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News Without Bhs - ' . Vieiws Without v Prejudice - ' - - - ; - -- -'- : . : - - . . . . . ... . The Only DenDcrat: z Newspaper Published in Eliiibetli ' City , VOL.2 ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 191? NO.U RUSSIAN SITUATION ' AGAIN WIDE OPEN Eifprtto BringCoriflicting,Factions Together Fails And Anarchy Threatens Muscovite Empire Petrograd, May 16. Foreign Minister Milnkoff resided toda. T EG (By W. G. SHEPPERD) Petrograd, May J 6. The provisi onal government decided today to re ject, the terms which the soldiers and "workmen's council proffered as acceptable to themselves for the for mation of a coalition cabinet. ' The Insistence of the council on certain mattersof foreign "policy was the demand which the Duma leaders refused to approve. The provisional heads held that the Government could not make renunciation of the1 principles formally announced on I! HITTER RIGHTING IX PROGRESS. GERMANS TRYING TO RETAIN INITIATIVE ON FRONT AGAINST tlRITISH PRESSURE LONDON POOR TO . EAT. U. S. CEREALS (United Press Stuff Correspondent) London, May IS.. Mrs. David Lloyd George, wife of the' British Premier, has changed "(Paddy's Goose, for years , London's rnoef notorious public house. Into Eng land's first communil "War Kitch en." Mrs. Page, wife of the Ameri can Ambassador, participated In the opening ceremony and received a warm reception when s)e Introduc ed the' East End poor to American cereals for the first time. "Lyeett". another ill-famed English "pub." on Miles End Road has also been open ed to the, poor, and a fnlrd. -The GERMANS EXTORT m IMPOSED SEVERE PENALTIES FOR .TRIFLING OFFENSES MERE PRETEXT FOK WRING ING MONEY FROM POPULACE " (By HENRY WOOD) .United Press Staff Correspondent.) With the French Armies, May 18 Germany's efforts to "Kulturixe' the occupied districts of France and Belgium by the introduction of Ger man 'system and organization' re&rh Crown", rfw-Mfa 17 000 hot dinners ed such a degree that the civil popu lation was subjected1 to fines of the With the British Armies AfleId,May 16. Despite the determined resist ance of the Germans, the British this morning regained nearly all the greund la Bulecourt which they lost yesterday and also established new posts west of the village. Bitter fighting is still in progress .April, 9th and such renunciation was M this is dispatched. The Germans practically what 4he council demand- ,are striving their utmost to regain ed, it Is understood. The decision now made leaves the Russian situation again wide open. It came after many elements In Petro grad .had hailed with relief and with -gratification the action of, the coun cil In voting acceptance of the Duma Government's offer of a coalition to restore -governmental order. their initiative on that part of the front where the British pressure in creasingly threatens them. Early today the enemy started heavy barrage fire along the British front from Scarp'e on the north to the railway running from Arras to Douai, a distance of about a mile, A hall of Teutonic projectiles "rattled away for he served out, dally, is lo full wing. .Although a Intended to re lieve the food shortage and suffering resulting anions the Eist End poor. En'anjd's new communal "War Kitchens," are by no means charit able institutions. From the very beginning." Mrs Lloyd George said, we have sought not to make this movement another outlet for charity, It is not our Intention to give away1 free meals, but, at the same tlme.we , hope to supply our meals at such most extortlnate amounts if their watches and clocks did not agree to within a few seconds of the official time as established by the 'Komman dateur." Every new town retaken by the French armies reVeals fresh facts re garding the almost includible system employed by the Germans, to "Jier mantis" the local inhabitants. Officers had the right to stop any civilian on the street and demand prices that will be a real help." Ex- tinai ne 8now his watctt. H the hands pressing her confidence that this j even to the slightest degree East End example would te ftyow- rom tne "German official time as ed throughout ihe countrythe wife crr,e by t officer, the unfortu of the Premie?, welcomed over 200 nate c,v,,1,n w" hav,ly flned first day customers to the new kit- fflcer8 cou,d ,8 enter Pr,vl chen. -Idon t know any more econ- hoU8es t0 look at clock- u the nmical way than this." she said, "of fld not haTe ea0"uh "Gorman sys savln food and at the same time "d garrisation" in theTr me- rno nlam v pairlarAa 4-k Ka..-. - 1 ilvinr ood nonrishlnr food to chil- r - " w "" "V dfen of the poor districts. We want to save all the boys and girls that by the "Kommandateur," 'the unfor tunate house ewner was subjected to we can. They're very precious to ,. . .u confiscation of property. 1 While the system of fines orlelnallv was ostensibly for the purpose of hrfnirlnr. tho 4v11 nnnulattnn ,m sent moment." The precise terms of the council's an n0UI.( then came the attack. 1 acceptance have not been made pub lie excent It has been hinted that they Included a demand that tho minister of Foreign Affairs, Mllukoff, must not appear In the re-organised cabinet. Fromi the Government's, rejection of the council's proposal, however, it is understood that the terms offered went -much further than a demand ,lor Milukoff's official head. Possibly the renunciation of certain agree ments with the allies was insisted upon. In rejecting the proposal the Duma Government issued a statement de claring that it was impossible to ex pect Russia jto renounce the princi ples enunciated on April 9th. The Government further insisted that it Is necessary to confirm the unity of all forces on the allied fronts and to -wage an energetic struggle against Internal anarchy. Tonight Show SUFFRAGISTS HAVE GAINED A POINT (By Uned PresW Washington, May 16-The Presi dent has written Chairman Pou of thei House Committee on committees, urg ing the appointment of a special com mittee on Woman's Suffrage. Suffrage workers nave fought for years for such a committee. LOOKING FOR ANOTHER SITL (By United Press)' Washington, May 16. The object Ions of North. Carolinians to locating a German internment camp near Asheville has caused Secretary Wll--son to try to secure another site. East of Bullecourt near the Hin- denburg line some Germans, includ ing an offlced, were captured today. Rome. May 16. Italy's great of fensive is gaining ground over . a front of from 25 to 80 miles. Italian guns and roaring infantry are stead-j ily advancing. Several thousand pris-i oners have been taken. The fighting j is vety heavy behind Goritz where. apparently the greatest force -of the Italian ame is iauncnea. iue ui Italian guns have inflicted heavy oss es. Paria Mav 16. A tremendous German attack on a front of two an Initial appearance in this city tnday aniiand the fact that sne u introaucea HOLWEG ADMITS - PEACE ANGLING '. r fB 'United Fr. ' London. May ' 1 6. Formal admte sion that Germany is angling official ly for separate peace with Russia Is the main point in Holweg's address that struck the British press and. pub lic today. iris realised that Holweg baited his hook with enticing words to Rus sia but the belief Is expressed - that despite disorganisation in Petrograd differences In government there are settled. , " BAPTISTS fit in f iBSi sessio;: A nJntnol tart a a n A la BolA Italian drive Is launched. The big" "'""' r- - the German standard of "discipline, . J system and organization." this nre- teit has now hann nrnnleTAlv'akBTi7rT. . r. , i At AlRrama oned I Forced as the Germans now are to . 'realise that they cannot holft-fndetl- Tonlght will mark the beginning j of the new Triangle features at the l Alk'rama tBeatre. j the picture for tonUht is "The Microscopic Mystery" and it Is. en tirely different from the kfnd of sto rles that have heretofore been releaB ed on the Triangle program. It has to be well worth seeing Miss Constant Talmage, the., dain ty little ster of the play, makes her EAST LAKE BRIEFS East Lake. N. C. 'May 15th, Mr. Dewey Twiford of Norfolk - Is home visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Twiford. Miss Ethel Sawyfr has returned home after spending a few weeks imong relatives and friends here. Mn J. W. Meeklns of Buffalo City purchased a neV'cst, last week. Miss Florence Twiford has return ed home afUr teaching school at Vuie, Virginia. ! Mrs. C. W, Smith is very ill at her Lome. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Duvall spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. J. E. Du vall of Sycamore. Miss Ruth Sawyer has returned home from Elisabeth City after spend ing a few weeks among relatives. and friends. Mits Essio and Jessie Sahderlln Brent Sundav afternoon with Mrs. D. Twiford of Buffalo City. Mr. L. B. Sawyer made a brief visit to Elisabeth City last week. Mr and Mrs B B Bodwell have re turned from Eder.ton. Mrs. B. I Twiford has returned from Elizabeth City after spending a! few weeks witht er daughter Mrs. Pattie tannery. rriiTii r iiiAnnr nA i GiWUS SrCCESSOR TO DR. LANSING BOi. . ROWS TORE CJIOHEN AND OTIl ER OFFICERS WILL. PRORAELT RE CHANGED (By Uhlted-Press) ; l New Orleans, May 16 War'a f feet upon missionary and educational activities- occupied the attention cf delegates to he annual Southern Baptist Convention which started its sessions her today. Dr. Oliver F. Ore gory of Baltimore, one of the, seers tarlea, declared that the recall of mis slonar'es in foreign fields was 'not contemplated. It Is generally under stood arrangements must be made to curtail their work. Consideration of tho revision of the constitution and election of mission ary boards of the church, are other matters- bef6ro 'the convention. All Baptist congregations east of Mississ ippi and south of the Ohio River, In cluding Maryland, District of Colum biaand Virginia are represented. , , A successor to Rev. Dr. Laniinr Burrow, or Americus,v Ga.,peirtdent of the convention, to to be choeet) and It Is probably there -will bo other changes among the officers. Dr. Bur rows term of office expires by limita tion. He has served three rears; The ; secretaries are Rev. Dr. O. F. Gregory ' of Baltimore, -who has served in that capacity for 37 years and Rev. H. C. ' Moore of Raleigh, N. C. " The proceedings of tho convention are limited by the laws of tho church ' to missionary and educational " sub-. Ject. The founding of a theological seminary In tho 8outh---the germ of an Idea at the last convention prob ably will come in for discussion. NORTHERN BAPTISTS MEET 1H CLEVELAND, . r nitely the occupied districts of France and Belgium, the fine system is now being used for the open purpose of extorting the last penny that the civil population possesses while they still have it in their power to enforce the ! AVERAGE 30 SAVING HAH BEEN extortion. x a half miles between Moullln Laffeux. has been repulsed. Berlin. May 16. Several hundred yards of outer trenches have been captured from the French' It was' an nounced here today. SUCCESSFUL OPENING AT R E. QTJINN & CO'S A large crowd' gathered at the big store of R. E. Qulnn and- CBmpany an hour before the doors were open ed Wednesday morning and by nine o'clock; the or,bwd had grown so large that It was slow jworbr and a hard Job to get In they door at all. Shoppers from city and Country were there not only to look on but to buy. . LCKNIS MADE, TO RUSSIA TODAY . ... ir .,v, T'r gy such a celebrity as William Luc as assures her a successful debut. In addition to the feature picture a Metro .comedy will be on the prog ram. "The Lady Killer" is the tit le, and Manager Kramer says you can rest assured that it contains all the fun you are looking for. Thursday at the Alkrama Param ouunt pictures i resents the extfaor dinary star Vivian Martin in one of the best pictures ever shown here. Vlvlin Martin is one of the favorites in Elizageth City, and In this new play, "The Spirit of Romance" she has every opportunity to display her bivadousnes- and versatility of cha racter. Friday is special feature day at the Alkrama and Charles Ray The Annual meeting and Banquet! and ohter Triangle stars have been of Commerce will booked t0 present "The HonoraDie Algy" which Manager Kramer says i8 one of the pictures that you cant afford ro miss. Pearl White In -Pearl of the Army" is another plc At Brussels alone the fines now be ing Imposed are declared to amount to millions of Yrancs every month. Some idea of the nature and the i amount of these fines can be secured from the following cases in towns re cently retaken by the French. At Guivry, two horsese were in some mysterious manner injured in a stable. For this four inhabitants who knew nothing about the affair were found guilty, and forced to pay 3,000 marks. At Ugny-le-Gay a house was burn ed down by the German themselves. Nevertheless, they charged that the owner had set fire to the structure. The village as a whole was held res ponsible and forced to pay 10,000 marks. ' MANAGER PUGH IN RICHMOND TODAY TO SECURE PROMINENT SPEAKERS VoR OCCASION Made from small plats chickens, pigs. and cows help reduce living ex pen- - SES Washington, D. C?May 16. -How hundreds Of people in the various textile mill towns of North. and South Carolina are prepared "to do their bit" toward Increasing the food sup ply by successful gardening is told by Investigators of the Department of Agriculture, who have found that each of 548 families raised on an Bv Unltii Press! Cleveland. May' 16 Three - thou sand delegates came to Cleveland today to attend the Norrthern Bap tist Convention. 'AI Northern states from coast to coast are repre sented at the meeting. Nineteen big meetings will be held. - John D. Rockfeller was expectet to attend In response to a special Invitation. tv T rapi.io DESTROY LOGKS r average $30 worth of food In gardens FOUR KILLED, THREE FATALLY INJURED IN EXPLOSION AT GREAT GRAIN GATE IN MICHI containing only about .16 of an acre and with an average total cost of lab or and fertilizer of $3.54. Chickens, pigs and cows are often kept by the people to good advantage. In these textile mill towns, It is stated, small At the same village a civilian was , scale gardening has been encouraged heavily fined for driving a horse that. for a number of years by the mill the Germans declared was not suffl- owners and has been found profitable damaged the Government Pier near! 'Bv finite. Pra) , m., Sault Salnte Marie, Mich. May 18. Four were killed and three fatally injured in an explosion today which of the Chamber be "held Friday night instead of Thurs day night as previously announced on account of the session of the Epis copal Council in the city. The business meeting for the elec tion of officers will be held at the Court House at eight o'clock and all members are especially urged to be present. The Banquet will be held at nine o'clock at the Southern Hotel and those desiring to attend must purchase tickets from Mr. H. 6. Kra mer before nine o'clock Thursday morning. ttn prlee of the tickets is $1.60. It is necessary that the com mittee know-how many will be pre sent so ah to make arrangement with the Hotel management. ture for Friday night,, and one that is sure to please. ELECTED IRE CHIEF ciently currycombed. As a search of the man's premises falledNo reveal sufficient money to. pay the fine, he was glvn fifteen days in prison. Failure in every instance to pro duce the amount' of cash fined by the Germans is invariably followed eith er by deportation or lang prison sen tences. At Channy.three prominent citizens were imprisoned. An offer was then made to release them upon the sur render of a certain amount of mun icipal bonds. These the three men finally secured, whereupon the Ger mans deciding tbey wanted the amount demanded In cash instead Of AT NEW THEATRE , FRIDAY MAY 18th While the Fire Chief, Jerome Flora, is away, E. Pratt Fearing, fore man. will act as fire chief. Mr Fearlnr has been a member of bonds, refused to accept the latter. the Department tor a number of years nd confined the three men In a hum- and It fc thought he will make a good Chief. - V FIRST MEMBER TO OFFER SERVICES (By United Press) - Washington, May 18. Represen tative Gardner of Massachusetts, pre paredness advocate, resigned' ' from Congres to repert to the officers re- Clara Kimball Young will be seen at the New Theatre On , Friday In tern corps today.He Is the first mem- "Without a Soul.'Thls has never been ber to offer his services. ' shown in this city before and It will . ' -- , " ' ; ' hn worth your while to so won- - ' WEATIiru "' 1 irv-.!:;.:: "" .i!,l'y prrut- ri.ii t'.r.l--!.t. Tltnr-iy fair, warm- Id room without fire, light nor bed ding and a diet of a pint of coffee In the morning and a piece of bread in the evening. The men were kept In this condi tion until friends succeeded In rais ing In the neighboring villages the sum demanded. Up to date five cemeteries have been found at Bray Saint Chrlstopbe, Champion, Amy, . Beuraignes and Chapeaumesnil, where all of the more promising looking tombs had been dynamited and the' coffins stripped by the mill workers. The plan has tne Soo Locks. '' v resulted in local retail prices for gar-: Preliminary investigation Indicates , dentruck which are only one-third that the explosion was an effort to .', to one-fourth that of present prices destroy the locks which have been in other places. As a consequence the , kept under gurd for weeks. ' '; ''' amount of good raised on each gard- j The explosion rocked the clty,Two en is considerably in excess of what unexploded dynamite caps wero could be purchased elsewhere for $30 The mill companies, It is explained, found Millions of tons of grains aro sent' furnish their employees with a house , through these locks annually, el and plot of land at a very small rent. The people are helped to make them selves self-sustaining so far as possi ble. One company employs an expert to demonstrate the best methods for growing the products best adapted to the region. I Success in gardening, it was found, depended entirely upon the industry of the workers. Some families failed to give their gardens the proper ceedlng the tonnaga of either Sues or Panama. . .v . r GERMANS TAKE ' NO CHANCES respondlngly poor crops. Others who were more Industrious, greatly ex ceeded the average amount of food produced. Where chickens were kept they were found to yield an average net return pf $1.08 a fowl. Pigs also were profitable but were not to numerous. Many of the people have cows. One mil owner puts a purebred bull at the disposal of his employees who owns not onVy of the metal -Jlnlng hut of '. "a gliding up the grade of anyobiocf- of silver that' adorned Jcsttln In thl. wny. TrnoU of land for th-ri . X,it. il a f'" -''' ?if'"nrfl worn I n'lilHi! t-: ' V 1 : 'l! n r: - n p i rn,:: , ; . fBv I'nlfed Prewo Amsterdam, May 16. German of flclaldam is taking no -chances at pop ular revoultlon In order to achieve amount of attention and raised cor. , democrmcy TnU mu.t WM hlnttd ln the speeches of the extrtme socialists at the Reichstag today. Police guards in all the large cities have been strongly Increased in order to suppress any disturbances. HERNDON HEYWOOD Mr Lavert Russell Herndon and Miss Ella Mae He-wood both of Now. port News, Va, were nrrl I r-y Jv.-
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