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1 "; , - ha "Leather forecast, North Carolina Fair. Cooler to night. Possibly Jight frost, in moun tain districts. Thursday, fair. v. south Carolina Fair. Cooler to- ght Tnursaay, Tir. . -, VOL. XXIII. NO. 124. CTnl Twice Within an Hour Storm Raged in Wilmington and Vicinity. MUCH PROPERTY AKD CROPS DAMAGED Hot Houses Destroyed and Windows Smashed Dam age Throughout The Coun ty Other Points Report Crops Ruined. Damage done crops, fruits, trees, gardens, automobiles, flower beds and buildings by "the double-barrel hail storm, the first section of which hit Wilmington and vicinity at 11:35. o'clock and the second at 1:05, will run far into the thousands of dollars, it is estimated, these figures being based on authentic reports The Dis patch was able to get during the after noon. ; - - : The biggest damage was done the city by the first seciiaa-ox the siormr, during which time stones as large as hen's eggs fell, while the outlying dis tricts suffered more from the second section, which struck about an hour and a half later. Neither were of long duration, but it is next to im possible to estimate the damage done. The first section of the storm, which came from the West, hit Wrightsboro hard but missed Winter Park, East Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach and Masonboro, but the second section added the finishing touches to every thing that was started by the first. The first storm was followed by a G downpour of rain, following which the sun threatened to burst forth, but evidently thought better of it and hid its face in the fury of the second part of the storm, which struck with amaz ing force, leaving a trail of destruc tion in its wake. Rain fell in torrents during the second storm, following which Old Sol peeped from behind a rift of clouds in the West and smiled complacently down upon Mother Earth. The rain that followed the down pour of the hail stones that bounced merrily off plate glass windows will do the crops untold good provided any part of the crops are left to re ceive the benefit. The storm, in its entirety, covered an unusually large area, although, the first part of it did but little damage outside the city. The hothouses of -Miss Lucy B. Moore, on Market street, '-ere badly "damaged by the, first storm, but were completely wrecked by the second, which hit the glass nouses from an opposite direction. Her flower beds suffered, little from the effects of the firs": attack, but were cut to shreds by the stones that tell during the second part of the storm. Fruit trees suffered to an unusual extent. Peaches were cut from trees at Winter Park and rolled about the ground like so many marbles,, while all growing truck was cut to shreds. Plate glass windows were smashed many of the principal buildings of the city. Of the 24 windows in the ' wnstein Building, corner of Front and Grace streets, 13 were wrecked, the windows of the second floor of toe building, occupied by Peterson & Kulfs. shoe dealers, Front street, were smashed, while those in the ad Joining building occupied by the Wil 'ngton Furniture Company suffered to a big extent from the attack of the usually large stones that came Hurtling out of the West. Jwenty-five window panes were smashed on the west wail of the Mur cmson National Bank Building, while several crates of berries at the estab lishment of the People's Supply Com pany Were quickly cut into jelly by 'he attack from Above. lops of various automobiles parked joout the city were badly cut by the ng ice, and one horse ran away n the business section unable to un derstand the multiplicity of blows ad wheretered him seeminS13r from no- a?Srl!ns inhe city were badly dam sea, the tender vegetables being cut Hot Houses Damaged, ahip the best information obtain the noon the hot huses suffered los r-i,atuest damage. The; monetary win be quite heavy on account of Continued on Page Three.) W ill 1 ii i COMPLETE FAILURE OF GERMAN EFFORT TO STEM THE TIDE Of Victory Setting Against Them on Western Bat . tie Front PEACE RUMORS STILL AFLOAT None of Them Authentic Food ProblenuAcute German-Spanish Crisis. Passed t The second phase of the great bat tles of Arras, the Aisne and Cham pagne has ended in the complete fail ure of the most determined and cost ly German efforts to stem the tide of victory now setting against them. The net result of Field Marshal von Hindenburg's supreme effort to regain the initiative has been that the Brit ish and French have tightened their grip on the German line and have placed in great peril the key positions held by the Germans in northern France. The customary hill which separates all major operations in modern war fare has now come and the expecta tion is that it will be broken by a British blow on a great scale against the Drocourt-Queant line, already practically outflanked. - In the meantime the usual crop of peace rumors which marks these lulls has made its appearance. Reports from all kinds of sources, unofficial, semi-official, "inspired," and the like, tell of offers from Austria to. Russia, Germany to. Russia, and Austriaa nd Germany to the collective powers. The unnamed diplomats who appar ently infest Switzerland are unusual ly active but there is nothing tan glbre or authentic to show what these reports are worth. The latest German-Spanish crisis has subsided with the receipt by Mad rid of assurances from Berlin which Premier Prieto announces as satisfac tory. Germany promises to respect Spain's rights in her territorial wa ters, but the text of the communica tion is not made public. The recalled Cuban minister to Ber lin reports that matters are , going badly at home with the -Germans and sees cracks in the imperial edifice, and there are fresh reports of strikes in Hungary. There seems little ques tion that the food problem is an acute one for the Central Powers, hut information is fbo meagre to permit judgment as ; to what effect it may have' on the military situation. Von Hinden burg Witnesses Defeat. On , the French Front In France, Tuesday, May" 22 (From a Staff Corre spondent Of the. Associated Press). Von Hindenburg himself is under stood to have been a spectator of the defeat 'which the French inflicted on the Germans yesterday evening on the Moron vllners-; range which result ed in the capture of several, lines of German trenches and ' a number of im portant observationpoints. The German- commander was just to the northward of this section on Sunday. Hs: presence is supposed to have been connected with an attack on the French lines which tie Ger mans intended to deliver on Tuesday morning. The French forestalled them and afer demolishing German machine gun neats aid other defenses with artillery: launched an" assault which was so; brilliantly successful that more than 1,000 Germans were captured. ,.At Athe .same . time, the French obtained elbow room beyond the ridga for future operations.' : FULL V WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 23, 1917. f C "'" I ' ' Vrci-- 1 D ADVERTISING TAX STRICKEN l OUT. ; (By Associated Press.) 4 Washington, May 23. The sec- 4 tion of the war tax bill proposing ' a tax on advertising matter other 4 than that contained in newspapers and periodicals was stricken out j today by the House on motion of 4 Democratic Leader Kitchin. TAX BILL STILL UNDER FIRE Leader Mann to Vote Against -tefts: Amendments -Neivs paper Postage Question (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 23. Republican Leader Mann aroused applause of the Republicans in the last hours of de bate on the $1,800,000,000 war revenue bill today by declaring that he would vote against the measure. Too great an amount of money, Mr. Mann said, would be raised by imme diate taxation under the bill. Bond issues or supplementary taxes, he de clared, should raise the greater part of the required war revenue. Democratic Leader Kitchin caused surprise by asking that the proposed 5 per cent, tax on advertising be strick en from' the bill. He said he did not think it fair to tax advertising if news paper advertisers were to be -exempt, as the bill proposes. The advertising section was stricken out by an aye and nay vote with only a few members opposing. Representative Madden of Illinois, Republican, who has vigorously oppos ed the bill, also announced that he would vote against it. Representative Cannon, Republican of Illinois, declared that he would vote for the bill because the country needed the money right away. Increase of second class postage rates on advertising portions of pub.. lications is proposed in an amendment to the war revenue bill introduced in the Senate today by Senator Hard-wick,- of Georgia. It would leave the present cent-a-pound rate on news sec tions of publications, but increase that of advertising sections to 3 cents a pound until July 1, 1918, 6 cents a pound until July 1, 1919 and 8 cents a pound thereafter., ; Consideration Of the-; war revenue bill was" -completed in he House, sit ting as a Cdmmittee of the Whole this afternoon f and agreement reached to have separate votes for the income and automobile tax and second class rail amendments. FOOD LEGISLATION BEFORE BOTH HOUSES (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 23. Food legisla tion 'wag. placed in a iavored position in, the Senate today by unanimous con sent for immediate consideration of the first bill, which deals with: stim ulating production. The bfll became the unfinished business, giving it a privileged parliamentary status. While it is being considered by the Senate the House will take up the sec ond administration measure, dealing witk control of food and other neces sariesintroduced yesterday by Rep resentative Lever, of South Carolina. In presenting tne first and revamped bill, to the Senate today, Senator Gore, chairman . of the Senate Agriculture committee, proposed to repress all ef forts attach any prohibition legisla tion, He--hoped -to have the prohibi tion question postponed for considera tion with the food "control" bill in the House,' 'a provision to that end being in the v Lever measure offered - yester day to regulate grain used for manu facturing intoxicating beverages. OH LEASE D WIRE S ERVI CE II V 1m w ' 4 4. 4 '4. FIRST ENGINEERS' DETACH- fr MENT ARRIVES IN LONDON. 4 - ' (By Associated Press). 4 London, May ,23. The . first de- tachment of (United States army 4' engineers, under Command of Ma- S jor Parsons, arrived in London S this evening. The second unit of the Americaii hospital corps has reached Great Britain. 4 F CHURCH UNION UP FOR DEBATE Before The General Assembly of Southern Presby terian Church. MAJORITY REPORT AGAINST UNION Of The Two Churches Mi nority Report favoring Ap pointment of Commit tee on Conference. (By Associated Press.) Birmingham, Afa., May 23. Today's sessions of the 57th General Assembly of the Presbyterian; Church in the United States promised on of the most important developments of the meetings being held here a probable decision of the question of union with the Northern Presbyterians. The Assembly . received a telegram yesterday from the Presbyterian Church 4nthjB UniteiaStaW dfs AmeV ica, in session at Dallas, Texas, reiter ating the readiness of that body to en ter into negotiations for organic union with the Southern branch of the church. A well-informed commis sioner, but who was unwilling to be quoted, gave it as his opinion, how ever, that the Southern Assembly would hardly entertain favorably the proposition for union with the North ern church at this meeting. A popular meeting In the interest of foreign missions will be held to night. The committee on bills and over tures submitted an unfavorable ma jority report on the proposition of union between the Southern and Northern branches of the Presbyterian church to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in the United States, in session here, today. The committee, in its report, ex pressed grateful appreciation of the spirit in the telegram ; but said "un der existing conditions they declined to appoint a committee from this as sembly to confer with a similar com mittee from the Northern assembly." The telegram referred to was one received from the Northern branch of the church now in session at Dallas, Texas, expressing readiness to take up the proposition of union between the two branches. A minority report signed by three members of the committee was sub mitted, favoring the appointment of a committee to confer with a similar committee from the Northern church. The majority report bore the signa tures of 14 committeemen. The prop osition will be voted on by the Assem bly late this afternoon, it was said. The majority report of the commit tee gave three reasons for its action in declining to recommend favorably the proposition of union between the Northernjand Southern branches of cause there Iseems to be no general demand for union of these churches in the Southern church; and, second, only six of the 88 presbyteries have ex pressed a willingness to consider the union, and the committee deems that if pressure of this matter is brought at this time, it would work sad condi tions in the church." "The third-reason," the report said, "was because the Presbytery of New York has persistenly continued to li cense' for the ministry those who have denied many of the cardinal points of doctrine of Presbyterianism. They have, for instance, licensed men who do not believe in the resurrection of the Lord, and do not believe in the Virgin birth, and have denied the res urrection of Lazarus and other impor tant points." , . RAILWAY SECURITIES HOLDERS MEET. (By Associated Press.) Baltimore, .May 23 Owners of more than one billion dollars of railroad r securities were represented at a con- j ference which opened here today for! the purpose of considering important j qustipns of railroad 'financing. j .The call for the 'meeting was sent! out by S. Oayies Warfield, chairman board. Air Line Railway; . ; THREATENED POLITICAL CRISIS Rumors Current of The Resig nation of The Imperial Cabinet. PREMIER TISZA SUBMITS PLANS For Reforms to Emperor In creased Opposition to Dom inance of Berlin in Aus trian Affairs. (By Associated Press.) London, May 23. A Central News dispatch from Amsterdam says that the Hungariapi cabinet of which Count Tisza was premier, has resign- ed. Reforms Submitted to King. Amsterdam, (Via London), May 23. A Budapest telegram received here by way of Berlin says it is reported Pre mier Tisza submitted to the King pro posals for franchise reform. The King reserved his decision, upon which de pends whether the cabinet will resign. Count Tisza, the dispatch says, is leav ing for Vienna, where he will be re ceived by the King. Count Tisza, the "iron man" of Austria-Hungary, has been for many years the leader of the pro-German party in the dual monarchy and was the last survivor of the little group of statesmen who surrounded? Emperor Francis-Joseph when the European war began. On the accession of Em peror Charles, the majority of the of ficials of the previous regime were either dismissed or resigned. There have bennersistefntreptlrtsfTom- many sources that Emperor Charles' keenly resented the dominance of Ber lin in Austfb-Hungarian affairs and that Count Tisza was the one great ob stacle which prevented him from free ing his empire from the influence of Potsdam. . There have been several reports re cently that the fall of Premier Tisza was imminent, but the rigid censor ship imposed by Vienna has prevent ed the outside world from learning the exact condition of affairs. At the out break of the war a truce was declared between the political parties in Hun gary, but last August Count Apponyi, leader of the Liberals and a strong op ponent of the Pan-Germans, announc-! ed that the truce was ended and that he would resume criticism of the gov ernment's foreign policy. He was joined by Count Karolyi, president of the Hungarian Independent party, and the two popular leaders instituted a vigorous campaign against Count.'Tis- za for failure to carry out franchise and other democratic reforms. FULL HEARING FREIGHT Mapped Out by Interstate Commission For Arguments By Both Sides. (By Associated Washington, May 23. Hearings - of the railroads petition for a 16 , per cent, advance in freight rates were resumed today by the Interstate Com merce Commission, with. an. exhaus tive program under which shippers, State railroad and public utility com missions and others will be permitted to state their views. Hearings ' will last three weeks and decision, it is expected, will be rendered prior to July 1,. the date upon which the roads have asked for authorization of the proposed increase. . Shippers of various commodities, in cluding live stock, grain, lumber, oil, fruits and canned goods nave entered appearances and will be heard as to the reasonableness of the roads' de mands. Two days, June 7 and 8 will be allowed the carriers to submit re buttal evidence and the final . three days will be devoted to arguments. Proceedings today opened with the cross-examination of representatives of Eastern carriers. They will be fol lowed by representatives of Southern and Western, lines, who also will be cross-examined. ' , AUSTRIA' TERMS TO RUSSIA (By Associated Press.) Amsterdam (Via London), May 23. It is the Austrian Emperor's idea to offer very generous peace condi tions to Russia, according to a-German correspondent of the TijcL These will include the integral re-establish- ment of Poland, free passage tnrougn ; the ; Dardanelles, and even a ; loan to j .Russia. ., .'"'-. pa Mm JJ I S ESPIONAGE BILL Subject of Difference;? in Con ference President's Plea For Its Enactment (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 23. The Admin istration's determination to enforce a newspaper censorship through a sec tion of the pending Espionage bill, which generally was supposed to have been abandoned in the face of the op position in and out of Congress, came to the fore again today and threatened to force the fight all over again. President Wilson early this morning summoned the Senate conferees on the bill to the White House. It was understood he sought to impress on temthe nex5essity i censorship as outlined . in, his letter, made public last night to Chairman Webb, of the House Judiciary commit tee. The Senate conferees have been holding out against the section, as the Senate voted it out of the bill. Thq House conferees contend for a so-called "modified censorship" section in the House bill which has the support of the administration. Until the President projected the weight of his influence anew, into the situation, it was supposed that Con gress itself had given up all ideas of an enrorcea censorship. Those who fought censorship on the floor of both Houses pointed out that the adminis tration still had opportunity to exert pressure on the conferees. Senators Overman, Fletcher and Nelson, the Senate's conferees vfare asked by the President to learn wheth er it is possible to allay the Senate's oDjeccions, ana lr possiDie bring out a new and so-called modified censorsaip clause President Wilson said that he deems authority to invoke censorship of some sort very essential. He said he did not ask for a drastic provision, but felt he should have legislation giving him some degree of power to impose news paper censorship. He said he had confi dence in the patriotism of American newspapers as a) whole, but felt cen sorship authority was necessary to deal with isolated cases which might be detrimental to the National interest. The Senate's opposition to any form of censorship was made plain to the President by the conferees, who ex pressed doubt that the Senate would consent to any censorship whatsoever. But all agreed, under the President's earnest request, to sound out senti ment and see if it is possible to pass a modified section. Senator Overman thought1 that the most that could be done would be a modified compromise. He believed the House censorship provision that juries shall decide whether violations of cen sorship regulations gave information to the enemy would be rejected. If the new censorship provision can be agreed upon. Senator Overman thought it probably would not go fur ther than one by Senator Cummins, once adopted and later stricken out by the Senate, which authorized "rea sonable" censorship when in the in terest of "public safety" it was deem, ed necessary only for "public welfare."- The President's renewed plea for in. elusion of the censorship section in the bill, now in conference, developed a marked difference of attitude be tween House Democrats and Republi cans today Democratic leaders started a fight for the censorship amendment and Re publicans seemed determined to stand by their caucus decision yesterday to oppose it. AMERICAN RED CROSS RECEIVED BY KING (Br Associated Press.? London,. May S.The American medical unit under command of Major Harry L. Gilchrist, which reached England last week, was received by King-George today at Buckingham palace. -Ambassador Page presented the Americans.' CEN ORSHIP ' fc FINAL gl EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS. Frenchmen Secretly Left New York Nearly Ten Days Ago. NEWSPAPER MEN KNEW BUT WOULD NOT TEUJ Commissioners Were Sup- posed to be Still In' Thia Country Said Farewell to President and Then Left Washington On Special Train. (By Associated Press.) Paris, May 23. MarshaL Joff re and former Premier Vivian! arrived at Brest last night on their return from the United States. They' reached Brest at midnight and, . are due in Paris tonight. . ' " - LeftAmerica May 15. Washington, May.-'23,---Premier Vi mission sailed from New York :Tues day, May 15; ' unknown except to a few officials and many American newspapers. So well was the secret kept by the volunteer censorship by which Ameri can newspapers are co-operating with, the government, that the French com missioners generally j were supposed ., to be still in Washington, and up to yesterday invitations to them to visit various sections were received in great number. The party slipped away on the same steamer, which brought them over, convoyed by a French warship. The departure was attended by as much secrecy as the government could throw around it. On Monday, May 14, the French men returned to Washington on spec- , ial train from their tour. It was pre , sumed they were returning to take up ' their conferences, but they really re- turned to make their , farewell visits , to President Wilson and other off I. . cials. Their special train was held in waiting and late that' afternoon the mission sped away again, reaching; New York before midnight. Tugs were waiting and the French- . men were taken to the . liner in mid-. stream. The ship sailed out through ' the harbor guards in the early hours . of the morning. BRITISH ROYALTY CULTIVATING CROPS (By Associated Press.) Windsor, May 6 (Mail). King George can be seen most afternoons in Windsor Park cultivating a potato patch which he started himself when the general allotment scheme was ini- tiated. Princess Mary, also the own er of an allotment adjoining her fath- .' er's, and one of the young princes, - put in a good deal of time on a small , patch of vegetables. FOR DESTITUTE Food and Clothing Being Sup t plied Victims of -Atlanta ' -. Firc.r - it -'': (By Associated Press.) . . A' Atlanta, May 23.Field kitchens -from Fort' McPherson today, were sta-.; tioned near the area devastated by fire; -Monday and the soldiers prepared food X for about 4,000 negroes who lost every thing they had: At the C armory the ;; Fifth Georgia Guards' kitchen outfit was being used to feed something over 1,000 white persons. 'The 'relief work , -was entirely in the hands of the Red;., Cross, and funds were supplied from i public subscriptions"' ""... .- s) v Appeals : for clothing were .being! re- . sponded to and an employment agency ; was organized to find places for those J who need it Many servants who lived in houses burned, wereempldyed "in I homes farther up town that Avere de.' : stroyed. , LI RELIEF WORK I -i fj! !i 'I; m If m ' 7 I Ml Ijf v. ! I ' ' ' ' I t. ': I ) ! ' 4 5.; '4 1 . s-T..---'
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