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VOLUME TWENTY-ONE.
WILMINGTON, ,N. Ci, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1915.
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HON. WILLIAM JNgLE
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None Will Likely be Mad&H
Governor Before Mon
day Afternoon
FRANK'S DAY OF
DOOM NEXT TUESDAY
Governor oays Whichever
rt v ri i
Way He Decides Frank Has
Had Ample Time to Prepare
For Death No Respite Will
be Given.
Ca., June 19. Gdvernor
latuii as at his country home, near
hen "any louay, iuuiuiig uu eiuaus-
pr;ink uiultT sentence to be hanged
i... i.Un . . .1 nA M
!;, ijiivernor stated over the tele-
phuii" roday mat ne proDaDiy win noc
be .P iai m1 to announce a decision on
FranK ' application for commutation of
gen'-'i ' io nic lmtJusuuiucui uuiu
Monday afternoon or Tuesday mora
ine.
,,,11-nior Slaton said positively
uirp' A 'UUi ne no respite giuiiucu in
i as-. hut ay l uesaay ne win eun-
pr i u ii. mine me sentence or uecime iu
interfr'V
. . 1 If A
Th- judgment of the court," said
4. . I 11 ll I
Uuvrnor, snouia cause iue pn-
onr to prepare lor ueaiu. iu liic
B .J U T- 4--v
ewnt my decision snouiu u averse
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e nas uau ampie uiue lu uiane pit-
paratiun .
STRANGLE HOLD HAS
THE HON. "TT!
Georgia Peach" Still Hitting
Over Four Hundred
Other Leaders.
i biragn. in., June 19. "Ty" Cobb
V.Ms tlu lead in the American Lea
enH Aith the only batting average in
th- majors better than .400, but new
-al'i.-, have appeared in the Na
Vn,tl ami Federal, according to fig
ips pulilished here today. Jake Dau-''-p.
ahead in the National and
ViniHiit Campbell in the Federal.
Th- leading batsmen in the Na
tiuiial 'a ho have played in at least
lulf the sanies, including last Wed-Dt-sl:iy's,
are:
I'auh-rt, Brooklyn, .370; Luderus,
fhlal-lphia. .364; Good, Chicago,
-t"; Ix.vle. New York, .335, and
FlHf-her. eW York, .327. New York
V1 ti'r in club batting, with .266.
M i I ias, of St. Louis, leads the pitch
trv u'iih six won and one lost.
l-'-adiii batters" in the American
ar' f'obb. Detroit, .401; Jackson,
' "land. .364; Fournier, Chicago,
V.-acli. Detroit, .332; and Lajoie,
Philadelphia, .315.
i'li ;i runs in 56 games, 103 to
,al liases and 38 stolen bases Cobb
iii uns in the front in these depart-
in
p: lads in team hitting with
l-'ah'T. of Chicago, leads the
i with 10 won and two lost,
he Federal the leading hitters
' ampbell, Newark, .363; Magee,
''". .357; Hoffman, Buffalo,
Brooklyn leads in team hitting
-vt Cullop, of Kansas City,
'he pitchers with 10 won and
hist.
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sp-rdam, June 19 (Via London).
s airmen dropped bombs on
'rinan balloon shed at Brussels
'lay, causing slightly damage,
lint? to The Maasbode.
Lumina Tonight.
k end dance. Moving pictures.
I'rink Mint-Cola; Healthful and In
if "rating Advertisement.
ITALIANS SEIZE MUCH TER-
RITOFPrV
Home, June 18 (Via Paris, June
1 -The assertion is made by
Home newspapers that the Ital-
'an army now occupies 10,000
s ciare kilometres (a kilometre is
ahout two-thirds of a mile) of
ntredeemed" territory, or more
'han twice as much as Austria
f'ffer
ed for Italy to remain neu-
tra
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LAUNCHED IN
NEW YORK
Sister of World's Greatest
Fighting Ship Into
Water
CROWDS PRESENT
Secretary Daniels and Governor Hunt
In Attendance Both Wine and Wa
ter Used In the Christening.
New York, June 19. The new bat
tleship, Arizona, wsa successfully
launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard 1
today. The Arizona shares with her j
sister ship, the Pennsylvania, recently i
launched at Newport News, the honor !
of being the world's largest battle-1 "
shlps- i Mr. Ingle is Reserve Agent of the Federal Reserve Bank,
at i-e12Aork.8lLPotldw Z :riclrond. Va. He was the speaker before the North Carolina
were used in the christening and Miss ! Bankers Convention at W rightsville beach thiS; morning. Mr.
Esther Ross was the sponsor. i Ingle arrived this morning from Old Point Comfort, where yes-
Governor Hunt, or Arizona, s'ecre-1 ierday he addressed the Virginia bankers.
tary of Navy Daniels and a number
of Army and Navy officials were i ;
present. .- , j
Another fifteen million dollar bat-,
tleship was launched for the Ameri- i
caa .Qavy today' when the auperdread:
naught Arizona slid into "the water atj
the New York navy yard. She is a'
sister ship to the Pennsylvania, re-
cently launched at Newport News, and j
m size and armament one or tne
largest and most powerful craft ever
built for any navy.
Ships of the line, like the Arizona,
are built to give and receive punish
ment in sea battles. Their mission
has little in common with that of the
battle cruisers which have been the
largest ships to engage each other
during the European war. Speed is
sacrificed in the construction of the j
battleships to weight of armor an(i
against such a ship as the Arizona j
with her broadside fire from twelve
14-inch guns and protection of more
than a foot of the toughest steel that
can be made around the vessel's vital
parts like a wall, a battle cruiser
would be helpless and must depend on
her speed and seek safety in flight.
There are few ships in any navy fit
to cope with the Arizona, ship to ship.
The range of the Arizona's guns is
from 12 to 13 miles as they will be
set in her turrets, or as far as her
gun-pointers and observers can see
in brightest weather. As previous
ship's carrying the 14-inch guns, the
Arizona's main battery will have a
maximum elevation of nearly 20 de
grees. It-would be possible, it is said,
to almost double that elevation and
add miles to the range of the guns;
but already they can shoot and hit
farther it is probable they would
ever be called upon to do.
The Arizona carry the three r
gun turrets wm.cn -lave Deen aeveiop-,
ed by American naval constructors, j
her twelve big rifles being housed in
four turrets, two forward and two al
ter. In addition she will have a sec
ondary battery of twenty-two 3-inch,
long-range rifles for defense against
destroyers, torpedo boats and subma
rines. The big guns can be fired
over either broadside and around the
onHro Wip with the exception of an 1
arc of less than thirty degrees di
rectly forward for the after turrets
and directly astern for the worward
turrets. Four of the seconday bat
tery guns, two on each side, are so
placed that they can fire three degrees
across the ship's bows, taking the
place of bow-chasers of the old weed
en ship days.
Compared to the Arizona the old
battleships of the Oregon class are
almost like toys. The new ship could
engage a fleet of three of them at the
same time, turning upon each as
many guns as it could bring to bear
and her guns would be bigger and of
longer range. , In addition she could
steam away from them or overtake
them at pleasure, developing 21 knots
against their 16 or 17. The remark
able thing about the great increase
in size and gun power, however, is
that each of the smaller ships would
need as niany or more men than the
Arizona, which will carry a comple
ment of ,915 in her crew
-.The new sea fortress as-she:tookfaster' but similarly armed ship.--
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Russians at Bay Prepared to
Make a Desperate
Defense
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rrCtaNlrl L.LA1IY1 lJ
HAVE NEW POSITIONS
Germans Capture Village Near
Nancy Italian Assailing
Austrian Defenses With
Great Vigor.
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RUSSIANS b1
BERG.
TO LEM-
Petrograd, June 19 (Via Lon
don). An offrcial war office.
4 statement issued tonight, admits 4
4 the Russians have retired be- 4
yond the Godeck Lakes, less than 4
16 miles west of Iemberg, the
last line of defense in front of.
the GaiiCian capital,
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London, June 19. The Russian
forces are at bay along the Grodeck
line in Galicia, where, with a flank well J
protected by marshels of the Danies-
ter, they
will defend Ldmberg, the
capital of Galicia. Neither side re
ports much activity during the last 24
hours, the outstanding claim being
Petrograd's assertion that the Austro
Germans. have been hurled back into
Austrian territory, between the Dnies
ter river and the river Pruth.
the French, according to the latest
the water today cost more than seven
million dollars. That was for hull
and machinery alone. The guns and
armor will cost as much more and
other equipment necessary to fit her
for duty will add another million to
her total cost. She is longer and
wider than any but the newest trans
Atlantic liners. If it is desired to put
her through the Panama Canal the
locks and bends in the channel will be
taxed almost to the limit to give her
passage way. .
The Arizona is the fourth .battleship
to be built in a government yard and
her" place on the ways will be taken
at once by the California, a larger and
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GREEK KING BETTER.
Washington.June 19. Slow but !
4 steady improvement in the con-
4 dition of King Constantine, of
Greece, was reported in a bulle-
tin to the Greek legation here 4
j today from Athens.
4"4fi''ta!4li'5I
npw arc hn lino- the ormanc nnrtn
. .. . . 1
of Arras. They now occupy positions J
on three sides of Souchez, and British '
observers say they soon may make the
German position on the front unten
able. Italy is attacking the Austrian fron.
tier defenses with energy, but the only
evidence of an advance is the report
ed shelling of the railway station at
Gorizia, which would indicate the
Italian batteries have been advanced.
Rumors are as plentiful as contra
dictory emanating from the Balkans
that the entente alliance have offered
Bulgaria generous territorial terms,
which a special dispatch from Sofia,
declares to be absolutely satisfactory
Germans Take Village.
Berlin, June 19. The German War
Office announced today that the vil
lage of IJbernenil, 30 miles east of
Nancy, had been captured by the Ger
mans. The French had fortified the
village.
UPHOLDS THE LAW
OF SEGREGATION
Frankfort, Ky June 19. The con
stitutionality of the. Louisville segre
gation ordinance, designed to prevent
people of either the white or negro
race occupying as a home or place of
public assemblage a building located
in a block, a majority of whose resi
dents are of the other race, was up
held yesterday by the Kentucky Court
of Appeals.
GERMANY ADMITS
LOSS OF SUBMARINE
Berlin, June 19. (Via Wireless to
Sayville) "The German Admiralty,"
says the Overseas Agency, "has con
firmed the long standing rumors that
submarine U-29 was destroyed by a
British tank steamer, which was fly
ing the Swedish flag at the time she
rammed the submarine, after she had
been ordered to stop.
Lumina Pictures Tonight.
"Spirit of the Violin," a Selig
drama, and "Baseball and Trouble," a
Lubin comedy. Advt.
PRESENTED
IN
Cabinet . Crisis Occurs ah the
Caranza Regime
Over Night -
Comes to Breaking Point With His
Chieftain and Carranza Removes
His Headquarters to Strong Fortress
Washington, D. C, June 19. Dif
ferences between General Carranza
and General Obreffon. his .nrincinal
commander; dissention in the Car-
ranza cabinet, and Paminia's wmnvaH'
of his headquarters ' to the isolated
safety of the fortress of San Juan
Deulo, in the, harbor of Vera Cruz all
reported to Washington brought the
Mexican situation to a new focus to
day. -
State Department officials declared
these differences threatened the
& i f. iy of the carranza movement.
Occupation of Mexico City by Car
ranza troops, . under General Pablt I
uonzales, nas been' postponed, pending
the, cabinet reorganization. Officials
tion as yet as to the mean
ing of the cabinet crisis, but
over nierht it was said a nw situation
had arisen, whiclvnay have important i
1. v,u luc yiuuxcui cto
wnoie.
The latest advices were that four
of the cabinet's statesmen had resign
ed and Obregon insisted, in a telegram
to Carranza, that they be retained.
Officials here are concerned to know
whether questions of policy are in-
volved, but all information so far in-
dicate the trouble is of a personal
nature.
President Wilson intends to await
several weeks for the situation to
shape itself more clearly before any
definite step is taken in the new policy
announced in the recent statement to
the factions. He wants to see a coali
tion of the various branches of the
. j 1 r xi i j. ,i
original Lvonsuiu uoLiai movement an'.i
no recognition will me accorded ae
cordmgly until a government is set up
which will give promise of stability.
EMPEROR IDEA
0F PEACE
Alleged Correspondence From
The Kaiser Is Made
Public
Paris, June 19. Extracts from a let
ter, said to have been sent by Emperor
William to a person connected with
the Bavarian Court and published in
Spain are reproduced in The Matin.
The Emperor is quoted as saying:
"Our only object is a peace profit
able1 for the Gierman states. ' This
peace may be concluded sooner than
thought. If it gave for the time being
only an incomplete result it would at
last serve as a preparation for the fu
ture . It could be signed today, if I
wished.
"When my august grantfather plac
ed the Empire on its present basis be
did not pretend to realize a completed
work. The Empire is always suscep
tible of growth. What cannot
achieved today will be achieved later."
BIG BRITISH STEAMER
TORPEDOED TODAY
London, June 19. The 2000-ton
British steamer, Dulcie, was torpedoes
and sunk off Suffolk today. The mem
bers of the crew, with one exception
were saved.
The Dulcie was 275 feet long. She
was last reported as arriving May 21st
at Tyne from Rouen, France.
For Rest and Recreation
there's place like Lumina. Advt.
J. L. Armfield, of Thomasville, Elected
President, Succeeding Tlios. E. Coop-( :
er, of Wilmington New Roster
of Officers
. INGLE SPEAKS
FEDERAL
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Many of Visitors
Ocan Liner for
ternoon Resolution Adopted Sup
porting President
Program
The election of officers and the ad -
dress of Hon. William Ingle, reserve
agent, of the Federal Reserve Bank,
of Richmond, Va., featured today the
i
closing session of the 19th annual
convention of the North Carolina
Bankers' Association, at the Seashore
Hotel; Wrigbtsville Beach.
Mr Ingle's address was received:
with a hearty, , rising vote.-of , thanks,
and., is expected, to do, much good in
bringing the banks into closer touch,
with the Federal Reserve System, es-
may bey admitted.
Mr. Thos. E. Cooper, of this city,
was succeeded to the presidency of
tne association by Mr. J. L. Armfield,
president of the Bank of Thomasville
Succeeding Mr, Armfield as first
vice president was Mr. W. S. Blakb
ney, president of the Bank of Union,
of Monroe, who moved up from the
second vice presidency, which posi
tion was filled by the election by ac
clamation, of Mr. W. . B. Drake, Jr.,
vice president and cashier of the Mer
chants' National Bank, of Raleigh, he
formerly being of this city.
On the third vice presidency a fight
developed, Messrs. Jas. A. Gray, Jr.,
of Winston-Salem ; A. M. Dumay, of
Washington, and E. Sluder,,, of Ashe
ville, being mentioned. Mr. Gray was
elected by ballot by a large' majority,
and then the election was made unani
mous. The executive committee, after five
new members were elected, follows:
First district, C. S. Carr, Greenville;
second,-J. B. Ramsey, Rocky Mount;
third, J. B. Blades, New Bern; fourth,
F. N. Edgerton, Louisburg, fifth, N. Ll
lington, Greensboro; sixth, C. E. Tay
lor, Jr., Wilmington; seventh, Hintori
James, Laurinburg; eighth, W. H.
Worth, Jefferson; ninth, George Blan
ton, Shelby; tenth, J. Robert Long,
Bryson City. ,
Following the election and installa
tion of officers Thomas J. Gold, Esq.,
of High Point, was called upon to pre
sent to the retiring president a hand
some set of silver goblets, which he
did most gracefully. Mr. Cooper re
sponded in a few words of grateful
ness. Resolutions were adopted thanking
the local bankers, the people of Wil
mington, Wrightsville Beach, the
transportation companies, the Cape
Fear Club and the Carolina Yacht
Club, the local and State newspapers
and all others instrumental in mak
ing the convention a success.
A. resolution was also adopted ex
tending to President Wilson the sup
port of the association in his efforts
to preserve an honorable peace, and
assuring him of its future support
whatever the eventuality.
A resolution was also adopted hon
oring the memory of the lamented
Thomas J. Jarvis, former Governor
WOULD RESIST
Nogales Sonora, Mexico, June 19. Goyerrior Jose
Mayporena authorized the statement today that the entire
force under his command would be used if necessary to resist
the landing of American marines on the west coast to protect
foreign settlers in the ITaqui Valley. y
A detachmerif of nearly one thousand troops sent to the
Yaqui Valley-yesterday, he said, were dispatched primarily to
protect the settlers and their crops from the Indians, but they,
had orders to resist any landing of American military forces. .
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ESERVE
Leave lort Sjpcial
New York This Af
Wilson in Peace
, of the State, offering high tribute to
his integrity and ability.
An invitation for the bankers to
meet next in Asheville was referred
to the executive committee. The place
will be decided later. 1
The association authorized the ap
pointment of a standing Agricultural
Commission to look into matters, of
rautual interest and advantage to5 the
farmers and bankers. The personnel
was not announced, but 'wltt tie ap
pointed later by the new president. .
The matter o9 a system of cotton
o-ftj iv;uiluiu.i commission, as ,wM ia8;
matter of the association's subsCrtCi
ing to the Farmer-Banker, a .periodical V"J&!
published by Jhe American Bankers' -
Association, for the entire State mem-
bership.
Steamer Trip.
The Clyde steamer Comanclie came
into port this afternoon at 3 : 30 o'clock
and will leave between 4 and 5 o'clock
for New York with between 50 and 75
bankers and others. The Comanche
is one of the handsomest and largest
passenger steamers ever to make the
port of Wilmington.
The trip to New York is a unique
feature in connection with the conven
tion, and one, though, tried elsewhere,
has made its first appearance here.;
The bankers will returii by rail. Th
passengers came up from the beach ;
on a special car, arriving at 3:50
o'clock . . . . , ,
Following the address of Mr. Ingle ,
there was an extended , discussion of
the relation between State banks and ,
the Federal Reserve Systm
He said that t is his firm belief,
that the State hanks Mill shortly, lose ,''
their hesitancy, ,nd ;WUI. join.jthe 'Re
serve System. .Amber.; of .i.QUWi"'
tions iyere asked; hjLtn lKwhlchv,herp:r;f
answered at length and"n detaJyUi;;--tij
;-' i Coordinated,-Paiklno Mm uw : ';
His address . waj?. .deeply interesting, 4,
The '.subject was1., r 'A- Coordinated .-jv
Banking 'System, ,r telling of the ad-
vantages offered the country in the
Federal Reserve System. The ad
dress follows: J:
"On July 30th last year the Soutlt
was at peace with itself and with -the i'Sf
world, notwithstanding the presence; '
of the usual great -indebtedness owing -," - '
for its seasonal needs. What mattered; ',fv ;
it with cotton selling at 12c a pound '
and with prospects of a bountiful crop- V:;.
of the staple on every side? The two ;
situations had been complimentary for
so many years- that ho one dream
ed that fate could be so crdel as o : ,
seriously to disturb a usual balance- '
as to result in -any- real disturbance .' v
or inconvenience. : On August 1st," and?
progressively on immediately follow-.
ing dates, other emotions were find- :;f.;;
ing expression. War in Europe, ..-the' ,.'; .in
significance of which was promptly . (
appreciated, was responsible almost
over nignw lor tt vutuige uvui w "jfVv i
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