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VOL. 96—NO. 77
10 IHFRIflGM ON RIGHTS,
IVITKH STATES RECEIVES OFFI-CIAL
STATEMENT AS TO
ni;:.i.\xi>s .MADE.
^^iS^S^^Sro^'FOTDRB GUARDING BORDER
Mr. Charles A. Hines, chairman of °EX. BLISS' OPIXIOXS SOUGHT
the county Democratic executive °N ALL PHASES OF BORDER
committee, announces that Hon. T.
W. Bickett, candidate for governor,
xvashinston, Sept. 13.—The Japa- ; wh0 is making a brllliant canvass of
i.i -■ govei
COXDITIOXS.
New London, Conn., Sept. 13.—
forme«
■ mjjjssador Guthrie that while it
. made important demands on
LUiia hi connection with the recent
ia-' ..'. Clieug Chiatun there is noth-
,. :;lt. representations infringing
„ American interests by violating
.v, , , . (i ior, Chinese integrity or
i-Takahira agreement.
BOli
man
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1'"".!"l. '!al 0.ffiCl*!ly '"." ! the state- wiu be at the service of the Suggestions as to what methods shall
be employed to establish peace on
the Mexican border were submitted
today to Major General Tasker H.
Bliss, U. S. A., by the American
members of the American-Mexican
joint commission. The officers's opin-ions
were sought on subjects rang-ing
from the withdrawal of American
troops from Mexico to the possibility
of creating an international police to
guard the border.
The joint commission dealt today
wholly with questions raised by taxa-tion
decrees issued by General Car-ranza
which affect American-con-trolled
mining properties in Mexico.
An exhaustive study of the situation
was begun. The Mexican commis-sioners
explained in detail the pur-poses
of the decrees, insisting that
they were designed to promote the
' .r,li.,pd. S.l.S!?S ?2™gh ! Guilf°rd Democracy on Saturday, Oc-tober
21. Owing to the urgent re-quests
that are coming from every
section of the state for speeches by
Mr. Bickett, this is the only appear-ance
he will be able to make in Guil-ford
during the campaign. If Mr.
Bickett will consent to make two*
| speeches, it is probable that he will
v..,.:,r the Washington govern- .address a meeting at some accessible
;J \';''i,\thC^a5^anCeS.a|pl?-'-e ln the country during the day
depends on the tatenweta-; and speak ehher ,n Greensboro or
High Point at night.
Chairman Hines has the promise
of a number of eminent speakers to
Japan places on her de-
.. ,. ps :.::• negotiations with China
Officials here are uncertain
ARGUMENT FOR ARMOR PLANT ""SS^SSSSSS TO
DELEGATION APPEARS BEFORE
X.4VY GEXERAL BOARD IX
BEHALF OF FAYETTEVILLE.
ic Japan's real intent.ons, thougn j appear in Guilford duHng tne cam_
,. ms revealed today that in an in-, paign- Hon Q Max Gardneri the
r.jry on the subject the Japanese candidate for lieutenant governor.
toreigD office was notified that the and one of t|le ab)est speakers ,n th
demands had "greatly disturbed the state> wil, fl„ one or more
ments in the county.
appoin
American government." Congressman
Ambassador Guthrie reported that• | •■Tom" Heflin, of Alabama.one ofthe * minIng industry, not to drive out
t Japanese foreign minister con- ■ most brilliant orators in the nation, ! A"»erican capital and confiscate its
■ firmed the outline of the demands is expected to speak in Greensboro noldillgB.
that day: 9 printed in this country as "approxi- j about October 10. Mr. Heflin made ! In their conference with General
maiely true." A similar confirmation ' a speech here four years" ago and j BIiss' tne American commissioners
from the Chinese government was re- | captivated all who heard him. Mr Itook under consideration the advis-ceived
during the day through Amer- , Cameron Morrison, of Charlotte one i abilit"' ol Proposing such a system of
ican Minister Reinseh at Peking. Of- of the electors-at-large, has prom- j border patro1 that a Pa« of the Mex-v.-
ould not add to a state de- , ised t0 gfve GuUford one or more j ican troops now engaged in this duty
dates, and it is expected that Secre-' wouId be released for the pursuit of
tary of the Navy Josephus Daniels Dandlts at a dstance from the line.
They consideral also the attitude of
Americans living along the border,
as reported by General Bliss, and ob-will
be heard in a speech in this city.
Mr. ilines has invited Senator Sim-mons,
Senator Overman and Con-partnient
announcement summariz-r?
these reports, but there was
every indication that '.'evelopments
would be axiously watched. It was
pointed out that so far the entire ne-gotiations
were in a preliminary and gressman Claude Kitchin to address 'tained from that ofRcer estimates as
icdefinite stage. ; the Guiiford Democrats and hopes to i t0 the number ot soldiers necessary
rue Japanese demands, as outlined receive acceptances from all three jt0 put int0 effect an>' of the plans
to Ambassador Guthrie. by the for- Congressman Stedman, who has ' t"at >iave been suggested.
elga minister, seek apologies, in- hscn Iestiag since the adjournment! Discussing the wider aspects of
ceau'.fleaticn and installation of Jap- 0I- congress, is preparing to enter ac- the commission's work.' Secretary
law military advisers throughout tively upon his campaign and expects Lane said tonig,,t jt was probably
South Manchuria and Eastern Mon-
.. :.:". in the cadet school at Muk-den,
together with Japanese police
wherever in those sections there are
lir~o Japanese settlements. These
rights, throughout this whole terri-bly
with a population of nearly
S.OOO.OOO are sought "to prevent a
recurrence of such trouble" as the
Cheng Ciiiatun incident, in which 17
Japanese and 50 Chinese soldiers
cere killed.
I;
to make several speeches in the coun-ty.
CRIMINAL TERM OF COURT
WILL BEGIX MOXDAV.
unique in the history of international
bodies in that it.was going into all
that concerned the life of a nation;
its economic problems, its politcal
Washington, Sept. 13.—More than
100 cities and towns are bidding for
the government armor plate plant
provided for in the naval appropria-tion
bill. SeveraJ hundred people,
representing chambers of commerce
and hoards of traco of prosperous
and ambitious communities stormed
the secretary of the navy with re-questst/
for the $11,000,000 factory,
today; Among the larger cities heart
were: .jNew York, Baltimore, Brook-lyn,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Wash-ington/
Birmingham, Richmond, Nor-folk
and Fayetteville.
Richmond sent a special train-load
of boosters to Washington to make
her appeal.
Secretary Daniels and the general
board 'will decide where the plant
will go. After all the facts are in, a
location will be selected.
Most of the cities of North Caro-lina
are backing Fayetteville, which
is making a vigorous fight for the ar-mor
factory.
Messrs. Thomas H. Sutton, N. A.
Sinclair and Fred T. Hfile, represent-ing
a special committee to present
the case of Fayetteville, were among
those who appeared before Secretary
Daniels today. They read telegrams
from Wilmington, Raleigh, Charlotte,
Greensboro and other places support-ing
her in her efforts to get the
plant.
The advantages of Fayetteville
were summed up as follows: The lo-cation,
at the head of navigation of
t'.ie Cape Fear river, is right. The
town U 140 miles from the Atlantic
ocean, by water, and 100 miles in a
straight line, midway between Wash-ington
and Jacksonville. Florida.
Attention was called to the fact
that rtrs old United States arsenal,
for the manufacture of arms, and for
The September criminal term of jno conclusions would be reached as
Superior court will convene Monday jt0 many of the things discussed. He
morning and continue for two weeks. \ added- however, that the Mexicans
It will be followed, after a lapse of ! would have knowledge of the views
struggles and every phase of govern- ! an assembIinS a,ld supply depot, was
ment. It was possible, he said, that j establislied there in 1S3S, and was
destroyed at the close of the Civil
a week, by a civil term to convene
October 9. Judge James L. Webb,
no; the mere terms of the ] of Shelby, will preside.
Japanese demands, however, which | The criminal term to convene
nave been well established through- j Monday will face a heavy docket and
out. so much as their real purpose, j probably the entire two weeks will be
that has caused anxiety here. If the consumed in disposing of the cases
recradescence of Mongolian banditry ■ ready for trial. The case of most
In conjunction with a monarchist rev- i importance and greatest public inter-otation
has. as claimed, produced a ' e3t is that against J. A. Terry,
condition of outlawry where Japa- j charged with the'murder of John R.
sese lives are endangered, officials j Stewart on the evening of July 15.
8'* said to be willing to admit that I Associated with Solicitor Bower in
held in the United States as a result
of the deliberations, while the Amer-ican
commissioners were gleaning a
wide knowledge of conditions below
the border.
Even the international responsibil-ities
of Mexico were being talked
over, Mr. Lane said, and it was nec-essary
that all these things should be
considered in order that an endur-ing
government should be set up in
the distressed republic.
A statement issued tonight said
"!>ar is as much justified in having j the prosecution of this case will be that the complaints of American
troops in those sections as the United i King & Kimball, Judge W. P. By- j mlninS interests in Mexico had led td
States is in having troops in Mexico, j num and Judge R. C. Strudwick. The ithe P^sent investigation. Id explain-h-
ca the other hand, it develops
' a! Japan Is magnifying a small lo-
•'-' disturbance into an international
eonplication to exact political con-ssions.
the Cnited States is expect-
MI to object, holding that the integ-
"ty of China is being invaded.
I:: ' <is connection officials note the
Promptness with which the Japanese
•- «ere on the scene and that
fact thai a few days later troops
Mickiv a ppeared when a similar dif-defendant
will be represented by
Brooks, Sapp & Williams. While no
statement has been made as to the
probable line of defense, it is consid-ered
probable that a plea of insanity
will be made. Strength is given to
this supposition by reason of the fact
that the defendant, who has been in
jail since the commission of the
crime, has been examined by two
alienists who were brought here for
the purpose from a distance.
:' broke out at Chaoyonpo, 75
- inside the Mongolian border Rural Carriers to Get Pay Increase.
r a'vav from any railroad con-
'•'•: where their presence is au-i!
spaa
act3 of reparation de-thought
very severe and
'•;ar»cterized by Peking as hu-
-• • lEcials point out that this
][■ '•• between China and Japan
t'ic rights of police and
advisers are international. If
seeks merely an extension
^ ra territorial rights, officials as-
; _ ;' all otiier countres under the
IW ed nation" clause may do
. '*• That merely would mean
4efen,i Ca5eS where a JaPanese is a
Be* ([!"U would be tried by a Japa-la*.
"" a""'.ving the local Chinese
*itj.*.!e '"e demands are coupled
ever' \ iDWial rigllls'* caluse, how-
*tatedV!*V
1
l0USly ^Ported, it is
ly ,-„ ul that Japan will practical-
«an «f e.,.Wltl1 China the administra-tes
."• that whole
ion of all
section to the ex-
"obibiv' "" °Uler Dowers. This
as a vio,a
iV,OUld be interpreted here
mm"ally "on of the status quo as
,r>-and'T8Uaranteed by this coun-agr
«ementaPan '" the R°ot-Takahira
3tructi
aDd * St6p toward the de-
WP°I ,°hine8e inte8»-ity.
«T Lansing refused all com-t
ing the decrees complained of, the
Mexican commissioners pointed out,
the statement asserted, that one of
the main purposes which the Car-ranza
government had in view was
to prevent speculative and unproduc-tive
monopolization of mining lands
by individuals and companies. The
Carranza government, it was said,
virtually has reversed the system in
operation during the Diaz regime.
Under the Diaz plan, the rate of
taxation on mining claims diminish-ed
in direct ratio to the number of
claims, whereas under the Carranza
plan the purpose is to encourage the
staking of relatively smaller num-bers
of claims which will be actually
operated, and to discourage the hold)-
ing of large tracts of mining land
simply for speculative purposes.
Another series of complaints had
to do with the attempt of the Car-ranza
government to compel mer-chants
and corporations to accept pa-per
currency at a rate far in excess
of its current value. The attention
of the Mexican commissioners was
directed to instances in which mili-tary
commanders had, through de-crees,
threatened with death any per-sons
who refused to accept paper
currency at its par value, and for a
similar offence had also threatened
merchants with the confiscation of
their property. The Mexican com-missioners
pointed out that in so vast
a country it was humanly impossible
to guard against all possible abuses,
but they laid emphasis on the fact
that while such extreme decrees had
been issued by subordinate military
commanders, the national govern-ment
has constantly urged modera-tion
on the state governors and that
they had no record of a single In-stance
In which any of these extreme
penalties had been Inflicted.
&•«*';>*£w.,.,--:,.. ■ T -'n rii f^i-Tir-liirh'iii.f'niriir fiVfMrtifliriifli
Washington, Sept. 13.—Salary in-creases
for rural mail carriers, pro-vided
for under the last postoffice
bill, will be applied to the fiscal year
of 1915.
Postmaster General Burleson se-cured
authorization from the comp-troller
of the treasury today for use
of the unexpended balance of the
1915 appropriation as back pay to
carriers to make up the difference
between the new scale and the one
then effective.
Mr. W. H. Watkins, Sr., of Ram-seur,
was in the city this week on a
business trip and visiting the family
of his son, Mr. Clarence Watkins.
Rev. and Mrs. H. M. Blair have re-turned
from a visit to relatives in
Alexander county.
ment today, even declining to indi-cate
whether this government was
satisfied with the reports from Pe-king
and Tokio, or would seek furth-er
information. From what has been
said before, however, it is obvious
that the United States will inquire
further into the situation and follow
developments with the closest scru-tiny.
war.
Fayetteville was described as a
railroad center, with first-class trans-portation
facilities.
By January 1, 1917, it was point-ed
out, the Cape Fear will be canal-ized,
and will provide an eight-foot
depth of water from Fayetteville to
Wilmington.
The Fayetteville delegation laid
much stress on the water power pos-sibilities
of that section.
"There are numerous streams cap-able
of developing a considerable
amount of hydro-electric power,"
said the Fayetteville speaker. "We
call attention to an attached engi-neer's
report, covering a possible de-velopment
of approximately 3,000
horse-power on a stream flowing into
the Cape Fear river a few miles be-low
the city.
"Other power developments are
possible, notably in Rockfish creek,
Little river and the Cape Fear.
"The larger power developments
in that section are the Buckhorn, 35
miles up the Cape Fear, and Blewett
Falls, on the Yadkin river, 68 miles
distant. Power lines from both of
these developments enter our city.
"Labor is non-union, plentiful and
reasonably cheap.
"The city is centrally located as to
the coal and ore fields of West Vir-ginia,
Tennessee and Alabama.
"With mean temperatures of 61
degrees and a yearly rainfall of 50
inches, about equally distributed
through the four seasons, the climate
is identical with that of Pinehurst 40
miles west. Other winter resorts
nearby are Overhills, 15 miles, and
Southern Pines, 38 miles away."
Lieut. Alfred A. MacKethan ac-companied
the Fayetteville commit-tee.
He thinks that Fayetteville is
an ideal place for the armor plant.
The Fayetteville delegation will
file additional matter with the secre-tary
of the navy and the general
board, and make another personal
effort through Senators Overman and
Simmons. The senators will be ask-,
ed to come to Washington to add
their appeals to what has already
been done.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 13.—Hugh M.
Dorssy, former solicitor of the . At-lanta
circuit, who prosecuted Leo M.
Frank, apparently swept Georgia in
the gubernatorial race in the state-wide
Democratic primary yesterday.
Returns from 108 of 152 counties
seemed to assure him of 15S votes
in the state convention. More com-plete
returns are expected to easily
give him the 192 convention votes
necessary for nomination.
Governor Nat E. Harris, on the
face of these returns, had 64 votes in
the convention, while Dr. L. G. Hard-man
and Joseph E. Potfle ran far be-hind
the two leaders.
The exceptionally long tieffet, in-cluding
14 aspirants for three places
on the Court of Appeals and full tick-ets
for other state house offices, made
the count very slow, and it was far
from complete tonight.
In the race for comptroller general
the incumbent, W. A. Wright, has a
good lead over Stale Senator E. P.
Dobbs, Wright's convention vote be-ing
indicated at 112.
Although W. J. Speer, state treas-urer,
had 15,047 votes in the scat-tering
returns against 10,458 for his
opponent, State Senator W. J. Eakes,
he had an indicated convention vote
of 110 to 44 for Eakes.
The race for commissioner of agri-culture
was very close. The incum-bent,
J. D. Price, had a total of 18,-
163 on incomplete returns from 93
counties, while J J. Brown had 16,-
824. The incumbent had an indicat-ed
convention vote of 84 and Brown
86.
State School Superintendent M. L.
Brittain had a good lead over Alex-ander
E. Keese in returns counted at
midnight with apparently a conven-tion
strength of 106 votes to his op-ponents
70.
Returns indicated that the entire
Georgia delegation to Congress would
be returned with the- exception ot
Representative Charles G. Edwards,
of the first district, who did not seek
re-election, and possibly Representa-tive
Hughes, of the twelfth district.
SMASH IN _GEBMAN LINES
FRENCH CAPTURE FROXT LINE
AXD MAXY OTHER
TREXCHES.
LAXSIXG MAY CALL FOR
DEFIXITIOX OF STATEMENT.
Department is Without Evidence.
Washington, Sept. 12.—It was
stated at the department of justice
that no information had been fur-nished
it which would amount to le-gal
evidence of a conspiracy to in-crease
the price of bread or flour.
Washington, Sept. 12.—"A declara-tion
by Secretary Lansing today that
he considered information secured
by censors from the mails should be
used only for military purpose^, was
believed to forecast injection of that
issue into the • negotiations with
Great Britain over mail seizures.
While no inquiry has been sent re-garding
the statement In parliament
of David Lloyd George, the British
war minister, that information glean-ed
by the censors properly could be
put to "any public or national use,"
Mr. Lansing said he had read the war
secretary's speech and that the mat-ter
might become a subject of diplo-matic
negotiations.
The first step probably would be a
request for a definite statement of
the British government's policy re-garding
use of information, especial-ly
trade secrets, falling into the
hands of the censors.
Secretary Lansing said he was
studying the retaliatory legislation
passed last week by Congress, but
whether the powers it confers on the
president ^fill be used depends upon
the future developments and the out-come
of diplomatic efforts.
The British reply to the last Amer-ican
note on mail seizures is expect-ed
here this week. Allied diplomats
expressed hope today that no defi-nite
action would be taken by this
government while the whole trade
dispute is under negotiation, predict-ing
that any retaliatory action might
result in a trade war. It is under-stood
that while the allied embassies
here cannot act officially until in-structed
by the grand trade council
at Paris they intend to bring this fea-ture
of the situation informally to
the attention of the state department.
London, Sept. 13—Resuming their
offensive to the north of the Somme'
river in France, the French forces
have again smasiied the German line,
captured from line and other trench-es
ana taken about 1,500 prisoners.
The new attacks, coming after sev-eral
days of comparative calm in the
region where for weeks past violent
fighting has been in progress, were
made on the front from the town of
Corables to the river. So vicious was
the thrust of the French that it re-quired
only"half an hour for them to
overcome the resistance of the Ger-mans
and make themselves masters
of three and three-quarter miles of
first-line trenches.
Later, east and southeast of Com-bles,
they seized additional trenches
along the Bethune:Peronne. road,
which leads from Peronne northward
through Bapaume and Arras to Be-thune,
placing a serious impediment
in the way of the Germans for the
movement of their transport from
the north to Peronue and making the
French position north of Peronne
seemingly a menacing one.
On the British end of the front and
on the remainder of the line held by
the French only mutual bombard-ments
took place.
All along the Macedonian front the
heavy offensive of the entente allies
continues. Bulgarian trenches on a
front of two miles and to a depth of
800 yards are reported by Paris to
have been captured by the French
west of the Vardar river near Maja-dagh,
which lies about four miles
south of the town of Gievgeli. On
the Struma front the British, aided
by French, have made additional
gains east of the river ln the Lake
Takinos region. The army of the
Teutonic allies is declared to have
suffered heavy casualties in the lat-ter
engagement.
Unofficial reports are to the effect
that the Bulgarians have evacuated
the forts at Kavala, on the Aegean
sea, which they captured in August.
While the presence of entente allied
warships off the town is given as the
reason for the withdrawal, it is not
improbable that the menace of the
new drive of the British and French
along the Struma front may have
been partly responsible for it.
Berlin reports further progress for
the German and Bulgarian forces nn- •
der command of Field Marshal von
Mackensen in the Dobrudja region of
eastern Rumania.
Attacks by the Russians in east
Galicia and on the lower Stokhod
river in Russia, have been repulsed
by the Austro-German forces, accord-ing
to Berlin and Vienna. Petrograd
reports that in the Carpathians the
Russians have captured several addi-tional
strategic positions, but Vienna
denies the assertion and declares that
all attacks there jrere repulsed.
The usual bombardments and small
skirmishes continued in the Austro-
Italian theater. The Turks and Rus-sians
are still at grips in Asiatic Tur-key,
with both sides claiming success-es.
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY
DECLARES McCORMICK.
Xo Fixed Policy About Keeping
Guard at Border.
Washington, Sept. 13.—To set at
rest rumors that various units of the
national guard soon were to be with-drawn
from the border. Secretary
Baker reiterated today that tbere
was no fixed policy regarding main-tenance
of the state troops there ana
that the length of their stay depend-ed
on the status of the border situa-tion.
He said they would be brought
home as soon as they could be spared
without increasing the danger to life
and property in the tbRqurfdleecr section.
Chairman McCormick, of the Dem-ocratic
national committee, lias is-sued
tiie following statement:
"The result of the election in
Maine indicates a sweeping Demo-cratic
victory in November. I have
never claimed that we would win
in Maine, because I realized that to
carry such a rock-ribbed Republican
stronghold in a presidential year
would be practically impossible.
"We have materially reduced the
usually large Republican majority
always obtained on national issues in
that state, and that insures the elec-tion
of President Wilson in Novem-ber
by an impressive majority, just
as a Republican plurality of 12,500
in September, 1892, prefaced the
election of President Cleveland in
November.
"It is the first time United States
senators have ever been elected in
Maine by popular vote and the sen-timent
as to national issues is to be
gauged by the vote cast upon the
same issues in other years."
„1
Mr. J. E. Blackburn, of the Hills-dale
section, gave The Patriot a call
yesterday whjltjh the city on a ban*
lness trip.