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WEATHER FORECAST t North Carolina: Fair tonight, not.. ite so cold; Saturday partly; cloudy, somewhat warmer. . , South Carolina: Fair tonight and Saturday: not quite so cold. VOL. XXIII, NO. 359. Provides for Compensating Railroads on Basis of Last Three Years GOVERNMENT'S BILL ALREADY INTRODUCED lilt VViiUVt """" nnriniT: Through War and Until Congress Shall Thereai Order Otherwise i By Associated Press Washington, Jan. 4. President Wil son laid before Congress today his rec ommendations for legislation to cairy our government operation of railroads, ;nd administration bills to that pur pose were introduced immediately in both House?. While the President, in his address, hid stress on the importance of prop erly preserving the properties for their return, the administration b?ll speciacally provides that government control shall obtain throughout the var and "until Congress shall there rffer orr!rr othervris'1 Mauy govei-merit and railroad of ficials made no concealment of their belief that the railways never would rfnm to private hands-r-- : The President's program besides railing for a $500,000,000 appropria tion to be used as "revolving fund" v ith railroad-income for. operation and l.-ointenance. calls for compensation to the roads at the rate of their net u,f .t;ng. income for the !ast three iifcal years. Any deficiencies would ';paid out of the $500,000,000 fund, SrKi meanwhile no railroad may in-c-ea.-e its dividends; roadd that have kipped dividends may resume with rates fixed by the President. Gv.c section of the proposed taw, considered very significant, lays a heavy penalty on any one who im ""(f s "possession, use, operation or control" of the roads. It is regarded ;i' precluding a strike. All new railroad financing wpuld be I'mie-r the approval of the President and the government would be author ized to support railroad credit by bny :n? railway securities and hold them !'"r better markets. All advances of money to the roads or expenditures for betterments would r-f reimbursed to th.3 government. - !n the House the bill was introduc ed by Chairman Sims of the Inter state commerce committee whicn ; nm .vionciay to consiuer n. In the Senate, it was introduced by Senator Smith, of South Carolina, and v U! bo considered by the Senate com--ih'e also on Monday. To guarantee proper returns to thej roaus during uurmg tne periou or govern-. ment operation, the President recom- pensation at the rate of the ?ame net ?5.nilg,inco,raeas the roa?S ha?e n ,t preceamg ns-,ami laWyer, asserting that the victim's lT.""edlb" . . bodv must have . been dismembered To provide for proper maintenance - Derson thoroughly familiar with ot the roads-and their return to own- acatomy ' tr? in the same order as the govern-; Dr Leak told how t,e fle3h had ment takes them over, the President fceen scraped from the back of the lecommended" legislation to authorize hea(J how the" limbs were severed at their up keep :nd betterment during t,e j0ints- how the body was severed the period .it Meralioperation. Leg- from its other parts and how smooth elation to his effect-is all contained 5- incisions had been made in accom in the administration bills, which pijghing this workv 'ould appropj tate 500,000,000 'founds j0m , sims, a "negro, told of finding )or government operation. 'the torso while digging in Dr. Cham- Only by government operation, the berlain's gardsn. The torso was bur pieifient toldJCottgress, could the un- iei cn a spot where an ice house' for ity necesf-arv to the country be ob- raeriv 'stood. Samuel Bate3. another 'iinei, a::d e added that existing i'ganizat:ons of the railroads should bp distuvben as litlei as-, possible.' r!:i- ; . , ..i i, fiirn. t i - I I K t IKK iT I II II I l n . - m spoke as follows: i ' the Congress: h; :'VP asked the nrivilece ' of ad-1 i.'nti!.ii"' on iTage 'Four.)-. s ! if i' :e railroad bill. Associated Press). v hiri i .n tot, a Tho' ait, A'hvpr that produced the, greatest im- miu.ualion bill for government operation of railroads proposes v-i'.Hi the pnvpmmont cttaii nnv "yt;iiution at an annual rate vinim, ur. unamuermm otaicu v" as nea! as nnsthic- tn thonpfnn. rinv. October 23. ;. that the missing- -'prating ncome for th three 'ears ended June 30, 1917.' " . Th b 1! nlso wonlrt flrnirnnri. A v at 4300.000,000 to be used as a ' revolving fund" with : the r , ex- cesR.Mrrinni, u a 'jL'hA'toitif-fifm . Britt's wife tes-' operation of thp taw - " - ''"tifert he saw a light burning in the - .-. DIVERGENT VIEWS ON PEACE TERMS V T-" .. tVT I- ' unAeuerman taction Was tor Annexation, Others More Moderate (By Associated Pres). i T-'ion, Jan. 4. There were dis- '.'.i-ci, tendencies noticeable in the ene-1 my delegation at the Brest-Litovsk ' meetings, the Petrograd correspon-; dent" of the Daily News says. One was annexationist and was represent-! ed by General von Hoffmann. A mod-1 Secretaries von Keuhlmann and Czer-' nm. V There were frequent disputes be tween the two tendencies,- These ' were settled, it is addd, by appeals! to Berlin which always supported von Kuehlmann and Czernin. General von f Hoffmann took the . purely military .point of view and complained with great bitterness that the Russians i werev using . the -armistice -; toi agitate among German soldiers. . . According to the correspondent, there is. a belief among the ,Rus- sian delegation mat uermany will yield to the Russian demands con-; cerning Poland and Lithuania, so as not to lose the advantage she gams by seeming to agree with Russia while The reasons for wishing 'the nego-1 nations to De conunuea at siock,- holm are a desire for a greater pub- licity and this idea is expressed in a Bolsheviki statement: "While we recognize that Stock holm is not very neutral, it is any how more neutral than German head quarters." STATE BESTS IN CHAMBERLAIN CASE Coroner Testifies that Dismem- berment of Body Was Work of Expert (By Associated Press) Goochland, Va., Jan. 4. Dr. r tv" ' coroner of Goochland count y, i , c. at the trial of Dr. Asa W. Chamb r- ther Albert P. Chamberlain, a farmer nesro who was with Sims at the .time of ttie findings, of the toro, corrooon-irect irted the testimony. ; d . tv, o t r. f xo ovtri l n or -orn h ennel1.?!"!-" led this afternocii.. f-The - 1 11C I Ldl& a. VI WiV ' . . . physician .r i wife, took the tand The oroseutior regards the testi- iohy of Louisa-Boaright, whol was The Russians4; demanded the crea-j 4 a negro servant in" Dr. uhamberiain';f cfa special commission to inquire ! home, as a gieat blow to the defense ih the deportation of Polish work-' i ; I was .the testimony of her, arid nc?T for employment -in privately ovm- t"iunder" ' Britt; ; a negro, ; Lawyer-ed f vctories in Germany. To this de-' WGhamberlain's nearest neighbor, howiirtai3.1theJ Germans responded they pression on the jury. Brit discovered the disappearance of Lawyer Cham- hrriain and notified neighbors. 'ip hroi her had gone West, "to a, place where "skeletons were, often found Jn "ro'lars.1' The doctor Showed 1 a f6- ceipt - to , the negro who thought.' it strange that , the lawyer should, leave rv0p Yo.p l"6t rn t,se nin, or ur- WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA; FRIDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY 4, 1918 ' " ',- - - " .---:. --7- .-- r -rQ?- : BEAUTIFUL BRITISH PEERESSES WHO ARE ENGAGED IN RELIEF WV 5 Lady Margaret Scott, Lady -j rr-. j-.Z. itl YORK ill GIVES THE STfiTE 'ISItflOIIOIlliSt- Richard Billings Presents $46,- j Q00 Elkin and Alleghany i t-. d j U"St Mortgage rionds GOVERNOR BICKETT'S I FTTFR PAITQFT fTi 1 JLCIVVAUOILi kl j i Millionaire Says He is Render-! ing Unto Caesar the Things That Are Caesar's Bick- ett is Happy ( Special to The Dispatch) Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 4. "If by ren- jdering unto Caesar the things that are j Caesar's I shall have ever so slightly amed the State of North Carolina. I I fit v. i. ; -i j i r : u A i ' Billings, New York millionaire, to ! Governor Bickett, as .Mr. Billings made the State a present of $46,000 worth of first mortgage bonds in the Elkin and Allegheny railroad. The New-Yorker was moved o this munificence by Governor Bickett who wrote him a few days ago, upon learn ing that Mr. Billings contemplated ! withdrawing further support from the nmnnf qIti rnilrnarl finvprnnr Tiimr. eti s tetter was not tea tj-... 4. i ! 'll c feeling. Replyi ing, the ,niA it hnrl n tr.nohpfl him fh'r. ' ..,xx. .-.cv.vx uau ow 1o was tnminir over ms S4R.000. Airs RilHritr'a mnther wjkj a North Carolin ian,' but 'that's all the kinshipe could ! rinim (Jovemor Bickett is verv hsn- - .-- . , I ny at the prospects of good the pre nntnAtTPn n.TrtAtr - vi-fl m i mm fc. aiv i STILL UNSETTLED, (By Associated - Press.) , Petrograd,; Jan. 4. The work of the commission which Is dealing with pris oners is proceeding slowly. The Rus- ;pu delegate".- claimed the right to send any. publications they desired to Russian prisoners in Germany and to Kocialists- m tne central umpires. iThev also demanded unrestricted dt telegraphic communication with representatives jbf the Socialisrparties tt ti-ia onamv pniintrioo Tho flormyn ,111.. Lilly V' uuA 1 ' ' ' i .A w --" . . - delegates' replied they were unauthor- ized to make an agreement on this . point:' iiad it been authorized td: take up.the quest n. The Russians thereupon'1 sked for further instructions from ; the Council .of. Peoples Commipsion-' THE FATE FIXED FOR , ;Oi7NlNG ASSEMBLY "--L- - , ; Petrograd. , Thvr'sday, Jan.. 3. The Eolshevmi v- '-;3,the opening . ot, the Constituent Assembly-for -January is, proviuea mere is mresent hi ami- FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE Windsor Clove, Countess iPercy and Lady Alexander, four 61 Englands mo with war'activities. Copyright, Underwood & Underwood. ... SUH I Bill in Congress to Create Of fice of Secretary of Munitions COMES AS RESULT OF RECENT INQUIRY Senator Chamberlain Intro- duces Bill to Place All Muni- tions of War Under Control of New Cabinet Officer (By Associated Press). y Washington, Jan. 4. Establishment j0f a department of munitions under a .new cabinet head, known as the Se' rrtvv of Munitions is proposed in a bill introduced today "uy Chairman Chamberlain of the Senate Military committee as a result of its investi gation of war operations. The new department would operate during the war and one year thereaft er. The new secretary of muaitions would have power under the Presi-; . - X J3JUAAi.:nM nMi-Mvl ...11 "t'lll S uueunuu lu (juiiliui cuius., ih T-iv.nifirTt fnnrJ rtnthino- , pmiitimPTit million-itcntage, transportation and any other ... .'. -. , . . i materials the Presiden i J n-ateria'ls the President shall desig - naie as iiiuuliuiih ui wa . iCilT on 1 mm Government bureaus, agencies und.ite, threatening to cut r.iic. roooaoipv tn n mnnitinns ndmir X UUUO Uj V Jk).l 1 J -- - i liplratk)n would be transferred to the! new department which contemplates ; irr.n'trni of .naval ns well as armv sun-tie plies. "The bill is intended to increase and ! expedite the " supply of munitions of war,',' said Senator Chamberlain. "One great trouble with the war- establish ment as disclosed by the investigation has been a lack of co-ordination and the seeming impossibility of getting rid of - circuitous methods of doing bus iness. Unt il there can be co-ordina- tion and methods more direct, . . the TTnited Stated wfll be erronins' in the " ' ' ; t- JT II " dark for many months before we can place ourselves . in proper fightins; trim. "This measure places all jurisdiction over munitions of war, which Is defin- ed at length in !the bill and covering everything in one person known as the" Secretary of Munitions; subject to. the direction, of course, of thev.Pres- iaent. "It co-ordinates all of ' the bureaus, cuts red tape, does away with, useless aecis?p-- v.nicn na tenuea : oniy decide"' v.hich had tended only to A hamper, direct' action, and gets to the i lit art of the whole situation. J "I belieya if Congress can see its I tiro v tn tlni oTi9p(-mpnt nf tVita moiSiiTP Sn the proper man is placed" at the "'head of the department of .munitions, . America will soon ; be occupying its proper place at-tne Dattietront. , -it '.will be noted that the measure is'jonly i:i iurc ciunrv m .-uiiunu-mi: u ui All ICE BLOCK nntfflTjmlinTK UUu u : UUULLU Sf1(IRjEf1fII1iMf? " i bassador to Russia, whpe services Hj" - " J liovLm !R;vr'fre praised highly, the writer says: udson and Harlem Kivers t .In . Wg: probally would be Frozen Over to Far irent a diplomat in marked sympathy Downtown Piers rUxlLj OiiUAiUJIN BECOMES SERIOUS . Coal Barges Locked Up in Ice, Kerosene Shortage Threat ened Charitable Institu tions Swramped (By Associated Press). New . York. Jan. 4. The ice block- adLin New York harbor and adjf ceiiw .waters combined with another day with .zero weather today caused much concern to the fuel administra tors . aid transportation officials who j have been endeavoring to relieve tnaj alarming snortage ot coai. ; - Not in years has the ice menace ; been so great. Barges with thou-i sands of tons of coal on board virtual ly were ice-bound in the bay last night. Powerful tugs worked for hours be- Core the.v succeeded in Dlowine a lane tIir0ljgh the ice for the scows. The Hudson river is frozen down to sOUtn street ana tne ttiariem nve "own . 1W i tir: Leeu partiy frozen .over. Staten Is- UUlti ill yvnib, J-.wu6 u" land waters are 1 1 . . A . V 1, fl i i i r off the large wai '"""ow vi. Several hundred employes of th tc assist in' the work of breaking the oiot fn' tho wort nf hroav? the i around coal laden barges. Despite ! the handicaps. Reeve Schley, the fuel ! administrator, was - hopeful, of gettnig considerable coal here during the day. As hundreds of families, unable to get coal; have been burning kerosene the supply has' dwindled to such an exlent that an oil famine is now fear- ed. Meanwhile suffering has increaceii among the. poor and charitable organ izations have been swamped with calls for help. Manyschool buildings were again -closed today with little pros pects of their re-opening until next week. " .f Tlie severe weather has , worked much -hardship to motormen-'on trol ley lines , and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company reported that 650 of its .uiotormen and conductors wera an the sick list yesterday. NOT QUITE SO COLD j TONIGHT IS FORECAST .( JBr Associated Press). Washington. Jan. 4. "Not quite so, cold tonight and warmer Saturday,', was - today's forecast of the Weather 4 Bureau "for much of the cold stricken Eastern, half , of the United States. Temperatures -will rise slowly in; in ferior districts and f the Atlantic. Coast States. : 1 s ' . I.." V - ' ' The storm off the coast I has' moved northward to ; the vicinity of Nova Scotia with- creatly- 1 creased Inten- GillTIONOF THE fiOLSHEll MOW PROBftBLE! D . rv '- i r-ki ixecenr developments .riace A-jiimc: aim i ruisK.y in more Favorable Light Df TOOT A KTO f A T A -t r- awiaip WADLL OF AIDING ALLIES The Resumption of Even a De-j - iciisivc rrogram wouia Wreck Gerrriari Plans in the East i (By Associated Press). i London, Jan. 4. Recognition of the jLenino government m Russia by the j Entente Allies is probable, owing to ' ,t,he developments in the Russo-Ger f 'man negotiations, according to The . ; Daily Chronicle. The statement ap-' iporently is based on a contribution; "iy . a diplomatic correspondent"! v,hich is printed beneath it. The ! writer says that owing to the Bolshev- iik discovery of German duplicity any - .thing may happen i '"There are." he says, "three ?lter- : natives: the Bolshevik! may give way, the Germans may give way or there ;v ill be a rupture of relations. The first is hardiy likely in view of For eign !The Minister Trotzk: s declaration, second is possible, for the Ger- , mans are past-masters in the art of : specious compromises. But tho third ; is most probable since the BolsheviM ,hav? exhibited a perspicacity which :v as hardly expected in this country. ' Russia may quite possibly witness a revival of war. If not in the most, the course the peace negotiations and I ' active form, it might at least be a sul-j he said he desired to receive sug ilenly defensive -war necessitating the Uestions from the representatives - of s keeping" on the frontier of a conskl ierable German force. It would at j least prevent those pleasant and prof itable commercial exchanges which ; Germany hopes for. "Assuming such a situation and the i consolidation Of Bolsheviki POWCl, it.-. u . t -s : ubi's uui wrecu iuc Leuiuts. regime ' then recognition of that power as the !de facto' government follows. Since j that IS so, a Socialist would be the 1 logical., representative of that govern- v Referring to i the retirement of Sir iGeorge W., Buchanan, the British am- ;vvith the ideas of revolutionary Rus . i "Be that as it may, we may expect i shortly sbnfe new statement of policy iVvita resard to Russia which, should it! lean toward the latest development s I and democracy would undoubtedly strengthen the Allied cause in Rus- o . ' EXPRESSESTHANK5 Replies to Many Messages From Home Conveying New Year's Greeting? (By Associated Press). With the American Army, m France, Tuesday, Jan. 3. On behalf of the American expeditionary force' Gener al Pershing has answered new year's messages from the United States. A message tojthe army from the Chil- drens' American Loyalty, League read: : "Dear American Soldiers: WTe know the sacrifice you have made for us and will make that we may be safe and happy. We thank you and wish you all a Happy New Year. General Perching responded as, fol lows: "The American soldiers in France are very glad to have your message. No sacrifice we can make will be too great if we can insure the safety and happiness of the children of Ameri- : ca." , From Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, suf frage leader and member of the Wo mans' Council of National Defense, came this greeting: "The. . women " of the United States are with you in the spirit of service. Your are our standard bearers, bur hope. We love you,1 believe in you, pray for you." j General Pershing replied:; "All ranks of . the American expedi tionary force unite in heartfelt thanks . to the wqmen of America or their love and prayers. The patriotism ot our incomparable wOmen, than whom .1 1 il - i 1 , shall be onr constant inspiration until tne great tas wnicn is entrusted to us shall be accomplished. Accept our best 'wishes' for the coming year and 4, our firm confidence" in. final success' J4, viuisiiuft. mcooagc nuui men of the American Red Cross ; the American commander. sent the htanks of all ranks, -addtag::tSSNi "The love and confidence ; of pur women- will make us - all ' better men land better soldiers' and hold us .firm' Hn th co1""' "a '?fpff-.-ti';n - to i GENERAL PERSHfNE PRICE FIVE CENTS V:, GbRMANY ON HER POSITION jc,. Von Hertling A4- dressed Reichstag on Prpg i ress Made Toward Peace. Will MfYT TP A f TOSTOC&ifll? Cv02j' rli dence in the Outcome of. the y. Peace Negotiation With Russia;'- s (By Associated Press). if Berlin, Jan. 4. Via Amsterdam. Ad dressing the Reichstag main commit ; tee yesterday, Chancellor' von , Hert-.' ling said in regard to the Russian, rejection of the peace proposals deal ing with disposition of the occupied; I Russian territory: ;;Vii'? "We can cheerfully await the fur ther course of this incident. We rely j uPn our strong position, pur loyal ! intentions and our rights." J The Chancellor announced that'Dr, von Kuehlmann has been instructed ; to reject the Russian - proposal J; to j transfer tre peace negotiations -to' ! Stockholm. - :- j Chancellor von. Hertlmg said she I ( greeted with satisfaction the! oddot- tunity of the government aid -the peoples repreesntatives of- conferrmg oh the weighty and fatefuljecisions which were being discussed. The government would take adranti age of this opportunity, the Chancel- i lor said, to make communications on" J the people. . ,i v":;-.- Count von Hertling said the Foreign , Secretary, Ton Kuehlmann, yesterday ! after a stay of only two days in Berlin, had returned to Brest-Wtovsk.-He therefore was unable himself , tn roT,nr4. nnnvc ck rf ta nunnfln.' 'tions. ine under-secretary for for ; eign affairs, Baron von Dem Bussche-. Hadenhausen, would undertake th(J task instead. The latter said.ithol armistice negotiations ' Bad "taken a rapid f and smoot!i;courBe- and hud - reached v a general ; satisfactory - con- " 'PafaTTel rtaiitaese '"nigoiiattoni ran ' the. negotiations at Fokshani for an armistice on the Southeastern -front at which Rumania was represented. The peace negotiations which follow ed the Baron said, naturally., were very difficult as they had to be- con ducted by the coalition .on . one hand . and a single power on the other., As to the negotiations the public , had been better informed than was usually the case. This had made tie negotia- tions more difficult as the Entente Powers were "enabled to impede the negotiations by circulating false news." : . - The Baron then re vie wed;, the Rus sian proposals, the German counter proposals and the tasks of the Ger man commission sent to Petrograd to deal with the questions of jsubects of the Central Powers interned wounded soldiers and prisoners. . During the debate a member of the Centrist party expressed approval of the attitude of the German represen tatives at Brest-Litovsk; and said: "Our aim must be not only to arrive at an understanding with the Bolshe viki government, "but to reach, a last ing peace with the Russian people and prevent war in future." , : ; . " The speaker asserted the constitu tional bodies now now existing in. Poland, Lithuania and Courland estab lished on valid law express the will of the peoples of those territories. : . ASocialist member t declared: it would be in the interest of the em- pire to recognize the principle of tne right of peoples to self-detennina- tion. -. . -" '- ' I "Pnlitinnl Hfo in ihet oMinff fpr. -itn i nhtt hr n.iittorv pressure which must be removed.". He said : - . , ; "The negotiations in the East must be conducted to a satisfactory end. This is the will of the German! peo ple and of the German nation. -itself." - c;l-5 -rmt'' REVENUE RECEIFTSSi 1 SHOW BIG INCREASE " (Special ib The Dispatch) Raleigh, N. C;, : , Jan. ; 4. Revenue figiyres in Collector V Bailey's office were large .for December with $830, 234.82 as against $506,065.65,. a gain of $324,169.17 over December of 1916. For the first half of the year the revenue collections ran to $5,638,816.53 against $3,887,454.63 1 for ; 1916. i-;This ; was a gain of $1,757,360.95,:1 . : Z J-'dl TWO THOUSAND KILLED. iTv , AccnMdt.n " ptocrV f sirum iiAmummn- A a -lunatrh'1 to ThA -Tidnineen- says" that the' munitions depot on ' the RUSSian Southwestern . front 'I was blown un recently .auQ inai V 4. an . buildings within a; radius of 4i two kilometres . were destroyed.; with Cossacks; on -the way ' to the Don district, 5 '4 were wrecked causing the; death of 2.0C0 men. ' : ;;; " J - TO RELY