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DAILY PRESS The Horn Paper T dy' Nw T!7 . ' ii ii Ji iL- Showers VOL. XVIII.No. 65 FIRST EDITION WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1916 1 ; - , FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS COAST LINE ISSUES ENGLAND IS TO BE ASM TO LAY OFF iNTS MOVE FAST IN MILITARY AND ATIC CIRCLES OF EUROPE; GREECE NOTIi MAY Pip EIIBPO ON'FR'OHT DIPLOS TOBACCO If WITH A C'BINET CHiSIS, SAID 'God Fpipe You, I Can ' Wilson Tejs llai way Executives ni Parting CONFRONTED .'P'"'"":' (By the United Press) ':'. . j Washington, Aug. 30. First attempts to rush strike legislation through Congress were checked . today when hitter charges were made that "certain senators are try ing to make political capital out of the situation." PRESIDENTS DRAMATIC ADDRESS TOT RAILWAY HEADS. Washington, Aug. 30. "No power under heaven' can prevent the strike Mondav, short of a satisfactory settle ment by the railroads," W. B. Lee, the trainmen's leader, today said. "Postponement is not even under considera tion. ' v ' """" ' - ' .V ' "God forgive you, I can't" were the words of presi dent at the close of his final conference with the railway executives. v The railway strike Monday will tie up every piece of rolling stock in ths country, opinion of the broth erhoods. The Strike order includes passenger as well as freight employees. .. WILSON TRYING HOLD OFF STRIKE; BROTHERHOODS STAND PAT. Washington, Aug. 30. President Wilson is today en deavoring to persuade the brotherhoods to withdraw the strike order effective on September 4. Officials say that if the brotherhoods strike while Congress is debating mea sures favorable to labor, there will be such a tremendous reaction in the country against unions that might turn the trend of events. The brotherhood?, show no indica tion of rescinding the order. Congress thus far has only taken up the task. The Interstate Commerce committee of the Senate today announced hearings, at which all in terested are-invited to present their views. SOUTHERN WARNS OF POSSIBLE EMBARGO. Washington, Aug. 30.-Southern Railway issued a warning that an embargo on all classes of ft eight is pos sible within twenty-four hours unless the strike situation clears up. If the strike is thought , within unavoidable the work of clearing the tracks will begin several days in advance. The first freight affected would be perishable foodstuffs. Other Southern carriers are expected to fol low suit. ORDER AGAINST LABOR MY STRIKE. , Omaha, Aug. 30. District Judge SeaTs today issued an order restraining trainmen from striking on labor clay. UNION PACIFIC EMBARGO. KanSas City, Aug. 30. Union Pacific today issued on embargo on all freight unless it 'can be delivered by noon Saturday. President's Message. Washington, Aug. 30. In his mes sage to Congress yesterday after noon in regard to the railroad strike situation, President Wilson, advocat ing more members of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the eight-hour day law, Federal operation in the event of a strike as a "military nec essity," and other things, declared that: "The public has (been made famil iar with tha demands of the men and the arguments urged in favor of them, and even more familiar with the objections of the railroads and their counter-demand that certain privileges now enjoyed by their men and certain bases of payment worked out through many years of contest be reconsidered, especially in their rela tion to the adoption of an eight-hour day. .The matter came some three weeks ago to a final issue and result ed in ' a complete deadlock between the parties. The means provided by law for, the. mediation of the contro versy failed and the means of arbitra- tioij for which the law provides were ! rejected.'. i - 'J ' . ,ioe, representatives or (he ailway -1 (y the ITirti - iM, m Mr ,0 A FEDERAL Mjiri J AtlanM, C Aug. SO. Federal ithpritiea liava siart ed an r : : f atiort into the amazing escape o-J Robert y J ' 1 former German army, officer under- sen--enc4 'Jit years for conspiracy ' and neutrality viola- . lift ' T - " . A TT "I a , "m . m -ycre no report oi ; ;42 well supplied wrili money. -- r "...) ... oilier prisoner. William Knoblerekfi with fay walk i front .entrance of the United States Penitentiary here 'rh tool kits, saying they were oLHg t5 fix arc li?hts mit- de damagod by a bad storm.- - ' . Warden Zerbest' charges carelessness on the part of JW. Potmccy guard at the gate. executives proposed that the demands of the men be submitted in their en tiretry to arbitration, along with cer tain questions of readjustment as' to pay and conditions of employment which seemed to them to be either closely associated with the 'demands r to call for reconsideration on theii own merits; the men absolutely di clined arbitration, especially if any of their established privileges were by that moans to bo drawn agate- in question. The law in the matter put no compulsion upon them. The four hundred thousand mn from whom the aemands proceeded had voted to strike if their demands wera refused; the strike was imminent; it h. fincc been. set for the fourth of Septem ber next. It affects the man who man the freight trains on practical ly every railway in the country. Crippled Freight Service. "The freight service throughout tl.e United States must stand "ti11 mtil their places are filled, if, indeed, it ghpuld prove possible to fill xhe-n at ail. Cities will bi cut off from thjir food supplied tie wl the natio;V::i " i-a wnole commerce of aralyzed,.men of every. sn r. 1 occupation ' will be f .. .... . ff" ??3jp i Press) .. rays capture yet. It is thrown out of employment, countless thousands will in all likelihood be brought, it may be, to the very point of starvation, and a tragical national calamity brought on, to be added to the other distresses of the tinw, be cause no basis ot accommodation or settlement has been found. "It seemed to me, in considering the subject matter of the controversy'; that the whole spirit of the time and the preponderant evidence of recent economic experience spoke for the eight-hour day. ''It has been adjudged by the thought and experience of irecent years a thing uppn which society u justified in insisting as in the inter est of health, efficiency,' contentment and general increase or economic vig or." Executive's Efforts. The President told of offering "the friendly services of the Administra tion," and his plan for a settlement, stating that: "The representatives of the broth erhoods accepted the plan; but the re presentatives of the railroads declin ed to accept it; In the face of what I cannot but regard as the practical ! certainty that they will be ultimately obliged to accept the eight-houi day by the concerted action of organized labor, backed iby the favorable judg ment of society, the representatives of the railway management have felt justified in declining a peaceful setr tloment which would engage all the forces of justice, public and private, on their side to take care of the event. "ThejV fear the hostile influence of shippers, wKSllSePi increase of freight ratesx(for which, however, of course, the public itself would pay); they apparently feel no confidence that the Interstate Coni picrce Commission could withstand the objections that would - be made. They do not care to rely upon the friendly assurances, of the Congress or the President, They fcave thought it best that they should! be forced to yield, if they must yield, not by coun sel, bot by the suffering of the coun try. . "While my conferences with them were in progress, and when to all out ward appearance those conferences had come to a standstill, the repre sentatives of the brotherhoods sud-.. denly acted and set the etrike for the fourth of September. 1 Twins to Congress. : "I yield tono man in firm adher ence, alike of conviction and of pur pose, to the principle of arbitration in industrial disputes;, but matters have come to a sudden crisis in this particularlispwte and the country had been caught unprovided with . any practicable means of enforcing that conviction in practice (by whose fault we wiil not now stop to inquire). . A situation had to be met whose ele ments end fixed conditions were indis putable. V , "Dut I could only propose. I could not .goy&rn the will of, others who took an entirely different view of the circumstances to be what they have" turnerf out to be. , - "Having failed to bring the parties 1 this .critical controversy to an ac commodation, -therefore, I turn .to yon, deenjing it, clearly our duty, as puMc servants "lo5 ?eve nothing an dene tkat we can do .safeguard the life and interests of the nation." .Then followed tnA recommendations with the" 'concluding -words: "rhose things I urge ppon' you, iot in . baste or merely ?s a means of meeting a present emergency, but as permanent and necessary additions to the law of he land, suggested, ; In deed, by circumstances we Tiad hoped never, to see, but imperative as well as just, if such emergencies are to be prevented in the future. I feel that no extended argument is reeded to commend them to your favorable con sideration.,. They demonstrate them eelves. The time and the occasion wi ly give emphasis to their importance. We ntod them now and we shall con tinue to need them." 1 Subscribe to Toe Free Press. -vf .1.- .... J.. In the L'y.h bv the lour sanizatiuitM, to become on Monday, September a. m., you will notify .that it may become neceB.safy- within, the next twenty-four flours to place an embar go on ll freight loaded on our lhies Bii dcutincd to foreign linen" i . I . - That w? a telegram received ai tho loc fflk-cs of the Atlantic Coast Line today, A 'similar order was r ceived ntfright stations in other places, auR tho instruction is suppos ed to have! been, general. Tho Staer of Wilmington, in which city tho general offices of the A. C. L. are located, this morning had to say m pajt't ot tno strike situation, which has aroused intense interest there: s "While !e THiJrouds of the West nnd other 'parts of the country are embargoes on perishable freights frid giving notice that all freights ajre accepted only subject bo delays, except such shipments as can be delivered before next Monday, no "such ,ictio$ bis yet been taken by the Atlantic Coast Line, or, so far as known hej, by the Seaboard Air T.ne. However, notice has been sent out from ..the general offices of tho Coast Lin here that such action may He found necessary in the immediate future 'Just wf.t action the Atlantic Coast Ln; may take in this mattaN Mr. R. Am Brand, fourth. vice-presi dent, whojs head of tho traffic de partment, Icould not say last night. but he intimated that the company v.'fiuld base? its actions upon conditions iM - lJiJf - dloi. 'The action of the railroads in placing an embargo on perishable freights, livestock, etc., and accepting other freights subject to delay,; is in snticipation of the threatened strike of the 400,000 trainmen next Mon day morning at 7 o'clock, which would so far as can be seen now, demoral- ze traffic on 225 railroads. Those oada tbut aro refusing to accept per ishable freight are doing so as a pro tection against bejng unable to deliv er shipments' after 7 o'clock next Monday morning. Some of the rail roads are refusing to accent butter. ggs and similar commodities. "As announced by railroad manncr- IHSUCU labtir effectivo 4, at 7 h tsliippcrf An" t ; .' "v . ,. : - ; $ X ' " . - A y . x " Hn - . ; Y rrr , v- i ; ' M ! i $ . 1 V- ' l!t Is - ; ,4 ... ,tc 'V"-J 4; I A', i (Tl t ft A, tgnKA GOODRICH ' ' k - ' . . '-. 'i ' - - 4 IV ' - m !'J?'-. ;v; J--rJ- ' ' -'"I if - -m i . -i j. i,.- - , , , 4 v. . t ,'ir V'" ;- I I : ,.,,k::;. . Ard- -.Kr' ' U &p an e is a orir, i n' -1 v? uanious PloyerSrParamoun? lkl: i r ; '''Madame Butler fly Washington,, Aug. 20 Full support of the government was promised by Secretary Rinsing today to 75 tobac co planters of Virginia, Maryland North Carolina, Kentucky and Ten nessee who were here to protest against Creat Britain's action in re newing restrictions '. upon tobacco (shipments to neutral countries. A demand that the restrictions be re moved probably will be sent by the State Department shortly. ers iii Washington last night, tbe va rious railroads are not acting in con cert in this matter, but each road v handling this part of the problem in dependency of the other railways. Ii such action should be taken by the railroads generally throughout the country within a day or two, the pub lie would, even tins weoK, begin to feel me effects of tho impending strike, which if carried out as planned by the trainmen,' would absolutely step the transportation of food sup plies, as well as all otber commodi ties. N In that event, it would not be long before the people, even in a city no larger than Wilmington, w6uld fots gin to wonder where the next week's rations wore coming from. , "There was tho most, intense local interest in tlis serious aspect of the strike situah'on last night. ( "The posting; of news that the rail roads have already begun to declare embargoes' -on freight was perhaps (ho most disconcerting... information yst served $o the local public, bring ing closn to them what a nation-wide strike of the trainmen Would mean even to Wilmington. . While perhaps the local community l as near eelfr siratainin? ai any'commtmity in the vvotij, no oho seemed disposed to minimize the locar effect an factual brt'ak 'would Mng about. In one re spect 'at least Wilmington would not suffer a complete cut-off from tha rest of the -world by reason, of its steamship lines and the various boat lines to tho interior and around th coast to scacoast counties of the Ca rolcnas. "More, provident housuholders are ported as early as several days ago io have comfortably provided the family larder against the duy when provisions would cease to reach here frcm the .jranarfes and "smokehouses of the West." . ' . Zaimis Ministrys Resignation Predicted Kaiser Chops Off Diplomatic Heads In Ire Over Failure to Influence Roumariia for Central Powers' Cause Von Hinden burjr Goes to Chief of Staff AVith Dismissal of Falkcn hayn Von Mackcnscn to Command All Teuton Arm ies in East Roumanian Horsemen Well Inside Tran sylvania and Threatening Hermannstad, First Object ive of Invasion of Hungary, Reported (By the United Press) London, Aug. 30. Roumanian cavalry have crossed the Red Lower Pass, three miles inside of the Transyl- . vanian border, and are but a few "miles from the City of Hermannstad, says Zurich dispatch to the Central News. 1 The resignation of the Greek cabinet, headed by M. Zaimis, is, foreshadowed on account of Roumania's en trance into the war, according to an Athens dispatch. Radical changes m the atic personnels followed Roumania's declaration. Dis patches from Berlin conhrm the. dismissal of General Jfal feenhayn, chief oh the general staff, and the appointment of Von Hindenburg to the vacancy. Vor Mackensen will probably, succeed Von Hinden-bure- iii suDreme command on the eastern front. It is re- i ported that the. Kaiser ha's ordered the dismissal of all diplomats responsible for the Roumanian failure. Roumanians Reported Defeated. " Berlin. Autr. 30. The feated at Verestrony Pass,. on the railway to Hermannstadt, it is semi-omcially stat ed. ' : v:' French Advance in Balkans. Paris, Aus. 30. The French have advanced West of the Vardar river in the Balkans. Artillery is active on the Struma front around Lake Dorian.. " FIELD IN PALMETTO VERNORSHIP RACE (By the Unitetl Press) Columbia, S. C.Uug. 29. With xbout one-third of the expected vots heard from' unofficially in tho state wide Democratic primary, indications tonight are that former Governor Cole Eleaae will make a second race for the gubernn.toriul nomination igainst Richard I.,. Manning, tha in- -timbent, or Robert A," 'Cooper. Blease has a long lead over his op ponents but apparently lacks the ma jority necessary for nomination Iii CRUISER MEMPHIS WRECKED IN SANTO DOMINGO HRi IS TOTAL LOSS; SCORE OF MEN liEPORT'D LOST (By the United ' Washington, Aug. 30. All but twenty men of the 990 aboard the cruiser Memphis were saved when the ship was swept on to a rocks in a heavy sea. The ship was sunk in Santo Domingo Harbor, officially stated at the navy . department. Ten seriosly injured and sixty-seven siigh tly hurt. Rear Admiral Pond, at San Domingo City, cabled the Navy Department that the armored cruiser would be a total lossand although it was expected all on board would be savetL20 men returning to the ship from shore leaVe' y in a motor boat had been drowned. . v . v The United States gunboat Castine managed to escape by putting to sea. . , . , j - The Memphis formerly was the armored cruiser Ten nessee. .Her name was changed May 25, last. Recently she has been doing duty in San Domingo waters in con nection with the revolution. The Memphis was pf 14,500 . tons and has a horse power of 23,000. Her complement is 990 men. She was the flag ship of the cruiser force of the United States fleet. ; ; Tha Memphis was launched in 1904 at the Cramp Ship building Company's plant in, Philadelphia. She had a speed of over 22 knots an hour. , She is armed with four 10-inch, sixteen 6-inch, 24 3-inch and four 0-pounder guns and carried four torpedo tubes, bhe was ov- feet lon c?i the water hne, to feet ream of 2G 1-2 feet. German military and diplom Roumanians have been de south of the Red Iiower Pass, . 7v. -. DANIELS M.5KES APPEAL FOR PROGRESSIVE VOTE Thorndike, Maine, Aug. 20 -In his address here today Hon. Josephu Pahicls, Secretary of the Navjvwh r claims to be a Prdgressivo who has "started" on tho road to real reforms and "cannot stop" until, netftJaJ re- . forms are accompli jhsd, spoke main- -ly upon t'ho -debt incore members ot the pTOfrrf!sivo party owed to Wood row Wilson for' carryinft out the measures they favored 'in" 1912, and' appoalod to them to support Wilson ; as tho only candidate who Incarnated . tho best principles enunciated by the Progressive party. Mr. Dulanoy Wootcn of, Alabama, a former Lenoir county man, is here visiting .his kinsman, Dr. II. Tull. 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