j i 4. cygATHER FORECAST. Mrth CarolinaFair tonight;. Frl. j tartly cloudy, probably showers It oortion; warmer interior. Qfluth Carolina-Probably showers ton jght ana mua. FULL LE A3 E JXlWl R E S E R V I CE I. y0L XXHI. NO. 165 WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 5, 1 91 7. PRICE FIVE CENTS. tST FINAL '' i EDITION I I J v :J I aBnaHMMMMMHMIMNMM AIT'" 7 f W WPI E Problem of Grave and Great Magi nitude t'reseniea m mc United States 1 ARGE NUMBER OF ALIENS MAKE DANGER Even Strictest Censorship Does Not Eliminate the Menace. All Dispatches From Europe Subject to Censorship Read First by the War De partment. (By Associated Press.) Washington, July 5. Officials, who for obvious reasons cannot t- quot ed declared todajrThat if the govprn juent's activities against German spies in the United States could be published, the news would startle the world. While not admitting they are co" vinced that the spy system was entire ly responsible for the massed subma rine attack on the transport of Gen eral Pershing's expedition, it was said that the combined forces of the State, War, Navy and Justice Depart ments were working in cohesion and systematically unearthing information of an amazing character and of great value to the government. It was pointed out that even with the strictest censorship of mails, ca bles and press, the European allies have not been able to meet the situa tion to their complete satisfaction. Jhe problem is or far .greater-magni tude in this country, wUh xnOusanas of aliens, its immense border and countless possible means of outside communication. Secret service operations, necessar ily carried on under cover, are given little or no publicity and this fact, of ficials say, gives rise to a surmise that little has been accomplished. It was pointed out today that al though the Allies have never main tained spy systems as far reaching or effective as Germany, even that coun try, despite her registration of indi viduals, her comparatively small bor der line and her net work of secret police, has been unable to prevent information of her military , moves from reaching the outside world. Germany's realization of that is shown in her absolute suppression of all mail and cable communication for a considerable period preceding an important military movement. Censoring All Dispatches. Secretary Baker- today issued a statement explaining the operation of the War Department censorship over cable dispatches from France, deal ing with the American troops, saying that the Dresent arrangements are temporary and soon will be supple mented by a method that will not de lay delivery. "Pending the complete organization of General Pershing's headquarters in France," the statement said, "with the arrival there of correspondents ac credited to represent American news Papers the temporary arrangements by which cablegrams from France dealing with American troop move ments are transmitted to the War De Partment here for distribution, will be continued. "Jt ir, in the interest alike of the army and the newspapers to afford a certain reliance as to the propriety of of the publication of messages from Fiance. The arraneement is tempor ary and will be replaced speedily by a more direct method of dealing with this news, in the meantime an ade quate force to deal promptly with the patches will be on hand 24 hours a day and will deliver the dispatches re served in the nrvlpr in which they come so that no disadvantage-will .re sult in anything beyond the brief de jav in sending dispatches to Washing on and back to the center of distri bution." 'The work' of reading over the Pss dispatches is being done by the committee on public information, jwch of it personally by George Creel, airman. , "Thf" Secretary of War," it said, y unanimous consent is empowered 0 take any steps necessary for the Protection of American soldiers." ine censorship arrangement to be t up by .Major General Pershing, it " undersiood, will cover British or Jeih publications regarding Ameri tJt uroop niovements as well as dis ad i , K to this country. Mr. Baker sarv Vhat U might be found neces- to supplement that censorship v .an actional reading at New rK m order to make certain that ev betn or Personal dispatch had va' 7au to prevent information of The vhe enemv leaking out. toes t Department here contin- lYa C(nor news dispatches from . which have already been " CHARLOTTE BUSINESS MAN KILLED. (By Associated Press). Charlotte, N. C, July 5 Karl i A. Bicknell, prominent young business man here, was killed in an automobile accident near 4 Jtutherfoijdton todayi He was active in securing recruits for the Officers' Training Camp at Fort Oglethorpe and had recent- ly returned from that camp. Over Eleven Million Dollars Approved Loans in Southern States. (By Associated Press.) Washington, July 5. A total of $11,661,905 in first mortgage loans to farmers at 5 per cent. Interest has been asked by the 230 farm loan as sociations chartered by the Federal Farm Loan Board up. to July 1. The loans are being made through the 12 Federal Land banks. Nearly $100, 000,000 more has been applied for by the 12 banks, but not yet approved. . average r amount 'by" each ciation was .slightly in excess or $5U,- 000 and the average number of farm ers in each of the 230 associations chartered was 18, making the average individual loan about $2,500. Most of the loans so far made to the associations run for 36 years, and are retired on the partial payment plan by semi-annual payments, a 6 per cent, annual payment by the bor rower retiring both the principal" and interest. Farm Loan Board commissioners expressed gratification today that the business was being equally distribut ed throughout the country. A large volume of the loans is in Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, Minneso ta, and Oklahoma. Loans approved JuJy 1 in Southern States follow: Virginia $71,200; North Carolina $90,200; South Caroling $495,550; Georgia $70,900; Florida $130,100; Alabama $232,625; Mississ ippi $365,940; Louisiana not apnounc ed; Arkansas $25,200; Oklahoma $1, 143,275; Texas $1,248,473; Tennessee $227,750, and Kentucky $246,750. Texas leads in the amount of loans, Oklahoma is next and California is ! third with $856,000. STOP Better Prices at Home Artil lery Company Nearly .Com pleted Auto Accident. (Special to The DispatcB.) New Bern, N. C, Jily 5. Death yes terday afternoon claimed a young son of Mr. and Mrs. Lrony .trice, wuu. ic side a few miles east of New Bern. The lad was taken ill three or four days ago and steadily grew worse, a physician was not caueu m uum j terday morning and at that time he was beyond human aid and death re sulted a few hours later. -Farmers in this section of the State who have grown potatoes are discon tinuing shipping them to the Northern markets and are now retailing them in this and other towns and cities. One potato grower in New Bern to day stated that he could not get more than $2 a barrel for prime potatoes after sending them to the North and that he could easily sell them on the streets of New Bern for $3 a barrel. The farmers are being urged to cease shipping their produce North, where they will receive poor prices, and to put it on the local markets. Mr. Walter Pugh, a member of the firm of Maxwell & Pugh, wholesalers and commission merchants of thi city has returned to the city from Beaufort, where yesterday morning an mobile which he was drying and in which were of Belhaven, ana mr. a. vx. SOU, rlnr tm-Tlfld man, of Kaieigu. ,V 71 nHHpnt turtle. Mr. .mu. T tZl due to a washout in the road which he failed " M10S Wlllvmu ou Tint badly hurt Mrs. nuu- Lt h.H two ribs broken and was LOANS TO FABMERS BY FARM LOAN BANK POTTO GROWERS SHIPMENTS LUMBER TON MAN T STATE BAR ASSN. A. W. McLean Unanimously Selected to Head Important North Carolina Body. THOMAS W. DAVIS AGAIN ELECTED Solicitor Abernethy Delivered Final Address Before Asso ciation Today Senator Walsh Spoke. (Special to The Dispatch.) Asheville, N. C, July 5. A. W. McLean, of Lumberton, was elected unanimously as president of the North Carolina Bar Association at the closing session today. Thomas W. Davis, of Wilmington, was unanimous ly re-elected secretary and treasurer. Solicitor C. L. Abernethy delivered the final address of the meeting, dis cussing the principles of democracy i &nd statins that this war is .oneF be Kweeii "'autocracy and aemoeracy . ; Judge W. P. Bynum, of Greens boro, made the report on uniform legislation, showing the valuable work that has been done by the con ference with lawyers. The associa tion will name a standing committee to co-operate with this National body, and the legislature of the State will be asked to defray the expenses of representatives at the National meet ings. Last night Senator Thomas J. Walsh delivered a strong address, de fending the war legislation of this administration; at least impliedly justified in the constitution, the in strument which created the govern ment. He admitted that some meas ures had strained the constitution as ordinarily' construed. MANY APPOINTED WARRANT OFFICERS (By Associated Press.) Washington, July 5. Designation of 496 chief warrant officers for war com missions in the line and staff of the navy was announced last night by Sec retary Daniels, who said he expected a large percentage of them to so perform their new duties that their promotions could be made permanent after the war. This will be the largest number of men ever commissioned in the American navy at one time. Temporary rank as warrant officers will be given 345 enlisted men imme diately and others will be so designat ed as the need arises to fill up the places of those given commissions. The secretary acted under a recent authorization of Congress for expand ing the navy's personnel and for issu ing temporary commissions, to expire at the end of the war. SHIPBUILDERS' STRIKE UNDER NEGOTIATIONS (By Associated Press.) New York, July 5. Negotiations between the striking shipyard work ers and 35 shipbuilding companies in and about the port of New York, were under way here today in an ef fort to avert a strike following the demapd of the men for a minimum daily wage of $4.50. It was estimat ed that about 3,000 men of the 12,000 employed in the shipyards were on strike. The wage increase asked by the men is about 50 cents above the present scale. CIVIL WAR IN CHINA SEEMS IMMINENT (By Associated Press.) Tien Tsin, July 5 A military clash in China is imminent. The troops of Peking are showing, signs of opposi tion to General Chang Hsun's dicta torship under the guise of a monar chy. At the same time the troops of Tsao Kun, military Governor of the province of Chi-Li, are mobilizing and preparing to proceed to Peking. Tsao Kun's action followed an um- Wum sent to General Chang Hsun xielvine him 24 hours to withdraw troops frdm Peking. General Chang Hsun took notice of the demand. Executions and imprisonment of prominent officials have resulted from the disturbed state of affairs. 1 THE RACE TROUBLE IN EAST ST. LOOIS HAS RESULT HERE - ' ya: Causes . Faijure 'in Delivering AutombHjle - Tax Tags to Secretary of State on Time FIFTY THOUSAND TAGS ORDERED County Officers Notified of Cause of Delay -Train Op erator reld'For Man slaughter. (Special 4 TBe Dispatch.) Raleigh, July 5. To East .St. Louis and its labor "troubles is ascrib ed the delay in the issuing of the au tomobile tags in North Carolina, which delay has. unset owners not! a little and caused Colonel J. Bryan! that a further British offensfve was Grimes to sencb out appeals to the of-1 , .. , . . ficers asking, lenience during the'expected nortn of Arras wnere Gen" delay. j eral Haig apparently is preparing ac- The East S,t, Louis manufacturers! tions on a larse scale. The Minister had the entire North Carolina output.! said the abandonment of the Saloniki lags to tne numner of 5U,ooo are Im-! mediately needed and the manufac turers promised them on time. They declared that - with a lead of 15,000 they could furnish the State the num bers at a rate of 3,000 daily, but they have not been; able to meet the terms of their contract. A telegram in forming the Secretary of State that 28,000 tags harve been shipped gave great hope, but the markers have not come. t The Secretary's office is the most business-looking institution in town. A double score qtf men and women working themselves to a frazzle have been getting out: the numbers and when the day, closed they had 38,000 numbers on the way. On the whole the people have accepted the situa tion in good humor. Every vehicle car rying an old -dumber is a target for official suspiciousness but many run ning their machines are. innocent of any purpose tQ violate the law. These tags Tare beauties and Col onel Grimes fcjought them at some thing like half the price that the ma jority of' Static tiay e . paid The li cense iaxrrCEt! run G.V,Sr?Jacibs, wung telegraph ope rator in charge of the office at Frank lington, and against whom Is ji charge of manslaughter, in the Seaboard wreck of Saturday morning, wherein four were killed, will stand his trial and resist a verdict. Jacobs, through Victor Bryant, of Durham, and W. B. Jones, of Ral eigh, declines to make any statement. The lawyers have made it impossible to get any statement. During the investigation which ended here yes terday, J. N. Stanton of Franklin, admitted giving the boy one drink of whiskey Saturday morning about 3 o'clock. The accident becurred about three and a half hours after. The coronor's verdict holds Jacobs responsible. It is alleged that he al lowed the northbound freight to pass the station at which the two trains were to have met. Mrs, Josephine Sallinger, wife of the Norfolk Southern conductor who was killed in November of 1916, near Wendell, has started suit against the road and will ask a verdict of $60,000.. The North Carolina Orphanage As sociation, with Rev. Zadok Paris, of Lincolnton, as president, has been called to meet in Raleigh, July 17, for its annual meeting. WEEKLY REPORT Improvement in Condition From Seasonable Tempera ture and Good Rains. (By Associated Press.) Washington, July 5. With tempera tures above normal and fairly well dis tributed rain fall, the weather of the week caused a general improvement in the condition of cotton throughout most of the region, says the weekly weather and crop bulletin, Issued today by the Department of Agriculture. Cotton is in all stages of development in South Carolina; is unusually clean and well cultivated and is fruiting well in Georgia; early planted is opening in Suwanee county in Florida, and is fair to good and forming squares in Tennessee. Cotton is growing well in northern Mississippi, but continues small in the southern portion of the State; it is clean and fruiting well in some sections. Plants are small in Alabama also, but the crop is in fair condition and squares are forming as far north as the Tennessee valley. The drought was relieved locally in southeastern and south central Louis iana, benefitting cotton, and although it is small, fruiting is more general. In Oklahoma, it is mosUy chopped to a stand and weH cultivated, and squares are setting on earl planted. Cotton is standing the drought well in Texas, but the plants are small and growth slow, though fruiting well in the southern part of that State. Boll weevils are reported in central and southeastern Arkansas and as active locally in Alabama and Texas, but there is little damage in Mississippi. ON COTTON CROP SIGNS OF DISCORD ARE IN EVIDENCE AMONG GERMANS Debates in Saxon Diet and German Reichstag Commit tee Show Great Unrest. SERIOUS WARNING TO GOVERNMENT Unpopularity of Bureau , cracy The Peace Ques tion Necessity of Inter nal Reform. (By Associated Press.) Copenhagen, July 5. Lieutenant-; General von Stein, Russian Minister of War and State, told a committee according to dispatches reaching here, according to disDatches reachiicr hpr campaign was imnrohahip w i - - " - garded the Italian offensive on the I?onzo and in the Tyrol as shatttered.1 The views on the Russian offensive afe unreported if expressed. The ministerial declarations re garding the work of the submarine campaign about which the official Wolf News Bureaus cables ample re ports to the neutral press, were not the only matters before yesterday's meeting of the Reichstag committee. The Socialist organ, Vorwaerts, in its independent report of the proceedings in the "little Reichstag", says Herr Ebert, the Socialist, devoted consider able attention to the unsatisfactory conditions in the nutriation of the people and the prospect of an ade quate supply of fuel for the fourth war winter which the Germans prob ably will be called on to face. Herr Erzberger, the clerical leader, and Herr von Payer, Radical, support-! -ditto'. VrttfM ti.Ai tw 6uyciuuiem meiricient measures for dealing with the problem. Representatives of various parties expressed divergent views on the peace question, which ra mso dis cussed by the committee. Herr Ebert said the government could have peace this summer if it would only offer peace without annexations and indem nities to all opponents, ana abandon separate overtures to Russia. Herr Erzberger said the formula of the Russian council of deputies was impossible and impractical. He warn ed the government representatives against awakening false optimism by their statements. Herr von Payer said that further peace profrers were harmful and tend to defeat the German object. The only thing to do, he said, was to. hold out, meantime bolstering public senti ment by immediately beginning the work of democratizing the country. Such sessions of the "little Reich stag" and the debate in the Saxon Diet threatening revolution unless re form is immediately undertaken, are rather unpleasant preliminaries to the Reichstag meeting tomorrow morn1 ing. A measure giving additional repre sentation to a number of over-grown urban industrial Reichstag districts probably will be submitted to the Reichstag. Party leaders during a conference on Monday with Chancel lor von Bethmann-Hollweg obtained from the government an agreement that this so-called minor reiurm pr'o gram would be immediately taken up. A committee yesterday began prepar ing a report thereon for immediate presentation to the Reichstag. Other reforms still slumber. Saxon soldiers are not fighting out of loyalty to the King, but for love of the Fatherland and Monarchical principle. Saxony is suffering sadly from the mistakes of an incompetent bureaucracy and conditions have reached such a state that all parties in the Saxony Parliament are forced seriously to warn the government of the danger of this situation. Such were the disagreeable declarations which the government was forced to hear from all parties except the Con servatives in a debate in the Saxon Diet yesterday,, a report of which has reached here. The discussion was on necessary, internal reform. The occasion for the debate was a Socialist resolution! demanding that the government make an effort to secure liberal reorganiza tion, of the empire. One Nationalist declared, as a good Royalist, that he could only hope and pray that warnings sent to the gov ernment from all parties might reach the King. Another Nationalist said that the vast majority of Saxons were inspired by an utter lack of confi dence in the government. Unless the government was able to rise to the emergency with the action demanded he feared for the consequences. After this debate, almost unparalleled a German legislature since the days of 1S48, the diet adopted the Socialist resolution, the Conservatives alone dissenting. . . am furious BLi EXPECTED I w BRITISH LOSES BY Past Week Much Smaller Than For Some Time Com parative Figures. (By Associated Press.) London, July 5. The weekly ship ping summary issued today shows that 15 British merchant ships of more than 1,600 tons were sunk and 5 vessels of less than that tonnage. Eleven fishing vessels also were lost. Forecasts that the summary of British shipping losses by submarines and mines covering last week would show the smallest number of sinkings in many weeks were Verified by the actual figures. The total of 28 mer chant ships sunk compares with 2S, the previous week, and 32 for each of the two weeks preceding. The heavy falling off in tonnage sent to the bot tom is emphasized by the fact that in contrast with the 15 vessels of more than 1,600 tons now reported sunk, the sinking of 21 vessels in this class was announced, last week, .27 the week j previous and 22 the week before that. "?vwr : ' r" la reacnea tnat ngures as low as tnose for the current week are encountered In the height of the destructive sub marine campaign in April, '30 large vessels were sunk in a week, 38 in an other, while the total of large and small vessels reached 55 in the week ended April 21. CITIZENS OF DUNN VICTIM OF "SHARPERS" (By Associated Press.) Washington, July 5.-"Siharpers,v who infest the union station here, have found another victim in a North Carolinian, same being Baxter Mc Laughlin, of Dunn, Representative Godwin's home town. McLaughlin's tale of woe to the Washington police was the time-worn story of two strange men getting acquainted with him on the train, pretending to find a $100 bill on the street near the union station, and giving it to him for $45 of his hard earned cash. The detect ives told McLaughlin it was unnecess sary for him to explain that the cen tury note was counterfeit. The Tar Heel is hunting for the men who got his money. AS BRITISH SEE IT Comments of London Press Upon Her Entrance Into The War. (By Associated Press.) London, July 5. The Times, after gratified general comment on , the Fourth of July celebration in London, says there are some Britons "who do not see American belligerency for what it is, one of the miracles of the war and its crowning mercy." It con tends that American intervention swept away bickerings such 'as over the black lists which at one time threatened Anglo-American estrange ment. It adds: "It has stamped the justice of the allied cause with the authority of the most powerful of neutrals and with the prestige of acknowledgement by the leaders of the Western hemis phere. The political balance of the universe shifted when General Pershing's troops landed in France, and America in entering the war has also entered the world to play in it, we are very sure, side by side, with the allied democracies a vigorous and inspiring part." j The Daily Telegraph, which re gards the flying of the Stars and Stripes over Parliament as a wonder ful thing, expecting all the many mar vels of the war, says: "The high compliment and like courtesies paid our flag in America bear witness to the founding of inter national comradeship which nothing, we trust, will ever disturb and which means much for the world's future." The Chronicle says the war has set the final seal upon the reapproach nient of the two nations. SUBMARINES AMERICA S ACTION French and British Evidently Intend to Hit During Rus- v sian Drive. - GERMANS GROWING ; UNEASY WITH SUSPENSE New Attack Will Probably Fall North of Arras Russian Artillery Drive Off Teutons; American Transport Joined Attack on Submarine.. With Russia proving that her army now rehabilitated, can strike telling blows again, the Entente forces ap parently are preparing to resume the forward movement on the western front. . ..' Notable activity is developing in Belgium. Germany senses the trend of things there,' without question, and extraordinary efforts by her airmen to find out what is going on behind the British lines, are reflected In the official statements. From all appearances the German fliers are having poor success. Lon don's report last night, . for instance, showed 9 German airplanes put . out of action to one lost by the British; That the British blow will fall north of Arras is the German expectation according to General von Stein, "the Prussian Minister . of War. He told a German Reichstag committee yes terday that General Haig apparently was , preparing for an offensive on .a dwa ana n in rnia qoptai ' i hUo-tl.:cniie that the? Britfshr m1 locar iteration f last night, pusnea their lines rorwara slightly on a 600:yard front southwest of Hollebeke. In , Belgium. ., '. General Petain, on the French front, ' is bending his efforts toward retain- ; ing intact all the commanding posi tions his troops nowft occupy. The latest German attempt to wrest con trol of an important sector on the Aisne from him not , only came to naught, with exceptionally heavy Ger- , man losses, but the French in. their ' ; reaction took a salient ', near Corny from the Germans. - ; -. Paris dispatches report the Ameri can contingent, which paraded in Par Is yesterday, as proceeding to the pep. manent American training camp and announce that the other,, units of the . army now at a French port will leave . there shortly for camp of instructions. The entire expedition is expected to . be encamped by July 15 under conl- v. mand of Major General Sibert. . , In East Galicia the Austro-German I forces are evidently, in an uncomfort able position at some points as . the. result of the Russian advance this week. This condition is manifested notably at Brzezany where they hare been reported hemmed in on three , sides, and an attack was launched, up on the . Russians there yesterday. -Matters were not helped by this movey however, as the Russians promptly . broke up the assault by their gun fire. . - '" 5Lttacks on the Russian lines on the so tun near Lipnicadolina east of the Naravuvka. also were repulsed. Signs of a Russian reawakening ap pear in today's German official state- 4 ment. It reports little movement (n . Galicia, but an increase in the activ-Jv ities along the lines in Western ' Moldavia and eastward ' to the Danu bei . r '-" ' ' ; " ' ' , In Mesopotamia the Russians after having driven the Turks out of .Panj win, attacked them in the positions to which they retired . on the. heights v south and west of the town, : where , they are offering a tenacious resist tance. ' j Teuton Attacks' Repulted. Petrograd, July 5. Austro-German forces in Galicia yesterday attacked the Russian advanced posts east of Brzezany, but were driven oft by the Russian artillery fire, the war office : announced today. . , . - . Sub. Bombarded Azores Port.;.,. London, July 5. A-German subma rine has bombarded a port In the A- ., ores. So far as known no damage jc'-v'i was done by the gunfire. "iV" li American Transport in the Battler: f Lisbon, July 5 An American trans- : '. A port joined in the firing at the Ger- .. c man submarine , which bombarded Ponta Delgada, the, Azores, yesterday, say an official announcement by the Portugese minister of marine." ..." BRITISH AIRPLANES BOMB ENEMY BASES 1 (By Associated Press.) : "I i London. July 5. On Tuesday night, ; bombing, attacks were , carried out by naval air service machines on the;.air-; dromes at Ghlstelles and Nieumunster and also on the seaplane sneas ana ; a - train at Zaaren, says - an . admiral- ity announcement today. . ; ' Several tons of' bombs were drop ped. All the machines returned saie- 'mi if, mm :4m mvn mil SI ; ' , 1 k-; " IS " : 5 . isV. 1 if Ji. !. m ItV 1: i" A- 7 i roach- ped. All the machines returnea saie- t. ; , t ' - . ' ' S v y... ;' :--''; ..;' V 1'.' . . t v - i f . v - v-'-r- "V ' & hospital-lor treatment. continued on Page Eight). .. """Sc.,'.! ' . m fc' a i w