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VOL. XXV.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1915.
NO. 43.
PRESIDENT SPEAKS
NEED OF 1DISS
SELF-POSSESSION IS THE SU
PREME TEST OF A NATION'S
f METAL.
OPENING SESSION OF D.A. R.
Mr. Wilson Urges The 'Congress of
Daughters to Rally to tho Cause
of Righteousness.
Washington. The need of self-pos-
session, calmness and a judicial tem
perament by the United States in the
present world crisis was urged by
President Wilson in a speech before
the opening session of the twenty
fourth Continental Congress of the
Daughters- of the American Revolu
tion. '
The president said self-possession
was the supreme test of a nation's
mettle, and urged the Congress to ral
ly to the cause of righteousness, as
ministered by those who hold their
minds quiet and judge upon principle.
Ambassador Jusserand of France told
the Congress that the United States
had behaved in be European crisis sc
us to command the gratitude and
thankfulness of the world.
"Wo in France," he said, "have
learned to know what the American
heart Is made of the pure American
gold that Jslri it. I am glad tlhat I
may affirm t?he thanks of France for
the generosity of America 'the neu
tral United States."
; The ambassador said the "chiet
question In the European struggle."
was the same . problem that con
fronted America in revolutionary
times. "We thought we had solved
the problem of human liberty," he
said "Rut ,1 fleiain confronts us. It
"will be solved now just as it was solved
In former times, as it . was solved in
the trenches at Yorktown."
The president in -his speech de
clared that he could speak only in gen-
a.a1 4anma nn1 tf Tina CI "in d 1 anT-O-P.t' 11
for him to speak even in that way.
John Hays Hammond, R. C. B.
Thurston, president-general of the Sons
of the Revolution and John Barrett,
director-general of the Pan-American
Union also spoke. '
ROOSEVELT-BARNES TRIAL.
Jury For $50,000 Libel Suit is Com
pleted. Syracuse, N. Y. The jury which
will try William Barnes $50,000 suit
for alleged libel, against Theodore
Roosevelt was completed in Supreme
court here.. It comprises seven Repub
licans, three Progressives and two
Democrats. Twentytwo talesmen were
examined before both sides announced
that they were satisfied with the 12
men in the box. The jurymen are:
Henry Hoag, clerk, Republican
(foreman); Irving J. Mills, wood
worker, Republican; Walter J. Zuill,
manager, Republican; Franklin S.
Rhoades. farmer, Progressive; Leon
ard K. Hungerford, painter. Progress
ive ; F. W. Pierce, carpenter, Repub-
publican; Ray Tanner, farm hand,
Democrat; John W, Brown, farmer,
Republican ; George Boschert, manu
facturer, ProgrP3sive; Edward Burns,
motorman, Republican; Peter Bencke,
coal dealer, Democrat.
Immediately after the jury had been
completed, counsel for Colonel Roose
velt made a motion to dismiss the
complaint against their client on the
ground that allegations made in the
statement on which, the suit is based
Mr. Barnes and Charles F., Murphy as
were privileged and that In naming
the controllers of "rotten government
1 n the stftffi of New Yvrlr lift did nn
mean anything personal or to imply
that either of the two men named had
In anv way orofited bv the alleeed "rot.
tenness."
Abarno and Carbane Sentenced.
New York. Frank Abarno and Car
mine Carbone, the anarchists who set
a bomb" in St. Patrick's Cathedral
March 2, were sentenced to not les3
Sing Sing. Abarno and Carbone were
found guilty. by a jury last week.
Sharp Fighting Occurs.
London. Activity along the west
ern battle line seems to partake of
the nature of isolated engagements
rainer man a general onensive. Ar
tillery duels have taken the place of
hand-to-hand fighting, which has been
the feature of the recent struggle
along the Meuse and near the Lor
raine torder, rut the latter type of
combat continues in the Vosges,
where the oflkial statements agree
sharp fighting is taking plaeeon Ger
man territory. The French and Ger
mans both claim success.
WILLIAM G. M'ADOO
1
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Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
and Comproller Williams are' lead
ers in the fight caused by their
sensatioal attack on the methods of
management of the Riggs National
Bank of Washington.
VIEW OF GENERAL HTERTA
SIXTEEN MILLION WILL HAVE
TO-BE KILLED BEFORE MEXI
CO COULD BE INVADED.
He Declares the Heads of Washington
Administration Have Not Been
Fair to Mexico.
New York. Asserting that he had
nothing to do with the death of Fran
cisco Madero, General Victoriano
Huerta, former Provisional President
issued a lengthy signed statement re
lating to the question.
General Huerta declared he knew
who was responsible for Madero's
death, but that he was keeping it as
"a professional secret."
General Huerta's statement review
ed, the history of the Madero revolu
tion, his own accession to the Provi
sional Presidency and concluded with
the assertoin that "my country can
not be conquered."
Sixteen millions of men, women and
children, would have to be killed be
fore Mexico would submit..
The heads of the. Washington Ad
ministration, Huerta declared, had
not been fair to Mexico, had been
misled by false statements and if they
had been in Mexico for thirty days
"they would have changed their the
oretical, erroneous ideas." Had it not
been for the embargo on the exporta
tion of arms from this country Gen
eral Huerta indicated that his army
would have prevailed over those op
posed to It.
The former Provisional President
reiterated the assertion made when he
left Mexico last year that he had re
signed from his position only because
he hoped to bring peace to his coun
try. He pointed out that in the eight
months elapsed since that date the sit
uation in Mexico had become "too sad
for me to analyze deeply."
"Anarchy is too soft a word to call
It," he said. Mexico eventually would
be saved, but by a Mexican, he said.
Who that would be he did not know.
Huerta declined to give an inkling
as to his future movements. He de
nied that he would go to San Antonio,
Texas, or any other point near the
Mexican border. Discussing the death
of Madero, he said:
"That is a professional secret. Law
years have secrets, doctors have
secrets I am a soldier why should
not a soldier have secrets? It is not
thorough friendship for any one that
I am withholding the information.
The time will soon come when my
name will be vindicated and, as Gen
eral Lee said of General Jackson, the
world will say of me, I stood like a
stonewall submitting to the ignomity
and the insults heaped upon me."
NETHERLANDS STEAMER SUNK.
Anchored Off Her Home Coasts She
is Torpedoed..
London. The Netherlands' steamer
Katwyk, Baltimore for Rotterdam,
was torpedoed while anchored seven
miles west of the Hinder Lightship in
the North Sea.
The crew of 23 was saved and
taken to Flushing, according to a
Reuter dispatch. The dispatch quotes
the men as saying that as they rowed
away they saw the periscope of - a
submarine, which quickly disappeared.
CERTAIN 1 GOITO
REACHES GEIffl
IS KEPT FROM GERMANY AND
AUSTRIA SAYS ATTORNEY
GENERAL.
BLOCKADE IS UNNECESSARY
Attarney General Simon Replies to
the Conference of Chemist ar.d .
Engineers.
London.- That cotton Is kept from
Germany and Austria just as effect
ively as if it were declared absolute
contraband, is the tenor of a reply ad
dressed by Attorney General Simon
to a conference of chemists and engi
neers who asked whether the Govern
ment's action was sufficient to make
it certain that no cotton reaches
those countries.
"The Attorney General ventures to
suggest that those for whom you
write may be under some misappre
hension either as to the law of con
traband or as to the steps which in
fact are being taken under the order
in council of March 11. The steps
being taken under authority of that
order in council have been extremely
effective in stopping cotton from
reaching Germany and the declara
tion of cotton as contraband would
not alter the result in the. very least
so far as preventing cotton reaching
Germany is concerned.
"If an article is declared absolute
contraband, it can be stopped from
going to a German port- and can be
stopped even from going to 'an adjoin
ing neutral port, if it is in course of
transit through that neutral port to
an enemy country. These are exactly
the circumstances in which, under
the order in council any article can
be stopped, whether it is contraband
or not, and of course, this order in
council is bying put into force in all
proper cases.
"To imagine that since March 11
anything can be gained so far as
stopping the entrance of cotton into
Germany is concerned by calling it
contraband is, in effect, to suppose
that a blockade is rendered more ef
fective if you add that specified con
traband articles will not be allowed
to break that blockade. A blockade
stops all articles whether they are
contraband or not, therefore any ad
ditional rulings would not have any
practical consequences. What is true
of Germany of course, is equally true
of Austria.
"Your memorialists no doubt will
readily believe that there may be
good reasons of quite a different kind
for not making cotton contraband in
view of the precendent which would
thereby be created, but as a practical
matter in the present war any stop
page of cotton secured by calling it
contraband is equally secured by the
order in council." -
GENERAL HERRERA KILLED.
Killed by Own Men Who Mistook
Them For Villa Troops.
Laredo, Tex. Gen. Maclovia Her
rera, Carranza commander at Nuevo
Laredo, opposite here, was killed by
his own men, who mistook him and
his for Villa troops, according to in
formation received here by Gen. R. K.
Evans, in command of United States
troops here.
General Herrera and members of
his staff had taken a position on a
hill near Neuvo Laredo when, It is
said, they were fired upon from a
Carranza military train, the soldiers
mistaking the party for Villa troops.
Besides Herrera his aida and several
other members of bis staff were
killed.
SERIOUS MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
Lake Hopateongo, N. J An auto
mobile plunged down an embankment
near here, killing Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Terhune, of Passaic, N. J.
New York. Mme. Margarete Mat
zenhaur, of the Metropolitan Opera
Company was badly cut and bruised
when she was thrown from an automo
bile in collission with another ma
chine in Long Island City. Her hus
band, Edocardo Ferrari-Fontana, a
tenor of the Boston Opera Company,
also was cut and bruised.
Kalamazoo, Mich. Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Pare were killed here when an
automobile collided with a street car.
Two others in the automobile were in
jured. Egg Harbor, N. J. Benjamin L.
Stratt, a Philadelphia underwear man
ufacturer, was killed and h!s business
partner, Meyer Myerson, was injured
when their automobile overturned.
Tyrone, Pa. Dr. C. E. Shaffer, of
Windber, Pa., was killed and five per
sons were injured in an automobile
accident near herer All the injured
will recover.
NELSON W. ALDRICH
wj A iSiMrfw
Nelson W. Aldrich, great Republican
leader, was senator from Rhode Is
land for 30 years has just died at his
home at New York of heart disease.
He was 74 years old.
MAXWELL IS PRESIDENT
NEW LEADER NAMED BY COTTON
MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIA
TION AT MEMPHIS.
Protest Against Operation of Bill.
Favors Merchant Marine. Want
"Open Door."
Memphis, Tenn. Endorsement was
given proposals to establish an Amer
ican merchant marine by Government
subsidy and protest made against the
operation of the Palmer child labor
law and legislation pending in Con
gress to require the branding of goods,
in a resolution adopted by the Ameri
can Cotton Manufacturers' Associa
tion, which concluded Its annual con
vention here. Other resolutions ad
opted asked that the United States
Government require a new statement
of the "right of equal opportunity" to
trade in the markets of the world, par
ticularly in China and that the prin
ciples of the "open door" be reassert
ed. Scott Maxwell of Cordova, Ala., was
elected president of the association,
John A. Law, Spartanburg, S. C, vice
president and Caeser Cone, Greens
boro, N. C, chairman of the board of
governors. Other members of the
board of governors elected were J. J.
Bradley, Huntsville, Ala. : Eugene
Holt, Burlington, N. C; George E.
Spofford, Augusta, Ga.; Paul J. Marrs,
Henderson, Ky., and Craig S. Mitchell,
Philadelphia.
FIFTEEN KILLED IN COLLISION.
Street Car and Freight Train Collide
In Detroit.
Detroit, Mich. Fifteen persons were
killed and about 20 injured in a collis
ion between a Detroit city street car
and a string of fright cars pushed by
a switch engine on the Detroit, To
ledo & Ironton Railroad.
Most of the dead lived in Detroit's
foreign quarter. Four are women.
The street car, crowded with pas
sengers, stopped as it approached the
railroad crossing and the conductor
ran ahead to see if the track was
clear. He signalled the motorman
to wait, but apparently the latter mis
understood his meaning. He applied
the power and the car ran rapidly
down an incline and onto the railroad
tracks.
The freight cars pushed by the
engine struck the street car fairly in
the middle. The wreckage was push
ed along 100 feet, several of the dead
and injured dropping along the street
before the train was stopped. Others
were crushed in the splintered mass
of steel and wood and it was several
hours before they could be extricated.
Kaiser Visits in Italy.
Geneva,' via Paris. Information
reaching Geneva tends to confirm the
reports that Emperor William visited
Emperor Francis Joseph last month.
According to this information Em
peror William determined to see Em
peror Francis Joseph afrer receiving
from Prince von Buelow, German am
bassador to Italy, a message that ne
gotiations concerning territorial con
cessions by Austria ,as the price of
Italy's neutrality had failed.
May Soon Get Dyestuff.
Washington. State department offi
cials were .prepared to take up with
the German government the last step
necessary to supply American textile
mills with two caroM of German
dyestuffs bought before KTprcli 1. The
way was cleared by the announce
ment that Great Britain had agreed
to permit these cargoes under certain
conditions to come through frcm Rot
terdam. The position previously taken
by the German government his been
thai it would permit dye ehipments
in exchanse for cotton or coooer.
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT
I0YSEUD
GERMANS MAKE THREE ZEPPE
LIN RAIDS WITHIN FORTY
EIGHT HOURS.
NO LOSE OF LIFE OR DAMAGE
At Least 50 Bombs are Sent Down
Raiders Keep Away From All
Large Cities.
London. England experienced its
third hostile air raid within 48 hours,
but the last, like the others resulted
in no loss of life and no serious dam
age to property.
Taking advantage of fine weather
which enabled Zeppelins to visit the
vicinity of the Tyne and the coasts of
Suffolk and .Essex early, a German
aeroplane flew over the county of
Kent, dropping bombs. In all, four
missiles were dropped in the vicinity
of the towns of Faversham and Sit
tingbourne, the latter Just across the
Bugle from the Isle of Sheppey, which
is the birthplace of t the British Royal
Naval Flying Corps.
All the bombs fell In fields.
From Sittingbourne the aeroplane
flew over the Isle of Sheppey and it
is thought probable the raider mis
took the towns attacked for Sheer
ness, the British naval base, which
is on the other side of the island. On
his way the airman passed over Can
terbury and other towns in Kent but
did not drop any explosives upon or
near them.
Zeppelins, for it is believed two
visited East Anglia during the arly
hours dropped some 25 incendiary and
explosive bombs on Lowestoft, South
wold, Maldon, Burnham-on-the-Crouch,
Heybridge and Tlllingham, but like
the raid of the previous night on the
Tynemouth district, there was only
slight damage, although many persons
had narrow escapes. In Lowestoft a
bomb dropped in a garden, shattered
a row of small houses and persons
sleeping In them were cut by broken
glass.
During the three raids at least 50
bombs were sent down by the Ger
mans. The raiders kept away from
the larger towns. There they might
have been discovered by searchlights
and come under fire from the land.
GOVERNMENT WILL ANSWER.
Date for Hearing in the Riggs Bank
Case Set for May 12.
Washington. With almost a month
in which to prepare for the next ap
pearance in court, counsel for the gov
ernment in the injunction proceedings
against treasury officials brought by
the Riggs National Bank laid plansto
make full answer to all charges set
forth in the complaint.
Justice McCoy in the District of Co
lumbia Supreme Court set May 12 as
the date when the government must
answer charges that Secretary Mc
Adoo and Comptroller of the Currency
Williams have conspired to wreck the
bank. Counsel - for the government
asked for a postponement and counsel
for the bank said they were ready to
proceed at any time.
s Gorgas Can't Go.
Washington Secretary Garrison
made it plain he would oppose Major
General Gorgas' going to Serbia for
the Rockefeller Foundation to fight the
typhus scourge unless the surgeon
general resigns his commission In the
army.
Mr. Garrison takes the position
that should General Gorgas go to Ser
bia as a retired officer in which ca
pacity he still would be under the
jurisdiction of the war department a
situation would be created which easi
ly might lead to trouble.
Villa Troops Leave Matamoros.
Brownsville, Texas. A report that
the 5,000 Villa troops which have been
besieging Matamoros for more than
two weeks had started for Celaya to
assist General Villa in his campaign
against General Obregon was received
by Major General Frederick Funston
in command of the United States
troops here.
Army Wants Prohibition.
Washington. A delegation from the
anti-saloon league called on Secretary
Garrison, causing comment which in
creased . when l:e declined to make
public the reason for the call. The
Secretary afterwards explained how
ever, that the delegation had not even
in its own judgment si;Ticiently estab
lUhod the facts it wished to present.
Humor had it that there was an effort
to introduce in the army regulations
similar to those which Secretary Dan
iels has applied to the Navy.
COMMENCEMENTS INCREASE
Estimated That Over 100,000 Children
Will Have Participated at the
End of Ail Sessions.
Raleigh. When all the reports are
.urned in to the state department of
education between sixty and seventy
counties of the state will have held
county commencements this year. This
is the estimate of Mr. C. L. Brogdeo,
state agent for rural schools, who has
been attending county commence
ments all over the state.
Last year county commencements
were held in forty-one counties of the
state, and practically 75,000 school
children particpated in parades, con
tests, school exhibits -and exercises.
Already county after county has lined
up this year for a county commence
ment for the first time, and without an
exception they have been held or will
be held in all those counties which,
last year saw the good effects of the
educational demonstration.
Recently Mr. Brogden has attended
vcounty commencements In four coun
ties, Granville, Forsyth, Surry, and
McDowell and in these counties he
gave certificates - of graduation or di
plomas to an aggregate of two hundred
and ninety children.
Charlotte Nominates Kirkpatrick.
Charlotte. After one of the most
closely contested political campaigns
In the history of Charlotte, Col. T. L.
Kirkpatrick, who has been a member
of the board of aldermen and mayor
pro tem for some time, was nomi
nated for mayor over his opponent,
F. R. McNinch, by a majority of 58
;votes. Mr. McNinch entered the race
only five days ago, after Captain Wil
,11am Anderson, who had been a can
didate for some time, withdrew from
the race. The primary also resulted
In the change of many members of
the board of aldermen and the board
of school commissioners. The elec
tion will be held on May 5, but the
primary nomination is equal to elec
tion. Only 27 Delinquent Taxpayers,
Klnston. There are but 27 names
on the delinquent tax list of the sher
iff of Greene county, Lenoir's north,
ern neighbor. Pitt county has 468 and
.Lenoir 286. All the figures are for
delinquents owning salable property.
'Moseley Hall Township alone, Lenoir
-county, has 54 delinquents, while
'Farmville in Pitt,, also adjoining
iGreene, has 58. The population of ;
Greene county is about 15,000
Jumps From Buggy, Breaks Ankle.
Cherryville. Mrs. William - Ford of
Waco met with a serious accident;
while returning to her home from
Cherryville. Meeting an automobile
in a narrow road she attempted to
turn her horse around to avoid it,
then seeing that she could not turn
in the space she had, jumped from
her buggy, breaking an ankle and
sustaining several slight bruises.
Land Reclaimation Lecture.
Wilmington. F. H. Newell, chief of
the land reclamation bureau of the
Department of the Interior, who has
been spending several days In the city
and vicinity studying the colonization
work that has been done in this sec
tion, delivered a lecture at the Hem
enway. schools.
MARKET REPORTS.
Cotton, Cotton Seed and Meal Prices
In the Markets of North Carolina
For the Past Week.
As reported to the Division of Mar
kets, North Carolina Agricultural Ex
periment Station and Department of
Agriculture, Raleigh.
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North Eastern North Carolina
Farmville ...SH-9 35-40 30.00
Murfreegboro. 84-84 40-42 30.00
New Bern 33
Windsor
South Eastern North Carolina
Jacksonville. .TVb-S
Maxton 8-8
29.00
North Carolina
31 32.no
North Central
Alrlle
Battleboro
l.ouisburg
I'ittsboro ..
ItaleiRh ....
Scotland Nk
Tarboro . . .
Wilson ....
40
40
SB
39
33-35
30-371,
32.00
80.00
30.00
30.00
32.00
30.00
200O
2000
2000
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9
South
Charlotte .
Cleveland .
Central
North Carolina
9'.
27-33 29.00
30-374 29.00
2000
1800
1700
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1700
Kllerbe Si .-.
Monroe ' 9-9'
Mooresville . . 9-9'.
Newton ..... S-9
Statesville ... 9
Norfolk, Va. . . 9
30.00
9.00
30.00
32.00
30.00
30-35
40
30-33
PRICES PAID FOR GRAIN, BUTTER
AND EGGS DURING PAST WEEK
Asheville Corn. 91-93 '-ie-: oats. 70'if;
soy beans, S2.25; cow peas, $2.25; Western
creamery butter, 3.1 He; N. C. ereamerv
butter. 32c; cuffs. IS-HOo.
CharlotteCorn. 93-95c ; oats. 6Sf ;. soy
beans, S1.7K; cow peas. $1.75; '"
creamery butter, 25c; eegs, 17-22c.
Greensboro 97e; cow peas. $2.00;
Western creamery butter. Sic; N. C."
crsamery butter, 1G-I7c.
T,ouibuiK Corn, 9fic; cow pea. $1.75;
Western creamery butter. 33c; ecs. ifte."
Maxton Corn, $1.00; oats, 7Uc; cow
peas, $2.25; Western creamery butter,
lie; C. creamerz buUr, 35c; siss. 2i)a.