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VOLUME TWENTY-TWO, EMBAnuU IE lKipOT M(GE: , LfLLHUI. UL ' wwyu alt ill il I L MIL lllL x -, - .' - -- SENATE Question Presented Indirectly; Today But No Vote Taken. US REFERRED With Fig Petitions Matter Goes to Foreign Relations Committee Noth ing said to Indicate Temper, of the Senate on The Questhmr Washington. Janury 27. For more than an limir today the Senate debat- ed indirectly the proposal to put anlbaslness organizations and the prob- 'mbi'rgo'on the shipment of munitions and then, yithout a vote, referred to the foreign relations committee, as administration leaders wished, a thou sand bundles of petitions bearing a million names asking that such an em bargo be established. Throughout a spirited debate, pre cipitated by the question of to what lommitteo the petitions should - go, there war? 110 development that could be fairly construed as indicating the temper of the Senate on the subject. rJiie-t wetneiuetaoshrdlu Writes Leader Kiti ' ----4SMfc-fW!? He Favors Tariff Com mission. Washington. January 27. Repre sentative Kitchin, of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, had before him to day letter from President Wilson setting forth the conclusions that had the most weight in causing him to withdraw his opposition to the crea tion of a tariff commission by Con gress and now to urge such a body. The President in his communication admitted that he had changed his mind because "all the circumstances of the world had changed," ' but de clared he had no thougnt whatever of -a change in' his attitude towards "the so-called protection question." The proposed commission, the Pres ident said, will have nothing to do ith theories and policy, but will be charged only with the duty, of seek ing facts to guide. Congress in legis lation. The letter is supplemental - to one' tl'e President sent Mr. Kitchin Mon day, in which he gave an idea of what tariff commission should be and nrtTrwl t- . s xi i ter at once. He,fa"vors a non-partisan txpert commission. ISH FORCE IS IN DANGER Being Attacked Both by Arabs and Turks Comes Report From Cairo. Ueriin, January 27 (By wireless to iayvjn,, i a Cologne newspaper pub lishos d dispatch from Cairo stating U)at the British in Southern Arabia ar(' in u dangerous position as result of a fierce attack by Arabs and Turks. 11 i stated that the British casual lles "i tz December 30 amounted to I5.0oo killed and 20,000 wounded. veteran Jersey Judge Retires. WAR FORCED CHANGE BRIT Trenton, N. J., January 27 '. Vice 'investigation by the authorities. Offi- hanc ellor John R. Emery, dean ptj-elals said today that so far as they J'"' ourt of Chancery, will ' retire jrn the bench on Saturday, when "s term exnires. Hp. comnletes Ms jhird term of seven years on the j !.. and will be 74 years old next' -Norh Carolinians registered at the v Wilmil2Ston today are Messrs. ' Bailv WaQMno-trm Miltnn We.. 'inyre Charlotte; P. M . Mangum, urha am; A. B. Matthews. L. Paris iver Robeson, Fayetteviile, j "uniam; T 1 m.H i n t'ullough f'l. ni - . .. . . . "'Jf CfAAWXi-r J uariotte 0. utJ: J""' ,"3 .'.:;T: .-ho-hie- to' Matthews. Clinton- W. D. Bsl i 8ett. Lumberton. f.. . . Will Fire His atedness Gun at Meeting - Tonight. 1 j HEARD BY MINISTERS i AT NOON TODAY ' WSI Alro Address Motion RSSTiyiNfiSITUATION liadie Wttteni Speak-! ing New York, January 27. President Wilson arrived here today to face a program: calling for a reception by clergyman, to deliver addresses to two ability that he would be interviewed by a delegation of German-Americans who want him to persuade the British government to permit the shipment o ... . ... . milk f mm imorina f n-p tio hghttta in i Germany. The main purpose of the President's visit is to deliver before the railway bon's business association tonight the speech which is to open his campaign Iff Zt Alter niS aQureSSl for preparedness to tne railway men the President has arranged to speak at a banquet of the motion picture board of trade of Am erica. Mr. Wilson expects to leave New York for Washington at midnight and to leave the capital tomorrow night for his western tour. The Presi dent delivered an address at noon be fore the clerical conference of the New York Federation of churches rep resenting all denominations. He was introduced by the "Rev. Dr.-Edward tnarTTiobther President ever -had such universal prayer- in his behalf." 'Only Lincoln bore such heavy re sponsibilities," said the clergyman. ROBBERS GET AWAY WITH BIG LOOT Boldly Rob ank in Chicago In Broad Day light Chicago, 111., January 27. Four robbers, armed with, revolvers, enter ed a Washington Park National bank on East Sixty-third street today and threatened the lives of the clerks and twenty depositors and escaped with between $12,000 and $15,000. After grabbing the money the. four hastily backed to the door and escap ed in an automobile. Policemen and detectives were quickly summoned and are searching for the -bandits. ACCIDENT PROBABLY WAS UNAVOIDABLE Bond of Raleigh Man Who Fa tally Hurt Young Woman Reduced Today. .Raleigh, N.. C.,v January 27. The bond of Joseph B. Unchurch, of Ra leigh, who late yesterday with an au tomobile ran down and fatally injur ed Miss Clara May Wishart, of Char lotte, was reduced from $3,000 to $500 today, Miss Wishart was riding a bi cycle when struck and was thrown against the curb of the street. She died in a hospital shortly after. Upehurch is under bond pending an had been able to learn the accident apparently was unavoidable. ?. BIRTHDAY OF EMPEROR OF GERM ANt Berlin, January 27 (By wireless to t evnrvwhere in Berlin today in celebration of the 57th birthday of Emperor William The only formal observance consist, 4 n .otim'niie sorv Mlt .All tne neWS- ...... . C fi . ndihliahon PTliniriS LICT recalling the fact that he was mp intain; peace for 25 years. , j WILMINGTON, NORTH GAROUN THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1916. .. EMPEBPR'8 CONDITION GROWS WORSE. Rome,Jan27, (Via London) It is reported in Vatican circles Francis-Joseph, of Austria-Hun- t gary who his been ill for several days, is rapidly growing worse. C A . 1 1 ' .r resident s Agent Looking Carefully Into Con ditions. Berlin, January 27 (Via .Loudon). American diplomatic representatives in capitals other than London, Paris n' , '. . , . and Berlin, are planning trips to mta con- fer with Col. E. M. House, the per sonal representative of President Wil- son, at points along his tour on the continent. Colonel House arrived m Berlin yes-1 terday morning. He was. exceedingly . . , I (reiiceni 10 newspaper men, declaring tthat he had merely come to Berlin ' to ' consult the American ambassador wlthout a .literature or their own, and ' prizes may be destroyed if the attack and to inform himself more fully and even such prominent emings as Mas-jer is in danger, but that, no such con clearly uponNconditions than was pos- J terlinck and Verhaerea were among j dition is imposed in regard to enemy sible through correspondence. 1 those whose influence yas brought j vessels. The inference therefore to . So. far as can be learned from other sources the principal object of Col onel House's visit to Berlin is "to study the war atmosphere in Ger many," and obtain for President Wil- J son the benefit of as complete an idea , possible of conditions here aad thfilluat Wfiy CT,1 a u,uversiiy goVernmeat CONVICT LABOR BILL TO SOON BE UP Would Regulate The Sale of Goods Manufactured by t Convict Toil. " Washington, January 27. The bill to regulate . the sale of convict-made goods will be the next measure taken up in the House after the child labor bill is disposed of.. The House labor committee h fa vorably reporting the. bill, said it is designed "to remove an impediment to the effective operation of local laws in a State on the sale within its borders of convict-made goods . impos ed by construction of the interstate commerce lawa in - inaction of Con gress on the subject. " An identical measure passed the. House in the-63rd Congress, but fail ed in the . Senate. , SUIT ATTACKS WEST'S IRRIGATION Washington, January 27. The Dis trict Supreme Court will, take up to morrow the suit brought by the Southern. Pacific Railroad Company, involving the right ofs the United Spates to reserve in land grants an easement in favor of the government, by which, it may dig ditches in con nection with the general irrigation (system -'in the West. The railroad company points otif'that its right to a patent for the laW is admitted, but that under a recent ruling of the Inte rior -Department, Secretary Lane is reserving in land grants a right to enter and dig canals and ditches if -necessary for irrigation purposes. The railroad says there is no legal authority for such reservation, and that it would burden the title to the land so much as 'in many cases to render it unsalable. Secretary Lane has been cited to appear tomorrow in answer to the suit for mandamus. v St, Paul's Winter Carnival Opens. St..., Paul's Minn., January 27. A ten-day Winter Carnival is under way today.'Ih which devotees of the sportspppMpii ficcpc UAVF onoP and - snow will join . Canadians , r .JPEr. "j" T and : Americans coming from far and. near for the fun. Tobogganing, shi- jumping, snow-shoeing , and gHallUg .0.111X uuunojuiaii.u&o " . he ?un its igW Brilliant il- make the nights IUiumoww" Ah ice fort will be lit: DUCUiVU.M. fort . wtlle-'stormed under colored lights JEWISH RELIEF DAY. c " - r , New York. Jan . 27 . Funds for the relief lot the Jewish war suf- ferers are being. collected ! der President WilSOti's nrnplanmi. tion designating this aa f Jewish Relief Day." -,' .V " Hundreds of Jewish organ iza- ! $ tions are engagedj in collecting ; and are looking for a general Na- fr tional response. ' . 1 At Effort of German Governor General to Change Uni- versify of Ghent Brussels, Jan. 27 The steps taken ' Bissing to convert the University of Ghent into a t lemisn institution meets a long-caei ishea wish of the Flemish population 6f Belgium. . as eany as ww, or only a decade FLEMISH PEOPLE ARE PLEASED after Belgium was separated from. Hoi-j iaw- land, a resolution wis introduced in I Submarine warfare per se, he ar the Belgium Parliament for the estab-1 sues, is allowable because it U not lishment of a Flemish university. Noth-! forbidden. Various restrictions plac ing came of this first 'attempt, but the movement never subsided.. Four years ago it gained such force that three Flemish members of the Chamber, renresentiner p.aoh of the-three nnliti. Cal parties, united in offering a. resolu-1 tion calling for a Flemish university. Opponents of the measure argued that tne Flemish language was not adapted f r. toor1ilnr c,ianHfi AriA V, J trVi li'tarorir w .,-""&lov-i."N. "t courses, as the Ftemlsk people were against tne proposition. The political be drawn is that the attacker needs economist, Lodewyk de Raet, who has no such pretense or excuse as danger died since the war began, argued, how- to justify him in sinking his eppo ever, that the backwardness of the 1 nent's shins. - ' Flemings in social an political devel- Pment was due Precisely to the fact :Hp.himmmn .airent':taita tbe-doB i i Finally the so-called Flemish Volks - raad( (people s council) appointed a commuiee 10 araw up a pian ior trans-j lormmguneni into a .emisn insmu - tion, and it adopted de Raet s plan, he nimseu oemg a mem Der or tne com mission. This plan received the united endorsement of all the Flemish organ izations of the country; and the univer sity question became an issue in the elections held in the first half of 1914 for a part of the members of the -Cham ber. This issue finally became so acute that the Premier M. de Broqueville, himself representing a Fleming consti tuency, felt the necessity of making a concession to it; he promised that the government would take into considera tion the question of adopting Flemish at Ghent in some form. Of course the outbreak of the war left the whole mat ter in a state of suspension.' ALL LINE-UP FOR GOOD ROADS BILL North Carolina Congressional Delegation Voted Solidly For It. (By George H. Manning.) Washington, D C, January 27. All ten of the North Carolina congress men voted in favor of the Good Roads bill which was passed by the House late Wednesday afternoon by a vote of 281 to 81. The bill authorizes the expenditure of $25,000,000 for improvement of rural roads on a cooperative "fifty-fifty" basis between the federal government and every State that wishes ,to co operate. Under the provisions of this bill if es foretaoietaoshrdluetao the North Carolina legislature appro priates for cooperation with: the fed eral government, or the different coun ties or communities put up the money, $655,670 of the .$25,000,000 will be sent , on North Carolina roads by the Fed eral government and an equal amount of the State. The chief opposition to the bill came from the Republican side and from ment wh insisted this money should ya snort fnn miiitiirv naval nmna rAri- be. spent for military naval prepared ness. This is the third time the House has passed a good roads bill . BEEN ENORMOUS Bristol, England, January 27. A ' French Sof ialist . denutv who address- 1 : ; 7- ed the labor conference here: today on being questioned regarding the French losses said that 800,000 soldiers had wounaea apa, tnat ma Deen taken prisoners.- -kit. 8 THE BASIS OF WAR German Professor Issues! Brochure 'in Answer to' .Criticism. Berlin, January 27. In answer to j American criticism of submarine war fare aroused by the Lusitania and An- cona cases, Prof. Theodor Niemeyer, mternational law expert at'theUai- ! yerstty of JP61' has issued a brochure 1 entitled. "The Leeal Basis of Snhma, j nne War. In it he gives his reasons j for believing, not only that such war- j fare is justified but that ' passenger !vessels: may be torpedoed as the Lusi- 1 tania and Ancona were without any wus mieraaurawu ! ed uPn naval warfare in general by j international conventions, he declares, ! are nul1 and void because not ratified ' by a11 of the present combatants, ! The "command of necessity." he urges, is another reason for the sub LEGAL SUBMARINE marine. It has "the right and dutyAden near the entrance of the Red ; to do everything that serves the war's : yuiyob.e. 1 U r.,,i- a .,-! in r 4.1, T j "c quuico aiucie v ui tutj uuuuuu j Declaration to show that neutral j As regards the rights ofpassengerk, . the ir declares that they are not touched upon in any, international ; la d'estruction (of the ship) les per- , qut se trouvent a bord devremtisay their progress will likely be slow etre mises en surete. (Before the , destruction of ths ship the persons j who are on board ghall (or must) be removed to safety. On the word "devront," Professo. Niebeyer lays the greatest stress of his argument. He declares that the j Fnch have but the one word, -'de voir to cover ootn must ana snail. He elects to translate devront as shall, maintaining that if "must" had been meant the form "doivent" would have been used. On the assumption, therefore, that Article 50 was intended to read that passengers shall be placed in safety, he is of the opinion that the words, "if it is possible," are to be interpo lated or read into the naragranh. I With the article in. this revised form, ' as he is morally convinced it should j be, he finds every phase of submarine j warfare justifiable. 1 ! Professor Niemeyer opens his bro chure with the following foreword: "Ever since North American dip-1 lomacy has sought to impair the' glo rious deeds of' our submarined - by their notes and to harm them !by in ternational complications, 1 'the anx iety that a strategic advantage will Tse torn from our hands- without opposi tion has hung over the German peo ple like a black cloud. We hope, how ever, that our submarines will not be offered up on the altar of waste through- half-way measures to suit for eigners. We express our complete confidence in our heroic submarine commanders and crews, with the as surance that the German people with out exception stands behind , them, filled with admiration and gratitude, so long as a drop of blood stijl flows, so long as a hand draws the sword." The writer earnestly disputes the contention that international law has been smashed to bits in the present war. He maintains rather that it is, slangily , expressed, bent but not brok en. There has not been as large a proportion of offenses against itHe says, as against criminal law the world over. After presenting many reasons Why the, submarine might be considered ... - t unamenable to existing law because it is new, he declares that this view after all is untename ana insists wutt the U-boat will have to continue to ! operate under present statutes until i new ones, are created after the war. new ones, are creaiea aiier mts He complains on the one band that "full of holes" and too "elastic," but finds in these very facts justification for many of the acts of submarines. In support of his contention he' quotes many phrases which he terms- vague, and which, he says, ara costumed in one way by America, in another by England,' and in still a third by Ger - many. In this connection he !.:tajkes a tilt at American junspruaence; . ,.,; About the middle ot Jiis ibr6chur6 he seems to despair of convincing America that he is right and Amer - r I British Forces in Arabia Are in Deadly Peril, It Is Re ported. MAY BE COMPLETELY COOPED UPBYENEMIt Austrians Turn Their Undivid ed Attention to Invading Al bania -Bristol Convention Overwhelmingly Against Conscription of Any Type, British, possession of the territory protecting the Suez Canal route at the Koiithprn fmrl is endansrere! bv an attack by large bodies of Arabs and Turks on the British forces in Southwestern Arabia, according to ad vices from a. German source. The British have been driven from all the territory held in that section of the country and have suffered extremely heavy losses in tiie fighting, ; the re- port declares. The Implication from the Berlin "dispatch carrying these reports is that the British army of 20,000 is now virtually ' cooped-up in Sea, which must be held if the .south erly approach to the Suez Canal would be protected. A situation quite similar was reported through German agencies several-weeks ago, but Lon don then announced officially that no! apprehension was entertained as to the outcome, as the: operations had been merely in the nature of skir mishes. ' The " Austrians having secured vir tually . all of Montenegro, wndse re maining de'fendersJaccoramg; to Vi enna, are fast laying down their arms, ThreeofficersM& last night ly, although not' encountering much resistance. Advices - from - Albania lowing to the condition of the roads At last accounts the Bulgarian forces co-operating with, the Austri ans had encountered the Albania, troops and, according to .unofficial ad vices, met with defeat at the tatter's hands. The great trade union comgress at Bristol, England, today adopted by an overwhelming vote a resolution declaring against adoption of con scription in any form as "against the spirit of British Democracy" and as endangering' the people's liberty. WILSON NOT FOR AN AMENDMENT President TeUs Women The States ShoiddHandleSuf- frage Question. New York, January 27. President Wilson refused today to support the movement for an amendment to the constitution providing for woman suf frage. He spoke briefly to two hun dred women of . the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and told them that the suffrage question should be dealt ' with by the individ ual States. The- President addressed the suffragettes after they had wait ed for him for more than an hour at the Waldorf-Astoria. Efforts made by members of the party to cross-examine the President on his position met with failure . He refused to reply to their questions. NEW BERN MAN NAMED ON BOARD Washington, January 27. Prof. James L. Howe, of Lexington, Va.f and James A. Bryan, of New Bern. N. . C, are members of the Assay. Commission, announcement of the aD- nointments of whiCh was made todav. - Rev Dr A D McClure. nastor Qf gt Anarews presbyterian church, 'nas returned from "Nashville, Tenn., j wv,Arf, Was called on anroimt of j where he was called on account of tne ,jeath .of his sister's young son I - 1 1 cans wrong, for he says : It is, 1 fear, easier, for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle rthan! for a genuine American really to. un- derstand a German, of tett a Dutch man. or a Norwegian, when one of i them insists that, according to the cnarac.eroi tne wax ana me cnarac j ter of international!; lawt governing warfare,:: the trtte inwardness-of ' the - legal basis or statuaofwar changes." PRICE FIVE CENTS. ARE TRYING TO RESCUE AMERICANS Carranza Soldiers Start After; Bandits Who Captured " . ; . Troopers, 4 A OFFICERS ARRESTED ifien. Funston Orders Arrest of Those Who Lead American Soldiers Into' Mexico Four Troopers Drowned in The Rio Grande. ! RESCUED BY CARRANZA SOLDIERS. mtm Brownsville, Texas, Jan. 27 Privates Wheeler and Peterson, Y of the Fourth Field Artillery, who were kidnapped late yester- day by Mexicans and taken south from the border, were res- cued by , Carranza soldiers and brought to Matamoras today. 4 They were turned overx to the American authorities. fr Brownsville, Texas, January" 27.- United States military officers here t today are awaiting therfesult of a res cue expedition by Carranza soldiers into Mexican terntcry, across the river frdm - Progreso. where yesterday two rr ii j o a. a. a. - Lil 1 1' '3" -L m uiiiieu aiaLes Lruoners' were canii trn PE1 ordered arrested - by Major-Genral Funston for leading a, t party of fourteen-American troopers into Mexico in an attempt to rescue the two troopers. In this expedition four Americans wfirp. drowned in aft.emntine' to swim the Rk) Grande. The Others who en tered Mexico -returned withorft having accomplished the object of their mis sion . A -nrolonered rifl fire, was at. changed during these operations - but ii u uuo was 7T UUlXUVtJ n iui j fl II It is said the Mexicans engager? WWg not soldiers. LOOKS FOR TRACES OF POISON Chemist Examining Viscera of ' Woman Who May Have Been Murdered. Raleigh, N . C . , January 27 . The vistera removed from the- body, of Mrs. Racfiel Hopewell, wife of W.,r R. Hopewell, of 'Bridgeton, near New Bern, is being examined here by Prof. W. A. Winters, of the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical ; Col lege. ' , Mrs Hopewell died under mysteri ous circumstances last year and the authorities entertaining a theory, that she was poisoned, . are detaining hen husband in New Bern. Professor Win ters, who is looking for traces of pois on in the vistera, said today he .would be unable to make a report before next week, j , DOUBLE EXECUTION rnn TnunDomii run First in North Carolina Unless Governor Craig Inter- feres.- . Raleigh, N. C, January 27. Un less Governor Craig interferes the first double electrocution in North Carolina will take , place here tomor row when Jeff Dorsett and Ed Walk er,: negroes, will pay the penalty for the murder of. John Swain, in Guilford county, in January, 1915.' Attorneys for the negroes failed recently to job tain a new trial on an appeal to the Supreme ' Court. ' ' ;, t . Swain was waylaid ' and 'shot in an attempted .robbery, He was fatally wounded and died several Mays later. r v '.V.. I 'a v
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