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WEATHER FORECAST, North Carolina Probably show ers and thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday; somewhat warmer to night; cooler In west portion Tuesday. w VOb. XXIII. NO. 102. I GTrvH mm ivy ft- -M I PA FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 30, 1917. MSP t PDirr rnr rc,Krre' a tlVb Vcai A iSjj . : i 7 jf 4 p Li T7 i i RIGHARD J. JONES 1 MJLLIX FA Y CTTJ v- TOFT ilvl, Oil Ship Vacuum Fell Victim to German Submarine De spite Frowning Guns MANY ARE SAID TO BE MISSING Among Those Unaccounted For Are Nine Naval Gun ners Left New York Mar. 30th and Made Trip Over In Safety Torpedoed Sat urday (By Associated Press.) London, April 30. The American oil tank steamer Vacuum has been sunk. The captain and part of the crew and the naval lieutenant and nine American naval gunners are missing. The Vacuum was sunk by a Ger man submarine on Saturday while she was on the way to the United States. The chief mate and i7 men, including three of the American navy gunners, have been landed. A boat containing the master of the ship and the remainder of the crew, together with the lieutenant and nine naavl gunners, is missing. The details of the sinking of the Vacuum are not yet available here, nor have the names of the survivors or the missing been received by the officials. The survivors are expected to reach here tomorrow. STATE B, 0E5IBE TO JS FEDERAL RES Upon the Passage of Amend ments to the Act Now Pending THE RESOURCES OF SYSTEM DOUBTED By the Entrance of the State Institutions Offering to do So Under the Amendment Left New York March 30th. New York, April 30. The Ameri can steamship, Vacuum, commanded !'' t'jinttiin S. S. HArris of thia rfitv. Wt. New York on March 30 fox Birk enhead, England, and carried a crew of 34 men, of whom 15 were Ameri can citizens, including 9 native born. As signed here before the United States commissioner, the Americans beside Captain Harris, were: Oscar wules, mate, Russian, naturalized; f rank J. Yerney, second mate, Bel S'an, naturalized; E. D. Husted, third mate, Mount" Vernon, N. Y.; John kirk, chief engineer, Scotch, natural zpd; John Simpson, assistant engi Jfppr, English, naturalized, 364 Wes! ooth street, this city; Francis J. Da "son, assistant engineer, Swedish, naturalized; R. Williams, assistant engineer, born in Wisconsin; J. Wit .'pns, horn in New York; W. H. Crane, "wan, 411 Eighteenth street, Brook !n; Thomas Ellis; Albany, N. Y.; L. J- Hal ton, wireless operator, Niag ara. Wis.; Joseph Mullen, Brooklyn, R. Punzie, and McD. og, both of San Juan, P. R. The Va mci iy LUC BICdUl- ship Ba yam on, was owned by the T- Vacuum n;i r - --. ,.. company or uaniornia. site was built in 1912 at Ecorse, Mich., ' : w'a:s brought to the Atlantic by Of tllf. f.fn., f T 1. I 11 T J i T 1. AJcViVtiS ttllU Lilt! O L. '-nWrr-nr-o rivn.. j i 'j t in' i rtUU cuuverieu iulu a. c, ma(,e frequent trins to Eurone. (..1P,V';1:; a vessel of 2,551 tons gross, -- m Dulk am, vas 247 feet "n and with a 43-fnot ha.m. Tllf; V:;!fliiim "k!1 n, i I 1 1 ": i0 ffn C ii. , '"&ciium us agents aDroaa: with harra. Number one life boat u auu uiiiers missing. No Official Dispatch. Vi asllmtnn An:i on mi..- fi-ia anfl Nayy Department of- D?tPhr bai(1 they- had no official dis Varn. 1 n the destruction of the in? xvi K Iaie OI ine men miss- l lPtllOi. 41.. ... Kunnni. names or tne naval huners an, ... . on ivh,t ue PUD11C w"i aepend icPt ? lnformation the Navy Depart- receivrxj FRENCHSAILORS SHOT twutAi HBY GERMANS Paric ?l ' .f ssociated Press.) bprs nf tiTP d0 Twenty-one mem hiZ !5 1 crews of.fhe two French 8gine nff .Th0 t00k refuSe in the tacked hv their craft had been at were shnf & submarine off Audiernle, . c hnOt tfl the lni L a desnatrh ma' accoroing lTench rna auios toaay. The Pened antime league immediately u 23 ehnfitmergency subscription for children who were left ornhana. Washington, April 30. Assurances have been received by the Federal Reserve Board from scores of State banks and trust companies through out the country that they will enter the Federal reserye system upon the passage of amendments broadening the scope of the law now before Con gress. At least twenty of the largest trust companies and State banks have sig nified their intention of joining the system, if the amendments pass. The amendments have been favorably re ported and their passage appears likely. Hundreds of smaller banks have indicated they will follow the large institutions into the system. Less than 50 State banks and trust companies have joined the system during the three years of its exist ence. All National banks, under a law, automatically passed to mem bership, and in addition approximate ly 100 State banks and trust com panies took National bank charters to come" into the system. Approximately 7,600 banks rfow are in the system and the number of State banks and trust companies, in cluding private institutions, outside totals about 22,000. Not all those would join, nor would all be wanted, but indications are that the strongest and most desirable of the entire group will make application for membership. Resources of the system, already ap proximately $16,000,000,000, wou!d be more than doubled. Amendments designed to bring in the State banks and trust companies would liberalize the existing law in many particulars. Chief of these are provisions 10 make it possible for such institutions to withdraw from the system should they desire to do so, and placing in the hands of the board the conduct of examinations for en try. At Dresent these examinations are conducted under the direction of. the comptroller of the currency. Other amendments provide for a modification of the regulations gov erning interlocking directorates, so far as new institutions are concerned, the establishment of branch federal reserve banks and mirfor changes. The establishment of branch banks in many cities is anticipated by the board, should the amendments pass, and is regarded as highly desirable in the campaign to bring the outside banks into the system. INDIANA PRPARES FOR CONSCRIPTION BATTLE RAGING ON AS TORRENTS Issue of Victory at Arras Still Remained In Doubt Today GERMANS HURLING THEIR RESERVES Tens of Thousands Being Used By Hindenburgto Stem the British Tide In Wesj. . GOVERNOR'S WIFE THE SECOND WEEK TO THE S CAUSE 1 1 Sets the Example of No Re freshments at Social Functions BUMPER FRUIT CROP THIS YEAR The battle of Arras still rages with greatly tfcloved am'aired cmzen of WflmingtQn -rho SSrHMSf the issues remainine in doubt. For ' this .morninsr in the 96th year of life. For over half a century He had been six days torrents of blood have flowed treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of North Carolina,' and for and the armies of Britain and Ger- almost a like period he had been treasurer of the Tidewater - Power Corn many yet struggle for the mastery in pany. For years he had been secretary ana treasurer of -Oakdale Ceme a conflict which baffles superlatives, tery Company and had been allied with other business interests. He had Tens of thousands of reserves have' been honored with public office by his fellow-citizens and was one of Wil been hurled against the British battle J mington's best known men. front by Field Marshal von Hinden-; burg in a supreme effort to check the! British advance, but so far without I avail. Almost literally foot by foot, I General Haig is forcing his stubborn foe back. Both sides are fighting with a resolution as grim and sav age, as any the war has shown, and it seems to be a question as fo which can sustain its ghastly sacri fices the longest. However momentous the issues which hang on the bloody struggle in ! France, they are insufficient to hold the attention of the German people, who are facing a situation at home fraught with even more tremendous 'possibilities. On the eve of the The Predictions of Horticul turist Hutt Peculiariaties of Raleigh Politics Davis Gay Controversy (Special to The Dispatch ) Raleigh, April 30. Mrs. Thomas Walter Bickett will lead the women of North Carolina in the war against to their 8ec0nd week of conferences uermany Dy enminaiing irom ner uwu f -,,r ... . . hi. social functions the immortal refresh-1 today wth the Preliminariea cleared ments, Raleigh women say. away and the ground work laid for per The Governor's wise wife went fection of tjie part the United States away thiS af terndon and the Raleigh ls to ln the grand aniance fof story uiu not tectuvw uiiiuia-i a.uuiiuu. But from a multitude of women it has Finds the Foreign Commission ers Settled Down to ,Work ; of Their Mission ' : POSITION DRNIF.D RY STATE DEPARTMENT Of Any Change By It In Published Statement of Marshal Jof fres Address To the Press (By Associated Press.) Washington, April 30. The British," and French commission settled down overthrow of Prussian autocracy. been learned that Mrs. Bickett will j M Vlvlanl, head of the French mla go before the Woman's Club this week sion, accompanied by Amhassadof and ask that in their own social j Jus8erand had, an hour's conference) functions they banish all those deli- . T cious promoters of indigestion, the j Wlth President Wilson. No announce couple-course that comes too early , ment was made about the meeting, but for dinner, too late for lunch. In a it was understood the needs of Franco muiLiluuc ui gusoiycia nii M.O 't-l w y.j Mrs. Bickett was impressed with the letter which that "Farmer's Wife" wrote her husband a few days ago. The lady out in the sticks grew tired of receiving bricks hurled from the heights of academic perfection and said so. She had been advised to plant a pig and to crib more cans, to bulldoze more hens into laying, to elodhop it more, when she was doing and the co-operation of - the United States were fully discussed. M. Vivian! and Marshal Jocre werd to have made a visit to the capitol toi day, to meet Senators and Represent atives, but at the last moment tha visit was postponed until later in tha week. " Sate Department officials were anx ious today , to make it plain , that the! teen mortal hours a day." "Why," thisthe expurgation: erf, portions "otMar : SISter Ol OOlOmOn aSKeu, aO tUWllS- auax uuuico owremcui jddiciuoh . (By Associated Press.) Indianapolis, April 30. Members of the conscription boards in each coun try in Indiana who were appointed Saturday by Governor Goodrich to have charge of the registration of men of military age as soon as the ad ministration Army bill becomes a law, met here today to formulate plans for their wovk. A census taker will be appointed for each voting precinct in the State. It is planned to have these men ready for work by Wednesday. Speakers at the meeting urged that efforts be made to send to Washing ton the first complete State census oi military eligible s when the call for this comes to Indiana. GERMAN CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY Declared By Count Bernstorff to Be Traitors to the Fatherland. (By Associated Press.) Washington. Aoril 30. Count Von great general strike planned for May j Bernstorff, former German ambassa Day the German press and leaders idor to the united States before the are displaying a feverish apprehension : war spoke disparaging of German cit as to what the morrow will bring (lzens in this country, saying they had forth. l run away, from the Fatherland to The majority Socialists are energst- avoid military service and were "out ically supporting the government in j laws according to a statement made its efforts to cajole or threaten the , puDlic today by Senator Phelan, of workers into refraining from striking, j California, in connection with corn Even the radical minority seems to Jment on the passage of the Army War be frightened at the possible results of the agitation it has fostered. Some ' , ., .. , ,-. of the radical newspapers are report-! e remarks attributed to Von Bern ed to have launched an eleventh-hour , storff' Senator Phelan explained were ,nnnoi in or, 0vt tn Ov0rt made during an ir terview which he fearing that in sowing the wind they had with the Ambassador m Munch n I that will shakp ' J-J.o, in an euui i iu gci uciuuiuj j women persist in serving refresh , ments to people who are not hungry and eat three square meals a day?" j country for foodstuffs. I Factionalists in Raleigh have been ! not a little displeased to observe in this correspondence the published sat- BICKETT DENIES the participation of American troQfw' on the battlefields of France. They made it plain that any changes in the : prepared statement as read by Marshal ' Joffre, when later given out to tho newspapers, had been made by the French mission on Its own Initiative, isfaction of Collector J. W. Bailey ana tnat tne state Department's onjy with the recent city primary. part In Issuing the revised statement WO A ON Governor Declines Petition of Murderer of Neal Cropsy Grants Others will reap a whirlwind that will shake the foundations of the country. Austria and Sweden are two other storm centers where May Day may evoke popular uprisings of far-reach ing effect. In the face of the brew- j ing storm word comes that the Hun- j participate in the Panama Pacific Ex position. Mr. Phelan urged a German exhibit on the ground that Germans in the United States would be pr'oud of it. - "He immediately resented that," garian government has declared itself said Senator Phelan in his statement, in favor of important democratic re-i "Much to my surprise, he substantially forms. On the other hand, the Aus-. said: 'Do not talk about these people, trian Emperor is reported to have re- We do not care what they think or fused . the resignation of Premier I want. They have deserted the Fath Tisza, "iron man" of the dual mon- erland. They have run away to avoid archy and bulwark of pan-German-! military duty. They have been false ism. - .to the old traditions. They are 'out- Another curious and unexplained I laws'; and that was the sentiment of item from Austria-Hungary says that .official Germany then, as I believe it in Bohemia, long a hot-bed of disaf- .'s today. They regard those good per fection, all German papers" have been I pie, who are expected to render serv suppressed. ice to the autocracy how, as outlaws, The entire situation in Europe ap- as men who have fled from their duty. Dears to have reached one of those' "I think our German-American cit- confused stages where conflicting izens should know and understand news makes the relative importance that, which is the Prussian estimate of, rf Dvontc ntiPPTTain arm nhHPiiro o ihom 1 tVim oVimilH ho pnnfirmfiri , situation intensified by the increasing in what I believe to be sincere con rigors of the censorship in all coun- viction, that their duty lies with Am tries. . The military command in erica in this struggle." France is under fire and there are re (Special to The Dispatch.) Raleigh, N. C, April 30. Governor Bickett issued the biggest list of his pardons today, but the most jmpor tant of the petitions before him was that of James Wilcox, who is denied clemency. Governor Bickett finds the commu tation of Nell Cropsey's slayer im possible, largely on tho showing made by Wilcox. The Governor cannot un derstand Wilcox's willingness to re fuse testimony on two trials, since the first was capital conviction, and the second for thirty years. Likewise, Governor Bickett fails to see Wilcox's refusal to give any light on it while the prisoner, seeks clem ency. Wilcox -eclares he - has tuber culosis, and asks mercy on that ground. He has served 14 years. AMERICAN AVIATORS WON MORE HONORS (By Associated Press.i Paris, April 30. American aviators again emerged victorious from a bat tle in the clouds with German air men, it is learned here. The heroes of the encounter were Willis Haviland, of Minneapolis and Char?. C. Johnson, of St. Louis, who are under command of Lieutenant Wm. Thaw, of Pittsburg. These anti-Bailey men had a feel ing that if ever an election went off without Bailey's having had a blessed thing to do with it, save the defeat of his candidate for commissioner of public safety and the return of Mayor Johnson, on whom Bailey never has been long, this late poll was one of them. Consequently, when they read that Bailey was pleased and Bailey's boys claimed the victory it made 'em mad. For the capture of Raleigh has ever been beyond the Baileyites when the fight was open and on that issue. It always took the "embattled farmers" to turn the trick and then a judicious use of pokeberry and of the . Secre was to place its facilities of distrlbu tion at the disposal of the French commission. , The State Department issued thlg statement: "There is absolutely no truth in thd intimation appearing in the press that the remarks of Marshal Joffre yester; ,' day were censored, expurgated or al. ' tered by the Department of ; State ot ' by any one save the French commia sion." '? Members of the British commission today spent considerable time confer ring with the various committees ol . the Council of National Defense. Mil itary members discussed with the mu ' nitions and manufacturing committee . tary of the Navy, Raleigh being even the needs of the Allies for various beyond the reach of the pure injwar supplies and means of keeping heart. County-wide the fight often- them flowing constantly toward tho est, perhaps, went with tne JBaneyi battlefields. men. But tne anti-waney iacuon aoes not wish a claim set up in Bailey's behalf since that shrewd gentleman wasn't noticeably active for anybody and especially for TJzzell, who is going to be commissioner of public safety. State Horticulturist W. N. Hutt has enough news from the. State to make him free to predict a bumper crop of fruit. So long as the weather hovers about 40, of course, Mr. Hutt inclines to hold to wood, but he is quite satis Yesterday the. foreign commission ers, and representatives . of the Amer ican government went to Mount Ver non, where the flags of France, Eng land and the United States floated Drtmdly together over the tomb ofi George Washington. , 1 . ; ' , 4 JOHNSTON ON 8TAND. Claoar .TrthnHtnn. rnlftrA rnni fied now that 1917 will see one of the victrU8tyf suspected as the mur derer of Neal Walton and assail- ports in the Paris, press that the ap- ivril I IOMAIRF TO HO of staff heralds many other changes ' among high officers. Outside of Europe interest centers on the possible course of Brazil and China 1 S 4 i " FOOD BltLS INTRODUCED. ?Rv Associated Press) Washington, D. C, April rfu. fc The administration food bills were introduced" in the House to- day by Chairman Lever, of the Agricultural committee. They do not cover Drice -fixiner or control HIS PART IN THIS STATE' of the .use of grains for distilling iinimrc i n d t u iiiihi' N' win vz covered in a bill to be introduced greatest fruit yields within his mem ory. He does not expect the moun tains to do all that he had earlier hoped. The peaches that first ven tured to blossom were nicked by cold, but the apple crop which has been so many years the admiration of the country is in perfect shape. Rev. R. L. Gay, who has been field secretary of the North Carolina Anti Saloon League, Iras gone to Virginia to visit Mrs. Gay's relatives and while in that commonwealth will probably choose one from the several fields of '. 4 ant of Florence Davidson, is an- swerlng questions before the cor- 4 4 oner's iury this afternoon. John- ston was given to understand that 4' he need not answer any question 4, 4 that would tend to Incriminate : 4 himself and advised to be perfect- 4 4 ly at ease and understand all 4 questions thoroujgbty' before he 4 4 made any effort to answer them. 4 The negro presented a very 4" 4 pathetic picture as he sat in his 4 a ii. a i i i m i i work offered him since Brother R. L'T cmu.m .. .u Davis deposed him as secretary. m1 , labor-and while the Mr. Gay was offered attractive pas-i whltes f hia eyes ho!e conc' J tnratPS nH othr work pithpr of I uously, he answered all questions , . whir-h afrnrHH him mnro satisfatnrv clearly and directly. He had made 4, features than that left, but he had not made up his mind when he left 4 no effort to hedge, denying some' 4 and answering the others, at 3 4 4 later. The bills introduced today are 4 4 designed to stimulate production, 4 4 prevent hoarding, make for equit- (By Associated Press.) Greensboro, N. C, April 30. J. B. Dispatches from Pekin say Cobb, retired millionaire tobacconist, that the Chinese republic will nrob- of New York, is contributing his share iX.Ulj C111C1 l.x nc. uuiudk VJ ct ia,Ll y n u, uo liiv i- " .. . - j. - war Tin yYrc: Vtt Pill t. ivatinp- 5.00 fl.rTfis- able distribution, and suspend tne v W 1 CAIIU. tWV VV VAkJ. A JJ1 CtJ AXXCkAJ. TV UX UI pUOVO J v w-0 v I - . , m m congress meets on' Wednesday and of his hunting lodge, situated four law prohibiting the mixing or v will then decide on peace or war. In miles from this cry, m an effort to in-,' flour. They contain provisions to the meantime Brazil has issued a de- crease the country's production of, prevent connict wun me , cree of neutrality as between the wheat, corn, potatoes and other food-;4 trust and interstate commerce United States ana uermany wmch stuffs. A tractor and zu men are en-.T laws may have a bearing on Brazil's future gaged in the work, which is being su action. . v .: - perintended by Mr. Cobb personally. 4J - 4. 4. 4. 4. 4 4 4,. 4 4r 4. 4 J the ministry if he desires. The place is ready for him and if Brother Davis were disposed to indulge slang he would be compelled to confess that Mr. Gay is "some preacher." The Ber tie man made friends . everywhere he spoke. Brother Davis is an artist in getting rid of people. In writing the resigna tion of Mr. Gay for him, Brother Da vis uses the short form. In his let ter written replying to Mr. Gay, who reported ill luck, in Wilmington Brother Davis says , things were blue. "It is hard for me to under stand the whys and wherefores. All things considered. I suggest that" you be on the lookout for other work with (Continued on Page Eight). v vicih TTriHa v Ho win rptnm tm o'clock this afternoon. The early T pan 01 niB exuuiuiuwa una w uu f 4 with his early life, but what qom- passion might have been felt' by ,4. 4 the jury that he had never receiv- 4 ed any education -and was unable .4 4 to even write his own name was probably dispelled when the sus- 4 pect admitted killing one man 4 and cutting the throat of another. 4 without so much as the quiver of 4 4 an eyelash. Johnston told , the 4" 4 jury that his parents died when 4 4 he was so small he could hardly 4 , remember it. which .would indi-', 4 cate that he has . never .had an 4 4 opportunity of being other than 4 4 what he is. 4 . : . 1 : 4 4- 4 ' i r 1 2.-1 t'. If -.: ...
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