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tVEATHER FORECAST. North Carolina Rain and warm r tonight. Saturday, partly cloudy. Snday. probably fair. South Carolina Ram. and warm . tonight. Saturday and Sunday, cr.hhiv fair. Colder in west. EDITION nro""1 ' - WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRI DAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 23, 1917. ff PRICE FIVE CENTS Wll row FINAL IS FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE ' . r-vITT KT" . T " ! ' 1 1 '0L- AAlll. iw. u-t. President Wilson Now at; Work on His Address to j Extra Session of Congress I ALERT FOR ANY MOVE BY GERMANY i Felt That Teutons Will tempt to clock, rath by , Mediation President In Close Touch With Army and Navy. Py Associated Press.) Washington, March 23. President Wilson'.- address to Congress was 3;cn up in its tentative fon.i at to-; .hv? cabinet meeting. Pract ::iy I all th' secretaries Had been asked to ' trini: material for-points upon which j - I it will touch. VHio ti.o nyart natnrfi nf th Pros ., .,, . , isivt-n utiier neutral steamers, on the lts ,a, re,s necessarily will be de-1 ground that Germany must 'have an mined by the developments of the, intfrt n.,ni,iinnr tor Ep; tea days it is expected to be specific in character and probably will outline comprehensively just what steps he relieves Congress should take to meet the warlike operations cf German sumarines. Administration officials realize that during the period of waiting a sustain ed effort is being made in Germany to place the responsibility for war on the United States. The hint of an offer of mediation ;s regarded-as an added evidence of this movement, but the President and all his advisers are de termined that if war actually comes, it shall be clear to the world that it bs not been of America's choosing. r i The President to kjpjojujjiii oiuij cuu ua y preparations, cancell ed practically all engagements today fxcppt one with Governor McCall of Massachusetts who wanted, to confer on ways which the State "might co-ope-rcte with the federal government. Thf subject of financial co-opera-1 tion of the Allies which is expected i io mst take on the form of exten fion of credits for supplies is being c;scussed in a tentative way. with the of having a concrete plan ready jffcen the occasion for using it comes. Offici-.ls L-ay consideration of .the fcbjecr had not advanced to a stage ;are anything definite could be dis closed. The question of co-operation on supplying munitions-- is understood to f more pressing. It IS Understood I at ihf allied overnments are fear-, irav h a.?C B' tiimerica u ana nay for war operations the id! ii)at in n-no! t, a . ,1 a. hit "PPiy of munitions to the armies in mute might be decreased at a vital moment. ians are boing considered fo-nperaiivp distribution of '"eh would be most effective. for a output OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF DUMA GOVERNMENT (Fly The Associated Prss.) '"'"Ion, .March 23. The British, r.reilfl1 d Italian ambassadors at trrad f,nveyed to the minister of 'tZ'm .afTalrs yesterday an official Snition by their governments of " Kussiah provincial government, s a Reuter telegram from Petro sal under (Thursday's date. OLLAND LIKELY TO BAR SUCH SHIPS D uich Government tn Pro- Entrance of Armed Merchantmen. Tir i.":y Associated Press.) ''ague, March 23. (via London.) sav", HamJelsbIad, of Amsterdam, it"lh,lav that the rumor has reached ' t Holland Vi n r. vrifi-tcnA Vif Q ismi tn f American armed merchant Wbr Dutf h and that the Dutch avij,rs wi!I be closed to American "Tl " uiiiun. Dap. r ci liinent, aas the news if; Will assume a great responsi- "nit J' which ever way the decision ral Th government seems to neve r 'fiendiv Germany will interpret as un- hwh 1 any rlecisi0n n ur Part icterlch wp would come into line with vhir-hrVonal usages, the justice of r. -"-uj, recognizea Deiore me reprisals by the United th t 0r (Jreat Britain now or after re!U lhf Dutch government, it de the i'r,'f,Tiust do only what justice and interests of The Netherlands dic- THE GAUWTLET THROWN OWN At-jDefiance of president WilsQn By The German Press.! (By Associated Press.) Berlin, Thursday, March 22 (Via London, March 23). The Lokal An zeiger accused President Wilson of criminal carelessness in his conduct of American-German relations. The paper says: "Disnatches from AmonVa ..mi "ier neutral countries repeatedly ! Play with the idea ot-the possibility ! J.1 . . or Germany accordine Amprirnn V-v different treatment from that .-.tTnH.A4V1 J i America. It seems a fact that Ampr- ica also is keeping alive the hope" that j at the last moment we may find a way to compromise with the Ameri can standpoint. After the chancellor, as well as the other officials involved, have repeatedly emphasized that!MiKB stnntnn- hari rictPtwi in hor there can be no going back for. us, j own name and Miss Spalding as "Rose it is only necessary now to lay stress King," they went to the cafe for din upon the following: ner They spent more than twQ h.jurs "The policy of President Wilson over the meal, prolonging it by re- smce the breaking off of diplomatic ' relations has been characterized bv I careless and criminal errors. He has played with the destinies of, great peoples. He desires to make his fur- ner - ; course aepena upon wnetner and died wmww-"""" ... ... v csvk-iiKLKj is, an openly hostile actiba . against an armed American merchantman, At the same time he let it be known that he has commanded these armed merchantmen to open fire, on their yari, on an suuuiarines immediately. "In the ace of the reasons we have &iven the whole world as the basis for unrestricted warfare, it is unpar alleled rashness if the President risks the lives of American citizens in the careless belief that we will not dare to injure them. Even apart from the fact that our naval authori ties declare that it is practically im possible to distinguish American from non-American merchantmen, the German government must em phatically decline to consider any dis- AriiYiin o i rm If Proc3 irlnn t "VVil enn yaohlv wnntc wnT- Iip chnnld start it nrt ,t ,,, ,f only remains to assure him that we i:i; 1 . 11 xic wj.aa 11 x v 11. vix uui dika it have put an end to negotiations about submarine warfare once for all. The monstrous guilt for a German-American war, should it come, would fall alone upon President Wilson and his government." A SENTINELSHOT BY UNKNOWN PARTIES (By Associated Press.) Portland, Me., March 23. Private John Poor, of the Third ComDanv. Coast Artillery Corps, at Fort Wil-! liams, was shot, and fatally wounded early today while attempting to cap ture two men who had made their way into the reservation despite the presence of a heavy guard, and had reached a point near one of the bat teries of 12-inch guns. The men es caped. Because of the reported presence of suspicious characters near the forts, the guard force has been greatly in creased. On Wednesday night a shot was fired at a soldier on guard at Portland hpadlierht. More experienced men were later detailed for duty at the l0rp I and early today two men aiLeiuyu , to pass in the darkness. Poor grap pled with them and was shot in thejlater today, -when the police made erroin. His chances are against his. H7; frnm thA inintr.nt.fi groin, ms cnances ai nni. ; recovery. The bullet was trom a re-i, volver of large calibre. OLD WARRIOR FOUND DEAD IN HIS OFFICE. (By Associated Press.) Nashville, Tenn., March 23 A Tus i a in cnanisl aov3 that Cnln nel A F Prince, msurace agent and Parture from the Garland school of member of the staff of the commander Miss Stanton, when she was trans S toe United Confederate Veterans, U erred to the Dana Hall school, at was found dead in his office there last night, cause tToort trnnhie. is eiven as tnoi CHAMP CLARK SURE HE'LL BE RE-ELECTED. (Bv Associated Press.' Washington, March 23. Speaker Clark who returned today from New Orleans predicted his re-electiion by a majority of from one to five within one hour and forty minutes after the oDeninK of the extra session of con- .Qoa at nnrm hn Attn I Z. bill HE PACT TWO DEATHS The Two Young Women Who Committed Suicide in Cafe Identified. (By Associated Press.) Portsmouth, N. H., March 23. The two young women who were killed in the Portsmouth cafe last night were definitely indentifled today as Marga ret (Peggy) Spalding, daughter of George F. Spalding, of Newton, Mass., and Ethel Stanton, daughter of IT T tl A A JA J. J - - -aiuun, iuy passenger ageni ui the Rock Island railroad, with head- quarters at Los Angeles, A. note signed "Peggy and Ethel" found in a room in the Rockingham botel which they had occupied Wed nesday night and Thursday indicated that they had agreed to commit sai- cide together Miss Spalding was 18 years of age and Miss Stanton was 22. The girls came here Wednesday. After a day and night spent at the hotel whore peated calls for black coffee, T.ict and the few remaining diners heard two shots. They rushed to the booth nn1 fnnnil Miss Stanton rtfiad. Ivine v,nif nnrna thA nhi Miss, finairnntr 4ayH - ine - hoot- unetmscious ana aiea sbortly afterward." Each "girl had a bullet wound in the temple. Miss Stanton's fingers were closed about a 32-calibre revolver and beside Miss Spalding's body lav a pearl handle 22 - calibre revolver The police expressed the opinion that each girl helu a revolver at the others head and fired. It was planned to hold an inquest today. The note found in the girls' room was addressed to Miss Spalding's mother. Through inquiries made at her home in Newton, it was learned that Margaret Spalding was a gradu ate of the Newton High School, where she had been a, prominent basket-ball and hockey player. Since last fall she had been a teacher-pupil in the gymnasium ' department of the Gar land school in Boston. Miss Stanton was a pupil at this school until two weeks ago when she began studies at the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Mass. They were close friends. No definite reason was given in the note for the act. It is said t'ney had decided that it was better that they should die, and they asked their par- ents not to be grief-stricken "'oecause J they would all be happy and peaceful when reunited in the better world. A note left by Miss Stanton asked that C. P. Malsbury, Johnson build ing, Cincinnati, be notified. Mr. Mals bury was executor of the estate of Miss Stanton's mother, who was killed in an automobile accident. Dr. H. L. Taylor, assistant medical referee, after an examination of the bodies today, said that each girl had shot herself in the right temple. The young women were in normal and ap parently healthful condition, he said. An inquest did not appear necessary. The pfclice today received a tele gram from Mr. Malsby, asking that the body of Miss Stanton be removed to Cincinnati. Miss Spalding, last summer, was a director at the Quanset Camp in New Orleans, arid it is stated that she met Miss Stanton at the camp. She had attracted some attention in exhibi tk)n dancing. Light was thrown on the suicides DUbiiC a paragraph from the joint note ft b the young women. It read: ."We have experienced perfect love for leach other and cannot bear the thought of separation. So we will end it all." The police said, also, that wish was expressed that the bodies be buried together. The separation referred to is sunDosed to have meant the de- held. '"iuml Plans were mad body of Miss Spa Mass.,. and to place; to remove the ling to Newton, he body of Miss 'or the West to- Stanton on a tram 'night Steamer Out From , Jew York Arrives. (By Associated Press ) New York, March 23. The White Star Line steamship, Baltic, which left here March 13 for Liverpool, has ar- rived safely, according to a cablegram received here today b,y officials of the ,iiuv. iuc ixxhl nau. 1'"-" 1 Emperor of Germany Has Suffered A Nervous Collapse (By Associated Press.) London, March 23.- Pri vate messages have reached The Hague that Emperor Wil liam is suffering from a severe nervous breakdown, an Ex change Telegraph from The Hague reports. The Emperor's physicians are said to have ordered him to take the cure at Hamburg. WOULD SUMMON, NEW YOR BEFORE SENATI Member of Legislature Calls on Him to Make Good His Charge. RESOLUTION GOES OVER TO MONDAY. Mitchel Alleged Senator Wag ner Aiding Germany By Blocking Legislative Action. (By Associated Press.) Albany, N. Y., March 23 A resolu tion summoning Mayor Mitchell, of New York, to the bar ot the Seriate, to explain grounds for his allegation that Democratic Deader Robert F. Wag ner was aiding Germany by delaying the Rockaway fortifications site bill, was introduced today by Senator Wag ner. Consideration was deferred un til Monday night, at the request of the introducer. Senator Wagner, who was born in Prussia and came to this country at the age of $ year's, saicf : "The mayor of the city of New York has given to the press a. state ment in which he makes agalns.;me the- vilest- and-most ierkJtta.vcliate that can be made against an American citizen. - I denounce this charge as wickedly and atrociously false and known to him to;'be false." Names of Widtw of Army Officer Postmaster. (By AssAfeltttietf Press.) Washington, March 23. Mrs. Am bler F. Cardwell, widow of an army officer, was given a recess appoint ment by President Wilson today as postmaster at Fortress Monroe, Va. GERMANS DELIVER K'S HEAD ONCOMING FRENCH GERMANY EXTENDS Notifies Norway of Inclusive j of Part of The Arctic oea. (By Associated Press.) London, March 23. A Reuter dis patch from Christiania says the Ger man minister had communicated to the Norwegian government an order from his government that the part of the Arctic sea, lying eact of 24 de gress, east longitude, and south of 75 degress, north latitude, excepting Norwegian territory, is to be regarded dangerous for all navigation. Ships will be met witluall weapons. Neutral vessels entering those waters must do so at their own risk. Neutral ships already on the way for, or returning,, from, ports in this zone, will not be attacked without warning until April 5. INTERNED SAILORS TO BE SENT SOUTH. (By Associated Press.) ! Washington, March 23. The Sev-j enteenth infantry will probably ar-( rive tomorrow at Forts McPherson ; and Oglethorpe, Ga., to guard the German interned sailors to be re- moved from the Philadelphia navy' yard. Six companies, A, B, C, D, E and F, have been sent to Fort Mc-j Pherson, and G. H, I, K, L and M toj Oglethorpe, the regiment left Fortf Bliss Tuesday. . ; Secretary Daniels will order the interned Get mans south as soon as the Seventeenth arrives and com pletes its arrangements. A marine guard will act as escort for the sailors. fillR MR 7flN E OE ALE RUSSIA IS BEHIND THE BARS i Conducted by a Committee of The Duma to His Prison. CONFINED IN TSORKSOE SELO PALACE. Double Line of Sentries Around The Palace -Other Members of Royal Family Confined There (By Associated Press.) Tsarskoe-Selo, Russia, Thursday, March 22 (Via London, March 23). On his arrival here today in the cus tody of four members of the Duma, Nicholas Romanoff, the deposed em peror, was turned over immediately to the Tsarskoe-Selo commander and taken to the Alexandrovsky Palace ! where the former Empress Alexandra J already was interned. The special , train carrying the former ruler ar-' rived at 1:30 o'clock on the branch line outside A.lexandrovsky Park. On leaving the train Nicholas entered an automobile accompanied bv his adiu- taut, Prince Dolgorokoff, and by the : four Duma commissioners. They were driven to the palace. Nicholas was met at the door in ihc left wing of the palace by-Count! Benckendorff, who was his marshal of the court, and is now under arrest. The former ruler held himself erect, looking calm and indifferent. A bat talion of the First Rifle Guard regi ment was at, the depot. The com mander at Tsarskoe-Selo is Colonel Kobuilinsky, formerly commander of the Petrogradsky regiment, stationed in peace time at Warsaw. To him the Duma commissioners announced: "Our mission of handing over the Emperor is finished. We now go to Petrograd to announce this fact to the I "Duma." The correspondent drove to the old I Tsarskoe-Selo Palace which is entire 1 ly deserted and without guards and J then to the new palace where the former imperial family is interned. The palace, which is in the park, is surrounded by a plain spiked fence, five feet high, coated with silver paint. From the corner nearest the old palace, the new palace is partly visi :4sle through .theF thick -wood- Within j the park over the expanse of snow, not a single person was visible. I Apparently there were no guards ' witnin the park, but outside the fence every fifty yards along the roadway were double sentries from the Petro gradsky regiment, in long blue coats, with fixed bayonets. An astonishing circumstance, in ! view of the attitude of Nicholas to ward the population of Tsarskoe-Selo which lived entirely upon imperial favor, was the lack of public interest. TURN TO BLOW AT Teutons Smashed Way Into French Lines But Were Af terwards Thrown Back j RUSSIANS RUSHING FORWARD IN PERSIA Powerful Blows Being Struck The Turks Berlin Claims The French Offensive is Dy ing Out Heavy Losses In flicted. New interest, is attaching to the campaign in Western Persia and Mes opotamia as the converging forces of Russians and British approach each o'ther northeast of Bagdad. With the latest Russian advance to Kerindia, less than 45 miles from the Mcsopotamian border, reported today, the two bodies of entente troops "can hardly be more than 100 miles apart and may be much hearer. Little has been heard recently from the British, who may, by this time, be considerably further up the Tigris and Diala from Bagdad than at the last reports. The initial phase of the battle in Northern France has apparently turned in favor of the French, who are reported to have forced their way across the Aillette river and the Cro zat canal at several points. Along these waterways the Germans elect ed to make their first stand in de fense of LaFere, toward which Gen eral Nivelle is rushing his advance troops in a desperate effort' to break the Hindenburg line before the Ger man defense is consolidated. Further south the French are at tempting to batter their way toward Laon, but between them and their goal lie the great forests of Coucy and St. Gobain, and the comparatively meagre advance reported from Paris indicates that the issue is still very much in doubt. Some ground has been gained northeast of Soissons, but the fact that the French report having inflicted "very heavy" losses on the Germans is an intimation thai (Continued on Pag- eight) ' FORMER Mi ll 11 ill) bMS Ik i (fj)M bj II iyraVilJJjliu. SIX AMERICANS ONLY SURVIVE THE DISASTER Sinking of The American Tank Steamer Healdton. OUTSIDE OF THE PROHIBITED ZONE. Precaution Taken to Keep Within The Safety Zone. No Aid By Submarine Rescued by Trawler. (By The Associated Press.) Amsterdam, March 23. (Via Lon don) The Handelsblad says there are only six Americans among the sur vivors of the Healdton. The Captain a Survivor. London, March 23. A, Reuters' dis? patch from The Hague says that Cap tain Chirstopher, comander of the Am erican steamer, Healdton, is among the survivors. The dispatch says a Healdton life boat with seven occu pants was picked up by a Dutch de stroyer. Account of. the .Attack. Amsterdam, March 23. (Via Lon don) Tn its account of the sinking of the Healdton the Handelsblad says: "The unreliability of the German as surances regarding the so-called safe zone is shown by the reports of the crew ef the Healdton and the crews of fishing boats. "For safety's sake the Healdton chose the northern route. All went well until Wednesday evening at 8:15 oclock when a submarine suddently made a treacherous attack. Without fully emerging and without a warning, it fired two torpedoes, which hit the steamer amidship, so that the vessel, because of the dangerous character of her cargo and an explosion in the engine room, caught fire at once. "The crew in three boats tried to leave the ship. Two sloops with 13 and 7 men, respectively, succeeded in getting away, but the third, containing 21 men, capsized and nearly all were drowned. "The crew of a Dutch trawler, which observed the fire from a great dis tance, believed the glow to be that of the aurora borealis and did not go to the rescue. The next day, however, seeing a sloop under sail, they at once stopped fishing and steamed in the di rection of the sloop, whose occupants were so exhausted that they were un able to maneuver their boat alongside the trawler. The Captain of the trawl er finally managed to approach the sloop and some of the Dutch fisher men jumped into the craft and brought it alongside the trawler, where the shipwrecked men were taken on board, cared for and supplied with dry clothing. All the property of the crew was lost. 'After the attack, the submarine at once submerged and disappeared, without troubling over the lot of the shipwrecked sailors. Among the crew of . the Healdton were 13 Americans, of whom six were rescued." New Orleans, March 23. George, E. Embry, first assistant engineer on the American tanker Healdton, sunk off the coast of Holland by a German submarine, was a native of New Or leans, and his wife and five children, ranging in ages from 6 to 19 years, reside in this city. The family had no information concerning Embry's fate beyond that carried in press dis patches. Wireless Operator Rescued. Philadelphia, March 23. Herman H. Parker, the wireless operator aboard the Healdton, was saved, ac cording to a cablegram received here today by his father, William Parker. J The message was dated Terschelling, Holland. Mr. Parker said his son was 19 years old and a native Philadel phian. Loss from Sinking of the Healdton. Washington, March 23. The American tanker Healdton, torpedoed and sunk off the Dutch coast, Wednesday night, was insured by the government's war risk bureau for $499,000. The loss of the Healdton is the greatest yet sustained by the bureau The next largest was the loss of the steamer Illinois, insured for $250,000. Approximately $64,000,000 in Insu; (Continued on Page Eight) Then Submarine Hurled Tvo Torpedoes Into The Amer . ican Oil Tanker. SHIP WAS PLAINLY MARKED AS AMERICAN Crew Just HaeLTime to Take to Boats and Many Lost Lives Fire Broke Out on The Ship Due to Nature of The Cargo. 4" THE AMERICANS SAVED. (By Associated Press.) 4- Rotterdam, March 23. (Via London) The six Americans sav-4 ed from Healdton are: Captain 4 4 Charles Christopher, of Brook- lyn; J. Caldwell, of New York, 4 chief engineer, and G. W. Em- ' bry, of New Orleans, first assist- ant engineer, all of whom landed '-3 at Ymuden, O. O. Willerup, chief 4 mate; Y. Swenson, second assist- V ant engineer, and W. C. Johnson, third assistant engineer, "who landed at Terschelling. '4 4 4 4' The Hague, Netherlands, March 23 (Via London). A second boat from the Healdton has been brought to Terschelling by a Dutch torpedo boat with eight men, including one badly injured. One Dutchman had jumped overboard, losing his life. The third boat, containing 19 men, was over turned when" the ship " capsized. All were drowned, making a total of 20 lives lost out of the crew of 41. Of the 13 Americans on board, only six were saved. Two Dutch also were among the victims, others of whom were Spaniards, Norwegians and a Finn. On Wednesday, -about 8:15 p. m., notwithstanding the electrically illu minated words, "Healdton, N. Y.," be tween the masts, the vessel was bom barded suddenly by an invisible sub marine, which first shot away the il luminated name and without warn ing twice torpedoed the vessel. Fire " broke out at once. The crew imme diately sought safety in the boats, not having a minute to dress or collect belongings. All efforts to save the 19 men in the overturned boat were fruitless. The boat with 3 men, including the captain, was sighted on Thursday by the steam trawler, Java, which had just put to sea, but immediately re turned to Ymuden with the . ship wrecked men. A number of survivors were in their underclothes and all were terribly exhausted by the night's fatigue and exposure in the open boat to bitter cold and snow. They had not even enough strength to come alongside the trawler. Once' on board the trawler some of the survivors fell to the deck in a faint. The captain of the Healdton said one of the torpedoes hit his vessel in the stern and the other amidships. -In a dispatch it is said that appar ently the Healdton was within or on the border of the German danger zone east of the free channel. Noth ing could be distinguished of the na tionality of the submarine which fired without emerging fully and dis appeared immediately without paying any attention to the shipwrecked men. The Healdton was flying the American flag and had her name painted on both sides. PROBABLY LOST Two U. S. A. Boys Daringly, Engaged German Aviators In Battle. (By Associated Press.) Paris, March 23. Sergeant J. R. McConnell, an American aviator with the aviation camps in France, has been missing four days since last seen engaged with two German ma chines over the German lines. McConnell was scouting with Avi ator Jenny, another- American, when they encountered two German ma chines, which MqConnell engaged, with Jenny protecting htm from a higher level. Jenny was wounded in the head and drew away, regaining the French lines. When ho last looked back he saw both German machines, above McConnell and at tacking him. Nothing has been heard of McConnell's fate, , AMER CAN AIRMAN : t i i i ' i I L . . - ' 7 ' I - -.V V