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w bernian tmm The Weather: Fair and Warmer To day; Sunday: Proba bly Rain. Trade at Home The Mail Order Hum Haa Never Broght New Berm a Cent ' ( OUR GOAL: NEW BERN'S MORNING PAPER IN EVERY HOME ) NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURb AY, FEBRUARY 17, 1917. Volume 2; Number 64. Single Copy: Five Cents m THE To Pick Winner Of Ring Tonight Today is The Last Day of Big gest Vote Offer of The New Bernian's Subscription Cam paign A Rush Day for The Contestants. HE el USE OF SHORT TIE Candidates Should Not Lose a Minute Today Subscriptions Must be in By 9 P. M. to Com pete for Diamond Ring as a Special Period Prize. This is the last day of the first period of THE NEW BERNIAN'S oontest and the last day of the com petition for the $65.00 Diamond Ring nrhich is a special prize for the two veeks ending tonight. Both will end promptly at 9 o'clock tonight. No subscriptions will be accepted fter that hour from contestants liv ing in New Bern to count toward the jrst period schedule of "Club Votes," r to apply on the Diamond Ring. Candidates living outside of New tern will receive first period extra votes, and their subscription money will go toward the Diamond Ring, if they mail their subscriptions and money any time today. The wise contestants will make the most of the few remaining hours of the first period and turn in every possible subscription before 9 o'clock tonight They realize that there will fce a reduction of 10,000 votes for each $15 worth of subscriptions af ter tonight. They also realize that fce difference in the number of votes issued on a "club" this period and mext period may determine the win der of the Overland Automobile or ne of the other valuable prizes. Are you satisfied with the number f votes you have received this pe riod? Have you gotten at least one f the big ballots for 150,000 votes? No doubt many of you are satisfied, kut if you are, the most of you are aasily satisfied. Some of you only meed one or two more subscriptions in order to complete a $15 club, and you can finish out the required amount between now and nine o'clock tonight if you will only put forth a little effort' Several of the contestants have ex pressed a determination to win the Diamond Ring. One of the young 'a iies even went so far as to tell the Contest Manager that he could be prepared to deliver the ring to her, (hat she was sure she was going to win it The one who will be the proud wner of the ring after tonight will 4e the one who does not waste a minute of the few remaining hours. The young lady who expressed her elf so forcibly may not be the win aer, but her enthusiasm and confi " ience will be of great assistance. This is going to be the biggest day, in a subscription way, of any day since the contest began. And it should be. The number of extra votes on each $15 worth of subscrip tions will surely be decreased not increased after today, and those who do not get at least one of the hig ballots for 150,000 extra votes - will certainly be sorry ever after. Don't take a chance. Get in every possible subscription today. HOW THEY STAND ALLIANCE Lela Dawson 17,950 . , s ASKIN Mrs. W. C. Ernul .15,716 AURORA Hasel Allen . 1,708 Mrs. Morgan Guilford ... 1.530 Anna Ola Hollowell L ....2,410 Maude Hollowell .,,i -.1.320 Mrs. M. L. Hollowell :; -1,200 ; Miss L. O. Pickering ..... -.17,800 Laura Walker, R. F. D. ;...-..9,050 ( BAYBORO -, Nona Moore ....... ...5,350 ., ,' , BEAUFORT Rosa Eubanks, R. F. D. .2,000 Martha Carrow .... 2,150 Vera Hill r 2,970 Margaret Skarren .'.........1,310 ' BONNERTON . Mrs. Samuel Tuten ..' ..1,950 BLOUNTS CREEK Mrs. Ida Martin, K. F. D. 2,020 Nettie Stilley, R. F- D. ........ 2,010 BOGOT Escie Taylor 8,690 . ' BRIDGETON - . Ada Bolton ... 16,430 Sophie Ryman . ....2,400 CLARES Mrs. Janie Arnold . 17,290 (Conijioed en Pre Five) SECOND I I REGIMENT MM RETURN SOON Boys Hear They Are to Start for Home Within Thirty Days. ( (By Sergeant W. M. Pugh.) CAMP STEWART, TEX. Feb. 11. The second North Carolina in on the rifle range for three days. The Third battalion went out Saturday the Second Sunday and the First goes Monday. x The 13th cavalry, Pershings rear guard out of Mexico, arrived at Camp Stewart Friday. Thev are located across the street from the 2nd North Carolina, on the sile formerly occu pied by the 1st North Carolina infan try. The 13th cavalry enjoys the distinction of being the first in Mexi co and the last out. All the boys show by their appearance they have been through a hard campaign. In the next thirty days there will be about 20 men furloughed to the re serve out of the 2nd North Carolina infantry. The militia is going to be returned to their home stations as rapidly as possible. A regimental march by he 2nd with equipment A and one cooked ra tion will take place tomorrow. The regiment leaves camp at 7:15 A. M. It is reported the 2nd will leave for home as soon as transportation can be received. It will take about thirty days for this. Major General Pershing is now in command of the El Paso district. A troop truck loaded with Ohio militiamen struck an E. P. & S. W. train Friday and killed two men and seriously injured several more. It is learned the 2nd will get their border patrol February 15th. It was oostpcned from February 1st, on ac count of the Georgia regiment being confined. The 3rd only stayed eight days on the border and had one ex citement. FILM PLAYS TO KEEP LUMBERJACKS IN CAMP ASHLAND, WIS., Feb. 16. Lum ber interests have erected a movie theatre in order to keep the "jacks" in camp. OF Ready to Begin Reign of Fright fulness as Soon as War Is Declared? IS CLOSED SI fl GALVESTON, TEX. Feb. 16. Four German submarines are lurking pff the coast of Cuba ready to begin a reign of frightfulness as soon as war is declared according to informa tion brought to Galveston today by Captain Nanson. of the . American steamship 'Fort Bragg.. .'Captain Nanson says he. obtained the informa tion at Guantanamo. V -' Guantanamo harbor has been closed by an . anti-submarine .; net which stretches across the entrance, Capt. Nanson declared and permission to enter or leave 'the harbor must be ob tained from the commander of the battleship Montana. . . . " i : ' It is' possible to have great stay ing' qualities and still be ponstantly on the go. . BORDER PATROL DUTY 1 SUBMARINES OFF HOT mm mwm FOUR U WHISKY STILLS IRE DESTROYED Revenue Officers Make Whole sale Find in Onslow County. According to reports reaching New Bern, Deputy Collector J. 3. Kenne dy, of Wilmington, and D. M. Win berry, of Jacksonville, Thursday lo cated and destroyed four blockade ! whisky distilling plants about twenty miles west of Jacksonville. All the stills were located in a radius of five miles. There was no one at either of the plants, nor did the surroundings in dicate that they had been in opera tion during the past week or ten days. Two were copper stills .of seventy-five, and one hundred-gallon ca pacity, while the others were made of some other kind of metal and with a smaller capacity. STILL NO WORD HELD INGERMANY Eighty-Six Consuls With Their Families Detained for Some Unknown Cause. no WASHINGTON. Feb. 16. The sit uation of American citizens in coun tries of the Teutonic allies tonight became the prime consideration of the United States in the German cri sis. An inquiry was despatched to the German government asking where and why American consular officers had been delayed in their departure. The peremptory demand for the re lease of the Yarrowdale prisoners was withheld from delivery to Germany pending official advices as to the re lease of these sailors whom the Ger man government last night announced h'd been released. Eighty-six American consuls with their families and an unknown num ber of private American citizens de siring to leave Germany were report ed ready to leave for Switzerland on a special train early in the present week. Ambassador Gerard from Berne, notified the State Department that the train should leave some time this week. Since then nothing has been heard of the train load of Amer icans. While the tension in the interna tional situation was considerably essened ' today by the unofficial re ports of the release Of the Yarrow dale prisoners and the reports of con cessions granted to - Minister Brand Whitlock and the American ' relief workers in Belgium the State Depart ment continues its efforts to assure safety of Americans in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria anji Turkey. . The State Department took occasion for mally to deny that all American citi zens had been ordered out of Aus tria,:S.Uf'ii;.'?r' 'k--M-j'f'-1 --:'-iv'v. T Los Angeles Woman Says Hus band Boiled a Kitten to Make : Chowder. VLOS ANGELES, CAL. Feb. 16. Cat soup and horse steaks do not con stitute good provisions, according to Mrs, William Vazanak, who appeared in court here to press a charge of failure to provide she brought against her husband. The woman declared that Vazanak boiled a kitten to make chowder and furnished, the table with several choice steaks cut . from the carcass of t!ie f.imily rsiicr. FROM AMERICANS ANOTHER INQUIRY SAYS HE FED HER cat ii horse ia ZAPATISTAS BLOW S X MORE SHIPS I Iff WINS 150 PERSONS One of Trains Dynamited While Standing on a Bridge and Blown to Pieces With Its Hu man Freight, Says Passengers Arriving from Mexico City. OF LORADO, TEXAS, Feb. 16. Be tween 150 and 200 passengers and defacto government soldiers were killed when four trains were blown to atoms near Orizaba, half way be tween Mexico City and Vera Cruz, according to passengers arriving from Mexico City today. The trains were all wrecked with in three hours, the passengers say, Zapatistas placing dynamite under them. Bombs were placed under one of the trains while it stood on a bridge and it was blown to pieces with its human freight. After the trains were wrecked the Zapatistas robbed the dead of their belongings and clothing. Refugees declare that the followers of Zapata are creating a reign of terror in this region. TAKE STEPS TO TIME JF CRISIS Federal Trade Board Notifies Banks It Is Prepare to Meet Emergency. POINTS UNDER STRESS WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 16. Anticipating that the German crisis may precipitate temporary business strains in. the United States, the Federal Reserve Board has laid ex tensive plans' to fortify the country against danger developments. It has ordered the piling up of a supply of Federal reserve. notes to be used to forestall currency stringency, lack of confidence in financial institutions and general uneasiness on the part of, the people of the United States. Already the board has received in timations that a need for hasty finan cing may come at any moment. In some cities banks have bsen nbjvt ed to runs, it being said that Ger man sympathizers were withdrawing their funds in an effort to embarrass the banks. To both member of and .non-member banks of the Federal Re serve ' system ' the Federal Reserve Board has quietly directed that in stant relief be afforded.: In some in stances large sums of gold, and in others large quantities of notes have been shipped to points under stress, with the result that financial uneasi ness was 'localized. WITH 1917 DM Doctors Save Life of Boy By Performing an Unusual . Operation, ,"- MEMPHIS, TENN., ' Feb. ; ife. When a mule kicked Livingstone Mc Connell, a three-year-old negro boy, in the head, the blow broke the skulL Surgeons replaced the broken bone wuh a brand "new dime of the taint age of 1917. The dime will go to the grave with the negro. Coming generations may find and marvel at it. IN GOLD BEEN SHIPPED TO H BOY S SKULL TO THE iBOITS Four British Steamers and Two Unidentified Trawlers Sent To Bottom. SINCE FEBRUARY 1 NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Six more vessels, four of them British and two trawlers of unidentified nation ality, were listed by Lloyds today as having been sunk. So far as known no lives were lost. The total ton nage reported destroyed is 4,640, which does not include that of one British steamer not listed in mari time records and of the two unnamed trawlers. Today's toll brings the total num ber of ships sunk since February 1 to 113, and a total tonnage to 219, 450 tons". All things come to those that wait; that is, all the things no one else wants. ALL OFFICIALS Leak Probers to Recommend Against Short Selling in Stocks. E NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Recom mendations against short selling with a possible condemnation of marginal trading in stocks, are among the features of the report of the peace leak ;nvestigat:on which are being considered by the rules committee of the House. It is certain that whatever else the report may contain, it will acquit wholly any official in Washington or any close friend or relative of any official of any complicity in the ad vanced information which undeniably was received by several fortunate ones of the President's peace message of December 20. The committee report will place the responsibility for the leak with J. Fred Essary, and William Price, the Washington reporters, who were in the employ of the brokerage firms which first gave circulation to rumors of the peace message. In that con nection the governing committee of the stock exchange at a special meet ing today adopted a resolution which said: "That the direct or indirect em ployment of representatives of the press by' a member of the New Yerk Stock, Exchange or by his firm for the purpose of obtaining confidential information is an act detrimental to the interests of the welfare . of the Exchange.' - It was explained today with regard to the newspaper men whose names were mentioned as having circulated the first reports of the peace mes sage that no effort will be made by the committee to ; ascertain whence their information came. FOR DRY BON Big Concern ; to Change Its Plant Into a Cold Storage "".House. '.:-' : - MADISON, WIS.K Feb. 16. Fifteen Wisconsin cities will vote on the wet and dry issue at the April elections. They include Ashland, Eau vlaire, Su perior, Monroe, Chippewa Falls. Belief that the State prohibition is sue ' has good chances of success is seen here in the decision of the In ternational Brewery of Stevens Point to convert its plant into either a cold storage house or install machinery for the manufacture of akohol. FALL VICTIMS 113 SHIPS DESTROYED w BIT H T LAM BREWERS PREPARE SIN TEUTONS DELIVERS MGHTY BLOW IN THE CHAMPAGNE THE MEMBERS T Dr. Rankin, of State Board of Health, to Make Address to Commerce Body. L URGED TO ATTEND The Members Council of the Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular meeting Monday, February 19, at 8 o'clock. Dr. W. S. Rankin, Secretary of the State Board of Health will make an address at this meeting. Pr. Ran kin is being brought to New Bern by the Anti-Tuberculosis Society. As Monday night is the only night that he will be in the city, it has been decided to have him make the address at the Chamber of Com merce. The general public is cordially in vited to be present and hear Dr. Rankin. Every member of the Cham ber is urged to attend, and the mem bers of the Woman's Club, the Anti Tuberculosis Society, and in fact ev ery citizen of New Bern is extended a cordial invitation to come to the rooms of the Chamber Monday even ing and hear Dr. Rankin. Without taking into consideration the sorrow of death, but only con sidering the economic phase or loss, every child that dies means a loss of $13,000 to New Bern. That is the value that the insurance companies place upon the life of each child. In 1916 the death rate in this city was higher than it ought to have been. Health conditions ought to be improved. They can be improved. but they will not be improved until i the citizens of the community take an interest in the matter. Come to the meeting Monday night and hear Dr. Rankin discuss this vi tal matter. It will be well worth every person's time and may be the means of preventing the death of some loved one. Health does not mean simply cur ing sick people, it means taking the necessary precautions to prevent sickness. Capt. Willis, of "Velma Brooks," . Tells of Thrilling Experience in Pamlico Sound. E In order that his ship, might sur vive a heavy storm which he recent-' ly encountered while crossing Pam- lico Sound, Captain . C G. Willis, of the tank steamer Velma Brooks, had his crew pump 4,723 gallons of gaso line and kerosene oil into the sound, The steamer was bound for Morehead City -with a cargo of fifteen thou sand gallons of 'oil consigned to the Texas Oil Company.): -v'V-'In giving an account of his exT perience, Captain Willis stated that the wind began blowing at Gull Rock and rapidly increased in velocity' un til it had reached a gale force. The steamer was heavily loaded and the captain saw that the only way to save the vessel and the lives of him self and crew was to, pump a part of the cargo overboard. The cargo was insured. GOUNCIL MEETS M PUBLIC IS PUMPED OIL ON ITER TO SAVE SHIP AND CREW HEAVILY LOADED SHIP AM ear sine German Crown Prince's Amy Breaks Through French Line On a Front a Mile and a Half and to Depth of a Half Mile. TRISJEAR Thirty-One Officers and 837 Meet Captured by Teutons Ger man Losses Small, Says Ber lin Military Eyes Turned Towards Verdun. (By International News Service.) The German crown prince has struck a hard and successful blow ia the Champagne. After paving the way for the infantry by a hurricane of heavy shells and mines he sent his storming columns forward Thursday night into the largest action record ed on the west front this year. He broke through the French lines on a front of a mile and a half and to the deptfTof one-half mile. Throughout ' the evening and again this morning the French fiercely counter attacked in attempts to regain the lost ground. These counter thrusts, according to Berlin, served only to add to the French losses. Thirty-one officers and 837 mea were captured by the Teutons. The Berlin claim is that the German losses were small. The action took place south of Ri pont, the lines stormed being HOI 185. The scene of the fighting lies about mid way between Rheims and Verdun, or some thirty-five miles west of the later fortress. It is to Verdun t'lat the eyes of the military observers turn as the result of the sudden fKrc-up of major ac tions on the we-,t front, for the Cam paign and Vcdun fronts are closely :iter-depc".de;it, particularly in a Gcrmr.n offensive movement. Suc cess of such movement in the Cam paign would me,l penetration south ward to the V-Adun-Paris railway, '''hat vital rail.'werdun together with the French southern fortress chant vould be issolated. The latest assault of the Teutons ia ;his section is merely a repetition oa i larger scale of "feelers" repeated y put out in this area. Further i dications of the seriousness of the lighting is the German statement that 10 less than twenty machine guns vere ca"t--d. T ROUTE OF North Harlowe People Ask That Central Highway Go Via that Place to Beaufort. The people of the North Harlowe section of the county are endeavoring o get the Carteret county officials te -hange the route of the Central High- way to go by North Harlowe . te ' Beaufort, instead of the present route by Newport to Morehead City. It is said the reason the people of North Harlowe made application for the change of route is on ac--onnt of the indifference of the peo "f JeWppif. in re""1' " the fit oughfare. The proposed change reat - for the pec- pie residing along the proposed new rout,. tH -on the other hand, the people of Newport and vicinity would be the losers by the change. This thoroughfare is used extensively by motorists going from all parts of the State to Morehead City. There are quite a number .of parties from the central vand western parts of the State, a -id , still a greater number from New Bern and the eastern sec tion who motor to Morehead City dur ing the summer months. Newport being the largest town on the road between New Bern and Morehead ty,, nearly all the, parties stop there for various purposes and as a rale spend quite a little money while there. ' The Newport sect's (would lose in other ways. NIEHT LARGEST ACTION OK 1ST FRONT
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