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CONGRESS WILL GRANT ALL POWER ASKED Ptesident Wilson Will Sign Armed Neutrality Bill and'' Act. Im mediately in Arming Ships. CARL O. GROAT Unked Press Staff Correspondent) 11(1191 IT P Washington, March 2-The Se- nllLJ II "IT Hi Bate will vote late today on tU""" ana today on the D.Uiint'i rnnmat for DOWCT approval t0 use guns, gunners ana iother instrumentalities to protect American merchant) ships and Amer ican lives and to handle the ln- iTjternatlonal situation. J aj & U IC nunu 1 ' n ffpeedy passage of the authority ijVantlng resolution, the Senate de-v-clded to begin its consideration at( . ..... ... hA holf jour o ciock or as uu s Million dollar naval bill is out of the way. 1T The Senate adopted today the Amendment of the Naval BUI pro viding an appropriation for a Nayal base at San Francisco Bay, which had been strongly urged by the Na Yy Department. "All the power which the Pres ident asks, in dealing with the Ger- an crisis will be his within thirty ilx hours upon Congressional rant," leader8 expressed as their pinion today. The bill as passed by the House !ftast night excluded "other instru mentalities," but the Senate bi'l is 1 expected to include this phrase. Aa soon as the President signs Ahe--Armed Neutrality bill 6e I VUl'l mmed lately Larm American f ships. 'HO IP IN THE AIR SOME OF THE CONDITIONS UND ER WHICH AERIAL WARFARE MUST BE CARRIED ON. BUS! ESS CEO ARE III 11 EFTHUSIATIC MEETING CREDIT ASSOCIATION HOW ORGANIZATION IN GOOD WORKING. ORDER , v By WILLIAM PHILIP HSM (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the British Armies Is the Field, Feb. 2 (By Mail) What does it feel like to have a hostile battery of artillery pick you up and begin shooting at you while you hang in a basket Trait a mile high fft an captive balloon? Suppose, as you (langled at the top end of the wire cable no thicker than a child's litMe finger, the Ger man howitzers thould suddenly try to smash the auto truck carrying the winch ho'ding the ground end of the string. Suppose, you, up there in the winter sky, saw un aeroplane mak ing for you and you knew It would do its best to shoot fire arrows into your "sausage", cause it to explode and chuck you headlong tdtfcfrei- en earth below? i 11 COUNCIL J.' i u IS PLHED 4 (Bv United Preum Washington. March 2 A war Council to direct this country's tho PVPTlt Of hlfttlHtleft is IVU1 OV - in ""Vess of formation. " T fcouncll will include the Pres 4AI IMa Kiihlna and the indus- trl Iiperts now affiliated with the (National Council for Defense, and (will be strictly a coalition affair, ! men from every po'itlcal faith I being chosen.. It will include probably more than twenty posts and departments of transportation, supplies and communication, indi te vldually supervised ly some of the Wg men of the country. ; President Willard of the Balti more and Ohio Ral'way will be asked to be at the head of the Transportation ' Department and it U taken for eranted that GomDers .1 will be Director of. Labor in the proposed war council. Hertford Men Have Organized On Wednesday night the business and professional men of Hertford met at the court house with O. It Hitter and P. R. Trueblood, who ", are getting together data for the Crddt t'Sxperlence Guide in this J eectidhof the State, and formed i the BfiaUness Men'. Credit Associa- I tion JJ Hertford. Ther officers elected were: R. E ! Brinn, president; H. T. Shannon- V' house, secretary-treasurer; T. R. Wlnslow, vice president; M. F. WeekB. chairman of the Executive V board . The members of the association are: H. M. Morgan, Farmers Na tlonal Hank, J. Broughton and "p, Bros., Hetrford Hardware & Sup ply Company, Brinn Bros. 11 D Elliott ft Co., T. R. Wlnslow, 'Eastern Cottqn " Oil Co . Olid dick Chapnell, H. T. , Shannonhonse, in t ft Company, arrt Southern The second and most enthus-, lastlc meeting of the Eljxabeth City Business Men's Credit Asso ciation was held Thursday night at the Y. M. C. A. The majority of the subscribers were present. The y laws were read stt approved. The Credit Guide will te issued soon and all new subscribers are urged to get their ratings in just a8 soon as possible. Mr. L. T.x Henderson, State Or ganizer, was present arfd wa8 heard with much interest by the mem bers, who voted at once for an ad vertising appropriation to make tfce Guide more useful. W. J. Woodley, W. G. Gaither Jr., and W. W. Sawyer were ad ded to the executive board, mak ing a total of thirteen memDers. Mr. O. F. Gilbert is chairman, Harold Overman, vice chairman, C. R. Pugh, secretary and treasurer, R. E. Quinn, Dr. A. L. Pendle ton, Cleveland Jackson, Ed Spencer, D. R. Morgan, M. Leigh Sheep, and Leslie Belangia are members chosen at he first meeting. Crlit associations have been or ganized throughout the State in all towns of importance, and Mr. Henderson has been asked to so from here to Norfolk to continue his work there. Boy Scbuts 1 .To W ashington The Eu.v tb City Boy - Scouts left Friday ;ffor Waahlngton, D, C. to be present iha Inaugural ; 0F ercisea t HhB . JTittoasJ Cmpltol .on Monday. ' The Prf ilaccbonahied ' by Scoutmaster, & W, ! Ford,, t They wiU return neH Thursday. Those taVls th.tri .tre Wil liam' Cheison. ileilck Blades, Oscar Gregory, Orfca'McMu'Iaa; 1 Wesley Martin. Franc! ?eyfert' ' Charles Seyfert, Ratelgi f rad'ey,'. George Modlin, Archie , Sanders ' Ernest Willloms, Haywood - Duke. Clyde as they fire, we give them correc tions: So many degrees to right or left, to Ions or'- too-iBhoxl, The: whole thing i9 dono by (telephone, right from this basket. Here: put Or, falling to explode, the balloon this on your head." The head-har- caught fire and you. to save yourself neBS 0( a te'ephone girl was handed had to plunge downward at the tail end of a parachute with shrapnel bursting about you all the time? ca.'my, accurately? Think you you would be sufficiently cool-head ed to call up on the telephone, whose wireg disappear under you in a dizzy dip groundward, and tell somebody in a little office about it and have him get your own Ipti teries working? These are the working corjlitoins of every day of the soldiers at taohed to the balloon sections of the army. Thanks to the courtesy of a major commanding one of these sections I was allowed to go up with an observation officer in one of these famous "sausages." TWs latter was a youn? lieutenant, in reality an American; whose father once lived in Cincinnati. High it the air, over a worl'd covered witih four inches of snow, while the noise of the big war bounded up in lumpy explosions and the concussions , of the larger guns could be felr dis tinctly, h ex'Jaincd his work just as you woul'd explain yours, in the office, shop or on, the farm, hrough the glasses f be zi -zagging white lines "tf the trenches showed plainly "See." he said, looking through his glasses, "there are two distinct networks of trenches, with a nar row space between which is free from criss-crossing lines Thaf, space Is No-Man's land. Of course all activity on the other sifle of that spece is German activity, and that la part of Hie Job we are up here to attend to. "See tihat village beyond the Ger mnn lines to the left?" he continued stetdylng himself without touching the siaeti of the basket one of the secrets o accurate balloon observa tion. "That is B:ank. And, to the right there, thnti roi(l wtoerte (you iee the double row of trees, that Is the part of the , line we this bal loon section are Interested In. Other parts are under observation from those balloons you see ,to the north and south of us. though, nat urally, we cooperate very closely one balloon with nnoWier so that the minimum observable activity gets past us. Troops in march sup ply' columns, working parties among or behind , the trenches,' things like we signal to our artillery and get a batteryor several batteries work inc. We give t "i i' . Cr Gregson, Billy HouU Round Tdble ... If'-'-'-'f, - Proves Success FDttTEE 5 TREACHERY iiSClOSED TOM Germans in United States Sending Millions of Dollars Into -Mexico 'StartlingRevelationsbf Plottings bEBuAU RECORD MIST I S- me. I put it on. "Time me," said the lieutenant. "I am going to call up a halitery. Think you could do your work nc-lo, ABC-44!" he called. "Hello. Battery ABC-44!" came th rep y it seemed almost im mediately. As a matter of fact It has taken 10 secorjls. "test!" the young officer replied into the trans mitter "You see", he went on. "the thing is very rapid. It (has to be rapid. Nevertheless mycall had to pass through a central. As the sausage swayed gently to ,and fro, a fosty haze of blueish purple stole between us and the lines. Beneath, the snowy earth was plainly vlsib'e but" objects two or three miles off were completely hk'(dden rom view. High ove the haze, on the horrizon sailed an aeroplane. About it, like a dozen lady's powder puffs, sharpnel were bursting. Then, without warning, like a dozen claps of thunder in rap Ijll succession, came the reports of shc'ls bursting about the lieuten ant's bnl'oon. "Hello." he said calm'y. in the tone of a blaze man-aboul-town who sees an old acquaintance approach ing, "What's this?" And slowly he tuned to size up the bursts of black smoke drlftisn away In the wind. "Yes," he said speaking Int the telephone, "yes. Yes, It was In our neighoborhood. Can't say. Can't see anything from here. It'g too thick." "Believe I told you," he casually remarked to me, "that though there isn't one chance in a hundred of your having to do the thing, If you should have to go over, remember a'l you've got to do iH to bafanjce yourself on the edge of the basket and then let go. The parachute, at tached to the harness you's got on will do the rest." I looked down. Jimtny, what a fll! Andjtl the face of the earth all chapped and rough and frozfn over with snow. "These balloons are much better than the ones we had nt the begin ning of. the war," he eald. chenrfully changing the subject. "I mean the ones you've no doubt seen with kite- talU. They " Another series of thurjler c'aps, this .time on the other side' of the balloon. Seemed as It t battery had turned loose all It had with one pull of the trigger. "Don't let that " worry you,' the i;ou("v,pnt gftul B;d'!ng l'.kn a chni! it 1 A large numbet fof officers and teachers were present at the Round Tab'e Conference field la tihe an nex of Black w:j 'Memorial church Thursday night and oCe of the most enjoyable evenings In the history of the school was spent, The discussion of Sunday school problems was led by' the Superin tendent, B. F. Aydtetf, and Ihe re sponse from officers and teachers showejl enthusiasm and wide awake interest in the building up of the Sunday school. The class report of Miss Bertha Brothers, Miss' Bessie Morgan and Mr. Henry NewboVJ showed excellent work done by these . c'asses. A contest was held In which sides were chosen and 1 Bible questions asWi by Mrs. New ho d and Mrs. Overman. Many of the questions proved difficult for the large class, but the contest wai a verv Jnttructtve ind enjoyable one. vocals etilos were rendered by Mrg J C Betrand and' Mr Henry Newbold. Following the more serious part of the program, refreshments were served and the newly organizjt band quite ast'n!hed its hearers with its pleasing contribution to the evening, receiving continuous ap plause. The band 1 egan practicing only a few weeks ago, but has been ban! at work, aided by Mr. Skinner and Mr. Williams, and expects to begin on nxt Sunday to take its place as one of the features of the Sunday school exercises. v All who attenJtd the meeting came away most enthusiastic about the work of the Sunday school and the delightful entertainment offered and the success of the first confer ence, it is believed, will bring about similar meotings from time to time. OFFICIAL STATISTICS GIVEN, OF LO3 TO SHIPPNING AND LIFE 8INCE BEGINNING OF WAR (By United Press) Washington, March 2 Thirty three American ships attacked, 12 destroyed by mines and submarines, four Americans killed, six wounded, this i8 the record of Germany's naval operations since the begin ning of war, according to official statistics available today. These casualitles are exclusive of those resulting from the sinking or at tacks on British ships, such as the l.usttanla and I.aconia. , Prisoners Are Released (By Unltn r'ressi Washington, March 2 Germany has at last officially agreed to re lease the American Yarrowdale prisoners, and tihey will be out of Germany very soon the State Djj Dopartment was advised today. Kaiser 111 At Berlin fBv United Press) Amsterdam, March 2 The Kai ser is confined to his room with a severe chill, BerMn dispatches state but is receiving his ministers in his apaftments aijd communicating with army headquarters in spite of hlfl illness. ' Suffragists Will Unite ROBERT J. BENDER (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, March i Millions of -dollars have been sent the DeFao to Government recently by Germans In the United Stat,ea, it wa, learned V, today on high government authority v A part of the money was in the form of "personal loans" to Me- ico. The other millions went In to the purchase of amelter plants. ' mis money was sent despite the ' .iuuS oi me unitej? States that such loans did not have the sup. ' port of this government nnlpn ail. details of arrangements met with I the approval of the United 8tatei The government) 18 ready to make ' otner equally startling disclosures -' disclosures at tho nmiu, iim. x r. wjrvi AW" J I . ' uays announcement, however, gives evidence that German propa. ganda was at the bottom of the . cTuiuuon in uuna and Costa Rica, 1 Shortly after the exiled president ' Gonzales, conferred with the Pre ' ident, the State Department an', ' nounced that the defacto govern metn at Costa Rica would no fa I "'.' recognized. ? ; Evidences at Tmitnn . ntmrta ra A in other Latin American countries are under Investigation. . ' ' '-If has been eatablibhed tUt . t-i InsJtruotloM sent. Bernstorff for th ; consuls In the United States, at tha same time that the Zimmerman let- -ter was sent, covered many recent development, and directed the dla- . 4 mantling of German ships in Amer ican harbors in the event) of a s break. These instrnctlnnn vara broad and starting in their revela tions. Today's disclosures go to show officials declare, that whila at peace with America the Germans were p'ottilng hostile actions. with a cold njidened face. "They nearly always fire short." Nearly always. NEARLY! "As I was saying." he went on, "the old fasholned ba'loong were the limit. They' wallowed around exact ly like a shin in a storm. And be lieve me! To be seasick In a bal loon as many on observer ha8 been and have to give directions to the artillery between sick spells. Is SOME job -Hello! Hello! (This Jnto the telephone) Yes, all right. (Then to me) Whenever you get ready and think you's seen enough I'll signal to be hauled down." Not willing to take up too much of the lieutenant's time I pretended I hrjl seen as much as I, carqd to. The journey to the earth seemed slow about ten years In fact. v WANTED. Capable young man to work In warehouse and office K. Q. Grandy., & Company, Foot of Mvihew. street. ' ;' jnar 1 2 3 fBy Unitod Press) Wahington, March 2 The amal gamation of the Congressional Un ion for Woman's Suffrage, repre senting the nnfranchiesd women, ahd the Woman's Party, represent ing the franchised women, is con sidered as a certainty. Thiy are in Joint session here and hope by uniting to bring pressure to bear on Congress fir the suffrage amend ment. Turks Retreat Becomes A Rout (By United Pres-) London, March 2 The Turkish retreat from Kut Kl Mar has be come a great riot, according to offi cial dispatches from the Mesopo lamian front. Dispatcheg from Paris state that two German raids westt of Soissons were repulsed. The GermanK are reported to have repulsed British attacks south west of Sonchez. Embassy Did Not Know Of Plot (By United Presa) Washington, March 2 It is stated at the British Embassy Hiat none there knew anything of the Zlfmer man plot and letter until the news was published. - - ' TED SULLIVAN AT WASH 1 6T0 II GOE8 TO ATTEND INAUGURAL EXERCIE8 AND EXPECT8 TO ANNOUNCE GOOD NEWS 'TO BASEBALL FANS ON RETURN Tod Sullivan of Shiloh passed through the city today enroute to Washington to attend the inaugura tion. Mr. Sullivan will return by way of Richmond and upon his return he hopes to have many things of interest to say to Elizabeth Qlty baseball fans about arrafyjejmentl for getting into league ball this season. SHOULD 8END IN RATING8 I L T ilenderson requests that all members of the Business Men's Credit Association send in their rat Ings Immediately so that this- work may be completed. BETTERMENT SOCIETY MEETS THE WEATHER . " y Rain tonight and Saturday North East Winds. Poplar Branch, Feb. 28 The Poplar Branch Betterment Society will meet at the I. O. O. Hall March 9th at 7:30 o'clock Instead of the afternoon. This Is to be a Get-Together mieting and eVery member is especially urged to be present. Ladies Bracelet Watch. - Ster-P ling silver, guaranteed. 5 at . Louis Sellg's, i Postage prepaid. Money back "if not satisfactory. ; Louis Sellg. Your Jewerer since it"", it
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