
Kinston and then go to Goldsboro to
take passage on a through train.
MAN WHO KILLED HIS
FpUR CHILDREN Afip
SELF WA OUT JOB
Greensboro, Mfirch 21. D. G
FaSterston, who early - this morniing
killed his four children and himself,
was a naittve ot Liberty, and for a
number. of years he was yard fore
man for the Southern Railway Com
pany heuie and drew a salary of $125
month. Several months ago he
lost this position. After some little
ime ispent in a vain effort Ito get an
other place, he went to Hopewell,
Va., the magic city, and lost his sav
ings in the restaurant Business. He
returned to the city and led his wife
to.ibelieve that he was again in the
employ of the railway. Yesterday be
ing railroad pay day, he had no ex
cuse he could give his wife for not
having money, and this and his finan
cial troubles drove him to commit the
deed, it is believed. He was about 50
years of age.
BIRD PROTECTION WOULD
SAVE EIGHTY MILLIONS
Winnipeg, Man., March 22. Game
preservation in Manitoba, North Da
kota and Minnesota was argued here
today by the Audubon Society. De
claring that it represented "the 96
per cent, of the population tthat does
not shoot prairie chicken." the socie
ty asks for laws protecting the bird
whose eggs, it says, have largely
been destroy by .frost. The protec
Uon of plover, woodcocks, snipes and
sandpipers would save North Amer
ican agriculture $80,000,000 a year,
the society says, bocause these crea
tures live on seeds and insects.
BIG ATTENDANCE AT THE
BAPTIST WOMEN'S CONVN
Winston-Salem, March 21. The
first session of the Baptist Woman's
Missionary Union was held in the
First Baptist church here tonight.
The annual sermon was delivered by
Rev. Livingston Johnson of Rocky
Mount There are fully 500 dele
gates here from every part of the
State, and more are arriving on
every train, V , r
FEDERALIZATION OF
THE MILITIA Bfli
THRESHED
Hay Bill Consideration ; in
House Halfway Complet
ed, It Is Stated j
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SENATE HAS JODp IN
Preparedness Main Busi
ness in Upper House Now
Tillrnan Bill Passed, In
crease for West" Point Up
and Army Bill Is lect i
(By the United Press)
Washington, March 22-r-The House
is halfway through with ' the army 0
bill. ' -
The Senate totlay joined in the con
sideration of preparedness legation.
The passage of Chamberlain's ' bill
doubling West Poinlt'a capacity will",
be followed up by the army ball.
The crucial test of the Hay bill is
now due. The House is debating fed
eralization of the militia. The Till- .
man armor plate 'bill' passed 'the Sen
ate late yesterday. "
NEW BERN OFFICER
CERTAIN GLASS BQY
WAS IN E. CAROLINA
"Chief Luptonhas"sent a message
to Mrs. Charles Glass, the mother of
the lost James Glass, stating that he'
positive Ithat her. son has ibocn m'
this section. Ho assured her that ev-"
try effort will be made to locate JiimJ
said the New : Bern ' Sun-Journal '
Tuesday evening. The New Bern po
lice chief says that a woman mem-'
ber of the only gypsy iband iri 'the
section,' now in Martin 'ounty,'Ieft'
the band at Washington, probably be-'
fore thoir camp "there 'was searched, -and
with two children in her charge
passed through New Bern and Kin
ston to Goldsboro. The police' at
Goldsboro. Lupton is quoted as say
ing, saw a boy answering the descrip
tion given of James Glass, kidnapped
in Pennsylvania last May. ' "
It was this informaliop from New'
Bern probably that led Airs.' tikis to
make a statement to a New England
news agency Tuesday that she had a
"definite clue" that her son was 'near
here. The statement was mentioned, "
in a story in Tuesday's Daily Yee
Press, j -
FIRE AT TENNESSEE
COPPER PLANT DOB
TWO MILLIONS DAMAGE
(By the United Press) ?
iCopper Hill, Tenn., March 22.-As-sistant
Supt, George Strohl was kill
ed and more than a million dollars'
damage done by a fire which des
troyed two buildings at the Tennes
see Copper Co.'s factory here today. ;
HOW CHAPEL HILL WILL
- HONOR SHAKESPEARE
t
Chapel Hill; lifarcio.pians r f ot
the fitting observance here of the Ter
centenary of ' Shakespeare's death,
have advanced sufficiently to " indi
cate that the celebration will be car
ried out on a large scale; the entire
community taking part in the various
productions. .. -v
COHON SELLS HIGH
V BUT BREAKS LITTLE
About ten bales of "cotton h;iJ been
sold here today. by -5-o'clock. The
high price was' 11.70, but f a mark
et broke. Cood' cotton probably
would have brought about 11:50 at
the close. New York futures quota
tions were: f Open Close
May .. .11.03 11.05
July .,' 12.10 12.13
October .. ....... ....120 12.15
December I2."i 12.? I
January lMl 12 '1
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