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WILSON, N. C, MONDAY, DEC. 23, 1918
VOL 15-NO. 193
VON ECKHART
NOT RECALLEED
AMBASSADOR FLETCHER
SO ADVISES STATE DE
j PARTMENT. GERMAN
I AMBASSADOR TO MEXI
j CO MAY REMAIN SAYS
j LEADING MEXICAN
! NEWSPAPER.
' Washington, Dec. 23. Ambassa
dor Fletcher has advised the State
Department that El Pueblo, a Gov
eminent organ, had denied that Ton
Eckhardt, the German Ambassador
to Mexico had been recalled. Other
Mexican newspapers, however, say
that Von Eckhardt's mission had
terminated, though he has not de
cided as to leaving the. country.
RUSSIA S M
nam
THE PRESIDENT
AGAR HONORED
Hi
After Serving Fifteen Years of
His Sentece. Made a
Model Prisoner
MO KILLED
GOVERNOR GIVES REASONS
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Total Casualties Over Nine
Million. French and Ger
man Losses Also Large
British to Supply Tropa Through Hol
land. Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 23. Rutt
gart's reported that Holland has been
informed by Great Britain of her
intention to send supplies to a Brit
ish army of occupation in Germany
by way of the River Scheldt and
Dutch Lemberg.
CAMPAIGN FOB $30,000,000
As the result of the signing of the
armistice, the United States Gov
ernment has been enabled to sell to
the American committee for Relief
in the Near Eaet, for a nominal
sum, fifteen hospitals, of one hun
dred beds each, including complete
equipment and two hundred motor
trucks. Buildings for hospitals al
ready have been completed in Tur
key, Armenia and Syria. The equip
ment purchased from the Govern
metn will be immediate moved from
France, including 'a large amount of
medical supplies. The motor trucks
will be used in returning refugees
to their homes and in distributing
food throughout the districts in
which millions of people are faced
with starvation.
The above announcement comes
as a distinct ally to the American
Committee for Reiief in the Near
East and augments the importance
of the campaign for $30,000,000
which will be conducted under the
direction of this committee January
12-19, 1919. In this great effort in
the interest of saving human lives
the committee has received full
government approval and co-operation.
All funds received will be
transmitted through the Depart
ment of State and the
GRAND TOTAL 7,000,000
Copenhagen, Dec. 23. Russia's
war casualties total 9,150,000 men,
according to a telegram received
here yesterday from Petrograd. Of
this number 1,7000,000 were killed.
The disabled men number 1,450,
000 while 8,500,000 other soldiers
were wounded. The Russians tak
en prisoner totals 2,600,000.
Estimates of the Russian casual
ties in the war made last week by
the Russian information bureau di
rector A. J. Sack, in New York, fig
ured the total at "not less than 8,
000,000 men, of whom 3.0M.OOO
were willed and about l.OOVMO
disabled for life."
Figures compiled by the Cologne
Gazette and published November 25
place the total German casualties at
more than 6,000,000. Of this num
ber it was estimated that about 2,
000,000 were killed.
The French soldiers killed in the
war, according to a statement made
in the French Chamber of Deputies
on December 20, by Lucien VVoilin,
a Socialist Deputy, number 1,400,-
000.
Italy lost 500,000 men in killed
or died of wounds. A statement to
this effect
cember 21, by Salvatore Barzilia, a
former member of the Italian cabi
net, who accompanied King Victor
Emmanuel on his visit to the
French capital.
The British army official losses in
killed total 658,704.
Raleigh, Dec. 21. James Wilcox,
the young whie man from Elizabeth
City, son of the ex-sheriff of Pas
quotank county, who has served
nearly 16 years of a 38 year sen
tence to the penitentiary, after being
convicted of the murder of (Miss
Nellie Cropsey of Elizabeth Ctyy, his
sweetheart, and granted a pardon
yesterday afternoon by Governor
Bickett, is expected to arive in Ral
eigh this afternoon from a prison
camp in the western part of the
State and report at the State pent
tentiary here to receive his pardon
Prison officials here believe that
Wilcox will leave immediately for
his old home in Elizabeth City to
spend Christmas.
Seven other convicts, serving
terms for various crimes, were par
doned today by Governor Bickett,
including Carl G. Frizt, of Davidson
county, John Teachy, of Watauga
county and Ned Black, of Cumber
land county.
Wearing a slouch hat bedecked
with a band made from the skin of
an eleven rattle rattler, high hunt
ing boots, a small red tie around an
army shirt and a brown suit the
outfitting lacking harmony only be
cause it was set off with a colonial
moustache Jim Wilcox, given free
dom Friday by Governor Bickett in
Receives Honorary Degree
From University of France
First Foreigner
TO BE THUS DECORATED
WJLLlRM WILL
CELEBRATE XMAS
MARKETS
COTTON
New York, Dec. 23. Cotton fu
tures opened Irm.. January 28.80
to 29; March 27.80 to 27.90; May
27 to 27.10; July 26.20 to 26.35;
October 27.75 to 27.95.
New York, Dec. 23. The cotton
market showed renewed firmness
early today and trading was active,
particularly in the late month. The
market opened firm at a decline of
29 points on December, with Janu
ary 20 to 32 points higher before
shipping the end of the flrBt hour 80ld 16 t0
board and all consular agents of 9g points above Saturday's' closing
the United States government willwjth July at 26:96. and showing a
give every possible aid to the Amer
ican committee in this work of re
lief, and a work not only of relief,
but of repatriation and reconstruc
tion, as well. Of the entire amount
maximum advance.
STOCKS
New York, Wall Street, Dec. 23.
firifnnlnira wAra htmvant of iha
Magff4MQW TW V V MMWJMUW M If UW
contributed to this cause every doi- openlng of today.8 Btock market on
lar will be transmitted to the Nearj adv,ce8 from Washlngton that ar.
East. Not one cent will be spent rangements for the purchase of In-
for, collection and distribution as ternatlonal Mercantile tonnage were
executive expense oi ine American . virtually completed. Marines pre-
Committee is met privately. ierred rose 4 points at the first half
America .entered the great warhou,( and tne common shares and 6
that the rights of small nations may per cent j,ond8 were 1 1-2 each.
never again he trampiea. me no- Frult and American Interantional
ble little nations of the Near East j corporations shares gained one to
have kept the faith and borne the tw0 points, Railroad, motors, oil and
burden of massacre which thous- equipments and metals also improved
ands of miles have kept from com- substantially, but local traction
ing to America, and they look to weakened perceptibly,
America as the defender of liberty
and as the big brather to the littfe
nations. And they look with the
assurance that America will not
fail them.
, ' THE WEATHER
For North Carolina probably rain
tonight and Tuesday, except fair
and cooler in the eastern portion to
night, and northeast winds, proba
bly increasing on the coast by Tues
day morning.
SUPT. JOYNER RESIGNED
Raleigh, Dee. 21. D. J. Y. Joy
er, superintendent of public instruc
tion of North Carolina has tendered
his resignation effective January 1st,
and E. O. Brooks of Trinit A College
was offered and accepted the Vppotnt
it m Dr. JoyMr'i sieesw
the middle of a thirty-year sentence
from the east bound Southern rail
for killing Nellie Cropsey, stepped
way train Saturday night and an-
. 1 noiincpd that hn was In waltlner for
was made in fans ue- . ...
tne state carriage, tie was going
to the prison on what he said was
his last trip but didn't want to walk.
He was a free man again and he
showed it not in any spirit of hu
mility but more like a victor utterly
dazed to find out that he had won.
Wilcox was minus bag or bagge and
brought from the prison camp noth
ing heavier than a pocket kodak, a
bag of tobacco and a package of
cigarete papers. He looked the pic
ture of health in the tramping out
door attire and, barring his appa
rent subjugated morale, typified the
part that John Fox might build a
tale of romance around.
Wilcox was characteristically re
ticent and impatient to go, first to a
cafe and then to the penitentiary
where the document that certified
his freedom awaited him. The recep
tion committee that met him at the
union station consisted of a quartette
of newspapermen and to the few
questions asked he would make none
but a cynical, or strikingly indefinite
answers. He was loath to say when
he would go on to Elizabeth City,
his home, and manifested no serious
concern for anything beyond a meal
and a pardon with the great seal of
the State on it.
Least, of all did Wilcox look the
man to keep the picture of his dead
sweetheart, for whose death two Ju
ries found him guilty, before him on
the walls of his prison cell. During
his wait down town f c- the prison
carriage, where he expected to spend
the night, he was first light hearted
and then morose, varying the mood
between puffs at the cigarette he
rolled himself and lighted with a
match fired betwen the thumb and
Index lnger with impressive dex
terity. '
Indicative of Wilcox's levity of
spirit was his turn to a question in
'ended to get a picture. "How about
a picture?" he was asked.
He pulled the kodak for answer
and offered to "shoot" the newspa
permen. Then his expression
switched and he talked abput the
pictures Chicago newspapermen made
of him when he was tried in Pas
quotank In 1902. Other than a suc
cessful attempt not to be discourte
ous, Wilcox evinced no interest in
publicity. When the question was
repeated about the picture, he half
way promised to pose for one, but in
stead of remaining In Raleigh for a
day or two as he said he intended,
he caught an early train for Eliza
beth city, arriving there yesterday
afternoon. -
RESOURCES OF THE
NATIONAL BANKS
Washington, Dec. 23. Resources
of the national banks of the country
on November 1, the date of the last
call, aggregated $19,821,404,000,
Comptroller of the Currency Wil
liams announced yesterday. This is
not only a new hfgh record, but was
an increase of $1,777,799,000 over
the total shown by the call last Au
gust SL .
The resources of the national
banks of the United States. Mr. Wil
llama said, exceel the combined ag
gregate resources Af the national
banks of Issue of Enkland, the Do
minion of Canada, Trance, Italy,
the Netherlands, Nor fay, Sweden,
Denmark, Japan and df rmany, at
shown by. their last inllable re
sorts, n
Paris, Dec. 22. President Wilson,
in acknowledging the honor be
stowed upon him by the University
of Paris in the form of a doctor's de
gree, said:
"I feel very keenly the distinguish
ed honor which has been conferred
uopn me by the great University of
Paris, and it is very delightful to
me also to have the honor of being
inducted into the great company of
scholars whose life and fame have
made the history of the University
of Paris a thing admirable among
men of cultivation in alL parts of
the world.
"By what you have said, sir, of
the theory of education which has
been followed in France and which
I have tried to promote in the Unit
ed States, I am temptel to venture
upon a favorable theme. .
War Between Culture.
"I have always thought that the
chief object of education was to
awaken the spirit, and that inas
much ai a literature whenever it
has touched its great and higher
notes was an expression of the spir
it of mankind, the best induction
into education was to feel the pulses
of humanity which had beaten from
age to. age through the universities
of men who had penetrated to the
secrets of the human spiif t.
"And I agree with the intimation
which has been conveyed today that
the terrible war through which we
have just passed as not been only a
war between nations; but that it has
been also a war between ssystems
of culture the one system the ag
gressive system, using science with
out conscience, stripping learning of
its moral restraints and using every
faculty of the human mind to do
wrong to the whole race; the other
system reminiscent of the high tra
dition of men reminiscent of all
their struggles, some of them ob
scure, but others closely revealed to
history, of men of indomitable spirit
everywhere struggling toward the
right and seeking, above all things
else, to be free.
Wave of Moral Force.
"The triumph of freedom in this
war means that that spirit shall
now dominate the world. There is a
great wave of moral force moving
through the world, and every man
who opposes himself to that wave
will go down in lisgrace.
"The task of those who are gath
ered here, or will presently be gath
ered here, to make the settlements of
this peace is greatly simplified by the
fact that they are the master of no
one; .they are the servants of man
kind. And if we do not heed the
mandates of mankind we shall make
ourselves the most conspicuous and
deserved failures In the history of
the world.
"My conception of the league of
nations is just this that it shall
operate as the organized moral
force of men throughout the world,
and that whenever or wherever
wrong and aggression are planned or
contemplated, this searching light of
conscience will beturned upon them,
and men everywhere will ask, 'What
are the purposes that you hold in
your heart against the fortunes of
the world?
Exposure a Good Thing.
"Just a little exposure will settle
most questions. If the central pow
ers had dared to discuss the pur
poses of this war for a single fort
night, it never would have happened.
And If, as should be, they were
forced to discuss it for a year the
war would have been inconceivable.
"So I feel that the war Is, as has
been said more than once today, In
timately related with the university
spirit. The university spirit is in
tolerant of all the things that put
the human mind under restraint. It
is intolerant of everything that seeks
to retard the advancement of ideals,
the acceptance of the truth, the puri
fication of life. And every univer
sity man can ally himself with the
forces of the present time with the
feeling that bow at last the spirit of
III PAGE
I; IS DEAD
Was Native of N. C. and Late
Ambassador to England.
Born at Carey.
THE FUNERAL TOMORROW
Pinehurst, Dec. 23. Hon. Walter
Hines Page, ex-Ambassador of the
Court of St. ames, died at Pinehurst
Saturday night, Dec. 21.
He returned from England on Oc
tober 12 in a very critical condition
and was hurried from the ship to St.
Luke's Hospital, New York, where
for the first few weeks his condition
seemed to steadily improve.
Late In November he suffered a
relapse, but rallied and was brought
down to Pinehurst about ten days
ago. He apparently gained in
strength for a short period after
reaching here but beginning on
Thursday last he appeared weaker
and on Saturday night very quietly
passed away.
Members of Dr. Page's family
who were with him at the end were
Mrs. Page, his daughter, Mrs. Char
les G. Loring, of Boston, his son,
Ralph, his daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Arthur W. Page of New York, and
his brothers, Hon. Henry A. Page,
Junius R. Page, and ormfer Con
gressman Robert N. Page.
Major Frank C. Page, who came
over with his father from England,
is at present on service in England.
The funeral services will be held
at the Page Memorial Church at Ab
erdeen on Tuesday, Dec. 24, at 11
a. m.
ELABORATE RELIGIOUS
CEREMONIES WILL BE
FEATURE OF THE EVENT.
EX-EMPEROR WILL HIM.
SELF DELIVER SERMON.
London, Dec. 23. William Bw
henzollern has arranged for Mm
self a Christmas celebration under
the traditional German styl, as! lar
as the circumstances will permit,
according to a despatch to the dall
ly Epress from Amsterdam today.
The arrangements will include elab
orate religious ceremonies M
Christmas eve. The service will be
held in the drawing room at Anter-
ongen. It will be conducted by a
German missionary but Herr Ro
henzollern himself will deliver he
sermon.
PEACE PACT TO FIX
STATUS OK ALIENS
Washington, D. C, Dec. 23. Dis
position of 1,410 prisoners of war
4,003 Austrians and Germans held
by the War Department at alien en
emy internment camps, together
with more than $700,000,000 worth
of property held by the alien prop
erty custodian, will be determined
at the peace conference, it was an
nounced Saturday.
The prisoners of war are held at
Fort McPherson, Ga. Of the 4,003
alien enemies, 3,326 are at Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga., and 677 at Fort
Douglas, aliens were sent to Fort
Oglethorpe.
One of the questions that will
arise at the conclusion of peace is
whether aliens interned will be per
mitted to apply for citizenship, be
deported, or merely permitted to re
main in the United States, but de
nied citizenship rights.
A number of Austrians and Ger
mans have aplied for and obtained
first papers since the declaration of
war. They had taken no part in
the war, and had been proved wor
thy of the rights of citizenship.
A large amount of the proceeds
from sales of enemy property have
been invested in liberty bonds. Of
ficially of the alien property custo
dian's office said Congress must de
cide in what manner settlement will
be made with tho original alien en
emy owners.
Combat Division Located
Washington, Dec. 23. The exatt
location of the 35 Combat Divisions
and 6 Depot Divisions of the Amer
ican Army in France, Germany and
Luxemburg as they were stationed
on November 28, was announced to
day by the War Department. The
location included 30th Division Le
Masle. Wilson Opposes Sinking Warslijp
Washington, DfiC 23. It may be
staged authoritatively that Presi
dent Wilson will oppose proposals
from any source to sink warships
surrendered by the Germans under
the terms of the armistice, since '
word came from Paris that Ameri
can delegates to the Peace Confer
ence with British support intended
to advocate the destruction of the
enemy vessels to avoid contention
over their distribution.
truth, the spirit to which uinversi
ties have devoted themselves has pre
vailed and is triumphant.
Expressing American Spirit
"If there is one point of pride that
I venture to enttrtain, it is that it
has been my private privilege in
some measure to Interpret the uni
versity spirit in the public life of a
great nation, and I feel that in hon
oring me today In this unusual and
conspicuous manner you have first
of all hoored the peiple whom I
represent. The spirit that I try ti
express I know to be tholr spirit, and
in proportion as I serve them, I be
lieve that I advance the cause of
freedom.
"I wish to thank you, sir, from the
botom of my heart for a distinction,
which has in a singular way crown
ed toy scademlo earear."
OFFICIAL PROGRAM
OF PRESIDENT
London, Dec. 23. By the Asso
ciated Press Following is the offi
cial program in connection with the
visit of the President of the United
States to England:
The presidential party will arrive
at Dover at 12:10 p. m. Thursday
and will be received by the Duke of
Connaught, representing the King;
John W. Davis, American Ambassa
dor to Washington and Lord Read
ing, British Ambasador to Wash
ington and Lord Herschel, Lord in
waiting to the King, who will be
especially attached to the President
during his visit.
Commander Sir Charles Cury will
meet the President at Calais and
wlil be specially attached to him.
The party will arrive at Charing
Cross Station in London at 2:30 p.'
m. and will be received by the king
and Queen and with the sovereigns
will drive to Buckingham Palace
The streets will be lined by tro
who will be assisted by contin
from the Royal Navy and th
forces.
On Thursday evening the
dent and Mrs. Wilson will din;
vately. Friday morning and
noon will be reserved for the I
ident to meet the British cal
ministers. In the evening the
will give a banquet at Bucking!
Palace.
On Saturday the President '
proceed to the city to receive am
dress at Guild Hall. On that e
ing a dinner wil be given by,
government at Lancaster Honsi
which the British Ministers will
present. After the dinner the P:
ident will leave London for Carli
his mother's birthplace, where
will spend Sunday.
From Carlsle the President
party will proceed to Mancheste
where the President will be
guest of the Lord Mayor. . Arrange
ments have been made for the Pres
Ident to receive on Monday the
freedom of the city of Manchester.
It is expected that the President win
leave for France Tnesday.
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