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yoUR COUNTRY LEATHER FORECAST North and South Carolina Fair Sunday and probably Monday. Not ouite so warm in the interior. VOL. XXIH. NO. 135 Intrigue by leutonic LiOvern-fT ment to Purchase Island From Venezuela. AMERICA ACTING 1 PROMPTLY IN CASE Notifies President of Vene zuela and Prepared Take Drastic Action if Necessary. Secret Submarine Base Would Endanger American Shipping. (By United Press.) Washington, June 2. The German government is trying by intrigue to gain possession or 1 the isiana of Mar garita, off the Venezuelan coast, for a submarine base. In official circles grave anxiety w:i3 Btiired when the information reached the State Department. tQdatT Imnw- diately the ' information wastald"be: fore President Gomez, of Venezuela. In secret possession of the island, the Germans would menace the Pan ama canal. The island Is directly in the steamship lanes to the canal and a secret submarine base there would allow Germans to paralyze our ship ping. It is about 500 miles from Culebra and 1,000 miles from Colon, and dominates the Southern Carib bean sea. It is also adapted for use as a naval base. Quick steps were taken by the government to head off the work of the German agents. Pres ident Gomez is expected to take ac tion to halt activities of German plot ters. ; Although officials of the State De- partment refused to discuss any phase fcf the subject, it is known that a pointed note to President Gomez call umuuuu lu me ia.cL iuai any suuu movement by Germany would be a vi olation of the Monroe Doctrine. If the Germans gain possession of or use the stand the United States plans instant action. According to information reachine the State Department, German agents are maneuvering to effect a purchase of the island from the Venezuelan government. "BULLEHAND ROPE ! FOR FOOD PIRATES. p, . (By United Press.) Chicago, June 2. The "bullet and jope wil be used onThe food arid iuei pirates; according to the plans of resident Wilson, stated Senator Jjmes Hamilton Lewis, while speaking a luncheon of the Chris Fellowship tonight. The President haa 'latnrminaH fhat uo SUCh infamips tn fha Ponnhlin in i this war as were committed in the Civil W ar, or in the Spanish-American p i w -lv.... I ar By home nirntpa will ho, ronoato Saij ,u ' ' .- u me senator. Dalian MLs.smM STARTS SOUTH TODAY Wad (By United Press.) ,vdbninetnn Tuna O D.tn TTinn xl. entire Italian mission leave tPn?mton Sunday afternoon for a icu-aay tour tVimv. it- j arriv- 611 ng With a visit to New York' coriil?g the-e Monday, June 11, ac ting to present plans. trail!6 mission will travel in a special "din, DrovirlQI K.. u n x itin? a i l"s jJveruinenL, vie- leaif ltlanta' Birmingham, New Or Iowl ;.u mphis' st- Los, Burlington, wd. V.nifap'n Diu.i 1- it i-i u cnen New York. Thv will visit l l ll l o , l . l i - J . . - - to ur , ?nia en route from New York asnington. 1 r"t-. . UHT CAMPQ FOP OFFICERS ANNOUNCED to tri?n ht oflicers' training camps un.the second class of officers , juub x;. nisiaDiisn- arm v.i ' . next five hundred thousand Warn announced today by the - panment. Will K t?"1 ClaSS Oi " be chosen from me ne?t class" of officer material men of more ma- to niPT, rreterence will be given ""I f Q trr. -T-. 0 S 1EIK F Bill "".SS! P5iFiTHF iVSI RllflRFT ; y0 tJo iiiiitaQiJLLiu vyJI uJJWMiM f)F MFN N CRAY L H H L' Ut 111 SCMElilE J Inli uver ai years of age. V I Vll tpmt rn i in i I 1 1 I I I 1 1 I fi ll II iv ii i iv I u II i Yiir ivy i u I I I i I I u u i i u ii ill i f i i i u TT OVER FIFTY THOUSAND PRIS- ONERS TAKEN. (By United Press.) Paris. June v2. The French and British armies have captured 52,- 000 German prisoners, including 1,000 officers, since April 16, the war office announced tonight. 4 Curing the same period, the of- ficial statement said, 446 heavy guns, 1,000 machine guns and nu- 4 merous trench mortars have been 4 taken by the French and British 4 forces. j 4. 4 'f NORFOLK WILL BE BASE OF THE INQUIRY iBy United Press.) Norfolk, Va., June 2 Norfolk willt be the base of operations for the spec ial civilian ; investigating committee, 'charged with ascertaining true condi tions of sanitation in ' the United States navy, of the treatment accord ed patients at naval hospitals, aboard hospital ships and in the fleets and navy yards. WOOL SHORTAGE NOW LOOMS AHEAD (By United Press.) Washington, June 2. As a wool shortage threatens next year, the com mercial economy board today pro posed that frills on men's and wom en's clothes, such' as patch pockets, flaring skirts, long frock coats, un necessary pleats, cuffs on coats and trousers, be eliminated 1 AMERICA TO PL A PART MANFULLY ON COMING TUESDAY LUMBER ORDERS FOR SHIPS PLACED Sufficient to Build One Hun v dred Vessels to be Finished at Once. (By United Press.) Washineton. June 2. Lumber for 100 wooden ships has been ordered by Major-General Goethals, general man ager of the emergency fleet corpora tion, from Southern pine associations, it was announced today. The price is $35 a thousand feet at the mill. Com pletion of the project will require $140,000,000. General Goethals said: "The con tracts for these ships have not yei been let, but in the regular course of business they should be awarded within 60 days. As soon as the con tracts have been let notification as to the point where the ships will be built will be forwarded so that the mills may begin on the timbers. Itl is expected that orders for these sets will begin the early part of June and probably will be entirely placed with- I Z? A Jim. 111 gv uaj i3. NEW YORK TROOPS ON GUARD TUESDAY (By United Press.) New York,. June 2. The entire New York National Guard will be under arms and on duty throughout the .State June & to prevent anu-conscntc ltlon riots, it was omciaiiy announced tonight. Ten thousand uniformed guardsmen will: patrol the streets m New York NEED BE F ITL.L WILMINGTON, In War Department Makes Defi nite Announcement of Six Cantonments. (By United Press.) Washington, June 2. Work of pre paring the sites for the six cantonment camps, definitely located by announce ment' today, will proceed with the ut most vigor, it became known tonight. Impatient at anything causing un necessary delay, the War Department wilf push the work with all possible speed. " Sites definitely named today are: Atlanta, Ga.; Columbia, S. C; Ameri- can Lake, Washington; Ayer, Wash- tA. vai.aL xt. t ' , i i. I da ViSta, California. The camps will be of semi-perma-, nent materials, aesignea to enaure tnrougnout tne war. rnese six camps are not tent camps. X- X-X-X- X- MORE ARRESTS BY "GOVT. AGENTS. (By United Press.J Cincinnati, O., June 2. X- additional arrests were -nrt o el 1 A- . X- here tonight in the government -x- raid against anti-registration -X- plotters. -X-X- . Attorney General Gregory Most Optimistic Over Army Registration Day. OPPOSITION APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN CURBED I TUn -1iTnrrr TKnucanrl iv7.ii t- m . r r- Will ran 10 regisier, mates Government Official. r ourteen more Arrests Were Made Yesterday by Government. (Bv United Press.) Washington, June 2. America will play her part manfully in registering j ner sons ior army aerv-i- IMACE (CMAL WILL RUSH WORK ON THE CAMPS - That was 'the view of Attorney-,.. General Gregory tonight, after receiv-j ing word from .all quarters that the! anti-conscription plotting appeared to I be curbed-'though perhaps not entire ly checked. He felt that the response to the registration will be unstinted and the quitters few. Probably less than 100,000 men will tie found to have failed to register as a result of the preachment of traitor ous anti-conscription propagandists. That -the scattered arrests of plot ters throughout the land is having a salutaryv effect is beyond doubt. Reports from cities and counties to day showed that the authorities are feonfident that America as a whole will be loyal in her response. . That there may be sporadic troubles is al most inevitable. The big National election never passes without difficul ties somewhere, it was pointed out tonightf Fourteen arrests of alleged anti registration plotters were made today in Cincinnati, and the round-up of "others elsewhere is continuing PATRIOTIC LEASED WIRE SERVICE NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 191 7. Three Thousand Confederate Veterans Already Present For The Reunion. GATHERED ABOUT THEIR ARMY TENTS They Are Going Over Old War Times Memorial Services at Arlington Today. (By United Iess.) Washington, June 2. What remain of the valiant Confederate army was royally welcomed into Washington to night and went into camp in a tented city near the Capitol. Hospitable citi zens of the invaded city provided the camp for the boys in gray who have withstood time's ravages. The comrades of the South were two days ahead of their schedule, which calls for. a five-day reunion the biggest ever to start Monday. General George P. Harrison, of Ope lika, Ala., commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, led the advance into the capital. Special trains from all over "the South began arriving at Union station early today, bearing the gallant remnants kit the armies of the late Confederacy. Tonight the aged but erect veterans saw the sights. They competed these heroe's, of H-iu their once fa miliar Confederate gray, with thou I wcT A?u.hX i.- the potential heroes of .7 who have sands of khaki-clad modern soldiers, norlmant nffinaa raearva nffiVarc nav. alrymen, artillerymen, engineers, ma- rines, sailors and guardsmen Three thousand veterans and as many sons of the veterans were esti mated to be in the city. As the sons scattered to hotels the veterans, re-1 newing their war days, sat about tents, far better than they knew as ted. unmindful of the curious crowds i tliiir vioitp1 tViAm ; Exercises incident to the reunion i urill ofopf irifrkT-tYioll v inmnrrnw of A -r- llllglUU IXctLlUXlclI J , WUCU prominent Southerners will speak at the annual Confederate Memorial Day exercises in the Dixie section of the famous burial grounds, that was once the estate of Robert E. Lee. A parade in which Union and Con federate veterans will march together will climax the reunion on Thursday. The next day the veterans will leave for home. BUTTER TAKES DROP OF THREE CENTS POUND (By United Press.) Chicago, June 2. Simultaneously I with the return of today's indictments, Jthe Elgin Butter Board announced a : three-cent drop in butter to 40 cents a pouna. Hogs and cattle maintained their present high prices' through the week, but sheep showed a steady decline, pw-l . i " "j.T ing to tne reiusai oi consumers io buy until the prices are within their reach. The grains showed very little change for the week. July wheat clos- ed last Saturday at $2.11; today it csu-jclosed at $2.o6. TAR HEEL HERO E Aviator McConnell, I t. 1-4 ' I f C " L i war vross wun raim. (By United Press.) Paris, June 2. Relatives of Ameri can , flyers who have fallen on the field of honor under the American flag will receive posthumous honors, it was made known today. Citations just issued give the Cross of the Legion of Honor to Lieut. H. De Laage, one of the French offi cers in command of the La Fayette j escadrille. The war cross with palm is given posthumously to James Mac Connell, Edmond Genet, Ronald Hos kir and Jean Dressy, the last-named the French machine gunner who died with Hoskir. These citations are worded as fol lows: "James MacConnell, Sergeant of Escadrille 124; American citizen en gaged in the service of France. A pilot as modest as ' courageous, who said often to his comrades, 'So. much the better if I must fall, since it is for France.' He found a: glorious death March 19, fighting three enemy aero planes. HONORED BYFRaNC "IjV. j'nf"I -'-Vs "". "'.".V':." - ' 1 - ' was focused tonight on the home -5fr 5- of Alfred A. Wagenkecht, here, X- following confiscation this after- X- noon jot anti-registration litera- & JC- ture in the Cincinnati raid, in -X- I1- which 12 men were arrested. Wagenkecht is State secret arv -Jfr of .tne Socialist party and is a w nauve oi uermany. Handbills labeled, "Down with 1 4C- Conscription," found in Cincin- nati, bore a postscript ucating that they were being distributed X- by -the Socialist party of Ohio. Charged With Treason. -X-j X- New York, June 2. Charles -X- X- Kronenberg, a Socialist, was ar- -X-1 rested today and charged with -X-l -X- treason for distributing hand -X- bills in Jersey City, urging men -X- -X- not to register Tuesday. -X-X- Defiant when arraigned tonight, -X--X- after arrest for anti-registration -X-X- activity. Maurice Becker said he -X- was not a citizen of the United j States, but of the world He had X- drawn a placard showing a work- ingman tearing into pieces the X- conscription law. X- Louis Kramer adopted also a 45- nonchalant attitude, expressing ! X- the wish that President Wilson -X--X- were dead. . UNCLE SAM WILL SPEND BIG MONEY FOR SHOES (By United Press.) ' Washington, June 2. Uncle Sam will pay more than $7,300000 to equip the new army with footgear alone. The contract price of 3,650,000 pairs ordered for the new army and navy, averaged $4.85 per pair this year. Last year they could be bought for $2.81. . Shoe, contracts alrjaadyletiliiy. -the government for the new irifly' total $1,770,500. - - INDIAN CROESUS TO BUY LIBERTY BONDS (By United Press.) Washington, June 2 The Rockefel ler of the Indians Jackson Barnett a Creek, with an income of seven times ,e. salary of the President of the United States, is ready to invest his millions in Liberty Loan bonds. Barnett's income exceeds $50,000 monthly and has been accumulating almost undisturbed since the discov ery of the richest oilfields in Oklaho ma on his reservation AND DlSPA BEFORE SNOW FLIES U.S. TROOPS WILL BE ON THE FIRING LINE Signs That The United States Will Hurry Up First Expe dition to France. ORIGINAL SCHEDULE HAS BEEN MOVED UP Four or Five Army Divisions to Go First Regiments of Army Engineers For France Ordered Under Training Transports Present Prob lem. (By United Press.) Washington, June 2. More e than 100,000 American first-class fighting men probably will be battling Ger mans on the west front months ahead of original schedule. The became a probability today when the fct developed that the army general staff has had under con sideration and has about decided on the dispatch of four or five divisions of National Guardsmen abroad "be fore the snow flies." The idea of such a move has been received rather favorably among the United States war chieftains, though they are con fronted with the very practical and stupendous difficulty of securing suf ficient transport service. Orders also came to" put the new, regiments of army engineers for France under , actual training. As a result of these two important steps in America's war program the Nation tonight is face to face with realization that the government is down to real, big, active business that the war is to be prosecuted even more rapidly and with more real vigor than at first regarded as possible, and that the United States proposes to throw a real forceful weight into the scales. Upon the transport question will probably rest approval or rejection of the proposal for the expedition to sup plement the Pershing division of reg- lUlars,. ....Jt J.r: '.' BUY. A LIBERTY BOtt tch LITTLE FIGHTING I ON ARMY FRONT Patrol Fighting and Artillery Fire in France Some Progress by Italians (By United Press.) London, June 2. A lull on every front in the world war, except that where the talians achieved a surprise Victory against the Austrians, was ap parent in official reports. All Field Marshal Haig reported was a repulse of a "part of the en emy," which attacked a British posi tion south of Oppy, and- mutual artil- j ierying. ' 1 t ; Except) for the 40 yard advance obI tained'b the Italians south of Castag- navizza, there was a lull in this the ater. For two days the Italians have been busy consolidating their posi tions, while repelling Austrian counter-attacks. On the western front the British and French offensive has been held in abatement for ten days. The French have repelled the tremendous attacks, but there has been no fierce combats of masses. On the British front the fighting for two weeks has been of patrols and of artillery, almost incessant, but never involving any great forces. On the Russian front desultory fighting has been reported. TAR HEEL MEET Important Meeting of Thej State Society in Washing ton Next Thursday (By George H. Manning.) Washington, D. C, June 2 The North Carolina Society of Washington will hold a meeting in the Casino thea tre here next Thursday, June 7, at 8 o'clock, which will be the most impor tant the society has ever held. Gov ernor Bickett will be the guest of honor and the Confederate Veterans of the State who will attend the con federate reunion to be held here next Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will attend. Governor Bickett and Congressman Stedman, veteran of the war, will make addresses to the society and the veterans. It is believed a great gathering will be on hand to show the "fast fading line" of veterans how deeply they are respected and loved by this genera tion. The society has leased for reunion week a large room on the ground floor of the Oxford hotel, Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, and will keep open house for the visiting veter ans and their friends. DERBY WINNER IN WASHINGTON "BRINGS BIG SUM.it was announced. r , - : v dmiiuj Piu Jum, Three of nl8,vIctimj. Were hurled (By United Press) I from the .sky in the morning. , two oi New York, June 2 In one of the them being sent w.hlz2lng In. 87 sec most sensational public sales of race onds. A third was brought; down In v,-c ai n tc a TtmineR to- a noon flisditrr-the deed' accompllsnea day disposed of this year's Kentucky iiA.hV Omar Khawam. at a nrirp rT izn.nnu lu vvmicn iibui Montreal. r.w T , -. 'J. 16 PMES THREE SECTIONS; PRICE FIVE CENTS. I Carrying Millions of Dollars to Be Expended in Various Kinds of Work. HUGE PROGRAM AS MAPPED OUT Large Sums to be Expended on Increase of Offensive an Defensive Measures of Th Navy Department Mucl Work Now Under Way. V (By United Press.) Washington, June 2. Details of thd navy's $80,000,000 improvement program- were announced late today. Navy yards will be extended, new training stations, aviation stations, submarine bases and immense storage warehouses for supplies and ammu nition will be established. Drydocks; capable of., accomnipdat In:thnargesl: rs:e&sels..iaw i gun. shops, including erection of the latg- est gun shop in the world, are' in cluded. . j 4 At the New York Navy Yard $5,000,000 is being expended on way for buildings ships, new storage ware houses and doubling the capacity of the machine shops. At the League Island yards, In Philadelphia, new drydocks 1,000 feet long are being built, as well aa new ways for shipbuilding, new structural work andMoachine shops and the larg est foundry on the Atlantic Coast. Barracks to house the new incrd- ments of the marine corps and other auxiliary buildings are now underway. The sum of $18,000,000 will be spent at Philadelphia alone. , At- the Norfolk navy yards another 1,000-foot drydock will be built. New structural and machine shops, water front improvements, including a bar racks and auxiliary buildings, will re quire a total outlay of $20,000,000. At Washington, $7,000,000 will be expended in expansion of the naval gun factory. A new gun shop will, cost $2,000,000. . y ' At the Mare Island, Cal., yard ' a camp for 5,000 men Is being erected. At Puget Sound, Washington, $3,000,000 is being spent to provide facilities to build cruisers and auxil iary types of vessels. The Great Lakes training station at Chicago -is being expanded to accom modate 20,000 men. A new aviation station has bea constructed at Pensacola, Fla. A new camp for the marine corps ( at Fort Royal, S. C, accommodating , 5,000 men, has been completed, also the barracks at Charleaton, S. C, for the same number of men. The new camp and training station at Quantico, Va., with accommoda tions for 10,000 marines is well under way. Improvements have been made in the navy yards at Portsmouth, N. H., Newport, R. I., Boston, Mass., and New Orleans, La.. Work is progressing on the big base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where a 1,000-foot drydock Is building. ; Hundreds of magazine storehouses, barracks, hospital pavilions and medi cal storage houses have been erected, or are under construction. Rear Admiral F. R. Harris, chief of the bureau of yards and docks. Is di recting the work, assisted by a corps of civil engineers and . civilian de signers, inspectors and experts. He said today that the program amounts to the practical rebuilding of many navy yards. . - MIDGET AVIATOR ( SHOOTS DOWN MANY (By United .Prew.) :., Paris, June 2. Georges Guynemer. 21, the midget French flying 'Wizard, was granted a leave .tonight aa add!-, tional reward for his record fit down ing four enemy aeroplanes In a day. in less than a minute, V His record to date is 43 enemy aeroplanes brought Aa. nf - Hnldler- SDectai unu. . - - tors witnessed the ; feat 1 SE Sill: -V '-5.' : ti v - I) i i I," ' 'Ji. ' i t ' i u ' r r t ' y 1 , 'V i 1 ipity.
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