1 MEW SEEN SEMI- JOURI -I AL. uLLJL . ... i NEW BERN, NORTH CAROUNAjMARCii 23 t915 IS 'J 3 JJS I t REPUBLICANS AND PROGRESSIVES FAIL TO GET TOGETHER FirstEffortsof Harmony Shuffling Don't Pan Oct as Had Been An- : ticipated and the Bi furicated Must Have Another Deal Tis a le Story Raleigh,' March 50 The first ef (ort of harmony shuffling between th Republican and the Progressives has failed, according to members of the get-together party today and the bifurcated must have another deal g vThe sjory is yerv simply . The two Vtions' which went different direct Hkns two years ago came.4o oonclude hrthe,Ieleatioathat ifone Demo ' jtio'ndate could beiat' another mi eouniy emce, certainly aKepuo- ' uoai ouglR. beat, both if jr poll all fhe vote, vtht b,igiU Tat collected ln.1908. ,Ia thai flection Mr. Taft earned Wake oiinty outside Raleigh. . V Th'Csnequiiee $ In .Ponjiequence'V this comforting refkcosOit' is';a1(i that Chariman '. 7L 'J Andrew&tf thei Republican regulars jLnd Chairman A. D. Vp ehjarch , of 'the Roosevelt irregulars, Jailed ; jointly ' a Harmony meeting. E(5me qfthe best Republicans and J'rogretaiyes were in the signed call :They .4.ot want any better ore-. - dentiaTs.than Antt-Demooraoy. Ev- r' erybodilKHhat believed ,' Democratic dethronement is necessary was asked to hold up his hand.. Many hands r went. up. Ex-Postmaster Willis G. Briggs was. one ot the signers.' So ' were Messrs. Upchurch and Andrews, t is understood, whether they; ft t :"telied their Banoocks or gave their Yuamet . orally, .i. Both . : favored the meeting. . . . ,ir Both "Adtmrnd H uom agreea, resign. 7ney ,naa fought long enough. Andrews beat .,' Lester Butler in 1912 and Mr. Up- :; thureh succeeded , Mr. Butler when .' that gentleman finished printing Mar lon Butler's 1910 speech in the Cau casian," Having no further need of a t paper, and having carried serially k that speech for two years or there vabouts, Lester' Butler unloaded his paper and went to Durham where he is" making a good living in the '. furniture business. Andrew and Upohureh' incarnate thetwo factions. The party has not been le to fuse. Though a Roose veli Van Colonel Logan Harris .was Ufl&iteljr interested in ousting the ButlqrUiee who were' ahti-Taftites. , , Andrews and Harris have been' hold ing the fort; with Willis Briggs stand ing In' their corner.. . f" 5 Meeting Held N't They held that meeting. Upohureh recalled the country editor who wrote 14 ef his , loathsome contemporaneous . editor, "your absence front our midst ' mil a' long felt 'want. A Mr. ;Up r " -ebttroh wanted to be absent from the chairmanship and resigned it in writ 1 ing. " His disciples say, Mr. Andrews agreed to do the tame thing but Mr. ' Andrews has not resigned. ' Conse- : ' cjuently the two factions fail to line up . solidly! against the Democrats ' and each, is deeply 'distraught just ', now. " l They bad hoped to get in the city ' fight. ' They were ready to demand . representation on the eity commis-J sion. said they had been promised a place.. But the perennial "ohur , , manship" is on them and they oan :'. tot unite.1 . ' : .. . : ;-; t This is an "inside" story...; Nobody ' who11 signed that call . lenows any thing about the agreemont, the meet ing, the harmony deal, the demand for a eity commissioner, nobody really - en the interior, knows anything , But the story is out and two chair ' men continue t preside over mori bund factions while the Democrats . go at t hings ' in their . usual . . plaeenej. ' " ' "''',"' com- LADIES TO HAVE BAKE WEDNESDAY . , J1M,m . , A ;. w J WUl- Take . Place - At. - the ' , Parish ' House-rMany , ' Articles On Sale ?V The 1 ad i (Mi of Christ church wUl bold a bake- Wednesday March the twenty fourth at the Parish! House. If- it r s t ten o'clock and lasting uu'l.f , ,r o'clock in the aftornoon. Tli'ro will he on nl nladfl,f)icklei, win n nihf viiu, lrowi; tintad, out head r fi.r, csl-n, j j. !!io, can dles, eti-. Aoy one i.l,inf to 1r9 pfciai orJ 4 win picpw lU v- J'rs TROLLEY CAR IN r BAD COLLISION Crash On Cape Henry Line v Tear Norfolk No One Killed Nortolk, Ya., March 20 In a col lisiontoday between two trolley cars of the .Norfolk-Southern, near Bayville station. Cape Henry line, two pas sengers were badly injured and eight or ten others bruised and out by flying glass. ' The dangerously injured are: Wil liam Dan Cooper, of Ooeana, and Mrs. Mary Pierce, of Lynn Haven. Mr. Cooper's head and side were injured Mrs. Pierce is injured about the head, face and neck. Attending physioians are hopeful that both will recover. '. The1 passenger car, one of large steel structure, struck a work train trying to make a sidings Both the passenger and the motor car of, the work train were telescoped. A curve in the road prevented the two mot ormen from seeing each other un til it was too late to prevent the col lision, but the forward speed of both had been partly checked, and accounts for the tact hat no one' was killed. , Motorman! Reid, ' of the passenger ear, after turning on his a;r brakes and reversing -the current, at the risk of his own life, dashed into the coach, shouting a warning to the passengers of t)je danger. A number jumped. PELL TO LOOK ; ' AFTERJWATTERS Wijl See That Southern Rail- ; iway Company Acts Squarely P."PeUv orhe.ctfia4oB-exmis-sion, hay been reoeivrn'cdmM'nica- tions from "up the road" "today tellin g him not to let the Southern slip off ' its Sanford-Oreensboro-Mt. Airy train. In the original list of trains sub mitted by Mesars. Simpson, DeButt and Sheldon yesterday, the Mt. Airy . train from Greensboro was not included, but it was brought up later. - Judge Pell intimated from the bench that he would 6ppose any movement looking to the curtailment of that servioe through the Guilford to the 'Surry capital. The Southern .wuld remove its morning passenger tr44 and substitute the; mixed one. But JudgefPell and he obmmissibii will ,, look after' the Mount , Xiry, Greensboro and Sanford people' When the Southern asked several months agoid take off one of these trains af fecting the travel through from San ford to Mr. Airy, Judge Pell opposed it heartily as did other members of the commission. $35,000 WORTH CRAVEN COUNTY BONDS BE SOLD Commissioners . Yesterday - Decided to Issue the ; Same TO LIQUIDATE DEBT Money to Be Used In Paying ? for Rebuilding of Neuse r . ' River Bridge J j . ,. - I' The papers for- the 'sale of thirty (lev tohusand -dcllars worth jot Cra ven county , bonds were ; drawn up yesterday by county attorney T. T, Warren, at a special ' meeting of th Board of Commissioners, and will be sudmjtted to the attorneys for the Sidney, Spitzer ComDanv- of Toledo, Ohio, the. company to which the bonds will be told, to be passed ' tali. CarVol Debt i The bonds .will be sold to raise sufficient funds to take eare of the debt made by the county In rebuild ing the . Neuse and Trent river, brid ges which were partially destroyed by the storm which visited this sec tion of the State on the third of Sep tember 1913. and will be made'payabU twenty thousapd dollars in 1932 and fifteen thousand dollars in MX, and the rate of Intprnf will be flye find ons oau per eeat. . rt ' '. " r , ) JUDGE CARTER TO BE PUT THROUGH GRILLING MONDAY Investigation As to His Im moral Conduct Starts Tomorrow OF GREAT INTEREST New Bernians Await Outcome 6f the In vestigation the Raleigh, March 20 Before a com mittee of the House will begin Monday the investigation into the conduct of Judge Frank Carter of Ashevflle and Solicitor Charles L. Abernethy . of Beaufort. The judge has been oharg immoral conduct in a resolution pre sented to the House by Representa tive Clark of Bladen, and his attor neys have been furnished with the bill of particulars. It is understood that the names of several- well known women will be brought into hearing and the case will prove sensational unless the prosecutors fail to make good their charges. The hearing will begin at 10 o'clock in the House before Repre sentative R. A. Doughton, chariman; H. P. Grier, A. R. Dunning, J. C. M. Vann, W. P. Stacy. L. H. Allred and R. S. Hutchison. Much Interest Locally There is great interest being mani fested, locally in this investigation, on acoount of the fact that Solicitor Abernethy is a .citizen here and also that the aflajr first started here. Solicitor Abernethy was in the city yesterday, but had nothing to say in regard to the matter, further than to remark that he was not doing any talking; that he was leav ing that for .the other side to do. Quite a number of New Bernians will be in attendance at this hearing and it is understood that others will be summoned to appear as witnesses. Carter At Raletdh Raleigh, March 20 Judge Frank Carter, who has been holding eourt in,:, the eastern part.of, the,; . State has jtuawd-jtoJtale gh and i ready for mittee'iqf ',ineiiryv'Wluh.w'')t''''6n the Carter-Abernethy ease Monday' morning. Judge Carter since the Clark res olution charging him with certain official and moral offenses has de manded an .immediate investigation and the hearing Monday is a victory for: the demand of himself and his attorneys. He declared ' that his administration of justice will . be seYiously' crippled if he . is allowed to 'rest under any. imputation what soever and. he, did hjs, best to .have the General Assembly hear these charges while it was in session. The special committee set .March 22 at 10 o clock in the morning for the beginning ! of testimony. Th., Reply In the reply, to the demand for specific 'charges,, names ot witnesses and names of individuals who are charged with moral offenses with Judge Carter, the demand was but partly"met. The names of witnesses were, not given fnd the. Carter at torneys are not able to get these for purposes of cross-examination. - How ever, they do not regard this a serious handioap. - The hearing begins Monday but there is no way to tell how long 4t is to go.. ' It has been an nop need by .the committee that it ,wil) not allow the. testimony, to be protracted and the -eastern half of North Carolina w(ill not be summoned he're " Many witnesses for Judge Carter ,aud oiij cl tor Abernethy are expected to come butvnoither side ia expeotod to intro duce a great number, to testify to the anie f acts.- . . J -.'.,'- '-" r -''' l-r-l r- ..J, ART IN SALESMANSHIP ''; Atlanta, March .20.There's art in salesmanship, , whethejr it "be ilk hose, .sewing machines,, rubber hose or . lire' engines,, as . City; Purchasing Agent VV. JSUnamoers WiU teU yoji after bit experience wlti'P. 0,' Her- t.a. a. ' ii ' a . 1 i pen,, agent ,oi ine., Amencan, L- rranoe - company,.. maJcers or nre apparatua.. u .. . :,A ; i. . After his successful bid for a motor truok had, been thrown out. for rea sons which. Mr. Herbert explained "in exquiuw uuiiu iiwieouoo oi toe siiu atlon" . would be require to uiidtor stand, he got the contract 0ft Ike se cond round, bidding, in, thew JMWit' terms:' ' - j: .." I offer you big six oyHndo, truck at my original bid of $5,700. t offer "'We hare a big six complete at th factory and. I Will ship 'you that at onoe,. to be used until the' small six can be made. ' When' the small six eomos, .and if it should not rov satisfactory, I will substitute, the big six for It.": - ' . On the motlon'of Mayor Vy!(Jw4f( trie oncp or ffteijttie tjx rf fcpt- FRANCHISE GIVEN: TO A QUARTETTE' BASEBALL TEAMS New Bern League Composed Giants, Braves,uhent' and 'Fire Department' -v i' FIRST GAME APRIL 20 Schedule for the .Season to Be Made Public In Few Days The Franchise Committee of the New Bern City Baaebal League met with President Thomas' Daniek. Jr.. last evening and'acoepted the fran chise of the "Braves,"? Charles Elli son, manager; "Giant"i Gscar Kafer, managerj "Gherit," AIbrt Willis, manager; and the "Fire Department" with Alfred A. Kafer at msiasger. T Slda riayw ' These managers will 1st' onee sign up the players tot 'the' different teams and will begin tV$rMtkefor- the opening game which win be -play: ed about' April 20tbv ahd-Trhicli .will, be one of the gala event of the season. -1' : Better Playt . Better baseball wiU : be .played, this season than that seen last seaeon.' as the teams will be more'eynly-matb' ed and composed of bettef players. The Fire Department" -team ;; will issue a public chalfenge ro'a -matoh game to be played diring4he State r iremen s Tournament with any Are company in the State the winner, to uuiu tun ouw cnuMUjuvuauip : . . ;. .oSckydsJsY. flst' TW schedule! m$it$ee .uio engaged m getting i aohedule.f the games .to be 'f pbjyed ; raurlfcfctliiii: season and this wittw J)ubKahed 4o the Journal witUn th oourseff the. next few days. i " Ghent.' Pair Re'dy ',. a The Ghent ParV baSebaa.grtBjid is being put i tiprto'p'ehape, for the opening or tne season ; Tfte oiartwnd has been ploughed and aednd., will be much"fa8ter"'than;laltyeaT, 'int suring better playing 'ntf ifeweB row. Kinston Poultry Raiser Re quests Marauder tp.Re.v turn and -Get Bidclies Kinston. N. O.J March 20iW. H. O'Berry, a manufacturer, :trishEa.,the party who stole-a hen from his.home here Wednesday night would-;rer turn and get the -motherless-brcod that she 'was hovering: Mf. G'Bejry oan't ' get' ootherfowl o2u,a4 to take thd rMponsibilityilorifiaiaing the dozent little- weefekld .vhiakA tfct are incessantly hirping foihoj moth er Biddy: J Wants Him kdk.:' v , . A- real human interest udrajaa . is being enacted -by alow degrees in the laundry - of -i Sing Leo on Queen Street here. Lee'1 'wants his wander ing nephew toi-eome baek, and is visibly pining -tott the prodigal's re turn. The sorrow, that earne-to iim when Hong Lee . packed, iia trunk several weeks ago etioka fast Jo the oia'man, wno nae cnuaren or hit. own back in Canton, - It all came .about because Siag denied th lad. who was trying hard to become American ized and had already graduated in the 'Abacus and tackled' th.; English language systematically through the medium of a two-language grammar, the privileges of hours off and mixing with the oauoasians of his own age. Sing might have been a little self ish. Anyway, he relented, but toe late. - V ' ' ., ., A Noted Divine v Dr. William. H. MoGIauflin. the head" of the -Universalist church in the United' States, preached in Taiy boro , last - night. He was escorted here today .by Rev. Williard O. Bo- doQ, pastor of the ohuroh of the Eter nal Hope, in: which he will preach twice' tomorrow. . He win visit the Durham and Winston-Salem congre gations next-week before . returning to nis noma m unicago. The Uni versalists' State board meet in the ohuroh . here , Monday .j s Their .most influential congregation in North Car olina is here, but one 'other, looated in ' Sampsda county, ia. numerically stronger. ;i ' He'a rrestilent ' ,U .. ', E. O. Barrett, a Queen street, busi ness man has been . made, president of the. new: Kinston Hooial League, an organization of eftiaoha with, the purpose of 'improving' living, condi tions and ha morals of certain ele ments of the oity't population.' C, Felir JIarvey, another business man. is- th . vice-president; Mrs. Frank Brown ia the secretary, . and D. F, Wooten, a banker, la the treasurer. The league, which is nompried by large membership of representative people,' -will combat, the social' evil la partloulfr, work for MhabtytpH d!rpt4 tfVf lp, t. . .-f ROBBER OF POST .kOFHCE NABBED . HERHESTERDAY Sam Lee Said to Have Brok en Into Office at Kel- lum's Station ISNOWIN JAIL Located By Railway Con ductor He Gave Officers A Warm Chase Probable cause was found by United States Commissioner Charles B. Hill at a preliminary hearing held last night in the ease against Sam. Lee alias Sam Jones, colored, charged with breaking into the post office at Keljum, Onslow county, and aiding and. abetting in the theft of money ajnd stamps ' therefrom, and in de fault of a bond in the sum of two hun dred and fifty dollars he was return ed to the county jail where he will remain until the April term of United States District court which ennvenes here on the twenty ixth lof April ": ,. .. . Chief of Police C. Lupton and Policeman. Ai A. Ipoek, - WhitfordJ 'JJ YtT' TT Cl. . 1 il . J5l ava n . ii. oiyron, naa quite wnBif tional chase before making the arrest, yesterday morning. The conductor on the - Atlantic .Coast Line (trainia which arrive in New Bern- about M.w nn t,ni,W..iA j i ' eight thirty o'clock, had heard that the post office at Kellum was robbed during the-night of March the eigh teenth, and became suspicious Wben this negro paid his fare to NewlBern (sixty , five cents) in . pennies, 'iand j;ired to JIew Bern to arrest the itnair p suspicion when he arrived at that point. The, message was received by;' Policeman Whitford, and hej at pce located the Chief and delivered the, message.'- Chief Lupton, accom panied by the above named officers met tne train at tne power nouae, and luckily they did, for when the train slowed down at the city limits, Lee and -another negro got off. As soon, as he sDied the officers. Lee ' boarded the "ankle ipress"! ana west on in me aireonyn pi lw isqj, creek . at a , pretty i'Mtft-rate, but the other negro, who, fttwaf leatn 4 ;Uter was -an accomplice, kept i4his:ead And walked off a though notning naa nappenea. at tnn'ume? it was not known that there was more than one connected !with the robbery,, and all of the olnWs turn ed their attention to the! Seeing man with good results. The , Capture The . policemen succeeded in cor neiing.Lee off in the - marsh near Lawson's creek, where for a time they lost him. After wading through mud and water waist 'deep for a few min ute. Chief Lupton spied something that had, the appearance of kinky wooCndpon investigation learned that it. was Lee's head. The negio had: sucaqeded in covering his body Un the mud, water and grass that abounds in this marsh. Lee stated that his partner m this affair was a short aquaintance, and he did not know his first name, but said that. -the man told him his sur name was Franks. SATURDAY, APRIL 3 IS SEEDXORN DAY Noted Speakers to Be Heard Here On This Occasion . (By, J. W. Sears) On Saturday April 3rd; there win be held what is known as a Seed Corn Day at New Bern in the Court House. There,1 will " be several competent speaker that will speak 'on the (se leoting of seed com from the stand point of the quality of the ear, the field selection of seed corn, and the growing ot corn ia general. We also, expect to have 'some talks on club work. This will ba a day of interest to every farmer and boy in the county. So let all come out, both men and boys especially, the Corn Club Boys, and we want you to bring with you ten ears of oora to be used In th . meet ing and; after the- meeting you can take the corn back home and it will help in selecting other seed corn, It will be well for you to bring your dinner so a to save some expense, Please remember the day and the date and come for the day will, be Weil spent. : , ' . " BLO DECLINE IN I PRICE fcUTTER AND EGGS'": - or ' '.j New York, March 20.- Report from here agree with Chicago report that a big decline in the price of but ter, egg, and other old storage pro ducts is imminent, 1 due to crowded condition of cold storage house fill ed with Argontin beef, Amion ap- pie. nJ larg lmpoftjor of but vr. ftnf AgBi.a. .-.,v,-U-w. THE BRITISH EIGHT pen; officials AFTER FUGITIVES So Far They Have Found No Trace of Pair Who Escaped Raleigh. March 20 The State pris on officials have not been able to fol low Harrison Hayden and Manuel Byrd, colored trustees at the penitent? iary, and nothing hac been heard from them since Friday night when they left. Hayden cooked for Warden T. P. Sale and those who have occasional meals with Captain Sale will have additional reason for regretting the walk-off. Hayden was a superb cook and a real delight to the visit ors to the prison. Byrd was office boy. The confidential relations which the two enjoyed made their escape easy. Hayden's home is in Polk county and Byrd's in Moore. But neither seems to have had time to reach, home. No word come from tosef places. i .' Given Liberties While these two prisoners were givfo unusual liberties at the State prison and abused their privileges, Wake county prisoner who had to Jake- desperate cnances to escape, returned after making the getaway. Tins prisoner is Robert Banks, Nrhran off several days ago from ffca-rap No. 3. Friday afternoon SaaSta returned to Iialeigh and gave mself up to Superintendent Wiggs of the road force. Judd At Raleigh Former County Superintendent Ze- bulon V. Judd, professor of rural education at the University, spent today in the city and worked with the department of which he has been until recently the head for many years. The county board of education has not been ale to find Mr. Judd snaeeespr aao proeeeda slowly to tbf selection of a county superintendent. The choice might have been easier had Senator Snow's bill passed. That bill provided; additional members of the board of education who elect their county aupisrinteBdent, . bus ,.all bills electiag1say-4wd by hj veojde failed t tao mmrnUf djonrsel ORDERS ISSUED TO CONFEDERATE VETS. Major Gen: Julian S. Carr Sends Out Special Notice The' twenty-fifth annual reunion of the Confederate Veterans will be held in Richmond, Va., during the first week in June and hundreds of Veterans from this section will at tend. In connection with this reunion. General Order No S3 has just been issued and Major General Julian S, Carr ' has requested the Journal to publish the tame. It follows:. Headquarter North Carolina Div. United Confederate Veteran Durham, N. C March 15 1915. Paragraph 1. The twenty-fifth! Annual Reunion of the United Con federate Veterans will be held - in Riohmoml, Va., June 1st, 2nd andJ 3rd, 1915,. the last named date being the anniversary of the birth of Presi dent Jeff u son Davis, and it is hoped that there will be a large attendance of the -comrades of this division. This will .probably be the last opportunity that, the veteran from this state will have of attending reunion- so ..near to them and. the cost of attendance. be bo small. H ' Paragraph 2. The soil of Virginia is made sacred to all Southerner by the blood and. bones of 'many thousand Confederate heroes, and a visit to that State will be a. pious pilgrimage to. do them reveronoe. North Carolina sent her thousands to ' defend ..Richmond from hostile armies, and, among all of those brave defendenrs, none did mora valiant servioe - or - suffered more' than-1 the gallant TaT Heels, and it ia toped many of -their survivors .will again go to Richmond and meet with their old eomrodes. -The patriotio and pub lio spiriU4 ' citizen Of Richmond are preparing'- for the , comfort and pleasure' of : the' veterans - ia ' very possible way, -and a warm weWrrt" await all 'who' attend. : AH veteran who desire' free' entertainment mutt write to D. A. Blown, Jr., Chairman, at Richmond, who will secure quarter tOt theiO. A-: : . . . Paragraph a. All" camp of. this division are rnetly urged ,to remit at onoe, if they ha v . not, Already done o,"thir annual :due to, Gon. W. E.VMloklB, 624, Oomon :Btr.t New Orleans.' ' No oampi tbt is i. ffrf fof ti arpQul durj Is How- LOSE' SHIPS Thaf Number SunVDn ring the Week'Eniiaj March 17 Two' Oil-': er Vessels Were Tor-; pedoed Bat - Managed To Reach Port Total Ust Is One -Handred and Forty-Three , t . , " Londort,r March 20 German ewk mariae raids during the week ending ruiTTV Marcb 17 resulted in loss of sight British vessels, with a total tonnage of 22,825, out of 1,539 arrivals and ' sailings, according to a summary la- sued today by the admiralty. Thra ' Other Vessels Which were torpedoed . were able to reach port. , ' ; ' The total losses to British eons- meree frtm the beginning of th war - -. , sels and 47 fishinar vessels. ' To Fldht Plague Berlin, March 20 At risk of their lives, scores of German physician - ' have volunteered to combat the plag- - u of spotted fever which has broken ' - - , , , out in , the concentration camp -of . , Russian prisoners. Seven German doctors have already fallen victims of ' ' the fever. 1 ' . .:. Report Confirmed Constantinople, (Via Berlih, wire leu to London) March 20 The Turk ish war office has confirmed the report - of the sinking of the French "warabip ,' Benvet and the British warship' lr- rwistible and Africa, in Dardanelle . Strait. . The ships were torpedoed r Tb Turkish earthworks, on the "strait were only slightly1 damaged. '" ' .'. Remains Silent- r- ' Petrograd, March -20 The !Rws- ' : . sisn general staff continues to remsaa o-tl. v4- Asvtv1n( IKa mkmmAiti if Rim j , . sian troops who crossed the PrUflaiaa ' .,', - border, and are now said to.ocoupy . ' tha Baltic seaport of , MemeL The i wf office refuses to either -deny or ponfirm the report.1 '. : . ; . vIadoii..-.:Mateh '20-X'llMlttls-T, '.- ,f hiDa . re-entered - the 'DardaaeUe ' '" atnaits .Friday, according to t -di- - patch received here ; by the Reuter ' ' This resumption of the action afters the loss Thursday of the French bat-? , tleships Irresistible aind Ocean failed ; i. . t,''.".; to accomplish anything fsr4je- .' son that the unfavorable ifeather conditipnB made operations iimpoai-5 . - .--.V;. ble, : ;.r :J:. ) $4:$ Pari, March 20 Impoftoo TibV ish reinforcemente . navei arrtvad 'St the' Smyrna fortifications, .according .i -r to dispatches from Mitylene. -iTtoops ' ' ,i u are hard at' work -repairing .theorts " damaged by the bombardment of 'tha , Allied fieet. c The fort aof CastrakS hi V ' reported to- be undamaged, ' , Mines. -will b plaojiaittte iViclnitv of A Claomene-9kAfew miles .iweptj at . ;'. ; , Smyrna SearebJi;h.to from, Tunkiab . , ,.. batteries illuminate the . water (,ot , tha Gu)f and those along tbor coAat at night.."' '.:k;s; . ;.; .' '-; u-i , . f A Bavaa, dispatch from t Athens i say mine-sweeping in the, Darda- ls nelles, which -began at;4 a.. m.-Fri-' t' . day, was interrupted . by a shower of, ' ' , J shells from Turkish forts. . ' V. S. AMMUNITION WINNING FOR' ALLIES I Paris, March 20The terrible f- h fectiveness ,ot , the artillery; fire of r : thc Allies, which ha' been a mattor ; of oomment on both aides for many : . day, is attributed oy4many military experts ', to the fact. that much of ' the ammunition now In, use. by,. the - French, andv British t artillery ,'wa , munuf act ured in the , United . .State, Th meaning this convey i.nt . Arjerican-made. munitiona .are , ha . best in the; world. V . r . ' ' . Co..; 1L'. Leard,.' general .passen- , ger agent tor the Norfolk .Southern - Railroad who t haft: been . pe,nding , '. few- dag In this section left; yester- j menung ior nonvub -y t ' 1 a vote ?r voioe In the meeting at our annual reunions. Of the 61 camps in tbis pi vision only 39 had paid thdir due and were entitled to represent- ' tkn at tlie reunion' last year at J.ack sostlUei and it,is hoped that there will , be a fuller representation at Itioh hiond. f So: "pay-'Vour -dunr without - delay and let our, ,8fat(e have a large Mmdanee,th. y-w.,. . ", .. ; I'lU-.igrnpU ,.,( T,W4 railroinl com- pinies wui give me uuuai ww raw of one, ent a. mile to all persons at- tfti ;ng the reunion,, whether vet-r- m or-Visitors, and'tho exnet !' from any' tUott'ean. bo a:-rt.' ' -1 . froui , the Uk-u.1 nfpnt. . 1 v ' ot 1 r ' li.'.X.' Lb:;Lo'-.;. ' -;v . 1 1- ci: nn. , - ' 5ff (
