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VOLUME 36 SMITHFIELI), N. C? TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1917.
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WILSON AGAIN TAKES OFFICE.
President's Second Inaugural Not Un
like Lincoln's First Inaugural. Wil
son's Inaugural Address Breathed
the Hope of Peace Yet Held a Note
of Warning. Thrilled With the
American Spirit. Great Event in
History of Country. Pennsylvania
Avenue a Picture of Color as Pa
rade Moved. Oath Taken at 12:47.
The following account of the inaug
uration of President Wilson is taken
from Parker R. Anderson's letter in
this morning's Greensboro News:
Washington, March 5. ? Woodrow
Wilson, of New Jersey, was today
again inaugurated President of the
United States under circumstances
without parallel within the memory of
the present generation.
His inaugural address was one that
breathed the hope of peace ? world
peace as well as peace for the United
States ? but there was in it the warn
ing note that war may come to us.
More than 50 years ago Abraham
Lincoln closed his inaugural address
with a prayer for peace and the touch
of "the better angels of our nature."
Civil strife soon came.
International strife threatened to
day as Woodrow Wilson, facing a re
sponsibility greater than that of any
President since Lincoln, stood at the
capitol and told assembled thousands
of his hope for the avoidance of war.
It was because of all this that pa
triotism was predominant in today's
ceremonial. Never before has the na
tion inducted into office a President
whose administration faced such a
time of trial.
The American spirit was predom
inant in the inaugural today. The
thrill that came to Francis Scott Key
in 1814, when at daybreak he saw
the Stars and Stripes still floating
over besieged Fort McHenry was the
sort of thrill that gripped the Amer
icans of today as Woodrow Wilson
took the oath of office and rode up
Pennsylvania avenue to the White
House.
The pulse of every spectator quick
ened as the day's epochal events were
written into the pages of national his
tory. An ovation such as seldom has
been accorded any American President
met the President as he rode between
the lines of soldiers from the capitol.
They cheered Wilson, the man, as well
as Wilson, the Resident, who has so
far kept the nation out of war.
If there were political enemies pres
ent they forgot their enmity in the
blend of Americanism. If there were
pacifists nearby they were out of
place in a throng that did not want
war but expressed by their cheers this
afternoon the fact that they will back
to the end the President in any step
this nation must take.
J ne parade would have been nota
ble for its spectacular features alone.
But it became more than a mere pa
geant, more than a quadrennial dis
play of soldiers and sailors, marching
clubs and civic organizations. The
parade today was one reflective of the
national spirit, just as one recalls the
"spirit of '76," through the pictures
of the fife and drummer boys.
At the capitol, where national en
thusiasm was scarcely less rampant
than along crowded Pennsylvania ave
nue, the President kissed the Bible
and completed the ccremony of taking
j the oath at 12:47 o'clock. The start
back to the White House was soon
begun and for several hours this af
ternoon the President reviewed the
paraders who, with bands and United
States flags, marchcd by the court
of honor.
Pennsylvania avenue was a picture
of color as the parade moved. Amer
ican flags floated from almost every
^ window and the skies, dull and unre
st lenting for a week, opened to the
Ifcun come through shortly after 9
o\jlock this morning.
?ffae end of the rain brought cheer
to Wa3i?n?t?mans and visitors who
feared, to that hour, that an un
usually iMenin inaugural must be
staged undtay weather conditions that
would odd to\he pessimism and fears
of the occasioiV
One must go 56 years to find
anything like a parallel to the inaug
ural scenes of todyy- Not since Abra
ham Lincoln was guarded from bodily
harm as he becanl(! President of the
United States ? the*1 ?n the verge of
Civil War ? have I such precautions
been taken to protect the life of an in
coming chief executf've*
AWFUL TRAGEDY IN TARBORO.
In a Blind Tijter Raid Saturday Two
Policemen Are Killed and Mayor
Keech Seriously Shot. Nelson, the
Slayer, Was Overpowered and Lock
ed Up.
The following specital from Tarboro,
published in Sunday's News and Ob
server, relates an awful tragedy
brought about by liquor:
Tarboro, March 3. ? Policemen Ran
som Gwatney and Pat Riggin were in
stantly killed and Mayor J. P. Keech
probably fatally wounded this after
noon at 3 o'clock in raiding a sus
pected blind tiger establishment at
the home of W. C. Nelson. The shoot
ing was done by Nelson who shot
officer after the other down until he
was overpowered by Chief of Police
Pulley.
Mayor Keech had for some time
seen many people frequenting the
soft drink stand that Nelson was op
erating in the cellar of his house.
He took Chief of Police Pulley and
the two policemen with him.
Nothing but soft drinks was found
in the cellar room. The officers then
demanded to search the dwelling;
Nelson accompanied them upstairs.
Concealed in a bed in one of the rooms,
the officers found a quantity of bot
tled whiskey.
The discovery enraged Nelson, who
is said to have been drinking, and he
pulled out a pistol and began firing.
Keech was the first to fall under the
deadly aim of the enraged man. The
mayor \vas shot in the back, the ball
piercing his abdomen. As Mayor
Keech tumbled over in the floor, Nel
son fired on Policeman Riggin, the
ball piercing his arm and going thence
to the heart. Riggin's death practical
ly was instantaneous.
The murderous weapon was then"
turned on Gwatney who was shot in
the breast. Gwatney was rushed to
the hospital, but died in the elevator
while being taken to the operating
room.
In the meantime Chief Pulley with
the aid of a citizen who heard the
shooting and ran in overpowered Nel
son and took his pistol away from
him. Nelson was locked up and will
probably be tried next week when su
perior court is due to sit here.
Mayor Keech is a married man
and has a wife and two children.
Gwatney was engaged to be married.
Riggen leaves a wife and two chil
dren. The whole town is stirred with
excitement over the double tragedy
and little hope is held out that it will
not become a triple tragedy.
Nelson had for some time been sus
pected of selling liquor and his place
had been searched several times be
fore. He is between fifty and sixty
years of age.
WILSON TAKES OATH OF OFFICE
President Kissed the Bible at Passage
"God Is Our Refuge and Strength."
Few Were Present. Mrs. Wilson All
Smiles.
Washington, March 4. ? Woodrow
Wilson, of New Jersey, renewed his
grip on the scepter of power and
pledged again his determination to
execute faithfully the office of Presi
dent of the United States, when he
took the oath of office in the chief ex
ecutive's room at the capitol at 12.04
o'clock this afternoon.
The utmost simplicity and informal
ity marked the taking up of the reins
of authority by President Wilson for
the second time. Only the members
of the President's cabinet and a few
senators were present when the oath
was administered by Justice White
and the President kissed the Bible,
opened at the 46th Pslam. The open
ing of the first paragraph of the
Psalm is as follows: "God is our
refuge and strength."
The closing paragraph is as fol
lows: "The Lord of Hosts is with us.
The God of Jacob is our refuge, come
and behold Him."
President Wilson busied himself
signing bills up to noon, when four
solemn rings on the electric bell in
the senate chamber announced that
his authority as the 28th President of
the United States h<*d come to an end,
and the time had arrived for the 29th
President to be sworn in.
After the brief ceremony, the Presi
dent wr.s congratulated by the Chief
Justice and Chief Clerk Maher.
The faces of the President, Chief
Justice and Chief Clerk, and all tb?
others in the room, including M'
Wilson, were wreathed with a
? Greensboro News.
TWELVE SENATORS BLOCK BILL.
President's Spokesmen Denounce
Course as Most Reprehensible in
History of Any Nation. Armed Neu
trality Denied by Minority. Mem
bers of Small Group Supporting
Wisconsin Man, Including Five
Democrats, Remain Deaf to Ap
peals to Patriotism and Allow Bill
to Die With Congress.
Washington, March 4. ? Twelve sen
ators led by Senator La Follette and
encouraged by Senator Stone, Demo
cratic chairman of the foreign com
mittee, in a tilibuster, denounced by
President Wilson's spokesmen as the
most reprehensible in the history of
any civilized nation, defied the will
of an overwhelming majority in Con
gress up to the last minute today and
denied to the president a law author
izing him to arm American metchant
ships to meet the German submarine
menace.
Unyielding throughout 26 ho^rs of
continuous session to appeals that
their defiance of the President ^ould
be humiliating to the country ; un
compromising in a crisis descri ed to
them as the most serious to the iation
since the War Between the Sections,
La Follette and his small groyp of
supporters refused a majority of their
colleagues an opportunity to vqte on
the armed neutrality bill and it died
with tha Sixty-fourth Congress.
To fix responsibility before the
country 76 senators, 30 Republicans
and 46 Democrats, signed a manifesto
proclaiming to the world that they
favored passage of the measure.
The text of the manifesto follows:
"The majority of United States
senators favored the passage of the
senate bill authorizing the President
of the United States to. arm Ameri
can merchant vessels, a similar bill al
ready having passed the house by a
vote of 403 to 13. Under the rules
of the senate allowing unlimited de
bate it appears to be impossible to
obtain a vote previous to noon March
4, 1917, when this session of Con<-ress
expired. We desire the statement en
tered on the record to establish the
fact that the senate favored the legis
lation and would pass it if a vote
could be obtained."
Thirteen senators declined to sign
the declaration, but one of them, Sen
ator Penrose, Republican of Penn
sylvania, announced that he would
have voted for the bill had opportu
nity been afforded him. The 12 who
went on record with the 13 members
of the house against granting to
President Wilson the authority he
asked from Congress in the crisis
were:
Republicans: Clapp, Minnesota;
Cummins, Iowa; Gronna, North Da
kota; Kenyon, Iowa; La Follette, Wis
consin; Norris, Nebraska; Works,
California. ? 7.
Democrats: Kirby, Arkansas; Lane,
Oregon; O'Gorman, New York; Stone,
Missouri; Vardaman, Mississippi. ? 5.
Associated with them in opposition
to the armed neutrality bill were the
following 13 representatives who vot
ed against the house bill Thursday
night:
Republicans: Benedict, California;
Cary, Wisconsin; Cooper, Wisconsin;
Davis, Minnesota; Helgesen, North
Dakota; Lendeberg, Minnesota; Nel
son, Wisconsin; Stafford, Wisconsin;
Wilson, Illinois. ? 9.
Democrats: Decker, Missouri;
Shackelford, Missouri; Sherwood,
Ohio. ? 3.
Socialist: London, New York. ? 1.
Of the seven senators not recorded
three, Gallinger and Goff, Republi
cans, and Gore, Democrat, were ab
sent on account of sickness. Senators
Lippitt, Republican and Johnson of
Maine and Smith of Arizona, Demo
crats, were absent from the city. Sen
ator Culberson, Democrat, did not
reach the senate in time to be re
corded.
Carranza Is Silent On German Plot.
Guadalajara, Mexico. March 2. ?
General Carranza remained closeted
with the members of his official fam
ily yesterday and today and denied
himself to those seeking information
concerning the note of Dr. Alfred
Zimmermann, the German foreign
secretary, to Minister Von Eckhardt,
the German representative here, in
the attempt to form an alliance be
tw Germany, Mexico and Japan
/ .tt.nst the United States. -
General Aguilar, the Mexican for
eign minister, also declined to dis
cuss the Zimmermann note.
MANY MEASURES FAIL TO l'ASS.
Administration Programme Was Not
Completed In Full. Big Naval, Pen
sion and Post Office Appropriation
Hills Get Through. Vast Sums in
Each Bill. Congress Provided for
Payment of the Danish West Indies,
bond Issue of One Hundred and
Fifty Million Dollars Provided For.
Washington, March 4. ? Of all the
legislation on the administration pro
gramme proper, only two measures,
the revenue bill and the measure giv
ing civil government to Puerto Rico
and American citizenship to its in
habitants, got through the legislative
tangle at the close of the session. One
of the most important enactments of
the three months of the session, the
immigration bill, passed both houses
despite the President's announced ob
jection, and then was passed again by
both over his veto.
Among the administration bills
which failed were:
Measures to supplement the Adam
son law.
The bill to enlarge the interstate
commerce commission.
Thv Webb bill to legalize joint for
eign selling agencies.
Conservation legislation, including
the general dam bills and water power
bills.
Bills which did not form part of
the original programme, but were
pressed unsuccessfully by cabinet of
ficers and administration leaders late
in the session included:
Amendments to the shipping act
to jjive the President power to com
mandeer ships.
A drastic espionage bill which pass
ed the senate but never was taken up
in the house.
Amendments to the federal reserve
act to increase reserve bank gold
holdings and decrease member bank
reserves.
Congress provided for the payment
of $25,000,000 for the Danish West
Indies. The senate failed to ratify,
despite an urgent request by the
President the treaty to pay Columbia
$15,000,000 for the separation of Pan
ama.
Important enactments which were
not specifically included in the pro
gramme were the bill abolishing sa
loons in the District of Columbia, and
the rider on the postoffice appropria
tion bill making it a crime to trans
port liquor in interstate commerce in
to a prohibition State.
Although the senate filibuster stop
ped the passage of the appropriation
bill carrying in all about $511,000,000
congress managed to get through in
its throe months' session ten other
supply measures, with a total of near
ly $1,200,000,000.
Appropriation measures that failed
included:
The r.rmy appropriation bill, $270,
000,000; the sundry civil appropria
tion bill, $139,000,000; the general
deficiency, $(>2,000,000; the rivers and
harbors, $39,000,000; the military
academy, $1,380,000.
The bills passed were: Naval, $535,
000,000; postoffice, $330,000,000; in
valid pensions, $160,000,000; legisla
tive, executive and judicial $40,000,
000; fortifications, $51,000,000; agri
cultural, $20,000,000; District of Co
lumbia, $13,000,000; Indian, $12,000,
000, diplomatic and consular, $5,000,
000, urgent deficiency $5,000,000.
President Wilson was at the capital
during the closing hours of the ses
sion, signing bills ts they were deliv
ered to his office. Members of the
cabinet and Secretary Tumulty with a
staff from the White House were on
hand to assist.
Among the measures to which the
President attached his signature were
the naval and agricultural appropria
tion bills, a resolution providing for
a $150,000,000 bond issue to speed up
warship construction, a bill postpon
ing until July 1 the effectiveness of
the prohibition feature of the post
office bill, a resolution appropriating
$3,000,000 to ocntinuo work on the
Alaskan railroad and more than a
score of minor resolutions and bills.
The last measure signed provided
a pension for th^ widow of Maj. Ge.i.
Frederick Funston.
The price of pasoline in the leading
New York garages was advanced
1 from 27 to 28 cents a gallon Friday.
Exports from Colombo, Ceylon, to
the United States in 1916 were valued
at $28,857,305, a new high record
THREE MILLION BOM) ISSUE.
Measure Passed Senate Thursday '
Night With Slight Amendments.
Htnise Passed Hill Giving Austra
lian Ha Hot in Kuncombe and Other
Countries.
Raleigh, March 1.? The Senate to
night took up as a special order the
three million dollar bond issue bill
from the committee on appropriations,
la explaining the bill Chairman
Iloldernesa said that with this bond
issue added North Carolina will owe
only one-sixth of one per cent of its
property values.
The bond issues are to be in year
ly installments of $500,000 each bear
ing four per cent. In 1923 the issue
would begin to mature, $100,0000 to
be paid off each year.
Appropriations include: States Hos
pital, Raleigh, $200,000; Hospital,
Morganton, $200,000; negro hospital,
Goldsboro, $125,000; School for Deaf,
Morganton, $(50,000; Stonewall Jack
son Training School, $50,000; Univer
sity of North Carolina, $500,000; Tu
berculosis Sanitorium, $150,000; East
Carolina Training School, $50,000;
Cullowheo Normal, $40,000; A. & M.
College, $300,000 ; Negro Normal,
$;>00,000; State Normal for Negroes,
$10,000; to aid in the building of
public school houses in the State as a
permanent loan fund, $500,000; State
storage warehouse, Raleigh, $50,000;
? or installation of fire protection sys
tems in institutions, $40,000.
The bill provides for a State build
ing commission of five men to serve
without per diem in expending the
funds for the permanent improve
ments at the various institutions, the
Governor to appoint them. It is pro
vided that the State School for the
plind at Raleigh may sell its present
school property and build on the site
near Raleigh purchased for the pur
pose.
There was an amendment proposed
by Harding to. take $175,000 from the
proposed loan fund for school build
ings and put it in buildings for the
school for the blind. Also Pollock
proposed to scale other appropriations
to make $75,000 for the school for the
feeble minded. Col. Cameron would
amend to prevent the sale of the
Caswell Square occupied by the pres
ent blind school buildings and issue
additional bonds for buildings. Oates
asked for time for a conference. At
11 o'clock they returned to the cham
ber with an adjustment whereby the
reference in the bill us to the blind
school was stricken out and the bill
then passed its final reading.
The understanding is that Pollock
will offer a bill for Caswell School,
Senator Harding one for the Blind
School and Brenizer one for the pro
posed home for fallen women.
The House tonight passed the Aus
tralian ballot bill to apply to Bun
combe and Henderson Counties and it
went to the Senate for concurrence
in amendments.
Bills passed to prevent sale of par
tridges in New Hanover; vote on sal
aries of officers in Cumberland; rro
tect game in Buncombe; amend Rob
eson road law. ? Charlotte Observer.
ADMITS TRUTH OF CHARGE.
German Foreign Minister Zimmer
mann Acknowledges Mexico
Japan Scheme.
Washington, March 3. ? German
Foreign Minister Zimmermann's
frank admission that Germany did
seek to ally Japan and Mexico with
her to war against the United States
caused no surprise to American offi
cials, although it may be said they
did not expect so full and free an
acknowledgement of the exposure.
Some officials thought there might
have beer, an attempt to discredit the
authenticity of the revelation.
Washington officials have never had
the least doubt of the authenticity of
the information in their hands.
Minister Zimmermann's admission
of Germany's intrigue was made nec
essary on the ground that it was in
tended to be carried out in event that
the United States refused to remain
neutral, according to statements made
public today from Berlin.
Loss by Floods in the United States.
During the year 1915 the losses due
to flood waters throughout the Unit
ed States aggregated nearly $21,000,
000. Of this amount more than half
was sustained by the agricultural in
terests of the country. ? Scientific
American.
FAMILY RUN DOWN BY II
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I'll ret- Out of Seven WIki W ? <(U
Trestle Probably Fatally Cttfan
at (ioldshora. I at In- r, M?
l ive Small CI ildren ( rum
dor Hacking Car at Night I H4H
folk Southern Track.
(Wilmington Star.)
Goldsboro, N. I '., March -4M
Oavenaugh, wife and five cffil J on,
oldest a girl of 12 years, of
h ]
in a serious condition, the
being run over last night ? N'oi
folk Southern passenger trai
The family knew no one <? be
a sister of Mrs. lavanaugh, \ o wlH
in the northern part of the i /, f
after arriving in UaKboro I; ; flftj
took the Norfolk Southern tr: kJfc
towards the cotton mill villi
the Irani on which 'ad
just arrived in hacking int
ran down the whole family ;<i tUB
dark drizzly night, on a tres';o, ttfH|
rolled them under the coach s Tha
llugman, James Adams, sa l
just before the rear coqcl
them and instantly pulled th
gency breaks and stopped th
The whole family of sevei
rolled and jammed together
the rear coach and each had <
down between the cross tie^
trestle on to- stretchers, the
of the train being used in th
emergency in the night.
It was a gruesome scen6
seems miraculous that noncVy. ?
killed outright. All were spinf5.!* ?
possible removed to the Spice..- ?u
?orium, near the scene. A rep< ' < <i
the mother, oldest daughter
son eight years old, to be sorfc illjg
and doubtlessly fatally injur , wid
little hope is entertained for t' i re
covery. The others are pi is lly
bruised but this afternoon we ?' i>?it
considered seriously hurt.
TEACHERS CERTIFICATE KILL
1
Teaching Profession is Createc. '>5
Law. Only One Senator O-i.-om-J; Jk
Provides For Uniform Exf ? >- gi
tion and Certification.
Writing to the Greensboro 1 t$?
News under date of March V Wl
Host has the following in Si ? 'jf*
paper:
North Carolina teachers bet t V
possession today when the scna
a solitary voice in dissent pass V. skfl
bill creating a board of institu. '"'JWj!
ductors with provisions for u
examinations and certificatic MB
teachers.
'I he measure under a new na it kl
dubitably had greater fragranc M
it did two years ago when it m<
decisive defeat by the house.
leaders joined issues on ever i
connected with the school s it' o|
This year hardly a voice was he./ cm
either side and the house, cons r t -
tive to the last degree, overwhel ? g
ly voted to make school teach ra >
body of professionalists.
The bill carries $25,000 with
it automatically repeals the present
institute conducting system and takes
the $13,000 now appropriated for that
purpose, adds $12,000 to it and
a real salary for the three 1 1 mm
and the three men who will c ndu- t
these institutes and hold these a- -
inations. The teachers connecte I wii'i
the State department and many mcr -
bers of the general assembly rt&or !
this the most constructiv
educational legislation
The sentiment of the State und rwert
remarkable changes during the 1: --i ""I
two years.
flfl
embly r* en? i
tive pie c t .?
in a decade. Tajj
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Forty-Four High Schools In ( onl
Wake Forest, N. C., March 3.
forty-four high schools entef
several more to enter during t
few days, the final preparat}"
being made for the initii
School Declamation Contt*
held at Wake Forest Collegei
For the past six months V
mittee on arrangements, of wf
A, C. Reid, is Eu. secretary, I
corresponding with the varil
school principals in the h(
enough entrants might be s^
nssuTe this contest. At prese
four schools have already er
contest and more are enteril
day. The committee is not <
its preparation to those who
tered alone, but is providifl.
number who may come withr
ing notice.
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