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WAGE WMTOI'VERY- BISHOPS ASSIGNEE) T(i SPEND MILLIONS r fmm FOR CONFERENCES. AT SHlPYflRpS HERE ;f . "M$?.?it - t ! liill JI9I i LIMTiS'-MErnGBIt REQUEST OF WILSON i- . : : . . - J. C. Kilgo is Sent ; to Fifth District in Mississippi. CANNON TCV MEXICO Government fAcquired Site Yesterday. DEEDS WERE RECORDED V n 4- Action Was; jCeaVSurrisc Thei Alleged PlottesTS. AJ1 German Peace Proposals Insincere Says President. are ARMY TO BE UNL'MITED Opens Red Cross Drive in New York with Ringing Plea For War. LADEN EVERY SHIP Intends to Stand by, Russia a3 Well as France Glory Comes in That Present. War is Unselfish One. Metropolitan Opera House, New York, May 18. Branding all German peace proposals as "insincere," Presi dent Wilson tonight called upon Amer ica to make war to the utmost limit of its resources and man power. The war must be won "greatly and worthily," he said. There must be no limit to the size of the American army. Every ship must be used, laden to capacity. He said he tested all German peace proposals and found them insincere. The president definitely pledged the support of the United States In Rus sia. No peace proposal can be con sidered, he said, which contemplates German expansion at the expense of Russia. America's peace terms are known, the president declared, and if the en emy sincerely desires a just peace, he said, an accredited representative jhcnld come forward and "lay terms on tie table." ' Ciairman Davison, of the Red Cross war council, just back from Europe, declared the next few months will be the most critical of the war, but added the allies' morale never was better and that , the sol diers and the folks at home are con fident of victory. Germany Is maim ing women and children so, they will importune their governments to end the war, he said Praising President Wilson Ihswiswxtwit ot ArtcrrfA;,: ""icu um tuo tcuual ilU.it3 JL UlO worm. The president's speech in fulr fol lows: - v. "Mr. Chairman and Fellow-countrymen: - . . . . "I should be very sorry to think that Mr. Davison (chairman ot the itea Lross war council) in any de gree curtailed his exceedingly inter esting speech for fear that he was postponing mine, because I am sure you listened with the same intent and intimate interest with which I listen ed to the extraordinarily vivid account he gave of the" things which: he had reamed because he had come in con. tact with them on the other side 'of tte water. We compass them with oar imagination he compassed" them a his personal experience, and I do not come here tonight to review for you the work of the Red Cross; I am competent to do so, because I not nad the time nor the op- pvuunuy to follow it in detail nave come here simply to say a few "iu& 10 you as to what it all seems J me to mean, and it means a great ucai, HIM. mere are two duties with which e are face to face. The first duty L un the war- And tn second juty, that goes hand in hand with is to win it greatly .and worthily, wowing not only the real quality of power, but the real quality of our Purpose and of ourselves. Of course, h duty' the dty we must keeD i, j foreground of our thought until I h a(0mplishel is. to. win the .war,. nave heard gentlemen recently say 1 ve must get five million men ay Why limit it to five million? t'nit j asked the ngress of the can" v teS t0 name no limit De- ws the congress intends, as I am - we an intend, that every ship wn carry men or supplies shall laden UDOn CVOnr rniroix. UritVi go upon every voyage With ev ery man tarrv A 1 ouyviy iu ed fm T We arent to be divert the I grim PurPose of winning unrm fJ y any insincere approaches Xn e subject of peace. I can say testoAv1" cuscience that I have them ; - se intimations and foind for i?fmuere' 1 now recognize them havo i tnev are, an opportunity to cast - cast nand Particularly in the cnJ. u .Cd-rrv the pumoses of con- it exploitation . commSt?roposal with regard to ac reSS!datlon in the west involves a ,V0; rT Wlth regard to the east, tend" tL f r as 1 am concerned, I in Prance nd by Russia as wel1 43 are th helpIess and the friendless and Very ones that need friends iiiany J.M; and if any man in Ger f:Ce ' ,s we are going to sacri teii thl 0 y for our owa sake I For th. , now they are mistaken, citizen! S ry of this war, my fellow- its 41 - TT K M.I W 11 IIII'HI IIHIl. ji histnVV pernaPs for the first rtime notbor,' an unselfish war. I could Pose S T t0 figut f or aXsel9h pur- taankind ??ne proud to fl'for them P' lf, they wish peace let Ited renr forward through accred rePresentatives and lay their terms on "the table.; We have laid ours and they know , what they are. "But behind all this grim purpose, my friends, lies the . opportunity to demonstrate not , only v force, which will be demonstrated to the utmost, but the opportunity ot character, and it is that opportunity "that' we have most conspicuously-in the work of the Red Cross, not that our men in arms mIo not represent our char acter, for they' do, and it is a char acter which those who eee and real ize, appreciate and admire; but their duty is the duty of force. The duty of the Red Cross is the duty of mercy and succor and friendship. "Have you formed a picture in your imagination of what this war is doing for us and for the world? In my own mind, I am convinced that not 100 years of peace could ., have knitted this . nation together as this single year of war has knitted it together, and better even than that, if possible, it is knitting the world together. Look at the picture. In the center of the scene four nations, engaged against the worlds and at every point of vantage showing that they are seeking selfish aggrandisement and against them 23 governments repre senting the greater part of the popu lation of the world, drawn together in to a new sense of community of in terest, a new sense of community of purpose, a new sense of unity of life. The secretary of war told me an in teresting incident the other day. He said when he was in Italy a member of the Italian government was ex plaining to him the many reasons why Italy felt near to the United States. "He . said, If you want to try an interesting experiment, go up to any one of these troop trains, and ask in English, how many of them have been in America and see what happens. Hetried the -experiment.. - He went up to a troop train and said, 'How many of you boys have been in Amer ica? and he said it seemed to him as if half of them sprang up. 'Me from San Francisco; me from New York; from all over. There was parti of the heart of America in the IJol ian , army. ' - People that had; been knitted to, us by association, who knew-uSi who ;liad lived amongst us. who. had whrlmd shoulder rto shoulder will evr. hold the world together. ?And this intimate ' contact .of 4 the great Red Cross with the - peoples who are suffering the terrors and deprivations of this' wax, is going to be one of the greatest instrumentalities, of . friend shin that the -world ever knew, and rttie" center of the heart of it all if we sustain , it. properly, will be this land that we so dearly love. "My friends, a great day of duty has come and duty finds a man's Soul as no kind of work can ever find' It. "Mav'I say this7 The duty that faces us all now is to serve one an other, and no man can afford to make a fortune out Of this war. There are men amongst us who have forgotten that, if they ever saw .it. Some of you are old enough I am old -enough to remember men who made fortunes out -of the civil war. and you know how they were regard ed by their fellow-citizens. That was a war to save one country this is a war to save the world. And your re lation to .the Red. Cross is one of the relations which will relieve you of the stigma. You can't give anything to the eovernment of the United States it won't accept it. There is a law of congress against accepting even services without- pay. The only thing that the government will accept is a loan and duties performed, but it is a great ' deal 'better to give than to lend or to pay, and your great chan nel for giving -is the American Red Cross. Down in your hearts you can not take very much satisfaction in the .last analysis in lending money to the government of the united btates, Be cause the interest which ' you drew will burn your pockets. It is a com mercial transaction and some men have' even dared to cavil at the rate of interest, not knowing the inciden tal commentary that that constitutes upon their attitude. But when you give, some thing of ' your "heart, some thing of your soul, some thing of your self, goe with the gift, particularly when it is given in such rorm that it never can come back by way of direct benefit to yourself. You know there is the old cynical definition of grati, Mide as 'the lively expectation of fa--a to come.' Well, there is no ex ctation of favors to, come in this kind of giving. These things are be. stowed in order that the world may be a fitter place to live in, that men may be succored, that homes may h restored, that suffering may be re lieved; that the face of the earth may have the blight of -destruction taken from it, and tha,t wherever forces goes, there shall go mercy and helpfulness. "And when you give, give absolute ly air that you can spare and don't consider yourself liberal in the giving. If you give with self adulation you are not giving at all; you are giving to your own vanity, but if you give until it hurts then your heart blood goes into it. "And think what we have herein We call' it the American Red Cross, but (Continued on Page Eleven.) The North Carolina Confer enCTi Presided Over by I . W. Darlington. SESS IS ARE CLOSED i -S .1 : ; Next H beting of College of Bis V Will be Held in 922 at Place to be Mi Decided Upon. Atlanta, Ga., May 18. The fifteen bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, were today assigned to Episcopal districts by the college of bishops at-the general conference of the church in session here as fol lows: Bishop E. R. Hendrix, Kansas City, Mo., first district, West Vir ginia, Virginia and Baltimore confer ence. Bishop W. A. Candler, Atlanta, Ga., second district, North Georgia, South Georgia and Florida confer ences. Bishop James Atkins, Waynesville N. C, third district, Tennessee con ference, Memphis conference, north Alabama conference. Blshop; Collins Denny, Richmond, VaC, fourth district, Illinois, Ken tucky and Louisville conferences. ..Bishop J. C. Kilgo, Charlotte, N. C, fifth district. North - Mississippi, Louisiana - and' Mississippi confer ences. Bishop W. B. Murray, Memphis, Tenn., sixth district, Denver, Mis souri, southwest Missouri and St. Louis conferences. " Bishop W. R. Lambuth, Oakdale, CaL, seventh district, especially as signed to war work and African mis-J vw: eighth district,' west Oklahoma, east Oklahoma, Little. Rock, north 'Arkan sas conferences and Indian. missions. 4 Bishop J. H. McCoy, Birmingham, Ala., ninth district, Alabama and Cuba conferences. Bishop, J. M. Moore, Nashville, Tenn., tenth district, Brazil and eoufch Brazil conferences. Bishop W. F. MeMurry, Louis ville, Ky eleventh district, Japan, Korea and China ' mission confer- GUC6S m " i Bishop U. V. W. Darlington, . Bar bourville, W. Va., twelfth district, South Carolina, upper South Caro lina, western North Carolina- and North Carolina conferences. Bishop H. M. DuBose, Nashville, Tenn., thirteenth district, northwest Pacific and Los Angeles conferences. Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, Savan nah, Ga., fourteenth district, west Texas, southwest Texas mission, north Texas, central Texas and Tex as conferences. Bishop James Cannon, Jr., Black stone, Va., fifteenth district, New Mexico, Texas .mission, northwest Texas, Pacific, Mexican .mission, Mexican border mission and central Mexican mission conferences. The general conference, which, has been in session here since May 2, adjourned sine die late this af ter noonr having completed all business. The next session ,of the conferences will be opened on the first Wednes day in May, 1922, at a place to De selected by a commission named for that purpose . BOMBSliPPWBOlIT 0. S. FIELD All Pnysicians And Patients . Able to Walk Rushed to Trench.- With the. - American Armies In Picardy, May 18. A German aero plane dropped a dozen bombs about an American tield hospital today. All physicians and patients such as were able to walk sought refuge in an American trench. In the clear moonlight of the last few nights aerial activity has been almost as great as during the day, our planes locating batteries by the flashes of the guns and combatting enemy bombers. This section of the front has been comparatively quiet since the repulse of an attempted German .raid Thurs'- day night. The Americans near Montdidier re pulsed an attempted enemy raid last night, inflicting losses. Two ; Boche sausage balloons were shot down by allied aviators. ' v : HOSPITAL Clinches the ' Argument So Far as Construction of Yard is Concerned. INCLUDES EIGHTY ACRES No Reversion Clause is Car- ried in Deed Indicating ' That the Yards Will Will be Permanent The United States government now owns "about 80 acres of land in the county of New Hanover and in re turn Wilmington has the gratifica tion of knowing that the nail has been clinched for one of the largest government" owned steel shipyards In the country. Yesterday final steps were taken by the government in this matter when deeds were filed trans fering to the United States shipping board and emergency fleet corpora tion the big shipyard site just beyond the southern limits of the city, the legal documents being recorded at the court house by the law firm of Bellamy and Bellamy, Wilmington attorneys for the government in the matter, and who have been working in conjunction with Hon. Roland S. H. Dyer, assistant counsel of the shipping board, after the sum of $17,500 had been paid to the former owners of the property. The deeds show thit the Seamen's Friend society sells -to -tne- govern ment what is known as the '"Hospital Site," the price being $15,000, and the Fidelity Trust and Development company transfers ; a portion . of the water: front of Sunset Park, to the north, and adjoining, the "Hospital Sitei" for the sum of $2,500. ,In all the two sites approximate 80 i acres, having a water frontage t between I, 200 and 1,500 feet. ;' :.. , jaerevJa no reversion,. ?:elause ' In comes -the sole-owner of the prop erty, and this indicates In no -uncer tain-way that Uncle Sam looks' upon Wilmington as one of the logical and most Important of all shipbuilding points and intends to spend millions of - dollars upon construction of a great yard here. 1 DEAD; 1 IN SHOOTING AFFRAY James Lane- in Goldsboro Hos pital With Body Full of Shot. (Special to The Dispatch.) Mount' Olive, N. C, May 18. Jas. Lane, white, about 28, a farmer living some four miles east of here, is in the Goldsboro hospital with his body punctured in numbers of places by No 4 shot and Overland Smith, also white, about . 22, is dead at Lane's home. The facts concerning the homi cide are few and confusing at this time, but are somewhat as follows: ; Overland Smith, Bunyan "Smith &xA j John Moore went to iane's House to get tobacco plants. Here they met with' Bernice Smith, a relative and an outlaw. A dispute ensued between Bernice Smith and Overlaid Smith over $10 that Bernice 4said Overland owed. Lane asked the disputants to get out of his yard. Overland and Smith, Bunyan Smith and Moore, 'of fended at Lane's request, went off and soon returned with a shot gun. Lane saw them coming and made a dash for his house, but received one or two loads, "or partial loads, of shot before getting out of their sight. Bernice Smith in the meantime had armed himself with Lane's gun, and though he says he fired no shots, it is alleged that he did. At any rate, when the smoke of battle, in which it seems that a number of shots were fired, not only was Lane in a painful condition but Overland Smith was found to have . -received a mortal wound in the breast, dying imme diately. So far no arrests have been made. , A coroner's jury over the body of Overland , Smith rendered the follow ing verdict: "That deceased came .to his death at the hands of Bunyan Smith, Bernice Smith and John Moore." Bunyan Smith was taken into custody liere today by Sheriff R. H. Edwards and is now in the county jail at- Goldsboro, and a , reward of $50. is offered' for the arrest of th other two. . Special; Session For Irish. - Dublin. May 18 There will be a spe cial session of Irish anti-conscription-ists Sunday. The Irish parliamentary party nv been summoned to discuss the situation. WOUNDED It' a X.7. 3 a 1V SJ 5. 1 A. W. McLean, lawyer and i has been named by the President as one of 'the four members of the government war finance corporation- Mr. McLean has been prominent in liberty loan me entry of 'the United States PRESIDENT CALLS A North Carolina Son to Administer the Affairs of the Largest ioration in the World poses o f the War ...... By PARKER, ANOERSUN ""HLumSerton, May 18 When Angus Wilton .McLean, of this city, took the oath of office in Washington; this week as a member ' of the War Fi nance Corporaton, North Carolina was given the distinction of having; one Of her sons as the active head of the largest corporatibii in the' world. The War Finance Corporation starts with-only a -paid-in capital of $500,000,000, but it has authority to! issue $3,500i00O1,O00, and those who are in close touch with the financial problems of the country declare, that the entire amount will be issued with in a short time, and there are many people who say the total will be in creased beyond this huge figure be fore the end of the war. Wilton McLean ,as his friends know him throughout the country, is no stranger to Wall street. For years he has had dealings with some of the largest banks ' in New ' York, and the financial world in this way has come-to know him as only his in timate business frienas nave learned to know him. Since the Roosevelt panic, in fact, even before that time, McLean has been the active head of coUon mills and" other corporations in the south. As the head of these concerns, it has been necessary in thf. past, especially before the inaugu ration of the great federal reserve system, to look to New York for fi nancial assistance because there were few banks In -the south at that time able to care for the needs of these great institutions. ' '. - Some of the northern newspapers have laid stress', upon the fact that McLean comes from a small town and therefore has not been and is not now in touch with big affairs. This is not true. There is no man in the south who is better or more favorably known to he financial in terests of the world than McLean, the banker, farmer and business man of this city. Such men as Vanderlip, now one of Secretary of the Treas ury McAdoo's right : hand men, C. C, Glover, of the Riggs National bank, of Washington, and in fact most of our; great ' financiers of America, came from small towns. But McLean has the advantage overx many of these successful business men. He has been dealing with big business and big business men since he left college, and the financial interests of New York city know him and have confidence in the ma'n. 1 He is not an experiment; he has already met the test and will not be found wanting in this instance. -W The War Finance Corporation, Mr. McLean, -told me today, is not really a new idea. .Something similar., to it has been tried out abroad in Eng land and in Germany but- in detail our plan is different jfrpm the others. It is primarily an emergency meas ure; and this is recognized -by. ,the law creating it, which provides that it shall' have a limited life, not to ex ceed 10 years, and shall not exercise any of its .powers,' except those inci dental to liquidation, after six month? after the termir"'m of the. war, the official d e fdr the closing of the to fc3 determined by the presl- i dent. IJ L. -1 t 4J v. 4 4 4 i y v - - m. 7 banker of Lumberton, N. G., and other patriotic work since in the war. " LUMBERTON MAN Mr. McLean Discusses Pur Finance Business. ; - V - J .The - purpose of rthe corporation' t& to supply credits for the industries necessary and contributory, to the successful prosecution Ot the war. m order that this may be accomplished, the law creates a finance corporation which, will provide facilities whereby busness concerns may obtain neces sary funds, and also a capital Issues committee, whose work it will r be to see that capital does-not go into un necessary channels. Of course, no one knows "now whether the idea will work out as well in practice as it ap pears in theory, but Mr. McLean be lieves it will, and if his ideas prove true, it will be one of the Tnost' scien tific and well as the largest financal accomplishment in the ' world's his tory. It will also be one of the most revolutionary, so much so in fact, that it 'is certain that , nothing short of the present great; world war would have permitted. its being. It was but a short time after the United States was forced to enter the great world struggle it became appar ent that huge war Sloans would have to be floated; that it became obvious that private enterprises would suffer Whenever it needed 'new capital. The United States was asked to produce more capital for war loans than it had ever before created for all finnancial needs. This meant an ex tension of the credit structure to such an extent that rates for new capital would go to prohibitive figures. The government's unprecedented demands were most pressing. They;$c4 .to De met and they came first. Private in dustry, if left . to compete with the government , for capital, would suffer. In brief, the plan is for the finance corporation to have a capital not to exceed $500,000,000, all of which will be subscribed by the United States treasury. The capital, in full or "in part, is to be paid in at the demand of the board of directors with the ap proval of the secretary of the treas ury, who , is also chairman of the cor poration's board-';, The corporation is then allowed to dispose of its own bonds to an amount not to exceed six times the paid-in capital; in other words, if the full $500,000,000 capital is paid in, the corporation will have power.. to, issue' $3,000,000,000 in its own bonds, the proceeds to.be used tor its ordinary, requirements. These bonds will mature; in "not less than one, nor more than five years," In terest and prisesBXT to be a first call on all the assets of the corporation. It is provided also that the bonds may - be issued' f in United States money or r in fpreign money, at the par of ; exchange, and it is believed that this latter provision willioper- changes between the United States and foreign countries. 1 Savings banks and ' building and "loan : associations may borrow money from this corporation 4nder certain circumstances, and go may business firms or industries, if the directors of the 'corporatlonv find that the" busi ness 'concern is unable to borrow else where.' The maximum which any con cerri may borrow frofe ' the corpora tion ', is 'an amount' not n , excess of .: (Continued -on' Page Eleven.) ; LEADERS ARE CAUCHU Al Sinn Fein Members bf.ft . liament Are Taken Into ? :v n.ztj.. 'fir 1 j. - RAID idMRrihaL FrencKr8;-Edic Says Every EffortllibS-f c jg Made to-' Crush - 'n::4iiUff!tjiii spiracyinTre - - - y Lionaon, - May s.-More t tnan oi persqns have been arrested Jn varlotuu v r parts oi ireiana in . coanecupn. wiuu ;t the alleged -Sinn Fein revolaticxy - ( plot, according tto a - Dublin 4 dispatcif? published by the Evening edayrf Dublin May 18. MUltety d po4 lice officials were .working fltdetiyi yj and effectively - tonight .to cnlndd -I the measures taken for suppressloaoa 4 the latest . alleged proGerman rrolu4 tlonarv nloL1. ; ' - .Z.:';-y.l tj More than ioo persons weire ln' 'CVM i tody and Arrests were contmuing;io ; va i? all parts of the country. . The action M A . of the authorities was a complete tux : prise and utterly dumbfounded .th W 4 veloped and very UtUeexcftraen-fM idi: Ail sum f ern memDers oi lae-uw perial parliament were reported, "to ) have been arrested, r They include -Edward De Valera, president of the Sinn Fein; ' William Gosgrave, JosepI : McGuiness and; Count George: Finn ' kett: : . - ."' ' Others under arrest were: ArthtU Griffith, founded of the - Sinn- Fein; Countess Markievicz, who was - con demned to death for participation ic the Casement rebellion, then commut ed to life imprisonment - and j finally liberated under the general amnesty; Darrell Figgis. Herman Mellows,- Dr, Richard Hayes and Dr. John Dillon! -J. chairman of the United Irish Leagae;l -t t Joseph McGrath, Thomas HunterJ -. Walter Scoles and Patrick CKeefe. .De Talers was -arrested on the plafrf form of the -Greystone railway statlonJ ' . oh' his way hoine .trmrXbllnJ.l8Itii:4 Feikx headquarters was ' raided by:Bbl4 . v : diers and, detectives this morning; uml many, documents were seized-1' tv.r A proclamation signed by. ! Field Marshal French, the new lord lieuten! j ant of Ireland, was posted throughout : f the country at daybreak today. Thai ' ?H if nrocl&mation declared that certain .V. -;Ml subjects of Ireland . were declare ta . have entered into treasonable commu nication with Germany and that trici measures must be taken to put downi the German plot. It asked the 1 aid of Ireland in crushing the. conspiracy. The proclamation concluded : ' 4 "Toward this end we shall cause still further steps to be taken ; to fa cilitate and encourage voluntary en1 listment in Ireland, in the hope tna' without resort to compulsion, Ireland contrrbution to the British forces equal that of the remainder' of the pire." Edward Shortt, chief secretary -fd Ireland, authorized the statements tha the measures for which he accept full responsibility with French,' ar directed solely against German t In trigue. The Irish government, f hw Baid, knows that only a comparatlv ly small number of Irish ' are volyed in the plot. Regarding Shortt's proclamations 2a enM (J the Freeman's Journal said: ' 3 f "Siecretary .Shortt's first word 'to$V5-;f the Irish people apparently means? , i t, j conscription will be launched trndl?! ji cover of revelations- of- an alieged)'v -German plot, possibly a few 'foolish 7.- s Irishmen may have entered a conBPir - acy to invoke German aid, but -- tht. U Irish people are not pro-Germans, not ' . withstanding all provocation." : j. ' Petitions were being circulated' to-i t ; . day proposing tl?at the Irish question ' 4 ' be submitted to adjudication by - au ; international tribunal consisting of; , the Unted States and neutral conn-, v tries. The British government lt;;' General Bryan Mahon, who wa M succeeded an commander of the Brit- j' "i ish forces in Ireland by Lieutenant ' General Frederick Shaw, has beenj.. . mentioned for appointment as' direc-jf :' .. tor general of Irish .recruiting.-. f.'?.t U The anti-conseription fund, it" wasY; - . -' I "ii pounds ($680,000). ''7 ' -v MUTINY BREAKS OUT IN HUN REGIMENT London, Mayt18. Mutiny has hrok- i en out among German Tegmenta, at ; Wessenberg, during ' which .several, officers were killed, according to - an undated dispatch received here ; from j j Moscow. Ten mutineers, it. was said. i- were shot, Another mutiny . is said broken out at Dvinsk. to : have Be Speedy Transmission. TTTl i-V. IV. - A . I . . : - A. France. May 18. -Transmission : nt'i packages and letters passing between' 'f the' American "buddy" in France and i ". the folks at home will be more speed!- ly hereafter, as the result of the or- ganiation of army postal service IU:. i 'S '; ill : til f rJ. if Sir ! t !,' S f i t ox , Sin ? 1 sv-': g. i "i r. :::h; II; I' t. -t !.! ' ;j ' 'Ji tf - 3 ; 5. ( . -9'