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2' The Morning New Bernian VI USE ALL THFR RNATIONAJL NEWS WHILE IT IS MEWS HEVg yfj c 1 ( EVERYBODY B6OST THE NEW BERN FAIR, OCT. t6-17-18-19, 1917 WEATHER: Showers Today," Fair Sunday ' ', NEW BERNIAN ADS BUILD BUSINESS Volume 3; Number 84. NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1917. Single Copy: Five Cents Americans Victims Of Bombs Dropped By Germans ntrE I minmiiin mil I f mtm bill UnEMPT STAND pivp nrTnnnnin on art nubnflu Predicted The Retreat Will End Just Below Railroad Center of Wenden. TEUTONS' ENCIRCLING By International N,m Service.! LONDON, Sept. 7. Teuton Caval ry continues hard on the heels of the retreating Russians north of the Riga front. There are unmistakable signs of a gradual stiffening of the Rus sian rear guard resistance. Advices from Petrograd state that the Rus sians probably will make a stand on the line just below the railroad cen ter of Wenden. Meanwhile the men ace to the Friedrichstadt-Dwinsk sec tor of the Russian front, which the Teutons are trying to force into re tirement by their wide sweep north eastward from Riga, grows more gravely hourly. The race is not always to the swift, bat that shouldn't influence a fellow to be slow. . T Mr. J. E. Slater Believed Officer Talking Over 'Phone Was a Friend Playing Joke. F Mr. J. S. Slater, a member of the firm of Broaddus and Ives Lumber Company, failed to appear in court yesterday after being summoned on a special venire from which to select a jury in the case against Henry Con nor, charged with criminal assault, and was fined twenty dollars. Later, upon being informed by the solicitor that Mr. Slater had refused to hon or the summon, Judge Thomas H. Calvert, who is presiding at this term of Superior Court, ordered that Mr. Slater be brought into court to. show why he should not be held in con tempt. Through his attorney, Mr. L. I. Moore, Mr. Slater filed his answer to the order and further -action in 1 Die case was postponed until this af ternoon. m According to, the sheriff, Mr. Slater I was summoned as a special venireman Wednesday, but on account of press- ing business someone agreed to call him when he wa3 needed and he re turr.ed to his work. Yesterday after- nor. ! h? was called by a deputy sheriff n? ' that they were ready for himj to -vhich hs replied that he was too busy to come. When his name was called in court-he failed to answer and Judge Calvert had him called out and fined twenty dollars. A deputy was instructed to notify Mr. Slater that he had been fined, which wag done by tel ephone. The deputy who notified" him said that Mr. Slater stated fhat it did not matter if he had been fined one thousand dollars. In a later conversation between Mr Slater and this deputy the former asked what would be done if he did not come, to which the deputy replied that an officer would be sent for him. to this Mr. Slater replied to the effect that it would require more deputies than was employed in the sheriff's office to carry him to the court house at that time. However, he appeared voluntarily just as Sheriff Lane wa3 leaving the court house to serve the order. In his answer to the order, Mr. Sla ter stated that he had not' received ny summons until about four o'clock yesterday afternoon, and then he thought that he was -called, merely as a talisman. When the deputy noti fied him by phone that he had been fined, he said that be did not know MOVEMENT I n i ii mni nun inn m 511 PfOTIK FUR BEING DISCOURTEOUS ITALIAN LEGIONS SMASH AHEAD IN If SECTOR Best Hapsburg Troops in Vain Onslaughts Again General Cadorna's Forces AUSTRIAN CASUALTIES (By International News Service.) ROME, Sept. 7. The decisive pres sure of the Italian army against the Austrians to the northeast of Gorizia continues, General Cadorna telegraph ed from field headquarters today Three officers and two hundred men were captured yesterday. The bitter fighting in the Carso sector has slackened somewhat. The Austrians have suffered heavy losses in the last few days, the official report states. Austria continues to throw her best troops in vain onslaughts against Cadorna's forces. These counter thrusts are becoming fewer, however, and indications are that the Hapsburg armies are settling down to strictly defensive warfare. Unofficial estimates placed the num ber of prisoners taken by tie Italians to date at thirty thousand and the to tal Austrian losses in the drive at one hundred and twenty thousand. A GREATREVIVAL i he Moore-Stapleton Party to Begin Campaign Here This Month. T CHURCHES CO OPERATE As has been previously announced, the people of Centenary Methodist church are making large preparations for the revival to be conducted by the Moore-Stapleton party. Mr. Moore was here more than a year ago, and his preaching was so popular and his labors so fruitful that at that time he was engaged to hold another meeting this year.- At the beginning of the year it was an nounced that he would visit New Bern in September. The party will consist of a trio of trained and experienced workers in their line. Mr. Moore is now a Gen eral evangelist for the Southern Methodist church, and a; member df the Society of Evangelists of Amer ica, He has the endorsement of every evangelical denomination of America. Mr. Stapleten is an Alamabian. He has been in his chosen work for sever al years, and his reputation as a sin ger and child evangelist is now very great. He knows his work and takes a tireless interest in deservedly popular. it. He will be J Rev. J. V. Reid is primarily the had He painist of the party. 'He has wide experience and training, charms and pleases his hearers.' He is also a very spiritual and helpful preacher and binger. j The Pastor of Centenary is desir ous that we extend through these col umns a most cordial invitation to every pastor in the city, and every choir and congregation to join forces with him in an earnest effort to reach the entire community. There will be no denominationalism, por bigotry. Brotherly love and Christian cordial ity will be the dominant note of the 1 entire meeting. that the party talking with him was an officer and merely nought that some one was playing a Soke pn him He said that he did not know that the telephone messages weri the orders of the court and that it was not his intention to be discourteous to the court i iiL.1 iiiiiiiu i uii LEE PERKINS IS Ml tD I CAPITAL CHARGE Two Dover Negroes Who En tered Wilson Home To Be Sentenced Today. FOR CONNER CASE The trial of Lee Perkins, colored, who was charged with entering the home of Mr. W. A. Wilson, of Dover, at night, about two weeks ago, with the intention of committing a crim inal assault on one of his daughters, was concluded yesterday, and the verdict of the jury was guilty of bur glary in the first degree. Jesse Bow den, who entered the home with Per kins and who was tried on the prev ious day, was found guilty on a sim ilar charge. Judge Thomas H. Calvert, who is presiding at this term of Superior Court, has not yet passed sentence, but it is expected that he will today. There is another defendant charged with a criminal assault, who will be tried today, and if he is found guilty, sentence will probably be passed on all three at the same time. Late in the afternoon the case against Henry Connor, charged with an attempted criminal assault on nine year old Mary Jones, was taken up late in the afternoon. A special venire of fifty men had been sum moned from which to select the jury. These men were examined and ten jurors were selected. Another venire of twenty-five men was drawn and the men summoned last night. Only a short time is expected to be con sumed this morning in getting the other two jurors and then the case proper will be taken up and will pro bably be concluded by the middle of the afternoon. I FIST FIGHT? Georgia Senator Provoked By Williams' Reference to His "Puffed-up Self Acting" ENLIVENS DEBAT EON REVENUE BILL (Br International News Service., WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 7. The debate on the war revenue bill in the Senate was enlivened this aft ernoon when Senator Hardwick, of Georgia, practically challenged Sen ator Williams, of Mississippi, to meet him in a personal encounter. The Georgian was apparently provoked when Williams said when alluding to a speech by Hardwick: "Very few senators, perhaps not over five, will not agree that we have seldom witnessed a finer taste of self inflations and puffed up self acting, than that which has been shown upon this arena." Reed, of Missouri," who with Hard wick, voted against the selective draft law, immediately made a point of order that the language was unpar liamentary. But the presiding offic er ruled this out of order. Williams did not have to withdraw his remark. Then Hardwick said: "In view of my personal relations with the senator from Mississippi, if he has any sentiment of that kind he would like to express to or about me the Senate floor is not the proper place for that expression." "Oh," answered Williams, "if per sonal relations cut any figure it would havemade me hesitate in making' my expression as strong as otherwise. I say puffed up self acting because the senator has acted the part here of a self alleged martyr who has been de nied free speech. Nobody has denied him free speech. The fact that he spoke was sufficient to prove that." HARM C CALLS I AIRPLANES BOMBARD One American Officer Dead, and Eight Other Americans More or Less Seriously Wounded, When Teuton Airmen Sweep Down on Institutions Where Harvard and St. Louis Units Are Quartered. TOTAL CJMIES--3 DEAD, 17 WOUNDED (Br International News Service.) LONDON, Sept. 7. Bombs hurled from a fleet of German airplanes snuffed out the life of one American officer and wounded more or less seri o!-.ly eight Americans in what is de scribed as a deliberate raid upon British-American hospitals in a French coast city last Tuesday. . The hospitals attacked are occupied by St. Louis and Harvard contin gents which were among the first to arrive in France after America's en trance into the war. The Harvard unit was most severely hit by the raid. The casualties thus far report ed are: Killed: One officer of the emergen cy medical corps; two of the rank and file (believed British); total killed, three. Wounded: Three officers of the Am erican medical corps; five other Am ericans; nine of other nationalities; total wounded, seventeen. - Five of the sixteen wounded at the Harvard unit hospital were members of the American hospital there. Ten were patients. So far as is known one bomb each fell into the hospital. WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept 7 No official confirmation of the killing of an American officer and five privates in the shelling of a hospital behind the French front by a German air plane, had been received here at a late hour tonight. Soon there will be fall openings in oysters, women's hats, chesnut burrs and things like that. In Letter to The President, He Takes Issue Over Woman Suffrage A FRIEND TO WILSON (Br International News Service.) WASHINGTON, D.,C., Sept. 7. Dudley Field Malone, collector of the port of New York, and hitherto count ed one of President Wilson's warmest personal and political friends, tonight resigned his post in a letter to the President. The attitude of Mr. Wilson toward the suffragists who picketed the White House and toward nation-wide suffrage, is assigned as Mr. Malone's cause for resigning. He tells the President in a lengthy letter that in the last campaign he promised the women of the west that they would find the Wilson Adminis tration favorable to woman suffrage. The present attitude of the adminis tration, Mr. Malone contends, puts him in a false light. The western women, to whom he made this prom ise, Mr. Malone said, sent Mr. Wilson to the White House. He tells the President that he will return to the practice of law but adds j that he is determined -o "give all my leisure time to fight as hard for the political freedom of women as I have always fought for your liberal leadership." HOSPITALS DUDLEY FIELD HUM QUITS NEW YORK POST i L COIN BULLION President Wilson, in Proclama tion, Gives Me Ad oo Power to Administer the Law STOP LEAKAGE TU ENEMY (Br International Nam Service.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 7. President Wilson today placed an ab solute embargo on exportation of all coin, bullion and currency in a pro clamation supplemented by an execu tive order. All neutrals, and the Al lies as well, are barred from receiv ing gold or currency except at the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, who is given power to ad minister the law. The proclamation is designed to stop the leakage of gold and bullion to Germany and Austria through neu tral sources. Large quantities of gold have found their way into Ger many through Russia, it is said, and others of the Allies have been unable to prevent Germany profiting. The proclamation is supplemented to that of August 27, which mentioned gold and bullion as articles on the em bargo list but left the jurisdiction in the hands of the Exports Adminis trative Board. The proclamation goes into effect September 10. COTTON MARKET New York, Sept. 7. Closed: Spots 21.35 January . 20.20 October 20.27 December 20.24 Market closed steady; spots eighty five points decline. RUST EVERY TOWN Every County and Every City of More Than 2,500 Population to Have Administrator T (Br International News Service.) WASHINGTON D. C. Sept. 7. Immediate steps will be taken by the eoal administration to prevept high retail prices throughout the country, it was announced tonight by Dr. H. A. Garfield, fuel administrator. Reg ulations will be secured through state, county, and city boards to be named by Dr. Garfield, which will investi gate local conditions and prices and fix reasonable prices accordingly. The plan is to have a representative of the fuel administration in each state and territory, who will work with a committee of citizens. None of the appointees will be in any way connected with the coal industry. These committees will be selected by the state fuel representative, to rep resent every county and every city of more than 2,500 population. WISE AND OTHERWISE Wife "Tom, I want $20 for pin money. Hub- 'Ureat Scott! Here it is, but I'm darned glad you don't want to buy spikes." Boston Tran script. Members of the Reichstag are be ginning to talk about Emperor Wil liam just as if they can't see the Lord standing there by his side. Sa vannah News. "You should weigh your words," said the orator's friend. "Yea," chimed in another friend; "and we dont mind if you give us ihort weight at that." Washington Star. )w ' N DEAL DEATH BLOW TO PRICES TEN DRAFTED MEN TO DEPART THISIRNIG First of Craven's Selected Sons To Prepare for Serving Their Country. TO TRAINING GAMP I, S. C. Five percent of Craven's quota for the National Army will leave on the morning train today for Colum bia, S. C, where they will go in train ing for military service in France. The number to leave this morning is ten, but the names of those who will go have not been announced. However, fifteen men have been noti fled to appear before the exemption board at 7:30 o'clock this morning and from this number the ten men will be selected. The five, percent of the first draft which is being dispatched by all the local boards throughout the country includes no negroes, and are being sent to the cantonments for the pri mary purpose of making the camps ready for the remainder of the draft army, which will move to camp in in crements of forty percent on Septem ber 19 and October 3, the remaining fifteen per cent to depart at a date to be set later. ii Chamber of Commerce Defers Action Until Full Informa- tion is Obtained. New Bern still has a chance to have the Sunshine Film Corporation, of Chicago, establish a motion picture studio here, but the chance does not appear as bright as it did thirty-six hours ago. At a meeting of the di rectors of the Chamber of Commerce held last night, and at which Mr. K, M. Scoville, general manager, and Mr, S. S. Strauss, secretary and treasurer of the Sunshine Film Corporation, were present, it was decided to defer any action on the proposition made by Mr. Scoville, until the matter can be thoroughly investigated and also make some inquiries regarding the company. Messrs. Scoville and Strauss will leave this morning for New York where they "will remain until the six teenth of this month, and in case the chamber decides to take up the pro position they will wire Mr. Scoville and he will return to reopen the mat ter. The proposed plant wrll cost about 400,000 dollars. Mr. ScoviUe's proposition is for New Bern to take two" hundred thousand dollars of pre ferred stock. His motive for this, he said, is to get the people of New Bern behind the proposition. The com pany does not need the money, for they have backing to the extent of millions of dollars, but they want the cooperation of the New Bern people- However, Mr. Scoville said that he take two hundred dollars worth of had rather have one hundred men stock than to have one man take two hundred thousand. Mr. J. S. Miller, president of the Chamber of Commerce, stated last night that Re would go into a full investigation at once and do all he can to put the deai over. Such an en terprise would be invaluable to New Bern. Those who condemn fashions will desist for a While now that half-hose for women have been urged as a war econoay measura.-r-Washitigton Herald. T HE LEAVE THIS MORNING GOVERNMENT MEAT MARKETS I CITIES URGED Live Stock Men Advise This as Means of Controlling Prices. T WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 7. Retail markets under the control of the government for all the larger cit ies of the country where meat 'and meat products may be sold to the con sumer at cost from the packing house, plus a reasonable percentage of profit, formed one of the recom mendations made in resolutions adopted tonight by leaders of the live stock industry from every part of the United States, who have been in con ference here for the last two days. The live stock men pledged them selves to aid in every way the gov ernment's program for conserving the great supply of the country and sug gested ways and means for increas ing the production of cattle, hogs and sheep. DIRECTS FINDER TD i Mr. Harry Smith Employs Man to Dig in Churchyard For Hidden 'Fortune' In this life every one has to "dig" for money, but when he has to dig as strenuously as was the case yes terday at the corner of Middle and Pollock streets, and receive no money, it is time to cease such laborious ef forts. -- -ri'aH A few years ago there died in this city a Mr. Hamilton, and among his possessions was an iron safe, and when his effects were sold, the safe was purchased by M. E. Whitehurst and Company, and in- turn became the property of Mr. Harry Smith, of the Maryland Tailoring Company. The date of the purchase was April 18, 1917, but not until a few days ago did Mr. Smith thoroughly ex plore the inner works of his new pur chase, at which time he found an old piece of paper, on which was written the following: "June 20, 1899. "To Dear Finder: "I predict this will be found on April 20 or 30, in the year of 1917. "If YOU, and ft must be YOU alone, will go to the old church on the corner of Middle and Pollock sts., follow closely the directions on other side of this, you will find some thing well worth your trouble. My full name and 'will" leaving you everything except a small part to charity. "Yours very truly, "C. J. F." "(over)" On the reverse side of the slip is a rough sketch of the Episcopal church yard, showing the spot where the "something" was supposed to be located. The sketch shows the cor ner, with McSorley's ice cream store j and the stores on the other corners. The hidden treasure was shown to be buried two feet from the northeast corner of the street fence. This was the dope upon which Mr. Smith based . his prospect of a rich discovery, and -most anyone else would have done the same. Early yesterday morning before the city had awakened from its peaceful . slumber, Mr. Smith, the benefactor, was on the spot, with an expert dig ger, but without success. He excavat ed to a depth of about four feet. TREASURE HERE Later in the day, 3:80 p. m., he se ( Continued on page 6.)
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