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EDITION
FULL LEASED WIRE SER V I CE
VOL. XXIII. No. 143.
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, tftON DAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 1 1, 1917,
PRICE FIVE
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FINAL
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AffiEEl
House Committee Decides On
Another Relief Bill and Will
Press It
SENATE TO INSIST
ON THE ACTION
Wants Appropriation for
Jamestown Exposition Site
for Naval Purposes Secre
tary Daniels Appears Before
Committe and Declares
Traitor or Spy Been Di
vulging Secrets
(B.v Associated Press.)
Washington, June 11. The second
administration food control bill, grant
ing broad powers to the President,
was agreed to by the House Agricul
tural committee today by a vote of
12 to 3. and immediate report to the
House was authorized.
Chairman Lever expects it to pass
with less than two weeks debate. The
first bill is to stimulate production of?
food; the second is to control distri-
uuuuu aiiu yutco. i
The bill provides a guaranteed min
imum price to producers of non-per-;a cantonment was today revoked by
ishabl" agricultural products under me department.
regulations to be prescribed by thej Additional camps for Nati0nal Guard
President. The committee dropped 'mobilization will be 'located al Fort
, , ( muiuui yc-UA1a6 u
nn rtnnii r 4 Vint t - nr n VI n fn r O C? O 117 I
the ground that it was unnecessary
A good deal of opposition was ex
pressed to it.
Th Senate today voted 48 to 22 tolist Qf cantonment sites determiried up
insist on the appropriation in the War, Qn u tQ ten lt navin been previously
Budget bill to acquire the Jamestown announced that cantonments would be
Exposition site for naval purposes,!- . , . . wricrhfctnwn
which the House instructed its con-
ferees to refuse, and sent the bill back
charge of the bill, said he would re
draft the item so as to provide for its
acquisition by the-President's pur
chase or condemnation, stating that
condemnation proceedings would be
necessary on account of the number
of minors interested in the exposition
property. ''
The Navy Department is insisting
on the appropriation in the War Bud
get bill for the purchase of the old
Jamestown FlYnnssitinn site buildinss
for a place to house naval recruits,
Chairman Martin, of the Appropria
tion committee, told the Senate today
in moving that the Senate insist on
this item, which was eliminated by I
the House. Recruits tor tne navy are
having to be sent back home for lack
of a place to mobilize. Many have
suffered from sickness and several
ho have died probably could have
been saved had they been properly
quartered, the Vireinia Senator said,
and he believed when the situation is
explained to the House thev will agree
to the annrnnrinfinn
The Secretarv nf the Navv says
that h cannot DroDerlv Drepare the
navy for war unless he has the money
IQr this base," Senator Martin de
clared. Eifher a spy or traitor has been di-
Jlging confidential information of
ne Bureau of Ordnance. Secretary
uanie,; told the Senate Naval Affairs
committpp.
hen the cnmmiHpp tnriav resumed
destination nf thp Mnnnlia shell ac-
t'dent, Senator Frelinghuysen pro
Queer SOTTIP lottops wViiH . Soppptarv
UaniPls saiH pnntginorl information
Jhch only could have been obtained
trom the confidential files of the Ord
Jjncc Bureau. He asked to have
ice. Rpnafw irijr.r v,al
"i urn i i v - i iii i iim - rz w i
v 1
nau attempted to find out sometalng
a0"' the author and could not.
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
SATURDAY NIGHT
w . .(By Associated Press.)
vvashinertnn Tuna 11 TT!arh ohnrks
bemi
'nuiiie at n -in nVinir ssatiirnav
JJBljt and continuing until 1 o'clock
tL mornmg. The distance was es
umated at 3.Rnn mil fmm Washine-
0r, SO Hi a i; 4 1 . n nn in
it ' uibiui uiui:t; woo uvi m
He vicinity of the disastrous Salva-
TEN ARMY CAMP
SITES HAVE
BEEN SELECTED
The War Department Makes
Known Definite Locations
for Cantonments
PETERSBURG IS
NOT TO GET ONE
Order as to Virginia City Re
voked - Contracts Award
ed For Buildings at
Four Sites
Washingt
NW
lington, June 11. LlttleOclfTTBib introduction of the sDeakers'of tlrelme 65 make any further statement.
Ark., Louisville, Ky., Battle Creek,
" .
been approved by the War Department
pantonmpnt SltPR for thfi new armV.
The aDDroval of Petersburg, Va., as
h w and Houston Texas;
'
Fort Sill, Okla.; Deming, N. M., and
Linda Vista, Cal.
Tnilav'o annnnnootnonf hirinca thfl
N. J.; Atlanta, Ga.; American Lake,
w . rnIlimW9 s r an rhillinn
1 the, Ohio.
The department announced that con
tracts have been let for the construc
tion of buildings and other work at
four of the sites as follows:
Ayer, Mass. Fred T. Ley & Co.,
of Springfield, Mass.
Wrightstown, N. J.. Erwin &
Lelghton, of Philadelphia.
Columbia, S. C Hardaway Con
structing Company, of Columbus, Ga.
Atlanta, Ga. Arthur Tufts, of At
lanta, Ga.
The department has been besieged
by requests from sub-contractors for
the names of the chief contractors.
The request is made that all sub-
contractors communicate with the
chief contractors announced today.
No reason was assigned for the re
vocation of approval of Petersburg,
Va., as a cantonment site.
It is understood that Petersburg
was abandoned as asite because the
War Department considered it unwise
to place a portion of the new army
so near the Dupont powder plant at
Hopewell. '
Assurance in Address to Hun
garians of This and of Ex
tended Reforms
(By Associated Press.)
Amsterdam, June 11 (Via London).
A Budapest dispatch says emperor
Charles has taken occasion to again
assure the Hungarian people he is in
favor of an early peace, as well as
wide reform of the suffrage. On Fri
day an enormous crowd, estimated at
ir-n nno norenn k
marcuea io me nai
eomaster's office at Budapest, where
Deputy Wasonyi gave the burgomas
ter an -address to be delivered to Pre
mier Esterhazy, urging th adoption
of the secret vote and an enlarged
franchise. The burgomaster pr j ?ent ed
the address yesterday.
The Emperor replied that true - to
his promise he would see that the
suffrage reform was carried out and
would utilize the first occasion to in-clude-
an honorable peace. , 4 -
EMPEROR CHARLES
FAVORS PEACE
PRIED OFF DAY
Eleventh Annual Meet Con
vened at Seashore Hotel
This Morning
i THE VISITORS NUMBER
ALMOST TWO HUNDRED
Laundrymen Were Welcomed
By Mayors Moore and
Wright President Martin
Presiding Over Sessions
With the sunlight streaming .in
through the open windows and doors
and the noise of the breakers plainly
audible, with the flags used for dec
orations nodding a welcome -as the
breeze from the ocean swept in
through the hall, the eleventh annual
convention of the Launderers' Asso
ciation of the Carolinas and Georgia
was convened in the assembly hall of
the Seashore Hotel, Wrightsville
Beach, this morning, at 11 o'clock, and
the mass of business that is to be at
tended to during the two-day session
of the convention was begun. There
are easily 150 visitors at the conven
tion just now and they are not all
here yet. The delegates have brought
J their wives and daughters with them,
and while they expect to transact an
unusually big amount of work they
also anticipate a good time.
The invocation was by Rev. F. B.
Clausen, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran
church, the delegates and visitors
standing as he prayed a prayer that
held the rapt attention of all. The
sessions are being presideG over by
Mr. Thomas A. Martin, of Atlanta,
morning carried a note that showed
how very much he is enjoying his
stay at the beach, even this early.
Ttia romarVo wore most ti Q nnv' arvrl
keDt all in a Dleasant frame of mind.
The welcoming address on behalf of
the city was delivered by Mayor Par- j
ker Quince Moore and the welcome
for the municipality of Wrightsville
Beach was by Mayor Thomas H.
Wright. The two speakers were in
troduced by President Martin, of the
association. The response on behalf
of the launderers was by Mr. C. N.
Brawn, of . Asheville, and that on be
half of the allied tradesmen was by
Mr. J. E. Maginnis, of Atlanta. Fol
lowing the address of Mr. Maginnis
the ladies and visitors were allowed
recess and the actual work of the con
vention was Ijegun.
In welcoming the laundrymen to the
city, Mayor Moore told them how very
glad Wilmington was to have them
here. He dwelt affectionately upon
the age of the city; of the history that
has been made on the banks of the
Cape Fear, and while admitting the
city to be small in point of population
told his audience that it did things.
There was a note of patriotism run
ning through his address and his fin
ger unconsciously wandered in the di.
rection of the canopy of flags above
his head as he told his hearers that
Wilmington stood as one man behind
Old Glory in the present fight for
democracy. Mayor Moore dwelt at
length upon the part played by the
city in the Civil War and even of lo
cal activities prior to the signing of
the Declaration of Independence that
cast off the yoke of England and fur
nished the foundation for the greatest
republic the sun, has eve rshone on.
His comparison of the Launderers'
Association to the birds of the fields
because of the activities of the mem
bers, was especially appropriate when
he called attention to the fact that "a
martin' headed it and one of the offi
cials was "a bee." He stated that he
was not surprised at the wonderful
things that had been accomplished in
view of this fact.
Mayor Wright's welcome to the
beach was short, but of a most sin
cere nature. The head of the resort
municipality told his audience how
very glad the people of Wrightsville
were to have them here. In introduc
ing the speaker) President Martin told
his audience that he supposed the
beach was named for the Mayor, which
was later disputed by Mr. Wright, the
latter -declaring that while the beach
was named for his family it was there
prior to his appearance in the world.
In responding on behalf of the
laundrymen Mr. Brown expressed the
pleasure In words that was easily dis
cernible in the face of every person
present. He declared the association;
was now passing its eleventh mile
stone and that every page of the or
ganization was pregnant with accom
nlishment.- He touched lightly oh tne
unusual conditions that exist today j
iWtaree States stood , ready to un-f
sheath their swords and fight as val
iantly for democracy as they have
fought for advancement in their pro
fession. Hisijoke on the laundryman who at-
ioaA an flnoolTT sin ASt thnti-
(Continued m itib-Eight). k
BRITISH MISSION
Lord Northcliffe Will Act, for
This Government In Unit
ed States
EXPRESSES JOY
AT BEING HERE
British People Appreciate Re
ception Given Mr. Balfour
' and Success of His
Work while in U. S.
(By Associated Press.)
An Atlantic Port, June 11.
-A3 vir-
tual head of Ihe British war mission "toSay ktter"36 ourlnTee
m this country, Lord Northcliffe, own- citement, due to the finding Saturday
er of The London Times and other! of the body of 14-months-old Lloyd
English newspapers, who lias arrived ,Keet who was kidnapped ten days
in this countrv. comes, it is said, not'!?0'' and, tbe ,annunced intention of
... .. 4. . " populace to take the lives of six
a. a diplomatic representative, but to prisoners, one a woman, held in con
work along industrial and . economic , nection with various alleged abduction
lines in the furtherance of his gov-' Plots unearthed here.
ernment'3 interests in America. In ' The prisoners, not connected official-,
this connection he is rejected to co lj. by th,e authorities with the kidnap-
operate with Captain Andre Tardieu,4', udU1 or me .eefcnua, son
French high
commissioner in the
United States.
Lord Northcliffe issued the follow
ing statement:
"The war cabinet has designated me
head of the British war mission, to
the United States, and I have been instructed1-to
try to co-ordinate the work
of the various admirable British or
ganizations already established here.
Until I present credentials at Wasbi
"I can, however, express - my very
great personal pleasure at being again
in America, which I haee so often
visited and which has many delightful
associations ana inenasnips ior me
Nor is it saying too much when I add
that the whole ilritish people have
a profound sense of grateful apprecia
tion of tbe magnificent welcome ac
corded Mr. Balfour and his associates
and the complete success of his mis
scion." His Object Explained,
London, June 11. Replying to a
question in the House of Commons to
day regarding Lord Northcliffe's mis
sion to America, Lord ... Robert Cecil,
minister of blockade, said that in or
der to keep fully in touch with the
r,w0nmnt of the United States inithey lacked confirmation
the conduct of the war several mis-
si cms representing a number of the
British government departments had
for some time been in America. It
was necessary that there should be
some one at the head of tnese mis
sions, and Lord Northciiffe; the min
uter said, had undertaken this task.
PERSHING STAFF
ARRIVES
There to Prepare for Encamp
ment of American Sol
diers (By Associated Press.)
Paris, June 11 The first contin
gent of American officers of Major
General Pershing's staff arrived here
this morning.
The party consists of Colonel Mc
Carthy, of the quartermaster corps;
Colonel Taylor, of the Engineers; Col
onelv Ireland, of the medical corps;
Major Drum, of the general stanr, ana
Quartermaster Captains Moore and
Parges. The officers were-met at the
station by Major James A. Logan, Jr.,
an CaDtain Carl Boyd, resident mil-
itary attaches. Their arrival was with-.
out formalities
The officers have come to look over
a large amount of work preliminary to
carine for the American forces when
IN PARIS
thejy arrive. Informal sconterencesfwas iouna uoaung in a weii. uuicers
were held during the day , between . believe that, possibly, - the baby was
French and American officers.
4
GREAT BRITAIN SENDS
RUSSIA A NOTE.
y -n - 2 a. tVmmhm ,
3ES'BIUt
the lattertreauet ror a Z'SSLHZ ISVI
r ment 01 eriuau wr o-io. .uo T.uj
note, although not yet ,maae pud- t
i4.i,K nAf mario rinVi.
y i.o- ifrMo wn
f agreement, with President Wil- -
lie, Is,
ixj t-n. ha . in cronoioi mm
4
son's note' o Russia,
l .1 '
4 .f
TO OFFICIALS
Six Suspects Now Under Ar
rest and Safely Held in
Different Jails
TWO PRISONERS
x IN MOB'S HANDS
For Awhile and Efforts Made
to Make Them Confess
The Letters to the
Father .
(By. Associated Press.)
Springfield, Mo., June 11. Condi-
itinna in fhic? tUir -r.A -i: n
of J. H
iveet, uanxer, mat nau so
aroused the populace, today were
thought to be safe in the jails of other
counties; four Mr. and Mrs. Taylor
Adams, Maxie Adams, and Sam Mc
Ginnis at Stockton, and the where
abouts of the remaining two Claude
Piersol and Cletus Adams unknown.
Near Humansville, Sheriff Webb and
his party, while trying to spirit the
prisoners to safety, were overtaken
Sunday morning by a few men from
Springfield, who had traveled in mo
tor cars and Piersel and Cletus Adams
saia to nare jm:nejB With their lives
only as a result' of the iron nerve of
'Piersol.
A, rope was placed around Piersol's
neck and the end thrown over a limb
He was assured that he was about to
die "whether guilty or not," but only
replied that he hoped "you will tell my
parents I had nothing to do with the
abduction or death of the Keet baby."
Piersol and Adams, after their re
turn to the sheriff's custody, were
spirited away to the northward, ap
parently in an effort to get them to the
State penitentiary at Jefferson City, or
the Kansas City jail.
There also were reports of addition
al arrests in the alleged .abduction
plots that had to do with the kidnap
ping of Ci A. Clement, Springfield
jeweler; a Springfield baby and a St.
Louis munitions manufacturer,' but
The coroner s inquest into the baby's
! death, originally set for today has been
1 Postponed until Wednesday,
The letters sent to Mr. Keet after
the baby's kidnapping the night of May
30 were made available today. While
the context of the first letter had be
come generally known, Mr. Keet, fol
lowing the abductor's instructions, had
kept the last two letters secret. The
first letter,, received the day after
Lloyd was stolen and which sent the
father on a drive over the Ozark hills,
instructed him minutely as to the com
position of the $6,000 he was to pay
over for the return of the infant and
added: "We sure got your kid; don't
say anything to the police or put in
the papers. There are, three of us,
and want $2,000 a piece; so it will
cost you '$6,000 (six thousand) to get
him. We got another one picked out,
so if we don't get this from you, we
can tell them to see .what we did to
yours."
Then followed instructions as to the
placing of a light in a building in
downtown Springfield .that would no
tify the kidnappers their instructions
were complied with. "I
"We are going to feed him and be
good to him until then. But if we
don't get this you will have a tough-
looKing may tne letter saia.
The second letter declared, "When
J we seen what was up, on the road, we
.come in," adding that, it was known
the instructions of the first letter had
been revealed to outsiders
The third letter merely had to do
with the route to be taken.
Both roads laid out passed the old
Crenshaw home where the baby's body
kept in the house until its abductors
became frightened.
1 The home of J. Holland Keet,
Veal thy banker, father of the murder-
ed baby, was filled today with flowers
sent even by persons unknown to the
family
A nnnnniAmant Tiro a m qia l-rwlo 17 tliQ f" .
a e" mirr" thet"!?;
j -- i
tpr of snrinneifl. word was received
e , 'ZrVTw; HiiHin f hnikheadB with dirt.
arpr nnwp.vpr inai. i anHr. wiiu littu."" " 0 -
hT, fftVpn in nmtodv at Hutchinson
been taken in custody at Hutchinson
been taken in custoay at iuicnmson, (aefew
tKas., had been released upon giving .the br
proof that he had not been tajMissouri; gases
mh7WtesM
for more than a year.
r
TRINITY COLLEGE
FLAGS EPISODE
BEFORE PUBLIC
Bishop Kilgo's Denuncination
of Certain Members of Se
nior Class to Be Taken Up
SUMMER SCHOOL
TO OPEN TOMORROW
Splendid Corps of Teachers
Large Enrollment of Stu
' dents-Court Sensations
Expected ,
Raleigh, June 11. Bishop Kilgo
having .pledged himself to perpetual
penance if the 1917 class did not dis
own and disgrace the men who hoist
ed 1917 above Old Glory, a most in
teresting artermath to the late vic
tory of 1917 is the rumor that the
Bishop is to .go on his job at once,
for down in Raleigh drifts the news
that fathers of those boys denominat
ed "liars," "buffaloes," "sons of 'Ben
edict Arnold," and other choice bits
Of ecclesiastical fury, are going to de
mand of the bishop that he apologize
to them andV.tp the boys, perhaps,
certainly tQ the pn or the other. Just
now that the world is beginning to
understand that there is a chance to
see the Kaiser brought before it with
nose in the sand, it would bankrupt
the imagination to conceive Bishop
Kilgo in the same attitude.
Concretely, the story is that the
fathers of the boys are deeply dis
traught over the Bishop's latest Trin
ity caper, to be accurate, a succession
of capers. Some of these fathers are
trustees and some of them fathers of
a gentry in no wise formerly to have
Deen conrounded witn Dunaioes or
even with Benedict Arnold. Perhaps
it is because that gentleman is to be
here attending the State prison board
Tuesday that the advance sheets are
to the effect that A. E. Smith, whose
son was president of the "buffalo"
clas of 1917, is the man who will
take before the trustees the conduct
of the bishop in continued fury
against the class, some of whose mem
bers appear to have committed some
"schoolboy trick, unworthy of praise
(Continued on page eight.)
HEROIC EFFORTS
SAVE TINTBIVE
Of the Entombed Miners
Slight Hope for the Others
Death Roll Sixty-Three
(By Associated Press.)
Butte, Mont., June 11 The rescue
of 25 men yesterday, who were
thought to be among the dead in the
Speculator shaft of the North Butte
Mining Company, where more than 200
were entombed Saturday, gave rise to
renewed hope today that some of the
82 men still believed to be in the mine
would be taken out alive.
The latest figures made public to
day by the coroner account for 63
known dead.
While the coroner Is of the opinion
the men still in the mine have perish
ed, relatives are hopeful, particular y
view of the rescue alive -yesterday!
in
26 men throve ifrter, ...ttP FHdar ,
ot shift-of
. - , - 9 ,nn - . , , f thA minet i
f" - : m
llagging, and the men's garments ana;
for the open shaft when the
become unbearable, matie the
young herp.
Wiping Out of German Sal
ient at Messines But Pre- '
lude to Great Attack I
BRITISH RESUME
TRENCH RAIDS
German Reaction Was Sur
prisingly Weak TT- Signs
I The Sarraii Is Preparing
to Attack Again in Mace
donia Cossacks Standing
By Russian Government
The wiping out of the German
salient at Messines appears, in the
light of later deevlopment-s, to bo
merely the prelude to a projected bat?
tie of a far mightier description, after
a German reaction of a surprisingly '
feeble character. The British have
resumed trench, raids over a ' front
reacliing from north of Ypreg . t$ 1 a
far south as Epehy, a distance of
I about 70 - mllefc jaal the crow-lfliea, -but
rar more man tnat aiong xne loripou 1
windings tf the battle front " . " -
The official announcement of raids
"north of Ypres is of especial interest
in view of th recent frequently re
ported heavy artillery fire, on the Bel
gian front. Some weeks ago the Ger
mans made a voluntary retirement
in front of the Belgian lines, a fact
little noted at the time in the pres
sure of greater events. From Ypres
tfie allied front curves sharply to the
sea and an advance here would threat
en German hold ontbir great sub
marine bases on the Belgian coast-'
Ostend and Zeebruggev
In the meantime there are indica
tions that General Sarrall is prepar
ing to resume the offensive In Mace
donia, the Bulgarian War Office re
porting a great increase in the vio
lence of the allied artillery fire oh
this front. Considerable fighting has
been going on in Macedonia for a
month or more, but the meagreness
of the official reports-and the surpass
ing interest of events in France have,
combined to obscure the exact situa
tion. Another gleam of light has pierced
the dark clouds hanging over Russia.
The Cossacks have again voiced their
determination to support the pro
visional government and'there are In
dications that they will receive strong
backing from the peasant. This cheek
ing news comes on the heels of the
publication of President Wilson's mes
sage to Russia, which is hailed by, th6
British press as not only a great St'ae
document, but a powerful reinforce
ment to the men who are striving, for
law and order in the infant republic ,
Berlin's official bulletin today points
to the probability that the British are
preparing for new attacks on the Bel
gian front. A considerable increase Iti -the
artillery activity is reported ther.
notably in the vicinity of Nieuport, and
east of Ypres. In this last sector, til
deed, General Plumer's troops last
night advanced their lines slightly
south of Messines. V
On the French front the artillery on
both sides has displayed somewhat un
usual activity north of. the Somme and-.
in the region of Cernf, along tbre
Chemin-desDames on the Aisne front.'
A German attempt to carry out a sur
prise attack near Cerny was stopped.
. Already a part of the new American '
army is in France. - Paris announces
the arrival there of the first contingent
of the officers of , General ; Pershing's
8taff who are to c&rty on preUmlnai7
work.
EXAGGERATION
OF BRITISH LOSSES
(By Associated Press.)
London, June 11. Referring to ex
aggerated German statements. In re
gard the number or,rBrttish:rcasual-
ties in the battle :of . Messines Ridge;
Reuter's- correspondent-, at British
call on the . British ..ldo
oKft,lt ivnnn Jnripfriz from, must ex-
nHenCe. about 61 ner.cent: df these
. - ... . ..
are men wounoea so sugauy marincy
are able to walk, and of .the .remain.
der a number will be' able to rejoin
1 lueir rcuuiciifc ,,v-.
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