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4- " .THE' fATHER FORECAST.; North Carolina Generally fair' tonight and Thursday, except part -V ly ram in vi. warmer lonignt ' . -runrcWau in pact gild lIU,iU" " FULL LEASED WIRE SERV VOL. XXIII.. NO. 48. WILMINGTONNORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOvV MARCH 7, 19171. v PRICE FIVE CENTS, ' r 4 - ' w -lLilTlg 1 5- . V . . . ; -- - - 1 .- ' . . r ,v. - - 1 . . . ,:'-.': - ' 7 " . , ... ,, ... . . , . r. flMlL HPf 'lilllli' r,liSH vlflF TOERiTlNWSTl ! EAST GAROUHfl TtlIniPPC PnRITCHflOT lyAjiipjkiM 11 wi of ms Ri! I sin &&ms&i. mm mm n . l im i i Ir r.Lvanrn MoT -I of AYU. ! House This. Mornine With Senators. . SECRETARY LANSING WAS CALLED IN. Cloture Rule Discussed cvnd Democratic Senators Leave I n r W7M D ii- lv 10 vumci w nil ixcpuuiiCcUl Allies Confident of Suc- cess. i By Associated Press ) Vv'cshington, March 7 Some ad- ministration officials today were urg-f I rg on resident vviison tneir view that lie may legally arm merchant ships now without awaiting express authority which Congress might give if called in special session. , They urg ed that the old law passed in 1819 forbidding a merchantman : to fire on "a public armed vessel of a nation in amity with the United States," would not apply to the present situation. The President heard these views with ken interest, and indicated that he is seeking some legal means of acting promptly, but would prefer Congres sional approval. - r It appeared quite probable today that the United States would not press the issue created by Austria- Hungary's notification that she ad heres to Germany's principles of sub marine warfare, inasmuch as the com munication has a reconciliatory tone and points out that sines Austrian sub marines operate only in the Adriatic and Mediterranean, the chances of ac tur.!iy violating American rights are not very great. V msident Wilson had a conference eany today at the White House with Senators Owen, Reed, Walsh, Swan- son, James and Hoke Smith, the com mittee named by the Senate Demo cratic caucus and discussed the pro posed changes in the Senate's rules which would prevent unlimited debate and filibustering such as killed the -rmed . neutralitv bill Secretary Lansing was called to the Mite House to see the President just! wre the departure of the Senators Secretary McAdno was nijr -nroapnt The conference continued for more I I f1 . wan an hour The Senators agreed the prospects sood for quick action in the Senate. benator Owen said he desired a mje under which the Senate rules couid be changed by a majority vote I ct the Senators nsTPPd. however. thev ould noThaggie over' details if a reasonable cloture plan could be a?reed upon The' conference isiRtPd nn hnnr and half and all the details of the Sen atp situation were gone over. The Resident told the Senators he was anxious for action as promptly as pos- ne said the country was deep ' arused over the situation and that a Seilntnrc! clinnlH Vic ollriw. Icoum n;terfere withthe welfare of the.tory in Washington, adequate to con- Although r Wil arm ho a a r?- A by :i0me government experts o he has the authority tc arm ships nout waiting for action by Con iws; ?thers among his advisers be- to L would be the better policy ""VLUUl LUC uouaij After tha TU;i- tt i! i iv " uue nouse coiuex euJtr, 4e c Senators hurried to. -dPitoi ior a conference with Re lic:an 10,1 x ieadpr i Ul: for ,.! ,ias iu iay Deiore mem u Dc " "umea cloture, wnicn tne Wp p 10 Drmg Deiore ine,giene I t I I 1 i I II rliur " 1 y-v Democrats; , uer thp ripmnr.roti Cnof -.t-o loff A j. c Hhltp Hnnc. 1, J 1- '"eronr-p -n-:v. v. t- r.u i Pre committee. 8din,,rnuhi,P the Democratic caucus to v ?e1 after electing Senator Hitch member f ,chairman and ex-officio j ft itv. " nic r i rri-! i i ii v -i'iiiiiiiiii ihh . . the ? iaLU1 -wiartm as chairman or 'HI SOn yr ' irtm as chairman of the followine Senators I. IlflrOQfl. 1IT.Mii . . .w- - lim.-. " w imams, James. Keea, km? ' smitn of Georgia, Walsh, : knn n,r ilamberlain Owen and Rob-1 y went to work at once to! Senate standing corn- 3'hen tu Val,u .. "1C Senate met SfTifltor' : i Iontana, introduced a res i a Provide for rp-nrirmHrm nf ! V Senate rules, with the excep-i i?npn " uie concerninE1 nrece- orning. nrwP. r the anniSSl- e Sght? 1 "I ITlnHnno rj it. -'. s - i. tn ouu wr iue arppoini.- """nuea on Page Eight.) ! ! RETURNED SUBS. REPORT BIG SUCCESS. v (By Associated Press.) Berlin. March 7. (Via Say vale) German submarines re- turning between March 1 and 3 from their operations, made re- Prts indicating the sinking of vuaseiu wuu an aggregating ton- nage of 204,000, according to the f overseas News Agency.' 4J ''. TO INVESTIGATE National Research Council to Make Inquiry to Look For Poisons, (By Associated Press.) New York, March 7. It an. ' is nounced here by the National J.VV search Council that an exhautive in- vestigation is to be undertaken to de- termine to what extent, if anv. the ' danger of poisoning is involved in! the use of canned goods. .The Na-ja tional Canners' Association, represent-i WED GOODS ing practically all producers of . stood in the way. Matthews said the canned foodstuffs in this country, is' newspapers must defend the acts of to bear the entire expense of the in-.the Legislature, many of which are vestigation, which will be conducted i indefensible, and "they get no pay entirely independent of the associa- j for it." Ray threatened, on losing his tion except in the matter of the finan-1 roll-call demand, to raise the no-quo-cing of the work. A suin,of over, rum issue and that beat it. $100,000 will be appropriated by thej Clarke, of Pitt, did get through his Canners' Association, should the work j resolution thanking the newspapers require as large an expenditure. for able work done in public senti- Theproposal to make such an in-( ment created for progress. vestigation was brought forward by, Dr. George E. Hale, director of thej Cranmer Held Out to Last. Mount Wilson Solar Observatory and, From today's Raleigh News and Ob chairman of the National Research 'server: Council, who believed tnere was j widespread interest in such an im portant subject as the danger of pois- oning from the use of canned goods i JL i J Approaching the National Canners Association Dr. Hale found that organ ization eager to have, such an indepen dent investigation made, firm as it was in the belief that canning meth- ods as generally used in this country thoroughly protect the public from,member of the New Hanover board, the danger of poisoning. Many cass i of illness that have been attributed I cooper, of Wilmington, for the ap to poisoning from eating canned . poiEtment and Senator Cranmer hold goods are believed by the canners jJng out against him. Gn the recom to have actually resulted from en-mendation of the conference commit tirely different causes or from disre-itee Mr Cooper will be named." gard of the ordinary precautions, suchj as not allowing goods to stand m a can after bein gonce opened. j The Canners' Association itself has- for years maintained its own labora nevertheless, thought it wise to put its case into the hands of an indepen-j dent research board, tor although tne; subject is one that has been investi gated to some extent before, there has as yet been no complete survey of this problem. With a view to sup plying this deficiency, the National Research Council has appointed a mmmitfpp to suDervise the inquiry, which will be ; undertaken by the Har vard Medical School in its department J Df Preventative Me.dicme and Hy The work has been entrusted . -rv -1 I tn Dr. M. J. Rosenau, of Harvard, who is one of the most eminent pnar macologicaL chemists in the country. The results of "the research will be published , through scientific channels from time to time, but it is expected j that it may be a matter of three years or more before the ground is corn- pietly covered. ' i 1 - - omjicnru commission which has been named by the National te- .... spnrfnh f!ontw!il in conference with nr. Rosenau and under tne aayics oi - n Dr. William H. Welch, president or the National Academy of Sciences, which will have supervisory charge of the investigation is as follows Profs. Joohn J. Abel Johns Hop- Vina TTnivorsitv- Reid Hunt. Harvard rca-tTTniiraraitvi Tn c Tnrdsin' TTnlversitv nf rhinatm': T.nfflivet.t'p B.- Mendel. Yalel University; Frederick G. Novy, Unl-I vrm'tv of Michigan Eugene Opie.i row in 1906, developea a speed or WMhtaSniUttiveftf'wS tfc'dideon riaiots'on''iieir-tHal. Her complement .WeeSty Ch!S r ? Is 998 men.- , , THE LEGISLATURE , T- I ii. T- J , A TO ruouc uerenaer rtci ana iaise in Salaries Have Become Laws. SOLICITOR RILL WAS ALSO PASSED. Boiler Inspection Measure j Failed in Senate Grant Made Present by The Ad vocates For His Work. (Special to The Dispatch.) Raleigh, N. C, March 7. Represen- ; tative Grant and Senator Cranmer may not have ( composed all differ ences but the New Hanover man wins his point in the retention of Thomas E. Cooper as a member of the Board of -Education. The last batch of Grant's bills didrof.the World whicn is t0 Je held in not fare the best, but he does win his public defender act, by which such as cannot pay attorneys will be allowed defense counsel iii the Re corder's' courts, and he won his sal ary bill for county officials; also that defining the duties of the solicitor. Notwithstanding his -defeat on the t boiler inspection bill,, which went through the House and failed in the Senate, the boiler men in apprecia- tion of his splendid fight gave him a beautiful cuff button set. Grant also aided effectively in the settlement of the fish law. By the conference committee's act this morning pound nets for edible fish cannot be set in the Atlantic Ocean and purse-nets are prohibited entirely. , Grant did not win all but he got half. The House ratified the fallen women's home which had no better champion than Grant. It passed at '9 o'clock last, night with the hands of thV clock- driven three hours forward. There wag no objection, 62 votes be i ing cast for it. The newspaper advertising bill was nnaiiy defeated and the House voted to pass no bills.. Matthews, or Bertie, introduced late Monday an act which would pay the. newspapers five cents! line for first insertion and 2 cents subsequent. Ray, of Macon, alone j Tne House also refused to concur m the Senate amendments to the omin bus educational bill, appointing the various members of the Board of Edu cation and a conference committee of the two houses recommended that the Senate recede from its amendments and that the bill pass as amended in 'the House. The principal hitch in the bm wag the appointment of a ntHv pirar,t nrffine- Thos. E RUSSIAN CRUISER E Badly Damaged in The Gulf of Finland and Had to Be Docked. (By Associated Press.) ' Berlin, Tuesday, March 6 (Via Tuck- eton, March 7). The Russian arm- ored cruiser Ryurik struck a mine in .1. 1H f T"l " 1 3 1 t,nl the Gulf of Finland and was badly damaged, acording to reports from Stockholm,, says an Overseas News Agency announcement. News of the disaster to the Ryurik was received in Sweden, despite the Russian naval censorsnip,- tne Agen- cvs Stockholm advices state. The warship was- shortly afterward docked at Cronstadt, on the Gulf of Finland, it is added. '' The Ryurik (also spelled Rurik) is an V armored cruiser of 15,190 tons, 529 feet long, 75 . feet beam and 26 feet depth. Her armament comprises four 10-inch guns in pairs in turrets and eight 8-inch guns similarly mounted, together with twenty 4.7 l J : O W -vmm "CSV STRUCK M inch euns and four 3-pounders. She has two torpedo tubes, submerged. The Ryurik, which was built at Bar- (Special to The Dispatch.) Raleigh, ,N. C., March 7. The , General Assembly. Adjourned this . afternoon, at 3 o'clock after hast- ily amending the act passed yes- 5 n1 terday placing the reprinting and, 4' editing of destroyed SuDreme . Court reprints into the' hands of J ; the Chief Justice and the Secre- 1 tary of State. These" reprints' "iuJl- I1UVY IB mcjf Ullgmaiiy v were. - $ . 't(i ; ALL READY FOR THE WOO New Bern to Entertain The Head Camp of The Order Next Week. (Special to The Dispatch.) New Bern. March 7. Practically all plans have been made for the meet ing of the head camp of the Woodmen this city next week and indications are that the event will prove to be a big success in every detail and will, in fact, be the most auspicious ever held in this State. The local Woodmen have, made elab orate arrangements for the entertain- ment of the visitors, of whom there n will be more than two hundred, andboro tomonw No serious aa,mage they wil1 be made to enjoy their visit to mis city ana 10 carry away wun them a pleasant recollection of the place. A number of business sessions will be held and the social side of the gathering will also be given special at tention. One of the eleven members of the crew of the coast guard cutter Yam craf, who were lost, when they were attempting to give aid to the tanker Louisiana off Ocean City, Md., last Sunday night, was a former-New Bern- fan. " This was "Rossr Harris, a former member,, of; the- cf ew of- iheast trard cutter Pamlico, and whose 'brother and sister, Mr. Martin Harris and Mrs. Charles Squires, now reside in this city His relatives here have telegraphed tne omcers or tne xamacraw to snip the body to New Bern in case that it is recovered and this will be done. AIR FIGHTS APPEAR SIGNAL NEARNESS OF A VITAL MOVE Aviators Busy on The Franco Belgian Front and Many Have Been Shot Down. BRITONS OCCUPY 1 ABANDONED TRENCHES L French Regain Lost Ground But Failed in Attack Last Night Cold's Grip Lessen- . &. r- L .L. f i ing in East Dnusn vavairy Push On Along Tigris. Intense aerial activity prevailing on the Franco-Belgian front indicates the probability of important develop ments there soon. The entente aviators are taking ex tra hazardous risks in their insistent search for information of hostile movements and dispositions. This s evidenced by Berlin's report of 18 entente airplanes destroyed yester day. The aerial scouting, interrupted by Monday's storm, was thus appar ently in full swing again on Tuesday, with the clearing of the weather. Tn the realm . of infantry activity, 'he British, while continuing to pick :? trenches abandoned by the Ger mans in their sustained retrograde movement along the Ancre, have con tented themselves with raiding opera tions in the Bouchavesnes sector, front, after having effected a gain along a front of nearly three quarters of a mile there in a recent attack. In the Verdun region, the French and the Germans are continuing to dis pute ground north of Cauriers Wood, where the Crown Prince's troops ef fected a considerable ' gain early this week, only to lose the greater portion of it as the result of French counter attack, according to Paris. The French made another attack last! night to regain lost ground, but' Ber lin reports a repulse for them. un the Russian irpnt .Benin re j ports a lessening m the severity of the cold, with some increase in ar tillery, activity, but no important movement by the infantry arm. British Press On. ionaon, Marcn .j?riusn, cavairy iad advance;whinn nine -miles of feitihued on Page Eight.) K tt w mm wi j L -1 ii ii hii v i iii m w w j 1 1 , ' W h ua h m ii MUCH DAMAGE IVIost or lhem Are Now rall- ing and Other Almost at Standstill. TENNESSEE ROADS FEELS THE EFFECTS Floods Inundate Tracks and Made Bridges Unsafe Yard at Chattanooga Covered With Water (By Associated Press.) Raleigh, N. C. March 7. R Ivers in eastern North Carolina, which Sfor sev eral days have been above the flood level, either were falling or were al most at a standstill today. " The Roa lTwTi:, r XT, a pects were that the height of the flood would pass Weldon today, the local weather bureau announced. The Cape Fear 'reached its highest point at Fayetteville last night and was fall ing today while the Neuse at Smith field was at a standstill. The Tar river was slowly rising, but the crest of the flood was expected to pass Tar has been reported in any of the river valleys. Traffic Delayed. Atlanta, Ga., March 7. Railroads with lines in Tennessee today were feeling effects of the flood, according to reports received at railroad offices here'. The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis was operating its trains be tween Chattanooga and Dalton, Ga., over tracks of the Southern because of high water, and the danger of the collapse of a bridge over Chickamauga Creek The bridge today was weight ed KGrtm wlffc oadetra v The Southern suffered a washout on a fill between Knoxyilje and Morris town, but it was reported here it would be repaired this afternoon suf- . hcicuuj iu "un ciaiuo w ya.ao. nou- road yards at Chattanooga were cov- j (Continued on fage ttignt.j WOULD LIKE TD Wadesboro Wants Extension r o -i jc m j i or Railroad r rom Norwood i to That Place. Wadesboro, March 6 riie whole sale merchants of Wadesnoro are be ing urged to give every encourage ment to the promoters of the plan to extend the Southern Railroad from Norwood to this point. "This tpwn is located at a point that makes it a nat ural distributing center. It is 52 miles east of Charlotte, 89 miles south of Winston-Salem, 125 miles west of Wilmington, and 135 miles west of Raleigh. It has three railroad con nections giving an outlet in all direc tioayji and with a chance for advanta geous schedules. It is claimed that the business men of Wadesboro either 1 are indifferent to their interests or their protests meet with little re sponse in the making of schedules on freights" from here. Especially is this true ih. regard to the Atlantic Coast Line, it is asserted. With the addition of the Southern, ?f??2 of its road from Norwood to this point and perhaps through Chesterfield, S. C, ' Wadesboro will be in a1" position to dictate schedules on all the roads leading into the city. In addition to the possibility of get ting another railroad connection, there is considerable talk of the erec tion of a quarter million dollar cotton factory in the near future. The pro moters of this enterprise are meeting with much encouragement locally and they are assured that outside capital will be forthcoming as soon as the necessary capital is subscribed local ly. To be "losted even before train ing season starts shows that: Ray uaiaweurxne launes.- ueaver, parently the same old y "Slim'? asoi yorft .ir-AOiitlMflLil Caldwell,- the Yankees' heaver, is ap parently the same old - "Slim" as, oi HAVE SOUTHERN ILL STATE TROOPS Wilmington Engineer Com pany Due to Leave Border March 12th. (By Associated Press.) San Antonio, March 7. Orders were received by Southern Depart ment headquarters to "speed up" the return movement of State troops from the border so that all organizations will be home for muster out by April 1. State troops still on the border approximate 30,000 men. It is understood that a shortage , of funds, due to failure of the" army ap propriations bill to be passed before adjournment of Congress,, caused the war department to quicken the rate of speQd at which the State troops were being released under former orders. Under - the xilan being followed " in sending,- me,. .the, remainder of tb National guard units, it was esU'matedf that the last of them would be moved shortly after April 15. As a result ot the new instruction, it will be neces sary to advance dates of departure of many of the organizations. Officers are at work on new sched ules, but many dates can not be set definitely until after advices regard ing muster out points have been re ceived frem commanders of other de partments. Organizations scheduled to start home today included: Third Tennessee Infantry, at San Benito. Other new dates for departure in clude: Squadron of the First Virginia Cav alry at Brownsville, March 13; A. and B. companies, North Carolina Engi neers, at Brownsville, March 12; Sec ond Alabama Infantry, at Nogales, March 17; Florida Field Hospital No. fi at San Antonio, March 14. WOULD BRING THE BRANCHES GLOSER Pan-Presbyterian Alliance is Holding Forth In Two-Day Session in Columbia. (By Associated Press.) Columbia, S. C, March 7. Discus sion of plans designed to bring the branches of the Presbyterian churcfi into closer relationship was the an nounced purpose Of the meeting of the executive committee of the Pan Presbyterian Alliance which began a "two days' session here today. The Alliance, which constitutes the western section of the World Presby terian Alliance, embraces the United States, Canada and South America, and many prominent ministers and laymen have assembled here for the meeting. EXPUNGES RESOLUTION CENSURING TH1JM. (By Associated Press ) Des Moines, la., March 7. A reso lution censuring Senators Cummins and Kenyon for their opposition to the President's armed neutrality bill, was expunged from the record of the Iowa House of Representatives today by unanimous vote. Representative Rayburn, its author, was absent. TOBACCO COMPANY GIVES BIG DIVIDEND. (By Associated Press.) . v New York March 7. An extra divi dend of 6 per cent, on the . common stock was declared today by the P. Loriliard Company, tobacco manufac- titrara i-n addition in th rpfl-iilfl.r Quarterly dividend of 3 ber cent. This quaneuy uiuuww vcuwj.uib extra disbursement is large? than any previously declared. . o;tY , TO HURRY BACK Senator Walsh Bitterly De nounced Those Who Pre vented "Armed" Action. ASKS MUST COUNTRY BE HELD AT BAY? Presents Argument in Behalf of Cloture Rule For Senate. No Action Today, But Ad journment Until Tomorrow Noon. w,ot,- ( 7 Assoclated Press.) T!shington- Mai:cU Senator Walsh on the Senate floor today argu ing for the cloture, said each new benate was separate entirely and that it should enact its own rules. Senator Walsh declared "a genuine alarm pervades the country lest some enemy may, in the . near future, at tack us." AfteJ- advising the Senate to take immediate action in suh an emer. gency. Senator Walsh continued: - "It is scarcely jihnPiva "hi a tv. nS" without an- appeal from the Prea-N ivr uurriea action by Congress, f U n aPPealCmes to this body It finds a ready response except from a stoall coterie of Senators, who shell each other on the floor until the en emy thunders at the gates of our cit ies and the Republic has had its death mow. iney may be honest but mis guided peace-at-any-price men, who re fuse to believe that war is inevitable and continue to hope that the awful horror of armed conflict may be avert ed, by further peaceful overtures "Multitudes of sagacious men be lieved ih 1861 that the South would not fight and others that the North would never resort to arms. It is not inceivable that the obstructionists filibustered, may be actuated by traitorous sentiments. The revolution ' had its Arnold. I trust, I offend no sensibilities in referring to the fact that in 1861 ten or more members of this body were . expelled for treason "A vice president who, for four years presided over the Senate, was indicted and tried for treason and a Senator, charged with him for this capitol offense, escaped expulsion by but one vote. The Senate had already at that early day expelled one of Its members for perfidiou8 negotiations with the enemies of his country We are all sworn to bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, a needless oath, unless it be that some of us- may, conceivably, require the aid of heaven to keep us true "What, say we, can the Senate make a rule under which it may be held at bay by treachery until a foreign foe shall have prevailed tion? l repeat a rule of the Senate, the effect of which fa nr mv a prive it of the power, under any cir- vumoLauuea, or Dringing debate to a close, is void. "I am not one of thnoo nim ruthlessly sweep the law aside to at tain his end. I shall rote with a clear -conscience that we violate no law In fixing a time at which debate on any subject before this body shall close" ine oniy cnange of Importance in -the resolution. Senator Pifvnrnao an. nounced, was to Drovfd thof amendment shall be offered to a mea sure arter tne cloture has been voted by the Senate. This any efforts to offer a substitute after the cloture had been ordered. Arter Senator Walsh had concluded, the Senate adjourned Thursday. HEAD OF UNIVERSITY TO MAKE ADDRESS: (Special to The Dispatch.) Loris, S. C, March 7. Dr. William Spencer Currell. the able Pr-MfdA- of ; the South Carolina. University, will ciuiouuicts m mu jLforia jyi etn odist church on Friday evening. March 9th. r i Dr. Currell is a speaker of extraord inary ability and force,, a man of at tractive personality, and a leader In the world of education. . He1- easily ranks among the foremost orators ot the Palmetto State. jrmc.w oww.. ?v - Everybody Is cordially inrited and urged; tO hear. thia eloquent speaker, ; : '. V ' ... ' '''!