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VOL. XXVII.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1917.
NO, 28.
OFFICIALS DENY
Hi
LANSING ANO TUMULTY HAD NO
KNOWLEDGE OF PEACE NOTE
BEFOREHAND.
PREST WILSON ENDORSES
Maze of Intimations and Heated Colo
quies Mark Session of Committee of
Inquiry. Lawson Fails to Substan
tiate Stories.
Washington. Through ' a bewilder
ing maze of intimations and heated
colloquies which turned the hearing
into an uproar, the House Rules Com
mittee wrestled for several hours with
Thomas W. Lawson of Boston, with
out obtaining any definite informa
tion to substantiate the stories of a
"leak" to Wall Street in advance of
the President's peace note.
Earlier during the session Joseph
P. Tumulty, Secretary to President
Wilson, whose name was mentioned
by Representative Wood in the ru
mors he laid before the committee
last week, appeared to give an em
phatic statement, endorsed by the
President, that he had no knowledge
of the peace note before It was given
to the press. He also denied the re
port repeated by Representative
Wood that Mr. Tumulty and Bernard
Baruch, a New York broker, had con
ferred in a New York hotel a few days
before the note was made public.
Mr. Tumulty denounced the action
of Representative Wood in making
public charges baaed on a letter from
an unidentified man, and declared
from the witness stand, looking Rep
resentative Wood in the face, that
he was still awaiting the Congress
man's apology.
WEBB-KEN YON PROHIBITION
BILL HELD CONSTITUIONAL.
Victory is Most Sweeping Ever Won
in Fight Against Liquor.
Washington. In the most sweeping
of all decisions upholding prohibition
laws, the Supreme Court upheld as
constitutional and valid the Webb
Kenyon law prohibiting shipments of
liquor from "wet" to "dry" states. It
also sustained West Virginia's receni
amendment to her law prohibiting im
portation in interstate commerce of
liquor for personal use.
After having been vetoed by Pres
ident Taft, who held it unconstitu
tional, and having been re-passed by
Congress over his veto, the law was
sustained by the Supreme Court by
a vote of 7 to 2. Leaders of the
prohibition movement declare it is
to their fight second only in import
ance to the proposed constitutional
amendment.
Lawyers for liquor interests who
heard the decision admitted it upheld
and applied the law "in its fullest
sense."
"BUFFALO BILL" FACES DEATH
AS CALMLY AS ON THE PLAINS.
Denver, Col. Col. William F. Cody
(Buffalo Bill) dying in Denver, faced
death in the same manner that he
has faced it many times on the p.ins
of the West in conflicts that made his
name famous.
The Colonel was warned of the ap
proach of the end of his life by Dr.
J. II. East, ihs physician and friend.
He' had rummoned the physician to
the home of his sister, where he is
spending his last hours. When Doctor
East walked into his room. Colonel
Cody said: ' '
"Sit down, doctor, there is some
thing I want to ask you. I want you
to answer me honestly, i .' What are
my chances?"
Doctor East turned to the scout:
"There is a time, Colonel," said he,
"when every honest physician must
commend his patient to a higher
power."
Colonel Cody's, head sank.
"How long?" he asked simply.
"I can answer that," said the phy
sician, "only by telling you your life
is like the hour glass. The sand is
slipping gradually, slowly but soon
the sand will all be gone. The end
is not far away."
Colonel Cody turned to -his sister,
Mrs. May Decker:
. "May," said he. "let the Elks and
Masons take charge of the funeral."
Then the man who made history in
the West when it was young began
methodically to arrange his affairs.
Villa and Forces Flee.
El Paso. Texas. Carranza forces
now occupy Jimenez, Santa Rosalie
and Parral. while Villa and his staff
have fled to the State of Durango.
over the branch railroad from Parral
to El Ara.
AMBASSADOR GERARD
I wNw 1.11 4
New photograoh of Ambassador
Gerard, who was entertained at a
dinner by high officials in Germany
a few days ago.
TO DETERMINE HIGH COST
ATTORNEY GENERAL GREGORY
WILL BEGIN INQUIRY AS TO
WHETHER THERE IS TRUST.
For Several Weeks Department of Jus
tice Has Been In Frequent Consulta
tion With the Trade Commission
A Mass of Complaints.
Washington. Attorney General
Gregory took over the yield of the
Federal Trade Commission's inquiry
into the print paper market with a
view to determining whether there is
a paper trust, and to institute civil
and criminal proceedings against
manufacturers or others who may
have violated the anti-trust laws.
President Wilson is actively inter
ested in recent disclosures of prac
tices pursued in the production and
distribution of print paper and is un
derstood to be following the inquiry
closely. A mass of complaints z.
testimony and a large number of sec
ret leports from the commission's in
vestigators have been placed in the
Attorney General's hands.
For several weeks department of
justice officials have been in frequent
consultation with the trade commis
sion and are understood to have un
der serious consideration the early in
stitution of grand jury proceedings at
which indictments charging violation
of the criminal section of the law will
be asked.
ELEVEN DEAD AS TORNADO
WRECKS SCHOOL BUILDING
Muskogee, Okla. Eleven school
children were killed, four probably fa
tally injured and eight seriously injur
ed when a tornado wrecked the Vire
ton rural school house, known as the
Lee-Baldwin school, near Blocker, Ala.
The school building, a Baptist In
dian Mission a quarter of a mile away
and four farm houses are in ruins and
a half dozen other farm liouses were
lifted' from their foundations by the
storm, which swept a narrow path for
a distance of six miles.
The storm struck first at Rich
ville, seven miles southwest of Vire
ville, but did not further damage until
within ' a quarter of a mile of the
school building.
Tearing up the valley for nearly a
mile the storm then ripped the school
juilding from its foundation and hurl
ed the children down the hillside and
acros the ravine, some of them being
picked up a hundred yards from he
site of the building.
DOBRUDJA TAKEN BY TEUTONS
AFTER A BITTER STRUGGLE.
Except for a narrow strip of land
projecting Into the Oanube marshes
toward the Moldavian town of Galatz,
all of Dobrudja has been cleared by
the Teutonic Allies of Russian and
Rumanian troops. After the fall of
Matchin and Jijila. the defenders be
gan a retreat across the Danube to
ward Braila. and according to Berlin,
a force of Russian rear guards on the
peninsula projecting toward Galatz
comprises the only Entente troops
now in Rumania between the Danube
River and the Black Sea. In Moldavia
EUUO
EXISTS WITH 1 5.
GERMANY IMPRESSES CORDIAL
ITY OF RELATIONS BETWEEN
U. S. AND GERMANY.
CERARD GUEST AT DINNER
American Ambassador is Entertained
at Dinner in Berlin and Likened te
the Dove of Peace That Was Sett
Out From Noah's Ark.
Berlin, via Cay ville.--rA largo num.
ber of the leading .wrsonages of G'er:
many, says the Overseas News Agency,
were present at the dinner giveu in
honor of James W. Gerard, the Ameri
can Ambassador to Germany, by the
American Association of Trade and
Commerce of Berlin. The diners were
addressed by Ambassador Gerard, by
Vice Chancellor Selfferich, by Foreign
Secretary Zimmerman and by Arthur
von Gwinner, the director of the
Deutsche Bank, and in all the
speeches the cordial relationships. ex
isting between the governments - Of
the United States and Germany were
emphasized.
Ambassador Gerard, who was liken"
ed by" Director van Gwinner to. the
"peace dove 'of Noah's Ark," isj quotr
ed by the Overseas News Agency,' as
saying that "never since the' begin
ning of the war have relations be
tween Germany and the United .'Statei
been so cordial" and v that 'he had"
"brought back an olive., branch from
President Wilson. T ! V.
Vice Chancellor Helffertch said 'he
was pleased to know that Ambassador
Gerard had visited the United State
"where he had an opportunity of "de -
scribing the real state of affairs ' in
Germany," and Foreign Minister Zim
merman declared he "felt sure the
friendly and truest future relations
between both countries as enunciated
by Mr. Gerard will continue."
A telegram expressing the "siii
cerest wishes" of the association "in
this crucial time" was sent to Pres
ident Wilson, and another message
was forwarded to Emperor William.
Doctor Heifferich, in his speech as
quoted by the Overseas News Agency,
called attention to the increase in
commerce between Germany and the j
United States.
CARRAN2ISTA SAYS EARLY
ADJUSTMENT WILL BE HAD
Personal Representative of Mexico's
First Chief Is Confident of Eearly
Settlement.
New York. Nicifero Zambrano.
treasurer of the de facto government
of Mexico recently sent to Washing
ton by General Carranza as his person
al representative, and who came here
issued a statement in which he pre
dicted an early settlement of the bor
der difficulties.. He based his belief.
he declared, on the fact that the Amer- j
ican government is considering seri
ously lifting at an early date, for the
benefit of the Carranza government,
the embargo on the shipment of arms
into Mexico, the recall of Gen. Per
shing's expedition and the sending to j
Mexico of Ambassador Fletcher.
Mr. Zambrano said he had called
on Secretary Lane and Judge George
Gray of the American commission. ;
with whom he discussed the American ;
situation. He let it be understood also !
that he was received by President
Wilson and Secretaryvof State Lans
ing. As the result of 'his visit to
Washington Mr. Zambrano sajd he
had reported to General Carranza that
prospects for an early adjustment of
the existing difficulties are very
bright.
TAUSSIG ACCEPTS PLACE ON
TARIFF COMMISSION
Washington. Prof. Frank W. Taus
sig of Harvard accepted a place on the
tariff commission and probably will be
made chairman. The' other four mem
bers will be announced later.
Professor Taussig Is a teacher of
political economy a?id has written ex
tensively on the tariff. It is under
stood the administration had difficulty
in persuading him to accept.
HONOLULU EXEMPTED
FROM COAL EMBARGO
Honolulu. That the British admir-
alty has exempted Honolulu from the
recent coal shipment embargo was in-
dicated when notification was given
that the motorship City of Portland
was on its way here from Australia
with 2000 tons of coal. Representa
tions to he British' government that.
British trans-Pacific shipping would
suffer if the supply of bunker coal here j
failed, were believed to be responsible
for its modification.
MISS FLORENCE ETHERIDGE
H y4 X y I
Miss Fforence Etheridge, a" graduate
of the Washington Law college, a
member of.the bar of the District of
Columbia,' as well as of that of the Su
preme court of the United States, is
employed, by the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs to see that the wills of Indians
are carried out with justice to their
heirs. '
HELD FOR SHIPPING ARMS
T0:"CARRANZA IN. VIOLATION OF
4 'f
PRESIDENT'S- EMBARGO
.' ; PROCLAMATION.
U. S. Sleuths Allege Conspiracy Head
ed by Juan T. Burn, Consul General
at New York, Forwarded Arms Into
Mexico. ' ' ' ' ' ' '
j '- i ''i's
. New',' York'! Tlie arrest here by Fed
eral officers of Juan T. Burns, consul
general at New York for the de facto
government of Mexico, disclosed an
alleged conspiracy in which five Mex
icans, including Burns, are charged in
three 'indictments with shipping arms
into Mexico in violation of President
Wilson's embargo proclamation of
October, 1915, and with evasion of
J customs regulations.
According to Assistant United
States Attorney John C. Knox, Fed- !
eral agents firsf. became acquainted
with the alleged plat last November
when a packing case shipped from
New York and manifested as con
taining "building material" fell on
the dock at Vera Cruz and broke
open revealing cartridges as its con
tents. Investigation by Federal agents
disclosed that the box had JjeeV for
warded from this port y ' a . firm
known as the Adic Gojoipany, compos
ed of Louis Gotting .aiid", Wei.ceslao
Mont. The manifest was signed by
Tt . . , , r ..at, (can L. V LL 1 . 11 I. M ... .v.u.
, ., . . , -a- .
la Paz. an employe of the firm.
Further investigation revealed 'aft
cording to Mr. Knox, that, other
shipments of cartridges ' bad been
mad? from New York utider the,
1 T
guise of various kinds of nlerchan
Three weeks ago Gotting
Mont
and de la Paz were placed under ar
rest here by Federal agents and Mier,
identified as Reuben Mier was arrest
ed at Houston, Texas-
The implication of Consul General
3urns came Mr Kn)X aaldf when
ve3tigations revealed that the money
to pav for ammi,niti0n had come from
nnp nf thp ronnta In the indict.
ments in this connection is the ad
vancing by Burns of $5,200. A con
siderable quantity of the ammunition
found here and at Galveston is held
as evidenc?.
Burns was arrested as he was leav
ing his apartment to go to his office.
He protested his innocence and when
arraigned before Federal Judge Hand
entered a plea of not guilty. He was
placed under a bond of $10,000. which
he furnished and was released.
ENTENTE REPLY TO WILSON
UNDERGOING CHANGES
London. Router's ' Telegram Com
pany publishes the following concern
ing the reply of the Entente Allies to
President Wilsons recent note sug
gesting that the belligerents state
their terms of peace: "The document
is still undergoing slight modification
of the draft and will not be published
until a day or two after it is in The
hands of the president. The note will ;
be more positive than the reply to Ger- '
many and is expected to indicate in
more precise fashion the only prelimi-;
naries upon which the Allies are pre-.
pared to negotiate. On again going
over
e the ground of the responsibility
th war it is likely that the Allies
for
will e.nphisize th or.l
possible terms
for yare. thus contrasting sharply the
Geni:;; note, which purposely was of
a .'.gitive charac ter." 1
SENATE APPHOVES
FDR PEACE
INDORSE PRESIDENT WILSON'S
REQUEST FOR A STATEMENT
OF PEACE TERMS-
THREE DAYS' DEBATE ENDS
Senator Jones Resolution Indorses
Only a Portion of the President's
Peace Note Sent Recently to the
Foreign Warring Powers.
Washington. Approval of President
Wilson's request for a statement of
peace Jerms from the European bellig
erents was voted by the senate at the
conclusion of three days' of stirring
debate. Action came with dramatic
suddenness when Democratic leaders
decided to accept a form of resolution
! that would not commit the senate to
endorsement of the whole of the Pres
ident's note, and 10 Republicans of
the Progressive group joined the m&
pority in making the vote 48 to 17.
Senator Martine of New York was
the only Democrat to vote in the
negative.- ,
Discussion of the subject had reach
ed a climax during the day with a
sensational declaration by Senator
Lewis, chief spokesman for the Demo
crats replying to Republican criticism
of the President's course. Without
referring directly to the submarine
controversy the Senator said the Unit
ed States could not keep out of the
war if it continued and that America
would not again accept misconception
of orders or zeal of an officer as an
excuse for an 'ipjury, to a citizen or
property.
'"' :Th'e" "chtet(skl45:Ljpu urged against'
the original resolution offered by Sen
ator Hitchcock was that it would en
dorse the President's offer to Join in
a movement to guarantee world peace
and his declaration of the interest of
the United States in small Nations.
The resolution adopted was pro
posed by Senator Jones, Republican
of Washington, and was accepted- by
Senator Hitchcock as a substitute for
his own. It resolves:
"That the senate approves and
strongly endorses. the request by the
President in the diplomatic potes of
December IS to the nations now en
gaged in war, that these nations state
the terms upon which peace might be
discussed."
OFFICIALS OF PROMINENCE
MENTIONED IN LEAKE PROB
-
Wood TelJs 7,rnformation Implicati
Secretary Tumulty as Benefactq
in Stock Mart. J
Washington. Sensational rumo,
3r7're8ideut Wilson's peace note
, . A, ,
related to the House Rules Co
by Representative Wood of Indi
support', of his . resolution for
qairy. He prefaced his testi
ywtth th,e statement that he had
ing but hearsay evidence to offe
vainly protested against an ope
sion of the Committee.
. Names and rumored details o
alleged "leak" oame thick and
when Mr. Wood began his story,
mentioned Joseph P. Tumulty, Secre
tary to President Wilson; R. W. Boil
ing:, a brother-in-law of the President;
Bernard Baruch of New York, various
brokerage houses, 'crediting- most of
his information to a letter received
from "A. Curtis" of New York. This
letter, produced later was written on
plain paper, without the writer's ad
dress. Kenneth Romney,' deputy ser-geant-at-arms
of the house, is in New
York searching for A. Curtis, but has
been unable to find any trace of him.
Statements were issued after the
committee meeting by Secretary Tum
ulty and Mr. Boiling flatly denying
the reports regarding them, and Mr
Tumulty demanded that Representa
tive Wood publicly apologize for men
tioning his name. Mr. Wood followed
with a statement pointing out that
he had desired to testify in private,
but that those whose names were the
subject of rumor should court the
fullest investigation. The committed
probably
will hear Representative
Gardner, who declared on the floor of
the house recently there was a leak."
BANDIT CHIEF LOSES 1,500
IN BATTLE WITH FEDERALISTS.
Chihuahua Citv, Mexico. Villa was
defeated at Jimenez by Gen. Francif-
co Murguia with a loss of 1,500 rebel
dead, wounded and car-h red. Martin
Lopz, a rebel leader, and another
Villa general w aprons the slain ac-
cording to tin .rffjif report from the
Carrauw fontoonVfw. Villa .is sa'.d
to be fW-eing toward El Ville. General
Murguia stated that his comma-id
pushed back Villa's tro ps five miles
after ouiiugi;LQ contact.
REQUEST
1
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It
L rtHer
last
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PLAINTIFF REVOKES
CUBAN BOND SUIT
WILL NOT ATTEMPT ' TO SUE
NORTH 1 CAROLINA IN ' SU-'
PREME COURT,
MESSAGE COMES FROM CUBA
Senator Overman's Resolution Asking
Information as to Where Nation
Purchased Bonds Caused Actien.
Washington, D. C. The Cuban Min
ister here received a copy of a decree
made by the President of Cuba recok
ing the action of Cuba in attempting
to sue North Carolina. in the Supreme
Court. The message came by cable
and was the result of representations
made to his government by the min
ister after reading the congressional
record of the debate on Senator Over
man's resolution asking the Secretary
of State to inquire of Cuba where shei
got the bonds. The decree stops the
endeavor to sue the state.
The results were contemplated by
Senator Overman when he introduce
the resolution and his action was a
subject of much comment for Its
shrewdness. The morning after the
debate the Cuban minister read the
record and at once cabled to his coun
try the feeling in the senate. Later
Senator Overman called on him and
learned that what he had most desir
ed had already been accomplished.. '
' The senator had been planning his .
move' before the senate for several
weeks and the debate that occurred
was exactly what he had wished, for
ihe kriew the diplomat would read It.
.Ytstiderstqod that the bonds had
been'given to V charitable Institution
in Cuba.
"My purpose in introducing this
resolution," said Senator Overman,
"was to inform not only Cuba, but
all South American countries the
character of these bonds through the
public record, believing that Cuba
would then withdraw her case. I also
know the character of the bonds so
that bond holders could not repeat
their action and so other countries
would not receive the bonds as Cuba
has. Not only North Carolina, but
ever Southern state in which these
carpetbag bends were issued, is in
terested in their true characto be
coming known.
"The debate in the senate resulted ;
in this action by Cuba.
"What I have been fearing is that
'hese "bonds may be given to Mexico
some otner warring nation, which
lAjight endeavor to use them in any
TK.Otlomont nf nnv matter mMt'i fh
ited States.
TLtyiator Overman will present a
yyment from the Cuban minister
say or two. It is said that much
((nation was expressed when the
f iter of the bonds was learned.
l-as understood from a reliable
r.y that the North Carols leg-
X will be asked to pass a resolu-
ttlng forfch the fraudulent char-
of the Reconstruction bonds and
he state's repudiation of these, to be
transmitted to the Secretary of Stte
to communicate to foreign govern
ments to put them on guard against
accepting the bonds.
4
Mill Men Meet Soon.
Charlotte. Much interest centers Is
the winter meeting of the Cottoa
Manufacturers' Association of North;.,
Carolina. that is to be held in Raleigh.
January 18, according to an announce-..
ment Issued from the office of the At
sociation in this city. W- G. Ruffia
of Mayodan is president of the organ
ization; John L. Patterson, of Roanoke
Rapids, first vice-president; Arthur J.
Draper of Charlotte, second vice pres
ident; T. C. Leak of Rockingham, third
vice president, and Hudson C. Millar .
of Charlotte, secretary and treasurer.
Reidsville Factory Busy.
Reidsvllle. J. P Connell, manager
of the new cigarette factory, sent his
first requisition for revenue stamps
to the local stamp office, amounting
to $1,250. These are the first cigar
ette stamps ever issued from the
I Reidsvilie stamp office.
Fayetteville Sends Box.
Fayetteville. A big box of good
things to eat was sent to Company F.
Second Infantry,. North Carolina Na
tional Guard, the Fayetteville com
pany at El Paso, by the local Daught
ers of the Confederacy. The box con
tained such things as cakes, candy,
nuts, raisins, cigars, tobacco, cigaret
tes, oranges, grape fruit and other
things which can stand the long trip
to the border. The people of the town
generally were given an opportunity
to co-operat and contributions were
plentiful.
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