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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.
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(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
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WANT PRESSURE BROUGHT TO
BEAR ON BRITISH GOVERN
MENT FOR IRISH SELF GOVERNMENT
Worry Caused
Farmer'sDeath
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(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
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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..
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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. '
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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.
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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.