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V - '..--v : - - , 1 ' - "it4-: s ;. - ' ' ASSOCIATED PREC3 NCVC -; (rrled By "The , Evening DlspxUh,, roflcther With Extensive h Gpeelxl ; 7THG AVZATIIT' N v Pair tonlghf andf Thursday Xittl; change in temperature. Llghtio mod- Correspondence. ; - v r """ variable winds. J 1 1 - VOLUME TWENTY-ONE. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER "idiS. t PRICE THREE CENTS. BALKAN STATES BEFORE; AND AFTER TREATY OF BUCHAREST nitT.Wi;,;;- if 1 1 6 v. 13-. -.. . H" S I I WILSON. CA. TT LANSING Caused SurpHse byGoingrJJnattend. ed to the State Iepai&eitit;to vh Discuss Dumba Case r "ACT OF A USTRJAN GO V IS CONSIDERED GRA VE President's Action Sensajion' and Gteat r speculation -"Nothing NeiinTGSseHe Asserts; ? v ": ' -V -' '.: Washington, : Sept. , J 8 .President Wilson went to the" State Department today and conferred with Secretary Lansing. It was generally understood that they discussed the; case of wDr Dumba, the Austrian Ambassador. . The President's action, was so , un expected that .White' HouBe and State Department attaches were slow to realize what had happened.'- -So far as officials could recall the, only pre cedent for a President to go calling on a Secretary .of. State, was when' Mc- Kinley went calling 1 on v f Secretary The President's.; caU , was . not ar4 ranged in advance. He left his study and passed put -ef the executive- of f ice through a little used entrance,, Cross- ed the avenuewnict'BtVsthe White Housjgrndfrom thj State War and NaVybuildings and w? Iked ip the main- stairway, unattended. while dozens-, of surprised tourists and employes stopped to' looWj"he' Presi dent continued on up (he inner, stair way and into one of the long corri dors leading " around to - Secretary . . ..-"v uic uicaaciiecr uu 1.11a uuui auu . cu-1 tered unannounced. - Mrs. Lansing was . calling on her husband and the - Secretary was at his desk with his - coat removed, as' is his custom, ready to begin the days work. The mett of the "Secret Service guard piled out of the White House into the State Department through all entrances. Some finally caught up with the President as he was about to enter Mr. Lansing's office. , It has bee'n the custom for the. President to summon the . Secretary to the .White House when h& wishes to confer with him. President WIlsonr however, has departed from custom -a great defcl by using the v. telephone. He has shown it to be' his habit, how ever, to visi other officials v when he had nothing important to --? talk about and does It without announce ment. ' ' C Late yesterday Ambassador Dumba conferred with ! Secretary Lansing about the correspondence 'taken from an American correspondent r by 'Brit ish Secreet Service ; mett r that' dis; closed that the Austrian minister was concerned in a project to interfere with the operation of an American munition plant. The Ambassador ex plained that his" government instruct ed him to give the widest publicity to the decree making it criminal for any Austro-Hungarian to be concern ed in the manufacture of munitions of var for his country's - enemies. So far as known the Ambassador did not disclaim his ; action,' nor .did fle deny having reported on the pro ject to his home government in the TTin the - American documents found on correspondent. The ; State r " Depart ment takes the view, that there -is no Precedent to cover his case, but re sards use of an American i niissport h Jor a messenger to one of the 'belli- eerent government as - serious. ; J :SH Secretary Lansing heard) all " Dr. ! Dumba had to sav and let it be known he would , present the Ambassador's "Planation to .the .President .It-1 known that officials regard' .Dr. Dumba's statement , that he ; .acted on tastructions a - his eo'vernment as1 bating the situation more grave,, as deviously (it had been. assumed he as acting for himself.r - " ' - J After spending 15 minutes withSec 'etary Lansing, the President started Jack for the White House. ; The State Department corridors were thronged jjh clerks, eager to get a glimpse of tfte President on such an unusual oc casion. , ' 1 - ' , y ' I' -i "The State is not trembling; th'3 I resident said to the correspondents ho surrounded him. ' "I just; brought . Ver some papers, of a routine nature !. fWch f ;Vbutd'hav sent over. There' ; nothth hew! atall . " , ' -. - ' : . . The President was asked if there Gaused Mild was anything; new .concerning Ambas sador Dumba's case. , - ' "Nothing1 at, all,"- he i said. "The Secretary is attending to that." Accompanied by. Secret- Service men, Mr. Wilson walked . Tdowri the stairs and. across tha street to his of fices by the sama'Toute ashe came, ' Later it was learned that the papers President -Wilson took , to Secretary Lansing included a copy of- the letter Pr. Dumba sent tOv the- foreign office andfounM by.A British SeCf et .Service men. V Photograph copies J also . have been, sent to the State '" Department by Ambassador Page, in vLpndon. - v 'After the President returned" to the executive 'offices White h-House offi- oIaIr satrl th visit t.n thft StAtfi , Tip'- partment would , not be discussed further. "k - . , . C -Ambassador Dumba in .the mean timehad .been to ca.llon Secretary; of LabW ViliSon-: In 1 connection with a plan to ajd; in securing .employment for' any Australia subeiMev4ia<h.e service tn -a-munition'plant:4tHe' was not In his office and the; Ambassador returned to his chancellory. Intending f to return, to the "summer embassy5 at Lenox; ' Mass.; later today. News of the President's call on Sec retary Lansing -was received at the emhRsav with undisguised sunrise. It . r . a loss to conceive what the next move I would be, - - r. . .J, " - - , FJtliM That Or Destroyed M"" - . w .,, .,.,. From!Withln,? Is Opinion - of Berlin - HASNOflVIDENCE QF TORPEDO iAll SuDniarines Have Report- v ed on The Arabic Case Save One Each Commander De . nies Torpedoing That Liner. -Berlin; ept,, , (Via London) Per son in a position to speak with. author itv assert positively., the . conclusion i.hat the steamer, Hesperian, was not j. . -: -a , hf enhnuiHnA- torpeuoeu-i uj- at least-under-the; conditions thus far described.', - - - " - , ' "The assumption that the -Hesperian was sunk 1 by - a German submarine is Linet with ever increase , doubt in -offi- ., ... cial circles; Although authoritative -Mnrnon i withheld the posi - .liuyrau v-. . - , - , r tive opinion by Individuals wno .may be assumed - to have ; authoritative in formation's' noteworthy. V In " theie hiiartprs it is believed the Hesperian 'must .have 5 struck a1 mine or possibly been .destroyed by some agency-rom within. V'VV. ',r.." x. : rhese -persons 'point. out that such description as-given as shock of the Impact, the columnof water , thrown Up and flying fragments of metal may be applied Quito as. well. to the theory that the - Hesperian- was struck by a TfTi As to the assumption sue was oe- .stroyed by a torpedo. ; Moreover it ,ia Xaid there is not a single positive mui catlon that a submarine was concerned. - The degree of assurance witn wmcn the theory is, advanced seems based on additional : instructions'. issued to sub-, marine commanders' after the Arabic was sunk.7 Neither 'diplomatic - nor MM mi ON STREET Irate Husband . Fired On r - -V'. s , , ....-- . ,. Crowded Car and Caused - a Panic NASHVILLE SCENE HlsWlfe and Her Sister the Victims 1 of the v Tragedy Man Afterwards .Committed Suicide at Home. " Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 8. -Passengers on an inbound Fairfield line street ; car ..were panic stricken early this,1 morning-when a fellow passen ger . opened fire with a pistol on . two womenJ.The man doing the shooting . was George Smith, about 35 years old, a mechanic in the Tennessee Cen tral Hauway shops. The womenrwere. his .wife, J Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, and her V sister ' Mrs! . Maud Sloan -Hunter. Mrs; ;'Hunter died while being taken from' the- car. Mrs, Smith died 20 minutes after entering the city hos pital. . - , . .-The. police, were rushed to the scene." . One', followed Smith to hfc home and as he entered the gate he heard - a- snot.- -The'7min-hadahot himself in the'head. He, died later. ' l:Jtbe ,Sjfftha,w,ere:receutl separated and Che wife' wte sufngIor" 4 divorce. n After'. the shooting . Smith left the street" car andr went "in the. direction of his home. - . . t Atlantic City, N. 3 Septj AA. joint -wage - conference of pottery workers and .members of the U. S. PottersV Association will be held here tomorrow, to consider the demands j of the workers. , Inaval officials, however, will give any ;inormatIon on this subject. ' r XTv Vtn4. V, TT.97 liod haan irtvan nn definitely, as lost an official' statement probably will be issued soon concern ing - the - Arabic, setting ' forth that a 11 submarines that might possibly have" been vinvolved have ' returned vexcept one. It has . been established: that the Arabic swas not torpedoed by any of the. submarines .that have come back. Whether the missing boat, whic'i was operating in the vicinity, of the Arabic, torpedoed the ship and if so what jus tification -her commander-had for. his action can never be ltnown. Therefore Germajay. will be unable to furnish th3 definite report -'desired by the United States.1'-- ' j - , UNITED STATES ARMY C" , TAKES VITAL STEP Brownsville, Texas, Sept.' 8. The United. States army,, today took its most important step yet , made in the border, complication of the lower . Rio Grahde valley, when an order was is sued" here giving army officers .com mand over the action oC civilians on the river-bank in case shooting across the IttternatlonaL border is resumed i Heretofore local peace officiers have : participated in returning fire of Mexi- I4i--,.?iW .t,o eiAa V.O -river. 1 " In some cases the peace ofl&cersshave pursued the bandits, fleeing, from thei - Texas sldei to the rlver, bank and then heid ft battle across the International line:, Hereafter the army will attempt jto handle; all situations - of - whatever sort that arise.' There is said to be a double - purpose ln'itl The Xarranza au'thofttils have announced they can co-operate with the Americans. . 1 ONE AMERICAN , . : v i i LOST HIS LIFE ' Queenstown,' Ireland, Sept. 8 . It has been established that an American named '"Wolf f, -was lost " on . the: Hesi perian. -Wolff signed as an ableAsea man of the Hesnerlan crew. He came frnm Jfiwark. N. J .land . was of JDuitchi Lparentage.- ' , r"r J CAR TODAY, DID IAN , ; The dotted section on this map represents the -.ajjea' addedlto old Serbia under the treaty7 signed by "Bu charest on August 10th, 1913, which ended "the conflict among the Balkan powers' that followed their war with Turkey. ti,The shadfed, portions showHhe territory, added to' Montenegro, Greece; Bulgaria ,and Rumania, all being carved out of old' Turkey,' except the slice added to Rumania, .which wasceded'to her by Bulgaria. , - ; -; , v The crux of jthe whole Balkan : problem, so' far as it concerns., the" possible" participation of the noy neutral powers aW AUIesof the Quadruple Entente, Is" whether Bulgaria shall' receive back all, or virtually all, of the fragments pf Macedonia that were given to Serbia and Greece as a" result of the Inter-Balkan , war. , The boundaries' of Macadonia can be only loosely defined, but to the , westward it stretches nearly to the old -Serbian" border, Awhile to the southward it touches the Aegean SeaThus Serbia; .if she insists on having part; - of her frontier, after, tha recession , to Bulgaria, touch that of Greece, must -be content with a. narrow strip of land between Albania an& the inlarged Bulgaria, or there will be a - new' deal involving possibly a partial division of Albania . between - Serbia , and Greece. ' ' ' ' - " : , '- ' : t . - t i dwoUen Streams Commence to Interfere With1 Advance ; of Invaders ALLIES' ATTACK May Mean That a General Offensive Has Started in the West- Specula tion as to Where Emperor Nicholas Will Make His Headquarters. London, . Sept 8. -Emperor .Nich olas . is now in supreme command of Russian military and naval forces in the fighting zone and Grand Duke Nicholas has been transferred to the Caucasus. London is speculating -as to 'what section- along -the eastern front will be selected by the Emperor as his headquarters. - Courland appears to be the critical secti6n of the line. General Ruzsky is in' command there and Field Mar shal yon Hlndenburg apparently is not making any progress against him. The Galician line is in command of General Ivanoff, who is making . a stubborn stand against the Austrlans and Germans engaged in ,ak tremen dous effort to drive the last Russians from Austrian soil. Weather conditions , which- In past wars thave provided an efficient ally of the Russians again .. are inter vening, A dispatch published in 3 a Copenhagen newspaper says that rivers are swollen by the x autumn floods and to such extent that thejr promise to form , an impassable .bar rier to a further advance of the in yaderSi This - dispatch reports T: the immediate objective of . the Austrian campaign to be the seizure of the en tire railway- system from Riga to Lem burg, thus assuring control ' of the llnei of - communication for a; further penetration of 'White Russia., - - -On other fronts events point to' a concerted move, by the 'Allies. -sThe French I'cpmmander-in-chief,, 'GeneraT Joffre has returned, from s a visit - to the Italian ' commander General Ca-dona."- 1 v ' , , British" warships and .guns along the- Belgian " coast have joined- the chorus' of -artillery fire along the. west- em front. ' All this gives support to the growing belief in London that' an .offensive- movement iSopn; will s, mar k the operatibn pt the - Allies ' j.n the west. -. , - 4 - v : The eastern counties of -England were ' again visited by aiding" Zeppe lins ,last "night, -Their ..fire caused some fires and - a number - of casual; Ues.-T. -."r , v 'S- V-'"-r;.; i Germans .Take -,Ahothe r .Town.;. .Sept. ' 8.r (Via London)- Dr. W. S.? Rankm;: Addrc-es American ruoiic neaiui Association Today' STRESSES NEED OF 1 r RURAL SANITATION Illinois Physician . Tells of Im portant Partr Newspapers Are Playing-Anodieri; As serts Printer's Ink is Saving Many Lives. Rochester, N. Y; Sept.- 8.The need for improving rural sanitations was strongly urged by Dr. W, S., Rankin, Lsecretary of the North , Carolina; State Board of Health, in a paper read, be fore Uher American Public HealUr Aa sociation ' today, when, he pointed . out that the field of rural sanitation em braces more , than 99 - per cenL ; Of th area- of : the' lUnited-. States andmoro than t half ; of the country's population: I , Dn Rankin- declared that, the work of improving? rural standards ot sani tation should be initiated by the Statu governments- and conducted lay the ;lo caf or county governments. He pointed- out, that there are 2,953 counties In -, the United - State's, an average ot 66 to a State, and .that this:'multpft6V ity of governments; affords a ? multi plicity of opportunity to the State gov ernments in he development of jrur ral sanitation. - At the same time pointed-out thatrural public healtn i work ' must be - conducted on a. lower per capita cost than urban t. qt ".muni cipal health' work." . - Ky ' . As one method of dealing i with jttie problem t of rural . sanitation.;he? att vocated that the State propose , ft d en nite plan to deal with some particular health ' problem nd agree to execute the proposed plan' for a definite coun ty appropriation - This plan might bo somet particular ;. disease problem ? a, for example,1 the free vaccination ofllninor. aspect of the- war. The Ras large proportion or me. county popu-, lation; or it might be a more general ' (Continued on Page Three.) TheV German forces that have : been engaged in a battle! with the Russians in the; 'district north of;. -Bieloviezh forestv have captured the city, of ,Wol kowy skin, it 1 was , announced , hy . the German army headquarters . today. : - 4 : ... -- '' - Airmen and -Artillery Busy. Paris, . Sept: J SArtiliery, fighting along the . battle line through - France continues, according" tos the , state ment given out this afternoon hy'thef war nffice . 'fhere' has been Cannon - ading! -from 4 Belgium, on-the , north, as far south as the Woevre district. 4 Germatt ta viators ; have bombarded towns 'inlFFance and" aviators ot-the AlHfen hnvft thrnwn .bombs on OStendv 1 r c- -r- . . coast.-; , ' London, Sept. 8. T.en persons were "killed and forty-six others 4 wounded in the German air. raid 4 on the east coast of England last 4 night. ' - ' 4 , . GRAND.DUKE TO THE BACK GROUND t- - ., i . i . i . . 7 ; . ' ' ' - Russian Commander Sent By The Czar to Minor Field of Action Petrograd, Russia, Sept. 8.7rGrand Duke Nicholas has been transferred to Caucasus by Emperor ' Nicholas. suming command of the military and naval forces ' of ; Russia, tn transfer ring Grand Duke Nicholas he appoint ed him viceroy of the Caucasus and commander-in-chief ot the army, on the southern front. ' ' -The action of Emperor , Nicholas . In transferring i his cousin, the - Grand Duke, to the Caucasus , front is. per haps "the most important I change of this nature which has beenr made by anx of the belligerent nations. The only comparable incident was the re tirement: by Emperor William last Oc tober; of Lieutenant General Count von Moltke as -chief of - the German gen eral staff. ; - ; ' ' -- - ' : The i position to which Grand Duke reiative unimportance, as compared with. thev; vast power of his. former of fice; as commander-in-chief of i all the Russian;' great fighting" forces." The Caucasus campaign i nresents only a Bian and Turkish forces involved ,in tne struggle in the Black' Sea' region are not large. Although.? there -u was -heavy, fighting in Caucasus earlier in the warhos tilt ties : have been continued in only a perfunctory . manner, r ' forv .several months. - .- J Subscribe to The Evening Dispatch. '." - COTTON-GINNED SO FAR;" ' Washington,; Sept. . 8. Cotton of "thegrowth of. -.1915. ginned prior to September 1st. amount-, ed to 461,537 bales -counting t round-as .halt, bales, the '"census. G ; bureau announced. today.T r A ; . , : ' 4 V OUT OF . --BIS Echo of a Hot Political Firrht That Stirred Old ! 1 Wake " m PARDON WANTED Man in theXases;No ServlngiTlmi on th Roads First )Tferrft -of Fed-v;'., eral Court to Be Held In LaurinburQ Latter Part of This MonthThe:But ljrs Get Politically Busy.; " 4 ''f:'- ' Dispatch' News Bureau, . : , Raleigh,; Sept. '8th, (1915r : ;: I'he family and the friends of ,Ben B. Hardy, registrar in one 'of the pl ' " votal points lh former, factional 'elec-, tionsmow serving time-ori the roads are ' making an. energetic fight for " Hardy's pardon. ' ' - ' " The fact that Hardy is -a fallen , angel instead ; of risen Wermin v af-; fords a slight; excuse f orr swinginga ; story? about him, but he made history v Iast . year. Hardy was registrar in Caraleigh precinct 'whose '' vote de- termined the primary nomination of r a register of deeds. , W.-;H.'- Sawyer h and Arch J. Wood were contending desperately for ; the ; county; Sawyer v; the incarnation of Hhe : Armistead - and : Buck-? Jones faction, -' and S Wood the.-. -corporal expression of the Josiah Bailey-Josephus " Daniels " defiomula Uon -. ; )': 4. : Hardy. let it outjthit he; was' a great Woo4,paillMn;Bnt, f. the .tttae. " ame for" affinal county of .the votes, imnressiveness .Wood, suddehly'r shrank' until , SawySr' had a-clear majority.;- 'The " figures were changed and Hardy was accused JT v' but the election board accepted his ' ' fy. ' statement that . carelessness with ink -caused erasures and Sawyer,; one .of the brightest r of "men wask seated;5'' A colossal -revolt came.1 , Wpod's -friends nominated. hinT independently- 7 issued tickets 'with; all' the ' regular. nominees 'except'" Sawyer; and Insert-".; ; ed v Wood. That "removed the odium of 'scratching" and Wood -was elect, i- )ed. ' Hardy's act which sent -Wake uTO : tided against the- enemy, and -caused. ; an independent election, . was follow-"-. edtby charges of retailing and later of -receiving stolen goods. His enemies', - L were Implacable and: his friends Impo- , tent. -And Hardy' is on the "roads', but Governor Craig " must, determine' how; , ; lpng he will . stay there. - Application for pardon has been 'filed , and air op- - -. ponents asked to make their objec- ; f . :. tions. It is-hot 'believed'that much ; of , a fight will be": made , against Jt-i., now.,",f . i - - . ' Deptity Marshal. Jp Strdvant :;. ;,; 6 and Chief Field DeputyCollector Bud j s . SteU:-ed'ldpf(9fanI.caih.i-;.. .tive lyesterday :.'-anji;Ti)efore. fwCTnitedrM-?.r St&fes Cqmmissjonerv Jol?nn sNichola r - Kf UilU - --.jL. . W.J. I t q . r . ..... be tried, before J4ge,HnGi Gonn0r:;- v, in NpYember;':-jr.:trtPu n ' . ; -rJ, ,-t The officers nabbed Manning four ' -miles from Garner. after he had made: a noble effort to outrun them and had ? -fixed his precarious belongings up 6 ' - a protracted ;stay.-r He -carried no pa- -pers'of identification ;with , him but;ii . neighbor's wife, Mrs." Sam NeaV, had- slipped his grip , into , the .weeds to , remove all ' liquid"- suspicion - against him. Stell - found the grip and ;in it was a--glass jar with' a quart of.- the? . smelllngest .-blockade stuff , now r held In Federal quarters in Raleigh. J ' " . i!b nerve him- to, ' the-'I trip . to , Ra- . leigh 'the officers'" allowed Mr. Man- j , when he got :here -and omniyoroiis . ; lover." He walked 'by" Marshal .WT, Dortch and waved him all the compli-, ' ' ments : of the season;:VThe 'vf gentle man's -liquor' is i. certified- to-rwith.:all - -the - circumspection ' of a - Kentucky - thoroughbred Mr. Manning ! la known V pretty'y1 nearly ? wher efver bod' ; block- - ade booze Is knbwn attdniany , will' f e-" ; : gret at he5 cnnot"rm ' soonr-v ;-ry -1 1 'Federal Court bates." ' ' , : - . . he ' first" term' of .Federal -court to r be' held .in Laurihburgr has been. set ! for September '27th when' Judge Con-:: nor tries .va" docket 'of one week. f , - .The .formal opening , of , that court- house, has taken place but.no court has been heldX Marshal 'Dortch and : Judge Connor then hav; succession of courts which.'will keep them busy " every day until they, get to Raleigh ; -November 22nd; V. ; "'...,' ' - Mouday; Octoher 4th, thew' special term for NewTBernVwill bejejd c$4 d appointed ' for .that- date, sbecause thg 0 ., . 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