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.1, - lt - ASSOCIATED PflEBff NEW&i 'T Carried By Th Evtntnf Dispatch; Together With ExtentW Sptcjal Correspondence. ; " Fair tonight and,St?niJax.lC6t mtichf change in. teinperature," ?LIght varl abie winda.M. . '-.,-.". 1 A I" ' VOLUME TWENTY-ONE. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLESATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1915; PRICE THREE CENTS. TSST. TIQN LA WS mm DDI? smKRif . ifiM . - tor AMisiittn am WAN TPiTA ilIIl?ini?MtrTnniTnin nihTtrnirinTninTik?ii TTfc1fTVlT mm : ' 'J-TT"TTT?TTrT. Date For His Marriage tot Gait Announced Today. WILL BE A VERY PRIVATE AFFAIR Only Members of the Immedi ate Family WU1 Be Present and No Invitations Will Be Issued Honeymoon Trip Not Made Known. Washington, December 4. Presi dent Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait will lie married Saturday, December 18th. at Mrs. Galt'shome, according to formal announcement made today at the White House. It was also announced that the only guests will be Mrs. Gait's mother, her brothers and sisters; the President's brother and sister, his daughters and members of his immediate household. No invitations will be issued. No an nouncement was made in regard to plan?, for a honeymoon. It is expected that the President and his bride will leave Washington soon after the cere mony lor somewhere in South. Although no announcement was made of the hour of the ceremony it i was unc derstood it would be late i&sician to succeed Dr." Henry McKee the afternoon. The Kev. byivester Deach, the President's pastor at Princeton, and Rev. Herbert Todd Smith, rector of Mrs. Gait's church here, are expected officiate. The formal announcement of the wedding plans was written by the President himself this morning. Immediately afterwards he left the White House to visit Mrs. Gall. Both have agreed that the details shall be as simple ?s possible. It has been intimated to the diplo mat who made inquiry at the State fjftvavt me nf vtlTaT55:show' "in cohnec-' lion with the wedding is desired. De spite that it is expected that .many of ficials and admirers 0T the President will -send gifts. Joseph R. Wilson, of Baltimore, the Presidents brother; Mrs. Howe, his sister, and Mrs. Sayre will be guests at the White House when they conre to attend the wedding. Miss Margaret Wilson and Mrs. W. G. McAdoo, the other two daughters of the President, are already here. Mrs. Gait's home, where the cere mony will be performed, is in a fashion able section of Washington, but it is too small to entertain a large party. Jloth Mrs. Gait and the President de cided not to have the wedding in the White House. MAJORITY FOR THE DEFENSEPROGRAM Members of House Commit tees In Sympathy With The President Washington Dec. 4. The Demo cratic nominations for the House com mittees announced today, which will he laid before the House Monday, as suresupport of the President's Na tional defense program. The Repub licans on the committees will be an nounced later. Five of the six new members of the naval committee are "big navy" men. Oscar Callaway, of Texas, named to , succeed the late Representative With-1 erspoon, Mississippi, is opposed to any Material increase in the navy. Rep resentative Witherspoon was of the same conviction. The new members of the military affairs committee are said to be unanimously in favor of a large army .J Majority Leader Claude Kitchin, who 's opposed to the program of prepared Jlf,ss, said today that he was satisfied withthe personnel of the committees. 'Hie chairmanships of the large com mittees remain unchanged from last ssKion. Representative Ragsdale, of South Carolina, who figured promin ' "'ly as an insurgent of the banking and currency committee last year, was 51f)t reelected to that committee, but as placed on the foreign affairs com mi tee. Thirteen Democrats and eight K'TMiblieansompose each of the large '"mmittees: The big college regatta at Pough fc':isie will be held on June 17th, '"'xi summer, it has been decided, '"'is date is 10 days earlier, than usual, and is set because of the tides. vv 1 , : - i OF A. AND M. Greatly Pleased With Work That Has Been Done. WANTS BACK STAR Sentiment at College For The Return of 'Jacocks Baptist Have Had A Big Year? J Dispatch News Bureau, Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 4th. The financial committee of the A & M College yesterday elected Dr. Hubert B. Haywood, Jr., college phy- Tucker who died died last week. Doctor Haywood's selection holds until June when the college will dis cuss seriously with the trustees the policy of choosing a medical director who will have charge of athletics at the college, a policy not entirely dis similar to that of the University of Virginia. Dr. W. A. Lambeth is the genius who gets great athletic re sults:, In that connection there is a senti ment for the return of Jacocks, the grWtfootbatf-strto the last to "beat Virginia. Doctor Jacocks was with the Rockefeller foundation until last year when he went to the West Indies. He was a great quarterback and is making a fine record as a physician. Dan T. Gray, was put in charge of the experiment stations at the col lege and the State's place. No suc cessor to ' John C . McNutt, who has resigned as the head of the bureau of animal industry. Mr. Gray will do that work for a time at least. The committee sent resolutions of sympathy to Max Gardner who was one of the victims cf the Salisbury wreck which killed two and danger ously injured four. Mr. Gardner is an alumnus of the A & M and one of its great football stars now making reputation as a lawyer and one of the successful farmers graduated by the A & M. The news from the hos pital in Salisbury is encouraging ev ery day. The farmers representing the board of agriculture went out to the serum plant and saw the work of the state in its fight against hog cholera. They were greatly pleased with the plant which has reduced the cost of treating hogs so greatly and ban ished cholera in many places. The farmers made no cut in the appro priation for this plant and feel that it has eminently justified its con struction. They found it taxed to its utmost to meet the demands made upon it . Tenth Congressional district law yers who have been here arguing cases on appeal from their judicial division indicate early plans to re tire Congressman J. J. Britt and at least two Democrats are ready to an- nounce . Sol Gallert of Rutherford ton and Zebulon Weaver, of Asheville, appear to be the only men openly in the field, albeit the newspapers have said but little of any candidacy. Former Solicitor Hall Johnson says that he is out of it and bis name will under no condition go to the primary. Judee Mike Justice's friends are making a prodigious effort to get him ( into the primary, mey qo noi re lieve that any man now in he race would : contest the nomination with him if he would agree. Judge Jus tice seems dead against it'. The very fact that Sol Gallert from the same means to run foredooms the Justice partisans. Mr. Gallert expects to speak out afterx the first of the' year and the fight is understood to be 'between the Asheville' and the fight i is understood to be between the Ashe- ville and the Rutherfordton Demo crats. - - Down here the rumor of a dozen candidates had been. Circulated and such strife promised as to give Re publicans hope of winning without trouble again next year. Hall John (Continued on Page Six.) COLLEGE IN SESSI ON s x j Judge Howe Pronounced Judg- ment Today and Appeal Taken RELEASED ON $10,000 BAIL EACH Company Fined But One Dol lar, For Reasons Given by The Court -Aged Director Sought Clemency For His Associates. New York, December 4. Dr. Karl Buenz, George Kotter and Adolph Hochmeister, of the Hamburg-American Line, recently convicted of con spiracy to defraud the United States government, were sentenced today to serve one year and a half in the Fed eral penitentiary at Atlanta. Joseph Poppinghaus was sentenced to one year. The Hamburg-American Line was fined $1. All the defendants were permitted to bail pending the suing out of a writ of error in their behalf. Bail was fixed at $10,000 in each case and was accepted from a surety company. Sentence was pronounced after Judge Howe had overruled mo tion by William Rand, Jr., chief coun sel for the defense, for a dismissal of the verdict on the ground that it was contrary to the evidence and the law in the case. District Attorney H. Snowden Mar shall, Jn moving for sentence, said it was his "painful duty to ask for sub stantial punishment; not so much for the effect on the defendants as to serve as a warning to others." None of the defendants showed any emotion when sentence w;as pronounc ed. Prior to the opening of court they were surrounded ly a number of I sympathizers, , .with vftioni : the v&at- efs that his only regret was mat the American people should believe he While Bulgars Are Being Rushed to Help Austria Fight Italy. GREECE GRANTS VITAL DEMANDS German Report Says Greece Has Made Concession to the Allies Feeling of Opti mism Pervades London But Hard to Say What Over. London, December 4. The much I rumored Russian, diversion against Bulgaria has not materialized, but the fact that no Russian official statement was issued last night gaverise to the hop's iu London that it is being with held to give emphasis to this new phase of the Balken campaign. Re ports, that have reached here "from Bucharest say that three Bulgarian divisions nave crossed Hungary en route to Italy, on the western front, which if true," would seem that Bul garia does not fear a Russian inva sion. Reports of such, a shift of forces are as vague, however, as reports that Austro-German troops were rushed to other quarters eastward to face the new Russian menace. Dispatcnes irom several sources as sert that botr the northern .and south ern armies arc safely established in Albania, while the remnants from Monastir have reached the French camp at Gievgeli, on Serbian territory, near the Greek frontier not far from Salohiki. ; A feeling of optimism over the near east situation seems to be growing. here, but outwardly there is, little to K0SS1AN HAVE PTIAD1?E . . - - - - justify it, except on the theory that the Russian, onslaught against Bul garia will quickly cry stalize,, While the entente negotiations in Greece seem to be progressing favorably. From German sources news has been ; received that Greece Jias grant ed the Allies absolute control of the ; ,' , . . . .1 1 . : jnad aone-anrtns.tOr injure-them -or had anything kindest ,feeling ;ior tnmicoiiniryenjougn Mr. Kandl iue. 4ag6ayujree.vjr.w jine iiampurg j American vlneC jsked ' Judge Howe ti I take, intoVesidwatifai that -his three i co-defendaats wefeL.nis subordinates; I that any off ensfe rihjpy committed they: J were merel-:acragv'nder his . orders. K The nominal TBne imposed, on the Hamburg ; compalryiwas explained by Judge Howe aflue to his wish ta free the case as Xar as possible from "the odor of molieyv" He said there I was . na evidnc r-Jta..show . the com pany, as sucht.hadjentered into any conspiracy and as not posible .for Dr. Buenz alone-tfj have' a-ny power to bind it in any ol .the proceedings com plained of. '.'-';r' : .- . The lighter sentence imposed on Poppinghaus wasrinview of the fact that he had occupied- a subordinate position and merely carried out or ders of his superiors without having actually participated in the planning of the conspiracyot which he was convicted. - ' In sentencing y Dr . Buenz Judge Howe announced? the -court would be willing to support any movement to obtain clemencvlnraccount of the advance age of -p&?tfrisoner. "This case," said Judge Howe, "will undoubtedly be taiien lo the Court of Appeals and to the' United States Su preme Court. If sentence is affirmed and it is claimed imprisonment will be a peril to Dr.' Buenz, on account of advanced age, the ease will be refer red to the executive department of the government. - this court will be willing to take any action as may be satisfactory in Support of such a move." . v. Permits Issued f The following building permits hare been issued by Fire Chief Schnlbbenf Eljbert Hall, three-room dwelling, Meares street, between Third and! JFSDurth, cost $300 ; Mrs. E. Hugging three room dwell ing, on James'" street, between Swan and Nixon, cost$300 . Fayetteville, -N. C. at 8 a. m. yester day, 3.7 feet. " BIG EXPOSITION ( HAS ENDED This the Last Day of The Panama-Pacific Show In 'Frisco. San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 4. Today was the last day of the Panama-Pacific Exposition. . The sound-njj "taps - rrom the lofty "tower of jewels," pressing of a button by President B. C. Moore that will extinguish the myriads of lights of the "Jewel City," the hauling down of the flag, the furling of banners and the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" will be the final and concluding act of the exposition, which opened February 20th last. Newpo'rt, R . I . , Dec . 4 . A breach of promise 'suit brought against Wil liam H. Scholls, chief master of arms at the Naval Training Station by Miss Oral L. Menalder of Chicago, and New York will be called for trial next Monday. Scholls has been for 25 years in the naval service. The cou ple met last summer during the visic of Miss Manalder, who is said to be a hurse . She alleges L Scholls rep resented himself as single and a man of means, and declares he premised to marry her. . , railways in Macedonia, together with certain ports on the Aegean Sea, thus asuring them an undisturbed base of operations. . . The British army in Mesopotamia is in retreat. The official announcement ,was made today that the forces had retired to Kut-El-Amara. V Still More Serbs Captured. ' Berlin, Dec. 4 (Via London) The capture of more than 2,000 Serbians by theTeutonic forces, is reported in todaysofficial statement from army headquarters. The' capture wds effect ed in engagements' n with scattered bands in the mountain region. t ; 4 : . . SUNDAY WITH THE CON- i FERENCE. " . . l- 1 : ' Sunday will be a full day at i 4" Grace Methodist church. The , North Carolina Methodist Con- 4 f erehce, according to its usual 4" custom will observe the love feast at 9:30 o'clock. This ser- vice of prayer and testimony 4 and song will be conducted by . Rev. A. D. Betts and Rev. W. v H. Moore. - Bishop John C. Kilgo ' will preach at 11 o'clock and immedK ately following the sermon will i ordain the class of deacons. At 3:30 in the afternoon the Memo- 4 rial services to the dead of the 4 conference will be held. Five have died during the year and ! 4 memoirs will be read and words 4 of testimony offered by members of the conference. At 7 : 30 in 4 the evening Dr. E. F. Cook, sec- 4 4 retary of the Board of Missions 4 4s of Nashville, Tenn, will preach. 4 4 The class of elders will be or- 4" 4 dained by the Bishop Sunday ev- 4 ening at Fifth Avenue church 4 4 44,44,4,4,444'4,.44,44 CLOTURE RULE IS , IN DOUBT Selection of Clark May En danger Adoption by Dem ocratic Caucus7. Washington, December 4. With fighting over the president pro tem. of the Seriate settled by the renomi nation of Senator Clarke, of Arkan sas, the Democrats, to caucus again today,, turned vtheir attention to the cloture. A lto adopt' a cloturerule in the-Sehatet would be endangered by reason of the Clarke victory, despite the fact that the caucus ended harmoniously. The caucus agreed to vote on the cloture at 5 p. m. today. Democrats oi the House also meet in caucus today to approve commit tee assignments, made by the major ity members of the Ways and Means Committee. The committee com pleted the task las night. No changes were made m the, chair manship of any of the important com mittees. The fight to restrict debate in the Senate, Democrats agreed later today in conference, should not be urged on the opening day of Congress and will be postponed until later in the week. In view of this Democratic Leader Kern telegraphed Vice President Mar- shall, at Indianapolis, that it will not be necessary to be present on the open ing day. The Vice President wishes to delay coming on account of the ill nessof Mrs. Marshall. The Senate will be called to order by the secretary and the first business will be the .election of Senator Clarke, bf Arkansas, as president pro tempore. What form the rule, fight will take later in the week is not known, as the caucus is still debating the -cloture. - When the caucus was resumed it was announced that the-idea to make a cloture resolution a party matter had been abandoned. The opponents of the effort ; to limit debate "were too strong. TRYING TO LAND THE Four Cities Have Delegations In Washington After the Big Event. Washington, December 4 The campaign on the part of various cit ies to capture the coming Democratic and Republican National conventions was given an impetus with the arri val here today of the vanguard of del egations from Chicago, St. Louis, Dal las and San Francisco. r The Democratic National committee will meet here next Tuesday and the Republican committee" a week later, I to select convention cities. "Dallas and San Francisco are in the race for the! Democratic convention only. The for- mer city is prepared to offer, a certi fied check for. $100,000, as ah induce ment. Chicago and St. Louis, each with $200,000, want both conventions, Subscribe to The Evening DIspaici, . 35c the month. CONVENTIONS Methodists Gonference Would Hve Out Entirely AND BOOZE ADV. END Report of mittee Adopted Today Durham Gets the Next Meeting Numerous Board Re ports Presented and Passed On. (By Susan Iden.) A large amount of 'work was trans acted at the morning business ses sion today. There are still a num ber of matters of business to come up before the appointments can be read on Monday. It is impossible to say at just what time Monday the confer ence will reach this most important feature of the conference.- Adjourn ment will be, taken immediately after wards. ' ' - The evening at 7 : 30 at Grace niiitnl. TAnMJ uri til t Ifl i vuuivu tuc DUitm ui lviiaaiuxis win uoi"" their anniversary with an address by Dr. E. F. Cook, of Nashville, Tenn., secretary of the Board of Missions. "I. think it necessary," said Bishop Kilgo this - morning, j 'to exhort he young brethren to sing more. I want ed to sing, 'How Happy - SveVy ChiUi of Grace,' but I dont f warittd afg a ; solo.' Boulevard , . preacheris don't sing my Calico songs," so be raised instead "Stand Up, tand Up, scripture le'ssOT" irom Paul's" epistle to the Romans and prayer was offered by Rev. E. E. Rose. With the Bishop leading, the conference , sang again, "I'm Glad Salvation's Free." "I'm not surprised our fathers shout ed," said the "Bishop, "and I'm not sur prised we've quit. They had some- thing to shout about, but we haven't much." The Bishop said he has about 200 old timers and that nothing rested him and made him wan to go to heaven more. He told the elders and preachers to root out of the mis erable stuff that is being sold into the church. "I want you brethren to be a singing conference." The secretary in the minutes of Friday's session announced that the collection tor Paine College amount ed to $200.70. R. N. Fitts was advanced to the class of the second year. Neal Mal ioy McDonald and H. M. Jackson were re-admitted. - Dr. T. W. Ivey presented a reso lution that in view of the fact that March 31st, 1916, is the 100th 'anni versary of the death of Francis 'As bury, pioneer Bishop of Methodism, be it resolved, That the date be. ob served or as nearly that time as pos sible, by the preachers t in their charges by a sermon, address or. some appropriate exercises, also that the preacher to be appointed to preach the annual conference sermon next year be requested to make that the basis of his sermon. - The conference failed to pass a res olution to investigate the judgment of memorializing the General Assem bly to abolish capital punishment. Dr. T: N. Ivey, editor of the Nash ville Christian Advocate, a member of "the North Carolina Conference, spoke to the conference and express ed his. pleasure at being with his -old conference again. He spoke in the in terest of The Advocate and of the need of increasing the subscription next year. It is the only connectional newspaper. He announced an early doctrinal edition of The Advocate Dr. Ed F. Cook, of Nashville, of the JBoard of Missions, was introduc ed. He Will make the missionary ad dress at the anniversary tonight. Mr. DUke's Gift. The Bishop reminded the confer ence of the gift of Mr. J. B. Duke $35,000 annually to North Carolina Methodism;, $10,000 to worn-out preachers; $15,000 to church exten sion; $10,000 to missionary opera- itions in the State, especially, in the country churches toward which, the Bishop declared, his heart constantly turns. "He has a strong devotion to the Methodist church, of which he Is a member," but he has . not found in the city the simple high ideal of re ligion he was taught- to believe; in the' country church. I regard this as one of the most significant events that anybody has ever undertaken m North Carolina. But in making this gift he said that he did not want uor V- ; Temperance Com- by Conference North Carolina Methodists to do less Rev. John C. Wooten read the fol lowing resolution: ?- ;? : 'Resolved, That this conference .ex press its great appreciation of the munificent gift recently made through, Bishop Kilgo to the Methodist Churchy' of North Carolina for 'the support of the superannuated preachers, home mission work and the church sion board. "That the secretary of thr' ence forward to ' Mr Dukeic this resolution and assure as a conference and indi appreciate this evidence v tinued good will toward t.L the ; church in North Qr which so much - has alrnnre- family (Signed" , ' "JOHN H. li, T "J . C . : WOOTElv,'"v "J. T. GIBBS." . ! port oi ine joint uoarQ.m iiuj porimgWh1i:hab tfejrafflE, year ahd making. the appointments the various districts next year.' ? Report Sunday School Board. The annual report of ; the Sunday ; Hifhril Yinarit xira a raaH Ttr'1Wi' C. P ' .V Bland, of -.Washington, N . C. The report recommended a special em- hasis on teacher training .work next f f. year also a greater missionary - zeaT along plans laid down by the Sunday School board. Attention was directed to the Federation of Bible classes to be held "at Fayetteville, January 19th and 20th . Mr. C. R Pugh; of Eliza-" beth City, was announced a new mem ber of the Sunday School board. Epworth League' Report. - The report of the Epworth League board was read by Rev. W. W, Peele' . ' reporting an encouraging growth d.ttr ing the year. There are. now 132 enr ters representing a membership' of - 7 ; 640, $1,215 . 04 has beea . raised 4tWn the" year for missions, the total amount ;' raised during the year $7,401.58.' Mr. , I . W, Medlin has T been elected" field . ?5 secretary. . . '; . -; ': ' .- '7 The board recommended that anni- -, versary day be observed on the 2nd Vr Sunday in May, also that' institutes -be held in every district during the - ; year, that the pastors be requested to, ; , ' support the Epworth League Confer- -ence and that Thursday of next year - be given to the Epworth League an niversary. The report was adopted.! i Conference Goes to Durham. - Rev. H. M. North, pastor of Me1 morial Methodist church, Durham, - brought an invitation to Memorial Church next year. The .church next year observes its 30th anniversary and during its history the conference has : never met there. r " Rev. J. M. Daniel brought an in- ' in vitation to Jarvis Memorial Church, . Greenville. , ' "' Memorial Church Durham, received 114 votes. Jarvis Memorial 25. The next Conference will meet at Memorial Durham. S.f ' Orphanage Report. v Rev. J. W. Beadley submitted thV report of the , Methodist Orphanage. ' The need is not more children, but : more money . The treasurer reported,. i w cash received durmg the year with balance from last yea $30,131.27, bal-o ance now in hand $1,528.64. ' It was recommended that January - be Set aside as orphanage) month. Out of what is received r to furnish adequate fire protection. ; The following were 'confirmed mem r? ; bers of the board of trustees of thii ; ' orphanage: R . ': Allen, Goldsboro ; . ".. J. C; Biggs, Raleigh; R. R. Coving- f ' J ton, Laurinburg, J.. S. Carr, Durham, L. S. Massey Raleigh; R. N. .Page.--,-; Biscoe ; W. .E. Springer, Wilmington ; i Graham Woodard,; Wilson. : V ; . f'.,'. Memorial ' Service Postponed , It was voted to. postpone the .me mqrialservice for those who have died (Continued on Page Three.) viSC V'-S", .. - 3 ?'V.-. 5 1 V
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