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vol. xxvn.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FEUAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1916.
NO. 21.
WAII CENTER AGAIN
SHIFTS TO RUMANIA
HUGH M. DORSEY
FRANK 0. L0WDEN
WILSON NOT TO REST
APPEAL TO STATE
CHIEF STUDY NOW
E SESSION
1!
FOREIGN S TRAIN
BEFOR
FUR ORPHANS AID
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FRANCO-SERBIAN CAMPAIGN RE
SULTS IN CAPTURE OF MON
ASTIR 3 YGERMANS.
ALLIES WIN IN MACEDONIA
On the Danube Front in Dobrudja
Artillery Engagements Are in Pro
gress. German Artillery Busy In the
Somme Region.
London. With the end of the first
stage of the Franco-Serbian campaign,
which resulted in the capitulation of
Monastir by the Bulgars and Germans,
and a dimunition of hostilities in the
Somme region of France, except for
bombardments and isolated infantry
actions, Rumania again has become
the center of interest.
Driving eastward through western
Wallachia, the Austro-German forces
now are reaching out for Craiova, ly
ing on the railroad midway between
the Danube town of Orsova, Hungary,
and Bucharest. This maneuver ap
parently places a menace in the rear
to the retreat of the Rumanians fight
ing in the north on Hungarian soil
and disputing with the Austro-Ger-mans
the passage of the Transyl
vanian Alps- leading to the plains of
Wallachia.
In the Jiul Valley region the retire
ment of the Rumanians continues, and
in the Campulung sector Petrograd
reports that further Rumanian at
tacks against the Teutonic Allies have
been unsuccessful On the Danube
front In Dobrudja artillery engage
ments are in progress from Silistria
to Oltina.
The fighting in Macedonia from the
Cerna River to Lake Presba has end
ed in a complete victory for the En
tente Allied troops, says the Paris
War Office. The Serbs have not yet
entered Monastir, the town having
been virtually destroyed, according to
unofficial accounts. The Entente
forces have occupied villages ' to the
north of the town and are declared to
be still in pursuit of the Germans and
Bulgarians.
The German artillery on the Somme
front near Beaumont-Hamel and Gued
ecourt and on the Verdun Bectro, near
Douaumont, have heavily shelled
British and French positions.
RESERVE BOARD COUNCIL
REPORTS BUSINESS GOOD.
Advisory Council of Federal Reserve
Board Holds Quarterly
Conference.
Washington. Prominent bankers
from nearly every section of the coun
try, composing the advisory council of
the Federal Reserve Board met here
for the council's quarterly conference.
They discussed foreign credit, discount
rates, the gold situation and business
conditions generally and submitted
recommendation at a joint conference
with the Reserve Board. :
At a preliminary session W. P. G.
Harding, governor of the Reserve
Board, outlined what the board- is do
ing and said the board's .reports show
business conditions to be good gen
erally throughout the country. After
the joint session, the council met in
executive session.
There was talk about means of
absorbing Europe's extension of cred
it to South America and other coun
tries. Federal reserve officials say
that to maintain a position as one of
the world bankers, the United States
must expect to be called upon abroad
to render a good deal of the service
performed largely by England in the
past in extending short term credits
necessary in the production and trans
portation of goods of all kinds In the
world trade.
NO CHANGES YET SEEN
IN CALIFORNIA COUNT.
Sacremento. Cal. Unofficial re
turns from four counties were ren
dered official by the canvass conduct
ed in the office of Secretary Frank C.
Jordan, leaving only 12 counties to be
heard from. No errors In the count
of votes for presidential elecctors
have been found.
AGREE WITH MEXICAN MINE
OWNERS ON TAX RATES.
Atlantic City, N. J. Luis Cabrera,
Minister of Finance, announced here
that at a conference in New York he
had reached an agreement with rep
resentatives of a large group of mine
owners on a new schedule of taxes
which the mine owners admitted
would enable them to reopen their
properties. On the gold and silver ore
the reduction was from 10 to 8 per
cent and on bullion from 8 to 5 per
cent.
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DEUTSCIILAND RAMS TUG
UNAVOIDABLE ACCIDENT OCCURS
AT MOUTH OF THE
HARBOR.
Return Trip of Deutschland Not to Be
Delayed by Investigation in Which
Several Witnesses, Including Cap
tain Koenig, Have Testified.
New London, Conn. The collision
which caused the - merchantman
Deutschland to abandon her return
voyage to Germany almost at its out
set when a convoying tug, the T. A.
Scott, Jr., was sunk with a crew of
five men, was the subject of Federal
investigation. The United States in
spectors of steam vessels heard
through witnesses of the conditions un
der which the submarine, slipping out
of the harbor in the darkness so that
she might submerge in neutral waters
before da break, ran down the tug
which was acting as Ler protector, off
Race Rock, just outside this port. The
testimony came from Captain Paul
Keonig of the Deutschland; from F.
W. Krapohl, his chief ' officer, and
from Hens Kleese, his chief engineer.
It was givin in secret, but it became
known through statements outside the
chamber that the collision was an ac
cident. Survivois who would discuss the
matter were agreed hat it was due to
a combination of swift currents, which
carried the tuff off its course and
across the bow of the submarine and
the darkness which was to be the
Deutschland's medium of safety, but
which instead prevented ready obser
vation of the danger ahead. Captain
Keonig would say only to questioners:
"It's a terrible thing to lose those
good men. I feel it deeply. You must
excuse me."
The Deutschland's return will be
delayed only a few days by the dam
ages which she sustained and not at
all by the fact that inquiry is being
made. Examination of her bow show
ed that three plates had been stove-in
to a degree described by some "as a
hole," and others as "a dent."
The men of the T: A. Scott, Jr.,
had no chance for their lives. They
went down imprisoned in the pilot
house, engine room and galley and un
doubtedly were drowned at their
posts. Their bodies have not been re
covered. The dead are:
Captain John Gurney.
William A. Caton, engineer.
Edward Stone, fireman.
Clarence B. Davison, cook.
Eugene Duzant, deckhand.
10,000 MARCH TO WHITE
HOUSE TO CHEER WILSON.
President Accorded Remarkable De
monstration by Washington, Mary
land and Virginia People.
Washington. The people of Wash
ington and of nearby sections of
Maryland and Virginia gave President
Wilson an enthusiastic home-coming
welcome in honor of his re-election.
More than 10,000 strong, they march
ed from the Capitol to the White
House to the music of many bands and
waving red lights while varied-colored
bombs burst overhead. When they
had passed a chorus of 300 voices sere,
naded the President with the "Star
Spangled Banner," "Dixie" and other
patriotic melodies.
The celebration was participated in
hv both men and women members of
Democratic organisations. Govern- .
moat clerks, suffragists, representa- j
tlvos of unian labor and citizens gen- ;
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES BEFORE
PRESIDENT BOTH CO M P L.i C AT-,
ED AND PRESSING.
MUST DECIDE VERY SOON
From Now on President Expects to
Deal With All Foreign Questions
Without Embarrassment and With
out Delay.
Wahsington. A portentous and
complicated international situation
now faces President Wilson and for
the next few weeks will engage his
attention and that of his advisers to
the practical exclusion of all but the
most urgent of domestic subjects. , .
In the last days of the campaign
Secretary of State Lansing frequently
spoke of the necessity of postponing
action on the more delicate interna
tional questions because the uncer
tainty of the outcome of the political
contest had a direct bearing on the
success or failure of some of the ad
ministration policies.
From now on the President ex
pects to deal with all foreign ques
tions without embarrassment and he
is receiving from his advisers a sum
mary of the outstanding issues so
essential to taking stock of the basic
situation which must be met now
that international relations have re
turned to thoir place of prime im
portance. While it is not evident that
there will be any fundamental change
in policy, freedom from fear that
any move at all would be misinter
preted as inspired by an internal
political struggle has been removed.
President Wilson and Secretary Lan
sing feel themselves able to act with
a single eye to the international sit
uation and their immediate confer
ences on the President's return to
Washington, indicate how pressing
they feel the situation to be.
The President must decide how the
United States shall meet the German
submarine question on that ono hand,
the Entente Allied trade restrictions
on the other, whether the retalitory
legislation shall be enforced, whether
the traditional theory of isolation
shall be abandoned ' for concerted
neutral action, and whether the coun
try shall have an aggressive or a pas
sive policy toward, the- ,, peace con
ference; the war after the war, and
the Permanent League ,to Enforce
Peace which the President has accept
ed in theory, and, during the rest of
the war shall America's attiude be
governed by a decidd benevolence
in the interpretation of international
law according to its own best interests
or shall it be strictly legalistic, regard
less of whom it affects?
SEC. LANE IS TOLD TO END
BORDER PLAN CONFERENCE.
Diplomatic Settlement of Disputes
Arising is Remote Unless Commis
sion Agrees on Arrangement Already
Submitted.
Washington. Armed with Presi
dent Wilson's complete approval of his
course, Secretary Lane returned to
Atlantic City Monday determined to
being the session of the American
Mexican Joint Commission to an early
conclusion. He is still hopeful that an
agreement as to the border situation
can be reached but it was clearly in
dicated in official circles that the
joint conference in entering on its
final phase, agreement or no agree
ment. - If the commissioners find it impos
sible to formulate a plan the view
taken here will be that the prospect
of settling border disputes through
diplomacy will be remote. Secretary
Lane is understood to have found
President Wilson, Secretary Lansing
and Secretary Baker in full accord
with him on every point when he laid
before them in a three-hour confer
ence at the White House a review of
the efforts the American commission
ers bad made to reach a settlement.
Mr. Lane said he was well pleased
with the results of the White House
conference but would not otherwise
comment.
SECOND IN AGURATION
OF WILSON 8IMPLE.
Washington. President Wilson's
second inaguration probably will be a
comparatively sumple affair. He is
known to desire that there should be
little ceremony. It is accepted as cer
tain by officials that there will be no
inaugural ball in spite of the hope of
Washington citizens for such an event
The; recent death- of the President's
pisfer. Mrs. Anne Howe the fact that
Marr-h 4 falls on Sunrtnv next year,
are, reasons for simpli.-ity.
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ernor of Illinois.
WIRELESS TO FAR EAST
PRESIDENT WILSON AND EMPER
OR YOSHIHITO EXCHANGE
MESSAGES.
First Commercial Trans-Pacific Ser
vice Many Mesages Are Sent.
President Sends Greetings to Far
East Nation. -
San Francisco. Commercial trans
Pacific wireless service via Honolulu
to Japan was inaugurated by the Mar
coni Wireless Telegraph Company,
with messages sent by President Wil
son and other prominent men from
Bolinas Ridge, near here, to the Em
peror of Japan and other dignitaries
in that country.
Aimaro Sato, Japanese Ambassador
to the United States, sent a message
to George W. Guthrie, American Am
bassador to Japn... From London was
flashed by cable and thence by the
new wireless route the congratula
tions of Gugleilmo Marconi, the in
ventor, to the director of post and
telegraph of the Japan Government.
A message from Melville E. Stone,
general manager of the Associated
Press, to the Japanese Minister of
Foreign Affairs, said:
"Geetings and sincere congratula
tions on this new bond of union be
tween Japan and the United States."
, Emperor Yoshihito of Japan re
plied by wireless to the message of
President Wilson, relayed from Boli
nas, Cal. The Emperor's message
said:
"It affords me much pleasure that
the first use of the installation of
wireless telegraphy between Japan
and the United States has been to
transmit your cordial message. In re
turn I send this expression of my
thanks for the good wishes exhibited
towards me and my people and of the
hearty desire entertained throughout
Japan for the continued prosperity
and welfare of the United States.
"YOSHIHITO."
The message from President Wil
son to the Emperor read:
"The Government and people of the
United States of America send greet
ings to your Imperial Majesty and to
the people of Japan and rejoice in this
triumph of science which enables the
voice of America from the Far West
to cross the silent spaces of the world
and speak to Japan in the Far East,
hailing the dawn of a new day. May
this wonderful event confirm the un
broken friendship of our two nations
and give assurance of a never-ending
interchange of messages of good will.
May the day soon come when the
voice of peace carried by these silent
messengers shall go into all the world
and its word3 to the end of the world.
"WOODROW WILSON."
CONTROL OF HOUSE STILL
UNCERTAIN; G. O. P. LEAD
Democratic Leaders Confidently Ex
pect to Cut Down Opposition's
Lead.
Washington. Incomplete canvasses
of the vote in several close Congres
sional districts brought no changes fn
the 'inofficial election results, which
indicate that 217 Republicans, 212
Democrats and six of other parties
have been elected to the Sixty-Fifth
Congress.
Representative Woods, Chairman
of the Republican committee, insisted
that the Republicans undoubtedly
would control the organization of the
House. A speaker to be elected must
receive a majority of the House or
218 votes. Although the unofficial re
turns show the Republicans to be one
short of a majority, they are counting
on the Progressive elected in Minne
sota the Progressive-Republican in
Louisiana.
MAY TAKE SEVERAL - WEEK-END
TRIPS IN MAYFLOWER,
HOWEVER.
CONSIDERS APPOINTMENTS
President to Give Time Preceding
Convening of Congress on Important
Administration Affairs. Working on
Annual Message.
Washington. President Wilson has
decided not to take a vacation before
Congress convenes, but may go on
one or more week-end trips down the
Potomac River on the naval yacht
Mayflower. He was rged to go to a
Virginia resort for a brief stay, but
reached tho conclusion that it would
be impossible.
The President has almost complet
ed the selection of members of the
traiff commirsion and shipping board
created by Congress last session and
probably will make an announcement
of the personnel of both before Con
gress meets. He has made but little
progress, however, in the selection of
members of the board to administer
the workingmen's compensation act
for Federal employes.
One typewritten page of the annual
message to Congress has been finish
ed by the President and he is devot
ing all of his spare time to this work.
PROCLAMATION ISSUED
FOR THANKSGIVING DAY.
President Sets Apart November 30 as
Day of Praise For Blessings of Peace
and Unbroken Prosperity.
Washington. President Wilson has
formally by proclamation designed
Thursday, November 30, as Thanks
giving Day.
Here follows the President's proco
lamation: -
"It has long been the custom of our
people to turn in the fruitful Autumn
of the year in praise and thanksgiv
ing to Almighty God for His many
blessings and mercies to us and the
Nation.
"The year that has elapsed since
we last observed our day of thanks
giving has been rich in blessings to
us as a people, but the whole face
of the world has been darkened by
war. In the midst of our peace and
happiness, our thoughts dwelt with
painful disquiet upon the struggles
and sufferings of the Nations at war
and of the peoples upon whom war
has brought disaster without choice
or possibility of escape on their part.
We cannot think of our own happi
ness without thinking of their pitiful
distress.
"Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wil
son, President of the United States
of America, do appoint Thursday, the
30th of November, as a day of Na
tional thanksgiving and prayer, and
urge and advise the people to resort
to their several places of worship on
that day to render thanks to Almighty
God for the blessings of peace and
unbroken prosperity which He has
bestowed upon our beloved country
in such unstinted measure.
"And I also urge and suggest our
duty, in this our day of peace and
abundance, to think in deep sym
pathy of he stricken peoples of the
world upon whom the curse and ter
ror of war has so pitilessly fallen, and
means to the releaf of their suffer
ings. "Our people could in no better way
show their real attitude towards the
present struggle of the Nations than
by contributing out of their abun
dance to the relief of the suffering
which war has brought in its train.
"in witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be af
fixed. "Done at the City of Washington,
this 17th day of November in the
year of Our Lork, 1916, and of the
independence of the United States,
the 151st.
"WOODROW WILSON,
"By the President, Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State."
MUCH PROGRESS MADE BY
W. C. T. U. REPORTS SHOW.
Indianapolis, Ind. Reports showing
good progress in the forming of new
branch organizations during the past
year were made at the opening ses
sion of the annual convention of the
national Women's Christian Temper
ance Union here. Figures showed
that CG0 new legions of the Loyal
Temperance Legion branch had been
organized, and that nine states had
been awarded honorable mention for
the number of new legions formed.
EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD
EXPECTED TO TAKE A
PART.
GIVE PLAN WIDE PUBLICITY
"One Day For The Orphans" Mova
ment Expected To Be Great
Success.'
The North Carolina Orphan Asso
ciation is calling upon every man,
woman and child in the state to con
tribute on or near Thanksgiving Day
one day's income to the orphanage of
his or. her choice. The publicity com
mittee composed of M. L. Shipman,
James R. Young, and Hight C. Moore,
is making an earnest appeal for or
phan aid in this way. A letter has
been issued by the commission read
ing as follows:
The North Carolina Orphan Associ
ation again calls upon every man, wo
man and child in the State to con
tribute on or near Thanksgiving Day
at last one day's income to the or
phanage of his or her choice.
A year ago this appeal was Issued
tor the first time. The response was
gratifying, not only because of the un
precedented gifts made to the various
orphanages, but also because it re
vealed the tender and practical sym
pathy which our people feel toward
thethousands of our fatherless chil
dren. x
In order that more adequate equip
ment and support may be provided, the
'One-Day-For-The-Orphans" Movement
was started calling upon all our peoplo
to add to the stream of regular con
tributions a special Thanksgiving offer
ing equal to a day's income. This is
a reasonable request, for any one can
share wtth the orphans the earnings
af one day out of three hundred -and
sixty-five. It is practicable, for rich
and poor alike can participate in it. It
enlists, our people of all creeds and
classes in beautiful co-operation for
the support of a needed civic and
Christian philanthropy.
We, therefore, make our appeal to j
The prince of business to give out of
his abundance the actual or estimated
income of a day.
The landlord and money lender to
give one day's rent of his houses and
lands, or one day's Interest on hla
money.
The professional man to give one
day's earnings, specifying the day or
taking the average day.
The salaried worker to give his or
her salary for a day.
The laborer with only pick-up jobs to
devote some special day to .this cause,
The good housewife with her in
genuity and devotion to set apart the
work of a day.
The boys and girls with no regula:
income to get a job after school hou:
or on some Saturday and give the p:
ceeds to the orphans.
In short, everybody, old and youn
rich and poor, learned and Illiterat
to join in this holy movement and tbu
to "visit the fatherless in their affli
titon.-
To this end we call upon the editorf
of our papers, daily and weekly, sect
lar and religious, to give the wided
possible publicity to this movemet
which is philanthropic in purpose, ai
state-wide In extent; we call upon d
church leaders of all denominatior
including pastors, Sunday school sup
intendents, women's workers, and o
ers of influence to urge in their reap
tive congregations the giving of a de
income to their respective orphanar
we call upon the officers of the
rlous orders to bring this movem
to the attention of each man In th,
membership and enlist him in
extra offerings ; we call upon teach
doctors, lawyers, merchants, manu
turers and all others with local
lowing and influence to Induce t
friends to unite with them in gl
at next Thanksgiving a day's
or wages to the needy orphans
North Carolina.
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iieif, iiiea, is uur appeal; i-i
your offering on or about Thanksgff
Day. Make it on the basis of
earning capacity ror a single c
more, If you will; less, if yo.u ca
no better. Make It through
church, or lodge, or individually.
it to the orphanage of your cl
Make it, remembering that thou
6f others are with you la this
ment. Make it, if you will, wit
j t j v i inav vui visual tuiiuici l
be led into the larger life here aij
life eternal hereafter. And ma
concerted philanthropy for the n
less help toward making next t
giving Day the gladdest and bes;
observed in North Carolina.
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