North Carolina Newspapers

- x .: r- ar jt ic m '.. .. ... " S : WEATHER FORECAST. Rain and warmer tonight. Thurs day rain. Southeast to south winds increasing. onr it 1 uini lilM F1UL E0ITI0H LARGEST CIRCULATIO" VOL. XXII. NO. 340. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA WEEp IN WILMINGTON ""..-..- 1 .in. PREMIER'S ITION ESDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. 20, 1916; PRICE FIVE CENTS INCREASE ASKED FOR MEM General Van JV!ackensens " Rush in Rumania Appears To Have Ended LULL ALSO IN WESTERN THEATRE. wu Only Artillery Duels' andj Skirmishes on Uther r ronts. ; Big New Stroke May Be In r LD HAVE THE BAY DEEPER Hood and Small Trying to Get Appropriation For Carteret County. (By George H. IWannfng.) Washington, D. C, Dec. 20. Con- NGLISH PRESS BERS OF THE POLICE FORCE ATLAIUTAHAD BIG FIRE EARLY TODAY Damage Estimated $200,000 Done -Toppling Walls a menace. i j'r-;- : Atlanta. Ga.. Dec. 20:-FiKe that ?" Have Bee2?; The ' Would Mean The Expenditure started on the fifth floor of1 the de-i' Kight Answer to The i of $15,000 More Yearly partment store of j. p. Alien & Co., 's Teutonic Proposal. i Salaries in Whitehall street, shortly after 7 i 1 ; . o'clock, destroyed the Allen building 'BOFS NOT SHI IT I'll? All CMDi nvrrc and the stock of J. P Allen, at a "UQ A vo ivtit , tSM estimated loss of $200,0. The ori-; POOR, SAYS ONE. ARE INCREASED IN LIST. gin of the blaze is not known. j The authorities excluded all per- -Germany Must State Its Terms ! Department Was Represented ns from the Tfvnoo ot-toViiicTitnortf : ic f i .. ! -r-. . . " desires vonsiaeration ! tJy L. Uayton Grant, Esq., Country Said to Be Who Spoke for Members Backing rremier sons from the Kress establishment. ;. IC r : n i,-;- ui- j ' . ! 11 resizes vuasiucrauon- dujumuig me ueyanmeni store, as the fiverstory walls left standing! threatened to collapse on the three- ji story Kress store. No one was'al-. lowed in the dry goods store, also! adjoining the Allen building, as of Fire . Dept. Also. i gressman George Hood and Congress Fnrther develonments in the neflc ! man John Sma11 are making an ef- ciovo in Europe now awaits the pre-! semation of the formal reply of the' allies to the proposal of the central powers ; Military operations in the European fit-Id of war are at a low ebb. The driving campaign of Field Marshal von Mackensen in Rumania n-emsf r.iaily at. an end. Whether or not some further important move is inj ,;-.! r.-npiation in this war theatre re-i pOit.-. show comparative quiet to be prevailing at present. On thte Franco-Belgian front also ihere is a lull, with a quieting down oi i ho recent activity at Verdun, while laie reports from both the Rus sian and Austro-Italian fronts show only artillery duels and skirmishes. In Macedonia the reports show raihs and fog, with no military moves with the exceptionof patrol engagement?. ! fort to get an appropriation in the annual rivers and harbors bill of $5,200 for. the deepening of Thor oughfare Bay, which connects Core Sound with Neuse river in Carteret county. The engineer board reported fav orably on this project sevei-al years ago, but it has been impossible to get an appropriation for it. The en gineers estimated it would cost r.20d. Mr. Small, the ranking member of the rjvers and harbors committee, and scheduled to be its next chair man, is trying to have the item in cluded in the bill the committee is now considering. London, Dec. 20. Premier David ; , Representative-elect L. Clavton . . 1 5 SI . i , . v it;Mujru-ueorges repiy to Germany's ; 'Grant appeared before Citv Council was teared that the fire wall between peace proposal meets with a chorus j this morning and asked that all mem- the buildings had been damaged. ! of approval in the British press. The bers of the police department be The fire started an hour before the general comment is that if Germany granted a ten per cent, increase in Allen clerks were due to report for really , wants peace that when the i salary, effective the first of the year. duty, and no one was injured, it is joint reply of the allies is received i Or rather the proposition included all DIESNBDBER TURKEY AGREES Tfl RELEASE ALL SHE AMERICANS ;Well Known Young Newspa per Man Passes Away, at Base Hospital, El Paso, Texas, Dec. 20.--Sergeant Robert E Gonzales, of the machine gun company of the Second South Car olina Infantrv. son of V K Gonzales. United States minister to Cuba, died TO BE INTERNED FOR SHORT TIME. Gives In to The United States at Last and Will Free Them. United States Will Register Kick Against This Cruis er to Bring Them Home. reported. qh nifRQ mn mi D H UULUILIIU UIU I1U I iRinni linn iit it' H 111 1 1 111 9 II IJ I III I III u uu un IUIUII IIUUU I I I j I ; sue t-:-in state verms wnicn can rorm j members save the chief. Mr. Grant j a basis for discussion. ; did not appear as representative-elect ; the Manchester Guardian says: (but merely as an attorney. In addi j Premier. Lloyd-George has not ; tion he asked that: the members of shut the door on peace with that re- j the fire department and the men em- sounding clang for which some of his j ployed in the street department be best-balanced supporters in the press j includety in the request, although 'he have been listening. It is true that ; stated that he had not been author- j he insisted on the impossibility of ; ized to speak for the two last-men- accepting Germany's: invitation as ltj stands. In this he is ably seconded j by Asquith and will be approved by j ME IN KILLED; SEHL1RE ROUT COTTON SUED i REPORTED UPON ! ' Over Five Hundred Thousand More Bales Than Last Figure? Made Known. Washington, ;Dec. 20. Cotton ginn- With the British Army Western Front. Out of a number German prisoners taken on the west ern front on Sunday, only one non commissioned officer had heard any thing of the Emperor's peace proposition. tioned departments. Mr. Grant ex plained that if ibis increase of sal ary were granted it would mean the additional expenditure of approxi mately $15,000 yearly, but he thought explicit before expecting any favor-j the city could well afford this added able answer to his visitation, but the ! expense, everything considered. Ac real danger in the situation which j tion was not taken on the matter. On the his offer created was that the allies, i Upon motion of Councilman Merritt Of, this country particularly, might be! th matter was referred tn the finance lead into an abrupt sweeping refusal, j committee. His motion was second not merely of the actual invitation, j ed by Councilman Jones, but any proposal to discuss peace i jn presenting the matter Mr. Grant Germany's Peace Proposal Not tlle couatry- The.. German chancei- f -i-i a lor must be more modest and more. , lviaae rvnown to l ne Army In The West. terms. ' This snare Lloyl-George avoided." The Guardian says the speech was an invitation to Germany to be more 111. 3 1 . . 1. 1 ,1 Jl liNL. IVirLlNIfNLlI I ID. aT,ot taV-o iae thia nttlturfo The Guardian notes that the THREE DEATHS FROM This Morniner. Seminole, Limited, Tumped I ed Prior to December amounted to Irack on Central of Geortna It"''0 "t"?". uait" r. . . . i iu.ub.juy oaies guinea to the same time last year, the census bureau an nounced todaj'. Cotton ginned by states was as follows: Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 20. One North Carolina, 618,946; South Car man was instantly killed and several onna, y4,uya, injured when the northbound Semi no!", Limited, turned over, nine miles n-em Opelika, Ala., this morning. The fnsine remained on the track, but cars turned over, rolling down a .-lisrht embankment. Several persons were cut by brok en glass. A wrecking train was sent iiom Columbus, Ga., and a relief nain, with physicians, from Opelika. "Thf accident, which occurred on the Central of Georgia's tracks, was due, i is said, to a broken rail. A relief train carried 25 of the in jured to Columbus, Ga. FIRST OF SERIES Washington, Dec. 20 Three deaths of Georgia militiamen on the border from spinal meningitis and three other cases where men suffered from the, affliction; have been discoveerd in Georgia and Pennsylvania organi zations, it was reported to the War Department today. No hew cases developed in the last eight days, i. was reported) explained that he thought it only right that the men in the ra'nks should be given some recognition for their services. He pointed out that they had- not been given any in crease in pay during the past two i years and he further explained that at the base hospital at Fort Bliss lastj night of pneumonia, after an illness i of four days. Minister Gonzales is en route from Havana to El Paso. A military funer al will be held. Sergeant Gonzales' death was th?. eighth from pneumonia to be reported here among the National Guard and; regular army during the past eight Washington. Dec. 20. Two hiin. days- I dred Americans, detained in Syria A Columbia Newspaper Man. i and Palestine . by Turkish military Columbia, S. C. Dec. 20. Robert j authorities, have been granted per E. Gonzales, prior to his enlistment j mission to leave by Beirut, on condi as a, private in the Second South Car-i tion that they intern at Beirut for a olina when the National Guard was month, to make valueless any mili mobilized for Federal service lasfij tary information they may have. June,, was for a number of years con- j The United States had repeatedly nected with the Columbia State, writ- j made diplomatic efforts to free the ing most of the editorial paragraphs. J Americans, some of whom are mis He was 28 years old and a native of ' eionaries and others naturalized citi Columbia. His parents and one sister j zens, and until now its efforts were survive him. II COSTLY BLAZE IN BIRMINGHAM thwarted by the Turkish military commander. The American ambassa- dor at Constantinople reported the j Turkish government's action to the j State Department today. Effort , will be made to have the time of internment shortened. The cruiser, Des Moines, now at Alexandria, will go to Beirut to take on board the refugees. Big Building Destroyed Today. One Fireman Hurt In Crash. BANDITS GOT AWAY WITH MUCH LOOT speech contained no hint of crush-! it was almost impossible for one to ing of Germany. provide for a family on what 4he pa trolman gets .for his services. Much ? FARMkOABA SOON TO BE LOCATED. Washington, D. C, Dec. 20. The! Medical Federal farm loan board expects to j should be increased. The policeman - - . I - TITP O 1 I 1 T"1T 111 ?Vrfc HUT llllllll II fff v.. o,-i twn,i, gnnnnnrp in a fAW rtnvs . th location "w " 'c""1 J vuiVUi ia ucic oaiu me uuiui vro.rv uiu - not be called an epidemic and there of the twelve farm loan banks. It is little danger that additional fatal-; was said today that some districts and cost of llvinVand InVT&ttTTIaiSi of the fourth fldor of the Parisian collapsed. Three other firemen nar rowly escaped in the crash. The Parisian, a four-story brick that these men often risk their lives in an effort to preserve law and order he thought their compensation ities would occur. locations are still undetermined. ENDS TN H T WEAVER IS GIVEN THE CERTIFICATE. Strickland's Team Ahead In The Volleyball Season So Far. YESTERDAY IS BUSY MY AT CONTEST HEADQUARTERS Many of The Active Candi- that they only have a few days let ! . and the asked for increase would only mean $7.50 more per month Going further, Mr. Grant explained that corporations are now giving their employes special bonuses for as he pointed out, they realize that it is next to impossible for an em j ployee to support himself and fam I ily properly with the low wages that ! are naid and the high cost of the necessities of life. Mr. T. A. Greene, proprietor of the Wilmincton Hotel, appeared before Council and asked if it were not pos sible for him to get some relief from the high rate that he has been pay- ine for water. He told Council that ! his water bill was $59 for the first in which to secure i i- ; fii garter of the year; $104 for the sec tne nign nr&ti , t1fl. - wo aw Raleigh, Dec. 20. Judge William Bond last night taxed Congress-! man Britt with the costs of the ac-' 'ion brought before the Judge two! ;-'eer:.s ago when Mr. Britt presented iit- temporary restraining order from Judge Frank Carter and asked that State canvassing board be en Joined from certifying the election of !;;:lon Weaver to Congress over fames J. Britt. The action of the Supreme Court j't 'iismissing the mandamus and up-I'-oIding Judge W. J. Adams is the o Judge Bond's ruling. Judge HuuJ never pretended to pass upon 'if issues in Judge Adams' court, the liihr to compel a recount in Bun (ombe county and to force the can as: ing board to go over the returns. Ji'.Uge Bond, in his order today, de c'!?s that his purpose was to pre ;np the status quo and in '-o;prg no the issues automatically '.''-s from his hands when the Su- t'':ae uourt holds that it. cannot re v-w the facts found by Judge Judge Bond got some Democratic "r' :ing" for making an equitable 'iiiher than a political decision that Mrt nobody until the courts above oukI !ay down the law, but he gets r,;i' of it with considerable credit as of the machinery willing to "v" Britt. his day in court. FEDERAL JUDGE DIES SUDDENLY. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 20. Judge W. v Lambdin, of the United States Dis :i! t court, died here today in his of )f c after an illness of about an hour. ,i,J was stricken at 11 o'clock with an "Hack apparently of Hon or heart failure. acute indiges- Tonight the first series of the vol leyball league season at the Young Men's Christian Association will end, and just after the Yuletide the sec ond series will begin, the winners of the two to play a post series for the championship. Thei games played last night in the "Y" gym were the fastest ,pf the season and were important, as the leadership of the first series had not been decided. In fact ,the winner is not yet decided, but Strickland's fast bunch last night virtually clinched the top 'spot by winning two out of three from Payne's team. As these two were the leaders much depend ed on the outcome, and the three games were fast and furious, each being won by but one or two points. However, Strickland managed to cap ture the big end and thus made his position at the top more comfortable, and placing him so that if he loses three games tonight and Payne's team wins three he still will have a tie for first place. Poisson's team lost two out or three to DuVall last night, but put up the gamest fight for being .shy a couple of good men yet played in the f'gym." 1 Tonight Payne and DuVall meet for J three games, while Poisson and Strickland will try conclusions in a trio of rapid ones. The exhibitions are free to all, and the public is given a. cordial invi tation to attend and enjoy the ath letic excitement. ond, and $194 for the third. He am not understand why there should be such a difference in the bills, al In Two Days. -&-5fr-&-fc -x- vc- -a- x NOTICE TO OUT-OF-TOWN CANDIDATES. CANDIDATES. . -X- if To all candidates living out- side the city of Wilmington, -X-X- the Contest Manager wishes to -X- state that all subscriptions -X-X- mailed any time Friday will be -X-X- credited as First Period1 Busi- -X- ness. This is done to give the -X-X- out-of-town candidates an equal -X- -X- opportunity with the city candi -X- dates. X- doing what they could or should, and I the Contest Manager wishes to state to these candidates that they still have two days in which to work for first period votes, and much can be accomplished in that time with the proper effort. Each club of $15 completed by Fri day night will give 150,000 jextra votes, and after Friday night, during the second period, there will be a re duction of 10,000 votes. Some of you may think that this is not a great amount of votes, but it can Xe enough to mean defeat for you and victory i for an opponent. If you have already club and have another i comnleted a ; one started be sure that you com -X- "X- -X- -X- -X- UP ON SERIOUS CHARGE. The only case to come before Judge Harriss in the Recorder's court this morning was. that of the State against Bill Butler, a white man, who is charged with the seduction of Susie Sellers, a young girl under age. The case was continued until Friday at 11 . o'clock and Butler was released under a $200 cash bond. In spite of the cold weather, yes terday was a very busy day at con test headquarters. In fact the cold weather only seemed to cause many of the candidates to increase their activity in securing subscriptions and votes. ( The number of subscriptions re ceived is increasing at a rapid rate, and it is a sure fact that the volume of business done by the end of the dates Called at Office With period votes, and work for the Dia Their SiiW.rinrions. and mnd Ring, and they are making Manv Others Mailed Them. I evfy mivUte f tMs timefco"nt though the books showed that his bin lvicuiy vomers lviciiicu i ncni. vn PS. There are some of the can-! . .., FV J D; P -J CJ' " u ... . ,,for the quarter ending witn aepvem- riod last year. It was also shown that his water bill exceeded' that of The Orton, although the last-men tioned place has considerably more rooms than The Wilmington. Coun cilman Jones informed Council that numerous inspections of the plumb ing at The Wilmington had been made, but it was impossible to locate any leaks. Mr. Greene was confident that much water was being wasted or he was being overcharged Councilman Merritt suggested that another meter be installed in an ef fort to determine if the one now in use was properly registering the amount used. The matter was final ly referred to the water committee with power to act. In speaking of the matter Mr. Greene declared that he intended at some date to install his own water system and he wanted to know if he would still be liable to the city for water rent. He was told that if the water was cut off at the sidewalk he would not other than for fire protec tion, but his next statement was that he did not care anything about the fire protection. He next asked about the sewer and was told that he would only have to pay so much for sewer accommodations regardless of the water. Mr. Greene explained that the well had been bored and that he had purchased a pump with the idea o; furnishing his own water but added that he was not yet ready to erect his tank on top of the building." Another matter to come before Council that was of more than pass ing interest was the presentation of bills by Mr. Galloway, a retired mer chant, against employees of the city. Many of the bills were four years old and according- to the ex-merchant were not collectable. He asked that some assistance be lent him by Coun- plete that one by Friday night, or if you have not completed a club then make a special effort to complete one before the close of this period. If you complete a club and have some over this amount will count toward a second period club, but will receive credit for second period votes. There were quite a number of votes cast yesterday by and for can didates which caused a shake-up in position. If you are looking for ex citement just keep your eye on the Standing of Candidates" each day first period, Friday night, will be en- j You win find plenty of it by follow- ormous. Nearly all of the contest ants are reserving their ballots until a "rainy day" but many of them are certainly "making hay while the sun shines." There was scarcely a minute yes terday when one or more of the ac tive subscription-getters were not in the office turning in their orders and. money and receiving the votes to which they were entitled. This is not surprising when you consider the fact that the first, period of the contest and the Diamond Ring period will both Close Friday night. Many of the candidates realize ing the score each evening in The Dispatch's Great Prize Campaign. Mr. Reader, if you have promised your subscription to one of the can didates but have put off giving it to her, see that she gets it between now and 9 o'clock Friday night, if you have already subscribed, then take out another subscription and send it ito some relative or friend as a Christmas present. They would cer tainly appreciate the gift and the candidate would be delighted to get the votes. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 20. Fire, believed to have been caused by de fective wiring in the elevator shaft of the Parisian, a women's ready-to- WPflr atnro nn Thirrl iivonno hero early today, destroyed the entire con- i Robbed Oklahoma Bank Thia " venvs oi me esvauusnmem, vaiuea ai . Morniri cKnQQPQ In Hnf more than $200,000. 7 v rur8uirr w 4 I -.;, 'ii"nm niM :L 'V i. Tulsa, Okla., Dec. 20. The Skia toolc National Bank, of Sklatook, Oklahoma, 10 miles from Tulsa, waa building, wfes stocked with Christ- j looted by bandits of $20,000 last night. mas goods. The building and con tents were partly insured. ON mm The robbers escaped. Posses were formed in Tulsa early today and are now in pursuit of the bandits. T i mimuu I Went to Home of Senator I UU I IVM" I til ulID John Sharp Williams This Morning. Southport is On! Eve of An- Washington, Dec. 20. President j Other Political Con- Wilson went to visit Senator Wil liams, of Mississippi, at the latter's home today, because he knew the Senator had important affairs to talk i about and understood he was ill. It! turned out that Senator Williams was well enough to go to his office and so the President drove him there. Oc casions on which the President has gone to visit members of Congress are rare. "It was just the act of a very good fellow," said Senator Williams, "who heard I was sick and did not know I was able to be about again. So he test. Southport, N. C, Dec. 20. South port is apparently on the eve of an" other hot contest or scramble for the postmastership of this town. The present official, R. S. Newton, has either resigned or will shortly do so, according to rumor, and hence activ ity among those who aspire to fill his shoes. Apparently the fight has reached a focus in the efforts of D. O. Daniels, cashier of the Bank of came to see me hi his big-hearted i Southport and J W. Ruark Esq.. ... . I earn of wnnm npsirPK thp nnnttinn ' A Tiro it TtAtwithetonnino' Tno weflinPr i " TV CI J UU 111 1 LlitD ,UAJ.VAXJCS tilV ww vfc l It was verv fine of the President, I. am sure. PLAN TO PROMOTE FRIENDLY RELATIONS. number of others have been men tioned for the place, including Miss Florence Price and Messrs. Will Da vis and Richard Dosher. V Washington, D. C, Dec. 20. The Southern Society of Washington, which in late years has attained a foremost place among the social or ganizations of the National capital, has arranged an ambitious program for the present social season with the announced purpose of promoting friendly relations between the people of all sections of this country and with other countries of the western hemisphere. The first in the series of entertainments will be a recep tion and ball to be given tomorrow night at the Pan-American building n honor of the diplomatic represen tatives of the South and Central American republics TRAGEDY IN MINE THIS MORNING One Man Killed, Several In jured and Hundred Endan gered in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala., Dec' 20. Eighty men are entombed in the Edgewater . mine of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Coke Company, twelve miles north- The President j west of Birmingham, as a result of an and MrSi Wilson are among those explosion, thought to be caused by who have accepted invitations to at- f gas, early today. The blast, 'it is said, end the ball. occurred at the bottom of the mine and it is believed to have been slight. Some hope of rescuing the men is cil and if those owing him could not 'entertained. (Continued on Page Seven.) pay more than $1 a week that would be satisfactory. Councilman Brad shaw promised to speak personally to the men against whom the bills are drawn and use his influence to get them settled. An entire force of rescuers was rushed to the mine, together with a corps of physicians from Birming ham. Every effort Is being made to', reach the men. The" mine employes 300 men both day and night. " ' ' - f Jpt-kW-X,