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'. SpSyi Uwet ; ( NEW BERW1AN ADS BUILD BUSINESS ASK- THE MERCHANTS") 1 """"" V v n ; NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, APRIL' 21, 1917. ' Single Copy: Five Cents volume i mumoer xio. - SENATE TO BEGIN FIGHT ON SELECTIVE DRAFT BILL TODAY Made Order of Business in The Upper House Where It Dis places The Spy Bill Passage of Measure Considered Cer tain in Face of Bitter Oppo sition by Supporters of Vol unteer System. FILL IN LIE Administration Members of Military Affairs Committee Preparing To Make Minority Report Favoring Conscription Measure. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 20. The fight for the enactment of the administration's plan for raising an army by selective draft will open in the Senate tomorrow, having been made the order of business in the up per house where it displaced the spy bill today. This will permit the Senate to get a 48-hour start on the House of Rep resentatives in the race to get a meas ure providing for wartime organiza tion of the United States army on the statute books. There is every indi cation that the contest in the Senate as between the advocates of conscrip tion and the supporters of the old system of raising an army by volun tary enlistment, will result in victory for the administration's contention that the modern system of army en rollment is the desirable one for the United States at present. The probable majority of the ad ministration's plan has been variously estimated at from a dozen to forty. The almost certain favorable action of the Senate it is not believed can be accomplished before Tuesday or Wednesday. The debate will be long and bitter. It is certain that among the reasons advanced by some mem bers of the opposition as to why the bill should not be passed will be the argument that the bill should be gen eral in its terms and follow the lines laid down originally by the general staff. In the House the report by admin istration members of the military af fairs committee which on Wednesday refused to approve the conscription plan and favorably reported a volun teer bill is now in preparation. Rep resentative Kahn, leader for the ad ministration in the conscription fight, wMl make his views public tomorrow. IMPORT DUTIES Increases in Internal Taxation and Addition of Other Taxes ; Committee's Decision. WASHINGTON.. D. C. April 2W . ,Th4 onenincr session of the committee a ways and means which sat practic ally throughout today developed a re markable absence of partisanship and expressed unanimity of opinion as to the methods to be persued in framing the great .war revenue bill to help pay " ftr America's part in the world war. Republicans and Democrats alike, realizing that in drafting a measure which must serve to increase the rev canes of the United States to the big ttal of $2,000,000,000 per annum, Mine to a practical agreement that they "would eliminate from the start al consideration of any added duties ' n imports and confine their efforts '. t framing a bill which would pro duce the needed Federal funds ' through increases in present internal taxation and the addition of other -taxes wholly domestic in character. USE EXPECTED NOT TO I NCREASE STRUG ABSENCE ; OF PARTISANSHIP IN ALIENS TO .S. Poles, Austrian, Scandinavians and Other Foreigners Join ing Army. T WASHINGTON, D. C, April 20. The alien-born population of the United States has begun flocking to the defense of the flag. Representative W. Frank James, of the twelfth Michigan district, the in habitants of which are largely alien employees of the iron mines there, to night received a teiegram from the president of the Business Men's Asso ciation of Ironwood, Mich., stating that great numbers of Poles, Aus trians, Scandinavians and other for eigners had joined the United States army. u- E LIFE ON Passengers on French Liner Refused to Undress For Two Days and two Nights. NEW YORK, April 20. Warnings of the vicinity of hostile submarines caused hours of anxiety to the pas sengers and crew of a French steam ship which arrived today in an Amer ican port. The last two days of the run to saf ety were made with every possible precaution. The steamer constantly changed her speed in order to render herself a difficult target for a torpedo. For two daya and two nights the pas sengers did not undress. Only an American warship not for from Amer ica signaled the steamer and warned her that two enemy submarines were in the waters nearby. New Coca-Cola Plant One of The Most Modern in Entire . . ; . South. The Coca-Cola people tried out their pew bottling machinery yesterday and; while the details of the nlant is not in order for the full operation, enough was aeen to know that it will be a de cided success. - , . ' The machinery, installed is : some thing entirely new in these parts. It is automatic in' its operation, ; The empty bottles are placed upon a chain belt, and they are not touched by hu man hands until they emerge, capped and ready for shipment to the trade. Another feature is. that they have a refrigeratory system that chills the water before it . is bottled, thereby, they claim makes a much better drink. It will require several days to fin ish the details of this remarkable plant, then the public will be given a chance to inspect it. '.f.: - The hustling spirits back of this enterprise are Mr. George Hutaff, of Wilmington, and Mr. Charles A Sei- fert, of Ghent FLOCKING COLORS OF 0 GREA NUMBERS LEAVING THE MINES BO ALARM 10 SHIP MISERABLE AMERICAN WAIISHIE1 SIHLLEO WHIG TRY OUT THE NEW BOTTLING MACHINERY IDHMn DIIMMMI UUKU UIll II ILL LIKELY BECOME LAW TUESDAY House and Senate Conferees Agree Way Cleared For Speedy Action. BILL AS PASSED BY E WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20. The $7,000,000,000 bond bill will pro bably become a law Tuesday. The conferees of the House and Senate having in charge the adjust ment of the several points in disa greement between the two Houses came to terms today. On Monday, when the House meets the conferees on behalf of the House will report their agreement to that body where there is every reason to believe their action will receive approval and the bill be rushed to the Senate for sim ilar action. The conference today re sulted in acceptance by House mem bers of practically all the amend ments inserted by the Senate, lhis included the provision which Secre tary McAdoo asked to have embodied in the act whereby the secretary of the treasury is authorized to deposit the funds from the sale of the one year certificates and the bonds in the trust companies and banks not mem bers of the Federal Reserve system. President Wilson is expected to sign the bond issue not later than Tuesday afternoon. PROVISIONS ARE MODIFIED Punishment for Defiant Re porters Not be So Severe as First Proposed. SELECTIVE DRAFT BILL WASHINGTON, D. C, April 20. The censorship provisions of the es pionage bill now before the United States Senate were materially modi fied today. (The fight to liberalize the provisions of the bill dealing with the press, ended in a sort of com- prui. be, although the main contention of the administration that, adequate regulation and adequate punishment for offenses against the United States in wartime was won. " An amendment offered by Senator Thomas of. Colorado, which provided that when only the intent "to convey information "to the ': enemies of the United States for use against the United States in time of war was proved, the penalties may become op erative. were defeated by a vote of 34 to 40. . In the course of the debate Senator Stone, of Missouri, stated that it was the apparent intention of the Senate to take tod tender care of, the report er whom, hft asserted, were not de serving of quite so much solicitude as the opponents of the more drastic provisions seemed willing to extend. r Fallowing the -satisfactory remod eling of the censorship feautreSi of the bill the Senate laid it aside and under special agreement substituted the seiective draft bill as the order of' business for tomorrow. . WOMEN AID GUARD AS LEGISLATURE FAILS DENVER, COLO., April 20. Colo rado's women voluntarily are paying a military poll tax. This is one of the "bits" that the women are doing to help their coun try prepare for war. . The money re ceived from the woman's voluntary noil tax f nnd is being used to take care of the recruits of the National Guard of Colorado during the period in which they are neither under State nor Federal service. This sit uation has developed because the last Legislature, known as the "Twid dling Twenty-first," failed to provide funds fur the national guardsmei. SE1I APPROVED CENSORSHIP UIU ASIDE FDR THE MISS RANKIN TO FIGHT FOB 5 I Congresswoman Announces She Will Make Demands Before Senate Committee. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 20. Representative Jeanette Rankin, of Montana, the only woman who has ever held a seat in Congress, has be gun a fight in Congress for national woman suffrage. Miss Rankin, who was elected on the Republican ticket, announced to night that she will demand equal suf frage at a hearing to be given prom inent suffragettes by the Senate Wo man Suffrage Committee on April 26. Miss Rankin will be assisted in her petition by many women prominent ly affiliated with the national woman s party. The announcement of Repre sentative Rankin that she would fight for equal suffrage created enthusiasm among suffrage leaders here tonight. Ever since her election last Novem ber Miss Rankin has been beseiged by petitions urging her to lead the fight for suffrage when she took her seat in Congress but she continuously declined to tell any one what her po sition upon that subject would be. Some of the more enthusiastic suf fragettes declared tonight that Miss Rankin's stand for suffrage assured the passage of a national equal suff rage measure. SHIPPERS LOSE FIGHT AGIST RITESJGREASE Arguments Fail to Cause Inter state Commerce Commission To Change Views. IT WASHINGTON, D. C, April 20. American shippers today in an all- day hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission fought a los ing fight against the petition of the railroads for a 15 per cent general increase in freight rates. At the close of the day it was evi dent that unless more forceful argu- (Continued on page 5.) THE SUNDAY NEW BERNIAN FEATURES "OUR FLAG" 33y Mrs. C. D. Bradham. First install 'ment' special article re printed by special permis sion of The. Saturday Ev ' ening Post. . Internationa! Sunday School Lesson.' . "BOSSIE'S PATRIOTISM" A story for children by Mrs. Frank W. Shriner. ' A Good Sunday Sermon. LATEST STYLES By Our New York Style Expert . Hank and Pete Hiram and Cynthia Things ?That Never Happen Four fun ny features. The "' Biggest News Service Ever Taken by a New Bern ' Newspaper. .- '; Interesting Local and Miscel laneous Reading. ' ' A Good Advertising WOMAN HOT SUFFRAGETTES NOW FIGHTING CONTINUES i J ' PREDICT VICTOR! IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL I U Aft til LA NEARLY ALL AOMI BASE NECESSARY TAI . , . w - URUGUAY TAKES ARMS TO REPEL THE JRIN5 Troops Ordered to Border To Prevent Invasion of Teutons From Brazil. BUENOS AIRES, April government of Uruguay every arm of the service, 20. The is using including the militia to repel an invasion of Germans from southern Brazil, where fighting is believed to be continuing between the Germans and Brazilian troops. . All Uruguayan troops were ordered into the field tonight, read a dispatch from Montevideo. The condition in southern Brazil is described today as serious. The agi tation along the border over which refugees hare been flocking for two davs indicates no abatement in the disorders in Brazil, which began with anti-German riots at Porto Alegre, and soon spread over a large area to the southward. The Uruguayan government, said tonight's dispatches from Montevideo has ordered to the frontier the artil lery and cavalry reinforced by a large portion of the infantry. It was said that the entire army had been mo bilized at several points in the little republic. The national guard was or- dered mobilized tonight to prepare to take the field if necessary. STATE FACES Must Not Fail to Meet Modest Demand on State for Naval Recruits. (E Will the people of North Carolina be humiliated by the failure to se cure the four hundred volunteers for the navy asked of North Carolina by the administration? It is the opin ion of Governor Bickett that such will be the case unless the mayors or other interested parties in all owns with a population of twenty- five hundred or more, take the matter in hand and bring some pressure to bear on those eligible for enlistment, and induce them to answer the call to the colors. , The number named as North Caro lina's part of the men required to bring the naval force up to war strength, is four hundred, but up to the present time, less than seventy- five volunteers :,have been received, according to a statement in an ap peal by Governor Bickett for enlist ments. rV;V ' . . .:':':'-'.':: '' : In a letter to Mayor Bangert, the Governor states: "I think that every citizen in the State will feel deeply humiliated if the State fails to meet so modest a demand as is now made by the government" ;. . r May Come Here To Take Part in Elks Production on mxi ' Friday' Night. It is rumored that Mr. Roy White, better known as 'JBuzs,"! will be here next Friday night, and sing in the Elks' Minstrels. - He is some soloist, and made a decided hit in the Elks' Minstrels that were pulled off in Nor folk some time ago. , - The date for the production of the local effort will be Friday, the 27th of April. . : ' The cast had a lovely rehearsal last night at the club and the professor is very much pleased at' the progress (that is being made. FromBrazil. -rrVrrr ! HUMILIATION SAYS BICKETT III CMS SHOULD ACTIVE INTEREST ROY WHITE MAY SING AT MINSTRELS FRENCH ALL! ALONG TH TEUTONIC LONE r w1Jtr,A.U.un.rui..jrLnnJ1.rUv IIM LI P AIM ALL LiiULnuu ! King George, Royal Family and Dignitaries Attend Service of Celebration. " IS LONDON, April 20. All England showed today how deeply the nation's feelines are toward America. It was America day from the King down. All Britains gave vent to the warmest of expressions for the new ally. King George, the Royall Family and all the greatest dignitaries of the land attended an impressive service of celebration at St. Paul's Cathedral which ended with the general singing pf "The Star Spangled Banner." The American flag and "Union Jack" were entwined in the Cathedral throughout the day. BILL FOR FOOD TBI TO BE PUTT! Leaders Of Both Branches Of Congress Promise to Speed Up Measure. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 20. Legislative machinery was set in mo tion tonight to vest the greatest pos sible power in the government to fix maximum and minimum prices of food stuffs and to control food pro duction, distribution and marketing. The legislation will be in close con formity to the recommendations made to Congress by Secretary of Agricul ture Houston with the approval of President Wilson. Senate andS House leaders assured Secretary Houston tonight that a measure embodying the basic prin- cmles of his report would be intro duced at once and rushed through both houses. Conferences of leaders were held to draft a bill that will grant the authority demanded by the President and his advisors. The'nronosed legislation will also include every safeguard to protect civilian population of the country a- rainst anv form of war profits, and to this end the powers of the Federal Trade Commission probably win De enlarged. Under present laws the commission is limited to finding un fair methods of competition and prac tices that prejudice public interests. Th commission. itris said, will be fur ther empowered to conduct a nation wide survey of the food situation, and provisions will be made for the funds necessary to conduct that. task. punpnsss wJl.Tl GAME - ,' , . 'AS WAR TIME ASSET DENYER,, COLO.; April 20. W. B. Frazer. state fish and game warden, has presented to the state war council .1 11 . 1 - C ..- I plans wnerewy wie uumuci-, a nau u amount of game in the state' will b Increased materially, n The - plans, which, it Is believed will be, adopted at noce, will intfease the stock in the state" game preserves -so that it will be no negligible factor' if other food resources of .the" state are drawn .on too heavily. ,1 -'. ,'. v.. ,v ' In cheering for Uncle Sam be sure you are iwt inspired by the cup that cheers. .- ' - ' STAR SPANGLED BANNER SUNG CON UROUGR TO INCREASE POWERS TRADE COMMISSION GAIKI Sing The Marsellaise As They Storm Forward in Answer to a Berlin War Office Statement That the Retreat on the German-Franco Front Had End ed Siegfried Line Reached Bv The Attackers. STAGE OF LONDON, April 20. A mocking echo came from French singing the ST Nil GREAT DRIVE HAS FIGHTING BEEN MORETERRIFIC Marsellaise as they stormed forward .., today in answer to a Berlin war of fice statement that the retreat on the German-Franco front had ended yes-, terday, a redoubtable new line, the . "Siegfried line," having been reached. On and on swept the French sold- iers into Teuton positions along the whole GO-mile front between Sois- ?' sons and Auberive. Tonight the French official communique gave the total number of Germans taken pris oners on this front since last Mon-,, , day at more than 19,000. The booty so far includes more than 100 Ger- man big guns. . Today's battle was centered chiefly upon several miles of front in the Ar gonne. At no stage of the new French drive have the Teutons battl ed so tenaciously, hit back so feroc iously as within the last twelve hours. , When, after a series of assaults that , were characterized as bitter, the ; French finally carried some of the trenches that formed their objectives, , they found them manned by dead Ger mans. Dead men stood as they had (. died in the pits, or sat in the bottom where they had crouched vainly seek ing shelter from the earth disrupting -. shell fire. Smashing ahead toward Laon, the main startegic aim of Gen. . Nivelle, the French today took by storm the village of Sancy, thus' straightening out their front from ; Laffaux on the west to Jouy on the east. Midway between these two po sitions they faced the formidable fort ' of Halmcyon. ' To the west of Sancy the French L today were subjected to one of the most furious. Teuton counter drives .. delivered since the spring operation began. For hours and hours the ' German guns had foreshadowed . it until finally at six o'clock tonight the ,, Teuton infantry stormed forth along , the line of Ailles and Burtedoise. The first attacking waves were met by a murderous French fire and the assail ants were literally cut to pieces. ' ', In a series of brilliant bayonet charges the French wrested several ", important positions from the Oermans in the Champagne to the east of. Rheims. I . Meanwhile Sir Douglas Haig re- - sumed his push against a portion of the Hindenbursr line, pressing forward around Villera, midway between . St . , Ouentin and Cambrai. The Bntisti here reported a point seven and a half , miles from Cambrai, one of the key- points of the German defense line, as falling before their attacks. :;i ; BILLY SUNDAY GETS 1, Second Call in New York Went Forth to a Throng Composed ; Mainly of Women. ; ' NEW "YORK," April 20. For the second time in New. York Billy fcun uay blew the gospel bugle tonight and nearly 1,500 of the 20,000 per sons in his tabernacle plowed " the "sawdust trail'?, to shake nanas wun About half this , number of "trail hitters"- signed the cards ; pledging themBelvei to fight under the sign of the.; cross. . ' Unlike his first call o Thursday night the summons ton. went forth to a throng compo mainly of women. 500 IRE RE HITS