-~IU VOLUME 36 SMITHFIELI), N. C? TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1917. * 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 $21,000, 000. Of this amount more than half was sustained by the agricultural in terests of the country. ? Scientific American. FAMILY RUN DOWN BY II i 1L I'll ret- Out of Seven WIki W ? <(U Trestle Probably Fatally Cttfan at (ioldshora. I at In- r, M? l ive Small CI ildren ( rum dor Hacking Car at Night I H4H folk Southern Track. (Wilmington Star.) Goldsboro, N. I '., March -4M Oavenaugh, wife and five cffil J on, oldest a girl of 12 years, of h ] in a serious condition, the being run over last night ? N'oi folk Southern passenger trai The family knew no one ?it considered seriously hurt. TEACHERS CERTIFICATE KILL 1 Teaching Profession is Createc. '>5 Law. Only One Senator O-i.-om-J; Jk Provides For Uniform Exf ? >- gi tion and Certification. Writing to the Greensboro 1 t$? 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 .... 1 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. i ? ;vrs I Hi