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J. -V -.1 ' - 5 - l BUY WEATHER FORECAST. : 'm EDITION - ' - ' XK ' - -; FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE : ;j T' VOUXXIII. NO. 141... WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, SAT URDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 9, 1917 ' PRICE FIVE CENTS. n i Officers Nearby Were Killed During Bombardment of j Belgian Position HAIG WILL ALLOW 15 NO REST FOR ENEMY . . , -r n ! D1 British 1 roops Ueliver tJlows Around Lens "German -' Counter Attack Fails King Received General Pershing. . 4 ? a. ; -H- -jf & '. I I THE KAISER UNDER FIRE. fr 1 vf j4 I (By Associated Press.) London. June 9. Emperor Wil- -) 4 S liam was with Field Marshal vpn -:fl5? I Hinnburg, Prince Eitel Fried- ji rich and other members of the i Gentian Emperor's staff inside -55- the St. Peters station at Ghent, 4 Eelgium. when it was bombard- rd bv Entente allied airmen me other day, according itr a lis 4 patch to the Exchange Telegraph r Company, from a Dutch frontier w fr com pendent. - The Emperor's if party was unhurt, but three army -35- if officers nearby were killed. .'i i .V. 21. 22. General Haig's evident purpose to give no v -st to the Germans before the Briti.h front in Belgium and northern France had a new exempli fication la?t night. His troops struck at the German positions around Lens. On a two-'mile front south of the Souchez river the enemy lines werr penetrated to a depth of more than half a mile and successful oper ations were carried on further north as far as La Basse. The field of this attack lies from 15 T0 L'O miles south of that of the big drive made by the British in Belgium Thursday, which resulted in thc capture of the commanding at nch;H te-Messines ridee and th eliminarion of one of the most annoy- I in? salients in tho Pntire line on the ''-"rn front. Somewhat widely separated as are the two fields of attack, they bear re lation to each other, constituting Points from which the great manufac turing district of Northern France, cwerin- in Lille, may be subjected loan, o altrrnHting pressure. The movr-ment reported today ap parently means that another great bow is Hlmut ready to be struck to-' ards clearing the Germans from weir long-held and much-prized pos rsions in this area. Thf British success in the Lens operation:; may well have been due in part to the fact that the Germans haii raidp heavy concentrations ain.;t ihe British on . the Belgian a!w 'f W3K durinS the progress of th! '" r'' German counter attack on in"etFroun'1 wrvn y the British forces - nf! Wytpr haete-Messines sector .at General Haig made his attacks ttic more southerly area. cofe;;pi,p thr' power of the German mor r-froi-t, it failed of any suc rpn i Tfl Gnrrnans were completely 811 th f f1- ,l10 Brifish holding fast to gr4t Rrnund they w011 in Thursday's fir, . , in., tront held by the French, the n us nara ngniing aurmg 8eain The Germans attacked r'her - A f Vr;ral points along the frtm l", nanipf'. in the Aisne area, north our 1st Of Corn v thpv mflrifi Slir-fr to .sivp attarfes Thov failfA tram . lossf au-v,rins and suffered heavy i . that I u rnoss'aSps bring the news sw-rft- ,r J- Balfour, the British ha, r(Hry, of s,a,e for foreign affairs, vN, ""''"'''I England safely from his i;h rni Anu-rica as head of the Brit- 0 frif-ra T'rshine. who arrived in lim-n ' , . STer(tay with his staff pre ran ' u Ihe disnafoh nf an Amori bv tr-t0 France was received to- FifaOi " body of keet baby found. (By Associated Press). Springfield. Mo.. June 9. The body of Lloyd Keet, 14-month's- old . son of J. Holland Keet, wealthy banker, was found in a well on ,the Crenshaw farm, near 4 iere today, according to reliable report came from invest!-$ tors who had gone to the farm in response to information, the source which has not been reveal- ed. The news of the finding of the body was telephoned to a newspaper here. ' '4 The Crenshaw farm, eight miles southwest of Springfield, ' recently was searched by au- thorities after it had been named in alleged statements, given by suspects under arrest here, but K no indications of the alleged kid- 4 napers were found. The baby's body was partly de- , j Cofifposed , and apparently had 4 f been in the old well two or three days. It was wrapped in a worn- an's undershirt. 4,4,4, . " HUNDRED MILLION To Complete Liberty Bond f Loan by Close of Subscrip tion Campaign. (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 9. With only a week left in which to subscribe to the Liberty Loan, subscriptions must come the rate f $100,000,000. a day to make up the total of SZ.UUU.UOU.uuu. The daily average of subscriptions has oeen omy o,uyu,uuu. The Treasury machinery, with its subsidiary Federal Reserve banks stnd their thousands of ramifications into the Nation's money stores, was set working at top speed today to gather in promises of participation in the An appeal was directed to banks, trust companies, merchants, employ ers and other agencies, soliciting sub- scriptions to report their progress at once to the proper 'f ederal Reserve Banks. Thus treasury officials nopea to discover that the loan is not lagging i . J 1 4. quite as mucn as returns mua-aie. For Results A DAY IS NEEDED Place ijour business locals in THE WILMINGTON DISPATCH (Daily and , Sunday) Telepkone this alternoon or tonigkt business Suiidau your Phone I 1 .. v ..,,- BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY IS NOW It LONDON Mission That Visiteld America Returns Home in Safety DEEP SATISFACTION FELT IN WASHINGTON Departure Had Been Sur rounded With Secrecy Newspapers Knew 'But All Kept Quiet. (By Associated Press.) London, June 9. Foreign Secretary Balfour arrived at a British port this morning on his return from his trip to America at the head of the British mission. Mr. Balfour at once departed for London, arriving here this afternoon. Relief in Washington. Washington, June , 9. The safe ar rival of British Foreign Secretary Balfour at a British port broueht deep satisfaction to officials heA?, who sur rounded his Visit to this country" with greater precautions and secrecy than probably ever prevailed before. The newspapers especially, though fully aware of Mr. Balfour's move ments, co-operated loyally under vol untary censorship to allow no men tion of Mr. Balfour's routes or times of departure to be published. Newspaper1 correspondents . knew. bjit,djd jwt .disclose, Mr. Balf our'-s jcLb- parture frcmi " the 'eminent. GLOSES ITS WORK Effort Will be Made to Begin The Proposed Southern Tour. (Ry Associated Press.) Washington, June 9. The Italian war mission held final conferences to day with American officials in clos ing the business which brought them here. They are satisfied that the United States will do everything pos sible to furnish their, country with its rhi.f war rprPSaitiPS-n,nnev. fond chief war necessities money, food and ships. With the mission's affairs virtually closed, every effort now will be made to begin the proposed tour of the South and the Middle West. The trip may begin Monday. FEDERAL GRAND JURY INDICTS GERMAN (By Associated Press.) Philadelphia, June 9. The Federal grand jury, here today, indicted Max V. Thieri chens, former captain of the seized German auxiliary cruiser .' Prince Eithel Friedrich, Adelbert K. Fisher, Mrs. Helen Frscher, his wife, and Henry K. Bonher, of this city, on charges of conspiracy, and smug gling. In addition Captain Thierichens was indicated on a charge of violating the Mann White Slave Act. specials ior the Dispatck 176 ITALIAN MISSION II ! 1 ' WOUNDED BUT READY FOR MORE. The thirteen-year-old Russian boy has been wounded in-the fighting near Rheims. He was one of the Russian contingent sent to France last year and served through some of the worst fighting this spring. As soon as he is able he will return to the firing line: TO CLOSE Confederate Veterans Home ward Bound- The Last Day at Gettysburg. (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 9. Veterans of the Confederacy were on' their way home today, after a reunion unique among the many thousands, held, During their stay in the natlon'r, capi tal, they paraded up Pennsylvania ave nue, from the Capitol to the White House the line of march of Grant's victorious army ; were reviewed 'by the President of the United.StatPS for the first time, and,, as a climax, visited Get tysburg's battlefield, where, without ""&IUOV wuucrt,fu "v tie Round Top," where the destiny of opposition, they wandered over "Llt- the nation was decided half a cent ury ago. Washington was swamped by the great inflow of southerners, and offi urr f ..foTrt " 1 J. CLIO 111 KsLlCLl fiC Jl. ,xix cuttii i,iiuuyiit . ftr0 fnriav that thev were features admitted today that they were unprepared for such a throng. Inaugu ration days in the past brought no greater crowds than those that camo for the veterans gathering. The end of the reunion took placa yesterday on the battlefield at Gettys burg, where, in the presence of thous ands of veterans, including the surviv ors of Pickett's division, an equestrian statue of General Lee was unveiled, a memorial from the State of Virginia to the Virginians who had died on the battlefield. VOTE OF CONFIDENCE BY FRENCH CHAMBER (Bv Associated Press.) Paris, June 9. After a. two cays' session, during which Admiral Lasaze, Minister of Marine, and the conduct of the navy were under fire, especial ly on account of merchant marine 'losses, the Chamber of Deputies voied last night, confidence in the govern ment by 310 to 178. The bulk of the attack in the closing session centered on the alleged laxity of measures tak en to combat submarines. Premier Ribot, in defense of the government, declared that the subr marine war had surprised the navies of all Allies . He did not deny the ril and asked for increased credits to meet this new form of warfare. x- n v DELAY IN SHIPMENT OF PAPER. . The Wilmington Dispatch .ap- 1 .Dears in slightly abbreviated form this afternoon, containing six pages instead .of .the custom- ary eight, due. to the scarcity of pieht-fiaee Daner, on account of -X- i 4f the failure of the mill to get ship-. ment started on schedule, time. The paper is , now on me roaa & and wiU arrive floine time next i J 3 J ill week. - It is hoped tnai n wm w C k ;caa;v to again re- Z rin re the size of the paper to six duce the size oi me v v j pages. : ' 5): '- THE PEOPLE'S CASE THE FREIGHT RATE QUESTION? Put Before the Interstate Com merce Commission as Mat ter of Right THEIR INTERESTS GREATLY INVOLVED In the Question at Issue Before The Commission Fully Set Forth by People's -Trustees. ( Special to The Dispatch.) Washington, D. C, June,-9. One of the most remarkable hearings ever held before the Interstate Commerce Commission took place here yester day afternoon, when members of the National' Association of Owners' of Railroad Securities, in connection with the pending application "of the railroads to be allowed to increase their freight rates, urged the commis sion to take action which will sta bilize the stocks and bonds of the roads, not only in the interest of the people, but in the interest of the gov ernment as a war measure. The ownership of more than $3,000, 000,000 in railroad stocks and bonds was represented at the hearing by in dividuals, officials of the great life and fire insurance companies, of sav ings banks, of fiduciary and financial institutions, and by trustees of es tates. This was pointed out in an address to the commission, presented by S. Davies Warfield, of Baltimore, president of the Continental Trust I Company, of that, city and chairman-; Lfhe, whose leadership resulted In the formation of the National Associ ation of Owners of Railroad Securi ties at a meeting held in Baltimore last month. Mr. Warfield's address, which, was presented by Frank Hagerman, of Kansas City, counsel for the organiza tion, who is the attorney who argued the government's case before the United States Supreme Court in test ing the constitutionality of the Adam son act, and who won that case, went into the fact that the speakers rep resented, through holders of life insur ance policies, depositors in savings banks, etc., the "very definite owner ship of over 50,000,000 of the peo ple of the United States" in the bonds and stocks of the carriers. For the first time in history the In terstate Commerce Commission heard the people of the country, who are the real owners nf th miirnnHe in connection with the problems of'thelslx Americans aboard, of whom one, carriers, in the ballroom of the New Willard hotel, where the meeting was held, were gathered investors, big and little, from all over the country, to participate, by their presence and , , . moral support, at least, in the : pleas that were made for the carriers. On every hand there was comment to the effect that the commission has in the past heard the organized ship pers of freight; that it has heard the labor representatives of the country through their unions, and that even the government is organized for con trol of the railroads in the fact that there is an Interstate Commerce Com mission, but that never before have the organized owners of the railroads, the actual holders of the bonds and stocks of the companies, been heard by the CQmmission. The address of Mr. Warfield, who was elected president of the National Association of Owners of Railroad Se curities, pointed out the necessity ot "permitting the carriers, through their j rates, to establish such a margin of i safety, which we will call a surplus; beyond their actual requirements for meeting their fixed and other charges as will establish . their credit and ad mit of their being economically and successfully financed." That subject was gone into by Darwin P. Kingsley, president of the New York Life Insurance Company; M. A. Schenck, president of the Bow ery Savings Bank, of New York, and president of the Savings Banks Asso ciation of tlie State of New York; John E. Oldham, of Boston, a railroad financial authority and writer, and Robert F. Maddox, president of the Atlanta National Bank, of Atlanta. It was brought out by Mr. Warfield, in his statement, that the securities of the railroads, xon the 1915 reports, were owned as follows : By more than 1,000,000 individuals, $10,000,000 by life insurance compa nies, policies owned by 33,000,000 peo ple, $1,550,000,000; by. savings banks, with 10,000,000 depositors, $847,000, 000; by fire, marine, casualty and surety companies,; $648,000,000; by benevolent associations, colleges, schools and charitable institutions, $350,000,000, and by trust companies, State and National banks, $865,000, '000, the balance being held in Chan-. nels not enumerated, mostly abroad, Mr Warfleld.s pointed out that three-fifths of the capital of -the car: ' (Continued-on page8&) " - 1 4 ' 1 nni riimn niiniinim MORE AMERICAN OFFICERS REACH ENGLAND. 4 (By Associated Press). 4 London, June 9. A further '4 contingent of American" officers J4 arrived at a British port today on the steamer that brought Foreign Secretary Balfour. The officers r were met by representatives of the American embassy. 4 E AS TO SEA FISHT Persistent Rumors of Disasters to Our Warships -Statement Secretary Daniels (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 9 Persistent and widely circulated false reports of na val battles and disaster to American and Entente forces have reached the point where Secretary Daniels has concluded that they are the result of an organized conspiracy to alarm and distress the American people. Today the Secretary issued the following statement: "The country is being poisoned by rumors of battles and disaster -that are absolutely without the slightest foundation in truth. "All of these outrageous falsities are accompanied by the explanation that the Washington authorities are in a conspiracy with the press td keep the truth from the people. No such engagement has taken place. The American fleet has not 1 been in ac tion. No ship has been lost. There are no wounded sailors or marines in any hospital. The declared policy of the Navy Department is one ol'abso fttte openness .- If tsaster-corrrtw- no I effort will be made to minimize it. The people of the United States are asked to trust" in this pledge." One American Among Miss ing Accuracy of German Information. (By Associated Press.) London, June 9. The British steam er Southland, from Liverpool for Phil- adelphia in ballast, was torpedoed without warning on June 4. She had uawarcrrugney, oi XNew xorK Jity, is missing. The gun crew on the South land fired ten shots at the submarine after the first torpedo was fired. A second torpedo was fired by the sun- marine and it caused an explosion in the magazine which killed eight men. The boats containing forty men are still missing. The rest of the crew of 159 has been landed. A.s showing the excellent informa tion which the submarines receive the U-boat commander, when informed of the name of the ship, showed surprise and said: "Why you are a week! ahead of your time." flew no flag. - The submarine RIVER AND HARBOR BILL LIKELY TO BE OMITTED (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 9. The national emergency may make it more difficult than ever, if not impossible, to enact waterways improvement legislation at this session of Congress. This seemed probable today as a result of the in creasing opposition to the $27,000,01)0 annual river and harbor 1 appropria tion bill under consideration in the House. , : z ' MT. OLIVE MAN TELLS OF SHIP SINKING. (By Associated Press.) New York, June 9. Sinking of the British bark Carnmoney by a German submarine on May 14, while on a voyage from Buenos Aires to Queens town with a car- go of corn, was told by Spencer Jones, of Mount Olive, N. C, and Francis Brown, of Biddeford, Me., two American members of the crew who arrived today. They were rescued with 20 other sailors from the bark. They said the submarine shelled their ves- sel until she was in a sinking r condition and then sent a crew aboard which, after stripping the ship of everything that could be. moved easily, blew her up with bombs. . The Carnmoney was a three- masted bark of 1,299 tons, gross ' 4f- reerinter: owned "In Belfast. .' j. v : , ' i IS FALSEHOOD I SWING mm DY NORTH CAROLINA In the Matter of Preparation For the Emergencies of War. WOMAN'S COMMITTEE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE Progress Reported at Conven tion Girls Canning Clubs. Army Registration Report. i (Special to The Dispatch.) Raleigh, June 9. The women's com mitteeof the Council for Defense in a two days session here yesterday gave an aggregate of activities on the part of the women that would make the) men's to date seem trivial. The women had not organized when Mrs. Eugene Reilly called them 'to gether in the Senate chamber. Mr Reilly had been to Washington and heard the defense plans from the cen ter of government. She had heard the men talk in terms of millions and bil lions, but for high finance she came back to North Carolina, where the; women with the little money and cast off things left them are working miracles by the million. Some of the most prominent of the State's women were here, Mrs. Lind say Patterson; Mrs. W. N. Reynolds, of Winston-Salem; Miss Mary Pety, of Greensboro; Mrs. R. R. Cotten, of Bruce; Mrs. John S. Cunningham, of Durham, nearly air representing some organizationvwhlch' is allied with he council of defjAite.,. .. ..Besides,,, these' were 'a score of Raleigh'i'm'dst capable), women. ; , , In the mornings session Mrs. Reilly, without allowing the women to know upon whom she would call just picked them out one by one and aked them to make reports. The talks were rare ly more than three or four minutes, but filled with something attempted and something done. Mrs. McKimmon told of .the canning work. Last year her department put up 680,000 cans of all descriptions. This year they have received 2,600,000 of tin cans alone, nearly four times as much as the aggregate of tin, stone and glass last year. Sixty-one coun ties have come into the organization This is a gain of 18 over last yean "Produce and conserve" is the slogan of her organization. She has definite ly arranged for instruction, in all these counties. She told how the work that has been done has overcome prejudice or indifference. Mrs. McKimmon said they would have $50,000 this" 'year against the $24,000 last year and with all sources contributing from the county might run the total to $95,000. This does not include the reserve which would pro vide for work in the cities. Mrs. Reyn olds told of the sanitary building which is to be used in Winston-Salem for canning and one of the experts from the State department will be in charge. At the close of these talks Mrs. Bick ett .sent an invitation to the visitors to take lunch with her Saturday. - Ninety-six counties registering 1382,- 104 white, 63,571 blacks and 553 alliens run North Carolina's total this after noon to 195,228, just 2,162 more than the government expeeted. This puts the State safely ahead of the govern ment's figures and if the remaining four counties do not contribute more than 100 eaclr the State's face la quite creditably saved. Those counties are Caswell. Graham, Pander and McDow ell. In the group of delayed counties was Duplin which reported late in the afternoon. At that time the figures stood 193,727, with Just . 339 to go. Duplin came across with 1.467 white, 1,025 blacks and 9 aliens. That gave the State, which then had a margin of 5,797, a much bigger one and It Is entirely probable that more than 2Q0, 000 registered in the Tuesday nation wide campaign. The absence of any evidence of pur poseful interfereflce with" the registra tion was everywhere "reported. One report came from' Johnston county that a "preacher was shooting .off his Hp" . as , the Irreverent expression went, but the ecclesiastic was not -named and the product of the lip was not given. Some suggestions of a similar move among certain colored people failed "when the examination was made. . The slogan, "not a negro slacker in North Caro lina" worked well here, and here is where it started. .There was not one , black who did not go .up like a man and sign the card. , . v. MODERATEL IT .WARM WEATHER FOR WEEK. (By Associated Press.) ' " v" - -Washington, June 9.-rThe weekly report, today. isays., that the coming week in the South Atlantic, and Guty States and in Tennessee' wm De one, of moderately 'warm ..weather with' oc- IDE WOMEN ca8ionl thunder storms. K ii; w !!. it ;! ;;"1: SI!: I1 ; -1 V r,l!i: b i t '3 f ,
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