Newspapers / The Wilmington Dispatch (Wilmington, … / April 14, 1915, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Wilmington Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
,r" ' iV -. , . ..... . ASSOCIATED -NEW f 1, ..- - ,v A"'.- f.t' "jr. I, V, - . 'A' ' rV,.v Carried by Th. Evtt , Dltpateh. ;J I Ksf -1 lU 'TVA . A IT S I'fl ft . . f roaether With - ExUn.lv J soeital - I V r?2 IJ'-Al rr .J hJ - s ' rnrresoonMnct- : : 2 tit . - 17. r-r.V - ' J Y II U I V U UUJ ;i J si S rrT I TMl? HTiiriXTnTir Aim' x r n. - - - - SUCK TRICK IB WPlMfiBBliw HAVE BEEN JEFFERM HFIinWTHF ,. .liyljfe; iiuniiLu uihniji . iNiMir.ii rr?rf?Mfv-MitMmau'y . . 'Swoboda," It is Reported, Faked Being Born In 'Frisco. SI TO BE GERMAN Man Under Charge of Setting Fire to French Liner Took Advantage of San Francisco Fire, It is Claimed. Paris. April 14. The real name of ti.p ni in known as "Raymond Swobo da i o v on trial before a courtmartlal on charge of arson and espionage -"13 Hayniond Ruff Schwime, it waa.de v, i p. ci at the hearing yesterday, ac ci ril r.c to The Journal. Th- prisoner, whose arrest result ed from investigation of the fire ahoanl the steamship, LaTouraine, ar..rerl without hesitancy the -questions asked by Captain Julian, in an eff'TT to establish his identity. This was the most important point brought out luring the examination. Schwime declares- the charges against him are baseless. Schwime obtained an 'American passport by a subterfuge, according to Th Figaro. Knowing that the municipal records of San Francisco were destroyed in the fire which fol lowed the earthquake he is said to have informed the Embassy he ..was born in that city. A London busi ness man is quoted as saying he recog nizes in Schwime a man once employ ed by him as a Gerniari clerk, who said he was born inj Bremen and that bis father was a German rnayal fiscal officer. I (JLIU DECISIONS GO BY Opinions Of Inter-state Com merce Commission Figure in Australia. Melbourne, Australia, April 14. The character and jurisdiction, of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, and decisions by American courts relating to interstate! trade have figured to a considerable extent in an important case which has just been taken under advisement by tlu hie;h court of the commonwealth involving the Federal Constitution ami the functions of the Australian bit tate Commerce Commission 'A'bich is modelled after the American com mission. The action is one of injunction against the .State of New, South Wales' ordered by the ' Inter stite r'ommerce Conlmissibn which, at instance of the Commonwealth nirnent, interfered 'with the oper- f ation of a recently parsed law of the s'!t,. known as - the ' Wheat A'cquisi- ti' u act. - 1 'r :der the act the State government !i i seized wheat supplies to prevent ; cuiation and had prohibited wheat laments to other States. - :ter a hearing the commission, 1 h is three in number, decided b ' to one that the act was an in 1 ; nient of a clause of the com ,! ' -alth Constitution which pro tbat trade between the States s i bo free. The State appealed to n idi court which is. the highest j iul body In the commonwealth :i ! is reversible only by the British 1 Council pud this brought up the ' " hited questions of the commis s powers and interstate trade in t ilia. The full bench of the fourt headed by Chief Justice tbs heard the argunents. ,T.he nces to American $, ?ourts were chiefly by H. EStatkeVof coun r the commonwealth. . . vark. N. J.. Anrii 14. Because or i "lelty and misconduct of his fath ' ' ' - t i 1 1 a rry Rosen has secured a court '' by which , he today becomes n as Harry Bierman. He has n the maiden name of his moth bo secured a divorce in Russia ng gross misconduct of the elder or. 1 ssa, April 14.-The shortagerof ii South. Russia, has assumed serf proportions, and may force the clos "f all the large factories of the - a district, " The factory - owners boiding conferences In ;am effort m mm CAN Ml Dr to ax; ,; . T : y;.::-?. 1 --fw. sioitrom Washington , - ' ' . t . .. v , , . ison Delivers Address On Founder of De mocracy. HAS BIG SCOPE Defines The Duties of Government Un der Democracy and Declares Pres ent is But Trustee For the Future. New 'York, Aprfl 14. Lindley M. Garrison, Secretary of War, delivered an address on "Democracy" at the Jefferson Day Dinner of the National Democratic Club at the Hotel Savoy in this city last night, Mr. .Garrison said: . "One Tmndred and seventy-two years ago Jefferson. Was born; eighty-nine years ago he died. Between those dates a nation was bom, passed suc cessfully through its perils, and had grown lusty and strong. He took great partn all that went on and had much to do with the sway it went. Ha had an acute mind, an observing eye, sensitive temperament, and an ardent imagination. "He waj? very quicK to observe the manif estaldns of tnly newborn spirit of mankind, , to redlize the Immense importance of its awakening, and to endeavor to give it proper form and substance. "He read intelligently and consider ed, profoundly tiat . they had to say who,i ft Htiey not , caused thft change, had . caught Its, spirit and ex- oressed it. r ' .' : - - ATT-- Al J 1 11. . causes Jeff erson town conceptions weiie formed, bis political philosophy was formulated,- and- he' bcanie the founder of a great party which has survived every sort of political vicis situde and is today strong, virile and militant. . - - ,3 "This, of course, could not be if there were not something vital and nourishing in its principles something that got into the blood and minds cf men and made them cling to it through the days of discouragement and de feat days when it seemed as if it had been done to death and never could arise again days that were in very truth its Valley Forge. From these depths it never would have arisen had It not been for the great principles which had given it. birth; principles towards which mankind had been te?i ding for long ages ages of tyranny, of suffering, of blood and tears; prin ciples born of man's conscience and his manhopd, evolved in his agony and defended, with his. life;: , principles which speii liberty and opportunity and hope to all who embrace them and can enforce them V - v ' 'Let uSjfga back .andjdwell , a wbife in the atmosphere'df 'those early days'; let us realize the '.conditions and ob1 serve ;tSeir consequences. We will noi doubt' be astdnished to recollect that what has become customary and apparently self-evident to us, was novel, extraordinary and entirely revo lutionary then. Then practically all the nations of the earth were govern ed by self-imposed rulers . Knowledge then, as now, was power but only the powerful and knowledge. The great mass j of mankind was inert, un conscious of itself and Its potentiali ties:, .What it had was given to It or allowed to it , The burdens of the world were borne of it but as to the direction in which .they should 'be borne, the mass qf jnankind had noth ing to say; they, must be encouraged to live and to multiply and to labor, buf their voices were dumb, their wishes unheeded, and their desires unsatisfied. . "Slight revolts on tod. narrow foun dations had taken plade, but nothing of importance hid been achieved, and mankind -was divided into those who ordered and those who obeyed, with little or no chance ior translation from one class to another.' j "But the seed bf change had been" I ; ' nyfn-t' mafia . Voo-?nntnf to fft- 7 ' 7. iiiva . that ' anmPTnin? wain j.wiuuk4 vvitix the existing philosophy and conduct of lifer v There seemed to be no rea son in the claim that some might havs full play -for -their:' talents and others not; that some' should arrogate to themselves the making of A the lqws and the enforcing ; of . them and . that others' hsbuld Tiave nothing , tp do therewith; that there sould be self-ap-p6inted drivers and involuntarily 4ritr en.-. . ';, '-s ""'-" f. T ' ' r "Great souls evolved these ideas ; great inlnds ponder ed r them r and ; gave PTftressIon to tnem; ana.ytue ujr t v- : - - . " - - . - .t-fsy. j li m . . 1 .1 m . v . a 1 11 . m . 1 4 v j., . . 1 ... t ... . (.; Noted American Fighter Hur- rying Today to Browns " ville. SITUATION SERHJUS Sudden Change Due to Falling of Mex ican Bullets Villa Brings Up Field Guns to Renew Bombardment of Matamoras. Washington, April 14. Major-Gen-eral Fredrick Funston, eommander of Lthe American forces on the Mexican border,, is en route today from "San Antonio to Brownsville, to take per sonal charge of the situation there, which has become threatening in con sequence of the falling of Mexican bullets in American territory. Shelling Not Yet Renewed. Brownsville, Texas, April 14. Shelling of Matamoras by Villa artil lery had not been renewed early to day. There was considerable doubt about the Villa forces' next move, owing to the wounding yesterday of General FaulO Navarre, second in com mand, who is in Brownsville danger ously injured. Unofficial reports from Villa head quarters outside Matamoras declare several field guns have arrived and are being placed in "position for im mediate bombardment of the city. Stage of wftter in Cape Fear Wverjat iFayetteville, NvC at,. 8 &Mb fcester- IIEENNDOOBS Rigid Martial-Law That Pre vailed Through Fear of a Zeppelin Raid. London, April 14. A small town in the south of England, which was or dered to take the usual military pre cautions on the occasion of one of the recent false alarms regarding Zeppe lin raiders, lived for nearly 'twenty four hours under a martial law which prevented anyone from even going into thfe Streets all because somebody in London forgot to notify the .local au- ifthpf ities that things were all, right. A correspondent in the town .gives some details of this occurrence.nmention of which in the newspapers was forbid den by the censor. . t. "I arrived home late in the .evening aftefv.a visit to London, to find my wife and maids, huddled in a circle injthe cellar scullery. The light of a. flick ering candle fell on their pallid faces. The test of the house was in darkness. So Were all the streets. Our special constables had valiantly dashed forth at the first alarm and turned out all the street lamps. In some cases they had adopted the simpler method of. smash ing th0in. ?If it-were not for fear of the censor, could tell a great deal more about our Zeppelin nightf It produced many stirring scenes. The ladies who hur ried out into the cold, dim world, each with a baby clutched in one hand and a bag-full of belongings in the other, will not soon forget.it., f '-"The night really lastedjall -the next day &s well, and tie local milkmen who Were coming in from .Me country were not admitted to our1 beleagured streets, r While we were shut off frdml tle outer world we all thought of Pryzemysl. ... - ' ' :' .". ' : fOur Zeppelin night was rather a mystery, for nobody knew just how it began, we never knew,; for histafe; why the streets were jrfockedr be lievjl the Germans- are very clever, but so; far' as . known,- they have never threateateried to bring their Zeppelins Lin On wheels. Nor can. we find out why the Inspector of Markets, a local offi cial well known to everybody, was , re fused admission to the town where he was born and bred; . , v v "The policeman on our beat said days afterward ?r.that- it .f was a false alajm, and -that someone, in London had forgotten -to telephone down 'to release them from 'the martial law hurriedly - ordered on tthe first rumors pf .a - raid. .. Anyway, , for ?. twenty-four MADE THE PEOPLE WHJMINGTON-F mO, WEDNESDAYAPRlt 14T191& w 1 v g. mm is Mi w - -v . 1 1 - i m v is . .' fNk nil - i ,ii - t; i M X.I. HAS BE AUTHORIZED . ..'5- . Trying Find Outlf Any Amer ican , Citizens Are Among the German Raider's Crew. Newport News, Va., April 3.4. The German merchant raider, Kronprinz Wilhelm, it was learned today, is in heed of boiler tubes' which cannot be manufactured elsewhere. To secure and install these.' tubes will require three weeks. I " Expecting permi&ion from the Washington authorities to move into dry dock at the shipyard here, Cap tain Thierf elder, commander of the German raider, Kronprinz ; Wilhelm, early, today made the vessel ready to proceed up the James river from her anchorage. The commander is also expecting the examining: board of the United States Navy to reach here from Norfolk to check-up on his outline' of repairs necessary to make the Wil helm seaworthy: '! Preparations to receive the German converted cruiser in dry dock were made at the ship-yard, but officials of the company wsre under explicit constructions not to . permit the ves sel to enter until authority was grant ed from Washington. The German comjiiander did not omplete his inquir of the national ity of Wilhelm 's crew lastt night, as requested by Collector Hamilton, but promised .to asdertalh today whether any naturalized Americans are aboard tli.?, ship. . At ; leat 3bne jAerican, ; it JJp-- -if.-! Details off the sinking of the British steamer, Bellevue, one ot the Wilhelm's ocean victims, were related today by a member of the crew, re vealing .that, the British ship was held as a prize for fifteen days before be ing sent to the bottom. Same Survey Board. Washington, April- 14. Secretary Daniels today directed Rear Admiral Beatty, commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard, to designate as a board to survey the Kronprinz Wilhelm, the same officers, headed by Constructor DuBose, who passed upon this phase of the Prinz Eitel Friedrich last month. The findings of the board of survey will be guarded by officials with the same secrecy which characterized their handling of the Eitel Friedrich case. DECISIONS Davidson Road Bonds Valid- Can Recover From Waterworks Go. A Special to The Dispatch. Raleigh, N. C, April 14. The Su preme Court thsj afternoon held that the $300,000 bond issue of -Davidson county, passed by the last legislature for the construction of roads ... was valid, thus ending a litigation that started the -moment the news came known in Davidson county.; An Indignation meeting . was held at Lexington- to protest and ;a suit was brought against the road com missioners, restraining them from putting the law into effect. . The bonds have been sold, subject to a review of the higher court. - 5. f Of far greater State interest how-, ever, was the opinion of thecourt m the case of Morton vs Washington Light and Power Company, in which Chas : L. Morton and W. B-; . Morton recovered from the water company, be cause it failed, in the" opinion of a jury, to provide- aaequate pressure when their, stores were destroyed by fire in July. 1911. v , vt: . The .verdict ot the lower court was sustained so-far as" it related to- the liability of the defendant water com pany for damages, but .a new trial was granted oh the amount . ; , r Both storemen had collected, full in surance before, the trials-. jThe, Su preme Court-" will not meet until Thursday of next week in -order that the whole body; may attend' the In auguration of Dr . Edward .Kf Graham as president of tha University of North CardlinaV - s? f Subscribe tb .The- Evening- Dispatch VITAL HANDED DOWN X Leaders Ignore Appeal 'Made To Their Patriatism and CaU Strike RESULT OF DEATH OF A PARADER Got Mad When Police Wound ed Laborer When They Charged Crowd Holding a Mass Meeting. Mifan, April 13 (By way of Paris, April 14). Ignoring the1 advice of prominent citizens, extremists in la bor circles decided (today) to call a general strike tomorrow (Wednes day) as a protest over the death of one of the labor parders wounded by the police in charging a crowd which had gathered Sunday for a mass meet ing at which Italy's attitude j-egar ding the war was to be discussed. Leaders of the strikers decline to heed the appeals to their patriotism on the ground 'that such manifesta tion as proposed would weaken the prestige of Italy, especially abroad. Appears Near Scene or Subma rine Disaster and Gtves Salute to Americans - GETTING READY ; TO RAISE BOAT Concussion Tanks Tested And Found to be All Right To . Be Taken to Zone Today. 1 " Honolulu; ' April 14. The air con cussion -tanksp to be used in attempts to raise ther submerged submarine, F-4, today weTe "tested yesterday by Divers Stevens' J. '-DreHIshaB: and Frank C. Rilly and r the result was ; reported satisfactory. It was an nounced that the apparatus1 will be taken today to the zone of operations. The pontoons,; that are to be used to raise the submarine in case other means are upa'w3ling,' have been com pleted and are ready for use. ' v The Japanese cruiser, Idzuina, yes terday: steamed in a semi-drcle About the point where the submarine Is believed to lie;; the crew Mwtfs ''drawn up in salute and the warship flashed a signal in honor of the twenty-one men who went to their death on the F-4.- - .-.-' CARGOES OF DYE STUFF TO COME OVER ., v ' r"v ' - Washington, t April ' 14.-rAfrange-ments have be'en completed itor ship ment to Americ. of twov cargoes of dyestuffs, wbich 'were ' pajdl 'f or by Aii4rii3)poiers before-.:Mach.?Jsti-now. at Rotterdam. This Information waWu:icohveyed to the " States Depart-j I r - FIFTEEN lULUtD - v ; ; f S IN AN EXPLOSION - - t , Petrograd, April 14. Fifteen per sons -wef'e. killed , last nightby. An ex plosion in an illicit . alcoholic dlsfiUery. at Zolhoya,' a suburb of .this fcity; Seri ous; damage Wast caused r.bythe - fire which followed, -- , u. ar. court, sale:; ' - ''Zr-r - ' -r' S -ir Final redtjetfons inrprices'of the G. H. Haar stock of. Dry-GqodS. aadj fix tures have been made to close- out- all that ,is left. -Ckme early- and get your choice. Ill Chestnuts StS, iiidvertise- Hoiadirs ment?;v-, -'y- 'yi? -1 -, I 1,1 I I - w v. S ffr 4 ; f5 DOESN'T BELIEVE THE REPORT Rome Considers Untrue Ru mor That Austria Would Buy Italy's Help Rome, April 13. (By way of Paris, April 14. ) A Trent dispatch to . the Idea Nazionale quotes an officer who has just returned from Vienna as de- daring 'that a state of siege "probably will be proclaimed by Austria because of unrest from the Russian advance across the Carpathians. Wealthy Hungarians are said to be preparing for flight. The Idea's cor respondent says, he has. learned from' the: same source that "Emperior Francis-Joseph hste decided to cede to Italy the ' so-called . "Italian Provinces , in eluding Fiumembut, only on condition that Italy join with; Austria and Ger - manv in nrosecutine the war. This ronnrt ia PATioWoroH in Rnma MAM A VU V AM fVMW4rU-uia VA. AAA AvwUtV as being entirely without foundation. COTTON NOT CONTRABAND. .'-, London, April 14. The Brit- t ish government has. declared 4- . against placing . cotton on -the contraband ; list. A question was asked in the House of Commons today on k this subject and Field Primrose, under-Secretary ' of Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the 4 Foreign Officei replied that," af- ter careful consldetatioh," it had - been found -that thi qtnilitary ad- 4 vantages to be gained by declar- ing cotton contraband, were in- : sufficient to make such a step expedient. f : 4. 4. COTTON FIGURES GIVEN OUT mmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmm , . Over Half lVlillion Bales Con sumedLast Month-r-Ex-; 'y -ports Over a Million ; Washington, April .14. -Cotton nsed during March was 523,959 bales, ex clusive of - linters," the Census"" Bureau announced today., cotton on nana March 31st, in manufacturing' estab lishments and . independent. ware houses, aggregated -J5,119,31t)ales.' March consumption .Is -in comparison with 49354 -bales ; used in March a year ago. . . . ; - puring the .eight months . ending March 31st. cotton used was 3,578215 bales', against ,. 3,765,210 , In the jsaine period he previous ryear Cotton .on hand March ' 31st, in manufacturing establishments, - wa 1,740,476 1 bales, against, 1,-67939. last- year,andY jif independent s ' warehouses ,-; 3,378,317 bales, against; 1,834,008 last year( 1 f l Exports, during March were 1,208' 573 bales, against 695,310. last year," and for the eight "months- 6,689,813, against 7,936,075 during the lastyear period -. i ;. V ; ,?'t?5s: PARLIAMENT IS r M AtsAlN IN SESSION fv libndo v:4fi!ril .l4.-4-Pariiameht , reas sembled X:todayrJtoi. take;' "up questions cncemmg:.thewarIwisvHaxtcoxu Secretary of 'Stated for the colonists,' promised that the Dominion would be consulted fully" to regard .to , peace i tie: 0SsiH terms; - -Ji: - ; Pair v tbiiight and f nuirsday. Not muck change in temperature. JPresh northeast wirid' ier- t PRICE THREE CENTS. taamis as to Successes hi tkC flicting. af LITTLE DOING IN V THE EAST JUST NOW Activity Increased in .the ,DaN V danelles ---Rumors Tnat; German Warships. Arerra i the North Sea. ; , - t ; London, Eng., April 14? -The' strug t gle for the last of the, Carpathian a'tv passes, held by the" Germanic allies," ; , still holds ther k,ener T of the,' war Vt. stages. The series of fierce battles- -along the eastern .fronC from Bartfelt V j here1 that activities in other .fields an- -. , reiauveiy unimportani;. Each side Is making claims of suc " cess. Vienna saya the invaders have -been, held in check since Marchl20th.' y Petrograd declarjes' fighting, is lii proW i, gress, along a fourteen-mile front tatJ Bukla Pass, which would Indicate' ah advance. The .Teutonic forces still hold ' Uzsok f and ' , continue' -their . -counterattacks, but f theJ' Rns-:" : sians last night announced " capture -of three more heights within' four pr .-Vv five miles of that vital gateway; ;.r'. - In the west the : Allies"; ha ve'done' lit- - tie during the. last .two or three "days J beyond? '.consolidation of the! ; positions ! W mineir nanas Previous w an-, eiurt w uusi wewrauuisirom I t. Mihiel., "Increased activity has been , noted , at the-Dardanelles,--' which, may fore- . shadow ' a renewed attempt to free ; these "straits, inV'cop-dperaUon'with land Uoj-ces . ? 4 Rumors persist that Herman war Firing At Th;Dardanelle. i" i ConstajiUnpple.Aptll If. )By wirye. less to Berlhiand-rlh4n' 0ff" cial . statement issued ; by the 'Turkish warofcej'tpnightVsayS : y ; r " . Oriel of- e hemy'-patrol -ship's , today Sombarded' unsuccessfully the k batteries at the exit of : the Dardanel- :.t lea! A cruiser and a destroyer, both Were struck- by, shells . " ! v' Drive. Austrlahs Back. VV Lemberg, April 14f(By;,way;of Pe-; trograd and London) .-In Va desper- ? ate attack, by the . Russians onY the J right flank of the Aufttrians't position, , at Mezeladoroz, on the Hungarian side of, the Beskld Mountains ' and - about 1 fifty miles south 'Of Przemysl, the--Austrians were forced, 4 after, V 12y hour battle, to make a precipitate re-" ; treat.:" " :- - , vV-3 The whole main 'crest; In thfs" dis trict,, which the AustriAns Considered;, impregnable, is new, in Russian hands. "BREAD WAR. ISw'-. NOTATNEW;THING BerlIn,-1(Apr lit ..-rr"WaE.Jbreadf ia , si.? nq new iningtiaMvwar;:1.utr -er; ihiblt in-j theifBlsarckluseom'; . In the Sqhoenhusen, Castle,- Schoen huseri whereBisiarcklivedls a ' loaf ' oi iFnchread 'ivhat ; Vas ' baked , inlPaHstdurliir'thfl,'8ieg iay187a. It, ' Consists of materials unUke'those now, - being used,' howeYer,; f orit is made of French , rice -ordinarily -Cused.for, , , starch' arid : oat stfawV Tbe-j loaf was -brought' to Germany as a keepsake by ... a - German ,.artilleryman ' and- sent - to ' Bismarck , on ' the Utter's : 80th birth- TO OBSERVE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Washington, i-April -44.4?-'JnstruitIons fare being sent from .here- today, to all partk of,the "world where the-United States:is:6fficially ; represented,' i f qrj. observances of-i the 50th ' anniversary of c the eath of Abraham ' Lincoln to- morrow GOOD WEATHER FOR i . ,;ti?-:START;pF;SEASpN :X ;. New "york,;April14.---rFair weather 1 greeted;. the, thousands who-"gathered , todays in" baseball ;parks" in-, the east -for the opening, games of ' the 1915 '' National ;and American ; leagues., sea son. . 4 V ix, '- -r Air the. winter Jegal, entanglements - temporarilyT were Jthrown1 Into the dis card so ' f ar as 4 the spectators T were' concerned' at' the signal to Vplay bali.7; ; C Alaskan pog Race Begins. . .r -Nome,- Alaska April UlThefAlU.: Alaska' sweepstake raWforX dog teams, the i--classlc' sporting event of the farnorth,vwill be run. today. Tha "; i i course isi 412 , miles, over the : fsnow ' ' trail from Kome to Caidle and'return. Ten teams will "make the start. ',. ill "7 " .oing mm-M; n -Jfir.Sr5,i3irM.wi. oyer; fejWe hoa. we all really remembered ttat ' sibscrtbe t "! fO-'-s !J X r ' f ' i,i -. i - " Z v." month.
The Wilmington Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 14, 1915, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75