North Carolina Newspapers

. t "V WEATHER ' FORECAST;.; Fair Tonight and f Friday. Not Much Change in Temperature. . - A- FlIIiU EDITION wnTuME TWENTY-TWO jWILMlNcnQNNOI -I lL--:JiLLiil-;. ill. W-JlldllJ sine teh DIRECTED American Government Y Notts Said to Be of Plain and Vigorously Tenor; ALMOST THE EQUAL OF NOTE TO GERMANY United States Demands That Interference Stop) Resolu tion In Congress to Send Mail on Warships, Under Orders to Resist. (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 25. Vigorous, lan guage equal almost to that employed in the last communication, to Germany is understood to characterize the note delivered to the British and French embassies here yesterday protesting against the interference with neutral mail on the high seas. The outline of these communications has teen cabled to London and Paris by th-tf embassies and the full text has been sent by mail. : It is understood that there is m substantial difference as to principle between tlw; State,. Department and the London and Paris chancellors re garding the broad, question of in violability of first-class mail on neu tral ships. The American objection is based rather on the method em ployed by the Allies' governments in handling these mails. The United States does not con cede the right to even inspect, first- class mail in transit on the high seas, ( assuming that these do not include f anything more than correspondence; and are not made the vehicle for sup plies of contraband to the belligerents. The fact that a neutral vessel car rying mail' between neutral countries . ...is. compiled .-to ent port to comply with the bellig1 rent's naval rules, it is held, does not remove the mail matter on hoard from the privileged character of mail on . the high seas. a resolution authorizing the trans-litem portation of mail to and from neutral ports on naval vessels and declaring j that "any interference with our mail shall be resented by such ship with all power of the navy and of . that ship" was introduced today by. Repre sentative Tague, of Massachusetts. It declares that Great Britain has shown no disposition to discontinue the prac tice which is a violation of our rights at sea and our rghts to do business with neutral conn-tries. The resolution was referred to. tho;lion8 he is also writing down in thel committee. Minority of House Naval Com mittee Assails Democrats in Report Today. (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 25. The Republi can members of the House naval af airs cmmittee in a minority report Jbnmted to the House today denounc ja the $241,000,000 naval appropriation w. as reported by the majority, as 0 Jy. as inadequate and urge ZtA al aIlowance to make the 'ted states navy the second great- tst in the world. The minnritvr n. , , . " y.na.. iuo wa.- , ij report ignored the opinion of -.j .uai6ea iuai me ma naval experts and the recommendation retary Danipla 1 ol Sec a "Promise hetxiTOQv. i -vi.i. Wantn "ccu iiiitJicHLH which i lied no naval increasp qnrt thn ""wanted only a slight increase. j. , AePUDiicans report a bill which ovides for two dreadnoughts omit-1 cu oy thp nQ ti . . measure? riy hnt. 'famil1!?8, instead of 5; 50 coast de- .ono f , ":o'.iusieaQy ot 2uj Ooo- . aui;ra". instead of 42,000. cri!!1" increase the1 person al ina t 0f a naval defense coun- : UI ' usning tne building wkedi!yg thaD 0neShift RefsestoalIow the much liberties By Associated Press.) Sarat TheMethni-f mgs' N- Y., May 25, Qay bv council refused 0vefrLVOtf of 435 to 360 to rc- of mln) ich provides the Pnaly car!' Jr cnurch members who ieatr0 ' uance and attend the If INT EVEN A BIGGER NAVY III A BIG MORTGAGE Southern Railway Makes Big Borrow For Rolling Stock. , The Type of Car. (Speclal to The Dispatch.) - Raleigh, N. C, May 25. In the capitals of nine , states nearly ' all Southern, the Southern Railway is registering a $4.70').0u0 muitgape. Icr will greatly en-. ad send into ser- rolling stock whicb. large its equipment an vice the latest thing in cars and en ines. " : The law that formerly .required reg istration of such a mortgage in ev ery county that is traversed by a rail road has been amended to embrace 1 only the state capitals. Register of Deeds J. Wood is now recording the voluminous paper and will finish it this week. . The money will be spent in 30 Santa Fe type of freight .engines, and ten- ders, numbers 5,000 to 5,029; 15 moan- RECORDING tain type pg&senger, locomotives from) The Artillerjr is still notably active. 1,450 to 1.4 Ci built by tho Tialdwtns; its fire has been particularly severe on 25 passenger coaqhes, numbers 1549 to 'the west bank of the Meuse, near Hill 1573 ; 10 passenger baggage coaches . 305 and from Dead Man's Hill to Cu 654 to 63; 10 baggage express coaches j mieres, the village close to the river 490 to 499; 10 mail baggage coaches "just captured by. the Germans and from 290 to 299; 5 club cars 2,104to 2,108; all put up by the Pullman company; 1,500 steel flat coal gondola cars 187,- 551 to 189.050 built ' by the Pressed ! Steel Car Company and. the Mount: Vernon Car Manufacturing Company; 1,000 steel center sill box. cars 150,000 to ; 151,006 y constructed by the Lenoir Car Works; 500 automobile cars. 160,- 000 to 160,499; andMOO 0 steel center was urst recoraea way z. 'may l ine",Ta oovw,. Southern paid - $933,029.65 and will eliminate the debt with $235,000 semi- annual until it is all eone. This is thp sent out several weeks ago with- out the itemization. . The Southern's 5.000 tvnPL nf freight engines is one of the biireest afloat andltrian unDoat and an Austrian aero- has some younger brothers which are called "Two in' One. " They are about as neavy as me seaDoara s zuu pas J fc uuv. uacu eft null 11U111UU pounds loaded '.. The ''Two in One" haai a double cylinder and double set of drivers which give great power. While Register Wood is recording this pretty penny of nearly five mil-' books a deed which requires $280 for the recording. It comes from the Dennis-Simmons , LuniDer company oi wnson to the Montgomery Lumber company and takes all the timber rights of Wake Franklin and Nash counties. The deeds is for $280,000. and the registra tion requires a fee of $20. Readjustment Probably on Ac . count of Carranza Troop Movements. (By Associated Press.) Columbus, New Mexico, May 25 new movement of American troops along General Pershing's line was re- Ported here today, The movements made within the last 48 hours were said to be to offset the redistribution nf frtfiiri Pfuranza fiomm'anders. but , 7 no. details were available at military headquarters and it was pointed out : !tnat any movements unaerway were minor and did not affect the general ex- itinnarrr nnHnv m . J 1 ' Several cavalry patrols are scouting these, it was learned, were acting mere ly as intelligence detachments and orr ders had been given them to act only on the defense and take no prisoners. . CHANGES SITE FOR v KINSTON STATION (By Associated Press.) Raleigh, N. C., May 25. The State : PAnimiasInn announced today that It had agreed to a-change in the location of the proposed $30,000 union station to be erected in Kinston. The station is to be placed on the Cas well site Instead of on the l Bordon street site, as first proposed, all inter ests concerned having agreed to the new- proposal. :; 1 v ' . v". PERSKIN6 S LINE FURIOUS 11 OF THE CERUS IS H1TIIM6 Now Attacking. With Great Fury The Line West of :- i Fort . ' - DOUAUMONT AGAIN IN TEUTONS' HANDS Infantry Attacks Cease But Ar tillery Is Violently Active. Austrians Drive Wedge Deeply. ,4it (By, Associated Press.) . Continuing their furious assault In the yrdun region, the Germans hav- ing succeeded in again wresting the ; battered,ruins of DoWumonf from the! French, are driving hard against the line west of the fort. In this new at tack the Crown Prince's forces have succeeded in gaining a foothold in the French trench at Hauriremont Onarrv which" has been the scene recently of much. hard fighting. At Fort Douau inont itself infantry engagements waged so desperately during the early part of the week have ceased for the time being, according to the afternoon bulletin of the French war office, which they have so far been prevented from spreading out by the energetic work of the French guns. East of Cumieres the French report having made some progress in hand grenade operations. 1 Latest reports from the fighting on the Austro-Italian front indicate that the Austrians have .driven a.' wedge rather deeply, into JtallaA terrttorjr but afw report a concentration of their force8 ,n A"siero Basis.. ine smxing Dy a suDmarme oi me British steamer, Washington, a vessel of 5,080 tons, is announced in London. Rome reports destruction of an Aus- In a.n engagement with an Italian sunboat ln the upper Adriatlc- I BUT IS NOT That Will Be Defense in Waite Case -Alienists To The Bat. (By Associated Press.) New York, May 25. The fight to save Dr. Arthur Warren Waite from the electric chair began today. The prosecution closed its case yes terday and this morning counsel for the defense marshalled alienists and relatives of the accused man to prove that he was insane when he killed his wealthy father-in-law, John E. Peck, by giving him repeated doses of ar senic. , It is understood that the defense will make no claim that Waite is in sane now. An effort will be made to show that he was in. a highly ner vous state for several months preced ing the' death of Mr. Peck, and was subject to "obsessions,'r and the vic- niental suggestions coming from another self, which the defend- ant called "The Man from B87Pt. GO ON SUNDAY Xorporatiori Commission An- ' noimces This For Coast Line Schedule. (By Associated Press.) Raleigh,: N. C May 25. The State W 1 NOW I al l mmu mm. m m m new h mm Corporation Commission announced again today, as a result of the an today that the new schedute affecting nouncemenf that fifty of the list of Atlantic Coast Line trains Nos. 90 three hundred of the committee at and Si; and Southern Railway trains tending the . assembly; objected to the Nos: 108 and 181, will become effect- action made onthe matter.; : , ive next Sunday. " " I While .un : to. the opening of today's The AUantic Coast Line train now operated , between ; Norfolk and Golds- boro . r " , wpviuwu, through to Wilmington . and the Southern train now operated between Greensboro - and Raleigh ,will run. assembly-might adjourn' sometime to thfough.to Goldsboro. -" " , . !day. ' -' '' "JUNE 26TH . 2 (By Assoojated ; Press.) : TLondon, May, 25 The . grand 4 "injury, todayreied trueCbills against Slr . Rpgler Casment and Daniel J.vBaile, charged with Vcomplicitylltt inreient :Irisbfr-( volt. i Their trlalhas been set for June 2totiS' Zttr"X -.7 SECOIilfi Races il For At&ney - General i and Secretary pf State Will MaklSuch.':":;: - "-v (Special to The Dispatch.) Raleigh, N. C, Bay 25. Candidates have : sent in tlietrj expense accounts in compliance witt'the law that re j May- 24 and the Supplementary iteiri-j 1 zation twenty cajp after the close. The statements have not been: made public but; wiUj;c come in due time. They will be among the most interesting phases f of T the campaign. The difficulties; attending the candi dates who woldJremaih within the limit have been great.' Those who must enter, the. second fight will find it harder still.J Tfiey!are not allowed any margin for that race because the second attemptVtice not have any proviso of that sort;'' The proper for a second primary j are very brightviiLeaders s of the party do not see , now the" attorney generalship will ; be settled without another try at a conclusion and the chances for a second race fn the sec retary of state contest are good. Hartness ' has called pon Col. Bryan Grimes, incumbent, jahd Capt. Hay wood Clark, aspirant to agree with him that the - winner of a plurality will take the cak:. . Colonel Grimes was away and sf$?M$ the Hartness proposal in thee i papers -before he In all .the letters sent out from Salisbury it has been impossible to find any criticism. Dave Norwood has actually forgotten to mention in one of them the name of an opponent unless it became necessary for illus tration. " Both leaders in the Secretary of State -race believe they will get- a majority, butv the "Westerner .is try ing to agree with his adversary quick T. . 1 ly and settle things aforetime rumored that. Colonel Grimes is dis posed to wait: Norwood and Hart ness are half brothers to Time and Tide. When they moved for consid eration of a second primary they im mediately confided in the newspapers with whom neither the banker nor the court clerk has been able to find any fault. Judge James S. Manning, one of the . candidates for attorney-general, has been - a half month in Sampson, trying a case, and says he has done nothing to promote his candidacy. He expects to win, but so do four others. Whether, any effort will be made io get an agreement of this character has not been intimated. It is esti mated that another primary would cost the State $25,000. And many Democratic leaders are "estimating" that while these two fortunes are to be spent, $50,000 on the first, $25,000 on the second, and that while two primaries take place this year, it will be the last two, or one. NEW HEAD OF THE COLLEGE INAUGURATED (By Associated Press.) Tuskegee, Ala., May 25. Ten thou sand persons from all sections of the United States were present today at the inauguration of R. R. Moton as principal of Tuskegee Institute, suc ceeding the late Booker T. Washing ton. .. 1 The president-elect was greeted with enthusiastic applause when he arose to speak. He pledged himself to carry out the policy inaugurated by Dr. Washington. WOMAN'S PROBLEM IS PROVING LIVE ONE (By Associated Press.) y-i'i j t-,, . -r or- ixr t sition in the Southern Presbyterian church which after several days of lengthly argument .has remained vir- tuallv nhftTIfi1. is m for dismission first seWon:'11l7,.'.ibadBet no ( date of adjournment, It was said ; by many commissioners laac. umess aeiay- ; ed by argument over ?the protest on women's work or other " matters the TO BE 1ARY ! SEliiili ft PEllGE JylDHEv SHOULD BE l BEHALF OF ALL President Defines'His Idea of What Would Be Nece-' vJi ssary.' ' , '- DID NOT DIVULGE 5 Interest of All and of Neutrals Must Be Conserved Rath f " er Than That of One .; . or a Group. (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 25. President Wilson told callers today that the in- lenerence or a neutral m behalf of peace in Europe could result only by mutual understanding by the bellig erents . that the terms to be arranged are to conserve the interests of all and of the world at large, rather than those of any particular nation or group of nations among the warring powers. ; - 4 President Wilson did not disclose any definite plan of action he may have formed in regard . to peace, nor did he authorize a formal statement of his attitude. . His callers, gained an impression, however, that . th$ Presi dent would entertain a suggestion that he extend his good offices to ' the bel 1I erents to bring about peace only when the conditions outlined are like ly of fulfillment. Callers. (By Associated Presa.) Washington, May 25. President Wilson told Senator Sheppard and R. D. Bowen, of Paris,-' Texas, representing the farmers' union of that state, "that the American government is doing everything possible to protect American growers of cottori and others whose products are wanted in Europe, ana wouia continue to sees ireeaom of American trade from interference by Great Britain and other bellig erents. Mr. Brown complained that the farmers of the United States had lost $500,000,000 in 1914 alone. The Presi dent referred to the peace treaty with Great Britain as necessary for a thor ough discussion, of the question. THE FISH LAWS Commission Listens to Cry- of Fishermen and Prohibits Purse- Seine Crime. 1 (Special to The Dispatch,) New Bern, N. C, May 25.- After deliberating over the matter the mem bers of the State Fish Commission have decided to allow the law. rela tive to purse seine fishing for food fish and which prohibits the use of the seine within the three-mile limit, to remain as it is. . '. J.' The Commission' met at Morehead City and heard talks made pro and don on this question, iter which they decided not to change the law. ' . Those who were in favor of chang ing the law declared that it was work ing a great hardship upon the fisher men. However, there were a large number of fishermen, among whom was Captain J. J. Adkins, of . South port, and who is a member of the Cape Fear Bar Pilot's" Association, who told the commission ? that to . change the law would mean ruin to j the fishing industry, r ''. 1 liie lucuiucia .mo i,uiuiuiobimu I ff1 thaV they have acted right in mi maitr Uu.wttvu-, the fisheTmen" will uphold them. r The cabbage shipping season has begun and each day hundreds of crates of this variety . of farm produce, are! going to the Northern markets - and . the shipments are growing larger as the days pass by. , 1 ' Pamlico county doubtless leads this section in the large ..acreage planted in cabbage and, consequently, is able to make the largest shipments. .. Craven county : farmers - are V also heavy" growers of cabbage" and they, too, are making large shipments., to the Northern markets. ALL 1 HER POWER, NO CHANGE IN iiililall nrnn 11 rn n n n fft ntHuiimjUiiuiiiTO OF THE LEfifiU. New Bern Has Things IKape . For Y larly $Zoht erenof ii:' StateBbdy. Wfi, (Special to The Dispatch.); ; New. Bern, N. C, May 25jwJLll is now in readiness ' for" the annual con ference of ' the i? Norfe Carolml Con- terence or me &p worth Leagues which is to be held in this city on Junfe 7 to 11 and local Methodists are wits5mucn anticipation awaiting the coming of the hundreds of delegates who will be in attendance at this event. The sessions of the conference will be held at Centenary Methodist church and during the time the "conference is in progress many interesting talks and addresses will be made by I men arid" women who are prominent in Epworth League circles. ' '; All plans for the entertainment r of the visitors have been made and they while here. , - ; , will be shown every consideration "Boss," the big bull dog that acts as the official mascot of the New Bern Fire Department and -which is owned by "Boss" Hackburn, Ir not answering alarms of fire now; as he. is in the j habit of doing, this being on account I of the fact that hd collided with the "Button" truck as it was ; on its way to a fire Saturday night during which collision he received various and sun dry injuries. -. ' Boss" has the!. fire-alarm: business pat . S-JusJ: as sjooh as the alarm to the headquarter kfrdBfl., which vthe truck will go out and'he leads the way to the fire, skimnng.alqn: the ground right ahead of the big machine. While temporarily out of the run ning, so to .speak, .he is able to answer i to roll call at headquarters and the firemen are doing their level best to get him in trim again.' Making Bid For Federal Build ing But Task Hard One. (By George H. Manning.) Washington, D. C, May 25. The peo ple of Wayne County and the surround ing counties want a federal court house building erected at Goldsboro, N. C. Congressman George Hood who rep resents that district, himself a riiember of the Buildings and Grounds Commit tee, has looked into the matter and found the task of fulfilling their wishes will be an arduous proposition. . Judge Oliver Allen of Kinston has written to Mr. Hood advising him of the wishes of the people of Wayne and the ad joining counties. . . A bill was recently passed establish ing a. term of cbrirt at Wilson and since then a bill was passed appropriating $60,000 to add to the $120,000 already appropriated for the postorfice at Wil son so that the building could be made pn a larger plan and room's vf or the court house included. Wilson is just a few miles north of Goldsboro; Wilmington where there is a court is 84 miles south; Raleigh about 50 miles west and New Bern about 60 miles east. . . -v! With Goldsboro pretty ell sur rounded with federal courts arid court buildings it will be a difficult matter to obtain this legislation from Congress. We Have With Us Today v . The local Stores, listed below, which appeal to men,; women and children, advertise In The Evening Dispatch . because they - want to "tell the story" of their merchandise to you as one of the great family if Evening Dispatch readers. Look to' our advertisers first Belk-Willlams Co. The Payne Drug Co. Hall & Ross. Thomas Grocery Co. J. Frank jlarman.".'-, C. D. Kenny Co. i1 Sentiment vn Favor of s Urute rBeing Mediator IS mtion. CHARLOTTE SPEECH c f Grtes;Grintert "fman'::t!aI ; ) Feeling Against 1 United State's Is Fast Being Changed ; b , War's Exigencies. (By Associated Press.) Berlin, May 25 (via London, Mai 25)." A wireless dispatch from the United States giving the ' status of President Wilson's speech at Charlotte, in which he referred to a possibility of Ameri- can mediation in the war, is giveh'the, place of honor , in the morning papers This afternoon's editions will return to the subject and will be viewed with In terest by the German public. Though definitely stated no where there is lit-" ftle doubt that Germany will be willing. to consider President Wilson's tender of his good office for peace negotia tions. - As President Wilson holds out a tangible possibility that peace may re-' suit through his mediation; Germany wilUno doubt, be willing to consider the subject suggested. ' ; ' - - There is little doubt that the great masses of people aside from the profes sional "hot-spurs", in newspaper offices i 'i would willingly see America in the. role of peace intermediary despite' the per- i . " r, , sonal feeling of the munition question.- .. -;,: On the Berlin stock market "war - : : ' babies," which have been - generally " . 1 J 1 - . A. AUM1. -' '"' t America arid other' neutral countries were contemplating a tender . of good ofncea; At the ;rsame time -peace .- jsaippHiarsm sironff-- - demand. . ' . I - ; - - ' - 1": '.. Jr. 7 - I n (, FISH LADDER Government Will Provide Way; For Them to Swim Over Dams in Upper River. CAPE FEAR r SAD When Mr. and Mrs. Shad and family return from their winter home to spend the summer in the Cape Fear river next spring, they will find a decided improvement, over the condi tions which obtained this spring when they rammed their noses with more, or less violence against a perfectly solid concrete, dam which Uncle Sam had placed in the river at King's -Bluff. " -' Uncle Sam, who is a resourceful old scout, in order to fix things so that the shad would not be peeved again, has arranged" to . place a fish ladder over the King's Bluff dam, also at the Brown's Landing dam, . so that when the fish return to their summer home up the Cape Fear all they'll have to do"- is to swim up the ladder and get on -the other side of the dam. The lad- . ' der is nothing more than a slope, but, as it happens, that is all that is need- ed. '' : :;.'i It is stated that a shad can swim up a slope, even though the current is very rapid. The shad industry was threatened by the dams, but the dan ger now seems to have been obiated.. CROW STOPS TROLLEY TRAFIC, Reading, Pa., May,1 25. A J crow alighting on an iron crossarm carry ing high-tension wires created a short circuit that delayed trolley traffic of the suburban lines fifteen minutes. A few feathers were all that was left of the bird. to fill your wants. - - f t V Geo. S. Nevens & Son' N. Jacobl Hardware Co. Elvington's Pharniacy; ' ,C. W. Yates Company. I. Shrler. j J. M. Solky. I' 7 VI