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iSiiiKiiljw LEATHER FORECASTi North Carolina Fafr tonight and Sunday; warmer in extreme west rti0n Sunday. v V South Carolina Fair tonight and Sunday; continued cooler. V0L. XXIII. NO. 148. n I Many Americans in Foreign Legions Want Join Own Country. GREAT VOLUME OF BUSINESS FOR HIM Tackled The Job With a Will Today Yesterday Ameri mn Chieftain Laid Wreath Upon The Grave of UFay-ip ette. (V.y Associated Press.) P;U'i-. June 16. After being three tjni, a iiiest of France, in which exinton Hilary honors were bestowed ;,i,un hint. -Major General Peivr'ng to- ,i v i.hinttvd into the work of m M-:;r.-.uiins for s iur tut- an ivai 3.u.u uii5-1 f the American military j drot s which he is to command. Early ( T!ii iiiornimr he walked from his note'. can vini an armiui 01 aocuments i ; t ii,. now American army headquarters j in :b. Paie de Constantine, near the! Hou ! ,i. s Invalides. He sat for the j The British are attacking again in first time at the plain table m the the Arras region, today's official bul bar.!) furnished office and took up letin frQm Berlin indicates. FYesh en !. gn a; volume of business which j gagements developed this morning in bs 1- n accumulating before and the region of Bulle Court and east of inre his arrival. . Monchy, says the German statement. i;,iural Pershing found in his mail, u wag -n the Bulle Court region nuuit -ror.s requests from Americans that General Haig yesterday renewed s nmg in armies of the Allies to bejthe Arras offensive. Apparently he transferred to the American army m .g striking again in this vicinity and K:;.K-f. .l any American uiviuaus m; Fnmce have made application to en 1 iif fur commissions. The general . 1 i i tit T- 4. is yiiiLit-v.: Strictly Dy ine .war uepau not toireauSt : the not to request .me H'iti's decision tnu:sf. r oi Americans trbm tlie For-1 t :;il i-t Sieil Ul lit-m i" fana.luin armies, except for work m .' ,,. ...T-;., ormir qo inctrnctnrs or. in n -ir sneeialized caDacities. Cons rpout mlv, most of the Americans now strymg witn oiner armies w"4 "I'll UK 111. Central Pershing motored ai rersmng muLuieu . luf i tr n l:Zh Tr heenadenot i 1 hi t-ici, i i niK before 1 Yesierdav General Pershing laid a ! was carried by the Italians, says to rreaUi on" the grave of the Marquis , day's official bulletin from Rome. d9 LFayottt EMMA GOLDMAN UNDER ARREST. fl'.v Associated Press.) Nov.- Y-rk, June 16 Emma Gold-n-m and Alexander Berkman, known to tin-, police as anarchists, were yes tf r.l::y arrested bv the Federal author- i'i-s in the office of the No-Conscrip tion League, charged with conspiracy i '0 fnifr:itA tho nneratinn nf the Se-I if-etive draft law. SPAPER TAX STILL UNSETTLE Senate Finance Still Battling With This Question. (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 16. The Senate finance committee revising the War r:iS kill may reconsider its action, it yi said today, in deciding to impose :' 1, vy of 5 per cent, on net. profits ,J! nw.-papers and magazines in lieu ,J ! ''ist age increases or tax on adver isi'i. A motion to reconsider, of- i'-d by Senator Penrose, is pending, 'jm cannot be taken up before Mon La'. as the committee has adjourned u"tii tiien. The i,eNV tox was adopted late yes rday by a majority of only one vote, "li several committeemen absent, 'l alter a vigorous figst led by , ; tll"ian Simmons, who favored a ; sau echoed with patriotic songs ami on receipts from advertising. The orations today at the 170th commence '""I'Osa! would have been defeated on ment. of Princeton University. The I vr.tf had an absentee arrived in customary . exercises 61 graduation to f:;isr his riisRfrltine, vote. I -worn r.nr verted into a notable demon- "ornniittpo iviomv,QT-a c-o,- tTio k not- tf-nt Jjiiblishprs' nmm tn-r was de-I tr... I'm in; npon because publishers' rep-' f IV;- :;'f:,s" in the bill, had made the plea, sented by the Allied Powers at Wasb our profits, but do not put usiington. There were also exhibition of business by a postage increase." drills and exercises by the Princeton -'.(V ii.. i ... ij j. Mlrd.-.p '" ine pronts tax wouiu uui, ihe Diihlishprcj in the aeere- nv ri- tv. 1,. TYfATn c a e 9 ' - ' rem advertising tax or the House i a'( zone increase. . uassauui , un.-. " GERMANY" lUAlFQ nFFFR French ambassador; Count Vincenzo Hl AwffiJiMacclil di Cellere, the Italian ambas PEACE TO RUSSIA1 sador; Amaro Sato, the Japanese am- . i bassador; M. De Cartier de March- t0rkholm, June 16. (Via- London).' iennes, minister from Belgium, and ,'le -Social Demokraten says Ger- Viscount de Alte, minister from Por- ally liqo me a x 1 . "ItltsM. vcnlnlon ta nf honorary nUSSia 1 1-, 1- . . - -t ' uiciutj ail oner 01 utaue iu tPflr, i - ' uugu a memoer ui me dwibh 1 - BRITISH ATTACK AGAIN WITH FURY Engagements Develop. ed in The Zone About Bulle Court CLINCH HOLD ON GROUND GAINED j . rs 1 - Italians Carry btrongly r orti- fled Austrian Position- Peace Reports Again In Air. lc flirthr north, alnnsr the Arras- Cambrai road. Last night saw the British clinch the,r hoM on the ground they gained tm,,. v-TteKrf-rTr -frrmt. , V nnmi,0, r,ai a SUUU1. ul lite x pic-vumiiiv v""w n1i,m,.D,l ofbr cttnnir TOC nr.miptoiv rei).m5eu Along the French front the opera- ' tions were mostly confined to raids. Indirect advices from Berlin indicate J i tViot tVio flprmans are exDPCtine a re-! lilUl, v - - r. " ' f f thP Pvpnrh offensive in thetin I on the Austro-Italian front a strong- r r'AT.tin.r'Quantn i l"i""e" L y"1"""" r eace reyuns mc agaiu m Stockholm has one today, telling of an offer by Germany of a saparate peace to Russia. A Socialist news paper there prints the account, ac mrHin? tn which a Swiss Federal i councilor is the medium of the offer, 'which on its faceis-an indirect one, purporting to have passed through the; political depai'tment ot tne owiss reu eral Council to the Swiss minister at Petrosrad. who was to communicate to a Russian Socialist leader HIGHER TEMPERATURE (By Associated Press. Washington, June 16. There will IN ARRAS. REGION be a reaction iu u-sii -vy.. . Q - nf thp rmintrv's m !he j, aooo burins' the first half of the I week with moderately warm weather '4. fVio Woattapr Bureau's ineieaitci, -" . - weekly forecast said today. General Committee ly fair weather will prevail trie first 'half or ne ween, wuu ! the last half. FOOD CONTROL BILL REPORTED TO SENATE (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 16 .Following President Wilson's request-for immed- ate action on tne jrooa louuwuhi the measure was reported to the Sen ate without committee recommenda tion today and may be reach Mon day. . " PATRIOTIC EXERCISES AT PRINCETON COLLEGE ate Princeton, N. X, June 16. Old Nas, tfinr, nf Da triotism. The leading fontnr of the urogram was the con- erring of honorary degrees upon ail d ministers repre- ..ii.i! .1 v r, owiorinn norrls of Datiaiiuu uim tho university. Tho ri irvioTTti ? who received the Sir honorary degree of L.L. D. were: npr.il A. Snring-Rice, tne tsnusn am- ii a- at Toon t Tiisserand. the iukii. uiuw v-v.--w-.- - j . QnAvatarr nf State Lan- aegree,vcjc ucv j - F ULL WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 1 6, 1 917. ' . - ; ' -H- - 55- MAJ-.GEN. J. FRANKLIN BELL. -X- . Major-General J. Franklin Bell is commander of the Department of the East, succeeding Major-General Wood, who was transferred to the newly created Department of the Southeast. OUR NAVY GUARDS SUFFER OEEEAT From Submarine - Steamer Sunk After Four Hours Fight--Four Deaths. (By Associated Press.) Washington, June ' 16. American naval gunners have met their first defeat in open fighting with a Ger man submarine. Official dispatches yesterday announced the destruction of the tank steamship Moreni, aban doned ablaze June 12 by her crew j and armed guard after a desperate running fight in the war zone which cost the lives of 4 of her crov. Half an hour after the tanker had been sent to the bottom her 43 sur vivors, including all of the members of the armed guard, were. picked up with their lifeboats by a passing steamer. The German, commander had set them adrift after congratu lating the American, skipper upon his game . flgkt an 8 'havfhg the ' wounded men treated by the submarine's sur geon. The submarine began the action at a range of 8,000 yards, four nautical miles, when she hardly was visible to the steamer without glasses. Pre- senting hardly no target herself, she con t 9O0 shells at the bis: tanker, mak . ' - , 1- r mnnv hit while the American gunners 'wasted 150 shots without harming the speck from which the flmllv hail name. ' j,: i.. Further details of the sinking of the steamer were awaited by the Navy Department. The first report, . which came to the State Department late Thursday, told of a two-hour running fight during which the steamer was riddled with shells from the under-sea craft SHIP CONSTRUCTION IN GOVERNMENT HANDS (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 16. The vast amount of steel merchant shipping under construction in American yards probably 2,000,000 tons will be tak en over immediately by he govern ment under power granted in a pro vision of the War Budget bill signed yesterday by President Wilson. The announcement was made ves .hippmg board and its emergency ileet i ipo ration. Shipping now on he rds will be hurried to completion by the institution of a system of double and triple working shifts and when the ways are cleared of present contracts the fleet corporation will begin con struction of its great fleet of standard ized steel vessels. Th above photograph shows a - - where --several thousand young Americans are being prepared for-active se LEASED W R E SERVICE SSI AT WASHINGTON Large Majority of The Russian People Supporting the New Government. GOOD RESULTS . FR0M MISSIONS f : - - ., : Of The Two Countries Now in America nri Russia Ex pected, Through Situation Still Delicate. (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 16. Russia has become the preoccupying question at the State Department, with . .the ap proach of the Russian mission to Washington, the beginning of negotia tions by the American commission to Russia in Petrograd, and the contin ued reiteration of the . demand of the Council of Soldiers' and Workmen's J" R' Bass' one of the leading busi Delegates for a statement of allied j ,nn f Tennessee, who was elected president ot the Travelers peace terms. - - Protective 'Association at its annual Recent reports indicate that the Council of Soldiers' and Workmen's Delegates is not so dominating a fac tor as is generally assumed. It rep resents not over 5,000,000 people of Russia's 180,000,000v The peasants comprise, according to these reports, the vast majority of the j population, and have voted overwhel mingly in favor of a vigorous prosecu tion of the war. The one great event for them has been the final establish ment of local self-government, which they feel is directly due to the present leaders and which they fear might be lost by any change. Moreover, the business men of Rus- sia, it ?s pointed out; have recently voted practically unanimously for a vigorous prosecution of the war. Nevertheless the continued insist ence of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Delegates, for a new declaration by the Allies shows a lack of confidence or a misunderstanding which, it is real ized, must be swept away before Rus sia can present a : united front. J De spite the recent American,-British, and French announcements? -this . haste not asT,yet been done, and some means will be sought to reach the Russian radical on his own ground. ' Great hope is felt that the Root mis sion may find that way. Mr. Root' is expected to proceed very slowly and cautiously and no decisive word is ex pected from him for some days. KINSTON man chosen PRESIDENT BY OIL MEN (By Associated Press.) Atlanta, June 16. N. B. Moore, of Kinston N. C, was elected president of the Interstate Oil Mill Superinten dents' Association at the close of its eighth annual convention here yester day. Other officers elected were: W S. Vaughn, Ghester.S. C, vice presi dent; Fred Strickland, Anderson, S. C, secretary; F. J. Willis, Troy, Ala., vice president for Alabama; J. J. Crabtree, New Born, N. C, vice presi- proclamation carrying out the recent dent for. North Carolina, and T. T.jly announced policy of extending vvoifterden, Washington, Ua., vice , clemency in such cases. Without the president for Georgia. Selection of aexercise of sucn clemency, the per meeting place for 1918 was held insons affected would have been corn- abeyance because of the war. -X .V. .V. M, JAPANESE STEAMER SUNK. - X (By Associated Press.) -X-X- Boston, June 16. The Japan- -55- ese steamer. Tansan Maru. which -X- left Boston, May 9, for Manches- -5fr spur of Speaker Clark's injunction i.o X- ter, Eng., has been sunk by a I speed up action, the House today again K German submarine. Cable ad- -X; : debated the $29,000,000 Rivers and -X- vices to agents here today stated Harbors bill, with the leaders deter- that Captain Nichikawa and the vf mined to press for a final vote by to--X- crew of 27, all Japanese, are be- i night, if possible. Failure to reach a lieved to have been lost. -j vote by that time will result in the bill 1 being laid aside for the Food Control & 4fr -X- -X- 4fr -5fr -X- -X- -X- -X- j bill. GREAT LAKES TRAINING remarkable view of the Great Lakes. Training Station at-Lake Bluff, 111., 3 5ft -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- 3?- J. R. BASS. -3f w convention held in Savannah recently. THE MAILED FIST OF KAISER WILLIAM Characteristic Message to Former King Constantine From German Emperor Berne, June 16. (Via London). A telegram from Berlin says Emperor William has addressed the following message to one of the Greek diplo matic representatives abroad for transmission to former King Con stantine: "I have heard with wrath of the infamous outrage committed by our common enemies upon you- and upon your dynasty."" I assure . "ydtt that your deprivation can be only tem porary. 'The mailed fist of Germany, with further aid from Almighty God, will restore you to your throne, af which, no man, by right, can rob you . The armies of Germany and Ger many s allies will wreak vengeance on those who have dared so insolent ly to lay their criminal hands on you We hope to welcome yoif in Germany at the earlist opportunity. A thou sand cordial greetings from, "YOUR WILLIA.M." PRESIDENT ISSUES A PROCLAMATION Washington, June 16. Nearly 5,000 persons at liberty under suspended sentences imposed by Federal courts have been granted "full amnesty and pardon', by President .Wilson in a pelled under a Supreme court man date to return to custody tomorrow. RIVER AND HARBOR BILL BEING PRESSED IN HOUSE (By Associated Press.) Washington', June 16. Under the STATION. vice.in the United States. Navyy v inRHPnN i M n o mi f wmsmmmsasmi i Over i iiiitMWwiiiiMwi. il- THE LIBERTY LOAN SITING IIP AS Su -Ytfion Will be in Reac'-. Billi ion V rs. NEARLY THREE MILLION PEOPLE SHARE IN IT Large Number of People of bmall vleans Bought Bonds. This District Ran Ahead of Estimate. (By Associated Press.) TXT T a ' wasumgion, June 16. so over whelming was the country's response to the Liberty loan that officials were unable at noon today, 24 hours after the closing of the books, io strike more than an approximate of the huge total. Only one reserve district, Atlanta, had completed its work of tabulating the totals al that hour. Estimates from the other eleven districts sent the probable aggregate for the country risting to new high levels. The totals 6f figures that had ac tually been tabulated in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chica go, Cleveland and San Francisco where, with the exception of Atlanta the work of compiling the totals was still in progress and of official esti mates of totals in the other districts showed a subscription of at least $2, 815,500,000, representing only a por tion of the full amount. - ' Estimates of all districts, including the official tabulated returns from At lanta, sent the prospective total to $2,951,000,000. These figures Included $1,500,000 subscribed in the Philip pines, but did not include any of the subscriptions sent direct to the Treas ury here, no estimate of which has been made public. Official estimates made at the re serve banks and tabulations fol low: New York: Tabulated $1,050,000, 000; estimated, (last night) ,$1,200,. 000,000. - . " Boston: Tabulated (late yesterday) $263,300,000; estimated $270,000,000 to $300,000,000. j Philadelphia: Tabulated $223,000, 000 : Richmond: Estimated $103,000,000. Atlanta: Final tabulation $58,500, 000. Chicago: Tabulated $345,000,000. Cleveland: Tabulated $276,200,000. Estimated $280,000,000. St. Louis: Estimated $90,000,000. Minneapolis: Estimated $62,000,000. Kansas City: Estimated $90,000,000. Dallas : ' Estimated $48,000,000 . San Fran&scof tabulated $171,000, 000; estimated $180,000,000. Assuming New York's big estimate of $1200,000,000 as approximately correct and allowing for shrinkages of $50,000,000, there and in other dis tricts from the total of all estimates, it appeared that the total would reach $2,900,000,000.. . - No estimates official or unofficial were forthcoming at the Treasury De-, partment. Indications were that the final returns would not be available before Monday. Even then there probably will be no approximate idea as to the total number of sub scribers . What is regarded as one of the most remarkable showings, came from the Navy Department. The department, and the ships took an estimated total of $3,000,000. Tabulations at noon, with the work still progressing, showed a total of $2,639,900. More than 15,000 sailors, clerks and officers subscribed. This District Ahead. Richmond, Va., June 15. George J. Seay; governor of the Fifth Reserve Bank district, said today that the Lib erty loan had been over-subscribed in the district and will exceed the max imum allotment of $103,000,000, the minimum allotment being $83,000,000. Richmond over-subscribed more than $6.0CO.OOO, or a total in excess of $13, 000,000, the city's maximum allotment being $7,000,000. Two big audit companies placed their staffs of accountants at the serv ice of the Federal Reserve bank here, and the men are working night and day counting the amounts of the loans. MORE CHANGES MADE IN PENDING TAX BILL (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 15. Income tax exemption allowance of $20 for each dpnendent child of a taxable parent, nnd rp.dnct.inn of the 2-cent stamp taxiBishoD Kll go declined to sign the iW on bank checks to one cent were de- cisions reached today by the Senate Finance committee In revising tne , war tax bill 4t - " MEMBERRS OF CREW SAFE. - (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 16. All the crew and naval gunners of the American tank steamer Petrollte, 4f Sunk by a German -submarine n itk.AU.p 1-isvnr Vi o it a noon 4C I accounted for, and are reported - closing team and;, will not- report to v FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS. Some Sensational Develop ments From Trial of These". ' Cases Expected RALEIGH TO HOLD RED CROSS RALLY. J . Capital City New Police Com missioner Making Many, Changes In His De partment. ."! (Special to The Dlspatcb.) Raleigh, June 16. The government returned a number of capiases yester day afternoon which had been served on men variously charged by the United States. These arrests grew; out of the special grand jury investi gation which began in Judge Connor's court Monday. They were made pos sible by the testimony of B. A. Nor ris and Jake Senger. who have been found guilty of violating the white slave act. The two girls , mixed up with them gave testimony tending "to incriminate Raleigh citizens. Ed Bailey, P. B. Batchelor, Oris Branch, June Daniels, Jim Fowler John Kambiss, Will McGhee and Sher wood Upchurch had been served with papers yesterday. They were r& quired to give $1,000 bonds. Thd charge against Mr. Upchurch, famous as sport, umpire, sanitary inspector, alderman and bass singer ni one of the city choirs a few years ago, is con spiracy. . . . . , Other charges against other meh are retailing chiefly, but the govern-' ment proceeds bnT:he principle or fc big combination in the liquor business Certainly as many as twelve warrants CAPIASES ISSUED - IN LIOUOR CASES l BY FEDERAL COURT J V... will be served and there may be more, though newspaper men are said to have flushed the game and &U lowed a few to escape. ' As a part of the campaign wliich la to raise Raleigh's $30,000 for the Red Cross serrioe,. Chairman J. W. Bailey, of the Wake-county committee, has called a mass meeting for Sunday night and Governor Bickett Is tb be the chief speaker. This mass meeting ' " will , be. the biggest thing: of it kind . ever planned here. Buch is the Inter est in it that four persons In' Raleigh have made contributions of $1,1300 to the work. Governor Bickett yesterday par doned Carl W. Meadows, of Stanly county, who is serving 40 days for fail ure to pay a board bill. A Wake county jury yesterday took the case of E. G. Richardson vs. John H. and Thomas L. Love, colored drug gists, whom Mr. Richardson sued foj $50,000 on the charge of selling dope, to his wife. The jury gave plaintiff a verdict for $1,000. Raleigh's 32 patroimcn, trao nave ' been reveling in the 8-hour day, must go back on 12 hours July 1. Consid ering the conditions of the city, the ease of 1& wvolation and the free dom from trouble that almost any N violator enjoyed if he acted with any sense at all, Commissioner Uzzell does not think the force has been over worked, and, master printer as he has ' been so many years, he doesn't object to abrogating the 8-hour law so far as it applies to his men. Mr. Uzzell " has made a number of changes and every day or so somebody's head gets chopped off. BISHOP Q U ITSTB I N 1 TY Climax of Controversy Grow- ing Out of Alleged Dese- ' cration of Flag. (By Associated Press.) Charlotte, N. C, June 16. Bishop John C. Kilgo, Methodist church South, has tendered his resignation as President-Emeritus, trustee and chairman of that .board as well as chairman of the executive committee of Trinity College, as the result of a controversy growing out of the alleged, desecration of the American flag by members of the 1917 graduating class during their sophomore year. A rag containing the numerals "1917" was fastened on American flag. Collective-" ly and . Individually the members of the class, denied knowledge of it, but are since said to have confessed, un" der penalty of Immunity. At the time,, bishop in ' an address at Chapel hilj denounced the members. The class then adopted resolutions resenting his remarks as the - Intrusion of an out sider, at commencement this spring. Iplomas of any male members , of the class, because they knew or too action or tne guilty mem Ders. CUTTING MEN DOWN TO PLAYERS' LIMIT (By Associated Press.) . ..Mobile, Ala., June 16. The Mobile club Is cutting down ;to the player limit. Carl Adams, pitcher, has been released and Ward -McDowell has been given notice of release. War ren Butts. ' outfielder from the Caro- .Una League, also M flated, for relate. 'LUtie kock, ne sua;um7:- , . .... v Hi -j 1 Hi "t: V. 1 ucldi council 1 sing and; Herbert C. Hoover. :