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.w,f::v- rr; WEATHER FORECAST, AST r-Tt;- North Carolina Sunday fair and cool. Monday fair- and slightly. warmer. THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN WILMINGTON. VOL. XXIIr- NO. 282. Wilmington, north Carolina, son day morning, October 22, i?i6. '41' price 5 Cents THE BRITISH HURL THEMSELVES TO THEFRONTAGAIN I i. , :v crra I THREE , SECTIONS ,- .-... ' r -i - ' - ' t mmm f: ' - - ' " " ' " f SPPEliSSESV WALL STREET w 4 f f Mainly Because He Does Not Expect Certain Men to Get Into Power, He Explains THOUSANDS HEARD WILSON SPEAK Democratic Nominee Details What His Administration Has Done For The Farmers. Tells of The Tariff and Im- pugns The Intelligence of a Select Few, Who Tried to! ol The-Farmers. Shadow Tawn, N. J., Oc'. 21. President Wilson expounded the mer its of the Federal reserve act and the rural credits system to 3,000 farmers and their friends here today. H urged the farmers to join in the gn eral scheme of preparedness which has been undertaken, and said: "I am Jiot expecting this country to get into warr partly because I do not expect certain gentlemen to get in and make a mess of things." Referring to the campaign Mr. Wil son said he was glad it was nearly over. - "There has been too much loose talk,' 'he declared. "Let us sober up and get down to business again. Our relations with the rest of the world are to be incomparably more intimate in the years "to come. That is the reason we are submitting certain men to the third degree concerning where thpy stand on world place." , , Tho moiii.fuiiaie rif 'iho Procirln t 'e 1 address toiiow : . -- - "More has been done for the farm- j . J 1 L J 1 t ' er in mese lasc inree ana a nan years than was ever attempted before, partly because in some of the ear lier (rororatinn fho lorcronDCC ff Tin. ture was so great that it did not seem to demand National attention, but be - cause the attention of the country hasj been concentrated by the leadership l of men with a RneHai nnint nf view. ' I can illustrate the noint of view by the way in which the tariff hasiKmS Constantine is backed by 42,000 been treated. You, as farmers, never loyalist troops, n ne pians a cuuy were told, I take it, that you were get-'d'etat" a sudden attempt to' shake off ting the direct benefit of the tariff., the dictatorship enforced upon him You were told you were getting the by the Allies for precautionary rea- indirect benefit of the tariff. You were getting it with extreme indirec tion, because you were getting it by having duties placed upon almost everything that you had to use, and therefore the cost of almost every-the Greek capital the landing of en thing that you had to use was en- tente marines and the peremptory as- hanced and you were promised hard- ly more than this that if the country prospered you would necessarily pros per with the country; but you would pay for the prosperity, at a very con- j est advices, notified, the Greek gov siderable price. That was not added . ernment that if the disorders were not 'out that was implied. I promptly quelled more Allied troops "And the whole point of view of our legislation has been that a special set of men, who thought that they could guide 'the Na tion better than anybody else and preferred to guide it in private, ask- ed certain chief beneficiaries of the j tariff to come together and suggest what the schedules of the tariff should be, and then to contribute the literature and-the support of the ora tors and also the other instrumentali ties of propaganda to make the coun try believe that if these men who planned the tariff were rich the rest of the country would share their riches. "I am not impugning the motives of these men. Some of them, many of them- may, have had high and pa riotic motives. But I am ready to impugn their intelligence. They did not know that unless a nation is lift ed with something like symmetrical movement, the whole mass participat ing in the uplift,, it does not suffice o lift up and benefit certain parts of it. "The object of the government is ody in ,he participation of which leads to the concentration of legisla tion. So that these gentlemen have had the idea that it was best for us to be in the hands of guardians. Now T, for one, have come of age some time ago and I decline to live as a ward. I insist upon living as a grown up individual and to insist that I shall be considered primarily along with the rest and not secondary.- "The task of this administration therefore has been to see tfiat the farmer did not get the benefit that was handed down, but get the benefit which was directly distributed on the level upon which all citizens ought to stand. (Continued on Page Seven. X CALLS FOR HUGHES' DEFEAT New York, Oct. 21. John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers of America, issued an appeal today to the Farmers' 4 Union, the American Federation of Labor and the Railway" unions ' to defeat Mr. Hughes. "Every big corporation and labor exploit- 4 er in the country knows," he said, "that, he .concurred in the Danbury Hatters decision and 4 they count upon him to repeat his performance whenever the issue of the rieht to orEraniza ' unions comes before him." TINUES TO WW THE Capital Overthrow of King Constan tine Is Expected to Come Soon. TIME FOR HIM TO ACT IS AT HAND Elrifen teActidn : ou a Period of Rioting To Recruit Men In America. Paris, Oct. 21.-Chaos continues to eign supreme in tne neiienic dom. The interest of all Europe is centered upon the Greek King, and his army of what is left of it intact. One dispatch via Rome today said sons, ne win nave 10 ao it at once, uu- servers here agree and even then they look for only one outcome his over throw. Instead of quieting the disorders in .sumption of the capital, policing -has hrnnsrht about the contrary, a full- fledged rule of rioting. As a result the entente powers, according to lat- will be landed The entente's further demand that the Greek army be re 'duced two-thirds of a peace footing and that these be evacuated. Messrs. Cafanderas and Arevantines will be sent to the United States shortly to recruit volunteers in Amer ica for the ex-Premier Venizelos' army. DECLARES THERE IS NOW A DEADLOCK Neither Side Can Make Gains In The West, Says Ambas sador Sharp. New York, Oct. 21 Before sailing . on the AmericIIher St. Paul todayl to resume his duties as ambassador to France, William G. Sharp reiterated 5 opmlon expressed Wr Mm J t Boston City Club on Friday that the military situation onfthe 'western war front in -Eurttpe iW . deadlocked. Am bassador Sharp said:" "The Germans 'will never get to Paris. But when I say that I speak only what every one in Paris knows. ' "Despite the 'most despearte as saults, by the Allies during the last fp.w mfmttis the western line' has CHAOS CREEK scarcely changed. In a few spots ,- ; there have beefn gains, I have been Washington, Oct. General Funston along he front1 and. I know that the reported to the War Department to deadlock is becoming more fixed every ! day that he expected the Fifth New day ' Jersey Infantry to leave the border Mrs. Sharp, with three children and i about October 24. Their release is th , ambassador's -mother, 5,80 years made , possible by the ordering of the old, .accoWattfed Mr. Sharp. . I AUSTRIAN PRIME STER LAID LOW Blf BULLET Shot Dead While at Dinner by A Vienna Newspaper Man. i TRAGEDY CAUSED SENSATION IN BERLIN - . Panicky Excitement Resulted; WhenNews Was Flashed About Powerful Figure In Austria. Berlin, October 21. Count Karl Stuergkh, prime minister of Austria,! was shot' dead today while at dinner at a hotel by Friedrich Adler editor ef a Vipnna rrindir,nl Thrpp shnts i MINI were' fired, each taking effect. J Plotters without involving this nation) fire and mowed down by the French News of the assassination spread I in war tns Resident has secured fori maehine guns, like wild fire through the German ius a11 of the protection and all of thej Soutn of the river between Biaches capital, and caused one of the great- j benefits that .would have accrued . from j and Lamaisonnette, the Germans at est sensations of the War. Extra edi-l a 9UccesOT. .W and by dPlomatic! tacked with great fury. North of the tions of leading newspapers, put upon correspondence has achieved the vic-j Blaise wood, by the use of liquid fire, the streets a few minutes after the tory of embodying concepts of human- i the attackers gained a footing in an shooting had been reported' to the po-i1 in internatidnal activity; at least j advanced French trench. While the lice, merely announced in huge type, so fa,r as an American is concerned. action in this section was in progress tfActvio xm?- aut r r, i What has k Been true in the case of I the French, in the Chaiilnea diRtricr xxuoti .u. x x xxiicJi. jjxxvi. x auivaj excitement was the result.. .The be-1 Thp the Austro-Hungarian foreign minis- - . . ter, was the victim, since he has been! "During the past four years legisla - generally regarded as the Austro- j tive enactment has secured to wage Hungarian "premier," though there : earners fundamental rights necessary is no such office. Austro-Hungarian ! for the very existence- of the organi- residents of Berlin seized with fear!zatn of la.!301", without which wage - and panic, stormed the embassy and consulate to obtain details. Compar ative calm was restored when the identity of the assassin's victim be- came known. While Count Stuergkh was one of the most distinguished and revered statesmen in Austria Hungary, he had at no time taken di rect part in affairs of his nation, ex cept in purely domestic matters. New excitement was provoked by supplementary extra editions giving the name of the assassin as "One Adler." The public imagination im mediately hit upon a famous Austrian Socialist by that name, editor of a Vienna newspaper. Later it was an nounced the Count's murderer was Ludwig Adler, also a Vienna editor, but not of the fame of the man first erroneously charged with the shoot ing. Count Karl Stuergkh was 57 years old and had been for years a powerful figure in Austrian public life. He achieved note by the energetic part he took in 1908 and subsequent years in the fight over Austria's educational system, culminating in a victory for i the advocates of the "Humanistic gymnasium," to which Count Stuergkh belonged. The Count was born in 1859 at Graz. He began his parliamentary career in 1891, when he was elected to the Reichstag. Four years later he became ministe rial director in the department of which he" afterward beoatne the head. He resigned after the fall of the Windisch-Graetz cabinet. In 1909 he became minister of education and two years later assumed the premier ship of Austria. BRITISH SUBMARINE TORPEDOES CRUISER London, Oct. 21. The British ad mirality tonight issued a statement to the effect that a British submarine - vich has just returned from "the North Sea, 'torpedoed a -German cruis er of the Kolberg class. The subma rine commander reports that he saw the German warship heading for home with a heavy, list. The Kolberg, a small protected ; cruiser, has the sister ships the Mainz, Koeln and Augsburg. NEW JERSEY INFANTRY TO LEAVE BORDER Colorado guard to the border. - Labor Called to Rally to The Support of President Wilson. SIGNED APPEAL HitS BEEN SENT OUT Federation of Labor Declares Wall Street Will Control if Hughes Is Elected Presi dent of United States. Trenton, OctL 21. An official appeal to organized lal)Or of the country to support President Wilson's candidacy was made public here today. In a cir - i cular letter addressed to heads of labor I organizations throughout the United i ! States, the American Federation of i Labor asks them to nolo" special meet- ' inSs for the purpose of impressing upon workingmen the issues of the ! campaign and' the menace to labor in! jWall Street influences that would ap- j pear if the Republican party were to attain supremacy. Samuef Gompers, and other heads ; of the National Federation signed the circular, which says in part: "Never within the last fifty years have the workers had more at stake in any presidential campaign. "During the present administration and particularly in the campaign there has developed . clear cut issue be-i j twen,. thG wrker8-.thet Producers and' those who manipulate the pro- I ducts of the labor of others the ex- . A . . European war aiso tru uropeau war -aso true m me case i try and Mexico. A. i 1 Z 1 earners would have "nothing of free - dom and no real opposition for self betterment. "On November 7 a declaration will be made which will determine the fu ture development of our country. "As representatives of. the organized labor movement which stands primar ily for human rights, we urge that the issues be considered at a regular or special meeting held by our organiza tion. "This, meeting should be a general one and if necessaryjjcalled specially for the purpose of seeing that those who have so much at stake should go to the polls to protect their interests. "Meet, discuss the great issues, to be decided' on election ; day, and then go to the polls, cast your vote as your conscience directs for labor, justice, i freedom and humanity." A BRIEF REST Tomorrow Night Will Begin Wind-up Tour, Which Will f Be a Hummer. Montclair, N. J., Oct. 21 Charles B. Hughes rested today and will do the same tomorrow. He is at the Hotel Montclair. In the morning he took a long motor trip and in the aft ernoon he remained at the hotel. Hi will nbt go to Chicago tomorrow morning but will seek further quiet in anticipation of his last arduous speaking tour. Mrs. Hughes went out at once for a long walk and went shopping in Montclair without being recognized by anyone. Mrs. Charles E. Hughes, Jr., and her two children are with the candidate for the week-end. After speeches in New Jersey oh Monday night Mr. Hughes will appear Tuesday in Queens, the Bronx and Harlem. His big speech follows on Wednesday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. On October 27 he covers Utica, Auburn, Geneva and Rochester. The next four days will be spent in Ohio, Indiana, and New York, exact dates not having been fixed. On November 2, he will speak in SchenectJtdy.pfeany'and Troy and on the third in Hudson, Kingston, New burgh, Poughkeepsie and Yonkers, winding up; the evening with two or three meetings tn Brooklyn. The finale w21E$ :tfle . Madison Square Garden- meeting on November-4; TAKING Claim to Have Made Further Gains in The Somme Campaign. GERMAN ATTACKS WERE REPULSED French Mow Down Teutons By The Hundreds- Noted French General Has Been Wounded. London, Oct. 21. General Haigs j men scored a considerable . advance ! today on the Somme front. Striking 1 on a front of nearly three miles, j from Le Sars west to the Schwaben , redoubt, the infantry, after adequate 1 artillery -preparation, pushed ahead j from 300 to 500 yardts. ; They captured the tre nches in iront ot stun reaouot ana also tne ; Regina trenches. Several hundred: prisoners vere taken. German Attacks Repulsed. Paris, Oct. 21. Violent German at tacks were launched today against liie positions recently captured by the French, both north and south of the Somme, but all were repulsed, accord ing tp the French war office report. The Germans lost heavily in both en gagements, the statement says. Three great waves of German infantry j swept upon sailly-Sailisel, north of the river, in an effort to dislodge the French. They were caught in the ' created a reversion by rushing - the ; crossroad to the north, clearing it of j Germans and capturing 250 prisoners, j Further headway in the direction of Bipaume was made by the British, j according to an afternoon report of 1 General Haig. Advancing along the j main road from Albert the English gained some ground near Butte de Warlecourt. The German war office statement says heavy fighting con tinues on this front, British attacks between Le Sars and Eaucourt L'Ab bay having been repulsed. Noted General Wounded. -General Marchand, of Fashoda fame, has been slightly wounded at the front. f General Jean Baptiste Marchand, one of the most noted FrFench mili- j tary chiefs, with a picturesque ca- reer to his credit that already has be come one of the traditions of the r French army, was wounded once be fore in the present war, in the allied Champaign offensive of September, 1915: He led the first storming "wave" in a brilliant attack and fell wounded in the abdomen by a shell splinter. He was decorated by Presi dent Poincare with Cross of the Legion of Honor. General Marchand achieved world-wide fame as com 'mander of French troops which occu pied Fashoda in 1898, previous to the defeat of the troops by Lord Kitch ener. Last May he was erroneously! reported killed at the front ROOSEVELT Six Thousand People Greet Him in Arizona Town and Applaud His Speech. Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 21. Colonel Roosevelt was given a thoroughly Western ovation here this afternoon, when, before an audience of 6,000, he spoke in behalf of the candidacy of Charies E. Hughes' for President. From noon, when he arrived here aboard his special train, until his de parture for Albuquerque early this afternoon, he was either speaking or receiving friends and admirers. It was a gala day in Phoenix, with practically all the business houses closed and with delegations present from every direction of the State. With the temperature hovering in the vicinity of the 100 mark Colonel Roosevelt spoke in the open air. He' was in good spirits and prefaced his address with extemporaneous re marks; that at once captivated the big audience. The assemblage gave close attention and there were no interrup tions, except that of prolonged and frequent applause. I i I GIVEN 1C0ME ROUS nb WE HUT CRACKER" OF TEUTONS CRUSHING THE RUMANIANS i More Signal Victories Being Achieved Against King Ferdinand jttUUlAKtai MAI bLNJIN tit. O I UKMUJ General Von Mackensen Mak- ing Strong Effort to Cut Off The Russian Rein forcements. Paris, .Oct. 21. Field Marshal von Mackensen -during the last 24 hours set his DobrudJa "steam roller" in motion again and as a result, accord ing to Berlin claims, inflicted another severe defeat upon the Russo-Ruman-ian army, breaking through its lines I at several points and advancing aling j the whole 40 mile front from south of 'the Danube City of Rasova to the Black sea. Tuzla, a Rumanian sea-, port 12 miles south of Constanza, a , lots from ininois, Indiana, Maryland, series of heights northwest of Top-' Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio, rosari, and the village of Kokardja. .fell j Washington, West Virginia and Wis to the combined German, Bulgarian i consin. But it is still a neck-and-neck and Turkish forces. Three thousand Russians and "some hundred of Rumanians" were taken prisoners, the German war of fice announced this afternoon. Bucharest simultaneously conceded the loss of the village of Kokardja, but issued tonight made the following ad mission: "A violent attack along the whole Dobrudja forced us to withdraw on the centre and on our left wing. This admitted withdrawal of the Russo Rumanian left wing together with the capture of Tuzlar, reported by Berlin, J strengthened the view held by mili tary critics here for some time is that Mackensen's chief effort to capture Dobrudja is to take Cosanza thus to render impossible the landing of Rus- sian reinforcements. While Macken sen struck these sudden blows In the Dobrudja, General von Falkenhayne, operating in the Traffsylvanian moun tains, more than 175 miles away, re- , sume his drive against the north western gates of King Ferdinand's kingdom, after almost a week's dead lock, which a few days ago threatened to turn in favor of the Rumanians." While the German, war office state ment of today claims no gain3 in this theatre, merely referring to the heavy fighting in the mountain ridges, Buch arest tonight officially admitted that in the Buzeu-Bodza valley the Ruman ians have been compelled to withdraw in the direction of Gura Siritilul. This is the first Rumanian reverse to be admitted by Bucharest since von Fal kenhayne's drive came to a temporary standstill. At all other points on the Transylvanian front the Rumanians beat off the violent onslaughts of the Teuton forces, the Rumanian war of fice asserts. Nearly 600 prisoners were made. The statement indicates that the Teutons have resumed their drive with full fury and that a fierce I battle rages along the entire frontier line. The armies ot the two Teuton com manders in the "Nutcracker cam paign" against Rumania seem clear to military observers here. With the same tactics they pursued in the Dun ajec "break through the battle" in 1915, Falkenhayne, the brains of the plan, at his desk in the general staff headquarters and Mackensen at the head of the armies, the two command ers are now co-operating with clock like team work to crush the hard i pressed Balkan ingdom between t them. Once in possession of the Czerna-wood-Constanza line, commanding the seaport, and the Danube crossing In the Dobrudja, von Mackensen is ex pected to give the signal for his Dan ube army, now massed chiefly at Silis tra and Turtukal, to cross the Danube at the latter bridge-head and advance on Bucharest. Meanwhile Falken hayne aims at driving down toward the Rumanian capital from the north west along the Kronstadt-Bucharest - . a railway. His immediate aim now is elieved to.be Sinaiti, the Rumanian King's summer residence. Observers here pin their hopes up on the ability of the Russians to rush sufficient re-inforcements both to the Dobrudja and Transylvania fronts to frustrate the Teutons' plan. - So Sets Forth New' York Her- aid as Result of Its Latest Poll. RACE CLOSE, SAYS NEW YORK AMERICAN! Steadily The People Are Turn- ing to The Democratic Ad-i ministration Hughes lai Weaker Than His Party Chairman Harris Claims! New York For Wilson. New York, Oct. 21. With the Pres idential election but fifteen days off the tide seems to be sweeping stead ily in the direction of President Wil son, according to the New York Her ald. Slight gains have been made by Mr Hughes in States which normally ard Republican, but Mr. Wilson has scored gains in States that this year are In dOUDt, though normally Repub- lican, and which may decide the eleo tion. The Herald's straw vote shows gains for Hughes in up-State New; York, Connecticut, Idaho, Massachu setts. Montana, South Dakota and New jersey, while the gains for Wil- aon are indicated in nie straw bal- race, though Hughes has been losing and is weaker than his party, accord ing to The Herald figures, while Wil son is gaining and is running strongi er than his party. Of the total votes cast to date 145 674, Wilson has 69,178, Hughes 72,903. i and- Benson, th -Socialist- candidate 3,591. ' , The American Says Race Is Close. New York, Oct. 21. The New York? American's Nation-wide postal poll indicates that the presidential race Is close. In Greater New York Presi dent Wilson is leading with 1,21 votes against 734 for Hughes. Up-i State, Hughes is running stronger. Inf Utica he has 224 against 197 for Wil son. In Rochester the figures arer Hughes 216, Wilson 132; in Scheneo tady, Hughes 275, Wilson 274. The Peimsylvanla vote to datfl gives Hughes 618, Wilson 524. Claims that Hughes would bring New Jersey back to the Republican fold ar borne out by figures already in. Pas saic shows Hughes 132, Wilson . 68. Newark gives Hughes 315, Wilson' . 198. The poll of New England, includ ing 23 cities, give Hughes 1,561, Wil son 1,271. The surprise is found in Ohio. Polls conducted in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati give Wilson 37,345, Hughes 26,656. . Chicago Is vot- . ing slowly and the poll stands Hughes 102,-Wilson 110. St. Louis shows a decided preference for Wilson. The mountain and coast States In dicate a clear lead for Hughes, but , supplemental figures may cut down the Republican candidate's majority. Claims New York For Wilson. New York, Oct. 21. Edwin S. Har- ris, chairman of the Democratic State ' Committee, declared today that Gov-' ernor Whitman's plurality in his opin- i0n would be less than 70,000 up-state, President Wilson and Samuel Sea-l bury, he said, would have a plurality of not less than 100,000 in the greater city. These figures, he said, were based upon the late returns from all sections of the State. ADVOCATES MILK PLANT OWNED BY CITYj New York, Oct. 21. A pasteuriza tion plant under municipal or state control was advocated today by Stale Food Commissioner John J. Dillon, to "break the grip the milk trust has on the people of New York City." " V With authorities differing on the" ; question of the necessity of pasteuriz ing milk, Commissioner Dillon said: ' "There Is no reason on earth why we should not have one or more pub-i licly owned, publicly controlled plants. : that would pasteurize milk shipped! direct to them by the farmers and re tailed to New York consumers at f -maximum price of eight cents ' per. quart." Supporting his contention that pas- I .1. M teurlzation is a tool m me nana s or. the milk trust. Deputy Attorney Gen eral Lewis today had compiled a com parative table showing that Infant mor tality is no greater In cities which dd not reqklre pasteurization, which 'de stroys iiuch of the, value of milk as $ food,", argued Mr. Lewis- '.. J I r.. , 1 ,K .i , u4 I I X: v.