North Carolina Newspapers

SOLDIERS LEAVING MEXICO. Pershing's Men Begin Long March to I'nited States. Arrival In Texas to Kelieve Others. More State Troops Will be Released When Regulars Again Take Up Border Duty. The final act in the entrance into Mexico of 12,000 American soldiers as a result of the Villa massacre at Co lumbus, N. M., on March 191(5, was written today with official announce ment by the war department- that Gen. Pershing had been ordered, and actually had started to bring his troops back to the United States, says a Washington dispatch dated Janua ry 28th. Secretary Baker issued the follow ing announcement: ? "Gen. Pershing has been ordered to bring his troops out of Mexico. The movement is to be an immediate one and is probably already under way." Later advices to the department said that the troops already had be gun the evacuation of Colonia Dub Ian, 110 miles from the border where they had been concentrating during the past few weeks. The last Amer ican soldier is expected to recross the border in about a week. No official information is at hand as to whether Villa or Carrtwiza troops will occupy the territory left vacant by the Americans but the belief is strong here that the bandit, who is credited with having at least 8,000 well armed men and who now is at least four times as strong as when the American troops went across the bor der, will make a desperate effort to take the territory, particularly for its moral effect. The two other phases of the Mexi can problem on which interest cen tres now are the disposition of the more than 50,000 militia still on the border and the sending of Ambassador Fletcher to his post at Mexico City. Officials said both these questions are dependent on the turn of events in Mexico. At least a part of the remaining guardsmen are expected to be order ed home as soon as the 25,000 now leaving have been moved out of the way and Pershing's regulars have l>een redistributed to provide adequate protection for the border, perhaps in three weeks' time. Pershing's with drawal will permit a much smaller border guard, as a large support has been essential to his long line of com munications. The delay in sending Ambassador Fletcher is due to the administration's hesitancy to accord that degree of recognition to the Carrpnza govern ment which is felt not only to have been none too friendly, but also to be seriously endangered by Villa, Za pata and other bandit activities, as well as by an extremely weak eco nomic condition. The Pershing withdrawal will be carried out with as much speed as possible over the rough, arid, water less section and it is hoped that the men will cover about 15 miles a day. Railroads will not be used even for carrying supplies, as it is desired neither to run any chance of raids by Villa, not to incur any obligation to Carranza. WITHDRAWAL OF PERSHING. War Department at Washington Sends Formal Directions for Movement from Mexico. Washington, Jan. 27. ? Withdrawal of the American military expedition in Mexico was ordered by the war de partment today, and by the end of an other week the entire command, after ten months on Mexican soil, probably will have crossed into the United States. The order went to Gen. Funston and left to his discretion the exact time of starting the northward move ment and the details of carrying it out. For several weeks he has known of the administration's determination to order the troops back to the bor der and under his direction the ex pedition has been concentrated for the long march. Officials here understand that some advance units already have started north and that within 48 hours the whole column will be in motioh. At the border the regulars will re lieve a considerable portion, if not all, ?f the National Guardsmen remain ing on duty there. The movement of State troops homeward probably will be under way l,y the time Pershing's men arrive on American soil. RUSSIANS MAKE HOLD STRIKE. They l'it'rce Teutonic Allies Line On Front of About Two Miles. Capture Numerous Prisoners and Consider able Booty. Teuton Force Retires. (Greensboro News, 29.) On the Bukowina-Rumanian front between the towns of Jacobeni and Kimpolung the Russians have deliver ed a vicious attack which resulted in the piercing of the line of the Teu tonic allies over a front of nearly two miles. Numerous prisoners and a con siderable amount of booty fell into the hands of the Russians. Berlin admits the withdrawal of the Teutonic forces along the Golden Bystriza river in this region, saying that it was neces sitated in the face of superior Rus sian forces. Between Les Esparges and the Ca lonne trench, north of Verdun, the French have carried out a successful attack against the Germans, taking elements of trenches from the troops of the German crown prince. North of the river Somme, near LeTransloy, the British in attacks have carried out successful raids near Neuville St. Vaast and rtortheast of Festubert. Considerable aerial activity has again taken place on the western front, London reporting the destruction of four German airplanes and the driv ing down of another. In northwest Russia on the Riga sector considerable fighting contin ues. Here both Berlin and Petrograd record the repulse of attacks. Artillery activity prevails in the Austro-Italian theaters and duels with the big guns and operations by small raiding parties are in progress on the front in Macedonia. The British auxiliary cruiser Lau rentic, formerly in the White Star line's Canadian service has been sunk off the Irish coast by either a mine or a torpedo. Twelve officers and 109 men on board the vessel were saved. In Mesopotamia the British and Ot toman troops continue their fight for the possession of Kut-el-Amara. The London v/ar office reports the recap ture by the British of trenches which the Turks took from them recently near Kut-el-Amara. MILLIONS LOST IN BIG BLAZE. Heavy Walls Checked Fire Which Threatened Full Block in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pa., January 27. ? Fire which swept through a section of the retail business district here today de troyed the Frank and Sedar Depart ment Store, the Grand Opera House, the Hilton Clothing Company and a dozen or more smaller buildings with a loss estimated at from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000. Four firemen were se riously hurt and a dozen or more so badly injured that they were removed to hospitals. It appeared for a time as though the fire would sweep the entire square, but heavy fire walls, built in anticipation of such an even tuality, finally stayed the progress of the flames which ate through the hun dreds of tons of merchandise piled in the stricken buildings. THREE KILLED AND TWO HURT. More Than Twenty Injured in a Rear-End Passenger Train Collision. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 28. ? Three persons were killed and more than 20 injured, two probably fatally, when a St. Louis Southwestern rail road engine collided with the rear car of a Rock Island passenger train, eastbound from Little Rock, Ark., to Memphis, late last night in a dense fog at Mounds, Ark., noar this city. Entertains Selma Club. Selma, Jan. 28. ? The Round Dozen Literary Club was entertained Thurs day afternoon by Mrs. J. E. Young. The president presided over the meet ing and at the calling of the roll each member gave a quotation from Sidney Lanier. Mrs. J. G. Johnson read a most interesti : pnj er on Sid ney Lanier and Mrs. Z2. V. Woodard read a poem written by him. Miss Richardson then read a paper on the United States of Venezuela and Mrs. Debnam one on Latin-America. At the clofee of the meeting re freshments of three courses were served in the parlor on individual ta bles. The Emperor of Germany was 57 years old last Friday. TAX SYSTEM REVISION URGED. Senator Warren Asks Special Com mission IJe Appointed. Age of Con sent Limit liaised From 14 to 16 by Jones Bill, Which Passed Senate. (Charlotte Observer.) Raleigh, Jan. 25. ? In the Senate, Senator Warren put in the hopper a revised bill for a special commission to investigate and recommend as to revision of the State taxing system. It would have the Governor, the Chairman of the State Tax Commis sion and two laymen constitute this commission to report to the next Leg islature. Bills by Harding in the Senate and Pearson in the House would increase the annual appropriation for the State Geological Survey from $10,000 to $20,000. Senator Justice put in a bill to authorize special contracts for the payment of 8 per cent interest but leaving 6 per cent the legal rate. Senator Oates offered a bill to appro priate $50,000 for a woman's build ing at the A. & M. College for wom en and girls taking special courses and taking advantage of extension work. The Senate passed the bill by Sen ator Jones, of 'Buncombe, to raise the age of consent from 14 to 16 years after much discussion and re jection of a number of amendments. The House spent much time discuss ing a bill by Clarke, of Pitt, to amend the law as to appeals, being a change proposed by the special commission on judicial reform, the vote being 71 to 23 against the measure. There was a long and spirited dis cussion of an amendment to the State law against killing calves, certain others wanting amendments that would allow the killing of bull calves for veal. The bill was reached late and the contest went over to Friday. A bill was introduced by Winston, of Forsyth, to co-ordinate the judicial system of the State. Both houses passed numbers of lo cal bills. The Senate made the bill providing for the examination of books of county officers by the Cor poration Commission a special order for next Friday and Senator Breni zer's bill for sanitary inspection for hotels and restaurants and for protec tion against fire special order for Monday. The Senate committee on appro priations heard pleas for a $15,000 ap propriation to the Confederate Wo men's Home at Fayeteville this af ternoon and left the matter open for action later. George Rose, T. T. Thorne, Mrs. Little and others told the committee of the development of the home, which is now taking care of 17 Confederate women and has ca pacity for 35, if only there was a maintenance fund. There was a special committee hearing this afternoon on the bill by Ray, of Macon, to abolish the State board of internal improvement with the result that there was unanimous decision to report unfavorably. E. T. Cansler, of Charlotte, addressed the committee in opposition to the bill, insisting that the board of internal improvements has accomplished much and that if anything was done it should be the extension of the pow ers of the board. Mrs. Little, Mrs. ? Chas. Lee Smith and other women of the Daughters of the Confederacy ap peared and insisted that the stir that the board made as to the soldiers' home had done much- good. Alexan der Webb, of the commission, gave the committee a review of the work and the methods of the board. CARRANZA TO CALL ELECTION. Constitutional Assembly Authorizes Him to Name Last Sunday in February as Date. Queretaro, Mexico, Jan. 28. ? The constitutional assembly has adopted an article wherdby General Carranza is authorized to issue a call and pro vide regulations for the election of members of congress, to be held the last Sunday in February. Congress will meet in extraordinary session on April 15. Congress also will act as a sort of electoral college, passing upon the presidential election and officially declaring the president elected. No mention is made as to the date for holding the presidential election, but it probably will be the last Sunday in March and it is expected that the president will take his seat May 1. Four degrees below zero, the cold est day this year was registered at Chicago Friday. DOUGHTON MAY BE IX HACK. Boom Is Launched For "Farmer Hob" for Governor. One Prominent Dem ocrat From the State Does a Little Talking in Washington. Washington, Jan. 2(>. ? Friends of Representative Robert L. Doughton have started a good sized campaign in his behalf for governor four years hence. Several Democrats who have been in Washington recently predict that Mr. Doughton will be the next Democratic nominee for governor of North Carolina. A prominent Democrat here today who does not care to have his name mentioned just now gave the follow ing statement to the Daily News: "It is entirely too early to begin to talk North Carolina politics for 1920 and no man should be inflicting on the people a candidacy for any of fice so far ahead. However, I notice that one or two men have been hint ing that they might be candidates for governor in 1920. The west is en titled to the nomination and it is well to remember that "there may be other candidates" before pledging to any one. If his friends can induce him to become a candidate Bob Doughton will be asked by a great many people to run and to run as the candidate of no faction and with no political ma chine to build up but simply to give the State the very best kind of a bus iness administration and accompany ing the announcement would be a de claration from his friends that he was ?not expecting to use the governor ship to step into any other office. Mr. Doughton is a man of unlimited en ergy, very successful in all undertak ings, plain and unassuming and yet strong with those who know him best. The part of the State from which he hails has had no governor, the nearest was Glenn of Forsyth, so it will be well indeed to keep unpledged and watch the best business candidate North Carolina has had in years.v I want to say that Mr. Doughton has never in any way stated that he would run and has no knowledge of the fact that a great many men have been talking of him for the nomination." ? Greensboro News. TO IIOLI) 11-HOUR SESSIONS. Steering Committee of Senate Decides to Convene in Morning at 11 and Adjourn at 10 at Night. Washington, Jan. 28. ? With less than 30 working days remaining in the life of the Sixty-fourth Congress, the Democratic steering committee of the Senate decided today to hold dai ly sessions of the Senate from 11 o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock at rtight, beginning Thursday, Feb ruary 1. Overtime exertions were determin ed upon as the first move in an ef fort to solve the congested legisla tion situation, the decision to drive away as hard fast as possible on es sential appropriations and the reve nue bill and to undertake the big general administration measures one by one as time permits. Whether any of the administration bills over which there is so much dispute could be passed none of the Democratic leaders would predict. SUFFRAGE SCORES IN S. D. House Votes 66 to 27 on Senate Meas ure for Amendment Plan. Pierre, S. D., January 26. ? By a vote of 66 to 27, the Lower House of the South Dakota Legislature has passed the resolution which, with the Governor's signature, will provide for the submission of an equal-suffrage amendment to the Constitution in the 1918 general election. The Senate passed the resolution ten days ago. An equal-suffrage amendment was defeated at the election last Novem ber. TRAIN KILLS MAN IN AUTO. Will King, of Long Creek, Is the Un fortunate Victim. Man's Father Is Probably Fatally Injured. One Ne gro Killed, Another Hurt. Charlotte, N. C., Jan. 26. ? Will King, age 22, of Long Creek, was killed outright, and his father, Word King, age 50, was probably fatally hurt when the automobile in which they were driving was struck by a Southern Railway passenger train at Huntersville, near Charlotte, at 8:30 o'clock tonight. Two negroes, names unknown, were in rear seats and one was killed and the other badly hurt. DR. IlKiH black to lecture. Eminent Divine to Deliver . McN'air Lectures at State University. Activ ities of Professors. 350 Addresses and 18 Hooks in One Year. Chapel llill, N. C., Jan. 2i). ? In ad dition to the regular class-room work the professors and instructors of the University of North Carolina last year delivered 350 addresses before various learned bodies and to au diences throughout the State of North Carolina. Besides these, 88 articles were contributed to the various schol arly and popular magazines, not counting many shorter magazine and newspaper articles. Also, 18 books by members of the factulty were pub lished during the year, covering a wide range of topics. Among those are Trees of North Carolina, Latin for Pharmacists, Chief American Prose Masters, Literature of the English 'Renaissance, A Syllabus of Latin American History, two books on law, and a Guide for Beginners in Geology. In addition to the three student publi cations, the University now publishes nine papers and magazines, five of which are concerned with problems of research and scholarship, and have a wide circulation not only in this country but in many foreign coun tries. Dr. Hugh Black the eminent Scot tish divine, will come to the Univer sity in February or early in March to deliver the 1917 series of lectures each year on problems of religion, philosophy and science. For several years Dr. Black has been professor in the Union Theological Seminary, New York, and has been regarded as one of the ablest living preachers. His fame as an author and writer is equal ly wide. Before he made New York his home, he was rector of St. George's Church, Edinburgh, Scot land, where he acquired tremendous renown. This lectureship has brought to the University some of the leading thinkers of America, including such men as Henry Van Dyke, David Starr Jordan, Pres. A. T. Hadley of Yale, Prof. John Dewey, and Prof. F. J. E. Woodbridge of Columbia University, who delivered the lectures last year. Prof. William Cain of the Mathemat ics department has this year been ap pointed as exchange lecturer to go to Vanderbilt University in the spring. Vandferbilt will send one of its pro fessors to North Carolina. TO FORCE PEACE WITH SWOIil). Kaiser Renews His Promise of Vic tory for Teutonic Arms. Two Sec tions See Military Activity. (Columbia State, 28th.) Emperor William of Germany, re peated on his 58th birthday anniver sary yesterday his promise previous ly made to the German army that Germany would enforce peace with the sword. His message was sent to Berlin from the German general headquarters in reply to birthday congratulations, according to German newspapers. The emperor's declara tion was made in the face of expecta tion in some of the entente capitals that he would make a notable peace move in an address he was expected to deliver at a meeting of Teutonic statesmen, military and naval leaders, assembled at the headquarters to celebrate the anniversary. The vicinity of Hill 304, in the Ver dun secton, and the Riga region of the northern Russo-German front con tinue to be the chief centers of mili tary activity. After subjecting the German defense workB at Eparges and Hill 304 to an intense bombard ment, the French attacked the trenches recently occupied by the Ger mans, but, according to the Berlin war office, the attack failed with heavy losses. Fresh Russian troops nave rein forced the line east of the River Aa in the Riga district but were unable to drive the Germans from ground they recently captured. On the oth er hand, German attempts to throw back the Russian line in the vicinity of Kalnzem were unsuccessful. The artillery has been active on the Franco-Belgian battle line between the Somme and the Ancre rivers, as well as in tho vicinity of Riga. After 11 hours of desperate fight ing, the Rumanians have forced backward the Teutonic troops south of the Kaisina and Suchitza valleys, in Moldavia. Activity on the other fronts is lim ited mainly to artillery duels, trench raids and aerial combats. SATURDAY IN LEGISLATURE. Senate Would Put Ran on Cures for "Incurable" Ills. House I'asses Rill to Al!cw "Absentee Voting," After Two 1 lours of "Cross Firing." (Wilmington Star.) Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 27.? The bill by Senator Bennett, of Swain, to pro hibit the hale or advertising in North Carolina of proprietary medicines purporting to cure diseases pronounc ed by the medical authorities to be incurable was passed by the Senate today, without a dissenting vote, as was also another bill by the same author to put medicines under the pure food law to prevent adulteration or misbranding. The House spent a couple of hours arguing and cross firing over the substitute House bill to provide "ab sentee voting" in this State and final ly passed it without amendment by a vyte of (52 to 19, in which the Repub licans voted practically to a man against the bill. Minority Leader McRary had of fered amendment to strike out the words "entitled to vote," as giving too wide discretion to one man, but the majority disapproved and the amend ment met defeat along with one by Haymore, Republican, to require that the prospective absentee voter must specify the reason for his absence when he registers. Under the bill, this registration can be made at any time of the year except during the 20 days prior to the election. The House and Senate are both get ting ready to press along the legisla tion as to counties, cities and towns made necessary at this session by the adoption of the constitutional amend ments. Senator Brenizer, in the Sen ate, and Representative Dalton, in the House, pressed these matters this morning with resolutions for a joint committee to get busy on these bills forthwith, and definite- action was promised Tuesday in both ends of the Capitol. The following bills passed final reading: Prohibit the misbranding and adul teration of drugs; Regulate civil terms of court; Prohibit the sale of advertising of remedies purporting to cure incurable diseases. There was received and laid before the House a petition or memorial from the Mecklenburg County United Confederate Veterans Association complaining of too little pensions to Confederate veterans and pleading that there be material increase. A bill, to prescribe punishment for persons who drive motor vehicles when under the influence of liquor or drugs came from committee with un favorable report. There was a favorable report from committee for the bill of Representa tive Clark authorizing semi-annual bond issues of $400,000 each to coun ties pr townships for road building. 550 LOST IN EARTHQUAKE. Island of Bali, Dutch East Indies, Badly Shaken. London, Jan. 26. ? Five hundred and fifty persons were killed in the earth quake on the Island of Bali, according to an official report received at The Hague and transmitted by Reuter's Telegram Company. A dispatch from London Thursday said that news had been received in Amsterdam that 50 natives had been killed and 200 others injured in an earthquake on the Island of Bali, in the Malay archipelago. More than 1,000 houses were destroyed, it was added, and the Governor's palace was damaged seriously. Bali, which has a population of about 700,000, is one of the Dutch possessions forming the Dutch East Indies. The island has an area of about 2,100 square miles. TO STORE BILLION IN GOLD. Vaults of Philadelphia Mint Will Be Enlarged. Philadelphia, Jan. 26. ? The vaults at the local mint are being enlarged for the storing of more than a billion dollars ifi gold bullion. Upwards of $500,000,000 in gold bricks is already in the vaults and preparations are 1 being made to relieve the New York i subtreasury of about $000,000,000. , None of the bullion will be convert ed into coins, according to Adam ? Joyce, superintendent of the mint, as i there already is a surplus of gold in circulation.