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i WEATHER FORECAST. LA5TV. I ; . 'T tr"1" "v " s " - - ' v ; -rM t , x ".'Vv "' - a-- W;IlM 1 FINAL EDITION North and South Carolina FINAL E0ITI0 Clearing tonight. Tuesday, fair and' colder. FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE VOL. XXII. NO. 378. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY AfcTERNOON, JANUARY 29, 1 9 1 7. - PRICE FIVE CENTS. .A FISK DENIES WAS CONNECTED WITH M'ADOO IN "LEAK" GOLLY! WHAT AT &ISCORD TROOPS REplILSED BY KAISER'S MEN u v slim mwG's f X B H f I & M M J : r . I In Addition to Three Waves of British, Four French Attacks Also Stopped BRITISH STEAMER j JEVINGTON IS SUNK i Russians Capture Thirty Of ficers and 1 ,000 Men Germans Are Repulsed By French Turks Stop Czars' Men. w S BRITISH SHIP SUNK. (By Associated Press.) London, -Jan. 29. Lloyds an- nouiu't m that the British steamer :f tons, has been ' unk. . 4f v vr v:- w 4r 45- X Berlin, Jan. British troops 29 J Via Sayville). advancing in three vraves ait.icked German positions north of Armentieres yescOi-Jay, the war office announces. The. a: Lacks were repulsed wiih heavy losses. On the Verdun front, four attacks were made by the French.- The state ment fays all these efforts were bri-1:- e:i up by the German fire. The s o-i 1 ment reads: "Wes; front: Army group of Crown Prince Rupprecht North of Armen tieres the British attacked in three waves the positions of Bavarian in- i'antry regiment No. 22. The attack was repulsed with the infliction of severe losses upon the enemy." "West of Fromelles, East of Neu ville St. Vaast, on the north bank of the Ancre and north of Vic'-Sur-Aisne, enterprises by hostile raiding detach ments were unsuccessful. Southwest of-Le Transloy, a British outpost was captured," "Army group of the German Crown Prince: On the west' bank of the Meuse, Verdun region, there ;was live ly fighting activityv.4erteg'-:tteea?iWtt. m the morning the French tried to advance by a surprise, without artil lery preparation, against the positions on Hill 304, captured on January 25. They streamed back under our fire, which began immediately. Beginning at noon a heavy artillery was played upon our trenches. After a violent Sre upon the lines, three more French attacks ensued, which all broke down ami wore without success. Westpha- tVnS: auni n-bfi ve regiment xno. - tcnacicu?iy defended the captured ground, ol' which not one foot was regained by the French in snite of the most liberal use of men and ammuni- tion "In the Vosges a reconnoitering raid resulted in nine prisoners being brought in. After strong artillery preparation on Hartmansweiler-Kopf storming detachments of Wurttem bwg Landwehr infantry regiment No. i'-i entered French trenches and re turned with 35 prisonersrand one ma clime gun." 1,000 Men Captured. Pctrograd. Jan. 29 (Via London). Wiring Saturday's battle northeast of Jaeobeni on the northern end of-the Rumanian front, Russian troops cap 'JrKi thirty officers and more than une thousand men announced today. the war office Germans Fail. Jan. 29. Frpnrh trnnns last Paris, n'ght easily repulsed an attempted - tack by the Germans on a trench J;7 .mansweiler-Kopf, Alsace, to- '-var Statement annoimpps. a T . ' n-.ums the night numerous patrol- ciiKafpni,rt ... A, . i o-u.., (UUK pmce in tne tnam-i, Alsace front. cA an;" H I V ItriAnc nAintn Qls-fc-na- T nn I .wuo pum ai"6 w announcement follows: our u,m"rous Patro1 encounters oc-."-ifcl last night, especially in the niiDinau-iiA T7 0Uo pi;; , ai iyarges ,ana at van Cer -fs on the front in Alsace. A m'n attack on one of our trenches at i ;ii'tmansweiler-Kopf, was re- vutsea efisilv "V -h.ertiay Lieutenant Gastin iown within our lines a Ger- This ain,ane of the Albatross type. down by ' - ' I t-- I 1 r T n 1-v-l n -t t -w n brought " this pilot up to the present down "L night our. airplanes threw t;0 J Projectiles on the railway sta at Athies, Savy and Etrillers." tvv Tui"ks Stop Russ. Galiei- , iviasayvmej. "ui. .an 90 -mi tari-, , "'wiuay me ttussians at-i- h. i ' t J n ... - " ironsr torces nositinns Ju by Turkish- troops on the Zlota' rivov i" a !... 1 Hent 1KJu.ay a oinciai announce- H'dys the Russians were Pulsed. re- Mexican craft, torn BY BLAST PUTS IN Associated Press.) ra uulle. Ala Jan. 29. The Mexi- by ti,p t ' San Cristobal, convoyed here Mexican yacht, Kosyal, arrived Win yfsterday. Insurance adjusters Pairs Tld OVer 272.000 here in re-! d h, hft vessel was badly damag-!J ticanC Vx exPlosion. She will prac-1 hl 0u"e re-built. The San Cristo- irom Puerto. Mexico. !' 1 l ALL IWILJTIAMEH TO BE RELEASED S 12,000 Will Probably Cross Border Within a Week, i Without a Hitch PERSHING EXPEDITION WAS OF GREAT VALUE Army Officers Declare Much Needed Equipment Was Secured As Result pf Its Need Shown (By Associated press.1) Washington, Jan. 29. The with drawal of American trooDS from Mexico under Major-General John C. ! Pershing was said today to be pro ceeding without hitch. It is expected here" that all of the 12,000 men comprising the expedition will have re-crossed the border with-1 in a week and that at least a part of the remaining 50,000 guardsmen doing) STSiffp?7 may be released oruy j thereafter Army officers here poinfr ut to the great value of the Pershing expedi tion in a military way, not only as "h n "rrl oninp tVo tmrra hut olcn aa i3v"T I"! : ? - I EXPECTED, DON uitusms duuui mucu ueeueu iffl-. Chicago, Jan. 29. A petition in provements, and a gh more interest-. bankruptcy and for a receiver against ing consideration from Congress andjVon Frantzius & Co., a big stock ?TT0Un!y , . x I brokerage house of Chicago, was filed When General Persnmg went mtotoday by creditors, who alleged that Mexico, for instance, the army had . liabilities of $2,750,000 exceed the as- but two truck companies of twenty- pt h. $1 nnn n.nA seven trucks each. , Now. it has more than 000 bJg trucks of , modern de-! gBfiet increasn the army's ayiation strength is said to be due largely to needs shown by the expedition. The War Department today was no- uisyaicuea- iium iiiajui-iztjii- ciu, -"". , xvU..,,c.i "i.,tj3e -vfecicimg and he divorced her, troops was progressing satisfactorily ; naming her dancing partner as co- and the last troops should cross the border next Monday. A statement made public said: "General Pershing's movement con bankruptcy in transfer-; y t.j . The text VtoS wUhdrawal" order L A USh est,imate of th value of " document was being prepared. Of .;Ti?ie k at the time of ficials declared that arming of ves- 10 "lumcm J Lilc ti."w uut & is known that it contains specific directions for the conduct of the movement, including prescribed in structions to be followed on any con tingency that may arise.. NOTED AUSTRIAN GENERAL RETIRES Dankl, Head of Army, Quits Field Service On Account of His 111 Health (By Associated Press.) Amsterdam, Jan. 29 (Via London). The Berlin Vossische Zeitung re- Dorts the retirement of General nonti nno r,f tv, Vinwn fnm- manders in the Austrian army, from """"i tip fi service. mneror ijnaries nasi . - . , - i nt;iu written to General Dankl regretting ; that the commander's ill health pre-j vents his remaining in active service . - . . ' and appointing him captain of the lm- perial bodyguard. The Emperor has also accepted the resignation of General Count Beck, who was adjutant-general to Emperor Francis Joseph., General Dankl .was in command of the Austrian forces on the Lemberg front at the time of the great. Rus-' sian drive in 1S14. It was reported' that he quarreled with Field Marshal Von mnaenourg ana tne ioiiowmg year he was transferred to the Italian front and promoted to colonel-general. 44'-i'!'44''! . I Mb! U. S. SOLDIERS ROCKED. ' (By Associated Press.) El Paso, Texas, Jan. 29. 4 Rioting in Juarez as a result of land workhouse, where Mrs. Ethel American quarantine regulations, Byrne is conducting a hurfger strike, 4 was resumed early - today. It ' to the special sessions court in Brook-4- was a continuation of the dem- 4 lyn and the trial of Mrs. Byrne's sis-; 4- onstration yesterdlay, in which " ter, Mrs. Margaret Sanger, and Miss hundreds of women participated. 4 Fania Mondell. , , 4 More men than women engag-4 Mrs. Sanger and Miss Mondell are 4 ed in the demonstration today. 4 charged with aiding in the conduct of 4 Rioters hurled missiles at United birth control clinic, the same offense' States soldiers on guard and two 4 non-commissioned ofiicets, were injured. Mexican cavalry ulti-' mately drove the demonstrators away from the International bridge. - ' - : - . - .-:-.r vV,n C - CHICAGO BROKER EOES TO THE vin Frantzius Is" Bankrupt With Liabilities Exceeding Assets $1,000,000 (By Associated Press.) Fritz von Frantzius, founder of the hoiJce jied. recently sSle attained rfety''two years ago by his marriage to Saharet, the dancer. He was divorced from his wife and fell in love with a painting of the dancer i before he knew her personally. Sa- haret de3erted him a few days after respondent. , it is alleged ni tne petition that issue both for belligerent govern Von Frantzius and his partner in the ments and for American port officers final mnnths nf 1 01 fi rimmittpfl va. i :i, i.. i, ; ,1 t ,nl rm assets to nreierreci creditors. ! h ripah nlprerl its va 110 at SI 7F0 - , I 1 DCIO 1U1 UUil CIO CL L. L UtOQUiJ 000. He bequeathed 60 per cent, of, does not convert them into war ves it to his son Peter, and 40 per cent, j gels: The definite statement was to -his daughter Marienna. .made that the United States was in- The petition runs against Von . Frantzius & Co. and against the per sonal estate of tne decedent. 10 ARE KILLED GERMAN EXPLOSION Many Persons Severly Injured When Chemical Works Blow Up (By Associated Press.) Amsterdam (Via London) Jan. 29. The Dusseldorf General Anzeiger reports that a fire in a chemical j d th explosion of a great quan- wuovu . w . w . . .v , . m kmed tWQ Beverely injured and sev-: eral slightly hurt whiie considerable ' mQtoQl AmCiV(, dnno iUOitli J.lArX V. .,M.M.M. fcVp v t,k VACUUS i BIRTH CONTROLLER . WILL FACE TRIAL bister Of Hunger otriker Will Be Accompanied to Court By'Babies Galore j (By Associated Press.) (New York, Jan. 29. 'Interest in the efforts of the birth control prop- agandists to spreaa tneir aoctrmes shifted today from the Blackwell's Is-, for which Mrs. Byrne is serving a day sentence. Mrs. Sanger1 declared that if convicted, she also would em- phasizie her protest against the law of the State: by refusing to eat. It was announced that 500 mothers would ac- company Mrs. Sanger o court, push- ing their, children m oaoy carriages. IN ing their, children in bal v '-rlv'; v-.-S : : m'- - M - "l- i tvtahjMaujH V. S. MY ISSUE WALL ANOTHER MED SHIP NOTE 5 State Department Intimates a New Memorandum May Be Composed : BRITISH VESSELS TO BE ARMED, IT IS SflU IS rested INot io Much In Kind of Arma ment' As In Its Purpose (By Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. 29. A new mem orandum to clear up the armed ship a? the statT Department today, but nb-rar t tn inAinnic, snrh ,in ,,,,,11 oQ off ,MMril,r terested not so much in the kind of armament as in its purpose. Knowledge of . Great Britain's in tention to arm merchantmen fore and aft was disclaimed by officials, who added that no inquiry into that re ported intention had been made. De nial also was made of reports that the department has been informed British vessels armed in that way will enter American ports via Halifax, where the forward gun would be re moved and the vessel then become defensively armed as has been de clared permissible according to the previous understanding. WILSON PUSHES WORK. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Jan. , 29. President Wilson went to the capitol again td- j day for conferences with members of tne senate ana nouse on ins legislat ive program. Dun Dispatch Contest Will End Tonight The end has at last arrived. At 9 o'clock tonight The Dispatch contest will come to a cldse. Promptlyat that hour the doors of The Dispatch office will be locked. All candidates who are in the office at that time, who have -not turned in their subscriptions and votes, will be given the opportunity. As soon as all votes will have been de posited in the ballot box, Messrs. J.F. RoacheJ. Holmes Davis, Maurice Lipinsky, J. A. Orrell, and J. C. Williams will take charge of the box, and after sealing it, will place it in the vault of one of the local banks. At 8 o'clock tomorrow night the judges will convene in The Dispatch office, where the ballot box will be open ed, and the votes it will contain will be counted, and he Overland automobile, the Ford automobile, the building lot, the $100 in gold, the Victrola, the Mystic range, the Sellers kitchen cabinet, the wrist watch, and the two diamond rings will be awarded. , This is your last chance, Mr. Man, to pay a subscrip tion and give your favorite candidate the benefit of the votes. After 9 o'clock tonight, it will not do Tier a bit of good. It's a case of now 6r never. IK. -ft JURY TO PROBE MURDERS Series of Murders By 'Clay County Mob" Causes Grand Jury Investigation (By Associated Press.) Clay, W. Va., Jan. 29. A special grand jury was impanelled today to j f be security of life of worship and of investigate " the murder of Preston j industrial and social development, for Tanner, whose' charred body was? 11 JP.eo5le who haXe llved hitGr found in the ?ruins of his home near f the Ppwr of governments de hre ten davs dKOnd-also-to uniaveLjvoted to faith .and purpose hostile ,to ithe deaths of nearly a dozen other ", c-, stability where the will is in rebel Shortly before the announcement of j lion whe"re there is not tranquility the calling of a special grand jury was Gf spirit and a sense of justice, of free made, placards signed "Clay County ;dom and of right.' Italy, having la Mob," were posted warning, under j boriously emerged from bondage by threats of violence, seven persons, i driving oilt the Austrian, has amoner two of whom were women, to leave the State within 30 days. The murders have occurred during a period of a number of years, but in most cases no trace of the bodies to live by the grace or others. She have been found. One victim was has already been able to constitute her Mrs. Lacy Ann Bogg, who, according national solidarity and is working to to the authorities, was slain after re-; day to settle finally the question of marking that she knew ivhere the her unity. body of Henry Hargis, another victim, j was buried. After the Tanner murder, Drew i Sampson, aged 57, and h'z son, How - ard, aged 21, were arrested. Shorty after being taken into custody a mob attacked the jail with the intention of lynching them, but were spirited away, and now are being held in neighboring cities. 4' 4!4af''i- SHIP AND SOLDIERS SINK. i (By Associated Press.) ' i- Berlin, (via Tuckertown), Jan. 4 v 29. The sinking of a transport 4 ship filled with troops in the Mediterranean by a German sub- 4 marine on January 25 was an- 4 4 nouriced today by the admirality. 4 The vessel sank in ten minutes. 4 4 '4i''- ITALY SEEKS TD SMASH AUSTRIAN Minister of Public Instruction Terms it Tyranny No Peace is Wanted AIMS CAN BE ATTAINED ONLY EtY A VICTORY Declares It is Inadmissible Lasting Peace Could Result From Consolidation of Oppression (By Associated Press.) Rome, Jan. 28. (via Paris, Jan. 29). "Italy wishes once for all to free the Italians who are still living under Austrian tyranny," said Francesco! Rumni, minister of public instruction, in a statement today to the Associat- ed Press. "Part of President Wilson's address regarding the possibility of POWER, HE SAYS seeking guarantees for future peace,! Fisk was the first witness called at is supported in its j fundamental ideas j the re-opening of the "leak" Inquiry by the Entente, wMch, in its note set 'here today. He was brought Into the forth the same aspirations for a stable settlement in Europe. v "The aims of Italy are indispensable conditions of peace. Mr. Wilson cit- ed as an example of what was needed, the" reconstruction of Poland, adding that it was necessary to have 'inviol- ! ? world can :-be at peace 'only if its , , J Jife is stable and there can be noisKe, 1 ker war aims the attainment of com- plete unity. This is justified histor ically and its completion will be a proper act, because Italy does not wish "President Wilson could not find a better exemplification of these prin ciples than the war in which Italy is (fighting beside her allies. Italy's aims i can &e attained only by victory, since her enemy never for an instant has hidden or modified the principles of tyranny and oppression which would negative absolutely the principles pro claimed by the President. "In fact, the statement of Premier Tisza, of Hungary, shows that Austria-Hungary not only wishes to con tinue oppression of the various na tionalities, but desires to extend it to the Balkans over Serbia, Montene gro and Rumania. All this is mon strous and particularly repulsive to Italy, whose situation on account of the Italians still under Austrian rule is unique. These Italians do not form a separate nation subject to -Austria, like Bohemia, but are a suffering and (Continued on Page Eight) ROBERT BURNS BIRTH WILL BE CELEBRATED : Charlotte, Jan. 29. To celebrate I the birth of Robert Burns, Scotland's Ipoet, the Charlotte Scottish Associa tion will give an entertainment Friday evening at the Central Hotel. This jwill be the first entertainment ever ! given by this association in this city. Scottish songs and musical selec tions' along with an elaborate banquet , will be given to mark another anni versary of the noted bard. ' i ' SUNKEN SHIP'S CREW SAFE. (By Associated Press.) London, Jan. 29. The crewyof " I the Norwegian steamer, There- sedalj 1,762 tons gross, sunk by v a German submarine, has arrived 4 at Las Palmas, says a Reuter dis- patch from there today. The cap- tain was made prisoner. ' LJoyd announced today that the Norwegian steamship, Donstad, of 698 tons gross, had been sunk. The Russian steamer, Egret, was posted at "believed sunk," also. Lloyds announced the sinking of the British steamer, Matheran, of 7,654 tons gross. The cap-' tain and crew were landed. v The Matheran was 470 feet long, built in Belfast in 1906, and owned by T. and J. Brooklebank limited, of Liverpool.' 41 '4f . After Denial.However, He A& mits Getting Federal Re serve Bank STATES HE DIDNT SAY CONTROLLED M'ADOO Tom Lawson is Informed By House Rules Commit tee, Investigating "LeaK," to Keep in Touch. (By Associated Press.) New York, Jan. 29. Pliny Fisk, a New York banker, named by Thomas W. Lawson as the banker in the mys terious "cabinet-member senator banker" investment trio, denied at the "leak" inquiry today that he ever had been interested with Secretary McAdoo or a "Senator" in any joint stock account. After his denial he ad mitted that the Federal Reserve bank had leased office in a building owned by his firm after he had suggested to Secretary McAdoo that the offices were "the best adapte'd of any in the Street." Asked if his firm had enjoyed any advantages in transaction with thai Treasury Department, Fisk replied negatively. He admitted that after suggesting to Secretary McAdoo that offices in a building his firm owned would be suitable for the Federal Re serve Bank, he had leased the offices . to the eovernment inquiry by Thomas' W. Lawson de claring that Archibald White told him Fisk had boasted to him that he con trolled Secretary McAdoo and offered, i late on night, to summon McAdoo from his bed by telephone. Lawson also said he had heard Fisk was connected with the ,peace note "leak." At an executive session of the com mittee today, it was agreed that the inquiry now should be directed spe cificallyto... the alleged peace not m A1r i'-w-,-'Aa'r--"- -r want to-- state positively," sala that the meeting described never took place. I never had a con versation with White during which the name of McAdoo entered. I want to state that most, unequivocally." ' (Continued on Page Eight.) CERUY REPORTS NG TO 0. S. Ambassador Gerard is Handecl Statement On Wrecking of Traterrack (By Associated Press.) Berlin, (via Sayville),. Jan. 29. The German government today handed to United States Ambassador Gerard its answer in the case of the British steamer, Traterrack, says an Overseas News Agency announcement. The reply is as follows: "The steamer was stopped by a Ger man submarine on November 16 last. The crew left upon signal. Without further complication they sailed away from the steamer in the boats. The ship was then searched and sunk aa a hostile vessel," The foregoing evidently refers t.o( the British steamer, Trevarrack, re ported in a Lloyds shipping agency announcement of November 17 last. The Trevarrack was a vessel of 2, 098 tons gross, built in 1912 and own ed in St. Ives. BLAZE IS CHECKED Downtown Fire Companies Called On Residential Ap paratus for Assistance. y . (By Associated Press.) Boston, Mass., Jan. 29. Engines from residential districts were called in to assist the down-town firemen early today in their hardest fight in many months, the fire destroying a five-story brick' building at Chauncey street and Exeter Place. The loss was estimated at $360,000, of which about two-thirds fell on i he occu pants, Thomas Kelly. & Co'., blanket manufacturers. - The building stood in the center of the wholesale dry goods section. Nar row alleys separated it from other "buildings, several of which caught fire and were slightly damaged. Hot air explosions blew out the windows, resulting in . a hurst of flame, which made It Impossible. to raise ladders against the building. The firemen worked u chiefly form nearby structures. ; -J SINK 390,000 BOSTON v') ; v