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-V. :y. St.. : . X . - . ' V " THE LMING1 . WEATHER. Narth and South -C.ro-. .;, Fair tonight and Wednesday; probably f ' J .- F showers tonigm, FULL leased wire service P AG ES III TODAY . - VOL. XXIV. NO. 118. WMflNGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS MEMSE AWlLLERT FIRE REPORTED ON THE BATTLE FRONTS - ' Germany's Hordes are Still Being Held in Check in The West. AMERICAN TROOPS UNDER HEAVY FIRE Thousands of Gas and Ex plosive Shells Poured Upon Pershing's Men Attack Expected Any Moment. Germany's hordes are still held, ia check. .Neitner m nauuers nor iu Picardy. nor alone the important Arras sectir has the enemy renewed his attacks in force and he has not reacted against the gain made north of the Somme by the Australians in vhich more than 200 prisoners were captured. On both battlefronts, however, the artillery fire has been most inten3d and the German attack cannot much longer be delayed if the enemy hoped n take advantage of whatever dam age has been done to the allied pisi tions by the heavy bombardments carried out by his guns since the re pulse north of Mont Kemmel more than a week ago. The greatest Ger man artillery activity has been on the northern half of the Flanders front and south of the Somme to be low the Avre in Picardy. American troops in their positions south of the Somme have been sub jected to intense artillery fire, . the e-emy using more than 15000.ahell3, Ecstly gas, in a short period. Thero kve been no signs of a German In tra;.' attack against ,the Americans wo confidently aws.it the first signs tf awakened activity SENA IE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT WENT WITH THE MONEY Investigation of the Aircraft Situation Has Begun Tak ing Shape. NO AMERICAN PLANE SENT TO EUROPE YET 11IEVE THEY ARE nr nrnnfninrn Looks Like Long Standing Fight For Laity Rights is About Won. DO YOUR DUTY MR. VOTER. SEVEN BISHOPS WILL BE ELECTED Bishops Hoss to be Retired . Washington Man Would Lift Ban on Dancing and Card Playing. Though $640,000,000 Was Appropriated for Building Aircraft Congress Un able to See Results. c the important Arras tea taken over by .Canadian troops, tio al3a-are"be!fl vlsite,d"by-a-storm o'. German shells. French: generals Kievp the Germansmay attack si ira.'taneou?ly on theTlanders, Arras mi Amiens fronts . in an effort to pish the allies back in one mighty Voir. The hill positiins, however. Washington, May 7. Investigation of the aircraft situation swifely be gan taking shape today both in the department of justice and in con gress. '"'Attorney General Gregoryy, acting at President Wilson's direction, be gan planning the investigation which is to disclose if there has been mal feasance or misuse of the great $640, 000,000 appropriation. The aircraft subject came up as soon as the senate convened. Stirred by published charges culminating yesterday in the president's order to the department of justic, senators at once began dmanding " congressional inquiry. i :-: nivf nf tho cruithorn enrt '.'-V k v Senator Brand eeee. remiblican. nf HHSIEMB DEFEATS SUBMARINE Connecticut, was among the fiflrst to -calk, fogon ean 4 ChafrmanCfcaiuBeiv lain responded with ' his announce ment of the committee's intentions. While the senate was discussing the aircraft situation, Secretary Ba ker and other department officials were urging before the house mili- tee held by the allies and their guns t5ry committee a new billion dollar dominate the Germans all along Hie ' ;rti.L appropnauon. ling ' . Secretary Baker declared facts and Tie Austro-Hungarian blow against ! figures regarding aircraft planes the Italian front has not developed. I should not be made public. He said Rome reports only moderate fire (the committee was entitled to the de along most of the front from Switz- j tails, but he was opposed to present erland to the Adriatic and no inran- nS thm publicly. Despite sugges ts activity. The Austrians, however, , tions by several members of the con k?v be waiting for the most favor- ! mittee, he said nothing should be able moment, probably the renewal i Sen out by the committee He said of the German drive in Flanders: ! criticisms of the aircraft plan were Today, May 7, is the third anni- i mB? Proerman influences rmary if the sinking of the Lusi-jand the details of the governments Ma by a German submarine with ! Plans should be kept secret on the 'lie los of 1 275 lives ground of military necessity. io.8 ot io lives. piang fQr the military committee's i further investigation have not been fully formulated and will be outline-! at an early meetings Members said today it was probable the inquiryy would be behind closed doors but 'with a public report to be made later. The investigation, Senator Cham- -berlain announced, would be to de- n . . termine how and where the immense Sieved U-Boat Was Sunk appropriations were expencjad, add- Q jcl tT JL that tne committee proposed to oecond ohot r irea by i put its finger on the men respousi Ci. ible." and added further: 1 lie vuuimiv'.u uvv x to engage in any whitewashing pro cess either." In making his announcement, Sen ator Chamberlain declared there had heeen somthing radically wrong with the whole program. He had never seen the borglum rport, he said, but declared the conclusion reached in the H. Snowden Marshall report were in accord with those of the committed. Th senate committee, he said, was a peart of th government's, authori ties, and added significantly, ha was "glad the president approves its course in advance." , ffiNew charges of a sensational kina in connection of aviation are brought forth daily, Chamberlain continued. "These charges are coming to me and other members of the committee vry day," h said. "This committee is determined to do whatever is nec essary to help wiwn the war.' Senator Vardaman, democrat, or Mississippi, asked how many Ameri can planes were abroad, and Sena tor Chamberlain replied that not one Arnerican-uilt attleplane had been sent there although American ma terial in large quantity has been shipped for assembling. . "Our people ought to be informed, the senator proceeded, "of the truth of the situation and they newer have bn " ' Referring to testimony of A Major General Squier, chief of the signal corps, before the committee regard ing failur to train 1,500 Amrican ca dets sent to France because no air planes were available and plans to return them to this country for train ing Senator Chamberlain said a large nber of the cadets hsd never nutved any thaining abroad. Senattrt- 7alsh, declaring the state ment nraordinary,Wf- asked if i jrere a6 "confession of failiwi"? Washington, May 7. A fight, be 'een the American steamer Tidewa t?r and a . German submarine on March 17, in which the submarine as defeated, and perhaps sunk, was Sported today by the navV depart ment. The steamer encountered the U-boat u night and barely missed colliding "h her as she was submerged. Tie iidewater fired a shot which fell some distance ahead of th submarine's ake, hut a second shot apparently as a clean hit. The crew of the was satisfied the shot was ef eive, but a third shell was fired at e Place, where tne U-boat sub merged. The navy department's announce aent saii: "TJe comiander of the armed Sort" t the steamship Tidewater re Lr V the navy department that on rinf ' abUt 11:30 P- m- a subma- W as sishted off the starboard ah,;. fading towards the vessel,, SSI yards off- As 8hiP nnt 1 U mlFsed the submarine by sw0re'than 20 feet- The U-Dat s then submerging. , Yhe shiirt first IV brouS&t to bear and the her wake h Sm6 distance ahead of andTh!inter fired the second sTiot esl what the captain, the chief h,t and myself and other mem--;(! J the crew called a clean hit --f tisried that it was effec- 1 ue tnird shot was fired by the ' -J'ns mate in charge of the aad firir,. , v- saving ner spotted teerged i " I0sition sne last sub and rnw&' ,,n resumed, our course b for zigzaSSInS, standing Jil not JL ack' but the submarine rati0 Ppear,agaln- We made prep ir aa attac1 at daybreak but werfl no Bifins of i submarine." ""atsv iter Atlanta, May 7. Announcement that the committee on revisals had decided to recommend concurrence In all memorials requesting laity rights for women caused much jubilation among the women at the opening of today's session of the General Confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. While it was stated that a minority report probably will be- filed also, women leaders believed their long standing fight at last was to be won at this conference. The general conference four years ago at Oklahoma City rejected their appeals by a vote of 171 to 105. Elimination of the following para graphs of the church discipline is asked by the women: "It Is not in harmony with the spirit of our law that women be mem bers of a district conference." "It is "not lawful to elect a woman as steward." "A woman may be elected a super intendent of a Sunday school, but is not. therphv a member nf a rmar-i terly conference." The committee on episcopacy, it was reported, will recommend the retire ment of Bishop E. E. Hoss. At the same time it was stated that seven In stead of five bishops may be elected during the present session. Bishop James Atkins, of North Car olina, presided at today's, meeting. The "religious exercissvwerV conduct ed by the Rev, A. J. Lamar, of Nash ville. An open letter was presented by J. Henry Smythe, Jr., of Washington, urging the abolition of the ban on dancing, theater-going and card play ing. The writer maintained ihat "movies" should also be added to the list forbidden by the Book of Disci pline, if the chruch would be consist ent. The letter will be referred to the committee on revisals. RODERICK MUS TPAY THE DEATH PENALTY Supreme Court Decides Against Young Man Con victed of Wife Murder. Immanuel Roderick, Jr., convicted of wife murder several months ago by a New Hanover jury and since confined in the county jail pending disposition of his appeal to the su preme court, will have to pay the death penalty unless executive clem ency is shown, the opinion of the su preme court having been certified down and received today by Major W. N. Harriss, clerk of superior court. Commitment for Roderick was hand ed to Sheriff Jackson during the day and he or one of his deputies will leave for Raleigh in' the morning, car rying the condemned man to the state penitentiary where he will be given over. A new date of execution must be named. He was to have paid the penalty November 16, 1917, but his appeal stayed exectuion. A new date will be named by the governor. Roderick, it will be. remembered, shot his wife to death several months ago 'on the rear porch of their home in the southern section of the city, a few minutes after she had returned from a visit to friends on the sound. He made no effort to escape, but met the arresting officers and gave him self up, advising them what he had done. - Roderick was employed as a watchman at the Clyde line wharf. Nelliff Bly Missing. New Cork, May 7. Through a suit brought in the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, it was learned today that not since the United States entered the war has Mrs. Mary J. Cochrane heard from her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, who as Nellie Bly circled the globe in less than 80 days for a New York newspaper. Mrs. Seaman went to Austria in 1914, pre sumably on a newspaper mission. and what explanations had boen given: ' '."The extreme optmism of the chief signal officer, and those associated with him," Senator Chamberlain re pplied, " the explanation." . "They thought, in perfect good faith, I think, that they would have the planes there to.Jtrain them." (Editorial.) Tomorrow at the polls, thevqualified of New Hanover county will register their answer to the appeal of the school authorities for better facilities for the school children of the county. Tomorrow night the children will know whetherhey will be assured of? ample and safe buildings in which to prepare themselves for life's battles. What will your answer be, Mr. Voter? ' There are two propositions to be voted on in this county tomorrow: On$ authorizes the levy of 10 cents on the $100 valuation of property and 30 cents on the poll. The proceeds will be applied tb paying the salaries of the superintendents, teachers and janitors, buying wood, coal, chalk, ink and hun dreds of other incidentals. This money is necessary, if the schools are to have enough qualified teachers for the proper training of the children, and for furnishing fuel necessary to keep the little fellows comfortable through the winter. This is necessary because thre is not, under present methods, sum cient school funds for meeting these expenses and the school board is in debt to the amount of $30,000 because expenses have been increased and the income has been practically stand ing still. Any one can see the importance of providing more money to meet these obligations, and there is no use to argue it with any sensible person. The second question to be voted on is the issue of bonds in the sum of $250,000. It is to this, for some alleged reason, or possibly it would be better to say excuse or combination of ex cuses, there seems to be the most opposition The issue of $250,000 in bonds is asked because that is the amount fixed by the legislature in the bill authorizing the electidn. It can be no more nor no less, but must be that or nothing. The pur poses to which the proceeds of this issue are to be applied are also fixed by legislative enactment. This money cannot be used for current expenses, but only for repairs, erecting new buildings, and taking,, care of tne present debt. The'board cannot use one dollar bf this bond money for any other purpose than specified by Law. The-two questions to be voted on tomorrow must go to gether if the full benefits be obtained. The carrying of the bond .s.vc a!one will not provide funds for the teachers, fuel and incidental expenses; the voting of the special tax alone will not take care of the. outstanding debt ; neither will it pro vide safe and ample room for the children. Neither will accom plish much without the other, and it is the duty yes, the plain duty of every voter in the county to vote for both of these propositions. It is not a duty because the school board asks it, though that in itself should be sufficient ; but it is one that you owe to your children and the children of the city and county. The man who is influenced against these two issues by some thing other than contained in the questions is working a great and irreparable injury to the coming men and women of New Hanover; That is the question the voters must answer, and no dodging behind some extraneous matter will relieve a single voter of the responsibility resting upon him. The man who shirks this responsibility is working; harm to every boy and girl in the county, and is just as rritich a slacker as the man who fails-to do his whole duty by his country in the war. Had this city not secured the shipyards with its necessary influx of people, there would not have been sufficient f;nds for paying the teachers and meeting the increased expenses caused by the war time cost of everything. The buildings were not sufficient to comfortably house the children now here, and one of these buildings is not safe to risk the hair on the head of one child in the city in it, much less the lives of more than five hun dred children. The next school session is expected to find hun dreds more of children seeking to enter the city schools, and by utilizing fire-traps and every other available school room there will not be accommodations for them. Shall we say unto these children we cannot give you opportunity to get an educa tion; wait until a. more propitious time and we shall see whal we can do for you? A few years from now will be too late for these boys and girls. Their chance will have passed never to come again, and it will be because the voters of New Hanover have failed in their duty. Will you have that charge marked up against you, Mr. Voter? If you are a man you will not. If you are some-ching else, you are not worthy of bearing the responsibility of citizenship. Give the boys and girls their chance. They are entitled to it. And in giving them their chance, don't make it so that their lives are endangered while they are grasping the opportunity of making themselves worthy men and women. Everything worth while depends on the result of tomorrow's election,; Health, happiness, future careers and even life itself may be decided by your vote. Do your duty, every man of you. CONCRETE SHIPYARD WILL EMPLOY 1500 WORKMEN EXPERT CAPTAIN POWERS LANDS. An Atlantic Port, May 7. Lieu tenant Commander K. J. Powers, United States naval reserve, of Wilmington, N. C, who was cap tain of the American steamship Lake Moor, which was torpedoed by a German submarine in Euro pean waters on April 11, arrived here today on an American steam ship. He was one of 17 survivor's when the Lake Moor on her mai den voyage was attacked and' sunk. Forty-four Americans lost their lives. STEAMSHIP TYLER T ORPEDQ COAST 0 EO F NEAR ME Formerly Old Freighter and Was Carry ing Grain to Genoa. ELEVEN PERSONS Means an Increase in Wilming ton's Population of From 3,000 to 5,000. THE FAITH GOES ON FIRST TRIP TOMORROW First Bog Concrete Ship Will Carry Cargo of Salt on a Pa cific Ocean Voyage Wil mington Interested in Trip (By Frank P. Morse.) Washington, D. C, May 7. Wil mington will have a special interest In a voyage scheduled to begin to night or tomorrow morning from a Pacific port. It is the initial trip of the Faith, the big 7,900-ton concrete ship recently launched by the San Francisco Shipbuilding company. This will be the first severe test of the first concrete boat built for trans oceanic traffic and the results of this Dominion' voyage will have a direct bearing on the eight concrete vessels that are to be built this summer in Wilmington. The Faith took on a cargo of 4,000 tons of salt yesterday and made a short cruise in San Francisco bay. This experimental trip indicated to thp. r.nm nlfit.fi satisfaction of tha LOST THEIR LIVES United States shipping board repre- rentatives as well as the builders that t the new boat will answer' every test. Six of Those Who Perished Consequently the world's largest con crete vessel will clear either tonignt Were Members of the Crew arid Five Were Navy, uunners. New York, May 7. The American steamship Tyler, formerly an Old Do minion freighter, has been torpedoed and sunk off the French coast, ac cording to reports received here to day. Eleven persons are said to have lost their lives. . The Tyler, was a vessel of 3,390 tons gft&sana was "built fh 1913. 'iSSe' was sunk on May 3. Of -the 11 who perished six were members of the merchant crew and fle were navy gunners. The mem bers of the merchant crew killed were E. W. Mears, third assistant engineer;, Washe Creek, Va.; Clar ence E. Knowlton, oiler, 407 West Thirty-first street, Norfolk; F. Kaua, mato, messman, no address; Jose Rod erigues, fireman ; Gregario Carro," coal passer; Fernando Lasse, fireman; the three last from Corunna, Spain. The Tyler was last report ed as leaving Portland, Me., March 6, for Genoa. She carried a cargo of grain shipped through the Italian ministry of shipping. She was commandeered by the United States shipping board last October and since then has been engaged in the Italian trade. London. May 7. British casualties reportedd.uring the week ending to day reached a total of 38,691. or tomorrow morning for a Pacilc port, where the cargo of salt will be . fv""-" ' 5,00 'tons of coal. On her return to home station the Fa.tli will take on a new capacity load and begin a long voyage across the Pacific to portsin- New" Zealand. Now1 that the government is thor oughly satisfied with the first of the big-capacity concrete boafcs, work will be pushed at top speed on the Wil mington and other yards where yes sels of this type are to be turned out TeisJipping., board , expects.-.the Wil mington concrete shipyard to reatf completion during the first week of June. Keels will be laid immediately for two concrete cargo boats of 3,500 tons each, and four concrete tank ships of 7,500 tonnage. The first of these boats will be ready for trans Atlantic service in October, or earlier if the Wilmington yards can brealc established records. A force of 1,500 expert workmen Is now being assembled for the Wilming ton plant. These men, with their families, will make an immediate "ad dition of from three to five thousand people to the population, which, with, the inauguration of activities on the other government projects planned for the North Carolina port, will mean an increase 'of fifteen or twenty thou sand to the population of Wilmington during the present summer. It will mean, also, a tremendous weekly pay roll that will be reflected by a sharpf increase of Wilmington business ac tivities, i A MILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION FOR BUILDING HOUSES Plans were tentatively laid with the naming . of a board of directors looking toward ,the formation of a 'million dollar corporation for the building of houses to accommodate the city's ever-increasing population, drawn here by shipyard activities, at the Tuesday morning mass meeting; held at the court house, and approxi mately half the money needed to start building operations was subscribed prior to recess. A committee com posed of C. C. Chadbourn, L. Clayton Grant, Roger Moore, Dave Chadwick, Louis Shrier, with J. A. Taylor, chair man of the mass meeting, as ex officio member, was named to con tinue, the work of soliciting subscrip tions, and they will report accomplish. I ments at the Thursday morning ad- journed session of this morning's I meeting, to be held at the court house I at 11 o'clock. This latter action was taken upon motion of Industrial Agent James H. Cowan, who pointed out the fact that many of the city's bisrerest men financially were not present and j that they should be given an opportu-i nity of joining the movement that has j as its object providing adequate hous-j ing facilities for the vast army of! workers and their families that will be flowing into the city in a steady) stream in the early future. The meet- j ing was well attended and was in ses-j 3ion for two hours, J. A. Taylor, pre-! siding. The meeting was called to order by! President Marcus W. Jacobi, of the: chamber of commerce, who briefly outlined- the object, and Mr. Taylor was then elected to the chairmanship. After speaking briefly concerning the object he called upon C. C. Chad bourn, who pointed : but the crying need cf houses and still more houses if the : city ia . to ' care for those. who j will come here for work in thejship-j spoke and all were agreed that ths city is far from being in position td properly house the increased popula tion that is inevitable. The matter was discussed from every angle and while there were some who wanted to understand the matter more thorough ly before putting money into the vem ture, there were dozens who were willing to put up the required amount and listen to explanations later. After the matter had been thor oughly discussed a call was made by the chair for persons'who would sub scribe $5,000 to the corporation and many names were put down. The next call was made for those7 who would subscribe for half this amount . and again the responses came in in a spirited manner. This process was a little slow, however, and the meet ing decided . to continue the work through committees and recess until Thursday morning, when all are again1 urged to assemble at the court house and complete that which wai begun this morning. The directorate of the proposed cor poration was named by a committee composed of J. B. Rice, I. W, Cooper and W. D. MacMiilan, Jr., appointed by the chair upon motion, duly sec onded and passed, and later voted on by the meeting after report had been made. The directorate as first consti tuted was compose.d of 33 members, but the nominating committee, upon motion, was made members of th board of directors. Those named to the directorate include Henry C. MO Queen, C. E. Taylor, Thomas E. Coo- : per, Fred W. Dick. J. W. Yate, H F. Wilder, JW. Taylor, Marcus W. Jacobi, Walter P. Sprunt, C. C. Chad bourn, A. M. Chinnis, J. C. William John D. Bellamy,. Sr., M . J . 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