News Without Bias -' v Views Without Prejudice News; -per .Publhhed in Elizabeth VOL. 2 ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY EVENING. MARCH 8, 1917 NO. 59 GERMANY PLAyiNG BOTH ENDS AGAINST THE MIDDLE Boy Scouts Have Returned Remarkable Tale of Double Dealing Told by United Press Corres ppndent at Laredo r WHERE VILLA GOT NONEY Authoritative Information Reveals Secret of Bandit's Raids Across Border. i (By tlnlid Press) Laredo, Texas, March 8 Germany Is playiHg Villa against Carranza. Great sums of money are pour ing Into the bandit leader's hand, Inciting him to activity against the United states ana carranza. ; At the same time German agents are working through Carranza offi cials to align that aide against the United States. It Is stated on highest authority that two German agent8 conferred with Villa for two days at his headquarters on Bustlllos Ranch buot February 12th with the pro position to renew raids on the bor- ,ler In case of a declaration of war by the United 'States on Germany. . -He agreed In case of war to send small unattached bands along the border to harass the United States troops. Under the terms of the Agreement the agents agreed to pay Villa $260,000. The Villa' plot was to be used In case Carranza refused to enter lhto Intrigue against the United -States . The famous note sent to neutrals ; vty Carranza urging an embargo on supplies to belligerents was engin eered by Germans. President in fedWith Cold Be Washington, March 8 President , Wilson la confined to his bed today with an aggravating cold. Upon orders from Dr. Cary Grayson he made no engagement for today and planned. to remain in bed. The I ' cold is declared not to be serious ' and there are no complications but ' tare was deemed necessary in or- der that the President may be up ,' and at work quickly. ' " The President spent a restful alght but had fever today Pr Gray son announced at noon. It i8 ex- IRISH A P PEAL III mi WANT PRESSURE BROUGHT TO BEAR ON BRITISH GOVERN MENT FOR IRISH SELF GOVERNMENT Worry Caused Farmer'sDeath i (By United Frti ' Durham. March 8 Pink Hen derson, a wealthy Orange County farmer, is dead from heart failure caused by worry over the attempted assault upon his ten year old grand daughter, Alice, by a nestro. The negro Is now in the State peniten Last Militia Leave March 25 The Bllaabeth City Boy kouts returned Thursday from Washing ton. D. C. The party was accompanied by Scoutmaster C. W. Ford. Those taking the trio were: Wil liam Cbesaon. Mellck Blades. Oscar Gregory, Grlce M6M'laa, Wesley Martin, Francis Seyfert, Charles Seyfert, Raleigh Brad'ey, George Modlin, Archie Sanders Iraest WJUioms, Haywood "puke. Clyde Gregson, Billy Houts, SVdden "Lamb, Ray Qulnn, and Charlb Bell. Ancient Christian Fidelity Repeated In Armenia Program For New Theatre (By United Press) Washington, March 8 Schedules of departure have been arranged for the last of the militia organiza tion to leave the border on March 25th, the War Department announc ed today. French Take Prisoners (By United Press) London, March 8 Members of the Irish Party of the House of Com mons today issued a manifesto ask ing Irish-Americans and Americans generally to aid them liTtheir more ment for seUovernmenti. The appeal asked for pressure to be exerted on the British govern ment for the application to Ireland of the principles of self-government J enunciated by the President in his Senate peace speech. The appeal was issued by the same set that brought up the de bate in the House of Commons yes terday when LIpyd George declared that England is willing t0 grant these demands after the war but deem8 such action inadvisable at the present time. (By United Press) Paris, March 8 The French have taken German prisoners in action at three points on the west front Lively artillery fighting" is going on between the Oisne and the Alsne rivers. - Would Destroy Panama Canal (By United Presej Washington, March 8 Germany's India plot proposed the destruction of the Panama Canal through Hin du co-workers is the latest informa tion today from official sources. FISH BILL , 'pected that he will be in bed eeveral days. for Fight Begun For Cloture Washington, March 8 The fight ior the cloture amendment to the Senate Kiles was begun today when Senator Martin of Virginia intro duced and asked for immediate con aideration of the measure providing for a limitation of debate. Republican senators Lodge and Curtis suppoited Martin's request for, immediate sction. Senator Sherman of Illonols denounced the ' !... 1a.j . VIUIUIC ni nriiuuiciii, v ' AN I'll lINCFMENT DELAYED X PreplAem Wilson's illneRs i de laying thp announcement of his de clsjon In reirnrd to arming merchant men. '., WEATHER OR nJ Fair and colder Thursday night and Friday. Moderate to fresh winds, ' ' '" ,. : . -. C "it a lowbrow hi a hleh fiat nd 11 fnof lot of 'em, IS PASSED AND 1917 SE3SI0N OF NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEM BLY BECOME8 HISTORY SA CRED AND PROFANE Raleigh, March 8 Following the ratification of the remaining bills Wednesday afternoon the General Assembly of North Carolina ad journed and became history sacred and profane. When the House met r.t ten o'clock there remained the fish bill to put through. Thl8 soon became a law. It prohibits the use of purse nets and of pound nets In catching edible fish off the coast. KA hard fUht to pass a compromise legal advertising bill providing for flye cents a line for first and three cents for subsequent' insertions was set at naught, by the solitary objec tion of Ray of Macon.' who threat ened to raise jhe point of no quo rum. Mattheg of 'Bertie wanted the bill passed to do something for newspapers, whkh wfou1d. be said, be the only defenders of the legislators In some actions needing defense. Mrs. Sanger Is Released (By United Press) Tonight the New Theatre presents the Kssnny motion' picture, "The Sting of Victory," which stars Hen ry U. Wathall and Antoinette Wal ker in Charles Mortimer Peck's great Southern drama. "The Sting of Victory" is a grip ping story of the South which holds the attention from first to last and makes a wonderfully strong appeal. Matinees are given each after noon at 2:30 and four o'clock. Tonight's Show At Alkrama Martyrs to Faith in Days of tHe De cline ot the Roman Empire no Braver Nor Truer.Than Armen ian Belivers Says Distinguished Briton. New York March 8 Having serv ed the thirty day8 to which she was sentenced for , disseminating birth control Information in New York City, Mrs. Margaret Sanger, national leader of birth control movement, was released today. Mrs. Sanger, unlike her sister, Mrs. Ethel Byrne, did not hunger strike in the prison at Blackwell's Island. She served her time quietly and made the bent of her opportunity to study prison con ditions. I have gathered a great deal of material which I shall Ube for fu ture writings," said Mrs. Sanger today, "but I did not break any of the prison rules or attempt to do anything out of the ordinary that would make me trouble. "I wa8 sent to prison unjustly but many persons have had th.e same thing happen t0 them. I shall continue my birth control propa ganda work just the same as I was doing it before my arrest." Those who saw Mary Pickford Wednesday in "Less than the Dust" came away delighted with the charm of the story and the actress. Tq-nlght's attraction at the Al krama is x" The Happinesa.of Three Women. " "The Fiench Milliner," a two part Keystone Comedy will also be shown. The story of "The Happiness of Three Women" has t0 do with the adlenturta of Billy Craig, a young attorney. His fiancee the wife of a jealous husband and the lov ing helpmeet of a bank caHhleT, are the three women whose happi ness Craig holds in the hollow of bis hand. Kor a time it would appear that he must either sacrl- Lflce his fiancee, and incur the wrath of a jealous husband, or send an innocent man to prison. How matter,, are straightened out by the quick wit of a woman must naturally be seen to be enjoyed.. The players are: House Peters, Myrtle Stedman. L. W. Steers, Dal y Robinson, Wm. Hutchaaon, Lu cl!e Ward, Milton Brown. Teachers Meet On Saturday The Pasquotank County Teach ers Association win meet sai urady morning, March loth, at 10:30 in the High School Build'-":. Following is the program. Scripture Reading. Remarks by President. Minutes of last meeting. Reading In First Grade Mrs. In nie Brooks. Reading in Serond and Third Grades Miss Ella Thornton. Reading in Intermediate Grades Mis,, Alma Splvey. Music. Kng'ish, How to Teach It Supt. 8. II. Spragins. Brief rf ports from schools. Round Table Discussion following aa paper. MISS LINDA Del-UN, rresioeni. Miss -NINA WIDGEON, Beefy. 8upt.' W. M. HJnton, Miss Callla Perry,, and , MI Marion 'Barcllft form the committee on program.. ' FUNERAL HELD H HERTFORD 'ODY OF JAMES MORGAN KILL ED AT LAMBERTS POINT IN RAILROAD ACCIDENT LAID TO REST IN FAMILY BURYING GROUND Hertford. N. C, March 8th The funeral of Mr. James Mor gan, who was killed by a runaway coal car at the Norfolk and Wes tern Coal Piers at Lamberts Point. Friday last, was held at the home of the deceased's sister, Mrs. J E Corey, near Hertford on Sunday af ternoon . The funeral services were con ducted by Albemarle Camp No 463, Woodmen of the World, of which the deceased wa8 a member.- Do spite the fact that the day was bad nearly the full mmeberBhip of the Camp turned out to honor their fallen comrade." Theltev. R. M Ormand onViated and the full Wood man Burial Service was followed. The Interment was made In the family lot near Chnpanoke. James Morgan waB employed as a carpenter on the Norfolk and Western Road and bad a host of frtenda in Norfolk as well as In Eastern Carolina. , ,, Mr. .Morgan wb not married and is urrtved by . two . brothers and bis sister, Mrs. J. . E. Corey. By VISCOUNT BRYCE (Former British Ambassador to the United States) , Loudon, March 8 The. slaughter of between seven and eight hun dred thousand Armenians' by the Turks since the beginning of the war reveals the Armenians quite as much martyr8 t0 Christianity as any of the early Christians who died in Nero's arena. There are today more than a million Armenians and Syrians starving to death In Asia Minor, Syria, the Russian Caucasus, Per sia and Palestine. The relief work for them in America Id in charge of the Armenian committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief in New York. In the history cf the early Christian church there are n0 fig ures so glorious, none which have continued to be so much honored by the church ail through its later days as those of the martyrs, men and women who from the time ot Nero d.ow.ata Jha;t of,.. Diocletian sealed with their blood the testi mony to their faith withstanding every lure and every threat in or der to preserve to their faith loy alty to their Lord and Masher Christ. In our own times we have seen this example of fidelity repeated In the Turkish Empire and it is strange that the Christians of Eu rope and America should not hare been more moved by the examples of courage and f heroic devotion which the Armenian Christians have given. Of the seven or eight hun dred thousand of Armenians who have perished in the recent massa cres many thousands have died as martyrs y which I mean they have died, for their Christian faith when they could have saved their lives by renouncing it. This haR perhaps not ,ieeD real ized even by these who In Europe or America have read of and been horlfled by the wholesale slaughter and hideous cruelties by which half of an ancient nation has been exterminated. They can hardly understand how there can be reli gious persecution In our time; so let me try to explain the facts. It was not religious fanaticism that led the present rulers of Turkey to se k to root out Chris tianity. So far from beln, fana tics most of these men though nominally Mohammedans have no religion whatever. Their aim was the whole Turkish Empire Moham medan in order to make it uniform with only one creed and no differ ence between one class of subjects and another. They saw that the Christian part of the population suffering under constant opresslon and cruelties, continued to turn Its eyes westward and hope for some redress from the Christian nations; so they determlnetd to eliminate Christianity altogether. During the.-ie recent massacres whenever aiiy Christian .would turn Mohammedan his life was spared. It was only as a Christian that he was killed. Many a Christian chl'd was torn from Its parents to he brought up as a Mussulnm. Thousands of Armenian Christian girls were sold in the market or distributed among Turkish officers to lie Imprisoned for life in Turkish ba reins and thero forced to' ty hammmedanism. But many more more thousands of Armenians, women aa welf as men; were offer ed their choice between Christ and Mohammed and when they refused Mohammed were shot or drowned BRYAN AGAINST fwsifjiiiis THINKS MAJORITY VOTE llff CIENT AFTER EACH SENATOR HAS BEEN GIVEN REASON A BLE TIME TO EXPRESS HH VIEWS WILLIAM J. BRYAN (Copyright 1917 by United Pratt) Miami, Fla. March 8 The Unlttd Press has asked for my views oil the Senate situation. r am against filibustering and ' have been advocating a cloture rult I believe in the rigb of the major ity to rule and am sorry to leant that the Senate is inclined to rt quire a two-thirds vote for a clot f lug debate. A majority vote ought to be sufficient after each' senator"""" has been given reasonable tlm tO ' express bis views. I have been asked if there la an thing treasonable In the desire to 1 have Congress in session. Well, most of the flllbusterers either . wanted an extra session or opposed the phraseology of the armed ships bill. ' II lllli ii LIES REPORT 8AYS THAT BRITISH WAR COUN CIL FAILED TO A8CERTAIN AVAILABILITY OF TROOPS FOR DARDANELLES 'CAM PAIGN (By United Presa Iondon, March 8 The British War Council which decided Jjpon the Dardanelles campaign "failed adequately to investigate the avail ability of troops with which a Joint military and naval attack could be undertaken." This is the report of the Dardanelles Commission to day. "Winston Churchill's advo- cacy of a purely naval attack wat based on a certain amount of half hearted h' skating expert opinion." LORD KITCHENER BLAMED Upon the late Lord Kitchener and the early War Council was fixed the blame for the Dardanelles ex pedltlon . The Commission declared that though the main object was not at tained, still certain important poll tlcal advantages were gained. Whether these were worth the lott of life and treasure Involved must! remain a mutter of opinion. KitCtt oner was declared responsible for , three weeks delay In dispatching troops to the Dardanelles thereby gravely compromising the possibili ty of success. 9 ' r forthwith. Kor day and days tO.i aether the bodies of Christian wom en who- had thus perished " were , si en flouting down the Euphrates. Surely the remains of this suf fering nation could make no strong er appeal for pity and help to thtt Christians of America than they . make through these martyr, death Only a remnant . ! now left) to whom charity can be extended. It . is stl l a torely afflicted remnant.

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