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LA3USHI>V1 GREENSBORO, N. C. MONDAY. JULY 3,1916. VOL. 95—NO. 63
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vn. sUs HE WWIILLIL NOT
IT
umt Wilson made it plain in
Pri Taelivered before the New
**?T« Ciuo. a; a uanquet m
W* "£ ,,„ Friday night, that he
o%*7Tc°roso»t•ena ,var With Bce a
W ti,ere is no other alter-j[
es:co onn
u'-'v* for sell
ling the border trou-lWe!'
• he declared that he was
A?a" ,Hfire his own political
K^rder to carry out Ms
•T? « as" to what would be the
I3"1 h4e Colby who placed The-
* » seven in nomination for
I ■ Cv at the Prgressive con-tie
p:r;e:s>idency
at Chicago. paid President
NOTHING DEFINITE AS TO
RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS
Kitribue in an address, but
JiSw unqualifiedly that he
I *Jsupport him in the coming
1 t.n as it was reP°rted he
,ouU »<>■ President Wilson
,. sis address
"i' realise that I have done a very
,radent thing! I have come to ad-thoughtful
company of
...„ preparation what-
. * • Rut. centlemen, as a
eve;
I imp:
| ires this
without any
But, gentlemen
,.Kr of fact, I have been absorbed
- He responsibilities which have
I tm so frequently referred to here
■Bight, and that pre-occupation has
Lde it impossible for me to fore-
Lst even what you would like to
ja ae talk aoout. • ♦ k Mr. Colby
laid something thai was among the
things I had forecasted to say
I trail- He said that there are some
afegs which it is really useless to
Mate, because they go as a matter
| otcourse.
"0: course, it is our duty to pre-iare
this nation to take care of its
Itoa.'t and of its institutions. Why
I debate any part of that, except the
1 detail, except the plan itself, which is
Iliaays debatable?
"Ci course, it is the duty of the
Hjnerncent,which it will never over-loot,
to defend the territory and peo-ple
cf this country. It goes without
Bjb3 that it is the duty of the ad-
I nastration to have constantly in
Innd with the utmost sensitiveness
|KKV point of national honor.
"Eat. gentlemen, after you have
aid and accepted these obvious
I tilings your program of action is still
I to* iormed. When will y,ou act,
ILaihffi will you act?
Tie easiest thing is to strike.
I The brutal thing is the impulsive
I to?. Xo man has to think berore
states aggressive action,but before
|*Kn really conserves the honor by
Ifcliing t;,e iaeals of the nation, he
I*O think exactly what he will do
[■i'aow he will do it.
"»> you think the glory of Amer-i*
«WU he enhanced by a war of
| « >n Mexico? Do you think
Nothing definite resulted from the
conference held Friday by the city
commissioners and Mr. L: E. Jeffreys,
general counsel of the Southern
Railway, relative to the new passen-ger
station and other improvements
the Southern has professed a desire
to give Greensboro. Mr. Jeffreys re-iterated
the promts to build a new
station, but intimated that the work
might be delayed for a year or
longer.
The railroad attorney was also
favorably inclined to the idea of sev-eral
underpasses to do away with
dangerous grade crossings, provided
the city would bear a share of the
expense to be incurred. It was sug-gested
that underpasses' might be
constructed at the Summit avenue.
South Davie, South Elm and Ashe
street crossings. Mr. Jeffreys said
the city would be expected to bear
one-third of the cost and also be-come
responsible to property own-ers
for damages resulting from the
new grades that would have to be
made to carry the streets under the
railway tracks. The grades of the
streets running under the tracks
would have to be lowered several
feet, and the matter of damages to
property owners would be a consid-erable
Item.
Plans for the proposed under-passes
and the new, street grades are
to be prepared by the Southern's en-giners
and submitted to the city of-ficials
within the next few weeks.
OVATION FORMAJ.STEDMAN! SITUATION IS UNCHANGED
HOUSE PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE TO
REPRESENTATIVE FROM
FIFTH DISTRICT.
NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS EX-PECTED
IN MEXICAN CRISIS
BEFORE WEDNESDAY.
Naval Bill Reported to Senate.
Washington, July 1.—The naval
bill, containing the increased build-ing
program agreed on by the naval
committee, was reported to the seu-a
'.e > esterday. It carries an appro-priation
of $315,836,843 for 1917,
and contemplates a total expenditure
of $588,180,576 for construction dur-ing
the next three years. The mea-sure
carries $250,000 for building a
Neffr submarine as an experiment:
The ships authorized for 1917 in-clude
four battle cruisers and four
dreadnaughts, an increase of three
capital ships over the provisions of
the bill as it passed the house.
1%, -*:• action of violence by a pow-hto
nation like this against a
MM destru<tive neighbor would
««t distinction upon the annals ot
|« talted States?
Eo-vou think that it is'our duty
I "fry se.li-uefense to a point of
r^ion in,0 the affairs of another
P?e? The ideals of A
"•*& Plain upuu
1 ^-can historv.
merica are
every page of
[JI real,
I Ho
know how
I am.
2*1 want yon to
lze whose servant
»°t own the government of the
fc.',ra,eS"even for the tin»e be- ,ave »o right in the use of it
;*•■"»•
•:
at 'o expr,
passions. I have
spress my own ambitions
Gambit? nt Cf America ir
are not coincident
I ■•"-.
Ijle anibitiw»s of tiie nation it-
I - ' J«« constantly to remind
I ™ ^ .,. ,am no' the servant of
I ;r Mexic '•-• enhance the value
l*'-fsecrva^ntn!Ilve8l,nento. that I
:;Wof0
the
the : - "'
Rre; t
' nited States.
I many letters, my
■Saw 2: !r°m '""Portant and
ln this country, but
her letters. I
'f-;'!' men -
fc,Wf
a'manyot1'
^k ^T,en U.nknown men, fron
l5es tave' Z. 'r°m people "*»»*
wll be »w« been heard and
one
Pre,
Prav
II!,;, a!lM«
***•« and there is
•'""•" of these letters:
"If I have opportunity to engage
them further in conversation they
say 'of course, we know that you
cannot govern the circumstances of
the case altogether, and it may be
necessary, but for God's sake, do not
do it unless it is necessary.'
"I am for the time being the
spokesman of such people, gentle-men.
I have not read history with-out
observing that the greatest
forces in the world and the only per-manent
forces are the moral forces.
"Force will not accomplish any-thing
that is permanent, I venture to
say, in the great struggle which is
going on on the other side of the
sea. The permanent things will be
accomplished afterward when the
opinion of mankind is brought to
bear upon the issues, and the only
thing that will hold the world steady
is this same, silent, insistent, all-powerful
opinion of mankind.
"Force can sometimes hold things
steady until opinion has time to
form, but no force that was ever ex-erted
except in response to that opin-ion
was ever a conquering and pre-dominant
force.
"I think the sentence in American
history that I myself am proudest of
is that in the introductory sentences
of the Declaration of Independence
where the writers say that a due re-spect
for the opinion of mankind de-mands
that they state the reasons for
what they are about to do. I ven-ture
to say that a decent respect for
the opinions of mankind demanded
that those who started the present
European war should have stated
their reasons, but they did not pay
any heed to the opinion of mankind
and the reckoning will come when
the settlement comes.
"So, gentlemen, I am willing, no
matter what my personal fortunes
may be, to play for the verdict of
mankind. Personally, it will be a
matter of indifference" to me what
the verdict on the seventh of Novem-ber
is, provided I feel any degree of
confidence that when a later jury sits
Hon. Charles M. Stedman .' was
given a great ovation in the house
of representatives Saturday, when he
spoke in support of the Hay resolu-tion,
which provides an appropria-tion
of $50 a month for the supprt
of the dependent family of every
member of the national guard called
to the military service of the coun-try.
The Charlotte Observer's
Washington correspondent gives the
following report of the occurrence:
"Not since the house of repre-sentatives
celebrated 'Uncle Joe'
Cannon's birthday by enthusiastic
cheering has it given an ovation to
anyone such as it gave today to Rep-resentative
Charles M. Stedman, of
.Greensboro. Both Democrats and
Republicans stood as the Major
jumped to his feet to reply to his col-league,
Representative John H.
Small, of the first Worth Carolina dis-trict.
Mr. Small had made an at-tack
on the Hay —>i, which provides
$50 a month relief for dependent
families of national guardsmen who
have been drafted into service by
the United States.
The scene was one of those rare
occasions of cheering in Congress.
One of the first to stand was 'Uncle
Joe' himself, who was just across the
aisle, while directly in front was
General Sherwood, of Ohio, the only
other member of the present Con-gress
who has received such signal
honor. The white-bearded Southern-er
acknowledged the co.npliment by
bowing. Under the inspiration of
the occasion and his purpose, he
spoke with an old-time eloquence
that brought renewed cheering fre-quently,
and many members said- the
speech was one of the most appro-priate
of the session. The galleries
were filled with week-end visitors to
Washington.
"Representative Small, although
he knew he was one of a small mi-nority
in the house ;pposing the
Hay bill, had given expression to his
convictions that pay for the soldiers
to the extent provided by this bill
was contrary to the spirit of this
country. He called attention to the
manner in which men have given
their services and their lives patrioti-cally
in the wars of the past. He
argued that compensation and pa-triotic
service do not go together in
the United States.
"Mr. Stedman's response related
the story of North Carolina's care
of her soldiers and their families
during the war between the states,
when Governor Vance gave every re-lief
that could possibly be given. .Not
only the soldiers and their families
were given relief, but members of
many families, said the speaker, took
a part of their substance and carried
it to the Union prisoners at Salis-bury.
"Major Stedman said he wanted to
see the United States on this occa-sion
stand for the charity and good-ness
which it shuld display in these
times.
"As for the North Carolina guards-men,
he declared they were willing
to meet anywhere at any time; that
they would carry the flag to the
front as far' as any regular troops in
the army, 'and return that flag with-out
tarnish and blemish, when the
war is ended, to the people who sent
them forward.'
"Major Stedman asked for only
three minutes. When his time was
up half a dozen members arose to
ask unanimous consent for him to go
on. Representative Ragsdale, of
South Carolina, was the first. Rep-resentative
Mann called attention to
the shortness of time, and it was
then that Representative Raker, of
California, announced that he would
give over the two minutes allotted to
him to Major Stedman."
Only two votes were cast in oppo-sition
to the Hay resolution.
GUILFORD BATTLE GROUND
TO BE NATIONAL PARK.
Washington, ' July ■ 2.—Sunday
brought no important development
here in the Mexican crisis. The only
official despatch received during the
day, aside from routine reports, was
a message from General Funston
transmitting information reaching
General Bell at El Paso regarding
the bandit raid near Fort Hancock.
It said that raiders took two horses
last night near old Fort Early, Tex-as,
and escaped into Mexico. An in-vestigation
was .u progress and Gen-eral
Bell said he would take any
necessary steps. The order to Amer-ican
commanders to follow into Mex-ico
any hot trail they find remains
unchanged.
Neither the state department nor
the Mexican embassy had any word
ias to when Carranza's reply to the
American demands, awaited by Pres-ident
Wilson With some impatience,
might be expected.
There seemed little probability
that the Washington government
would consider further action until
late in the week. The house will
not assemble until Wednesday, hav-ing
adjourned over the Fourth of
July. While the administration
could take any necessary defensive
steps in the event that General Per-shing's
column was attacked, no ag-gressive
movement would be under-taken
until after President Wilson
tad advised Congress of his pur-lose
and definite authority had been
granted.
. Officials profess complete igno-rance
as to the time President Wil-son
is willing to wait for General
Cirranza's reply.
'The war department issued a brief
olicial statement toda> . regarding
tlfe good progress being made in na-tional
guard mobilization. "Mobili-zation
of the national guard in all
There is much local interest in the
announcement from Washington
that the military affairs committee
of the house of representatives has
made a favorable report on Con-gressman
Stedman's bill to convert
Guilford Battle Ground into a na-tional
military park. The decision
to report the bill favorably was
reached by a unanimous vote of the
committee, and it is probable that
the bill will be passed before the end
of the present session of Congress.
For many years it has been the
dream of those interested in the
Guilford Battle Ground to have the
government take over the property
and maintain it as a national mili-tary
park, and it is a matter of con-gratulation
to all concerned that this
hope will soon be realized. The park
would be under the control of the
secretary of war, and Congressman
Stedman's bill provides for the ex-penditure
of the money necessary to
the proper maintenance of the prop-erty.
The direct management of the
park is to be placed in the hands of
three commissioners to be appointed
by the secretary of war, and it is
stipulated that at least one of the
commissioners shall be a resident of
Guilford county.
GERMAN LINE PENETRATED
BRITISH AND FRENCH MAKE BIG
GAINS IN DRIVE, CAPTURING
MANY VILLAGES.
COAST LINE RAISES WAGES
OF OVER 1,000 EMPLOYES.
departments is proceeding without
hitch," it said. "Large parts of the
guard have already entrained for
their destination and the muster of
the remainder is proceeding as rap-idly
as possible."
Secretary Baker said he did not
know how many thousand guards-men
already had reached the border.
There is reason to believe, however.
that upwards of 30,000 will have
been added to the border guard with-in
t.ie noxt two or three days. Dur-ing
the last 24 hours regiments from
Maryland, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kan-sas
and Pennsylvania have entrained,
acccrding to war department re-ports.
General Bell reported to the war
department tonight that Mexican
Consul Garcia, at El Paso, had prom-ised
aid and protection for the party
that will be sent to bring back the
bodies of the American troopers kill-ed
at Carrizal.
Arrangements for this were being
completed, General Bell said, adding
that the mission primarily would be
entrusted to a party of Mexicans.
The department announced to-nig.
it that the national guard units
that have reached the border are be-ing
supplied with machine guns.
Rocky Mount, June 30.—Follow-ing
recent conferences between of-ficials
and representatives of the
Order of Railway Telegraphers, the
last of which was held in this city
Tuesday, the Atlantic Coast Line
yesterday announced a granting of
an increase in pay of 9 per cent for
all telephone and telegraph, lever-men
and powermen in the employ of
the company. The conference of su-perintendents
recently held in the
office of General Supt. W. H. Newell
was attended by district officials and
trainmasters from over much of the
system, while the one thousand em-ployes
were represented by General
Chairman B. F. Wilder, of Ovido,
Fla.; C. A. Brooks, chairman of the
Wilmington district; Charles Bolic,
chairman of the Columbia district;
J. K. McCotter, of the Richmond dis-
British and French troops thrown
forward in a grand offensive against
the German lines on.both sides of the
river Somme, 60 miles north of
Parip, have penetrated at one point
to a depth of five miles, taking sev-eral
villages and capturing a laby-rinth
of trenches, extending to a
ie.nh of 1,000 yards on a front of
seven miles.
Tae drive, the most spectacular in
-iU3 region since the British captured
Loos last September, began Saturday,
after the German trenches had been
bathed in a hail of shells from guns
of every calibre for days. Progress
has been reported a\>ng the entire
front of about 25 miles.
The greatest success gained by the
British was on the right. In the
center they captured what are desig-nated
in the official report as 'many
strong points" along the front of
four miles, but north of the Ancre
valley to Gommecourt, powerful
counter attacks by the Germans have
resulted in forcing the British back
from various sections of the ground
gain in their first onslaughts.
The town of Albert was the start-ing
point of one of the fiercest
thrusts, the British advancing from
east of the town of Montauban, more
than five miles away. Besides Mon-tauban
anoV Serre, the villages of
Hebuterne, La Boiselle and Mametz
have been captured. The German
prisoners have passed through the
British collecting stations.
In co-operation with the British,
the French initiated a strong offen-sive.
South of the Somme they cap-tured
four villages and north of that
river they established themselves in
the neighborhood of Hardecourt and
Curlu. The number of unwounded
German prisoners taken by the
French had reached 3,500 up to the
time of the sending of the last offi-cial
report.
The recapture of the famous Thi-aumont
works by the French also has
been effected. This important strat-egic
point has changed hands several
times and around it probably thou-sands
of men have fallen. On the
I shall get their judgment in my
01 allow anybody J favor. Not my favor, personally—
'.s Gantry „° that tne people of iwhat difference does that make? but
,! 8o' off a tr i*** * 'th anyb°dy-' •in my favor as an honest and con-is
biddin~ ai" yesterday and as ' scientious spokesman of a great na-
" "e sat ,rw**W to the enei- tional convention.
"There are some gentlemen who
said
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man ha °f Mexico-' And are under the delusion that the pow-
1 have „..• J
said il to me a er of a nation cornea from the top. It
one
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It comes from the bot-
Fonr Villa Bandits Hanged.
Four Villa bandits who participat-ed
in the Columbus raid, were hang-ed
in the county jail at Deming, N.
M., Friday. They were hanged in
pairs, Ensevio Retteria and Taurlno
Garcia being put to death first and
then Jose Rangel and Juan Castillo.
The men were calm. None would
make any statement except Garcia,
who exclaimed as he was led to the
execution:
"I hope God will forgive my ene-mies."
This completes the disposition of
the cases of the Columbus raiders.
Troopers Follow Hot Trail.
Fabens, Texas, July 2.—Ameri-can
troops which crossed the Rio
Grande into Mexico near Fort Han-cock
late yesterday afternoon in pur-suit
of Mexican raiders, recrossed
the river today, the trail having
been lost, according to a report re-ceived
here. Three troops of cav-alry
under Captain Leroy Eltinge
pursued eight Mexicans who raided
the old post at Fort Hancock, and
escaped with several heau of gov-ernment
horses.
MILL SUPERINTENDENT
KILLED RY LIGHTNING.
Shuford Allred, night assistant
superintendent of the Shuford mill
at Hickory, was almost instantly kill-ed
Friday night, and M. O. Rafter,
night superintendent at the mill,
knocked down and injured, when a
bolt of lightning struck just as Mr.
Allred started to throw the switch.,
Mr. Rafter, who was in the room at
the time, was rendered unconscious
but is not seriously injured. Physi-cians
worked over Mr. Allred for
same time but could not revive him.
Mr. Allred was about 40 years of
age and is survived by a wido"' and
three or four children. His father
is at present superintendent of the
Shuford mill and also th» Dudley
. Shoals mill at Granite Falls . •
Fayetteville district.
The new order for an increase,
which becomes* effective tomorrow,
will affect about one thousand men
in the service of the Atlantic Coast
Line in their territory in more than
a half dozen states. While neither
aide could definitely settle on the
amount that the increase would mean
for the men it is understood that it
will be in excess of $75,000 per year.
Included in those affected by the in-crease
are not only the operators of
the telephone and telegraph services,
but the agents and agent operators
over the system, which makes up the
greater number of those benefited,
3ince there is a comparative small
per cent of levermen and powermen
employed.
trict; G. B. Parker, of the Norfolk
district, and W. C. Mason, of the," bank of the Meus« the fighting
is almost as intense around Hill No.
304, Le Mort Homme and Avocourt.
Along Other Fronts.
In the Trentino the Italians con-tinue
to advance along the entire
Bosnia line and in the Arsa Valley.
Artillery bombardments mark the ac-tion
on the rest of the Autsro-Italian
front.
While the Russians, report pro-gress
south of the Dneister river, in
Galicia, the Austro-Germans claim
the capture of Russian works west
and northwest of Lutsk, especially in
the vicinity of Sokul, Volhynia.
Maintaining their drive against
the Austrlans jn Galicia in the region
of Kolomesa, the Russians have cap-tured
many villages. Northwest of
Kimpolung, Bukowina, the Russians
already are in the mountains and
they report the seizure of several
strong positions. Attacks of German
troops in the region of Llpa riwr
were repulsed with heavy losses, Pet-rograd
asserts.
The German troops under General
von Lensengen have taken Russian
positions west of Kolki and south-west
of Sokul. Fighting is in pro-gress
southwest of Lutsk. General
von Lensingen's forces, since June 16
have captured 20 officers and 1.165
men. Petrograd reports the num-ber
of prisoners taken from June 4
to June 30, inclusive, at 217,000 offi-cers
and men.
Contractor and City Sued for
Damages.
Dr. R. A. Schoonover has institu-ted
suits against R. G. Lassiter, who
has had the contract for a great deal
of street paving in the city, and the
city of Greensboro for damages ag-gregating
$6,500 for injuries alleged
to have been suffered by his wife and
daughter and for damages to his au-tomobile
in an accident on East Lee
3treet recently. Dr. and Mrs. Schoon-over
and their daughter were return-ing
home on the night of June 19
'•hen they drove into obstructions
that had been left on East Lee street
by a street paving force. It is al-leged
that no lights had been left to
warn the public of the danger, and
that on this account Mrs. Schoonover
and her daughter suffered injuries
and the automobile was badly dam-aged.
Damages are asked for in the
following amounts: $5,000 for Mrs.
Schoonover, $1,000 for the daughter
and $500 for damage done the au-tomobile.
Mr. Lassiter, the contractor for the
street paving, is held to be chiefly re-
German Acquitted in New York.
New York, June 30.—Haus
Tauscher, a former German army of-ficer,
charged with conspiracy to
blow up the Welland Canal in Sep-tember,
1914, was acquitted today
by a jury in Federal court. The jury
was out 50 minutes.
The indictment charging com-plicity
in a plot to destroy the canal
was returned April 19 last, and
named Tauscher, Captain Franz von
Papen, Germany's recalled military
sponsible for. the damages sustained, attache; Wolf von Igel, his secre-
Judge W. P. Bynum and Judge R. C.
Strudwick represent Dr. Schoonover
as counsel. •
Supervisor of Music.—Miss Gene-vieve
Moore, of High Point, has
been elected supervisor of music in
the Greensboro public schools and
tary; Alfred A. Fritzen and Con-stantine
Govannl. Von Igel is yet
to be tried. Fritzen and Govanni
are believed to be out of the country.
Railroad Meeting.—The annual
meeting of the stockholders of the
North Carolina (Railroad Company
will take up the" work at the begin-1 will be held in Greentboro, Thursday,
ning of the fall term. [July 1*.
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