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. . .. ' V'.' -. ' ' ' -.-I' . v : ;.. -'' ; . ,'" v i ' ' t---. f .... WEATHER FORECAST4. ";XVcj'-W'&iv. I North Carolina Fair Sunday and Monday. Rising Temperature. OLXXIIr NO. 3 16. Rumanian Capital Is Menaced And Government wmciais Get Ready to Flee. ADVANCE IN PROGRESS. peace Parleys Between Ruma- ,-i i-l T"V -Central Poiat-t.q Being Talked Of Von Fal kenhayn Issues Proclama tion to His Army. t .on'' mi Nov. 25. The final phase the campaign against, Rumania, the drive on her capital, Bucharest, is in i'ull swing. Having crossed the Danube so far nfficiallv known at two places Field Marshal von Mackensen's Bul- srn-German army is advancing on 'W historic fortress from the south- t. alone two railways working toward a junction with the forces of General von Falkenhayn, vmose le gions are sweeping down ujon the 8 - .. AT- i 1 . 1, . 1- capital irom me wesi, auu uuhuwcbi. The last natural harrier, the Alt rirrr, vas crossed today. The Teu- ;nn iunelicm and the subsequent siege ol Bucharest, are conceded hco io be only a matter of time. Mack enseii is now less than seventy miles from Bucharest; Falkenhayn some ninety mues. The most menacing blow is yet to be struck, it is believed, when Mack- onsen's center crosses the Danube at Turtukai Eridgehead, only 37 miles southeast of Bucharest. The advance on the capital now is in full progress from three sides. The next few days are expected to bring reports-of peace parleys be tween Rumania and the central pow ers and Bulgaria. The case of Mon tenegro, it is Relieved, will be repeat ed. As in that case the -reports will be based upon vague proposals made toy taction Hn : the invaded kingdom independent from the real rulers. Flat-footed Rumanian capitulation will not become, even the most pes simistic observers here believe, until Bucharest has fallen. The unquench able hatred of King Ferdinand's peo ple for the Bulgarian invaders a ha tred which is fully mutual Will stand in the way of any sn: development, it is believed. Meanwhile the Rumanian govern ment is expected, to flee shortly from the menaced country. , The latest official nevs from the Kumaninn theatre of war came from Berlin t.onighU- "Parts of the army ;roup of Field Marshal von Macken sen that crossed the Danube near Svist'iv uair.rd ground," said a bulle tin of ihe Gorman office. Further progress by Falkenhayne jn the middle and lo ver Alt also was reported. The German afternoon report stat d that in the "wooded mountains northeast of Turnu-Severin, Ruman ian battalions cut off from the main army, are still offering tenacious re sistance." 1 nthe stubborn defense put up by this ill-fated Rumanian force, the last of King Ferdinand's army chain to flold out, battling to the last even in the certainty of doom, is seen one i the most impressive chapters of r-'al heroism of this war. The German official statements are significantly silent as regards the Points where the Danube was crossed by Uackensen. The bulletins of the 5;i'rnanian and Russian war offices show, however, that crossings were effected near Zimnitza, seventy miles southeast of Bucharest, and at the muth of the Alt, south of Islaza. from both these points railways lead northward, converging at Ro sori, toward which town Falkenhayn driving froiv Craiova. Bucharef this afternoon reported 'bat the forces which crossed the jJanube were halted in their advances J.v Kunianian resistance. This was Prior to the latest Berlin report, how ever. The Buifcians have occupied & "ties of skints In the Danube south f Craiova. n the Doljruuja there were no im portant, acticas during the last 24 "ours, but today's Bulgarian state went SDeak.S Of minnr ilvin lw . uyorior numbers" of Russians and Rumanians. n the eastern front only local en gagements were fought. General dikenhayn, according to a Berlin Kpatch, issued a proclamation to his t,ruiy, in part: "Comrades of the North Army: You had to fight for weeks on ice ound, rocky heights and in deep, -covered valleys, nearly always lout shelter and fire and often cut trom all communication. But none wiieu. wnerever the enemy na(1 to be bound he nputun PUfiQm governor saves : un a i un uuuiprai iunemifhbm HflUf M Pll I OWING ELECTRIC CHAIR nuvu 1IVJ I ULL UUU'NU was detained with OVERTON KNOW HIS RTF. Testimony Closed in Case and Argument Will Begin Tomorrow. Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 25. Both sides in the case of David D. Over ton, charged with the murder of Judge W. T. Lawler, closed this afternoon, and is now . ready f or- argument by at torneys Monday morning. This will require at least the entire morninir session which will begin Monday at ' other Prisoners in death row who are 9:30 and some of the afternoon ses-iseeking clemency- There may be sion. so the cas will not rearh thp, twwn0 are awaiting action of the jury until the afternoon. The crowd that attended the afternoon session was ROmnnSfld of mnnv nnn-ntrv ' people, who were in the city for week end and many brought their lunches and remained intbe court room all vl..y. Judge Miller announced that all who come to the court room Monday will be searched for firearms. The prosecution scored at the aft ernoon session when Mrs. Robert Phillips, widow of the ex-sheriff, and Mrs. Tom Lawler, Jr., daughter of the dead sheriff, testified that Sheriff Phillips remained at home all night June 14-15, the night Judge Lawler disappeared and did not leave home until after breakfast. They also tes tified that he received no telephone call during the night or early in the morning. The defendant had sworn that he called Phillips and he came to the court house in the early morn ing of Thursday, June 15th. The state scored again with two witnesses who testified that they saw Overton, the defendant,' in the city after 8 o'clock, Wednesday night, June 15. Sam Thompson, a merchant, testified that at 9:35 o'clock he saw Overton and George Blanton, a city policeman, step into the vestibule of a store on the north side of the square and converse for. a moment, while J. H. McDonald swore he saw Overton driving on Randolph street after 10 o'clock. Overton claimed, when tes tifying, that he and Judge Lawler drove out of the city toward Whites burg at a few minutes past eight. Blanton, who is a county commission er, was called as a witness for the defense to testify that he had not seen Overton at the time Thompson claim ed and had been with Policeman Wal ter Sanders the whole night. Sand ers, when placed on the stand, verified Blanton. Defendant was called to he stand to testify that the night Mc Donald saw him driving on Randolph street was not Wednesday. TOM WATSON GOES Georgia Editor Who Attacked Catholic Church Must Face a Jury. Augusta, Ga., Nov. 25. The second trial of Thomas E. Watson, anti-Catholic editor of the Jeffersonian Maga zine, former Fopuiist vice-presidential nominee and congressman, will begin Monday befoxe Judge .Lambkm in Federal Cout. Watson is charged with sending ob scene attacks on the Catholic church through the mails. As at the former trial, Mr. Watson will act as his own chief counsel, but he wiil be assisted by Attorneys W. H. Fleming, J. Gor don. Jones and Samuel L. Olive. A formidable array of character wit nesses, including two lormer gov ernors, have been subpoenaed. The prosecution will be in the hands of District Attorney Donaldson and Assistant District Attorney Mill-J. er, i an iron grip. Where lie had to be crushed he was pulverized. Where he had to be beaten he was hit into t heftrt." Both sides today claimed relative successes "in the fighting in Macedo nia, north and west of Monastir. The Rome and "i?aris war offices re-; nnrtpd new Drogress by the Italians. Sofia and Berlin claimed the repulse of all entente attacks. 1 ON TRIAL MONDAY JMDLNGT0N WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, SUN DAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 1916. Sentence of Tom Merrick, of New Hanover, Commuted .As Last one By Gov. Craig PREMEDITATION WAS NOT SHOWN IN CASE. Declares the Chief Executive in Assigning Reasons One Juror Sought Clemency and Another Opposed It Raleigh, Nov. 25. Governor Craig has issued his last commutation in a capital case, according to hi& state ment given out late Friday evening, saving Thomas Merrick, of New Hanover, from a death sentence which was to have taker, effect De cember 15. Governor Craig's term of office ends early in January and so far as the recordo now show he has no Supreme Court and one is in the pen itentiary for safekeeping. Governor Craig has allowed as many, relatively, to suffer death as any of his predecessors, an uncom 'mon number having been executed this year. Two Wilmington murder ers whom Superior Court juries c'on 'victed of the highest crime received new trials ' and lost the second lime. Governor Craig saw his way to give them a life term. The first, Melvin Home, was of doubtful sanity as the Governor saw it. Little Merrick's case was different and rested purely upon premeditation. Judge Frank Daniels, who. tried him first, joins in the request for commutation and one of the jurors asks it while another f demands death. Their attitude ry well symbol izes the public's view of most pardons and commutations issued by Govern or Craig. He has received more crit icism for his clemency toward pris oners than any other .publip act has Caused hmt' to receive. Last year he sent hundreds home on a Christmas visit and had the remarkable luck to get all back, save one. The Gov ernor isn't long on capital punish ment, but has allowed many to die. His reasons are thus given: This prisoner has been convicted of murder in the first degree by two juries of New Hanover county. He appealed to the Supreme Court, and the judgment condemning him to death was affirmed. The evidence was substantially the same at both trials. This case is exhaustively dis cussed by the Supreme Court in the 171 N. C, 788. The testimony at the trial tended to establish the follow ing facts: There was no previous' animosity existant between the prisoner and tho deceased. The homicide occurred in a bottling estabnshment in the city of Wilmington. This, plant con sisted of a house about thirty feet wide and sixty feet long, divided mid way by a partition. The door opened from the front to the back compart ment and a large door led into the back yard. The prisoner was in the front room of this establishment without objection of the owner. He often worked there. While sitting on a crate talking to one of the hands, the deceased, who drove a delivery wagon for the establishment, came into the front room, and asked the prisoner where his hitching rein was. The prisoner replied, "It is my hitch ing rein." Hudson, the deceased, re plied, "It is no such a damn thing,' and starting toward the boy said: "You get out of here." The boy re plied, "Mr. Hudson, you do not own this plant, and you have no right to put ' me out." Hudson, said to be a fine specimen of manhood, weigliing about 165 pounds, continued to ad vance, caught the boy, the prisoner, and pushed or shoved him off the box, and two of the witnesses say, struck j him on the back of the neck twice.' The defendant getting loose ran into the back room, returned and got his hat, which had fallen off his head, went again into the back room and returning with a gun applied to Hud son the vilest epithet and fired and killed him. The boy had borrowed the gun to hunt birds rice birds or coots, which were killed for eating at that time of the year, and had the gun somewhere in the back room. It was loadeU with shot something like No. 6 Four or five of the employes testi fled that when the boy went out the nrst time ne siayea mree or iourj . . i i j i .e minutes, and returning for his hat, ' went out and stayed the same lengtn J of time before he returned with the 'gun and fired. One of these wit- nesses, however, on cross-examination, said that he would not say defi nitely that those periods when the boy was out of the room were three or four minutes. It might have been "one minute," and again that "it did (Continued on Page Seven. THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN WILMINGTON Call To The Pay The The amount that North Carolina must, or is asked to raise to help make up the $300,000 Democratic campaign deficit has been-specified, and, no doubt, this sum will be quickly raised, to the glory of the Old North State. A clarion call has been sounded by Hon. A. W. McLean, chairman of the North Carolina campaign fund and the State's National Democratic executive committeeman. It is now up toNthe people to readily respond. The deficit was incurred by the National Committee in the closing days, so that the Demo cratic gospel mignt be carried into every corner of the country and thus clinch the glorious victory. To pay this debt the party looks to the people, as the Democratic party is of the people and stands for the masses. It can only look to them. It does not want friends among the plutocrats, and would not seek, nor be under obligations to such. The Dispatch has received the following wire from Mr. McLean: , Lumberton, N. C, Nov. 25. W. W. Marsh, Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, New York, wires urging North Carolina Democrats, through our committee, to raise $8,400, the amount apportioned to North Carolina for liquidat ing the present indebtedness of the National committee. The appeal is urgent. We cannot allow the National com mittee to be embarrassed, after they have won the greatest political victory ever achieved by any party. Please publish this appeal in your paper, so that the auxil iary committees in various towns in the State, as well as indi vidual Democrats not members of the committees, can aid in this patriotic service. Women of Wilmington and Territory Alive to Opportu nities Nominations and Votes Received From All Parts of . Territory-r-Extra Votes on First Subscription. MANY ALREADY ENROLLED ARE DETERMINED TO 111 -X-X- I -X-X-X- X- X- -X- THE PRIZES. -X- .V. K- X- X K $685 Overland Automobile. Ford Automobile. Building Lot. $100 in Gold. $75 Victrola. $50 O. K. Mystic Range. $40 Sellers Kitchen Cabinet. $25 Wrist w;atch. Two $60 Diamond Rings. -K -X- Thorn hits hp.p.n an awakening in i livi J Wilmington and vicinity in the last three or four days which is the ,ne issues Gf The Dispatch will, of greatest of its kind that The Dispatch course, help to swell the total, but has ever been responsible for. Butjtne biggest factor will be the Special it is only natural that offeV .to-give Ballots giVen for subscription pay away, absolutely free of any charge, I ments. two automobiles, a building lot, $100 in gold, Victrola, range, kitchen cab inet, wrist watch, and two diamond rings should arouse the greatest and keenest enthusiasm. Those who have already enrolled themselves as contestants have ex pressed themselves forcibly as intend ing to win, and an active canvass for votes is now commencing. Do you know what this contest means ? It means that The Dispatch is going to give away hundreds of dollars' worth of prizes. It means that Tne Dispatch is mak ing an offer to all the women of Wil mington and territory of good charac-, ter, married or single, such as is sel dom presented. It means that there is getting un der way one of the merriest races ever participated in by the daughters of North Carolina. It means that' there are any num ber of young ladies alive to oppor tunities and ready to take advantage of them. From everywhere that news of the great plan has spread have come letters of nomination and inquiry. There is no speculation or chance about the winning of these splendid prizes. The winners become winners only by work persistent, en ergetic work. The Dispatch is engaged in extend ing its already large subscription list and for the efforts of its friends in assisting, it will repay them one hun dred fold with rewards of magnificient value. Those who desire to benefit by the opportunity will secure votes, and those votes, if superior in total value to those of any rival, will se cure the attractive awards. Interest in the venture i is increas ing daily, as the" rapidly, grqwing list shows. It is to no particular section that the interest is confined, for it Is general throughout the entire field. The rapidity with which votes Vill accumulate arid Je effort necessary Blip People To People's Debt A. W. McLEAN. to the winning of one of the prizes will be inconsiderable compared to the value of the prize. Those fortu nate enough to win will never cease to- congratulate tnemselves on their 'alertness in taking advantage of the The voting coupons published in the Isjsues cf The Dispatch for the first foursweeks of the contest have a value of ten votes each and every contestant is permitted to cast as many of these ballots each day as she can secure. At the end of the first four weeks the value of these ballots will be decreased to five votes each. A large vote can be piled up most quickly and by the least effort by securing subscriptions to The Dis patch. With every subscription se cured a Special Ballot good for a great number of votes in -proportion to the length of the subscription and whether it is ne wor old is given ri lit 1U A A U AO - I V WAV. O w J Tllc ten vote ballots clipped from ments. Get in and win. But first telephone or call upon the contest manager, for full information about the contest and just how best to set about the work of winning the splendid prizes. Don't hold back the voting coupons. Clip them out and send them in NOW. They may be brought to Con test Headquarters, or mailed direct to Contest Manager of The Dispatch. GET ACQUAINTED DAY. Saturday, December 2 wil be known as "Get Acquainted Day." To every candidate, who, on or before that day turns in, ONE SUBSCRIPTION for The Dispatch for Ibree months or more, will be given .a BONUS VOTE GOOD FOR 25,000 extra votes. Only one of the Bonus Votes to any con testant. Be sure and. enter the con test become active and turn in one subscription and get 25,000 extra votes Don't forget the day, Satur day, December 2.. , Abbottsburg, N. C. Lorrene Ballantine .. .. .. .. 1,100 Edna Cashwell .. .. ' 1,070 Margaret Craven tl,000 Ruth Johnson 1,000 Acme, N. C. Rena Bradt - 1,000 Mattie Powell .. . 1,000 Ruby Scull , . . 1,000 Nancy F. Wall 1,000 Alma, N. C. Anniei McLean . . . . . . ...... 1,010 Armour, N. C Mrs B L Daniel.. 1, 000 Mrs. W. R. Love.. ... .. .. .. 1,000 Ashton, N. C. Fannie Lee Armstrong .... . . 1,200 Atkinson, N. G. Mabel Henry . . 1,000 Sallie J. Kelly 1,120 Florence Murphy . . 1,000 Mrs. T. S. Teague .. .. .. .. 1,000 Autrvville. N. C. iRovella Autry .. 1,000 Fay Cashwell 1,000 Violet Cooper .1,000 Bladenboro, N. C. Annabel Bridge! , 1,000 (Continued on Page Six) ATCH CITY Si TO HAVE Report Comes to American Side That Chihuahua City At Last Haj Fallen. VILLA ATTACKED FROM THE NORTH. Hand-to-Hand Fighting In The "Streets Villistas. Said to Be Engaged Tn Massacree. El Paso, Nov. 25. After three days of assault, during which he attacked the city from the south, west and east, sjuffering reptilBes eachf. time, Francisco Villa this afternoon moved the main body of his bandit force to the north, and, returning to the as sault, drove his men into Chihuahua City. That is the report brought to El Paso late tonight. It adds that Villistas and Carran zistas are battling in the streets of Chihuahua in hand-to-hand conflicts for the possession of the city, which Villa has sworn he will take if it costs him his last man. Villa entered the city Thursday night, but was un able to hold his ground. Following an unsuccessful attack from the east this morning Villa sent part of his force to the north to cut the railroad and telegraph lines to Juarez. Then he ordered a general assault from the level plain of the north, toward which the Carranza cannon on the heights west and sbuth of the city could not be trained. With the artillery of his enemies rendered ineffective Villa had litttle difficulty in carrying tne asault into the city's suburbs. Tonight Juarez heard that Chihua hua had fallen and the Villistas had commenced a massacre of the citi zens, directing their campaign of murder, especially against Chinese, of whom there are five hundred. Car ranza officials in Juarez denied the report and said the wire interruption between Juarez ami Chihuahua had been located at i "point' half way be tween the two cities. GREECE SAIO TO BE FOOLING ALLIES Merely Baiting Entente Until Rumania is Crushed, Is The Report. Amsterdam, Nov. 25. From the maze of conflicting dispatches passed by the Allies' censorship, one report loomed large tonight as tending to support the theory advanced by the press of the central powers and shared by wide circles in the entente countries. , That Greece, through uexterous diplomatic evasion and well-calculated manifestations of a gradual yield ing to the entente, is merely marking time until Rumania is crushed and the Teutons in a position to release sufficient forces for a drive on Sal onika The dispatch, which lent support to this view contained the admission that' Greece may try to resist by force any attempts by the entente to com pel submission to Vice Admiral Fur nel's demand for the surrender of Greek arms and ammunition. Other dispatches from Athens re garding Greece's attitude toward the entente demand were conflicting. The latest word from the Greek capital said that the Greek government had yielded, but added that the allies have threatened to force submission if the demand is not immediately met. A new Greek cabinet crisis is again re ported imminent. CALLS FOR BOYCOTT ON EGGS IN CHICAGO. Chicago, Nov. 25. An official call uponhe people of Chicago" to boy cott the egg market was issued to night by Dr. John . Dill Robertson, the health commissioner. He declared eggs are being held in cold storage, while the sick and destitute need and cannot get them, and he asked every body to stop buying eggs until Janu ary 21. X--X- X- ' X- VENIZELOS DECLARES WAtt. , Athens, Greece, Nov. 25. X- Ex-Premier Venizelos' lecently x- established Greek provisional X- government has formally ,de- clared war on Germany and .Bui- X- garia, it was announced today. BEEN WRESTFROM GA H MEN 20 mm L THREE; SECTIQNS PRICE 5 CENTS E OF LEGAL BATTLE TO SHIFT" BACK TO CAPITAL Lawyers Will Buckle Down to Work There on Eight-Hour . Test Case. TO GET HEARING ON DECEMBER 4. Brotherhood Heads Will Go to Washington to Keep Tab I on The Situation Strike Still In Mind. Washington, Nov. 25. The legal battle over the Administration's 8 hour law will be transferred back to Washington tomorrow, with the ar rival of the railroad attorneys and the assistance of the attorney-gen- heral's office, who have been attend- ing the hearings in the Federal Court at Kansas City. Both sides will take up the work of preparing the papers in the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf Railways case, which is to be laid be fore the Supreme Court on Dec, 4. The four chiefs of the railway brotherhoods will also be here in the week. Their coming, at this time, indicates that they intend to keep close watch over the government's appeal from the Kansas City decision, holding the law to be invalid, and their future course in the matter of calling a strike will be largely gov-, erned, it is anderstood, by the result of the Supreme Court hearing. London Newspaper Points to Crucial Situation Presented On Plains of Rumania. 1 . London, Nov. 22. "Reynolds news. papers," always extraordinarily well informed, and controlled by Sir Hen ry Dalziel, leader of the "Ginger Group," in the House of Commons, will publish tomorrow's remarkable article, entitled "The Rumanian Out look." It says: "It is well that the British public should realize th3 length of the war, as well as the fact that the future of the British empire is now being set tled ou the plains of Rumania. No amount of special pleading on the part of the apologists for the govern ment can alter this fact. ' "Nothing since the beginning of the war has happened, nor anything like ly to have a more powerful effect in the whole position than the threaten ed crushing of Rumania. It is not only that Germany will get as much wheat and oil in the new territory as will keep them going for another year, but it will lend strength to the hands of that arch German spy, King Constantine, at a moment when it is essential to the allies' position that Venezelos be materially strengthened: "The British government wasn't without full warning of the catas trophe likely to happen unless proper and adequate steps were taken to provide for the threatened German onslaught. But like so many other things in this war, the British govern ment only woke up to the danger of the situation when it was too late." LABOR TAKES ISSUE American Federation Protests Against Strike Order of Mexican Chief. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 25. While re- - affirming its stand in behalf of peace, between the United States and Mex ico, the convention of the American -Federation of Labor today dem nded of General Carranza, on behalf of the organized workers of both Mexico and the United States, .that his de cree of August 1, last, forbidding agi tation of strikes under penalty of death, be withdrawn. This action by the Federation, whose officers exerted all their in fluence in Washington last summer to avert war, which would have meant Carranza's downfall created a; sensation when proposed late in the,, day by the committee on interna tional relations. London. Nov. 25. Travelers Just returned from Germany report the. de struction by a terrific storm of a super-Zeppelin, Only one of the. crew of 28 escaped with his, life, It Is said. UPBRAIDS BRITAIN FOR LETHARGY WITH GARRAN2A ,:v 'V.I 1 4 ft V i; ' 4 i 4 ? V O'' r ;. T'5-- '.V?.'- V'' :, ' :- '" 'J'- '"' : .K