WEATHER FORECAST.
Pair and slightly colder tonight.
Thursday fair. Fresh northerly
winds.
LARGEST ::McUL0i WILMINGTON
VOL. XXII. NO. 326.
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAOLINAWEDN ESkV AERNOON DECEMBER 6,1916.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
i 117' rTsl
Submarine Sent Former Amer
ican Vessel to The Bottom.
American Crew Escaped.
TOOK PLACE OFF
ISLE OF WIGHT.
Firing Kept Up While Crew
Was Taking to The Boats ;
- n i l. tt . it
Lrew returnea ro united
States Today and Told The
Story.
New York, Dec. 6. The steamship
John Lambert, listed in the Maritime;
rcdstor as an American vessel, was
shelled and sunk without warning byi
a German submarine off the Isle of j
wight on November 22, according to j
members of the crew of Americans
who arrived here today on a French
line slca-mcr-from Bordeaux.
The John Lambert was or.- of the
vessels which was built on the
Croat Lakes and a French line agreed
to purchase her. According to the
arrivals today theTessel was on r-"
way t Havre to be delivered there.
Tin- attack took place at 4:30 p. m.,
when the ship was 23 miles south
of the Is'.c of Wight, members of the
crew said.
Engineer Edward Harrison said that
the submarine first made its presence! retarded. germination and growth of astir, is being pressed and the latest
known by sending a shell crashing. the crops Also a period of drought j statement from the Serbian war pf
throujh the Lambert s bridge and that i fQllowedf whicn curtailed . cotton. !flce announces the Bulgarians in rc
the firing continued during the tinier The corn crop this year probably . treat, after losing seven strong posi
the crew was taking to the boats, 12 . win be about 56(000,000 million bush- tions
shots being fired. The crew of 16, all elSf or approximately 8,000.000 million Today Paris announces fresh pro
of whom arrived here today without busheis iess than last year. The crop ; gress for the Serbians and French in
their captain, said they rode 40 miles of oatSj ne declares to be the poorest jthe Monastir fight and reports also
from the coast, being on the water for ever harvested . I developments of violent artillery en
12 hours and shortly after the Lam-, and corn produced this year ! garments northof Monastir.
ben went down they saw the subma- are sufficient to feed the entire state, j '1
me attack and sink two unidentified
vesseis a steamer ana a baric,
the second officer "of "the John Lam
said the vessel flew the French
llag when she went down and had
been using that flag although not yet
formally turned over.
T
DECKS FOR ACTION
Making Ready For The First
Days' Business of Present
Congress.
Washington , D. C., Dec. 6. Presi
dent Wilson disposed of a great num
ber of miscellaneous engagements to
day, to clear his calendar for the work
of thn first days of Congress.
He received the new council of Na
tional Defense, conferred with numer
ous senaiors and representatives, re
viewed 800 champion boy corn grow
p and canning club girls from Ohio
and touched a button giving a signal
for the opening of the Tulare Citrus
uit Fair, at Visalia, Cal.
COMPOSER OF WELL
KNOWN SONG IS ILL.
1
he will deliver an address at the
Santa Rosa, Cal., Dec. 6. J. P. newspaper institute of the North Car
Mills, known on the stage as "Joe olina Press Association-.
Haydpn," who wrote "There'll Be a !
fJof Time in the Old Town Tonight j
is srriously ill in a hospital here. Lit-'
" opi: is entertained today for his
ruf-ovf-ry.
TO INVESTIGATE
OHIO POLITICS.
fnl'imbus, Ohio, Dec. 6. The secre
'aiv r -ate today ordered a state
investigation of the charges of
f,'id and error in the recent Ohio
"ction filed by the Republican state
commut r-e.
LAW DECLINES TO FORM
NEW CABINET.
Undon, Dec. 6. The West-
minster Gazette says that A. Bon-
" ST I.9U7 l-IOr, J At !1.
ar Law has declined the invita-
t
,0 of the King to form a -cab-
T lnet anl that presumably David
Lioyd-George will be called on.
The Exchange Telegraph Com-
v Party savs it hoc gnti..!h, v j.
state
ment that Mr. Bonar Law 4'
h
as declined the offer to form a
s'JVfrnment.
LIVE MUERGIHlARnrS HJSE WBSIPHTGIHI AEDVEDSTHSnRHB TQRf
r
TAR HEEL STATE
S FOR THE
Again Produced More Cotton,
Peanuts and Potatoes to the
Acre.
SPLENDID REPORT
WAS MADE TODAY.
Commissioner Graham Gives
Vital Figures Corn Pro
duction Under That of
Last Year.
HD
SEVENTH
YEAR
"Ferdinand's forces, as th.e road
Raleigh, Dec. 6. For the sev-'through Ploeschi affords the only rail
enth year North Carolina is the first way avenue of escape for them to-
the production of cotton, peanuts wards the northeast, whether the Ru
and sweet potatoes and probably soje;manians and Russians so far have
beans to the acre, according to the. held Moldavia fairly safe
annual report made today to the state! The Macedonian operations of the
board of agriculture by Commissioner entente allies are progressing favor
W. A. Graham. 'ably, according to all current reports.
The spring was generally wet and The thrust developed by the Serbians
rnld. ar.onrrlintr ict the rennrt and this , in tlio flr-iinislito rpcinn Aiist nf Min-
Major Graham said, and the raising
of cattle for beef and pork, consider
able increased. ' "
A TAR HEEL GUEST TODAY.
Raleigh, N. C, 'Dec. G. Former
President William H. Taft will ad
dress the State Literary and Histori
cal Association heie tonight and to
morrow will be the guest of honor at
a luncheon to be tendered by the
chamber of commerce.
Tomorrow afternoon Mr. Taft goes
to ChapeJ Hill, where tomorrow night
GREAT MONTH
THE RAILROADS
November Orders For Rolling
Stocks Broke The Record
For Any Single Month.
New1 York, Dec. 6. American rail
roads placed orders in November for
56,530 freight cars, representing about
$83,000,000, according to statistics
published here today by the Journal
of Commerce.
Never before has freight car or
ders in any single month, exceeded
25,00. Another thousand cars were
purchased in the United States by
foreign interests at an approximate
cost of $1,5000,000
Domestic roads ordered 342 and for-.of
eign bought 633 locomotives and Am-j
erican roads bought 491 passanger
cars and these, together with freight
cars orders, and 737,000 tons of rails
.bought, brought the total cost of rail
road equipment purchased during No
vember up to $155,551,000.
nl '
PLIGHT OF THE
y
TE
IS STILL
Russians Seem Unable to
Stem The Rush Toward
Bucharest.
TRYING TO GET
RAILWAY LINE
i Teutons Reaching Out to Cut
Off Ferdinand's Forces
Entente Making Prog
ress in Macedonia.
The plight of Rumania continues
acute, with no sign of a stand by her
armies or those of her Russian al
lies affording hope of saving her cap-
itai.
Although reports from Turkish
sources last night claimed that the
troops of the Central Powers had
been driven to within less than eight
miles of Bucharest, the chief thrust of
the Teutons seems northwest of the
capital, with the apparent hope of
reaching Ploeschi before the Ruman
ian armies and effect a retreat over
i the railway running through there
from Bucharest. This encircling
movement spells great peril to King
jGETTIIIG
FICHT
Attorney General Bickett In
Washington About Cuba's .
Claim Against State. j
(By George H .Manning.)
Washington, D. C, Dec. 6. Attorney
General Bickett spent the day here dis
cussing with Solicito rGeneral Davis,
of the Department of Justice, and oih-1
cials of the Supreme Court plans forj
opposing the suit filed by Cuba to coi- j
lect several million dollars on the old
carpetbags bonds issued by North
Ulllld.
Mr. Bickett will obtain abundant in
formation today and tomorrow upon
which to prepare a reply brief to
Cuba's Suit.
M. L. -Shipman is here attending to a
few matters in the departments, in con
nection with the activities of his de
partment in the state.
E
IK OUT TODAY
Identified By Lawyer
The Original "Oliver
Osborne."
As
New York. Dec. 6. Charles H. Wax
RUMANIAN
ARM
mm; "
OSBORN
PICKED
was identified at the United States was discussed by C. J. Thompson and
attorney's office here today by James J S. Farmer. Before the report was
W. Osborne and his wife, together ken up by R. T. Vann, secretary of
with Edwin Wilcox, an assistant in the general education board, express
bis office, as "Oliver Osborne," the ed his gratitude for the support given
man who won the affections of Rae.him by North Carolina Baptists during
Tanzer. jtne Past year-
Mr. Osborne picked him-out among! Dr. Mullin's address on "The Bap
a room full of newspaper men, shak-jtist Heritage" closed the morning ses
ing hands cordially with him. sion The address was a resume of
"I was told I could speak to you 'Dr. Mullin's book, "The Axioms of Re
now,". said Mr. Osborne, placing hisjligion."
hand in a friendly manner on Wax's j The convention met in its eighty
shoulder. "I am glad to see you. I, sixth annual session in the auditor
want you to know that I am the bestjium of the Blackwell Memorial church
friend you have in the world." of this city last night.
Mr. Tanzer had claimed that Mr.) The committee on enrollment an
Osborne was "Oliver Osborne" and nounced that 284 ministers had regis-
brought suit against him for breach
promise
Madrid, Spain, Dec. 6. (Via. Paris)
One hundred members of the crew
of the Spanish steamer, Pio Ix, from
New Orleans for Barcelona, were
drowned by sinking of the vessel in
a storm when off the Canary Islands.
' ':'aS .
. ' l V ' .
BUCHAREST CAPTURED.
55- Berlin, DeCi 6 Bucharest
capital of Ruinanla, has been
captured, it was ;, officially an-
nounced this afternoon.
'
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Eightieth Conf erence Called to
Order Today By.Bishop
Kilgo."
YEARLY MEETING OF
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Hij r y ' (
eld rreVlOUS CO Convening
of Conference Rev. Geo.
Stuart Addressee
Laymen.
(By Susan Iden.)
' Durham, N. C, Dec. 6. Bishop John
C. Kilgo called the - eightieth session
of the North Carolina Methodist Con -
ference to order Wednesday morning
at 9:30 o'clock in Memorial church,
of this city According to the usual
custom the conference opened with
the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Bishop Kilgo was assisted in this ser
vice by the presiding elders.' Fol
lowing the communion service Rev. R.
H. Willis, pastor of the church at Ox
ford, was re-elected secretary of the
conference. Mr. Willis has served as
secretary for five years. Rev. G. T.
Simmons and J . M Ormond were
elected assistant secretaries and Rev.
C. J. Harrell, statistical" secretary.
Wednesday afternoon Rev. George
Stuart and Dr. John" R. Pepper, of
(Continued, on Page Three )
BAPTISTS
Meeting at Elizabeth City
Buckles Down to Business
Ahead Ut It.
ACTIVE CAMPAIGN
FOR THE RECORDER.
GREAT METHODIST
hosts m mum
i iiu u i w i tvia ii win.
MEET IN DURHAM
iPTiiTr
INC HARD
CONVENTION
Car-jvery preacher Should Take
It, Declares Mr. D. L. Gore,
of Wilmington Judge
Oates President.
Elizabeth City, N. C, Dec. 6. The
outstanding feature of this morning's
session of the Baptist State Conven
tion was the setting apart of Febru
ary for an active campaign among
pastors and laymen for the support
of the Biblical Recorder, described asj
the most tremendous influence at
work for the strengthening and up-
; building of the Baptist cause in the .
State
"Some preachers don't take it," said
D. L. Gore, of Wilmington. "The lay
men ought to see that they do."
The convention effected organiza-
: tion last night and got down to work :
this morning.
Hight C Moore presented the re-
Prt on the Biblical Recorder, which
tered, and the body proceeded to or
ganize by electing Judge John A.
Oates, of Faetteyille, president.
The feature of the first session of
the convention was the annual con
vention sermon by Dr. Calvin B. Wal
ler, of Asheville, who was assisted in
the preliminary exercises by Dr. John
Jeter Hurt of Wilmington.
PUBLIC
IT
iJEXT STEP IN THE
King Sent For Lloyd-
f George to Confer With
This Leader.
BONAR LAW WILL
NOT HEAD CABINET,
Declines The Task to Reorgan -
ize Government Opposi-
tion to Wavid Lloyd
George. London, Dec. 6 The public awaits
iffiS?
tionalists, who withdrew their support
. "n . l A . . 1 1. 1- 1, tf
I r-ruuiier ahljuilu uauauae ui uia
i failure to carry out an agreement made
.' ... T , , . . . .
I with Lloyd-George for bringing home
! rule into force immediately, would
i hardly be likely to follow a cabinet of
which Mr. Bonar Law was the chief
and in which Sir Edward Carson was
included. It had been suggested that
j their support might be obtained by
j granting their demands regarding Ire-
iland and U was even said that Sr Ed-
waru jarson was a pariy 10 mis, ouz
ENGLISH
CRISIS
the Ulster leader telegraphed to hislamson, of the House Commerce Corn
supporters in Belfast a flat denial of!mittee, for submission as soon as At
the report, saying: i torney General Gregory passes on its
"The position attributed to me is j constitutionality, and Chairman Now-.
without foundation. Ulster men know
my views and my unabated loyalty to
them."
Another difficulty is presented by the
labor party, whose leader announced
yesterday the intention of the labor
men in the House of Commons to sup
port Premier Asquith.
Damages to Wooden Leg.
-Belgrade, Mont., Dec. 6. John Mag
ginni was escorting a woman friend
down a local street when a Northern
Pacific switch engine struek him and!
cut one of his legs in two. He will
sue the railway company for $35 dam-
ages. The damaged leg was wooden,
D
RIZE
Mrs. Helen Putney, Who Did
Not Live in City Where
Paper ,Was Published, But
in omall 1 own, Utters bug-
gestions as to How to Con
duct Winning Campaign.
X- -X- -X- -X- -X-
THE PRIZES.
-X- $685 Overland Automobile.
Ford Automobile.
Building Lot.
$100 in Gold.
"tt $75 Victrola.
$50 O. K. Mystic Range.
$40 Sellers Kitchen Cabinet.
$25 Wrist Watch.
Two $b0 Diamond Rings.
-X- .
No doubt there ,are a number of
young ladies entered in The Dispatch
Contest, who are hesitating about
starting their campaigns, because
they do not know just how to begin.
They may feel just a little timid
about asking for their first subscrip
tion. For the benefit of these, as
well as others, the Contest Manager
is giving the following suggestions,
which were sent to him unsolicited,
by the winner of the first prize in a
contest which he recently conducted.
These are ' some of the suggestions
that Mrs. Helen Putney offers to
others some of the things that she
"did to win an automobile:
"First of all I asked all my friends
to take the paper, and if they were
alreadv subscribers I asked them to
renew their subscriptions. Of course,
I could not see all of my friends In
one day, or several days for that mat
ter, but I called them up over the
'phone and told them I was in the
contest to win and for them to save
their subscriptions for me, and L
would come for them as soon as I
could.
"I tried to secure all the subscrip
tions possible in the early part of the
contest, while they counted the most
votes, and others of my competitors
were still "wondering" if they could
win the Grand Prize. Friends who
had neven taken the paper, took it 'to
help along,' and those who were tak
ing it by the week or month, were
easily induced to take it by the year.
I never asked a person a second time
' MR EM RIG
lIlEfllif
CONGRESS BUCKLES
TO
OF THE SESSION
Turns Its Attention to The
Legislative Program
Proposed.
i MAKING READY FOR
j RAILWAY FEATURES.
: President's Suggestion to Be
! Taken Up Forthwith At-
torney General Looking
Into Constitutionality.
I
Washington, Dec. 6. Congress hav-
S heard Resident Wilson outline his
aunual addres$ yesterday the program
lAivinl.ii... , . .
icgioiauou ue nopes to see enacted
f th i,o,.f ,
ocpwuu, Luuay milieu lis
.
auentlon to the legislative work. In
botn th House and Senate the Pres-
ident.s recommendations, particularly
.,
the railroa1 legislation, were being
closely scrutinized.
A bill embodying the President's
suggestions for railroad legislation
nas been prepared by Chairman Ad-
j lauds of the genate Commerce Com.
jmittee, has arranged to take up the
proposed legislation at a committee
meeting Friday.
Chairman Henry, of the House
rules that will expedite the railroad
rules committee, had an engagement
with the President today regarding
rules that will expedite the railroad
and other legislation through the
House. '
Beat Husband for Mayoralty
J Umatilla, Oregon, Dec. 6. Mrs. E.
E. Starcher defeated her husband for
mayor in the election yesterday
1
CONTEST
for a subscription, when I knew they
could not afford the paper, or if I was
fully convinced they did not want it,
and this policy proved to be quite a
-1 l J B
help to
I neip to me, ior many came anu onr-
ed their subscription to me after ore
'heart to heart' talk. Another meth
od I used in securing subscriptions
was this I sent a personal letter
to each lodge, Fraternal Order, Social
Order, or Society in town, asking for
the subscriptions of the members I
stated that the paper would not cost!
DOWN
them any more, if taken through me, the housewives wanted If plainly -un-and
that the carriers would receive derstood that the league is not fight
their pay just the same. ling the local merchant, but it isvthe
"I tried to secure, something every I speculators. She stated that the local
day. Sometimes I failed to do so,1 merchants will welcome the boycott
but this did not discourage me. I as it will save them considerable
only started out the next day more money. The president of the league
determined than ever to win. I kept stated that Christmas was coming and
the Grand Prize in view all the time,unies8 something is done Immediately
from the day the contest started until
the judges announced the verdict.
Well, I suited out to win, and I djd.'
Mrs. Putney ends her letter by say
ing, 'We are enjoying our car, I tell
you,, to the fullest extent, and I am
so thankful that I won it in the con
test conducted so fairly by you."
Mrs. Putney did not live in the city
where the paper was published but in -
one of the small towns in the terri
tory. What she did there, others
can do here, if they will only make-
XI - 1 ,3 .. i . . . nnv mT '
up men minus lu li y . iuu. i,ou
accomplish anything unless you try,
neither can you win one of the prizes
offered by The Dispatch, unless you
try.
Do not hesitate any longer in mak-
" xt v. f farmers, but in reality, the housewives
ning vote. No better time could bei ' ... , . , -
" 6 , " 'have them by the neck and by refus-
found than today. Two subscrip- v .
tion for a year each, or one for two
years (either old or new), if turned
..f Ct.iT.ir nicht will rivA
any candidate 50,000 extra votes. but' ,fc was fed' they were
These subscribtions will receive votes not willing to be robbed,
according to the regular schedule,! Figures were read showing that the
tmd will apply on the $15 club of fer, , average price in Wilmington today, for
which if completed by December 22, 'butter Is 50 cents per pound, for eggs
will give 150,000 extra votes. cents per dozen and about 32 cents
There will be very few of the can-lPer pound for cheese. The consensus
didates who will get one of the bal- .of opinion of the meeting was that: a
lots for 50,000 extra votes, and the 'fair price for butter was not more
ones who do, will certainly be the than 40 cents per pound, for eggs not
winders of the prizes. Some of you more than 30 cents per dozen and the
only need one more subscription for 'normal price for cheese. This, of
a year in order to get one of the big j course, considering the general Mgh.:
ballots, but whether you need,one or price of food at present. '
two, any one of you can get the neces-1 One housewife explained that she
sary subscriptions in a short time, if; had been told by a farmer that the .
you will only try. reason for the high cost of eggs was
(Continued on Page Seven.) I (Continued on- Page Eleven'
MGDRIEV. AE8E
SOARING PRICES
CAUSE
MEETING
OF
Ladies of City Unwilling to
Pay Prices Charged For '
Foodstuffs.
EGGS, BUTTER AND
CHEESE MENTIONED.
Boycott Agreed on Except
When Articles Are Needed
For Infants, Invalids and
Old People.
Wilmington fell into line with the
nation-wide movement for the reduc
tion of the high cost of living, par
ticularly in regard to the unprecdent
ed soaring prices of the present, when
the Local Housewives' League follow-,
ed the example set by similar organi
zations in many other cities of the
country and declared a boycott on
eggs, butter and cheese at an enthus
iastic meeting of the league, held this
morning in the rest rooms of the old
Murchison Bank building on Chestnut
street. f
Mrs. G. II. Croom, president of the
Housewives' League, who presided at
the meeting has telegraphed to the;
State Department of Agriculture, in
Raleigh, for what that department
thinks is a reasonable price for' the
! boycotted foods ln thIs section under
the exisiting conditions of the market.
Wtf
A wire was also sent to New York o i
ascertain the prices cnarged there. k
When replies are received they will F,
be published and the local housewives ' j
will not pay more for eggs, butter and", - 'f
cheese than what they consider a fair - .
pr.ice. . ' ' . " f
lt- was announced at the meeting', '-b
that Sorosis will meet in regular ses
sion tomorrow and will pass resolu
tions as being in accord and ready to.
co-operate in any measure taken by.
the housewives to reduce the present
high prices. It was also stated at the
meeting tha.f the President of the
North Caroflna Colonial Dames would' . (
be approached and asked to have he r f
otgan4zatlA- iCperataln-th '"ity,"wi:.',
wide" movement.. - - -. '
Each of the thirty or more house V i
wives in attendance at the meeting !
this morning will this afternoon tele-
phone ten other housewives who are i
not members of the league and urge
upon them the necessity in having .
their help in making this movement
a success. It was arranged boa that
practically every housewife having a
telephone would be reached.
In the general discussion which
took place it was clearly shown that .
the boycott is not intended to injure
the local merchants particularly as It
is not believed by the housewives that
they are responsible for the prevailing
high prices, but is meant for the mid-
dlemen, cold storage men and specu
lators, who, it is claimed, are respon
sible for the conditions that now ex-
1st. !
It was stated by Mrs. Croom that
the prjces on eggs, butter, etc.. will
be out of reach.
It was impressed on those present , 7
that the boycotted articles were not y
to be purchased at the present prices
except for infants, sickones and ol-jf
and infirm persons, who absolutely re- 1
quire them. Mrs. Croom stated that
h h d aDDealed to the local com
ercial organIzatIons on numerous
occasions for their aid ln the reduc
tion of the high cost of living, but the
were , ed as Bne ex.
plained, it seemed as if the House
wives' League was taken as a woman s
fad.
One enthusiastic lady- stated that
the trouble was that the housewives
have been afraid of the merchants and.
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;them to J1'.
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