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ws&mm mm mm tee mornimewkIIIIK WE USE ALL THE INTERNATIONAL A f '.WW WM w NEWSWHILEITIS NEWS WEATHER Fair and Cooler Today, j ( YOUR PATRIOTIC DUTY; "BtJY A LIBERTY LOAN BOND" ) NEW BERNIAN Ads Build Business, Volume 2; Number 149. BUSINESS MEN ARE FOR PACKING PLANT Sentiment Expressed at Mem hers Council Shows Determi nation for Establishing Plant In New Bern Messrs. Dunn, Stewart and Ives Tell of Visits To Plants in Other States. E Calls on Citizens to Purchase Liberty Bonds; Will Release Money in The Nation and Thus Contribute to The National Prosperity Mr. Hender son Outlines Purpose of Celebration on Registration Day. If the sentiment expressed at the Merbers Council meeting last night can be taken as a criterion, the bus iness men of New Bern are determ ined that the packing plant shall be m operation just as soon as it 'can be constructed. Mr. William Dunn, Sr., and Mr. .T. W. Stewart told of their visit to the plant at Moultrie, Ga. The substance of the facts they found show that at Valdpsta, 40 miles from the plant, the farmers were singing the praises of the industry, along the railroad from Valdosta to Moultrie, the crops today consist of 80 per cent corn, 10 per cent watermelons and peanuts and 10 per cent cotton. Before the packing plant came, practically 100 per cent of the acreage was in cotton. The Moultrie plant started with the same capital that it is proposed to start with here. Today is has more than doubled its capacity and has 750 thousand dollars worth of meat in its storage rooms. The merchants of Moultrie told Mr. Stewart and Mr. Dunn that it had increased their business, that the far mers did not ask for credit now, that they paid cash and had money to buy much more than formerly, and that before the packing plant was erected the farmers were broke. Before the plant came the farmers had trouble selling dressed hogs at 7 and 8 cents per pound. Today they reseive 14 cents for hogs on the foot. Mr. C. L. Ives stated that he recent ly visited a large packing plant in Dallas, Texas. This plant strated small, as is proposed here. It is now one of the largest businesses in the large Texas city and is considered one of the best investments there. The council heard an interesting talk by Mr. Charles Coplon. Mr, Cop- Ion stated that business must be kept going if the war is to be won. Ho urged the purchase of Liberty Loan bonds, stating that their purchase would release money in the nation and thus contribute to the national prosperity. He stated that the train ing of thousands and perhaps mil lions of soldiers and the other pre parations for war, meant the expen ditures of large sums of money, which insured prosperity. "Economy during the war should be the same kind of economy that should obtain during peace, stated Mr. Coplon. Mr. D. E. Henderson outlined the purpose of the program in connection with the celebration in honor of those who must register on June 5th. He stressed the importance of showing those who register that we love them more because they Are to fight for democracy. Mr. C. L. Ives was designated to represent the Chamber before the Corporation Commission Thursday in the hearing on the proposed increase in rates of freight on intrastate ship ments. LEONARD BRINGS LIGHT WEIGHT CROWN BACK (Br International News Service.) ' NEW YORK, May 28.-Denny Leonard, the New York fighter, to night brought back to American the lightweight crown which Freddie Welsh, the English fighter won from Willie Ritchie in London almost three years ago, when he knocked out the English title holder in the ninth round of the ten-round bout. In Police Court yesterday JameB White and Sam Edwards, colored, were both bound over to Superior Court on charges of larceny. Their bonds , were fixed at one hundred dol lars each. Mary Fuller, colored, was found guilty on a charge of solicit ing and was given her preference of paying a ten dollar fine and the cost or serving a fifty day sentence in the county jail. ITALIAN DRIVE Mir RESULT IN JILLIES1VICTD BY London Military Critic Places Great Importance on Drive Towards Trieste. (By International Newa Service.) LONDON, May 28. "Across the prostrate body of the Hapsburg em pire leads the road to final victory." An eminent military critic thus commented this evening on the day's news from the Austro-Italian front, recording new smashing advances by Cardona's armies, especially his right wing, toward Trieste. Judging by reports pouring in from all sides, it seems that this comment strikingly sums up the situation as created by the Italian drive and its consequences. GYCLONES TOLL Property Damage in The Eight States Will Exceed Five Mil lion Dollars. L FOR RELIEF FIDS (Br International Newa Service.) CHICAGO, ILL., May 28. A nation-wide appeal for funds with which to care for the thousands made home less by three days of cyclone in the Middle West and South West were issued today by mayors of the devast ated towns, state executives and of ficers of Red Cross organizations. Partial restoration of the lines of communication in the eight states struck by the storms brought addi tional reports late this evening of death and devastation: The latest re ports indicate that the dead total more than three hundred and the in jured probably fourteen hundred. Property damage .will exceed five mil lion dollars. City officials at Mattoon, 111., where the heaviest loss of life occurred, urg ed Governor Lowden to ask the Leg islature to appropriate three million dollars for relief work in Illinois. Large appropriations will be asked for in some of the Southern states hit by the storm, but many storm-swept districts must depend upon voluntary contributions. DOVER HAS LIVE Members Raise $32 For Pur chasing Equipment by Ice Cream Supper. Thirty-two dollars was raised at an ice cream supper given at Dover recently by members of the canning club, which is under the supervision of the home demonstration agent, Miss Esther Gray, and the amuont will be used in purchasing equipment for the club's cannery. Miss Gray states that the members of all her clubs are taking a great deal of interest in preserving the sur plus supply of food stuffs grown on the farms, ana especially have the Dover members become enthused in the movement. CADORIM'S ARMY IS FORWARD NEW BERN, GERMAN PEACE IDEA HIDES AIM TO RULE SOUTH EUROPE . GERMANY'S PLAN FOR HER NEW EMPIRE The shaded countries on the map show the Teuton ridge which, if her ideas are carried out, would divide her enemies on the east and west. WASHINGTON, D. C, May 28. Germany's next peace declaration expected to suggest a programme of territorial renunciation on the east and west, is regarded here as largely answered beforehand by information revealing f oi tho first time the full scope of the Imperial Government's aspirations for conquest in the south. This information discloses as one of the primary aims of the war a plan for the consolidation of an impregna ble military and economical unit stretching from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, cutting Europe perma nently in half, controlling the Dardanelles, the Aegean and the Balton, and eventually forming the backbone of a Prussian world empire. CL"UHT III Ml II I DUD, ISTi i r UUL I IHOLlll To Get Down to Bottom of Acci dent on Mongolia in Which Two Nurses were filled OFFICERS TO TESTIFY (Br International News Service.) WASHINGTON, D. C, May 28. The Senate Naval Affairs Committee will commence a searching inquiry Friday into the accident charged to a defective shell which killed two Red Cross nurses on the American liner "Mongolia" on their way to the battle front in Europe, causing' the first casualties in the war between the United States and Germany. The committee will summon Secretary Daniels, Admiral Earle and various other naval officials and employees to get at the very bottom of the charges of the use of old and defec tive ammunition aboard the armed merchantmen now being sent into the barred zone. The investigation was ordered by the Senate today when, without a dis senting vote, it adopted the resolu tion offered several days ago calling for a complete probe into the accident after it had been slightly modified at the suggestion of Senator Swanson, of Virginia. F E Mr. W. L. Harrison Says It Makes Best Grazing For Hogs in Winter. Mr. W. L. Harrison, one of Craven county's leading farmers, is urging all farmers to grow all the rye that they can. He declares that it makes one of the best grazing for hogs that one can have, especially in the winter, and in addition to this, he says thai it is very easy to save the seed for another crop. Mr. Harrison has a fifty acre field planted in rye, and from it he will save seed for next year and then rea lize quite a handsome sum from the hogs which he will fatten on it. Mr. Harrison is using all his influence in getting his neighbors to grow more rye. DANIELS ARMERS TO GROW MORE RY NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, BRITISH 5'? S?5'V8f isles 7 Vnf Jjj? NORTH' O V Si A PR ,CA GENERAL WOOD Georgia Gets Five, South Caro lina Three, and Alabama One. THREE OTHERS TO BE DESIGNATED LATER (Br International News Service.) CHARLESTON, S. C, May 28. Major-General Leonard Wood, com manding the Department of the Southeast, today named the following training camps for the conscriptive army and the National Guard. Atlanta, two camps, two divisions; Macon, Ga., two camps, two divisions; Greenville, S. C, one camp, one di vision; Columbia, a. (J., one camp, one division; Augusta, Ga., one camp, one division; Anniston, Ala., one camp, one division; Spartanburg, S. C, one camp, one division. In an effort to select the location for the camps for the three additional divisions, the army board left again tonight to make surveys. One camp will most probably be located in Aiken, S. G. E Provides For a Survey of The Food Supply of The Nation. (By International Newa Service.) WASHINGTON, D. C, May 28. The Lever food bill, providing for a survey of the food supply, was passed by the House this afternoon. All Men Between 21 And 30, Inclusive, Must Register! REGISTRATION DAY JUNE 5 There are Only 7 Days Left. NIK CAMPS FOR TRAINING LEVER FOOD BILL PASSES THE ROUS MAY 29, 1917. NO DISSENSION Denied in House That Goethals and Members of Board Are at Loggerheads. E PASSED BY HOUSE (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, D. C, May 28. Denial was made in the House today that General Goethals and the ship ping board were at loggerheads. Chairman Fitzgerald of the Appro priations Committee and administra tion leader, made this statement and said his information came from a re liable source. But late this afternoon Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo made a sharp comment on statments attributed to General Goethals that no efforts had been made to sell Panama Canal bonds. The House passed the shipping bill amendments to the urgent deficiency bill late today. The President is giv en an immediate fund of four hun dred and five million dollars. His power to delegate authority is not confined to General Goethals but to what agencies he sees fit. TO UNVEIL MONUMENT Memorial to Late A. T. Smith Buried Near Trenton, To be Dedicated Sunday. The Sycamore Camp No. 188, Wood man of the World, will unveil a mon ument in memory of Mr. A. T. Smith, a deceased member of the camp, the services and unveiling to take place Sunday afternoon, June third, at three o'clock. The exercises will take place at the grave, which is near the New Bern road and about two miles from Trenton. The memorial address will be de livered by Hon. G. V. Gowper, a mem ber of the Kinston bar and one of the leading attorneys of eastern North Carolina. Mr. Cowper has acted in this capacity on a number of similar occasions and each time his address proved most highly entertaining. AMONG SHIPPING HEADS, IT IS SKID TO DECEASED BROTHER BRAZIL REVOKES HE NEUTRALITY THREE GERMAN ATTACKS BEIT Crown Prince's Troops Receded and Lost Heavily, Says Paris. (By International News Service.) LONDON, May 28. Three times the German Crown Prince sent his infantry against the new French lines in Champagne. Paris asserts official ly that each thrust glanced off the French wall of steel and flame. The Teutons receded and lost heavily. Berlin announced the capture of French trenches south of the Moron villeirs range and added that vain counter attacks cost the republican troops severe losses. Two hundred and fifty prisoners were taken, the German war office reported. HOUSE CHEERS S Makes Address and Secures an Amendment to Levef Brfl, All in Five Minutes. C (By International Newa Service.) WASHINGTON, D. ., May 28. Visibly nervous but spurred on by cheers and applause, Miss Jeanette Rankin, congress woman from Mon tana, made her maiden speech in the House today. Woman's work was her theme. She not only made her speech, but had an amendment to -the Lever rood survey bill all in five minutes. The amendment read: "Provided that the Secretary of Agriculture, so far as practicable, en gage the services of women for the work herein provided for." The work indicated is the food con servation, the elimination of waste and increased production as carried in the bill. The sum of $2,500,000 is set aside for these purposes. Miss Rankin's speech came as a surprise. She had paid close atten tion to the work of the House but had made no public utterance except before the Woman's Suffrage commit tee. It's a good thing to lend color to a man's patriotism by waiving the red, white and blue. HARDWICK PLEADS Would Increase Rates on News papers According to The Advertising. (By International Newt Service.) WASHINGTON, D. C, May 28. The Senate Finance Committee, con sidering the war revenue bill, devot ed this afternoon's seonion to hearing Senator Hardwick, of Georgia, ex plain his amendment to confine the increased second-class postal rates adopted by the House to the adver tising in the publication. The com mittee adjourned until tomorrow without acting. If a newspaper or a magazine con tains sixty per cent advertising and forty per cent reading matter, the in creased postal rates should apply to only sixty per cent of the weight of tive publication. The committee has OFF BT FRENCH DECLARATION 0 CAPTURE OF TRENCHES ISMMMBEM RANKIN IN MIEN CALLS FOR WOMEN IN FOR HIS AMENDMENT Single Copy: Five Cents Resolution Passed by Chamber Of Deputies Empowers The. President to Protect Brazil's Integrity Against Aggression, m. ii.ii auu i i UOUvvll v d fad O nH UrnanAiiiiirn F E (Br International News Service.) RIO DE JANEIRO, May 28. The Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 139 to 3 revoked the declaration of neutrality in the war between the United States and Germany. This is believed to be the first step toward a flat declaration of war on Germany by Brazil. The resolution empowers the pres ident of Brazil to take the necessary steps to protect Brazil's integrity against aggression, past and prospec- tive. The first step is expected to take the shape of a flat declaration of war. The situation strikingly resem bles that in the United States prior to the final break between that coun try and Germany. A state of neutrality was tendered untenable, both the president and the premier had informed the congress in speeches, by the sinking of the sec ond Brazilian merchantman by a U boat. j $21,000 DRINKS IN TWO YEARS COST HIM WIFE CHICAGO, May 28. When Mrs. Margaret Nautfhton told Judge Thom son that her husband, David A. Naughton had spent more than $21, 000 on liquor in less than two years, the judge granted her a divorce im mediately. EXEMPT FROM THE ffflST CALL War Department Decides Not to Draft Men With Dependents For First Army. T MUST RATIFY THE PLANS' Dtae to The Greensb Hiy New it Washi read for it will "Married men will be CretBp conscription "for the raising first national army af SVtMHH according to a reported preluir plan of the War Department specified industries or ocenpat tions" will be exempt. "These are the two principal decis ions reached so far by the officials who conferred on the plan. All that remains now is for the President to ratify them. ' The exemption of men with de pendents and those needed in the in dustries of the country has proved the most difficult problem to work out in a way to secure anything like justice in operation. The difficulty of determining whether or not a mar ried man was actually needed to Sup port his family at home was the con sideration that finally determined the officials to exempt all married men. As to men with other dependent rel atives, such as an aged mother or father, the decision will be left to the local county or city board in each Federal judicial district. Appeal from the district board may, in turn, be made to the President of the UttMg ed States. "The question of industrial exemp tion is even more difficult. For ex ample, it is agreed among the offi cials that the mere fact that a man is a farmer, munitions maker, or even a railroad engineer does not neces sarily imply that he would be of much more use at home than in the army. already voted to strike' the House prei vision from the bill and is seeking a substitute tax to make up the , timated 119,000,000 deficit. W T in
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