North Carolina Newspapers

lit Associated Press is eii'.-sJTt-ly sntltled to tie km far tepEt'J cstioa of all news die;U5iee cred ited to it or not otherwise crsfiitsi la tbia psper and alio tie feed sewi published herein. . WEATEEU For Nwn i vvi-uuiui, riur mhii cfu.ior night.- Satarday fair. Mod erate northwMt wind. 'filtllf VOL.26.NO. 10. HIGH POINT, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 6, 1916. FIVE CENTS. German -PrOpoganda- Activities ..In Malion re'Expbsedl i F I E Yanks and Allies to Occupy Ger man Capital to Exercise Police Authority, so German Paper Asserts is Gleaned from Wireless Picked Up. DISORDERSS REPORTED IN THE STREETS OF BERLIN May Be That Terrorist Revolution Wich Was to Have Been Start ed Friday Evening is Already Under Way Liebknecht Has Big Force. Copenhagen, Dec. 6 (By As sociated Press.) Allied and American forces will temporarily occupy Berlin as exreising police supervision, according to the Deutsche Allgeineins Zeitung, of Berlin, which says that an Ameri can wireless dspatch to that effect was intercepted oy Germany, me newspaper says that Mannheim will be similarly occupied. The reasons for thil act on the part of the allies is said to be a regrettable incident, when the su pervisor of a prison camp shot three Frenchmen. SERIOUS DISORDERS NOW OCCURRING IN BERLIN -London, Pe tBy Associated Press.) Serious disorders have oc curred in' Berlin and considerable firing has occurred la the principal streets, according to reports reaching the Dutch-German frontier, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam. The trouble Is said to have been caused by German Bol shevik. The Zurieh .correspondent ot the Paris Journal reported Thursday that he had received advices that a terrorist revolution would break out in Berlin Friday evening. The revo lution, the correspondent added, would be led by Liebknecht, radical socialist, who was said to have 15, 000 well-armed men in his com mand. , ' INFLUENZA CAUSES MANY DEATHS DURING MONTH More Thaa 50 Pw Cent of Death lu the Oily Due Directly or In directly to InfluensM. Vital statistics for the city and for High Point township outside the city show that the deaths ex ceeded the births during the month of November. Thirty-nine deaths were reported in the city as against 31 births. Of the 29 deaths re ported 21 were directly or indirect ly due to influents making the dis ease the caupe of more than 60 per cent, ot the deaths occurring in the city during the past month. High Point township outside the city reported 15 deaths and IS births. Twelve of these 16 deaths ware due to influenza or pneumonia. . following influensa, making ; tafia nza the cause of 80 per cent, of the deaths ' These figures show Id fluenza and complications developed from Influenza to ? have been the cause of 6 per cent, of the deaths in the whole of High Point town- .ship. v tfl BURNS CAUSES THE DEATH i OP, MIW. R. L. BLACKMORE Warsaw, Dec Mrs. R. L. Blackmore died at her home Sunday night from burns received two weeks 'ago. While making soap in a pot in the yard her clothing caught Are, and before it could be extinguished, she had been painfully and serious ly burned. : Although everything possible was done for her comfort, she suffered Intensely until the end came, i The deceased who was 7 1 years , old,' Is survived by her hus band, and one son, RomuluB Black more, of this city. The funeral ser vices were - held Monday afternoon, .andjnt.erment..inadelnthejoeal cemetery.- - - " in OB UN Improving Export Situation Causes V Advance In Cotton New York, Dec. 6. The improv ing export situation led to further advance at the opening of the cot ton market today. First pricej were 5 to 25 points up and active months ing tiie early trading with December sold 17 to 25 points net higher dur touching 28.00, Januaiy, 27 00 and March 25.83. There as a good dea lof realizing at this level, how ever, and reactions followed, Jan uary easing oft to 26.65 and March to 25.58 or 2 to 8 points net lower before the end of the first hour. Cotton futures opened steady. De cember, 28.00; January, 27.00; March, 25.60; May, 24.90; July 24.S5. Big Reconstruction Hospitals Are to Be Built In This State Washington, Dec. C New hos- j pitala at Norfolk, sites yet to be se lectde in North Carolina, the Massa chusetts Berkshire hills and at Se attle under the plans to care for the discharged sick and disabled sol diers were disclosed by Assistant Qiirirann nsnAr.-ll StilTlHOn Of tile ubUc health gervlce wn0 today asked the house building commit tee for an appropriation of $10, 000,000 to provide 5,00 beds as the beginning of Urger construc tion. An addition is also planned at the Marie hospital at New Or leans. Bring Bodies of American Dead To Nation Very ; Soon Washington, Dec; f. By Asso Dec: ciated PressO-T-TheJdeciBkin of the war department that the bodies ot American soldiers who lost their lives In France should remain buried until a.ter the end of the war was reached us a result of at agreement with the government of rVaiice. This van disclosed In the annual report f Major General HarrU adjutant general, made public today. Ur.rtr the terms of the" agreement, the re port fays, relatives are Informed of the place of burial of the soldiers in France. Public Opinion To Be Chief Factor In Decrees of Future Washington, Dec. I. Public opinion and not military force should and must be the chief fac tor in enforcing the decree of a league ot nations. Senator Lewis, of Illinois, Democrat, declared today la an address in the senste. It was public opinion, he said, that brought about the defeat ot Germany and it Is to public opinion the world will most likely look in the future to preserve peace. President Begins : Long Distance Boss Work From the Sea Washington, Dec. .-( By Asso ciated Press. ) Messages directing the disposition of official business have begun to reach the white bouse from President Wilson at sea aboard the George Washington. Secretary Tumulty who went to New Y6rk to see the President off tor the peace conference, Wednesday, got back to hia desk today in time to handle the first ot the Instructions.' SELF-CONFESSED EPILEPTIC , TAKEN IN CHARGE AT WNSTON Kinston,' DeT"sVRobert Peele, 21, was arrested here Wednesday wnen he told an officer that he es caped from the Virginia colony for epileptics at Lynchburg September 12. Peel's voluntary statement that he was lacking In Intelligence was said by a local expert to, be unusual, but not without precedent. , - After leaving Lynchburg Peele said he worked at a number of places in Vir ginia and this state. Persons named by him as relatives Include several promlnpnt,.men.JHe was born In North Carolina he said. ' ' E Premier Lloyd-George Again States His Policy, Declaring That Aliens Had Abused British Hospitality and Must Be Expelled. MEN WHO STARTED WAR ARE TO BE PUNISHED Entire Influence of England at the Peace Conference is Pledged to That End Premier De ' fines Crime Colonies Lean to Britain. London, Dec. 5. (Thursday.) (By Associated Press.) In a de- tailed restatement ot his policy, Pre mier Lloyd George today called for the trial and punishment of the men responsible tor the war, however high their place and pledged the en tire influence of the British govern ment at the peace conference to see that justice was done. In declaring tor the expulsion and exclusion of all enemy aliens from British soil the premier pointed out that a con siderable proportion of the enemy residents in ' the United Kingdom during the war had abused British hospitality and thereby had for feited tbelr claims to remain. "The kaiser must be punished," he said. "The war was a crime. Who doubts that? It was a fright ful., terrible crime! It was a crime EUDK FORALIEN ENEmlES In ttrwTrjit vftsrirtftjMed anAa tnefod-ready for dellvery ie tha li deliberate, wantoneas witlTwbicfc it was provoked. It also was a crime In Invading a helpless little state and worked a most brutal treatment of the little state. Remember the treaty of neutrality, the scrap of paper." Natives of Germany's colonies want to come under British rule said Walter Hume Long, secretary of state for the colonies, speaking at Westminister tonight. "Our representatives at thn peace conference should see to our Men tion of those colonies In full stand ing. It will be a gross injustice to our great dominions to tell these colonies that they are to be put un der the control of anybody hot the empire to which they belong." HARRY RAYMOND'SHOME SCENE OF SMALL BLAZE i dty Fire Department Arrived at Hr ry Raymond's Residence la Tim to Extinquish Incipient Blaze. Yesterday about 8 o'clock the city fire department was called to the home of Harry Raymond on North Main street by an alarm turn ed in at box 21. The fire proved to;of Representative Pou, of Smitbfleld be a minor one and was quickly ex- J w)1, be made t0 the house hules tlngulshed by the chemical tanks j conimjttee. Ward succeeds Vance carried on the fire trucks, u was not even necessary to use water. The fire was burning in a small supola on top of the house and might have developed Into a considerable confla gration bad it not been discovered at its incipient stage. Mr. Raymond was burning out the fiae, when the fire was detected aad the alarm turned in by E. N. Allen. It is presumed that a de tective flue was the cause Of the Are. BUSINESS MEN TO SEND . COMMISSION TO EUROPE Atlantic City, N. J., Dec. The organised business men of the Unit ed States through the reconstruct tlpn congress of war service com hnltteea toddy decided to send a com mission to .Europe to be .rsnable t.. A uiiiim in working out the economic problems that enter into the peace negotia tions. , . Pbmptoa Lakes, N. J.. Dec. I. Eleven, men were killed and 23 in jured here late yesterday by four explosions which destroyed the de tonator assembling building of . the DuPont cap works and shook the countryside tor miles around ; Fire Which . followed the explosions was confined to the one unit and the pro- j perty loss waa'aald'.uTfo althl."T" inn Studied Indifference Again Char acterizes Reception Given the Army of Ouccpation by 6 Germans Living in Vicin ty on Rhine. i30 GERMAN AIRPLANES SURRENDERED AT TREVES Pershing Issue Proclamaton to People of Germany Calling on Them to Return to Normal Pursuits and Not to Mo lest Army Affairs. With the American Army of Oc cupation, Dec. 6. Studied indiffer ence again characterised the Ger man reception of American troops on their way to the Rhine today. General Dickman's army renewed Its advance at daylight and by to uight has reached a line , approxi mately 12 milea to the eastward. Scores of additional villages and small towns were brought under domination of the American army, but none of them were of great im portance. General Pershing has issued a proclamation calling upon the peo ple to return to their normal pur suits and assuring them tha it the conduct of military affairs is no; molested and if good order is kept (here will be no interference. At Treves 130 airplanes were lies. A small quantity or supplies Was ah left there by the Germans) . - k WILMINGTON OFFICER RELEASED BY GERMANS Lieateaaat Bellamy Released After Short Confinement and is ta Switzerland -Jobs 'Assigned. (By PARKER ANDKRHON.) Washington,? Dec. Lieutenant largrqve Bellamy, of Wilmington, Has been released from a German prison cawp jaM passed through .Switzerland en route to France on November 29, according to cable advices received by Senator Sim mons today.' Through the efforts of Senator Simmons Lieutenant Bel lamy has been supplied with what ever money he needs and is expect ed to Bail for home shortly. Lieu tenant Bellamy married Miss Krwin, of Durham, and Is prominently con nected (n the state. It -was announced at the office of Senator Simmons loday, effective December. 10. S. Bodie Ward, of Nashville, will be made4 assistaut clerk and report to the finance com mittee and that George R. Pou, son serving as clerk to tne ruies com fng, of Statesvllle. Ward is now rolttee and young Pou Is about to be relessed from the navy. Early n the war Pou enlisted as a private In the army and saw service In France, later being transferred to the navy. Both wara ana rou are popular in Washington.; - Col. S. P. N. Pearaalle, of New Bern, Is here on a business trip. Atlanta Street Car Worker Get Higher Wage Board Decides Washington, ; Dec: . "Increased wages and eht reinstatement, of two employes, was ordered bf the wai .crBo . r tors and motormen are to be 16, 28 and" 40 cents ,aii hour; f Wages of other employes are to be Increased in the same percentage as the maximum of toe x scale for platform men.;; Employes ' ander 2 1 years of age are to receiver a mini kum of 3 cents an hour. ' It is provided that none of the rates shall operate to carry the rate for jour neymen'1 to figures in excess of the present union craft rates in Atlan ta.1 The advanced scale Is retroac tive to g'eptem&eflSriast. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO DE FORMED IN HIGH POINT SOON1 Organization Independent of All Clubs and Asso ciations to Be Formed, Accepting Members from All Classes of Citizens. Chamber of commerce stock pick ed t as a result of the meetiug of the members of the industrial de partment of the Commercial club last evening. The department, be it 111, iar.it. .1... ....U ......... . uw.m, nan vuc BU U'UI gall U t'UPU I Wiiich until several mouths ago, rep- resented the efforts made !iy the city . fessional men, the merchants, man to bring about improvements and ufacturers and bankers. In fact, all commercially and industrial The ' classes of citizens who have the fu- department c...sed to function when the war involved tin United State but now that the conflict has ended and the reconstruction pertd looms up on the horizon, the progressive business men of the ciij, realizing the need tor -some organized pic diuni of going irter liat tun city f Qualified for the position vho ctn must continue to ac;ia:ie to advance make the entire undertaking & suc have seen' the nee.'? of reviving the j cess from every standpoint. department or creating a rhuinber of commerce that slu'l he Indepen dent of all organizations and clubs in the city. The ,chdi;:bi.r of com merce idea won out a', th meeting 'ast evening. A committee of three wus ap pointed to formulate plans to bring the High Point chamber of com merce into i being at nn early date, the committee consisting of Fred N Tate, chairman; Frauk J. Size more and Gilbert W. Chirk. A statement issued today by Chairman Tate la fully explanatory: "The Industrial committee of the Commercial club held a meeting Inst alght at1lritBie the truestlon, ef ttfablisBtat a ' chsmber of ebm: merce for High Point Independen' of any and all other organizations was fully discussed and it was unan imously agreed that this should be done as Boon as possible and the matter was referred to a special committee composed of Frank J. Sizemore, G. W. Clark and myself to arrange the details with refer ence to a proper organization and to also arrange for a city wids mass meeting at the high School auditor ium at an early date at wiitch time the project will be clearly presented o our people and It Is hoped a per manent organization effected. "It will be our purpose to include PEOPLE OF EUROPE 1 Liberated Peoples of Europe Make Dajly Appeals to People of America Definite Word From Mr. Hoover. " r " , .. . ilrkt'iaa u ro lo )v onH liraran V lU II. 1) ti tui r l Vnv It "T ihorutdd tor. ,.w..v. - u (j up uu uie uimtu oibiub v ,'qod." Thia statement is contained n a cable which has just been 'ransmitted to State Food Adminis trator Henry A .Page from United States Food Administrator Herbert Hoover. Negotiations with the al Med governments regarding shlp- nlni Anansxa nH nfiranlyallAnn am -v- . ' - gram has yet been determined upon. With characteristic decisiveness and promptness Mr. Hoover had ar ranged tor the purchase and dis patch of 270,000 tons of food to meet the most urgent calls before he sailed for Europe, and some of the ships carrying this food have already been .reported as having passed Gibraltar on their way to southern Europe where the need for food is greatest with the possible ex teption of central and northern Rus sia. ' ' .. ADALBERT GETS OUT , v ' FROM UNDER fit'NK RH1P London, Dec. (By Associated Press,) Prince Adalbert, third son of the former German emperor, has joined the new government, accord ing to a Berlin dispatch io it Ex press; He Is now at Potsdam, it Is VI said. .. . ...V..1 : : ' PHI HOPES IN I in the membership of the chamber of commeire every wide awake cit-l izen in High J'oint regardless of hlsj trude or occupation. V; are esi..--' 'ally dehirious of enlisting ia co u- riiti.lsiii l 9 .1.- unu ill nil ut: I nm p U4 lliw working men of our city, the pro- ture upbuilding and prosperity of j our city at heart will be expected o line up shoulder to shoulder in junk ing a strong organization possible, it will be our purpose 10 employ in all time a secretary and we think we have a man in High Point well "This organization wilj be organ ized and operated entirely separate and distinct from any other organ ization or clul in the city and will be officered by the best available men regardless of their occupation and with strong committees to han dle the several Idepurtroents of ac tivity which the chamber should Un dertake with a view to bettering the general conditions of our city. For Instance, such committee as health and sanitation, better housing for the laboring classes, bettor streets and sidewalks for the outlying dls ricts, better water, light and ew rage facilities, better quality of gas a4--electric wrvlo thtr belrdin j af i't;'M. C. A. to fill the crying need -f such an institltlon for our young working men with every facility and convenience for comfort and recre tlon with night school department, etc., and a hundre4 other things so necessary at this time in the general upbuilding or improvement of our city. "This briefly slated 1 what the chamber will probnbly wish to un dertake as soon as everytaing is in working order and in the very near future, or as soon as sufficient pub licity can be given the malior and n suitable date arranged a general mass meeting of our citizens will be called." Will Iff 10 FlY Germans Building Giant Airplane and Huge Zeppelin for Pur pose of Making Trip to America Soon. Associated Loudon, Dec. 6. -(By I Press.) Germans are building an , Ulrplane with which they intend try ACROSS ATLANTIC ing a trip across the Atlantic and I From the diary of Dr. Karl Fuchr, have a Zeppelin under construction B German agent brought to Amir with the same idea in view, accord-1 ica by von Bernstorff, was produced ing to the correspondent at Berlin ja paper labelled "Important list of of the Daily Express. The corres - pondent said that he learned this!fontained "practically all who were when he was being shown over an . actively pro-German prior to our en aircraft factory at Staaken, a sub- jry Into the war snd a tew who were x lb of Berlin, by a managing dlrec - being constructed there for the trans-Atlantic flight, said the cor rsepohdent, has wing spred ot 19S feet and engines of 3,000 horsepow or. The correspondent says that the large Zeppelin factory at Frledrich shafen is building an airship tor the A.tuam iW- BIN iwwn a carrying capacity ' JJ" BY AN AUTO LATE TUVHSDAT It has nine engines and eight pfo-j v , . pollers. Its first flight will beiiadfc; Salisbury, Pec, Mrs, Westoo in July next, if the international , cappg Ramsey was painfully Jaju'red situation clear up. The trip ia - ' yesterday afternoon by, being struck pected to be made in 40 hours. Uy an automobile driven by, Thom PRESIDENT WILL LAND OX ' FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH" Paris, Wednesday. Pec. 4. Attention is called lo the coin cident 'that President Wilson will arrive in Paris on Friday, December IS by Miwl tlutia tn the Echo -4'Parla IE William Bayard Hale, Formerly Connected With Hearst Organ ization Tried to Perform Soma : Stunts for the Huns, Gov ernment Agent Proves. CABLEGRAMS INTRODUCED IN PROPAGANDA HEARING Hearst Said Not to Hare Know That Hale Wa Serving Two Masters, Although Hearst Knew the Pronounced Leaning of Writer. Washington, Dec. 6. -(By Asso ciated Press.) in telling his story or German propaganda In America, A. Bruce Bielaski, chief of the bu reau of Investigation ot the depart ment of justice today laid before the senate committee investigating brewery and German propaganda cablegrams exchanged in 19U by Count von Bernstorff, then ambas ador here, and the German foreign office. . " ?Y One of Bernstorff b message urged that special favors be shown William Bayard Hale, . anv American about to visit Berlin as a newspaper correspondent, because he was em played by the Hearst organliatjoa and was outspoken plainly on the Bieiasjcl ioiiT thercmaiUe that ' Hale was on the Hearst payroll tor J30d a week and that he was em ployed at a yearly salary of $15,000 by a publicity organization' formed In this country by Bernard Dera burg. ; Suggesting on June 2, 1911 that the time was favorable to "get Hearst to send a first rate Journa list to Berlin" Bernstorff tele graphed the foretgn office that the man sleected was Hale, who he said was the confidential agent Of the embassy since the beginning of the war and was bound tinder such con- tract until June it, isia. ' Hearst, the ambassador's hess- i figs read, "is not aware that Hale is luur agent, but knows blm 'only as Germanophlle journalist, who con j tributes leading articles to newspa- j pers." j Hale, according to Mr., Bielaski. j was paid by the German govern- ment to visit Rumania snd if pos sible, prevent the entry pf such na tion Into war. Mr. Hearst, Bielaski said, was Ignorant of Hale's employ 'ment on the latter mission. ; Bielaski said that Germany never i succeeded in seducing an American. - official "it we except Congresamea : Buchanan, of Illinois, who got mixed up with von Rintelen in la ' 1 J bor's peace council." ; names" which Mr. Bielaski said , actively so afterward." The list included. , " Dr. Walter 8. McNeill, Richmond: lr. David fctarr Jordan, Berkeley, Calw Petor 8. Grosscup.i TJaited States, federal Judge. ' Higklsni HI.; Oswald Garrison Vltlard. .Nsr York Evening Post; WHam Ran dolph Hearst; Herman Kidder, New York Staats Zeitung.; - as Page, of Granite Quarry. The arctdept happened oo , Innls v atrest, .while Mrs. Ramsey was passing from ! the centrs) phone otflte to the busl I ness office of th etelspbone co !pany, where ahe is employed. I?sr Itlothipg.waa badly torn, an arm lac erated and: sacuty wound infUel i.taat.iea,ulre(L.A Boater cf t"r.-' HOT