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FOLLOW YOUR PRESIDENTS LEAD hUY Ai OTHER BOND 5: . -, WEATHER North Carolina anc South Carolina: Fair tonight and Sunday. mm TODAY'S NEWS IS JL .. i. -: TODAY FULL LEASED WIR& SERVICE 'i. If! VOL. XXIV. No. 115. WILiyjINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA. SATURDAYlAFTERNOONMAY 1 91 8. PRICE FIVE CENTS I 11 -w GERMAN STILL MMmmmmmE Lull in H Infantry Fight- eavv AT7..i IT i ing on western rrom Continues THE WEEK DECIDEDLY UNFAVORABLE TO HUN ... , ., r mi . ' He Has r ouna cne roaa oiock ed Everywhere Enemy Ar tillery Continues its Chorus of Hate. Germany's leaders still hesitate to renew in force the offensive to -which ;they are committed and the lull in (Flanders and Picardy is still un broken by heavy infantry fighting. ! The past week has been a dis tinctly unfavorable one for the enemy. After capturing Mont Kem mel and heralding it as only the first step of a victorious blow in Flanders, : the Germans have not been able to advance either southwest of Ypres or east of Amiens. Checked by . the heroic defense of the French and Britsh in the north, they were also unable to gain south of the Somme. In Picardy duriag the past fpw days the Britisn and French, espec ially General Petain's men, have made important local gains and the Germans have not reacted in force, a unusual procedure. The enemy has made no attempt -to forces the , French from Hill 82, near Castel, .and tiii The British and. French. 6n lie Tillers Bretenneux . .region f also Lri!Jt heen molested eicepT by the Genua artillery which continues a ' most violent bombardment south of the Somme and north and south of the Avre. .uense entuix pruuery nre on idi :o'uth tlank i i I landers has not bion foiloued by intanmy fighting. Fjg f.roians aho ava rombarding heavi ly the British north of Albert. Per h.ip :iie enemy rr.ay Intend a blow on the Arras salient as these bombard ments have teen against the North and Southai n lines of the salient. Dispatches from the British front in dicate the Germans are making ready for futher attacks and it is believed they have not had time to complete all arrangements. Anglo French airmen continue to harass the German communication lines in Northern France and Bel gium and have dropped thousands of bombs on railroads, railway stations and other imporcant targets. Thirty-eight German machines of which -2 were estroyed, have been accoun fd for by the British and French. On we American front northwest of Joul, Aviator Chapman has met tfeath in a combat in which he de stroyed his adversary, both machines lling in German territory. Great Russia rapidly is being cut ff from access to its former allies, inland is almost completely under 5?ntrol of the Finnish government jrces and its German allies, while In Je.,south all but the eastern coast the Black Sea is in the hands of we central empires. The Turks have Batoum in the Caucs "Winans havo t mouth of the Don river and in the R "' J-UU I 1 Y CI dUU 111 Dan osacK Territory and also a rt of the -great Donetz coal basin. ICICIO LU Lil " M. Ill ';u aPa Guards as the enemy in -uiionnninir V, '!2Dcmg the defeat and capture of 01 them Vnr.rf 1 i. n , , ireui 1,8 iiitti, a, uci- uan Drinpo TT-iii 1 j . - - u, uea-u a monarcav in ua again ;.re being circulated. 'uese nimftra 01 c tzvs :v. ities under G . v.uuic 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 r uiuiMi erman control. Tr-3!1 Hi9her Rate on Iron. rah- .Shington' iIay 4. Southern ftatp today aPPJied to the inter thorit co.mmerce commission for au iTiT, mcrease rates on pig iron, hkmd 8teel rails- bHllets and fra Jani cast Iron PiPe irom south Mir cmg points to Ohio and South S?P1 crossin?s and Gulf and l Atlantic ports. The proposed tot?8 would range from 15 cents a ton. ari9her Rate on Sugar. about ?ing ' May 4. Increases of Ity rat per 'nt. in carload conlmod to nr,,S .n su&ar from New Orleans r in llnV . m "CSPep anrl tr ' VJ"-'VJ1 fet " 3av hv , .ucky were approved auama, u-eorgia, len- Mission mierstate commerce s : WaShin!ral,y Fair ext Week i 'alflgji . , , vituciauji x.aii "oiin. . tmperature changes eath, - i. ucuci any Lull A-U; antir lureca ior tne sout ! veev i? ?ast Gulf States durin eK beginningg tomorrow. , 1 ' ,3 ib, lot ine noum LEADERS EEMlAiE ENT TARHEEL Stephen B. Weeks Had Won Distinction in Historical Research .Washington, May 4. Dr. Stephen Beauregard Weeks, a widely known North Carolinian, and one who has won distinction in the realm of his torical research, died Thursday at his Dre wi: ; j w5 ui uaiucD i Elliott Weeks and Mary Louise Mullen! Weeks, of Pasquotant county, and! was born February 2,. 1865. His fath- j VJ1' ?i three years Old;Upon his mother's deth," says T. M. Pittman's sketch of his life in ,the Biographical His tory cfNorth Carolina, "he was cared for by his aunt, Mrs. Robertson Jackson, of Pasquotank county, who, with her husband, reared him as their own child." He attended a preparatory school at Henderson and from there went to the University of North Carolina, wnere he took the degree of A. B. in lOOtf . . " . r'w.T 5 , yera,Prvpostgradu- ate work there in English language and literature. German and Latin. L took A. M. in 1887' and Phv D.-4tt'-l88-.4 The 'three following' years, 1898-91, were spent as honorary Honkins ! at Baltimore in. the study of history, EngUsh languaTA and political economy. Frnm this nni yersity he received the Ph. D. degree ' PROMIN DIED IN WASHINGTON a ," t . . , . . before the crowd of angry Germans At the close of his student work J. . , , . j at the University of North Carolina , would disperse. They had been en he married Miss . Mary Lee Martin, gaged in a heated discussion and sev-1 aaugnter of Kev. J. B. Martin, a prom, i inent Methodist minister. Mrs. Weeks died May 19, 1891; two children were born of this marriage, and one, Rob ertson Jackson Weeks, survives. His second marriage was with Miss Sallie Mangum Leach, of Randolph county, a daughter of Col. Martin W Leach, j and errand daughter nf Mnn Willia P . ' . . .. . " I ivianeum. lnere wpr Tnur phi nrpn 1 by this union. Dr. Weeks was professor of history and political science at Trinity Col lege from 1891 to 1893. He resign ed in June, 1893, and spent a year as fellow by courtesy at Johns Hop kins University. "Even before this time," says Mr. Pittman's sketch, "Doctor Weeks had become interested in North Carolina history and a col lector of the historical materials of the State. He became an untiring collector of everything pertaining to North Carolina." In July, 1894, Dr. Weeks accepted a position with the United States bureau of education, and in addition to important and responsible duties in that department, found time for extensive historical work. 'In 1899 his health became so poor that he was compelled- Ho change his residence and employment. He obtained a trans fer to the Indian Service and was stationed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, as principal teacher in an Indian school. He rapidly advanced in sta tion in the Indian Service and soon had attained high rank. Later he returned to Washington and took up work again with the; bureau of edu cation with which he was connected when he died. He wrote many books, monographs and newspaper and magazine articles, mainly on matters having a bearing on North Carolina history and there was no limit to his energy and in dustry; Wake Forest recognized his scholarship and attainments in 1902 by giving him the degree of LL. D. Perhaps his greatest contribution to the compilation of the history of the state was his indexing of the colonial and state records, the index alone comprising several volumes. He also was one of the editors of the Bio graphical History of North Carolina. The funeral will be held either Sun day afternoon or Monday afternoon at Rougemont, Durham . county, and will be conducted by Rt. Rev. Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire. . ANOTHER BIG GUN OUT OF COMMISSION Pans, May 4. News has just Been received from the front that a French gun maae a uireti nit jbsiciuhj uu one of the long range German cannon Willi wuiku x aiio is ui-u. and put it out of action. wim WU1UU JTttl-iD is uciiife uuujutiucu, ttha 4 - ?ivtt s Fnn iHmk.'ww.r Mafl and J. L Leslie, of UOC UiilO. w ww .. istration. WD TRY TO MAKEANESCAPE A Fifty-foot Tunnel Discover ed From Under Prisoners' Barracks ROW AMONG GERMANS . . CAUSED DISCOVERY xww t li Prisoners Were Fighting Each Other, and When Guards Investigated They Discov ered the Tunnel Atlanta, Ga., May 4. An apparent attempt at a wholesale delivery of the German prisoners at Fort McPherson i was foiled late yesterday when the disoverpd a 50-foot tunnel- -- . ----- leading from under one of the pris-: - , . , A iU a oners ' barracks toward the doub wire fence, which encloses the prison; camp. r VX? ,esws"l7 themselves, thp eruards beinsr com-1 pelled to advance with fixed bayonets eral blows were passed among Teutons. eral blows were passed among the i The exact cause of the internal m son turbance among the prisoners has notfen8e of Verdun predominated amon? been established, although the campHhe French aoldiers who so gallant- officials are conducting a rigid inves-.!y tigation. 11"W . WIiot, tha HiartrHci VioH Vioon nniaf. I ' ""uiu-i su.o- ed guards began a systematic search i fighting was. but declare that Ver- points behind him. The averages in of the prisoners' quarters and soon;dun w4s chlld's niay compared to the clude games of Wednesday, discovered the tunnel which had been , conflict in Fianaers recently Chapman, also sof Cleveland, anc! dug with great secrecy. The excava-j lhe bombardment at Verdun had PiPP Gilhooley, of New York are. tion work evidently had consumed !sAt a hip.vmQOP mQrt fni. rtDM. tied for honors in runs scored, aach many days, the Germans having used all possible means to hide evidence of their work. . It is understood that several pris- oners suspected of complicity m theFrencn tQOk up positions attempt to escape have been placed i about Kemmel . on Apridl 22, reliev- m confinement pending the result of i , . - a. the official investigation. , . . . I MOST OF CASUALTIES I Today's List of 86 Names Con- i r l t-i r ( i tained Only Three from the South Washington, May 4. The casualty list today contained 86 names, divid ed as follows: Killed in action . . . 3 Died of wounds 3 Died of accident .... 4 Died of disease 8 Died" of other causes 1 Wounded severely . . . . 14 Wounded slightly 50 Missing in action 1 The list included the names of Pri vates Simpson Hunter, Buell, Va.; and Harry Lewis, of Chicamauga, Ga., twho died of disease, and Private Ed die B. Henderson, of Douglas, Ga., slightly wounded. The majority of the J men named were from New England. The list shows the following offi crs i Lieutenant Wilson Marshall, Jr., of Bridgeport, Conn., died of accident: Lieutenant Albert E. Johnson, of Col linsville, Conn., severely wounded. Lieutenant Maurice S. Redmond, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is reported missing in aC followlng were slightly wounded : Captains Frederick L. Blair, Provi dence, R. I.; Joseph E. Felsted, West Haven Conn, and Alfred H. Gris- ' .. . . J T II.. oral Naur Krltftln I ;Onn. . ana JjIBU- tenants Arthur W. Desmond, of Dor- Chester. Mass.: Patrick F. Healey, of i Charlestown. Mass.; Durant F. Ladd, r w isfcv i-iwuw!, ' Fluhin&. N. Y, , .... FROM NFJ ENGLAND . . I H. I " Two Big French Generals iSW 111 Vwiii 1 1 - ! ' - T-tfTT f"1 l in l lll'j I .v v. . v . - 4. - From left to riftht are Gen; F?v t communder-in-chief of all the Allied er-in-chief of the French force s ytt ui . "JL. !H'W- ' 1 BATTLE M nm n'"c oocdcot! o ojliUxloii Verdun Fighgt Was Tame in Comparison Declare French Veterans With the British Army in France', dis-!Friday. lay 3. Veterans .of the de- defended Kemmel Hill against the j Germans. Many of them had fought - J at FlftUrV and thftV knpw what hnrH ' -- - - i tion of guns, of all calibres, but it was nothing compared to what the French troops : experienced during- the Ger- an ilrivfl. o era net VCam tyi i TT-iA Uft, LUC UGLtlC J UliUr'Il. i Til IT "l nt Throughout April 23 and 24 before S1X- ' the Germans - maintained a tremen- Cleveland is leading in club batting dous bombardment and threw hun- with an average of .301 and St. Louis dreds of thousands of. gas shells mix- in team fielding with .975. ed with, ordinary explosive shells. I - The : three learting batters.; Spsak On the morning of the attack on pr, Cleveland, .526; Gandil, Chicago, Kemmel the German : gunners placed !-464- -Tarkson, Chicago. .438. 10 big shells per second oh the crest ' Members of the championship New of the hill and during that day the Y.oi, team are in possession of vir French put on their gas masks '50 , tWtnV' all early season honors m the different times, for as fast , as the wind cleared the gas away - another deluge of the poisonous vapor pour- ed over the hill. Part of the time the poiius had to sleep in their masks. Despite the great quantities of gas thrown the French had only 1 2 cats-1 ualties from it, according to the lat - est reports A large 'part of the fighting was with machine guns of which Ue Ger-1 mans always had great numbers and at times" the Germans enfilading fire was terrific. The F.rench artillery and machine-guns, however, in their turn reaped a great harvest from the enemy At times the French 75s got into heavy concentrations of Infantry .and literally tore them to pieces. The German ' losses in many instances are placed as high as 40 per cent. German airplanes were out in force. They new at an altitude of 100 metres and used machine guns con tinuously against the infantry. NEGROES DEAL WITH met AVAI CCA rfrV registered thirteen. Brottonr, of Lit UloHJl ALt Ot-A ACHJIV fie R0Ck. tops the base stealers with Pensacola, Fla., May 4. John Mur phy, a negro sea cook, was arrested yesterday by the federal authorities, charged with violation of the espion age law. Murphy was rescued by the rn'-o '1 c - v-, were handling him roughly, having 4 . nn....yu "'o ujiu i cuiai n.o. The negroes asked that they be left io ueat with Murphy, it was said. Waste and extravagance are Ger- ... many .aiieoi u . ... . H I i- ... . ! - " i . i 7mlm 4Fm p J ie French general win, is supit-mb rmies and Gen P.-t.a.in, itm wmiuiand. Western front Copyright; Underwood &. Uitderwoort. SPEAKER StmiVELY dapc imm His Batting to Date is .536 McCarty and Giants Lead Nationals Chicago, May 4. Tris Speaker ha? FOR SWATTERS a comfortable lead in the race far the 1918 batting honors of the American league. .Averages released today show him blazing the trail with a mark of .526 for eleven games. Can- . . dil nf Chioaprn hia npsrosf rival iq r? - - - having registered a dozen. Jackson, Chicago, Gedeon, of St. Louis, Burns of .Philadelphia. Baker of New York. Shanks, of Washington, and Chapman have a heme run each to their credit. Dave Shean. of Boston, is leadine: in sacrifice hittine with lJ " " - Rational League with Lew McLartv, ! the catcher, showing the way to the j batters with an average of 00 for ' eight games. There are four New Yorkers among the 10 leading hitters. George . Eurns, the Giants', left fielder, is leading the base stealers !with seven and is tied with Young, i nis team mate for honors in runs ! scored with fifteen. Kauff, of New York and Roush of Cincinnati, each j have made five sacrifice hits. Fred Luderus of Philadelphia, is topping ; the list of home run hitters with two 'in 12 games. New York is leading in club battm? I with an average of .320, and St. Louis is club fielding with .970. The four j leading batters: McCarty. New York, -500; Smith, Boston, .426; Doyle, New ! York 405; Paulette, St Louis, .400. In the Southern Association Flag- stead, of Chattanooga, is leading the j batters with an average off .400 for 12 games. He cracked out 20 hits m 50 times at bat. Veteran Tommy Leach, who also is playing with Chattanooga, is presr,- ing Flagstead with an average of .385 and is leading in runs scored, having tie Rock, tops 11, and Graff, off Chattanooga, the sacrifice hitters with seven. Chattanooga is leading with chib batting with 270 and'New Orleans in club fieldingg with .966. Ten leading batters: Flagstead, Chattanooga, .400; Leach Chattanooga .385; Paddock, Chatta- nnnrro Q70 . mnnftenn Mow fir- New Or , uuuja "-' uuiuuiiusuu, leans, .367; Bluhm. New Orleans, .357; Bues, Mobile .354; Gilbert, New Orleans. .350 ; Disiel. . Little Rock, .348 O'Brien, Nashville .344; Aiten- , n n 10 uum.., THIRD LIBERTY LOAN AS GONE ANNOUNCEMENT OE IPROVEDJERVICE Management Proposes to Do Its Full P art in City's Progress IMPORTANT FEATURES WILL BE PUT ON j Splendid Fashion Serviced and j the Resinning of a Remark able Story Will Start Sun day Morning .. Wilmington is at the beginning of an almost unprecedented civic growth. Plans now being formulated by the i!nitd States Shipping Board will call for the construction of more tonnage-at the new Wilmington ship yards than was originally planned. This increased work will bring a big addition in the city's population, will make necessary additional train serv ice and will divert business activities of every description to this vicinity. This rapid de.veVpment of what is destined to be tho most important j city in North Carolina demands a i simultaneous expansion ana improve j ment of every business enterprise in Wilmington. Fort.unatejy.a great ma: aOSSVfgtL -nctnl.. injdustcies.., have ..been built on a solid foundation that will permit swift improvements to meet the needs of a swift-growing popula ! tion. The Dispatch proposes to do its part in the forward movement. Arrange ments are rapidly being completed to mak-T this paper a news medi,," of the first rank. A specie1 ,uf respond ent, stationed in ' Washington, will give DispacL readers a comprehen sive iaea of nationally important events as they occur and will pay special attention to the activities " of the United States Shipping Board, a government department in which Wil mington now has special interest. In addition to a complete presenta tion gf the news of the day, The Dis patch plans the addition of important features that' will appeal to every class of readers. Beginning tomor row (Sunday) morning, a special il lustrated fashion service will be made a daily department. Tomorrow will also mark the beginning of a very re markable story, called "His Stenogra pher," written by Dale Drummond, a writer of national reputation. "His Stenographer" will be pub lished by The Dispatch in association with the Philadelphia North Ameri can and the Washington Post. It is a vivid, gripping narrative of the ad ventures encountered by a young girl who attempts to earn her living in- the business world. Although the author deals quite ffankly with the problems that confront women vv;ho are thrown on their own resources, the story is above all else a tale of optimism and good, old-fashioned American pluck. The first installment will appear in the Sunday Dispatch and a new chapter will be published daily thereafter. This is merely, the beginning of a series of improvements that are to be inaugurated as rapidly as possible and which will follow out the an nounced intention of making The Dis patch the best afternoon pajyr in North Carolina. A. W. IIEAN GREETED Bl FELLOW CITIZENS .(Special to The Dispatch.) Lumberton, N. C. May 4. The lar ger portion of Lumberton was at the station this morning to greet Angus W. McLean, recently appointed one j of the directors of the War Finance , Corporation, upon his return from a business trip to New York and other eastern points. When the train came in and Mr. McLean appeared he was siven a rousing reception by his fel- low-townsmen. In a short address Mayor James D. Proctor expressed the gratification of the people of the city, county and state, upon the signal honor that had been conferred upon their distinguished fellow-citizen. Mr. McLean feelingly repli ;1 to the words of welcome, express ng. a most . hearty appreciation for the un expected demonstration, and re affirmed his loyalty to all interests of his city, county, state and nation. AND DISPATCH MAKES OVER TOP STILLiCLMBWG A' ' rr- A ; Minimum of $3,000,000,000 Passed Today, but More is v h 4Wanted HOPE TO INCREASE IT BY A BILLION While the Minimum Was Reached, Officials Wanted to Make it Four or Five to Match Germany. . Washington, May 4. The thlfd lib erty loan has been oversubscribed "by $6,888,900, the treasury reported to- j day. Later figures are expected to raise the total far above three bil- lions- Although this insures that the min imum asked by Secretary McAdoo has been pledged, much work remained to be done today to bring the UCal to -the four or five billion which the treasury hoped to get. The treasury called attention to the fact that the total now reached is "almost $800, 000,000 less than was subscribed by Germany in its eighth loan." The San Francisco district has con firmed official figures its claim of being the fifth district to subscribe the quota. Liberty loan workers today are out tor a Diinon dollars or more over subscriptions before the campaign closes at midnight. It was the busiest day of the Jour .fweeks' drive and probably the most productive. , iLocal -committees sum moned every worker to aid in street corner speeches, house-to-house can vassing, office and factory soliciting and telephone appeals to "subscribe the utmost." "ZJ T" "A hr.I in every home" was the 'Ll aay slogan which workers sought to Drake good. Other campaign war cries were: "Buy Another Bond," "Match the President's $50 Bond," and "Subscribe Before It Is Too Late."' Reports of states which have reach ed their goals come rapidly today. Maryland, Vermont, Indiana, Virgipjfc and North Carolina were among those claiming the honor fla. Scores of telegrams told of great numbers of small subscribers who par ticipated today in the loan. Treasury officials said they expected the num ber of subscribers to exceed 16,000, 000. v -J ' New York Goes Over. New York, May 4. With subscrip tions still pouring in New York went "over the top" in the liberty loan campaign at noon today. The mini mum quota of $900,000,000 for thii district had then been exceeded and millions were still to be tabulated, ths liberty loan committee announced. . TO REACHjrs QUOTA City Must Meet the Demaridi Made Upon it Match the President Reports, this morning carried tne announcement that the nation had Over-subscribed the minimum of $3, 000,000,000, and that every effort-was j be'p strained to move toward four ' or five billions. The announcement was made also that North Carolina had passed its $19,000,000 allotment, and was- still climbing. In Wilnling-. ton the campaign managers and corps of workers are stirring every nook and corner of the city in ah ef fort to put this city over the top be fore night, and there is a strong hope that this goal will be reached, though it is realized that it will be only by the hardest kind of work and a most ready response by the people that this can be accomplished. Every person who has not bought should do so before 9 o'clock tonight, and j those who have are urged to match j the president and buy another one. Vhe Dispatch was among those to day who "matched" the president and bought another bond. It was also an nounced this morning that 51 em ployes of the Wilmington Iron Works had bought bonds. Reports early to day indicated that the day's efforts would result in many subscriptions and those who have the pride of th city at heart are hopeful that ,th city's quota will be met by 9 Vcloclt tonight. After that hour it will bs too late. .-.. - HELPING WILMINGTON - :a V.' if it ;1 -A : "i . ' if - n s '
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