AtHERPORECAST.
North Carolina Fair-tonight and
n-obably SundayT Ight frost jn ex-,
nosed places tonight; rising tern
ne-alure Sunday. ;.-Y, v, '
South Carolina Fair tonight and
probably Sunday; rising. ' temperature.
VOL. XXIII. NO. 79.
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German Commerce Destroy
ers Reported OfiF Virginia
Capes and Rhode island
WARNING GOES
OUT TO SHIPPING
Navy Becomes Instantly. On
Guard and Active Steps
Taken to Run Down Such
Ships Raider Appears
10,000-ton Ship. ;
(By Associafced Presa.) I
Washington, AprU 7. Reports
German commerce raiders off
i-oTis vere flashed aioSLthe
today and all shiTST&ing practicaJly
lifd up while naval patrols went xrati
to ostablish the identity of mysterious
ships reported near the lanes.
It was the first breath of var at the
doors cf America and it sent a thrill
through the country.
The first report came from Nan
tucket light a vessel, which saw
t l a rr.tisi
ii Miaiige snip passing wesc a.t
ociock mis morning and promptly re
pcrtod it to the Boston navy yard and
the Navy Department. Destroyer
llotillas are at sea in the vicinity and
presumably they heard the wireless i
warning which swept the coast line,
and set out to locate the mysterious
craft. Meanwhile shipping was warned
not to venture out. " -
Soon afterward a report of a raider i
oft the Virginia capes came from
Hampton Roads, where shipping also
was held in port while armed
craft went to sea to investigate.
Xacy officials expect manyl'eports of
raiders along the seacoast while ex
citement is at high tension, and many
such probably will turn out to be un
offending tramps. No precatuions are
being overlooked, however, and the
naval patrol is on the alert to examine
all strange ships.
Officials considered it would be
strange for a raider to venture so close
to ports which are known to be guard
ed. They would expect a raider to
he off at sea on the edge of the, ship
Ping lanes instead of venturing close
enough to shore to be observed and
reported.
It was considered not improbable
that the wireless warnings caused by
the mysterious ship passing Nantucket
were heard all along the coast and
miRht be responsible for other reports
Cif a commerce raider lying in wait.
Navy Ready For Action.
-Newport, R. I., April. 7. The first
siarm of the German-American war
was sounded off the New England
epast today. Just before 8 a. m., the
Aautucket shoals lightship flashed to
' a aval radio station
here
that a
passed
had
r'lhe lis-htchir. v. , a
duhi uuuuq west..
instantly plans of the Navy for just
suca a situation became operative and
whue they were not disclosed there
as assurance that if the audacious
Tarslup held her course, she would be
i ven a warm reception. - ,
-meantime shipping ip the vicinityi
"as warned to make port or hold its
ancnorago. The weather was thick
it was not expected that the
granger would be sighted again until
ip . Tas at close quarters with some
esse, of the coast patrol fleet. It was
c ' 40 that the war painted craft
nied out of the fog some fifty miles
V- ,of Nantucket island and about
'V mil,JR east of Newport. She was
nino y 111 the lane or westbound ship
vn and not more than 200 miles by
"T"sual course from New York.
' 10 opposed raider showed- two
Tn-n and a hu&e smokestack, She
4rV-artC- t0 be abut' 10,000 tons and
m;.' t S!hlPPmg men expressed the opin-
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was an armored cruiser
- "-sgnispfl
SVB.S soon lost again in the fog.
wtV, Ket "gtship, the outpost for
stoound shipping is anchOred5
east, by south ot ; Nantucket
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BRIDE.
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STEWART.
New York first "war bride" who
was Miss Ida Kramer Ettlinger, is to
day the wife of Private Donald Story
Stewart, of Company I, Seventy-first
Regiment, N. Y. N. G. Mr. and Mrs.
Stewart were to have ben married
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next November, but re9e.1t deevlop
mcnts in the European. "' situation,
pointing to the calling out of the regi
ment, persuaded the couple to hasten
their nuptials.
Will Hold Brief Session to
Concur On Special , War
' Tax. . , A
(By Associated Press.)
' Washington, April ,7. Plans of the
House leaders today were for a brief
'session Monday to coneur in the Sen-
X-
ate amendment to the general4 defi
ciency bill providing a special -war
fund of $100,000,000 for disposal by
the President and then . another ad
journment until next Thursday to per
mit the committees to frame the war
legislation. ,
Representative Rainey, ' of . Illinois,
ranking Democrat of the Ways , and
Means committee; in the absence of
Representative) (Kitchin7r will . act as
majority leader:and meajnw'hile confer
with Secretary' McAdoo - on finance
easures:iW-;; WC-''c
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War Preparedness. " ,
PROPOSED BUDGET
MEN AND MONEY.
Estimates For First Year
To Make Use of In-
terned German
Ships.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Apl 11 7. The second
day otwar with Germany found every
government agency in action along
predetermined lines, with congres
sional committees at work on the new
army bill and finance measures.' The
navy and its newly organized power
boat coast patrol squadron was being
mobilized ; naval militia and naval re
serves were complying with orders o
join the colors.
From many, cities came word that
the United States marshals had car
ried out Orders of the department of
justice f 6r4rrest of 60 Germans whom
the goWramfek
Officials had -:about determined to
We the German 'merchant ships, near
fy 100 of which have been seized, for
government service, though no an
nouncement was made whether they
WRUld be confiscated or paid for at the
close of the war.
Government seizure of all radio
stations and the closing of all except
those needed if or naval communication
waB authorized by President Wilson.
B6th the War and Navy departments
were arranging witn contractors to
furnish enormous quantities of 'sup
plies. Steel manufacturers agreed to
furnish the navy their product at hist
year's prices, effecting an $18,000,000
saving' in the navy's 1917 steel bill.
The Treasury devised means of rais
ing funds, subject to congressional au
thorization; and the Department of
Agriculture set for a movement to in
crease and conserve the nation's sup
ply of foodstuffs and to simplify distri
bution. Many other activities were
started after the cabinet's council of
war last night
The House Military committee met
today to hear Secretary Baker's expla
naion of the army general staff bill to
draft and train 1,000,000 young men
within, a year and the accompanying
$3,000,000,000. budget, all of which had
President Wilson's approval. The Sen
ate, Military, committee also had the
irmy bill under consideration today.
Without congressional action, the
only thifig the War Department can
do to increase the nation's authorized
armed forties' is to order the regular
army expanded to full war strength".
If seemedlikely today that a large
part of the war's cost, which for the
first year, alone may run far above
$3,500,000,000j also asked of Congress,
even to $5000,000,000, will be raised
by higher taxes on incomes, inheritances-and
excess profits. ,
Announcement from Secretary Mc
Adoo on -details of the $474,000,000
bond ' issues, i already authorized, but
not issued, -was expected at any time.
Conferences &n finance problems were
begun today ; between Secretary Mc
Adoo and members of the Senate Fi
nance committee and the House Ways
and Meins committee. ; "
Announcement will be made soon
that free admission to r American har
bors has been granted war -vessels of
the Allies. . ' "
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BOTH EXPECTED TO
' DECLARE WAR.
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London, April 7. The Central
News '., says it is . semi-off icially
4F informed that a . declaration of
war ; by Brazil against Germany
may be expected by Monday.
J' ' CUBA TO JOIN IN.
- New York,- April 7 The Cuban
Congress-is expected to declare -
that a state of war . exists be-
tween Cuba and the ; . imperial
German government, accortiing
x-'to a cable- message from' E. S.
rAzpiazu, private -J secretary to
President Menocal, to the Repubk 35-
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iFrench Artillery Keeps Up
Activity In St. Ouentin
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GRENADE FIGHTING
ALSO REPORTED
German TrenchesSuccessfully
Raided Berlin v Claims
Many Entente Airships
Lost;
(By Associated Press.)
Paris, April 7 Violent cannonading
went on during last - night on the
French front, ;southrbjf Vgt; Quentiu,
in the region of Dalian and Gruigies,
the war office announced! today. The
artillery was very active also north
east of Berry-Au-Bac j
German reconnoitering forces caught
under the fire of the Frenm guns were
dispersed. South of Ville-Au-Bois, a
German attack was -repulsed.
" Grenade fighting in J the1 region east
of Sapigeul, resulted advantageously
to the French. In the region west, of
the Meuse German, trenfihea were successfully:-
raided by fFrencht troops .
",On Thursday night," saysSthe offi
cial statement, 'Jbne: of buVi airplane
projectiles
on enemy works at Dumvillers, Spin
court, and Mangiennes foresC.and in
Billy forest. During a bombardment
of Kheims yesterday, several fires'
broke out.. Ten civilians of whom
three are women, were wounded. Dur
ing the night German aviators : threw
seyeral bombs in the region of Nancy,
causing neither loss of life nor ma
terial damage , "
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Many Airships Shot Down.
Berlin, April 7. (Via London) The
entente allies, yesterday, lost 44 air
planes on the Western front, says the
official statement,, issued today by the
German army headquarters staff.
Thirty-three of the British or French
machines Were destroyed in aerial eu
gagemqntSi FIv.ej , German airplane,
the statement adds, did not return.
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BRAZILIANS CRY FOR WAR.
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San aulo, Brazil, April 7.
Great crowds paraded through
the streets of the city today,
singing the 'National hymn and
waving flags. The paraders gath- '
ered in front of the newspaper
offices, cheering for Brazil and
the Allies. The crowds dis-
persed without disorder after lis- H
tenine to Patriotic speeches.
Delivered by Austria Turkey
and Bulgaria to Break With
United States. :
(By Associated Press.)
London, April 7. Passports have
been? placed at the . disposal of the
American embassy' in Vienna, accord
ing to a . dispatch to the r Exchange Tel
egraph Company from ' The , Hague,
quoting telegrams receive'd there from
the Austrian capital. The dispatch
says that Bulgaria and Turkey, have
also decided to break off ' relations
with the United States, and that Hol
land will probably look after Austrian
interests in Washington, and Ameri
can interests in Vienna. .
News Not Received in Washington.
- Washington, April. 7.Word ... that
the Austro-Hungarian foreign . office
had placed 'passports- at the -disposal
of the American embassy at Vienna
had not reached the Austrian embassy
here early today, according to - Prince
Hohenlohe-Schillingshorst, One of the
embassy .attaches.
: Mioister; r Panaretoff , f of i Bulgaria,
said today lie Jiad received no instruc
tions from his government to - break
relationfewiti j the A1Jnite2 States and
demand his passports.'.-:''
"I have no -information ? thair would
lead me' to believe that Bulgaria de
sires a reafc with 'the-United States,
he said ;:i smcerelyAopfe ,that Euro-
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THEIR PLACE
So Declare Commissioners of
Insurance and Agricultural
Departments.
EDITOR EDMONDS
ON THE SITUATION
Thinks War Should Have Be
gun on Sinking of Lusi
tania Negioes Declar
ing Loyalty.
(Special to The Dispatch.)
Raleigh, April 7.-The Insurance
Commissioner and the Commissioner
of Agriculture are telling those who
work in. these divisions that if they
wish to volunteer and go to the front
the positions will e saved for them
if they are saved to jeturn. But po
sitions such as these will not be
farmed out to other able-bodied men
who ought to go. The Red Cross work
goes on and the recruiting, ot quite
what is expected of the "worthy sons
of . noble ' sires," makes , progress all ;
the same.
American flags in business places
Teutonically owned, flags in the stores
and houses of the colored people, res
olutions v galore, 'patriotic meetings to- k
n4sjbl,andhedn4ici
i.ne trouDie Dexween u nnea uttes s
and Germany: ; ' M
Governor Bickett yesterday' received
the resolves from Canton Council, 'Jr., t
o. u. a. m., and mat oody or western
self for all uses in this fight. The
resolution recounts "the diabolical
plots against our government by Ger
many" and stands without reserve
against- further temporization.
Last, night the colored people, who
feel that they have had a dispropor-;
tionate amount of publicity by way of J
suggesting disloyalty, have , been - in
session resolving themselves straight
and pledging themselves to the gov
ernment; and their church meeting
was designed to offset some of the
Yankee stories which they feel have
done so much harm.
The women are interested. The
Woman's Club Thursday evening put
itself flat-footedly on record as supr
porting the Pssident x of the United
States and his Secretary of the Navy.
The retiring president, Mrs. Clarence
Johnson, risked the opinion that the
summer resorts will miss as their
usual attractions some of the Red
Cross workers who will give them
selves this year to the country. -
The truth is nobody has shown
quite the interest that the women
have and they have not interposed;
any objection to war on the basis of
its declaration. Perhaps the best or
ganization is the Red Cross, .which5 is
well under way locally, and promising.
Mrs. Clifton Stonestreet and her
baby appeared in Governor Bickett's
office today, attended by Attorney W.
R. Johnson and left papers on which
the application for pardon of Stone-
street is based. --.. ,
Stonestreet was the luckiest of the
men or -worn en. connected with G.iJ.
Warren's murder in Winston-Salem.
He was indicted as accessory after
the fact, the' part of, that sordid crime
which gave Ida Ball Warren and S.
P. Christy death sentences, bein the
assistance he 1 gave to the defendant
Christv in burvine Warren. Stone
street is serving three years.
Stonestreet's wife is the daughter
of Mrs. Warren and is herself just a
child inN stature and appearance. The
young woman's mother is now serving
a life sentence in the State's prison
as is Christy. While the. people gen
erally feel that Stonestreet escaped
with a minimum ; of punishment he
has had a good deal of t sympathy be
cause of. the; manifest wak;;tyi?0 of
hnmanitv to which he belongs. .
-Coon McGlamery, of Wilkes county, ;
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is given a .commutation 01 ly u nne A , Noite a speCiai edition pub
and costs in lieu of a sentence of two Ughes editorial in which it "says
years jor iiuiu.uia.4 tjwua.uiwv.vi..
ars for immoral conaDitauon. . . (
Governor Bickett was not abie .to-j
come . 10 ms ou;e
missed his first
Governor is planning
nriff tvrnects to
mottling. He goes first? td Winstdti
Salem, where he will spena paster,
and returns ' to Burlington to speak
Tuesday night. Then he goes to Rock
ttx
from Jtaieign? a" 'w ui
requraitaorr from iS
E.i,LedfOrdnot
Hi S1"awS;The second wifl inevitably conduct to
ftm, - -5?:. the third, i We have alwU ; been pa-
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FRENCH ANXIOUS TO SEE
U. S. TROOPS IN PARIS.
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Paris, April 7. "We wish to . see
American troops n France as soon as
possible," declared Secretary General
Jules Cambon, in an interview grant
ed American correspondents at 7the
French Foreign Office today.
"The public feels confident in its
anticipation of American military aid?'
the former Foreign , Minister said,
"and such aid would be enthusiastical
ly welcomed. -
"The new government's policy will
be for more ; active war," Cambon
continued, discussing the reorganized
Ribot Cabinet.
"Germany is actually in hard
straits." -
SINKING OF THE
Done at Midnight and With
' out Warning Three
Courses For Brazil. .
X ' (By Associated ' Press.)
. ,Rio de Janeiro, - April 7. The cap
tain of the torpedoed. Brazilian steam
er .Parana cables that , in addition to
Uie" killing of 'three members' of his
crew, several sailors- were wounded
by the explosion ; of . the torpedoes.
JIev says that the ship . was attacked
at midnightwithout warning and de
nounces the conduct of the Germans
as barbarous. -
oniy three solutions present ,them-
gelYS .First: A simple rupture of
of sympathetic neutrality
with the allies; third, a declaration of
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ionfir(:imieaa we resign -ourselves to sota bay. y, ,X x - i .; 1
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PRICE FIVE' CENTS
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Officers of The Cormorant
Lying at tluam Refuse to,
' Surrender. : ' ; ' f :.
SEVEN OF THE CREW v:
LOSE THEIRTJVES r
Had Been Continual Conflict V ;
Between Crew and Ameri
can Naval Officers at Guam. v
Chased Into Port by Japa- : .
neseWarshipV..-- :;
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(By Asjocla ted Press.) . - ;
Washiiiarton.-ADril 7. The: interned
I German "gnnboiidormoran, at Guam, ; '
rerusea to - surrenaer; w vne-Amjcncaxi 1
forces which went to take possession
of her, and was "destroyed by ,her- i
crew. Two German warrant officers f
and five enlisted men of the crew were ;
killed in the explosion.. ; ',;"'
The Navy Department's announce
ment said: . .;.:. ;'sit"''Vv ;
"The interned German cruiser ,Coi .
moran, at Guam, refused to surren-
der, blew herself up, killing': two war 4
rant officers and five, enlisted ineiu .
Twenty officers, twelve warrant offl-. -cers
and 321 enlisted men were taken
prisoners." , -,:.. " . , ' '
The message was received at the . j
Navy Department at9 a.,; m. today
from Captain Roy Sinlih, governor of
Guam, and commandant, of the. naval j
station there- . r -; ;
-The destruction of the Cormoran
took place at 8. o'clock last night,
Washington time. ' " J .- !'f '
Internment of the vessel at Guam
has been the cause of. (tbnUnual-con
flict and disagreeable . incidents ; be .
tween the American ,aavaL officers '.in,
charge of the island and the. German
crew. .:'w-;i..' pV- ':!";'.: ;
On several occasions, former Ger
man Ambassador Bernstorff. appealed ;
to the Sate Department' on behalf of -the
Cormorant's officers and crew to ":
have the vessel transferred to - Sanv
Francisco.' Each time-the Navy De-' .
partment refused.- V v x-.'
" The : Cormoran was chased into
Guam by Japanese warships soon after .
the declaration of war between Japan .,
and dermany The, ship had exhaust
ed her fuel supply, raiding commerce
and was compelled to burn her wood '
work structure to make steam under,
which she reached that; port. ;r. :
STYLES IN WEATHER
( FOR ALL NEXT WEEK
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' Washington. April,7. Local showera
and thunderstorms are fprcast for the1
Southeastern ; States ; during the first
.partjof the week beginning tomorrow;
The temperature will be near normal.
General fair weather will follow until
F-riday when showers are again prob
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Ai eA that thev saw a large
rine in the Gulf of Mexico . y ester-;
4 day. - The craft rose within a mile .
4 of them and there were men on its ,
deck; Captain Lindquist . reports. ;
He hailed; but got v no' response
and saw no marks of.' identiflca-;
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