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The Mormng New Bernian VI USE ALL THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWHIUITIS NEWS NEWS rh C EVERYBODY BOOST THE NEW BERN FAIR, OCT. 16-17-18-19, 1917 NEW BERN IAN ADS BUILD BUSINESS 1 WEATHER: Generally Fair Today and Tomorrow Volume 3; Number 81. NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1917. Single Copy: Five Cents Mayor Thompson Is Hanged In Effigy Members of Gen. Lloyd Wheat on's Post, Veterans of For eign Wars Resent- Action Of Chicago Executive in Giving Permission for Meeting Of Pacifists. ONE OF THE WILDEST CITY'S HISTORY (By International News Service.) CHICAGO, Sept. 4. Mayor Wil liam Hale Thompson was hanged in effigy by members of General Lloyd Wheaton's post number forty, veter ans of foreign wars, in Grant Park at the foot of Randolph street late tonight. This is in the heart of the city. Thousands of pedestrians and auto mobilists watched the "hanging" and made the city ring with cheers. It was one of the wildest demonstra tions ever witnessed in Chicago. Traf fic on Michigan Boulevard, the great automobile highway of Chicago, was blocked, and cars in adjacent streets were halted by . the crushing crowd. City police were unable to inter fere because the park ground is out of their jurisdiction". Praise for ..Governor Lbwden for topping the convention of the Peo ple's Council here was voted today by the City Council sitting as a com mittee of the whole. The vote to adopt the resolution of praise was forty-two to six. DROPS MATCH IN EMPTY BARREL; LOSES AN EYE (B7 International News Service. STEUBENVILLE, O., Sept. 4, George Androsky, fifteen, of Mingo Junction, was curious to know what would happen if he dropped a light ed match into a supposedly empty whiskey, barrel. He put his right eye to the bunghole to see. When the barrel exploded a part of George's nose was blown off and he will lose the sight of the eye. AMERICA OOES Would be Content with Reforms to Insure Safety in Dealing With Other Nations NO ATTEMPT DICTATE TO GERMAN PEOPLE WASHINGTON, D. C, Seat. 4. ! Actaal elimination of the Hohenzol-j j. .. v, i , ! by the Amoncan government gov as a peace tasis, said today. the State Department Indications are that this govern ment will be content with any intern al reforms in Germany which will in sure honesty and safety in its deal ings with other nations. While of ficials believe elimination of the Kai ser would be a short cnt to this re sult, they said there would be no at tempt to dictate to Germany forms of government. BEARS RAID SHEEP HERDS IN OREGON PENDLETON. ORE., Sept. 4, Bears are inflicting heavy losses on J sbeep herds m Eastern Oregon. One rancher has lost twenty-five head of valuable sheep. A big black bear -walking on his I hind legs and carrying a live sheep j was met in the Cascade Mountains by Tom Gurdane, who killed bruin, but saved the sheep. Two other full grown bears were killed in the same vicinity. One animal weighed more thafr 400 pounds and had long tusks. Not satisfied with bear hunting Gurdane and his men killed a rattle snake four aad half feet long, hav ing twenty rattles. DEMONSTRATIONS! NOT INSIST ON 'FIRING' KAISER JOE 8. HOOKER UNABLE TO GIVE BOND, IS JAILED Alleged Moonshiner Arrested on Warrant Issued Eighteen i Months Ago. PLEADS OWN CASE AT PRELIMINARY TRIAL Joe B. Hooker, an alleged notorious blockader and fqr the arrest of whom the revenue officers 6f this section have spent considerable, time, was yesterday morning placed under ar rest by Deputy Marshal George B. Waters, of this city, and Deputy Col lectors H. G. Gulley, J. F. Lipsey, John Morrison and D. M. Eaves, who came here to assist Deputy Waters in making the arrest. Hooker was brought to New Bern and arraigned before Commissioner Charles B. Hill on a warrant sworn out eighteen months .ago by Deputy Collector I. M. Tull, and in which, he was charged with the operation of an illicit whiskey distillery. Contra ry to the usual customs where per sons are arraigned for violating the internal revenue laws, Hooker did not have an attorney to represent him . but conducted his own case. When told what he;was charged witjh by the commissioner and asked what plea he wished to enter, Hooker re plied that he was not guilty; that he would waive examination and prepare to fight the case in the higher court. Hooker has the reputation of being one of the most notorious blockaders in Eastern North Carolina, and is otherwise said to be a bad man, and taking this into consideration, Com missioner Hill fixed the defendant's bond at one thousand dollars. Hooker insisted that five hundred dollars would be a sufficient amount for the bond and asked that it be reduced to , that amount, but Commissioner Hill was not to be induced to change his mind as to the proper bond. Hooker was sent to jail. The officers left New Bern yester day morning at one o'clock in auto mobiles 'for Hooker's home, which is on Adams creek in the lower part of Craven county. They reached the Hooker home about daybreak. Two of the officers were stationed in the woods just back of the house, while Mr. Waters and two others made a break through the opening for the front of the home. When the officers got within forty feet of the house, Hooker went out a back door into the yard with his back to the officers. Just as they started for him, a negro came around the house, meeting the officers; He at once gave the alarm, but before Hook er could make his escape the revenu- ers had grabbed him, and the negro also. Relaiziftg that Hooker's wife is 88 daneeug character as her hus- ba"d' WatersL !eft thf me" with the other two officers and went into the house and into Mrs. Hooker's room, where he found her about half dressed. The officer immediately cov ered her with his revolver and kept her covered until they left. Mrs. Hooker, who is nearly sixty years of age, and a crack shot with a rifle, laughed at the officer and accused him of being afraid of her. Mr. Wat ers acknowledged that he was afraid of her, and that he was not going tp allow her to get the dron on him. Mr. Waters had just j cause to be afraid of the pair. lt addition to knowing their bad reputation, Hooker and his wife had sent him message after message in which they stated that they were going to kill him on sight. Mr. Waters called their atten tion to their messages and assured them that he had the drop on them and would keep it. Hooker's son, J. D. ;.Hooker, wa3 d laced under arrest last week bv DeD uty Waters, charged with blockading and is now in the county jail. FIRST CHURCH Of CHRIST, SCIENTIST The Wednesday evenilg meeting is held at 8 O'clock, at whifc testimonies to the healing of sin aid disease by Christian Science are given. All are cordially invited. BRITISH IMl PROPERTIES HIT BY THE GERMANS Attack on Chatham First To I Have Military Value to the ! Raiders. (By International Nam Service.) LONDON, Sept. 4. for the first time since the outbreak of the war, a German air raid in England is offi cially shown to have the effect of military value to the raiders. The six Teuton airplanes that swept down upon the big military and naval con struction Center at Chatham, thirty miles to the southeast of London, last night dropped bombs promiscu ously on the vast dock yards, arsen als and barracks, causing these cas ualties: Naval ratings: Killed, one hun dred and seven; wounded, eighty-six. Civilians: Killed, one; wounded, six. Total killed, one hundred and eight; wounded, ninety-two. "Naval ratings" are sailors. The official statement issued on the raid is probably the frankest given out in the war. "Our machines went up," it says, "and the anti-aircraft guns came into action, but without result." TRUE BILL IS White Man Charged With At tempted Criminal Assault on 9-Year-Old Girl. THREE OTHERS FACE The Grand Jury serving at the September term of Craven Superior Court in session here this week with Judge Thomas Calvert, of Raleigh, presideing, yesterday returned a true bill in the case against Henry Con ner, white, who is charged with an attempted criminal assault on little nine year old Mary Jones. The case has been set for trial Thursday morn ing at nine o'clock. There are three other defendants who will be placed on trial this week for capital offenses, two of them be ing Lee Perkins and Jesse Bowden, the negroes who entered a Dover home during the night with alleged criminal intent. John Ebrom will also have to answer to a charge of an attempted criminal assault on Le na Mewbom, the crime taking place place at Vanceboro several weeks ago. A special venire of one hundred and sixty men was drawn yesterday aft ernoon from which to select juries to try the cases of Conner, Bowden and Perkins. W. H. Harris, a negro quack doctor, was found guilty in two cases yester day in which he was charged with practicing medicine without license, and was given road sentences of four and five months. m Tent Meeting Being Conducted at Oak Grove by The Rev. Charles A. Jones. The revival meeting which is be ing held under a large tent at Oak Grove Methodist church in Jones county, by Rev. Charles A. Jones, of Goldsboro, continues to be largely at tended and considerable interest is manifest at each service. This meet ing is being held under the auspices of the- churches of the Jones circuit, of which Rev. C. T. Rogers is pastor. One of the best services, and prob ably the largest attended was the one held last Sunday when more than four hundred persons were present. ' Services are held at ten-thirty o'- FOUND IN CASE HENRY CONNER JONES SENATE AGAIN DEFEATS HIGH TAX ON PROFITS Both LaFollette and Hollis Bills Are Voted Down by Big Majorities. T TO BE SETTLED TODAY (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 4. The Senate refused twice again today to fix high taxes upon the great prof its made in this country during the war. LaFollette, one of the chief generals in the fight to tax wealth to a high limit, suffered another defeat-. His amendment placing a flat tax of sixty per cent on the excess profits was rejected by a vote of fifty to eighteen. Immediately Hollis, of New Hampshire, offered an amendment making the flat tax fifty per cent. This, too, was defeated, fifty-two to eighteen. The fact that the "radicals" were unable to command today any votes other than those they brought against the Johnson and previous amendments, pleased the committee members. All the same, they say they will be able to gather more votes when amendments below fifty per cent are offered. These amend ments all contemplate flat taxes, and many of the high taxationists pre fer that system to the committee's sliding scale. On the Hollis fifty per cent amend ment, Borah and Trammell suddenly switched and voted "no." Borah ex plained later that he did not wish to vote for a rate below sixty. On the same vote Chamberlain and Hen drick, administration Democrats, swung over to the radicals, although they had refused to vote for sixty per cent. Johnson, of South Dakota, and Ashurst were two Democrats who voted "aye" in support of the Hollis amendment. The whole question of war profits must be finally disposed of by a vote tomorrow afternoon. After that the Senate will proceed to consideration of income taxes which must be final ly voted upon Friday afternoon. The whole bill will be voted upon next Monday. ' Opponents -of the committee's idea had still another setback during the day. Hollis wished to substitute the committee's original scheme of de termining pre-war profits for their recently altered scheme. Some com mittee members maintained that this would clip three hundred and fifty million dollars from the bill, Smoot said four hundred and twenty-eight million dollars. At any rate, Hollis could get but a dozen votes in favor of restoring the first idea. BinpONTS No Infantry Actions of Impor tance in the West or on the Austro-Italian Sector T AID THE AUSTINS (Bv International News Service., LONDON, Sept. 4. -Extensive air raids on the western and Italian fronts were the outstanding features of military operations during the last twenty-tovjf; hours. Infantry fight ing was restricted to local enterprises in which both the French and British registered slight advances. Teuton attacks were repulsed by the French, who also executed a daring raid in the Champagne. The Italians, though making some further headway at var ious points of the front, contented themselves chiefly with repulsing Austrian attacks and consolidating their new lines. From Berlin came a report that Field Marshal Von Hin- j denburg has finally consented to the ! dispatch of Bavarian troops to help the hard pressed Austrians. - clock in the morning and at seven thirty at night, and the public is in vited to be present at these services. UES EXTENSIVE AIR RAIDS ON BOTH $300,000,000 OF CERTIFICATES ARE OFFERED I McAdoo Places Them for Sub- scription Through Federal Reserve Banks INTEREST FIXED AT SIX AND HALF PER CENT (By International Nam Service.! WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 4. Secretary McAdoo today offered three hundred million dollars of certificates of indebtedness for subscription at par through the Federal Reserve Banks. They are payable December 15, 1917, at six and a half per cent from September 17. Payment for certificates allotted must be made Sept. 17 at Federal Re serve Banks. Certificates are denom inations of one thousand, five thous and, ten thousand and one hundred thousand. They are exempt both principal and interest from all except estate and inheritance tax. Intermin certificates will be delivered upon payment exchangeable for the defi nitive certificates when prepared. Upon ten days notice the series now offered may be redeemed as a whole at par and accrued interest on or after any date occurring before maturity of the certificates set for the payment of the first installment. COHIHNITK FAIR New Bernians Attended Meet ing Held There Last Night. A meeting was held in the school building at Fort Barnwell last night at which all plans for a community fair at that place were made. The fair will be held there at some date to be named, and exhibits will be made by farmers and housewives of that section. The prize winning ex hibits at these community fairs will be placed on show at the Eastern Car olina fair to compete for the com munity fair prizes. These fairs are being organized at different places throughout the coun ty by Miss Esther Gray and Mr. J. W. Sears, Craven county's demonstra tion agents. Tonight Mr. Sears and Miss Gray, accompanied by Mr. J. H. Parker, secretary of the Eastern Car olina Fair Association, will go to North Harlowe and will make plans for the fair to bo held there. Prof. H. B. Smith, superintendent of the New Bern public schools, ac companied Mr. Sears and Miss Gray last night and made a most interest ing address to the Fort Barnwell peo pie. The pen being mightier than the sword, it is easier to write a check than to right a wrong, ' AT Aged and Highly Esteemed Cit izen of Onslow Funeral Today. Mrs. J. T. Barber, an aged and highly esteemed citizen of Jackson ville. N. Ci, died at her home at four o'clock yesterday morning after a protracted illness. The deceased was eighty-four years of age, and is ser vived by several daughters and other relatives. The funeral service will be held from the btoSXB this morning, and the interment will be made in the cem etery at that place. Speaking of perspiration, it never line but it pores. FORE 1 UK m mm Wilson Heads Parade In Honor Drafted Men THE ALDERMEN ETO $100 Donated at Regular Month ly Session Held Last Night. EE AFFECTS OF At their regular September meet ing held last night, the Board of Al dermen made a donation of on ehun dermen made a donation of one hun which is being raised by the local chapter of the Red Cross, to be used in purchasing an ambulance which will be donated to the members of Unit No. 43, of the North Carolina Ambulance Company. Miss Mary Louise Jones, chairman of the com mittee appointed to raise the fund, with other members of the' chapter, appeared before the board and ask ed for the donation.' The county commissioners have al so donated one hundred dollars, and with the addition of this donation the fund is now about one thousand dol lars. The ambulance will cost one thousand dollars, and its upkeep for one year Will be about half this amount, and it is the committee's in tention to secure the additional five hundred. An ordinance was introduced and passed which prohibits the parking of automobiles on either Pollock or Middle streets within sixty feet of the corner of these two streets; also this ordinance requires that all auto mobiles that are left on the street must be within eighteen inches of the curbing. That is both the front and rear wheels shall be within eighteen inches of the curbing. The chairman of the Streets Com mitte was authorized to pave End street from the end of Pollock street to connect with the Trent road and the avenue paved through the Ghent Park property by the county. The distance is only a few feet and it is stated that enough brick will be left from paving the upper end of Pol lock street to pave this section. City Tax Collector J. J. Tolson was relieved of the unpaid taxes for the years 1913 1914, and 1915. Mr. Ben Williams and Mr. Zack Styron were allowed $13.75 each for extra work done previous to the se lection of a success to Mr. R. E. Pitt man, driver of the Atlantic fire truck. The matter of auditing the city books was left with the Finance Com mittee. "1 Mr. E. S. Weaver, of Arapahoe, the Presbyterian church, returned to ing to business. Mr. Weaver states that the farmers are getting ready for the cotton picking 'season. They are expecting a pretty good yield of the fleecy staple, for which they are looking forward to high prices. LIST IS BEING SENT OUT Just From the Presses of The Morning New Bernian Full of Fair Information. Fresh from the presses of THE MORNING NEW BERNIAN comes the Premium List of the sixth annual exhibition of the Eastern Carolina Fair. While it only consists of thirty-six pages, it contains all the premiums that formerly occupied space on its pages. The reason of the smaller book is that the Fair Association only sold enough advertisements to act- i ually pay for the printing and post age. It contains all the information re lative to the fair, with the exception of the free and paid attractions of the Midway, and these will be ex ploited fully in the Fair editions of both THE MORNING NEW BERN IAN and The Sun-Journal, which will be issued the first part of October. The premius lists will be available today and anyone desiring one can obtain it from the secretary, Mr. John H. Parker at his office. C NT T IBOLANCEFHND FAIR PREMIUM All Washington Turns Out To Say Good-by to The Boys About to Leave for Training Camps to Prepare to Fight for World Freedom. L E FEW HOURS (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 4. President Wilson today stole a few hours from the grave cares of state and marched, and little Violet French, who is four and directs only the des tiny of a family of big dolls, toddled and the House and Senate took an afternoon off and marched, and the Cabinet marched, and the army was there and the navy and the marine corps and all the government depart ments closed early and the employees mached, and there were uniforms and silk hats and flags and bands and whist!o) and dingling and floats, and the whole town turned out on the side lines to say good-bye to the boys. And the boys themselves, 1,150 of them, the fellows who are going out to the mobilization camp in a little while to train as freedom's soldiers, were in the heart of it all, and all the marching and the cheering and the flag waving was the nation's tri bute and the capital's "good-bye, good luck." to them. The President led them, striding with military tread, up historic Penn sylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House. Then for two hours and a half he stood and sat in the reviewing stand in front of the execu tive mansion, saluting and smiling as the hosts marched by. Surrounding him were his family and the fami lies of his Cabinet members and the entire Allied diplomatic corps and " Japanese mission and other mili tary and diplomatic missions which are visiting the capital. And they all stood at salute, eyes forward, hands to cap, as the boys marched by. Georgia Engineering Company. Successful Bidders Figures Not Available. The contract for the paving with brick of about one' mile of the prin ipal streets of Bridgeton was award ed to the Georgia Engineering Com pany at a meeting of the town com missioners held last night. The price to be paid for the paving is with held, but it is stated that the terms are very satisfactory te the commis sioners and considerably lower than the bid offered at the meeting held Monday night. xiic wubtovi, tans lur a bweuiy-iuut . rm. i i i i by Mr. T. W. Holton and citizens of 1L. J V,. t ' , Lilt- Luwii. mr wn i-n no rnjirips will be made. At the meetmsr Monday night Mr. Holton stated that rather I than have the town abandon the idea of paving the streets he would do the grading at his own expense), pro vided the county would furnish the teams. Mr. Holton stood up to this offer, but the citizens have dec id eJkfi woflt. ided not to let him bear all this nee and will do their part of the The streets to be paved are Bridge street from the Neuse river bridge to B street, and B street from the cor porate limits of the town on the Pam lico county road to the improved coun ty road leading to Vanceboro. The Georgia Engineering Company has the contract for paving nearly forty miles of Craven county roads, but it is expected that they will in crease their forces and begin the Bridgeton paving as soon as possible. CARES CONTRACT FDR THE BRIDGETON PAVING AWARDED
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